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 | Robust cell polarity is a dynamic state established by coupling transport and GTPase signaling. | fig7: A schematic diagram depicting the two positive feedback loops (in dark lines) that control the generation of cue- independent cell polarity in yeast. The actin-dependent feedback loop results in accumulation of Cdc42 in both nucleotide-bound forms on the plasma...Bottom Line: Inhibition of actin-based transport resulted in unstable Cdc42 polar caps.When Bem1 and actin were both inhibited, polarization completely failed.These results suggest that cell polarity is established through coupling of transport and signaling pathways and... | Wedlich-Soldner R, Wai SC, Schmidt T, Li R - J. Cell Biol. (2004) |
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 | Towards barcode markers in Fungi: an intron map of Ascomycota mitochondria. | Figure 6: Number of records and species found with and without introns using the Blast approach. Histogram representing the number of a) records and b) species found with the Blast approach for each of the selected genes. Each bar is split in grey and white zones proportionally...Bottom Line: A standardized and cost-effective molecular identification system is now an urgent need for Fungi owing to their wide involvement in human life quality.A new query approach has been developed to retrieve effectively introns information included in these entries.After... | Santamaria M, Vicario S, Pappadà G, Scioscia G, et al. - BMC Bioinformatics (2009) |
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 | Piéron's Law and Optimal Behavior in Perceptual Decision-Making. | Figure 2: LBA model. The accumulator representing response alternative 1 is on average faster than the competing accumulator. The model therefore predicts that response alternative 1 will be selected on the majority of trials. See text for details.Bottom Line: Piéron's Law is a psychophysical regularity in signal detection tasks that states that mean response times decrease as a power function of stimulus intensity.This result is consistent with predictions from a Bayesian ideal observer model.We conclude that Piéron's... | van Maanen L, Grasman RP, Forstmann BU, Wagenmakers EJ - Front Neurosci (2012) |
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 | bioGUID: resolving, discovering, and minting identifiers for biodiversity informatics. | Figure 2: LSID. A LSID is prefixed with "urn:lsid", then follows the authority, namespace, and identifier components.Bottom Line: Linking together the data of interest to biodiversity researchers (including specimen records, images, taxonomic names, and DNA sequences) requires services that can mint, resolve, and discover globally unique identifiers (including, but not limited to, DOIs,... | Page RD - BMC Bioinformatics (2009) |
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 | Mechanisms of Candida albicans trafficking to the brain. | ppat-1002305-g005: Deletion of SSA1 or ALS3 reduces HBMEC endocytosis of C. albicans.(A and B) Endocytosis of the indicated strains of C. albicans by HBMECs. The results are expressed as a percentage of the wild-type strain and are the mean ± SD of 3 experiments, each performed...Bottom Line: During hematogenously disseminated disease, Candida albicans infects most organs, including the brain.Als3 binds to the gp96 heat shock protein, which is expressed on the surface of brain endothelial cells, but not human umbilical vein endothelial cells, whereas... | Liu Y, Mittal R, Solis NV, Prasadarao NV, et al. - PLoS Pathog. (2011) |
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 | Etoposide Reduces Peroxynitrite-Induced Cytotoxicity via Direct Scavenging Effect. | Figure 1: Etoposide inhibits the increased death in astrocytes simultaneously exposed to SIN-1 and GD. Astrocytes were exposed to 200µM SIN-1 and/or GD with or without pre- and co-treatment, or just co-treatment of etoposide. LDH levels were determined 6 h after starting...Bottom Line: However, the cytoprotective effect of etoposide was not associated with its inhibition of cell cycle progression.Instead, etoposide effectively scavenged peroxynitrite.However, etoposide did not scavenge individual nitric oxide and superoxide anion and it did... | Choi IY, Kim WK - Exp Neurobiol (2010) |
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 | Centers for Oceans and Human Health: a unified approach to the challenge of harmful algal blooms. | Figure 2: By combining genetic analysis via automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis (ARISA) and toxin detection using the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor, it will be possible to identify the species as well as the level of domoic acid associated with a...Bottom Line: Several studies have elucidated the effects of environmental conditions and genetic heterogeneity on bloom dynamics.It is also critical to adequately understand the human health effects of HAB toxins.Currently, we understand best the effects of acute toxicity,... | Erdner DL, Dyble J, Parsons ML, Stevens RC, et al. - Environ Health (2008) |
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 | Dual stimulation of Ras/mitogen-activated protein kinase and RhoA by cell adhesion to fibronectin supports... | Figure 1: Experimental design. After serum starvation for 24 h, cells were trypsinized and collected in DME containing 2% BSA, washed, and plated in DME containing 0.2% BSA on various different substrates (point a). Growth factors were added 16 h later (point b), and...Bottom Line: Among several extracellular matrix components tested, only fibronectin supported growth factor-induced, E2F-dependent S phase entry.Although all substrates supported the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) response to growth factors, RhoA activity was specifically... | Danen EH, Sonneveld P, Sonnenberg A, Yamada KM - J. Cell Biol. (2000) |
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 | c.194 A>C (Q65P) mutation in the LMX1B gene in patients with nail-patella syndrome associated... | f1: Pedigrees of the family affected by NPS. Pedigree showing five consecutive generations of affected members. Autosomal dominant transmission of the disease is evident. The arrow at the lower left of the symbol indicates the proband, squares indicate males and...Bottom Line: The phenotype associated with this mutation is variable within the family, although we noted a close connection between the presence of the c.194 A>C mutation and the presence of OHT or OAG and probably also with an early onset of OHT in patients with NPS.All... | Romero P, Sanhueza F, Lopez P, Reyes L, Herrera L - Mol. Vis. (2011) |
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![β–cyclodextrin induces apoptosis in human keratinocytes via caspase-8 activation. The caspase-8 activity was determined using the bioluminescent Caspase-Glo™ 8 Assay kit (Promega GmbH, Mannheim, Germany) [11].](/imgs/rescaled137/2831518_KHI-03-12-g-009.png) | Methods for the measurement of cell and tissue compatibility including tissue regeneration processes. | Figure 9: β–cyclodextrin induces apoptosis in human keratinocytes via caspase-8 activation. The caspase-8 activity was determined using the bioluminescent Caspase-Glo™ 8 Assay kit (Promega GmbH, Mannheim, Germany) [11].Bottom Line: Biocompatibility is one of the main requirements for the safe use of medical devices.Different commercial assays based on the determination of nucleic acids, metabolic activity, protein content or membrane integrity are available to measure cell proliferation... | Wiegand C, Hipler UC - GMS Krankenhhyg Interdiszip (2008) |
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 | Urine interleukin-6 is an early biomarker of acute kidney injury in children undergoing cardiac surgery. | Figure 7: Addition of recombinant human IL-6 to freshly isolated proximal tubules. A total of 200 ng of recombinant human (h) IL-6 was added to media with and without freshly isolated proximal tubules after 20 minutes of either normoxic or hypoxic conditions. Media human...Bottom Line: Urine IL-6 did not significantly increase in pre-renal azotemia but did increase in ischemic and cisplatin AKI.Animal studies demonstrate that failure of proximal tubule metabolism of IL-6 results in increased serum and urine IL-6.Impaired IL-6 metabolism leading... | Dennen P, Altmann C, Kaufman J, Klein CL, et al. - Crit Care (2010) |
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 | Targeted suppression of HO-2 gene expression impairs the innate anti-inflammatory and repair responses... | f5: Effect of local HO-2 knockdown on injury induced HO-1 mRNA expression and on HO-2 mRNA expression. Corneal HO-1 mRNA levels in A: control shRNA and B: HO-2-shRNA-treated corneas 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 days post epithelial debridement (*p<0.05; **p<0.01 from...Bottom Line: Levels of mRNA were measured by RT-PCR.Local injection of HO-2-specific shRNA led to a 50% reduction in corneal HO-2 mRNA.Administration of HO-2-specific shRNA delayed corneal re-epithelialization when compared with the control shRNA-treated group by 14%, 20%,... | Bellner L, Patil KA, Castellano K, Halilovic A, et al. - Mol. Vis. (2011) |
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 | Cardiac mitochondria in heart failure: decrease in respirasomes and oxidative phosphorylation. | CVN184F1: State 3 respiratory rates of heart subsarcolemmal mitochondria (A) and interfibrillar mitochondria (B). State 3 was induced by 200 µM ADP when mitochondria oxidize complex I substrates (Glutamate+Malate and Pyruvate+Malate), and 100 µM ADP when mitochondria...Bottom Line: We found a dramatic decrease in ADP-stimulated respiration that was not relieved by an uncoupler.However, the individual activities of ETC complexes were normal.The amount of the supercomplex consisting of complex I/complex III dimer/complex IV, the major form... | Rosca MG, Vazquez EJ, Kerner J, Parland W, et al. - Cardiovasc. Res. (2008) |
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 | Cellular adaptive immune response against porcine circovirus type 2 in subclinically infected pigs. | Figure 5: Comparison of the PCV2 re-stimulation profile for freshly isolated compared to frozen and then in vitro expanded PBMC. PBMC were re-stimulated with PCV2, mock antigen, or medium alone directly after isolation ("PBMC fresh; 24 h"). Aliquots of the...Bottom Line: A reduction in the numbers of IFN-gamma SC was observed following anti-CD4 and anti-CD8 antibody treatment, suggesting roles for both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in the response against PCV2 infection.This was supported by an observed increase in the percentage of... | Steiner E, Balmelli C, Gerber H, Summerfield A, et al. - BMC Vet. Res. (2009) |
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 | Characterization of marginal zone B cell precursors. | fig7: Model for peripheral B cell maturation. The first cells to colonize the spleen are the AA4+ T1 subset, which yields the AA4+ T2 subset that represents the common precursor of follicular and MZ B cells. CD21high CD23+ splenocytes are the immediate precursor...Bottom Line: Selection of recently formed B cells into the follicular or marginal zone (MZ) compartments is proposed to occur by way of proliferative intermediates expressing high levels of CD21/35 and CD23.However, we show that CD21/35(high) CD23(+) splenocytes are not... | Srivastava B, Quinn WJ, Hazard K, Erikson J, et al. - J. Exp. Med. (2005) |
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 | Comparison of 454-ESTs from Huperzia serrata and Phlegmariurus carinatus reveals putative genes involved... | Figure 1: Distribution of read lengths and contig lengths for H. serrata and P. carinatus. A. Size distribution of 454 sequencing reads after removal of adaptor sequences. B. Length distribution of contigs (assembled sequences) in the 454-EST datasets.Bottom Line: Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) orthology annotations revealed that the functions of the unique putative transcripts from these two species cover a similarly broad set of molecular functions, biological processes and biochemical... | Luo H, Li Y, Sun C, Wu Q, Song J, Sun Y, Steinmetz A, et al. - BMC Plant Biol. (2010) |
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 | Synergistic inhibition of endothelial cell proliferation, tube formation, and sprouting by cyclosporin... | pone-0024793-g004: The combination of cyclosporin A and itraconazole does not cause general toxicity.(A) HUVEC and HFF were treated with a combination of CsA and Ita for 30 hours. Cell viability was measured by Calcein AM staining (n = 3). (B) Proliferation of HeLa and Jurkat...Bottom Line: We focused specifically on existing clinical drugs since the re-purposing of clinical drugs allows for a more rapid and cost effective transition to clinical studies when compared to new drug entities.We found that CsA and itraconazole synergistically inhibit... | Nacev BA, Liu JO - PLoS ONE (2011) |
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