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 | The human toll signaling pathway: divergence of nuclear factor kappaB and JNK/SAPK activation upstream... | Figure 1: hToll expression and induction of NF-κB. (A) Human monocytes were treated with LPS (100 ng/ml) for different periods of time and analyzed for their hToll mRNA content by Northern blotting. Two distinct transcripts specific for hToll are detected and induced...Bottom Line: The human homologue of Drosophila Toll (hToll) is a recently cloned receptor of the interleukin 1 receptor (IL-1R) superfamily, and has been implicated in the activation of adaptive immunity.Signaling by hToll is shown to occur through sequential recruitment... | Muzio M, Natoli G, Saccani S, Levrero M, Mantovani A - J. Exp. Med. (1998) |
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 | In vitro, but not in vivo, reversibility of peritoneal macrophages activation during experimental acute... | Figure 4: In vivo administration of IL-4 plus IL-13 does not accomplish to reduce the macrophages activation in the early stages of pancreatitis. No changes were observed in TNFα or Mannose receptor expression in peritoneal macrophages. Results are expressed as increases...Bottom Line: Treatment with IL-4 and IL-13 reversed the activation of macrophages from a classical M1 to alternative M2 in vitro, but failed to modulate the response of peritoneal macrophages in vivo despite a reduction in inflammation was observed in lung and adipose tissue.This... | Gea-Sorlà S, Closa D - BMC Immunol. (2009) |
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 | Module-based analysis of robustness tradeoffs in the heat shock response system. |  Bottom Line: Each of these modules provides a different type of robustness with its inherent tradeoffs in terms of transient response and efficiency.An extensive mathematical exploration nevertheless points to the existence of an array of alternative strategies for the... | Kurata H, El-Samad H, Iwasaki R, Ohtake H, et al. - PLoS Comput. Biol. (2006) |
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![Inhibition of PtdIns(4,5)P2 synthesis prevents relocalization of the PLCδ PH domain–GFP fusion protein to the plasma membrane. NIH-3T3 cells were transfected with plasmids encoding the PLCδ PH domain–GFP fusion protein and stimulated at 33°C with 10 μM ionomycin for 5 min before addition of 2 mM BAPTA for an additional 5 min. Confocal images (A) were taken from the cells before stimulation (basal), 5 min after ionomycin addition (iono), and at the end of 5 min BAPTA treatment (+BAPTA). Cells were also preincubated with the indicated inhibitors for 5 min before ionomycin addition (WT, 10 μM; Quer [quercetin], 100 μM; PAO, 100 μM; DTT, 1 mM; BAL, 1 mM; MerOH [β-mercaptoethanol], 1 mM). PtdIns(4,5)P2 mass (B) was also measured in simultaneous experiments in non-transfected NIH-3T3 cells under identical conditions. The lipid levels were expressed as percent of the absolute control, (i.e., before ionomycin stimulation and no treatment with inhibitors, which was 91 ± 7.2 pmol/well). Means ± SEM are shown from three experiments each performed in duplicate. Bar, 10 μm.](/imgs/rescaled137/2132833_JCB9805012.f5b.png) | Visualization of phosphoinositides that bind pleckstrin homology domains: calcium- and agonist-induced... | Figure 5: Inhibition of PtdIns(4,5)P2 synthesis prevents relocalization of the PLCδ PH domain–GFP fusion protein to the plasma membrane. NIH-3T3 cells were transfected with plasmids encoding the PLCδ PH domain–GFP fusion protein and stimulated at 33°C with 10...Bottom Line: Inhibition of PtdIns(4,5)P2 synthesis by quercetin or phenylarsine oxide prevented the relocalization of the fluorescent probe to the membranes after Ca2+ chelation in ionomycin-treated cells or during agonist stimulation.In contrast, the synthesis of the PtdIns(4,5)P2... | Várnai P, Balla T - J. Cell Biol. (1998) |
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 | Effects of combined treatment with rapamycin and cotylenin A, a novel differentiation-inducing agent,... | Figure 2: Classic isobologram at IC50: rapamycin plus CN-A in MCF-7 cells. Isoboles for the combination of rapamycin with CN-A that were isoeffective (IC50) for inhibition of proliferation of MCF-7 cells. The dashed line indicates the zero interaction of the isobole....Bottom Line: The in vitro results of MCF-7 cells treated with rapamycin plus cotylenin A were further confirmed in vivo in a mouse xenograft model.We found that the sensitivity of rapamycin to MCF-7 cells was markedly affected by cotylenin A.We examined the gene expression... | Kasukabe T, Okabe-Kado J, Kato N, Sassa T, et al. - Breast Cancer Res. (2005) |
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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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 | Lipid Lowering Activity of Anthocephalus indicus Root in Hyperlipidemic Rats. | Figure 3: Values are mean ± SD of six rats aP < 0.001, bP < 0.01. Hyperlipidemic control (Group 2) was compared with control (Group 1). Hyperlipidemic + A. indicus treated (Group 3) and hyperlipidemic + gemfibrozil (Group 4) was compared with hyperlipidemic control...Bottom Line: In this model, feeding with root extract (500 mg kg(-1) b.w.) lowered plasma lipids and reactivated post-heparin lipolytic activity in hyperlipidemic rats.Furthermore, the root extract (50-500 μM) inhibited the generation of superoxide anions and hydroxyl... | Kumar V, Khan MM, Khanna AK, Singh R, Singh S, et al. - Evid Based Complement Alternat Med (2008) |
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 | Preclinical and clinical in vitro in vivo correlation of an hGH dextran microsphere formulation. | Fig9: Serum concentration IGF-1 after administration of CTM microspheres. Mean ± S.E. (n = 10).Bottom Line: Testing the microspheres in healthy volunteers showed an increase (over 7-8 days) in hGH serum concentrations (peak concentrations: 1-2.5 ng/ml).A good in vitro in vivo correlation was obtained between the measured and calculated (from in vitro release data)... | Vlugt-Wensink KD, de Vrueh R, Gresnigt MG, et al. - Pharm. Res. (2007) |
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 | Cytokine-driven proliferation and differentiation of human naive, central memory, and effector memory... | fig1: Kinetics of TCR- and cytokine-induced T cell proliferation. CFSE-labeled naive CD4+ T cells were stimulated with either TSST-loaded autologous DCs (A) or with a cytokine mixture (IL-7, IL-15, TNF-α, IL-6, and IL-10) (B). Cell division was measured by flow...Bottom Line: Interleukin (IL)-7 and IL-15 expanded with very high efficiency T(EM), while T(CM) were less responsive and naive T cells failed to respond.Importantly, in cytokine-driven cultures, some of the proliferating T(CM) differentiated to T(EM)-like cells acquiring... | Geginat J, Sallusto F, Lanzavecchia A - J. Exp. Med. (2001) |
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 | A point mutation of Tyr-759 in interleukin 6 family cytokine receptor subunit gp130 causes autoimmune... | fig8: Lymphocytes are required for the development of arthritis. gp130F759/F759RAG-2+/− or RAG-2+/+ (white circles) (n = 16) and gp130F759/F759RAG-2−/− (black circles) (n = 15) mice were examined and scored monthly for severity of arthritis. Data represent...Bottom Line: The inhibitory effect of IL-6 on Fas ligand expression during activation-induced cell death (AICD) was augmented in gp130(F759/F759) T cells in a manner dependent on the tyrosine residues of gp130 required for signal transducer and activator of transcription... | Atsumi T, Ishihara K, Kamimura D, Ikushima H, et al. - J. Exp. Med. (2002) |
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 | Immune suppression by recombinant interleukin (rIL)-12 involves interferon gamma induction of nitric... | Figure 7: Inhibition of iNOS function enhances rmIL-12–induced delay of SCK tumorigenesis. Female A/J mice were injected with 2.5 × 104 SCK cells and either PBS (gray lines), rmIL-12 (solid black lines), rmIL-12 + L-NAME (hatched black lines), or rmIL-12 and D-NAME...Bottom Line: These results support the view that suppression of T cell responses is due to NO produced by macrophages responding to the high levels of IFN-gamma induced by rmIL-12.When a NOS inhibitor was given with rmIL-12 during vaccination of A/J mice with irradiated... | Koblish HK, Hunter CA, Wysocka M, Trinchieri G, et al. - J. Exp. Med. (1998) |
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 | The effect of early pregnancy following chemotherapy on disease relapse and foetal outcome in women treated... | fig2: Histogram showing pregnancy outcomes in women who conceived within 12 months of completing chemotherapy.Bottom Line: Relapse rates were 2% (3 out of 153) and 2.5% (2 out of 77) for each group compared to 5% and 5.6% in the comparative non-pregnant groups.Though, we still advise avoiding pregnancy within 12 months of completing chemotherapy, those that do conceive can be reassured... | Blagden SP, Foskett MA, Fisher RA, Short D, et al. - Br. J. Cancer (2002) |
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 | Allergen-responsive CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells in children who have outgrown cow's milk allergy. | fig5: Immunosuppression exerted by CD4+CD25+ T cells in peripheral blood from children tolerant against cow's milk is partly cell contact dependent. CD4+CD25+ T cells and CD4+CD25− T cells were FACS® sorted and cultured in transwell plates. In some wells, the...Bottom Line: Children who outgrew their allergy (tolerant children) had higher frequencies of circulating CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells and decreased in vitro proliferative responses to bovine beta-lactoglobulin in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) compared with children... | Karlsson MR, Rugtveit J, Brandtzaeg P - J. Exp. Med. (2004) |
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 | Getting sick from Sic | uro1: Bacteria with Sic (black bar) escape killing by phagocytes.Musser/NASBottom Line: Not Available. | |
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 | Rapid estimation of binding activity of influenza virus hemagglutinin to human and avian receptors. | pone-0018664-g003: Experimental validation of amino acid residues critical for altered receptor-binding specificity of Fujian-like viruses.Comparison of receptor binding activities of wild type Panama and Fujian HAs and Fujian HA with R222W and D225G mutations (FjR222W/D225G)....Bottom Line: Here we report a computational method that uses an effective scoring function to quantify HA-receptor binding activities with high accuracy and speed.The method predicts that two amino acid differences at 222 and 225 between HAs of A/Fujian/411/02 and A/Panama/2007/99... | Cao Y, Koh X, Dong L, Du X, Wu A, Ding X, et al. - PLoS ONE (2011) |
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 | p66alpha and p66beta of the Mi-2/NuRD complex mediate MBD2 and histone interaction. | fig5: p66α or p66β requires the paralogous p66 partner for repression. HeLa cells were transfected with plasmids coding for the Gal-DNA binding domain, Gal-p66α or Gal-p66β together with pSil-neg, pSil-αX or pSil-βX. Cell extracts were analyzed for reporter...Bottom Line: This loss of binding results in a diffuse nuclear localization in contrast to wild-type p66alpha that shows a speckled nuclear distribution.The conserved region 2 of p66alpha is required for histone tail interaction as well as for wild-type subnuclear distribution.These... | Brackertz M, Gong Z, Leers J, Renkawitz R - Nucleic Acids Res. (2006) |
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![NPC1 deficiency leads to the enlargement of late endosomes.The % of cytoplasmic volume occupied by late endosomes was determined by quantitative electron microscopy on U18666A treated late endosomes, NPC1 deficient CHO cells and fibroblast from an NPC1 patient [24] in comparison to their respective controls.](/imgs/rescaled137/1952175_pone.0000851.g003.png) | Late endosomal cholesterol accumulation leads to impaired intra-endosomal trafficking. | pone-0000851-g003: NPC1 deficiency leads to the enlargement of late endosomes.The % of cytoplasmic volume occupied by late endosomes was determined by quantitative electron microscopy on U18666A treated late endosomes, NPC1 deficient CHO cells and fibroblast from an NPC1 patient...Bottom Line: We here analyzed the effects of cholesterol accumulation in NPC cells, or as phenocopied by the drug U18666A, on late endosomes membrane organization and dynamics.Cholesterol accumulation did not lead to an increase in the raft to non-raft membrane ratio as... | Sobo K, Le Blanc I, Luyet PP, Fivaz M, Ferguson C, et al. - PLoS ONE (2007) |
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 | Synthetic morphology using alternative inputs. | pone-0006946-g009: Model for how multiple projections were induced by AI-Ste4p and AI-Ste5p.Arrow diagram explaining multiple projections in (AI-Ste4p + AI-Ste5p) cells. The diagram combines the α-factor transcription pathway with the ability of Ste5p to make projections in...Bottom Line: We found a genetic manipulation (AI-Ste5p ste2Delta) that enhanced the formation of multiple projections.Further, we showed that overexpression of a membrane-targeted form of Ste5p alone could also induce multiple projections.Thus, we successfully re-engineered... | Tanaka H, Yi TM - PLoS ONE (2009) |
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 | Dermal mast cells determine susceptibility to ultraviolet B-induced systemic suppression of contact hypersensitivity... | Figure 7: Reconstitution of the dorsal skin of W  f/W  f mice with bone marrow–derived mast cell precursors. (A) Mast cells per mm horizontal field length in the dermis and SCFT of wild-type (+/+, n = 7), W  f/W  f (W  f; n = 7), and W  f/W  f...Bottom Line: Histamine, but not UVB irradiation, decreased systemic CHS responses in mast cell-depleted mice (W f/W f).UVB irradiation did not suppress delayed type hypersensitivity responses to allogeneic spleen cells in W f/W f mice.This study demonstrates that dermal... | Hart PH, Grimbaldeston MA, Swift GJ, Jaksic A, et al. - J. Exp. Med. (1998) |
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