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 | Increased optic atrophy type 1 expression protects retinal ganglion cells in a mouse model of glaucoma. | f7: Increased optic atrophy type 1 (OPA1) expression blocks mitochondrial fission in differentiated retinal ganglion cell (RGC)-5 cells exposed to elevated hydrostatic pressure (30 mmHg) for three days. Mitochondria are stained with MitoTracker Red. A, C: Non-pressurized...Bottom Line: In addition, apoptotic cell death and mitochondrial structure were determined in AAV2-WT mOPA1-transfected differentiated RGC-5 cells exposed to elevated hydrostatic pressure (30 mmHg) for three days.WT AAV2-mOPA1 transfection significantly increased 90 kDa... | Ju WK, Kim KY, Duong-Polk KX, Lindsey JD, et al. - Mol. Vis. (2010) |
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 | High-resolution, in vivo magnetic resonance imaging of Drosophila at 18.8 Tesla. | pone-0002817-g005: Adult D. bifurca.A,B) Two exterior views of 3D rendering. C) Example 2D slices from the image set, three from the head, left, and three from the thorax, right. Sequence: Spin Echo Multi-Slice, 12.5 micron in-plane resolution, 100 micron slice thickness, TR = 1500...Bottom Line: This study demonstrates the feasibility of MR methods for imaging the fruit fly Drosophila with an NMR spectrometer, at a resolution relevant for undertaking future studies of the Drosophila brain and other organs.The fruit fly has long been a principal model... | Null B, Liu CW, Hedehus M, Conolly S, Davis RW - PLoS ONE (2008) |
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 | Gene Expression Profiling in Wild-Type and PPARα-Null Mice Exposed to Perfluorooctane Sulfonate... | fig1: Hematoxylin-and eosin-stained tissue sections from control and PFOS treated mice. Control WT and Null mice are shown in panels (a) and (b), respectively. WT and mice treated with 10 mg/kg/day PFOS are shown in panels (c) and (d), respectively. Vacuole...Bottom Line: Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) is a perfluoroalkyl acid (PFAA) and a persistent environmental contaminant found in the tissues of humans and wildlife.Unique treatment-related effects were also found in Null mice including altered expression of genes associated... | Rosen MB, Schmid JR, Corton JC, Zehr RD, Das KP, et al. - PPAR Res (2010) |
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 | The dynamin-related GTPase, Dnm1p, controls mitochondrial morphology in yeast. | Figure 8: Mitochondrial morphology changes in response to changes in DNM1 gene expression. Null (closed triangles), intermediate (open squares), and wild-type (closed circles) mitochondrial morphologies were quantified by DiOC6 staining in cells containing...Bottom Line: These Dnm1p-containing structures remain associated with the spherical mitochondria found in an mdm10 mutant strain.In addition, a portion of Dnm1p cofractionates with mitochondrial membranes during differential sedimentation and sucrose gradient fractionation... | Otsuga D, Keegan BR, Brisch E, Thatcher JW, et al. - J. Cell Biol. (1998) |
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 | Anti-tumor effect of adenovirus-mediated gene transfer of pigment epithelium-derived factor on mouse... | Figure 6: Alginate-encapsulated tumor cell assay for the inhibition of angiogenesis. Mice bearing alginate beads containing CT26 tumor cells were treated with NS, Ad-Null, or Ad-PEDF twice on day 1 and 8, respectively. On day 11, all mice received an injection...Bottom Line: Tumor volume and survival time were recorded.Antiangiogenesis was determined by the alginate-encapsulated tumor cell assay.The recombinant PEDF adenovirus is able to transfer the PEDF gene to infected cells and successfully produce secretory PEDF protein, which... | Yang LP, Cheng P, Peng XC, Shi HS, He WH, et al. - J. Exp. Clin. Cancer Res. (2009) |
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 | High-resolution, in vivo magnetic resonance imaging of Drosophila at 18.8 Tesla. | pone-0002817-g002: Late D. melanogaster pupa.A) Exterior view and labelled schematic. At right, selected example slices from the B) head C) thorax and D) abdomen. Sequence: Spin Echo Multi-Slice, 41 slices, 100 micron thickness, resolution: 12.5 micron, in-plane. Matrix: 128×128,...Bottom Line: This study demonstrates the feasibility of MR methods for imaging the fruit fly Drosophila with an NMR spectrometer, at a resolution relevant for undertaking future studies of the Drosophila brain and other organs.The fruit fly has long been a principal model... | Null B, Liu CW, Hedehus M, Conolly S, Davis RW - PLoS ONE (2008) |
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 | High-resolution, in vivo magnetic resonance imaging of Drosophila at 18.8 Tesla. | pone-0002817-g003: Adult D. melanogaster, dorsal slices omitted.Sequence: Gradient Echo 3D; resolution: 19.5 microns, matrix: 128×128×256, field of view (FOV): 2.5×2.5×5 mm. TR: 195 ms, TE: 9.6 ms. Injected with gadopentate dimeglumine contrast agent during pupal stage, imaged...Bottom Line: This study demonstrates the feasibility of MR methods for imaging the fruit fly Drosophila with an NMR spectrometer, at a resolution relevant for undertaking future studies of the Drosophila brain and other organs.The fruit fly has long been a principal model... | Null B, Liu CW, Hedehus M, Conolly S, Davis RW - PLoS ONE (2008) |
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 | High-resolution, in vivo magnetic resonance imaging of Drosophila at 18.8 Tesla. | pone-0002817-g004: Adult D. melanogaster, head and anterior thorax of specimen in figure 3.A) Dorsal view B) Anterior view, stereograph. The brain is highlighted blue-green, surfaces of the eyes red. Partial transparency of the head cuticle was achieved by adjusting per cent...Bottom Line: This study demonstrates the feasibility of MR methods for imaging the fruit fly Drosophila with an NMR spectrometer, at a resolution relevant for undertaking future studies of the Drosophila brain and other organs.The fruit fly has long been a principal model... | Null B, Liu CW, Hedehus M, Conolly S, Davis RW - PLoS ONE (2008) |
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 | Single versus multiple imputation for genotypic data. | Figure 1: Four genomic regions. (A) Null region 1 - low LD; (B) Null region 2 - high LD; (C) Associated region - PTPN22 (D) Associated region - PADI4. SNPs in boxes indicate those removed for imputation of completely untyped markers. For associated regions...Bottom Line: An alternative to single imputation is multiple imputation.Two scenarios for missing genotypic data were assessed: imputation of untyped markers and combination of genotypic data from two studies.This limited study involving four regions indicates that, contrary... | Fridley BL, McDonnell SK, Rabe KG, Tang R, et al. - BMC Proc (2009) |
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 | Reduced responsiveness is an essential feature of chronic fatigue syndrome: a fMRI study. | Figure 1: Time course of the stimulus display sequence of the task trials. For present and absent trials, a randomly selected digit from 20 to 99 was presented on the centre of the viewing screen for 500 ms, followed by a test sequence of digits (targets) presented for...Bottom Line: Responsiveness of auditory cortices to transient, short-lived, noise reduction was measured while subjects performed a fatigue-inducing continual visual search task.Responsiveness of the task-dependent brain regions was decreased after the fatigue-inducing... | Tanaka M, Sadato N, Okada T, Mizuno K, Sasabe T, et al. - BMC Neurol (2006) |
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 | Capturing heterogeneity in gene expression studies by surrogate variable analysis. | pgen-0030161-g005: Null p-Values under HeterogeneityA histogram of the p-values from a single simulated experiment affected by heterogeneity. The distribution of these p-values appears identical to a complete set of p-values from an experiment that is not subject to heterogeneity....Bottom Line: It has unambiguously been shown that genetic, environmental, demographic, and technical factors may have substantial effects on gene expression levels.We show that failing to incorporate these sources of heterogeneity into an analysis can have widespread and... | Leek JT, Storey JD - PLoS Genet. (2007) |
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 | Mutual information for testing gene-environment interaction. | pone-0004578-g001: Null Distribution of the statistic for 400 cases and controls respectively.Bottom Line: We found that the new test statistics were more powerful than the traditional logistic regression under several disease models.Finally, in order to further evaluate the performance of our new method, we applied the mutual information-based statistics to three... | Wu X, Jin L, Xiong M - PLoS ONE (2009) |
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 | Mutual information for testing gene-environment interaction. | pone-0004578-g002: Null Distribution of the statistic for 400 cases and controls respectively.Bottom Line: We found that the new test statistics were more powerful than the traditional logistic regression under several disease models.Finally, in order to further evaluate the performance of our new method, we applied the mutual information-based statistics to three... | Wu X, Jin L, Xiong M - PLoS ONE (2009) |
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 | Mutual information for testing gene-environment interaction. | pone-0004578-g003: Null Distribution of the statistic for 400 cases and controls respectively.Bottom Line: We found that the new test statistics were more powerful than the traditional logistic regression under several disease models.Finally, in order to further evaluate the performance of our new method, we applied the mutual information-based statistics to three... | Wu X, Jin L, Xiong M - PLoS ONE (2009) |
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 | Mutual information for testing gene-environment interaction. | pone-0004578-g004: Null Distribution of the statistic for 400 cases and controls respectively.Bottom Line: We found that the new test statistics were more powerful than the traditional logistic regression under several disease models.Finally, in order to further evaluate the performance of our new method, we applied the mutual information-based statistics to three... | Wu X, Jin L, Xiong M - PLoS ONE (2009) |
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 | Over-expression of HO-1 on mesenchymal stem cells promotes angiogenesis and improves myocardial function... | Figure 3: Effects of HO-1-MSCs transplantation on apoptosis. (A) TUNEL-positive cells in the border zone of infracted myocardium 3 weeks after transplantation (100×). (B) Values are means ± SD of data from 6 separate experiments, * P < 0.05 compared with the hearts...Bottom Line: The results showed that HO-1-MSCs were able to induce stable expression of HO-1 in vitro and in vivo.The capillary density and expression of angiogenic growth factors, VEGF and FGF2 were significantly enhanced in HO-1-MSCs-treated hearts compared with Null-MSCs-treated... | Zeng B, Lin G, Ren X, Zhang Y, Chen H - J. Biomed. Sci. (2010) |
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 | Drosophila CENP-A mutations cause a BubR1-dependent early mitotic delay without normal localization of... | pgen-0020110-g001: cid Null Embryos Exhibit Multiple Mitotic Phenotypes.CID, PH3, and DAPI staining of cid/CyO and cid/cid embryos at different stages of development were monitored to evaluate mitotic progression and segregation defects.(A) Heterozygous (cid/CyO) stage...Bottom Line: CENP-A proteins are centromere-specific chromatin components that provide both a structural and a functional foundation for kinetochore formation.Furthermore, cid mutants retain an intact SAC response to spindle disruption despite the inability of many kinetochore... | Blower MD, Daigle T, Kaufman T, Karpen GH - PLoS Genet. (2006) |
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![<b>Null</b> alleles of ago2 complement dop1 mutants.(A) Percentage of larvae hatching from indicated genotypes (n>300 per genotype). (B) Bright-field images of post-gastrula embryos (stage 10) show that the periphery of dop1 mutant embryos is abnormally transparent compared to wild type (wt) [16]. These transparency changes are characteristic of altered lipid-droplet distribution [57]. Embryos obtained from mothers transheterozygous for dop1 and either ago2321 or ago2454 exhibit a normal pattern lipid-droplet distribution. (C) Immunolabeling of the membrane protein Neurotactin (red) and DNA (DAPI, blue) in embryos during and after cellularization. Embryos from dop1 homozygous females exhibit a severe delay in membrane ingression marked by the absence of Neurotactin staining at the interface between adjacent nuclei [16]. Embryos from dop1/ago2321 transheterozygous mothers show normal membrane ingression during cellularization.](/imgs/rescaled137/3002974_pone.0015264.g002.png) | Natural variation of the amino-terminal glutamine-rich domain in Drosophila argonaute2 is not associated... | pone-0015264-g002: Null alleles of ago2 complement dop1 mutants.(A) Percentage of larvae hatching from indicated genotypes (n>300 per genotype). (B) Bright-field images of post-gastrula...Bottom Line: Analysis of drop out (dop) mutations had previously suggested that variations in GRR copy number result in defects in RNAi and embryonic development.In fact, we find that GRR copy number is highly variable in natural D. melanogaster populations as well as in... | Hain D, Bettencourt BR, Okamura K, Csorba T, et al. - PLoS ONE (2010) |
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 | Over-expression of HO-1 on mesenchymal stem cells promotes angiogenesis and improves myocardial function... | Figure 5: Effects of HO-1-MSCs transplantation on ventricular remodeling. (A) The transmural slices of the left ventricle were stained with Masson trichrome (1.25×). (B) % fibrotic area in heart with infarction was measured. Values are means ± SD of data from 6 separate...Bottom Line: The results showed that HO-1-MSCs were able to induce stable expression of HO-1 in vitro and in vivo.The capillary density and expression of angiogenic growth factors, VEGF and FGF2 were significantly enhanced in HO-1-MSCs-treated hearts compared with Null-MSCs-treated... | Zeng B, Lin G, Ren X, Zhang Y, Chen H - J. Biomed. Sci. (2010) |
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 | Dystroglycan and perlecan provide a basal cue required for epithelial polarity during energetic stress. | fig1: Dg Null Mutant Cells Have Normal Apical-Basal Polarity(A–E) DgO43 or DgO86 mutant follicle cell clones under normal food conditions. Mutant cells are marked by the absence of GFP (green). The apical domain is at the top and faces the oocyte. (A) Armadillo...Bottom Line: The maintenance of epithelial polarity under energetic stress requires the activation of Myosin II by the cellular energy sensor AMPK.Starved Dystroglycan or Perlecan cells activate AMPK normally, but do not activate Myosin II.Thus, Perlecan signaling through... | Mirouse V, Christoforou CP, Fritsch C, St Johnston D, et al. - Dev. Cell (2009) |
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