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... ZC and HL conceived of the study; CS, YS, YL, YL and BZ performed experiments; ZC and LC analyzed data and prepared the figures; CS, ZC and HL drafted the manuscript All authors have read and ... NFB and Notch signaling to tumor-induced lymphangiogenesis of ESCC, we here assessed the expression of NF-B and Notch1 in ESCC tissues and evaluated their association with various clinical characteristics, ... tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) classification, and differentiation (well, moderate, or poor grade) of tumor cells in ESCC Lymphangiogenetic characteristics and their associations with NF-B and Notch1 signaling were...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:21

... lines harbouring the -1,307::GUS (-1,307 A and B), 619::GUS (-619 A and B), -472::GUS, -366::GUS (-366 A and B), -262::GUS (-262 A and B) or 205::GUS (-205 A and B) constructs Two lines for each construct ... respectively an intermediate (b and f), a weak (c and g) and no GUS activity (d and h) Scale bars represent mm (a-d) or 0.1 mm (e-h) Figure - Oligomerisation of the 57 bp sequence and 3’ deletions of the ... transformation and drafted the manuscript EC, AA and LC did transgenic Arabidopsis analysis FF carried out cdf mutant analysis CT, MG, and GC conceived the study, participated in its design and coordination...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... concatemer, and two additional tumors had an indeterminate integration pattern For one tumor with a monoclonal integration pattern, both primary and metastatic tumor tissue was available, and both ... waves: early and late The early-expressed genes, including large and small T antigens, bind to host proteins to force the cell into S phase (the cell-cycle phase when the DNA is replicated) and facilitate ... primase, topoisomerase I, and RPA (Figure 1) [17] SV40 large T antigen also binds cellular growth regulators including the tumor suppressors pRb and p53, to promote cell growth and entry into S phase...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... conducted the RT-PCR and western blot ananlysis and was assisted in these experiments by JAB and JAAG MM and CR helped in designing appropriate Muc16 primers JC assisted in obtaining and maintaining ... human and murine forms of the mucin MUC16 is both expressed on the cell surface and shed from the cell in soluble forms Muc16, on the other hand, is detected primarily in the spent media and in ... donation from Jean McKenzie, and start-up funds from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology to MSP We are deeply grateful to Kathy Schell for her advice and help and acknowledge the support...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... are very costly and only available for a limited number of ligands Thus, scientists have searched for other ligand molecules that are easier to produce Aptamers, short single-stranded oligonucleotides ... 299 and Jurkat reporter cells that stably express eGFP and luciferase gene were utilized [43] The cells were treated with nanocomplexes containing the CD30 aptamer and eGFP siRNA for days, and ... luciferase-specific siRNA nanocomplexes and days post -treatment, luciferin was added to the cell cultures and luciferase activity detected by bioluminescence scanning Treatment with the nanocomplex selectively...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... ssDNA ends and modulates the activity of effectors, such as BRCA2 and Rad51, which execute the recombination process by performing strand invasion and Holliday junction formation and resolution ... pro-inflammatory (TNF-a, IFN-c and Cox-2, IL-6 and TGF-a) and anti-apoptotic (Bcl-2 and Bcl-XL) genes, as well as upregulation of hepatic mRNA levels of components of the NF-jB pathway (p65 and p50) [70] The ... membrane rafts [14,20], and cholesterol depletion by methyl-b-cyclodextrin reduces the ability of both AaCDT and HdCDT to bind to Jurkat and HeLa cell lines, respectively, and prevents intoxication...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 22:20

... IL32γ, and IL-32δ IL-32α is present in intracellular locations, and IL-32β is secreted from the cells IL-32α and IL-32β are thought to be the major expressed variants The sequences of IL-32β and ... variant and as a secreted protein from the cells, and the sequences of IL-32β and IL-32γ were basically similar [13] We demonstrated that IL-32 is expressed in various lymphoid cells, and in the ... (BM-hIL32) The expression and secretion of TNFα were increased in resting F4/80+ splenic macrophages of BM-hIL-32 mice, and the expression and secretion of TNFα, IL-1β, and IL-6 were increased...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23

... Water treatment apparatus Fig - Outline of the experimental field and the water treatment apparatus - 422 - Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 8, No.4, 2010 Paddy field The characteristics ... plant was Akita-Komachi Rice, and the planting rate was 0.30 m (ridge pitch) and 0.15 m (planting pitch) The paddling and transplanting were conducted on June and June 8, and the inundation began ... Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 8, No.4, 2010 The contribution ratio of PC1 and PC2 were 43.8% and 18.6%, respectively, and the accumulated contribution ratio for PC1 and PC2 was...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... to ERBB3 and ERBB4 NRG1 and NRG2 bind to both ERBB3 and ERBB4, whereas NRG3 and NRG4 only bind to ERBB4 [3] Although these ligands show redundancy, heparinbinding-EGF is the only ligand whose ... relatively low, being 33, 24 and 28%, respectively regulin and epigen); (b) those that bind to EGFR and ERBB4 (including betacellulin, heparin-binding EGF and epiregulin); and (c) neuregulin (NRG) ... HER3 and ERBB4 ⁄ HER4 ERBB2, ERBB3 and ERBB4 show extracellular homologies, relative to the EGFR, of 44, 36 and 48%, respectively, while those for the tyrosine kinase domain are 82, 59 and 79%,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 09:20

... binding of ligand to EGFR induces receptor dimerization and consequent conformational changes that result in activation of the intrinsic tyrosine kinase, receptor autophosphorylation and a transient ... the receptor and thereby stabilize the interaction with EGF-TKIs signaling cascade, independently of EGFR activation Mutation of KRAS thus bypasses the need for ligand binding to EGFR and results ... adenocarcinoma, and in never-smokers, the same groups identified clinically as most likely to respond to treatment with EGFR-TKIs Several prospective clinical trials of gefitinib or erlotinib for treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 09:20

... ⁄ and the PI3K ⁄ Akt pathways results, in turn, in the inactivation of pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 proteins (e.g PUMA, Bax, Bim and Bad), Fas, and CDK inhibitors (e.g p27KIP1, p21WAF1 and p15INK4b), and ... both cell proliferation and survival Potential targets of these MAPK and PI3K ⁄ Akt signaling pathways include apoptosis-related molecules (Bcl-2 family members and Fas) and cell-cycle regulatory ... Takeuchi and F Ito 21, and PC-9, harboring a deletion (del746-750) in EGFR exon 19, are highly sensitive to gefitinib; and this sensitivity to gefitinib is associated with dependence on both Akt and...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 09:20

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... (i.e Q, N, S, and T) and an increase in charged amino-acid residues (i.e K, E, and R) in hyperthermophilic proteins As S and T can catalyze the deamination and backbone cleavage of Q and N residues ... 0.981, is based on the elution data of the 200, 150, and 66 kDa protein standards Linear regressions (1) and (2) give molecular masses of 200 and 177.5 kDa, respectively, for BLXI q FEBS 2001 ... cm) calibrated with blue dextran and protein standards of 443, 200, 150, and 66 kDa (Sigma Chemical Co., St Louis, MO, USA) The flow rate was 0.2 mL·min21 EDTA treatment The purified enzyme was...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20

... service implements full-text and faceted search, and document indexing The data service handles data (e.g., documents) replication for clients The entailment service handles the logic of the entailment ... health and health care education Health Information & Libraries, 24:2–23 Ido Dagan, Bill Dolan, Bernardo Magnini, and Dan Roth 2009 Recognizing textual entailment: Rational, evaluation and approaches ... entailment graph and the taxonomy) The index server applies periodic indexing of new texts, and the exploration server serves the exploration application on querying, exploration, and data 83 Application...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 18:20

... green (P, L, I, V, M, F, W, Y and A); polar, purple (N, Q, S and T); and black (G and C) four putative a-helices, as in most group II IEPs [13], and a putative short b-strand in the C-tail The two ... into either double-stranded DNA or transiently singlestranded DNA target sites, and that priming may include random nonspecific opposite-strand nicks, a nascent leading strand or de novo initiation ... GE Healthcare) and 100 units of T4 polynucleotide kinase (New England Biolabs Inc., Ipswich, MA, USA) The double-stranded DNA substrates (dsDNA70) used in top-strand cleavage and reverse splicing...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... FISH and Q-FISHFCM have further improved assays of telomere length Recent advances in these techniques and the advantages and limitations of the various assays are highly relevant to understanding ... varied [48] Telomere length analysis and DNA replicatory mechanisms are aspects directly involved and related to cell structure, function and integrity, and thus the use of these sophisticated ... [55] [55] T-OLA HUVEC Fibroblasts and lymphocytes HeLa (cervical cancer cell line) and U937 cells Fibroblasts, lymphocytes HeLa, and U937 cells Fibroblasts and lymphocytes < 90 < 90 < 90 Majority...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 09:20

... structure is more ordered giving it characteristics of being in the liquid-ordered (lo) phase [10] DRMs are rich in cholesterol and sphingolipids (including GM1 and GM3) and selectively retain a number ... Materials and methods Antibodies and reagents Phycoerythrin (PE)-conjugated anti-CD69/anti-CD25 and biotin-conjugated cholera toxin (CT-B) were purchased from Becton Dickinson (San Jose, CA, USA) and ... bovine serum and were either left unstimulated or were stimulated with PMA (30 ngÆmL)1) and ionomycin (300 ngÆmL)1) for 24 h Preparation and fractionation of plasma membranes Jurkat and CEM-T4...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:21

... 7–17 and 21–31 of the consensus sequence Large unilamellar vesicles (LUV) were prepared from DOPtdCho, DOPtdEth, and Cho (1 : : 1) and when necessary with different amounts of Rho-PtdEth and NBDPtdEth, ... elements were taken from Jackson and Mantsch [41], mean values ± standard deviation are given Secondary Structure (%) Sample a helix Random coil Aggregated strands Other structures WT 1–33 G12A ... Biochem 269) 16 Epand, R.M (1998) Lipid polymorphism and protein–lipid interactions Biochim Biophys Acta 1376, 353–368 17 Peisajovich, S.G., Epand, R.F., Pritsker, M., Shai, Y & Epand, R.M (2000)...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:21

... efficiencies and consumer prices depends on many factors These factors include the total supply of and demand for milk, the number of farms and cows on those farms, energy costs, and federal and state ... labels and in advertising The section ends with a review of the specific standards for nutrients and other substances found in milk and meat Organizations that set dietary standards Food and Nutrition ... transport feed from distant places to the feedlot and to monitor and move animals around the lot (Brown and Elliott 2005) Scientists in Missouri and Maryland also have noted that confinement-based dairies...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 04:20