... This suggests that the use of feeder cellsin our culturesofcancerstemcells is likely to be important for maintaining gene expression patterns similar to cancerstemcellsin vivo Genome Biology ... PTL induces apoptosis in primitive cancercells PTL induces apoptosis in primitive cancercells Percent viability of prostate cancercells and cells from a patient with BPH treated with increasing ... distinct subset oftumorcells [3] that are defined by the expression of CD34+CD38- surface antigens and have been termed leukemic stemcells Similar tumor- initiating cells have also been found in...
... loratadine alone results in Chk1 activation leading to an increase inthe percentage ofcellsinthe G2/M phase ofthecell cycle Since Page of 12 the G2/M phase ofthecell cycle is one ofthe ... Figure 5B, the percent ofcellsin G2 did not increase following radiation in loratadinetreated cellsIn contrast to cells exposed to radiation alone, the loratadine-treated irradiated cells had ... determined by dividing the density ofthe released DNA band by the density ofthe total DNA inthe lane (the released DNA band plus the unreleased DNA remaining inthe well) Page of 12 Cell Cycle...
... patients and inthe ACs in each ofthe bins was calculated The test statistic, "number of bins in which the proportion of CD4+ cells expressing Tax was higher inthe HAM/TSP patients than the ACs" ... The increase in proviral load due to arate of CTL lysis ofThe increase in proviral load due to a high rate of Tax expression decreases with increasing rate of CTL lysis of infected cells A theoretical ... also increases infected cell proliferation by upregulating cellular genes involved in proliferation and deregulating cell cycle checkpoints This increase in infected cell proliferation results in...
... resulting inthe activation of a number of proteins responsible for the trafficking of nutrients from the Sertoli cells to the germ cells Genetic causes of male infertility In 40-60% of cases, the ... amino acids at the base ofthe first zinc finger (glycine 577, serine 578 and valine 581) which are essential for the interaction ofthe AR protein with the hormone response elements (HRE) inthe ... modulate proteinprotein interactions, raising the possibility that changes in their length during evolution could result in changes inthe strength of protein-protein interactions As a number of studies...
... prostate cancercells include malignant cellsof luminal, basal or neuroendocrine origin at various proportions and unlike the ChgA- luminal cancer cells, tumorcellsof neuroendocrine origin are ... the P63+ basal /stem cellsofthe pCX-shh-IG-injected prostates, being located inthecell membrane of P63+ basal cellsin regions of primary PIN lesions (Figure 3B; arrow in (b) indicated P63 ... [23,24] In this study, we used the Hh overexpression mouse model to elucidate whether the PCSCs arise from P63+ basal /stem cells and to examine whether these cancercells can maintain stem cell...
... characteristics of LCNEC and SCLC The preferential expression ofthecancerstemcell markers in LCNEC over SCLC suggests that the mechanism of increasing the extent of malignancy in LCNEC differs ... Association for the Study of Lung Cancer International Staging Committee; Participating Institutions: The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: Proposals for the revision ofthe TNM stage groups inthe forthcoming ... from the conventional ones used in this study, consistent with being negative in LCNEC, and with the reported rate for positive staining in SCLC (26 out of 31) [27] The role of AL1A1 in lung cancers...
... called the trophoblast, and the cluster ofcells inside the sphere is called the inner cell mass At this stage, there are about 70 trophoblast cells and about 30 cellsinthe inner cell mass Thecells ... system cells, insulin-producing cellsofthe pancreas, bone cells, hematopoietic cells, yolk sac, endothelial cells, primitive endodermal cells, and smooth and striated muscle cells, including cardiomyocytes—heart ... understanding the capabilities of adult stemcells is the relationship ofthe cellular environment to the concept of plasticity in adult stemcells Markus Grompe showed that HSCs and pancreatic stem cells...
... protein inthehuman colon carcinoma cell line T-84, and in EMT6 mouse mammary carcinoma cells and Lewis Lung Carcinoma (LLC) cells [4,8] We also showed that DCQ inhibited cell proliferation and induced ... expression in p53+/+ HCT116 cells SSB and DSB induced by DCQ in p53+/+ cell line (A) Examples of comets induced by DCQ incells subjected to the alkaline comet assay Cells treated with DCQ for hrs in ... protein also increased in all cell lines except in p53+/+ cells exposed to normoxia (Figure 6A) Exposure ofthe p53+/+ cells to or 10 μM DCQ gradually increased the level of caspase-2, and the...
... Research & Therapy Vol No Khan et al practical access, cells from the IPFP are of interest as a potential source ofcells for the repair of focal cartilage defects inthe knee [5] In previous ... monolayer-cultured IPFP cells; this remained high inthe chondrogenic cultures and there was no downregulation of its expression under hypoxic conditions The chondrogenic response of IPFP cellsincell aggregate ... stem cells, and although they stained poorly for STRO-1 and for LNGFR, the expression of these markers on bone marrow-derived stemcells is reported to decline with culture [22-25] In preliminary...
... this is the first report demonstrating the existence of SP cellsin both fetal liver cells and in primary rodent HCC cancercells induced by chemical carcinogens Since the HCC cancercells and ... for cellular heterogeneity ofcancer due to aberrant differentiation According to the hierarchical model of cancer, the origin ofthecancerstemcells may be long-lived somatic stemcells Therefore, ... differentiation of normal stemcells strongly suggest that miRNA may be involved inthe transformation of normal stemcells into cancerstemcells Therefore, screening for differences in miRNA expression...
... be expressed inhuman embryonic stemcells and other stem cells, indicating that these miRNAs may play a constitutive role in maintaining the biological characteristics ofstemcells [40,41] ... expressed in MCF-7 cells, may be one ofthe causes of high expression ofthe drug-metabolising enzyme CYP1B1 in cancerous tissues [14] Finally, as a tumor suppressor in breast cancer cells, miR-17-5p ... breast cancercells with stem/ progenitor cell properties from a breast cancercell line, and Huang [17] screened sidepopulation (SP) cells from a breast cancercell line Here, we investigated the...
... proportion of 1% to a relative proportion of 99% given a range of differences inthe intrinsic rate of increase ofthe two clones rA - = the intrinsic rate of increase of clone A minus the intrinsic ... generations, P0 = the starting proportion ofthe two clones, Pt = the final proportion ofthe two clones, rA = the intrinsic rate of increase of clone A and = the intrinsic rate of increase of clone a ... is the time interval, r is the intrinsic rate of increase and x is the starting population size Another way to think of r is as the ‘compound interest’ on the increase inpopulation size Consider...
... microglial cellsinthe SNc of MPTP-treated mice, real-time RT-PCR did not find mRNA expression of MBL inthe brain parenchyma, suggesting the infiltration of MBL from the circulation into the brain ... from the blood into the brain parenchyma where they may then interact with microglia In addition to the presence of these inflammatory cytokines, other inflammatory mediators or ongoing inflammatory ... to suppress the function of a broad range of immune cells, including T cells, B cells, NK cells and antigen-presenting cells (Fig 4) and thus may have therapeutic effect in autoimmune diseases...
... separates the aminoterminal DNA-binding domain ofthe enzyme from the carboxy-terminal catalytic domain resulting inthe loss of normal PARP1 function Although the role of PARP in apoptosis remains ... essential for the development and maintenance of midbrain dopaminergic neurons, thecells that degenerate during Parkinson’s disease, by promoting the transcription of genes involved in dopaminergic ... than 97% homology in their DNA binding domains They also display 37 – 53% homology inthe N terminal transactivation domains and 53 - 77% inthe C terminal ligand binding domains (Fu et al., 2007)...
... stemcells Landmark discoveries ofthe young field ofhumanstemcell science were the isolation and culture of inner cell mass from human blastocysts by Bongso in 1994 and inthe derivation ofthe ... source ofcells and the potential to derive thecell type of interest together with the possibility to enrich for genetic modifications during the dividing stemcell state 1.1.1 Human pluripotent stem ... Application of adenosine-releasing lt-NES cellsin mouse models of epilepsy 75 4.4.3 Diagonal grafting of lt-NES cells results in distribution throughout the hippocampus in a kindling model of epilepsy...
... to cells others than the reticuloendothelial cells, their effect on intracellular iron metabolism and indirectly on the labile iron pool ofthehuman hepatoma cells HepG2 [8] The polymers increase ... LIP The increase in ferritin by the iron preparations showed a pattern of behavior similar to the increase ofthe LIP The more iron appeared inthe LIP the faster the synthesis of ferritin took ... decreased Therefore we assessed the time course ofthe molar ratio of iron and ferritin in HepG2 cells following IVI exposure for 0–24 h The decrease inthe iron content of ferritin paralleled the increase...
... RV1 rhadinoviruses A DNA sample from the KSHV infected BCBL-1 cell line [24] containing approximately × 106 copies ofthe KSHV genome and a sample containing 109 copies of a PCR product ofthe ORF59/60 ... coefficients cells (Table 2) However, in four ofthe six positive macaques, the RV-2 assay result was low and outside the linear range ofthe assay Discussion The novel ORF 59/60 intergenic regions of ... levels of 320 and 880 genomes per 106 cellsInthe other 28 animals, the RRV load was below the level ofdetection While RRV was detected more frequently in SIV-infected macaques in this study, the...
... RV1 rhadinoviruses A DNA sample from the KSHV infected BCBL-1 cell line [24] containing approximately × 106 copies ofthe KSHV genome and a sample containing 109 copies of a PCR product ofthe ORF59/60 ... coefficients cells (Table 2) However, in four ofthe six positive macaques, the RV-2 assay result was low and outside the linear range ofthe assay Discussion The novel ORF 59/60 intergenic regions of ... levels of 320 and 880 genomes per 106 cellsInthe other 28 animals, the RRV load was below the level ofdetection While RRV was detected more frequently in SIV-infected macaques in this study, the...