... inhibition of IκB kinase Page of 15 [13,18] There is increasing interest in curcumin as a therapeutic option for OA and RA, with evidence that curcumin inhibits the IL-1β-induced activation of ... mechanism of action of curcumin in MSCs and chondrocytes might involve the β1-integrin receptor signalling pathway Several studies have suggested that curcumin interacts with the TGF-β signaling cascade, ... TGF-β signaling pathway does not have an inhibitory effect on positive chondrogenic signaling However, interaction of curcumin and TGF-β signaling in chondrocytes is an interesting point and will...
... 2001;Function and interactions of integrins Cell Tissue Res (3):285-298 41 Mould AP, Askari JA, Aota SI, et al 1997;Defining the topology of integrin alpha5beta1-fibronectin interactions using inhibitory ... 2007 ;In vitro enhancement of collagen matrix formation and crosslinking for applications in tissue engineering: a preliminary study Tissue Eng (2):385391 37 Qian L, Saltzman WM 2004;Improving ... decorin and fibromodulin with transforming growth factor beta Biochem J :527534 24 Iozzo RV 1999;The biology of the small leucine-rich proteoglycans Functional network of interactive proteins...
... The end of the beginning for pluripotentstemcells Nature 2001, 414:92-97 23 24 25 26 Doerflinger RM: The ethics of funding embryonic stem cell research: a Catholic viewpoint Kennedy Inst Ethics ... Ratio of inner cell mass and trophoblastic cellsin blastocysts derived from porcine 4- and 8cell embryos and isolated blastomeres cultured invitroin the presence or absence of protein and ... destruction of additional human embryos Indeed, the embryos from which the existing ESCs originated have already been destroyed Federal funding of medical research on these existing stem cell lines...
... YAMAZAKI, AND SHIN-ICHI HAYASHI 98 v vi TABLE OF CONTENTS Development of Hematopoietic Repopulating Cells from Embryonic StemCells The InVitro Differentiation of Mouse Embryonic StemCells into Neutrophils ... Analysis of Megakaryocytes from Murine Embryonic StemCells 11 Development of Lymphoid Lineages Embryonic StemCellsInVitro from 12 Probing Dendritic Cell Function by Guiding the Differentiation of ... an impure mixture of matrix proteins derived from porcine or bovine skin, on the growth ofpluripotentcells are often overlooked Gelatin can increase the differentiation of EPL cells when compared...
... of Figure Apoptosis induction by isoproterenol or propranolol in combination with irradiation in BGC-823 and SGC-7901 cells There was an increasing rate of apoptosis in gastric cancer cell lines ... activity in cancer cells, thus making the cells radioresistant [12] Activation of NF-B by various stimuli, including inflammation, stress and radiation, involves degradation of the inhibitory ... protein level in both cell lines Figure shows that expression of b1- and b2adrenergic receptors in SGC-7901 cells was higher than that in BGC-823 cells Dose-survival curves of gastric cancer cells...
... information is available on the role of integrins α4, α7, β5 and β7 during chondrogenesis Integrins containing the α4 or α7 subunit bind to RGD-containing components, namely fibronectin and vitronectin ... reporting expression of integrins α1, α2, α3, α5, α6, α10, αv, β1, β3 and β5 [52] Integrin α5β1 is the most prominently expressed integrin in chondrocytes and integrin α10β1 is the dominant collagenbinding ... corresponding mRNAs were increased on day 21, except for filamin (Figure 1a,b) Gelsolin is involved in the cytoskeletal organization and induced by integrin signalling The expression of gelsolin and...
... induced by goserelin incubation and irradiation in LNCaP cellsIn PC-3 cells, we found more expression of this protein after incubation with goserelin than after irradiation alone Goserelin incubation ... effects of goserelin on irradiated PC cell lines invitro The clinically observed increase in tumor control after combination of goserelin with radiotherapy in PC cannot be attributed to an increase ... to explain the clinically observed increase of overall survival in patients after combined therapy Recent studies investigated the effects of AD and radiotherapy in PC cell lines invitro [summarized...
... of MSCs to cancer cells, nature of tumour cells and cancer stem cells, integrity of immune system, number ofstem cell passages and site of injection; all can affect the outcome of MSCs use in ... tissues by assessing the gene expression profile of some of the Wnt signaling target genes:cyclin D, PCNA, survivin, b-catenin Methods Ninety albino female rats inbred strain (Cux1: HEL1) of matched ... regulation of the transcription factor b-catenin, a key component of the Wnt signaling pathway [58] In the normal state, the binding of members of a family of soluble cysteine-rich glycoprotein ligands,...
... chromatin-binding proteins and modifiers, proteinmodifying factors, and chromatin assembly proteins Importantly, knockdown of Oct4 protein levels is known to cause the loss of co-binding activity of ... expression signature of cancer cells [9] LIN28 Maintains ESC pluripotency by binding and inhibiting the maturation of pro -differentiation let-7 miRNA; LIN28 is also a hiPSC reprogramming factor [74] ... embryonic stem cell; hiPSC, human induced pluripotentstem cell; iPSC, induced pluripotentstem cell; lincRNA, long-intergenic non-coding RNA; lncRNA, long non-coding RNA; mESC, mouse embryonic stem...
... obtained after incubating cells with GSH (1.25 – mM) instead of NAC (data not shown) In contrast, in NCI-H292 cells but not in PBEC, depleting GSH using BSO resulted in a full inhibition of wound ... concentration of CSC in absence of NAC (Fig 1B) or BSO (Fig 1C) of the samples containing equal amounts of protein were suspended in reducing SDS-PAGE sample buffer and boiled for minutes Proteins were ... decrease in GSH, but did not increase GSH in the absence of CSC This finding is in line with previous observations, showing that NAC does increase total non-protein thiols but does not increase...
... droplets (Fig 1B) The colonies of ASCs were subjected to Alizarin red S staining weeks after the initiation of osteogenic differentiation Intense Alizarin red S staining of the colonies confirmed ... H3: Immunofluorescence staining Scale bars = 50 μm Transplantation of ASCs in spinal cord injury 281 Fig Immunofluorescence staining of ASC group; A1-A3: Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), ... cells For group V, the injured site was exposed by dorsal laminectomy and 150 μL of PBS was injected into the spinal cord at locations to depths of mm using a 30 gauge needle (middle of the injury...
... 3,3-diaminobenzidine disclosure) for aggrecan and the staining intensity increased with time post injection (Figures and 5b) Aggrecan matrix staining within the vicinity of the injected cells was ... following injection, and the intensity of the matrix staining increased with time in culture (Figures and 5b) Weak staining for type II collagen was observed within a small number ofcellsin monolayer ... co-culture of MSCs with NP cellsinvitro is capable of inducing differentiation to an NP-like phenotype [26] This raises the possibility that the native IVD cellsin vivo could induce MSC differentiation...
... of porcine IPS cells 89 6.2 Expression ofpluripotent genes in porcine IPS cells 89 6.3 Function of LIF in the culture of porcine IPS cells 90 6.4 Importance of doxycycline in the culture ... PluripotentStemCells …………………………………………………………………… 45 4.9 Culture ofcells transitioning from fibroblasts to Induced PluripotentStemCells 45 iv 4.10 Culture of Porcine Induced PluripotentStem ... Lin28………… 26 3.4 Cardiac differentiationof Human IPS cell lines 27 3.5 Generation of Porcine Induced PluripotentStemCells 29 3.5.1 Factors used for reprogramming of porcine cells...
... potential of human pluripotentstemcells are examined and described in the two chapters that focus on the differentiationof the cells into embryoidbodiesinvitro and teratoma formation in vivo ... fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) methods as they apply to the field ofpluripotentstemcells Induced pluripotentstemcells attract great interest for their potential in understanding the ... the antibodies into the blastocyst, thus leaving the ICM cells intact Incubation with guinea pig complement-containing medium then lyses all antibodymarked cells The intact ICM is further rinsed...
... the PMA-induced transcription of lysosomal acid lipase and acid sphingomyelinase in THP-1 cellsIn this study, we show that Sp1 is involved in PMA-induced expression of DNase II in HL-60 cells ... activator, of the DNase II promoter (Fig 6) In HL-60 cells, PMA treatment also resulted in increased levels of Sp3 protein, the greatest increase being seen in the levels of the 110 kDa protein (Fig ... and PMA-mediated induction of DNase II transcription These sites bind Sp1 and Sp3, and protein levels and binding of Sp1 and Sp3 are increased in PMAtreated cells These findings indicate that Sp1...
... staining of BrdU and S-100 Representative images of immunohistochemical staining of BrdU and S-100 A: Localization of darkly brownish stained BrdU+ cells to transected tissues of rabbits having ... staining of β-tubulin, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and galactocerebroside (GalC) in neurosphere-derived cells cultured on poly-L-ornithine- and laminin-coated coverslips displaying ... Immunofluorescence staining of β-tubulin, GFAP and GalC demonstrated positive expressions in a substantial number of cells, suggesting that neurosphere-derived cells were able to differentiate into...
... These data suggest Stem- Kine supplementation increases circulation ofcells capable of giving rise to hematopoieticlineage cellsinvitro Stem- Kine augments circulation ofcells with EPC phenotype ... were required to ingest two capsules of Stem- Kine in the morning and two in the evening for 14 days Phenotypic assessment of circulating stemcells Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were ... a peak increase of approximately 53% in the number of CD34 expressing cells and and a 90% increase in CD133 cellsin circulation Furthermore, a significant augmentation ofcells possessing hematopoietic...
... MDR1 levels of HepG2 and HepG2/ADM cells The drug-resistant HepG2/ADM cells were cultured in the cell culture medium containing μg/ mL adriamycin (Sigma) Both cell lines were maintained in RPMI-1640 ... and development of multidrug resistance Human hepatoma HepG2 cells were purchased from the Institute of Hematology of Tianjin, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (Tianjin, China) To develop ... reported in clinical trials against a wide variety of tumors One of the biggest shortcomings of this drug, however, is its low anti-tumor activity against drug-resistant cells, for example adriamycin-resistant...