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... evaluated in clinical trials (at a dosage of 52.5 mg) It was subsequently withdrawn from clinical testing as a result of increased risk of sexually transmitted infection due to disruptions in the vaginal ... cervical-vaginal tissues before being considered as a candidate for evaluation in clinical trials It must not cause inflammation or sloughing of the vaginal epithelium, and even minor, subclinical ... lemon juices and white household vinegar in a highly standardized in vitro testing algorithm that is currently supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to identify...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... cell lines expressing proteins of Pakistani HCV genotype 3a isolates The establishment of HCV genotype 3a cell lines stably expressing structural and non structural proteins is an instrumental in ... self-replication of engineered minigenomes in cell cultures, has been established for HCV replication in other regions of the world [7,37] The HCV stable cell lines may be very useful in the study of HCV ... of cyclin A expression [24] Nonstructural protein 4A (NS4A) is a multifunctional protein with 54 amino acid residues It acts as a cofactor of NS3 serine protease and plays an essential role in...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22

... also protein fragments for mapping of interaction domains The use of in vitro expression approaches to analyze protein products is likely to gain momentum for the analysis of known proteins as well ... functionally analyzed using in vitro assays Furthermore, rapid in vitro protein–protein interaction studies could be performed using this technique where not only full-length version of proteins could be ... original primers Of course in this case the use of an enzyme with 3′-exonuclease proofreading activity should be avoided to protect the differentiating 3′-end An example of the design of original...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 22:20

... reaction by using 32P-labeling primer or template in the presence or absence of DNA-binding agents (DDIs and doxorubicin) The DNA bulge binding of both compounds was detected by CD and UV melting experiments ... is formed To gain insight into the binding of drugs to bulge DNA, several bulgecontaining oligonucleotides were selected as binding hosts for DDI-1A and DDI-1B CD spectroscopy of DDI-1A (Fig ... two-base bulge in DNA via stacking of its helically oriented aromatic ring systems on the bulge-flanking base pairs that define the long sides of the triangular prism binding pocket, with its amino sugar...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 06:20

... alone did not increase the extent of staining However, in cells that had been cocultured with CDO and a cytotoxic drug, staining was significantly increased, indicating the presence of senescence ... provide a possible model of drug interaction in GEO cells, which involves the complex interaction of proteins involved in cell cycle regulation To recapitulate, combining CDO with cytotoxic chemotherapy ... analysis of BrdU incorporation The degree of incorporation of the thymidine analogue 5-bromo-2¢-deoxyuridine (BrdU; Sigma) in HCT116 and GEO cells was measured by flow cytometry Following culture in...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... the initial screening is conducted in vitro because of the large number of candidate plant species and the prohibitive cost of screening them in vivo The number of species for in vivo testing ... challenges of extrapolating in vitro findings to in vivo evaluation of plant resources The chapters in this book are written by experts interested in exploring and making better use of plant biodiversity ... remaining larvae into individual labelled petri dishes and stain with a few drops of helminthological iodine 10 Add 50 μL of helminthological iodine to each well on the culture plate 11 Using...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 04:20

... (Fig 3E) Interestingly, the inclusion of IKK2 inhibition by SC-514 with our experimentally determined rate constants in the original model resulted in a delay in simulated peak and damping of subsequent ... simulated in silico Combining this method of analysis (in vitro, cell-based and in silico analysis) will facilitate systematic understanding of the underlying properties of this signaling pathway ... = Intensity of nucleus Intensity of cytoplasm Intensity of nucleus Scheme This is a simplication of a cell as seen by analysis software, where the software measures the intensity of NF-jB in...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:20

... stringent concentration of KCl, there was a correlation between inhibition of endonuclease activity and inhibition of splicing activity indicating that RNA binding can be monitored by measuring ... and its binding affinity is not altered by the presence of DNA in the DNA binding site Interestingly, when nM RNA and 10 nM DNA were added simultaneously to a limiting amount of protein in TK8 buffer ... background In vitro competition assays RNA splicing and DNA cleavage competition experiments both involved a prebinding step in which either DNA or RNA substrates were incubated with I-AniI in a binding...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... in the GPI-bALP mediated mineralization: effects of Ca2+ concentration To assess the role of Ca2+ in initiating the mineralization process, we modelled the biological process by using 0.8 U of ... presence of anchored GPI-bALP (Fig 1) The presence of HA in the mineral samples was confirmed by In uence of other phosphate substrates in the mineralization process To examine the effects of substrates ... of HA No mineral material was formed in media lacking GPI-bALP Mineral calcium phosphate identification by infrared spectra To identify the quality and the type of mineral formation obtained in...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:21

... This might explain their different substrate preferences A fuller understanding of quinone–protein interactions in this class of enzyme may be achieved by testing the effect of sequence modification ... by Fisher and Rich [20] for quinone binding sites Although speculative at this stage, this consensus sequence was found in various quinone-binding proteins including AOX [20,21] It should be mentioned ... quinone binding site would be expected to be close to iron binding amino acids, which is the case here ([6], Fig 4) This potential quinone-binding site appears to be conserved in PTOX sequences (including...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20

... Effect of molarity and pH on the diffusion profile of ketoprofen .85 Effect of temperature on the diffusion profile of ketoprofen 86 Effect of mass on the diffusion profile of ketoprofen ... variability in percutaneous absorption, the precision of dosing, the reservoir capacity of the skin, heterogeneity and inducibility of the skin in turnover and metabolism, inadequate definition of bioequivalence ... include extrusion of lamellar bodies, loss of nucleus and increasing amount of keratin in the stratum corneum (12) The origins of the cells of the epidermis lie in the basal lamina between the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/04/2014, 09:25

... cells producing TGF-β resulted in the induction of Treg in vivo and in vitro in a murine model [52] Moreover, the blockade of TGF-β reduces Treg induction by the fusion cell vaccine and enhances ... (obtained with following informed consent and approved by our institutional review board obtained) was isolated and maintained in TIL Media I medium with 10% heat-inactivated FCS, mM L-glutamine, ... each vaccination [27,33] Autologous FCs were irradiated, suspended in 0.3 ml normal saline, and underwent up to nine times vaccinations via SC injection in the left inguinal area at 2-week intervals...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... comparing two different MYXV strains (a wild-type strain (T1) and a cell-cultured attenuated vaccinal strain (SG33) [14]) we verified the stability of the viral tropism in vitro Findings Three bovine ... http://www.virologyj.com/content/4/1/94 information concerning interactions between MYXV and bovine cells is available yet In this study, we characterized the infection of bovine cell lines and bovine peripheral blood ... KOP-R P3 BT MDBK Figure Permissivity of bovine cell lines for myxoma virus Permissivity of bovine cell lines for myxoma virus Bovine cells were maintained in DMEM (KOP-R and BT) or MEM (MDBK)...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... after adding T cells), fixed in buffered formalin and embedded in paraffin a, b: Staining with H&E c, d: Specific brown staining of apoptotic cells by anti-caspase Ab e, f: In situ end-labeling (ISEL); ... through binding of CCL2 to its corresponding chemokine receptor CCR2 on the T cells This was demonstrated by blocking of T-cell migration in presence of addition of excess chemokine CCL2 in the ... cells resulting in tumor growth inhibition (reviewed in [25] and [1]) In mouse systems, ex vivo transduction of chemokines into tumor cells has provided potent tumor vaccines inducing tumor rejection,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... comparing two different MYXV strains (a wild-type strain (T1) and a cell-cultured attenuated vaccinal strain (SG33) [14]) we verified the stability of the viral tropism in vitro Findings Three bovine ... http://www.virologyj.com/content/4/1/94 information concerning interactions between MYXV and bovine cells is available yet In this study, we characterized the infection of bovine cell lines and bovine peripheral blood ... KOP-R P3 BT MDBK Figure Permissivity of bovine cell lines for myxoma virus Permissivity of bovine cell lines for myxoma virus Bovine cells were maintained in DMEM (KOP-R and BT) or MEM (MDBK)...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... cell lines and/or due to the method used to induce Se deficiency in our in vitro model In studies employing Jurkat E6 cells, the Se-deficient medium comprised of insulin, transferrin and bovine ... re-blotting the same membranes with anti-β-actin to water and oxygen Diminished level of GPx1 results in the accumulation of H2O2, which was assayed using H2DCF-DA, a cell-permeable indicator of intracellular ... http://www.virologyj.com/content/5/1/66 lines in which Se deficiency can be efficiently induced in vitro without compromising cell viability Based on the Se-deficient in vitro and in vivo pathogenesis studies using HIV, H3N2...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... viruses, testing the susceptibility of a wide range of clinical isolates of influenza A viruses to chloroquine, as well as in vivo studies, would be needed to determine the role, if any, of chloroquine ... pathology of avian influenza infection in humans appears to be mediated by pro-inflammatory cytokines [13] Although we have shown that chloroquine is able to inhibit two reference subtypes of influenza ... role, if any, of chloroquine in the prophylaxis and treatment against influenza infection It would also be interesting to determine the activity of chloroquine against the highly pathogenic H5N1...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... after adding T cells), fixed in buffered formalin and embedded in paraffin a, b: Staining with H&E c, d: Specific brown staining of apoptotic cells by anti-caspase Ab e, f: In situ end-labeling (ISEL); ... through binding of CCL2 to its corresponding chemokine receptor CCR2 on the T cells This was demonstrated by blocking of T-cell migration in presence of addition of excess chemokine CCL2 in the ... cells resulting in tumor growth inhibition (reviewed in [25] and [1]) In mouse systems, ex vivo transduction of chemokines into tumor cells has provided potent tumor vaccines inducing tumor rejection,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... have definite effects on NO production in the joints These inhibitory effects of HA on cell apoptosis may play a role in its mechanism of action in chondroprotection [38] Our findings indicated ... min, and placed on ice until the addition of the remaining reaction components The reaction was incubated at 42°C for 90 min, and terminated by heat inactivation at 70°C for 15 Measurement of ... level of GAG appearing in the medium of explants, cell cultures, and papain-digested cells was determined using the dimethylmethylene blue (DMMB) assay for sulfated glycosaminoglycan 10 using chondroitin...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... (CYP11A1) revisited: binding of GATA, cyclic adenosine 3', 5'-monophosphate response element-binding protein and activation protein (AP)-1 proteins to a distal novel cluster of Page of (page number ... expression in cumulus cells during meiotic resumption of porcine oocytes Endocrinology 2005, 146:186-194 Shimada M, Anas MKI, Terada T: Effects of phosphotidylinositol 3-kinase inhibitors, wortmannin ... ovulation in mouse [9-11] Since the suppression of the EGF receptor tyrosine kinase activity by specific inhibitor completely suppressed cumulus expansion and meiotic maturation of oocytes during in vitro...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20