... Mesenchymal stemcells (MSCs) inhibit the proliferation of CD4 + T cellsin vitro by induction of nitric oxide and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) (a) CD4+ T cells, in the presence of accessory cells, were ... upregulate expression of PD-L1, iNOS, and COX-2 in MSCs, making these molecules candidate mediators of T-cell inhibition The involvement of iNOS and COX-2 in inhibition of T-cell proliferation ... marrow -derived mesenchymal stemcells after infusion Cells Tissues Organs 2001, 169:12-20 Hara M, Murakami T, Kobayashi E: Invivo bioimaging using photogenic rats: fate of injected bone marrow-derived...
... were fixed in 10% phosphate buffered formalin, embedded in paraffin, sectioned, and stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) Invivo pharmacokinetics and bioavailability Invivo pharmacokinetic study ... i.v at a dose of 200 mg/kg Invivo pharmacokinetics The plasma levels of EPI were determined following a single i.v injection of EPI or PA/EPI (10 mg/kg EPI equiv.) in female Wistar rats The plasma ... drug concentration of EPI and PA/EPI after i.v injection in rats at a single equivalent dose of 10 mg/kg Table 5. Pharmacokinetic parameters of EPI and PA/EPI i.v injected in rats at the equivalent...
... der: The influence of contact conditions on resonance frequencies of a hip stemfemur system: a finite element analysis In Proceedings of the International seminar Prediction and evaluationof total ... stem- femur system during cement FRF graphs of a typical stem- femur system during cement curing The evolution of the FRF at various stages of cement curing i.e 6, 10, 12, and 14 minutes after ... system for intra operative manufacturing and stability testing of hip prostheses In Proceedings of TEHNOMUS XIII, the 13th International conference on New technologies and products in machine...
... gas to produce coating with thickness ranging from 40-70 microns (nominal 50 microns) The coating had a minimum total crystallinity of 65% The minimum HA fraction in the crystalline phase was 90% ... finite dissolution rate of crystalline hydroxyapatite provides a continuous source of calcium and inorganic phosphate [18] In our present study, as well as in those reported by others, bone often ... approved the final manuscript Competing interests Research funds in support of this study were provided to Scripps Clinic from Stryker Orthopaedics Two of the authors are employees of Stryker Orthopaedics...
... length of cm, for the invivo administration of incompatible solutions, phenytoin and TPN, using a swine model, did not lead to precipitates large enough to cause adverse clinical effects in our ... the distal lumen at the usual maintenance dose of 2.5 mg/kg/dose at a rate of mg/kg/min up to a maximum of 50 mg/min via a syringe infusion pump (1001, Medfusion Systems, Norcross, Georgia, USA) ... extravasation of fluids or drugs References Recker DH, Metzler DJ: Use of the multilumen catheter Crit Care Nurse 1984, 4:16 Jaimovich DG, Rose WW: Invivoevaluationof simultaneous administration of incompatible...
... is increased [16,30], causing an increase in carbon dioxide levels, especially during low tidal volume ventilation [31] HMEs also cause an increase the inspiratory work of breathing, with an increase ... 30 mgH2O/l) when using HMEs in patients with high minute ventilation (between 10.5 and 16.5 l/min) [19,23,24] In the present study we found that increasing or decreasing the minute ventilation ... variations We used this offset (in the order of 0.1–0.2°C) to correct the measurements obtained during the study In each condition, the average of three or four readings from the wet and dry probe...
... degree of Master of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore under the supervision of Professor Teoh Swee Hin and Dr Alvin Yeo No part of this ... engineering in dentoalveolar application can be extremely challenging 1.1.3 PCL-TCP scaffolds: Current drawback The use of synthetic polymers in the field of tissue engineering has been widely investigated ... behaviors of porous scaffolds play an important role in the engineering of new tissue, since the degradation rate is intrinsically linked to cell vitality, growth, as well as host response In order...
... microtubules, an essential part of the cytoskeleton of eukaryotic cells The vinca alkaloids prevent the protein from polymerizing into microtubules by binding specifically to β-tubulin In contrast, the taxanes ... high plasma protein binding effect happening once the drugs enter the physiological system Plasma protein binding is part of the opsonisation process The opsonin proteins present in the blood serum ... protein binding after IV administration (Extra et al., 1993) Docetaxel is mainly bound to alpha acid glycoprotein, lipoproteins, and albumin Among them, alpha acid glycoprotein is the main determinant...
... 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 ... 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 ... Access CdTe quantum dots with daunorubicin induce apoptosis of multidrug-resistant human hepatoma HepG2/ADM cells: in vitro and invivoevaluation Gen Zhang1, Lixin Shi2, Matthias Selke2 and Xuemei...
... observations indicate that maintenance of the correct folding state of GatY in E coli probably requires the assistance of two chaperone systems The identification of UP12 as a putativeinvivo substrate of ... identified by other means as an invivo substrate of GroEL [27] Interestingly, GatY is also included in a list of proteins that aggregate at 42 °C in E coli containing a dnaK deletion mutation (DnaK ... nutrient exhaustion In order to examine whether UP12 is induced by starvation, we tested the expression of UP12 incells grown in minimal media containing limited concentrations of phosphate or a...
... muscle actin; hESECs+MCs: a mixture of ECs and MCs derivedfromhuman ES cells; hES-ECs: ECs derivedfromhuman ES cells; hESMCs: MCs derivedfromhuman ES cells http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/6/1/54 ... transplanted vascular cellsderivedfromhuman ES cells (HES-3) Characterization of the transplanted vascular cellsderivedfromhuman ES cells (HES-3) A, Flow cytometric analysis of VE-cadherin and VEGF-R2 ... Translational Medicine 2008, 6:54 cells, the number (cells/ mm2/mouse) of single stranded DNA (ss-DNA)+ cellsin one field in the ischemic core from each mouse in the saline- or hES-ECs+MCs-injected group...
... culture is capable of sustaining a large number of cells, which can confer specific advantages and disadvantages The use of freshly isolated humanhematopoieticstemcellsfrom thalassemic patients ... SMUF1 _HUMAN E3 ubiquitin SMUF1 1.099 CBL _HUMAN E3 ubiquitin CBL 5.746 DCA15 _HUMAN DDB1 2.290 OTU7A _HUMAN OTU domain 1.071 HERC3 _HUMAN Probable E3 ubiquitin HERC3 4.907 UBQL1 _HUMAN Ubiquilin 1.275 ... phosphatidyl inositol (PI3) kinase, and apoptosis The 14-3-3 proteins are a family of multifunctional phosphoserine/phosphothreonine binding molecules and are involved in various cellular processes including...
... culture is capable of sustaining a large number of cells, which can confer specific advantages and disadvantages The use of freshly isolated humanhematopoieticstemcellsfrom thalassemic patients ... SMUF1 _HUMAN E3 ubiquitin SMUF1 1.099 CBL _HUMAN E3 ubiquitin CBL 5.746 DCA15 _HUMAN DDB1 2.290 OTU7A _HUMAN OTU domain 1.071 HERC3 _HUMAN Probable E3 ubiquitin HERC3 4.907 UBQL1 _HUMAN Ubiquilin 1.275 ... phosphatidyl inositol (PI3) kinase, and apoptosis The 14-3-3 proteins are a family of multifunctional phosphoserine/phosphothreonine binding molecules and are involved in various cellular processes including...
... differentiation of normal stemcells strongly suggest that miRNA may be involved in the transformation of normal stemcells into cancer stemcells Therefore, screening for differences in miRNA expression ... differentiation According to the hierarchical model of cancer, the origin of the cancer stemcells may be long-lived somatic stemcells Therefore, markers of “normal” stemcells are being sought with ... described in most previous reports of SP inhuman HCC cell lines[17] To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report demonstrating the existence of SP cellsin both fetal liver cells and in primary...
... multipotent mesenchymal stemcells are becoming a subject of increasing interest because of their potential in tissue engineering applications [20] They can be obtained from adult bone marrow ... ratios, strain of Acetobacter and extended times of fermentation interfere in the final product obtained [2,19] In addition, the choice of a particular cellulose structure will depend on the clinical ... Committee at the School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, São Paulo State University Before surgery, anesthesia was induced by intramuscular injection of a combination of xylazine 2%, 10 mg/kg...
... non-enveloped single-stranded DNA virus [19] This unique viral vector has the distinct advantage of being capable of infecting a wide range of host cell types including dividing and non-dividing cells ... a distinct affinity for certain cell types that is because of differences in cell binding and/or intracellular trafficking [21] AAV2 is the most widely used serotype inhuman clinical trials ... broad range of tissue tropism in several species [21] A number of clinical trials have been approved by the FDA to assess AAV2 in treatment of a variety ofhuman diseases including inflammatory...
... systemic mobilization of DCs using Flt3 ligand, local injection of chemokines such as macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-3β, use of DNA vaccines containing bacterial CpG motifs and the use of ... be discussed in detail later Intra-tumoral injection of DCs offers the theoretical advantage ofinvivo loading and activation of DCs which should be superior to in vitro loading of DCs with tumor ... number of memory T -cells in tumor draining lymph nodes as compared to PDT alone In another study, schizophyllan (SPG) used in combination with Photofrin-mediated PDT of mice harboring SCCVII increased...
... provide important information in terms of optimizing processes of environmental sampling To overcome some of the above-mentioned limitations, an evaluation procedure was designed in a previous study ... subjects interviewed Exploring the generality of such a categorization in other geographical scenes, incorporating the analysis of places considered ‘‘unattractive,’’ is one of the aims of the ... guiding the design of this study is establishing categories of urban places from the perspective of their daily observers, as well as attempting to identify some of the important dimensions of...
... have undergone significant distinct alterations in brain metabolism The increasing use of brain PET stems from the high sensitivity of this imaging tool in identifying those alterations The third ... Future of Neuroimaging in Clinical Evaluations Innovations in neuroimaging techniques and tracer development hold promise for new clinical applications Brain imaging will play an important role in ... which it is being applied In our imaging facility, we routinely employ a systematic approach for evaluating regional metabolism throughout the brain In addition, beginning in 2004, software tools...
... spectrum of the porphyrin contained in Zn-PP-KatA, in a pyridine ⁄ water ⁄ NaOH ⁄ Tween-80 mixture, was not similar to that of the reference solution of Zn-PP in the same solvent, indicating that ... ion of the porphyrin is removed during transport of the porphyrin from the medium to the catalase protein in the cytoplasm Alternatively, but less likely, the metalloporphyrin is incorporated into ... et al an invivo system for the production of cofactor-substituted haem proteins It is sometimes desirable to replace the metal of a metalloporphyrin in a specific protein For example, investigations...