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... CD62Llo and CD44hi and are characteristically short-lived [25] We have previously shown that expression of CD44hi on CD4+ and CD8+ cells is related to protection against TB [2,6] However, Kipnis et ... [9] Such studies have shown that DNA-prime that codifying M tuberculosis genes (Apa, HSP65 and HSP70), BCG-booster induced a higher level of protection than BCG alone [10] However, boosting the ... induced significant protection in relation to non-immunized, infected group (data not shown) Additionally, when compared with BCGsc (1,63 LOG10), BCGin (1,16 LOG10) and DNA-HSP65 (1,0 LOG10), the BCGin/DNA...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22

... and also to estimate intron sizes A model of the a1,3GalT genomic structure, showing how the various transcripts are formed by a combination of alternative start site usage and alternative splicing, ... fragment (Table 1) are positioned under the sequence and are indicated by horizontal arrows Restriction enzyme sites used to generate the different reporter gene constructs are indicated by vertical ... sequences (exon and 3) are indicated by gray boxes The start sites of transcript 5¢-A and -C are indicated [20] Putative transcription factor binding sites detected using TRANSFAC are indicated above...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20

... during degeneration [7] Furthermore, we have shown that, while both IL-1 and TNF are expressed in IVD and upregulated with degeneration, degenerate IVDs show a much greater expression level of IL-1β ... degradation, as shown in our in situ zymography studies [14] However, to be able to determine the precise role and importance of TNF-α in the initiation of IVD degeneration, many more studies are required ... Both cytokines have been shown to upregulate catabolic processes in articular cartilage and the IVD that lead directly to matrix degradation, and both TNF-α and IL-1β are thought to be pivotal...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20

... significantly reduced in the DHEA treated group compared with the vehicle group (* P ≤ 0.05 using a chi squared test) Black square = CLP-vehicle; white square = CLP-DHEA; black triangle = Sham-vehicle; ... 0.05(comparison of CLP-vehicle and CLPDHEA) The data are expressed as mean ± standard error of the mean Black square = CLP-vehicle; white square = CLP-DHEA; black triangle = Sham-vehicle; white ... Figure Body weight was determined once daily The data are expressed as daily mean ± standard error of the mean Black square = CLP-vehicle; white square = CLP-DHEA; black triangle = Sham-vehicle; white...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... RT ⁄ PCR from T cells when compared to the signals amplified from Jurkat RNA Based on this, we concluded that the two major isoforms of the PKA C subunit in T cells are Ca1 (40 kDa) and Cb2 (47 ... known to disrupt the R to AKAP interaction (results not shown) Finally, the precipitates were analysed for PKA-specific kinase activity, as shown in Fig 4B This demonstrated that precipitates extracted ... total PKA kinase activity,  5% could be immunoprecipitated using anti-Cb2(SNO103) (data not shown) However, this immunoprecipitation was not complete, as flow-through still contained Cb2 as judged...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20

... shown) The aggregation was also not due to the pyrophosphate anion (PPi) effect in ATP as shown by the lack of increase in Rh when PPi (1 mm and 10 mm) was added to MutS protein (data not shown) ... showed similar level of increase in Rh as a function of time (data not shown) On the other hand, the same level of salt added following mismatch induced aggregate formation (at 20 min) had barely ... that the binding of protein to DNA somehow interferes with the polymerization of free protein (Fig 3A,B) However, most intriguingly, protein aggregation reappeared even in the presence of DNA at...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

... activity was normalized to Renilla luciferase activity and is shown as a relative activity compared to that for pGL3-b The values are the means ± SD of at least three independent experiments Ó ... or absence of 30 nM PMA As shown in Fig 1, in non-PMA-treated cells, deletion of nucleotides )1875 to )249 had no significant effect on luciferase activity (P > 0.05); however, deletion to nucleotide ... luciferase activity compared to that seen with pDNaseII()1875/+72)-Luc (P < 0.05) Further deletion to nucleotide )68 led to a further 82% drop in luciferase activity compared to that seen with...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:21

... RA patients after MTX treatment are presented Representative Western blots are shown at the bottom (b) RA patients undergoing chronic treatment with MTX Results are expressed as means ± standard ... [Promega], mmol/l DTT, U RQ1 RNase-free DNase [Promega]) was directly applied to the marked area The marked area was completely scraped off the slide using a pipette tip, and neoplastic tissue or ... was barely detected at all in MTX+CF101-treated paw sections (Figure 2) Analysis of mRNA and protein A3AR expression in paw extracts from the MTX-treated group revealed an increase compared with...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23

... striatal GLT1 expression in both R6/2 and WT mice WT mice, however, show no discernable behavioral consequences [7], suggesting that mechanisms are in place to compensate for increased glutamate removal ... treatment, however, there was a significant reduction in body weight in R6/2 relative to WT mice (P < 0.001) at 13 weeks of age, which supports previous evidence that at this age R6/2 mice are strongly ... expression in cortex and striatum of R6/2 mice, but show that this effect still occurs even after GLT1 levels begin to decline when these mice are 13 weeks of age and severely symptomatic Thus,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... staining, showed that cells over-expressing FMRP were less sensitive to etoposide-induced cell death (Figure 5C-D) Compared with eGFP-FMRP overexpressing cells, eGFP-empty vector expressing cells showed ... Bcl-xL (C) expression were potentiated as compared with control * significantly different as compared with control, # significantly different as compared with eGFP transfected cells (D) A specific ... activator PI3K enhancer PIKE, two predicted targets of FMRP, are upregulated in FMRP knock-out mice [37] However, p85 subunit of PI3K showed little or no changes in knock-out mice although there...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... several reports have shown that PKC plays an important role in regulating VEGF expression in angiogenesis process [19,20] ERK [21-23], STAT3 [24], P38 and JNK [25] signaling pathway are also involved ... were measured and calculated The results showed that the tumor volumes were significantly larger in BGC/STC mice and extremely smaller in BGC/shSTC mice compared with those in BGC mice (Figure 1B) ... So we checked the angiogenesis in vivo The results showed that the vascularity was increased in BGC/STC mice and reduced in BGC/shSTC mice compared to BGC mice or BGC/CON mice (Figure 1F, G) This...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... nonsmokers (compared panel C to A) to intense GAD67 expression (panels G, I) However, there was much more GAD67 staining overall in the airways epithelium of healthy smokers compared to healthy ... expression generated by microarrays showed that, while many of the GABAergic system genes are expressed in the human large and small airway epithelium, cigarette smoking is associated with changes ... CA) All HGU133 Plus 2.0 microarrays were processed according to Affymetrix protocols, hardware and software, including being processed by the Affymetrix fluidics station 450 and hybridization oven...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... Biomarkers Cancer biomarkers are substances that are produced by cancer cells or by other cells of the body in response to cancer or certain non-cancerous conditions They can also be produced by ... abnormalities are surveyed to allow for earlier detection during screening (Hao et al., 2009) In HCC, a commonly used cancer biomarker is AFP, alpha-fetoprotein However, 30%–40% of the HCC patients are ... indicating whether the outcome for the patient is likely to be good or poor They can also help physicians in deciding which patients are likely to respond to a given treatment type (prediction)...

Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2015, 17:14

... the control of energy homeostasis became apparent after the generation of mice with a disrupted UCP3 gene [20,21] The knock-out (KO) animals did not show any evident obese phenotype thus indicating ... UCP2 and UCP3 overexpressed in yeast mitochondria have been recently questioned [24,25] Careful analysis has shown that only nonphysiological, high concentrations of UCP2 and UCP3 induced the changes ... leak of mitochondria, the low level of respiration in the presence of oligomycin of L6 cells showed that they were very well coupled The oligomycin resistant respiratory activity of the cells could...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 15:20

... [35,36] Dendritic cells, derived from bone marrow stem cells, are the most potent antigen-presenting cells of the immune system They play a central role in the initiation of primary immune response ... in dendritic cells treated with either vehicle (control), LPS or Der p Data are expressed as per cent of controls and are means ± SD (n ¼ 4) *P < 0.05 by ANOVA Control levels were 0.14 ± 0.02, ... shown) [46] The expression of CB2 mRNA in immature and mature dendritic cells was also demonstrated by using RT-PCR with specific human primers (Fig 2A) Western blot analysis of proteins prepared...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20

... Schematic overview showing the predicted functional domains and topology of all Tic components Transmembrane domains are depicted as columns Regions involved in membrane binding are coloured in red, ... coloured in red, motifs involved in protein–protein interaction are blue and the dehydrogenase domains of Tic32 and Tic62 are shown in green Tic110 contains two transmembrane domains at the proximal ... IEM Individual Tic components are labelled with their respective names and some key functional domains are additionally indicated (Tic40 and Tic62); Toc components are not labelled The predicted...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20

... MMPs are considered to be more specific Within the MMP family, distinct preferences for collagen types are seen, which must reflect structural differences in MMP collagenbinding [100] Exosites are ... enzyme, but only the processing of selected substrates Some of the substrates that MMPs are known to process are localized intracellularly [7] Although all MMPs contain a signal peptide that directs ... and MMP-9 have been shown to be activated in vivo by serine proteinases such as chymase and trypsin, suggesting a biological relevance Using knockout mice, it was also shown that mast cell chymase...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 00:20

... the second possibility However, as data are only shown for liver homogenates it is not possible to assess whether this applied, for example, to heart Such mice showed no apparent abnormalities in ... factors are depicted Numbers to the right of each indicate the number of residues in the known mammalian proteins Phosphorylation sites are indicated (S ¼ Ser; T ¼ Thr, residues numbers shown) ... details and for definitions of abbreviations The GTP-binding and GEF domains are shown where relevant The figure also shows the histidine residue in eEF2, which is converted to diphthamide and is...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20

... the principles of donor anonymity and compensation are regulated by law for medical research, but are not regulated in terms of anonymity, and are regulated by non-binding guidelines in terms of ... a patient in the health care unit, and her details are recorded in the patient records in accordance with normal procedures The general principle in all Finish healthcare legislation is that no ... receive compensation because they have no information on compensatory schemes and no regulations in place Figure Is there Compensation for Reproductive Cell Donors & How is this Regulated? No Yes...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... Edman sequencing (data not shown) MS analysis showed that the isolated CT-peptide had a molecular mass within Da of the computed mass 17635.9 Da (average) (data not shown) Using this approach, ... studies are needed to clarify if the cleavage is accomplished by PC2 itself or by another enzyme activated by the latter Can the propeptide and the CT-peptide behave synergistically and they share ... furin is unlikely to encounter PC1 ⁄ CT-peptide in the cells, as both molecules are segregated early on after synthesis However, recent comparison of the peptidomic profile obtained from analysis of...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 08:20