Mycobacterial growth in human macrophages: variation according to donor, inoculum and bacterial strain.

abstract：:Extracellular nucleotides cause neutrophil degranulation by activating the purinergic receptor subtype P2Y. However, the molecular mechanism involved in the signal pathway remains unknown. A hypothetical scheme suggesting that leukotriene(s) and leukotriene receptor(s) activation is required for extracellular nucleoti...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Kannan S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim has been to elucidate the possible mechanism of CJX1, an amlodipine derivative, in the modulation of P-gp function by determining its effect on P-gp ATPase activity. Basal P-gp ATPase activity was increased by CJX1 with half-maximal activity concentration (Km) of 8.6+/-1.4 microM. Kinetic analysis indicated a ...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Ji BS,He L

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fndc5 has been recently recognized as a myokine which could be cleaved and secreted into blood stream. It is termed as irisin with an important role in thermogenesis and energy homeostasis. Increased expression of Fndc5 has been reported upon retinoic acid treatment during neural differentiation and its knockdown decr...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Forouzanfar M,Rabiee F,Ghaedi K,Beheshti S,Tanhaei S,Shoaraye Nejati A,Jodeiri Farshbaf M,Baharvand H,Nasr-Esfahani MH

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteocalcin is one of the most abundant non-collagenous proteins in bone that is commonly used as a preliminary biomarker in bone formation. Osteocalcin also regulates energy metabolism as a hormone. Estrogen-related receptor alpha (ERRα) is primarily thought to regulate energy homeostasis through interacting with per...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Wang H,Wang J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of an organochlorine pesticide benzene hexachloride (containing alpha, beta, gamma and delta isomers) on the phagocytic activity of the vegetative cells of Dictyostelium discoideum was investigated. Benzene hexachloride (BHC) at concentrations of 60 ppm and above inhibited the phagocytic activity as reveale...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Gayatri R,Chatterjee S

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulation tissue fibroblasts (myofibroblasts) develop several ultrastructural and biochemical features of smooth muscle (SM) cells, including the presence of microfilaments bundles and the expression of alpha-SM actin, the actin isoform typical of contractile vascular SM cells. Myofibroblasts have been suggested to ...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Desmoulière A

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to radiotherapy and chemotherapy has been a major problem of conventional cancer therapies, which consequently leads to cancer relapse and cancer-related death. It is known that cancer stem cells (CSCs) play a key role in therapy resistance and CSC-based targeted therapies have been considered as a powerful...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Johari B,Rahmati M,Nasehi L,Mortazavi Y,Faghfoori MH,Rezaeejam H

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TNF-α has long been implicated in the progression of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, how the receptors of TNF-α, namely TNFR1 and TNFR2, mediate TNF-α-induced inflammatory responses in fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) in RA has not been elucidated. In the present study, primary FLS cells were isolated from RA pa...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Zhang H,Xiao W

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) are attached to each other in the bone marrow (BM) cavity and in in vitro cultures, and this adhesion has important physiological significance. We demonstrated that cell proliferation could be promoted when MSCs were co-cultured with EPCs, which was...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Xia J,Zhang H,Gao X,Guo J,Hou J,Wang X,Wang S,Yang T,Zhang X,Ge Q,Wan L,Cheng W,Zheng J,Chen X,Wu X

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytosolic lipid droplets (cLDs) store excess intracellular lipids, and perilipin-2 is believed to protect cLDs from degradation. Here, we investigated the role of the small G-protein Arf1 and the proteasome in the fates of perilipin-2 and cLDs. In oleate-loaded cells, upon brefeldin A (BFA) treatment, perilipin-2 ...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Pauloin A,Adenot P,Hue-Beauvais C,Chanat E

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila ovary provides an attractive model for studying the extrinsic or intrinsic factors that regulate the fate of germline stem cells (GSCs). Using this model, we identified a new role for Drosophila spaghetti (spag), encoding a homolog of human RNA polymerase II-associated protein 3 (RPAP3), in regulating t...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Chen D,Tao X,Zhou L,Sun F,Sun M,Fang X

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pioneering single gene study documents pre-mRNA processing proteins participation in the cell-cycle regulation of multi-cellular animals (Andersen and Tapon, 2008, J Biol Chem 283: 31256-67). Whole-genome RNAi screen in Drosophila tissue-culture cell lines demonstrates that 17 genes involved in RNA-processing are requ...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Dubatolova TD,Volkova EI,Omelyanchuk LV

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasticity of human and murine bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) has been proven by their ability to trans-differentiate to multilineage cells, including germ cells. We have investigated ability of goat BMSCs to trans-differentiate to germ cells with extrinsic (e.g., retinoic acid [RA] and BMP4 signalling...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Yan G,Fan Y,Li P,Zhang Y,Wang F

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloride secretion in primary cultures of cells originating from the secretory coil of human sweat glands was investigated by electron probe X-ray microanalysis. The total intracellular Cl concentration was lowered by muscarinic agonists (carbachol and acetylcholine), as well as by the calcium ionophore A23187. The mu...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Mörk AC,Hongpaisan J,Roomans GM

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant decrease in tissue pH or acidosis is a common feature of numerous diseases, including RA (rheumatoid arthritis). Cartilage homoeostasis is profoundly affected by local acidosis in the joints. The diuretic, amiloride, is neuroprotective in models of cerebral ischaemia, a property attributable to the inhib...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Rong C,Chen FH,Jiang S,Hu W,Wu FR,Chen TY,Yuan FL

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ROS (reactive oxygen species) take an important signalling role in angiogenesis. Although there are several ways to produce ROS in cells, multicomponent non-phagocytic NADPH oxidase is an important source of ROS that contribute to angiogenesis. In the present work, we examined the effects of H2O2 on angiogenesis inclu...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Mu P,Liu Q,Zheng R

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize the cytoplasmic structure reorganization during plant meiosis, the male meiocytes of Althaea rosea (L.) Cavan were examined under the combination of light and electron microscopy. Light microscopic observation of the toluidine blue-stained thick resin sections of young anthers revealed that the meiocyt...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Luo XJ,Liu XH,Wang CY,Wang XY

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitotic spindles of the diatom Pinnularia viritiformis stained with the fluorescent actin-labelling reagent bodipyphallacidin revealed actin among the chromosomes and extending along the spindle to the poles. This is the first report of actin's presence within spindles of this ecologically important group of organisms...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Sampson K

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cell therapy in recent years has gained much attention as the modern therapeutic approach to treat diseases. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are seen as the most reliable cells applied in therapy over other stem cells because of their versatility. Bone and cartilage diseases (osteo-diseases) are the major target of...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Ghasroldasht MM,Irfan-Maqsood M,Matin MM,Bidkhori HR,Naderi-Meshkin H,Moradi A,Bahrami AR

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells can be differentiated into neural lineage cells, but the differentiation efficiency remains low. This study revealed two important factors that influence the neural differentiation efficiency of mouse ES cells: the first is the quality of embryonic bodies (EBs); good quality of EBs cons...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Zhou JM,Xing FY,Shi JJ,Fang ZF,Chen XJ,Chen F

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditioned medium (CM) (cell secretome) is a cocktail of growth factors, cytokines, and other soluble mediators secreted by cells into a culture medium. These growth factors are fundamental in many cellular processes such as cell growth, differentiation, and others and the composition of these factors is individual f...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Mambelli-Lisboa NC,Frare EO,da Costa-Neves A,Prieto da Silva ÁRB,Kerkis I

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing evidence has shown that apelin/APJ system functions as a critical mediator of cardiac development as well as cardiovascular function. Here, we investigated the role of apelin in the cardiomyogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells derived from Wharton's jelly of human umbilical cord in vitro. In this r...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Wang L,Zhu ZM,Zhang NK,Fang ZR,Xu XH,Zheng N,Gao LR

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy was characterized by the occurrence of spontaneous recurrent epileptiform discharges (SREDs) in neurons. Previous studies suggested that microRNA (miR)-139-5p and the Notch pathway were implicated in Epilepsy; however, their interaction remained vague. Rat primary hippocampal neurons were isolated and identif...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Zhao C,Yang F,Wei X,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunocytochemical staining of citrulline-containing proteins, i.e. products of endogenous peptidylarginine deiminase (EC 3.5.3.15) reaction, has been performed by chemical modification of citrulline residues in situ, followed by probing with IgG specific to the modified residues. Rat spinal cords that had been preinc...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Asaga H,Senshu T

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UCB (umbilical cord blood) as a resource of MSCs (mesenchymal stem cells) is widely accepted, but the quantity and characteristics of UCB-MSCs from different gestational ages have not been well studied. We have quantified the number of MSCs in UCB at different gestational ages using a multi-colour flowcytometer and co...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Ma LL,Meng FB,Shi P,Li G,Pang XN

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine if adenosine alters growth of mammary epithelium. Mouse mammary epithelial cells (NMuMG) were cultured in DMEM supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum. After serum starvation for 24 h, EGF (0-100 ng/ml) and/or adenosine (0-100 microM) was added. Adenosine at concentrations o...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Yuh IS,Jang BB,Hong BJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 3D cultured cell systems, the cells form 3D spheroids that mimic cancer cell spheroids in vivo. Cancer cells form cell spheroids as they grow. The in vivo spheroids do not contain a vascular network; therefore, oxygen and nutrition supplies are insufficient. Specifically, the cells in the core region of the cluster...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Terashima J,Sampei S,Iidzuka M,Ohsakama A,Tachikawa C,Satoh J,Kudo K,Habano W,Ozawa S

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ZO-1 is a peripheral protein that plays a central role in the macromolecular assembly of tight junctions by interacting with integral proteins (occludin, claudins, JAMs) of the membrane of adjoining cells, with the actin cytoskeleton, and with nuclear factors. Human ZO-1 is expressed in all epithelia and some speciali...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Ciana A,Meier K,Daum N,Gerbes S,Veith M,Lehr CM,Minetti G

更新日期：2010-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cell biology has gained remarkable interest in recent years, driven by the hope of finding cures for numerous diseases including skin wound healing through transplantation medicine. Initially upon transplantation, these cells home to and differentiate within the injured tissue into specialised cells. Contrariwise...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Jayaraman P,Nathan P,Vasanthan P,Musa S,Govindasamy V

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we investigated the effects of tetramethylpyrazine (TMP) on hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)-induced apoptosis in PC12 cells. The apoptosis in H2O2-induced PC12 cells was accompanied by a decrease in Bcl-2/Bax protein ratio, release of cytochrome c to cytosol and the activation of caspase-3. TMP not only...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Cheng XR,Zhang L,Hu JJ,Sun L,Du GH

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00