Stimulation of pro-MMP-2 production and activation by native form of extracellular type I collagen in cultured hepatic stellate cells.

abstract：:Cytokeratin 8 (CK8) and cytokeratin 19 (CK19) is a specific cytoskeletal component of simple epithelia, including bronchial epithelial cells. We hypothesized that CK8 or CK19 released from epithelial cells may bind to and cause damage to extracellular matrixes through binding of anti-CK8 or anti-CK19 autoantibodies. I...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Dobashi N,Fujita J,Murota M,Ohtsuki Y,Bandoh S,Ueda Y,Dohmoto K,Hojo S,Nishioka M,Ishida T,Takahara J

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic stem (ES) cells are a pluripotent cell line derived from the inner cell mass of the mouse blastocyst. The mRNA levels of several growth-related genes were examined in ES cells by Northern blot analysis under several different growth conditions. In a coculture of ES cells with the mouse fibroblast cell line, ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Katsube K,Shimizu N

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two monoclonal antibodies against alpha-tubulin (YL1/2 and D2D6) were microinjected into the egg of the sand dollar Clypeaster japonicus, and their effects on cleavage of the egg were investigated. They had already been shown by immunoblotting to react specifically with egg tubulin and by immunofluorescence to stain t...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Oka MT,Arai T,Hamaguchi Y

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of free calcium in the cytoplasm is important in stimulation coupled with a number of cellular functions. The putative ionophoretic action of membrane lipid metabolites on Ca2+ offers convenient explanation of the stimulation-coupled mobilization of cytoplasmic Ca2+. To analyze the ionophoretic action of th...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Utsumi K,Nobori K,Terada S,Miyahara M,Utsumi T

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial tubules, consisting of the epithelial cell sheet with a central lumen, are the basic structure of many organs. Mechanical forces play an important role in epithelial tubulogenesis; however, little is known about the mechanisms controlling the mechanical forces during epithelial tubule morphogenesis. Solo (a...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Nishimura R,Kato K,Fujiwara S,Ohashi K,Mizuno K

更新日期：2018-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the effects of surface materials of cells on the behavior of other neighboring cells in a crowded culture, confluent sheets of rat 3Y1 fibroblasts were fixed and then 3Y1 cells were seeded on to them. Among confluent sheets unfixed, fixed with formalin and fixed with ethanol and an empty plastic dish surface,...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Okuda A,Sasaki M,Kimura G

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The change in distribution of centrosomal phosphoproteins was examined in sea urchin eggs from fertilization to the first cleavage by immunofluorescence staining with the anti-phosphoprotein antibodies, MPM-1 and MPM-2. The antibodies reacted with female pronuclei in unfertilized eggs as well as centriolar complexes l...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kuriyama R,Rao PN,Borisy GG

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In adult rat cerebellum, HPC-1/syntaxin 1 is detected at high density on the plasma membrane of the non-synaptic region of parallel fibers in addition to the synaptic terminal membranes and the synaptic vesicles (Koh, S., Yamamoto, A., Inoue, A., Inoue, Y., Akagawa, Y., Kawamura, Y., Kawamoto, Y., and Tashiro, Y. (199...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Miya F,Yamamoto A,Akagawa K,Kawamoto K,Tashiro Y

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distribution of peanut agglutinin binding sites was studied histologically with horseradish peroxidase labelled and fluorescein isothiocyanate labelled peanut agglutinin in terms of cell differentiation in rat lymphatic organs, (thymus, spleen, lymph nodes). In this study, alcohol-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue sectio...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kabir A,Watanabe M,Takeda Z,Kizaki T,Urano Y

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing cultures of dissociated cerebral hemispheres obtained from 18-day-old embryonic rats synthesized, or activated, a myelin-related enzyme, 2',3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphohydrolase (CNPase). This increase in activity coincided with the onset of myelination. The presence of CNPase in oligodendrocytes and mye...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Hirano S,Iwasaki-Mutou N,Asou H,Ogawa Y

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of anticancer agents significantly depends on the differential susceptibility of undifferentiated cancer cells and differentiated normal cells to undergo apoptosis. We previously found that enhanced expression of RPS3a/nbl, which apparently encodes a ribosomal protein, seems to prime cells for apoptosis, ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Russell L,Naora H,Naora H

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ran is a nuclear Ras-like GTPase that is required for various nuclear events including the bi-directional transport of proteins and ribonucleoproteins through the nuclear pore complex, spindle formation, and reassembly of the nuclear envelope. One of the key regulators of Ran is RanGAP1, a Ran specific GTPase activati...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Takeda E,Hieda M,Katahira J,Yoneda Y

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NBT-II cells on collagen-coated substrates move rapidly and persistently, maintaining a semi-circular shape with a large lamellipodium, in a manner similar to fish keratocytes. The inhibitor of phospholipase D (PLD), n-butanol, completely blocked the migration and disturbed the characteristic localization of actin alo...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Nagasaki A,Inotsume K,Kanada M,Uyeda TQ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tritrichomonas foetus strongly agglutinates human erythrocytes, thus suggesting the occurrence of an adhesin associated with its surface. Adherence was observed immediately after mixing of the parasites with erythrocytes and the intensity increased for up to 30 min. Scanning electron microscopy examination of T. foetu...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： da Silva NS,Dias Filho BP,De Souza W

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly prepared phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) conjugates of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) enabled us to immobilize GAGs to solid phase through hydrophobic interaction. Using these compounds, called GAG-PEs, we studied the effects of GAGs immobilized to culture plates coated with various extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kato S,Sugiura N,Kimata K,Kujiraoka T,Toyoda J,Akamatsu N

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) plays a pivotal role in controlling cell growth and metabolism in response to nutrients and growth factors. The activity of mTORC1 is dually regulated by amino acids and growth factor signaling, and amino acid-dependent mTORC1 activity is regulated by mTORC1 interacti...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Ito S,Nada S,Yamazaki D,Kimura T,Kajiwara K,Miki H,Okada M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon tryptic digestion of synaptosomes, ATPase activities decreased in the order of Cl(-)-ATPase greater than or equal to Na+,K+-ATPase greater than anion-insensitive Mg2+-ATPase. Upon synaptosome treatment with hypotonic solution, Cl(-)-ATPase or anion-insensitive Mg2+-ATPase was slightly inactivated, while Na+,K+-AT...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kunugi-Uehara Y,Hashimoto Y,Ogura C,Inagaki C,Nishino T

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the mechanism of myogenic differentiation, we are using quail myoblast cells (QM cells) transformed with a temperature-sensitive mutant of Rous sarcoma virus (ts-RSV), termed QM-RSV cells. At 35.5 degrees C, a permissive temperature for RSV, QM-RSV cells repeatedly proliferate without differentiation, b...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Hase H,Hirayama E,Kim J

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of fluorescent proteins (FPs) has revolutionized cell biology. The fusion of targeting sequences to FPs enables the investigation of cellular organelles and their dynamics; however, occasionally, such fluorescent fusion proteins (FFPs) exhibit behavior different from that of the native proteins. Here, we...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kashiwagi S,Fujioka Y,Satoh AO,Yoshida A,Fujioka M,Nepal P,Tsuzuki A,Aoki O,Paudel S,Sasajima H,Ohba Y

更新日期：2019-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoblots of proteins extracted from the skin of a small viviparous fish (Xiphophorus) showed that a monoclonal antibody against human urokinase recognizes multiple molecular weight species of antigens. The immunoaffinity-purified antigens had serine-protease activity for the hydrolysis of a chromogenic substrate an...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Takahashi K,Wakamatsu Y,Ozato K,Wakayama Y

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology and intramembranous particle (IMP) distribution of spermatozoa were investigated in four species of cyprinid fishes, Gnathopogon elongatus elongatus, Pseudogobio esocinus, Acheilognathus lanceolatus and Puntius tetrazona. In particular, observation of IMP distribution was conducted as an aspect of compa...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Ohta T,Matsuda M

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonmuscle myosin II activity is regulated by phosphorylation of the myosin II regulatory light chain (MRLC) at Ser19 or at both Thr18 and Ser19, and the phosphorylation of MRLC promotes the contractility and stability of actomyosin. To analyze the states of MRLC phosphorylation at the leading edge in the motile HeLa c...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Uchimura T,Fumoto K,Yamamoto Y,Ueda K,Hosoya H

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe the design and synthesis of a bifunctional two-photon fluorescence probe, N,N'-‍dimethyl-4,4'-(biphenyl-2,1-ethenediyl)dipyridinium hexafluorophosphate (BP6). HeLa, Hek293, and Paramecium caudatum cells were stained with BP6. BP6 accumulated on the mitochondria of all three cell types when the mitocho...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Moritomo H,Yamada K,Kojima Y,Suzuki Y,Tani S,Kinoshita H,Sasaki A,Mikuni S,Kinjo M,Kawamata J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When spores of Dictyostelium discoideum matured through normal development were stained with rhodamine-phalloidin, rod-shaped fluorescence was found across the nucleus and in the cytoplasm. Electron micrographs of the rod shape showed that it consisted of long and straight fibers 12 nm in diameter. In contrast, a conv...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Sameshima M,Chijiiwa Y,Kishi Y,Hashimoto Y

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mitotic sea urchin egg, the spindle microtubules were composed of different tubulin isotypes from those of astral microtubules using monoclonal antibodies [Oka et al. (1990) Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton, 16, 239-250]. Three of the antibodies, D2D6, DM1B, and YL1/2, were specific for spindle microtubules, astral mic...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Oka MT,Arai T,Hamaguchi Y

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidermal growth factor (EGF)-induced endocytosis of its receptor is an obligatory pathway for the cellular regulation of the EGF-specific receptor (EGF-R). BNER4 is a mouse Balb/3T3 cell line transfected with human EGF-R complementary DNA (cDNA). B4/src-13 and B4/src-24 are BNER4 cells transfected with a viral on...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Nakayama Y,Hisano T,Okimoto T,Tanaka Y,Ishikawa T,Himeno M,Ono M,Kuwano M

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we serially transplanted tumors that produced colony-stimulating factor (CSF) into nude mice, who developed marked granulocytosis along with tumor growth; their leukocyte counts reaching approximately one million per cu mm. The numbers of CFU-GM, CFU-E, CFU-Meg, CFU-S and BFU-E were increased in nude mice ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Takeda K,Suda T,Sudo T,Miura Y

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative fibrin-binding, fibrinolytic and fibrinogenolytic properties of single-chain pro-urokinase, an inactive proenzyme form of human urokinase purified from cultured human kidney cells, and urokinase were compared. The affinity of single-chain pro-urokinase for fibrin was much higher than that of urokinase. In...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kasai S,Arimura H,Nishida M,Suyama T

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic stellate cells (HSCs), a mesenchymal cell type in hepatic parenchyma, have unique features with respect to their cellular origin, morphology, and function. Normal, quiescent HSCs function as major vitamin A-storing cells containing over 80% of total vitamin A in the body to maintain vitamin A homeostasis. HSCs...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Sato M,Suzuki S,Senoo H

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse FM3A cells propagated well in serum-free medium containing 0.5% serum albumin and 1 microgram of insulin/ml. The vitamin B12 (B12) requirement of the cells depended on the population density. This requirement disappeared when a sufficiently large cell population was present. A combination of 1-100 ng of B12/ml a...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Matsuya Y,Yamane I

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00