Gap junctions and connexin expression in the normal and pathological central nervous system.

abstract：:The highly conserved VICKZ (Vg1 RBP/Vera, IMP-1,2,3, CRD-BP, KOC, ZBP-1) family of RNA-binding proteins recognize specific cis-acting elements in a variety of different RNAs and have been implicated in cell polarity and migration, cell proliferation, and cancer. In just the last two years, the use of transgenic mice, ...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Yisraeli JK

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study reports morphological growth characteristics and chromosome analysis of neoplastic rat pleural mesothelial cells (RPMC) isolated from a mesothelioma-bearing rat. The pleural mesothelioma was induced by intrapleural injection of chrysotile fibers. Neoplastic RPMC were cultured by the standard methods used for...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Jaurand MC,Renier A,Van der Meeren A,Magne L,Pinchon MC,Bignon J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HT 29-D4 is a clonal cell line, derived from the human colon adenocarcinoma cell line HT 29, which can be induced to differentiate into enterocyte-like cells by replacing glucose with galactose in the culture medium (Fantini et al. [1986], J. Cell Sci. 83, 235-249). Both undifferentiated and differentiated HT 29-D4 ce...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Fantini J,Verrier B,Marvaldi J,Mauchamp J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microtubule-associated proteins MAPs 1 and 2 from pig brain have been found to react with antibodies directed against human ankyrin and spectrin, respectively (Bennett and Davis, 1981; Davis and Bennett, 1982). In a complementary approach we have prepared antibodies against MAP1 alpha. MAP1 gamma and MAP2 purified...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Hill AM,Cassoly R,Chetrite G,Pantaloni D

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin- and microtubule-based motors can propel different cargos along filaments. Within cells, they control the distribution of membrane-bound compartments by performing complementary tasks. Organelles make long journeys along microtubules, with class V myosins ensuring their capture and their dispersal in actin-rich ...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Desnos C,Huet S,Darchen F

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND INFORMATION:CLEM (correlative live cell and electron microscopy) seeks to bridge the data acquired with different imaging strategies, typically between light microscopy and electron microscopy. It has been successfully applied in cell cultures, although its use in multicellular systems is hampered by difficu...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Kolotuev I,Schwab Y,Labouesse M

更新日期：2009-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:ESCRTs (endosomal sorting complexes required for transport) were first discovered in yeast and are known to be required in the biogenesis of the MVB (multivesicular body). Most ESCRT research has been carried out in vitro using models such as yeast and mammalian cells in culture. The role of the ESCRTs genes in endoso...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Michelet X,Djeddi A,Legouis R

更新日期：2010-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Toad bladder epithelial cells were homogenized and fractionated by Percoll density-gradient centrifugation. Binding of tritium-labeled vasopressin ([3H]AVP) was measured in surface membranes (SM), microsomes (M), and a 100,000 g (60-min) microsomal supernatant fraction (S). More than two-thirds of the total receptors ...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Eggena P,Ma CL

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) of Trypanosoma brucei brucei AnTat 1.1 was released by means of the procedure described by Baltz et al. ([1976], Ann. Immunol. [Inst. Pasteur] 127C, 761-774). The concanavalin-A chromatography yielded 3 VSG fractions according to the addition, in the elution buffer, of alpha-methyl-D...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Boutignon F,Hublart M,Gomes V,Mendonca-Previato L,Tetaert D,Huet-Duvillier G,Degand P

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal calf serum and a serum substitute, Ultroser G, were compared for their effects on the growth curves, clonal growth and cell cycle progression of rabbit chondrocytes in primary culture and during at least three cell passages and included a screen for the maintenance of cartilage-like differentiation i.e. the pres...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Ronot X,Sene C,Boschetti E,Hartmann DJ,Adolphe M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the purpose of investigating the nature of the nervous factor which controls cell proliferation in limb blastema of Newts, we have cultured primary mesenchymous cells from limb blastemas of Axolotl. The cultures were carried out in Petri dishes (Primaria, Falcon) with a basal medium with contained diluted MEM supp...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Albert P,Boilly B

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there are many macromolecular complexes which play extremely important roles in biology, and despite continued progress in X-ray crystallographic and NMR methods, it is still very difficult to obtain atomic level structural information about such large assemblies. It is now clear that a powerful approach is t...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Wade RH,Hewat EA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review highlights new developments in miRNA as diagnostic and surveillance tools in diseases damaging the renal proximal tubule mediated by endothelin in the field of renal carcinoma, proteinuric kidney disease and tubulotoxicity. A new mechanism in the miRNA regulation of proteins leads to the binding of the miR...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Fries JWU

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND INFORMATION:Meningothelial cells (MECs) are the cellular components of the meninges protecting the brain and as such provide important barrier function for the central nervous system building the interface between neuronal tissue and the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). MECs were previously shown to be involved in...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Li J,Fang L,Killer HE,Flammer J,Meyer P,Neutzner A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND INFORMATION:Caspase-dependent and -independent death mechanisms are involved in apoptosis in a variety of human carcinoma cells treated with antineoplastic compounds. Our laboratory has reported that p53 is a key contributor of mitochondrial apoptosis in cervical carcinoma cells after staurosporine exposure....

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Nicolier M,Decrion-Barthod AZ,Launay S,Prétet JL,Mougin C

更新日期：2009-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine tracheal gland (BTG) cells in culture show an epithelial-fibroblastoid transition after several passages. To investigate these BTG cell phenotype changes, we studied the effects of both the culture medium and passage number on the expression of epithelial cytoskeletal proteins and glandular serous cell markers....

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Benali R,Dupuit F,Chevillard M,Jacquot J,Haye B,Puchelle E

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND INFORMATION:Death receptors (DRs) induce intracellular signalling upon engagement of their cognate ligands, leading to apoptosis, cell survival or pro-inflammatory responses. In mammals, DR signalling is mediated by the recruitment of several DD (death domain)-containing molecules, such as FADD (Fas-associat...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Ishizawa YH,Tamura K,Yamaguchi T,Matsumoto K,Komiyama M,Takamatsu N,Shiba T,Ito M

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied mechanisms that mediate recognition of human erythrocytes (HRBC) and sheep erythrocytes (SRBC) by rat liver macrophages. We used an in vitro cell binding assay that allows spontaneous formation of cell contacts. Binding of HRBC to rat macrophages shows the following characteristics: inhibition studies with ...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Mohr M,Kolb H,Kolb-Bachofen V,Schlepper-Schäfer J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND INFORMATION:Human gingival tissues are prone to hyperplasia under inflammatory stimuli. We have identified gingival tissue-specific mesenchymal stem cells (GMSCs) and found their functional change being correlated with drug-induced gingival hyperplasia. However, whether these cells exhibit characteristics of...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Li N,Liu N,Zhou J,Tang L,Ding B,Duan Y,Jin Y

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of microtubular networks was analyzed in quail oviduct and in Paramecium cells using conventional and confocal immunofluorescence as well as pre- and post-embedding EM immunocytochemistry with a variety of anti-tubulin antibodies. The 6-11B-1 monoclonal antibody, specific for the post-translational acety...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Adoutte A,Delgado P,Fleury A,Levilliers N,Lainé MC,Marty MC,Boisvieux-Ulrich E,Sandoz D

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND INFORMATION:Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) is a key component of the DNA replication machinery involved in the process of DNA elongation, recombination, methylation and repair. We have used PCNA fused with green fluorescent protein (GFP-PCNA) as a convenient tool to show the progress of S-phase in...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Kisielewska J,Lu P,Whitaker M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain intricacies and the difficulty that scientists encounter in revealing its function with standard approaches such as electrical stimulation of neurons have led to the exploration of new tools that enable the study of neural circuits in a remote and non-invasive way. To this end, optogenetics has initialised a rev...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Papagiakoumou E

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antidiuretic hormone induces, in the apical plasma membrane of amphibian urinary bladder epithelial cells, the exocytotic insertion of intramembranous particle aggregates that probably contain water channels. Purification of the apical membrane is a way to characterize the aggregates. The isolation of such purified me...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Tacnet F,Chevalier J,Coudrier E,Berthonaud V,Ripoche P

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I am pleased to contribute to this special issue of Biology of the Cell in honor of Yoshio Masui. Oocyte maturation remains a small enough and young enough field that the authors assembled for this issue can trace the entire development of the field over the last 30 years, beginning with the early demonstration by Mas...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Maller JL

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND INFORMATION:Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are the key enzymes responsible for the remodelling of extracellular matrix. Two of them, namely MMP-2 and MMP-9 (gelatinases A and B, respectively), are expressed in skeletal muscles and are involved in their regeneration after the injury. Although MMPs are prima...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Zimowska M,Swierczynska M,Ciemerych MA

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effect of estradiol-17 beta on rat vaginal epithelial cells (VEC) was studied by transmission electron microscopy. During the normal estrous cycle in adult rats keratinization and exfoliation of VEC was observed only in the estrus phase, though tonofilament bundles were seen distributed in the cytoplasm of the VEC dur...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Gupta PD,Vijayasaradhi S,Reddy AG

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND INFORMATION:Our previous studies have shown that calreticulin, a Ca2+-binding chaperone located in the endoplasmic reticulum, affects cell-substratum adhesions via the induction of vinculin and N-cadherin. Cells overexpressing calreticulin contain more vinculin than low expressers and make abundant contacts ...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Papp S,Fadel MP,Opas M

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the initial events required for the expression of cartilage-specific macromolecules in monolayer cultures is the reversion to the initial round shape of chondrocytes. Thus, considerable research efforts have focused on developing reliable procedures to maintain a round morphology of cultured chondrocytes. Our s...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Loty S,Forest N,Boulekbache H,Sautier JM

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oocyte maturation and early development have been intensively studied for well over 100 years. The earliest theory proposed that after fertilisation and during cell division determinants were unequally distributed to control cell fate; experimental proof came from using frog eggs (Roux, 1888). After understanding the ...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Prigent C,Hunt T

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian spermatozoa are endowed with a unique cytoskeleton which consists both of ubiquitous and specific proteins, some of them arising from gene haploid transcription. In the head, a dense perinuclear layer is made of basic proteins (calicin, cylicin, etc) associated with calmodulin and actin remnants. In the ...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Fouquet JP,Kann ML

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00