René Couteaux (1909-1999) and the morphological identification of synapses.

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：:It is now well established that malignant transformation of eucaryotic cells is concomitant with typical alterations of glycosylation and the expression pattern of endogenous lectins. In parallel, oncogene transfection studies revealed a correlation between the expression of some of these genes, the transformed state ...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Hébert E,Monsigny M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quick-freeze, freeze-fracture, deep-etching and rotary replication techniques were used to analyze the structural organization of Giardia duodenalis. The surface of the flagella was rugous, in contrast to the cell body surface which was smooth. The ventral region was characterized in more detail, exposing the laye...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Kattenbach WM,Diniz Junior JA,Benchimol M,de Souza W

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of the constant development concerning physical mapping of eukaryotic genomes, the mouse chromosome 19 remains poorly characterized. In order to improve the possibilities for studying this chromosome, we have constructed a chromosome-specific EcoRI DNA fragment library from mouse chromosomes 19 sorted by flow...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Baron B,Métézeau P,Kiefer-Gachelin H,Goldberg ME

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND INFORMATION:ROS (reactive oxygen species) as well as components of the antioxidant redox systems may act as signals. To link acute environmental change with gene expression, changes in ROS and GSH/GSSG (reduced/oxidized glutathione) level were measured upon acute changes in temperature or oxygen availability...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Becker D,Brinkmann BF,Zeis B,Paul RJ

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome replication and assembly of viruses often takes place in specific intracellular compartments where viral components concentrate, thereby increasing the efficiency of the processes. For a number of viruses the formation of 'factories' has been described, which consist of perinuclear or cytoplasmic foci that most...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Novoa RR,Calderita G,Arranz R,Fontana J,Granzow H,Risco C

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND INFORMATION:Autofluorescence spectroscopy is a powerful tool for molecular histology and for following metabolic processes in biological samples as it does not require labelling. However, at the microscopic scale, it is mostly limited to visible and near infrared excitation of the samples. Several interestin...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Jamme F,Kascakova S,Villette S,Allouche F,Pallu S,Rouam V,Réfrégiers M

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND INFORMATION:PrAO (primary amine oxidase), also known as SSAO (semicarbazide-sensitive amine oxidase)/VAP-1 (vascular adhesion protein-1), is an enzyme (EC 1.4.3.21) that is highly expressed in blood vessels and participates in many cell processes, including glucose handling or inflammatory leucocyte recruitm...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Solé M,Unzeta M

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND INFORMATION:The role of the jelly coat that surrounds the amphibian oocytes has been widely discussed, but is poorly understood. The presence of the jelly coat is essential for fertilization. However, the structure and function of the molecules that comprise the jelly coat have not been thoroughly documented...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Krapf D,Vidal M,Arranz SE,Cabada MO

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review is concerned with the formation during ciliogenesis of centrioles and basal bodies, primarily in epithelial multi-ciliated cells from the developing vertebrate respiratory and reproductive tracts. During ciliated cell differentiation, in these as well as in other cell types, cilium formation is preceded by...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Dirksen ER

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND INFORMATION:NPY (neuropeptide Y) may have an effect on the properties of vascular endothelial cells such as pro-angiogenic effects and potentiation of noradrenaline-induced vasoconstriction. In HUVEC (human umbilical-vein endothelial cells), immunoreactive neuropeptide Y has been detected, but NPY synthesis,...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Silva AP,Kaufmann JE,Vivancos C,Fakan S,Cavadas C,Shaw P,Brunner HR,Vischer U,Grouzmann E

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：: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：:A central issue in the understanding of Marfan syndrome deals with the functional architecture of fibrillin-containing microfibrils. Fibrillin-rich microfibrils are long extracellular matrix fibrillar components exhibiting a 50 nm periodic beaded-structure with a width of around 20-25 nm after rotary shadowing and a 1...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Hanssen E,Franc S,Garrone R

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The water permeability of collecting ducts is greatly increased by the antidiuretic hormone, vasopressin (VP). Freeze-fracture studies were carried out to test if this permeability increase is associated with the appearance of intramembrane particle (IMP) aggregates and whether increased doses of VP lead to an increas...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Kubat B,Lorenzen M,Reale E

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LDs (lipid droplets) have long been considered as inert particles used by the cells to store fatty acids and sterols as esterified non-toxic lipid species (i.e. triacylglycerols and steryl esters). However, accumulating evidence suggests that LDs behave as a dynamic compartment, which is involved in the regulation of ...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Hapala I,Marza E,Ferreira T

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND INFORMATION:The endometrial epithelial cell membrane is a key interface in female reproductive biology. Steroid hormones play a predominant role in cyclic changes which occur at this interface during the female menstrual cycle. Specific changes in the morphology of the endometrial epithelial cell surface bec...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Francis LW,Lewis PD,Gonzalez D,Ryder TA,Webb G,Joels LA,White JO,Wright CJ,Conlan RS

更新日期：2009-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of analogs of vasopressin with photoreactive groups in positions 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 or 9 of the nonapeptide sequence have been studied for their effects on water and urea permeability of the isolated toad urinary bladder. Compounds with photoreactive groups in positions 3 or 8 bound covalently to receptors as judg...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Eggena P,Ma CL,Fahrenholz F,Buku A,Schwartz IL

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:Co-isolated residual nuclear shells and residual nucleoli from membrane-depleted rat liver nuclei were spread according to Kleinschmidt's method. Comparison of the spread residual structures isolated from nuclear shells and spread pore complex-lamina isolated from nuclear envelopes showed that these residual structure...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Bureau J,Hubert J,Bouteille M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SaOS-2 cell line presents osteoblastic characteristics which can be modulated by specific agonists involving also phosphoinositide breakdown. In order to determine whether SaOS-2 cells display a phosphoinositide signalling system not only at the cytosol-cell membrane level but also, as recently reported for other cell...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Maraldi NM,Zini N,Santi S,Bavelloni A,Valmori A,Marmiroli S,Ognibene A

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha 2M) is a plasma inhibitor of proteinases, the steric mechanism of which is based on a considerable conformational change. The typical and distinct H-like shape of alpha 2M-chymotrypsin (alpha 2M-chy) complexes seen by electron microscopy led us to an ultrastructural study of the binding of...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Boisset N,Taveau JC,Barray M,Van Leuven F,Delain E,Lamy JN

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleolar lesions provoked by the action of ribonuclease (RNase) on living chick embryo fibroblasts were studied by means of microcinematographic analysis and at the ultrastructural level using oxidized diaminobenzidine as a differentially contrasting stain for nucleic acids. This study has shown that the inductio...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Chobert MN,Pouchelet M,Anteunis A,Gansmuller A,Robineaux R

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Revision of the reference map of the polytene chromosomes of Drosophila subobscura was started by means of the electron microscope. We present a map of regions 70B to 72D of the E chromosome obtained from squashed and thin-sectioned salivary glands. It was observed that the total number of bands in divisions 70B to 72...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Pérez-Alonso M,Cuenca JB,De Frutos R

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The entry into, and exit from, mitosis are controlled by a universal M-phase promoting factor (MPF) composed of at least p34cdc2 and a cyclin. Embryonic systems are convenient for studying the association and dissociation of the active MPF complex because oocytes and eggs are naturally arrested at a specific point of ...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Charbonneau M,Grandin N

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin-immunoreactive cells were localized on semithin and ultrathin sections of Epon-embedded samples of perch gastric mucosa, classically fixed with aldehydes and osmium tetroxide. On semithin sections, somatostatin cells were identified by using the immunoperoxidase method. The ultrastructural localization of...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Noaillac-Depeyre J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND INFORMATION:Loss of sensitivity to TGF-beta1 (transforming growth factor beta1)-induced growth arrest is an important step towards malignant transformation in human epithelial cells, and Id-1 (inhibitor of differentiation or DNA binding-1) has been associated with cell proliferation and cell-cycle progressio...

journal_title：Biology of the cell

authors： Di K,Ling MT,Tsao SW,Wong YC,Wang X

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：: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：: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