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AIDS Research and Therapy
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Research
Human embryonic stem cell (hES) derived dendritic cells are
functionally normal and are susceptible to HIV-1 infection
Sriram Bandi
1,2
and Ramesh ... cell types that include neurons, hematopoietic
cells, cardiomyocytes, and insulin-secreting cells, to name
a few [3-9]. Many new studies ar...
... software (Tree Star).
Immunofluorescence microscopy
Carefully cleaned coverslips were incubated in poly-L-
lysine (Sigma) and dried for 24 hours. H9 cells, EB (day
3) cells and BC (day 6) cells ... Interestingly, these cells expressed also HLA
class I molecules, however at very low levels compared to endothelial and hematopoietic cells. The blast cells could be
successfully...
... medicine.
Key words: embryonic stem cell, somatic cell nuclear transfer,
stem cell, pluripotency
Introduction
Stem cells can replicate themselves and generate into
more specialized cell types as they multiply. ... remarkable
potential of stem cells is their ability to develop into many
different cell types, which serves as a sort of repair system
for the body. Stem...
... [1] could not
possibly correlate to the number of progenitor cells or stem
cells in articular cartilage. To determine stem cell identity, the
authors used a second approach to detect the so-called ... side
population cells defined by Hoechst dye 33342 which
identifies stem cells by their ability to excrete the dye by the
multi-drug transporter ABCG2. The authors were a...
... almost normal, although
transient hyperbilirubinemia repeatedly happened during chemotherapy.
To the editor:
We have seen a 52-year-ol d man with AML-FAB M2a
subtype, who h ad no history of viral ... had
history of mi ld indirect hyperbilirubinemia with normal
transaminase levels after he took paracetamols in the
past two years, and the same phenomenon occurred to
his siblings, child...
... by the proteasome.
Other questions needing to be addressed include whether
hspry4 can be phosphorylated and palmitoylated similar to
spry1 and spry2, and if TESK1 can interact with other spry
proteins ... hspry4 on the kinase activity of TESK1.
Studies in our laboratory are ongoing to test whether the
cysteine-rich region with its potential RING finger may
enable hspry4 to ubiq...
... Corrigall V, Panayi GS, Lanchbury JS: Hematologic
and cytofluorographic analysis of patients with Felty's syn-
drome. A hypothesis that a discrete event leads to large gran-
ular lymphocyte expansions ... Fas-mediated apop-
tosis of myeloid precursors and this could be the explanation
of granulocyte hypoplasia and paucity of mature forms in the
bone marrow [7]. Effector cytotoxic...
... coronary artery bypass grafting ischemia/reperfusion injury inducing cardiomyocyte apoptosis
may occur. This surgery-related in flammatory reaction appears to be of extreme complexity with regard to ... cellular model tool to study apoptosis in vitro.
Decisively cardiac tissue from the right auricle can be easily obtained at nearly every cardiac operation avoiding
biopsying of the myoca...
... differentiation, and survival
of B cells, T cells, and dendritic cells. IFN-α is mainly produced
in plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs); they were originally
termed natural IFN-α producing cells [10-12]. ... mononuclear cells (PBMCs). Blood cells were analyzed using flow cytometry. Total PBMCs were gated at R1 and then analyzed for
the presence of blood dendritic cell...
... wind-up
activity in propentofylline-treated rats is probably the result of
a direct inhibitory effect of the cytokine on dorsal horn neu-
rons, which would be observed only when glial cells are inhib-
ited ... characterized by proliferation, hypertro-
phy, decreased ramification, and upregulated expression of
pro-inflammatory cytokines such as IL-1β and TNF-α. This sug-
gests that som...