... physiologically relevant system for further in vitro studies of HCV entry and infection dynamics Methods Cellcultureand viruses Huh7 cells (also known as Huh7/scr cells [25,26] and Huh7-1 cells [27]) were ... Establishment of Huh7 3-D Aggregates To assess the utility ofthe RWV as a culture method for Huh7 cells, Huh7 cells were cultured on Cytodex-3 microcarrier beads in the RWV for 26 days Morphological and ... 4B shows that the majority of Huh7 cells were positive forthe HCV E2 glycoprotein and that the entire aggregate was permissive for HCV infection rather than just thecells at the periphery,...
... physiologically relevant system for further in vitro studies of HCV entry and infection dynamics Methods Cellcultureand viruses Huh7 cells (also known as Huh7/scr cells [25,26] and Huh7-1 cells [27]) were ... Establishment of Huh7 3-D Aggregates To assess the utility ofthe RWV as a culture method for Huh7 cells, Huh7 cells were cultured on Cytodex-3 microcarrier beads in the RWV for 26 days Morphological and ... 4B shows that the majority of Huh7 cells were positive forthe HCV E2 glycoprotein and that the entire aggregate was permissive for HCV infection rather than just thecells at the periphery,...
... aspirating the medium, washing thecells with PBS and adding the nanoparticle-containing medium After the exposure time, thecells were analyzed microscopically The total number ofcellsandthe number ... penetrate thecell membrane and therefore stains membrane-damaged cells only Cell viability of A549 cells was determined by culturing thecellsfor 48 h on the Si3N4 membrane at 37°C and 5% CO2 ... in the corner areas ofthe microcavity (Figure 3f) The performed studies verify the biocompatibility ofthe Si3N4 membrane andthe suitability ofthe microcavity for in vitro studies A549 cells...
... tissues, therefore allowing the engraftment ofhumancells and/ or tissues This model represents the landmark experiment that sparked further development of humanized mice forthestudyofhuman ... Additionally, the presence ofthe fetal thy/ liv organ allows for innate maturation ofhuman CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in the context ofthe animal's own immune system In general, the proliferation ofhumancells ... robust systemic reconstitution ofthe mouse with humancells is possible due to the education ofhuman T cells within the engrafted thymus, as well as the maturation ofhuman hematopoietic cells...
... model; the body segment inertial parameters; kinematic behavior ofthe joints; the bony geometry and muscle attachment locations; the mathematical model of muscle force generation; the muscle force ... function such as the aggregate deviation from a given motion Each of these choices has the potential to affect the performance ofthe simulation and thus may also affect the validity of clinical applications ... both the force-length and force-velocity properties This model performed better than did models with muscles lacking either of these properties or a model actuated by moments rather than muscle forces...
... out the LIFE/DEAD-assay and 2-photon microscopy PZ was involved in the design ofthe study, evaluation ofthe results and covered the clinical part EV was involved in the design ofthestudyand ... thestudyand was involved in the evaluation ofthe data as well as the writing ofthe manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript The chemo-sensitivity of SCLC and breast cancer ... viability and functionality ofthecells Furthermore, specimens of breast cancer were also treated like the lung tumor samples to verify the efficiency ofthe used drug concentrations on the chosen...
... critical role for these cells in tumorigenesis and indicate that these cells may be novel therapeutic targets for solid tumor therapy Genetic manipulations to inhibit or eliminate these cells in both ... myeloid cells appear to be a primary source of resistance to antiVEGF therapy, suggesting a critical role for these cells in tumor angiogenesis [5] The exact mechanism of action of myeloid cells ... we have termed these cells vascular leukocytes (VLC) [15,21] VLC represent 10–70% of host cellsand up to 30% of all cells in ovarian cancer ([21] and unpublished data In vitro and in vivo studies...
... the simulation The analytical modelsof Verrier et al [14] and Chevalet [3] will then be described, each corresponding to a different choice of hypotheses forthe algebraic formalization ofthe ... with the theory, ofthe relationships between mates and inbreeding induced in the offspring andofthe changing variance of gene effects due to genetic drift and faster or slower fixation of alleles ... that under the hypothesis of a very large number of independent identical loci, the oligogenic model andthe Gaussian theory agree closely These first results validate the use ofthe ’full-finite’...
... understood Cell fusion, in which stemcells fuse with the somatic cell in the niche, had been suggested by many authors [11] and strong evidences were reported forthe transdifferentiation ofstemcells ... stemcells at the target site was monitored by the expression of sry gene after transplantation ofstemcells in sex mismatched mice The expression of sry gene confirmed the engraftment of both ... kinetics, distribution and stability of HGFCNP in the blood circulation Whether HGF released from the CNP causes thestemcell differentiation or apoptosis of myofibroflasts or both of these functions...
... Table listing the identity ofthe PCR primers used forthe production ofthe amplicons, their exact coordinates on the genomes, the sizes ofthe probes generated andthe success ofthe amplification ... ChIP of uninduced BCBL-1 cells BCBL-1 cells were cultured normally and a ChIP was performed as described in Materials and Methods All amplicons are listed at the bottom ofthe panel (B) ChIP of ... data and printed the arrays NM printed the arrays and participated in some ofthe expression studies AP performed many ofthe expression studies andthe ChIP-chip analysis VL performed the ChIP-chip...
... of reward value andthe awareness ofthe emotional state The cortical processing ofthe magnitude ofthe reward ofthe stimuli to be aesthetically judged probably corresponds to activity in the ... division The latter encompasses the region identified by Vartanian and Goel (2004), and has been related with the assessment ofthe relevance of motivational and emotional information andthe regulation ... the complexity, novelty, color spectrum and luminance ofthe stimuli, in addition to their size and resolution, Vartanian and Goel (2004) and Kawabata and Zeki (2004) did not report whether they...
... letter describes the work and transmits the final report ofthe Committee on Proposal Evaluation for Allocation of Supercomputing Time fortheStudyof Molecular Dynamics, Second Round The committee ... of experts to evaluate the proposals submitted in response to the aforementioned RFP The committee of 17 was chaired by Dr Robert L Jernigan, Director ofthe Baker Center for Bioinformatics and ... the areas of protein-lipid interactions and channel functions and who provided the committee with an initial assessment of a subset ofthe proposal submissions The goal ofthe second RFP for Biomolecular...
... depends on the kind of data used (e.g the level of detail andthe amount of inherent ambiguity) andthe sampling method ‘Geometric’ methods might limit the number of orientations selected for docking ... In the docking literature one often finds the distinction between ‘bound’ and ‘unbound’ docking: the former refers to docking using the structures ofthe single proteins as they are present in the ... assessment of which residues ofthe labeled molecule are perturbed by the formation ofthe complex One then repeats this procedure with the second molecule labeled Under the assumption that the perturbed...
... equations of three and four variables The aim of this paper is to present the generalization of this functional-analytic method forthestudyof linear and nonlinear partial difference equations of p ... see [11] andthe references therein) Also, by assuring the existence of a solution of a difference equation in the space or , we obtain information regarding the asymptotic behavior ofthe unknown ... fixed point theorems) from the wealth of operator theory, in order to assure the existence of a unique solution ofthe operator equation in H or H1 In the case of linear equations, we use the following...
... action: ratio ofthe concentrations ofthe free receptor [R] andthe free ligand [L], to the concentration ofthe complex [RL] The concentrations ofthe free components are then given by the total ... Chapter Theory and Setup Here, Q is the product ofthe absorption coefficient andthe molecular quantum yield ofthe fluorescent species κ is the detection efficiency ofthe instrument including the detector ... constant k, the absolute temperature T andthe friction coefficient f Forthe case of a spherical molecule, f = 6πηr (2.20) where η is the viscosity ofthe solvent, and r is the radius ofthe sphere...
... found on DCs and bronchial epithelialcellsandthe presence of TSLP can induce DC activation andthe production of IL-13 from epithelialcells TSLP also promote the development of basophils, ... orchestrator of immune responses These cells produce a variety of cytokines that affect the function ofthe other cells in the immune system, both in the adaptive and innate immune components ofthe immune ... components: the cell- mediated andthe humoral immune response CD4 and CD8 T cells are involved in the cell- mediated responses while B cells are the key players in the humoral response The ability of the...
... is the range ofthe amorphous Pearson profile Rpb is the range ofthe channeled Pearson profile σ a is the standard deviation ofthe amorphous Pearson profile σ b is the standard deviation ofthe ... channeled Pearson profile γ a is the skewness ofthe amorphous Pearson profile γ b is the skewness ofthe channeled Pearson profile β a is the kurtosis ofthe amorphous Pearson profile - 28 - b β ... Ichanneled are the normalized channeled and amorphous Pearson profiles, respectively, ratio is the ratio ofthe dose ofthe amorphous profile to the total dose and u is the coordinate along the depth...
... certain humancell types under hypoxia Experimental procedures Cellcultureand hypoxia studyThehumancell lines used were KG1 myeloid cells, K562 erythroid cells, and Jurkat T-lymphocyte cellsand ... oxygen) and returned to the basal level after 14 days of hypoxia [26] It is therefore of significance to studythe regulation of HO-2 expression in humancells under hypoxia In the present study, ... mRNA in YN-1 cells B Fig Decreased expression of heme oxygenase (HO)-1 and HO-2 under hypoxia in humancancercells (A) Northern blot analysis of HO-1 and HO-2 mRNA HeLa cervical cancerand HepG2...
... including smooth muscle cells, mesenchymal cells, vessel forming cells, nerve cells, blood cells, including immune cellsand gastric gland cells Gastric epithelialcells can be further subdivided into ... protocol, and thereafter, modified methods forthecultureof fetal mouse epithelialcellsandofhumanepithelialcells from children are given Materials 2.1 Cultureof Newborn Mouse Thymic Epithelial ... CellCulture 1 Human Lens EpithelialCellCulture Nobuhiro Ibaraki Introduction Crystalline lens consists ofepithelial cells, fiber cells, and a capsule They originate from lens epithelial cells...
... stimulation of PBMCs was shown to elicit absolute expansion of NK cellsand CD56+ T cells, e.g NKT cells, γδ T cellsand some αβ/CD8+ T cells [30] The combination of IL-2 and 3a-G1 in our hands also ... slight increase in the percentage of apoptotic cells was observed when cells were cultured with 3a-G1 but most ofthecells maintained their DNA integrity Conversely, the proportion of mitotic events ... presence of few remaining regulatory T cells could have a detrimental effect forthe activity of infused NK cells in vivo, it does not affect the cytotoxic property ofthe expanded NK cells in...