... analyzed forty proteins by using the PowerBlot (BD Bioscience Pharmingen, San Diego, CA, USA) system We selected 40 apoptosis- related proteins to examine the mechanism of hypoxia -induced apoptosis After ... global changes in the proteins related to apoptosis during hypoxia to clarify the mechanism of hypoxia -induced apoptosis, and to find out useful hypoxia-related markers of trophoblastic cells Materials ... (data not shown) Int J Med Sci 2007, 39 Hypoxia -induced apoptosisin the JAR cell line, and Bag-1 Morpho/AS enhanced apoptosis of the cell line With hypoxic treatment for 24 hours, internucleosomal...
... for Zn -induced apoptosisin human Burkitt lymphoma B cells An increase in labile Zn in the cytoplasm may suppress apoptosis by inhibition of the action of caspase, cytoplasmic apoptosis inducer, ... protein)1, indicating that the ability of Zn to induce apoptosis is dependent on the intracellular Zn level In fact, it has been shown that treatment with Zn (80–200 lM) inducedapoptosisin mouse ... aspects in the regulation of apoptosis is the involvement of mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs), a family of serine/threonine kinases that mediate intracellular signal transduction in response...
... kinase activity is critical for C2- and C8-ceramideinduced apoptosisin PC12 cells DISCUSSION DAP kinase is a Ca2+/calmodulin-regulated serine/threonine kinase that participates inapoptosisinduced ... calmodulin-binding domain In the K42A-DK mutant, a lysine residue at position 42 in the kinase domain (asterisk) is replaced by an alanine The DD-DK construct contains the death domain and the serine-rich ... mediator of apoptosis [1±3] As Western blotting showed that DAP kinase was endogenously expressed in PC12 cells (Fig 2, lane 1), we examined whether the ceramide -induced apoptosisin PC12 cells was...
... proteins involved in various cellular processes, including inhibition of apoptosis Hypoxia has been reported to inhibit apoptosisinduced by tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosisinducing ligand ... hypoxia in MDA-MB-468 cells (Fig 2B), resulting in a 35% decrease in nuclear BRCA1 relative to the level in normoxic cellsin the presence of 2E5 The decrease in C Fig Hypoxia -induced changes in BRCA1 ... the data in Fig support the involvement of a TRAIL-dependent process in mediating hypoxiainduced changes in BRCA1 localization TRAIL, but not hypoxia, induces apoptosisin breast cancer cells As...
... human ES cells We induced differentiation of human ES cellsin an invitro two-dimensional culture on OP9 stromal cell line and examined the expression of VEGF-R2, VE-cadherin and TRA-1 during the ... Translational Medicine 2008, 6:54 cells, the number (cells/ mm2/mouse) of single stranded DNA (ss-DNA)+ cellsin one field in the ischemic core from each mouse in the saline- or hES-ECs+MCs-injected group ... VEGF-R2-positive cellsinduced from undifferentiated mouse embryonicstem (ES) cells can differentiate into both VE-cadherin-positive endothelial cells (ECs) and αSMA-positive mural cells (MCs),...
... human [16,17] and mouse embryonicstemcells [18-20] The unique patterns of miRNA expression inembryonicstemcells suggest they are involved in maintaining "stemness" Identifying mRNAs that are ... expression profiling of single whole embryonicstemcells Nucleic Acids Res 2006, 34(2):e9 Chen C, Ridzon D, Lee CT, Blake J, Sun Y, Strauss WM: Defining embryonicstem cell identity using differentiation-related ... detected in adult cells The expression of miR-520b was 26-fold greater in hES cells then in EB cells (P < 0.05) and it was detected only in two types of adult cells HMVEC and HUVEC Differences in the...
... Our findings of rapamycininduced caspase activation is coincident with Nottingham et al’s [28] result that rapamycin expressed activated caspase in spinal cord of rats Rapamycin-dependent increase ... gamma-tocopherol quinone inducedapoptosisin cancer cells through caspase activation and cytochrome c release [5] In FACS analysis, NNK induced significant apoptosis while live cells decreased in concentration-, ... distinguishing early apoptosis and necrosis Untreated cells were not stained with Annexin V and PI, suggesting that most of them were intact live cells NNK induced significant apoptosisin concentration-...
... of ERK inhibition on tetrandrine -induced apoptosisin A549 human lung carcinoma cells 25 Fig Flowcytometric detection of apoptosis of A549 cells treated with tetrandrine (TET) Cells were incubated ... examined TET treatment inducedapoptosis and resulted in a decrease in Akt and ERK expression PI3K inhibition had no clear synergistic effect on tetradrine -induced apoptosis, however, ERK inhibition ... 10-14% in the USA [11] Therefore, it is clear that Synergistic effect of ERK inhibition on tetrandrine -induced apoptosisin A549 human lung carcinoma cells Fig The effects of a PI3K/Akt inhibitor...
... conditions in mouse embryonicstemcells Methods Mouse embryonicstem cell culture The mouse embryonicstem (MES) cells (CCE-24) were routinely grown on 0.1% gelatin-coated dishes in Dubecco’s ... hindering the access for the long form protein, thus having an advantage to be evolutionarily selected and maintained Since the truncated protein itself does not contain the c-terminal cysteines, ... predicted open reading frame Thin lines indicate exon-exon junctions A The thick line points to the junction of exon and skipping exon in the truncated form but is included in the long form of...
... expression of annexin positive cellsin ATO-treated cells compared to the control Annexin-V is a specific phosphatidylserine-binding protein used to detect apoptotic cells by providing an assessment ... seen in Figure 2, there was a gradual increase in annexin V positive cells (apoptotic cells) in ATO-treated cells compared to the control However, a marked and dose-dependent decrease in annexin ... granular contents into the surrounding extracellular space, with subsequent inflammation [30-32] To gain insight into the mechanism of arsenic trioxide (ATO) -induced apoptosis, we examined the modulation...
... There was G1 arrest in HL-60 cells treated with 50 μg/ml ZEA (Figure 2C) and in U937 cells with 16 μg/ml (Figure 2D) Mitochondria involvement in ZEA -induced HL-60 and U937 cell apoptosis The reduction ... mitochondrial Ca 2+ levels have been found in ER stressed cells [36] As indicated above, apoptosis of leukemic cellsinduced by ZEA also involved ER stress, Ca2+ levels in both mitochondria and cytosol ... volume and shown in this table as folds of increase or decrease (-) Fusarium [38,39] In the present study, ZEA inducedapoptosisin human leukemic HL-60 and U937 cell lines, but less in PBMCs, as...
... of stemcells into the osteogenic lineage invitro J Bone Miner Res 2004, 19:1379-1394 Page of 38 Trounson A: Human embryonicstem cells: mother of all cell and tissue types Reprod Biomed Online ... cultivation in the presence of osteoinductive stimuli Numerous living cells were detected in the mineralized centre of the spheres by means of toluidine blue staining (Figure 1) Generally, the mineralization ... units up to 0.4 mm in diameter was established Feeder-independent murine embryonicstemcells (ESCs) were kindly provided by K Pfeffer (Institute for Microbiology, Heinrich Heine University of...
... sources including autologous cells as well as allogenic and xenogenic cells [13-16] There are some reports that use totipotential embryonicstemcellsin tissue engineering of bone [17,18] Embryonic ... BMP-2 Shown are von Kossa stainings with arrows pointing to the deposition of calcium phosphate-containing minerals that stained in black Figure LIF, stem cell PCR showing amplification of the without ... The increase in reaction products during PCR was monitored by measuring the increase in fluorescence intensity caused by the binding of SYBR green to doublestranded DNA that accumulated during...
... Foundation, and Parkinson's Action Network, as well as the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation This type of federal research funding strategy involving existing embryonicstem cell lines is consistent ... funding of research involving the more than 60 existing stem cell lines, but will not sanction or encourage destruction of additional human embryos Indeed, the embryos from which the existing ... Fischbach GD, Fischbach RL: Stem cells: science, policy, and ethics J Clin Invest 2004, 114:1364-1370 Donovan PJ, Gearhart J: The end of the beginning for pluripotent stemcells Nature 2001, 414:92-97...
... by genotyping The ES cell lines were maintained in the undifferentiated state by culturing on gelatinized plates in KO-DMEM (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) supplemented with leukemia inhibitory ... was seen in Dicer KO cells (17 compared with in matched wild-type cells) Increased minor and major satellite transcripts were also seen in Eed deficient ES cells but not in other mutant lines that ... chromatin components In this regard, compensatory chromatin modifications have been previously described, including an increase in H3K27me3 levels in Suv39h1/h2 deficient ES cells [25] Minor and...
... system in generating genome-wide homozygous mutations to facilitate recessive genetic screens invitro by identifying mCat-1 as a critical gene in ES cells that is required for retroviral infection ... high infection efficiency must be achieved so that every single infectable cell in the culture has at least one infection event In practice, the need to infect every cell in a culture of 109 cells ... on ES cells after a single round of infection with 0.1 ml viral supernatant are illustrated by staining puromycin-resistant colonies in 24-well plates Figure (see following page) Super-infection...
... undifferentiated cells and differentiated cells of multiple lineages EC cells could be maintained indefinitely with mitotically inactivated embryonic fibroblast in vitro, and is able to give rise to cells ... state of ES cells for invitro feeder free culture, in vivo ICM cells are able to develop into ES cellsin the absence of LIF signaling, indicating that alternative pathways might be involved Recent ... These cells were initially maintained in culture as self-renewal and pluripotent cell lines in either EC cell-conditioned medium (Martin, 1981), or in a co-culture system in which cells were grown...
... culture feeding 3.2.3 Human embryonicstemcells and induced pluripotent stemcells Human embryonicstem cell line HES-3 (46, XX) was from ES Cell International (Singapore, http://www.escellinternational.com) ... effective invitro system to study complex events underlying human nervous system development (Ben-Nun and Benvenisty, 2006; Dvash et al., 2006) 2.7 Embryonicstemcells and induced pluripotent stemcells ... forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain and the spinal cord This figure was reproduced from Epstein et al., 1999 2.4 SHH and neural development During the initial phase of neural induction, the ectoderm is induced...