ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Oct. 4, 2006
...r insect-derived active products to skin wounds in vivo to encourage tissue regeneration." ARTICLE #4 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "Greenbottle (Lucilia sericata) Larval Secretions Delivered From a Prototype Hydrogel Wound Dressing Accelerate the Closure of Model Wounds" DOWNLOAD PDF http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-...EURYI to showcase the future of European science in Prague
...ecognition applications to the world's smallest in vivo biofuel cell. On 13th October, at the 3rd European Young Investigator Award (EURYI) Ceremony, twenty-five young researchers from all over Europe will meet in the Czech Republic to receive a diploma and a guarantee of project funding of as much as 1...Discovery in the evolution of the immune system absorbing cells
...ians are capable of strong phagocytosis both in in vivo and in vitro experiments. The work has been published in Nature Immunology, the most prestigious journal worldwide in the field of immunology. According to Dr Sunyer, "this is important so that we can understand not only how the immune systems of f...JCI table of contents: Oct. 2, 2006
...function are required for TNF-mediated diarrhea in vivo AUTHOR CONTACT: Jerrold R. Turner University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Phone: (773) 702-2433; E-mail: jturner@bsd.uchicago.edu View the PDF of this article at: https://www.the-jci.org/article.php?id=29218 ACCOMPANYING COMMENTARY TITL...Researchers use multiphoton microscopy to watch chromosomes in action
...s been able to see in detail, at native genes in vivo , how a transcription factor is turned on, and how it then is activated," said Webb. Using another method that Webb engineered at Cornell, called fluorescence recovery after photobleaching, the researchers also discovered that HSF activators bind to ...JCI table of contents: September 21, 2006
...ation, researchers from UCSF, have developed an in vivo mouse model of human placental development. Susa...ing fetus. Further analysis using this model of in vivo placental development should provide new insight into the processes by which the fetus establishes i...JCI table of contents: September 14, 2006
...dem duplication induces aberrant Hox expression in vivo via specific epigenetic alterations AUTHOR CONTACT: Michael A. CaligiuriOhio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.Phone: (614) 293-7521; Fax: (614) 293-7522; E-mail: michael.caligiuri@osumc.edu View the PDF of this article at: https://www.t...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...s associated with a lack of food. By measuring in vivo calcium transients evoked by temperature changes, the authors demonstrate that calcineurin downregulated the thermal response in the pair of interneurons critical to the circuit. 2. Marginalizing Cajal-Retzius Cells Mercedes F. Paredes, Guangnan ...Study shows enzyme builds neurotransmitters via newly discovered pathway
... of an alternative pathway for NAE biosynthesis in vivo and demonstrate that these new routes are especial...-mediated route makes to the production of NAEs in vivo is yet to be determined and will require "the generation of genetic or pharmacological tools that se...Researchers create mouse lacking key inflammation gene
...gical conditions. Researchers are offering this in vivo model for sale to spearhead discovery of drugs against inflammatory disorders such as arthritis and Crohn's disease. In the study, Boston University researchers created a mouse lacking the gene that encodes for the LITAF protein. They found that s...Untangling a pathology of Alzheimer's
...n characterized previously. "Data derived from in vivo studies with animal models and a cell-free system suggest that PSA may play a pivotal role in protection from tau-induced neurodegeneration, most likely by direct cleavage of tau," they wrote. The researchers cited studies from other laboratories sh...Cell-regulating gene may predict survival outcomes for breast cancer patients
...ational Cancer Institute. Using mouse models, in vivo and in vitro tests revealed that the overexpression of a cell-regulating gene called cyclin D1 may actually be advantageous for some breast cancer patients because it suppresses the activity of another gene--STAT3--which promotes cell overgrowth and ...Is liver damage down the TRAIL for a promising cancer therapy?
...tes in vitro, it does enhance both in vitro and in vivo hepatocyte cell death induced by signaling through another protein on the surface of hepatocytes known as Fas. This study, which is published in the September issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, indicates that TRAIL can enhance hepatocyte...JCI table of contents: September 1, 2006
...tes in vitro, it does enhance both in vitro and in vivo hepatocyte cell death induced by signaling through...ge, human CD4+CD25hiFOXP3+ cells divide rapidly in vivo and are highly susceptible to a form of cell death known as apoptosis. This study appears in the Sep...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...rization, pointing to TRPV1 as the transducer. In vivo , TRPV1 −/− mice drank less water after an osmotic challenge than did their WT counterparts, placing TRPV1 in the pathway that triggers thirst. 2. Astrocyte Processes and Dendritic Spines in Motion Michael Haber, Lei Zhou, and Keit...JCI table of contents: August 24, 2006
...tein known as Bmx in angiogenesis, its function in vivo had remained unclear. Now, in a study appearing online on August 24 in advance of publication in the September print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Wang Min and colleagues from Yale University have shown that Bmx has an important r...New methods for screening nanoparticles
...ure to carbon-based nanoparticles. All of these in vivo studies clearly show that multiple factors interac... production or use would also have to be tested in vivo -- where the combined reactions of many cell types and tissues, as well as the blood, immune, and ho...JCI table of contents: August 17, 2006
...r the modulation of native T-type Ca2+ channels in vivo by Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II AUTHOR CONTACT: Paula Q. Barrett University of Virginia School of Medicine Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Phone : (434) 924-5454 Fax: (434) 982-3878 E-mail: pqb4b@virginia.edu View the PDF of th...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
... the ups and downs of neuronal activity, using in vivo whole-cell recording from L2/3 neocortical pyramidal neurons in anesthetized rats. Spontaneous activity in these cells drove 1020 mV membrane excursions between subthreshold "Up states" and hyperpolarized "Down states." Although depolarizing excitat...Gabriela Cezar's stem cell research targets birth defects and cancer
...t," Quam says. Lab results are correlating with in vivo observation of birth defects, she adds. "We're starting to make a lot of progress." Cancer research in Cezar's lab focuses on isolating and characterizing cancer cells in order to explore treatment alternatives. By comparing parental and tumor cel...