A new method now enables researchers to study hundreds of cell-surface proteins simultaneously. The results obtained could help to develop more accurate diagnostic tests and more specific therapies in ...
... et al. report that certain stem cells take charge of their surroundings, molding their environment ... . tested whether the stem cells also depend on integrins, cell surface proteins that link molecules ...
... her research team found that neural progenitor cells that express the gene Lmx1a are committed to the midbrain ... large percentage of the Lmx1a-positive cells express a cell surface protein called TrkB ...
... This abnormal condition, known as monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL), occurs in over 10 percent of ... CLL diagnosis. The MBL cells were identified by examining cell-surface proteins, or CLL markers, ...
... spot between two genes on chromosome 5, called CDH9 and CDH10. Both genes encode cadherins – cell surface proteins that enable cells to adhere to each other. The researchers also found ...
... brushy glycoprotein (sugar-containing compounds) -- 30 billionths of a meter long -- similar to natural cell-surface proteins. Interaction between cells occurs when these rods stand up from ...
... body's appetite for gobbling up the cancer stem cells responsible for acute myeloid leukemia (AML ... Stanford University, that signal sent by a cell-surface protein known as CD47 "is an invisibility cloak ...
... carcinoma in situ (DCIS). However, that same protein is overexpressed in only about 25 percent of invasive breast ... together in zipper-like fashion by the cell surface protein E-cadherin, a trait known ...
... single copy.
In this rare cell line, Carette and co-workers generated mutations in almost ... diphtheria toxin and exotoxin A toxicity, and a cell surface protein needed for cytolethal distending toxin ...
... shown an association between the HLA-specific cell-surface proteins and DGF," says Kamoun. "We have shown that amino ... blood samples (blood cells express HLA proteins) taken from 697 kidney transplant ...
... . The team has shown that small differences in the building blocks of cell-surface proteins used to match donors and recipients for deceased-donor kidney transplantation was associated with an ...
... as possible followed by radiation to kill cancer cells left behind and systemic chemotherapy to prevent spread ... binds with high specificity to a particular cell-surface protein called alpha-3 integrin, ...
... The study, carried out in mice and published today in Cell Host & Microbe, represents a major step toward ... of days. The second siRNA—specific for a cell-surface protein used by HSV-2 to dock onto cells ...
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PARASITOLOGY: Finding a role for the protein GRAIL in diminishing Th2 immune responsiveness ... bacterial death. Healthy cells therefore express cell surface proteins to prevent this happening ...
... integrin gene.
Beta-1 integrin is a cell surface protein that spans the membrane and has a portion ... 1 integrin tail. In the current study, the cell lines were used to determine the role of the beta-1 ...
