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Tumor-reactive CD4(+) T helper (Th) cells play a criticalrole in antitumor immunity, due to their ability to induceCD8(+) T cell-mediated cytotoxic activity and humoralresponse. This study focuses on the in vitro generationand expansion of Th cells specific for the tumor-associatedantigen ;human epidermal growth factor... |
In this article, we describe a new method that facilitates to isolate mammalian cells inducible hyper-producing heterologous proteins. This method uses the tetracycline-inducible system to express both the selection marker and the heterologous gene, therefore, allows to increase the selection pressure by reducing the t... |
We have previously shown that oral administration of skimmed milk(SM) fermented with Lactobacillus delbrueckii ssp. bulgaricus OLL1073R-1 (OLL1073R-1/SM) to DBA/1 mice inhibited the development of collagen-induced arthritis (CIA). In this study, our aim was to examine possible mechanisms of inhibiting the development o... |
Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate (PIP(3)) is an important lipid second messenger that mediates various cell responses. We have searched for the nuclear PIP(3) binding proteins using PIP(3) analogue beads. A 33 kD protein was detected in this method, which was identified as ribosomal protein S3a by the mass spec... |
In a previous experiment (Isoda et al., 2001), we showed that the tight-junctional (TJ) permeability increase in Caco-2 cells during capsaicin exposure was through binding of the capsaicin molecule to a capsaicin receptor-like protein. In the present study, we examined how actin, which modulates TJ permeability, is inf... |
Effects of leucine and related compounds on protein synthesis were studied in RLC-16 hepatocytes. The incorporation of [(3)H] tyrosine into cellular protein was measured as an indexof protein synthesis. In leucine-depleted RLC-16 cells, L-leucineand its keto acid, alpha-ketoisocaproic acid (KIC), stimulated protein syn... |
Effects of L-histidine and related compounds on protein synthesiswere studied in cultured L6 myotubes. L-Histidine specifically stimulated protein synthesis, whereas D-histidine, histamine, L-arginine and L-lysine did not. Inhibitors of phospholipase A(2), phospholipase C and cyclooxygenase intercepted the stimulatory ... |
Alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha2M), a plasma glycoprotein produced in the liver, inhibits a variety of proteinases and thus considered to play important homeostatic roles in the body. This broad inhibitory spectrum has been explained by the trapping theory by which a proteinase recognizes a region of 25-30 amino acid pept... |
Porcine hepatocytes are used in the hybrid artificial liver support system that we are developing because of their high level of liver functions in vitro and because human hepatocytes can not be used in Japan for ethical reasons. Spherical multicellular aggregates or spheroids have been found to be effective in vitro f... |
We have produced a recombinant C-terminal alpha-amidating enzyme (799BglIIalpha-AE) derived from Xenopus laevis by culturing a CHO cell line named 3mu-1S. Recently, we demonstrated that culturing 3mu-1S cells at a temperature below 37 degrees C led to the following phenomena: inhibited cell growth with high viability, ... |
To construct a recombinant protein highly producing cell lines, we have previously developed the Oncogene Activated Production (OAP) system by using BHK-21 cells. Here we verified the availability of the OAP system in CHO cells. We firstly generated 'primed' ras amplified CHO cells, ras clone I, by introducing human c-... |
Binding characteristics of Hyphantria cunea nuclear polyhedrosis virus (HcNPV) to Spodoptera frugiperda 21 (Sf21) cells was determined. The cells displayed an affinity of 0.9 x 10(10) M(-1) with about 8900 binding sites per cell. The biochemical nature of HcNPV-binding sites on the cell surface was also partially eluci... |
Continuous culture is frequently used in the cultivation of mammalian cells for the manufacturing of recombinant protein pharmaceuticals. In such operations a large volume of medium is turned over each day, especially in the case where cell recycle, or perfusion cultivation, is practiced. In principle, the volumetric t... |
The effect of oxygen partial pressure on viral replication was investigated with Vero/VSV system. At 10% oxygen partial pressure in spinner culture, VSV titer was significantly increased 130 fold compared to that obtained at 21%. A similar result was obtained for viral production in 1liter bioreactor. This implies that... |
To understand the molecular mechanism underlying vigorous proliferative activity of hepatic stem-like (HSL) cells, we performed two-dimensional electrophoresis to identify the proteins statistically more abundant in rapidly growing undifferentiated HSL cells than in sodium butyrate-treated differentiated HSL cells. Mat... |
The zinc concentration in the liver was significantly higher in mice at 12 h after the onset of restraint stress than that without stress. The IL-6 protein level in the serum was transiently elevated at 3 h after the onset of restraint stress, and the IL-6-responsive zinc transporter Zip14 mRNA in the liver was express... |
In the past few years, Drosophila melanogaster cells have been employed for recombinant protein production purposes, and a comprehensive knowledge of their metabolism is essential for process optimization. In this work, the kinetic response of a Schneider S2 cell line, grown in shake flasks, in two different culture me... |
Specific respiration rate ( [Formula: see text]) is a key parameter to understand cell metabolism and physiological state, providing useful information for process supervision and control. In this work, we cultivated different insect cells in a very controlled environment, being able to measure [Formula: see text]. Spo... |
The Drosophila Schneider S2 (S2) Expression System enables expression of recombinant proteins constitutively, as well as inductively. This system can establish both transient and stable transformants with various selection markers. The generation of stable cell lines for increased expression or large scale expression o... |
Although several reports have been published on recombinant protein expression using Drosophila cells, information on their metabolism and growth in vitro is relatively scarce. In the present study, we have analyzed the growth and metabolism of transfected S2 cells (S2AcRVGP) in bioreactor cultures with serum-free medi... |
Drosophila melanogaster S2 cells were transfected with a plasmid vector (pAcHBsAgHy) containing the S gene, coding for the hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg), under control of the constitutive drosophila actin promoter (pAc), and the hygromycin B (Hy) selection gene. The vector was introduced into Schneider 2 (S... |
Culture conditions that affect product quality are important to the successful operation and optimization of recombinant protein production. The objective of this study was to optimize culture conditions for growth of recombinant Drosophila melanogaster S2 cells (S2AcRVGP) in order to enhance the production of rRVGP. T... |
Drosophila melanogaster Schneider 2 (S2) cells have been increasingly used as a suitable expression system for the production of different recombinant proteins, and the employment of bioreactors for large-scale culture is an important tool for this purpose. In this work, Drosophila S2 cells producing the rabies virus g... |
Gene expression in animal cells allows large scale production of proteins used for either structure and function studies or therapeutic purposes. Maximizing recombinant protein production is necessary to optimize cell growth and protein expression. Some studies have demonstrated the presence of pharmacologically active... |
Production of recombinant proteins in mammalian cells is a successful technology that delivers protein pharmaceuticals for therapies and for diagnosis of human disorders. Cost effective production of protein biopharmaceuticals requires extensive optimization through cell and fermentation process engineering at the upst... |
The growth of mammalian cells in vitro requires the use of rich culture media that are prepared by combining serum with specific nutrient formulations. Serum, the most expensive component of culture media, provides a complex mixture of growth factors and nutrients. Protein hydrolysates that can support in vitro cell gr... |
Chinese Hamster Ovary cells are the primary system for the production of recombinant proteins for therapeutic use. Protein productivity is directly proportional to viable biomass, viability and culture longevity of the producer cells and a number of approaches have been taken to optimise these parameters. Cell cycle ar... |
In recent years there have been a number of reports that suggest the sub-physiological (<37 degrees C) temperature in vitro culturing of mammalian cells can result in enhanced heterologous protein production. Despite these reports, the mechanisms by which mammalian cells respond to such conditions are largely unknown. ... |
Historically, the proteomic investigation of filamentous fungi has been restrained by difficulties associated with efficient protein extraction and the lack of extensive fungal genome sequence databases. The advent of robust protein extraction and separation technologies, combined with protein mass spectrometry and eme... |
The production of therapeutic proteins is one of the fastest growing sectors of the pharmaceutical industry. However, most proteins used in drug therapy require complex post-translational modifications for efficient secretion, drug efficacy and stability. Common protein modifications include variable glycosylation, mis... |
The production of beta-galactosidase by Sf9 cells infected with recombinant Autographa californica nucleopolyhedrovirus (AcNPV) was investigated in shake-flask culture using two serum-free basal media: Grace's medium and TNM-FH (Grace's medium supplemented with lactalbumin hydrolysate and yeast extract). At the time of... |
We previously developed a promoter-activated production (PAP) system using amplified ras oncogene to activate the cytomegalovirus (CMV) promoter controlling the foreign gene in mammalian cells. CHO cells were demonstrated to be suitable for the PAP system. Here, we show that very high-level production of a recombinant ... |
Amaranthus hypochondriacus L. (amaranth) is a nutritionally protein rich plant with a good yield, but there has been no research concerning its immunological effects in vivo or in vitro. In the present study, we examined the effects of amaranth grain on cytokine and IgE production using in vitro helper T cell developme... |
Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) infectious disease is one of feline infection diseases spreading broadly all over the world. For bedside diagnosis of FeLV infectious disease, an immuno-chromatographic assay was investigated. Five different monoclonal antibodies were developed against the major core protein FeLV-p27. Among... |
Oral tolerance is the systemic immunological unresponsiveness that occurs after feeding protein antigens. Its physiological role is thought to be the prevention of hypersensitivity to food antigens, and its therapeutic use to treat inflammatory diseases has been suggested. Although it has been shown that CD4(+) T cells... |
Effects of leucine and related compounds on protein synthesis were studied in L6 myotubes. The incorporation of [(3)H]tyrosine into cellular protein was measured as an index of protein synthesis. In leucine-depleted L6 myotubes, leucine and its keto acid, alpha-ketoisocaproic acid (KIC), stimulated protein synthesis, w... |
Carvacrol, the predominant monoterpene in many essential oils of Labitae including Origanum, Satureja, Thymbra, Thymus, and Corydothymus has substantial antibacterial, antifungal, antihelmintic, insecticial, analgesic and antioxidant activities. Approximately 75% of lung cancer is non-small cell carcinoma (NSCLC) which... |
We have isolated and characterised diploid and tetraploid clones from the normally heterologous Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf-9)cell line by dilution cloning technique. Tetraploid clones were found to have cell sizes in excess of 35% larger than that of the diploid clones. In contrast, the maximum cell numbers achieved in ... |
The potential of spent medium to support the growth and recombinant protein production of High-Fivetrade mark cells was investigated. Growth in medium consisting of three parts fresh and one part spent medium was comparable to that in fresh medium (maximal specific growth rates of 0.028 and 0.029 h(-1), and maximal cel... |
Embryonic stem (ES) cells have been in the fore front of scientific literature lately as having the potential for regeneration of many tissue types. Two important issues that need to be addressed are the culture conditions for maintaining ES cells and the accuracy of ES cell markers in monitoring the undifferentiated s... |
Factor Xa is a serine protease, whose high selectivity can be used to cleave protein tags from recombinant proteins. A fusion protein comprised of a self-activating form of factor X linked to a cellulose-binding module, saCBMFX, was produced in a stable transformed Sf9 insect cell line. The activity of the insect cell ... |
We have recently developed a protein-free medium (PFS) able to support the growth of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells in suspension. Upon further supplementation with some plant protein hydrolysates, medium performances reached what could be observed in serum-containing media [Burteau et al. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol.-... |
In the development of immunoassay technique, the design of hapten containing a functional group suitable for protein conjugate is the key step for the preparation of antibodies against small molecules. Coptisine (MW 320), a bioactive constituent of Berberis and Coptis species, is small as an immunogen. In addition, cop... |
Dyskeratosis congenita (DC) is a multi system bone marrow failure syndrome characterized by muco-cutaneous abnormalities and an increased predisposition to malignancy. It exhibits considerable clinical and genetic heterogeneity. X-linked recessive, autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive forms of the disease are rec... |
A major obstacle to the immortalization of primary human cells and the establishment of human cell lines is telomere-controlled senescence. Telomere-controlled senescence is caused by the shortening of telomeres that occurs each time somatic human cells divide. The enzyme telomerase can prevent the erosion of telomeres... |
Telomerase, a critical enzyme responsible 'for cellular immortality, is usually repressed in somatic cells except for lymphocytes and self-renewal cells, but is activated in approximately 85% of human cancer tissues. The human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) is the catalytic component of human telomerase. In c... |
The enzyme telomerase is involved in the replication of telomeres, specialized structures that cap and protect the ends of chromosomes. Its activity is required for maintenance of telomeres and for unlimited lifespan, a hallmark of cancer cells. Telomerase is overexpressed in the vast majority of human cancer cells and... |
Insulin is involved in a number of cellular functions, including the stimulation of cell growth, cell cycle progression and glucose uptake and is a common protein supplement in serum-free mammalian cell culture media. However, several trace metals have previously been reported to exhibit insulin-like effects on specifi... |
A process of producing a receptor in HEK-293 cells used for the drug discovery program at Pfizer Inc. has been successfully developed with a novel BelloCell bioreactor to replace the conventional 2-D cell culturing devices including Cell Factories and roller bottles. A single BelloCell-500 has produced >1.4 x 10(9) HEK... |
In the present study, the optimal medium perfusion rate to be used for the continuous culture of a recombinant CHO cell line in a packed-bed bioreactor made of Fibra-Cel((R)) disk carriers was determined. A first-generation process had originally been designed with a high perfusion rate, in order to rapidly produce mat... |
To employ physiological mechanisms to control cell growth primary cells were reversibly immortalized using the SV40 TAg. The cells showed a fibroblast-like morphology. When the expression of the TAg was turned off, the cells arrested in the G0/G1 cell cycle phase. The cell culture could be kept for over 1 week in the p... |
The use of bioinformatics to integrate phenotypic and genomic data from mammalian models is well established as a means of understanding human biology and disease. Beyond direct biomedical applications of these approaches in predicting structure-function relationships between coding sequences and protein activities, co... |
We previously established a ras-oncogene amplified Chinesehamster ovary (CHO) cell line, named ras clone I, as anuniversal host cell line for oncogene activated production(OAP) system to mass-produce recombinant protein by activationof the cytomegalovirus immediate early (CMV) promoter with ras protein. The lambda ligh... |
A new immobilization material for cell culture, ahydroxyapatite-pulp composite fiber (HAPC) sheet bed, was usedto grow CHO-K1 cells. The sheet bed for cell culture wasprepared from HAPC fiber by paper-making techniques. Scanning electron microscopic analysis revealed that the HAPCsheet bed had a structure consisting of... |
It is widely reported that the growth of recombinant bacteria and yeast is adversely affected by increased metabolic load caused by the maintenance of plasmid copy number and recombinant protein expression. Reports suggest that recombinant mammalian systems are similarly affected by increased metabolic load. However, i... |
A process was developed for producing human menin from transformed Drosophila Schneider 2 cells. Protein expression was achieved after inducing the metallothionein promoter by adding copper sulfate to cells growing in suspension in a stirred-tank reactor. Experiments in shake flasks showed that the production of menin ... |
Biomaterials such as polyetherurethans (PEUs) are the scaffolding, which is indispensable for the development of the bio-artificial organs. However, PEUs can induce tumors in subcutaneous implantation sites in rat. We have shown that the different inhibitory potential of gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC... |
Substrate attachment is crucial for normal growth and differentiation of many cell types. To better understand the role of gravity in osteoblast attachment and growth in vitro, 17-day-old embryonic chick calvarial osteoblasts were subjected to directional variations with respect to gravity. Osteoblasts, grown in MEM or... |
We previously established an in vitro immunization protocol for generating antigen specific human monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). In vitro immunization was performed against the soluble protein of rice allergenic protein (RA), resulting in the generation of three B cell clones, AC7-1/F9, CB7-1/E2 and CB7-8/F5, all of whi... |
Serum-free mouse embryo (SFME) cells were established by D. Barnes et al., and are known to be a neural stem cell line, which differentiate into astrocytes upon treatment with TGF-beta. Therefore, SFME cells is thought to be a model well suited to analyze the differentiation mechanism of neural stem cells. Until now, w... |
The influence of capsaicin processing on human intestinal cell line Caco-2 was examined by measuring transepithelial electrical resistance (TER). There was an increase in permeability at high concentration (200 to 500 muM) of capsaicin, and the effect was inhibited by pretreatment of capsazepine, which is a competitive... |
Anti PSA monoclonal antibodies for diagnostic use were produced in an in vitro system. After purification using Protein G affinity chromatography a percentage of about 10% of antibody aggregates remained. The use of monoclonal antibodies containing aggregates as a capture antibody in a diagnostic kit reduces the perfor... |
Three crocin-carrier protein conjugates were synthesized and their hapten numbers were determined by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry. Three monoclonal antibodies against crocin were produced by hybridomas fused with the splenocytes immunized with crocin hemisuccinate-bovine ... |
A non-human like glycosylation pattern in human recombinant glycoproteins expressed by animal cells may compromise their use as therapeutic drugs. In order to correct the CHO glycosylation machinery, a CHO cell line producing recombinant human interferon- gamma (IFN) was transformed to replace the endogenous pseudogene... |
Coagulation factors, amongst many other proteins, often require posttranslational endoproteolytic processing for maturation. Upon high yield expression of recombinant forms of these proteins, processing frequently becomes severely limiting, resulting in a hampered function of the protein. In this report, the human endo... |
The human Golgi enzyme CMP-NeuAc:Gal(beta1-4)GlcNAc-R alpha2,6-sialyltransferase (ST6N) was stably coexpressed with human erythropoietin (EPO) from a BHK-21A cell line. The cell line was characterized with respect to the expression and in vitro activity of the ST6N and the endogenous alpha2,3-sialyltransferase. Detaile... |
The murine hybridoma (CC9C10) was subjected to high shear rates in a spinner flask to determine the effect of various culture additives on cell survival. At 500 rpm, the half-life of the viable cell concentration in a low protein serum-free medium was 50 min. Both bovine serum albumin and Pluronic F-68 had a significan... |
Secretion of an intracellular protein from a cell factory requires as a first step the redirection of the mRNA for synthesis of the protein on the endoplasmic reticulum. The feasibility of retargeting a mRNA coding for an intracellular protein to the endoplasmic reticulum was investigated using Ltk- fibroblasts stably ... |
Understanding the relationships between cell cycle and protein expression is critical to the optimisation of media and environmental conditions for successful commercial operation of animal cell culture processes. Using flow cytometry for the analysis of the early phases of synchronised batch cultures, the dependency o... |
The preparation of plasmid DNA at large scale constitutes a pressing problem in bioseparation. This paper describes a first investigation of displacement chromatography as a means to separate plasmid DNA (4.7 kb) from E. coli lipopolysaccharides and protein (holo transferrin), respectively. Displacement chromatography ... |
The development of media free of serum and animal or human proteins is of utmost importance for increasing the safety of biologicals produced for therapy and vaccination. In order to reduce the risk of contamination, we have modified the serum free medium MDSS2, a very efficient serum free medium for the production of ... |
We have developed and characterized cultures of healthy and dystrophic canine myoblasts for the evaluation of various gene transfer protocols. The number of desmin-positive myoblasts was elevated (>>80%) in cultures of myoblasts obtained from different muscle territories, the diaphragm muscle giving rise to the purest ... |
We have used a combination of gel electrophoresis and a cell culture assay in microplates to analyse mitogenic activity in tissue extracts. The procedure is a modification of the method described by Kuo et al. The proteins were separated by native gel electrophoresis or isoelectric focusing. The gel was sliced and defi... |
Sodium-dependent uptake of bile acids from blood is aliver-specific function which is mediated by theNa(+)-taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide(Ntcp). We report the stable expression of aNa(+)-taurocholate cotransporting green fluorescentfusion protein in the human hepatoblastoma cell lineHepG2, normally lacking Ntc... |
The goal of this work was to engineer a CHO cell line capable ofautocrine growth in a fully defined protein-free medium. Thiswas accomplished by stable integration of the genes encodinginsulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and transferrin into thegenome of a CHO-K1 cell line. Thelac operator/repressorsystem was used to ... |
The effects of media concentrations of glucose andglutamine on the intracellular nucleotide pools andoxygen uptake rates of a murine antibody-secretinghybridoma cell line were investigated. Cells takenfrom mid-exponential phase of growth were incubated inmedium containing varying concentrations of glucose(0-25 mM) and ... |
Since 1969 much attention has been devoted to the useof spinfilter systems for retention of mammalian cellsin continuous perfusion cultivations. Previousinvestigations dealt with hydrodynamic conditions,fouling processes and upscaling. But hydrodynamicconditions and fouling processes seem to have asecondary importance ... |
We have recently reported on the isolation of a 5.7 kb segment of Chinese hamster ovary cell genomic DNA, Expression Augmenting Sequence Element (EASE), which when used in bicistronic expression vectors allows the development of stable Chinese hamster ovary cell pools in a five to seven week time period that express hi... |
The dihydrofolate reductase-deficient Chinese hamster ovary cell line, DXB11-CHO, commonly used as a host cell for the production of recombinant proteins requires 7.5% serum-supplementation for optimal growth. Regulatory issues surrounding the use of serum in clinical production processes and the direct and indirect co... |
Based on two new adenovirus expression cassettes, we have constructed a series of Ad transfer vectors for the overexpression of one or two genes either in a dicistronic configuration or with separate expression cassettes. Inclusion of the green or blue fluorescent protein in the vectors accelerates the generation of ad... |
Protein synthesis in mammalian cells can be observed in two strikingly different patterns: 1) production of monoclonal antibodies in hybridoma cultures is typically inverse growth associated and 2) production of most therapeutic glycoproteins in recombinant mammalian cell cultures is found to be growth associated. Prod... |
The present study describes a novel microcarrier substrate consisting of a swellable, copolymer of styrene and divinylbenzene, derivatized with trimethylamine. The co-polymer trimethylamine microcarriers support the growth of a number of different cell lines - Madin Darby Bovine Kidney, Madin-Darby Canine Kidney, Vero ... |
Contemporary basic research is rapidly revealing increasingly complex molecular regulatory networks which are often interconnected via key signal integrators. These connections among regulatory and catalytic networks often frustrate bioengineers as promising metabolic engineering strategies are bypassed by compensatory... |
The goals of this study were to identify mammalian cell lines which could be efficiently transiently-transfected and scaled-up for protein production. The transfection efficiencies of eight cell lines (NSO, NSO-TAg, CV-1, COS-7, CHO, CHO-TAg, HEK 293, and 293-EBNA) were measured using electroporation for DNA delivery a... |
The firefly luciferase gene was introduced into the Semliki Forest virus (SFV) vector and high titer recombinant SFV particles generated. The broad host range of SFV allowed efficient infection and high level expression of four mammalian cell lines growing in serum-free suspension cultures. The incubation temperature h... |
CO2 partial pressure (pCO2) in industrial cell culture reactors may reach 150-200 mm Hg, which can significantly inhibit cell growth and recombinant protein production. Due to equilibrium with bicarbonate, increased pCO2 at constant pH results in a proportional increase in osmolality. Hybridoma AB2-143.2 cell growth ra... |
Fusions of genetic regulatory elements with reporter genes have long been used as tools for monitoring gene expression and have become a major component in synthetic gene circuit implementation. A major limitation of many of these systems is the relatively long half-life of the reporter protein(s), which prevents monit... |
Hsp70 chaperones assist protein folding by cycling between the ATP-bound T state with low affinity for substrates and the ADP-bound R state with high affinity for substrates. The transition from the T to R state is catalyzed by the synergistic action of the substrate and DnaJ cochaperones. The reverse transition from t... |
High throughput technologies, including array-based chromatin immunoprecipitation, have rapidly increased our knowledge of transcriptional maps-the identity and location of regulatory binding sites within genomes. Still, the full identification of sites, even in lower eukaryotes, remains largely incomplete. In this pap... |
The ability to learn and respond to recurrent events depends on the capacity to remember transient biological signals received in the past. Moreover, it may be desirable to remember or ignore these transient signals conditioned upon other signals that are active at specific points in time or in unique environments. Her... |
Biological systems are complex and often composed of many subtly interacting components. Furthermore, such systems evolve through time and, as the underlying biology executes its genetic program, the relationships between components change and undergo dynamic reorganization. Characterizing these relationships precisely... |
The growth regulating factor CTGF/CCN-2 is an integral factor in growth and development, connective tissue maintenance, wound repair and cell cycle regulation. It has recently been reported that CTGF/CCN-2 is involved in very early development having been detected in early notochord formation in zebrafish using CTGF/CC... |
Endocrine therapies are widely used for the treatment of estrogen-sensitive diseases. 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (17beta-HSD1) is involved in the last step of the biosynthesis of potent estrogen estradiol (E(2)). This enzyme catalyzes the reduction of the C17-ketosteroid estrone (E(1)) into the C17beta-... |
The gastrointestinal tract of vertebrate species contains melatonin, which participates in several physiological functions. Some of these effects are mediated via specific membrane receptors (MT(1) and MT(2)). In the present study, the distribution of the MT(2) receptor protein in the gastrointestinal tract was localiz... |
The aim of the current study was to examine the association between homocysteine and 6-year cognitive decline, and the modifying role of the inflammatory markers Interleukin-6 (IL-6), C-reactive protein (CRP) and alpha-1-antichymotrypsin (ACT). Data were collected within the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (ages >or... |
The Minicontainer-test, first described by Eisenbeis (1993), was designed to study the kinetics of organic residue decomposition at a microsite level. It is derived from the litterbag technique and consists of polyethylene minicontainers (volume about 1.5 cm(3)) filled with a test substrate (litter, straw, cellulose, e... |
The combined influence of high phenol concentrations and low temperatures on aerobic and anaerobic phenol degradation kinetics was investigated in microbial enrichment cultures to evaluate temperature-inhibition relationships with respect to the ambient conditions in polluted habitats. The inhibition of microbial pheno... |
The biological degradation of volatile halogenated hydrocarbons (chlorocarbons (VCCs) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)) was investigated under simulated conditions of landfills in laboratory test digesters. Fully halogenated VCCs (tetrachloroethylene, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, tetrachloromethane and dichloromethane) and CFC... |
The ability of a plant cytochrome P450 to bind and metabolise plant endogenous molecules and xenobiotics was investigated. The work was performed on the yeast-expressed CYP73A1, a cinnamate 4-hydroxylase isolated from Helianthus tuberosus. CYP73 controls the general phenylpropanoid pathway and is likely to be one of th... |
A general introduction of the bait-lamina test has been made in this article. This article has an introductional character for other articles dealing with the bait-lamina test method and gives the experimental data. The test was first introduced by Törne in 1990 to measure the biological activity of soil. It enables th... |
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