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Bioluminescence imaging is a powerful technique to visualize and monitor biological processes in numerous systems. This unit describes two strategies for bioluminescence imaging that can be used to study bacterial infection in mice. One method is to express a luciferase gene in the b...
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PMID: 21538305
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Infectious HCV pseudoparticles (HCVpp) can be assembled by display of unmodified and functional HCV glycoproteins on retroviral and lentiviral core particles. HCVpp have been shown to mimic the early infection steps of parental HCV. The presence of a marker gene packaged within these HCV pseudoparti...
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PMID: 19009280
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The analysis of transgene inheritance is an important step in the molecular and genetic characterization of transgenes. In this manuscript, two approaches to characterize the inheritance of transgenes are described. The first approach is based on the expression of the transgene phenotype and the sec...
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PMID: 19378007
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We will describe the construction of a fusion protein with the SUMO-tag, its expression in Escherichia coli, and its purification followed by the removal of the SUMO-tag by a SUMO-specific protease in vitro....
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PMID: 19107426
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We tried to read the biological clock in tissues from dead bodies to estimate the time of death using molecular biological techniques. At first, we examined real-time RT-PCR analysis of gene expression for mPer2 and mBmal1, which constitutes a feedback loop in the oscillation system, in the kidney,...
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PMID: 21069371
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We examined the consequences of overexpressing SRS2 as well as two helicase-dead mutants, srs2-K41A and srs2-K41R, in the collection of 4827 yeast haploid deletion mutants. We identified 274 genes affecting a large variety of cellular functions that are required for cell growth when SRS2 or its muta...
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PMID: 21459050
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Engineering effective vectors has been crucial to the efficient delivery and expression of therapeutic gene products in vivo. Among these, HSV-1 represents an excellent candidate vector for delivery to the peripheral and central nervous systems. The natural biology of HSV-1 includes the establishmen...
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PMID: 21536761
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We discussed the three points for promoting the industrialization of animal transgenic breeding....
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PMID: 21586397
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Isabelle I Soubeyran,
Isabelle I Mahouche,
Aude A Grigoletto,
Thierry T Leste-Lasserre,
Guillaume G Drutel,
Christophe C Rey,
Stephane S Pedeboscq,
France F Blanchard,
Veronique V Brouste,
Jean-Christophe JC Sabourin,
Yves Y Bécouarn,
Josy J Reiffers,
François F Ichas and
Francesca F De Giorgi
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We investigated the possible prognostic role of HIPK2 on a retrospective series of 80 colon cancer cases by setting up a multiplexed cytometric approach capable of exploring correlative protein expression at the single tumor cell level on TMA. Crossing the data with quantitative PCR and p53 gene seq...
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PMID: 21514416
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Hypertrophy occurs in urinary bladder wall smooth muscle (BSM) in men with partial bladder outlet obstruction (PBOO) caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and in animal models of PBOO. Hypertrophied BSM from the rabbit model exhibits down-regulation of caveolin-1, a structural and functional p...
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PMID: 21514437
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We demonstrate that plating GI-101A human breast cancer cells on hard (0.9%) agar selects for the subpopulation of metastasis-initiating cells. The agar-selected cells, designated GI-AGR, were homogeneous for CD44(+) and CD133(+) and five times more invasive than the parental GI-101A cells. Moreover...
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PMID: 21514446
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The ability of the rodent testis to tolerate graft alloantigens and spermatogenic cell autoantigens is well known. The mechanisms underlying this "immune privilege" are poorly understood, but the numerous resident TMs have been implicated. Although it has been assumed that TMs display a phenotype con...
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PMID: 21498587
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We report that BMI1 contains a functional recognition motif for the F box protein βTrCP, which regulates ubiquitination and proteasome-mediated degradation of various proteins. We show that overexpression of wild-type βTrCP but not the ΔF mutant of it promotes BMI1 ubiquitination and degradation,...
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PMID: 21430439
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The ATM substrate Chk2-interacting Zn(2+)-finger protein (ASCIZ, also known as ATMIN and ZNF822) has previously been reported to be important for the repair of methylating and oxidative DNA damage, and it has also been proposed to regulate the stability and DNA damage-independent act...
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PMID: 21415597
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There were no effects of drug or dose (0, 50, 100 or 150 mg/kg bwt) on any of the physical or neurological examination, behaviour factors, electrocardiogram or clinical pathological results collected from any of the horses. All parameters measured remained within the normal reference range. There...
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PMID: 21492212
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We have generated premeiotic Stra8-positive cells from C2C12 myoblasts following treatment with 10 μM all-trans-RA for 8 days. The differentiated C2C12 cells exhibited spherical morphology similar to spermatogonia, and they expressed gene markers of premeiosis, meiosis and postmeiosis. In addition,...
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PMID: 21091440
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We report that estrogen deficiency in mice caused by targeted disruption of the aromatase gene results in a significant inhibition of telomerase maintenance of telomeres in mouse ovaries in a tissue-specific manner. The inhibition entails a significant shortening of telomeres and compromised prolife...
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PMID: 21574023
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We tested whether it directly regulates renal cell survival and organ function in a model of transient renal ischemia using Hsp70 knockout, heterozygous, and wild-type mice. The kidney cortical Hsp70 content inversely correlated with tubular injury, apoptosis, and organ dysfunction after injury. In...
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PMID: 21270764
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We tested whether it directly regulates renal cell survival and organ function in a model of transient renal ischemia using Hsp70 knockout, heterozygous, and wild-type mice. The kidney cortical Hsp70 content inversely correlated with tubular injury, apoptosis, and organ dysfunction after injury. In...
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PMID: 21270764
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We tested whether it directly regulates renal cell survival and organ function in a model of transient renal ischemia using Hsp70 knockout, heterozygous, and wild-type mice. The kidney cortical Hsp70 content inversely correlated with tubular injury, apoptosis, and organ dysfunction after injury. In...
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PMID: 21270764
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The extracellular protein collagen triple helix repeat containing 1 (CTHRC1) is aberrantly upregulated in melanoma and most human solid cancers. However, its role in cancer remains unknown.
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PMID: 21477558
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We show that transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) controls the development of TCRαβ+CD8αα+ IELs. Mice with either a null mutation in the gene encoding TGF-β1 or T cell-specific deletion of TGF-β receptor I lacked TCRαβ+CD8αα+ IELs, whereas mice with transgenic overexpression of TGF-β1 h...
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PMID: 21297643
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We investigated the molecular mechanism of the effects of this combination therapy on melanoma tumor growth. In B16 tumor-bearing mice, the addition of IFN-α to DTIC treatment significantly reduced tumor volume, compared with control or DTIC alone. Consistently, Digital Radiography data showed less...
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PMID: 21389866
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Feng Gao,
Sergio X Vasquez,
Feng Su,
Svetlana Roberts,
Neha Shah,
Victor Grijalva,
Satoshi Imaizumi,
Arnab Chattopadhyay,
Ekambaram Ganapathy,
David Meriwether,
Brad Johnston,
G M Anantharamaiah,
Mohamad Navab,
Alan M Fogelman,
Srinivasa T Reddy and
Robin Farias-Eisner
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We recently reported that apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) and apoA-I mimetic peptides inhibit tumor growth and improve survival in a mouse model of ovarian cancer. The current study was designed to examine whether inhibition of angiogenesis is one of the mechanisms for the observed anti-tumorigenic effe...
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PMID: 21283904
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