Calvin Simerly,
Dave McFarland,
Carlos Castro,
Chih-Cheng Lin,
Carrie Redinger,
Ethan Jacoby,
Jocelyn Mich-Basso,
Kyle Orwig,
Parker Mills,
Eric Ahrens,
Chris Navara and
Gerald Schatten
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Unequivocal evidence for pluripotency in which embryonic stem cells contribute to chimeric offspring has yet to be demonstrated in human or nonhuman primates (NHPs). Here, rhesus and baboons ESCs were investigated in interspecific mouse chimera generated by aggregation or blastocyst...
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PMID: 21543277
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We demonstrate hematopoietic defects reminiscent of premature HSC aging, including anemia, lymphopenia, and myeloid lineage skewing. However, in contrast to physiological stem cell aging, rapidly accumulating mitochondrial DNA mutations had little functional effect on the hematopoietic stem cell poo...
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PMID: 21549326
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The Fas death receptor (CD95) is expressed on macrophages, smooth muscle cells, and T cells within atherosclerotic lesions. Given the dual roles of Fas in both apoptotic and nonapoptotic signaling, the aim of the present study was to test the effect of hematopoietic Fas deficiency on experimental ath...
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PMID: 21550016
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We show that both mouse iPS and parental ES cells exhibited highly similar in vitro capacity to undergo directed differentiation into DE progenitors. With few exceptions, both cell types displayed similar surges in gene expression of specific master transcriptional regulators and global transcriptom...
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PMID: 21537085
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This study was conducted to assess the effect of melatonin on the structure of testis and spermatogenesis dynamics in neonate vitrified testis grafts. Neonate vitrified testes, candidates for transplantation heterotopically to experiment or control groups, were warmed in thawing media which had or di...
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PMID: 21630230
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This study evaluates the effect of melatonin on follicular dynamics in neonate vitrified ovarian grafts. Vitrified ovaries from neonate F1 hybrid mice, candidates for transplantation to treated or non-treated groups, were thawed under standard conditions with or without the addition of 100 μM melato...
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PMID: 21604248
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Dendritic cells (DCs) serve as a link between the innate and adaptive immune systems. The activation state of DCs is crucial in this role. However, when DCs are isolated from lymphoid tissues, purified and placed in culture they undergo 'spontaneous' activation. The basis of this was...
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PMID: 20501515
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Immune reconstitution is crucially relevant for patients receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). This study was purposed to investigate the ability of α-GalCer (α-galactosylceramide), a well-known activator of natural killer T cells (NK-T), to enhance immune and hematological reco...
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PMID: 21176367
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Yung-Li Yang,
Shu-Rung Lin,
Jiann-Shiuh Chen,
Chih-Cheng Hsiao,
Kai-Hsin Lin,
Jiunn-Ming Sheen,
Chao-Neng Cheng,
Kang-Hsi Wu,
Shu-Wha Lin,
Sung-Liang Yu,
Hsuan-Yu Chen,
Meng-Yao Lu,
Hsiu-Hao Chang,
Ching-Tzu Yen,
Jing-Fang Lin,
Ying-Hui Su,
Ya-Ping Li,
Chien-Yu Lin,
Shiann-Tarng Jou and
Dong-Tsamn Lin
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The biological factors of leukemia cells are associated with treatment outcomes in childhood ALL. Multiplex RT-PCR assay is an efficient and sensitive diagnostic tool that may improve the ability to accurately and rapidly risk-stratify children with ALL....
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PMID: 20930648
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We asked whether FMc and MMc are impacted by the addition of new grafts as evaluated by increasing parity. Mc was identified by quantitative PCR for a nonshared polymorphism unique to the Mc source. Despite increasing sources of Mc, FMc did not increase with increasing parity. MMc concentration was...
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PMID: 20628146
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Chromosomal novelties and the level of meiotic and mitotic abnormalities were studied in a hybrid zone between two chromosomally differentiated Spalax cytotypes of 2n = 58 and 2n = 52. These cytotypes differ by five Rb fusions, four centromeric shifts accompanied by heterochromatin deletion, one par...
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PMID: 21250542
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Interaction of transcription factor CTCF with the minimal promoter of Xist gene was investigated in intraspecific hybrids ofcommon voles. CTCF was shown to bind with the minimal promoter region in vivo. However, the experiments of the delay in gel resulted in the absence of interaction between the C...
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PMID: 21254564
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The results of long-term studies on the transmission of the mode of asexual reproduction through seeds to maize from gamagrass, a closely related wild plant, performed in the Laboratory of Plant Cytology and Apomixis are summarized. The first apomictic hybrids between Zea mays and Tripsacum dactyloi...
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PMID: 21061615
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We have also introduced Penelope into Drosophila melanogaster, which are otherwise naive to the element. We have taken advantage of these natural and experimentally induced colonization processes to probe the evolution of small RNA pathways in response to transposon challenge. In both species, Penel...
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PMID: 20581131
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Long term, BMDCs could repopulate recipient's intestinal epithelium even without any special treatment, which suggests a novel insight into the maintenance of the intestinal epithelial constitution....
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PMID: 19856101
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Subseries Turnera comprises a polyploid complex with ploidy levels ranging from diploid (2n = 2x = 10) to octoploid (2n = 8x = 40). The use of fluorescent in situ hybridization greatly improved the knowledge of the karyotypes of Turnera species by detecting and mapping rDNA sites. Interspecific vari...
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PMID: 20725146
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We have tested Brassica carinata, a possible target for oil modification, to establish whether it can cross with other Brassica species and related genera, and we have developed molecular DNA assays to confirm hybridization....
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PMID: 20725152
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We up- and down-regulated a Populus tomentosa Delta-12 fatty acid desaturase gene (PtFAD2) in the hybrid poplar (P. alba x P. glandulosa) clone 84 K. Real-time PCR results demonstrated that compared to untransformed control lines, the transcriptional level of PtFAD2 increased by up to 90% in over-ex...
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PMID: 20012191
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The supramolecular salt [H(2)pip](3)[Ge(hedp)(2)].14H(2)O (1) [H(2)pip(2+)=piperazine cation C(4)H(12)N(2)(2+); hedp(5-)=deprotonated form of etidronic acid, C(2)H(3)P(2)O(7)(5-)) is reported. This consists of an organic-inorganic hybrid hydrogen-bonded nanoporous framework, the inte...
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PMID: 20544749
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Our results indicate that Syk is critically involved in the development of all clinically relevant aspects of autoantibody-mediated K/BxN serum-transfer arthritis in experimental mice. These results provide the first in vivo genetic evidence of the role of Syk in the development of autoimmune arthri...
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PMID: 20201079
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A small-animal model for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection was developed using severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mice encoding homozygous urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) transplanted with human hepatocytes. Currently, limited information is available concerning the H...
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PMID: 20164258
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S Rogée,
E Grellier,
C Bernard,
N Jouy,
A Loyens,
J C Beauvillain,
P Fender,
S Corjon,
S S Hong,
P Boulanger,
B Quesnel,
J C D'Halluin and
M Colin
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We show that the adenoviral-associated humoral and innate cytokine immune responses are significantly reduced when HAdV-5 vector carrying human bovine chimeric fibers (HAdV-5-F2/BAdV-4) is intravenously injected into mice. Fiber pseudotyping modified its interaction with blood coagulation factors, a...
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PMID: 20393506
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We investigate whether EG cell self-renewal and derivation are supported by 2i. We report that mouse EG cells can be established with high efficiency using 2i in combination with the cytokine leukaemia inhibitory factor (LIF). Furthermore, addition of fibroblast growth factor or stem cell factor is...
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PMID: 20519324
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We describe the chimeric gene Quetzalcoatl (Qtzl; CG31864), which formed in the recent past and swept to fixation in D. melanogaster. Qtzl arose through a duplication on chromosome 2L that united a portion of the mitochondrially targeted peptide CG12264 with a segment of the polycomb gene escl. The...
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PMID: 20534482
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We characterize the expression of a KLK4 cis sense-antisense chimeric transcript, and show other examples in prostate cancer. Using non-protein-coding microarray analyses, we initially identified an androgen-regulated antisense transcript within the 3' untranslated region of the KLK4 gene in LNCaP c...
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PMID: 20406994
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We have developed a complementary approach in which viral and synthetic components are combined to form hybrid nanoparticulate vectors. In particular, we complexed non-infectious retrovirus-like particles lacking a viral envelope protein, from Moloney murine leukemia virus (M-VLP) or human immunodef...
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PMID: 20117154
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Fusarium ear rot, caused by Fusarium verticillioides, is one of the most common diseases of maize, causing yield and quality reductions and contamination of grain by fumonisins and other mycotoxins. Drought stress and various insects have been implicated as factors affecting disease...
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PMID: 20127546
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Common voles of the Microtus arvalis group distributed over the territory of European Russia are represented by three karyotypic categories, i.e., sympatric sibling species with 2n = 46 and 54, and two allopatric karyoforms in one of them, 2n = 46. For each category, molecular markers were found. Fo...
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PMID: 20583603
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We review the different forms of meiotic drive and their possible roles in speciation. We discuss the recent empirical evidence for a link between drive and hybrid male sterility, also suggesting a possible mechanistic explanation for this link in the context of chromatin remodelling. Finally, we re...
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PMID: 20308102
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Distant hybridization makes it possible to transfer the genome of one species to another, which results in changes in phenotypes and genotypes of the progenies. This study shows that distant hybridization or the combination of this method with gynogenesis or androgenesis lead to different ploidy fis...
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PMID: 20596907
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We show in the fish medaka (Oryzias latipes) that the host accessibility to ES cell contribution exhibits dramatic differences. Specifically, of three albino host strains tested (i (1) , i (3) and af), only strain i (1) generated pigmented chimeras. Strikingly, this accessibility is completely lost...
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PMID: 20238480
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We thus investigated whether mixed chimerism and tolerance could be realized without the need for cytoreductive treatment by combining Treg therapy with BM transplantation (BMT). Polyclonal recipient Tregs were cotransplanted with a moderate dose of fully mismatched allogeneic donor BM into recipien...
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PMID: 20148810
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We describe the Nrf2 modulation of innate and adaptive immune responses in an acute autoimmune model of MS, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). Wild-type (WT) mice and Nrf2 knockout mice were immunized with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG 35-55) and monitored daily for clinical...
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PMID: 19910389
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Indeterminate fibrohistiocytic lesions of the skin share histological and immunohistochemical features of both benign fibrous histiocytoma/dermatofibroma and dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP). Unlike dermatofibroma, DFSP harbors recurrent genetic aberrations resulting in the fusion of COL1A1 on...
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PMID: 19940748
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Analysis of nucleotide sequences of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region (495 bp) of sables (Martes zibellina) and martens (M. martes) from allopatric parts of the species ranges has shown a considerable interspecific genetic distance (3%). In sympatric populations of these species in the no...
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PMID: 20536027
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We report here that the E protein HEB was uniquely required at the CD4(+)CD8(+) double-positive (DP) stage of T cell development. Thymocytes lacking HEB showed impaired survival, failed to make rearrangements of variable-alpha (V(alpha)) segments to distal joining-alpha (J(alpha)) segments in the ge...
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PMID: 20154672
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LiPing Liu,
Abdelmadjid Belkadi,
Lindsey Darnall,
Taofang Hu,
Caitlin Drescher,
Anne C Cotleur,
Dolly Padovani-Claudio,
Tao He,
Karen Choi,
Thomas E Lane,
Robert H Miller and
Richard M Ransohoff
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We found that mice lacking the type 2 CXC chemokine receptor (CXCR2) were relatively resistant to cuprizone-induced demyelination and that circulating CXCR2-positive neutrophils were important for cuprizone-induced demyelination. Our findings support a two-hit process of cuprizone-induced demyelinat...
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PMID: 20154684
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We had previously reported [1]. Comparative analysis of the Artemia trehalase gene with other animal trehalase genes revealed the existence of conserved exon/intron boundaries among different phyla. Comparison of the 5' UTR region of trehalase mRNA obtained by the 5' RACE method with the trehalase g...
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PMID: 20232644
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Jianyong Han,
Ping Yuan,
Henry Yang,
Jinqiu Zhang,
Boon Seng Soh,
Pin Li,
Siew Lan Lim,
Suying Cao,
Junliang Tay,
Yuriy L Orlov,
Thomas Lufkin,
Huck-Hui Ng,
Wai-Leong Tam and
Bing Lim
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We term OSK) constitutes the minimal requirement for generating iPS cells from mouse embryonic fibroblasts. These cells are thought to resemble embryonic stem cells (ESCs) on the basis of global gene expression analyses; however, few studies have tested the ability and efficiency of iPS cells to con...
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PMID: 20139965
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We have generated a dual affinity tagged Rb1 allele in the mouse. The tagged allele functions as wild type and the encoded protein can be purified by tandem affinity chromatography. This allele will facilitate identification and characterization of native pRb molecular interactions in any tissue acc...
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PMID: 20027616
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In this paper, a novel hybrid Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) and Quantum Evolutionary Algorithm (QEA) is proposed for solving continuous optimization problems. ABC is adopted to increase the local search capacity as well as the randomness of the populations. In this way, the improved QEA can jump out o...
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PMID: 20180252
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We hypothesize that the pathogen-free NIKS human keratinocyte progenitor cell line cultured in a chimeric fashion with patient's primary keratinocytes would produce a fully stratified engineered skin substitute tissue and serve to deliver autologous keratinocytes to a cutaneous wound.
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PMID: 20010085
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With the dye and medicinal plant Isatis indigotica (2n = 14) as pollen parent, intertribal sexual hybrids with Brassica napus (2n = 38, AACC) were obtained and characterized. Among a lot of F1 plants produced, only five hybrids (H1-H5) were distinguished morphologically from female B. napus parents...
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PMID: 20140033
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We used a modified Boyden chemotaxis system to examine monocyte recruitment to recombinant human (rhu) IL-18 in vitro. Monocyte recruitment to rhuIL-18 was then tested in vivo by using an RA synovial tissue (ST) severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mouse chimera. We defined monocyte-specific signa...
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PMID: 20565717
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Our results document the possible impact of loss of one Odf2 allele on sperm tail structure and function, resulting in a novel sperm tail phenotype....
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PMID: 20550699
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We demonstrate a protocol to generate chimeric retinas and brains in zebrafish embryos and to perform live imaging of the donor cells. The protocol covers the preparation of transplantation needles, the transplantation of GFP-expressing donor blastomeres to GFP-negative hosts, and the examination of...
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PMID: 20689504
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Four randomized groups of male mice F1 (C57Black/CBA) were investigated: a) UV-irraidated (UV-A, 15 min daily during 9 months, dose 5.6 + 1.2 W/m2), b) gamma-rays irradiated (2 Gy), single, c) influence for combination of UV- and gamma-rays treatment, d) aging. The lens opacities were measured on 7t...
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PMID: 20734799
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From dual-color genomic in situ hybridization (GISH) analysis of three trigenomic hybrids, Brassica maurorum (MM, 2n = 16) x B. juncea (AABB, 2n = 36) (M.AB), B. maurorum x B. carinata (BBCC, 2n = 34) (M.BC), and B. carinata x B. maurorum (BC.M), the three genomes of each hybrid were distinguished a...
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PMID: 20130745
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A previous paper reported the development of disomic addition lines (2H, 3H, 4H, and 1HS isochromosomic) from hybrids between the winter wheat 'Martonvásári 9 kr1' and the two-rowed winter barley cultivar 'Igri'. The present paper describes the isolation of two new additions, the 7H disomic and 6H...
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PMID: 20130747
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We will describe the currently most cost efficient and simple method; the aggregation of pluripotent stem cells with diploid or tetraploid mouse embryos. Since most of the large knockout projects are using the C57BL/6 background, we will pay special attention to cell lines derived from this inbred s...
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PMID: 20691864
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We developed the VelociMouse method, in which injection of genetically modified ES cells into eight-cell embryos followed by maturation to the blastocyst stage and transfer to a surrogate mother produces F0 generation mice that are fully derived from the injected ES cells and exhibit a 100% GLT effi...
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PMID: 20691872
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The controversy over the creation of admixed human-nonhuman embryos, and specifically of what have been termed "cybrids," involves a range of ethical and political issues. It is not reducible to a single question. This paper focuses on one question raised by that controversy, whether...
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PMID: 21644432
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The donor-acceptor relation (DAR) in a plant under cold exposure to frost was studied in the plants of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Mironovskaya 808 cultivar and its allocytoplasmatic hybrid containing alien cytoplasm of goat grass (Aegilops ovata L.) and grown in a water culture until phenop...
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PMID: 20387387
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We analyzed the fertilization and embryonic development of the hybrid between spotted females and barred males of sorubim specimens by light microscopy and by scanning (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) after induced spawning. Samples were collected at pre-established moments up to lar...
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PMID: 19876824
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The goal of our study was to evaluate whether private alleles can be defined in microsatellite markers for the breeds under investigation; to evaluate if these private alleles distinguish chicken chimera when using different tissues; to trace them back to the donor: Green-Legged Partridgelike and re...
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PMID: 20968194
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We were able to detect the parental origin for each chromosome in hybrid cells. Based on parental chromosome ratio, all 20 hybrid clones were separated in some different groups: from the group containing practically tetraploid M. musculus genome with single M. caroli chromosomes to hybrids with domi...
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PMID: 20352696
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