Fiona Tan, 10 Madnesses

Fiona Phipps

Background Postnatal depression (PND) is a global problem and an important public health issue. It is estimated that approximately 15% of women experience depression during the first postnatal year but there are problems in recognition because its clinical assessment can be complex. The incidence of postnatal depression continues to rise resulting in serious consequences for the mother, her chi...

Fiona Powrie: Gut diplomacy

The immune system's quieter side went unnoticed for some time, while inflammation inducing proteins soaked up all the attention. Fiona Powrie stepped in just after the concept of inflammation-reducing " suppressor " cells had emerged. In Don Mason's laboratory at the MRC Cellular Immunology Unit in Oxford, Powrie and her colleagues lent the vaguely described cells definition, by showing that on...

FIONA on Caenorhabditis elegans.

Despite much work, subcellular neurons of Caenorhabditis elegans have not been studied at nanometer resolution with millisecond time resolution. Nor has there been an effective way to immobilize C. elegans. Here we show that, without using anesthetic or paralyzing agents, fluorescence imaging with one-nanometer accuracy (FIONA) can be successfully applied to fluorescently labeled molecules with...

Lou Wei & Dr Fiona Liu

Tan 16_8

To clarify the potential involvement of plasmin(ogen) cascade proteins in the cell dissociation and subsequent invasion of pancreatic cancer cells, Western blot analysis, immunocytochemistry, immunohistochemistry, and in vitro invasion assay were performed in the cell lines or tissue of pancreatic cancer. The strong expression of plasmin(ogen), urokinase type plasminogen activator (uPA) and uPA...