We describe the establishment of two permanent Simian virus 40-transformed human stromal cell lines, designated L87/4 and L88/5, derived from the bone marrow of a hematologically normal male patient. Both cell lines show a fibroblastoid morphology and do not express hematopoietic cell markers. L87/4 but not L88/5 expresses the macrophage marker CD68. The most remarkable feature of these new str...

OBJECTIVES Umbilical cord blood is used for transplantation purposes in regenerative medicine of hematological disorders. MicroRNAs are important regulators of gene expression that control both physiological and pathological processes such as cancer development and incidence. There is a new relation between p53 (tumor suppressor gene) and miR-145 (suppressor of cell growth) upregulation. In thi...

Abstract. The seeder–feeder mechanism has been observed to enhance orographic precipitation in previous studies. However, the microphysical processes active seeder and feeder region are still being understood. In this paper, we investigate of a mixed-phase cloud passing over Swiss Alps, focusing on (1) fallstreaks enhanced radar reflectivity originating from top generating cells (seeder region)...

BACKGROUND Due to the inherent sensitivity of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to manipulations, the recovery and survival of hESCs after fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) can be low. Additionally, a well characterized and robust methodology for performing FACS on hESCs using multiple-cell surface markers has not been described. The p160-Rho-associated coiled kinase (ROCK) inhibitor,...

One of the most important tasks biotechnology and regenerative medicine is to achieve long-term expansion hematopoietic stem cells. promising approaches optimizing cultures cells creation a microenvironment in form feeder stromal layers, which allows for reproduction combination soluble cytokines growth factors necessary hematopoiesis promotes an increase their proliferation [1,2].

Recent studies using stable isotope labeling with amino acids in culture (SILAC) in quantitative proteomics have made mention of the problematic conversion of isotope-coded arginine to proline in cells. The resulting converted proline peptide divides the heavy peptide ion signal causing inaccuracy when compared with the light peptide ion signal. This is of particular concern as it can effect up...

Compare to autologous NK cells, allogeneic NK cells have more anti-tumor cytotoxicity without GVHD. Adoptive transfer of allo-reactive NK cell can be ideally used combined with other immunotherapy. However, in vivo persistency of transferred NK cells in the recipients are still an obstacle in NK cell-based immunotherapy. As most of NK cells purified from peripheral blood of donors are fully dif...

Objective(s): Cord blood (CB) is known as a valuable source of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC). Identifying strategies that enhance expansion and maintain engraftment and homing capacity of HSCs can improve transplant efficiency. In this study, we examined different culture conditions on ex vivo expansion and homing capacity of CB-HSCs. Materials and Methods: In this study, 4-5 different units o...

The discovery in 2006 that human and mouse fibroblasts could be reprogrammed to generate iPS cells with qualities remarkably similar to embryonic stem cells has created a valuable new source of pluripotent cells for drug discovery, cell therapy, and basic research. GIBCO media and reagents have been at the forefront of pluripotent stem cell research for years. Knockout DMEM supplemented with Kn...