Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) promotes the survival of a subpopulation of non-neuronal cells developing from trunk neural crest. It was therefore important to determine whether this factor is present in the nervous system at early developmental stages. Immunocytochemistry using specific polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies was combined with three highly sensitive assays: bFGF-induced pr...

The synthesis of a new endohedral ten-vertex Zintl ion cluster, [Fe@Sn10](3-), isoelectronic with [Fe@Ge10](3-), is reported. In an attempt to place this new cluster within the context of the known structural chemistry of the M@E10 family (M = transition metal, E = main group element), we have carried out a detailed electronic structure analysis of the different structural types: viz bicapped s...

Relatively little is known about the effects of estrogen on postischemic cerebral vasomotor dynamics after ischemic injury. Emerging hypotheses suggest that the timing after menopause at which hormone replacement is initiated might be important and might modulate the potential benefits of estrogen on brain rescue once a cerebral ischemic event occurs. Therefore, we sought to determine if protra...

Objective(s):Skin extracellular matrix, which contains type I and type III collagens, is involved in skin development. The aim of this study was to investigate type III collagen distribution pattern as well as its changes during pre and post-natal skin morphogenesis in rats. Materials and Methods: Ventral skins of Wistar rat embryos at different stages from 10 to 20 gestational day (E10-E20) a...

Alcohols have been used as a fuel for engines since 19th century. Among the various alcohols, ethanol and methanol are known as the most suited renewable, bio-based and ecofriendly fuel for spark-ignition (SI) engines. The most attractive properties of ethanol and methanol as an SI engine fuel are that it can be produced from renewable energy sources such as sugar, cane, cassava, many types ...

Biswas, C., Chen, S., Halliday, C., Kennedy, K., Playford, E., Marriott, D., Slavin, M., Sorrell, T., Sintchenko, V. (2017). Identification of genetic markers of resistance to echinocandins, azoles and 5-fluorocytosine in Candida glabrata by nextgeneration sequencing: a feasibility study. Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 23(9), 676.e7-676.e10. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2017.0...

Using the coset construction, we compute the root multiplicities at level three for some hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras including the basic hyperbolic extension of A (1) 1 and E10. Member of the CNRS Laboratoire de la Direction des Sciences de la Matière du Commisariat à l’Energie Atomique.

Transfection of human oral squamous carcinoma cells (clone E10) with mimics for unexpressed miR-20b or miR-363-5p, encoded by the miR-106a-363 cluster (miR-20b, miR-106a, miR-363-3p, or miR-363-5p), caused 40-50% decrease in proliferation. Transfection with mimics for miR-18a or miR-92a, encoded by the miR-17-92 cluster (all members being expressed in E10 cells), had no effect on proliferation....

Background: The embryonic development is a complex process and the behavioural traits of an organism are influenced by the experiential factors during early development. . The fact that sensory systems of birds and mammals do not become functional at the same time in development raises an interesting question as to how sensory systems and their respective stimulative histories might influence o...

Aims: T1 /(podoplanin) is abundantly expressed in the alveolar epithelial type I cells (ATI) of rodent and human lungs. Caveolin-1 is a classical primary structural protein of plasmalemal invaginations, so-called caveolae, which represent specialized lipid rafts, and which are particularly abundant in ATI cells. The biological functions of T1 in the alveolar epithelium are unknown. Here we repo...