SUMMARY The glycoprotein VI (GPVI)-FcR gamma-chain complex initiates powerful activation of platelets by the subendothelial matrix proteins collagen and laminin through an immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif (ITAM)-regulated signaling pathway. ITAMs are characterized by two YxxL sequences separated by 6-12 amino acids and are found associated with several classes of immunoglobulin (I...

Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is an inherited disease with profoundly defective T cells, B cells, and NK cells. X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (X-SCID) is its most common form. In this report, we describe a 4-month old male with X-SCID who also showed opisthotonic posturing. Opisthotonus represents abnormal motor posturing and is defined as the posturing, in which the neck ...

Intimin-gamma is an outer membrane protein of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 that is required for the organism to adhere tightly to HEp-2 cells and to colonize experimental animals. Another EHEC O157:H7 protein, the Transferred intimin receptor (Tir), is considered the primary receptor for intimin-gamma. Nevertheless, Tir-independent binding of intimin-gamma to HEp-2 cells ha...

The objective was to determine whether recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST) enhanced live performance,skeletal muscle biological activity, and beta-adrenergic receptor expression of feedlot heifers during the finishing phase. Heifers (n = 16; initial body weight 457 ± 3 kg) were randomly assigned pens (4 pens/treatment; 2 heads/pen) treatment: (1) no rbST (Control); (2) 500 mg/hd sometribove ...

Abbreviations: SCID-X1: X-linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency; γc: Cytokine Receptor Common Gamma Chain; HSC: Hematopoietic Stem Cells; ab: Antibody; wt: Wild-type; NK cell: Natural Killer Cell; HLA: Human Leukocyte Antigen; SIN: Selfinactivating; HSV-TK: Thymidine kinase of Herpes Simplex Virus; ER: Endoplasmatic Reticulum; MFI: Mean Fluorescence Intensity; CDC: Complement-dependent Cytoto...

Southern blotting and multiple restriction enzymes were used to analyze T-cell receptor (TCR) and immunoglobulin heavy chain genes in 20 postthymic T-cell neoplasms, ten prethymic and thymic T-cell tumors, and 45 cases of precursor-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Immunoglobulin heavy chain, never rearranged in a postthymic specimen and only once in a prethymic/thymic sample, was rearrange...

The T cell receptor for antigen (TCR) is composed of six different transmembrane proteins. T cells carefully control the intracellular transport of the receptor and allow only complete receptors to reach the plasma membrane. In an attempt to understand how T cells regulate this process, we used c-DNA transfection and subunit-specific antibodies to follow the intracellular transport of five subu...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to examine the effect of retinal ischemia-reperfusion injury on protein tyrosine phosphorylation, the production of angiogenic growth factors, and the activation of signal proteins in tyrosine kinase pathways. METHODS Ischemia-reperfusion injury was induced in rats by compression of the optic nerve for 2 hours. The rats were killed, and the retinas were collec...