The aim of this study is to evaluate the in vitro cytotoxic activity and cellular effects of previously prepared ZnO-NPs on murine cancer cell lines using brown seaweed (Sargassum muticum) aqueous extract. Treated cancer cells with ZnO-NPs for 72 hours demonstrated various levels of cytotoxicity based on calculated IC50 values using MTT assay as follows: 21.7 ± 1.3 μg/mL (4T1), 17.45 ± 1.1 μg/m...

Coupling of membrane Ig (mIg) and CD40 to the extracellularly regulated kinase (ERK) signal transduction pathway was examined in the WEHI-231 B lymphoma and normal mouse B cells. Cross-linking mIg induces ERK activation in both WEHI-231 and normal B cells. In contrast, CD40 cross-linking failed to induce ERK activation in WEHI-231, but signals through CD40 were more effective than mIg as a stim...

The first inductive interaction in amphibian development is mesoderm induction, during which a signal from the vegetal hemisphere of the blastula-staged embryo induces mesoderm from overlying equatorial cells. Recently, a number of 'mesoderm-inducing factors' (MIFs), which may be responsible for this interaction, have been discovered. Examples of these MIFs include members of the fibroblast gro...

Gallic acid is a polyhydroxyphenolic compound which can be found in various natural products. It is recognized to be an excellent free radical scavenger and has been shown to induce apoptosis in lung cancer and leukemia cells. No report has addressed whether gallic acid affects mouse leukemia cells in vivo. In this study, we examined the in vivo effects of gallic acid on leukemia WEHI-3 cells a...

ComiR is a web tool for combinatorial microRNA (miRNA) target prediction. Given an messenger RNA (mRNA) in human, mouse, fly or worm genomes, ComiR computes the potential of being targeted by a set of miRNAs, each of which can have zero, one or more targets on its 30untranslated region. In determining the regulatory potential of an mRNA from a set of miRNAs, ComiR uses user-provided miRNA expre...

A study was carried out to investigate correlation between presence of specific microalgal species and Leptoconops biting midge larvae in its breeding habitats. Sand samples containing microalgae were collected from the beach where the midges were most commonly biting and from sand beaches which are potential as breeding habitats of Leptoconops. The survey covered sand beaches from 12 seperate ...

Engagement of the B cell Ag receptor (BCR) on immature B cells leads to growth arrest followed by apoptosis. Concomitant signaling through CD40 sustains proliferation and rescues the cells from apoptosis. Previously, we have shown that cross-linking CD40 on B cells stimulates the expression of A1, an antiapoptotic member of the Bcl-2 family, and that transduction of the murine B lymphoma line W...