Objective: Button mushrooms (Agaricus Bisporus) are among the most widely produced and consumed mushrooms in the world. Generally speaking, mushrooms are of great nutritional value, which due to their high content of moisture and their corruptibility particular attention is required to be paid to their conservation and health. Drying is one of the most important ways to preserve the yi...

Tracks of adhesiveness are believed to be involved in guiding morphogenetic cell migrations. Here, electronics microfabrication technology was used to manufacture patterns of alternating tracks of adhesive and non-adhesive substratum (untreated fused quartz and adjacent parallel tracks of hydrophobic treatment) of varying period (4, 6, 12, 24 and 50 microns). These experimental substrata were u...

One of the cardinal processes of inflammation is the infiltration of immune cells from the lumen of the blood vessel to the surrounding tissue. This occurs when endothelial cells, which line blood vessels, become adhesive to circulating immune cells such as monocytes. In vitro measurement of this adhesiveness has until now been done by quantifying the total number of monocytes that adhere to an...

Interaction of cellular membranes with biointerfaces is vital importance for a number medical devices and implants. Adhesiveness these surfaces cells often regulated by depositing layer bovine serum albumin (BSA) or other protein coatings. However, anomalously large separations between phospholipid the in various conditions buffers have been observed, which could not be understood using availab...

Cells from anatomically remote organs of developing embryos do not normally encounter one another. If intercellular adhesive selectivity has a role in determining or maintaining the position of cells in organs, it should be exhibited between cells which are found in close proximity within a single organ. To test this hypothesis, a collecting cell-sheet assay for intercellular adhesive selectivi...

For the purposes of this report, adhesiveness was defined as that force which resists the mechanical separation of attached pairs of cells, and stickiness as the tendency of cells to cling to a foreign substrate; in the present experiments the substrate employed was glass. The cells selected for study were from the normal rabbit epiderm and the V2 rabbit carcinoma. Adhesiveness was determined b...

We have recently shown that group B Streptococcus (GBS) crosses the epithelial barrier by a paracellular route. Here, we show that, although deletion of the pilus backbone protein did not affect GBS adhesiveness, it reduced the pathogen's capacity to transcytose through differentiated human epithelial cells. In addition, contrary to our expectation, a strain with a mutant pilus ancillary protei...

Cosmetic patches have recently been developed as skin products for personal care owing to rapid advances in the technology of delivery of active ingredients, moisture, and adhesiveness to skin. Alginate and Spirulina are typical marine resources used in cosmetic products. This research involved the development of a Spirulina extract-impregnated alginate nanofiber cosmetic patch supported by a p...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe degenerative disorder of skeletal muscle. It has been suggested that an abnormality of the plasma membrane may be responsible for the pathogenesis of DMD, and a number of cell surface changes have been described in DMD muscle fibres and other cell types. Alterations in cell-to-cell and cell-to-substratum adhesiveness have been reported for DMD cells...