cancer cell-stromal cell interaction plays a crucial role in the growth and invasion of tumor cells of various organs. it has been recently suggested that adipocytes and preadipocytes, two specific types of stromal cells, affect the biological behavior of variety of breast cancer cell lines. in spite of few investigations, there is a controversy in the literatures about the effects of adipocyte...

The new curve contains all of the information about the original curve’s tangent lines. For example, it crosses the y-axis whenever the original curve has a horizontal tangent line. The straight line y = mx + b, or (x(t), y(t)) = (t,mt + b), has only one tangent line and thus a trivial transformation to a point, (x∗(t), y∗(t)) = (m, b). Some conic sections transform to conic sections. For examp...

BACKGROUND Aurora-B, a chromosomal passenger protein forming a complex with INCENP (inner centromere protein) and survivin, regulates stable bipolar spindle-kinetochore attachment in mitosis and chromosome segregation and cytokinesis. It was recently documented that Aurora-B directly phosphorylated histone H3, not only at Ser10, but also at Ser28, which contributed to chromosome number instabil...

BACKGROUND The significance of the serotonergic system in bone physiology and, more specifically, the importance of the five hydroxytryptamine receptor 2A (5HTR2A) in normal osteoblast proliferation have been previously described; however the role of serotonin in osteosarcoma remains unclear. Particularly, the expression and function of 5HTR2A in canine osteosarcoma has not yet been studied, th...

In the Rh blood system, RhAG (Rhassociated glycoprotein, or Rh50) is thought to be involved in Rh30 (D, CE) expression by forming a protein complex on the red cell surface. To obtain further insight into the Rh complex, we chose nonerythroid COS-1 cells instead of proerythroblast-like K562 cells, which produce endogenous Rh proteins as cell host, for the expression of both RhAG and RhD. The RhA...

In the Rh blood system, RhAG (Rh-associated glycoprotein, or Rh50) is thought to be involved in Rh30 (D, CE) expression by forming a protein complex on the red cell surface. To obtain further insight into the Rh complex, we chose nonerythroid COS-1 cells instead of proerythroblast-like K562 cells, which produce endogenous Rh proteins as cell host, for the expression of both RhAG and RhD. The Rh...

The glycine receptor is highly enriched in microdomains of the postsynaptic neuronal surface apposed to glycinergic afferent endings. There is substantial evidence suggesting that the selective clustering of glycine receptor at these sites is mediated by the cytoplasmic protein gephyrin. To investigate the formation of postsynaptic glycine receptor domains, we have examined the surface insertio...

The phagocyte nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (reduced form) (NADPH) oxidase was functionally reconstituted in monkey kidney COS-7 cells by transfection of essential subunits, gp91(phox), p22(phox), p47(phox), and p67(phox). COS-7 cells express the essential small guanosine 5'-triphosphatase, Rac1. Transgenic COS-phox cells were capable of arachidonic acid-induced NADPH oxidase acti...

To analyze the structure of the murine erythropoietin receptor (EpoR), wild-type or mutant EpoR cDNAs were expressed in cell lines, and the proteins that cross-linked with '261-labeled erythropoietin (Epo) were analyzed by immunoprecipitation using an antibody against the intracellular region of the cloned EpoR. COS-7 cell transfectants expressing the wild-type EpoR showed two major cross-linke...