Histologic overexpression of the estrogen receptor α (ER) is a well-established prognostic marker in breast cancer. Noninvasive imaging techniques that could detect ER overexpression would be useful in a variety of settings where patients' biopsies are problematic to obtain. This study focused on developing, by in vivo MRI, strategies to measure the level of ER expression in an orthotopic mouse...

Histologic overexpression of the estrogen receptor a (ER) is a well-established prognostic marker in breast cancer. Noninvasive imaging techniques that could detect ER overexpression would be useful in a variety of settings where patients' biopsies are problematic to obtain. This study focused on developing, by in vivo MRI, strategies to measure the level of ER expression in an orthotopic mouse...

Electrical resistance (ER) probes are a technique used to monitor the corrosion rate (CR) of metals in wide range applications and industries. However, limited data comparing CR measured with ER-probes, weight loss electrochemical methods is available. The aim this work provide regarding reliability measurements ER-probes by comparison LPR, EIS suggestions for designing depending on expected me...

Poly A+ RNA isolated from the human breast cancer cell line MCF-7 was fractionated by sucrose gradient centrifugation and those fractions enriched in oestrogen receptor (ER) mRNA were used to prepare randomly primed cDNA libraries in the lambda gt11 vectors. Clones corresponding to the ER were isolated from both libraries after screening with either ER monoclonal antibodies (lambda gt11) or syn...

We investigate the CP violating form factor of the ZZZ and ZZ vertices in the pair production of Z bosons. Useful observables in azimuthal distributions are constructed to probe CP nonconservation which may originate from these vertices. A simple Two Higgs Model of CP violation is used as an illustration. PACS numbers: 11.30.Er, 14.80.Er Typeset using REVTEX

Calcium ion (Ca(2+)) is a ubiquitous intracellular messenger and changes in its concentration impact on nearly every aspect of cell life. Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) represents the major intracellular Ca(2+) store and the free Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)]) within its lumen ([Ca(2+)]ER) can reach levels higher than 1 mM. Several genetically-encoded ER-targeted Ca(2+) sensors have been developed...

The folding environment in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) depends on multiple abundant chaperones that function together to accommodate a range of substrates. The ways in which substrate engagement shapes either specific chaperone dynamics or general ER attributes in vivo remain unknown. In this study, we have evaluated how changes in substrate flux through the ER influence the diffusion of bot...

Interfering with disulfide bond formation impedes protein folding and promotes endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. Due to limitations in measurement techniques, the relationships of altered thiol redox and ER stress have been difficult to assess. We report that fluorescent lifetime measurements circumvented the crippling dimness of an ER-tuned fluorescent redox-responsive probe (roGFPiE), faithf...