News tagged with cell adhesion
Micropatterned material surface controls cell orientation
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Cells could be orientated in a controlled way on a micro-patterned surface based upon a delicate material technique, and the orientation could be semi-quantitatively described by some statistical parameters, as suggested ...
Researchers identify key factor that stimulates brain cancer cells to spread
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have found that the activity of a protein in brain cells helps stimulate the spread of an aggressive brain cancer called glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). In a move toward ...
Protein level may serve as predictor of severe osteoarthritis
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Osteoarthritis (OA), the most common joint disorder throughout the world and a leading cause of disability, is characterized by pain, impaired joint mobility, reduction of muscular strength and loss of joint function. Unlike ...
Researchers describe function of key protein in cancer spread
May 21, 2009 |
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Research led by David Worthylake, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, may help lay the groundwork for the development of a compound to prevent the spread ...
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Novel basis identified for tamoxifen failure
Dec 04, 2008 |
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Tamoxifen may worsen breast cancer in a small subset of patients. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research suggests that in patients who show reduced or absent expression of the pr ...
RNA interference toward MMP-2 may be an effective therapeutic strategy for cancer
Mar 09, 2009 |
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The invasion or metastasis of pancreatic cancer has been known to be a complex process involving many molecular mechanisms, of which proteolytic degradation of extracellular matrix (ECM) exerted by matrix metalloproteinases ...
Is increased Slug expression associated with the progression to esophageal cancer?
Mar 13, 2008 |
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Real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), semi-quantitative immunohistochemistry and tissue array reveal that the progression to adenocarcinoma is associated with increased Slug expression and this ...
Identifying and disrupting key elements of malaria's 'sticky sack' adhesion strategy
Jul 11, 2008 |
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Malaria is one of the most devastating diseases afflicting humanity. It infects and debilitates about 600 million people and kills up to three million people every year, mainly in the wet tropical regions of the world. Children ...
White blood cells move like millipedes, scientists show
May 04, 2009 |
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How do white blood cells - immune system 'soldiers' - get to the site of infection or injury? To do so, they must crawl swiftly along the lining of the blood vessel - gripping it tightly to avoid being swept away in the blood ...
Discovery of a mechanism that regulates cell movement
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Jul 20, 2008 |
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A study performed by researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), in collaboration with researchers at the Instituto de Biología Molecular of the CSIC, reveal a mechanism that controls the movement ...
Scientists discover new information on spreading of cancer
Jun 30, 2009 |
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A joint research group of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the University of Turku, led by Professor Johanna Ivaska, has discovered a mechanism lung cancer cells use when spreading into the body to form metastases.
When cancer cells can't let go
Apr 13, 2009 |
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Like a climber scaling a rock face, a migrating cancer cell has to keep a tight grip on the surface but also let go at the right moment to move ahead. Chan et al. reveal that the focal adhesion kinase (FAK) ...
Scientists demonstrate dual intrinsic and extrinsic control of stem cell aging
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Oct 11, 2007 |
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The Stowers Institute’s Xie Lab has published recent findings that reveal some of the factors underlying the aging of stem cells.
New research reveals how cranberry products prevent urinary tract infections
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Chemicals present in cranberries—and not the acidity of cranberry juice, as previously thought—prevent infection-causing bacteria from attaching to the cells that line the urinary tract, as documented in a report published ...
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