Last week, a group of researchers from the United States and Japan published work extending our understanding of the mechanism by which a resident stem
cell population within the mouse digit tip nail bed can be activated to induce digit tip regeneration.
The experimental plan includes a fine - grained analysis of the different
cell populations within these precious tissues using cutting - edge single - cell genomics methods.
The laboratory currently pursues four integrated research objectives: 1) Defining how dynamic regulation of adhesion and migration controls metastasis, 2) Identification and characterization of the metastatic
cell populations within a primary tumor, 3) Experimental modeling of metastasis in a clinically relevant manner, and 4) clinical implementation of molecular markers of migration as biomarkers of tumor progression and metastasis.
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population patterns.
Sampling was conducted via a stratified dual frame probability sample provided by Survey Sampling International of landline and
cell phone telephone numbers from
within New York State weighted to reflect known
population patterns.
The study, «Spectrophotometric analysis at the single -
cell level: elucidating dispersity
within melanic immortalized
cell populations,» was supported in part by the Mizzou Advantage program, an initiative that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty, staff, students and external partners to solve real - world problems in four areas of strength identified at the University of Missouri, including Food for the Future, One Health / One Medicine, Sustainable Energy and Media of the Future.
Previous studies have examined cancer stem
cells (CSCs)-- small
populations of
cells within a tumor that are resistant to chemotherapy.
Subsequent tests revealed that the treatment had reduced the visible
cell population by a factor of 100 thousand, compared with an untreated
cell culture,
within the space of just 20 days.
«This strategy allows a colony to hedge its bets by enabling individual
cells within a
population to assume high levels of resistance while others avoid this extra work.»
Within a single tumor exists such an astonishingly varied
population of
cells, each with its own combination of normal and abnormal genes, that at least some
cells nearly always have a way to survive any particular attack.
Dr Ignacio Vazquez - Garcia, the first author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and University of Cambridge, said: «We found that the degree of diversity
within the
cell population — known as clonal heterogeneity — played a major role in the acquisition of antimicrobial resistance.
Stem
cell populations reside in areas called niches deep
within different types of organs.
Within every hair follicle is a
population of melanocyte stem
cells.
Lepidoptera genetics is notorious for the fact that chromosome counts can vary between
populations of the same species and occasionally even
within cells from the same individual, he explains.
The classical concepts of angiogenesis consider the endothelial
cells within tumors as a rather passive
cell population that merely reacts in response to growth factors released by the tumor
cells.
He said that genetic and morphological heterogeneity
within populations of animal
cells is an emerging phenomenon and has been observed in tumor
populations.
The majority of
cell lines growing at the permissive temperature (33 °C) underwent an initial
population doubling
within 48 h.
These differences between
cells with high and low modulations may support the idea that there are two
populations of neurons
within LIP [22], each of which contributes to timing differently.
Within five to nine days we can generate virtually all the pure
cell populations that we need.»
The ability to make pure
populations of these
cells within days rather than the weeks or months previously required is a key step toward clinically useful regenerative medicine — potentially allowing researchers to generate new beating heart
cells to repair damage after a heart attack or to create cartilage or bone to reinvigorate creaky joints or heal from trauma.
In previous research, he and his collaborators found that E. coli (bacteria) and budding yeast (eukaryote) use the same cellular mechanisms to ensure uniform
cell sizes
within a
population.
While embryonic stem
cells are widely studied, a lesser known, but still significant,
population of stem
cells also resides
within the early developing embryo: trophoblast stem
cells (TSCs).
A mechano - chemical feedback underlies co-existence of qualitatively distinct
cell polarity patterns
within diverse
cell populations.
Cancer, the uncontrolled growth and migration of a small
population of
cells within a given tissue, is one of the leading causes of death in the United States in older adults.
With Dr. Bill Carlezon, Dr. McCullough is investigating the
cell - type specific contributions of neuron
populations within the nucleus accumbens to stress related pathologies.
High contrast images facilitate robust automatic tracking and behavioural analysis of hundreds of individual
cells within heterogeneous
cell populations is now possible without the need for intrusive dyes or labels, bringing unique morphological, temporal, and dynamic phenotypic data to your research.
They are the only means to target and manipulate specific
cell types (
populations)
within neuronal networks in living animals.
In fact, 88 % of the barcodes
within the resistant
populations were shared by at least one other replicate; prior to treatment, there are small (previously undetectable)
populations of cancer
cells that are resistant to drug treatment and that these are selected for during the treatment process.
There are also some animal species — such as Tasmanian devils and domestic dogs — that are known to have transmissible cancer
cells circulating
within their
populations.
Confocal microscopy further demonstrated an extensive network of nestin - positive cellular processes emanating from the transplanted
cells present
within the neurosensory retina (Figure 6C), which was not observed in the subretinal hNPCctx
population.
Mass Cytometry is a next - generation flow cytometry technology that enables highly dimensional functional and phenotypic profiling of single
cells within heterogeneous
populations.
Consequently,
within a
population of beads, all possible orientations of the starting molecule will be represented and available for interactions with other molecules, complexes or
cells.
Such performance - enhancing alterations will include reprogramming using non-integrating vectors or small molecules, the identification of the specific
cell within the CS
populations which provides therapeutic benefit, and the long - term consequences of CS
cell transplantation.
Assuming that the findings of the review reflected a causal relation between smoking cessation and risk of all cause mortality, we further investigated the data by constructing life tables for a hypothetical group of 100 patients aged 65 years with early stage lung cancer to estimate how many deaths would be prevented by smoking cessation
within the non-small
cell lung cancer and small
cell lung cancer
populations during five years.
Our facility houses two third - generation Helios mass cytometers that can routinely analyze more than 40 markers per tube to provide an unprecedented «systems - level» view of phenotypic and functional variations among single
cells within heterogeneous
cell populations.
To determine the length of time required for the two states to interconvert we purified
populations V+S + and V − S +
cells and examined the extent to which the original distribution was re-established and observed significant changes in both
populations within 24 h of plating (Figure 7B).
New CFSE - based assay to determine susceptibility to lysis by cytotoxic T
cells of leukemic precursor
cells within a heterogeneous target
cell population.
Many in vivo processes, including morphogenesis or tumour maturation, involve small
populations of
cells within a spatially restricted region.
Thus we examined whether FGF signalling could alter the dynamics between the V + and V − states
within the S +
population by culturing HV
cells in the presence of the FGFR inhibitor PD173074 [41] for 48 h.
Finally, that all
cells within the
population are synchronized during the saccade, and that the burst properties are determined by the saccade in which the
cell participates, rather than by its location in the map, is not a model assumption either.
Microchimerism is the presence of small
populations of genetically disparate
cells within a host as a result of transfusion or transplacental trafficking during pregnancy, and may influence immune tolerance in the recipient.
While it has been demonstrated previously that more differentiated
cells demonstrate a lower reprogramming efficiency [11] and different somatic
cell types possess differential reprogramming ability [12], [13], no study to date, to our knowledge, has identified subpopulations of
cells within a primary
cell population possessing differential reprogramming potential.
A unique focus of my work is on the impact of heterogeneity
within tumors and tumor
cell populations, including subpopulations commonly referred to as «cancer stem
cells», on the immune response.
These observations, which have provided striking insights into the epigenetic regulation of the molecular blueprint for pluripotency
within ES
cells, have been made at the
population level, and thus reflect the summation of activity
within all
cells in the
population.
Invivoscribe products identify clonal rearrangements
within the immunoglobulin and T -
cell receptor genes, which helps identify clonal B - and T -
cell populations.
Single -
cell transcriptomics serves as a powerful tool to identify
cell states
within populations of
cells, and to dissect underlying heterogeneity at high resolution.
The overall picture is compatible with a model of multiple states of pluripotency
within a highly dynamic
cell population.
Finally,
within the fractionated
cell populations, there was evidence for coexpression of lineage specific markers alongside of pluripotency genes, similar to lineage priming described first in hematopoietic stem
cells [15].
Interestingly, when we looked at the splenocytes in these mice and compared them to controls, we were not able to detect a significant difference in the numbers of Tregs, suggesting that in the transplant model, Tregs may be
within the graft - infiltrating
population where they could regulate infiltrating host T
cells.
These assays also recognize conserved elements
within the bioengineered immuno - therapeutic constructs of CAR - T and TCRs, making them robust candidates for dual use purposes: (1) identifying and monitoring immuno - therapeutic constructs in the peripheral blood and (2) identifying and monitoring clonotypes associated with malignant B - and T -
cell populations.