Sentences with phrase «cellular division in»

Investigators have already pointed out that the limited cellular division in the corneal endothelium is facilitated by younger donors [2,4,8].

The study is the first to reveal in extreme detail the operation of the biochemical clockwork that drives cellular division in bacteria and could inform efforts to develop drugs that combat antibiotic - resistant bacteria.

Analyses were performed on the frog Xenopus laevis, an animal model widely used by researchers from around the world to study laws governing cellular division in depth.

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Mitochondria, specialized organelles found in nearly every cell of the body, use cellular respiration to generate one of the most important sources of chemical energy — adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a versatile nucleotide that powers everything from cell division to cell signaling to transportation of large molecules across the cell membrane.

A combination of circumstances induced me to leave India and enroll in the graduate program in what was then the department of cellular and developmental biology at the University of Arizona, Tucson, in the U.S. My Ph.D. supervisor, Neil Mendelson, had been a well - known name in DNA replication and cell division in Bacillus subtilis, but by the time I had joined his lab, his interest had decidedly shifted to cell shape determination.

Analysis of the tumor genes affected by the two drugs revealed that cabazitaxel had a greater effect on cellular division and regulation of chromatin — a spool for DNA that helps control which genes are in use and when — whereas docetaxel has a greater impact on DNA transcription and repair.

Mitosis, the cellular division that produces two genetically identical daughter cells, is perhaps the most fundamental process in biology.

The laboratory of Marcos Malumbres, who is head of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre's (CNIO) Cell Division & Cancer Group, working alongside Isabel Fariñas» team from the University of Valencia, shows, in a study published today in the journal Nature Communications, how in mice the elimination of the Cdh1 protein — a sub-unit of the APC / C complex, involved in the control of cell division — prevents cellular proliferation of rapidly dividinDivision & Cancer Group, working alongside Isabel Fariñas» team from the University of Valencia, shows, in a study published today in the journal Nature Communications, how in mice the elimination of the Cdh1 protein — a sub-unit of the APC / C complex, involved in the control of cell division — prevents cellular proliferation of rapidly dividindivision — prevents cellular proliferation of rapidly dividing cells.

It thus seems quite likely that this new signaling path also links the performance of the cellular power plants and cell division in human cells,» says Meisinger, who now plans to analyze these mechanisms in tumor tissues.

Mutations can be caused by copying errors in the genetic material during cell division and by exposure to radiation, chemicals, or viruses, or can occur deliberately under cellular control during the processes such as meiosis or hypermutation.

Made of polymers in dynamic assembly and constantly constructing and deconstructing itself, it affects numerous cellular processes such as intracellular movement, division and transport.

«Our study on the TACC3 - chTOG interaction will allow cellular biologists and researchers on microtubule dynamics to better understand how microtubule assembly is regulated during cellular division,» says Montoya, and he anticipates that «it could also help in developing new anti-microtubule drugs, providing more effective therapeutic options in cancer treatment.»

Researchers from Guillermo Montoya's team at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), in collaboration with Isabelle Vernos» Group from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), have uncovered the molecular interaction between TACC3 and chTOG, key proteins in forming the internal cellular framework that enables and sustains cell division.

The DNA vital to the life of a cell is packaged in chromosomes, and a variety of checkpoints, repair mechanisms, and other cellular safeguards exist to maintain the integrity of the chromosomes during cell growth and division.

This obligate arrangement - in which one partner relinquishes its own mitochondrial power supply to likely become reliant on its partner for cellular energy - suggests a genetic division of labor that makes the resulting lichen more efficient, Tripp said, thereby perhaps conferring an ecological advantage.

It is also a prime regulator of cellular metabolism and division in organisms as diverse as worms and humans.

The consistent segregation of these regions, in the same way in every cell, suggests that these processes could drive chromosome and genome folding and thus regulate important cellular events such as DNA replication and cell division.

It would seem, therefore, that cellular division has at least one significant negative control component in both rabbit and human corneal endothelial cells whose activation may be delayed.

A few cell divisions later, the trophoblast contributes to significant cellular rearrangements in the embryo which make it enter the blastocyst stage (see Figure 1).

She also investigates how asymmetric cell division impacts on the cellular potential to give rise to multiple lineages in vivo.

This small set of dynamic protein polymer systems underpins the establishment and remodelling of long range cellular order, cell polarity, shape and division, and plays a critical role in control of the dynamic organisation of the internal membrane - bound compartments that distinguish eukaryotes from their prokaryotic ancestors.

There are also putative bilateral animal embryos, some of which appear to be in an early stage of cellular division.

Established more than 50 years ago, BSRI, a research division of Blood Systems, has become a world - renowned institute engaged in research ranging from blood donor epidemiology to cellular therapy to virus discovery.

Our goal is to determine if epithelial cells migrate passively because of the pushing force generated by cell division in the crypts, actively using specialized cellular protrusions or if they are transported by underlying fibroblasts and basement membrane (BM).

Needleman is especially interested in the spindle, a cellular structure that separates chromosomes and pulls the duplicated DNA from the mother cell into the daughter cell during division.

Since these proteins are involved in negatively regulating cell division, this supports previous findings that there is increased potential for cellular proliferation in the peripheral rather than in the central cornea (unpublished and [5]-RRB-.

The Biophysics Division at the Department of Biology of the University of Osnabrück promotes research and teaching in molecular and cellular biophysics.

Studies cover a breadth of topics ranging from single molecules (molecular motors, DNA - protein interactions, membrane proteins) to cellular functions (cell adhesion, cell division, cell motility, intracellular transport) and the collective behaviour of cells in tissues and organisms (wound healing, morphogenesis).

Magnesium is mitogenic (causes cell division) in osteoblasts (the major cellular component of bone) and magnesium depletion inhibits cellular growth.

Muscle growth — HGH stimulates insulin growth factor 1 production that increases protein synthesis in the muscles through cellular division.

Instead, IGF - 1's primary role is to increase cellular division, cell growth and cell repair, particularly in the brain, heart and muscle...

Qualcomm owns multiple intellectual properties for Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (ODFMA)-- both of which are used in cellular wireless communications.

In the case of malignant tumors, like adinocarcinomas, surgical operation is very tough, laborious, and is usually not effective as the cellular division is rapid, non specific and may spread to other organs such as the liver, intestines, lungs and surrounding abdominal and thoracic lymph nodes.

Trained as an actress, singer, and painter, Louise Nevelson experienced a major turning point at Christmas 1957, when she received a case of liquor as a gift and realized that «the crate, with its cellular divisions... was in itself a sculpture.»

Bitumen (1986) is a work from the first decade of his career, when Winters was exploring such basic natural processes as crystal formation, fungal growth, and (as in this oil on linen painting) cellular division and was equally immersed in the natural history of painting itself.