Sentences with phrase «control cell adhesion»

Prominent among these were promoters affecting pathways that control cell adhesion and axon guidance.

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«Inflammatory arthritis is caused when immune cells are recruited from the blood into the joint in a highly regulated process controlled by chemoattractants and adhesion receptors,» says Andrew Luster, MD, PhD, chief of the MGH Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, director of the CIID and senior author of the report.
Thus, the vertical force and moving speed of the AFM cantilever (0.06 N / m in vertical spring constant) was controlled at a vertical force of 5 nN at an indentation speed of 0.1 µm / s to guarantee the rupture of the filament and to partially dissect cell adhesion structures between two neighboring cells.
Dynamic regulation of ROCK in tumor cells controls CXCR4 - driven adhesion events.
Furthermore, Eph signalling in mural cells has been shown to control cell motility and adhesion as well as pericyte - EC assembly33, 34.
The work has led him to explore the role of protein phosphorylation in a diverse array of cellular functions, including transformation, cell communication, cell adhesion, cell - cycle regulation, the control of gene expression, and protein degradation.
FAK promotes recruitment of talin to nascent adhesions to control cell motility.
Siah regulation of Pard3A controls neuronal cell adhesion during germinal zone exit.
The alpha actinin (ACTN) family proteins are actin - binding proteins that regulate cytokinesis, cell adhesion, spreading, migration and signaling to control cell function.
Vascular Signaling Regulation of vascular morphogenesis Brant Weinstein, NICHD / NIH Hemodynamic control of vascular development Mark Kahn, University of Pennsylvania A rap song about vascular cell adhesion Mark Ginsberg, University of California, San Diego
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.
Specific mechanistic studies include an interrogation of the adhesion dynamics controlled by the tetraspanin CD151 and affiliated adhesion receptors (Integrins and IgG cell adhesion receptors).
The origins of many of these and other genes specific to animal processes such as cell adhesion, and social control of cell proliferation, death and differentiation can be traced to genomic events (gene birth, subfamily expansions, intron gain / loss, and so on) that occurred in the lineage that led to the metazoan ancestor, after animals diverged from their unicellular «cousins».
MAP3K8 controls cancer cell proliferation and migration by regulating key players in G1 / S transition and adhesion dynamics.
This diverse «toolkit» of genes correlates with critical aspects of all metazoan body plans, and comprises cell cycle control and growth, development, somatic - and germ - cell specification, cell adhesion, innate immunity and allorecognition.
At the 8 - cell stage, compaction is a developmentally - controlled cell - cell adhesion process that rounds up the embryo.
W. E. Reintsch, A. Habring - Mueller, R. W. Wang, A. Schohl, F. Fagotto, beta - Catenin controls cell sorting at the notochord - somite boundary independently of cadherin - mediated adhesion.
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