The discovery of NGF has also promoted an intensive search for other specific growth factors, leading to the isolation and characterization of a number of proteins with the ability to enhance the growth
of different cell lines.
These findings reveal molecular factors that can be used to evaluate the differentiation potential
of different cell lines, which should expedite the progress of iPS cells to clinical use.
But researchers don't have efficient ways to compare the characteristics
of different cell lines or to access lines that might be especially useful for a given project.
Not exact matches
The scientists also generated a panel
of (reconstructed) ancestral and existing TRIM5 genes (19 total), expressed them in cultured
cell lines, and exposed the
cells to 16
different retroviruses (lentiviruses and others) to see which TRIM5 versions conferred resistance to which viruses.
Different parts of her body could have come from different ce
Different parts
of her body could have come from
different ce
different cell lines.
That variability among
cells containing the same program kicked off a whole new
line of experiments that Elowitz says are focused on «what it is that is making
different cells do
different things.»
As those
cells proliferated in laboratory dishes, the bits
of human DNA were also copied, creating
cell lines, each
of which had a
different fragment.
DNA from the
cell nucleus, which includes both maternal and paternal
lines, tells a
different story: The two types
of elephants are in fact separate species, leading recently to a proposed relisting
of the forest elephant as Loxodonta cyclotis.
The enzyme was tested in three
different cell lineages: leukemia
cells incapable
of producing asparagine at normal levels (MOLT4); another
line of leukemia
cells, in this case capable
of producing asparagine at normal levels (REH); and non-malignant
cells, used as a control (HUVECs).
Then, they produced the hemagglutanin with
different combinations
of these mutations in an experimental
cell line (testing the mutations in H7N9 viruses themselves could be dangerous).
Research based on such false
cell lines would undermine the understanding
of different cancers and possible treatments, and clutter the scientific literature with bogus conclusions.
But it contains four pairs
of apparently duplicated images, even though they are labeled as showing
different cell lines.
Further experiments showed that each iPS
cell line had a
different pattern
of DNA methylation, a molecular coating
of the DNA that turns genes on or off in the
cell.
In a paper published online yesterday in Stem
Cells, the researchers report that they succeeded in generating pluripotent human ES cell lines — i.e., cells that can develop into many different kinds of cells — from one of the 13 late - arrested emb
Cells, the researchers report that they succeeded in generating pluripotent human ES
cell lines — i.e.,
cells that can develop into many different kinds of cells — from one of the 13 late - arrested emb
cells that can develop into many
different kinds
of cells — from one of the 13 late - arrested emb
cells — from one
of the 13 late - arrested embryos.
Part
of the trouble is the ingredients: Subtle variations in tissue - culture chemicals and Matrigel, or in
different stem
cell lines and how they are grown first in 2 - D culture, can have a big impact on how the organoids turn out, Novitch says.
Multi-colored metastasis in the peritoneal
lining of the abdomen comprised
of red and yellow fluorescent
cells demonstrating that pancreatic cancer spreads through interactions between
different groups
of cells.
The team used five types
of antibiotics — including one used to treat acne (doxycycline)-- on
cell lines of eight
different types
of tumour and found that four
of them eradicated the cancer stem
cells in every test.
The researchers then exposed
cells from each
of these
lines to a panel
of 31
different drug treatments — including 23 chemotherapy compounds approved by the FDA for breast and ovarian cancers, six targeted cancer drugs, and two common drug combinations.
Although the H3K27M mutation disrupts a
different chemical tagging system, the scientists showed that panobinostat slowed the growth
of a
line of cells that had the mutation.
The resulting «map»
of gene - drug interactions allowed the researchers to accurately predict the responses
of multiple human cancer
cell lines to
different chemotherapy agents based on the
cell lines» genetic profiles and also revealed new genetic factors that appear to determine the response
of breast and ovarian tumor
cells to common classes
of chemotherapy treatment.
Each branch
of the tree is
lined with
cells sensitive to a
different chemical or molecular compound.
«We've seen this in six
different types
of human cancer
cell lines in the lab,» Choudhury said.
In experiments with cancer
cell lines, the PIM1 inhibitors killed
cells in a MYC - dependent manner, and in two
different mouse models — one in which mice were implanted with patient tumors and the other in which a genetic alteration
of MYC predisposes the mice to tumor development — the administration
of PIM1 inhibitors resulted in significant tumor regression.
By functionally linking the signal transduction
of melanopsin to the control circuit
of the nuclear factor
of activated T
cells, we have designed a synthetic signaling cascade enabling light - inducible transgene expression in
different cell lines grown in culture or bioreactors or implanted into mice.
There are many hundreds, if not thousands,
of different stem
cell lines in use around the world.
In the
different cell types, the loops begin and end at
different specific chromosomal locations, so each
cell line's genome appears to have a unique population
of loops.
The study used a well - known
line of pancreatic cancer
cells (AsPC - 1) in the laboratory and assessed how well this grew when treated with either the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine or
different levels
of commercially available chokeberry extract alone, and when treated with a combination
of gemcitabine and chokeberry extract.
Cell lines are therefore indispensable in medical research and a large number of cell lines exist that originate from many different tumor ty
Cell lines are therefore indispensable in medical research and a large number
of cell lines exist that originate from many different tumor ty
cell lines exist that originate from many
different tumor types.
Yet, «these studies using HeLa
cells had to rely on information from the «reference» sequence produced by the Human Genome Project, even though there was evidence that the genomes
of HeLa
cell lines were probably quite
different,» said Lars Steinmetz, Ph.D., who led the G3 study.
Recent studies highlighted significant differences between these two types
of stem
cells, although only a limited number
of cell lines of different origins were analyzed.
Different tumor subtypes can include glandular, which include the mammary glands, as well as squamous, which are very rare and involve epithelial
cells that
line the inside
of the breast.
Moreover,
cell lines vary in their ability to make
different tissues, such as heart muscle or cartilage, so a suite
of clinical - grade
lines is needed, Braude says.
By May 2005 they had used cloning techniques to create 11 stem
cell lines, each one the perfect genetic match
of a
different patient, another first.
The
cell responded to three very
different images
of the former president: a
line drawing
of Clinton laughing, a formal painting
of him, and a photograph
of him mingling with other dignitaries.
They are generating β
cells from those
cell lines to look for differences that might explain how the
different forms
of the disease develop.
They tried hundreds
of different recipes; eventually they discovered that if they mixed liver precursor
cells (derived from iPS
cells) with two other types
of standard human
cell lines known to be important for embryonic liver development, then the
cells would spontaneously form a 4 to 5 - millimeter 3D structure called a liver bud.
In principle, tissue banks
of parthenogenetic
cell lines could include enough
different immune protein combinations to treat up to half
of the U.S. population — men as well as women — Lanza says.
The researchers tested the drug on mice with H. pylori infections from several
different cell lines, and found that the drug was effective against the H. pylori while maintaining populations
of healthy gut bacteria.
Initially, the Geneva researchers observed the vascularisation processes
of human tumour
cells from
different cell lines.
In parthenote - derived
cell lines, they found a distinctive signature: Most genes were
different on the two sets
of chromosomes, but genes located close to the chromosome's center were largely identical.
The scientists were thus able to transfer the genetic information from the known fluorescent protein eqFP615 into the DT40 chicken B
cell line in order to produce protein variants
of the new infrared marker Amrose with
different spectral properties.
The generality
of this observation was further confirmed by examining the expression
of miR - 7 in 2
different cell lines, CN34 and MCF7, and their metastatic variants, CN34BoM, CN34BrM, and MCF7BoM.
The rate
of cell proliferation varied only slightly between the
different endothelial
cell lines (Fig. 3) ⇓.
We capitalized on one
of the innate responses
of microvascular endothelial
cells, i.e., the up - regulation
of cell adhesion molecules in response to inflammatory agents, to generate endothelial
cell lines from
different organs.
The constitutive expression
of these endothelial
cell adhesion molecules was very similar for most
of the
lines derived from
different organs, i.e., very low expression levels
of E-selectin and VCAM - 1 and more pronounced expression
of ICAM - 1.
The results, although still preliminary in a quantitative sense, demonstrate that the reactivation
of methylation - silenced genes does occur in
different cell lines, suggesting it is a general phenomenon.
The selection strategy targeted
cell populations expressing the inducible endothelial
cell adhesion molecules, E-selectin and VCAM - 1, and proved successful in generating microvascular endothelial
cell lines from a number
of different organs.
However, efforts to examine the in vitro behavior
of tumor
cells with endothelial
cells from
different anatomical regions have been prohibited because, in large part,
of the limited number
of organ - derived endothelial
cell lines available for study.
These stem
cells live in the
lining of the intestine, known as the epithelium, and generate all
of the
different cell types that make up the epithelium.
The authors studied a standard panel
of 60 established human tumor
cell lines representing nine
different human cancers, as well as several specimens
of human primary ovarian cancer.