This is a selection of articles from the April 2008 archive. Click here for this month's Biomedical Science headlines.
Expression of Connexin 43 in normal canine testes and canine testicular tumors
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Source: Histochemistry and Cell Biology - April 30, 2008 Tags: Histochemistry and Cell Biology Source Type: news
Prevalence of gstt1, gstm1 and nqo1 (C609T) in Filipino pediatrics with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
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Source: Bioscience Reports - April 30, 2008 Authors: Rimando MG, Chua MN, Yuson ED, de Castro-Bernas G, Okamoto T Tags: Biosci Rep Source Type: news
Intermediate filament cytoskeleton of the liver in health and disease
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Source: Histochemistry and Cell Biology - April 29, 2008 Tags: Histochemistry and Cell Biology Source Type: news
A mathematical model of glutathione metabolism
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Source: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling - April 28, 2008 Authors: Michael C Reed, Rachel L Thomas, Jovana Pavisic, S JILL James, Cornelia M Ulrich and H FREDERIK Nijhout Source Type: news
Coronary vasomotor and blood flow responses to isoflavone-intact soy protein in subjects with coronary heart disease or risk factors for coronary heart disease
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Source: Clinical Science - April 28, 2008 Authors: Carolyn M. Webb, Christopher S. Hayward, Mark J. Mason, Charles D. Ilsley, Peter Collins Source Type: news
Influence of Design Parameters on the Performance of a Surface Plasmon Sensor Based Fiber Optic Sensor
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Source: Plasmonics - April 26, 2008 Tags: Plasmonics Source Type: news
Actin: its cumbersome pilgrimage through cellular compartments
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Source: Histochemistry and Cell Biology - April 26, 2008 Tags: Histochemistry and Cell Biology Source Type: news
The mammalian centrosome and its functional significance
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Source: Histochemistry and Cell Biology - April 25, 2008 Tags: Histochemistry and Cell Biology Source Type: news
Gamma-retroviral vectors enveloped with an antibody and an engineered fusogenic protein achieved antigen-specific targeting
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Source: Biotechnology and Bioengineering - April 25, 2008 Authors: Haiguang Yang, Leslie Zeigler, Kye-Il Joo, Taehoon Cho, Yuning Lei, Pin Wang Source Type: news
Clarifying the roles of kinetics and diffusion in activated sludge filamentous bulking
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Source: Biotechnology and Bioengineering - April 24, 2008 Authors: In Chio Lou, Francis L. de los Reyes III Source Type: news
Enzymes of glycerol and glyceraldehyde metabolism in mouse liver: effects of caloric restriction and age on activities.
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Source: Bioscience Reports - April 23, 2008 Authors: Hagopian K, Ramsey JJ, Weindruch R Tags: Biosci Rep Source Type: news
Anti-inflammatory Effects of Ethanol Extract from
Kummerowia striata
(Thunb.) Schindl on LPS-Stimulated RAW 264.7 Cell
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Source: Inflammation - April 22, 2008 Tags: Inflammation Source Type: news
Hepatoprotective Effect of Infliximab, an Anti-TNF-α Agent, on Carbon Tetrachloride-Induced Hepatic Fibrosis
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Source: Inflammation - April 22, 2008 Tags: Inflammation Source Type: news
Engineering the yeast sterol pathway for enhanced sesquiterpene production
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Source: Biotechnology and Bioengineering - April 22, 2008 Source Type: news
Changing conventional culture
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Source: Biotechnology and Bioengineering - April 22, 2008 Source Type: news
In situ tracking of key-bacteria involved in bioremediation processes
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Source: Biotechnology and Bioengineering - April 22, 2008 Source Type: news
Soft reddish better than hard red: One-step astaxanthin production
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Source: Biotechnology and Bioengineering - April 22, 2008 Source Type: news
Advances towards resonance assignments for uniformly-(13)C, (15)N enriched bacteriorhodopsin at 18.8 T in purple membranes.
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Source: Journal of Bimolecular NMR - April 22, 2008 Authors: Varga K, Aslimovska L, Watts A Tags: J Biomol NMR Source Type: news
Differential gene expression analysis of maize leaf at heading stage in response to water-deficit stress.
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Source: Bioscience Reports - April 21, 2008 Authors: Yue G, Zhuang Y, Li Z, Sun L, Zhang J Tags: Biosci Rep Source Type: news
Tracking of human cells in mice
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Source: Histochemistry and Cell Biology - April 19, 2008 Tags: Histochemistry and Cell Biology Source Type: news
Solution structure of wild-type human matrix metalloproteinase 12 (MMP-12) in complex with a tight-binding inhibitor.
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Source: Journal of Bimolecular NMR - April 19, 2008 Authors: Markus MA, Dwyer B, Wolfrom S, Li J, Li W, Malakian K, Wilhelm J, Tsao DH Tags: J Biomol NMR Source Type: news
Human umbilical vascular endothelial cells express estrogen receptor beta (ERβ) and progesterone receptor A (PR-A), but not ERα and PR-B
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Source: Histochemistry and Cell Biology - April 18, 2008 Tags: Histochemistry and Cell Biology Source Type: news
Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) Decreases Pulmonary Microvascular Leakage, Neutrophil Influx and IL-1β Levels in Airway and Lung from Rat Subjected to LPS-Induced Inflammation
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Source: Inflammation - April 18, 2008 Tags: Inflammation Source Type: news
The bioconversion of mountain pine beetle-killed lodgepole pine to fuel ethanol using the organosolv process
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Source: Biotechnology and Bioengineering - April 18, 2008 Authors: Xuejun Pan, Dan Xie, Richard W. Yu, Jack N. Saddler Source Type: news
Tight junctions and the modulation of barrier function in disease
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Source: Histochemistry and Cell Biology - April 16, 2008 Tags: Histochemistry and Cell Biology Source Type: news
A statistical model for the identification of genes governing the incidence of cancer with age
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Source: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling - April 16, 2008 Authors: Kiranmoy Das and Rongling Wu Source Type: news
Mechanistic kinetic model for symmetric carboligations using benzaldehyde lyase
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Source: Biotechnology and Bioengineering - April 11, 2008 Authors: Michael Zavrel, Thomas Schmidt, Claas Michalik, Marion Ansorge-Schumacher, Wolfgang Marquardt, Jochen Büchs, Antje C. Spiess Source Type: news
Resolution enhancement by homonuclear J-decoupling: application to three-dimensional solid-state magic angle spinning NMR spectroscopy.
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Source: Journal of Bimolecular NMR - April 11, 2008 Authors: Shi L, Peng X, Ahmed MA, Edwards D, Brown LS, Ladizhansky V Tags: J Biomol NMR Source Type: news
Spermine and Endothelial Damage During Endotoxemia
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Source: Inflammation - April 9, 2008 Tags: Inflammation Source Type: news
Internal pH indicators for biomolecular NMR.
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Source: Journal of Bimolecular NMR - April 9, 2008 Authors: Baryshnikova OK, Williams TC, Sykes BD Tags: J Biomol NMR Source Type: news
A three-dimensional elastic plastic damage constitutive law for bone tissue.
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Source: Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology - April 9, 2008 Authors: Garcia D, Zysset PK, Charlebois M, Curnier A Tags: Biomech Model Mechanobiol Source Type: news
Targeting lysosomal degradation induces p53-dependent cell death and prevents cancer in mouse models of lymphomagenesis
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 8, 2008 Source Type: news
Regression of human kidney cancer following allogeneic stem cell transplantation is associated with recognition of an HERV-E antigen by T cells
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 8, 2008 Source Type: news
cAMP induced Rac 1-mediated cytoskeletal reorganization in microvascular endothelium
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Source: Histochemistry and Cell Biology - April 8, 2008 Tags: Histochemistry and Cell Biology Source Type: news
The macrophage system in the intestinal muscularis externa during inflammation: an immunohistochemical and quantitative study of osteopetrotic mice
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Source: Histochemistry and Cell Biology - April 8, 2008 Tags: Histochemistry and Cell Biology Source Type: news
Interactive Crossword Puzzle
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Source: NIGMS Computing Life - April 7, 2008 Source Type: news
Relationship between birth weight and arterial compliance in childhood
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Source: Clinical Science - April 7, 2008 Authors: Patricia H.C. Rondó, Jesuana O. Lemos, Joilane A. Pereira, Julicristie M. Oliveira, Luiz R. Innocente Source Type: news
Ultrastructural localization and chemical binding of silver ions in human organotypic skin cultures
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Source: Histochemistry and Cell Biology - April 5, 2008 Tags: Histochemistry and Cell Biology Source Type: news
Application of high-performance tangential flow filtration (HPTFF) to the purification of a human pharmaceutical antibody fragment expressed in Escherichia coli
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Source: Biotechnology and Bioengineering - April 5, 2008 Authors: Bénédicte Lebreton, Arick Brown, Robert van Reis Source Type: news
The desmosome and pemphigus
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Source: Histochemistry and Cell Biology - April 3, 2008 Tags: Histochemistry and Cell Biology Source Type: news
Expression pattern of
serine protease inhibitor kazal type 3 (Spink3)
during mouse embryonic development
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Source: Histochemistry and Cell Biology - April 3, 2008 Tags: Histochemistry and Cell Biology Source Type: news
The art of cellular communication: tunneling nanotubes bridge the divide
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Source: Histochemistry and Cell Biology - April 3, 2008 Tags: Histochemistry and Cell Biology Source Type: news
Immune regulator cells: circulating biomarker factories in cardiovascular disease
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Source: Clinical Science - April 3, 2008 Authors: G Pasterkamp, D Versteeg, DPV de Kleijn Source Type: news
Concerted action of two novel tRNA mtDNA point mutations in chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia.
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Source: Bioscience Reports - April 3, 2008 Authors: Kornblum C, Zsurka G, Wiesner RJ, Schröder R, Kunz WS Tags: Biosci Rep Source Type: news
Atlantic City is passé — I’m betting on Chicago
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
Two-photon imaging of intratumoral CD8+ T cell cytotoxic activity during adoptive T cell therapy in mice
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
Identification in rats of a programming window for reproductive tract masculinization, disruption of which leads to hypospadias and cryptorchidism
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
ASCI: reflections on the first 100 years and a proposal for the next
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
Something lost — something gained: the ASCI begins its second century
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
Interactions between integrin {alpha}IIb{beta}3 and the serotonin transporter regulate serotonin transport and platelet aggregation in mice and humans
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
In vivo time-lapse microscopy reveals no loss of murine myonuclei during weeks of muscle atrophy
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
IFN-{gamma}- and TNF-dependent bystander eradication of antigen-loss variants in established mouse cancers
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
Regression of human kidney cancer following allogeneic stem cell transplantation is associated with recognition of an HERV-E antigen by T cells
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
The calm after the cytokine storm: lessons from the TGN1412 trial
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
Leptin resistance contributes to obesity and hypertension in mouse models of Bardet-Biedl syndrome
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
Tetraspanin TM4SF5 mediates loss of contact inhibition through epithelial-mesenchymal transition in human hepatocarcinoma
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
Atlantic City memories
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
Estrogen receptor {beta} protects against acoustic trauma in mice
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
The American Society for Clinical Investigation — the first 100 years
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
Adeno-associated virus-targeted disruption of the CFTR gene in cloned ferrets
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
From fatty streak to fatty liver: 33 years of joint publications in the JCI
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
The birth of the American Physician Scientists Association — the next generation of Young Turks
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
The efficacy of DNA vaccination is enhanced in mice by targeting the encoded protein to dendritic cells
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
Dopamine regulates endothelial progenitor cell mobilization from mouse bone marrow in tumor vascularization
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
Confronting the scientific obstacles to global control of tuberculosis
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
Malaria: progress, perils, and prospects for eradication
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
Targeting lysosomal degradation induces p53-dependent cell death and prevents cancer in mouse models of lymphomagenesis
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
Tetraspanin in oncogenic epithelial-mesenchymal transition
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
High incidence of leukemia in large animals after stem cell gene therapy with a HOXB4-expressing retroviral vector
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
HOXB4 and retroviral vectors: adding fuel to the fire
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
The spread, treatment, and prevention of HIV-1: evolution of a global pandemic
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
Homage to Atlantic City
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Source: Journal of Clinical Investigation - April 2, 2008 Source Type: news
The fertility diet:
Groundbreaking research reveals natural ways to boost ovulation & improve your chances of getting pregnant
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