MicroRNAs and the glomerulus

Dissecting the Role of Vegf-a in the Glomerulus – Insights into the Adult Glomerulus and Renal Disease

The role of microRNAs and phytohormones in plant immune system

The plant-pathogen interaction is a multifactor process that may lead to resistance or susceptible responses of plant to pathogens. During the arms race between plant and pathogens, various biochemical, molecular and physiological events are triggered in plant cells such as ROS signaling, hormone activation and gene expression reprogramming. In plants, microRNAs (miRNAs) are key post-transcript...

synaptic organization of the glomerulus in the main olfactory bulb: compartments of the glomerulus and heterogeneity of the periglomerular cells.

According to the combinatorial receptor and glomerular codes for odors, the fine tuning of the output level from each glomerulus is assumed to be important for information processing in the olfactory system, which may be regulated by numerous elements, such as olfactory nerves (ONs), periglomerular (PG) cells, centrifugal nerves and even various interneurons, such as granule cells, making synap...

Building the glomerulus: a matricentric view.

T he structural integrity of the glomerular capillaries stems from the stereotyped arrangement of the three constituent cell types: Podocytes (also called visceral epithelial cells), endothelial cells, and mesangial cells. The arrangement of these cells depends in part on their interactions with extracellular matrix, most notably the glomerular basement membrane (GBM). In this essay, I discuss ...

An energy budget for the olfactory glomerulus.

Energy demands are becoming recognized as an important constraint on neural signaling. The olfactory glomerulus provides a well defined system for analyzing this question. Odor stimulation elicits high-energy demands in olfactory glomeruli where olfactory axons converge onto dendrites of olfactory bulb neurons. We performed a quantitative analysis of the energy demands of each type of neuronal ...