Tying up the threads

Tying up syntactic loose ends

Hyaluronan-binding proteins: tying up the giant.

The ubiquitous glycosaminoglycan (GAG) hyaluronan has diverse biological roles in vertebrates. These include acting as a vital structural component of connective tissues, the formation of loose hydrated matrices that allow cells to divide and migrate (e.g. during development), immune cell adhesion and activation, and a role in intracellular signaling (1–3). This wide range of activities may see...

Hyaluronan - binding proteins : tying up the giant Anthony

Introduction The ubiquitous glycosaminoglycan (GAG) hyaluronan has diverse biological roles in vertebrates. These include acting as a vital structural component of connective tissues, the formation of loose hydrated matrices that allow cells to divide and migrate (e.g., during development), immune cell adhesion and activation, and a role in intracellular signaling; further details can be found ...

Break-up dynamics of fluctuating liquid threads.

The thinning dynamics of a liquid neck before break-up, as may happen when a drop detaches from a faucet or a capillary, follows different rules and dynamic scaling laws depending on the importance of inertia, viscous stresses, or capillary forces. If now the thinning neck reaches dimensions comparable to the thermally excited interfacial fluctuations, as for nanojet break-up or the fragmentati...

Tying up Loose Ends in Chondrule Formation by Shocks

Chondrule formation is a long-standing problem in meteoritics. Furnace experiments designed to reproduce chondrule textures constrain their cooling rates between their liquidus and solidus temperatures to be in the range 10-1000 K/hr [1]. This constraint, and nearly all other known constraints on chondrule formation, are satisfied if chondrules were melted by passage through solar nebula shocks...