UNLABELLED Chondrocyte dedifferentiation presents a major barrier in engineering functional cartilage constructs. To mitigate the effects of dedifferentiation, this study employed a post-expansion aggregate culture step to enhance the chondrogenic phenotype of passaged articular chondrocytes (ACs) before their integration into self-assembled neocartilage constructs. The objective was twofold: (...

The reticulum cell sarcoma (RCS) 1 of S JL / J mice has been shown to express alien histocompatibility membrane antigens (1, 2). This form of tumor antigen is, by definition, present on cancerous, but not normal, syngeneic tissues. However, it differs from other forms of tumor-associated antigens because it is a normal membrane component of one or more strains allogeneic to the host (3). In the...

The reticulum cell sarcoma (RCS) 1 of S JL / J mice has been shown to express alien histocompatibility membrane antigens (1, 2). This form of tumor antigen is, by definition, present on cancerous, but not normal, syngeneic tissues. However, it differs from other forms of tumor-associated antigens because it is a normal membrane component of one or more strains allogeneic to the host (3). In the...

Murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) Smith strain is widely used in mouse models to study HCMV infections. Due to high serial passages, MCMV Smith has acquired genetic and biological changes. Therefore, a low passaged strain would be more relevant to develop mouse models. Here, the pathogenesis of an infection with MCMV Smith was compared with that of an infection with a low passaged Belgian MCMV isol...

A tissue culture system for epithelial cells derived from male human foetal genital ducts has been established. The cells show morphological and biochemical characteristics of ductal epithelial cells, and can be passaged and maintained in culture for considerable periods of time. These cells will provide a suitable system for investigating, by electrophysiological, biochemical and molecular bio...

We studied vancomycin and daptomycin susceptibility in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from patients exposed to vancomycin, glycopeptide-intermediate S. aureus, and S. aureus passaged in vancomycin-containing medium. A correlation between vancomycin and daptomycin heteroresistance was noted in some strains, suggesting that exposure of S. aureus to vancomycin may affect susceptibilit...

We report here the complete genome sequence of a goose parvovirus (GPV) strain, RC16, which was isolated from an ill goose in 2016 at Rongchang, Chongqing, China. The GPV strain RC16 isolated was passaged and identified, whose full-length genome is 5,046 nucleotides long.