The regenerative potential in the root explants of in vivo grown Cattleya ’Almakee’ plants largely depend on the location of isolated explants from the main root and on the level&type of the growth regulators.Regeneration is affected by polarity all along the root axis of root.The regeneration is of basipetal gradient.The proximal explants responded to the presence of cytokinins(BAP/KN)in Mitra...

The alveolar epithelium is a dynamic tissue, consisting of cells types I and II, covering more than 99 % the lung inner surface actively responding to various endogenous exogenous stimuli. technology alveolocyte isolation presented, which consists in mechanical disaggregation tissue with subsequent processing resulting explants 0.25 trypsin solution combination filtration cell suspension throug...

Cereus peruvianus (Cactaceae) is an important medical plant. The study was carried out on callus induction of Cereus jamacaru f. monstrosus and Cereus hildmannianus fma monstrosa (Cereus peruvianus). Apical and lateral explants were cultured on Murashige and Skoog media with factorial combinations of the auxins indole-3acetic acid (NAA), 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and N-(2-furanyl-...

Conservation and propagation of species using biotechnologic tools-such as plant tissue culture-are relevant when natural propagation is hampered for various reasons. In vitro techniques allow mass multiplication and propagation under pathogen-free conditions but also override dependence on season for availability of plant material. Moreover, in vitro genetic manipulation of a species, invariab...

Ethylene stimulated RNA and protein synthesis in bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L. var. Red Kidney) abscission zone explants prior to abscission. The effect of ethylene on RNA synthesis and abscission was blocked by actinomycin D. Carbon dioxide, which inhibits the effect of ethylene on abscission, also inhibited the influence of ethylene on protein synthesis. An aging period appears to be essential ...

In traditional in vitro culture, explants grow enclosed in a non-ventilated vessel at high relative humidity with phytohormones continuously present and sucrose as the main energy source. Under such conditions explant growth is far from normal. In this paper, explants of Actinidia deliciosa were cultured in MS medium supplemented with sucrose, benzyladenine and gibberellic acid under autotrophi...

Proteasome inhibitors are currently used as chemotherapeutic drugs because of their ability to block NF-kappaB, a transcription factor constitutively activated in many different types of human cancer. In the present study, we demonstrate that proteasome inhibitors induce cell death in endometrial carcinoma cell lines and primary explants but, instead of blocking NF-kappaB, they increase its tra...

Procollagen C-endopeptidase (BMP-1) is one of two key enzymes crucial for conversion of fibrillar procollagens to self-assembling collagen monomers. Recently, we have reported inhibition of the largest variant of BMP-1, a recombinant mammalian tolloid (mTld) in vitro, on procollagen type I using peptides with amino acid sequences in chordin conserved across different species. Here, we tested th...

Most axons in the CNS innervate specific subregions or layers of their target regions and form contacts with specific types of target neurons, but the molecular basis of this process is not well understood. To determine whether collapsin-1/semaphorin-III/D, a molecule known to repel specific axons, might guide afferent axons within their cerebellar targets, we characterized its expression by in...

PURPOSE To explore the effect of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) on gene expression during human fetal retinal maturation. METHODS Human fetal retinal explants were cultured in serum-free Waymouth's medium supplemented with DHA or oleic acid (OA), using bovine serum albumin (BSA) as the vehicle. After 14 days in culture, fatty acid composition was assessed, and the abundance of 2400 cDNAs was exam...