Polyphenols are a diverse group of micronutrients from plant origin that may serve as antioxidants and that contribute to human health in general. More specifically, many research groups have investigated their protective effect against cardiovascular diseases in several animal studies and human trials. Yet, because of the excessive processing of the polyphenol structure by human cells and the ...

Central neurons develop and maintain molecularly distinct synaptic specializations for excitatory and inhibitory transmitters, often only microns apart on their dendritic arbor. Progress towards understanding the molecular basis of synaptogenesis has come from several recent studies using a coculture system of non-neuronal cells expressing molecules that generate presynaptic or postsynaptic "he...

Rotaviruses group A are the major cause of diarrhea in calves under one month and every year causes enormous economic losses. Serological and molecular techniques can be used for rapid detection of rotaviruses but virus isolation requires specific methods of cell culture and suitable cell lines. In this study, 41 samples were collected from diarrheal calves up to the age of one month, from indu...

The collagenase digestion phase of islet isolation is variable and unpredictable. This results partly from the vagaries of collagenase itself but also from the complex effects of organ retrieval and storage on collagenase digestion. Improvements in the purification of islets by density gradient centrifugation will not result from the production of new density gradient media, but rather from the...

The orientation imposed by the subject of this monograph leads us to emphasize those aspects of the chemistry of infection that may serve our understanding of the morphology of infection. Indeed, much of the effort expended in this field has been justified under a hypothesis that the genesis of the cytopathic effect is a biochemical lesion. How that lesion is inflicted by the virus, the ensuing...

Neural stem cells (NSCs) as a heterogeneous multipotent and self- renewal population are found in different areas in the developing mammalian nervous system, as well as the sub-ventricular zone (SVZ) and the hippocampus of the adult brain. NSCs can give rise to neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes. The aim of this study was to differentiate neural stem cells into noradrenergic–like cells in...

the objective of this research was to investigate the influence of the over-expression of recombinant interferon-g during high cell density cultivation on cellular characteristics of recombinant e. coli. batch and fed-batch culture techniques were employed to grow escherichia coli bl21 for production of human gamma-interferon in pet expression system. final cell densities in batch and fed-batch...

We have established a clonal cell culture system that supports the proliferation of committed natural killer (NK) cell progenitors of mice to investigate the pathway and cytokine regulation of NK cell development. Day 14 fetal thymocytes cultured in methylcellulose with interleukin-7 (IL-7), IL-15, and steel factor (SF) formed diffuse colonies that could not be classified to known colony types....

The animal cell lines most readily cultivated by current tissue culture techniques are usually aneuploid in chromosomal constitution and often have originated in malignant tissue (1). Most workers report that normal cells from adult individuals either fail to grow in vitro, or grow only for brief periods, usually a few weeks or months, after which proliferation ceases (2). Application of recent...