Rapid growth and formation of new gas exchange units (alveogenesis) are hallmarks of the perinatal lung. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), common in very premature infants, is characterized by premature arrest of alveogenesis. Mesenchymal cells (fibroblasts) regulate both lung branching and alveogenesis through mesenchymal-epithelial interactions. Temporal or spatial deficiency of late-gestatio...

The bystander effect is a biological phenomenon whereby cells not directly targeted by DNA-damaging agents elicit a response similar to that of targeted cells. Understanding the mechanisms underlying the bystander effect is important not only for radiation risk assessment but also for evaluation of protocols for radiotherapy of tumors. Identification of DNA repair and signal transduction protei...

Background: The exposure of cell lines to low-dose irradiation leads to changes at molecular level, which may induce adaptive response. We examined radio-adaptive doses effect on human colorectal adenocarcinoma cell line (HT29) and human fetal fibroblasts (MRC5) cell line followed by hyper and hypo fractionation regimes, with main purpose to decrease cell viability in HT29, and at the same time...

Curcuma purpurascens Bl., belonging to the Zingiberaceae family, is known as temu tis in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In this study, the hydrodistilled dried ground rhizome oil was investigated for its chemical content and antiproliferative activity against selected human carcinoma cell lines (MCF7, Ca Ski, A549, HT29, and HCT116) and a normal human lung fibroblast cell line (MRC5). Results from GC-M...

A transmissible agent, the IM virus, antigenically related to the Japanese subacute myelo-optico-neuropathy virus, has been isolated from several human cerebrospinal fluids obtained from American patients with multiple sclerosis and other chronic diseases of the central nervous system. The isolates were propagated in human diploid fibroblast (MRC5) cells, and virus was released into the culture...

Whipple's disease is considered a rare chronic disease with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations. Several antibiotics have been used for the treatment of this disease, and the current reference treatment was determined empirically on the basis of only a few clinical observations. Patients should be treated for months, and many relapse after antibiotic withdrawal. We report here the first...

Interleukin 1 (IL1) increased phosphorylation of the small heat-shock protein (hsp 27) in MRC5 fibroblasts. The increase was maintained for at least 30 min, but levels had returned to pre-stimulation values by 2 h. When hsp 27 was metabolically labelled with [3H]leucine, about 15% was phosphorylated in resting confluent cells; this rose to 90% upon stimulation by IL1. Peptide maps of the three ...

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection is well controlled mainly by cytotoxic CD8(+) T lymphocytes (CTL) directed against the matrix protein pp65 despite the numerous immune escape mechanisms developed by the virus. Dendritic cells (DCs) are key antigen-presenting cells for the generation of an immune response which have the capacity to acquire antigens via endocytosis of apoptotic cells and th...

Several studies suggest that the biological responses induced by manufactured nanoparticles (MNPs) may be linked to their accumulation within cells. However, MNP internalisation has not yet been sufficiently characterised. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare the intracellular uptake of three different MNPs: two made of carbon black (CB) and one made of titanium dioxide (TiO(2)), in ...