AIM To investigate the expression of metallothioneins (MTs), which were recently thought to have close relationship with tumors, in human hepatocellular carcinoma. METHODS Histological specimens of 35 cases of primary human hepatocellular carcinoma with para-neoplastic liver tissue and 5 cases of normal liver were stained for MTs with monoclonal mouse anti-MTs serum (E9) by the immunohistoche...

In suspension-cultured tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) cells, we have often encountered cold-stable microtubules (MTs). The cold-stable MTs were found in the pelleted fraction of tobacco cell homogenates. These cold-stable MTs were shown to be accompanied by unidentified filamentous structures that extended along part of their length. However, during the early hours in culture such cold-stable MTs ...

Background: It seems we are now experiencing “responsibility problems” among medical trainees (MTs) and some of those recently graduated from medical schools in Iran. Training responsible professionals have always been one of the main concerns of medical educators. Nevertheless, there is a dearth of research in the literature on “responsibility” especially from the medical education point of vi...

Abundant microtubules (MTs) were present both in protoplasts isolated from tobacco BY-2 cells and on membrane ghosts prepared from such protoplasts. However, only a few MTs or none at all were observed on membrane ghosts prepared from protoplasts pretreated with protease, trypsin or chymotrypsin, although abundant MTs were present in protease-pretreated protoplasts. These observations suggest t...

CNS: central nervous system IHC: immunohistochemistry MMR: mismatch repair MTS: Muir-Torre syndrome M uir-Torre syndrome (MTS) is an autosomal-dominant variant of Lynch hereditary cancer syndrome. MTS is defined by sebaceous neoplasms occurring in association with 1 or more internal malignancies. The sebaceous neoplasms that characterize MTS are rare among the general population and include seb...

The present studies test the hypothesis that microtubules (MTs) are transported from the cell body into the axons of growing neurons. Dissociated sympathetic neurons were cultured using conditions that allow us to control the initiation of axon outgrowth. Neurons were injected with biotin-labeled tubulin (Bt-tub) and then stimulated to extend axons. The newly formed axons were then examined usi...

Spinning disc confocal microscopy of LLCPK1 cells expressing GFP-tubulin was used to demonstrate that microtubules (MTs) rapidly elongate to the cell cortex after anaphase onset. Concurrently, individual MTs are released from the centrosome and the centrosome fragments into clusters of MTs. Using cells expressing photoactivatable GFP-tubulin to mark centrosomal MT minus ends, a sevenfold increa...

Effects ef ions on the orientation of cortical microtubu]es (MTs) in spirogyra cells were studied. After depotymerization with amiprophos-methyl (APM), MTs were atlowed to reorganize in NaCl sollltions of yarious concentrations. As the conce"tration of NaCl increased, the frequency of ce]ls that had oblique MTs increased. When ce]ls in NaCl solution vvere transferred into artificia) pond water ...

BACKGROUND Microtubules (MTs) are formed from the lateral association of 11-16 protofilament chains of tubulin dimers, with most cells containing 13-protofilament (13-p) MTs. How these different MTs are formed is unknown, although the number of protofilaments may depend on the nature of the α- and β-tubulins. RESULTS Here we show that the enzymatic activity of the Caenorhabiditis elegans α-tu...

Previous studies have shown that fibroblasts induced to migrate into an in vitro wound rapidly generate an array of stable, post-translationally detyrosinated microtubules (Glu MTs) oriented toward the direction of migration. To understand how cells generate a stable array of MTs at a specific location, we have analyzed the contribution of media components to the formation of oriented Glu MTs i...