Connective tissue growth factor (CCN2), a member of the CCN family of proteins, is a cysteine-rich matricellular protein. Connective tissue growth factor is not normally expressed in dermal fibroblasts unless induced. The most potent inducer of connective tissue growth factor thus far identified is transforming growth factor beta. Connective tissue growth factor, however, is constitutively over...

In vivo cultivated connective tissue is rich in lipids. That obtained from man and chicken has larger concentrations of neutral fat and cholesterol than connective tissue of other species. Connective tissue synthesizes cholesterol and possesses a striking avidity for retention of either endogenous or exogenous cholesterol. The fibrous portion of sponge-connective tissue of the rabbit incorporat...

Abstract Sahlqvist theory is extended to the fragments of intuitionistic propositional calculus that include conjunction connective. This allows us introduce a character amenable arbitrary protoalgebraic deductive systems. As an application, we obtain theorem for implication connective and extensions linear logic.

Histological relationships and the distribution of junctions between myocardial cells and connective tissue were investigated in the inter-ventricular septum. Pig hearts were studied using 2 techniques: Picro-Sirius red-collagen-staining of frozen sections for connective tissue septa, and immune-staining with antibodies against Desmoplakins for intercalated discs. By overlaying serial sections ...