Dictyostelium Strains, Cell Culture, and Plasmids Dictyostelium discoideum strains include wild type Ax3 (Rep orf+ cells), cortI, RacE, RacE (REMI insertional mutant), and myosin II heavy chain null mutant (mhcA (HS1)) [1-3] (Table SI). RacE: 14-3-3 suppression experiments were performed in both RacE mutant backgrounds with similar results. Cells were grown in Hans’ enriched HL-5 media (1.4xHL...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) on survival, activation, and growth of caprine preantral follicles using histological and ultrastructural criteria. Pieces of caprine ovarian cortex were cultured for 1 or 5 days in Minimum Essential Medium (MEM control medium) supplemented with different concentrations of IAA (10, 20, 40, or 100 ng/ml). Smal...

A three-dimensional culture system supports the development of primate preantral follicles to the antral stage with appreciable steroid production. This study assessed i) whether in vitro developmental competence of follicles is age dependent, ii) the role of gonadotropins and insulin in supporting folliculogenesis, and iii) anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) and vascular endothelial growth factor (V...

Human herpesvirus-6B (HHV-6B), a causative agent of exanthem subitum, infects human adult T cell leukemia (ATL) cell lines. We established a persistent HHV-6B infection in an ATL cell line, TaY, in the presence of 20 units/ml interleukin-2 (IL-2). The HHV-6B infected culture proliferated with a constant ratio of infected (1%) to the uninfected (99%) cells. When the IL-2 concentration was reduce...

A new liquid culture medium prepared with chemicals that can be obtained economically and commercially was tested in in vitro cultivation of Leishmania promastigotes to obtain a large number of organisms to use in serological studies. The number of Leishmania infantum and Leishmania tropica promastigotes taken from Novy-MacNeal-Nicolle (NNN) medium reached 1 x 10(7)/ml at the end of the 8th day...

Bovine herpesvirus 1 (BoHV-1) is widely distributed among cattle populations and has been associated with cells, fluids, and tissues collected from donor animals for use in reproductive technologies. The purpose of this study was to determine if lactoferrin would inhibit BoHV-1 in cell culture and to evaluate if embryos could develop normally when cultured in vitro with lactoferrin. In Experime...

Objectives: Evaluating the addition effect of J. insularis extract and FSH on the survival, activation and ROS production after in vitro culture of ovine preantral follicles enclosed in ovarian tissue. Methods: In the first experiment, ovarian fragments were fixed (non-cultured control) or in vitro cultured in α-MEM (cultured control), α-MEM supplemented with FSH 50 ng/mL, or in α-MEM supplemen...

Normal and Rous sarcoma virus-infected chicken fibroblasts proliferate maximally in a culture medium containing a physiological (10 ng/ml) concentration of 5-methyltetrahydrofolic acid or folinic acid (5-formyltetrahydrofolic acid), while their maximal proliferation requires a hyperphysiological (1000 ng/ml) concentration of folic acid. The normal and Rous-infected fibroblasts do not differ in ...

Normal and Rous sarcoma virus-infected chicken fibroblasts proliferate maximally in a culture medium contain ing a physiological (10 ng/ml) concentration of 5-methyltetrahydrofolic acid or folinic acid (5-formyltetrahydrofolic acid), while their maximal proliferation requires a hyperphysiological (1000 ng/ml) concentration of folie acid. The normal and Rous-infected fibroblasts do not differ in...