The combination of mass spectrometry imaging and histology has proven a powerful approach for obtaining molecular signatures from specific cells/tissues of interest, whether to identify biomolecular changes associated with specific histopathological entities or to determine the amount of a drug in specific organs/compartments. Currently there is no software that is able to explicitly register m...

Quantitative gene expression data are often normalized to the expression levels of control or so-called "housekeeping" genes. An inherent assumption in the use of housekeeping genes is that expression of the genes remains constant in the cells or tissues under investigation. Although exceptions to this assumption are well documented, housekeeping genes are of value in fully characterized system...

In this article an accurate and efficient technique for tissue typing is presented. The proposed technique is based on Canonical Correlation Analysis, a statistical method able to simultaneously exploit the spectral and spatial information characterizing the Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) data. Recently, Canonical Correlation Analysis has been successfully applied to other type...

Results of cholinesterase, dibucaine and fluoride numbers, and scoline hydrolysis rates are presented in a family found to have normal, silent and abnormal genes for plasma cholinesterase. Five sibs, confirmed by red cell grouping and tissue typing, have been shown to possess a cholinesterase pattern which cannot be explained on the basis of accepted theories of inheritance. In view of this it ...

A pattern of two tissue types exists in the Dictyostelium slug. Contained within the posterior tissue are anteriorlike cells which comprise about 10% of the developing cell mass. For more than ‘72 hr of slug migration the proportion of these cells is closely regulated. They are randomly distributed along the anterior-posterior axis but about twice as many are localized in the ventral portion of...

We describe the application of a microarray platform, which combines information from exon body and splice-junction probes, to perform a quantitative analysis of tissue-specific alternative splicing (AS) for thousands of exons in mammalian cells. Through this system, we have analyzed global features of AS in major mouse tissues. The results provide numerous inferences for the functions of tissu...

The practice of elastography is generally limited to small applied compressions (typically 1%), under the assumption of a linear stress-strain relationship in biological tissue. However, the recent reports of larger applied compressions and precompression levels to increase the strain contrast violate the above assumption. The nonlinear stress-strain relationships in different breast tissue typ...

dTOR (target of rapamycin) and dFoxo respond to changes in the nutritional environment to induce a broad range of responses in multiple tissue types. Both dTOR and dFoxo have been demonstrated to control the rate of age-related decline in cardiac function. Here, we show that the Eif4e-binding protein (d4eBP) is sufficient to protect long-term cardiac function against age-related decline and tha...

SINCE Moscona & Moscona (1952) and Townes & Holtfreter (1955) demonstrated the phenomena of sorting-out and selective localization of cells into a compound (heterotypic) reaggregate, several workers have taken a growing interest in the mechanism of these processes (e.g. Curtis, 1960, 1962; Steinberg, 1962a, 19626, 1962c, 1963). In approaching this subject experimentally, a basic requirement is ...

Content-based video retrieval has shown promising results to help physicians in their interpretation of medical videos in general and endomicroscopic ones in particular. Defining a relevant query for CBVR can however be a complex and time-consuming task for non-expert and even expert users. Indeed, uncut endomicroscopy videos may very well contain images corresponding to a variety of different ...