Artemia franciscana C. Drewes (updated, 2002) http://www.zool.iastate.edu/~c_drewes/ http://www.zool.iastate.edu/~c_drewes/Artemph.jpg Taxonomy Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum): Crustacea Class: Branchiopoda (includes fairy shrimp, brine shrimp, daphnia, clam shrimp, tadpole shrimp) Order: Anostraca (brine shrimp and fairy shrimp) Genus and species: Artemia franciscana (= the North American versio...

A monoclonal antibody (MoAb) H5 (IgG2b) was obtained by fusion between SP2/0, mouse myeloma cell line and spleen cells from BC3Fl mice immunized with HEL, a erythroleukemia cell line. MoAb H5 precipitated a 26 kilodalton (KD) polypeptide in reduced condition. It reacted with platelets, monocytes, eosinophiles, 13% of lymphocytes, thymocytes and colony-forming unitsgranulocyte/monocyte (CFU-GM),...

Females of the crustacean Artemia franciscana produce either motile nauplii or gastrula stage embryos enclosed in a shell impermeable to nonvolatile compounds and known as cysts. The encysted embryos enter diapause, a state of greatly reduced metabolism and profound stress tolerance. Artemin, a diapause-specific ferritin homolog in cysts has molecular chaperone activity in vitro. Artemin repres...

Thermostabilizing effect of heavy water (D2O) or deuterium oxide has been demonstrated previously on several enzymes and vaccines like oral poliovirus vaccine and influenza virus vaccine. In view of the above observations, effect of heavy water on in situ thermostabilization of recombinant p26 protein on enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for serodiagnosis of equine infectious anemia vir...

The S49.1 and WEHI7.2 murine lymphoid cell lines have been used extensively as models for investigations of programmed cell death ("apoptosis") induced by glucocorticoids such as dexamethasone. Infection of these thymus-derived T-cell lines with a recombinant retrovirus encoding the human M(r) 26,000 Bcl-2 oncoprotein resulted in marked resistance to DEX-mediated cell death and DNA degradation ...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been implicated in cell-cycle regulation and in some cases shown to have a role in tissue growth control. Depletion of miRNAs was found to have an effect on tissue growth rates in the wing primordium of Drosophila, a highly proliferative epithelium. Dicer-1 (Dcr-1) is a double-stranded RNAseIII essential for miRNA biogenesis. Adult cells lacking dcr-1, or with reduced dc...

Antigen-specific T-helper (Th) lymphocytes are critical for the development of antiviral humoral responses and the expansion of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL). Identification of relevant Th lymphocyte epitopes remains an important step in the development of an efficacious subunit peptide vaccine against equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV), a naturally occurring lentivirus of horses. This study...

The S49.1 and WEHI7.2 murine lymphoid cell lines have been used extensively as models for investigations of programmed cell death ("apoptosis") induced by glucocorticoids such as dexamethasone. Infec tion of these thymus-derived T-cell lines with a recombinant retrovirus encoding the human M, 26,000 Bcl-2 oncoprotein resulted in marked resistance to DEX-mediated cell death and DNA degradation i...

in the case-patient’s family or the community. On the basis of a matching surname, case-patient E was determined to be a member of the same family as case-patients P20, P26, and likely C. Soft tissue infection was documented in all 5 casepatients, supporting the original observation that ST2371 is associated with disease. Evidence of familial transmission in the original outbreak is further sup...