Browsing by Subject "Animals"

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40LoVe and Samba are involved in Xenopusneural development and functionally distinct from hnRNP AB

Andreou, Maria I.; Yan, C. Y. I.; Skourides, Paris A. (2014)

Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs) comprise a large group of modular RNA-binding proteins classified according to their conserved domains. This modular nature, coupled with a large choice of alternative ...

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Acoustic localization of antbirds in a Mexican rainforest using a wireless sensor network

Collier, T. C.; Kirschel, A. N. G.; Taylor, C. E. (2010)

Acoustic localization is a promising method to passively observe vocal animal species, but remains difficult and time consuming to employ. To reduce the labor intensity and impact of deployment, an acoustic localization ...

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Activation of endogenous FAK via expression of its amino terminal domain in xenopus embryos

Petridou, Nicoletta I.; Stylianou, Panayiota; Christodoulou, Neophytos; Rhoads, Daniel S.; Guan, Junlin; Skourides, Paris A. (2012)

Background: The Focal Adhesion Kinase is a well studied tyrosine kinase involved in a wide number of cellular processes including cell adhesion and migration. It has also been shown to play important roles during embryonic ...

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Addressing the Functional Determinants of FAK during Ciliogenesis in Multiciliated Cells

Antoniades, Ioanna; Stylianou, Panayiota; Christodoulou, Neophytos; Skourides, Paris A. (2017)

We previously identified focal adhesion kinase (FAK) as an important regulator of ciliogenesis in multiciliated cells. FAK and other focal adhesion (FA) proteins associate with the basal bodies and their striated rootlets ...

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Analgesic tolerance and cross-tolerance to i.c.v. endomorphin-1, endomorphin-2, and morphine in mice; 15276249

Soignier, R. D.; Vaccarino, A. L.; Fanti, Kostas A.; Wilson, A. M.; Zadina, J. E. (2004)

The present study examined the development of analgesic tolerance to endomorphin-1 (EM1), endomorphin-2 (EM2), and morphine, and cross-tolerance among these drugs. Male Swiss Webster mice were injected i.c.v. with EM1, ...

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Analysis of volatile organic compounds released from the decay of surrogate human models simulating victims of collapsed buildings by thermal desorption-comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-time of flight mass spectrometry

Agapiou, Agapios; Zorba, Eleni; Mikedi, Katerina; McGregor, L.; Spiliopoulou, C.; Statheropoulos, Miltiades K. (2015)

Field experiments were devised to mimic the entrapment conditions under the rubble of collapsed buildings aiming to investigate the evolution of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during the early dead body decomposition ...

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Angiotensin inhibition enhances drug delivery and potentiates chemotherapy by decompressing tumour blood vessels

Chauhan, V. P.; Martin, J. D.; Liu, H.; Lacorre, D. A.; Jain, S. R.; Kozin, S. V.; Stylianopoulos, T.; Mousa, A. S.; Han, X.; Adstamongkonkul, P.; Popovic, Z.; Huang, P.; Bawendi, M. G.; Boucher, Y.; Jain, R. K. (2013)

Cancer and stromal cells actively exert physical forces (solid stress) to compress tumour blood vessels, thus reducing vascular perfusion. Tumour interstitial matrix also contributes to solid stress, with hyaluronan ...

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Antirestenotic effects of a novel polymer-coated d-24851 eluting stent. Experimental data in a rabbit iliac artery model

Lysitsas, Dimitrios N.; Katsouras, Christos S.; Papakostas, John C.; Toumpoulis, Ioannis K.; Angelidis, Charalampos; Bozidis, Petros; Thomas, Christopher G.; Seferiadis, C.; Psychoyios, Nikolaos; Frillingos, Stathis; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Marinos, Euaggelos; Khaldi, Lubna; Sideris, Dimitris A.; Michalis, Lampros K. (2007)

Experimental and clinical data suggest that stents eluting antiproliferative agents can be used for the prevention of in-stent restenosis. Here we investigate in vitro the antiproliferative and apoptotic effect of D-24851 ...

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Architectural insight into inovirus-associated vectors (IAVs) and development of IAV-based vaccines inducing humoral and cellular responses: Implications in HIV-1 vaccines

Hassapis, K. A.; Stylianou, Dora C.; Kostrikis, Leontios G. (2014)

Inovirus-associated vectors (IAVs) are engineered, non-lytic, filamentous bacteriophages that are assembled primarily from thousands of copies of the major coat protein gp8 and just five copies of each of the four minor ...

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Automated species recognition of antbirds in a Mexican rainforest using hidden Markov models

Trifa, V. M.; Kirschel, A. N. G.; Taylor, C. E.; Vallejo, E. E. (2008)

Behavioral and ecological studies would benefit from the ability to automatically identify species from acoustic recordings. The work presented in this article explores the ability of hidden Markov models to distinguish ...

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The bacterial metabolite 2-aminoacetophenone promotes association of pathogenic bacteria with flies

Kapsetaki, Stefania Elisavet; Tzelepis, Ilias; Avgousti, Kalodoti; Livadaras, Ioannis; Garantonakis, Nikos G.; Varikou, Kyriaki N.; Apidianakis, Yiorgos (2014)

Bacteria contaminate insects and secrete metabolites that may affect insect behaviour and potentially fitness through unknown mechanisms. Here we show that the 'grape-like' odorant 2-aminoacetophenone (2AA), secreted by ...

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Balanced translocations for the analysis of imprinted regions of the mouse genome.

Ferguson-Smith, A. C.; Tevendale, M.; Georgiades, Pantelis; Grandjean, V. (2001)

Experimental studies that investigate the functional and mechanistic properties of an imprinted locus require material in which the two parental chromosome homologs can be easily distinguished. The use of animals with ...

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Beneficial effects of a vanadium complex with cysteine, administered at low doses on benzo(α) pyrene-induced leiomyosarcomas in wistar rats

Liasko, Roman; Kabanos, Themistoklis A.; Karkabounas, Spyridon Ch; Malamas, Michael Ph; Tasiopoulos, Anastasios J.; Stefanou, Dimitrios G.; Collery, P.; Evangelou, Angelos M. (1998)

Background: Vanadium is a potent environmental and body metal, possessing remarkable antitumor and antidiabetic properties. Vanadium salts and complexes have been widely investigated for their anticarcinogenic properties ...

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Beyond the histone tail: acetylation at the nucleosome dyad commands transcription.

Molina-Serrano, D.; Kirmizis, Antonis (2013)

Post-translational modifications (PTMs) of histones have been implicated in cellular processes such as transcription, replication and DNA repair. These processes normally involve dynamic changes in chromatin structure and ...

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Biogeography of body size in terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Oniscidea)

Karagkouni, Maria; Sfenthourakis, Spyros; Feldman, Anat; Meiri, Shai (2016)

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Causes, consequences, and remedies for growth-induced solid stress in murine and human tumors

Stylianopoulos, T.; Martin, J. D.; Chauhan, V. P.; Jain, S. R.; Diop-Frimpong, B.; Bardeesy, N.; Smith, B. L.; Ferrone, C. R.; Hornicek, F. J.; Boucher, Y.; Munn, L. L.; Jain, R. K. (2012)

The presence of growth-induced solid stresses in tumors has been suspected for some time, but these stresses were largely estimated using mathematical models. Solid stresses can deform the surrounding tissues and compress ...

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Cell-Autonomous Ca(2+) Flashes Elicit Pulsed Contractions of an Apical Actin Network to Drive Apical Constriction during Neural Tube Closure

Christodoulou, Neophytos; Skourides, Paris A. (2015)

Neurulation is a critical period in all vertebrates and results in the formation of the neural tube, which gives rise to the CNS. Apical constriction is one of the fundamental morphogenetic movements that drives neural ...

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Challenge of Drosophila melanogaster with Cryptococcus neoformans and role of the innate immune response

Apidianakis, Yiorgos; Rahme, L. G.; Heitman, J.; Ausubel, F. M.; Calderwood, S. B.; Mylonakis, E. (2004)

We found that the ingestion of Cryptococcus neoformans by Drosophila melanogaster resulted in the death of the fly but that the ingestion of Saccharomyces cerevisiae or the nonpathogenic Cryptococcus kuetzingii or Cryptococcus ...

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Character displacement of song and morphology in African tinkerbirds

Kirschel, A. N. G.; Blumstein, Daniel T.; Smith, T. B. (2009)

Divergence in acoustic signals between populations of animals can lead to species recognition failure, reproductive isolation, and speciation. Character displacement may facilitate coexistence of species in natural ...

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Chemopreventive effects of soy protein and purified soy isoflavones on DMBA-induced mammary tumors in female Sprague-Dawley rats

Constantinou, Andreas I.; Lantvit, D.; Hawthorne, M.; Xu, X.; Van Breemen, R. B.; Pezzuto, J. M. (2001)

There are conflicting reports on the effect of soy and its components on mammary carcinogenesis in adult female rats, mainly because of different rodent models that are used in chemoprevention studies. The present study ...