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Although target cell cytolysis has been widely employed to describe effector function of cells, cytolysis assays as commonly employed do not generate quantitative data. In...
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A simple and reliable method for preparation of whole nuclei of a common oomycete, Phytophthora infestans, is described for laser flow cytometry. The ease of...
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Human embryonic stem cell (hESC) cultures are heterogeneous and constituting paracrine signals are required to maintain pluripotency. The cellular interplay and dynamic nature of this...
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Intraerythrocytic maturation of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is associated with profound changes in the asymmetry of phospholipids in the lipid bilayer of the parasitized...
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The complex nature of enzyme regulation mandates that enzyme activity profiles be measured in the context of the intact cell. Single-cell capillary electrophoresis (CE) coupled...
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Analyzing cellular morphologies on a cell-by-cell basis is vital for drug discovery, cell biology, and many other biological studies. Interactions between cells in their culture...
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Research into the genetic basis of nervous system development and neurodegenerative diseases requires counting neurons to find out the extent of neurogenesis or neuronal loss....
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FOXP3 is a key transcription factor expressed by regulatory T cells (Treg cells). However, differences in staining and analysis protocols have led to conflicting results....
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N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is known as an antioxidant and used for mucus viscosity reduction. However, this drug prevents or induces cell death depending on the cell...
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The prognostic significance of HER2 expression in human breast carcinomas is beyond dispute nowadays. The HER family of receptor tyrosine kinases comprises four members (HER1/ErbB1/EGFR,...
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Phagocytosis is a highly conserved mechanism exhibited by both free-living amebas and mammalian blood cells. Similarities demonstrated by either cell type during engulfment of the...
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In recent years, slide-based cytometry has become a key technology for polychromatic cytometric investigations, and many efforts have been made to increase the number of...
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Effects of some detergents - most frequently used in membrane raft studies - on the polymerization properties of actin were examined under in vitro and...
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Traditionally, flow cytometry analysis of dendritic cells (DC) has followed a negative selection procedure, often limiting the characterization of individual DC subsets to enumeration. We...
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Research involving bacterial pathogens often requires enumeration of bacteria colonies. Here, we present a low-cost, high-throughput colony counting system consisting of colony counting software and...
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We have recently reported an innovative approach to use charged fluorochromes such as propidium iodide (PI) in the real-time, dynamic cell viability assays. This study...
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Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) is a tool widely used in studies of dynamic behavior of fluorescently-tagged proteins in live cells. We have analyzed published...
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Polychromatic flow cytometric analysis takes advantage of the increasing number of available fluorophores to positively identify and simultaneously assess multiple parameters in the same cell...
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The microtubule network plays critical roles in many cellular processes, and quantitative models of how its organization varies across cell types and conditions are required...
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Previous studies from this laboratory have demonstrated importance of neutrophil-derived nitric oxide (NO) in free radical generation, characterized nitric oxide synthase (NOS) isoforms, and have...
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Histone H1 is an important constituent of chromatin, which undergoes major structural rearrangements during mitosis. However, the role of H1, multiple H1 subtypes, and H1...
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Chemical address tags can be defined as specific structural features shared by a set of bioimaging probes having a predictable influence on cell-associated visual signals...
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Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) have interesting optical properties, such as exceptionally high quantum yields and virtually limitless photostability. Therefore, they show the potential for applications as...
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Monitoring changes in human immune cell populations such as lymphocytes, monocytes, and dendritic cells (DCs) during infectious diseases like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is crucial....
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Follicular lesions of the thyroid are traditionally difficult and tedious challenges in diagnostic surgical pathology in part due to lack of obvious discriminatory cytological and...
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To push the 100-plex envelope of suspension array technology, we have developed fully automated methods to acquire multispectral images of multiplexed quantum-dot (QD) encoded microspheres,...
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Co-immunoprecipitation is the classical approach for investigating protein-protein interactions. Analysis is generally conducted using the Western blot approach. We set out to investigate whether flow...