Browsing by Department "Cell Biology"
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A Clonal Analysis of Zebrafish Heart Morphogenesis and Regeneration
(2014)As vertebrate embryos grow and develop into adults, their organs must acquire mass and mature tissue architecture to maintain proper homeostasis. While juvenile growth encompasses a significant portion of life, relatively ... -
A Genomic and Structural Study of FtsZ Function for Bacterial Cell Division
(2013)The tubulin homolog FtsZ provides the cytoskeletal framework for bacterial cell division. FtsZ is an essential protein for bacterial cell division, and is the only protein necessary for Z-ring assembly and constriction force ... -
A Systems Level Analysis of Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in the Red-Eared Slider Turtle Trachemys Scripta Elegans.
(2016)Sex determination is a critical biological process for all sexually reproducing animals. Despite its significance, evolution has provided a vast array of mechanisms by which sexual phenotype is determined and elaborated ... -
Amino acid transporters regulate bone formation
(2021)Bone development and homeostasis are governed by a number of developmental signals, transcription factors and cellular metabolism. This process is also dependent on the orchestration of multiple cell types including osteoblasts, ... -
Basement Membranes Mediate Interactions Between Tissues
(2022)Basement membranes (BMs) are conserved, cell-associated, sheet-like networks of extracellular matrices that provide structural support to tissues. BMs also function as a signaling scaffold, directing cellular processes including ... -
Bioinformatics and Molecular Approaches for the Construction of Biological Artificial Cartilage
(2018)Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the leading causes of disability in the United States, afflicting over 27 million Americans and imposing an economic burden of more than $128 billion each year (1, 2). OA is characterized by ... -
Cardiac Mitogen Signaling During Zebrafish Heart Regeneration
(2020)AbstractAdult zebrafish demonstrate a remarkable capacity to regenerate heart tissue following injury, and thus have served as a valuable model for developing our understanding of cardiac repair and regeneration. Recent ... -
Cell Lineage Specification during Mouse Embryonic Gonad Development
(2017)The mouse embryonic gonad provides an outstanding model to study the complex mechanisms involved in cell fate specification and maintenance. At the bipotential stage, both XX and XY gonads are capable of becoming testes ... -
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiac Chamber Maturation in Zebrafish
(2018)The formation of the heart is a critical part of development that, if defective, can lead to congenital malformations incompatible with life. An improved understanding of the cellular and molecular processes that build the ... -
Cellular Mechanisms Regulating Single Lumen Formation in the Zebrafish Gut
(2014)The formation of a single lumen during tubulogenesis is crucial for the development and function of many organs. Although 3D cell culture models have identified molecular mechanisms controlling lumen formation in vitro, ... -
Characterization of the Actin Nucleator Cordon-bleu in Zebrafish
(2010)The means by which cells, tissues, and organisms undergo morphogenesis are variable and highly regulated, and the mechanisms that govern cellular changes in response to signaling cues are poorly understood. This study seeks ... -
Clonal Analysis of the Zebrafish Fin Regeneration Blastema
(2016)Regeneration is a remarkable feat of developmental regrowth and patterning. The blastema is a mass of progenitor cells that enables complete regeneration of amputated salamander limbs or fish fins. Despite years of study, ... -
Codon Usage Biases Differ Between Tissues and Can Confer Tissue-Specific Gene Expression in Drosophila
(2022)Codon usage bias is a fundamental aspect of the genetic code. For many years synonymous mutations to a coding sequence were considered to be functionally “silent.” We now appreciate that is not the case and that synonymous ... -
Cryptococcus Neoformans Interactions with Surfactant Proteins: Implications for Innate Pulmonary Immunity
(2009)Concurrent with the global escalation of the AIDS pandemic, cryptococcal infections are increasing and are of significant medical importance. Although improvements in antifungal therapy have advanced the treatment ... -
Cytoskeletal Dynamics and the Temporal Control of Yeast Morphogenesis
(2012)The cells of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae undergo a robust morphological cycle, involving reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton, septin ring formation, and polarized growth. These events are crucial to ... -
Decoding the Function of Ankyrin-B in Organelle Transport
(2016)Organelle transport in eukaryotic cells is regulated by a precisely coordinated activity of phosphoinositide lipids, small GTPases, and molecular motors. Despite the extensive study of functional activities of individual ... -
Development of a High-Throughput Human iPSC Chondrogenesis Platform and Applications for Arthritis Disease Modeling
(2019)The differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) to prescribed cell fates enables the engineering of patient-specific tissue types, such as hyaline cartilage, for applications in regenerative medicine, ... -
Developmental Regulation of Injury-Induced Cell Cycles in the Drosophila Hindgut
(2020)As development progresses, many tissues lose their ability to regenerate via cellular proliferation. In some tissues, including the human heart and kidneys, injury activates a non-proliferative cellular response known as ... -
Effects of prolonged mitosis on neural stem cells in vivo during development
(2020)Microcephaly patients are born with a brain size >3 standard deviations below normal and have mild to severe cognitive deficits. 12 microcephaly-linked genes identified in human genetics studies encode microtubule/centr... -
Elaborating the Desmosome Proteome: Insights into Novel Mechanisms Essential for Regulating Epidermal Integrity and Homeostasis
(2020)Desmosomes are a class of cell-cell adhesions whose primary physiological function is to maintain the mechanical integrity of tissues. Morphologically, desmosomes are very distinct protein complexes. They are dense pairs ...
