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Airway obstruction in asthma: does the response to a deep inspiration matter?
Respiratory Research, 2001 Airway hyperresponsiveness in asthma may not be a problem of too much airway smooth muscle strength. Rather, it may be a problem of too little of the factors that oppose muscle shortening.
Fredberg Jeffrey J
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Competition between kinesin-1 and myosin-V defines Drosophila posterior determination
eLife, 2020 Local accumulation of oskar (osk) mRNA in the Drosophila oocyte determines the posterior pole of the future embryo. Two major cytoskeletal components, microtubules and actin filaments, together with a microtubule motor, kinesin-1, and an actin motor ...
Wen Lu +7 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.In this work, melt electrowriting is used to fabricate a 3D printed scaffold design that generates engineered cardiac tissues with in‐plane contraction, mimicking natural myocardium. It is shown that these tissues display advanced maturation and functionality.
Olalla Iglesias‐García +23 more
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Insects, 2012 The Formosan subterranean termite (Coptotermes formosanus) is an important worldwide pest, each year causing millions of dollars in structural damage and control costs. Termite colonies are composed of several phenotypically distinct castes.
Alan Lax +4 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Biofabrication aims at providing innovative technologies and tools for the fabrication of tissue‐like constructs for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications. By integrating multiple biofabrication technologies, such as 3D (bio) printing with fiber fabrication methods, it would be more realistic to reconstruct native tissue's ...
Waseem Kitana +2 more
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Cytoskeletal Remodeling in Cancer
Biology, 2020 Successful metastasis depends on cell invasion, migration, host immune escape, extravasation, and angiogenesis. The process of cell invasion and migration relies on the dynamic changes taking place in the cytoskeletal components; actin, tubulin and ...
Jaya Aseervatham
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The role of myosin 1c and myosin 1b in surfactant exocytosis [PDF]
Journal of Cell Science, 2016 ABSTRACT Actin and actin-associated proteins have a pivotal effect on regulated exocytosis in secretory cells and influence pre-fusion as well as post-fusion stages of exocytosis. Actin polymerization on secretory granules during the post-fusion phase (formation of an actin coat) is especially important in cells with large secretory ...
Kittelberger, N +4 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.The pre‐internalization phase of endocytosis remains poorly characterized at single‐cell levels. Single‐cell pre‐internalization mechanics are investigated using advanced robotic techniques. Cancer cells exhibit biphasic adhesion – rapid initial binding followed by reinforcement – while fibroblasts show gradual engagement.
Houari Bettahar +6 more
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Classifying Cardiac Actin Mutations Associated With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Frontiers in Physiology, 2018 Mutations in the cardiac actin gene (ACTC1) are associated with the development of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). To date, 12 different ACTC1 mutations have been discovered in patients with HCM. Given the high degree of sequence conservation of actin
Evan A. Despond, John F. Dawson
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Diagnostics, 2020 Introduction. The acquired muscle paralysis associated with modern critical care can be of neurogenic or myogenic origin, yet the distinction between these origins is hampered by the precision of current diagnostic methods.
Humberto D.J. Gonzalez Marrero +7 more
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