The Role of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) in the Formation of Extracellular Traps (ETs) in Humans
Biomolecules, 2015 Extracellular traps (ETs) are reticulate structures of extracellular DNA associated with antimicrobial molecules. Their formation by phagocytes (mainly by neutrophils: NETs) has been identified as an essential element of vertebrate innate immune defense.
Walter Stoiber +3 more
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3D Ultrastructure of the Cochlear Outer Hair Cell Lateral Wall Revealed By Electron Tomography. [PDF]
, 2019 Outer Hair Cells (OHCs) in the mammalian cochlea display a unique type of voltage-induced mechanical movement termed electromotility, which amplifies auditory signals and contributes to the sensitivity and frequency selectivity of mammalian hearing ...
Auer, Manfred +6 more
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Follicular complex may predict reproductive tactics in siluriform fishes
Heliyon, 2023 In this study, we evaluated the morphology and morphometry of the layers that make up the follicular complex surrounding mature oocytes in the six fish species Auchenipterichthys longimanus, Ageneiosus ucayalensis, Hypophthalmus marginatus, Baryancistrus
Ivana Kerly S. Viana +5 more
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Optimization of electron microscopy for human brains with long-term fixation and fixed-frozen sections. [PDF]
, 2014 BackgroundAbnormal connectivity across brain regions underlies many neurological disorders including multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia and autism, possibly due to atypical axonal organization within white matter.
Liu, Xiao-Bo, Schumann, Cynthia M
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Plasmolysis: Loss of Turgor and Beyond
Plants, 2014 Plasmolysis is a typical response of plant cells exposed to hyperosmotic stress. The loss of turgor causes the violent detachment of the living protoplast from the cell wall. The plasmolytic process is mainly driven by the vacuole.
Ingeborg Lang +3 more
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Vitrification of human immature oocytes before and after in vitro maturation: a review [PDF]
, 2017 The use of immature oocytes subjected to in vitro maturation (IVM) opens interesting perspectives for fertility preservation where ovarian reserves are damaged by pathologies or therapies, as in PCO/PCOS and cancer patients. Human oocyte cryopreservation
Ashourzadeh, S +5 more
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A novel method for transmission electron microscopy study of cytoplasmic fragments from preimplantation human embryos [PDF]
, 2016 Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is the main tool for exploring the intracellular damage and organelle distribution. The cause of producing embryo cytoplsamic fragmentation is not completely understood.
Halvaei, I +2 more
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Ultrastructure Organization of Human Trabeculae Assessed by 3D sSAXS and Relation to Bone Microarchitecture. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Although the organization of bone ultrastructure, i.e. the orientation and arrangement of the mineralized collagen fibrils, has been in the focus of research for many years for cortical bone, and many models on the osteonal arrangement have been proposed,
Marios Georgiadis +6 more
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Novel Bacterial Diversity and Fragmented eDNA Identified in Hyperbiofilm-Forming Pseudomonas aeruginosa Rugose Small Colony Variant [PDF]
, 2020 Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms represent a major threat to health care. Rugose small colony variants (RSCV) of P. aeruginosa, isolated from chronic infections, display hyperbiofilm phenotype.
Deng, Binbin +10 more
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Endocytosis and Digestion in Carnivorous Pitcher Plants of the Family Sarraceniaceae
Plants, 2019 Highly evolved carnivorous plants secrete digestive enzymes for degradation of trapped animals and absorb whole macromolecules from their prey by means of endocytosis.
Marianne Koller-Peroutka +5 more
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