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Endothelial cell cycle state determines propensity for arterial-venous fate.

4/18/2023

During blood vessel development, endothelial cells become specified toward arterial or venous fates to generate a circulatory network that provides nutrients and oxygen to, and removes metabolic waste from, all…

Quantitation of RhoA activation: differential binding to downstream effectors

8/24/2022

The small GTPase RhoA controls many important cellular processes through its ability to activate multiple downstream effector pathways. Most RhoA effectors contain a Rho-binding domain (RBD), and interaction between active…

Dynein Is Required for Rab7-Dependent Endosome Maturation, Retrograde Dendritic Transport, and Degradation

8/11/2022

Abstract In all cell types, endocytosed cargo is transported along a set of endosomal compartments, which are linked maturationally from early endosomes (EEs) via late endosomes (LEs) to lysosomes. Lysosomes…

Lacripep for the Treatment of Primary Sjögren’s-Associated Ocular Surface Disease: Results of the First-In-Human Study

8/11/2022

Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the safety, tolerability, dosing, and efficacy of the active 19 amino acid fragment of lacritin (Lacripep), a broad regulator of ocular…

Ecdysone exerts biphasic control of regenerative signaling, coordinating the completion of regeneration with developmental progression

5/20/2022

In Drosophila melanogaster, loss of regenerative capacity in wing imaginal discs coincides with an increase in systemic levels of the steroid hormone ecdysone, a key coordinator of their developmental progression. Regenerating…

Construction of a mammalian embryo model from stem cells organized by a morphogen signalling centre

4/21/2022

Generating properly differentiated embryonic structures in vitro from pluripotent stem cells remains a challenge. Here we show that instruction of aggregates of mouse embryonic stem cells with an experimentally engineered…

Multifaceted Roles of Connexin 43 in Stem Cell Niches

4/21/2022

Purpose of review: Considerable progress has been made in the field of stem cell research; nonetheless, the use of stem cells for regenerative medicine therapies, for either endogenous tissue repair or…

Resident Endothelial Progenitors Make Themselves at Home

4/21/2022

Vascular endothelial cells adapt to their microenvironment and physiological demands to perform many essential functions. Recent studies (McDonald et al., 2018; Wakabayashi et al., 2018) suggest that quiescent endothelial stem/progenitor…

Understanding neural stem cell regulation in vivo and applying the insights to cell therapy for strokes

4/21/2022

The use of neural stem cell (NSC) therapy for the treatment of stroke patients is successfully paving its way into advanced phases of large-scale clinical trials. To understand how to…

Isolation of Murine Retinal Endothelial Cells for Next-Generation Sequencing

4/21/2022

Recent improvements in next-generation sequencing have advanced researchers' knowledge of molecular and cellular biology, with several studies revealing novel paradigms in vascular biology. Applying these methods to models of vascular…