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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Innate immune response in human endothelial cells : characterization and regulation of E-selectin, ICAM-I and cytokine expression and the role of Staphylococcus aureus /

Strindhall, Jan, January 2003 (has links) (PDF)
Diss. (sammanfattning) Linköping : Univ., 2003. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.
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Non-enveloped virus infection probed with host cellular molecules : a structural study /

Xing, Li, January 2002 (has links)
Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karol. inst., 2002. / Härtill 7 uppsatser.
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Human ovarian follicle recruitment : an in vitro approach /

Scott, Jennifer E., January 2004 (has links)
Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karol. inst., 2004. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.
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Investigation of the function and protein-protein interaction of zebrafish progranulin-A during development

Baranowski, David Charles. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.). / Written for the Dept. of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine. Title from title page of PDF (viewed 2008/07/23. Includes bibliographical references.
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Understanding the mechanism of action of UV3, an anti-CD54 monoclonal antibody, in the therapy of multiple myeloma

Coleman, Elaine J. January 2005 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 2005. / Vita. Bibliography: 155-170.
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Wnt signaling regulated by Frizzled and HIPK1 /

Louie, Sarah. January 2004 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2004. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-98).
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Growth cone repellent signaling /

Sanford, Staci D. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D. in Neuroscience) -- University of Colorado Denver, 2008. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-165). Free to UCD affiliates. Online version available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations;
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Peripheral myelin protein 22 is a novel constituent of intercellular junctions

Roux, Kyle Joseph. January 2004 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2004. / Typescript. Title from title page of source document. Document formatted into pages; contains 118 pages. Includes Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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FRMD8 is a novel regulator of iRhom-dependent ADAM17 activity

Künzel, Ulrike January 2017 (has links)
A disintegrin and metalloprotease (ADAM) 17 cleaves and releases membrane-tethered pro-forms of several signalling molecules from the plasma membrane, including the inflammatory cytokine tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) and ligands of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). Due to the important functions of its substrates, ADAM17 activity has to be tightly controlled, and its misregulation has implications for inflammation and cancer. The multi-pass membrane proteins iRhom1 and iRhom2 are members of the conserved rhomboid-like superfamily and control ADAM17 activity by several mechanisms throughout the secretory pathway. First, iRhoms facilitate trafficking of the catalytically inactive proenzyme form of ADAM17 from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to the Golgi apparatus, where the inhibitory pro-domain of ADAM17 is removed. Subsequently, iRhoms exert a different form of control of ADAM17 at the plasma membrane, this time on stimulus-induced ADAM17 activity, its substrate specificity, and its stability. iRhoms ultimately regulate the release of ADAM17 substrates, and are consequently key players in TNFα and EGFR signalling. However, it remains unclear how iRhom function itself is regulated posttranslationally, and whether iRhoms require co-factors to exert their roles as ADAM17 regulators. The goal of my project was to shed light into these questions by identifying new iRhom interaction partners. I developed a mass spectrometry-based screen to identify new binding partners of human iRhoms using co-immunoprecipitation. The top hit of the screen was the poorly characterised FERM domain-containing protein 8 (FRMD8), which binds to both iRhom1 and iRhom2. FRMD8 was found to play a crucial role in the iRhom/ADAM17 pathway because FRMD8 knockdown and knockout in HEK293T cells significantly reduced the levels of mature ADAM17 and the release of ADAM17 substrates. The closely related metalloprotease ADAM10 was not affected by the loss of FRMD8, implying that FRMD8 is not a general regulator of ADAM metalloproteases. Interaction studies revealed that FRMD8 binds to the cytosolic N-terminus of iRhom2 throughout the entire secretory pathway. FRMD8 loss does not affect the ER-to-Golgi trafficking of iRhom2 but plays a role in stabilising iRhom2 at the plasma membrane by preventing the lysosomal degradation of both iRhom2 and mature ADAM17. Using human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived macrophages, I showed that FRMD8 regulates mature ADAM17 levels and the ADAM17-dependent release of TNFα in human macrophages. Studies in FRMD8 knockout (KO) mice confirmed the reduced mature ADAM17 levels in all mouse tissues tested, further supporting the conclusion that FRMD8 is a novel regulator of the iRhom/ADAM17 pathway with physiological relevance in mammals. Finally, I showed that the interaction of FRMD8 and iRhom, which are both conserved from Drosophila to human, is also conserved. Furthermore, loss of the FRMD8 orthologue in flies, Bili, leads to motility defects and shows similarity to the loss of iRhom in flies. These results suggest that FRMD8 is a novel regulator of iRhom function in mammals and Drosophila.
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Importância do contato intercelular no pâncreas endócrino mediado pelas junções celulares e seu papel na patogênese da diabetes mellitus tipo 2 / Cell-cell contact mediated by intercellular junctions within the endocrine pancreas and its role in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus

Falcão, Viviane Tannuri Ferreira Lima, 1962- 26 August 2018 (has links)
Orientadores: Carla Beatriz Collares Buzato, Maria Tereza Cartaxo Muniz / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Biologia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T04:14:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Falcao_VivianeTannuriFerreiraLima_D.pdf: 4019842 bytes, checksum: b5e69f5076caaaff42a597448cba843c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: As junções intercelulares (JIs) e suas proteínas estruturais estão envolvidas em vários processos celulares tais como adesão e comunicação celular, diferenciação, proliferação e homeostase celular em diversos órgãos. No pâncreas endócrino, JIs parecem estar envolvidas na regulação da citoarquitetura das ilhotas pancreáticas, bem como na biossíntese e secreção de insulina. O objetivo desta tese foi investigar o possível papel do contato intercelular mediado pelas junções intercelulares e suas proteínas estruturais na disfunção das células beta pancreáticas na patogênese do Diabetes mellitus tipo 2 (DMT2). Para tanto, investigamos a distribuição e expressão celular de proteínas juncionais (a saber, E-, N-, VE-caderinas, ZO-1, ?- e ? - cateninas) no pâncreas endócrino de camundongos C57BL/6/JUnib alimentados com uma dieta rica em gorduras (dHL) durante 8 meses. Inicialmente, foi feita uma caracterização metabólica dos animais e uma análise estrutural e morfométrica do pâncreas endócrino, já que estudos avaliando o efeito da administração de dHL por tempo prolongado são escassos. Os animais do grupo dHL (alimentados com ração contendo 21%g lipídios por 8 meses) tornaram-se obesos, mostrando importante aumento do ganho de peso (170%) em relação ao grupo controle (que receberam ração padrão com 4,5%g lipídios pelo mesmo período de tempo). Ainda, os camundongos obesos exibiram distúrbios metabólicos característicos e indicativos dos estágios iniciais do estabelecimento da DMT2, como resistência periférica a insulina, com um aumento (de 27,34%, p=0,0005) da área sob a curva de ITT, bem como marcada hiperglicemia em jejum (52%, p<0,0001) e hiperinsulinemia pós-prandial (88%, p=0,0058) em relação ao grupo Ct. Ilhotas pancreáticas isoladas de camundongos alimentados com dHL mostraram uma deficiência significativa da secreção de insulina estimulada por glicose (p<0,05), associada a um aumento da expressão do gene da insulina (isoformas 1 e 2), analisado por qPCR. A histologia do pâncreas endócrino não revelou alterações marcantes na morfologia e citoarquitetura das ilhotas entre os grupos de animais. Entretanto, os animais dHL apresentaram um aumento significativo do volume relativo de células ? por pâncreas total (aumento de 57,1%, p<0,036) e da área relativa de células ? por ilhota em relação ao grupo controle (p<0,003), indicando uma expansão compensatória da massa de célula beta, associada com uma significativa diminuição (p<0,003) da área ocupada pelas células alfa em relação à área total da ilhota (30%, p<0,003). Com relação à distribuição celular das proteínas juncionais nas ilhotas pancreáticas, a N-caderina, E-caderina, ZO-1 e cateninas estão distribuídas na região de contato intercelular das células endócrinas pancreáticas, enquanto que a VE-caderina está limitada ao endotélio. Verificou-se, por imunoistoquímica, uma diminuição na marcação intercelular das células ? para N-caderina (p<0,0001), E-caderina (p<0,0001) e ?-catenina (p<0,0001) e um aumento na imunoreação para VE-caderina (p<0,004) nas ilhotas de camundongos diabéticos em relação ao grupo Ct. No caso particular da imunofluorescência para N-caderina, verificou-se um aumento na marcação difusa do interior das células ?, indicando uma redistribuição dessa proteína da região de contato intercelular para o citoplasma. Entretanto, não observamos diferenças significativas no grau do conteúdo celular dessas proteínas juncionais em homogeneizados de ilhotas isoladas entre os grupos experimentais, analisado por Western Blot. Conforme revelado por qPCR, um aumento na expressão gênica da VE- e N-caderinas, bem como de ZO-1, foi observado em ilhotas isoladas de camundongos diabéticos em comparação com os controles. Em conclusão, as proteínas juncionais estudadas são expressas por células endócrinas e endoteliais das ilhotas pancreáticas e, em particular, a distribuição/expressão de N-, E- e VE-caderinas, bem como ?-catenina nas ilhotas é significativamente alterada em camundongos obesos e diabéticos, o que pode ter repercussão no desenvolvimento da DMT2 / Abstract: Intercellular junctions (IJs) and their CAMs participate in important cellular processes such as adhesion, growth/death and signaling. In the endocrine pancreas, IJs play a role in regulating islet cytoarchitecture, insulin biosynthesis and secretion. In this PhD thesis, we investigate the islet histology and cellular distribution and content of CAMs (E-, N-, VE-cadherins, ZO-1, ?- and ?-catenins) in the endocrine pancreas of C57BL/6/JUnib mice fed a high fat (HF) diet for a prolonged time period (8 months). After HF diet exposure, mice became obese and displayed marked metabolic disturbances indicative of type 2 diabetes mellitus, such as marked peripheral insulin resistance and hyperglycemia, and moderate hyperinsulinemia. Isolated pancreatic islets of HF-fed mice showed a significant impairment of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion associated with an increase in insulin (isoforms 1 and 2) gene expression as revealed by qPCR. Histology of the endocrine pancreas revealed no marked changes in islet morphology and cytoarchitecture between animal groups, although HF-fed mice showed a 57% increase in the relative beta cell volume (per total pancreas) in comparison with controls. As shown by immunohistochemistry, ZO-1, E-, N-cadherin and catenins, were expressed at the intercellular contact site of endocrine cells while VE-cadherin was restricted to the islet vascular compartment. A cellular redistribution of N- and E-cadherin and ?-catenin (from the contact region to the cytoplasm in endocrine cells) and an increase in VE-cadherin islet content were seen in diabetic mice as compared to controls. No significant differences in islet immunoreaction for the other CAMs were observed between the animal groups. As revealed by qPCR, an increase in gene expression of VE- and N-cadherins as well as of ZO-1, not accompanied by significant changes in islet protein content, was observed in isolated islets of diabetic mice as compared to the controls. In conclusion, CAMs are expressed by endocrine and endothelial cells of pancreatic islets and, in particular, the islet distribution/content of N-, E- and VE-cadherins as well as ?-catenin are significantly altered in obese and diabetic mice / Doutorado / Biologia Celular / Doutora em Biologia Celular e Estrutural

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