Virus evolution topic of Darwin talk at UH April 2
... pathogens evolve. Turner often performs basic research on non-dangerous viruses that serve as models for important pathogens. An example is the vesicular stomatitis virus that does not cause disease in humans but provides an excellent model for the sometimes deadly Dengue virus and other viruses transmi...Neurocrine Biosciences Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2008 Results
...n-GLP studies. The favorable results of these studies should allow urocortin 2 to be infused for periods up to two weeks in duration in humans. vesicular Monoamine Transporter 2 Inhibitor (VMAT2 ) VMAT2 is a protein concentrated in the human brain that is essential for the transmission of nerv...Zebrafish Journal Publishes Skin Pigmentation Studies That Shed Light on the Evolution of Race
...its of the guppy, the link between pigment and fish behavior, and pigment dilution mutants in fish models connected to lysosome-related organelles and vesicular traffic genes. Zebrafish is an authoritative peer-reviewed journal published quarterly in print and online. This is the only peer-reviewed jo...Tumor-killing virus selectively targets diseased brain cells
...e cells they target, conducted by senior author Anthony van den Pol, PhD, and his team at Yale University School of Medicine. They set out to test the vesicular stomatis virus, which was selected for its ability to attack brain tumors and leave healthy tissue largely uninfected. Tumor cells from brain cance...Deafness and seizures result when mysterious protein deleted in mice
...ry perception, learning and memory. The missing protein is a particular vesicular neurotransmitter transporter, a machine within nerve cells that ferries che...aspects of behavior. Scientists have known for several years about two vesicular glutamate transporters, VGLUT1 and VGLUT2. As would be predicted, they are ...Researchers train the immune system to deliver virus that destroys cancer in lab models
...cancer recurrence. The study appeared in the Dec. 9 online issue of Nature Medicine. The technology combines infection-fighting T-cells with the vesicular stomatitis virus that targets and destroys cancer cells while leaving normal cells unharmed. The study, which has not yet been replicated in humans, i...Protein-dependent 'switch' regulates intracellular trafficking in epithelial cells
...g sickness not only of cells but of the organ of which those cells are a part," Dr. Kreitzer explains. Scientists have spent decades investigating vesicular trafficking. But the exact role for each of the 41 members of the kinesin family has remained unclear. In their study, Dr. Kreitzer's team focused ...Study Revises Dynamin's Role in Nerve Cell Function
...icle recycling process,' Dr. Ryan explains. 'Essentially, the enzyme undergoes a chemical change whereby it physically squeezes off a piece of the old vesicular membrane creating a brand new vesicle poised to take on a new load of neurotransmitter.' Based on this work in fruit flies, neuroscientists h...Hope for Marburg treatment: vaccine successful in primates
...that is said to be more effective as it is required in small doses and is easier to produce. The vaccine is med from the virus that causes the disease vesicular stomatitis in the farm animals. After genetically modifying the virus to make it harmless, inoculations of the live virus makes the human bodies to id...Breakthrough technology observes synapse in real time, supporting theory of vesicular recycling
NEW YORK (Dec. 13, 2007) -- For the first time, scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City have observed in real time a cellular mechanism that's crucial to how brain cells communicate. In doing so, they've also laid to rest a competing theory as to how key cellular processes ...'Neurological work-arounds' offer hope to people with monoamine-related disorders
... To reach this conclusion, Krantz, Simon and colleagues bred fruit flies with what should have been a devastating, life-threatening mutation in the vesicular monoamine transporter gene. This mutation caused their brain cells to be unable to release monoamine neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine....Molecular Biology of the Cell celebrates 25 years of publication
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...the exocyst) which is known to be required for secretion (or exocytosis) of vesicular compartments in yeast. vesicular compartments are small organelles that transport proteins from one site to ...Neurocrine Biosciences Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results
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...ive rise to behavior?" He and Lim, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California-Berkeley, computationally modeled the lifecycle of the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), a well-studied virus with only five genes and years of background research on its growth and function. Virologists have pr...Safe Production of High-Titer Retrovirus
...teins themselves (except for the VSV-G protein, which is derived from the vesicular stomatatitis virus). Host Range of Envelope Proteins (1,5) ...dered relatively safe compared with other viral systems. The vesicular stomatitis virus G protein (VSV-G) 5 is rapidly becoming the most popula...Human Interferon Gamma Bioassay Services from PBL InterferonSource
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