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(Heat) shocking insight into peripheral nerve injury
Hsp27 expressing neurons (yellow) distinguished by double labeling for tubulin (red) and HSP27 (green). Ma and colleagues show that expression of heat shock protein 27 enhances restoration...
Published October 3, 2011
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Understanding genetic hearing loss
Normal inner ear harvested from a mouse at postnatal day 3 and injected with paint to visualize the cochlea (bottom) and endolymphatic sac (top). Choi and colleagues show that the sac and the...
Published October 3, 2011
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Keeping podocytes on their feet
Organization of the actin cytoskeleton and focal adhesions in podocytes where dendrin (a transcription factor that promotes expression of cytosolic cathepsin L) has been downregulated. Focal...
Published September 29, 2011
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Some adult lung cells have potential
Chapman et al.show a subpopulation of alveolar epithelial cells (AECs) expressing the laminin receptor α6β4 is endowed with regenerative potential. In this image, a GFP+ β4+ adult AECs mixed...
Published June 23, 2011
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Sniffing out a new direction for stem cell therapy?
Human olfactory ecto-mesenchymal stem cells transplanted into lesioned mouse hippocampi survived, migrated and differentiated into neurons (Blue: Hoechst, Red: GFAP astrocytic marker, Green:...
Published June 13, 2011
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