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- Kunkel, E J, et al.
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Lymphocyte CC chemokine receptor 9 and epithelial thymus-expressed chemokine (TECK) expression distinguish the small intestinal immune compartment: Epithelial expression of tissue-specific chemokines as an organizing principle in regional immunity
- 2000
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In: Journal of Experimental Medicine. - 1540-9538. ; 192:5, s. 761-768
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The immune system has evolved specialized cellular and molecular mechanisms for targeting and regulating immune responses at epithelial surfaces. Here we show that small intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes and lamina propria lymphocytes migrate to thymus-expressed chemokine (TECK). This attraction is mediated by CC chemokine receptor (CCR)9, a chemoattractant receptor expressed at high levels by essentially all CD4(+) and CD8(+) T lymphocytes in the small intestine. Only a small subset of lymphocytes in the colon are CCR9(+), and lymphocytes from other tissues including tonsils, lung, inflamed liver, normal or inflamed skin, inflamed synovium and synovial fluid, breast milk, and seminal fluid are universally CCR9(-). TECK expression is also restricted to the small intestine: immunohistochemistry reveals that intense anti-TECK reactivity characterizes crypt epithelium in the jejunum and ileum, but not in other epithelia of the digestive tract (including stomach and colon), skin, lung, or salivary gland. These results imply a restricted role for lymphocyte CCR9 and its ligand TECK in the small intestine, and provide the first evidence for distinctive mechanisms of lymphocyte recruitment that may permit functional specialization of immune responses in different segments of the gastrointestinal tract. Selective expression of chemokines by differentiated epithelium may represent an important mechanism for targeting and specialization of immune responses.
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- Scherer, SW, et al.
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Human chromosome 7: DNA sequence and biology
- 2003
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In: Science (New York, N.Y.). - : American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). - 1095-9203 .- 0036-8075. ; 300:5620, s. 767-772
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- DNA sequence and annotation of the entire human chromosome 7, encompassing nearly 158 million nucleotides of DNA and 1917 gene structures, are presented. To generate a higher order description, additional structural features such as imprinted genes, fragile sites, and segmental duplications were integrated at the level of the DNA sequence with medical genetic data, including 440 chromosome rearrangement breakpoints associated with disease. This approach enabled the discovery of candidate genes for developmental diseases including autism.
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- Bock G., Roberts R.G., Kissling E., Achauer A., Alingahi J., Bruneton M., Friedrich W., Grad M. Guterch A., Hjelt S-E., Hyvönen T., Ikonen J-P., Komminaho K., Korja A, Heikkinen P., Kozolovaskaya E., Nevsky M.V., Pavlenkova N., Pedersen H., Plomerova J.
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Seismic probing of Archean and Proterozoic Lithosphere in Fennoscandia.
- 2001
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In: EOS Transactions American Geophysical Union. - : American Geophysical Union. ; 82, s. 621,628-629
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- Butorin, S. M., et al.
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Resonant inelastic soft X-ray scattering studies of U(VI) reduction on iron surfaces
- 2004
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In: Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings. - 0272-9172 .- 1946-4274. ; 807:Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXVII, s. 113-118
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The authors report on the spectroscopic anal. of several samples relevant to the processes governing the behavior of oxidized U species in groundwater solns. under anoxic conditions. Both Fe samples with different times of exposure to the U(IV) soln. and Fe metal-soln. interfaces in the liq. cell ex-situ and in-situ, resp. Resonant inelastic soft x-ray scattering is sensitive to the chem. state of U. The measurements were performed at a no. of energies of the primary photon beam across the U 5d absorption edge. The results unambiguously indicate the redn. of U(VI) to U(IV) on the Fe surface. [on SciFinder(R)]
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- Jenkins, S. R., et al.
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Spatial and temporal variation in settlement and recruitment of the intertidal barnacle Semibalanus balanoides (L.) (Crustacea : Cirripedia) over a European scale
- 2000
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In: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. - 0022-0981. ; 243:2, s. 209-225
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Variation in the level of settlement and recruitment in the intertidal barnacle Semibalanus balanoides was studied using a hierarchical sampling programme. The effect of three spatial scales, 10s of metres (sites), 1000s of metres (shores) and 100s of kilometres (locations), was determined. The largest spatial scale represented the distance between four widely separated locations, Sweden, the Isle of Man, SW Ireland and SW England, covering a. large part of the range of S. balanoides in Europe. Temporal variation was determined by comparison between two years, 1997 and 1998. The settlement period of S. balanoides varied in length and timing, being earlier and shorter at the most northerly location, Sweden. The duration of settlement showed little difference among shores within locations, but the pattern of settlement did vary. Estimates of total settlement throughout the settlement period and of recruitment at the end of this period both showed substantial variation among locations which was dependent on the year of study. There was little consistency in the ranking of locations between the two years. Recruitment showed significant variation I the lower spatial scales of shore and site. In addition, examination of variance components showed a high degree of variation between replicates within sites in 1997. There was a significant relationship between settlement and recruitment at three of the four locations. Across all locations variation in settlement explained between 29 and 99% of variation in recruitment. However, locations showed distinct differences in the level of post-settlement survival. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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- Jepsen, Karl J, et al.
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A syndrome of joint laxity and impaired tendon integrity in lumican- and fibromodulin-deficient mice
- 2002
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In: Journal of Biological Chemistry. - 1083-351X. ; 277:38, s. 35532-35540
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Lumican and fibromodulin regulate the assembly of collagens into higher order fibrils in connective tissues. Here, we show that mice deficient in both of these proteoglycans manifest several clinical features of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. The Lum(-/-)Fmod(-/-) mice are smaller than their wild type littermates and display gait abnormality, joint laxity, and age-dependent osteoarthritis. Misaligned knee patella, severe knee dysmorphogenesis, and extreme tendon weakness are the likely causes for joint laxity in the double-nulls. Fibromodulin deficiency alone leads to significant reduction in tendon stiffness in the Lum(+/+)Fmod(-/-) mice, with further loss in stiffness in a Lum gene dose-dependent way. At the protein level, we show marked increase of lumican in Fmod(-/-) tendons, which may partially rescue the tendon phenotype in this genotype. These results establish fibromodulin as a key regulator and lumican as a modulator of tendon strength. A disproportionate increase in small diameter immature collagen fibrils and a lack of progression to mature, large diameter fibrils in the Fmod(-/-) background may constitute the underlying cause of tendon weakness and suggest that fibromodulin aids fibril maturation. This study demonstrates that the collagen fibril-modifying proteoglycans, lumican and fibromodulin, are candidate genes and key players in the pathogenesis of certain types of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and other connective tissue disorders.
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- Wolfraim, Lawrence A, et al.
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Loss of Smad3 in acute T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia
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In: New England Journal of Medicine. - 0028-4793 .- 1533-4406. ; 351:6, s. 552-559
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- BACKGROUND: The receptors for transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) and their signaling intermediates make up an important tumor-suppressor pathway. The role of one of these intermediates - Smad3 - in the pathogenesis of lymphoid neoplasia is unknown. METHODS: We measured Smad3 messenger RNA (mRNA) and protein in leukemia cells obtained at diagnosis from 19 children with acute leukemia, including 10 with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), 7 with pre-B-cell ALL, and 2 with acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia (ANLL). All nine exons of the SMAD3 gene (MADH3) were sequenced. Mice in which one or both alleles of Smad3 were inactivated were used to evaluate the role of Smad3 in the response of normal T cells to TGF-β and in the susceptibility to spontaneous leukemogenesis in mice in which both alleles of the tumor suppressor p27Kip1 were deleted. RESULTS: Smad3 protein was absent in T-cell ALL but present in pre-B-cell ALL and ANLL. No mutations were found in the MADH3 gene in T-cell ALL, and Smad3 mRNA was present in T-cell ALL and normal T cells at similar levels. In mice, the loss of one allele for Smad3 impairs the inhibitory effect of TGF-β on the proliferation of normal T cells and works in tandem with the homozygous inactivation of p27Kip1 to promote T-cell leukemogenesis. CONCLUSIONS: Loss of Smad3 protein is a specific feature of pediatric T-cell ALL. A reduction in Smad3 expression and the loss of p27Kip1 work synergistically to promote T-cell leukemogenesis in mice.
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