News tagged with nuclear factor

Molecular imaging can improve effectiveness of novel therapy for advanced heart disease

Molecular imaging may improve the success rate of a new therapy for patients with advanced heart disease, according to a study unveiled at SNM's 57th Annual Meeting. Researchers used a hybrid form of molecular imaging to ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nuclear pore complexes harbor new class of gene regulators

Nuclear pore complexes are best known as the communication channels that regulate the passage of all molecules to and from a cell's nucleus. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, however, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New concoction reprograms differentiated cells into pluripotent stem cells

In the new issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell, Singapore scientists report the surprising discovery that a novel transcription factor, Nr5a2, can replace one of the classical reprogramming factors, Oct 4, to significantly increa ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Blocking nuclear receptor may cut off tumor blood supply

A new method of blocking the genesis of blood vessels that feed tumors may start with the nuclear receptor COUP-TFII (chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter-transcription factor II), said a pair of Baylor College of Medicine ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Protein interaction network can respond Helicobacter pylori infection?

Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) is a gram negative bacterium which infects about 50% of the world population. H pylori colonization causes a strong systemic immune response. Various tools have been employed to identify the rela ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Forgotten and lost - when proteins 'shut down' our brain

(PhysOrg.com) -- Which modules of the tau protein, in neurons of Alzheimer disease patients, may act in a destructive manner were investigated by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry ...

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created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers construct a device that mimics one of nature's key transport machines

(PhysOrg.com) -- To help protect its genes, a cell is highly selective about what it allows to move in and out of its nucleus. Yet that choosiness is regulated by just a thin barrier, perforated with tiny ...

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created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0