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Title: EFFECTS OF S-ADENOSYL-L-METHIONINE ON COLLAGEN EXPRESSION IN ACTIVATED HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS
Author: Thompson, Kyle
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Cytology
Description: Liver fibrosis is defined as the excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM) components, which can disrupt the normal liver microcirculation and lead to injury. Unresolved, hepatic fibrosis can progress to cirrhosis, an end-state liver di...

Title: Intracellular pattern recognition receptors underlie inflammatory responses of glial cells to central nervous system pathogens
Author: Sterka, David
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Cytology
Description: There is growing appreciation that the resident glial cells of the CNS, in particular microglia and astrocytes, are important participants in the generation of inflammation during brain infection. However, the mechanisms by which these cell types ...

Title: Regulation of Myosin IIIa Motor/Kinase Activity
Author: Moore, Judy
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Biochemistry, Neurosciences, Cytology
Description: Myosin IIIa, a motor protein that localizes to actin-rich regions of photoreceptors and to stereocilia of inner ear hair cells, is associated with the hearing process in vertebrates and with phototransduction for invertebrates. It contains a large...