Journal ArticleiScience · January 19, 2024
To elucidate host response elements that define impending decompensation during SARS-CoV-2 infection, we enrolled subjects hospitalized with COVID-19 who were matched for disease severity and comorbidities at the time of admission. We performed combined si ...
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Journal ArticleSci Rep · July 9, 2022
SARS-CoV-2 infection triggers profound and variable immune responses in human hosts. Chromatin remodeling has been observed in individuals severely ill or convalescing with COVID-19, but chromatin remodeling early in disease prior to anti-spike protein IgG ...
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Journal ArticleCytometry. Part A : the journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology · May 2017
We present cytometric classification of live healthy and cancerous cells by using the spatial morphological and textural information found in the label-free quantitative phase images of the cells. We compare both healthy cells to primary tumor cells and pr ...
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Journal ArticleBiomedical Optical Phase Microscopy and Nanoscopy · August 26, 2013
Written by leading optical phase microscopy experts, this book is a comprehensive reference to phase microscopy and nanoscopy techniques for biomedical applications, including differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy, phase contrast microscopy, ...
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Book · January 1, 2013
Written by leading optical phase microscopy experts, this book is a comprehensive reference to phase microscopy and nanoscopy techniques for biomedical applications, including differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy, phase contrast microscopy, ...
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ConferenceProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE · April 16, 2012
We have applied wide-field digital interferometric techniques to quantitatively image sickle red blood cells (RBCs) [1] in a noncontact label-free manner, and measure the nanometer-scale fluctuations in their thickness as an indication of their stiffness. ...
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Journal ArticleBiomedical Optics, BIOMED 2012 · January 1, 2012
We present live cell imaging using spectral-domain differential interference contrast microscopy, a novel technique for high-resolution, quantitative measurement of optical pathlength gradients. Imaging and dynamic monitoring of live neurons and cardiomyoc ...
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Journal ArticleOptics letters · December 2011
Nonlinear phase dispersion spectroscopy is introduced as a means to retrieve wideband, high spectral resolution profiles of the wavelength-dependent real part of the refractive index. The method is based on detecting dispersion effects imparted to a light ...
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Journal ArticleProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE · April 29, 2011
Whole cell imaging is a novel technique using which the time-dependent quantitative phase profiles of live unstained biological cells are analyzed numerically to learn on the cell functionally. Dynamic phase profiles of the sample are first acquired by wid ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biomed Opt · March 2011
We have applied wide-field digital interferometry (WFDI) to examine the morphology and dynamics of live red blood cells (RBCs) from individuals who suffer from sickle cell anemia (SCA), a genetic disorder that affects the structure and mechanical propertie ...
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Journal ArticleOptics letters · February 2011
We present a fiber-optic low-coherence imaging technique, termed spectral-domain differential interference contrast microscopy (SD-DIC), for quantitative DIC imaging of both reflective surfaces and transparent biological specimens. SD-DIC combines the comm ...
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Journal ArticleBiophysical journal · December 2010
Late outgrowth endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) represent a promising cell source for rapid reendothelialization of damaged vasculature after expansion ex vivo and injection into the bloodstream. We characterized the dynamic adhesion of umbilical-cord-b ...
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Journal ArticleArterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol · November 2010
OBJECTIVE: To accelerate vein graft reendothelialization and reduce vein graft thrombosis by infusing human umbilical cord blood-derived endothelial cells (hCB-ECs) because loss of endothelium contributes to vein graft thrombosis and neointimal hyperplasia ...
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Journal ArticleBiomedical optics express · August 2010
We apply wide-field interferometric microscopy techniques to acquire quantitative phase profiles of ventricular cardiomyocytes in vitro during their rapid contraction with high temporal and spatial resolution. The whole-cell phase profiles are analyzed to ...
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Journal ArticleAnnals of biomedical engineering · December 2009
A novel cell culture methodology is described in which diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTMRI) and cell micropatterning are combined to fabricate cell monolayers that replicate realistic cross-sectional tissue structure. As a proof-of-principle ...
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Journal ArticleBiochimica et biophysica acta · November 2008
Transgenic over expression of apolipoprotein A-I (ApoA-I) the major structural apolipoprotein of HDL appears to convey the most consistent and strongest anti atherogenic effect observed in animal models so far. We tested the hypothesis that ApoA-I mediates ...
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Journal ArticleBiochemical and biophysical research communications · February 2008
Polymorphisms in alphaIIbbeta3 are important genetic factors that alter platelet biology and have been associated with susceptibility to thromboembolic disorders. To define the molecular mechanisms that lead to variance in thrombotic diathesis dictated by ...
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Journal ArticleCardiovascular research · July 2006
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are acknowledged generally to be multi-faceted regulators of cellular functions that trigger various pathological states when present chronically or transiently at non-physiologically high levels. Here we focus on the physiolo ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry · December 2004
Kar3 is a minus-end-directed microtubule motor that is implicated in meiotic and mitotic spindle function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. To date, the only truncated protein of Kar3 that has been reported to promote unidirectional movement in vitro is GSTKar3 ...
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Journal ArticleCurrent biology : CB · August 2003
The budding yeast shmoo tip is a model system for analyzing mechanisms coupling force production to microtubule plus-end polymerization/depolymerization. Dynamic plus ends of astral microtubules interact with the shmoo tip in mating yeast cells, positionin ...
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Journal ArticleEMBO J · June 1, 1994
Mutants of the yeast Kar3 protein are defective in nuclear fusion, or karyogamy, during mating and show slow mitotic growth, indicating a requirement for the protein both during mating and in mitosis. DNA sequence analysis predicts that Kar3 is a microtubu ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of cell biology · February 1994
The Kar3 protein (Kar3p), a protein related to kinesin heavy chain, and the Cik1 protein (Cik1p) appear to participate in the same cellular processes in S. cerevisiae. Phenotypic analysis of mutants indicates that both CIK1 and KAR3 participate in spindle ...
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Journal ArticleCurrent opinion in cell biology · February 1993
The last year has seen dramatic progress in the use of genetic and biochemical approaches to identify microtubule-organizing center components. The use of vertebrate and invertebrate egg extracts has allowed the development of novel assays for centrosome d ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of cell biology · August 1992
To understand how cytokinesis is regulated during mitosis, we tested cyclin-p34cdc2 for myosin-II kinase activity, and investigated the mitotic-specific phosphorylation of myosin-II in lysates of Xenopus eggs. Purified cyclin-p34cdc2 phosphorylated the reg ...
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Journal ArticleCurrent opinion in cell biology · February 1992
The actomyosin contractile-ring mechanism remains the paradigm for cytokinesis after 20 years of experimental testing. Recent evidence suggests that Ca2+ triggers the contraction and that cell-cycle kinases regulate the timing of cytokinesis. New work is r ...
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