… Monocytes and macrophages produce PDGF, a strong profibrotic mediator; furthermore,
CCL2 and the macrophage colony stimulating factor (M-CSF), also known as colony stimulating …

… Then, the R6K origin of replication (ori), the origin of transfer (oriT) and the levan sucrase
gene sacB from Bacillus subtilis were amplified in one piece from the vector pNPTS138 40 …

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the site of synthesis and folding of secretory proteins.
Perturbations of ER homeostasis affect protein folding and cause ER stress. ER can sense the …

The epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) plays a critical role in embryonic development.
EMT is also involved in cancer progression and metastasis and it is probable that a …

… Although copies of Mori’s essay have circulated among researchers, a complete version hasn’t
been … and reviewed by Mori. (See “Turning Point” in this issue for an interview with Mori.) …

A 200–300 kb region of chromosome 3p14.2, including the fragile site locus FRA3B, is
homozygously deleted in multiple tumor-derived cell lines. Exon amplification from cosmids …

… -going neutrinos (5.20 km) and upwardgoing neutrinos (M 1 O4 km), together with the better
… position of the event should be at least 1 m inside the PMT plane. The fiducial volume for …

… 39.3 m in diameter and 41.4 m in height. The central 32000 tons—36.2 m in height and 33.8
m … Surrounding the inner detector is the outer detector, which comprises a 2.6 to 2.75 m thick …

… water Cherenkov detector placed 1000 m underground in the Kamioka mine, is located about
200 km west of Tokyo. The cylindrical water tank, 15.6 m in diameter and 16.1 m in height, …

… tabacum and M. polymorpha are also conserved intact in rice. However, several such ORFs
… A, lwatsuki N, Shinozaki K, Sugiura M (1985) Rice chloroplast DNA: a physical map and the …