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Vitamin D Deficiency and Fibroids: Why This Deficiency Is More Harmful Than We Think
According to doctors, taking vitamin D supplements might be a simple, safe, and cost-effective way to reduce fibroid risk and ...
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Use of iPSC-Derived Smooth Muscle Cells to Model Physiology and Pathology
Diverse embryonic origins of vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs ... and other variables. The proliferation of single-cell sequencing data sets from human tissue should accelerate the discovery of ...
Three bombesin-like peptides may help control reproductive smooth muscle movement
A research group has discovered that certain naturally occurring peptides in the body can trigger contractions in the vas ...
Key chemical discovered as potent stimulator of esophageal and upper stomach muscle movement
A research group has discovered that a natural substance in the body, known as platelet-activating factor (PAF), can strongly ...
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B7-H1, a third member of the B7 family, co-stimulates T-cell proliferation and interleukin-10 secretion
Figure 2: Binding of B7-H1 to CTLA4, ICOS and CD28. We measured the amounts of IL-2, IL-4, IFN-γ and IL-10 produced by T cells after stimulation with B7-H1Ig, B7-1 immunoglobulin (B7-1Ig ...
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Cord blood NK cells engineered to express IL-15 and a CD19-targeted CAR show long-term persistence and potent antitumor activity
Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) have been used to redirect the specificity of autologous T cells against leukemia and lymphoma with promising clinical results. Extending this approach to ...
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Smooth Muscle Cell Differentiation In Vitro:
Development of in vitro models by which to study smooth muscle cell (SMC) differentiation has been hindered by some peculiarities intrinsic to these cells, namely their different embryological origins ...
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Morphology-Based Prediction of Proliferation and Differentiation Potencies of Porcine Muscle Stem Cells for Cultured Meat Production
State Key Laboratory of Meat Quality Control and Cultured Meat Development, Key Laboratory of Meat Processing, Ministry of Agriculture, Key Lab of Meat Processing and Quality Control, Ministry of ...