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Elastin provides recoil to tissues subjected to repeated stretch, such as blood vessels and the lung. It is encoded by a single gene in mammals and is secreted as a 60-70 kDa monomer called tropoelastin. The functional form of the protein is that of a large, highly crosslinked polymer that organizes as sheets or fibers in the extracellular matrix. ...
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Elastic fibres are macromolecular extracellular matrix assemblies that endow dynamic connective tissues such as arteries, lungs and skin with the property of elastic recoil. Here, we describe how we have purified elastic fibre molecules and then analysed them using a range of biochemical and biomolecular approaches. Such approaches have provided po...
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Immunohistochemistry is a powerful investigative tool that can provide researchers with important supplemental information to the routine morphological assessment of musculo-skeletal connective tissues in health and disease and also during tissue repair and regeneration. A wide variety of antibodies (both monoclonal and polyclonal) are now availabl...
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Work in our laboratory has focused on the in vitro culture of both human articular chondrocytes and human mesenchymal stem cells to understand what controls their ability to synthesise an appropriate cartilage-like extracellular matrix containing a predominantly collagen type II fibrillar network embedded in an aggrecan-rich ECM. This review focuse...
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To understand normal function of memory studying models of pathological memory decline is essential. The most common form of dementia leading to memory decline is Alzheimer's disease (AD), which is characterized by the presence of neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques in the affected brain regions. Altered production of amyloid beta (Abeta) t...
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Splicing and alternative splicing are major processes in the interpretation and expression of genetic information for metazoan organisms. The study of splicing is moving from focused attention on the regulatory mechanisms of a selected set of paradigmatic alternative splicing events to questions of global integration of splicing regulation with gen...
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The one-bead one-peptide combinatorial library method represents a powerful approach to the discovery of binding peptides for various macromolecular targets. It involves the synthesis of millions of peptides on beads such that each bead displays only one peptide entity. The peptide-beads that interact with a specific macromolecular target are then ...
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