Asthma is characterised by airway hyperresponsiveness, airway inflammation and airway
remodelling. Airway smooth muscle cells are known to be the main effector cells of airway …

Ependymomas are common childhood brain tumours that occur throughout the nervous
system, but are most common in the paediatric hindbrain. Current standard therapy comprises …

… ): 94 C for 3 min, followed by 10 cycles of 94 C for 10 s, 62 C for 30 s and 68 C for 6 min and
25 cycles of 94 C for 10 s, 60 C for 30 s and 68 C for 7 min, followed by a final cycle of 72 C …

The development of targeted anti-cancer therapies through the study of cancer genomes is
intended to increase survival rates and decrease treatment-related toxicity. We treated a …

… described previously in the salivary gland, we identified additionalgenesassociated,inothertissues,withapotein-methionine-S-oxide
reductase, both peaked in gene expression at 20 hr …

Cryptococcus neoformans, an encapsulated basidiomycete fungus of medical importance,
is capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier and causing meningitis in both …

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterised by an
abnormal inflammatory reaction of the lungs involving activation of epithelial cells. Leptin is a …

… As expected, one of the most abundant tags under LIM conditions matched an iron
permease with similarity to the FTR1 gene of S. cerevisiae and the fip1+ gene of …

… On the other hand, a comparison of our results with the changes in transcript levels observed
for S. cerevisiae genes at 25C and 37C (as measured by microarray analysis; Gasch et al. …

BACKGROUND: Human airway smooth muscle (HASM) cells release various chemokines
that are involved in recruitment of inflammatory cells, which can be found within or in the …