The blood-brain barrier is a unique property of central nervous system blood vessels that protects sensitive central nervous system cells from potentially harmful blood components.The mechanistic basis of this barrier...
Lassa hemorrhagic fever,caused by Lassa mammarenavirus(LASV)infection,accumulates up to 5000 deaths every year.Currently,there is no vaccine available to combat this disease.In this study,a library of 200 bioactive co...
The aim of the present paper was to check for the presence of cerebrovascular dystroglycan in vertebrates,because dystroglycan,which is localized in the vascular astroglial end-feet,has a pivotal function in glio-vasc...
P2X7 purinoceptor promotes survival or cytotoxicity depending on extraceUular adenosine triphosphate (ATP) stimulus Intensity controlling its ion channel or P2X7-dependent large pore (LP) functions. Mechanisms gov...
supported by the grants from the National Science Foundation of China (No. 31271556);Association Francaise contre les Myopathies (AFM);the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-09-BLAN-0262-03) in France
Myosin XVIIIA, or MYO18A, is a unique PDZ domain-containing unconventional myosin and is evolutionarily conserved from Drosophila to vertebrates. Although there is evidence indicating its expression in the somites, wh...