D.A.M.is supported by the Howard Ostin Fund and the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Renal Medicine Department.J.N.A.is funded by a grant from Cancer Research UK(DCRPGF\100009)and is the recipient of a Cancer Research Institute/Wade F.B.Thompson CLIP grant(CRI3645).
C-type lectins(CTLs)represent a large family of soluble and membrane-bound proteins which bind calcium dependently via carbohydrate recognition domains(CRDs)to glycan residues presented on the surface of a variety of ...
supported by Natural Science Foundation of China(grants 10042001,10072071,10128205,30225027, 10332060,30730032,11072251,and 31110103918);National Key Basic Research Foundation of China(grants 2006CB910303 and 2011CB710904);National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(grants 2007AA02Z306 and 2011AA020109);Chinese Academy of Sciences(grants KJCX2-L02,KJCX2-SW-L06, 2005-1-16,KJCX2-YW-L08,Y2010030,XDA01030102,XDA04073 801);NIH Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award TW 05774-01
Receptor-ligand interactions in blood flow are crucial to initiate such biological processes as inflammatory cascade,platelet thrombosis,as well as tumor metastasis.To mediate cell adhesion,the interacting receptors a...
We previously reported that massive infiltration of neutrophils in C3H/HeN (C3H) mice could not efficiently control Chlamydia muridarum (Cm) infection and might contribute to the high susceptibility of these mice ...
The development of atherosclerotic lesions appears to be inflammatory in nature. It involves the recruitment of blood monocytes to the vascular endothelium, followed by intimal infiltration. Monocytes differentiate to...