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Postmortem serum protein growth arrest-specific 6 levels in sepsis-related deaths

Palmiere, Cristian ; Augsburger, Marc

In: International Journal of Legal Medicine, 2015, vol. 129, no. 5, p. 1079-1084

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Role of connexins and pannexins in cardiovascular physiology

Meens, Merlijn ; Kwak, Brenda ; Duffy, Heather

In: Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2015, vol. 72, no. 15, p. 2779-2792

Université de Fribourg

Dynamic spherical harmonics approach for shape classification of migrating cells

Medyukhina, Anna ; Blickensdorf, Marco ; Cseresnyés, Zoltán ; Ruef, Nora ; Stein, Jens V. ; Figge, Marc Thilo

In: Scientific Reports, 2020, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 6072

Cell migration involves dynamic changes in cell shape. Intricate patterns of cell shape can be analyzed and classified using advanced shape descriptors, including spherical harmonics (SPHARM). Though SPHARM have been used to analyze and classify migrating cells, such classification did not exploit SPHARM spectra in their dynamics. Here, we examine whether additional information from dynamic...

Université de Fribourg

Targeting the extra-cellular matrix—tumor cell crosstalk for anti-cancer therapy: emerging alternatives to integrin inhibitors

Lorusso, Girieca ; Rüegg, Curzio ; Kuonen, François

In: Frontiers in Oncology, 2020, vol. 10, p. -

The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a complex network composed of a multitude of different macromolecules. ECM components typically provide a supportive structure to the tissue and engender positional information and crosstalk with neighboring cells in a dynamic reciprocal manner, thereby regulating tissue development and homeostasis. During tumor progression, tumor cells commonly modify and...

Université de Fribourg

Multicellular human alveolar model composed of epithelial cells and primary immune cells for hazard assessment

Barosova, Hana ; Drasler, Barbara ; Petri-Fink, Alke ; Rothen-Rutishauser, Barbara

In: JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), 2020, no. 159, p. e61090

A human alveolar cell coculture model is described here for simulation of the alveolar epithelial tissue barrier composed of alveolar epithelial type II cells and two types of immune cells (i.e., human monocyte-derived macrophages [MDMs] and dendritic cells [MDDCs]). A protocol for assembling the multicellular model is provided. Alveolar epithelial cells (A549 cell line) are grown and...

Université de Fribourg

Platelet transforming growth factor-β1 induces liver sinusoidal endothelial cells to secrete interleukin-6

Balaphas, Alexandre ; Meyer, Jeremy ; Perozzo, Remo ; Zeisser-Labouebe, Magali ; Berndt, Sarah ; Turzi, Antoine ; Fontana, Pierre ; Scapozza, Leonardo ; Gonelle-Gispert, Carmen ; Bühler, Leo H.

In: Cells, 2020, vol. 9, no. 5, p. 1311

The roles and interactions of platelets and liver sinusoidal endothelial cells in liver regeneration are unclear, and the trigger that initiates hepatocyte proliferation is unknown. We aimed to identify the key factors released by activated platelets that induce liver sinusoidal endothelial cells to produce interleukin-6 (IL-6), a cytokine implicated in the early phase of liver regeneration....

Université de Fribourg

Arginase‐II promotes melanoma migration and adhesion through enhancing hydrogen peroxide production and STAT3 signaling

Yu, Yi ; Ladeiras, Diogo ; Xiong, Yuyan ; Boligan, Kayluz Frias ; Liang, Xiujie ; Gunten, Stephan ; Hunger, Robert E. ; Ming, Xiu‐Fen ; Yang, Zhihong

In: Journal of Cellular Physiology, 2020, p. jcp.29814

Elevated arginase type II (Arg‐II) associates with higher grade tumors. Its function and underlying molecular mechanisms in melanoma remain elusive. In the present study, we observed a significantly higher frequency of Arg‐II expression in melanoma of patients with metastasis than those without metastasis. Silencing Arg‐II in two human melanoma cell lines slowed down the cell growth,...

Université de Fribourg

Salivary gland macrophages and tissue-resident CD8+ T cells cooperate for homeostatic organ surveillance

Stolp, Bettina ; Thelen, Flavian ; Ficht, Xenia ; Altenburger, Lukas M. ; Ruef, Nora ; Inavalli, V. V. G. Krishna ; Germann, Philipp ; Page, Nicolas ; Moalli, Federica ; Raimondi, Andrea ; Keyser, Kirsten A. ; Jafari, S. Morteza Seyed ; Barone, Francesca ; Dettmer, Matthias S. ; Merkler, Doron ; Iannacone, Matteo ; Sharpe, James ; Schlapbach, Christoph ; Fackler, Oliver T. ; Nägerl, U. Valentin ; Stein, Jens V.

In: Science Immunology, 2020, vol. 5, no. 46, p. eaaz4371

It is well established that tissue macrophages and tissue-resident memory CD8+ T cells (TRM) play important roles for pathogen sensing and rapid protection of barrier tissues. In contrast, the mechanisms by which these two cell types cooperate for homeostatic organ surveillance after clearance of infections is poorly understood. Here, we used intravital imaging to show that TRM dynamically...