Volume 13 Issue 3 2008

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  Transplantation: current developments and future directions; The future of clinical islet transplantation as a cure for diabetes

  Anthony Hogan, Antonello Pileggi, Camillo Ricordi

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 1192–1205; https://doi.org/10.2741/2755

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Transplantation: current developments and future directions)

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  Interactions between visual working memory and visual attention

  Christian N. L. Olivers

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 1182–1191; https://doi.org/10.2741/2754

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Prefrontal correlates of attention and executive control)

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  "I know what you did on the last trial" - a selective review of research on priming in visual search

  Arni Kristjansson

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 1171–1181; https://doi.org/10.2741/2753

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Prefrontal correlates of attention and executive control)

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  Regulatory T cells and viral infections

  Yaling Zhou

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 1152–1170; https://doi.org/10.2741/2752

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Homeostasis and therapeutical potential of CD4)

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  NAD⁺ and NADH in ischemic brain injury

  Weihai Ying

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 1141–1151; https://doi.org/10.2741/2751

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue New frontiers in neurosurgery research)

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  Uses of plant lectins in bioscience and biomedicine

  Arpad Pusztai, Susan Bardocz, Stanley W.B.Ewen

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 1130–1140; https://doi.org/10.2741/2750

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Legume proteins in human health)

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  Human antibody libraries: A race to engineer and explore a larger diversity

  Philippe Mondon, Olivier Dubreuil, Khalil Bouayadi, Hakim Kharrat

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 1117–1129; https://doi.org/10.2741/2749

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Antibody engineering)

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  The biological role of the unique molecule RCAS1: a bioactive marker that induces connective tissue remodeling and lymphocyte apoptosis

  Kenzo Sonoda, Shingo Miyamoto, Manabu Nakashima, Norio Wake

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 1106–1116; https://doi.org/10.2741/2748

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Comparing tumor and placenta microenvironment at the molecular and clinical levels)

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  Pre-mRNA splicing aberrations and cancer

  Christopher A Pettigrew, Melissa A Brown

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 1090–1105; https://doi.org/10.2741/2747

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Pre-mRNA splicing and human diseases)

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  Estrogens and progesterone as neuroprotectants: what animal models teach us

  Meharvan Singh, Nathalie Sumien, Cheryl Kyser, James W. Simpkins

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 1083–1089; https://doi.org/10.2741/2746

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular biology of neurodegeneration)

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  Class IIA HDACs in the regulation of neurodegeneration

  Nazanin Majdzadeh, Brad E. Morrison, Santosh R. D'Mello

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 1072–1082; https://doi.org/10.2741/2745

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular biology of neurodegeneration)

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  Discovery of alternative DNA structures: a heroic decade (1979-1989)

  Sergei M. Mirkin

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 1064–1071; https://doi.org/10.2741/2744

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue DNA structures, genome instability and human disease)

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  A single clone of T cells may identify 'self' from 'non-self' through different recognition mechanisms

  Yan-Ming Liu, Jing Luo, Di Chen

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 1062–1063; https://doi.org/10.2741/2743

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue TGFbeta,BMP receptor signaling)

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  Clinical significance of a novel single nucleotide polymorphism in the 5' untranslated region of the Rabphillin-3A-Like gene in colorectal adenocarcinoma

  Venkat R. Katkoori, Xu Jia, Chakrapani Chatla, Sanjay Kumar, ... Upender Manne

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 1050–1061; https://doi.org/10.2741/2742

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Cancer chemoprevention - 2)

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  Artificial molecular machines driven by light

  Monica Semeraro, Serena Silvi, Alberto Credi

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 1036–1049; https://doi.org/10.2741/2741

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Supramolecular materials and devices: status and prospects for pharmacy and nutrition)

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  The role of the endometrium in the regulation of immune cell activity

  Lukasz Wicherek

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 1018–1035; https://doi.org/10.2741/2740

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Comparing tumor and placenta microenvironment at the molecular and clinical levels)

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  Papillomavirus E6 and E7 proteins and their cellular targets

  Trisha M. Wise-Draper, Susanne I. Wells

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 1003–1017; https://doi.org/10.2741/2739

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Structure-function analyses of papillomavirus proteins)

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  Genes that affect both cell growth and polarity mediate stem cell quiescence

  Patrick Narbonne, Richard Roy

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 995–1002; https://doi.org/10.2741/2738

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  Cytokine imbalance in pregnancy complications and its modulation

  Raj Raghupathy, Jaroslaw Kalinka

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 985–994; https://doi.org/10.2741/2737

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Comparing tumor and placenta microenvironment at the molecular and clinical levels)

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  P. gingivalis interactions with epithelial cells

  Denis F Kinane, Johnah Cortez Galicia, Sven-Ulrik Gorr, Panagiota Giorgios Stathopoulou, Manjunatha Benakanakere

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 966–984; https://doi.org/10.2741/2736

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Pattern recognition of P. gingivalis: Periodontal host defense versus immune evasion strategies)

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  Regulation of NK cell activity by 2B4, NTB-A and CRACC

  Maren Claus, Stephan Meinke, Rauf Bhat, Carsten Watzl

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 956–965; https://doi.org/10.2741/2735

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural killer cell biology)

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  The role of chemokines and chemokine receptors in diabetic nephropathy

  Christiane Ruster, Gunter Wolf

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 944–955; https://doi.org/10.2741/2734

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue The role of chemokines in renal diseases and renal allograft rejection)

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  Chop it, ChIP it, check it: the current status of chromatin immunoprecipitation

  Philippe Collas, John Arne Dahl

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 929–943; https://doi.org/10.2741/2733

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Stem cell chromatin)

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  Controlled and reversible binding of positively charged quantum dots to lambda DNA

  Yi Liu, Ming-Xi Zhang, Zhi-Ling Zhang, Hai-Yan Xie, ... Dai-Wen Pang

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 923–928; https://doi.org/10.2741/2732

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanostructures for biological and medical applications)

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  The chemokine network in systemic lupus erythematous nephritis

  Brad H. Rovin

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 904–922; https://doi.org/10.2741/2731

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue The role of chemokines in renal diseases and renal allograft rejection)

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  Regulation of bone development and maintenance by Runx2

  Toshihisa Komori

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 898–903; https://doi.org/10.2741/2730

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue ADAMTS-18: A metalloproteinase with multiple functions)

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  Proanthocyanidins inhibit mitogenic and survival-signaling in vitro and tumor growth in vivo

  Syed Musthapa Meeran, Santosh Kumar Katiyar

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 887–897; https://doi.org/10.2741/2729

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Cancer chemoprevention - 2)

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  The biological role of interferon-inducible P204 protein in the development of the mononuclear phagocyte system

  Roland P. Bourette, Guy Mouchiroud

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 879–886; https://doi.org/10.2741/2728

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue ADAMTS-18: A metalloproteinase with multiple functions)

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  Multiple roles of TDP-43 in gene expression, splicing regulation, and human disease

  Emanuele Buratti, Francisco E. Baralle

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 867–878; https://doi.org/10.2741/2727

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Pre-mRNA splicing and human diseases)

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  Inositol polyphosphate multikinase: metabolic architect of nuclear inositides

  Adam Cain Resnick, Adolfo Saiardi

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 856–866; https://doi.org/10.2741/2726

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Nuclear phosphoinositol lipids signaling)

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  Homologous housekeeping proteins in Nocardia – the NoDaMS proteomic database

  Simone Koenig, Anna-Maria Mehlich, Doreen Ackermann, Mohammed E. Hamid, ... Mogahid El Hassan

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 842–855; https://doi.org/10.2741/2725

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomolecular structure, location and function: The universal analytical role of mass spectrometry)

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  Bone tissue engineering and repair by gene therapy

  Volker M. Betz, Oliver B. Betz, Mitchel B. Harris, Mark S. Vrahas, Christopher H. Evans

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 833–841; https://doi.org/10.2741/2724

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Tissue engineering and stem cell biology in orthopaedics)

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  Molecular mechanisms of the antiproliferative activity of somatostatin receptors (SSTRs) in neuroendocrine tumors

  Tullio Florio

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 822–840; https://doi.org/10.2741/2722

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue New biological and clinical aspects of neuroendocrine tumors)

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  Transcriptional regulation of the presenilin-1 gene: implication in Alzheimer's disease

  Hriday K. Das

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 822–832; https://doi.org/10.2741/2723

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Current status in alzheimers research)

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  Biomimetic material systems for neural progenitor cell-based therapy

  Wyatt Potter, Ronald E. Kalil, Weiyuan J. Kao

  Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2008, 13(3), 806–821; https://doi.org/10.2741/2721

  (This article belongs to the Special Issue Supramolecular materials and devices: status and prospects for pharmacy and nutrition)

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