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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Tamoxifen resistance is the biggest problem in endocrine treatment against hormone receptor positive breast cancer patients. HER2 is a membrane receptor tyrosine kinase that is known to correlate with poor disease outcome ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Recognition of polymicrobial infections is becoming important for understanding differential host responses to environmental exposures, vaccines, as well as therapeutics. Citrobacter rodentium is a well-characterized model ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Mitotic homologous recombination is a critical pathway for the repair of DNA double-strand breaks and broken replication forks. Although homologous recombination is generally error-free, recombination between misaligned ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)The extracellular matrix of tumors is a major barrier to the delivery of molecular medicine. We used fluorescence recovery after photobleaching combined with intravital microscopy to quantitate the transport properties of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Linkage disequilibrium studies have discovered few gene-disease associations for common diseases. The explanation has been offered that complex modes of inheritance govern risk for cancers, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The volume of protein structure data has grown rapidly over the past 30 years, leaving a wake of facts that still require explanation. We endeavored to answer a few open questions on the structure-function relationship of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)Cancer is a leading cause of death in the world. Much work has been done to study the role of inflammation in carcinogenesis. One hypothesis suggests that inflammation causes oxidative stress that induces damage to cellular ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This thesis describes the identification and characterization of a novel 'layer' of intrinsic non-genetic functional heterogeneity within the seemingly homogeneous naive CD8⁺ T cell population in their survival and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Ex vivo expansion of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) is a long-standing challenge faced by both researchers and clinicians. To date, no robust, efficient method for the pure, ex vivo expansion of human HSCs has been ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)Heparin-like glycosaminoglycans (HLGAGs) are complex polysaccharides found both in extracellular matrix (ECM) and at the cell surface where they, in a sequence-specific manner, bind to and regulate the biological activity ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The inability of articular cartilage to repair itself after acute injury has been implicated in the development of osteoarthritis. The objective of this work was to develop methods for delivering growth factors to cartilage ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Emerging medical technologies for effective and lasting repair of articular cartilage include delivery of cells or cell-seeded scaffolds to a defect site to initiate de novo tissue regeneration. Biocompatible scaffolds ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of joint disorder. Individuals who have sustained an acute traumatic joint injury are at greater risk for the development of OA. The mechanisms by which injury causes cartilage ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Improved methods are needed for routine, inexpensive monitoring of biomarkers that could facilitate earlier detection and characterization of complex diseases like cancer. Development of new assay formats based on microfluidic, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Animal noses have evolved the ability to rapidly detect a seemingly infinite array of odors at minute concentrations. The basis of this sensitivity are the olfactory (smell) receptors - a large, highly related class of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Immunostimulatory therapies that activate immune response pathways are of great interest for overcoming the immunosuppression present in advanced tumors. Agonistic antibodies against the co-stimulatory receptors CD40 and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Mechanical forces play an important role in cell morphology, orientation, migration, adhesion and can even induce apoptosis. The eukaryotic cell is equipped with a dynamic frame, known as the cytoskeleton, that provides ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Surface-based sensors take advantage of the natural high surface-to-volume ratios in microfluidic devices, low reagent consumption and high potential for integration in more complex micro total analysis systems (microTAS ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Osteoarthritis is characterized by synovial joint degeneration, and its cardinal pathological feature is degeneration and loss of the articular cartilage joint surface. While the aetiology of osteoarthritis is unknown, ...
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