EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FOR LIQUID IMMISCIBILITY IN THE MODEL SYSTEM CaCO3 - PYROPE - PYRRHOTITE AT 7.0 GPa: THE ROLE OF CARBONATITE AND SULFIDE MELTS IN DIAMOND GENESIS

2008 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 991-1005 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. V. Shushkanova ◽  
Y. A. Litvin
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Liquid Immiscibility ◽  
Model System ◽  
Diamond Genesis

TESTING GOAL-DRIVEN CAPTURE BY THREAT

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Robert Harrison Brown
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Experimental Manipulation ◽  
Contingent Capture ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Affective Stimuli ◽  
Clinical Disorders ◽  
Positive Stimuli

Attention has long been characterised within prominent models as reflecting a competition between goal-driven and stimulus-driven processes. It remains unclear, however, how involuntary attentional capture by affective stimuli, such as threat-laden content, fits into such models. While such effects were traditionally held to reflect stimulus-driven processes, recent research has increasingly implicated a critical role of goal-driven processes. Here we test an alternative goal-driven account of involuntary attentional capture by threat, using an experimental manipulation of goal-driven attention. To this end we combined the classic ‘contingent capture’ and ‘emotion-induced blink’ (EIB) paradigms in an RSVP task with both positive or threatening target search goals. Across six experiments, positive and threat distractors were presented in peripheral, parafoveal, and central locations. Across all distractor locations, we found that involuntary attentional capture by irrelevant threatening distractors could be induced via the adoption of a search goal for a threatening category; adopting a goal for a positive category conversely led to capture only by positive stimuli. Our findings provide direct experimental evidence for a causal role of voluntary goals in involuntary capture by irrelevant threat stimuli, and hence demonstrate the plausibility of a top-down account of this phenomenon. We discuss the implications of these findings in relation to current cognitive models of attention and clinical disorders.

The Role of Legal Justiication in Judicial Performance: Quasi-Experimental Evidence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paige Marta Skiba ◽  
Alessandro Melcarne ◽  
Giovanni Battista Ramello
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Judicial Performance

scholarly journals Experimental evidence of pathogenic role of IgG autoantibodies in IgA nephropathy

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 102593
Author(s):  
Zina Moldoveanu ◽  
Hitoshi Suzuki ◽  
Colin Reily ◽  
Kenji Satake ◽  
Lea Novak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Iga Nephropathy ◽  
Pathogenic Role

scholarly journals O-GlcNAcylation protein disruption by Thiamet G promotes changes on the GBM U87-MG cells secretome molecular signature

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Cecilia Oliveira-Nunes ◽  
Glaucia Julião ◽  
Aline Menezes ◽  
Fernanda Mariath ◽  
John A. Hanover ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Molecular Signature ◽  
Label Free ◽  
Intercellular Signaling ◽  
Tumor Aggressiveness ◽  
Signaling Axis ◽  
Literature Evidence ◽  
Therapeutic Tools

AbstractGlioblastoma (GBM) is a grade IV glioma highly aggressive and refractory to the therapeutic approaches currently in use. O-GlcNAcylation plays a key role for tumor aggressiveness and progression in different types of cancer; however, experimental evidence of its involvement in GBM are still lacking. Here, we show that O-GlcNAcylation plays a critical role in maintaining the composition of the GBM secretome, whereas inhibition of OGA activity disrupts the intercellular signaling via microvesicles. Using a label-free quantitative proteomics methodology, we identified 51 proteins in the GBM secretome whose abundance was significantly altered by activity inhibition of O-GlcNAcase (iOGA). Among these proteins, we observed that proteins related to proteasome activity and to regulation of immune response in the tumor microenvironment were consistently downregulated in GBM cells upon iOGA. While the proteins IGFBP3, IL-6 and HSPA5 were downregulated in GBM iOGA cells, the protein SQSTM1/p62 was exclusively found in GBM cells under iOGA. These findings were in line with literature evidence on the role of p62/IL-6 signaling axis in suppressing tumor aggressiveness and our experimental evidence showing a decrease in radioresistance potential of these cells. Taken together, our findings provide evidence that OGA activity may regulate the p62 and IL-6 abundance in the GBM secretome. We propose that the assessment of tumor status from the main proteins present in its secretome may contribute to the advancement of diagnostic, prognostic and even therapeutic tools to approach this relevant malignancy.

scholarly journals Serine and Threonine Phosphorylation of the Paxillin LIM Domains Regulates Paxillin Focal Adhesion Localization and Cell Adhesion to Fibronectin

1998 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 1803-1816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Brown ◽  
Joseph A. Perrotta ◽  
Christopher E. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Cell Adhesion ◽  
Focal Adhesion ◽  
Binding Sites ◽  
Protein Localization ◽  
Model System ◽  
Lim Domain ◽  
Amino Terminal ◽  
Lim Domains ◽  
Inside Out

We have previously shown that the LIM domains of paxillin operate as the focal adhesion (FA)-targeting motif of this protein. In the current study, we have identified the capacity of paxillin LIM2 and LIM3 to serve as binding sites for, and substrates of serine/threonine kinases. The activities of the LIM2- and LIM3-associated kinases were stimulated after adhesion of CHO.K1 cells to fibronectin; consequently, a role for LIM domain phosphorylation in regulating the subcellular localization of paxillin after adhesion to fibronectin was investigated. An avian paxillin-CHO.K1 model system was used to explore the role of paxillin phosphorylation in paxillin localization to FAs. We found that mutations of paxillin that mimicked LIM domain phosphorylation accelerated fibronectin-induced localization of paxillin to focal contacts. Further, blocking phosphorylation of the LIM domains reduced cell adhesion to fibronectin, whereas constitutive LIM domain phosphorylation significantly increased the capacity of cells to adhere to fibronectin. The potentiation of FA targeting and cell adhesion to fibronectin was specific to LIM domain phosphorylation as mutation of the amino-terminal tyrosine and serine residues of paxillin that are phosphorylated in response to fibronectin adhesion had no effect on the rate of FA localization or cell adhesion. This represents the first demonstration of the regulation of protein localization through LIM domain phosphorylation and suggests a novel mechanism of regulating LIM domain function. Additionally, these results provide the first evidence that paxillin contributes to “inside-out” integrin-mediated signal transduction.

The Arabidopsis leaf as a model system for investigating the role of cell cycle regulation in organ growth

2005 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerrit T. S. Beemster ◽  
Steven Vercruysse ◽  
Lieven De Veylder ◽  
Martin Kuiper ◽  
Dirk Inzé
Keyword(s):  
Cell Cycle ◽  
Cell Cycle Regulation ◽  
Model System ◽  
Organ Growth ◽  
Cycle Regulation

Cytoplasmic streaming in characean cells: role of subcortical fibrils

1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (7) ◽  
pp. 760-765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eiji Kamitsubo
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Stimulation ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Cytoplasmic Streaming ◽  
Motive Force ◽  
Microbeam Irradiation ◽  
Subcortical Fibrils

Three or four parallel fibrils of ca. 0.1 μm in width attached to each file of chloroplasts in intact internodal cells generate the motive force for cytoplasmic streaming. Experimental evidence for this conclusion is drawn from experiments in which fibrillar motion and streaming are interrupted by centrifugation, microbeam irradiation, and electrical stimulation. The role of Pb2+ in preventing cessation of cytoplasmic streaming after electrical stimulation is interpreted in terms of localized changes in viscosity of the cytoplasm.

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