INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF SURFACE MATERIALS AND THREE DIMENSIONAL ARCHITECTURE ON IN VITRO DIFFERENTIATION OF PORCINE MONOCYTE-DERIVED DENDRITIC CELLS.

In vitro generation of dendritic-like cells through differentiation of peripheral blood monocytes is typically done using two-dimensional polystyrene culture plates.In the process of optimising cell culture techniques, engineers have developed fluidic micro-devises usually manufactured in materials other than polystyrene and applying three-dimensio

Strigolactones (SLs) and their derivatives are plant hormones that have recently been identified as regulators of primary lateral root (LR) development.However, whether SLs mediate secondary LR production in rice (Oryza sativa L.), and how SLs and auxin interact in this process, remain unclear.In this study, the SL-deficient (dwarf10) and SL-insens

Rhodopsins are photoreceptive proteins with seven-transmembrane alpha-helices and a covalently bound retinal.Based on their protein sequences, rhodopsins can be classified into microbial rhodopsins and metazoan rhodopsins.Because there is no clearly detectable sequence identity between these two groups, their evolutionary relationship was difficult