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BMC Cell Biology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of cell biology including cellular compartments, traffic, signalling, motility, adhesion and division.
BMC Cell Biology (ISSN 1471-2121) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Thomson Scientific (ISI) and Google Scholar.
BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9 :19
Nicotine treatment of neutrophils, short-lived white blood cells that defend against infection, leaves them less able to seek and destroy bacteria, partially explaining chronic tobacco users' increased susceptibility to bacterial infection and inflammatory diseases.
BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9 :12
During differentiation and growth arrest of human U937 leukemia cells, the protein-degradation regulator AAA ATPase valosin-containing protein (VCP/p97) increases and shows subcellular redistribution, a trend reversed when the cells retrodifferentiate to the tumorigenic phenotype.
BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9 :4
Simultaneously increased androgen receptor (AR) expression and activation of the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway promotes cell growth and transformation in androgen-refractory prostate cancer cells, mediated at the chromatin level by nuclear co-localization of the AR and beta-catenin.
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Rapid regulation of protein activity in fission yeast Cathrine A Boe, Ignacio Garcia, Chen-Chun Pai, Jeffrey R Sharom, Henriette C Skjolberg, Erik Boye, Stephen Kearsey, Stuart A MacNeill, Michael D Tyers, Beata Grallert BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9 :23 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Application of Bioinformatics-Coupled Experimental Analysis reveals a new Transport-Competent Nuclear Localization Signal in the Nucleoprotein of an Influenza A Virus strain Krishna Mohan V Ketha, Chintamani D Atreya BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9 :22 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Disruption of Four Kinesin Genes in Dictyostelium Dilip K Nag, Irina Tikhonenko, Ikko Soga, Michael P Koonce BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9 :21 (22 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Postnatal stem/progenitor cells derived from the dental pulp of adult chimpanzee Pei-Hsun Cheng, Brooke Snyder, Dimitri Fillos, Chris C Ibegbu, Anderson Hsien-Cheng Huang, Anthony WS Chan BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9 :20 (22 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The influence of nicotine on granulocytic differentiation Minqi Xu, James E Scott, Kan-Zhi Liu, Hannah R Bishop, Diane E Renaud, Richard M Palmer, Abdel Soussi-Gounni, David A Scott BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9 :19 (15 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A yeast three-hybrid system that reconstitutes mammalian hypoxia inducible factor regulatory machinery Maria L Alcaide-German, Alicia Vara-Vega, Luis F Garcia-Fernandez, Manuel O Landazuri, Luis del Peso BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9 :18 (10 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Spatial separation and bidirectional trafficking of proteins using a multi-functional reporter Soshana Svendsen, Chad Zimprich, Mark G McDougall, Dieter H Klaubert, Georgyi V Los BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9 :17 (2 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Epidermal growth factor receptor levels are reduced in mice with targeted disruption of the protein kinase A catalytic subunit Morten P Oksvold, Ane Funderud, Anne-Katrine Kvissel, Ellen Skarpen, Heidi Henanger, Henrik S Huitfeldt, Bj BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9 :16 (1 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A novel semi-automatic image processing approach to determine Plasmodium falciparum parasitemia in Giemsa-stained thin blood smears Minh-Tam Le, Timo R Bretschneider, Claudia Kuss, Peter R Preiser BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9 :15 (28 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Xenopus importin beta validates human importin beta as a cell cycle negative regulatorValerie A Delmar, Rene C Chan, Douglass J Forbes BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9 :14 (22 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Differential effects of energy stress on AMPK phosphorylation and apoptosis in experimental brain tumor and normal brain Purna Mukherjee, Tiernan J. Mulrooney, Jeremy Marsh, Derek Blair, Thomas C. Chiles, Thomas N. Seyfried Molecular Cancer 2008, 7 :37 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Knockdown of TFIIS by RNA silencing inhibits cancer cell proliferation and induces apoptosis Kyle Hubbard, Jennifer Catalano, Raj K Puri, Averell Gnatt BMC Cancer 2008, 8 :133 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Morphological evidences indicate that the interference of cimetidine on the peritubular components is responsible for detachment and apoptosis of Sertoli cells Estela Sasso-Cerri, Paulo S Cerri Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008, 6 :18 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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The clathrin-binding motif and the J-domain of Drosophila Auxilin are essential for facilitating Notch ligand endocytosis Vasundhara R Kandachar, Ting Bai, Henry C Chang BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :50 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Loss of p24 function in Drosophila melanogaster causes a stress response and increased levels of NF-kappaB-regulated gene products Kara A Boltz, Ginger E Carney BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :212 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Short-term pacing in the mouse alters cardiac expression of connexin43 Andrianos Kontogeorgis, Riyaz A Kaba, Eunice Kang, Jonathan E Feig, Pritha P Gupta, Marc Ponzio, Fangyu Liu, Michael J Rindler, Andrew L Wit, Edward A Fisher, Nicholas S Peters, David E Gutstein BMC Physiology 2008, 8 :8 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Diesel exhaust increases EGFR and phosphorylated C-terminal Tyr 1173 in the bronchial epithelium Jamshid Pourazar, Anders Blomberg, Frank J Kelly, Donna E Davies, Susan J Wilson, Stephen T Holgate, Thomas Sandstrom Particle and Fibre Toxicology 2008, 5 :8 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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In vivo gene expression profiling of human intestinal epithelial cells: analysis by laser microdissection of formalin fixed tissues Michael D George, Jan Wehkamp, Robert J Kays, Christian M Leutenegger, Sadiah Sabir, Irina Grishina, Satya Dandekar, Charles L Bevins BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :209 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The influence of oxygen tension on the structure and function of isolated liver sinusoidal endothelial cells Inigo Martinez, Geir I Nedredal, Cristina I Oie, Alessandra Warren, Oddmund Johansen, David G LeCouteur, Bard Smedsrod Comparative Hepatology 2008, 7 :4 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Nuclear localization and intensity of staining of nm23 protein is useful marker for breast cancer progression Nawfal I Ismail, Gurjeet Kaur, Hasnah Hashim, Mohammed S Hassan Cancer Cell International 2008, 8 :6 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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