There currently is no effective treatment or cure. It is caused by a mutation in the LAMA2 gene which causes complete or ...

Since their discovery, researchers have repeatedly demonstrated the potential medical applications of differentiated cells ...

Hepatic stellate cells are the major cell types involved in extracellular matrix production (i.e., collagens, fibronectin, and laminin). Although hepatic stellate cells produce extracellular ...

The method involves administering either laminin 511 or its fragments along with nerve cells or retinal pigment epithelial cells to the subject. The conditions that can be treated using this method ...

From the Institute of Molecular Medicine (R. Knöll, J.W., T. Holm, K.R.C.), Department of Medicine (K.R.C.), and Department of Psychiatry (K.M., B.K.R., N.S ...

Retinoschisin octamerises is implicated in cell–cell interactions and cell adhesion perhaps by interacting with β2 laminin. Mutations cause loss of retinoschisin function by one of the three ...

A: Animal; ACE: Accessory cholera enterotoxin; H: Human; ZOT: Zonula occludens toxin.

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From the Departments of Medicine (M.M.M., K.D., L.L., D.L.-J., D.Z.), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL Preventive Medicine (M.M.M., D ...