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Protein Networks
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2020
An organism can have thousands of different proteins, and these proteins must cooperate to ensure the health of an organism. Proteins bind to other proteins and form complexes to carry out their functions. Many proteins interact with multiple other proteins creating a complex network of protein interactions. These interactions can be represented through maps depicting protein-protein interaction networks, represented as nodes and edges. Nodes are circles that are representative of a protein,...
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Spontaneous Formation and Rearrangement of Artificial Lipid Nanotube Networks as a Bottom-Up Model for Endoplasmic Reticulum
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2019
Solid-supported, protein-free, double phospholipid bilayer membranes (DLBM) can be transformed into complex and dynamic lipid nanotube networks and can serve as 2D bottom-up models of the endoplasmic reticulum.
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Network Covalent Solids
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2020
Network covalent solids contain a three-dimensional network of covalently bonded atoms as found in the crystal structures of nonmetals like diamond, graphite, silicon, and some covalent compounds, such as silicon dioxide (sand) and silicon carbide (carborundum, the abrasive on sandpaper). Many minerals have networks of covalent bonds. To break or to melt a covalent network solid, covalent bonds must be broken. Because covalent bonds are relatively strong, covalent network solids are typically...
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UV-Visible Spectroscopy for Monitoring Fibrin Clot Formation
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2025
This video demonstrates the use of a UV-visible spectrophotometer for monitoring insoluble fibrin clot formation as a function of the change in the solution turbidity. The UV-visible spectrophotometer measures the solution’s absorbance over time, which represents the turbidity change due to the insoluble fibrin clot formation.
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Network Analysis of the Default Mode Network Using Functional Connectivity MRI in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
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Cited by 35 •
2014
The Default Mode Network (DMN) in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) is analyzed in the resting state of the brain using seed-based functional connectivity MRI (fcMRI).
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Several processes act together rather than independently. Proliferation changes the number of available cells, migration places them in appropriate locations, adhesion stabilizes cell-cell contacts, and differentiation gives cells specialized identities. Signaling coordinates these activities as development proceeds, allowing emerging connections and tissue architecture to become organized instead of remaining a collection of unconnected cells.
Guidance molecules provide local directional cues, while cell-cell interactions help neighboring cells interpret and respond to those cues. Their combined effects influence where cells move, which contacts persist, and how connections are arranged. Because these signals operate locally, they can shape branching patterns and tissue architecture over time without requiring every cell to receive identical instructions.
The sequence and coordination of these events affect whether cells encounter suitable partners and establish stable, specialized connections. Changes occurring at different developmental stages can therefore alter branching, connectivity, or tissue architecture. Studying network formation over time helps link early cellular behaviors with the later emergence of organized and functional neural, vascular, or other patterned tissues.
Disrupted communication can modify how cells proliferate, migrate, adhere, differentiate, or respond to guidance cues. Those changes may produce abnormal connections or tissue architecture and help explain congenital disorders. The same principle is relevant to regeneration and tissue engineering, where researchers seek to understand how communication can be directed toward more organized developmental outcomes.
Experimental models allow investigators to examine how coordinated cellular behaviors generate connections, branching, and tissue architecture. They can be used to relate changes in signaling or cell-cell interactions to developmental outcomes, rather than observing final structure alone. This makes the models useful for investigating normal development as well as mechanisms associated with congenital disorders, regeneration, and tissue engineering.
Neural and vascular systems provide distinct examples of how patterned tissues become organized and functional through cellular communication. Examining their development can reveal how proliferation, migration, adhesion, differentiation, and local signaling contribute to connectivity and branching. These findings also provide context for understanding developmental abnormalities and for designing approaches to regeneration or tissue engineering.