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Automated Analysis of Dynamic Ca2+ Signals in Image Sequences
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2014
Here a novel region of interest analysis protocol based on sorting best-fit ellipses assigned to regions of positive signal within two-dimensional time lapse image sequences is demonstrated. This algorithm may enable investigators to comprehensively analyze physiological Ca2+ signals with minimal user input and bias.
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Real-time Bioluminescence Imaging of Notch Signaling Dynamics during Murine Neurogenesis
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2019
Neural stem/progenitor cells exhibit various expression dynamics of Notch signaling components that lead to different outcomes of cellular events. Such dynamic expression can be revealed by real-time monitoring, not by static analysis, using a highly sensitive bioluminescence imaging system that enables visualization of rapid changes in gene expressions.
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Visualization of Cortex Organization and Dynamics in Microorganisms, using Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy
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2012
Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy is a powerful approach to observe structures close to the cell surface at high contrast and temporal resolution. We demonstrate how TIRF can be employed to study protein dynamics at the cortex of cell wall-enclosed bacterial and fungal cells.
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Imaging G-protein Coupled Receptor (GPCR)-mediated Signaling Events that Control Chemotaxis of Dictyostelium Discoideum
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2011
Here, we describe detailed live cell imaging methods for investigating chemotaxis. We present fluorescence microscopic methods to monitor spatiotemporal dynamics of signaling events in migrating cells. Measurement of signaling events permits us to further understand how a GPCR-signaling network achieves gradient sensing of chemoattractants and controls directional migration of eukaryotic cells.
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Dynamics of Structures
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2023
Source: Roberto Leon, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA It is rare nowadays that a whole year goes by without a major earthquake event wreaking havoc somewhere around the world. In some cases, like the 2005 Banda Ache earthquake in Indonesia, the damage involved large geographic areas and casualties in the six figures. In general, the number and intensity of earthquakes is not increasing, however, the vulnerability of the built environment is...
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Feedback can either reinforce a response or restrain it, changing how strongly and how long a pathway remains active. Signal degradation reduces activity after initiation, helping determine duration and allowing the system to reset. Together, these processes influence whether a cellular response is brief, sustained, adaptive, or oscillatory rather than behaving as a simple on-or-off switch.
These components operate at connected stages of a signaling pathway. Protein phosphorylation can modify pathway activity, second messengers transmit information within the cell, and transcriptional regulation can alter gene expression in response to the signal. Their interaction links receptor activation to downstream cellular behavior, allowing information to be processed across molecular levels and timescales.
Cells may interpret differences in signal strength and duration as distinct instructions, while oscillations can provide a changing temporal pattern rather than a constant input. Measuring these features helps distinguish sustained responses from transient or rhythmic ones. This distinction is important for understanding how cells coordinate processes such as development, immunity, metabolism, and tissue organization.
Researchers use quantitative imaging and live-cell reporters to follow changes in signaling across time and cellular spaces. These approaches can reveal when a signal appears, how its intensity changes, and whether activity is localized, sustained, adaptive, or oscillatory. The resulting measurements provide a dynamic view that static endpoint observations may not capture.
A study may combine quantitative imaging, live-cell reporters, mathematical modeling, and perturbation experiments. Imaging and reporters provide measurements of changing activity, models help represent or interpret temporal patterns, and perturbations reveal how altering pathway components affects those patterns. Using these approaches together connects observed signal behavior with mechanisms that may control cellular responses.
Abnormal signaling dynamics can indicate that a pathway has changed in its strength, duration, spatial behavior, feedback, or degradation. Comparing these patterns with cellular outcomes may help identify how disrupted signaling contributes to disease. Dynamic measurements can also support more precise therapeutic strategies by focusing on how pathway activity changes, rather than treating signaling as a static state.