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Kulkarni S, Micci MA, Leser J, Shin C, Tang SC, Fu YY, Liu L, Li Q, Saha M, Li C, Enikolopov G, Becker L, Rakhilin N, Anderson M, Shen X, Dong X, Butte MJ, Song H, Southard-Smith EM, Kapur RP, Bogunovic M, Pasricha PJ (2017) Adult enteric nervous system in health is maintained by a dynamic balance between neuronal apoptosis and neurogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 114(18):E3709-E3718. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1619406114 PMID: 28420791

Objective: To identify adult enteric neural precursor cell (ENPC) that would enable a new understanding of the pathogenesis of enteric neuromuscular diseases as well as the development of novel regenerative therapies.

Summary: The results show significant turnover and neurogenesis of adult enteric neurons and provide a paradigm for understanding the enteric nervous system in health and disease.

Usage: IHC (1:400)

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Chen PC, Hsieh MH, Kuo WS, Kao HF, Hsu CL, Wang JY (2017) Water-soluble chitosan inhibits nerve growth factor and attenuates allergic inflammation in mite allergen-induced allergic rhinitis. J Allergy Clin Immunol 140(4):1146-1149.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2017.03.022 PMID: 28412394

Objective: To evaluate the effect of extensive water-soluble chitosan (EWSC) in Allergic rhinitis (AR).

Summary: The results suggest that NGF- and TH2-related cytokines created a positive feedback loop amplifying allergic inflammation in the upper-airway epithelial cells, and EWSC attenuated allergic inflammation and epithelial cell damage, by inhibiting NGF biosynthesis during allergic TH2 immune responses.

Usage: IHC

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Cesarini V, Guida E, Todaro F, Di Agostino S, Tassinari V, Nicolis S, Favaro R, Caporali S, Lacal PM, Botti E, Costanzo A, Rossi P, Jannini EA, Dolci S (2017) Sox2 is not required for melanomagenesis, melanoma growth and melanoma metastasis in vivo. Oncogene 36(31):4508-4515. doi: 10.1038/onc.2017.53 PMID: 28368402

Objective: To investigate whether Sox2 is required during the process of melanomagenesis, melanoma growth and metastasis and in the acquisition of resistance to BRAF inhibitors (BRAFi) treatments.

Summary: The findings exclude an oncogenic function for Sox2 during melanoma development and do not support a role for this transcription factor in the acquisition of resistance to BRAFi treatments.

Usage: Immunofluorescence on melanoma cell lines

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Huang L, Yuan T, Tan M, Xi Y, Hu Y, Tao Q, Zhao Z, Zheng J, Han Y, Xu F, Luo M, Sollars P, Pu M, Pickard G, So K, Ren C (2017) A retinoraphe projection regulates serotonergic activity and looming-evoked defensive behaviour. Nat Commun 8:14908. doi: 10.1038/ncomms14908 PMID: 28361990

Objective: To investigate how the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) and superior colliculus work in concert to extract and translate visual threats into defensive behavioural responses.

Summary: A dedicated population of RGCs signals rapidly approaching visual threats and their input to the DRN controls a serotonergic self-gating mechanism that regulates innate defensive responses.

Usage: Mice received bilateral intraocular injection (2 μg per eye) made between Streptavidin-Saporin and a biotinylated CTB antibody, or Anti-Melanopsin-SAP (2 μg per eye). For detection of melanopsin, retinas were incubated for 3 days at 4 °C with anti-melanopsin (1:600).

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Kobayashi K, Maezawa T, Tanaka H, Onuki H, Horiguchi Y, Hirota H, Ishida T, Horiike K, Agata Y, Aoki M, Hoshi M, Matsumoto M (2017) The identification of ᴅ-tryptophan as a bioactive substance for postembryonic ovarian development in the planarian Dugesia ryukyuensis. Sci Rep 7:45175. doi: 10.1038/srep45175 PMID: 28338057

Usage: IHC 1:50

Ekman M, Zhu B, Swärd K, Uvelius B (2017) Neurite outgrowth in cultured mouse pelvic ganglia – Effects of neurotrophins and bladder tissue. Auton Neurosci 205:41-49. doi: 10.1016/j.autneu.2017.03.004 PMID: 28347639

Objective: To characterize the effects of the neurotrophins nerve growth factor (NGF), brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and neurotrophin 3 (NT-3) on the sprouting rate of sympathetic and parasympathetic neurites from the female mouse ganglion.

Summary: All three factors (BDNF, NT-3 and NGF) stimulated neurite outgrowth of both sympathetic and parasympathetic neurites although BDNF and NT-3 had a higher stimulatory effect on parasympathetic ganglion cells. Active forms of BDNF and NT-3 were detected in urinary bladder tissue, whereas tissue from the diaphragm expressed NGF.

Usage: in vitro culture (2 ul/ml)

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Gupta A, Anjomani-Virmouni S, Koundouros N, Dimitriadi M, Choo-Wing R, Valle A, Zheng Y, Chiu YH, Agnihotri S, Zadeh G, Asara JM, Anastasiou D, Arends MJ, Cantley LC, Poulogiannis G (2017) PARK2 depletion connects energy and oxidative stress to PI3K/Akt activation via PTEN S-Nitrosylation. Mol Cell 65(6):999-101.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.02.019 PMID: 28306514

Objective: To investigate the missing piece in the dynamic signaling and metabolic network governing PI3K/Akt activation.

Summary: PARK2 inactivation connects energy and oxidative stress to Akt activation via redox-mediated inactivation of PTEN by S-nitrosylation to support cell survival under conditions of energy deprivation.

Usage: Immunoblotting

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Somasundaram P, Wyrick G, Fernandez D, Ghahari A, Pinhal C, Simmonds Richardson M, Rupp A, Cui L, Wu Z, Brown R, Badea T, Hattar S, Robinson P (2017) C-terminal phosphorylation regulates the kinetics of a subset of melanopsin-mediated behaviors in mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 114:2741-2746. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1611893114 PMID: 28223508

Summary: The authors show that the melanopsin photoresponse shutoff due to C-terminal phosphorylation determines the kinetics of the intrinsic light response in ipRGCs, the PLR, and reentrainment, but not masking and phase angle of entrainment. Immunofluorescence was performed using rabbit Anti-Melanopsin (1:1,000, Cat. #AB-N38) as the primary antibody with a 2-d incubation period, followed by goat anti-rabbit IgG 488 as the secondary antibody.

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Hayashi R, Ishikawa Y, Katori R, Sasamoto Y, Taniwaki Y, Takayanagi H, Tsujikawa M, Sekiguchi K, Quantock AJ, Nishida K (2017) Coordinated generation of multiple ocular-like cell lineages and fabrication of functional corneal epithelial cell sheets from human iPS cells. Nat Protoc 12:683-696. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2017.007 PMID: 28253236

Usage: IHC 1:100

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Joly S, Lamoureux S, Pernet V (2017) Nonamyloidogenic processing of amyloid beta precursor protein is associated with retinal function improvement in aging male APP. Neurobiol Aging 53:181-191. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.02.004 PMID: 28262325

Objective: To determine amyloid beta role in the aging retina in Alzheimer’s Disease

Summary: Retinal-specific processing of amyloid may confer protection against AD and selectively preserve cone-dependent vision during aging.

Usage: Immunohistochemistry 1:1000

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