Lisa A. Racie

TL;DR: It is shown that expression of recombinant syncytin in a wide variety of cell types induces the formation of giant syncytia, and that fusion of a human trophoblastic cell line expressing endogenousSyncytin can be inhibited by an anti-syncytin antiserum, and thus may be important in human placental morphogenesis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided 15 clones comprising cDNAs encoding secreted proteins, isolated from a human PBMC, from neural tissue and from a dendritic cell cDNA library.

TL;DR: In this paper, secreted expressed sequence tags (sESTs) isolated from a variety of human tissue sources were used to identify human tissue types and organs, including human organs.

TL;DR: The cloning and functional expression of a cDNA encoding the catalytic domain (light chain) of bovine enterokinase is reported and the nucleotide sequence of this cloned cDNA predicts a 235-amino acid polypeptide that shares a high degree of homology with a variety of mammalian serine proteases involved in digestion, coagulation, and fibrinolysis.

TL;DR: ERbeta agonist administration provided a survival advantage in septic animals and appears to be a promising therapeutic modality in sepsis.