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McGill University
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About: McGill University is a education organization based out in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 72688 authors who have published 162565 publications receiving 6966523 citations. The organization is also known as: Royal institution of advanced learning & University of McGill College.
Topics: Population, Poison control, Health care, Cancer, Receptor
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TL;DR: The mucous cell population of duodenum, jejunum and ileum was investigated in the light and electron microscopes with the help of radioautography in mice sacrificed at various times after single injection or continuous infusion of 3H-thymidine.
Abstract: The mucous cell population of duodenum, jejunum and ileum was investigated in the light and electron microscopes with the help of radioautography in mice sacrificed at various times after single injection or continuous infusion of 3H-thymidine.
Mucous cells are characterized by globules of mucus and by dilated cisternae of rough endoplasmic reticulum. Two subgroups of mucous cells, one called common and the other granular, may be identified. The granular mucous cells differ from the common ones by the presence of small dense granules embedded within the mucous globules. Each subgroup is further divided into immature oligomucous cells containing few mucous globules, and mature goblet cells with a large accumulation of mucous globules.
Common and granular oligomucous cells are found exclusively in the crypt, mainly within the lower mid-crypt, whereas the corresponding two types of goblet cells are present in the upper part of the crypts and in the lower part of the villi. Only common mucous cells are observed in the upper part of the villi.
The two types of oligomucous cells, but not goblet cells, have the ability to take up 3H-thymidine and divide. Electron microscopic radioautography demonstrates that, as oligomucous cells migrate upwards, they transform into goblet cells. The latter then migrate to the villus epithelium.
In the case of granular mucous cells, this migration is associated with a gradual loss of the characteristic dense granules, so that the granular goblet cells reaching the upper part of the villi become common goblet cells. The goblet cells in the villus epithelium, regardless of their origin, ascend towards the villus tips where they are lost through the extrusion zones.
The turnover time of common mucous cells is about three days, as for columnar cells; and that of granular mucous cells, somewhat shorter. In both cases, the divisions of oligomucous cells account only for the production of about half the mucous cells present. Hence, the other half must be derived from precursors other than oligomucous cells. Since a few crypt-base columnar cells contain the odd mucous globule, they are suspected of being the precursors of the two types of oligomucous cells and, through them, of the entire mucous cell population.
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TL;DR: An area where functional genomics offers new insights into the integration of cell wall growth and morphogenesis with a polarized secretory system that is under cell cycle and cell type program controls is reviewed.
Abstract: An extracellular matrix composed of a layered meshwork of β-glucans, chitin, and mannoproteins encapsulates cells of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This organelle determines cellular morphology and plays a critical role in maintaining cell integrity during cell growth and division, under stress conditions, upon cell fusion in mating, and in the durable ascospore cell wall. Here we assess recent progress in understanding the molecular biology and biochemistry of cell wall synthesis and its remodeling in S. cerevisiae. We then review the regulatory dynamics of cell wall assembly, an area where functional genomics offers new insights into the integration of cell wall growth and morphogenesis with a polarized secretory system that is under cell cycle and cell type program controls.
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TL;DR: It is proposed that SKPs represent an endogenous embryonic precursor cell that arises in peripheral tissues such as skin during development and maintains multipotency into adulthood.
Abstract: A fundamental question in stem cell research is whether cultured multipotent adult stem cells represent endogenous multipotent precursor cells. Here we address this question, focusing on SKPs, a cultured adult stem cell from the dermis that generates both neural and mesodermal progeny. We show that SKPs derive from endogenous adult dermal precursors that exhibit properties similar to embryonic neural-crest stem cells. We demonstrate that these endogenous SKPs can first be isolated from skin during embryogenesis and that they persist into adulthood, with a niche in the papillae of hair and whisker follicles. Furthermore, lineage analysis indicates that both hair and whisker follicle dermal papillae contain neural-crest-derived cells, and that SKPs from the whisker pad are of neural-crest origin. We propose that SKPs represent an endogenous embryonic precursor cell that arises in peripheral tissues such as skin during development and maintains multipotency into adulthood.
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TL;DR: Meta-analysis predicted that a team of physicians and nonphysicians using multiple intervention modalities to deliver individualized advice on multiple occasions would produce the best result in controlled smoking cessation trials.
Abstract: Meta-analysis was used to examine 108 intervention comparisons in 39 controlled smoking cessation trials. Type of intervention (face-to-face advice being better than all others), type of intervenor (both physician and nonphysician counselors better than either alone), the number of reinforcing sessions, and the duration of reinforcing sessions were related to success six months after the initiation of intervention. The number of modalities used by the intervention predicted success with borderline statistical significance. Multivariate analysis predicted that a team of physicians and nonphysicians using multiple intervention modalities to deliver individualized advice on multiple occasions would produce the best result. Program success 12 months after the initiation of intervention was related to the type of intervention session (group and individual sessions combined better than either alone), the number of intervention modalities, and the number of reinforcing sessions. With multivariate adjustment for confounding, the number of intervention modalities alone had a positive association with intervention success. ( JAMA 1988;259:2882-2889)
761 citations
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TL;DR: This paper propose a process model in which people draw on narrative repertoires to engage in narrative identity work in role-related interactions, using feedback from their interactions, they revise both the stories and repertoires.
Abstract: Self-narratives—stories that make a point about the narrator—help people revise and reconstruct identities during work role transitions. We propose a process model in which people draw on narrative repertoires to engage in narrative identity work in role-related interactions. Using feedback from their interactions, they revise both the stories and repertoires. Successful completion of the transition is facilitated by enduring and coherent repertoire changes to express the new role identity.
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Karl J. Friston | 217 | 1267 | 217169 |
Yi Chen | 217 | 4342 | 293080 |
Yoshua Bengio | 202 | 1033 | 420313 |
Irving L. Weissman | 201 | 1141 | 172504 |
Mark I. McCarthy | 200 | 1028 | 187898 |
Lewis C. Cantley | 196 | 748 | 169037 |
Martin White | 196 | 2038 | 232387 |
Michael Marmot | 193 | 1147 | 170338 |
Michael A. Strauss | 185 | 1688 | 208506 |
Alan C. Evans | 183 | 866 | 134642 |
Douglas R. Green | 182 | 661 | 145944 |
David A. Weitz | 178 | 1038 | 114182 |
David L. Kaplan | 177 | 1944 | 146082 |
Hyun-Chul Kim | 176 | 4076 | 183227 |
Feng Zhang | 172 | 1278 | 181865 |