Gene expression, metabolic regulation and stress tolerance during diapause

TH MacRae - Cellular and Molecular life sciences, 2010 - Springer
Diapause entails molecular, physiological and morphological remodeling of living animals,
culminating in a dormant state characterized by enhanced stress tolerance. Molecular …

Mechanisms of animal diapause: recent developments from nematodes, crustaceans, insects, and fish

SC Hand, DL Denlinger… - American Journal of …, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
Life cycle delays are beneficial for opportunistic species encountering suboptimal
environments. Many animals display a programmed arrest of development (diapause) at …

[HTML][HTML] Stress tolerance during diapause and quiescence of the brine shrimp, Artemia

TH MacRae - Cell Stress and Chaperones, 2016 - Elsevier
Oviparously developing embryos of the brine shrimp, Artemia, arrest at gastrulation and are
released from females as cysts before entering diapause, a state of dormancy and stress …

Small heat shock protein expression and functions during development

G Morrow, RM Tanguay - The international journal of biochemistry & cell …, 2012 - Elsevier
The expression of small heat shock proteins is tightly regulated during development in
multiple organisms. As housekeeping proteins, small heat shock proteins help protect cells …

[HTML][HTML] Anhydrobiosis-associated nuclear DNA damage and repair in the sleeping chironomid: linkage with radioresistance

O Gusev, Y Nakahara, V Vanyagina, L Malutina… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Anhydrobiotic chironomid larvae can withstand prolonged complete desiccation as well as
other external stresses including ionizing radiation. To understand the cross-tolerance …

[HTML][HTML] The Small Heat Shock Protein p26 Aids Development of Encysting Artemia Embryos, Prevents Spontaneous Diapause Termination and Protects against …

AM King, TH MacRae - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Artemia franciscana embryos enter diapause as encysted gastrulae, a physiological state of
metabolic dormancy and enhanced stress resistance. The objective of this study was to use …

Cardiac functional improvement in rats with myocardial infarction by up-regulating cardiac myosin light chain kinase with neuregulin

X Gu, X Liu, D Xu, X Li, M Yan, Y Qi… - Cardiovascular …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Aims Recombinant human neuregulin-1 (rhNRG-1) improves cardiac function in
experimental heart failure models, but the underlying mechanism remains largely unknown …

Molecular mechanisms of tolerance in tardigrades: new perspectives for preservation and stabilization of biological material

RO Schill, B Mali, T Dandekar, M Schnölzer… - Biotechnology …, 2009 - Elsevier
Certain organisms found across a range of taxa, including bacteria, yeasts, plants and many
invertebrates such as nematodes and tardigrades are able to survive almost complete loss …

Functional characterization of artemin, a ferritin homolog synthesized in Artemia embryos during encystment and diapause

T Chen, TS Villeneuve, KA Garant, R Amons… - The FEBS …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Oviparously developing embryos of the crustacean Artemia franciscana encyst and enter
diapause, exhibiting a level of stress tolerance seldom seen in metazoans. The …

Characterization of a group 1 late embryogenesis abundant protein in encysted embryos of the brine shrimp Artemia franciscana

MA Sharon, A Kozarova, JS Clegg… - … and Cell Biology, 2009 - cdnsciencepub.com
Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins are hydrophilic molecules that are believed to
function in desiccation and low-temperature tolerance in some plants and plant propagules …