Actin, one of the main proteins of muscle and cytoskeleton, exists as a vaiety of highly
conserved isoforms whose distribution in vertebrates is tissue-specific. Synthesis of specific …

The adrenal cortex elaborates two major groups of steroids that have been arbitrarily
classified as glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids, despite the fact that carbohydrate …

The PCR analysis followed by sequence alignment showed that both the mineralocorticoid
receptor (MCR) and the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) genes were expressed in the …

Actin filament (F-actin) assembly kinetics determines the locomotion and shape of crawling
eukaryotic cells, but the nature of these kinetics and their determining reactions are unclear …

Regulation of the F-actin severing activity of gelsolin by Ca 2+ has been investigated under
physiologic ionic conditions. Tryptophan fluorescence intensity measurements indicate that …

Loading of the spine alters the osmotic environment in the intervertebral disk (IVD) as
interstitial water is expressed from the tissue. Cells from the three zones of the IVD, the …

The main hypothesis suggested that changes in the external mechanical load would lead to
different deformations of the submembranous cytoskeleton and, as a result, dissociation of …

Guard cell turgor responds to the osmogradient across the plasma membrane and controls
the stomatal aperture. Here, we report that guard cells utilize voltage-dependent K+ …

The phosphatidylserine transmembrane redistribution at the cell surface is one of the early
characteristics of cells undergoing apoptosis and also occurs in cells fulfilling a more …

The aim of the work was to analyze changes in the organization of the cortical cytoskeleton
in fibers of the mouse soleus muscle, tibialis anterior muscle and left ventricular …