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Pierre Golstein

Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring cell death in higher eukaryotes

Cell death is essential for a plethora of physiological processes, and its deregulation characterizes numerous human diseases. Thus, the in-depth investigation of cell death and its mechanisms constitutes a formidable challenge for fundamental and applied biomedical research, and has tremendous implications for the development of novel therapeutic strategies. It is, therefore, of utmost importance to standardize the experimental procedures that identify dying and dead cells in cell cultures and/or in tissues, from model organisms and/or humans, in healthy and/or pathological scenarios. Thus far, dozens of methods have been proposed to quantify cell death-related parameters. However, no guid…

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Autophagy

Klionsky, Daniel J. et al.

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T-CELL-MEDIATED CYTOLYSIS : FROM THE LYSIS OF H-2 NEGATIVE TARGET CELLS TO THE INDUCTIVE EFFECT OF XENOGENEIC SERUM

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the results of a series of experiments. In the first series, evidence was found in favor of some specificity of cytolysis against embryonic antigens at the surface of the F9 cells. In a second series of experiments, it was found that P815 and EL4 cells were lysed. From a systematic investigation of the parameters of this system, two facts emerged. F9 cells were not necessary during the in vitro boost incubation. There was some preferential lysis of targets having the same H-2 as the mice receiving the H-2-less F9. For instance, if F9 cells were injected into B1O mice, and after 2–3 weeks, the spleen cells were incubated for 5 days in conventional tis…

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