YAP/TAZ Signalling Controls Epidermal Keratinocyte Fate.

The paralogues Yes-associated protein (YAP) and transcriptional coactivator with PDZ-binding motif (TAZ) control cell proliferation and cell fate determination from embryogenesis to ageing. In the skin epidermis, these proteins are involved in both homeostatic cell renewal and injury-induced regeneration and also drive carcinogenesis and other pathologies. YAP and TAZ are usually considered downstream of the Hippo pathway.

Ideal Living Skin Equivalents, From Old Technologies and Models to Advanced Ones: The Prospects for an Integrated Approach.

The development of technologies for the generation and transplantation of living skin equivalents (LSEs) is a significant area of translational medicine. Such functional equivalents can be used to model and study the morphogenesis of the skin and its derivatives, to test drugs, and to improve the healing of chronic wounds, burns, and other skin injuries. The evolution of LSEs over the past 50 years has demonstrated the leap in technology and quality and the shift from classical full-thickness LSEs to principled new models, including modification of classical models and skin organoids with skin derived from human-induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) (hiPSCs).

Trajectory of hiPSCs derived neural progenitor cells differentiation into dermal papilla-like cells and their characteristics.

Dermal papilla cells (DPCs) play roles in key functions of the epidermis such as hair generation. The use of human induced pluripotent cells (hiPSCs) makes it possible to obtain DP-like cells and study the molecular mechanisms of DPC development during embryogenesis. In this work, we studied the phenotypic trajectory of hiPSCs during their differentiation into DP-like cells and evaluated the epithelial-mesenchymal interaction potential of the resulting cell line.

[Sulfonium derivatives of thioxanthenone, a new class of photodetritylating agents for microarray oligonucleotide synthesis].

The usability of a new class of photo acids, namely, sulfonium hexaphosphates based on thioxanthenone, for the removal of the dimethoxytrityl protective group in the process of oligonucleotide synthesis has been studied in order to search for new detritylating agents for microarray oligodeoxyribonucleotide synthesis. 2,4-Diethyl-9-oxo-10-(4-heptyloxyphenyl)-9H-thioxanthenium hexafluorophosphate has been successfully used for the solid-phase synthesis of (dT)(10).

[The expression of the c-fos gene in the brain of mice in the dynamic acquisition of defensive behavioral habits].

Levels of c-fos mRNA expression in mouse cerebral cortex and hippocampus at different stages of footshock escape and avoidance learning were studied by Northern hydridization. In the first series of experiments a mouse was presented with 30 electric footshock daily in a chamber where it could escape from the floor by jumping on the safe platform attached to the wall. A large increase in c-fos mRNA level in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus was observed during the first day of training.

[Combined treatment of chronic hypertrophic pharyngitis in children].

The trial of fluctuating current in combined treatment of 94 children (age 3-14 years) with chronic hypertrophic pharyngitis proved superior to the conventional treatment in the control patients: the response rate 85.7-92.5% versus 52.