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    Straw blood cell count, growth, inhibition and comparison to apoptotic bodies

    Mammalian cells transform into individual tubular straw cells naturally in tissues and in response to desiccation related stress in vitro. The transformation event is characterized by a dramatic cellular deformat...

    Yonnie Wu, David C Henry, Kyle Heim, Jeffrey P Tomkins, Cheng-Yi Kuan in BMC Cell Biology (2008)

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    Naturally occurring and stress induced tubular structures from mammalian cells, a survival mechanism

    Tubular shaped mammalian cells in response to dehydration have not been previously reported. This may be due to the invisibility of these cells in aqueous solution, and because sugars and salts added to the ce...

    Yonnie Wu, Richard C Laughlin, David C Henry, Darryl E Krueger in BMC Cell Biology (2007)

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    Fungal pathogen protection in potato by expression of a plant defensin peptide

    Defensins are small cysteine-rich peptides with antimicrobial activity. We demonstrate that the alfalfa antifungal peptide (alfAFP) defensin isolated from seeds of Medicago sativa displays strong activity against...

    Ai-Guo Gao, Salim M. Hakimi, Cindy A. Mittanck, Yonnie Wu in Nature Biotechnology (2000)