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    Isolation of a novel cell wall architecture mutant of rice with defective Arabidopsis COBL4 ortholog BC1 required for regulated deposition of secondary cell wall components

    The plant secondary cell wall is a highly ordered structure composed of various polysaccharides, phenolic components and proteins. Its coordinated regulation of a number of complex metabolic pathways and assem...

    Kanna Sato, Ryu Suzuki, Nobuyuki Nishikubo, Sachi Takenouchi, Sachiko Ito in Planta (2010)

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    GADD34 suppresses wound healing by upregulating expression of myosin IIA

    Wound healing consists of sequential steps of tissue repair, and cell migration is particularly important. In order to analyze the potential function of growth arrest and DNA damage inducible protein 34 (GADD3...

    Chie Tanaka, Sachiko Ito, Naomi Nishio, Yasuhiro Kodera in Transgenic Research (2010)

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    Therapeutic angiogenesis by transplantation of induced pluripotent stem cell-derived Flk-1 positive cells

    Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are the novel stem cell population induced from somatic cells. It is anticipated that iPS will be used in the expanding field of regenerative medicine. Here, we investigate...

    Hirohiko Suzuki, Rei Shibata, Tetsutaro Kito, Masakazu Ishii, ** Li in BMC Cell Biology (2010)

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    Autophagic activity in thymus and liver during aging

    Impaired or deficient autophagy is believed to cause or contribute to aging, as well as several age-related pathologies. Thymic epithelial cells had a high constitutive level of autophagy. The autophagic proce...

    Mohammad Nizam Uddin, Naomi Nishio, Sachiko Ito, Haruhiko Suzuki, Ken-ichi Isobe in AGE (2012)