MICROSCOPIC TECHNIQUE TITLE HYPERLINKTR NO ABSTRACT KEYWORDS MATERIALS & METHODS JOURNAL VOL YEAR MONTH ISSUE MATTEK DISH  SPECIES TISSUE ATCC DESC MORPHOLOGY CELL LINE MAIN AUTHOR CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS COMPANY
                                       
Acoustic Microscopy                                       
  Optical And Ultrasonic Monitoring Of Laser-Generated Intracellular Contrast Agents: Initial Cell Culture Studies 384 Acoustically monitored laser-induced optical breakdown (LIOB) can be used its an important diagnostic and therapeutic tool in living cells. With properly controlled laser parameters, optical breakdown is a minimally invasive means to target a single, tran laser-induced optical
breakdown (LIOB), photodisruption
CHO-K1 (Chinese hamster ovary) cells were used as the
in vitro target tissue for laser photodisruption. Cells were
cultured in a self-adherent monolayer onto a No. 0 coverslip
in a glass-bottom culture dish (MatTek Corporation,
Ashland, MA). Cells were gr
Ultrasonics Symposium 2004 IEEE 2 2004 August     CHINESE HAMSTER OVARY ECACC 85051005
Morphology: Epithelial
Hamster Chinese ovary
Depositor: Dr D Newell, PHLS CAMR, Porton Down, Salisbury, UK
No restrictions. Patent: None Specified By Depositor
Properties: Applications: Nutritional and gene expression studies
epithelial-like CHO Zohdy, Marwa J. Marwa J. Zohdy, Christine Tse, Jing Yong Ye, and Matthew O’Donnell University of Michigan
Analytical microscopy                                       
  Conformational Changes In Hiv-1 Gp41 In The Course Of Hiv-1 Envelope Glycoprotein-Mediated Fusion And Inactivation 364 HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein-mediated fusion is driven by the concerted coalescence of the HIV-1 gp41 N- and C-helical regions, which results in the formation of 6-helix bundles. These two regions are considered prime targets for peptides and antibodies th glycoprotein-mediated fusion, HIV-1-mediated cell-cell fusion, HIV-1 gp41, immunogenic HeLa cells were plated in 12 well plates, 105 cells per well, 24 h prior to
infection. The vaccinia stock (20 íL of approximately 109
plaque forming units/mL) was mixed with 30 íL of 0.25
mg/mL trypsin solution in Dulbecco’s phosphate-buffered
saline
          P35GCOL-0-10-C HUMAN cervix IZSBS BS TCL20
Morphology: epithelial-like
Species: human, Black female 31 years old; Tissue: cervix; Tumor: carcinoma, epitheloid
Properties: antitumour testing; transformation; tumorigenicity; cytotoxicity; cell biology; bacterial invasiveness; virology
epithelial-like HeLa Dimitrov, Antony S. Antony S. Dimitrov, John M. Louis, Carole A. Bewley, G. Marius Clore, and Robert Blumenthal National Institutes of Health
  Mechanism Of Prion Propagation: Amyloid Growth Occurs By Monomer Addition Amyloid Growth Occurs By Monomer Addition 357 Abundant nonfibrillar oligomeric intermediates are a common feature of amyloid formation, and these oligomers, rather than the final fibers, have been suggested to be the toxic species in some amyloid diseases. Whether such oligomers are critical intermed prion inheritance, polymerization, NM, a fragment of the Sup35 protein containing
the glutamine/asparagine-rich N-terminal (N) and highly charged middle (M)
domains, amyloid formation
For continuous thioflavin T assay measurements,  concentrated
stocks of NM stored in either 6 M GuHCl (fluorescently labeled NM
and NM used for Figures 2C, 2F, and 6) or 4 M GuHCl and 4 M urea
(NM used for all other experiments) were diluted at least 2
PLoS Biology 2 2004 September 9 P35G-1.5-14-C         Coleoptiles victoriae from oat Collins, Sean R. Sean R. Collins, Adam Douglass, Ronald D. Vale, Jonathan S. Weissman HHMI
  Novel Dynamic Rheological Behavior Of Individual Focal Adhesions Measured Within Single Cells Using Electromagnetic Pulling Cytometry 426 The rheology of cells and sub-cellular structures, such as focal adhesions, are important for cell form and function. Here we
describe electromagnetic pulling cytometry (EPC), a technique to analyze cell rheology by applying dynamic tensional forces to
Cell mechanics; Cytoskeleton; Focal adhesion; Creep; Magnetic Bovine capillary endothelial cells were cultured in
10% CO2 at 37  C on gelatin-coated tissue culture dishes
in Dulbeccos modified Eagles medium (DMEM,
Gibco-BRL) supplemented with 10% calf serum (CS;
Hyclone), 10 mM Hepes (JRH-Biosciences), 2 mM
L
Acta Biomaterialia 1 2005 May 3   BOVINE       ALVEOLAR TYPE II Overby, Darryl R. Darryl R. Overby, Benjamin D. Matthews, Eben Alsberg, Donald E. Ingber Children's Hospital Boston
  Surface Probe Measurements Of The Elasticity Of Sectioned Tissue, Thin Gels And Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Films:Correlations Between Substrate Stiffness And Cell Adhesion 483 Surface probe measurements of the elasticity of thin film matrices as well as biological samples prove generally
important to understanding cell attachment across such systems. To illustrate this, sectioned arteries were probed by
atomic force microscop
Surface structure, morphology, roughness, and topography; Adhesion; Atomic force microscopy A7r5 SMCs (aorta-derived cell line) were maintained
in polystyrene flasks between passages 2
and 15, and cultured in media containing DMEM,
supplemented with 10% of fetal bovine serum and
antibiotics. Cells were passed every 3 days, when
reaching 80
Surface Science 570 2004 October 1-2     MUSCLE     A7R5 Engler, Adam J. Adam J. Engler, Ludovic Richert, Joyce Y. Wong,
Catherine Picart, Dennis E. Discher
University of Pennsylvania
Axioscope Fluorescence Microscopy                                       
  Activation of erbB-1 Signaling in Tanycytes of the Median Eminence Stimulates Transforming Growth Factor 1 Release via Prostaglandin E2 Production and Induces Cell Plasticity 496 The activation of transforming growth factor  (TGF)– erbB-1 and neuregulin– erbB-4 signaling pathways in hypothalamic astrocytes
has been shown to play a key role in the process by which the neuroendocrine brain controls luteinizing hormone-releasing ho
neuroendocrine; TGF ; TGF; ependymoglial cells; LHRH; cell plasticity; hypothalamus Tanycytes were seeded in cloning
cylinders positioned on 37 mm culture chambers (MatTek Corp., Ashland,
MA) containing poly-L-ornithine- and laminin-coated glass coverslips,
as described above. After removal of the cylinder, the cells were
maintained 
Journal of Neuroscience 23 2003 November 33           Tanycytes Prevot, Vincent Vincent Prevot, Anda Cornea, Alison Mungenast, Gregory Smiley, and Sergio R. Ojeda Oregon Health and Sciences University
Calcium Imaging                                       
  Astragaloside IV inhibits spontaneous synaptic transmission and synchronized
Ca2+ oscillations on hippocampal neurons
897 Aim: To investigate the changes in the spontaneous neuronal excitability induced
by astragaloside IV (AGS-IV) in the cultured hippocampal network. Methods:
Hippocampal neurons in culture for 9–11 d were used for this study. The spontaneous
synaptic activi
astragaloside IV; synchronized spontaneous
Ca 2+ osci l l at ion; spont aneous synapt i c
transmission; voltage-gated Na+ currents;
voltage-gated K+ currents
In brief, hippocampal
tissues from 18 d fetal rats...were then dissociated
by trituration with a glass Pasteur pipette and plated in 35
mm culture dishes with a glass bottom (MatTek, Ashland,
MA, USA) for culture and subsequent microscopy.
Acta Pharmacologica Sinica 29 2008 January 1 35-mm glass bottom dishes         Hippocampal neurons from embryonic
Sprague-Dawley rats (E18)
Shao-qing ZHU Shao-qing ZHU, Lei QI, Yan-fang RUI, Ru-xin LI, Xiang-ping HE, Zuo-ping XIE  
  Hydroxylation Increases the Neurotoxic Potential of BDE-47 to Affect
Exocytosis and Calcium Homeostasis in PC12 Cells
881 BACKGROUND: Oxidative metabolism, resulting in the formation of hydroxylated polybrominated
diphenyl ether (PBDE) metabolites, may enhance the neurotoxic potential of brominated flame
retardants.
OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to investigate the effects of 
Bioactivation, brominated flame retardants, calcium, catecholamine, exocytosis, intracellular
calcium stores, neurotoxicity, neurotransmitter release, persistent organic pollutants, polybrominated
diphenyl ether.
For Ca2+ imaging
experiments, we subcultured undifferentiated
PC12 cells in poly-L-lysine–coated
glass-bottom dishes (MatTek, Ashland, MA,
Environmental Health Perspectives 116 2008 May 5 poly-L-lysine–coated
glass bottom dishes
        PC12 Milou M.L. Dingemans Milou M.L. Dingemans, Aart de Groot, Regina G.D.M. van Kleef,  Åke Bergman, Martin van den Berg,
Henk P.M. Vijverberg, and Remco H.S. Westerink
 
  Neonatal Exposure to Brominated Flame Retardant BDE-47 Reduces Long-Term
Potentiation and Postsynaptic Protein Levels in Mouse Hippocampus
882 BACKGROUND: Increasing environmental levels of brominated flame retardants raise concern about
possible adverse effects, particularly through early developmental exposure.
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this research was to investigate neurodevelopmental mec
αCaMKII, brain growth spurt, developmental neurotoxicity, field-EPSP recording,
hippocampal synaptic plasticity, postsynaptic density.
PC12 cells were subcultured in
poly-L-lysine–coated glass-bottom cell culture
dishes (MatTek, Ashland MA, USA)
Environmental Health Perspectives 115 2007 June 6 poly-L-lysine–coated glass bottom
dishes
        PC12 Milou M.L. Dingemans Milou M.L. Dingemans, Geert M.J. Ramakers, Fabrizio Gardoni, Regina G.D.M. van Kleef, Åke Bergman,
Monica Di Luca, Martin van den Berg, Remco H.S. Westerink, and Henk P.M. Vijverberg
 
  Pregnancy-Specific Changes in Uterine Artery
Endothelial Cell Signaling in Vivo Are Both Programmed
and Retained in Primary Culture
887 Ovine uterine artery (UA) endothelial cells (UAEC) maintained
in culture to passage 4 retain pregnancy-specific
changes in vasodilator production, which in turn is associated
with differences in Ca2 and ERK 1/2 signaling. The question
remains whether thi
Ovine uterine artery (UA) endothelial cells (UAEC), Pregnancy-specific changes Glass-bottom microwell dishes
for Ca2 imaging studies were purchased from MatTek Corporation
(Ashland, MA),
Journal of Endocrinology 144 2003   8 glass bottom dishes         UAEC Shannon M. Gifford Shannon M. Gifford, Jackie M. Cale, Stephen Tsoi, Ronald R. Magness, and Ian M. Bird  
Confocal Fluorescence                                       
  Molecular Perspective of Antigen-mediated Mast Cell Signaling 907 Agonist activation regulates reciprocal interactions of spinophilin
and arrestin with the 2A- and 2B-adrenergic receptor (AR)
subtypes via their 3i loop. Because arrestin association with G
protein-coupled receptor is preceded by redistribution of arres
  HEK 293 or MEFs were plated the night
before the assay on MatTek dishes (35 mm) coated with 2.5 g/cm2
poly-D-lysine
Molecular Pharmacology 67 2005 May 5 35-mm glass bottom dishes         HEK 293 or MEFs Ashley E. Brady Ashley E. Brady, Qin Wang, Patrick B. Allen, Mark Rizzo, Paul Greengard, and
Lee E. Limbird
 
Confocal Laser                                       
  Close Homolog of L1 is an Enhancer of Integrin-mediated Cell Migration 879 Cells actively produce contractile forces for a variety of processes including cytokinesis and motility. Contractility is
known to rely on myosin II motors which convert chemical energy from ATP hydrolysis into forces on actin filaments. However, the
basi
Actin, Active cytoskeletal networks, Contractility, Myosin II, Xenopus, alpha-actinin Deposited onto an inert oil layer (Fluorinert FC-40,
3M, St. Paul, MN; cat. No. F9755, Sigma, St. Louis, MO) on the bottom of a
MatTek dish (model No. P35G-1.5-14-C, MatTek, Ashland, MA) equipped
with a lid to minimize evaporation (Fig. 1 A).
Biophysical Journal 94 2008 April 8 P35G-1.5-14-C         M-phase extracts (Xenopus) Poul M. Bendix Poul M. Bendix, Gijsje H. Koenderink, Damien Cuvelier, Zvonimir Dogic, Bernard N. Koeleman,
William M. Brieher, Christine M. Field, L. Mahadevan, and David A. Weitz
 
Confocal Laser Scanning                                       
  Phosphorylation-dependent Localization
of Microtubule-associated Protein
MAP2c to the Actin Cytoskeleton
750 IB kinase 2 (IKK2 or IKK) is a component of the IKK complex that coordinates the cellular response to a diverse set of extracellular
stimuli, including cytokines, microbial infection, and stress. In
response to an external stimulus, the complex is activa
Aurora A  mitosis  NF-B  spindle polarity HeLa cells expressing GFP-a-tubulin where reverse-transfected with siRNA IKK2 no. 2. Briefly, 80 nmol of the siRNA was diluted in 500 ml of OptiMem (Invitrogen) and placed in a 35-mm glass bottom dish (MatTek). PNAS 104 2007 October 43 35-mm glass bottom dishes Human Cervix   Epithelial HeLa Irelan, Jeffrey T. Jeffrey T. Irelan*, Thomas J. Murphy*, Paul D. DeJesus*, Hsiangling Teo, DingYue Xu, Maria A. Gomez-Ferreria‡,
Yingyao Zhou*, Loren J. Miraglia*, Daniel R. Rines*, Inder M. Verma§, David J. Sharp‡, Vinay Tergaonkar§,
and Sumit K. Chanda
Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, †Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, §The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Confocal Microscopy                                       
  2-Adrenergic Agonist Enrichment of Spinophilin at the Cell
Surface Involves Subunits of Gi Proteins and Is
Preferentially Induced by the 2A-Subtype
787 The HIV-1 Rev protein is an essential regulator of the HIV-1 mRNA expression that promotes the export of unspliced and partially
spliced mRNA. The export receptor for the leucine-rich nuclear
export signal (NES) of Rev has recently been recognized as CRM1
  HLtat cells were seeded onto coated
50-mm glass-bottom microwell dishes (MatTek), cultured in
phenol red-free DMEM [supplemented with 10% (volvol)
FCS]
          50-mm glass-bottom microwell dishes         Hltat Daelemans, Dirk Dirk Daelemans*, Elena Afonina‡, Jakob Nilsson§, Gudrun Werner, Jørgen Kjems§, Erik De Clercq*,
George N. Pavlakis‡, and Anne-Mieke Vandamme
Human Retrovirus Section, National Cancer
Institute, University of Aarhus, Novartis Research Institute
  A Quantitative Analysis of Contractility in Active Cytoskeletal
Protein Networks
759 The human EGF receptor (HER) 2 receptor tyrosine kinase is a survival factor for human cardiomyocytes, and its inhibition may
explain the increased incidence of cardiomyopathy associated with
the anti-HER2 monoclonal antibody trastuzumab (Genentech,
South
monoclonal antibodies Au565, MCF7, MCF7/HER2, and HMCs cells
were seeded on glass bottom dishes (MatTek, Ashland, MA) the
day before the experiment.
PNAS 104 2007 June 25 P35GC-1.0-14-C, P35G-1.0-14-C Human Breast cancer, Cardiomyocytes     Au565, MCF7, MCF7/HER2, and HMCs Spector, Neil L. Neil L. Spector*, Yosef Yarden, Bradley Smith‡, Ljuba Lyass§, Patricia Trusk§, Karen Pry§, Jason E. Hill§, Wenle Xia*,
Rony Seger, and Sarah S. Bacus
Duke University Medical Center, Weizmann Institute, Cell Signaling
Technologies, §Targeted Molecular Diagnostics
  A role for IB kinase 2 in bipolar spindle assembly 747 Visual and auditory hallucinations accompany certain neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, and they also can be
induced by the use or abuse of certain drugs. The heptahelical
serotonin 2A receptors (5-HT2ARs) are molecular targets for drugind
5-HT2A receptor  G protein-coupled receptor  internalization
MAP kinase  schizophrenia
Neurons were grown on poly-L-lysine-coated glass coverslip culture plates (Mat-
Tek) at 37°C and in 5% CO2.
PNAS 105 2008 January 3 Glass coverslip culture plates Mouse cortical neuronal     MEF Schmid, Cullen L. Cullen L. Schmid, Kirsten M. Raehal, and Laura M. Bohn Ohio State University College of Medicine
  A synthetic HIV-1 Rev inhibitor interfering with the CRM1-mediated nuclear export 771 Vaccination against amyloid -peptide (A) has been shown to be successful in reducing A burden and neurotoxicity in mouse
models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, although A immunization
did not show T cell infiltrates in the brain of these mice,
an A 
amyloid -peptide  encephalitis  vaccination Microglia were cultured on MatTek Petri dishes for 24 h in the presence and absence of IFN-g. PNAS 103 2006 March 13   Mouse Microglial       Monsonego Alon Monsonego*, Jaime Imitola‡, Sanja Petrovic‡, Victor Zota‡, Anna Nemirovsky*, Rona Baron*, Yair Fisher*,
Trevor Owens§, and Howard L. Weiner
Ben-Gurion University, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, University of Southern Denmark
  Activation of AMP-activated protein kinase by human EGF receptor 2/EGF receptor tyrosine kinase
inhibitor protects cardiac cells
746 Vascular dysfunction has been reported in human cases of anthrax, in mammalian models of Bacillus anthracis, and in animals injected
with anthrax toxin proteins. To examine anthrax lethal toxin
effects on intact blood vessels, we developed a zebrafish mod
endothelial  vascular permeability  VEGF For confocal imaging of the heart: 15 minutes
after bead injection, embryos were fixed in 2% PFA for 5–10 min; then
embedded in 2% low melt agarose (Bio-Rad) on 35-mm glass bottom microwell
dishes (MatTek Corp.).
PNAS 105 2008 February 7 35-mm glass bottom microwell
dishes
Zebrafish Heart   Endothelial       Harvard Medical School
  Agonist-directed signaling of the serotonin 2A receptor depends on -arrestin-2 interactions in vivo 845 Altered calcium homeostasis is implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Much effort
has been put into understanding the association between protein mutations causative of this devastating
neurodegenerative disease and perturbed calcium 
Alzheimer’s disease, APPswe, Ca, Spontaneous calcium oscillation, Hippocampal neuron Mechanically dispersed cells were plated on
poly-d-lysine-coated 3.5cm glass bottom Petri dishes (Mattek Corporation)
at a density of 450,000 cells/dish and cultured for 12–14
days at 37 ◦C and 5% CO2.
Journal of Neuroscience 436 2008 May 2 P35G-0-14-C         Ppswe Ewa Kloskowska Ewa Kloskowska,, Katarzyna Malkiewicza, Bengt Winblada,
Eirikur Benedikza, Joseph D. Bruton
 
  A-induced meningoencephalitis is IFN-dependent and is associated with T cell-dependent clearance
of A in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
877 Assessment
of fat-specific protein 27 in the adipocyte lineage suggests a dual
role for FSP27 in adipocyte metabolism and cell death. Am J Physiol
Endocrinol Metab 294: E654–E667, 2008. First published January 15,
2008; doi:10.1152/ajpendo.00104.2007.—Fat
insulin; tumor necrosis factor-; adipogenesis; cell death-inducing
DFF45-like effector; apoptosis; 3T3-L1
Confocal imaging studies using MitoTracker
Red CMX Ros (Invitrogen) were conducted on live cells by plating
3T3-L1 preadipocytes or COS cells onto laminin-coated MatTek glass
bottom dishes (MatTek, Ashland, MA)
American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism 294 2008 April 4 glass bottom dishes         3T3-L1 preadipocytes or COS cells Ji Young Kim Ji Young Kim, Kun Liu, Shengli Zhou, Kristin Tillison, Yu Wu, and Cynthia M. Smas  
  Anthrax lethal toxin induces cell death-independent permeability in zebrafish vasculature 816 Caveolin-1 is a principal component of caveolae membranes that may function as a transformation suppressor. For example, the human caveolin-1 gene is localized
to a suspected tumor suppressor locus (D7S522; 7q31.1)
that is deleted in human cancers, includ
  MTLn3 cells
were plated on collagen I-coated MATTEK tissue culture dishes at a
density of 2,500 cells/cm2.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 275 2000   27   Mouse Caveolin     MTLn3 Zhang, Wei Wei Zhang, Babak Razania, Yoram Altschuler, Boumediene Bouzahzah,
Keith E. Mostov, Richard G. Pestell, and Michael P. Lisanti
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
  APPswe mutation increases the frequency of spontaneous
Ca2+-oscillations in rat hippocampal neurons
711 Background: The interaction between macrophages and Cryptococcus neoformans (Cn) is critical
for containing dissemination of this pathogenic yeast. However, Cn can either lyse macrophages or
escape from within them through a process known as phagosomal ex
vacuole formation, Cryptococcus neoformans, murine macrophages Cells were then plated on polylysine
coverslip-bottom MatTek plates (MatTek Cultureware,
Ashland MA) at a density of 5 × 104 per plate in feeding
media,
BioMedCentral Immunology 8 2007 August 16 P35GC-0-14-C Mice macrophage-like     J774.16 Alvarez, Mauricio Mauricio Alvarez, Arturo Casadevall Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  Assessment of fat-specific protein 27 in the adipocyte lineage suggests a dual
role for FSP27 in adipocyte metabolism and cell death
853 Lipoteichoic acid (LTA) is a central inducer
of inflammatory responses caused by Grampositive
bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus,
via activation of TLR2. Localization of TLR2 in
relation to its coreceptors may be important for
function. This study ex
TLR, LTA, endocytosis MDCK cells stably expressing Eea-1GFP were transiently transfected with the
TLR2 overnight in Microwell dishes for microscopy (MatTek Corp.)
Journal of Leukocyte Biology 84 2008 July   35-mm glass bottom dishes         HEK293, MDCK Nadra J. Nilsen Nadra J. Nilsen,* Susanne Deininger,† Unni Nonstad,* Frode Skjeldal,‡ Harald Husebye,*
Dmitrii Rodionov,‡ Sonja von Aulock,† Thomas Hartung,†,§ Egil Lien,¶ Oddmund Bakke,‡
and Terje Espevik
 
  Caveolin-1 Inhibits Epidermal Growth Factor-stimulated Lamellipod Extension and Cell Migration in Metastatic
Mammary Adenocarcinoma Cells (MTLn3)
827 The molecular mechanisms by which the AP-1 transcription factor c-Jun exerts its biological functions are not clearly
understood. In addition to its well established role in transcriptional
regulation of gene expression, several reports
have suggested tha
  For photoswitch and fluorescence recovery after photobleaching
(FRAP) studies, cells were transfected with PS-CFP2-
DDX21, EGFP-DDX21 (15), or EGFP-DDX21 mut and grown
on glass-bottom dishes (MatTek).
Journal of Biological Chemistry 283 2008 March 11 P50G-1.5-14-F Mouse Embryo     HeLa, MEF Holmstro, Tim H. Tim H. Holmstro¨m‡§, Antoine Mialon‡, Marko Kallio‡§, Yvonne Nymalm, Leni Mannermaa‡, Tina Holm,
Henrik Johansson, Elizabeth Black**, David Gillespie**‡‡, Tiina A. Salminen, U¨ lo Langel, Benigno C. Valdez§§,
and Jukka Westermarck
University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, University of Tampere and the Tampere University Hospital, State Technical
Research Center of Finland, University of Stockholm, University of Glasgow, University of Texas,MDAnderson Cancer Center
  Cell-to-cell spread and massive vacuole formation after Cryptococcus neoformans infection of murine macrophages It is increasingly recognized that the compartmental organization of signaling processes has a profound influence on cellular behavior. However, our inability to influence these compartmental events in a spatially restricted and acute manner limits our un   Transfected HeLa cells were grown on MatTeK dishes.           MatTeK dishes Human       HeLa Fili, N. N. Fili, V. Calleja, R. Woscholski, P. J. Parker,, and B. Larijani Cancer Research UK, Imperial College London
  Cellular trafficking of lipoteichoic acid and Toll-like receptor 2
in relation to signaling; role of CD14 and CD36
795 Purpose: Clinical confocal scanning laser microscopes are used in vivo to examine the cornea. However, such instruments are unable to yield the precision and resolution provided by research level in vitro instruments. This study was carried out to evaluat cornea: basic science • cornea: epithelium • mitochondria Following the labeling with fluorescent dyes, the corneal buttons were rinsed twice in HBSS and mounted in 1% agarose, previously dissolved in HBSS, on glass–bottom plates (MatTek Corp., Ashland, MA). Investigative Opthamology & Visual Science   2006     P06G-1.5-20-F Bovine Cornea   Epithelial   Bantseev, V. V. Bantseev and J.G. Sivak University of Waterloo
  c-Jun Supports Ribosomal RNA Processing and Nucleolar Localization of RNA Helicase DDX21 724 In principle, cell surface receptors that are
overexpressed in tumor tissue could serve as targets for
anticancer drugs attached to receptor ligands. The purpose of
this paper is to identify the necessary elements for a successful
receptor-targeted drug. 
  Cells were grown in
coated 50-mm cover glass bottom dishes (MatTek, Ashland,
MA) in medium without phenol red.
PNAS 95 1998 September 20 50-mm cover glass bottom dishes Human gastrin I     NIH/3T3 Czerwinski, Grzegorz GRZEGORZ CZERWINSKI, NADYA I. TARASOVA, AND CHRISTOPHER J. MICHEJDA* National Cancer Institute, Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center
  Compartmental signal modulation: Endosomal phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate controls endosome morphology and selective cargo sorting 830 Acoustic overstimulation and ototoxic drugs can cause permanent hearing loss as a result of the damage and death of cochlear hair cells.
Relatively little is known about the signaling pathways triggered by such trauma, although a significant role has been
cochlea; ototoxicity; calcium signaling; purinergic receptors; cell– cell communication; ERK The cochlear turns were placed onto Cell-Tak cell and tissue
adhesive (BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA)-coated MatTek (Ashland, MA)
dishes.
Journal of Neuroscience 19 2008 May   P50G-0-14-F         Cochlea Manuela Lahne Manuela Lahne and Jonathan E. Gale  
  Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy Imaging of the Bovine Corneal Epithelium in vitro 743 Va14Ja18 natural T (NKT) cells play an immunoregulatory role, which is controlled by a self glycolipid(s) presented by CD1d.
Although the synthetic antigen -D-galactosylceramide (-D-Gal-
Cer) stimulates all Va14Ja18 NKT cells, -anomeric D-glycosylceram
  Cells (5  106) were
plated in glass-bottom microwells (MatTek) and incubated
overnight at 37°C to allow the cells to adhere to the wells.
PNAS 100 2003 February 4 glass bottom dishes Mouse       Va14Ja18 NKT Stanic, Aleksandar Aleksandar K. Stanic*, A. Dharshan De Silva*, Jang-June Park*, Venkataraman Sriram‡§, Shinichi Ichikawa,
Yoshio Hirabyashi, Kyoko Hayakawa, Luc Van Kaer*, Randy R. Brutkiewicz‡§, and Sebastian Joyce
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Indiana University School of Medicine, Walther Cancer Institute, Brain Science Institute, Fox Chase Cancer Center
  Cytotoxic agents directed to peptide hormone receptors: Defining the requirements for a successful drug 874 Calcium influx through long-lasting (“L-type”) Ca2 channels
(CaV) drives excitation-contraction in the normal heart. Dysregulation
of this process contributes to Ca2 overload, and
interventions that reduce expression of the pore-forming 1
subunit may a
Functional Ca2+ Channels, Mutant B2, Cardiac Cells After trypsinization,
dissociated cells were plated in glass culture dishes (MatTek, Ashland, MA) for electrophysiology
(60–80  103 cells/ml).
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 325 2008 April 1 glass bottom dishes         HL-1 cells Sabine Telemaque Sabine Telemaque, Swapnil Sonkusare, Terrie Grain, Sung W. Rhee, Joseph R. Stimers,
Nancy J. Rusch, and James D. Marsh
 
  Damage-Induced Activation of ERK1/2 in Cochlear Supporting Cells Is a Hair Cell Death-Promoting Signal That Depends on Extracellular ATP and Calcium 903 The spatial distributions of zinc, a representative transition metal, and active biomass in bacterial biofilms
were determined using two-photon laser scanning microscopy (2P-LSM). Application of 2P-LSM permits
analysis of thicker biofilms than are amenabl
  Thin biofilms were grown in microwell dishes with 0.17-mm glass coverslips at the bottom (MatTek, Ashland,
MA).
Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71 2005 July 7 glass bottom dishes, 1.7mm thickness         PHL628 Zhiqiang Hu Zhiqiang Hu, Gabriela Hidalgo, Paul L. Houston, Anthony G. Hay, Michael L. Shuler,
He´ctor D. Abrun˜a, William C. Ghiorse, and Leonard W. Lion
 
  Defective presentation of the CD1d1-restricted natural Va14Ja18 NKT lymphocyte antigen caused
by -D-glucosylceramide synthase deficiency
837 A mast cell-based biosensor has been developed to enable the use of these cells in numerous applications including pharmaceutical screening,
environmental monitoring, clinical diagnosis and homeland security. Rat basophilic leukemia (RBL) mast cells offer
IgE receptors; Immunosensor; Bacterial diagnostics; Calcium responses; CD14 chimeric protein For confocal
fluorescence experiments, 2.0mL of this cell suspension was
plated into glass bottom Petri dishes (MatTek Corp.
Biosensors and Bioelectronics 23 2008 February 7 P35G-1.5-14-F         RBL-2H3 Theresa Curtis Theresa Curtis a,∗, Rose Mary Z.G. Naal b,1, Carl Batt c, Joel Tabb a, David Holowka  
  Design of Mutant 2 Subunits as Decoy Molecules to Reduce
the Expression of Functional Ca2 Channels in Cardiac Cells
871 To apply siRNA as a therapeutic agent, appropriate attention should be paid to the optimization of the siRNA gene silencing effect, both in terms of magnitude and duration. Intracellular time-controlled siRNA delivery could aid in tailoring the kinetics o Biodegradable materials • Controlled release • Microgels • siRNA • Drug delivery • Biomedical applications HUH7 cells were seeded in sterile glass-bottomed
culture dishes (MatTek Corporation, Ashland, MA) at a density of
3104 cells per cm2 and allowed to attach overnight.
Advanced Functional Materials 18 2008 April 7 glass bottom dishes         HUH7 Koen Raemdonck Koen Raemdonck , Tinneke G. Van Thienen , Roosmarijn E. Vandenbroucke , Niek N. Sanders, Joseph Demeester , Stefaan C. De Smedt  
  Determination of Spatial Distributions of Zinc and Active Biomass in
Microbial Biofilms by Two-Photon Laser Scanning Microscopy
712 Stargazin is an accessory protein of AMPA receptors that
enhances surface expression and also affects the biophysical
properties of the receptor. AMPA receptor domains necessary
for either of these two processes have not yet been identified.
Here, we used
  Collagen- or poly-Dlysine-
coated 14-mm glass bottom culture dishes (MatTek
Corp., Ashland, MA) were incubated with ECL Attachment
Matrix (Upstate Cell Signaling Solutions, Lake Placid, NY) for
1 h at 37 °C then washed with cMEM before plating cells.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 281 2006 August 33 P35GC-0-14-C Human Embryonic Kidney Fibroblasts     HEK-293 Bedoukian, Matthew A. Matthew A. Bedoukian, Autumn M. Weeks, and Kathryn M. Partin Colorado State University
  Development of a mast cell-based biosensor 825 Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) stimulates cells by activation of five Gprotein coupled receptors, termed LPA1-5. The LPA1 receptor is the most widely expressed and is a major regulator of cell
migration. In this study, we show that
phorbol ester (PMA)-induce
  HeLa cells were
plated onto 35mm glass bottom microwell
dishes (MatTek Corp., Ashland, MA).
Journal of Biological Chemistry 283 2008 February 9           HeLa Urs, Nikhil M. Nikhil M. Urs, Andrew P. Kowalczyk and Harish Radhakrishna Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University
  Dextran Microgels for Time-Controlled Delivery of siRNA 793 Purpose:The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of using confocal laser scanning microscopy together with specific fluorescent markers to assess the distribution of cellular organelles in corneal epithelium of rat in vivo.

Methods:F
cornea: basic science • mitochondria • imaging/image analysis: non-clinical Animals (n=5) were then placed on a custom-designed heated microscope stage (to maintain body temperature) with the cornea facing glass-bottom multi-well plates (MatTek Corp., Ashland, MA).           P06G-1.5-20-F Rat Cornea   Epithelial   Bantseev, V. V. Bantseev, D. McCanna, J.-Y. Driot, K. W. Ward and J. G. Sivak University of Waterloo, Bausch&Lomb, Inc.
  Different Domains of the AMPA Receptor Direct Stargazin-mediated Trafficking and Stargazin-mediated Modulation of Kinetics 841 Many cell types, including neurons and epithelial cells, express a variety of annexins.
Although the overall function has only been partially unravelled, a dominant feature is the
formation of two-dimensional assemblies under the plasma membrane in a calc
Annexin, Calcium binding, FRAP, FRET, Translocation For imaging experiments, cells were plated in
35 mm MatTek chambers (Ashland, MA) and transfected with
FuGENE 6 reagent (Roche, Mannheim, Germany) at 50%
confluency.
Experimental Cell Research 314 2008 March 5 35-mm glass bottom dishes         N1E-115 Tatsiana Skrahina Tatsiana Skrahina1, Alen Piljić1, Carsten Schultz  
  Different mechanisms regulate lysophosphatidic acid-dependent versus phorbol ester-dependent internalization of the LPA1 receptor 799 Two types of short double-stranded RNA molecules, namely microRNAs (miRNAs) and short interfering RNAs (siRNAs), have emerged recently as important
regulators of gene expression. Although these molecules
show similar sizes and structural features, the
mec
  For 6-well plates
and MatTek chambers (MatTek Corporation, USA) cells
were sown one day before transfection at a density of
1.5–3 · 105 cells/well in antibiotic-free media.
Nucleic Acids Research 34 2006 March 5 6-well plates         HeLa SS6 Ohrt, Thomas Thomas Ohrt, Dennis Merkle, Karin Birkenfeld, Christophe J. Echeverri and Petra Schwille Dresden University of Technology, Cenix BioScience GmbH
  Distribution of Organelles Identified in Epithelium of Rat Corneas in vivo Using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy 741 Stimulation of a mutant angiotensin type 1A receptor (DRYAAY) with angiotensin II (Ang II) or of a wild-type receptor with an Ang
II analog ([sarcosine1,Ile4,Ile8]Ang II) fails to activate classical heterotrimeric
G protein signaling but does lead to rec
  One day
after transfection, cells were split onto collagen-coated 35-mm
plastic dishes with glass bottoms (MatTek, Ashland, MA) and
cultured overnight at 37°C.
PNAS 100 2003 September 19 35-mm collagen-coated glass bottom dishes
plastic dishes with glass bottoms
Human Embryonic Kidney     HEK-293 Wei, Huijun Huijun Wei*, Seungkirl Ahn*, Sudha K. Shenoy*, Sadashiva S. Karnik‡, La´ szlo´ Hunyady§, Louis M. Luttrell,
and Robert J. Lefkowitz*
Duke University Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Semmelweis University, Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center,
Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  Heterogeneity and timing of translocation and
membrane-mediated assembly of different annexins
873 Transcription-coupled repair (TCR) plays a key role in the
repair of DNA lesions induced by bulky adducts and is initiated
when the elongating RNA polymerase II (Pol II) stalls at DNA
lesions. This is accompanied by alterations in Pol II activity and
stab
Transcription-coupled repair, RNA Polymerase II, DNA
lesions, Recycling, Living mammalian cells
Cells were cultured at 39°C in
glass-bottomed dishes (MatTek Cultureware, Ashland, MA).
Journal of Cell Science 121 2008 April 8 P35G-1.0-14-C         HeLa Alexandre E. Escarguei Alexandre E. Escargueil, Virginie Poindessou, Daniele Grazziotin Soares, Alain Sarasin,
Peter R. Cook and Annette K. Larsen
 
  In situ fluorescence analysis demonstrates active siRNA exclusion from the nucleus by Exportin 5 736 Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and its receptors have been implicated as key factors in tumor angiogenesis that are
up-regulated by hypoxia.Weevaluated the effects of DNA-binding
small molecules on hypoxia-inducible transcription of VEGF. A
syn
gene regulation  hypoxia-inducible factor  polyamide Incubations were performed by adding 150 l of cells into culture dishes
equipped with glass bottoms for direct imaging (MatTek, Ashland,
MA).
PNAS 101 2004 November 48 glass bottom dishes
equipped with glass bottoms for direct imaging
Human cervical epithelial adenocarcinoma cell     HeLa Bogdan Z. Bogdan Z. Olenyuk*, Guo-Jun Zhang, Jeffery M. Klco, Nicholas G. Nickols*, William G. Kaelin, Jr.‡,
and Peter B. Dervan
California Institute of Technology, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
  Independent -arrestin 2 and G protein-mediated pathways for angiotensin II activation of extracellular
signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2
906 Protein kinase Cs (PKCs) are important effectors of synaptic plasticity. In Aplysia, there are two major phorbol ester-activated PKCs,
Ca2-activated PKC Apl I and Ca2-independent PKC Apl II. Functional Apl II, but not Apl I, in sensory neurons is requir
Synapses; synaptic transmission; synaptic plasticity; protein kinase C; Aplysia; learning For transfection, cells were plated on Mat-
Tek glass bottom culture dishes (MatTek Corporation, Ashland, MA)
with a glass surface of 14 mm and a coverslip thickness of 1.5 mm at a
density of 0.11  106 cells/35 mm dish.
Journal of Neuroscience 26 2006 August 34 P35G-1.5-14-C         SF9 Yali Zhao Yali Zhao, Karina Leal, Carole Abi-Farah, Kelsey C. Martin, Wayne S. Sossin, and Marc Klein  
  Influence of irofulven, a transcription-coupled repairspecific
antitumor agent, on RNA polymerase activity,
stability and dynamics in living mammalian cells
765 Rho GTPases are signaling molecules known to control cell motility. Several recent studies have suggested a role for Rho proteins in mediating tumor metastasis
independent of their a¡ects on cell proliferation. As
Rho proteins require post-translational m
  MDCK cells were plated on to 3 cm dishes with built-in coverslips (MatTek, Ashland, MA)           p35g-1.5-10-C Dog Kidney     MDCK Collisson, Eric A. Eric A. Collisson, Dafnis C. Carranza, Ingrid Y. Chen, and Michael S. Kolodney UCLA School of Medicine,
  Inhibition of vascular endothelial growth factor with a sequence-specific hypoxia response
element antagonist
767 The combination of fluorescent genetically encoded proteins with mouse engineering provides a fascinating means to study
dynamic biological processes in
mammals. At present, green
fluorescent protein (GFP) mice were mainly developed to study gene expressi
behavioral desensitization | green fluorescent protein | neuroanatomy | real-time imaging | receptor internalization Cells were seeded in glass-bottom, 32-mm diameter plastic dishes
(MatTek) coated with polyL-lysine (Sigma).
          32-mm diameter plastic dishes Mouse Neurons, Hippocampus       Scherrer, Grégory Grégory Scherrer*, , Petra Tryoen-Tóth*, ,
Dominique Filliol*, Audrey Matifas*,
Delphine Laustriat*, Yu Q. Cao , Allan I. Basbaum ,
Andrée Dierich*, Jean-Luc Vonesh*,
Claire Gavériaux-Ruff*, and Brigitte L. Kieffer*,
Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique/Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche
Médicale/Université Louis Pasteur, Stanford University
School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
  Isoform Specificity of PKC Translocation in Living Aplysia
Sensory Neurons and a Role for Ca2-Dependent PKC APL I
in the Induction of Intermediate-Term Facilitation
891 Although lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) is known to increase intracellularfree calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) in different
cell types, the effect of LPA on the skeletal muscle cells is not known. The present study was therefore
undertaken to examine the eff
Lysophosphatidic acid • skeletal muscle cell • intracellular free calcium •
receptor operated Ca2+-channels • sarcolemmal Na+-Ca2+ exchanger
The cells were cultured
on the Glass Bottom Culture Dishes (MatTek,
Ashland, MA, USA)
Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine 12 2008 June 3 glass bottom dishes         C2C12 Yan-Jun Xu Yan-Jun Xu, Paramjit S. Tappia, Ramesh K. Goyal, Naranjan S. Dhalla  
  Isoprenylation is Necessary for the Full Invasive Potential of RhoA Overexpression in Human Melanoma Cells 847 Charcot–Marie–Tooth Type 2A is a dominantly inherited peripheral neuropathy characterized by axonal degeneration of sensory and motor
nerves. The disease is caused by mutations in the mitochondrial fusion gene MFN2. Mfn2 is an integral outer mitochondrial
CMT2A; Peripheral neuropathy; Mitochondria; Mitofusin; Mfn2; Mfn1; GTPase; Membrane fusion; Fibroblasts Approximately 10,000 cells per population were plated on
35 mm poly-D-lysine coated glass-bottom culture dishes
(MatTek Corp.)
Experimental Neurology 211 2008 May 1 glass bottom dishes         CMT2A Elizabeth A. Amiott Elizabeth A. Amiott a, Paul Lott b,1, Jamie Soto c, Peter B. Kang d, J. Michael McCaffery e,
Salvatore DiMauro f, E. Dale Abel c, Kevin M. Flanigan b,
Victoria H. Lawson b,⁎,2, Janet M. Shaw
 
  Knockin mice expressing fluorescent -opioid receptors uncover G proteincoupled
receptor dynamics in vivo
817 Persistent reovirus infections of murine L929 cells select cellular mutations that inhibit viral disassembly within the endocytic pathway. Mutant cells support reovirus growth when infection is initiated with infectious subvirion particles (ISVPs), which    L cells and LX cells (105) were grown on 12-mm glass coverslips (Fisher Scientific, Pittsburgh, Pa.) or in glass-bottomed MatTek dishes (MatTek Corp., Ashland, Mass.) for 2 days. Journal of Virology 73 1999 November 11   Mouse       L cells and LX cells Baer, Geoffrey S. Geoffrey S. Baer,, Daniel H. Ebert,, Chia J. Chung, Ann H. Erickson, and Terence S. Dermody Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Mechanisms of the lysophosphatidic acid-induced
increase in [Ca2+]i in skeletal muscle cells
779 We identify a human mutation (E1053K) in the ankyrin-binding motif of Nav1.5 that is associated with Brugada syndrome, a fatal
cardiac arrhythmia caused by altered function of Nav1.5. The
E1053K mutation abolishes binding of Nav1.5 to ankyrin-G, and
also 
arrhythmia  SCN5A  targeting  trafficking  sudden cardiac death After washes,
buffer was removed and the pellet was resuspended in Vectashield
and plated onto Mattek 35-mm plates.
PNAS 101 2004 December 50 P35G-1.5-14-C Rat   Cardiomyocytes     Mohler, Peter J. Peter J. Mohler*‡, Ilaria Rivolta§, Carlo Napolitano§, Guy LeMaillet, Stephen Lambert, Silvia G. Priori§,
and Vann Bennett
Duke University Medical Center, University of Pavia, University of Massachusetts Medical School
  Mitochondrial fusion and function in Charcot–Marie–Tooth type
2A patient fibroblasts with mitofusin 2 mutations
694 The secretion of luteinizing hormone (LH) is cued by the hypothalamic neuropeptide,
gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH). Following delivery to the anterior pituitary gland via
the hypothalamic-pituitary portal vasculature, GnRH binds to specific high af
GnRH Mediated, Anterior Pituitary, Neuroendocrine Plasticity Slices intended for use in video microscopy were individually placed on glass-bottomed
culture dishes (MatTek Corporation) that had been previously coated in poly-D-lysine and
8
collagen (Vitrogen 100, Cohesion).
Endocrinology 148 2007 April 4 P35GC-0-14-C culture dishes Mice (murine), Ewe Pituitary     T3-1 Navratil Amy M. Navratil, J. Gabriel Knoll, Jennifer D. Whitesell, Stuart A. Tobet, Colin M. Clay University of California San Diego, Colorado State University
  Mutant Cells Selected during Persistent Reovirus Infection Do Not Express Mature Cathepsin L and Do Not Support Reovirus Disassembly 863 Mutations in the neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) tumor suppressor gene predispose individuals to a variety of benign and malignant tumors. Many tumor suppressors ‘shuttle’ between the nucleus and the cytoplasm, thus regulating their function. By expressing Neurofibromatosis type 1; Neurofibromin; Nuclear localization signal; Nuclear localization; Alternative splicing For live cell imaging and photobleaching experiments, cells were plated, transfected and observed in glass bottom culture dishes (MatTek Corporation) FEBS Letters 560 2004 February 1 glass bottom dishes         COS-7 cells and PLC/PRF/5 cells Ina Vandenbroucke Ina Vandenbroucke, Patrick Van Oostveldt, Elisabeth Coene , Anne De Paepe and Ludwine Messiaen  
  Nav1.5 E1053K mutation causing Brugada syndrome blocks binding to ankyrin-G and expression of
Nav1.5 on the surface of cardiomyocytes
910 NF-kB transcription factors are involved in the cellular
response to stress, and are regulated by inhibitor (IkB)
proteins, which prevent NF-kB-mediated transcription by
maintaining NF-kB in the cytoplasm. Proteins from other
pathways are also known to re
NF-kB, STAT6, Glucocorticoid receptor, Signal
transduction, Fluorescent protein fusions, Confocal microscopy
For confocal microscopy, cells were plated
on 35 mm Mattek dishes (Mattek, USA) at 2´104 cells per plate in 2
ml medium.
Journal of Cell Science 116 2003 June 12 35-mm glass bottom dishes         HeLa Glyn Nelson Glyn Nelson, Geraint J. C. Wilde, David G. Spiller, Stephnie M. Kennedy, David W. Ray, Elaine Sullivan,
John F. Unitt and Michael R. H. White
 
  Neuroendocrine Plasticity in the Anterior Pituitary:  GnRH Mediated Movement in vitro and in vivo 695 Autoreactivity in lupus requires the delivery of autoantigens to APCs in a proinflammatory context. It has been proposed that
apoptotic cells are a source of lupus autoantigens and targets for autoantibodies. Using a histone H2B-GFP fusion protein as
trac
Dendritic Cell Phagocytosis, Nuclear Autoantigen Translocation, Autoantibody
Opsonization, Presentation of Nuclear Antigens, Lupus
K/H2B-GFP cells were cultured in glass-bottom culture
dishes (MatTek). Cells
Journal of Immunology 175 2005 August 4 P35GC-0-14-C Mice bone marrow-derived DCs     K/H2B-GFP Frisoni, Lorenza Lorenza Frisoni,* Lenese Mcphie,* Lucrezia Colonna, Uma Sriram, Marc Monestier,‡
Stefania Gallucci, and Roberto Caricchio,*
University of Pennsylvania, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Temple University School of Medicine
  Neurofibromin is actively transported to the nucleus 785 A series of hairpin pyrrole–imidazole polyamide–fluorescein conjugates were synthesized and assayed for cellular localization.
Thirteen cell lines, representing 11 human cancers, one human
transformed kidney cell line, and one murine leukemia cell line,
w
  Incubations were performed
by adding 150 l of cells into culture dishes equipped with glass
bottoms for direct imaging (MatTek,
PNAS 100 2003 October 21 P35G-1.0-14-C   Polyamides       Best, Timothy P. Timothy P. Best*, Benjamin S. Edelson*, Nicholas G. Nickols, and Peter B. Dervan California Institute of Technology
  NF-kB signalling is inhibited by glucocorticoid
receptor and STAT6 via distinct mechanisms
828 Polyethyleneimines (PEIs) are efficient non-viral vectors for gene transfer. Heparan sulfate proteoglycans have been proposed
to be the cell-surface receptors for PEIDNA complexes
(polyplexes). Here, we investigated if syndecan-1 (SDC1) and
syndecan-2 (S
  SDC1-expressing (a) or SDC2-expressing (b) cells were plated for
1 h on MatTek 3.5-mm Petri dishes. RITC-labeled polyplexes were then added to cells.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 283 2008 March 12 P35GC-0-14-C         HEK293-EBNA1 cells Se´bastien Paris Se´bastien Paris, Alina Burlacu, and Yves Durocher Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council Canada
  Nuclear Autoantigen Translocation and Autoantibody Opsonization Lead to Increased Dendritic Cell Phagocytosis and Presentation of Nuclear Antigens 786 MrgA1 and MrgC11 belong to a recently identified family of orphan G-protein coupled receptors, called mrgs (mas-related genes). They
are only expressed in a specific subset of sensory neurons that are
known to detect painful stimuli. However, the precise 
  MrgA1-GFP or MrgC11-GFP stably expressing
HEK293 cells were grown in 35-mm glass-bottomed dishes (Mat-
Tek, Ashland,MA) inDMEMwith 10% FBS.
          P35G-0-14-C mouse embryonic fibroblasts     HEK293 Han, Sang-Kyou Sang-Kyou Han*, Xinzhong Dong‡, Jong-Ik Hwang*, Mark J. Zylka‡, David J. Anderson‡, and Melvin I. Simon Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California Institute of Technology,
  Nuclear localization of pyrrole–imidazole polyamide–fluorescein conjugates in cell culture 811 Genome activity and nuclear metabolism clearly depend on accessibility, but it is not known whether and to what
extent nuclear structures limit the mobility and access of individual molecules. We used fluorescently labeled streptavidin with a
nuclear loca
  Mouse C2C12 myoblasts were cultured as described previously (19). For live
cell analysis, cells were seeded onto either one-well LabTek chambers (Nalge
Nunc International, Rochester, NY) or glass-bottom dishes (MatTek, Ashland,
MA).
Biophysical Journal 94 2008 April 7 P50G-1.5-14-F Mouse Myoblasts     C2C12 Grunwald, David David Gru¨ nwald,* Robert M. Martin,y Volker Buschmann,yz David P. Bazett-Jones,§ Heinrich Leonhardt,z
Ulrich Kubitscheck,* and M. Cristina Cardoso
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, yMax Delbru¨ck
Center for Molecular Medicine, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, The Hospital for Sick
Children, Toronto
  Opposing Roles of Syndecan-1 and Syndecan-2 in Polyethyleneimine-mediated Gene Delivery 698 Distinct changes in glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3)
signalling can regulate neuronal morphogenesis including
the determination and maintenance of axonal identity, and
are required for neurotrophin-mediated axon elongation.
In addition, we have previous
PI3K, GSK-3, PTEN, Axon guidance, Semaphorin 3A,
Cytoskeleton, Signal transduction
For live-cell
imaging, nucleofected cells were cultured on poly-L-lysine (50 g/ml)/laminin (20
g/ml)-coated glass-bottom dishes (MatTek Corporation) for 15 hours.
Journal of Cell Science 119 2006 March 5 poly-L-lysine (50  g/ml)/laminin (20
g/ml)-coated glass-bottom dishes
E18 rat embryos     DRGs Chadborn, Neil H. Neil H. Chadborn,*, Aminul I. Ahmed,*, Mark R. Holt, Rabinder Prinjha, Graham A. Dunn,
Gareth E. Jones and Britta J. Eickholt,‡
King’s College London, Guy’s Campus; GlaxoSmithKline
  Orphan G protein-coupled receptors MrgA1 and MrgC11 are distinctively activated by RF-amide-related peptides through the Gq/11 pathway 889 Astrocytes play an essential role in the maintenance and protection of the brain, which we reported was diminished with age. Here, we
demonstrate that activation of a purinergic receptor (P2Y-R) signaling pathway, in astrocytes, significantly increases th
Intracellular Ca2; mitochondria; IP3 ; P2Y-R; two-photon; metabolism Mouse cortical neurons (#M-CX-300; Cambrex) were then cultured
onto six-well mat-tek glass bottom plates and maintained in Neurobasal
Medium
Journal of Neuroscience 27 2007 June 24 6-well glass bottom plates         Mouse cortical neurons Jun Wu Jun Wu, J. Deborah Holstein, Geeta Upadhyay, Da-Ting Lin, Stuart Conway, Elizabeth Muller , and James D. Lechleiter  
  Probing Intranuclear Environments at the Single-Molecule Level 855 Specific assembly of ribonucleoprotein complexes
is essential in controlling various cellular functions
including gene regulation. Diverse scaffolds
containing proteins or nucleic acids could play
key roles in stabilizing specific ribonucleoprotein
comple
human CyclinT1, positive transcription elongation factor
complex b, RNA–protein interactions, trans-activation responsive RNA,
Tat protein
Cells were cultured on 35 mm plates with coverslip glass bottoms (MatTek
Corporation, Ashland, MA, USA)
Chemical Biology and Drug Design 69 2007 April 4 35-mm glass bottom dishes         HeLa Ya-Lin Chiu Ya-Lin Chiu, Hong Cao and Tariq M. Rana  
  PTEN couples Sema3A signalling to growth cone collapse 809 Signaling in mast cells and basophils is mediated through IgE and its high affinity cell surface receptor, FcRI. Crosslinking of the receptors by a cognate multivalent antigen leads to degranulation
and release of mediators of the allergic immune respons
RBL mast cells, quantitative microscopy, confocal image processing, GFP-labeled
signaling proteins, co-localization analysis, Fc-epsilon-RI.
The cells were plated overnight in 35mm MatTek dishes (MatTek Corporation, Ashland,
MA) at a subconfluent density ( 4 × 105 cells per dish) prior to transfection.
Cell Biophysics 94 2008 June 12 P35G-1.5-14-C         RBL-2H3 Das, Raibatak Raibatak Das, Stephanie Hammond, David Holowka and Barbara Baird Cornell University
  Purinergic Receptor-Stimulated IP3-Mediated Ca2 Release
Enhances Neuroprotection by Increasing Astrocyte
Mitochondrial Metabolism during Aging
775 Many pathogenic and symbiotic Gram-negative bacteria employ type III secretion systems to inject ‘‘effector’’ proteins into eukaryotic
host cells. These effectors manipulate signaling pathways to
initiate symbiosis or disease. By using time-lapse microsco
effector protein time-lapse microscopy pGFP–InvB-transfected Cos7 cells on
glass-bottom dishes (MatTek, Ashland, MA) were transferred
into Hank’s balanced salt solution (GIBCO)
PNAS 102 2005 August 35 P35G-0-14-C         Cos7 Schlumberger, Markus C. Markus C. Schlumberger, Andreas J. Mu¨ ller, Kristin Ehrbar, Brit Winnen, Iwan Duss, Ba¨ rbel Stecher,
and Wolf-Dietrich Hardt
Eidgeno¨ ssische Technische Hochschule
  Quantitative Analysis of RNA-mediated Protein–Protein Interactions in Living Cells by FRET 769 The rapid growth and poor vascularization of solid tumors expose cancer cells to hypoxia, which promotes the metastatic phenotype
by reducing intercellular adhesion and increasing cell motility and
invasiveness. In this study, we found that hypoxia increa
NADH  E-cadherin  metastasis  HIF1  adhesion Cells were grown for 2 days on glass 35-mm dishes (MatTek, Ashland,
9032  www.pnas.orgcgidoi10.1073pnas.0603269103 Zhang et al.
MA) and maintained at 37°C and 5% CO2 in a humidified
chamber on the microscope stage (Zeiss).
PNAS 103 2006 June 24 P35G-0-14-C Human non-small-cell lung cancer, colon carcinoma     H1299, HT29 Zhang, Qinghong Qinghong Zhang*, Su-Yan Wang*, Amanda C. Nottke*, Jonathan V. Rocheleau‡, David W. Piston‡,
and Richard H. Goodman
Oregon Health & Sciences University, Vanderbilt University
  Real-time cross-correlation image analysis of early events in IgE receptor
signaling.
791 The regulation of intracellular localization of AFX, a human Forkhead transcription factor, was studied. AFX was recovered as a phosphoprotein
from transfected COS-7 cells growing in the presence of FBS,
and the phosphorylation was eliminated by wortmanni
  CHO-K1 cells transfected with
AFX-GFP or its mutants were spread onto glass-bottom culture
dishes (MatTek, Ashland, MA) and maintained for at least 16 h
before observation.
          glass-bottom culture
dishes
Hamster Ovary     CHO-K1 Takaishi, Hiroshi Hiroshi Takaishi*, Hiroaki Konishi*, Hidenori Matsuzaki*, Yoshitaka Ono, Yasuhito Shirai*, Naoaki Saito*, Tadahiro Kitamura‡,
Wataru Ogawa‡, Masato Kasuga‡, Ushio Kikkawa*§, and Yasutomi Nishizuka
Kobe University, Kobe University School of Medicine
  Real-time imaging of type III secretion: Salmonella SipA injection into host cells 792 The G protein-coupled m-opioid receptor (mOR) mediates the physiological effects of endogenous opioid peptides as well as the structurally distinct opioid alkaloids
morphine and etorphine. An intriguing feature of mOR
signaling is the differential recepto
  HEK 293 cells were transfected
to overexpress mOR and low levels of barr2yGFP with or
without GRK2 or GRK2-K220M, and were plated on 35-mm
glass-bottomed culture dishes (MatTek, Ashland, MA)
          35-mm glass bottom culture dishes         HEK 293 Zhang, Jie JIE ZHANG*, STEPHEN S. G. FERGUSON*, LARRY S. BARAK*, SOBHA R. BODDULURI*, STE´PHANE A. LAPORTE*,
PING-YEE LAW‡, AND MARC G. CARON
Duke University Medical Center, University of Minnesota Medical School
  Redox sensor CtBP mediates hypoxia-induced tumor cell migration 795 Protein kinase D2 (PKD2) belongs to the PKD family of serine/threonine kinases that is activated by phorbol esters and
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Its C-terminal regulatory domain comprises two cysteine-rich domains (C1a/C1b)
followed by a plecks
  For live cell imaging cells were grown and transfected in MatTek glass-bottomed dishes
(MatTek, Ashland, MA).
Molecular Biology of the Cell 16 2005 September 9 glass bottom dishes Human Kidney   Embryonic HEK-293 Auer, Alexandra Alexandra Auer,* Julia von Blume,* Sabine Sturany,*‡ Go¨ tz von Wichert,*
Johan Van Lint,§ Jackie Vandenheede,§ Guido Adler,* and Thomas Seufferlein
Medical University of Ulm, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  Regulation of nuclear translocation of Forkhead transcription factor AFX by protein kinase B 703 Experiments with isolated mitochondria have established that these organelles are pivotal
intracellular sources of superoxide in a variety of pathophysiological conditions. Recently, a novel
fluoroprobe MitoSOX Red was introduced for selective detection o
Superoxide, Mitochondria, Free radicals, MitoSOX, Antimycin A (AntA), Paraquat (PQ), Doxorubicin
(DOX), Cardiomyocytes, H9c2, Human coronary artery endothelial cells (HCAECs)
Cells were cultured in 12 well cell culture plates or glass bottom dishes
(MatTek, Ashland, MA) with DMEM (Gibco, Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) containing 10% fetal
bovine serum (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA), 100 U/ml penicillin and 100 μg/ml streptomycin at 37 
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 358 2007 June 1 P35GC-1.0-14-C, P DCF OS 30 Rat embryonic ventricular myocardial     H9c2 Mukhopadhyaya, Partha Partha Mukhopadhyay,a Mohanraj Rajesh,a Kashiwaya Yoshihiro,b György Haskó, and Pál Pachera* National Institutes of Health/NIAAA, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School
  Role for G protein-coupled receptor kinase in agonist-specific
regulation of m-opioid receptor responsiveness
821 Patients on a statin regimen are at a decreased risk of death due to bacterial sepsis. We have found that protection by simvastatin includes the inhibition of host cell invasion
by Staphylococcus aureus, the most common etiologic agent of sepsis. Inhibiti
  For confocal imaging,
cells were plated as above on 35 mm glass-bottom dishes (MatTek, Ashland, MA)
coated as above.
Journal of Pharmacology And Experimental Therapeutics 326 2008 July 1 P35GC-1.5-10-C Human Umbilical Cord   Endothelial HUVEC Horn, Mary P. Mary P. Horn, Sharmon M. Knecht, Frances L. Rushing, Julie Birdsong, C. Parker
Siddall, Charron M. Johnson, Terri N. Abraham, Amy Brown, Catherine B. Volk, Kelly
Gammon, Derron L. Bishop, John L. McKillip, and Susan A. McDowell
Ball State University, Indiana School of Medicine
  Role of the Regulatory Domain of Protein Kinase D2 in
Phorbol Ester Binding, Catalytic Activity, and
Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling
745 Exocytic vesicle fusion requires both the SNARE family of fusion proteins and a closely associated regulatory subunit of the Sec1/
Munc18 (SM) family. In principle, SM proteins could act at an early
SNARE assembly step to promote vesicle–plasma membrane a
giant liposomes  Sec1/Munc18 Samples
were prepared in glass-bottom dishes (P35G-1.5-14-C; MatTek) coated with 10%
(wt/vol)BSAfor1hatroomtemperature
PNAS 105 2008 February 7 P35G-1.5-14-C Rat       Munc18-1 Tareste, David David Tareste, Jingshi Shen, Thomas J. Melia, and James E. Rothman Columbia University
  Simple quantitative detection of mitochondrial superoxide production in live cells 883 The pseudorabies virus (PRV) Us9 protein plays a central role in targeting viral capsids and glycoproteins to axons of
dissociated sympathetic neurons. As a result, Us9 null mutants are defective in anterograde transmission of infection in vivo.
However, 
Pseudorabies Virus, Viral Us9 Protein, Lipid Rafts, PRV, NGF PC12 cells were cultured on MatTek
Corp. glass-bottomed dishes.
PLoS Pathogens 4 2008 May 5 glass bottom dishes         PC12 Mathew G. Lyman Mathew G. Lyman, Dusica Curanovic, Lynn W. Enquist  
  Simvastatin inhibits Staphylococcus aureus host cell invasion through modulation of isoprenoid intermediates 850 Although Candida containing biofilms contribute to the development of oral candidosis, the
characteristics of multi-species Candida biofilms and how oral bacteria modulate these
biofilms is poorly understood. The aim of this study was to investigate inter
Candida albicans, Candida glabrata, Dual-species biofilm, Streptococcus mutans, Confocal scanning laser microscopy The discs were carefully removed from the wells
(after 24 h of biofilm formation), placed (face down) on a 35-
mm-diameter glass-bottom Petri-dish (MatTek Corp., Ashland,
MS, USA)
Archives of Oral Biology   2008     P35GC-1.5-10-C         sHA, sPMMA
and sSL discs
Tatiana Pereira-Cenci Tatiana Pereira-Cenci a,b, Dong Mei Deng b, Eefje Anne Kraneveld b,
Erik Martinus Marie Manders c, Altair Antoninha Del Bel Cury a,
Jacob Martien ten Cate b, Wim Crielaard
 
  SNAREpin/Munc18 promotes adhesion and fusion of large vesicles to giant membranes 878 Spatial organisation of nuclear compartments is an important
regulator of chromatin function, yet the molecular principles
that maintain nuclear architecture remain ill-defined. We have
used RNA interference to deplete key structural nuclear
proteins, the
Nuclear lamin proteins, Nucleoskeleton, Nuclear
organisation, RNA synthesis, Chromosome territories
For live imaging of CTs, labelled cells were grown on 35 mm Petri dishes with
13 mm glass inserts (MatTek Corporation) in medium without Phenol Red.
Journal of Cell Science 121 2008 April 7 35-mm glass bottom dishes         HeLa Chi W. Tang Chi W. Tang, Apolinar Maya-Mendoza, Catherine Martin, Kang Zeng, Songbi Chen, Dorota Feret,
Stuart A. Wilson and Dean A. Jackson
 
  Targeting of Pseudorabies Virus Structural Proteins to
Axons Requires Association of the Viral Us9 Protein with
Lipid Rafts
834 During vertebrate cell division, chromosomes oscillate
with periods of smooth motion interrupted by
abrupt reversals in direction. These oscillations
must be spatially constrained in order to align and
segregate chromosomes with high fidelity, but the
mol
Kinesin-8 Motor Kif18A, Kinetochore
Movements, MitoticChromosomeAlignment
HeLa cells were cultured in MEMalpha (Life Technologies) medium with 10%
FBS (Hyclone) at 37C and 5% CO2 on 35 mm2 glass coverslip dishes coated
with poly-l-lysine (MatTek
Developmental Cell 14 2008 February   glass bottom dishes         HeLa Jason Stumpff Jason Stumpff,1 George von Dassow,2 Michael Wagenbach,1 Charles Asbury,1 and Linda Wordeman  
  The effect of Streptococcus mutans and Candida glabrata on
Candida albicans biofilms formed on different surfaces
776 All auxiliary 2 subunits of voltage-gated Ca2 (CaV) channels contain an extracellular Von Willebrand factor-A (VWA) domain
that, in 2-1 and -2, has a perfect metal-ion-dependent adhesion
site (MIDAS). Modeling of the 2-2 VWA domain shows it to be
high
integrin  neuron  motif  expression For imaging GFP in live cells, glass-bottomed dishes (MatTek, Ashland, MA) were mounted in a humidified chamber on the microscope and perfused with 5% CO2. PNAS 102 2005 August 32 glass bottom dishes         Cos7 Canti, M. C. Cantı´*, M. Nieto-Rostro*, I. Foucault*, F. Heblich*, J. Wratten, M. W. Richards, J. Hendrich, L. Douglas, K. M. Page,
A. Davies, and A. C. Dolphin
University College London
  The integrity of a lamin-B1-dependent nucleoskeleton
is a fundamental determinant of RNA synthesis in
human cells
807 We demonstrate that physiologically relevant perturbations in the osmotic environment rheostatically regulate a gatekeeping function for the
nucleolus that controls nucleolin’s spatial dynamics
and functions. HeLa cells and U2-OS osteosarcoma
cells were o
  One day prior to
transfection with MINPP, cells were seeded onto
35mm dish with 14mm microwell (MatTek) at a
density of 8 x 105 cells/dish
          P35G-1.5-14-C         HeLa and H1299 Yang, Ling Ling Yang , Jeff M. Reece , Jaiesoon Cho ,, Carl D. Bortner 4, and Stephen B. Shears National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences, NIH, Reecent Technologies, Konkuk University
  The Kinesin-8 Motor Kif18A Suppresses Kinetochore
Movements to ControlMitoticChromosomeAlignment
729 Animals use their gustatory systems to evaluate the nutritious
value, toxicity, sodium content, and acidity of food. Although
characterization of molecular identities that receive taste chemicals
is essential, molecular receptors underlying sour taste sen
chemical senses  polycystic kidney disease  gustation  ion channel  acid For calcium imaging, cells were seeded on
glass-bottom plates with poly-D-lysine-coated coverslips (Mat-
Tek) and plasmidDNAwas transfected with Lipofectamine 2000
(Invitrogen) and incubated for 30–42 h before dye loading.
          glass-bottom plates with poly-D-lysine-coated coverslips Rabbit Tongue     PKD1L3 and PKD2L1 Ishimaru, Yoshiro Yoshiro Ishimaru*, Hitoshi Inada, Momoka Kubota*, Hanyi Zhuang*, Makoto Tominaga‡, and Hiroaki Matsunami Duke University Medical Center, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Okazaki, Japan
  The metal-ion-dependent adhesion site in the Von Willebrand factor-A domain of 2 subunits
is key to trafficking voltage-gated Ca2 channels
849 Various molecular mechanisms of unconventional
secretion of fibroblast growth factor 2 and galectin-1 have been
proposed. A non-vesicular pathway that is based on direct translocation
across the plasma membrane has been described. In
other studies, howeve
Unconventional protein secretion; Non-classical
export; Fibroblast growth factor 2; Galectin-1
CHO cells were grown on glass coverslips (MatTek Corp., Ashland,
USA), processed for live cell imaging and viewed with a Zeiss LSM 510
confocal microscope.
FEBS Letters 582 2008 March 9 glass coverslips         CHO Claudia Seelenmeyer Claudia Seelenmeyer1, Carolin Stegmayer1, Walter Nickel  
  THE NUCLEOLUS EXHIBITS AN OSMOTICALLY-REGULATED GATEKEEPING ACTIVITY THAT CONTROLS NUCLEOLIN’S SPATIAL DYNAMICS AND FUNCTIONS. 872 The characteristic bipolar shape of the mitotic spindle is produced by the focusing of the minus ends of microtubules at the spindle poles. The focus is maintained by the centrosome, a microtubule-nucleating organelle, as well as by proteins that are capa RNAi, Centrosome, Microtubule, Kinetochore, -tubulin Cells were adhered on Con-A treated glass-bottom culture dishes (35-mm, MatTek) Journal of Cell Science 121 2008 April 8 35-mm glass bottom dishes         Drosophila Schneider cells (S2 Matthew A. Trammell Matthew A. Trammell, Nicole M. Mahoney, David A. Agard and Ronald D. Vale  
  Transient receptor potential family members PKD1L3 and PKD2L1 form a candidate sour taste receptor 826 Antigen-mediated cross-linking of the high affinity receptor for IgE (FcRI), in the plasma membrane of mast cells, is the first
step in the allergic immune response. This event triggers the
phosphorylation of specific tyrosines in the cytoplasmic segments
  Adherent cells (1.5
105 cells/ml) were plated onto glass-bottomed 35-mm Petri
dishes (MatTek) and sensitized overnight
Journal of Biological Chemistry 283 2008 March 11 P35G-1.5-14-C   Mast cell     RBL-2H3 Davey Angel M. Davey‡, Keith M. Krise‡, Erin D. Sheets‡§, and Ahmed A. Heikal The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State
University
  Unconventional secretion of fibroblast growth factor 2 and galectin-1
does not require shedding of plasma membrane-derived vesicles
909 Close homolog of L1 (CHL1) is a member of the L1
family of cell adhesion molecules expressed by subpopulations
of neurons and glia in the central and peripheral
nervous system. It promotes neurite outgrowth and neuronal
survival in vitro. This study descr
  After washing in ice-cold HBSS, the cells
were resuspended in 10% fetal bovine serum in DMEM, plated onto
collagen-coated MatTek plates (MatTek Corp., Ashland, MA)
Journal of Biological Chemistry 278 2003 July 27 collagen-coated plates         HEK293 Mona Buhusi, Mona Buhusi, Bentley R. Midkiff, Amanda M. Gates, Melanie Richter, Melitta Schachner,
and Patricia F. Maness
 
  vMob4 plays a role in spindle focusing in Drosophila S2 cells 896 Microtubule-associated protein
2 (MAP2) is a neuronal
phosphoprotein that promotes
net microtubule growth and
actin cross-linking and
bundling in vitro. Little is
known about MAP2 regulation
or its interaction with the cytoskeleton in vivo. Here we invest
  Samples for live-cell microscopy were seeded onto 35-mm
culture dishes with a glass coverslip mounted over a hole in the bottom of the dish (Mattek Corp.,
Ashland, MA).
Molecular Biology of the Cell 11 2000 October 10 35-mm glass bottom dishes         HeLa Rachel S. Ozer Rachel S. Ozer, and Shelley Halpain  
  4-D Single Particle Tracking Of Synthetic And Proteinaceous Microspheres Reveals Preferential Movement Of Nuclear Particles Along Chromatin – Poor Tracks 306 The dynamics of nuclear organization, nuclear bodies and RNPs in particular has been the focus of many studies. To understand their function, knowledge of their spatial nuclear position and temporal translocation is essential. Typically, such studies gene   SW13 cells were cultured in P35G-1.5-7-C-Grid cell locate culture dishes (MatTek Corporation, Ashland, MA) in complete DMEM medium for 1 day after plating. BioMed Central- Cell Biology 5 2004 November 45 P35G-1.5-7-CGRID HUMAN ADRENAL CORTEX IZSBS BS TCL 62
Morphology: epithelial-like
Species: human, Caucasian female 55 years old; Tissue: adrenal cortex; Tumor: adenocarcinoma; Validated by isoenzymes: confirmed as human with NP, AST, LD
Depositor: obtained from ATCC
Properties: Susceptible to
  SW13 Bacher, C. Bacher, C., Reichenzeller, M., Athale, , C., Herrmann, H., and Eils, R. Division of Theoretical Bioinformatics, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum,Heidelberg, Germany. Division of Cell Biology, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany. Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
  4-Hydroxynonenal Induces Oxidative Stress And Death of Cultured Spinal Cord Neurons 570 Primary spinal cord trauma can trigger a cascade of secondary processes leading to delayed and
amplified injury to spinal cord neurons. Release of fatty
acids, in particular arachidonic acid, from cell membranes
is believed to contribute significantly
Arachidonic acid, Lipid peroxidation, Oxidative stress, Spinal cord
trauma, N-Acetylcysteine, Ebselen
Immunocytochemistry was performed to measure HNE formation
in cultured spinal cord neurons exposed to arachidonic
acid according to the procedure described earlier (Herbst et al.,
1999). In brief, cultures of spinal cord neurons were prepared
on glass
              spinal     MYOCYTES Malecki Andrzej Malecki, Rosario Garrido, Mark P. Mattson,
Bernhard Hennig, and Michal Toborek
University of Kentucky
  A Carboxyl Leucine-Rich Region of Parathyroid Hormone- Related Protein is Critical for Nuclear Export 579 Parathyroid hormone-related protein is an oncofetal protein with distinct proliferative and anti-apoptotic roles that are affected by nucleocytoplasmic shuttling. The protein’s nuclear export is sensitive to leptomycin B, consistent with a CRM1 dependent  consensus sequence, confocal microscopy, exportin 1, fluorescence recovery after photobleaching, leptomycin, nucleocytoplasmic transport proteins, peptide hormones To assess steady state cellular distributions of PTHrP, 293 cells were plated in 35-mm glass bottom culture dishes (MatTek, Ashland, MA) and transfected with GFP3-PTHrP chimeras. Endocrinology 147 2006 February 2           HEK-293 Pache, Jared C. Jared C. Pache, Douglas W. Burton, Leonard J. Deftos, and Randolph H. Hastings UCSD
  A Comparison Of The Sensitivity Of Photodamage Assays In Rat Basophilic Leukemia Cells 358 Many aspects of cellular function or physiology can be used to indicate the level of damage resulting from the application of potentially deleterious agents such as drugs, solvents or even light. The dose required to reach a specific biological endpoint w photodamage assays, type I photooxidation reactions RBL-2H3 cells were grown in minimal essential medium (MEM-a) supplemented with 20% fetal
bovine serum and 100 units of penicillin-streptomycin. The 7mmgrid dishes were used for
the experiments using the BrdU incorporation assay. The 14 mm dishes were
Photochemistry and Photobiology 81 2005 May 3 P35G-1.5-7-CGRID RAT       Egg chambers Barth, Erin E. Erin E. Barth, Richard Hallworth and Michael G. Nichols Creighton University
  A Novel Form Of Cellular Communication Among Thymic Epithelial Cells: Intercellular Calcium Wave Propagation 309 We here describe intercellular calcium waves as a novel form of cellular communication among thymic epithelial cells. We first characterized the mechanical induction of intercellular calcium waves in different thymic epithelial cell preparations: cortical gap junctions,  connexin43,  P2 receptors • intercellular communication "The typically heavier TNCs were allowed to sediment. TNCs obtained by this process were cultured for RNA extraction or, alternatively, plated in MatTek (Ashland, MA) imaging dishes for calcium wave experiments." American Journal of Physiology- Cell Physiology 285 2003 November 5     THYMUS     TNC Nihei, O. Nihei,,, O., Campos de Carvalho, A., Spray, D., Savino,,4 W., and Alves L., Laboratory on Thymus Research, Department of Immunology, Institute Oswaldo Cruz, The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro; Institute of Biophysics, Federal University The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
  Activation Of Rac1 By A Crk Sh3-Binding Protein, Dock180 543 DOCK180 is involved in integrin signaling through
CrkII-p130Cas complexes. We have studied the involvement
of DOCK180 in Rac1 signaling cascades.
DOCK180 activated JNK in a manner dependent on
Rac1, Cdc42Hs, and SEK, and overexpression of
DOCK180 inc
DOCK180, actin cytoskeleton, Rho-family proteins, CrkII NIH-3T3 cells were plated subconfluently on fibronectin-coated glass
dishes (Mat Tek) 16 hr before mincroinjection. Expression plasmids were
injected into the nucleus by use of an Automated Microinjection System
(Carl Zeiss). After 16 hr, cells were fi
Genes & Development 12 1998 November 21   MOUSE, SWISS ALBINO EMBRYO ECACC 93061524
Morphology: Fibroblast
Mouse Swiss NIH embryo contact inhibited
Depositor: Obtained from ATCC, USA
No restrictions. Patent: None Specified By Depositor
Properties: Applications: DNA transfection studies
FIBROBLAST NIH-3T3 Kiyokawa, Etsuko Etsuko Kiyokawa, Yuko Hashimoto,
Shin Kobayashi, Haruhiko Sugimura,
Takeshi Kurata, and Michiyuki Matsuda
National Institute of Infectious Diseases
  Agonist- And Protein Kinase C-Induced Phosphorylation Have Similar Functional Consequences For Gastrin-Releasing Peptide Receptor Signaling Via Gq 470 Acute desensitization of many guanine nucleotide-binding protein-
coupled receptors (GPCRs) requires receptor phosphorylation
and subsequent binding of an arrestin. GPCRs are substrates
for phosphorylation by several classes of kinases.
Gastrin-releas
guanine nucleotide-binding protein-
coupled receptors, phosphorylation, carboxyl terminal domain, Acute desensitization, rhodopsin
Stably transfected Balb 3T3 fibroblasts
(expressing high levels of GRPr constructs) were plated in MatTek
glass-bottomed 35-mm dishes at 150 to 200,000 cells/dish. The next
day, each dish was transfected with 0.1 to 1 g of EGFP-N1- -
arrestin1 (arr2)
Molecular Pharmacology 64 2003 October 4   MOUSE, SWISS ALBINO       NIH-3T3 Ally, Roxanne A. ROXANNE A. ALLY, KIRK L. IVES, ELIE TRAUBE, IMAN ELTOUNSI, PEI-WEN CHEN, PATRICK J. CAHILL,
JAMES F. BATTEY, MARK R. HELLMICH, and GLENN S. KROOG
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  Alpha2-adrenergic agonist enrichment of spinophilin at the cell surface involves βγ subunits of Gi proteins and is preferentially induced by the α2A-subtype 610 Agonist activation regulates reciprocal interactions of spinophilin and arrestin with the α2A- and α2B-adrenergic receptor (AR) subtypes via their 3i loop. Since arrestin association with GPCR is preceded by redistribution of arrestin to the cell surface, agonist activation, spinophilin, arrestin, βARK-C tail MatTek dishes were purchased from MatTek Corporation (Ashland, MA). Molecular Pharmacology 67 2005 May 5           HEK-293 Brady, Ashley E. Ashley E. Brady, Qin Wang, Patrick B. Allen, Mark Rizzo, Paul Greengard, Lee E. Limbird Vanderbilt University
  Alterations In Receptor Expression Or Agonist Concentration Change The Pathways Gastrin-Releasing Peptide Receptoruses To Regulate Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase 532 G protein-coupled receptors activate extracellular signalregulated
kinases (ERKs) via different pathways in different
cell types. In this study, we demonstrate that gastrin-releasing
peptide receptor (GRPr) regulates ERK through multiple
pathways in a
Receptor Expression, Agonist Concentration, Gastrin-Releasing Peptide Receptor, extracellular signalregulated
kinases, Mitogen-activated protein kinases,
Myc-GRPr cells were plated in glass bottom 35-mm dishes (Mat-
Tek, Ashland, MA) at 150,000 cells/dish and cultured overnight.
Cells were transfected with 0.3  g of pEGFP-N1-arrestin2 or arrestin3-
GFP by LipofectAMINE method following the manufacturer’
Molecular Pharmacology 66 2004 December 6           Myc-GRPr Chen, Pei-Wen Pei-Wen Chen and Glenn S. Kroog Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  Analysis Of Dna Fragmentation Of In Vitro Cultured Bovine Blastocysts Using Tunel 233 Programmed cell death (apoptosis) characteristically affects the single cells of blastocysts whereas necrosis affects cluster of cells in both the inner cell mass (ICM) and the trophectoderm (TE). This study uses the trophectodermrminal deoxynucleotidyl t Apoptosis; Blastocysts; Bovine; Parthenogenotes; TUNEL Prior to the live observations the parthenogenotes and the fertilized embryos were placed in a glass-bottom chamber (MatTek Corp., Ashland, MA) filled with culture medium and overlaid with pre-warmed mineral oil. Theriogenology 57 2002 June 9   BOVINE EMBRYO       Neuber, E. Neuber,E.,  Luetjens, C.M.,  Chan, A. W. S. and Schatten, G. P. Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, Oregon Health Sciences University, Beaverton, USA.  Theriogenology, 57, (9), 9-0, (00). Oregon Health and Sciences University
  Analysis of nuclear transport signals in the human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease (APE1/Ref1) 582 Themammalianabasic-endonuclease1/redox-factor1 (APE1/Ref1) is an essential protein whose subcellular distributiondependsonthe cellular physiological status. However, its nuclear localization signals have not been studied in detail. We examined nuclear tra abasic-endonuclease1/redox-factor1 (APE1/Ref1), reactive oxygen species, gene regulation, nuclear transport, Karyopherin a, amino acid For live cell analysis, cells spread on glass-coated 35 mm dishes (Mattek) were transfected with DNA as described above, and then examined without fixation.             mouse     fibroblast-like 3T3 Jackson, Elias B. Elias B. Jackson, Corey A. Theriot, Ranajoy Chattopadhyay, Sankar Mitra and Tadahide Izumi University of Texas
  Analysis Of The Zebrafish Perplexed Mutation Reveals Tissue-Specific Roles For De Novo Pyrimidine Synthesis During Development 355 The zebrafish perplexed mutation disrupts cell proliferation and differentiation during retinal development. In addition, growth and morphogenesis of the tectum, jaw, and pectoral fins are also affected. Positional cloning was used to identify a mutation  cell proliferation, differentiation, retinal development, progenitor cells, mitosis, ethylnitrosourea,  carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase2-aspartate transcarbamylase-dihydroorotase (CAD) Stock solutions made in embryo medium and 50 nl of various concentrations were injected into the yolk sack of developing wild-type and perplexed embryos at 20 hr postfertilization (hpf). Partial rescue of eye, jaw, and fin development was observed at a mi Genetics 170 2005 August 4 P35G-1.5-10-C zebrafish     neuroepithelial EMBRYO MEDIUM Willer, G. B. G. B. Willer, V. M. Lee, R. G. Gregg and B. A. Link University of Louisville
  Anesthetic-Induced Alteration Of Ca2+ Homeostasis In Neural Cells: A Temperature-Sensitive Process That Is Enhanced By Blockade Of Plasma Membrane Ca2+-Atpase Isoforms[Laboratory Investigations] 450 Many inhalation anesthetics at clinically relevant concentrations inhibit plasma membrane Ca2+-adenosine triphosphatase (PMCA) ion pumping in brain synaptic membranes and in cultured cells of neural origin. In this study, the authors investigated the effe anesthetics, cytosolic calcium homeostasis, calcium, interneuronal signaling Calcium imaging was done in the Vanderbilt University Cell Imaging Resource. A laser scanning confocal microscope (Zeiss LSM410, Seiles Instruments, St. Louis, MO), with diffraction-limited focusing of a laser beam, coupled with a special filter placed "c Anesthesiology 89 1998 July 1   Rat       Pheochromocytoma Franks, John J. Franks, John J. MD; Wamil, Artur W. MD, PhD; Janicki, Piotr K. MD, PhD; Horn, Jean-Louis MD; Franks, William T. BA; Janson, Victoria E. BS, MBA; Vanaman, Thomas C. PhD; Brandt, Paul C. PhD Vanderbilt University
  Apical And Basolateral Endocytic Pathways Of Mdck Cells Meet In Acidic Common Endosomes Distinct From A Nearly-Neutral Apical Recycling Endosome 253 Quantitative confocal microscopic analyses of living, polarized MDCK cells demonstrate different pH profiles for apical and basolateral endocytic pathways, despite a rapid and extensive intersection between the two. Three-dimensional characterizations of  acidification, endocytosis, endosome, epithelia, immunoglobulin A, MDCK, polarity, polymeric Ig receptor, transferring, transcytosis After removing the legs of the filter units, living or fixed cells were observed by placing the entire filter unit on two 50µ m tape spacers attached to the coverslip of a coverslip-bottomed 35 mm dish (Mattek, Ashland, MA) mounted on the stage of an inve Traffic 1 2000 June 6   DOG, COCKER SPANIEL FEMALE KIDNEY IZSBS BS CL 64
Morphology: epithelial-like
Species: dog, cocker spaniel female; Tissue: kidney; Validated by isoenzymes: confirmed as dog with NP, G6D, MD, MPI, AST, PEPB
Depositor: obtained from Flow Laboratories, Irvine (GB)
Properties: expressing xenob
epithelial-like MDCK Wanga, E. Wanga, E., Browna, P.S., Aroetic, B., Chapinb, S.J., Mostovb, K.E., and Dunna, K.W., a Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA b Department of Anatomy and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University o Indiana University
  Apical Localization Of A Functional Trpc3/Trpc6-Ca2-Signaling Complex In Polarized Epithelial Cells 561 Receptor-coupled [Ca2 ]i increase is initiated in the
apical region of epithelial cells and has been associated
with apically localized Ca2 -signaling proteins. However,
localization of Ca2  channels that are regulated by
such Ca2-signaling events ha
apically localized Ca2-signaling proteins, TRPC channels, plasma membrane receptors Submandibular glands were removed and placed in ice-cold
external solution with 0.02% soybean trypsin inhibitor and 0.1% bovine
serum albumin. Each gland was cleaned and finely minced. The minced
tissue was transferred to 8 ml of external solution cont
            DOG, COCKER SPANIEL FEMALE KIDNEY IZSBS BS CL 64
Morphology: epithelial-like
Species: dog, cocker spaniel female; Tissue: kidney; Validated by isoenzymes: confirmed as dog with NP, G6D, MD, MPI, AST, PEPB
Depositor: obtained from Flow Laboratories, Irvine (GB)
Properties: expressing xenob
epithelial-like MDCK Bidhan C. Bidhan C. Bandyopadhyay, William D. Swaim, Xibao Liu, Robert S. Redman,
Randen L. Patterson, and Indu S. Ambudkar
National Institutes of Health
  Aryl Phosphate Derivatives Of Bromo-Methoxy-Azidothymidine Are Dual-Function Spermicides With Potent Anti-Human Immunodeficiency Virus 409 Detergent-based vaginal microbicides, in addition to their
high contraceptive failure rates, cause mucosal erosion and local
inflammation that might increase the risk of heterosexual human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission. In a systematic effo
vaginal microbicides, mucosal erosion, inflammation, human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission, aryl phosphate derivatives
Frozen hamster eggs (Charles River Laboratories, Wilmington,
MA) were thawed and transferred to 35-mm
glass-bottom microwells (Mat Tek Corporation, Ashland,
MA) in BWW medium. To remove zona, the washed eggs
were treated with 0.05% trypsin (Irvine Sci
Biology of Reproduction 59 1998 September 3   BOVINE capillary   ENDOTHELIAL HAMSTER EGGS D'Cruz, Osmond J. Osmond J. D’Cruz, T.K. Venkatachalam, Zhaohai Zhu, Mei-Jue Shih, and Fatih M. Uckun Wayne Hughes Institute
  B Cells Productively Engage Soluble Antigen-Pulsed Dendritic
Cells: Visualization of Live-Cell Dynamics of B Cell-Dendritic
Cell Interactions
658 Interactions between B lymphocytes and Ag-bearing dendritic cells (DC) likely occur at inflammatory sites and within lymphoid organs. To better understand these interactions we imaged B cells (TgB) from hen egg lysozyme (HEL) transgenic mice and DC pulsed   Three-dimensional collagen matrix culture and cell collection

Purified B cells and DC were labeled with Vybrant green CFDA SE (carboxy-fluorescein diacetate, succinimidyl ester) or Vybrant red DiI (Molecular Probes), respectively, following the manufactu
            mouse lymph nodes     Dendritic Cell Huang, Ning-Na Ning-Na Huang, Sang-Bae Han, Il-Young Hwang, and John H. Kehrl National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
  Biofilm Formation By The Fungal Pathogen Candida Albicans: Development, Architecture, And Drug Resistance 433 Biofilms are a protected niche for microorganisms, where they are safe from antibiotic treatment and can
create a source of persistent infection. Using two clinically relevant Candida albicans biofilm models formed on
bioprosthetic materials, we demonst
Biofilms, antifungal After incubation with the dyes, polymethylmethacrylate strips or silicone elastomer
disks were flipped and placed on a 35-mm-diameter glass-bottom petri
dish (MatTek Corp., Ashland, Mass.). Stained biofilms were observed with a
Zeiss LSM510 confocal sc
Journal of Bacteriology 183 2001 September 18   HUMAN       GDH-2436 Chandra, Jyotsna JYOTSNA CHANDRA, DUNCAN M. KUHN, PRANAB K. MUKHERJEE, LOIS L. HOYER,
THOMAS MCCORMICK, AND MAHMOUD A. GHANNOUM
University Hospitals of Cleveland
  Catalytic Activity Is Required For Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Iv To Enter The Nucleus 521 Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV
(CaMKIV) is a nuclear protein kinase that responds to
acute rises in intracellular calcium by phosphorylating
and activating proteins involved in transcription. Consistent
with these roles, CaMKIV is foun
Catalytic Activity, Protein Kinase IV, calcium, nucleus, activation loop phosphorylation HEK293A cells were plated at a density of 0.1  106/35-mm glass-bottomed microwell dish (Mat Tek).
The DNA:Opti-MEM ratio was 0.5 g of the indicated constructs (see
figure legends) into 50 l of Opti-MEM (Invitrogen), and the LipofectAMINE:
Opti-MEM r
Journal of Biological Chemistry 279 2004 March 12   HUMAN KIDNEY, EMBRYONIC DSMZ ACC 305
Morphology: adherent fibroblastoid cells growing as monolayer
human embryonal kidney established from a human primary embryonal kidney transformed by adenovirus type 5 (Ad 5); classified as risk category 1 according to the German Central Comm
epithelial HEK-293 Lemrow, Shannon M. Shannon M. Lemrow, Kristin A. Anderson, James D. Joseph, Thomas J. Ribar,
Pamela K. Noeldner, and Anthony R. Means
Duke University
  Cellular Stresses Induce The Nuclear Accumulation Of Importin And Cause A Conventional Nuclear Import Block 528 We report here that importin
 
accumulates reversibly
in the nucleus in response to cellular
stresses including UV irradiation, oxidative stress,
and heat shock. The nuclear accumulation of importin
 
appears to be triggered by a collapse in the Ra
nuclear import block, cellular stresses, importin
,  Ran gradient
Importin  (mouse Rch1) and   were constructed with pEGFP-C1 plasmid
(CLONTECH Laboratories, Inc.). HeLa cells were plated onto a glass bottom
dish (MatTek Corporation) cultured for 1–2 d before use. After the
constructs were transfected using Effecten
Journal of Cell Biology 165 2004 June
June
5   HUMAN cervix IZSBS BS TCL20
Morphology: epithelial-like
Species: human, Black female 31 years old; Tissue: cervix; Tumor: carcinoma, epitheloid
Properties: antitumour testing; transformation; tumorigenicity; cytotoxicity; cell biology; bacterial invasiveness; virology
epithelial-like HeLa Miyamoto, Yoichi Yoichi Miyamoto,
Takuya Saiwaki,
Junichi Yamashita,
Yoshinari Yasuda,
Ippei Kotera,
Satoshi Shibata,
Masaki Shigeta,
Yasushi Hiraoka,
Tokuko Haraguchi,
and Yoshihiro Yoneda
Osaka University
  Cellular Uptake Of N-Methylpyrrole/N-Methylimidazole Polyamide-Dye Conjugates 335 The cellular uptake and localization properties of DNA binding N-methylpyrrole/N-methylimidazole polyamide–dye conjugates in a variety of living cells have been examined by confocal laser scanning microscopy. With the exception of certain T-cell lines, po     Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry 10 2002 October 10           SKBR-3 Belitsky, JM. Belitsky, JM., Leslie, SJ., Arora, PS., Beerman, TA., Dervan, PB.  Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA; and  Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Roswel California Institute of Technology
  Ceramide Inhibition Of Nf-Kb Activation Involves Reverse Translocation Of Classical Protein Kinase C (Pkc) Isoenzymes: Requirement For Kinase Activityand Carboxyl-Terminal Phosphorylation Of Pkc For The Ceramide Response 491 Protein kinase C (PKC) is known to
activate NF-kB whereas the lipid mediator ceramide
was recently shown to inhibit activation of this transcription
factor (1, 2). In this study, the mechanisms by
which ceramide interferes with this pathway were exami
diacylglycerol, sphingolipid, glycerolipid, C6-ceramide Jurkat T cells and MCF7 adenocarcinoma cells were
obtained from ATCC (Rockville, MD). TNF-a was purchased
from PeproTech (Rocky Hill, NJ); C6-ceramide
was purchased from Matreya (Pleasant Gap, PA);
[g-32]ATP was purchased from NEN Life Science Product
FASEB Journal 15 2001 November 13   HUMAN BREAST IZSBS BS TCL 38
Morphology: epithelial-like
Species: human, Caucasian female 69 years old; Tissue: breast; Tumor: adenocarcinoma; Validated by isoenzymes: confirmed as human with NP, G6PD, MD, AST
Viruses: contains type C, type B
Depositor: obtained from 
epithelial-like MCF-7 Signorelli, Paola PAOLA SIGNORELLI, CHIARA LUBERTO, AND YUSUF A. HANNUN Medical University of South Carolina
  Confocal Restricted-Height Imaging Of Suspension Cells (Crisc) In A Pdms Microdevice During Apoptosis 451 We have monitored and imaged cell death induced in human leukemic U937 cells over time using
three-color confocal imaging. Three different apoptotic inducers, anti-Fas, TNF-a and Etoposide
were used. Individual cascaded events such as loss of mitochondr
apoptosis, CRISC method, caspases, apoptosome Silicon molds used for fabrication of the PDMS chips were
realized using DRIE using the Bosch process. Molds with two
different etch depths, 15 and 25 mm (Veeco Dektak 8 surface
profiler), were fabricated. In Fig. 2 the three-dimensional
structure of 
            HUMAN PLEURAL EFFUSION Species: human, Caucasian male 37 years old; Tissue: pleural effusion; Tumor: lymphoma, histiocytic histomonocytoid U937 Munoz-Pinedo, Cristina Cristina Munoz-Pinedo, Douglas R. Green and Albert van den Berg La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
  Cytochrome C Is Released In A Single Step During Apoptosis 517 Release of cytochrome c from mitochondria is a central
event in apoptotic signaling. In this study, we utilized a
cytochrome c fusion that binds fluorescent biarsenical
ligands (cytochrome c-4CYS (cyt. c-4CYS)) as well as
cytochrome c-green fluorescen
apoptosis; cytochrome c; mitochondria; mitochondrial
membrane potential; video microscopy
For time-lapse analysis, adherent cells were grown in 35mm glassbottomed
microwell dishes (MatTek), and treated in 3ml of phenol-red free
DMEM (Gibco) supplemented with 10% FCS, 20mM HEPES (pH 7.3),
2mM L-glutamine, 200 mg/ml penicillin, 100 mg/ml stre
Cell Death and Differentation 12 2005 May 5           NCI-H1299 Goldstein, Jc JC Goldstein, C Mun˜ oz-Pinedo, J-E Ricci, SR Adams, A Kelekar, M Schuler, RY Tsien and DR Green La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
  Dendritic cell maturation triggers retrograde MHC class II transport from lysosomes to the plasma membrane 615 Central to the initiation of immune responses is recognition of peptide antigen by T lymphocytes. The cell biology of dendritic cells makes them ideally suited for the essential process of antigen presentation1. Their life cycle includes several stages ch peptide antigen, T lymphocytes, antigen presentation, major histocompatibility complex class II molecules (MHC II), endocytosis, green fluorescent protein (GFP) To label lysosomes, day 4–5 immature dendritic cells were…plated for 30min on poly-L-lysine pre-coated number 1.5 coverslips attached to 35-mm dishes (MatTek). Nature   2002 July   P35GC-1.5         Dendritic Chow, Amy Amy Chow, Derek Toomre, Wendy Garrett & Ira Mellman Yale University
  Development And Characterization Of An In Vivo Central Venous Catheter Candida Albicans Biofilm Model 481 Biofilms represent a niche for microorganisms where they are protected from both the host immune system
and antimicrobial therapies. Biofilm growth serves as an increasing source of clinical infections. Candida
infections are difficult to manage due to 
Candida albicans, rat central venous catheter
model, biofilm matrix
Stained catheter segments were transferred to a glass-bottom petri dish (coverslip
1.5, 35-mm disk P325G 1.5-14C; MatTek, Ashland, Mass.) in an on-end
orientation. Biofilms were observed with a Nipkow disk-based confocal microscope
(Axiovert 200; Zeiss
Infection and Immunity 72 2004 October 10 P35G-1.5-14-C YEAST       CATHETER SEGMENTS Andes D. Andes, J. Nett, P. Oschel, R. Albrecht, K. Marchillo, and A. Pitula University of Wisconsin at Madison
  Diacylglycerol And Protein Kinase D Localization During T Lymphocyte Activation 419 The serine kinase protein kinase D (PKD) has a cysteine-
rich domain (CRD) that binds diacylglycerol (DAG)
with high affinity. PKD is cytosolic in unstimulated T
cells, but it rapidly polarizes to the immunological synapse
in response to antigen/antig
kinase D (PKD), diacylglycerol (DAG) Cells were seeded onto glass coverslips in 24-well plates in conjugation
medium (RPMI medium without phenol red/0.5 % FCS) and allowed
to attach for 20 min at 37ºC. T cells were treated with either
200 nM phorbol-12,13-dibutyrate (PdBu, Calbiochem) or 
Immunity 24 2006 May 5     THYMUS   lymphocyte T. Spitaler, Martin Martin Spitaler, Elisabeth Emslie, C. David Wood, and Doreen Cantrell University of Dundee
  Different Populations Of Rna Polymerase Ii In Living Mammalian Cells 540 RNA polymerase II is responsible for transcription of most eukaryotic genes, but, despite exhaustive
analysis, little is known about how it transcribes natural templates in vivo. We studied polymerase dynamics
in living Chinese hamster ovary cells using
DRB, FLIP, heat shock, photobleaching, RNA polymerase II Cells were grown in glass-bottomed microwell
dishes (Mat Tek, MA) for 40–48 h to 50% confluence.
The standard FLIP experiment in Figure 1
was performed as described by Kimura et al.
(2002) using a Radiance 2000 confocal microscope
(488-nm-laser line;
                  neuronal MYOCYTES Hieda, Miki Miki Hieda, Henry Winstanley, Philip Maini, Francisco J. Iborra & Peter R. Cook University of Oxford
  Differential Gel Electrophoresis And Transgenic Mitochondrial Calcium Reporters Demonstrate Spatiotemporal Filtering In Calcium Control Of Mitochondria 396 Mitochondria must adjust both their intracellular location and their metabolism in order to balance their output to the needs of the cell. Here we show by the proteomic technique of time series difference gel electrophoresis that a major result of neuroen gel electrophoresis, neuropeptide signalling Adult flies were dissected in Schneider’s Drosophila
medium (Invitrogen). For vital imaging of V-ATPase
expression with the vhaSFD::GFP gene trap line (5),
tubules were allowed to adhere lightly to a poly-Llysine
treated coverslip glued to a window in the
Journal of Biological Chemistry 281 2006 July 27           Mitochondria Terhzaz, Selim Selim Terhzaz, Tony D. Southall, Kathryn S. Lilley, Laura Kean, Adrian K. Allan,
Shireen A. Davies and Julian A. T. Dow
University of Glasgow
  Differential Kinetic and Spatial Patterns of  -Arrestin and G Protein-mediated ERK Activation by the Angiotensin II Receptor 631 The seven-membrane-spanning angiotensin II type 1A receptor activates the mitogen-activated protein kinases extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 (ERK1/2) by distinct pathways dependent on either G protein (likely Gq/G11) or  -arrestin2. Here we  angiotensin II type 1A receptor, G protein, B-arrestin2, nuclear translocation, cytoplasmic endosomal vesicles One day after transfection, cells were divided into collagen-coated 35-mm glass bottom dishes (MatTek, Ashland, MA) for confocal microscopy. Journal of Biological Chemistry 279 2004 August 34 P35GCOL         HEK-293 Ahn, Seungkirl Seungkirl Ahn, Sudha K. Shenoy, Huijun Wei, and Robert J. Lefkowitz HHMI
  Direct Evidence Of Active And Rapid Nuclear Degradation Triggered By Vacuole Rupture During Programmed Cell Death In Zinnia 255 Differentiation into a tracheary element (TE) is a typical example of programmed cell death (PCD) in the developmental processes of vascular plants. In the PCD process the TE degrades its cellular contents and becomes a hollow corpse that serves as a wate   After stained cells were transferred onto poly-d-Lyscoated dishes (Glass Bottom Microwell Dishes, MatTek Corporation, Ashland, MA), they were placed on the inverted platform of a confocal laser scanning microscope (Meridian Instruments Far East, Tokyo). Plant Physiol 125 2001               Mesophyll Obara, K. Obara, K., Kuriyama, H., and Fukuda, H., Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Plant Physiology,  (5), 65-66, (00). University of Tokyo
  Disruption of nucleocytoplasmic trafficking of cyclin D1 and topoisomerase II by sanguinarine 594 The quaternary isoquinoline alkaloid sanguinarine is receiving increasing attention as a potential chemotherapeutic agent in the treatment of cancer. Previous studies have shown that this DNA-binding phytochemical can arrest a number of different types of breast cancer, sanguinarine, DNA synthesis Cells were seeded into 35 mm glass-bottom Petri dishes (MatTek Inc., Amherst, MA) at a density of 2.5 × 104/ml, and allowed to recover for 2 days prior to use. BioMed Central Cell Biology 7 2006 March 13     Breast     MCF-7 Holy, Jon Jon Holy, Genelle Lamont and Edward Perkins University of Minnesota
  Distinct Sites In E-Cadherin Regulate Different Steps In Drosophila Tracheal Tube Fusion 558 We have investigated how E-cadherin controls the
elaboration of adherens junction associated cytoskeletal
structures crucial for assembling tubular networks. During
Drosophila development, tracheal branches are joined at
branch tips through lumens tha
E-cadherin, Drosophila, Cytoskeleton Primary antibodies were: rabbit anti-EB1 (Rogers et al., 2002)
(1:500), rabbit anti-CLIP190 (Lantz and Miller, 1998) (1:1000), rabbit
anti-b-galactosidase (Sigma), rat anti-tubulin (Serotec), rat mAb anticadherin
(1:5) (Oda et al., 1994), mouse mAb ant
Development 130 2003 December 23   Drosophila melanogaster EMBRYO DSMZ ACC 130
Morphology: small adherent cells growing in monolayers; a small number of cells is also in suspension
insect - fruitfly (Drosophila melanogaster) established from the late embryo of a Drosophila melanogaster (fruitfly) in 1972; originally the
small adherent cells growing in monolayers; a small number of cells is also in suspension
insect
SCHNEIDER S2 Lee, Mihye Mihye Lee, Seungbok Lee, Alireza Dehghani Zadeh, and Peter A. Kolodziej Vanderbilt University
  Dopaminergic Stimulation of Local Protein Synthesis Enhances Surface Expression f GluR1 and Synaptic Transmission in Hippocampal Neurons 586 The use-dependent modification of synapses is strongly influenced by dopamine, a transmitter that partici-pates in both the physiology and pathophysiology of animal behavior. In the hippocampus, dopaminergic signaling is thought to play a key role in prot dopamine, synaptic plasticity, dendrites, AMPA receptors, green fluorescent protein (GFP) Briefly, hippocampi from postnatal day 2 Sprague-Dawley rat pups were enzymatically and mechanically dissociated and plated into poly-lysine-coated glass-bottom petri dishes (Mattek).           poly-d-lysine coated rat     neuronal HIPPOCAMPAL Smith, W. Bryan W. Bryan Smith, Shelley R. Starck, Richard W. Roberts, and Erin M. Schuman HHMI
  Dynamic Analysis Of Stat6 Signalling In Living Cells 224 Functional activity of N- and C-terminal fluorescent fusion proteins between STAT6 and EGFP was demonstrated through IL-4-dependent transcriptional activation and nuclear translocation. The N-terminal (EGFP–STAT6) fusion protein appeared to be more active STAT6; NF-kappaB; Confocal microscopy; Green fluorescent protein For confocal microscopy, cells were plated onto 35-mm Mattek dishes (Mattek, USA) at 1.6×105 cells in 2 ml of medium. HeLa cells (ECACC No. 93021013) were grown in MEM with Earle’s salts, plus 10% FCS, and 1% NEAA at 37°C, 5% CO2….             HUMAN KIDNEY, EMBRYONIC DSMZ ACC 305
Morphology: adherent fibroblastoid cells growing as monolayer
human embryonal kidney established from a human primary embryonal kidney transformed by adenovirus type 5 (Ad 5); classified as risk category 1 according to the German Central Comm
epithelial HEK-293 Nelsona, G. Nelsona, ,G., Wildea, , G.,  Spillera, D.,  Sullivanb, E., Unittb , J., and White, M., a School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
b Lead Generation, Molecular Biology, AstraZeneca R&D Leicestershire, United King
University of Liverpool
  Dynamin 2 Is Required For Phagocytosis In Macrophages 417 Cells internalize soluble ligands through endocytosis and large particles through actin-based phagocytosis.
The dynamin family of GTPases mediates the scission of endocytic vesicles from the
plasma membrane. We report here that dynamin 2, a ubiquitously
phagocytosis, macrophages, dynamin, inflammation, phosphoinositide 3-kinase RAW-TT10 cells were transfected with
dyn
K44A
-pTIGZ and plated on 35-mm glass-bottomed microwell
dishes (MatTek Corp.). 18 h later, the dish was mounted on a
Zeiss Axiophot microscope equipped with a cooled CCD camera
(Princeton Instruments) and Me
Journal of Experimental Medicine 190 1999 December 12           RAW-TT10 Gold, Elizabeth S. Elizabeth S. Gold,
David M. Underhill,
Naomi S. Morrissette,
Jian Guo, Mark A. McNiven,
and Alan Aderem
University of Washington
  Effects Of Human Antithymocyte Globulin On Acetylcholine Synthesis, Its Release And Choline Acetyltransferase Transcription In A Human Leukemic T-Cell Line 229 In human skin both resident and transiently residing cells are part of the extra- or non-neuronal cholinergic system, creating a highly complex and interconnected cosmos in which acetylcholine (ACh) and choline are the natural ligands of nicotinic and mus Acetylcholine; Choline acetyltransferase; T-lymphocyte Cover glass-bottomed culture dishes coated with poly-D-lysine (#P35GC-0-14-C) were from MatTek (Ashland, MA). AND
Once loaded with fluo-3, the cells were diluted 1:9 with RPMI 1640, incubated for an additional 30 min, washed with Tyrode-HEPES buffer (20 
Journal of Neuroimmunology 128 2002 July 1 P35GC-0-14-C HUMAN Tumor: leukemia Morphology: lymphoblast-like
Species: human; Tumor: leukemia, acute lymphoblastic; Derived from: CCRF-CEM
Properties: resistant to 8-azaguanine; pharmacodynamics; cloning
lymphoblast-like CEM Fujii, T. Fujii, T., Ushiyama, N., Hosonuma, K., Suenaga A., and Kawashima K., Department of Pharmacology, Kyoritsu College of Pharmacy, Tokyo, Japan. Journal of Neuroimmunology, 8, (-), -8, (00) Kyoritsu College of Pharmacy
  Exocytotic Release of ATP from Cultured Astrocytes 674 Astrocytes appear to communicate with
each other as well as with neurons via ATP.
However, the mechanisms of ATP release are
controversial. To explore whether stimuli that
increase [Ca2+]i also trigger vesicular ATP
release from astrocytes, we labeled ATP
  The cells were plated at a density of
1.5·105 cells/cm2 on MatTek dishes pre-treated
with poly-L-lysine.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 282 2007 September 39 MatTek dishes pretreated with poly-l-lysine Hippocampi Wistar Rat Embryo     E18 Pangrsic, Tina Tina Pangrsic, Maja Potokar, Matjaz Stenovec, Marko Kreft, Elsa Fabbretti, Andrea Nistri, Evgeny Pryazhnikov, Leonard Khiroug, Rashid Giniatullin, and Robert Zorec Univ of Ljubljana, Celica Biomedical Center, University of Helsinki, International School for Advanced Studies
  Experimental Study On Bone Remodeling Rate Equation: Effects Of Mechanical Stimulus On Osteoblastic Activities In Vitro 556 An experimental study in vitro at the cellular level is fundamental to clarify the
mechanism for adaptive bone remodeling. Many efforts have been made to study the cellular
responses to mechanical stimuli in vitro, however, the mechanism for the mechano
BONE REMODELING, osteoblastic activities, cultured osteoblasts, osteoblastic proliferation, Osteoblasts were plated on a glass-bottomed dish (Mat-Tech) and loaded by
exposure to 10µM Fluo3/AM (Wako Chemicals), a fluorescence indicator of Ca2+, at 37 Co
for 2 hours. After being rinsed with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), the dish was mounted
Comput Biomech                   MC3T3-EC Hoshiai, Sodai Sodai HOSHIAI, Taiji ADACHI, and Yoshihiro TOMITA Kobe University
  Fluorescent dyes alter intracellular targeting and function of cell-penetrating tetrapeptides 639 Fluorescent labels are commonly used to investigate the mechanisms of cellular uptake and intracellular distribution of cell-penetrating peptides. However, labels such as fluorescein and rhodamine are relatively large and very lipophilic and may significa membrane transduction, mitochondria, permeability transition, cytoplasm, confocal microscopy Caco-2 cells were plated on 35 mm glass bottom dishes (MatTek, Ashland, MA) for 2 days.           P35GC-0-10-C       epithelial Caco-2 Szeto, Hazel H. Hazel H. Szeto, Peter W. Schiller, Kesheng Zhao, and Guoxiong Luo Weill Medical College
  Fluorogenic Substrate [Ala-Pro] 2-Cresyl Violet But Not Ala-Pro-Rhodamine 110 Is Cleaved Specifically By Dppiv Activity: A Study In Living Jurkat Cells And Cd26/Dppiv-Transfected Jurkat Cells 454 Fluorogenic substrates [Ala-Pro]
2
-cresyl violet and Ala-Pro-rhodamine 110
have been tested for microscopic detection of protease activity of dipeptidyl peptidase IV
(DPPIV) in living cells. DPPIV activity is one of the many functions of the multifun
living cell cytochemistry,
protease,
metabolic mapping,
biocomplexity,
CD26/DPPIV,
Jurkat cells,
confocal scanning laser
microscopy, fluorescence microscopy
Confocal analysis was performed to localize DPPIV-like activity
in living Jurkat and transfected Jurkat cells on a Leica
SP
2
AOBS confocal microscope (Leica Microsystems; Mannheim,
Germany). In case of the use of [Ala-Pro]
2
-cresyl violet,
fluor
Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry 51 2003 July 7           Jurkat Boonacker, Emil Emil Boonacker, Sjoerd Elferink, Abdennasser Bardai, Bernard Fleischer,
and Cornelis J.F. Van Noorden
University of Amsterdam
  Four Naturally Occurring Mutations In The Human Gnrh Receptor Affect Ligand Binding And Receptor Function 253 In the present study, we performed functional analyses of four mutations in the human GnRH receptor (GnRHR) gene, identified in patients with idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. These mutations result in amino acid substitutions in the extracellular GnRH; GnRH receptor; Gonadotrope; Signal transduction COS-7 cells were plated on glass bottom 35 mm tissue culture dishes (MatTek Corp., Ashland, MA), and transiently transfected using GenePorter transfection reagent (Gene Therapy System, San Diego, CA) with 2 µg of wild type or mutant hGnRHR cDNA constructs Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 205 2003 July 1-2   MONKEY, AFRICAN GREEN KIDNEY IZSBS BS CL103
Morphology: fibroblast-like
Species: monkey, African green; Tissue: kidney; Transformed by: SV40; Original line: CV-1
Properties: virus replication
fibroblast-like COS-7 Bédécarratsa,G.Y Bédécarratsa,G.Y., Linhera,K.D., Janovickb, JA., Beranovac, M., Kadaa, F., Seminarac, S.B., Connb, P. M.,  and Kaisera, U.B., a Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical  Brigham and Women's Hospital
  Four-Dimensional Imaging And Computer-Assisted Track Analysis Of Nuclear Migration In Root Hairs Of Arabidopsis Thaliana 258 Nuclear migration is a fundamental mechanism necessary for the proper growth and development of many eukaryotic organisms. In this study root hairs of Arabidopsis thaliana were used as a research model to gain insight into the dynamics of nuclear migratio four-dimensional imaging, live cell imaging, nuclear migration, root hairs, track analysis “The seedlings were transferred to single chambered cover glasses (Labtek II form Nunc plastic ware or Micro well dishes form Mattek. U.S.A.) for microscopic observation.” Journal of Microscopy 211 2003   2     VASCULAR   endothelial s SEEDLINGS Van Bruaene, N. Van Bruaene, N., Joss, G., O. Thas, O., and Van Oostveldt, P.,  Laboratory for Biochemistry and Molecular Cytology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium,  Department of Biological Science, Macquarie University, Sydney Australia,  Department of Applied M Ghent University
  Ganglioside/Calmodulin Kinase Ii Signal Inducing Cdc42-Mediated Neuronal Actin Reorganization 249 Cell surface glycoconjugates are thought to mediate cell–cell recognition and play roles in neuronal development and functions. We demonstrated here that exposure of neuronal cells to nanomolar levels of gangliosides Neu5Ac8Neu5Ac3Galβ4GlcCer, Galβ3GalNAc CaM-kinase II; filopodia; oligosaccharide; NG108-15 cell; hippocampal neuron; Purkinje cell Cells cultured on poly-lysine coated glass-bottom dish (35 mm, MatTek Co., Ashland, MA, USA). Neuroscience 120 2003   1     HIPPOCAMPAL   NEURONAL   Chena Chena, b, N., Furuyac, S., Doib, H., Hashimotob, Y., Kudod, Y., and Higashia,a, b, H., a Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences, Tokyo, Japan b Glyco-Chain Functions Laboratory, RIKEN Frontier Research System, Saitama, Japan c Neuronal Circuit Mecha Institute of Life Sciences
  GBF1, a cis-Golgi and VTCs-localized ARF-GEF, is implicated in ER-to-Golgi protein traffic 614 The formation and maturation of membrane carriers that transport cargo from the ER to the Golgi complex involves the sequential action of the coat protein complexes COPII and COPI. Recruitment of COPI to nascent carriers requires activation of ADP-ribosyl GBF1, ERGIC, VTCs, ARF-GEF, Brefeldin A, Protein traffic For Fig. 7, NRK-GFP-GBF1 cells were grown on Plastek Cultureware glass bottom microwell dishes (MatTek Corp) and imaged on the temperature-controlled stage of a Zeiss Axiovert 200M microscope equipped with an UltraVIEW ERS 3E spinning disk.                     NRK Zhao, Xinhua Xinhua Zhao, Alejandro Claude, Justin Chun, David J. Shields, John F. Presley and Paul Melançon, University of Alberta
  Global Survey Of Organ And Organelle Protein Expression In Mouse: Combined Proteomic And Transcriptomic Profiling 347 A global protein survey is needed to gain systems-level insights into mammalian cell signaling and information flow. Human Jurkat T leukemic cells are one of the most important model systems for T cell signaling study, but no comprehensive proteomics surv mouse, subcellular factionation, transcriptional profiling, proteomic profiles, putative transmembrane helices (TMH), For these experiments, we generated sequence-verified clones for ten representative gene products as N-terminal fusions to a green fluorescent marker protein (GFP) and examined their corresponding
localization patterns in transient transfections of HEK
Molecular and Cellular Proteomics 6 2007 August 8 P35G-0-10-C HUMAN KIDNEY, EMBRYONIC DSMZ ACC 305
Morphology: adherent fibroblastoid cells growing as monolayer
human embryonal kidney established from a human primary embryonal kidney transformed by adenovirus type 5 (Ad 5); classified as risk category 1 according to the German Central Comm
epithelial HEK-293 Kislinger, Thomas Thomas Kislinger, Brian Cox, Anitha Kannan, Clement Chung, Pingzhao Hu, Alexandr Ignatchenko,
Michelle S. Scott, Anthony O. Gramolini, Quaid Morris, Michael T. Hallett, Janet Rossant, Timothy R. Hughes, Brendan Frey, and Andrew Emili
University of Toronto
  Group I Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Inhibition Selectively Blocks A Prolonged Ca2+ Elevation Associated With Age-Dependent Excitotoxicity 227 The aim of the present paper was to examine, in a comparative way, the occurrence and the mechanisms of the interactions between adenosine A2A receptors (A2ARs) and metabotropic glutamate 5 receptors (mGlu5Rs) in the hippocampus and the striatum. In rat h hippocampus; cell culture; aging; NMDA; AIDA; neurotoxicity For confocal imaging studies, the cell suspension was diluted with MEM to a final concentration of ~5×105 cells/ml and 1 ml added to poly-L-lysine-coated (1 mg/ml) glass-bottom culture dishes (35 mm; MatTek, Ashland, MA, USA) containing 1 ml MEM with 10%  Purinergic Signalling 2 2006 November 4   RAT FETAL   neuronal Cerebellar granule s Attuccib, S. Attuccib,,  S., Clodfeltera, ,G. V.,  Thibaulta, O.,  Statona, J.,  Moronib, F.,  Landfielda , P. W. , and Porter a, N. M., a Department of Molecular and Biomedical Pharmacology, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY, USA.
b Departi
University of Kentucky
  Heterotrimeric G Proteins Precouple With G Protein-Coupled Receptors In Living Cells 480 Using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) microscopy,
we investigate how heterotrimeric G proteins interact with G
protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). In the absence of receptor
activation, the  2A adrenergic and muscarinic M4 receptors are
p
heterotrimeric G proteins, G
protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), G protein-gated K channel
Cells for imaging were subcultured onto 25-mm glass
coverslips and then placed into a watertight cell imaging chamber
at room temperature, or were subcultured onto 35-mm culture
dishes with integral no. 0 glass coverslip bottoms (Mattek).
PNAS 102 2005 December 51   HUMAN KIDNEY, EMBRYONIC DSMZ ACC 305
Morphology: adherent fibroblastoid cells growing as monolayer
human embryonal kidney established from a human primary embryonal kidney transformed by adenovirus type 5 (Ad 5); classified as risk category 1 according to the German Central Comm
epithelial HEK-293 Nobles, Muriel Muriel Nobles, Amy Benians, and Andrew Tinker British Heart Foundation Laboratories
  Hfis1, A Novel Component Of The Mammalian Mitochondrial Fission Machinery 525 The balance between the fission and fusion mechanisms
regulate the morphology of mitochondria. In this
study we have identified a mammalian protein that we
call hFis1, which is the orthologue of the yeast Fis1p
known to participate in yeast mitochondr
Mitochondrial
Fission, hFis1, dominant negative mutant of Drp1, apoptosis, Mitochondria
COS-7 or HeLa cells were plated at 2.5  105
cells/3-cm glass bottomed dish (Mattek) 6 h prior to transfection. Cells
were then transfected using FuGENE (Roche Applied Science) with a
1:1 ratio of target DNA to YFP-mito (Clontech) and a total of 1 g
Journal of Biological Chemistry 278 2003 September 38   MONKEY, AFRICAN GREEN KIDNEY IZSBS BS CL103
Morphology: fibroblast-like
Species: monkey, African green; Tissue: kidney; Transformed by: SV40; Original line: CV-1
Properties: virus replication
fibroblast-like COS-7 James, Dominic I. Dominic I. James, Philippe A. Parone, Yves Mattenberger, and Jean-Claude Martinou University of Geneva
  Histone acetylation increases chromatin accessibility 636 In eukaryotes, the interaction of DNA with proteins and supramolecular complexes involved in gene expression is controlled by the dynamic organization of chromatin inasmuch as it defines the DNA accessibility. Here, the nuclear distribution of microinject Heterochromatin, Image correlation spectroscopy, Trichostatin A, Microinjection HeLa cells (ATCC: CCL-2) were cultured on glass coverslips for fixed cell analysis and on MatTek glass bottom dishes (MatTek, Ashland, MA) for in vivo imaging in DMEM for 1 day. Journal of Cell Science 118 2005 December 24           HeLa Gorisch, Sabine M. Sabine M. Görisch, Malte Wachsmuth, Katalin Fejes Tóth, Peter Lichter and Karsten Rippe Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
  HIV-1 Nef mediates post-translational down-regulation and redistribution of the mannose receptor 601 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has derived a variety of means to evade the host immune response. HIV-derived proteins, including Tat, Nef, and Env, have all been reported to decrease expression of host molecules such as CD4 and major histocompatibilit macrophages, trafficking, HIV-derived proteins Transfection of cells for confocal experiments was performed in 35 mm glass-bottom dishes (MatTek, Ashland, MA). Briefly, 5  105 cells were seeded into each dish and incubated overnight.                     HeLa Vigerust, David J. David J. Vigerust, Brian S. Egan, and Virginia L. Shepherd Vanderbilt University
  Human Lung Cancer Cells Express Functionally Active Toll-Like Receptor  9 333 Here we show that TLR9 is expressed in a selection of human lung cancer tissues and various tumor cell lines. The expression of functionally active TLR9 in human malignant tumors might affect treatment approaches using CpG-ODN and shows that malignant cel   A549-cells were seeded in 35-mm glass bottom dishes (MatTek Corp.) overnight. Cells were transfected with GFP-huTLR9 using Polyfect (Qiagen) according to the manufacturer's instructions or incubated in medium.             HUMAN LUNG CARNINOMA DSMZ ACC 107
Morphology: epithelial cells, growing adherently as monolayer
human lung carcinoma established from an explanted lung tumor which was removed from a 58-year-old Caucasian man in 1972; cells were described to induce tumors in athmyic mice and 
EPITHELIAL adipocyte Droemann, D. Droemann, D., Albrecht, , D., Gerdes, J., Ulmer, AJ., Branscheid, D., Vollmer4, E., Dalhoff5, K., Zabel,5 , P., Goldmann4, T.  Medical Clinic, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany;  Department of Immunology and Cell Biology, Research Center Research Center Borstel
  Hydrogen Peroxide-Induced Cell Death In Cultured Aplysia Sensory Neurons 381 Widespread neuronal cell death occurs during normal development and as a result of pathological conditions in the nervous system of many organisms. In this study, we investigated the cytotoxicity induced by H2O2 in Aplysia mechanosensory neurons, which se Aplysia; Neuronal cell death; Hydrogen peroxide; Membrane potential; Input resistance Approximately 50–150 neurons were plated on poly-L-lysine (Sigma Chemical Co., St. Louis, MO) coated culture
dishes (P50G-0-14-F) containing L15 media with filtered hemolymph (1:1). Pleural ganglia were also organotypically cultured on the culture dishes
Brain Research 941 2002 June 1-2 P50G-0-14-F HUMAN AIRWAY   neuronal HASM Chae-Seok Lim Chae-Seok Lim, Jong-Cheol Lee, Su Dong Kim, Deok-Jin Chang, Bong-Kiun Kaang Seoul National University
  In vitro assays for evaluating the ultraviolet B-induced damage in cultured human retinal pigment epithelial cells 710 The present study demonstrates broadband UV-B-induced damage of cultured human retinal pigment epithelial cells as an effort to
develop an in vitro model that can be used, along with in vivo research and other in vitro efforts, to evaluate the need for re
UVB-induced retinal damage; RPE; Alamar blue assay; Cellular viability; Confocal microscopy; Mitochondrial damage; DNA damage;
Phagocytotic activity
In the present study,
1 · 105 cells in 1.5 ml of culture medium were seeded into
collagen coated glass bottom culture Petri dishes (MatTek,
MA, USA).
          Collagen coated glass bottom dishes human  retinal   epithelial ARPE-19 Youn, Hyun-Yi Hyun-Yi Youn, Vladimir Bantseev, Niels C. Bols, Anthony P. Cullen, Jacob G. Sivak - Not in ACT University of Waterloo
  In Vivo Activation Of Pro-Form Bombyx Cysteine Protease (Bcp) In Silkmoth Eggs: Localization Of Yolk Proteins And Bcp, And Acidification Of Yolk Granules 234 The present study was designed to investigate the process of acidification of yolk granules during embryogenesis. In oocytes of mature Bombyx mori silkmoth, yolk proteins and a cysteine protease (pro-form BCP) were found in yolk granules. BCP was localize Bombyx acid cysteine protease; yolk protein; lysosomal acidification; embryonic development Oocytes and eggs were broken with fine tungsten needles in buffer A containing 0.01% acridine orange. They were placed in poly-Lysine-coated glass-bottom dishes (MatTek Corp., Ashland, MA) and incubated for 5–10 min at room temperature in the dark. Journal of Insect Physiology 49 2003 February 2           OOCYTES Yamahama, Y. Yamahama, Y., a, Uto, N.,a, Tamotsu S.,b, T. Miyatac, Yamamoto, Y.d, Watabe, S.e and Takahashi, S. Y. d, a Department of Biology, Hamamatsu University, Hamamatsu, Japan, b Department of Biological Science, Nara Women's University, Nara, Japan,
c, d, Dep
Hamamatsu University School of Medicine
  In Vivo Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging Of Integrin V 3 In Brain Tumor Xenografts 376 Noninvasive visualization of cell adhesion molecule v3 integrin expression
in vivo has been well studied by using the radionuclide imaging
modalities in various preclinical tumor models. A literature survey indicated
no previous use of cyanine dyes as co
cell adhesion molecule v 3, subcutaneous U87MG glioblastoma xenograft, Integrins v3 and v5, tumor growth and metastasis, tumor angiogenesis, arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD)
peptides
For laser confocal
microscopy, cells grown on 35-mm MatTek imaging dishes (Cat no. P35G-0-
14-C, Ashland, MA) were washed with PBS and then were incubated at 37°C
in the presence of 100 nmol/L RGD-Cy5.5 for 1 hour. Afterward, cells were
washed in ice-
Cancer Research 64 2004 November 21 P35G-0-14-C         Tumor Chen, Xiaoyuan Xiaoyuan Chen, Peter S. Conti, and Rex A. Moats University of Southern California (USC)
  Increased Reactive Oxygen Species Contribute To High Nacl-Induced Activationof The Osmoregulatory Transcription Factor Tonebp/Orebp 529 activation of the transcription factor
tonicity-responsive enhancer binding protein/osmotic response element
binding protein (TonEBP/OREBP) remain incompletely
understood. High NaCl has been reported to produce oxidative
stress. Reactive oxygen specie
superoxides; nitric oxide; ouabain; transactivation; nuclear translocation Dihydroethidium (DHE) enters
cells freely. Superoxides oxidize DHE into ethidium or a structurally
similar product, which intercalates into DNA, producing fluorescence
(5). One to 1.2  106 cells were grown overnight on the optical glass
bottom of a d
American Journal of Physiology- Renal Physiology 289 2005 August 2   HUMAN KIDNEY, EMBRYONIC DSMZ ACC 305
Morphology: adherent fibroblastoid cells growing as monolayer
human embryonal kidney established from a human primary embryonal kidney transformed by adenovirus type 5 (Ad 5); classified as risk category 1 according to the German Central Comm
epithelial HEK-293 Zhou, Xiaoming Xiaoming Zhou, Joan D. Ferraris, Qi Cai, Anupam Agarwal, and Maurice B. Burg Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  Interaction Of A Farnesylated Protein With Renal Type Iia Na/Pi Co-Transporter In Response To Parathyroid Hormone And Dietary Phosphate 405 Treatment with PTH (parathyroid hormone) or a high-P(i) diet causes internalization of the type IIa sodium-dependent phosphate (Na/P(i) IIa) co-transporter from the apical membrane and its degradation in the lysosome. A dibasic amino acid motif (KR) in th endocytosis, internalization, peroxisomal protein,
peroxisomal farnesylated protein (PEX19)
OK cells were obtained from the American Type Culture
Collection and maintained in an appropriate medium [20]. For
transfection,OKcells were plated in a 35 mmglass-bottomed dish
(MattekCorp.,Ashland, MA,U.S.A.) at a density of 2×105 cells.
Cultures at sub
            MONKEY, AFRICAN GREEN KIDNEY IZSBS BS CL103
Morphology: fibroblast-like
Species: monkey, African green; Tissue: kidney; Transformed by: SV40; Original line: CV-1
Properties: virus replication
fibroblast-like COS-7 Ito, Mikiko Mikiko ITO, Sachi IIDAWA, Michiyo IZUKA, Sakiko HAITO, Hiroko SEGAWA, Masashi KUWAHATA, Ichiro OHKIDO,
Hiroshi OHNO and Ken-ichi MIYAMOTO
Tokushima University School of Medicine
  Interaction of Polycationic Polymers with Supported Lipid Bilayers and Cells: Nanoscale Hole Formation and Enhanced Membrane Permeability 598 Interactions of polycationic polymers with supported 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) lipid bilayers and live cell membranes (KB and Rat2) have been investigated using atomic force microscopy (AFM), cytosolic enzyme assays, confocal lase polycationic polymers, lipid bilayers, lactate dehydrogenase, luciferase, membrane permeabilit A concentration of 2   104 cells/mL of Rat2 cells was seeded on MatTek glass bottom Petri dishes (35 mm) and incubated at 37 °C under 5% CO2 for 24 h. Biconjugate Chemistry 17 2006 May 3   rat       Rat2 Hong, Seungpyo Seungpyo Hong, Pascale R. Leroueil, Elizabeth K. Janus, Jennifer L. Peters, Mary-Margaret Kober, Mohammad T. Islam, Bradford G. Orr, James R. Baker, Jr., and Mark M. Banaszak Holl University of Michigan
  Interaction With Gm130 During Herg Ion Channel Trafficking 362 Many mutations in the Human Ether-à-go-go-Related Gene (HERG) cause type 2 congenital long QT syndrome (LQT2) by disrupting trafficking of the HERG-encoded potassium channel. Beyond observations that some mutations trap channels in the endoplasmic reticul Human Ether-a` -go-go-Related
Gene (HERG), GM130, long QT syndrome, terminal glycosylation, oocytes
The C terminus of HERG was used to
probe for interacting proteins expressed from a human heart library
using the yeast two-hybrid technique. We screened 2.2   106 independent clones from a human heart cDNA
library consisting of recombinant plasmids fus
          P35GC-0-14-C HUMAN KIDNEY, EMBRYONIC DSMZ ACC 305
Morphology: adherent fibroblastoid cells growing as monolayer
human embryonal kidney established from a human primary embryonal kidney transformed by adenovirus type 5 (Ad 5); classified as risk category 1 according to the German Central Comm
epithelial HEK-293 Roti, Elon C. Elon C. Roti Roti, Cena D. Myers, Rebecca A. Ayers, Dorothy E. Boatman,
Samantha A. Delfosse, Edward K. L. Chan, Michael J. Ackerman, Craig T. January,
and Gail A. Robertson
University of Wisconsin at Madison
  Interception Of Small Particles By Flocculent Structures, Sessile Ciliates, And The Basic Layer Of A Wastewater Biofilm 560 We investigated attachment processes of hydrophobic and hydrophilic particles (diameter 5 1 mm) to mature
biofilms grown on clay marbles in a sequencing batch biofilm reactor. During a treatment cycle with filtered
wastewater containing different fluore
Wastewater Biofilm, particle retention, ciliate bioturbation, ciliates, adsorption, sequencing batch technology Particle density in the basic biofilm layer and in food vacuoles of sessile ciliates
was estimated by automated analysis of CLSM images. Image acquisition was
performed with a Zeiss (Jena, Germany) 510 confocal laser scanning microscope.
An argon laser
                    HYDROPHOBIC Eisenmann, Heinrich HEINRICH EISENMANN, IOANNA LETSIOU, ANETTE FEUCHTINGER, WOLFGANG BEISKER,
ERNST MANNWEILER, PETER HUTZLER, AND PATRIK ARNZ
National Research Center for Environment and Health
  Intraislet Endothelial Cells Contribute To Revascularization Of Transplanted Pancreatic Islets 372 Pancreatic islet transplantation is an emerging therapy
for type 1 diabetes. To survive and function, transplanted
islets must revascularize because islet isolation
severs arterial and venous connections; the current
paradigm is that islet revascularizati
transplanted pancreatic islets, type 1 diabetes, revascularization Islets were isolated from Flk-1wt/wt mice by dissection
of the splenic portion of the pancreas followed by collagenase P digestion
(Roche Molecular Biochemicals, Indianapolis, IN) as previously described
(20). To increase the yield of islets isolated f
Diabetes 53 2004 May 5 P35G-0-14-C         INTRAISLET Brissova, Marcela Marcela Brissova, Michael Fowler, Peter Wiebe, Alena Shostak, Masakazu Shiota, Aramandla Radhika, P. Charles Lin, Maureen Gannon, and Alvin C. Powers Vanderbilt University
  Inverted Colloidal Crystals As Three-Dimensional Microenvironments For Cellular Co-Cultures 522 Cellular scaffolds made on the basis of inverted colloidal crystals (ICC) provide a unique system for investigation of cell–cell interactions and their mathematical description due to highly controllable and ordered 3D geometry. Here, we describe three ne colloidal crystals, cell–cell interactions, layer-by-layer assembly, cell adhesion Scaffolds were carefully removed from the culture vessel together with the medium and moved to a glass bottom culture dish (MatTek Corporation). The scaffolds were kept immersed in the medium during the process. Co-cultured scaffolds were investigated uti Journal of Materials Chemistry 16 2006   35   HUMAN THYMUS   Fibroblast HFK Lee, Jungwoo Jungwoo Lee, Sachin Shanbhag and Nicholas A. Kotov University of Michigan
  Isoform Specificity of PKC Translocation in Living Aplysia
Sensory Neurons and a Role for Ca2-Dependent PKC APL I
in the Induction of Intermediate-Term Facilitation
651 Protein kinase Cs (PKCs) are important effectors of synaptic plasticity. In Aplysia, there are two major phorbol ester-activated PKCs,
Ca2-activated PKC Apl I and Ca2-independent PKC Apl II. Functional Apl II, but not Apl I, in sensory neurons is requir
synapses, synaptic transmission, synaptic plasticity, protein kinase C, Aplysia, learning Plasmid construction. The pNEX3 enhanced green fluorescent protein
(eGFP) PKC Apl I and eGFP PKC Apl II as well as the dominant negatives
have been described previously (Manseau et al., 2001). To construct
monocistronic red fluorescent protein (mRFP) PKC 
Journal of Neuroscience 26 2006 August 34 35 mm Aplysia californica motor neurons     Sf9 Zhao, Yali Yali Zhao,, Karina Leal,,* Carole Abi-Farah,4* Kelsey C. Martin,, Wayne S. Sossin,4 and Marc Klein, University of California at Los
Angeles
  Kinetics Of Core Histones In Living Human Cells: Little Exchange Of H3 And H4 And Some Rapid Exchange Of H2B 577 Histones H2A and H2B form part of the
same nucleosomal structure as H3 and H4. Stable HeLa
cell lines expressing histones H2B, H3, and H4 tagged
with green fluorescent protein (GFP) were established;
the tagged molecules were assembled into nucleosome
cell fusion, FRAP, histone actetylation, nucleosome, transcription General procedures for fixation, immunolabeling, and image collection
using an MRC1000 confocal microscope have been described (Kimura et
al., 1999; Manders et al., 1999). Cells grown on glass-bottomed dishes
(Mat-Tek) in 100 ng/ml Hoechst 33342 (Harag
            HUMAN cervix IZSBS BS TCL20
Morphology: epithelial-like
Species: human, Black female 31 years old; Tissue: cervix; Tumor: carcinoma, epitheloid
Properties: antitumour testing; transformation; tumorigenicity; cytotoxicity; cell biology; bacterial invasiveness; virology
epithelial-like HeLa Kimura, Hiroshi Hiroshi Kimura and Peter R. Cook University of Oxford
  Lateral Membrane Biogenesis In Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells Requires 190-Kda Ankyrin-G 564 Ankyrin-G polypeptides are required for restriction of
voltage-gated sodium channels, L1 cell adhesion molecules,
and   IV spectrin to axon initial segments and are
believed to couple the Na/K-ATPase to the spectrin-actin
network at the lateral membra
190-kDa Ankyrin-G, lateral plasma membrane, mitosis, ankyrin Human bronchial epithelial cells were a
gift of Dr. Peter Mohler. The cells were grown in Dulbecco’s modified
Eagle’s medium (Invitrogen) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum
(Sigma). Cells were trypsinized, and 60,000 cells were plated on
1.4-mm 
            HUMAN BRONCHIAL   Epithelial   Kizhatil, Krishnakumar Krishnakumar Kizhatil and Vann Bennett HHMI
  Live Imaging Of Endogenous Rna Reveals A Diffusion And Entrapment Mechanism For Nanos Mrna Localization In Drosophila 251 Background: Localization of nanos mRNA to the posterior pole of the Drosophila embryo directs local synthesis of Nanos protein that is essential for patterning of the anterior-posterior body axis and germ cell function. While nanos RNA is synthesized by t   An individual egg chamber was then mounted on an uncoated #1.5 glass bottom culture dish (MatTek) in 200 µl Schneider's medium. Slight back pressure was applied by laying a 4 mm2 square #1 glass coverslip (Corning) on top of the egg chamber with Dumont #5 Current Biology 13     14         EGG EGG CHAMBERS Forrest, K.M. Forrest, K.M., and Gavis, E.R., Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. Current Biology, , (4-5), 59-68, (00) Princeton University
  Loss Of The Homotypic Fusion And Vacuole Protein Sorting Or Golgi-Associated Retrograde Protein Vesicle Tethering Complexes Results In Gentamicin Sensitivity In The Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae 441 Gentamicin continues to be a primary antibiotic against gram-negative infections. Unfortunately, associated
nephro- and ototoxicity limit its use. Our previous mammalian studies showed that gentamicin is trafficked to
the endoplasmic reticulum in a retr
Gentamicin, toxicity, Golgi-associated retrograde
protein (GARP), aminoglycoside, yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
TR was conjugated to gentamicin
as previously described (32). Yeasts were incubated with TR-gentamicin or
lucifer yellow (LY) for the specified period of time under the same growth
conditions as those used for the growth assay. LY accumulates in the ye
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 50 2006 February 2     kidney     TR Wagner, Mark C. Mark C. Wagner,  Elizabeth E. Molnar, Bruce A. Molitoris, and Mark G. Goebl Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy
  Missense Mutations In The Globular Tail Of Myosin-Va In Dilute Mice Partially Impair Binding Of Slac2-A/Melanophilin 432 The well-known coat-color mutant mouse dilute exhibits a
defect in melanosome transport, and although various
mutations in the myosin-Va gene, which encodes an actinbased
motor protein, have been identified in dilute mice,
why missense mutations in th
Slac2-a/melanophilin, Myosin-Va, Rab27A,
Melanosome transport, Griscelli syndrome
Cells of a murine immortalized melanocyte cell line, melan-a cells
(generous gift of Dorothy C. Bennett, St George’s Hospital Medical
School, London, UK and Katsuhiko Tsukamoto, University of
Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan), were cultured on glass-bottom 
Journal of Cell Science 117 2004 February 4   MONKEY, AFRICAN GREEN KIDNEY IZSBS BS CL103
Morphology: fibroblast-like
Species: monkey, African green; Tissue: kidney; Transformed by: SV40; Original line: CV-1
Properties: virus replication
fibroblast-like COS-7 Fukuda, Mitsunori Mitsunori Fukuda and Taruho S. Kuroda RIKEN
  Mitochondrial Swelling Impairs the Transport of Organelles in Cerebellar Granule Neurons 664 Organelle transport in neuronal processes is central to the
organization, developmental fate, and functions of neurons.
Organelles must be transported through the slender, highly
branched neuronal processes, making the axonal transport vulnerable
to any p
  The cell suspension was plated at a density of 1.0  106 on poly-L-lysinecoated
MatTek glass bottom culture dishes (2 ml
          P35G-0-14-C Wistar rat pups cerebelli     cerebelli Kaasik Allen Kaasik, Dzhamilja Safiulina, Vinay Choubey, Malle Kuum, Alexander Zharkovsky, and Vladimir Veksler University of Tartu, Universite´ Paris-Sud,
  Multi-parameter analysis of the kinetics of NF-kB
signalling and transcription in single living cells
649 Proteins of the NF-kB transcription factor family normally
reside in the cytoplasm of cells in a complex with IkB
inhibitor proteins. Stimulation with TNFa  leads to
proteosomal degradation of the IkB proteins and nuclear
translocation of the NF-kB protei
NF-kB, Signal transduction, Fluorescent protein fusions,
Firefly luciferase, Luminescence imaging, Confocal microscopy
For confocal
microscopy and fluorescence microscopy, cells were plated on 35
mm Mattek dishes (Mattek, USA) at 2.4´104 cells per plate in 2 ml
medium.
Journal of Cell Science 115 2002 March 6 35 mm         Hela Glyn Nelson Glyn Nelson, Luminita Paraoan, David G. Spiller, Geraint J. C. Wilde, Mark A. Browne, Peter K. Djali,,
John F. Unitt, Elaine Sullivan, Eike Floettmann and Michael R. H. White,*
University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZB, UK
  Mutant Protein Kinase C Gamma Found In Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 14 Is Susceptible To Aggregate And Cause Cell Death 630 Spinocerebellar ataxia type 14 (SCA14) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease characterized by various symptoms including cerebellar ataxia. Recently, several missense mutations in protein kinase C  ( PKC) gene have been found in different SCA Spinocerebellar ataxia type 14 (SCA14), protein kinase C  ( PKC) gene, aggregate, cytoplasm, cell death, cytotoxicity CHO cells (1×105 cells) were spread onto poly-D-lysine-coated glass bottom culture dishes (MatTek Corp., Ashland, MA) and were transfected with 2.5 μg of plasmid by lipofection. Journal of Biological Chemistry 280 2005 August 32   chinese hamster ovary     CHO Seki, Takahiro Takahiro Seki, Naoko Adachi, Yoshitaka Ono, Hideki Mochizuki, Keiko Hiramoto, Taku Amano, Hiroaki Matsubayashi, Masayasu Matsumoto, Hideshi Kawakami, Naoaki Saito and Norio Sakai Hiroshima University
  Myosin Xva Localizes To The Tips Of Inner Ear Sensory Cell Stereocilia And Is Essential For Staircase Formation Of The Hair Bundle 408 Mutations of the gene encoding unconventional myosin XVa are associated with sensorineural deafness in humans (DFNB3) and shaker (Myo15sh2) mice. In deaf Myo15sh2/sh2 mice, stereocilia are short, nearly equal in length, and lack myosin XVa immunoreactivit stereocilia, hair bundle, myosin Xva, deafness Inner ear
sensory epithelium cultures were prepared from OC, saccule,
utricle, and ampule of P3–P5 C57BL 6 mice and from OC of P3
rats. The OC spiral was dissected away from the modiolus in
Leibowitz cell culture medium (Invitrogen). The apical and
middle
PNAS 100 2003 November 24   MONKEY, AFRICAN GREEN KIDNEY IZSBS BS CL103 fibroblast-like COS-7 Belyantseva, Inna A. Inna A. Belyantseva, Erich T. Boger, and Thomas B. Friedman National Institutes of Health
  Nitric Oxide And Calcium Ions In Apoptotic Esophageal Carcinoma Cells Induced By Arsenite 472 To Quantitatively analyze the nitri oxide (NO) and
Ca2+ in apoptosis of esophageal carcinoma cells induced
by arsenic trioxide (As2O3). The cell line SHEEC1, a malignant esophageal
epithelial cell induced by HPV in synergy with TPA in
our laboratory, 
Nitric oxide, calcium ions, arsenite, carcinogenic agent, apoptosis The cells were cultured on the coverslips within the glass bottom
of a small cultured dish (No. 0, uncoated, and irradiated. MatTek
Co., USA). At the exponential growth period, the cells were stained
with 10µmol·L-1 fluo-3/AM (Molecular Probe) for 30mi
World Journal of Gastroenterology 8 2002 February 1   HUMAN ESOPHAGEAL   EPITHELIAL SHEEC1 Shen, Zhong-Ying Zhong-Ying Shen, Wen-Ying Shen, Ming-Hua Chen, Jian Shen, Wei-Jie Cai, Zeng Yi Shantou University
  Novel Fluorescence-Based Approaches For The Study Of Biogenic Amine Transporter Localization, Activity, And Regulation 431 Pre-synaptic norepinephrine (NE) and dopamine (DA) transporters (NET and DAT) terminate catecholamine synaptic transmission through
reuptake of released neurotransmitter. Recent studies reveal that NET and DAT are tightly regulated by receptor and second
Catecholamine; Dopamine; Norepinephrine; ASP+; Quantum dots To assess specific labeling of SA-conjugated nanocrystals,
we use HEK293 cells that stably express the cloned
hNET transporter (Galli et al., 1995). The cell culture is
performed as described in Section 2.2.1. To assess the specific
labeling of the An
Journal of Neuroscience Methods 143 2005 April 1   HUMAN KIDNEY, EMBRYONIC DSMZ ACC 305
Morphology: adherent fibroblastoid cells growing as monolayer
human embryonal kidney established from a human primary embryonal kidney transformed by adenovirus type 5 (Ad 5); classified as risk category 1 according to the German Central Comm
epithelial HEK-293 Mason, J. N. J.N. Mason, H. Farmer, I.D. Tomlinson, J.W. Schwartz, V. Savchenko,
L.J. DeFelice, S.J. Rosenthal, R.D. Blakely
Vanderbilt University
  Nuclear import of HIV-1 intracellular reverse transcription complexes is mediated by importin 7 565 Human immunode®ciency virus type 1 (HIV-1), like
other lentiviruses, can infect non-dividing cells. This
property depends on the active nuclear import of its
intracellular reverse transcription complex (RTC).
We have studied nuclear import of puri®ed 
HIV-1, importins, nuclear import, reverse
transcription complex, small interfering RNA
HeLa and 293T cells were grown in Dulbecco's modi®ed Eagle's
medium (Gibco Laboratories, Paisley, UK) supplemented with 10% fetal
calf serum (Helena Bioscience, Newcastle, UK) and 2 mM glutamine at
37°C in a humidi®ed atmosphere containing 5% CO2. Huma
            HUMAN cervix IZSBS BS TCL20
Morphology: epithelial-like
Species: human, Black female 31 years old; Tissue: cervix; Tumor: carcinoma, epitheloid
Properties: antitumour testing; transformation; tumorigenicity; cytotoxicity; cell biology; bacterial invasiveness; virology
epithelial-like HeLa Fassati, Ariberto Ariberto Fassati, Dirk GoÈ rlich,
Ian Harrison, Lyubov Zaytseva and
JoseÂ-Manuel Mingot
University College
  Nuclear Localization of the 82-kDa Form of Human Choline Acetyltransferase 626 Choline acetyltransferase is the enzyme catalyzing synthesis of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in cholinergic neurons. In human, transcripts encoding two forms of the enzyme with apparent molecular masses of 69 and 82 kDa are found in brain and spinal Choline acetyltransferase, enzyme catalyzing synthesis, brain, spinal cord, amino acid, cell nucleus For confocal microscopy, cells were replated at 24 h after transfection onto 35-mm dishes containing a 1-cm glass-bottomed center well (Plastek Cultureware, Ashland, MA) in growth medium supplemented with 20 mM HEPES buffer, pH 7.4. Journal of Biological Chemistry 274 1999 July 27 P35, 1cm         HEK-293 Resendes, Manuel C. Manuel C. Resendes, Tomas Dobransky, Stephen S. G. Ferguson, R. Jane Rylett University of Western Ontario
  Overexpression Of Mitochondrial Manganese Superoxide Dismutase Protects Against Radiation-Induced Cell Death In The Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cell Line Hle 328 We investigated the potential role of mitochondrial manganese superoxide dismutase (Mn-SOD) in protective activity against irradiation by analyzing cell viability by a colony formation assay and by detecting apoptosis in stably human Mn-SOD gene-transfect   "Cells grown on glass-bottomed (35-mm) dishes (MatTek Corp., Ashland, MA) were stained with Hoechst 33342 fluorescent dye (Molecular Probes, Eugene, OR). … Glass-bottomed (35-mm) dishes (MatTek Corp.) with monolayers were prepared for staining with DAF-FM Cancer Research 61 2001 July 14   human LIVER     HEP Motoori6, S. Motoori6, S.,  Majima, H., Ebara4, M., Kato, H., Hirai, 4, F., Kakinuma, S., Yamaguchi, C., Ozawa, T., Nagano7, T., Tsujii, H., and Saisho4, H., Research Center of Charged Particle Therapy,  International Space Radiation Laboratory, Redox Resear Chiba University School of Medicine
  Overexpression Of The Human Mnb/Dyrk1A Gene Induces Formation Of Multinucleate Cells Through Overduplication Of The Centrosome 396 Previously we cloned the human MNB/DYRK1A gene from the "Down syndrome critical region" on chromosome 21. This gene encodes a dual specificity protein kinase that catalyzes its autophosphorylation on serine/threonine and tyrosine residues. But, the functi overduplication, chromosome 21, autophosphorylation, Down syndrome The procedure for preparation of fluorescently-stained living
cells for microscopic observation was described previously
[34,35]. Briefly, HeLa cells were plated on a 35-mm
glass-bottom culture dish (MatTek Corp., Ashland, MA)
and cultured for 1 day in a 
BioMed Central- Cell Biology 4 2003       HUMAN cervix IZSBS BS TCL20
Morphology: epithelial-like
Species: human, Black female 31 years old; Tissue: cervix; Tumor: carcinoma, epitheloid
Properties: antitumour testing; transformation; tumorigenicity; cytotoxicity; cell biology; bacterial invasiveness; virology
epithelial-like HeLa Funakoshi, Eishi Eishi Funakoshi, Takamitsu Hori, Tokuko Haraguchi, Yasushi Hiraoka, Jun Kudoh, Nobuyoshi Shimizu and Fumiaki Ito Setsunan University
  Planktonic Replication Is Essential For Biofilm Formation By Legionella Pneumophila In A Complex Medium Under Static And Dynamic Flow Conditions 505 Legionella pneumophila persists for a long time in aquatic habitats, where the bacteria associate with biofilms
and replicate within protozoan predators. While L. pneumophila serves as a paradigm for intracellular growth
within protozoa, it is less clea
Planktonic Replication, Legionella pneumophila, protozoa, axenic replication, planktonic bacteria The architecture of GFP- and DsRedlabeled
L. pneumophila biofilms was analyzed in glass-bottom microwell dishes
(35-mm petri dishes; MatTek) under static conditions (no medium replacement)
or quasi-static conditions (medium replaced twice a day). An in
            MOUSE fibroblast; methylcholanthrene Morphology: fibroblast
Species: mouse; Tissue: fibroblast; methylcholanthrene
Properties: chromatin conformation; nuclear matrix
FIBROBLAST L Mampel Jo¨rg Mampel, Thomas Spirig, Stefan S. Weber, Janus A. J. Haagensen,
Søren Molin, and Hubert Hilbi
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
  Polarized Expression Of Members Of The Solute Carrier Slc19A Gene Family Of Water-Soluble Multivitamin Transporters: Implications For Physiological Function 332 Humans lack biochemical pathways for the synthesis of the micro-nutrients thiamine and folate. Cellular requirements are met through membrane transport activity, which is mediated by proteins of the SLC19A gene family. By using live-cell confocal imaging  folate, polarity, thiamine, transport, vitamin For transient transfections on cover-glasses, cells were grown to 90% confluency on sterile glass-bottomed Petri dishes (MatTek, MA, U.S.A.) and incubated with 1 mg of plasmid DNA and LIPOFECTAMINETM 2000 in OPTIMEM (Invitrogen). Biochemical Journal 376 2003 November 1   DOG, COCKER SPANIEL FEMALE KIDNEY IZSBS BS CL 64
Morphology: epithelial-like
Species: dog, cocker spaniel female; Tissue: kidney; Validated by isoenzymes: confirmed as dog with NP, G6D, MD, MPI, AST, PEPB
Depositor: obtained from Flow Laboratories, Irvine (GB)
Properties: expressing xenob
epithelial-like MDCK Boulware, Mj. Boulware, MJ., Subramanian, VS., Said, HM, Marchant, JS. Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Medical School, MN, U.S.A., Department of Medicine and Physiology, University of California, Irvine, CA, U.S.A. and VA Medical Center, Long University of Minnesota
  Protein Kinase C D And E Mediate Positive Inotropy In Adult Ventricular Myocytes 530 To examine cardiac contractile regulation and protein kinase C (PKC) translocation in parallel, the d and e isoforms of PKC were fused to
green fluorescent protein (GFP) and expressed in adult rat ventricular myocytes maintained in short term culture. PK
PKC-d; PKC-e; Golgi; Sarcolemma; Adenovirus; Fluorescent proteins HEK 293 cells and cultured myocytes expressing fluorescent
PKCs were plated onto glass-bottom culture dishes from MatTek Corp. (Ashland, MA) and cultured for 30–40 h before
observation. Before imaging cells were washed twice with
serum-free culture med
American Journal of Physiology- Endocrinology and Metabolism 287 2004 December 6   MONKEY, AFRICAN GREEN KIDNEY IZSBS BS CL103
Morphology: fibroblast-like
Species: monkey, African green; Tissue: kidney; Transformed by: SV40; Original line: CV-1
Properties: virus replication
fibroblast-like COS-7 Kang, Misuk Misuk Kang, JefferyW.Walker University of Wisconsin at Madison
  Pseudorabies Virus Us9 Directs Axonal Sorting of Viral Capsids 911 Pseudorabies virus (PRV) mutants lacking the Us9 gene cannot spread from presynaptic to postsynaptic
neurons in the rat visual system, although retrograde spread remains unaffected. We sought to recapitulate
these findings in vitro using the isolator cham
  Neurons were cultured on MatTek Corp. glass-bottom dishes. The
dish was warmed to 37°C by using a DH40i Micro-Incubation System (Warner
Instrument Corp.) run at constant voltage (5.5 V).
Journal of Virology 81 2007 October 20 glass bottom dishes         PK15 M. G. Lyman M. G. Lyman, B. Feierbach, D. Curanovic, M. Bisher, and L. W. Enquist  
  Rab11A And Myosin Vb Are Required For Bile Canalicular Formation In Wif-B9 Cells 420 Hepatocytes polarize by forming functionally distinct sinusoidal
(basolateral) and canalicular (apical) plasma membrane domains.
Two distinct routes are used for delivery of membrane proteins to
the canaliculus. Proteins having glycosylphosphatidylinos
hepatocyte polarization, plasma membrane segregation WIF-B9 cells were cultured in a humidified 7% CO2 incubator at 37°C (14).
Unless otherwise specified, cells were plated on a 35-mm glass
bottom dish (MatTek) at 1.4   105 cells per dish in complete
medium. Infections with recombinant adenoviruses enco
PNAS 102 2005 October 42           WIF-B9 Wakabayashi, Yoshiyuki Yoshiyuki Wakabayashi*‡, Parmesh Dutt, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz*, and Irwin M. Arias National Institutes of Health
  Rap1 up-regulation and activation on plasma
membrane regulates T cell adhesion
648 ap1 and Ras are closely related GTPases that share
some effectors but have distinct functions. We studied
the subcellular localization of Rap1 and its sites of
activation in living cells. Both GFP-tagged Rap1 and endogenous
Rap1 were localized to the plas
  Cells to be examined by fluorescence microscopy were
plated at 2
 105 per plate into 35-mm dishes containing a glass coverslipcovered
15-mm cutout (MatTek) and transfected the next day.
Journal of Cell Biology 164 2004 February 3 35-mm dishes containing a glass coverslip
15-mm cutout (MatTek
        COS-1 and MDCK Bivona, Trever G. Trever G. Bivona,

Heidi H. Wiener,

Ian M. Ahearn,

Joseph Silletti,

Vi K. Chiu,

and Mark R. Philips
,,
New York University School of Medicine,
  Rapid Suppression Of Free Radical Formation By Nerve Growth Factor Involves The Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Pathway 574 Neurotrophins such as nerve growth factor
(NGF) regulate neuronal survival during development and
are neuroprotective in certain models of injury to both the
peripheral and the central nervous system. Although many
effects of neurotrophins involve lon
nerve growth factor, protein kinase pathway, neurotrophins, neuronal death For imaging, suspensions of GT1-1
or GT1-1 trk cells were diluted and plated onto 35-mm culture
dishes (Mat-Tek, Ashland, MA) possessing an oval cut-out
sealed by a glass coverslip coated with poly-D-lysine: laminin
(12). Cultures were analyzed when ,
                    GT1-1 Dugan, Laura L. LAURA L. DUGAN, DOUGLAS J. CREEDON, EUGENE M. JOHNSON, JR., AND DAVID M. HOLTZMAN Washington University
  Real Time Fluorescence Imaging Of Plctranslocation And Its Interaction With The Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 436 The translocation of fluorescently tagged
PLC
g
and requirements for this process in cells stimulated
with EGF were analyzed using real time fluorescence
microscopy applied for the first time to monitor
growth factor receptor–effector interactions. 
PLC,  EGF receptor, translocation, real time imaging,  SH2 and PH domains A431 and COS-7 cells were cultured in DME supplemented with 10%
FBS. The transfection of GFP or RFP fusion protein constructs were
made using cells in a 60-mm dish (Nunc), a glass-bottomed 50-mm dish
(MatTek Corporation), or on 22-mm-diameter coverslip
            HUMAN skin Morphology: epithelial-like
Species: human female 85 years old; Tissue: skin; Tumor: carcinoma, squamous cell
Properties: EGF receptor expression; growth factors; cell cycle

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epithelial-like A431 Matsuda, Miho Miho Matsuda, Hugh F. Paterson, Rosie Rodriguez, Amanda C. Fensome, Moira V. Ellis,
Karl Swann, and Matilda Katan
The Institute of Cancer Research
  Real-Time Optical Monitoring Of Ligand-Mediated Internalization Of A1B-Adrenoceptor With Green Fluorescent Protein 445 The study of G protein-coupled receptor signal
transduction and behavior in living cells is technically
difficult because of a lack of useful biological
reagents. We show here that a fully functional a1b-
adrenoceptor tagged with the green fluorescent
agonist-promoted
a1bAR/GFP redistribution, a1-Adrenoceptors, phospholipase C, Green fluorescent protein
aT3 cells stably expressing wild-type
a1bAR and a1bAR/GFP were seeded at 1 3 105 per well of the
cover glass-bottom culture dish (MatTek Corp., Ashland, MA)
in 2.0 ml of medium and examined using LSM-GB200 within
30 min at room temperature.
Molecular Endocrinology 12 1998 August 8   MOUSE       AT3 Awaji, Takeo Takeo Awaji, Akira Hirasawa, Masakazu Kataoka,
Hitomi Shinoura, Yasuhisa Nakayama, Tatsuo Sugawara,
Shun-ichiro Izumi, and Gozoh Tsujimoto
National Children's Medical Research Center
  Recycling Cd1D1 Molecules Present Endogenous Antigens Processed In An Endocytic Compartment To Nkt Cells 452 Mouse CD1d1 molecules present endogenous glycolipids to NKT cells. Although glycolipid presentation requires CD1d1 transport
through the endocytic pathway, the processing requirements for such endogenous Ag presentation by CD1d1 molecules are
undefined.
Endogenous Antigens, CD1d1 molecules, pH, glycolipid P13.9 cells were plated in sterile glass-bottom 35-mm dishes coated with
poly(D-lysine) (MatTek, Ashland, MA) at a density of 1  107 cells/dish.
After overnight adherence, the cells were infected with VV-CD1d1WT,
VV-CD1d1TD, or VV-CD1d1Y322A at an MOI
                    P13.9 Roberts, Tonya J. Tonya J. Roberts, Venkataraman Sriram, Philip M. Spence, Ming Gui, Kyoko Hayakawa,
Igor Bacik, Jack R. Bennink, Jonathan W. Yewdell, and Randy R. Brutkiewicz
Indiana University
  Recycling Endosomes Can Serve As Intermediates During Transport From The Golgi To The Plasma Membrane Of Mdck Cells 526 The AP-1B clathrin adaptor complex is responsible
for the polarized transport of many basolateral
membrane proteins in epithelial cells. Localization
of AP-1B to recycling endosomes (REs) along with other
components (exocyst subunits and Rab8) involve
Recycling endosomes, transport, AP-1B clathrin adaptor complex, vesicular stomatitis virus
glycoprotein G
Coverslip-grown MDCKT cells were infected with ts045 VSV-G-YFP and induced
with 5 mM butyrate for 16 h at 40C. Tfn uptake was performed as
described above. Cells were incubated 2 h in media at 20C (last hour in
media plus 0.1 mg/ml CHX). Coverslips w
Journal of Cell Biology 167 2004 November 3   DOG, COCKER SPANIEL FEMALE KIDNEY     MDCk Ang, Agnes Lee Agnes Lee Ang, Tomohiko Taguchi, Stephen Francis, Heike Fölsch, Lindsay J. Murrells, Marc Pypaert, Graham Warren,
and Ira Mellman
Yale University
  Regulation Of SP2 DNA-Binding Activity And trans-Activation 618 Regulated transcription requires the collaboration of a variety of transcription factors, including sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins. The Sp-family of DNA-binding proteins governs the expression of a wide variety of mammalian genes, including housek transcription, Sp-family of DNA-binding proteins, trans-activation For confocal microscopy, 2-4 x 104 COS-1 cells were plated in 35 mm glass-bottom dishes (MatTek Corp., Ashland, MA) and cultured overnight at 37 °C in DMEM supplemented with heat-inactivated FBS, and 50 μg/ml Pipracil at 37 °C under 5% CO2. Electronic Thesis- NCSU                   COS-1 Moorefield, K. Scott K. Scott Moorefield North Carolina State University
  Relating Microstructure To Rheology Of A Bundled And Cross-Linked F-Actin Network In Vitro 369 The organization of individual actin filaments into higher-order structures is controlled by actin-binding proteins (ABPs). Although the biological significance of the ABPs is well documented, little is known about how bundling and cross-linking quantitat in vitro, scruin, actin, actin-binding protein, multiparticle tracking G-actin solutions were prepared by
dissolving lyophilized G-actin in deionized water and dialyzing
the solutions against fresh G-buffer (2 mM TrisHCl0.2 mM
ATP0.2mMCaCl20.2mMDTT0.005% NaN3, pH8.0) at 4°C
for 24 hr; the buffer was replaced with fr
PNAS 101 2004 June 26 P35G-1.5-14-C         eukaryotic Shin, J. H. J. H. Shin, M. L. Gardel, L. Mahadevan, P. Matsudaira, and D. A. Weitz Massachusettes Institute of Technology
  Reversal Of Neuronal Migration In A Mouse Model Of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome By Controlling Second-Messenger Signalings 550 The brains of fetal alcohol syndrome patients exhibit impaired neuronal migration, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying
this abnormality. Here we show that Ca2  signaling and cyclic nucleotide signaling are the central targets of alcohol a
cerebellar development; granule cell; neuronal cell migration; cAMP; cGMP; rate of cell movement Cerebella of
postnatal day 0–3 (P0 –P3) mice (CD-1) were placed in ice-chilled HBSS
and freed from meninges and choroid plexus (Komuro and Rakic, 1996,
1999; Yacubova and Komuro, 2002a; Kumada and Komuro, 2004). Cerebellar
slices were then made with a
Journal of Neuroscience 26 2006 January 3     esophageal     apoptotic Kumada, Tatsuro Tatsuro Kumada, Madepalli K. Lakshmana, and Hitoshi Komuro The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
  Roundabout 2 Regulates Migration Of Sensory Neurons By Signaling In Trans 575 Roundabout (Robo) receptors and their ligand Slit are important regulators of axon guidance and cell migration. The development of Drosophila em-bryonic sense organs provides a neuronal migration par-adigm
where the in vivo roles of Slit and Robo can be 
Roundabout 2, Migration, Slit, axon guidance, Homothorax Time-lapse imaging of live embryos was done on an inverted Zeiss LSM5 Pascal with a 20/0.7 n.a. air lens. Live embryos were collected at 29 C to maximize UAS-transgene expression, dechorio-nated in 50% bleach, washed in 0.01% TritonX-100 and water, and s             CHINESE HAMSTER OVARY Morphology: Epithelial
Hamster Chinese ovary
Depositor: Dr R Downing, PHLS CAMR, Porton Down, Salisbury, UK
No restrictions. Patent: None Specified By Depositor
Properties: Applications: Nutritional and gene expression studies

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epithelial-like CHO Kraut, Rachel Rachel Kraut and Kai Zinn California Institute of Technology
  Sensitivity Of Planktonic And Biofilm-Associated Salmonella Spp To Ionizing Radiation 366 Salmonella enterica forms biofilms that are relatively resistant to chemical sanitizing treatments. Ionizing
radiation has been used to inactivate Salmonella on a variety of foods and contact surfaces, but the relative
efficacy of the process against biof
ionizing radiation, biofilm-associated bacteria, biofilm Planktonic and biofilm-associated cells were prepared in sterile
50-ml centrifuge tubes as follows. For each individual isolate, sterile TSB (5 ml)
was inoculated with 200 l of a stock culture and incubated overnight at 37°C to
make a fresh culture (a
Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71 2005 May 5 P35G-1.5-14-C         Salmonella Niemira, Brendan A. Brendan A. Niemira and Ethan B. Solomon US Department of Agriculture
  Sonic hedgehog, secreted by amacrine cells, acts as a short-range signal to direct differentiation and lamination in the zebrafish retina 596 Neurogenesis in the zebrafish retina occurs in several waves of differentiation. The first neurogenic wave generates ganglion cells and depends on hedgehog (hh) signaling activity. Using transgenic zebrafish embryos that express GFP under the control of t Sonic hedgehog, Atonal homolog 5, Retina, Differentiation, Neurogenesis, Zebrafish Embryos were then imbedded in a coverslip-bottomed petri dish (MatTek Corporation), in 0.5% low melting point agarose dissolved in embryo medium with 0.02% tricaine. Development 131 2004 August 16