Laminin Medical News
& Discoveries
July 30, 2019
Crispr treatment reverses muscular dystrophy in mice
Chemistry World
The version this treatment targets, MDC1A, arises with versions of the protein that don't work properly. MDC1A affects around one child in ...
July 4, 2019
Current understanding and treatment of cardiac and skeletal muscle pathology in laminin chain
Dove Medical Press
Laminin chain-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy (LAMA2 MD), also known as merosin-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy type 1A ...
June 1, 2019
The 3D Cell Culture Market Analysis: Expectations vs Reality
Market Talk News
... the scaffold-based segment, as they can be derived naturally from protein and ECM components (laminin, fibrin, hyaluronic acid, chitosan, etc.).
March 27, 2019
Can a stem cell trick get heart muscle to regenerate?
Futurity: Research News
In their work, researchers investigated using a heart muscle associated protein called laminin to promote the differentiation of human embryonic stem ...
March 27, 2019
First stage of research to regenerate heart muscle using stem cells shows results: Duke-NUS study
The Straits Times
Duke-NUS Medical School researchers first combined a protein associated with the heart muscle, called laminin-221, with human embryonic stem ...
November 1, 2018
A fully human system to cultivate skin cells for grafting
Medical Xpress
This method is the first to use a specific type of tissue-proteins known as laminins, found in the human body, to create a safer treatment for severe burns ...
October 31, 2018
Defense against joint degeneration
Medical Xpress
... between ECM-chondrocyte is mainly mediated by integrins; heterodimeric receptors for ECM molecules including fibronectin, collagen and laminin.
October 4, 2018
Cancer researchers at Purdue aim to take the 'accelerator' off aggressive prostate and other deadly ...
Purdue News Service
The Purdue team has developed a drug to target the laminin receptor (37/67 LR), a membrane protein that when overexpressed can promote the ...
September 11, 2018
Duke study sheds light on how leukemia enters the brain
Duke Chronicle
The research team discovered that ALL cancer cells have a special receptor allowing them to bind a protein called laminin on blood vessels that lead ...
September 2, 2018
New Treatment Regrows Complete Spinal Cord Injury In Mice
Science Trends
With regard to the researchers used what is known as laminin, an extracellular protein found in the human body. Laminin plays a role in ...
August 31, 2018
Required growth facilitators propel axon regeneration across complete spinal cord injury
Nature.com
a, Laminin immunohistochemistry (IHC) images plus quantification ... the lesion core among CD13+ stromal cells (left) and along laminin ...
August 28, 2018
Elevated serum LAMC2 is associated with lymph node metastasis and predicts poor prognosis ...
Dove Medical Press
Here, the authors investigated whether laminin gamma 2 (LAMC2) expression, especially serum LAMC2 (sLAMC2) level, was a suitable prognostic ...
August 17, 2018
Laminin 511 is a target antigen in autoimmune pancreatitis
Science Translational Medicine
In patients with autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP), researchers identified an autoantibody against laminin 511-E8, a truncated laminin 511, one of the ...
July 27, 2018
MMP20 may initiate enamel formation via basement membrane degradation
EurekAlert
While previous studies have demonstrated that MMP20 cleaves type IV collagen, laminin-111 and laminin-332, this study showed that MMP20 also ...
July 19, 2018
Leukemia Cells Take the Fast Track to the Nervous System
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
The laminin receptor, α6 integrin, is expressed in most cases of ALL. They found that α6 integrin–laminin interactions mediated the migration of ALL cells ...
June 21, 2018
3D printed biomaterial promotes tissue regeneration
physicsworld.com
The researchers also investigated the influence on cholangiocytes of including a laminin-derived peptide (Ile-Lys-Val-Ala-Val, IKVAV) within the bioink ...
June 21, 2018
Antioxidant Dressing Accelerates Wound Healing in Diabetics
HospiMedica
Laminins are high-molecular weight proteins of the extracellular matrix (ECM) that are an important and biologically active part of the basal lamina, ...