More than 35,000 men in the United States die from prostate cancer each year. Now, a new study reveals the immune cell ...

Alain Chariot's team has just published a study in EMBO Molecular Medicine shedding light on the unexpected role of the Stard7 protein in the development of intestinal cancers. Long regarded as a ...

Correspondence to Professor Wael El-Rifai, Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA; wxe45{at}miami.edu; Dr Heng Lu; heng.lu{at}med.miami.edu Objective Chronic ...

Skeletal muscle regeneration depends on muscle stem cells (MuSCs), in which cadherin-mediated adhesion and planar cell polarity (PCP) signaling play critical roles. M-Cadherin is the major cadherin ...

ABSTRACT: The objective of this study was to determine the distribution pattern of E-cadherin in parthenogenetic sheep embryos (Ovis aries) and its relationship with fragmentation. Mature oocytes were ...

Conditions like A.D.H.D. and autism can make starting and completing tasks feel impossible, but experts say there are workarounds. By Christina Caron The pomodoro technique. Power poses. Planners.

p120-catenin (p120) plays a vital role in regulating cell-cell adhesion at adherens junctions, interacting with the juxtamembrane domain (JMD) core region of E-cadherin and regulates the stability of ...

Introduction: Proteolysis of vascular endothelial (VE)-cadherin is a biomarker for disruption of endothelial cell (EC) barrier function, with elevated levels of soluble VE-cadherin associated with ...

Our bodies comprise different tissues and organs, which are composed of many cells that must adhere to form functional higher order structures. This adherence is facilitated by specialized proteins ...

Breathing, and the motor circuits that control it, is essential for life. At the core of respiratory circuits are Dbx1-derived interneurons, which generate the rhythm and pattern of breathing, and ...

Decision letter after peer review: Thank you for submitting your article "Coordinated cadherin functions sculpt respiratory motor circuit connectivity" for consideration by eLife. Your article has ...