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Piezo1 as a force-through-membrane sensor in red blood cells by Vaisey, George, Banerjee, Priyam, North, Alison J, Haselwandter, Christoph A, MacKinnon, Roderick

“…Piezo1 is the stretch activated Ca channel in red blood cells that mediates homeostatic volume control. Here, we study the organization of Piezo1 in red blood…”
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Seeing is believing? A beginners' guide to practical pitfalls in image acquisition by North, Alison J

“…Imaging can be thought of as the most direct of experiments. You see something; you report what you see. If only things were truly this simple. Modern imaging…”
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Temporal and spatial organization of ESCRT protein recruitment during HIV-1 budding by Bleck, Marina, Itano, Michelle S., Johnson, Daniel S., Thomas, V. Kaye, North, Alison J., Bieniasz, Paul D., Simon, Sanford M.

“…HIV-1 virions assemble at the plasma membrane of mammalian cells and recruit the endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) machinery to enable…”
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Laminin is required for Schwann cell morphogenesis by Yu, Wei-Ming, Chen, Zu-Lin, North, Alison J, Strickland, Sidney

“…Development of the peripheral nervous system requires radial axonal sorting by Schwann cells (SCs). To accomplish sorting, SCs must both proliferate and…”
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Tutorial: guidance for quantitative confocal microscopy by Jonkman, James, Brown, Claire M., Wright, Graham D., Anderson, Kurt I., North, Alison J.

“…When used appropriately, a confocal fluorescence microscope is an excellent tool for making quantitative measurements in cells and tissues. The confocal…”
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Strategic and practical guidelines for successful structured illumination microscopy by Demmerle, Justin, Innocent, Cassandravictoria, North, Alison J, Ball, Graeme, Müller, Marcel, Miron, Ezequiel, Matsuda, Atsushi, Dobbie, Ian M, Markaki, Yolanda, Schermelleh, Lothar

“…This protocol describes the preparation of calibration bead slides, their use and additional strategies to reduce artifacts of structured illumination…”
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Polarized gene expression determines woronin body formation at the leading edge of the fungal colony by Tey, Wei Kiat, North, Alison J, Reyes, Jose L, Lu, Yan Fen, Jedd, Gregory

“…The Woronin body (WB) is a peroxisome-related organelle that is centered on a crystalline core of the HEX-1 protein, which functions to seal septal pores of…”
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QUAREP-LiMi: a community endeavor to advance quality assessment and reproducibility in light microscopy by Boehm, Ulrike, Nelson, Glyn, Brown, Claire M., Bagley, Steve, Bajcsy, Peter, Bischof, Johanna, Dauphin, Aurelien, Dobbie, Ian M., Eriksson, John E., Faklaris, Orestis, Fernandez-Rodriguez, Julia, Ferrand, Alexia, Gelman, Laurent, Gheisari, Ali, Hartmann, Hella, Kukat, Christian, Laude, Alex, Mitkovski, Miso, Munck, Sebastian, North, Alison J., Rasse, Tobias M., Resch-Genger, Ute, Schuetz, Lucas C., Seitz, Arne, Strambio-De-Castillia, Caterina, Swedlow, Jason R., Nitschke, Roland

“…The community-driven initiative Quality Assessment and Reproducibility for Instruments & Images in Light Microscopy (QUAREP-LiMi) wants to improve…”
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Towards community-driven metadata standards for light microscopy: tiered specifications extending the OME model by Hammer, Mathias, Huisman, Maximiliaan, Rigano, Alessandro, Boehm, Ulrike, Chambers, James J., Gaudreault, Nathalie, North, Alison J., Pimentel, Jaime A., Sudar, Damir, Bajcsy, Peter, Brown, Claire M., Corbett, Alexander D., Faklaris, Orestis, Lacoste, Judith, Laude, Alex, Nelson, Glyn, Nitschke, Roland, Farzam, Farzin, Smith, Carlas S., Grunwald, David, Strambio-De-Castillia, Caterina

“…Rigorous record-keeping and quality control are required to ensure the quality, reproducibility and value of imaging data. The 4DN Initiative and BINA here…”
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Guidance for quantitative confocal microscopy by Jonkman, James, Brown, Claire M, Wright, Graham D, Anderson, Kurt I, North, Alison J

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Author Correction: Guidance for quantitative confocal microscopy by Jonkman, James, Brown, Claire M., Wright, Graham D., Anderson, Kurt I., North, Alison J.

“…An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper…”
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Author Correction: Towards community-driven metadata standards for light microscopy: tiered specifications extending the OME model by Hammer, Mathias, Huisman, Maximiliaan, Rigano, Alessandro, Boehm, Ulrike, Chambers, James J., Gaudreault, Nathalie, North, Alison J., Pimentel, Jaime A., Sudar, Damir, Bajcsy, Peter, Brown, Claire M., Corbett, Alexander D., Faklaris, Orestis, Lacoste, Judith, Laude, Alex, Nelson, Glyn, Nitschke, Roland, Farzam, Farzin, Smith, Carlas S., Grunwald, David, Strambio-De-Castillia, Caterina

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Author Correction: QUAREP-LiMi: a community endeavor to advance quality assessment and reproducibility in light microscopy by Boehm, Ulrike, Nelson, Glyn, Brown, Claire M., Bagley, Steve, Bajcsy, Peter, Bischof, Johanna, Dauphin, Aurelien, Dobbie, Ian M., Eriksson, John E., Faklaris, Orestis, Fernandez-Rodriguez, Julia, Ferrand, Alexia, Gelman, Laurent, Gheisari, Ali, Hartmann, Hella, Kukat, Christian, Laude, Alex, Mitkovski, Miso, Munck, Sebastian, North, Alison J., Rasse, Tobias M., Resch-Genger, Ute, Schuetz, Lucas C., Seitz, Arne, Strambio-De-Castillia, Caterina, Swedlow, Jason R., Nitschke, Roland

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Hydrophilic Agarose Macrobead Cultures Select for Outgrowth of Carcinoma Cell Populations That Can Restrict Tumor Growth by SMITH, Barry H, GAZDA, Lawrence S, DAVID, Eric M, SUIZHEN QIU, NORTH, Alison J, COUTO, C. Guillermo, POST, Gerald S, WATERS, David J, CORDON-CARDO, Carlos, HALL, Richard D, GORDON, Bruce R, DIEHL, Carolyn H, CONN, Bryan L, STENZEL, Kurt H, RUBIN, Albert L, JAIN, Kanti, ASINA, Shirin, LEVINE, Daniel M, PARKER, Thomas S, LARAMORE, Melissa A, MARTIS, Prithy C, VINEREAN, Horatiu V

“…Cancer cells and their associated tumors have long been considered to exhibit unregulated proliferation or growth. However, a substantial body of evidence…”
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Molecular map of the desmosomal plaque by North, A J, Bardsley, W G, Hyam, J, Bornslaeger, E A, Cordingley, H C, Trinnaman, B, Hatzfeld, M, Green, K J, Magee, A I, Garrod, D R

“…Recent biochemical and molecular approaches have begun to establish the protein interactions that lead to desmosome assembly. To determine whether these…”
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Fluorescent labeling of endothelial cells allows in vivo, continuous characterization of the vascular development of Xenopus laevis by Levine, Ariel J, Munoz-Sanjuan, Ignacio, Bell, Esther, North, Alison J, Brivanlou, Ali H

“…Appropriate blood supply and vascular development are necessary in development and in cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. Here, we report the use of…”
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Live cell fluorescence microscopy techniques by Galdeen, Shawn A, North, Alison J

“…The use of fluorescent tags for in vivo tracking of proteins has provided an array of new data on cell function. Correspondingly, a variety of new methods…”
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Actin isoform compartments in chicken gizzard smooth muscle cells by NORTH, A. J, GIMONA, M, LANDO, Z, SMALL, J. V

“…Differentiated smooth muscle cells typically contain a mixture of muscle (alpha and gamma) and cytoplasmic (beta and gamma) actin isoforms. Of the cytoplasmic…”
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Distinct Desmocollin Isoforms Occur in the Same Desmosomes and Show Reciprocally Graded Distributions in Bovine Nasal Epidermis by North, Alison J., Martyn A. J. Chidgey, Clarke, Jonathan P., Bardsley, William G., Garrod, David R.

“…The adhesive core of the desmosome is composed of cadherin-like glycoproteins of two families, desmocollins and desmogleins. Three isoforms of each are…”
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Complementary Distributions of Vinculin and Dystrophin Define Two Distinct Sarcolemma Domains in Smooth Muscle by North, Alison J., Galazkiewicz, Barbara, Byers, Timothy J., Glenney, John R., Small, J. Victor

“…The sarcolemma of the smooth muscle cell displays two alternating structural domains in the electron microscope: densely-staining plaques that correspond to…”
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