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JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 108, Issue 2, Pages 343-352Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.22273
Keywords
HEMATOPOIESIS; CYTOKINE SIGNALING; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; SINGLE CELL TRACKING; FRET
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- Deutsche Forschungsgerneinschaft
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Cytokines are important regulators or cell fates with high clinical and commercial relevance. However, despite decades of intense academic and industrial research, it proved surprisingly difficult to describe the biological functions of cytokines in a precise and comprehensive manner. The exact analysis of cytokine biology is complicated by the fact that. individual cytokines control many different cell fates and activate a multitude of intracellular signaling pathways. Moreover, although activating different molecular programs, different cytokines can be redundant in their biological effects. In addition, cytokines with different biological effects can activate overlapping signaling pathways. This prospect article will outline the necessity of continuous single cell biochemistry to unravel the biological functions of molecular cytokine signaling. It focuses on potentials and limitations of recent technical developments in fluorescent time-lapse imaging and single cell tracking allowing constant long-term observation of molecules and behavior of single cells. J. Cell. Biochem. 108: 343-352, 2009. (C) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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