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Rgs14 Is A Mitotic Spindle Protein Essential From The First Division Of The Mammalian Zygote., Luke Martin-Mccaffrey, Francis S Willard, Antonio J Oliveira-Dos-Santos, David R C Natale, Bryan E Snow, Randall J Kimple, Agnieszka Pajak, Andrew J Watson, Lina Dagnino, Josef M Penninger, David P Siderovski, Sudhir J A D'Souza Nov 2004

Rgs14 Is A Mitotic Spindle Protein Essential From The First Division Of The Mammalian Zygote., Luke Martin-Mccaffrey, Francis S Willard, Antonio J Oliveira-Dos-Santos, David R C Natale, Bryan E Snow, Randall J Kimple, Agnieszka Pajak, Andrew J Watson, Lina Dagnino, Josef M Penninger, David P Siderovski, Sudhir J A D'Souza

Obstetrics & Gynaecology Publications

Heterotrimeric G protein alpha subunits, RGS proteins, and GoLoco motif proteins have been recently implicated in the control of mitotic spindle dynamics in C. elegans and D. melanogaster. Here we show that "regulator of G protein signaling-14" (RGS14) is expressed by the mouse embryonic genome immediately prior to the first mitosis, where it colocalizes with the anastral mitotic apparatus of the mouse zygote. Loss of Rgs14 expression in the mouse zygote results in cytofragmentation and failure to progress to the 2-cell stage. RGS14 is found in all tissues and segregates to the nucleus in interphase and to the mitotic spindle …


Somatotopic Representation Of Action Words In Human Motor And Premotor Cortex, Olaf Hauk, Ingrid Johnsrude, Friedemann Pulvermüller Jan 2004

Somatotopic Representation Of Action Words In Human Motor And Premotor Cortex, Olaf Hauk, Ingrid Johnsrude, Friedemann Pulvermüller

Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications

Since the early days of research into language and the brain, word meaning was assumed to be processed in specific brain regions, which most modern neuroscientists localize to the left temporal lobe. Here we use event-related fMRI to show that action words referring to face, arm, or leg actions (e.g., to lick, pick, or kick), when presented in a passive reading task, differentially activated areas along the motor strip that either were directly adjacent to or overlapped with areas activated by actual movement of the tongue, fingers, or feet. These results demonstrate that the referential meaning of action words has …