Jivko Stoyanov

The Pco proteins are involved in periplasmic copper handling in Escherichia coli.

The Escherichia coli copper-responsive copA promoter is activated by gold.

The MerR family of transcriptional regulators.

Copper homeostasis in Enterococcus hirae.

Measurement of cytoplasmic copper, silver, and gold with a lux biosensor shows copper and silver, but not gold, efflux by the CopA ATPase of Escherichia coli.

Interaction kinetics of the copper-responsive CopY repressor with the cop promoter of Enterococcus hirae.

Influence of diurnal hyperosmotic loading on the metabolism and matrix gene expression of a whole-organ intervertebral disc model.

Establishment of a novel intervertebral disc/endplate culture model: analysis of an ex vivo in vitro whole-organ rabbit culture system.

Vertebral endplate trauma induces disc cell apoptosis and promotes organ degeneration in vitro.

Apoptosis and gene expression of collagenases but not gelatinases in rabbit disc fragment cultures.

The stress response protein Gls24 is induced by copper and interacts with the CopZ copper chaperone of Enterococcus hirae.

Human mesenchymal stem cell co-culture modulates the immunological properties of human intervertebral disc tissue fragments in vitro.

The in vitro effects of dexamethasone, insulin and triiodothyronine on degenerative human intervertebral disc cells under normoxic and hypoxic conditions.

Human MMP28 expression is unresponsive to inflammatory stimuli and does not correlate to the grade of intervertebral disc degeneration.

Influence of different commercial scaffolds on the in vitro differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells to nucleus pulposus-like cells.

The copper-inducible ComR (YcfQ) repressor regulates expression of ComC (YcfR), which affects copper permeability of the outer membrane of Escherichia coli.

BMP-2 and TGF-β3 do not prevent spontaneous degeneration in rabbit disc explants but induce ossification of the annulus fibrosus.

An in vitro expansion score for tissue-engineering applications with human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells.

Physiological testosterone levels enhance chondrogenic extracellular matrix synthesis by male intervertebral disc cells in vitro, but not by mesenchymal stem cells.

Canine Mesenchymal Stem Cell Potential and the Importance of Dog Breed - Implication for Cell-based Therapies.

In vitro cell motility as a potential mesenchymal stem cell marker for multipotency.