Pyruvate kinase activity and gluconeogenesis in rat liver after glycogen depletion with nicotinic acid.

abstract：:The regulation of phosphatidylcholine-specific phospholipase D by purine nucleotides and protein kinase A were studied in vitro using an enzyme preparation partially purified from the membranous fraction of 7721 hepatocarcinoma cells. It was found that the enzyme activity was elevated by low concentrations of some pur...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Huang Y,Zhang XY,Liu F,Chen HL

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase C isoforms comprise a family of structurally related serine/threonine kinases that are activated by second messenger molecules formed via receptor-dependent activation of phospholipase C. Cardiomyocytes co-express multiple protein kinase C isoforms which play key roles in a spectrum of adaptive and mala...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Sabri A,Steinberg SF

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelets are involved in hemostasis, wound healing, and tumor growth. Autologous blood products are commonly used to facilitate healing in a variety of clinical surgery applications. Recently, it was shown that platelet-rich plasma (PRP) has more specific growth factors that participate in the healing process. This s...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Park SI,Lee HR,Kim S,Ahn MW,Do SH

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review examines the mechanism of translocation of cytoplasmically synthesized proteins into mitochondria. Approximately 10% of the mitochondrial proteins are synthesized within the organelles while most mitochondrial proteins are coded for by nuclear genes and synthesized on cytoplasmic ribosomes. Those mitochond...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Ades IZ

更新日期：1982-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical and ultrastructural studies indicate that the atrophy of adrenal cortex in hypoyhysectomized rats involves the following changes: (1) One to two days after hypophysectomy, there is loss of "template activity" resulting from cumulative DNA-damage and heterochromatinization. In vivo ACTH-administration led t...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Tchen TT,Chan SW,Kuo TH,Mostafapour KM,Drzewiecki VH

更新日期：1977-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary cultures of skeletal muscle cells secrete plasminogen activator (PA) activity to the conditioning medium and display membrane-bound PA. Growth of these cells in culture in presence of 10(-7) M dexamethasone resulted in a marked reduction of the membranal and secreted PA activity. The hormone also reduced cytos...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Mayer M,Finci Z,Chaouat M,Sasson S

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catestatin (CST) is a catecholamine release-inhibitory peptide secreted from the adrenergic neurons and the adrenal glands. It regulates the cardiovascular functions and it is associated with cardiovascular diseases. Though its mechanisms of actions are not known, there are evidences of cross-talk between the adrenerg...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Alam MJ,Gupta R,Mahapatra NR,Goswami SK

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of transcription and translation inhibitors on NADP-glutamate dehydrogenase and glutamine synthetase synthesis in nitrogen-starving Ankistrodesmus braunii cells have been studied. Considering the results obtained one can suggest that both enzymes are coded in a chloroplast genome and that during nitrogen s...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Shatilov VR,Sof'in AV,Zabrodina TM,Kretovich WL

更新日期：1982-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines play a key role in the pathogenesis of coronary artery disease (CAD). The aim of current study was to investigate the relationship between the serum concentrations of 12 cytokines with mortality and extent of CAD in individuals undergoing angiography and healthy controls. 342 CAD patients were recruited and ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Tajfard M,Latiff LA,Rahimi HR,Moohebati M,Hasanzadeh M,Emrani AS,Esmaeily H,Taghipour A,Mirhafez SR,Ferns GA,Mardan-Nik M,Mohammadzadeh E,Avan A,Hanachi P,Ghayour-Mobarhan M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of dystrophin gene is the primary cause of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in humans and mdx mice. However, the underpinning mechanisms, which govern the pathogenesis of dystrophin-deficient skeletal muscle, remain poorly understood. We have previously reported activation of mitogen-activated protein ki...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Dogra C,Srivastava DS,Kumar A

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unidirectional promoters dominate among mammalian genomes. However, the mechanism through which the transcriptional directionality of promoters is accomplished remains to be clarified. Insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE) is a ubiquitously expressed zinc metalloprotease, whose promoter contains a CpG island. We previously s...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Zhang L,Wang P,Ding Q,Wang Z

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the effect of fenoldopam, a known dopamine-1 receptor (DA1) agonist in order to understand its involvement in the cardiac hypertrophic process. Male Sprague-Dawley rats underwent abdominal aortic constriction (AB) with placement of a suprarenal ligature while sham operated animals served as ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Ganguly PK,Mukherjee K,Sahai A

更新日期：1995-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In liver fibrosis, the quiescent hepatic stellate cells (HSC) are activated to proliferate and express the activated myofibroblast phenotype, losing fat droplets and the stored vitamin A, and depositing more extracellular matrix. Therapeutic strategies for liver fibrosis are focused on HSC. Pentoxifylline (PTF), an an...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Cardoso CC,Paviani ER,Cruz LA,Guma FC,Borojevic R,Guaragna RM

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclophosphamide (CP) is one of the widely used anticancer agents; however, it has serious deleterious effects on normal host cells due to its nonspecific action. The essential trace element Selenium (Se) is suggested to have chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic efficacy and currently used in pharmaceutical formulatio...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Bhattacharjee A,Basu A,Biswas J,Sen T,Bhattacharya S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) are two hormones produced and secreted by the heart to control blood pressure, body fluid homeostasis and electrolyte balance. Each peptide binds to a common family of 3 receptors (GC-A, GC-B and C-receptor) with varying degrees of affinity. The pro...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Tse MY,Watson JD,Sarda IR,Flynn TG,Pang SC

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A crude preparation of heavy sarcoplasmic reticulum (HSR) was isolated using 1 gram of muscle obtained from swine susceptible to malignant hyperthermia (MH) and from control swine. The caffeine and ATP concentration-dependency of Ca-release was determined using suction filtration with radioisotopic 45Ca as a tracer. R...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： O'Brien PJ

更新日期：1990-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a non-receptor tyrosine kinase which participates in many important cellular processes such as cell adhesion and migration. However, the role of FAK in renal tubular epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is still unknown. FAK was knocked down by transfection of specific small interf...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Deng B,Yang X,Liu J,He F,Zhu Z,Zhang C

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the mechanism of entry and localization of bilirubin (BR) into cell membrane, binding of BR to sealed and human serum albumin (HSA)-entrapped sealed membranes was studied by CD spectroscopy. An induced bisignate CD cotton effects (CDCEs) of BR-bound sealed membranes were observed with maxima at 515 n...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Rashid H,Khan MM,Tayyab S

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD kinase (NADK, EC 2.7.1.23) is the sole NADP(+)-biosynthetic enzyme that catalyzes phosphorylation of NAD(+) to yield NADP(+) using ATP as a phosphoryl donor, and thus, plays a vital role in the cell and represents a potentially powerful antimicrobial drug target. Although methods for expression and purification of...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Ohashi K,Kawai S,Koshimizu M,Murata K

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciprofloxacin induced an increment of reactive oxygen species in sensitive strains of Staphylococcus aureus leading to oxidative stress detected by chemiluminescence while resistant strains did not suffer such stress. Oxidation of lipids was performed by employing thiobarbituric acid reaction to detect the formation o...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Becerra MC,Páez PL,Laróvere LE,Albesa I

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytosolic purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNPase) is a well known, and described enzyme which exists in a variety of organisms, both procaryotic and eucaryotic. More recently this enzyme was found in bovine liver mitochondria. The mitochondrial purine nucleoside phosphorylase was purified 63 fold and has a molecular ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Haag R,Lewis RA

更新日期：1994-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:To define metabolic influences on cardiac myosin expression and sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca(2+)-stimulated ATPase streptozotocin-diabetic rats were treated for 9-10 wk with etomoxir, an inhibitor of carnitine palmitoyl transferase I (CPT-1) and fatty acid synthesis, or an antilipolytic drug, acipimox. Etomoxir redu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Rupp H,Elimban V,Dhalla NS

更新日期：1994-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of nutritional supplements containing antioxidants are advertised for better vision health. Do they benefit the average consumer? The literature was examined for the effectiveness of antioxidants for human eye health, and for the intricacies in collection of such evidence. The following diseases were consider...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Grover AK,Samson SE

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ex vivo and in vitro effects of quercetin on NTPDase, adenosine deaminase (ADA), and acetycholinesterase (AChE) activities in lymphocytes, as well as the effects of quercetin on butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) activity in serum and myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity in plasma were determined in rats. For the ex vivo expe...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Abdalla FH,Cardoso AM,Schmatz R,Gonçalves JF,Baldissarelli J,Martins CC,Zanini D,de Oliveira LS,da Costa P,Pimentel VC,Pereira LB,Lhamas CL,Schetinger MR,Morsch VM,Mazzanti CM

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper shows that human chronic myeloid (K562) cells exposed 3 h to 20 microM 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT) exhibit marked variations of the oligosaccharide moiety of glycoconjugates. These changes were analyzed by confocal fluorescence microscopy, upon incubation of control and AZT-treated cells with bi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Lizzi AR,D'Alessandro AM,Bozzi A,Cinque B,Oratore A,D'Andrea G

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoassays such as rocket immunoelectrophoresis, western dot blot hybridization, and competitive ELISA analysis were used to estimate and compare homology among fishes (several species), crab, toad, chicken and rodent metallothioneins. The relative abundance of tissue-specific metallothionein in catfish was highest ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Chatterjee A,Maiti IB

更新日期：1990-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionizing radiation induces apoptosis in human Molt-4 leukemia cells in a p53-dependent manner. The tumor suppressor p53 stimulates various downstream targets that presumably trigger, individually or in concert, de novo ceramide synthesis and intrinsic apoptosis via mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization (MOMP)....

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Kobeissy H,Hage-Sleiman R,Dakdouk Z,Kozhaya L,Dbaibo G

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein carbonyls are formed as a consequence of the oxidative modification of proteins by reactive oxygen species and are commonly used as a marker of protein oxidation in cells and tissues. Melatonin has free radical scavenging ability besides its classical role as a hormonal signaling agent. Curcumin, a phytochemic...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Dkhar P,Sharma R

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycodelin A (GdA) is a dimeric glycoprotein synthesized by the human endometrium under progesterone regulation. Based on the high sequence similarity with β-lactoglobulin, it is placed under the lipocalin superfamily. The protein is one of the local immunomodulators present at the feto-maternal interface which affect...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Ponnalagu D,Karande AA

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accessibility of pyridoxal 5'-phosphates of the phosphorylase ab hybrid to resolution by imidazole citrate and cysteine was studied and compared with that of the b and a forms. Promotion of resolution of phosphorylated forms by raising the temperature or in the presence of glycogen indicates that the resistance of...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Vereb G,Pallagi E,Gergely P

更新日期：1992-03-25 00:00:00