Cytokine G-protein signaling crosstalk in cardiomyocytes: attenuation of Jak-STAT activation by endothelin-1.

abstract：:Free fatty acids (FFA)-induced proliferation and apoptosis was studied in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). A recombinant adenovirus containing a RNAi cassette targeting the GSK-3beta gene was produced and its silencing effect on GSK-3beta gene was detected by Western blot analysis and immunohistochemis...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Zhu P,Chen G,You T,Yao J,Jiang Q,Lin X,Shen X,Qiao Y,Lin L

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:The development and growth of the prostate gland depends on androgen stimulation. Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) is the primary androgen responsible for prostate development and also for the pathogenesis of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The incidence of prostate cancer (PCa) and benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) con...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Torres JM,Gómez-Capilla JA,Ruiz E,Ortega E

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several tyrosine phosphatases control cell motility; understanding their signaling helps to decipher cancer mechanisms. Previously, we found that the negative regulation of migration exerted by PTPN12 in ovarian cancer SKOV-3 cells involves direct FAK Y397 targeting, in HER2-dependent way. In this study, we describe t...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Villa-Moruzzi E

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we explored glutathione S-transferase (GST) polymorphisms in selected patients who experienced accelerated myocardial injury following open heart surgery and compared these to a control group of patients without postoperative complications. 758 Patients were enrolled from which 132 patients were s...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Kovacs V,Gasz B,Balatonyi B,Jaromi L,Kisfali P,Borsiczky B,Jancso G,Marczin N,Szabados S,Melegh B,Nasri A,Roth E

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs, miRs) play important roles in pathogenesis and development of human diseases, including malignancy. Some may affect tumor progression through targeting tumor suppressor genes. MiR-135b has been shown to be upregulated in CRC. In this study, we evaluated the role of miR-135b in colorectal cancer (CRC...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Wu W,Wang Z,Yang P,Yang J,Liang J,Chen Y,Wang H,Wei G,Ye S,Zhou Y

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migration and proliferation of smooth muscle cells (SMC) are important events during arteriogenesis, but the underlying mechanism is still only partially understood. The present study investigates the expression of integrins alpha 5 beta 1 and v beta 3 as well as focal adhesion kinase (FAK) and phosphorylated FAK (pY3...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Cai WJ,Li MB,Wu X,Wu S,Zhu W,Chen D,Luo M,Eitenmüller I,Kampmann A,Schaper J,Schaper W

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Etomoxir, an inhibitor of mitochondrial carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1, is known to attenuate the changes in myosin isoforms and sarcoplasmic reticular function that occur in diabetic rat hearts. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that etomoxir also prevents the diabetes-induced depression of sarcolemmal...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Kato K,Lukas A,Chapman DC,Rupp H,Dhalla NS

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of ErbB4 receptor is correlated with the incidence of non-metastatic types of human cancers, whereas the overexpression of other ErbB receptor families (ErbB1/EGFR, ErbB2 and ErbB3) is correlated to the formation of metastatic tumors. However, the molecular mechanism underlying this phenomenon has been uncl...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Yumoto N,Yu X,Hatakeyama M

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) levels are involved in vascular remodeling of hypertension. In this study, we hypothesized that doxycycline (a MMP inhibitor) could exert antioxidant effects, reverse establish vascular remodeling, and lower blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). SHR and Wista...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Antonio RC,Ceron CS,Rizzi E,Coelho EB,Tanus-Santos JE,Gerlach RF

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymol is a phytochemical component present in many plants used as food additive in order to promote animal growth due to its several biological properties. However, possible side effects of thymol remain poorly known limited to few reports. In this sense, we evaluated the enzymes of the purinergic signaling such as, ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Baldissera MD,Souza CF,De Matos AFIM,Baldisserotto B,Stefani LM,da Silva AS

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of Mg2+ concentration (Mg2+o, 0, 1.2, 2.4, and 4.8 mM) on the incidence of reperfusion arrhythmias and on the cellular electrical activity were studied in spontaneously beating rat hearts. The surface electrogram and the membrane potential were recorded in control conditions, during 10 min of regional isch...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Ponce Zumino A,Risler NR,Schanne OF,Ruiz Petrich E,Carrión A

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic adaptation is one of the key features of Escherichia coli (E. coli) that ensure its survival in different hostile environments. E. coli seems to initiate biofilm development in response to specific environmental cues. A number of properties inherent within bacterial biofilms indicate that their gene expression...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Adnan M,Morton G,Hadi S

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colchicine has been demonstrated to suppress the release of fibroblast growth factors, retard collagen formation and augment collagenase activity. Trials with colchicine in patients with hepatic fibrosis have suggested clinical benefit. The development of impaired myocardial function in the spontaneously hypertensive ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Cicogna AC,Brooks WW,Hayes JA,Robinson KG,Sen S,Conrad CH,Bing OH

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that adult osteoporosis could be induced by ageing and estrogen deficiency and homocysteine (Hcy) is an independent risk factor of fracture in osteoporosis patients. In this study, we found hypermethylation of the promoter A region in the estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) gene, and methylation in...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Lv H,Ma X,Che T,Chen Y

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For evaluation whether the membrane fatty acid-binding protein is related to mGOT, studies on the structure and function of both purified proteins were performed. Physicochemical characterization revealed that both proteins are different: the membrane fatty acid-binding protein has a molecular weight of 40 kD and a pI...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Stremmel W,Diede HE,Rodilla-Sala E,Vyska K,Schrader M,Fitscher B,Passarella S

更新日期：1990-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies indicate that the mucosa of the urinary bladder may play a major role in the maintenance of normal bladder function. The mucosal surface of the urinary bladder serves as a protective layer against the irritative solutes found in the urine. The integrity of this barrier can be broken by overdistension, a...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Hypolite JA,Longhurst PA,Gong C,Briscoe J,Wein AJ,Levin RM

更新日期：1993-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The optical properties, copper content, catalytic activity and quaternary structure of many preparations of ascorbate oxidase purified with two different methods were examined. Fresh samples appeared identical and were characterized by optical ratios A280/A610 = 25 +/- 1 and A330/A610 = 0.8 +/- 0.05, by specific activ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Avigliano L,Vecchini P,Sirianni P,Marcozzi G,Marchesini A,Mondovi B

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uptake of glucose and gluconate is under inductive control in Pseudomonas putida. Glucose, gluconate, and 2-ketogluconate were each good nutritional inducers of these transport abilities. Glucose and gluconate uptake obeyed saturation kinetics: the apparent Km for glucose was 6 mM and that for gluconate was 0.5 mM...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Vicente M,Pedro MA,Torrontegui G,Cánovas JL

更新日期：1975-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The contractile hyporesponsiveness of the streptozotocin diabetic rat heart in vitro to beta-adrenergic agonists is eliminated when the heart is perfused with N(G)-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), a non-selective inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase (NOS). The following study evaluated the hypothesis that an incr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Smith JM,Sondgeroth KB,Wahler GM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the microtubular inhibitor, podophyllotoxin, on mitochondrial respiration were determined using isolated, digitonin-permeabilized hepatocytes and isolated mitochondria. In hepatocytes, podophyllotoxin (1.5 mM) inhibited coupled and uncoupled respiration of both FAD and NAD-linked substrates. In mitochon...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Horrum MA,Jennett RB,Ecklund RE,Tobin RB

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Failure in obtaining expression of functional adrenocorticotropic hormone receptor (ACTHR, or melanocortin 2 receptor, MC2R) in non-adrenal cells has hindered molecular analysis of ACTH signaling pathways. Here, we ectopically expressed the mouse ACTHR in Balb/c mouse 3T3 fibroblasts to analyze ACTH signaling pathways...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Forti FL,Dias MH,Armelin HA

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that severe hypertrophy induces metabolic and structural changes in the heart which result in enhanced susceptibility to ischemic damage during cardioplegic arrest while much less is known about the effect of cardioplegic arrest on moderately hypertrophied hearts. The aim of this study was to el...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Smolenski RT,Jayakumar J,Seymour AM,Yacoub MH

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbohydrate has been removed from a number of glycoproteins without major effect on the structure or enzyme activity of the protein. Thus carbohydrate has been suggested to underly a non-primary function for proteins, such as in relatively non-specific interactions with other carbohydrates or macromolecules, stabiliz...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： West CM

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies presented here show that cellular NAD, which we hypothesize to be the relevant biomarker of niacin status, is significantly lower in humans than in the commonly studied animal models of carcinogenesis. We show that nicotinamide and the resulting cellular NAD concentration modulate expression of the tumor suppr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Jacobson EL,Shieh WM,Huang AC

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) signaling through LPA receptors (LPA1 to LPA6) regulates a variety of malignant properties in cancer cells. Recently, we show that LPA2 expression is elevated by long-term cisplatin (CDDP) treatment in melanoma A375 cells. In the present study, we investigated whether LPA2-mediated signalin...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Minami K,Ueda N,Ishimoto K,Tsujiuchi T

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytosolic phospholipases A2 (cPLA2) and cyclooxygenases-1 and -2 (COX-1 and -2) play a pivotal role in the metabolism of arachidonic acid (AA) and in eicosanoid production. The coordinate regulation and expression of these enzymes is not well defined. In this study, the effect of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA),...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Jiang YJ,Lu B,Choy PC,Hatch GM

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several metabolic compounds have been found to be competitive inhibitors of the anomerase activity of phosphoglucose isomerase (EC 5.3.1.9).Ki values for erythrose 4-phosphate, 6-phosphogluconate, and fructose 1,6-bisphosphate for the anomerase reaction are 0.32 muM, 21 muM, and 84 muM respectively at 0 degree and pH ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Howell EE,Schray KJ

更新日期：1981-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The antioxidant efficacy of vitamin E on Perchloroethylene (PER) induced cytotoxicity has been studied in rats. Feeding PER to rats for 42 days using sesame oil as vehicle alters total protein and protein bound carbohydrate components in liver and kidney of experimental animals. Supplementation of vitamin E prevented ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Ebrahim AS,Gopalakrishnan R,Murugesan A,Sakthisekaran D

更新日期：1995-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1) is a homotrimeric glycoprotein synthesized in a variety of normal and transformed cells, and secreted into the extracellular matrix. Based on its known effects on the tumor and endothelial cells, TSP-1 was implicated in the tumor growth and metastasis. In the present study, we have demonstrate...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Kim SA,Um SJ,Kang JH,Hong KJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00