Chemokines in cardiovascular remodeling: clinical and therapeutic implications.

abstract：:Visfatin is one of the prominent adipokines secreted by adipose tissue. The level of visfatin increases significantly in persons with obesity owing to increased body mass index (BMI). During obesity, the adipocytes, which populate adipose tissue, undergo hypertrophy and hyperplasia and secrete a number of adipocytokin...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Kumari B,Yadav UCS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Persistent hyperlactatemia is associated with greater mortality in shock. Liver is the main site of lactate metabolism. METHOD:In the first part, freshly isolated hepatocytes were incubated in 10% fetal bovine serum William's E medium supplemented with 10 mM lactate. Cells were then exposed to 100 μM ursode...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Wang L,He HW,Zhou X,Long Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune tolerance can be induced by numerous methods. This review article aims to draw lines of similarity and contrast between two unique models of immune tolerance, namely Anterior Chamber Associated Immune Deviation (ACAID) and Nickel-induced oral tolerance. ACAID is an immune tolerance model that leads to the gener...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Ashour HM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Overexpression of MDA-9/Syntenin occurs in multiple human cancer cell lines and is associated with higher grade of tumor classification, invasiveness and metastasis. In some cases, its role in cancer biology depends on relationships between MDA-9/Syntenin and NF-κB. OBJECTIVE:This study aims to analyze the ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Notarbartolo M,Labbozzetta M,Pojero F,D'Alessandro N,Poma P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen is a branched polymer of glucose which serves as a reservoir of glucose units. The two largest deposits in mammals are in the liver and skeletal muscle but many cells are capable synthesizing glycogen. Its accumulation and utilization are under elaborate controls involving primarily covalent phosphorylation a...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Roach PJ

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) provides unique machinery for the folding and posttranslational modification of many secretory and transmembrane proteins in eukaryotic cells. The unfolded protein response (UPR) is a signal transduction network from the ER to the nucleus activated when the folding demand imposed by nasc...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Schröder M,Kaufman RJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the leading causes of blindness in the working population worldwide. Vascular leakage, angiogenesis and neuronal degeneration are key features of DR. Current effective interventions for DR include treatment of systemic risk factors such as elevated blood glucose, blood pressure and ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zhang X,Wang N,Schachat AP,Bao S,Gillies MC

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several species of kinetoplastid protozoa cause major human infectious diseases. Trypanosoma cruzi is responsible for the fatal Chagas disease in large parts of South America, the various species of Leishmania cause a number of different human diseases with millions of patients world-wide, and the African trypanosome ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Seebeck T,Schaub R,Johner A

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein serine/threonine phosphatase-1 (PP-1) is one of the key enzymes responsible for dephosphorylation in vertebrates. Protein dephosphorylation via PP-1 is implicated in many different biological processes including gene expression, cell cycle control, transformation, neuronal transmission, apoptosis, autophage an...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Liu WB,Yan Q,Liu FY,Tang XC,Chen HG,Liu J,Nie L,Zhang XW,Ji WK,Hu XH,Hu WF,Woodward Z,Wu KL,Wu MX,Liu XL,Luo LX,Yu MB,Liu YZ,Liu SJ,Li DW

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obesity is a chronic condition associated with poorer cognitive functioning. Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) is a useful tool for evaluating executive functions. In this study, we assessed the association between dopaminergic gene polymorphisms: DAT1 (SLC6A3), COMTVal158Met, DRD4 (48-bp variable number of...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Bieliński M,Lesiewska N,Junik R,Kamińska A,Tretyn A,Borkowska A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bitter gourd (Momordica charantia, BG) is both a nutritious and healthy food with a distinctive bitter flavor, and it is also widely exploited in folklore medicine. This review focuses on the efficacies and molecular mechanisms of BG-induced anti-diabetic, anti-HIV, and antitumor activities contributed by over twenty ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Fang EF,Ng TB

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lauric acid (LA) has antimicrobial effects and the potential to replace antibiotics in feeds to prevent postweaning diarrhea and increase overall swine productivity. The effects of lauric acid on the intestinal epithelial cells remain unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS:This study investigates the effects of LA on...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Yang Y,Huang J,Li J,Yang H,Yin Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV infection causes an acquired immunodeficiency, principally because of depletion of CD4 lymphocytes. The mechanism by which the virus depletes these cells, however, is not clearly understood. Since the virus predominantly infects CD4 lymphocytes in vivo, some have assumed that HIV replication directly kills the inf...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Cloyd MW,Chen JJ,Adeqboyega P,Wang L

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Halitosis (bad breath) is estimated to influence more than half of the world's population with varying degree of intensity. More than 85% of halitosis originates from oral bacterial infections. Foul-smelling breath mainly results from bacterial production of volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs) such as hydrogen sulfide an...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Liu PF,Huang IF,Shu CW,Huang CM

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1968 Berger and Hinglais published the first description of IgA nephropathy (IgAN). In the ensuing 30 years, extensive clinical, epidemiologic, and immunologic characterizations of primary (idiopathic) glomerulonephritis with IgA as the predominant or co-dominant immunoglobulin deposited in the mesangia of all glom...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Hsu SI

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a two-dimensional gel-based proteomic approach was applied to profile the protein alterations underlying the significant adverse effects from post-stroke depression (PSD). In view of the close association between left prefrontal cortical dysfunction and PSD, a PSD rat model was constructed through a lef...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Pan J,Liu H,Zhou J,Liu Z,Yang Y,Peng Y,You H,Yang D,Xie P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing concern that gastrointestinal exposure to particles is associated with increased risk of toxicity to internal organs and carcinogenicity. The mechanism of action is related to particle-induced oxidative stress and oxidation of DNA. Observations from animal models indicate that gastrointestinal exposur...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Møller P,Folkmann JK,Danielsen PH,Jantzen K,Loft S

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the clinical validation of molecular targeted therapies inhibiting the action of pathogenic tyrosine kinase (TK) has been one of the most exciting developments in cancer research. In this context, medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) represents a promising model. It is well known that in MTC, the RET rec...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Torino F,Paragliola RM,Barnabei A,Corsello SM

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE:Interleukin 37 (IL-37) is an important regulator of the anti-inflammatory T-cell response. In this study, we investigated its expression and function in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of patients with HLA-B27 associated acute anterior uveitis (AAU) and idiopathic AAU. METHODS:15 pati...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zhao B,Zhang S,Chen W,Zhang R,Jiang R,Zhang R,Chen L

更新日期：2018-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteroviruses are common human pathogens involved in a wide spectrum of clinical outcomes ranging from mild or non-symptomatic illness to severe diseases with neurological and/or cardiac manifestation. Despite being responsible for significant morbidity and mortality especially in immunocompromised patients and infant...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Schönhofer-Merl S,Wessely R

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major benefit of the genomics revolution in biomedical research has been the establishment of transcriptome analysis as an enabling technology in the drug development process. Nowhere in the realm of drug development has the expectation of the impact of transcriptome analysis been greater than in the area of pre-cli...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Searfoss GH,Ryan TP,Jolly RA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally regarded as a genetic disease of the cardiac sarcomere, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common inherited cardiovascular disease and a significant cause of sudden cardiac death. While the most common etiologies of this phenotypically diverse disease lie in a handful of genes encoding critica...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Landstrom AP,Ackerman MJ

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver cirrhosis, an end-result of a wide variety of the liver diseases, is a world wide health problem. Because of its unique organ system, i.e., portal blood supply, bile formation and enterohepatic circulation, drug metabolism system, and sinusoidal lining cells such as Kupffer, endothelial and stellate cells, the l...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Higuchi H,Gores GJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), and cystic fibrosis (CF), chronic diseases of the airways, are characterized by symptoms such as inflammation of the lung tissue, mucus hypersecretion, constriction of the airways, and excessive fibrosis of airway tissue. Transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta, a c...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Moore B,Murphy RF,Agrawal DK

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella infections are a serious public health problem in developing countries and represent a constant concern for the food industry. The severity and the outcome of a systemic Salmonella infection depends on the "virulence" of the bacteria, on the infectious dose as well as on the genetic makeup and immunological...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Mastroeni P

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In sum, the FTIs are signal transduction inhibitors that display promising clinical activity against a broad spectrum of malignancies. We are just beginning to explore and elucidate the mechanisms by which transformed cells respond to FTIs and the optimal settings in which they do so. The clinical trials that are curr...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Karp JE,Lancet JE

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione transferase Pi (GST-pi, GSTP) is known to strongly affect human susceptibility to several cancers, asthma and neurodegenerative disorders. As with other glutathione transferases, it catalyses the addition of reduced glutathione to electrophilic species, and it is important in metabolite detoxification. It ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Vasieva O

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endometriosis is one of the most common gynecological inflammatory diseases, occurring in adolescents and women in the reproductive age group and leading to infertility. The precise etiopathogenesis of endometriosis is unknown, but several theories concerning the phenomena involved in its development have been propose...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zubrzycka A,Zubrzycki M,Janecka A,Zubrzycka M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) are powerful tools for studying developmental biology and neuronal diseases. Conventional differentiation protocols require several intermediate states and different culture conditions, inefficiently generating mixed subtypes of neuronal cells with immature characteristics. Direct program...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Gu J,Cromer B,Sumer H

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell research has been growing a new height throughout the world due to its potentialities in medical applications. We can explore several therapeutic applications through the iPS cell research. In this review, we have first discussed the development of iPS cells, reprogramming factors, ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Chakraborty C,Shah KD,Cao WG,Hsu CH,Wen ZH,Lin CS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00