Inhibition of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase or epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase abolishes lysophosphatidic acid-mediated DNA-synthesis in human myometrial smooth muscle cells.

abstract：:TZDs (thiazolidinediones) are prescribed as anti-Type II diabetes drugs, but little is known regarding whether TZDs regulate the expression of sPLA2 (secretory phospholipase A2) in macrophages. We have investigated the effects of pioglitazone on LPS (lipopolysaccharide)-induced production of TNF-alpha (tumour necrosis...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Ao C,Huo Y,Qi L,Xiong Z,Xue L,Qi Y

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of vertebrate skeletal muscles widely thought to be under the control of hierarchy of regulatory genes. MYF5 is one of the myogenic determination gene expressed in the developing mouse dermomyotome which control skeletal muscle differentiation. In the current work, we had obtained the cDNA sequence inclu...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Nie YW,Ding XB,Ge XG,Fan HL,Liu ZW,Guo H

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imbalance of sexual steroids milieu and oxidative stress are often observed during aging and correlated to prostate disorders. Likewise, high-fat intake has been related to prostate damage and tumor development. Melatonin (MLT) is an antioxidant whose secretion decreases in elderly and is also suggested to protect the...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Tamarindo GH,Gobbo MG,Taboga SR,Almeida EA,Góes RM

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that chronic inflammation of the vessel wall is a hallmark of atherosclerosis. Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is regarded as an important modulator of inflammatory events occurring during all stages of atherogenesis. Although many factors that induce IL-6 expression have been identified, the effect of homoc...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Zhang L,Jin M,Hu XS,Zhu JH

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is a serious global health problem. Recently, accumulating microRNA (miRNA) has emerged as crucial players in the development and progression of carcinomas including OSCC. Our study aimed to further investigate the roles of miR-140-5p in OSCC tumorigenesis and related molecular basi...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Peng M,Pang C

更新日期：2019-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteocalcin is one of the most abundant non-collagenous proteins in bone that is commonly used as a preliminary biomarker in bone formation. Osteocalcin also regulates energy metabolism as a hormone. Estrogen-related receptor alpha (ERRα) is primarily thought to regulate energy homeostasis through interacting with per...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Wang H,Wang J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-specific L-type calcium channel blockers, such as verapamil (> or =50 microM), induce metaphase-II (M-II) arrest and apoptosis in aged rat eggs cultured in Ca(2+)-deficient medium. However, the effects of extracellular Ca(2+) on verapamil-induced M-II arrest and apoptosis have not yet been reported. We have demons...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Chaube SK,Tripathi A,Khatun S,Mishra SK,Prasad PV,Shrivastav TG

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer is a life-threatening condition worldwide. As the tumor progresses, smooth muscle cells (SMCs) become atrophic/dedifferentiated, within a series of stromal changes named stromal reaction. Here, we tested whether a laminin 111-rich extracellular matrix (Lr-ECM) could affect SMCs phenotype and differenti...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Osório DA,Consonni SR,Dos Santos AM,Carvalho HF

更新日期：2020-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is often used to treat patients with end stage renal disease, and its long-term complications include excessive inflammation and oxidative stress. Allograft inflammatory factor 1 (AIF-1), as a cytoplasmic protein, is originally identified from infiltrating macrophages, and it was associated wi...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Zhou Y,Li X,Yuan X,Hao L

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding (lncRNA) MALAT1 can be increased by hypoxia or ischemic limbs. Also, downregulation of MALAT1 contributes to reduction of cardiomyocyte apoptosis. However, the functional involvement of MALAT1 in myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury has not been defined. This study investigated the functional i...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Zhao ZH,Hao W,Meng QT,Du XB,Lei SQ,Xia ZY

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most traditional cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents have poor aqueous solubility and significant toxicity. Hence, there is a need to develop molecule-targeted drugs. Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) is associated with the prognosis of several cancer types, and blockade of PD-1/PD-L1 signaling increases the amplitude o...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Liu K,Zhou Z,Gao H,Yang F,Qian Y,Jin H,Guo Y,Liu Y,Li H,Zhang C,Guo J,Wan Y,Chen R

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gelatinase activity and inhibitory activity against collagenase were measured in serum-free medium conditioned by murine colonic carcinoma cells with different spontaneous metastatic potentials to the lung. The medium conditioned with poorly metastatic NM11 cells gave higher inhibitory activity than that conditioned w...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Kishi J,Tanaka R,Koiwai O,Yamagata S,Numata Y,Hayakawa T,Shimizu S

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell therapy and regenerative medicine are potentially two of the most exciting aspects of the novel therapeutic methods currently under development. However, these treatments present a number of important biosafety issues, like the possible transmission of microorganisms to the recipients. The most common potential f...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Cobo F,Cortés JL,Cabrera C,Nieto A,Concha A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidermal keratinocytes express two major pairs of keratin polypeptides. One pair (K5/K14) expressed specifically in basal generative compartment and the other (K1/K10) expressed specifically in the differentiating suprabasal compartment. The switch in the expression of the keratins from proliferating to different...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Rao KS,Babu KK,Gupta PD

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic analysis has strongly implicated human FHIT (Fragile Histidine Triad) as a tumor suppressor gene, being mutated in a large proportion of early-stage cancers. The functions of the FHIT protein have, however, remained elusive. Here, we investigated aph1+ , the fission yeast homolog of FHIT, for functions related...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Sjölander JJ,Sunnerhagen P

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review summarizes the results of our investigations of actin unfolding-refolding and presents the notion that protein unfolding pathway, the number and the appearance order of intermediate states do not dependent on denaturing agents. To place our concept in the context of current knowledge of protein folding, we...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Povarova OI,Kuznetsova IM,Turoverov KK

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been demonstrated that the crude extract of mosquito larvae alters the mitotic rate of several mouse cell populations of young growing mice (25 +/- 1 days old). Furthermore, the dialysed fraction of the extract inhibited proliferation of hepatocytes from hepatectomized adult male mice (90 days old). Sampling du...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Ronderos JR,Riccillo FL,Ottino A

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kallikrein 14 (KLK14) is a serine protease linked to several pathologies including prostate cancer and positively correlates with Gleason score. Though KLK14 functioning in cancer is poorly understood, it has been implicated in HGF/Met signaling, given that KLK14 proteolytically inhibits HGF activator-inhibitor 1 (HAI...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Solís-Calero C,Carvalho HF

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Umbilical cord blood (UCB) is a rich source of hematopoietic stem cells that possesses practical and ethical advantages. We previously reported a novel UCB-derived adult stem cells which we termed umbilical cord blood-derived multipotent progenitor cells' (MPCs). MPCs were capable of differentiating into functional ne...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Moon YJ,Lee MW,Yoon HH,Yang MS,Jang IK,Lee JE,Kim HE,Eom YW,Park JS,Kim HC,Kim YJ,Lee KH

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the effects of human yolk sac-derived endothelial cells (hYSECs) on the expansion of human hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HS/PCs) from umbilical cord blood (UCB) in vitro, we purified hYSEC-like cells from 4-5 week human yolk sacs, which were morphologically similar to endothelial cells a...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Hu L,Cheng L,Wang J,Zhao H,Duan H,Lu G

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ghrelin-O-acyltransferase (GOAT) is a membrane-bound enzyme that attaches eight-carbon octanoate to a serine residue in ghrelin and thereby acylates inactive ghrelin to produce active ghrelin. In this study, we investigated the function of GOAT in the intestinal mucosal barrier. The intestinal mucosal barrier prevents...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Tian P,Lu X,Jin N,Shi J

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With rapid development of space engineering, research on life sciences in space is being conducted extensively, especially cellular and molecular studies on space medicine. Stem cells, undifferentiated cells that can differentiate into specialized cells, are considered a key resource for regenerative medicine. Researc...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Zhang C,Li L,Chen J,Wang J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review summarizes original and literature data on changes in the ultrastructure of major cell organelles during apoptosis obtained by transmission electron microscopy. Organelles that make the most crucial contribution to the initiation of apoptosis: plasma membrane, mitochondria, proteasomes, Golgi apparatus, an...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Snigirevskaya ES,Komissarchik YY

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of maternal nicotine exposure during pregnancy and lactation on the Type II cells of lung tissue of one day old neonatal rat pups was investigated. The results clearly show that maternal nicotine exposure resulted in an increase in the type II cell count in the lungs of the offspring. In addition the lam...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Maritz GS,Thomas RA

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Menstrual blood is easily accessible, renewable, and inexpensive source of stem cells that have been interested for cell therapy of neurodegenerative diseases. In this study, we showed conversion of menstrual blood stem cells (MenSCs) into clonogenic neurosphere- like cells (NSCs), which can be differentiated into gli...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Azedi F,Kazemnejad S,Zarnani AH,Behzadi G,Vasei M,Khanmohammadi M,Khanjani S,Edalatkhah H,Lakpour N

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of four major reprogramming transgenes, including Oct4, Sox2, Klf4 and c-myc, in somatic cells enables them to have pluripotency. These cells are iPSC (induced pluripotent stem cell) that currently show the greatest potential for differentiation into cells of the three germ lineages. One of the issues facin...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Shoae-Hassani A,Sharif S,Verdi J

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia is a condition in which the whole body or a region of the body is deprived of oxygen supply. The brain is very sensitive to the lack of oxygen and cerebral hypoxia can rapidly cause severe brain damage. Astrocytes are essential for the survival and function of neurons. Therefore, protecting astrocytes against ...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Kang YW,Kim YS,Park JY,Chu GE,Yang YC,Choi BY,Cho WG

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterised, using both in vivo and in vitro methods, the effects of the metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 3 (mGlu3) antagonist (LY341495) and agonist (LY379268) on the proliferation and differentiation of glioma stem cells (GSC). For in vitro studies, a CCK-8 assay was used to determine the cell proli...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Zhou K,Song Y,Zhou W,Zhang C,Shu H,Yang H,Wang B

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural stem cells (NSCs) are currently considered powerful candidates for cell therapy in neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease. However, it is not known when and how NSCs begin to differentiate functionally. Recent reports suggest that classical neurotransmitters such as acetylcholine (Ach) are invo...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Zhou C,Wen ZX,Shi DM,Xie ZP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue engineering of bone has been increasingly used in the bone defect repair. To generate osteoblasts is a major approach, and here we have examined ways of improving the efficiency of producing osteoblasts. Adipose stem cells (ADSC) were prepared from rat mesentery tissue, and transfected with Cbfa1 gene vector or...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Wang L,Wang H,Xu X,Wang D,Liu H

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00