Nanotechnology as an adjunct tool for transplanting engineered cells and tissues.

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：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：: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：: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

abstract：:PTEN (Phosphatase and Tensin homologue deleted on chromosome 10, 10q23.3) is the dominant phosphatase responsible for the dephosphorylation of the 3-position phosphate from the inositol ring of phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5 triphosphate (PIP3), and thereby directly antagonizes the actions mediated by Phosphatidylinositol...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： De Melo J,He L,Tang D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomal proliferator activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) belongs to the family of nuclear hormone receptors (NHRs), which directly regulate transcription of target genes. The regulatory role of this receptor on lipid metabolism and insulin sensitization is well established. Recently, the overexpression of this re...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Krishnan A,Nair SA,Pillai MR

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disease characterized by low bone mineral density. Vitamin D metabolism may play a pivotal role in its pathophysiology. OBJECTIVES:To determine the association between Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms and bone density, as well as its relation to biochemical markers o...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Taha IM,Allah AMA,El Tarhouny S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ocular lens is a non-vascular and non-innervated transparent organ that plays an important role in vision processing. This unique organ is derived from the embryonic ectoderm of the brain region through a complicated differentiation process in which apoptosis plays a key role. First, when the committed ectoderm be...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zhang L,Yan Q,Liu JP,Zou LJ,Liu J,Sun S,Deng M,Gong L,Ji WK,Li DW

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin is a complex tissue composed of two very different compartments -- the continuously renewing epidermis made up mostly by keratinocytes and the underlying matrix-rich dermis with the resting fibroblasts as its major cellular components. Both compartments are tightly interconnected and a paracrine mutual interactio...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Boukamp P

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conformational or misfolding diseases are a large class of devastating human disorders associated with protein misfolding and aggregation. Most conformational diseases are caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors, suggesting that spontaneous events can destabilize the protein involved in the pathol...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Cardinale A,Biocca S

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural multitude of nucleic acids serves basis for its multiple merits and applications. During structural transitions, significant to perform respective cellular functions, these DNA forms can vary from the single stranded to multi-stranded species. Hence, beyond the image of a monotonous DNA double-helix, there ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Kaushik M,Kaushik S,Bansal A,Saxena S,Kukreti S

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：:Islet cell transplantation is an attractive alternative therapy to conventional insulin treatment or vascularized whole pancreas transplantation for type 1 diabetic patients. It represents a successful example of somatic cell therapy in humans based on complex procedures for islet isolation from whole pancreas. The is...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Bertuzzi F,Marzorati S,Secchi A

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanotechnology has witnessed tremendous advancement over the last several decades. Zinc oxide (ZnO), which can exhibit a wide variety of nanostructures, possesses unique semiconducting, optical, and piezoelectric properties hence has been investigated for a wide variety of applications. The most important features of ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zhang Y,Nayak TR,Hong H,Cai W

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been prolonged and significant interest in manipulating the genome for a wide range of applications in biomedical research and medicine. An existing challenge in realizing this potential has been the inability to precisely edit specific DNA sequences. Past efforts to generate targeted double stranded DNA cle...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Go DE,Stottmann RW

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipases A2 (PLA2s) represent a growing family of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of phospholipids at the sn-2 position leading to the generation of free fatty acids and lysophospholipids. Mammalian PLA2s are divided into two major classes according to their molecular mass and location: intracellular PLA2 a...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Touqui L,Alaoui-El-Azher M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After several years of controversy, antibodies (Abs) are now believed to play an important role in the protection against fungal infections. Among them, recent data are strongly supporting the relevance of protective yeast killer toxin-like Abs ("antibiobodies", KT-Abs), which are able to exert a direct microbicidal a...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Magliani W,Conti S,Frazzi R,Ravanetti L,Maffei DL,Polonelli L

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal and prolonged inflammatory reaction is seen in a wide variety of disorders, and high level of Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha (TNF-α) has been linked to these disorders. Therefore, modulation of TNF-α expression is important in the regulation of inflammatory disorders. In our previous study, we have shown that a ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Tang X,O'Reilly A,Asano M,Merrill JC,Yokoyama KK,Amar S

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinoma-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are activated fibroblasts during development of several cancer types, and therefore emerge as an attractive therapeutic target for cancer therapy. Drugs such as PT-100 and sibrotuzumab that block the functions of CAFs have already been in clinical trials. However, these drugs ex...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Xu Y,Zhou X,Mei M,Ren Y

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The study aimed to evaluate the preventive effects of hydroxycitric acid（HCA） for stone formation in the glyoxylate-induced mouse model. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Male C57BL/6J mice were divided into a control group, glyoxylate(GOX) 100 mg/kg group, a GOX+HCA 100 mg/kg group, and a GOX+HCA 200 mg/kg group. Blood...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Liu X,Yuan P,Sun X,Chen Z

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes carries a 2-6-fold increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and death. Indeed, the risk of major cardiovascular events in Type 2 diabetic patients without history of coronary heart disease (CHD) is equivalent to that observed in non-diabetic subjects with CHD. However, atherosclerosis may also pr...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Ziegler D

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mistletoe is often used as complementary therapy in oncology. The anti-tumor effects of mistletoe (Iscador) are well documented in-vitro in respect to inhibition of cell proliferation, induction of apoptosis, segmental activation of immune competent cells and trapping of chemotherapeutic drugs within cancer cells by m...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Matthes H,Friedel WE,Bock PR,Zänker KS

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：:Interleukin-25 (IL-25) plays a key role in the initiation and expansion of T helper (Th) 2 cell-mediated immune responses, thereby contributing to allergic diseases and host defense against helminthic parasites. More recent studies have however shown that IL-25 can also control the function of non-T cells, such as ant...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Caruso R,Stolfi C,De Nitto D,Pallone F,Monteleone G

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells, as they develop in the thymus come to express antigen receptors. The specificity of these receptors cannot be predicted and must include many with potential anti-self reactivity. Those that encounter self-antigens, in association with self-MHC (major histocompatibility complex), with high affinity are inactiv...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Huang FP,MacPherson GG

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer is one of the most difficult cancers to treat especially when it becomes hormone resistant such as castrate resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) and subsequent metastatic CRPC. Apart from the genetic alterations in prostate cancer, epigenetic modifications also play an important role in the development and...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Giudice A,Montella M,Boccellino M,Crispo A,D'Arena G,Bimonte S,Facchini G,Ciliberto G,Botti G,Quagliuolo L,Caraglia M,Capunzo M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of functional neural progenitor cells (NPCs) independent of donor brain tissue and embryonic tissues is of great therapeutic interest with regard to regenerative medicine and the possible treatment of neurodegenerative disorders. Traditionally, NPCs are derived through the differentiation of embryonic s...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Tian C,Ambroz RJ,Sun L,Wang Y,Ma K,Chen Q,Zhu B,Zheng JC

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As tumors progress to increased malignancy, cells within them develop the ability to invade into surrounding normal tissues and through tissue boundaries to form new growths (metastases) at sites distinct from the primary tumor. The molecular mechanisms involved in this process are incompletely understood but those as...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Cairns RA,Khokha R,Hill RP

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickle cell disease (SCD) and beta-thalassemia (also referred to as beta-thalassemia) are common hereditary hemoglobinopathies with differing pathophysiologies and clinical courses. However, patients with both diseases exhibit increased platelet and coagulation activation, as well as decreased levels of natural antico...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Singer ST,Ataga KI

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia is a major hallmark of the tumor microenvironment that is strictly associated with rapid cancer progression and induction of metastasis. Hypoxia inhibits disulfide bond formation and impairs protein folding in the Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER). The stress in the ER induces the activation of Unfolded Protein Respo...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Rozpedek W,Pytel D,Mucha B,Leszczynska H,Diehl JA,Majsterek I

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00