Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection: a systemic disease.

abstract：:The aim of this article is to describe the roles of water channel proteins (WCPs) in brain functionality. The fluid compartments of the brain, which include the brain parenchyma (with intracellular and extracellular spaces), the intravascular and the cerebrospinal fluid compartments are presented. Then the localizatio...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Benga O,Huber VJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a critical adjuvant therapy for patients with congestive heart failure (CHF), even when traditional medical therapy is successful. Adjunctive therapy with Q10 may allow for a reduction of other pharmacological therapies, improvement in quality of life, and a decrease in the incidence of cardiac...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Sinatra ST

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth and development of higher organisms are regulated by the orchestrated change of epigenetic marks over time. In addition, there is also an epigenetic variation without any apparent role in development that is thought to be the result of the stochastic accumulation of epigenetic errors. The process depends on gen...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Huidobro C,Fernandez AF,Fraga MF

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxidation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) is now commonly regarded as an important early event in atherogenesis. As such there is considerable interest in the ability of antioxidant supplementation to attenuate LDL oxidation and hence atherosclerosis. A majority of studies on LDL antioxidation have focused on alp...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Thomas SR,Neuzil J,Stocker R

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) lie at the center of the hematopoiesis process, as they bear capacity to self-renew and generate all hematopoietic lineages, hence, all mature blood cells. The ability of HSCs to recognize systemic infection or inflammation or other forms of peripheral stress, such as blood loss, is esse...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Hajishengallis G,Li X,Chavakis T

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:When cells are confronted with an insufficient supply of nutrients in their extracellular fluid, they may begin to cannibalize some of their internal proteins as well as whole organelles for reuse in the synthesis of new components. This process is termed autophagy and it involves the formation of a double-membrane st...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Monastyrska I,Klionsky DJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) has emerged as one of the most important discoveries of the last years in the field of molecular biology. Following clarification of this highly conserved endogenous gene silencing mechanism, RNAi has largely been exploited as a powerful tool to uncover the function of specific genes and to und...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Masiero M,Nardo G,Indraccolo S,Favaro E

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the past decade, brown adipose tissue (BAT) has been extensively studied as a potential therapy for obesity and metabolic diseases due to its thermogenic and glucose-consuming properties. It is now clear that the function of BAT goes beyond heat production, as it also plays an important endocrine role by secreting...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Klepac K,Georgiadi A,Tschöp M,Herzig S

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of intrauterine embryo implantation site(s) in most mammalian species shows remarkably constant patterns: in monotocous species such as humans, an embryo tends to implant in the uterine fundus; in polytocous species such as rodents, embryos implant evenly along the uterine horns. These long-time evolv...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Chen Q,Zhang Y,Elad D,Jaffa AJ,Cao Y,Ye X,Duan E

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of the innate immunity play an important role in tumor immunotherapy. Thus, NK cells can control tumor growth and metastatic spread. Thanks to their strong cytolytic activity against tumors, different approaches have been developed for exploiting/harnessing their function in patients with leukemia or solid tumor...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Sivori S,Pende D,Quatrini L,Pietra G,Della Chiesa M,Vacca P,Tumino N,Moretta F,Mingari MC,Locatelli F,Moretta L

更新日期：2020-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural vitamin E consists of four different tocopherol and four different tocotrienol homologues (alpha,beta, gamma, delta) that all have antioxidant activity. However, recent data indicate that the different vitamin E homologues also have biological activity unrelated to their antioxidant activity. In this review, w...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Reiter E,Jiang Q,Christen S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All forms of diabetes share the common etiology of insufficient pancreatic β-cell function to meet peripheral insulin demand. In pancreatic β-cells, mitochondria serve to integrate the metabolism of exogenous nutrients into energy output, which ultimately leads to insulin release. As such, mitochondrial dysfunction un...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Kaufman BA,Li C,Soleimanpour SA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research into the biology of extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes and microvesicles, has expanded significantly with advances in EV isolation techniques, a better understanding of the surface markers that characterize exosomes and microvesicles, and greater information derived from -omics approaches on the...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Murphy C,Withrow J,Hunter M,Liu Y,Tang YL,Fulzele S,Hamrick MW

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is an important source of morbidity and mortality in the developed world. Despite the fact that the association between LDL cholesterol and atherosclerosis has been evident for at least three decades, our understanding of exactly how LDL precipitates atherosclerosis is still in its infancy. At least th...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Keaney JF Jr

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of many zinc metalloproteinases belonging to the metzincin family with a variety of pathological states raises the possibility of therapeutic intervention using synthetic inhibitors with appropriate selectivity. Knowledge of the catalytic domain 3D-structures for various members of the metzincin family...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Yiotakis A,Dive V

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increase in obesity in the Unites States and around the world in the last decade is overwhelming. The number of overweight adults in the world surpassed 1 billion in 2008. Health hazards associated with obesity are serious and include heart disease, sleep apnea, diabetes, and cancer. Although lifestyle modificatio...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Colon-Gonzalez F,Kim GW,Lin JE,Valentino MA,Waldman SA

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carnosine and related dipeptides such as anserine are naturally-occurring histidine-containing compounds. They are found in several tissues most notably in muscle where they represent an appreciable fraction of the total water-soluble nitrogen-containing compounds. The biological role of these dipeptides are conjectur...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Quinn PJ,Boldyrev AA,Formazuyk VE

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced glutathione (GSH) is critical for many cellular processes, and both its intracellular and extracellular concentrations are tightly regulated. Intracellular GSH levels are regulated by two main mechanisms: by adjusting the rates of synthesis and of export from cells. Some of the proteins responsible for GSH exp...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Ballatori N,Krance SM,Marchan R,Hammond CL

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced thyroid cancer refers to thyroid tumors which are resistant to conventional therapies and do not respond to radioiodine and comprises metastatic or recurrent differentiated cancers, poorly differentiated and anaplastic tumors. Progress in the knowledge of genetic/epigenetic alterations in thyroid cancer cells...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Catalano MG,Poli R,Pugliese M,Fortunati N,Boccuzzi G

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence changes with time and by variations in diet and lifestyle, as evidenced historically by migrant studies and recently by extensive epidemiologic evidence. The worldwide heterogeneity in CRC incidence is strongly suggestive of etiological involvement of environmental exposures, particul...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Murphy N,Moreno V,Hughes DJ,Vodicka L,Vodicka P,Aglago EK,Gunter MJ,Jenab M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-structural proteins encoded by the orf-I, II, III, and IV genes of the human T-cell leukemia/lymphoma virus type 1 (HTLV-1) genome, are critical for the modulation of cellular gene expression and T-cell proliferation, the escape from cytotoxic T-cells and natural killer cells, and virus expression. In here, we...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Van Prooyen N,Andresen V,Gold H,Bialuk I,Pise-Masison C,Franchini G

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one healthy subjects received oral Coenzyme Q10 supplementation in soft capsules of 30 mg t.i.d. for 9 months, followed by a withdrawal period of 3 months. Blood samples were taken before start of supplementation, after 3 and 9 months of supplementation, and finally 3 months after withdrawal. Average blood coen...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Folkers K,Moesgaard S,Morita M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six experimental groups of young (7-month-old) and aged (24-32-month-old) rats, underwent different dietary manipulations (i.e. dietary restriction and/or a vitamin E-depleted diet), and their liver mitochondria were assayed for several antioxidants and peroxidation markers. Glutathione levels were affected both by ag...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Armeni T,Tomasetti M,Svegliati Baroni S,Saccucci F,Marra M,Pieri C,Littarru GP,Principato G,Battino M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversible post-translational modifications (PTMs) ensure rapid signal transmission from sensors to effectors. Reversible modification of proteins by the small proteins Ubiquitin and SUMO are involved in virtually all cellular processes and can modify thousands of proteins. Ubiquitination or SUMOylation is the reversi...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Stankovic-Valentin N,Melchior F

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin E and carotenoids are known to act as antioxidants both in vitro and in vivo. In this review we present a series of studies in healthy subjects and in patients who exhibit either acute or chronic oxidative stress. In the EU-Commission funded VITAGE project we investigated the status and effects of vitamin E an...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Winklhofer-Roob BM,Rock E,Ribalta J,Shmerling DH,Roob JM

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:17Beta-estradiol (E2) controls many aspects of human physiology, including development, reproduction and homeostasis, through regulation of the transcriptional activity of its cognate receptors (ERs). The crystal structures of ERs with agonists and antagonists and the use of transgenic animals have revealed much about...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Ascenzi P,Bocedi A,Marino M

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been frequently implicated in the initiation and promotion phases of carcinogenesis. Antioxidant enzymes, which can antagonize this process, are lowered in a number of malignancies. The enzyme most commonly decreased is the mitochondrial Mn-containing superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) enc...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Borrello S,De Leo ME,Galeotti T

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial cells (ECs) play a role in the optimal function of blood vessels. When endothelial function becomes dysregulated, the risk of developing atherosclerosis increases. Specifically, upregulation of adhesion molecule expression on ECs promotes the movement of leukocytes, particularly monocytes, into the vessel ...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Baker EJ,Yusof MH,Yaqoob P,Miles EA,Calder PC

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The establishment of a functional, integrated vascular system is instrumental for tissue growth and homeostasis. Without blood vessels no adequate nutrition and oxygen would be provided to cells, nor could the undesired waste products be efficiently removed. Blood vessels constitute therefore one of the largest and mo...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Leite de Oliveira R,Hamm A,Mazzone M

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrosis denotes excessive scarring, which exceeds the normal wound healing response to injury in many tissues. Although the extracellular matrix deposition appears unstructured disrupting the normal tissue architecture and subsequently impairing proper organ function, fibrogenesis is a highly orchestrated process det...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Weiskirchen R,Weiskirchen S,Tacke F

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00