Mitochondria as targets in angiogenesis inhibition.

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：:The vitamin D endocrine system plays a central role in mineral ion homeostasis through the actions of the vitamin D hormone, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) [1,25(OH)(2)D(3)], on the intestine, bone, parathyroid gland, and kidney. The main function of 1,25(OH)(2)D(3) is to promote the dietary absorption of calcium and phos...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Brown AJ,Slatopolsky E

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Notch receptors are a family of transmembrane proteins that mediate direct cell-cell interactions and control numerous cell-fate specifications in humans. The extracellular domains of mammalian Notch proteins contain 29-36 tandem epidermal growth factor-like (EGF) repeats, most of which have O-linked glycan modifi...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Matsumoto K,Luther KB,Haltiwanger RS

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The resolution of inflammation is a highly regulated process enacted by endogenous mediators including specialized pro-resolving lipid mediators (SPMs): the lipoxins, resolvins, protectins and maresins. SPMs activate specific cellular receptors to temper the production of pro-inflammatory mediators, diminish the recru...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Fredman G,Spite M

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a mutualistic symbiotic relationship between the components of the photoreceptor/retinal pigment epithelium (RPE)/Bruch's membrane (BrMb)/choriocapillaris (CC) complex that is lost in AMD. Which component in the photoreceptor/RPE/BrMb/CC complex is affected first appears to depend on the type of AMD. In atrop...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Bhutto I,Lutty G

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:The consensus of epidemiologic evidence indicates that an abundant intake of foodstuffs rich in folate conveys protection against the development of colorectal cancer, and perhaps some other common cancers as well. Pre-clinical models substantiate that the relationship is a genuinely causal one. Pre-clinical models ha...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Mason JB,Tang SY

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the existence of intratumoral heterogeneity (ITH) in the expression of common biomarkers has been described by pathologists since the late 1890s, we have only recently begun to fathom the staggering extent and near ubiquity of this phenomenon. From the tumor's perspective, ITH provides a stabilizing diversity...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： McBride M,Rida PC,Aneja R

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidant-mediated damage and the triggering of oxidant-sensitive transcription factors could be associated with the neurotoxic actions of aluminum, zinc and lead. Aluminum and lead could induce oxidative stress through their capacity to interact with active oxygen species, increasing their oxidant activity, or by affec...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Oteiza PI,Mackenzie GG,Verstraeten SV

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：: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：:Regulation of blood flow depends on systemic and local release of vasoactive molecules such as insulin and adenosine. These molecules cause vasodilation by activation of plasma membrane receptors at the vascular endothelium. Adenosine activates at least four subtypes of adenosine receptors (A1AR, A2AAR, A2BAR, A3AR), ...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Silva L,Subiabre M,Araos J,Sáez T,Salsoso R,Pardo F,Leiva A,San Martín R,Toledo F,Sobrevia L

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：:Although colorectal cancer (CRC) is still one of the leading causes of cancer related death in the western hemisphere, new therapeutic options have increased the overall survival rate of advanced disease from 10 to 18-24months during the past decade. The new therapeutics include biological agents as bevacizumab (Avast...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Waldner MJ,Neurath MF

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic phenomena are defined as heritable mechanisms that establish and maintain mitotically stable patterns of gene expression without modifying the base sequence of DNA. The major epigenetic features of mammalian cells include DNA methylation, post-translational histone modifications and RNA-based mechanisms inc...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Udali S,Guarini P,Moruzzi S,Choi SW,Friso S

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-Carnitine (L-C) is a naturally occurring quaternary ammonium compound endogenous in all mammalian species and is a vital cofactor for the mitochondrial oxidation of fatty acids. Fatty acids are utilized as an energy substrate in all tissues, and although glucose is the main energetic substrate in adult brain, fatty ...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Virmani A,Binienda Z

更新日期：2004-10-01 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：:In this mini review we summarize recent studies from our laboratory, which show the involvement of 4-hydroxynonenal (4-HNE) in cell cycle signaling. We demonstrate 4-HNE induced apoptosis in various cell lines is accompanied with c-Jun-N-terminal kinase and caspase-3 activation. Cells exposed to mild, transient, heat ...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Awasthi YC,Sharma R,Cheng JZ,Yang Y,Sharma A,Singhal SS,Awasthi S

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About 25% of all solute carriers (SLCs) are likely to transport amino acids as their primary substrate. One of the major phylogenetic clusters of amino acid transporters from the SLC family is the β-family, which is part of the PFAM APC clan. The β-family includes three SLC families, SLC32, SLC36 and SLC38 with one, f...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Schiöth HB,Roshanbin S,Hägglund MG,Fredriksson R

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：: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：:Coenzyme Q is uniquely designed as an electron and proton carrier within the lipid phase of membranes. It now appears that this unique chemistry has diverse application to important functions in all cellular membranes. The first function of coenzyme Q was defined in the energy transduction process in mitochondria. New...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Crane FL,Navas P

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ω3 Polyunsaturated fatty acids (ω3 PUFAs) have several biological properties including anti-arrhythmic effects. However, there are some evidences that it is not solely ω3 PUFAs per se that are biologically active but the non-enzymatic oxygenated metabolites of polyunsaturated fatty acids (NEO-PUFAs) like isoprostanes ...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Galano JM,Roy J,Durand T,Lee JC,Le Guennec JY,Oger C,Demion M

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrosis is a common and important disease. It is a pathological state due to excessive scar formation mediated by an increase in activated fibroblasts that express alpha smooth muscle actin and copious amounts of extracellular matrix molecules. Epigenetics is an area of research that encompasses three main mechanisms...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： O'Reilly S

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：: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：:Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is the most abundant n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid in the brain where it serves to regulate several important processes and, in addition, serves as a precursor to bioactive mediators. Given that the capacity of the brain to synthesize DHA locally is appreciably low, the uptake of DHA from c...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Lacombe RJS,Chouinard-Watkins R,Bazinet RP

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The somatic mutation spectrum imprinted in the genome of a tumor represents the mutational processes that have been active in that tumor. Large sequencing efforts in various cancer types have resulted in the identification of multiple mutational signatures, of which several have been linked to specific biological mech...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Grolleman JE,Díaz-Gay M,Franch-Expósito S,Castellví-Bel S,de Voer RM

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aldehyde 4-hydroxynonenal (HNE) is a major end-product of peroxidation of membrane n-6-polyunsaturated fatty acids. Primary reactants for HNE are the amino acids cysteine, histidine and lysine, and quantitatively, proteins and peptides represent the most important group of HNE-targeted biomolecules. HNE-protein ad...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Poli G,Biasi F,Leonarduzzi G

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthetic pathway of the CoQ polyisoprenoid side chain, starting from acetyl-CoA and proceeding through mevalonate and isopentenylpyrophosphate, is the same as that of cholesterol. We performed this study to evaluate whether vastatins (hypocholesterolemic drugs that inhibit HMG-CoA reductase) modify blood level...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Bargossi AM,Grossi G,Fiorella PL,Gaddi A,Di Giulio R,Battino M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00