The molecular therapy of colorectal cancer.

abstract：:Polyphenols are bioactives claimed to be responsible for some of the health benefits provided by fruit and vegetables. It is currently accepted that the bioactivities of polyphenols can be mostly ascribed to their interactions with proteins and lipids. Such interactions can affect cell oxidant production and cell sign...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Fraga CG,Oteiza PI,Galleano M

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:A human study including 22 volunteers was conducted to investigate the antioxidative effect in blood of dietary coenzyme Q10 supplementation. The levels of alpha-tocopherol, ascorbic acid, lipid peroxidation (measured as TBARS) and the redox status of CoQ10 (reduced CoQ10/total CoQ10) were measured in plasma as marker...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Weber C,Jakobsen TS,Mortensen SA,Paulsen G,Hølmer G

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:Skeletal muscle mass and function decline with aging, a process known as sarcopenia, which restrains posture maintenance, mobility and quality of life in the elderly. Sarcopenia is also linked to a progressive reduction in the regenerative capacity of the skeletal muscle stem cells (satellite cells), which are critica...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Sousa-Victor P,Muñoz-Cánoves P

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：: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：: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：:Colorectal cancer can be categorized into two major molecular subtypes according to the status of their DNA proofreading and repair machinery. The DNA repair status of tumor cells plays a major role in shaping the immune landscape of tumors and in determining the clinical response of colorectal cancer patients to immu...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： IJsselsteijn ME,Sanz-Pamplona R,Hermitte F,de Miranda NFCC

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：: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：: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：:This review is focused on the mammalian SLC11 and SLC40 families and their roles in iron homeostasis. The SLC11 family is composed of two members, SLC11A1 and SLC11A2. SLC11A1 is expressed in the lysosomal compartment of macrophages and in the tertiary granules of neutrophils, playing a key role in innate resistance a...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Montalbetti N,Simonin A,Kovacs G,Hediger MA

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Diabetes mellitus associated with mitochondrial tRNA mutation at position 3243(DM-Mt3243) is a new disease. Patients have a distinctly different picture from MELAS (mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes). During observations at the Saiseikai Central Hospital, the following findings...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Suzuki Y,Taniyama M,Muramatsu T,Atsumi Y,Hosokawa K,Asahina T,Shimada A,Murata C,Matsuoka K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical activity is an important lifestyle factor for growth, development, and sustained health throughout life. In recent years, the benefits of physical activity have drawn more attention to its physiological effects on the body, including well-being. The endocannabinoid system (ECS) has emerged as a focal point to...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Watkins BA

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly worldwide. It affects 30-50 million individuals and clinical hallmarks of AMD are observed in at least one third of persons over the age of 75 in industrialized countries (Gehrs et al., 2006). Costs associated with AMD are in exces...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Weikel KA,Chiu CJ,Taylor A

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：: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

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：:Heme is critical for a variety of cellular processes, but excess intracellular heme may result in oxidative stress and membrane injury. Feline leukemia virus subgroup C receptor (FLVCR1), a member of the SLC49 family of four paralogous genes, is a cell surface heme exporter, essential for erythropoiesis and systemic i...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Khan AA,Quigley JG

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00