The vascular endothelial growth factor-2549 insertion/deletion polymorphism is not associated with susceptibility to hepatocellular carcinoma in Chinese.

abstract：:My 45 years of studying the molecular biology of adeno-associated virus are recounted. Additional activities as a mentor, department chair, and medical school administrator are described, as are my activities in the public sphere, which involved national issues related to science policy and medical education. ...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Berns KI

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocytosis of the five rat somatostatin receptor subtypes (SSTR1-5) was investigated in transfected HEK cells by biochemical ligand binding assays and confocal microscopic analysis. Phenylarsine oxide-sensitive internalization of SSTR1-3 is dependent on SST-14 or SST-28, whereas only the octacosapeptide triggers this...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Roth A,Kreienkamp HJ,Nehring RB,Roosterman D,Meyerhof W,Richter D

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A safe and effective adjuvant is important to develop vaccines against highly pathogenic avian influenza virus. Chitosan, a derivative from the natural amino polysaccharide chitin, has been proved to be an effective adjuvant for inactivated influenza virus vaccine. In this study, protective immunity in mice provided b...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Chang H,Li X,Teng Y,Liang Y,Peng B,Fang F,Chen Z

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to develop a more effective genetic immunization strategy for HIV, we developed an HIV-2 env DNA vaccine and evaluated three adjuvant formulations. The gp140 gene from HIV-2(UC2 )was synthesized using mammalian codons and cloned into a plasmid vector that expresses eukaryotic genes at high levels. We foun...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Locher CP,Witt SA,Ashlock BM,Levy JA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological evidence on the relationship between IL1A and/or IL1B polymorphisms and periodontal disease is inconsistent. We investigated associations between three IL1 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes encoding interleukin (IL) -1α (rs1800587) and IL-1β (rs1143634 and rs16944) and the risk of periodo...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Tanaka K,Miyake Y,Hanioka T,Arakawa M

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abnormal function of O(6)-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) is reported to be associated with the occurrence of various tumors and malignant tumor progression. However, little evidence is available to describe its role in esophageal carcinogenesis. To address this issue, we constructed a stable MGMT-silen...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Su Y,Liu R,Sheng J,Liu H,Wang Y,Pan E,Guo W,Pu Y,Zhang J,Liang G,Tang D,Yin L

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of retinoic acid-inducible gene-I (RIG-I) in viral replication is well documented, but its function in carcinogenesis and malignancies as well as relationship with microRNAs (miRNAs) remain poorly understood. miR-34a is an antioncogene in multiple tumors. In our study, RIG-I and miR-34a suppressed cell gr...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Wang JH,Zhang L,Ma YW,Xiao J,Zhang Y,Liu M,Tang H

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sugars will eventually be exported transporters (SWEET) gene family is a glycoprotein gene family that can regulate the transport of sugar in plants and plays an important role in plant growth and development, as well as in response to environmental stress. In this study, Kentucky bluegrass (cv. Baron) seedlings w...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Zhang R,Niu K,Ma H

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymerase chain reaction [PCR, reverse transcriptase-PCR (RT-PCR)] has been used to amplify the mRNA subspecies of the plasma membrane calcium pump isoform 1 (PMCA1) in total RNA extracted from hamster tissues. Two primers were synthesized that encompass the site at which a 154-bp exon is included totally (PMCA1a), p...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Sarkar FH,Ball DE,Tsang W,Li YW,Kuo TH

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian cancer (OC) is the most lethal gynecological cancer. The molecular mechanism of it is complicated, and numerous researches suggest that microRNAs are key regulators for it. This study was to investigate the pivotal role of miR-629 in the progression of OC and to reveal the possible molecular mechanism of its a...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Shao L,Shen Z,Qian H,Zhou S,Chen Y

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing loss in Ménière's disease (MD) is associated with loss of spiral ganglion neurons and hair cells. In a guinea pig model of endolymphatic hydrops, nitric oxide synthases (NOS) and oxidative stress mediate loss of spiral ganglion neurons. To test the hypothesis that functional variants of NOS1 and NOS2A are asso...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Gazquez I,Lopez-Escamez JA,Moreno A,Campbell CA,Meyer NC,Carey JP,Minor LB,Gantz BJ,Hansen MR,Della Santina CC,Aran I,Soto-Varela A,Santos S,Batuecas A,Perez-Garrigues H,Lopez-Nevot A,Smith RJ,Lopez-Nevot MA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human monoclonal antibodies (HuMAbs) demonstrate great potential for passive immunotherapy against HIV-1. The gp41 transmembrane envelope glycoprotein of HIV has an important role in the pathogenicity of AIDS and importantly displays considerably less hypervariability than the gp120 surface envelope HIV glycoprotein, ...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Cao C,Bai Y,Holloway MJ,Edgeworth RL,Jackson EA Jr,Cotropia J,Ugen KE

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) is an important oncogenic transcription factor residing in the cytoplasm in the resting cells. Upon stimulation, STAT3 is activated and translocated to the nucleus to regulate target genes. Although the canonical transcriptional function of STAT3 has been inte...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Yan B,Xie S,Liu Z,Luo Y,Zhou J,Li D,Liu M

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the rat, the growth hormone receptor (GH-R) gene generates two transcripts, one encoding the transmembrane GH-R, and a shorter one encoding the GH-binding protein (GH-BP). These transcripts exhibit a high degree of heterogeneity in their 5'-untranslated regions (5'-UTRs). Some of the exons encoding these 5'-UTR var...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Domené HM,Cassorla F,Werner H,Roberts CT Jr,Leroith D

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) are associated with different types of cancer, specifically colorectal cancer (CRC). However, few studies have been performed on precancerous lesions, such as ulcerative colitis (UC) lesions and adenomatous polyps (AP). The aim of this study was to identify mtDNA mutations...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Kassem AM,El-Guendy N,Tantawy M,Abdelhady H,El-Ghor A,Abdel Wahab AH

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ras oncogene exists in a variety of human cancers, including carcinomas of bladder, breast, colon, kidney, liver, lung, ovary, pancreas, and stomach. The ras genes acquire transforming activity either by enhanced expression or by a single point mutation. A single base-pair mutation at specific sites within ras gen...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Chien CH,Chow SN

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal embryo development in oviparous (egg-laying) species requires the coordinated targeting to growing oocytes of nutrients and regulatory molecules such as retinol, the precursor of active retinoids. Serum retinol-binding protein (RBP) is the major carrier protein for retinol in the circulatory system of vertebrat...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Vieira AV,Kuchler K,Schneider WJ

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing amount of evidence suggests that interleukin-18 (IL-18) plays a pivotal role in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. However, association between single nucleotide polymorphism of IL-18 and the risk of schizophrenia has not been clarified. This study examined whether two promoter polymorphisms -137 G/C ...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Liu J,Liu J,Zhou Y,Li S,Li Y,Song X,Wang J,Wang L,Ying B

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the expression pattern of all 11 human replication-dependent histone H3 genes in three fetal human tissues (bladder, liver, and lung) and in eight human cell lines by RNase protection assay. In the fetal human tissues, all 11 genes were expressed to a varied extent. However, the relative contributio...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Koessler H,Doenecke D,Albig W

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of p53 in mediating nitric oxide (NO)-induced cell death remains uncertain. The exogenous NO donor S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) produced a concentration-dependent reduction in cell viability in embryonic chick cardiomyocytes in culture. Western blotting and immunocytochemistry for p53 showed that p53 was incre...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Klassen SS,Rabkin SW

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional histological classification of lung cancer subtypes is informative, but incomplete. Recent studies of gene expression suggest that molecular classification can be used for effective diagnostic and prediction of the treatment outcome. We attempt to build a molecular classification based on the public data a...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Ptitsyn A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-1) infection leads to penetration of the central nervous system (CNS) in virtually all infected individuals and HIV-1-induced encephalopathy in a significant number of untreated patients. The molecular mechanisms by which HIV-1 enters the CNS and yields CNS dysfunction are stil...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Pomerantz RJ

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host cell-derived danger-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs), such as the hemoglobin (Hb) can interact with the innate immune system either directly or through binding to pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs). Hemolysis occurs under various pathological conditions, leading to hemoglobinemia. In the extracel...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Lee SK,Ding JL

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is an inflammatory-related disease, and severe sepsis would induce multiorgan dysfunction, which is the most common cause of death of patients in noncoronary intensive care units. Progression of novel therapeutic strategies has proven to be of little impact on the mortality of severe sepsis, and unfortunately, ...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Wang Y,Yin X,Yang F

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent explosion of scientific and technical knowledge in the field of molecular biology has allowed us to make important advances in our understanding of the molecular basis of many human diseases. This technology has now entered the clinical laboratory where identification of specific genetic sequences can aid i...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Crisan D,Mattson JC

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glandular kallikrein family is composed of structurally related serine proteases. Studies show that the mouse family encompasses at least 14 highly conserved functional genes, but of these only the tissue kallikarein has a human ortholog. In man, the tissue kallikrein display high sequence similarity with prostate...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Olsson AY,Persson AM,Valtonen-André C,Lundwall A

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This case-control study was conducted in order to evaluate the potential role of polymorphic genes encoding enzymes involved in estrogen biosynthesis (CYP19A1) and metabolism (GSTM1, GSTT1, and GSTP1), and their action in modulating individual susceptibility to breast cancer. METHODS:Genomic DNA was extracted ...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Ramalhinho AC,Fonseca-Moutinho JA,Breitenfeld Granadeiro LA

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the signal pathways involved in ultraviolet (UV)-induced skin carcinogenesis are thought to originate at plasma membrane receptors. However, UVA-induced signal transduction to downstream ribosomal protein S6 kinases, p70(S6K) and p90(RSK), is not well understood. In this report, we show that UVA stimulation of...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Zhang Y,Dong Z,Bode AM,Ma WY,Chen N,Dong Z

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thioredoxin peroxidase (TPx) is an antioxidant protein that limits the activity of reactive oxygen species (ROS). We cloned the cDNA encoding the mouse homolog of TPx from an E14.5 brain cDNA library and analyzed its distribution and function in murine tissues. Comparison of the amino acid sequence of mouse TPx with t...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Ichimiya S,Davis JG,O'Rourke DM,Katsumata M,Greene MI

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that the human AKNA gene encodes an AT-hook transcription factor that regulates the expression of costimulatory cell surface molecules on lymphocytes. However, AKNA cDNA probes hybridize with multiple transcripts, suggesting either the existence of other homologous genes or a complex regulation op...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Sims-Mourtada JC,Bruce S,McKeller MR,Rangel R,Guzman-Rojas L,Cain K,Lopez C,Zimonjic DB,Popescu NC,Gordon J,Wilkinson MF,Martinez-Valdez H

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00