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abstract：:Although surgery and radiotherapy are highly efficient in local tumor control, distal metastases and tumor recurrence often limit therapeutic outcome. It is becoming progressively more evident that curative tumor therapy depends on the presence and maintenance of an intact immune system which has the capacity to elici...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Multhoff G,Pockley AG,Streffer C,Gaipl US

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：: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：:In sum, the FTIs are signal transduction inhibitors that display promising clinical activity against a broad spectrum of malignancies. We are just beginning to explore and elucidate the mechanisms by which transformed cells respond to FTIs and the optimal settings in which they do so. The clinical trials that are curr...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Karp JE,Lancet JE

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Halitosis (bad breath) is estimated to influence more than half of the world's population with varying degree of intensity. More than 85% of halitosis originates from oral bacterial infections. Foul-smelling breath mainly results from bacterial production of volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs) such as hydrogen sulfide an...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Liu PF,Huang IF,Shu CW,Huang CM

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human genetic data on psychiatric disorders repeatedly demonstrate the involvement of various genes that are associated with neural development and neurogenesis. Neurogenesis is a biological process that is critical in brain development and continues throughout life. Neurogenesis is a multi-step process starting from ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Osumi N,Guo N,Matsumata M,Yoshizaki K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spider venom is a large pharmacological repertoire containing many biologically active peptides, which may have a potent therapeutic implication. Here we investigated a peptide toxin, named lycosin-I, isolated from the venom of the spider Lycosa singoriensis. In contrast to most spider peptide toxins adopting inhibito...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Liu Z,Deng M,Xiang J,Ma H,Hu W,Zhao Y,Li DW,Liang S

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an MHC class I protein, the disease association of HLA-B27 with inflammatory arthritis has been widely assumed to imply a role for the T cell antigen receptor (TCR) in disease. However, in addition to their classical antigen-presenting role, HLA class I proteins are recognised by members of the killer immunoglobuli...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Allen RL,Trowsdale J

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most lysosomal storage diseases (LSD) exhibit neurological symptoms and there has been limited success in their treatment. Innovative treatments employing novel therapy or gene therapy may offer the prospect of improvement. Recent attempts to treat the neurological forms of LSD include neural stem cell therapy, mesenc...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Eto Y,Ohashi T

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) exerts a cancer cell-specific pro-apoptotic activity. This property made the TRAIL associated pathway one of the most promising strategies aimed at inducing tumor-selective death. In fact, several approaches have been considered to explore this pathwa...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： De Carvalho DD,Mello BP,Pereira WO,Amarante-Mendes GP

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 Diabetes occurs as a result of defects in insulin secretion and its function. Although mechanisms of disease are not fully elucidated, it is recognized that a progressive decline in insulin secretory capacity is responsible for its occurrence and natural course. Metabolic syndrome, known to be a precursor of Ty...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Tavintharan S,Chi LS,Fang SC,Arunmozhiarasi A,Jeyaseelan K

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrate is one of the major substrates for intracellular metabolism. The extracellular level of citrate is stable in blood but varies locally, with slightly increased levels in brain and high levels in prostate. Recent metabolomics research suggests that citrate level is a potential harbinger of different pathophysiol...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Mycielska ME,Milenkovic VM,Wetzel CH,Rümmele P,Geissler EK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endometriosis is one of the most common gynecological inflammatory diseases, occurring in adolescents and women in the reproductive age group and leading to infertility. The precise etiopathogenesis of endometriosis is unknown, but several theories concerning the phenomena involved in its development have been propose...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zubrzycka A,Zubrzycki M,Janecka A,Zubrzycka M

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To detect mutations of trypsinogen gene (PRSS1) in patients with autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) and to determine the underlying pathogenesis. METHODS:DNA sequencing was used to detect full-length of PRSS1, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), and pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor (...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Gao F,Li Y,Wang C,Zhuang Z,Liu QC,Chen J,Hong G,Xu Z

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolylcarboxypeptidase isoform 1 (PRCP1) is capable of regulating numerous autocrines and hormones, such as angiotensin II, angiotensin III, αMSH1-13, and DesArg(9) bradykinin. It does so by cleaving a C-terminal PRO-X bond. Recent work also indicates that the human PRCP1 activates plasma prekallikrein (PK) to kallikr...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Wang J,Matafonov A,Madkhali H,Mahdi F,Watson D,Schmaier AH,Gailani D,Shariat-Madar Z

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Celastrol, a quinone methide triterpenoid, could induce apoptosis in pancreatic cancer cells. The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is protective autophagy after celastrol treatment in pancreatic cancer cells and the synergistic effects of celastrol and 3-MA in vitro and in vivo. METHODS:T...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zhao X,Gao S,Ren H,Huang H,Ji W,Hao J

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteroviruses are common human pathogens involved in a wide spectrum of clinical outcomes ranging from mild or non-symptomatic illness to severe diseases with neurological and/or cardiac manifestation. Despite being responsible for significant morbidity and mortality especially in immunocompromised patients and infant...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Schönhofer-Merl S,Wessely R

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide has emerged as one of the most important and diverse players in physiology. This small diatomic radical stunned researchers because of its existence and unique biological properties in human physiology. Over the last two decades it was found that NO often has fickle behavior in pathophysiological mechanis...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Mancardi D,Ridnour LA,Thomas DD,Katori T,Tocchetti CG,Espey MG,Miranda KM,Paolocci N,Wink DA

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bitter gourd (Momordica charantia, BG) is both a nutritious and healthy food with a distinctive bitter flavor, and it is also widely exploited in folklore medicine. This review focuses on the efficacies and molecular mechanisms of BG-induced anti-diabetic, anti-HIV, and antitumor activities contributed by over twenty ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Fang EF,Ng TB

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mood disorders and schizophrenia share a number of common properties, including: genetic susceptibility; differences in brain structure and drug based therapy. Some genetic loci may even confer susceptibility for bipolar mood disorder and schizophrenia, and some atypical antipsychotic drugs are used as mood stabilizer...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Harwood AJ

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of a relevant effector of Ran GTPase (Ran) signaling and its pathways could provide a novel approach to cancer therapeutics. With recent research highlighting the significant relationship between Ran expression and the occurrence and progression of cancer, the development of a small molecule compoun...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Doherty KJ,McKay C,Chan KK,El-Tanani MK

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence shows that artificially lowering body and brain temperature can significantly reduce the deleterious effects of brain injury in both newborns and adults. Although the benefits of therapeutic hypothermia have long been known and applied clinically, the underlying molecular mechanisms have yet to be elucidated....

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Ma H,Sinha B,Pandya RS,Lin N,Popp AJ,Li J,Yao J,Wang X

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：:Cancer is one of the most important disorders which is associated with high mortality and high costs of treatment for patients. Despite several efforts, finding, designing and developing, new therapeutic platforms in treatment of cancer patients are still required. Utilization of microorganisms particularly bacteria h...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Fathizadeh H,Saffari M,Esmaeili D,Moniri R,Kafil HS

更新日期：2020-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Four-and-a-half LIM domains protein 1 (FHL1) mutations are associated with human myopathies. However, the function of this protein in skeletal development remains unclear. METHODS:Whole-mount in situ hybridization and embryo immunostaining were performed. RESULTS:Zebrafish Fhl1A is the homologue of human F...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Chen F,Yuan W,Mo X,Zhuang J,Wang Y,Chen J,Jiang Z,Zhu X,Zeng Q,Wan Y,Li F,Shi Y,Cao L,Fan X,Luo S,Ye X,Chen Y,Dai G,Gao J,Wang X,Xie H,Zhu P,Li Y,Wu X

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The view that mitochondrial electron transport is the only site of aerobic respiration and the primary bioenergetic pathway in mammalian cells is well established in the literature. Although this paradigm is widely accepted for most tissues, the situation is less clear for proliferating cells. Increasing evidence indi...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Herst PM,Berridge MV

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune tolerance can be induced by numerous methods. This review article aims to draw lines of similarity and contrast between two unique models of immune tolerance, namely Anterior Chamber Associated Immune Deviation (ACAID) and Nickel-induced oral tolerance. ACAID is an immune tolerance model that leads to the gener...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Ashour HM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell adhesion molecule integrin αvβ3 is an important player in the process of angiogenesis. In the last decades, a series of radiolabeled Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) peptides targeting integrin αvβ3 has been prepared and optimized for positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon-emission computed tomography (SPECT) ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Liu Z,Wang F

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic complication is a leading cause of acquired blindness, end-stage renal failure, a variety of neuropathies and accelerated atherosclerosis. Chronic hyperglycemia is initially involved in the pathogenesis of diabetic micro- and macro-vascular complications via various metabolic derangements. High glucose increa...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Sato T,Iwaki M,Shimogaito N,Wu X,Yamagishi S,Takeuchi M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00