Expression, purification and characterization of a novel soluble human thymosin alpha1 concatemer exhibited a stronger stimulation on mice lymphocytes proliferation and higher anti-tumor activity.

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) family members exert their function via specific type I and type II serine/threonine kinase receptors and intracellular Smad transcription factors, including the common mediator Smad4. The dual effects of TGF-beta signaling on tumor initiation and progression are cell-specifi...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Yang G,Yang X

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial function is of particular importance in brain because of its high demand for energy (ATP) and efficient removal of reactive oxygen species (ROS). We developed rat mitochondrion-neuron focused microarray (rMNChip) and integrated bioinformatics tools for rapid identification of differential pathways in bra...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Su YA,Zhang Q,Su DM,Tang MX

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:As a systemic syndrome characterized by age-associated degenerative skeletal muscle atrophy, sarcopenia leads to a risk of adverse outcomes in the elderly. Age-related iron accumulation is found in the muscles of sarcopenia animal models and patients, but the role of iron in sarcopenia remains poorly understood. It ha...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Huang Y,Wu B,Shen D,Chen J,Yu Z,Chen C

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon monoxide (CO) is a vasoactive molecule that is generated by vascular cells as a byproduct of heme catabolism and it plays an important physiological role in circulation system. In order to investigate whether exogenous CO can mediate the growth and proliferation of vascular cells, in this study, we used 250 par...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Li Y,Wang H,Yang B,Yang J,Ruan X,Yang Y,Wakeland EK,Li Q,Fang X

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dihydropyrimidinase-related protein 4 (Dpysl4) is a known regulator of hippocampal neuron development. Here, we report that Dpysl4 is involved in growth regulation, polarization and differentiation of dental epithelial cells during tooth germ morphogenesis. A reduction in Dpysl4 gene expression in the tooth germ produ...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Yasukawa M,Ishida K,Yuge Y,Hanaoka M,Minami Y,Ogawa M,Sasaki T,Saito M,Tsuji T

更新日期：2013-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes mellitus is characterized by insulin resistance. However, the complete molecular mechanism remains unclear. In this study, zebrafish were fed a long-term high-fat diet to induce type 2 diabetes, which resulted in a higher body weight, body mass index, more lipid vacuoles in liver, increased insulin tra...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Meng XH,Chen B,Zhang JP

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic landscape of pancreatic cancer shows nearly ubiquitous mutations of K-RAS. However, oncogenic K-Ras(mt) alone is not sufficient to lead to pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) in either human or in genetically modified adult mouse models. Many stimulants, such as high fat diet, CCK, LPS, PGE2 and others...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Logsdon CD,Lu W

更新日期：2016-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial dysfunction is an important contributor to the development of osteoarthritis (OA). Sirtuin 3 (SIRT3) regulates diverse mitochondrial proteins to maintain mitochondrial homeostasis, and dihydromyricetin (DHM) is reported as a potential SIRT3 activator. This study aims to explore the relevance of SIRT3 and...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Wang J,Wang K,Huang C,Lin D,Zhou Y,Wu Y,Tian N,Fan P,Pan X,Xu D,Hu J,Zhou Y,Wang X,Zhang X

更新日期：2018-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The unfolded protein response, autophagy and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress-induced apoptosis regulate tumor cell fate and have become novel signaling targets for the development of cancer therapeutic drugs. Curcumin has been used to treat several different cancers, including ovarian cancer, in clinical t...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Qu W,Xiao J,Zhang H,Chen Q,Wang Z,Shi H,Gong L,Chen J,Liu Y,Cao R,Lv J

更新日期：2013-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteosarcoma (OS) is considered the most common type of primary malignant bone tumor, which has an urgent need for more effective treatment. Recently, chitinase 3 like 1 (Chi3L1) expression has been found in a variety of cancer cells. However it is not known whether Chi3L1 regulates the STAT3 pathway in OS cells. Here...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Park KR,Yun HM,Hong JT

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: The monitoring and management of blood glucose concentration are standard practices in critical settings as hyperglycaemia has been shown close association with poorer outcomes. Several meta-analyses have revealed that intensive glucose control has no benefit in decreasing short-term mortality among critic...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Yao RQ,Ren C,Wu GS,Zhu YB,Xia ZF,Yao YM

更新日期：2020-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is identified as the most prevalent and abundant internal RNA modification, especially within eukaryotic mRNAs, which has attracted much attention in recent years since its importance for regulating gene expression and deciding cell fate. m6A modification is installed by RNA methyltransferases...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Zhu ZM,Huo FC,Pei DS

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene silencing techniques are widely used to control gene expression and have potential for RNAi-based therapeutics. In this report, transgenic mouse lines were created for conditional knockdown of Srsf3 (SRp20) expression in liver and mammary gland tissues by expressing Srsf3-specific shRNAs driven by a U6 promoter. ...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Ajiro M,Jia R,Wang RH,Deng CX,Zheng ZM

更新日期：2015-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:It is a basic task in high-throughput gene expression profiling studies to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between two phenotypes. But the weakly differential expression signals between two phenotypes are hardly detectable with limited sample sizes. To solve this problem, many researchers tried to combi...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Cai H,Li X,Li J,Liang Q,Zheng W,Guan Q,Guo Z,Wang X

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to investigate the effect and mechanism of type 2 voltage-gated chloride channel (ClC-2) on myelin development of newborn rats' cerebral white matter with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). In this study, GDM model was induced in late pregnant rat model. The alteration of ClC-2 expression in various ...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： He F,Peng Y,Yang Z,Ge Z,Tian Y,Ma T,Li H

更新日期：2017-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Zucker diabetic fatty (ZDF) rat is a model of type II diabetes and metabolic syndrome based on impaired glucose tolerance caused by the inherited insulin-resistance gene. The ZDF rat exhibits progressive nephropathy; however, the detailed mechanisms have remained unclear. This study was performed to examine the po...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Suzaki Y,Ozawa Y,Kobori H

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNA-370 (miR-370) has been observed to act as a tumor suppressor through the targeting of different proteins in a variety of tumors. Our previous study indicated that miR-370 was able to target forkhead box protein M1 (FOXM1) to inhibit cell growth and metastasis in human osteosarcoma cells. In this study, we rep...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Zhang W,Duan N,Zhang Q,Song T,Li Z,Zhang C,Chen X,Wang K

更新日期：2017-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Genuine racial differences in prostate cancer (PCa) biology have been considered among the potential reasons to explain PCa disparities. There is no animal model to represent all aspects of human PCa and, more specifically, to be used for PCa disparity research. The lack of a spontaneously transformed in vitro cell-ba...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Koochekpour S,Willard SS,Shourideh M,Ali S,Liu C,Azabdaftari G,Saleem M,Attwood K

更新日期：2014-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic subunit of DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PKcs) is a critical component of the non-homologous end-joining pathway of DNA double-stranded break repair. DNA-PKcs has also been shown recently functioning in mitotic regulation. Here, we report that DNA-PKcs negatively regulates the stability of Cyclin B1 ...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Shang ZF,Tan W,Liu XD,Yu L,Li B,Li M,Song M,Wang Y,Xiao BB,Zhong CG,Guan H,Zhou PK

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are closely correlated with tumor occurrence, invasion, and metastasis. However, factors affecting the biological functions of TAMs in colorectal cancer (CRC) are incompletely understood. Here, we found that Wnt5a was mainly expressed on TAMs of tumor stroma but not on CRC cells. Su...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Liu Q,Song J,Pan Y,Shi D,Yang C,Wang S,Xiong B

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels are known to be increased in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Tocilizumab, a monoclonal antibody to the IL-6 receptor (IL-6R), reduces disease activity in RA, although its mechanisms of action remain unclear. Since IL-6 regulates cytokine production by CD4 T cells during activation,...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Carbone G,Wilson A,Diehl SA,Bunn J,Cooper SM,Rincon M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: The preoperative controlling nutritional status (CONUT) score and circulating tumour cell (CTC) status are associated with poor prognosis of colorectal cancer (CRC). The aim of the present study is to determine whether the combination of CONUT and CTC (CONUT-CTC) could better predict the prognosis of CRC p...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Yang C,Wei C,Wang S,Han S,Shi D,Zhang C,Lin X,Dou R,Xiong B

更新日期：2019-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronaviruses (CoVs) are a group of enveloped, single-stranded positive genomic RNA viruses and some of them are known to cause severe respiratory diseases in human, including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and the ongoing coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19). One key el...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Yang N,Shen HM

更新日期：2020-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis-induced myocardial dysfunction (SIMD) is a life-threatening complication caused by inflammation, but how it is initiated is still unclear. Several studies have shown that extracellular high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1), an important cytokine triggering inflammation, is overexpressed during the pathogenesis of S...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Peng Q,Xu H,Xiao M,Wang L

更新日期：2020-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Lead (Pb) is a well-known neurotoxicant and a risk factor for neurologic disorders. The blood brain barrier (BBB) plays an important role in the maintenance of optimal brain function. BBB is a target of Pb, and studies have shown that Pb induced barrier loss and decreased the expression of tight junction proteins, but...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Liu X,Su P,Meng S,Aschner M,Cao Y,Luo W,Zheng G,Liu M

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-matrix interactions play critical roles in cell adhesion, tissue remodeling and cancer metastasis. Discoidin domain receptor 2 (DDR2) is a collagen receptor belonging to receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) family. It is a powerful regulator of collagen deposition in the extracellular matrix (ECM). Although the oligome...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Li T,Liu J,Cai H,Wang B,Feng Y,Liu J

更新日期：2018-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) occurs with the highest frequency in China, especially in the high-risk Northern Chinese. Recent studies have reported that SLC22A3 is significantly downregulated in non-tumor (NT) esophageal tissues from familial ESCC patients compared with those from sporadic ESCC. However, ...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Xiong JX,Wang YS,Sheng J,Xiang D,Huang TX,Tan BB,Zeng CM,Li HH,Yang J,Meltzer SJ,Mori Y,Qin YR,Guan XY,Fu L

更新日期：2018-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Foxp3⁺ regulatory T lymphocytes (Tregs) usually act as an immune suppressor and correlate with poorer survival in malignancies. This study aims to investigate the distribution and characterization of Foxp3(+) subset in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and tumor tissues from extranodal NK/T cell lymphoma (ENK...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Peng RJ,Huang ZF,Zhang YL,Yuan ZY,Xia Y,Jiang WQ,Zeng YX,Li J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As one of the most ominous malignancies, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is frequently diagnosed at an advanced stage, owing to its aggressive invasion and metastatic spread. Emerging evidence has demonstrated that Rictor, as a unique component of the mTORC2, plays a role in cell migration, as it is dysregulated in var...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Dong X,Feng M,Yang H,Liu H,Guo H,Gao X,Liu Y,Liu R,Zhang N,Chen R,Kong R

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we use Stokes, Brinkman and Darcy equations to approximate the porous continuum media of ligament tissues respectively, simulate the flow field with FLUENT software, and study the shear stress on the cell surface due to the interstitial fluid flow. Since the Brinkman equation approaches Stokes equation ...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Yao W,Shen Z,Ding G

更新日期：2013-11-05 00:00:00