NSAIDs induce apoptosis in nonproliferating ovarian cancer cells and inhibit tumor growth in vivo.

abstract：:The effect of streptozotocin-induced diabetes on cholinesterases activities was studied in the retina and, for comparison, in other nervous and nonnervous tissues. Streptozotocin diabetes did not affect acetylcholinesterase activity in the retina but increased its activity in the cerebral cortex (100%) and in serum (5...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Sánchez-Chávez G,Salceda R

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large amount of evidence suggests a pathogenic link between cholesterol homeostasis dysregulation and Alzheimer's disease (AD). In cell culture systems, the production of amyloid-β (Aβ) is modulated by cholesterol, and studies on animal models have consistently demonstrated that hypercholesterolemia is associated wi...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ricciarelli R,Canepa E,Marengo B,Marinari UM,Poli G,Pronzato MA,Domenicotti C

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers have started focusing on investigating the anticarcinogenic effects of natural products with the slightest side effects possible, because current breast cancer treatment approaches are unable to achieve absolute success especially on aggressive subtypes. Propolis is among these products with its antimicrob...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Seyhan MF,Yılmaz E,Timirci-Kahraman Ö,Saygılı N,Kısakesen Hİ,Gazioğlu S,Gören AC,Eronat AP,Begüm Ceviz A,Öztürk T,Yılmaz-Aydoğan H,Öztürk O

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the amino acid sequences and the structures of pyruvate kinase (PYK) isozymes are highly conserved, allosteric regulations differ. This suggests that amino acids with low conservation play important roles in the allosteric mechanism. The current work exploits a 'natural screen'- the 122 point mutations identi...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Pendergrass DC,Williams R,Blair JB,Fenton AW

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific RNAs can function as sinks for endogenous miRNAs, known as competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs). Here, we confirm a miR-124 mediated ceRNA crosstalk between LAMC1 and CD151 in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). miR-124 negatively regulates LAMC1 expression through two miRNA binding sites within its 3' untranslated...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Yang ZP,Ma HS,Wang SS,Wang L,Liu T

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bladder carcinoma is an important worldwide health problem. Both cystoscopy and urine cytology used in detecting bladder cancer suffer from drawbacks where cystoscopy is an invasive method and urine cytology shows low sensitivity in low-grade tumors. This study validates easier and less time-consuming techniques for t...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Eissa S,Shabayek MI,Ismail MF,El-Allawy RM,Hamdy MA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin (Stx) producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is responsible to bloody diarrhea (hemorrhagic colitis) and the hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). STEC strains carry inducible lambda phages integrated into their genomes that encode Stx 1 and/or 2, with several allelic variants each one. O157:H7 is the serotype that ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ibarra C,Amaral MM,Palermo MS

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large inter-individual variation exists in the response to vitamin E supplementation, and this may influence the outcome of human studies. It is our hypothesis that genetic heterogeneity is an important determinant of vitamin E homeostasis. Therefore we have performed an in silico search for single nucleotide polymorp...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Döring F,Rimbach G,Lodge JK

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aggressive biological behavior of invasive and metastatic cancer is considered to be the most insidious and life-threatening aspect for breast cancer patients. It is mostly the result of changes in many molecular characteristics of tumor cells, including alterations in gene expression and the balance of proteolyti...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Swellam M,Arab LR,Bushnak HA

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncoupling proteins (UCPs) mediate inducible proton conductance in the mitochondrial inner membrane. Herein, we summarize our knowledge regarding UCPs in invertebrates. Since 2001, the presence of UCPs has been demonstrated in nematodes, mollusks, amphioxi, and insects. We discuss the following important issues concer...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Slocinska M,Barylski J,Jarmuszkiewicz W

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S-Nitrosation is rapidly emerging as a regulatory mechanism in vascular biology, with particular importance in the onset of hyperpermeability induced by pro-inflammatory agents. This review focuses on the role of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS)-derived nitric oxide (NO) in regulating S-Nitrosation of adherens...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Durán WN,Beuve AV,Sánchez FA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red blood cells of yellow-spotted river turtles (Podocnemis unifilis, Pleurodira, Chelonia, REPTILIA) have two hemoglobin (Hb) components, Hb A and Hb D. We purified the hemoglobin component homologous to amniote (reptiles, birds, and mammals) adult Hb A which comprises two identical α(A) -globin polypeptides and two ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Hasegawa T,Shishikura F,Kuwada T

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon monoxide (CO) is a gaseous transmitter that is known to be involved in several physiological processes, but surprisingly it is also becoming a promising molecule to treat several pathologies including stroke and cancer. CO can cross the plasma membrane and activate guanylate cyclase, increasing the cGMP concent...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Retamal MA,León-Paravic CG,Ezquer M,Ezquer F,Del Rio R,Pupo A,Martínez AD,González C

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern cell-free in vitro protein synthesis systems present powerful tools for the synthesis of isotope-labeled proteins in high yields. The production of selectively 15 N-labeled proteins from 15 N-labeled amino acids is particularly economic and yields are often sufficient to analyze the proteins very quickly by two...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ozawa K,Dixon NE,Otting G

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat organic anion transporter 3 (rOAT3) has recently been identified as the third isoform of the OAT family. The mechanisms that regulate rOAT3's functions remain to be elucidated. rOAT3 contributes for moving a number of negatively charged organic compounds between cells and their extracellular milieu. Caveolin (...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Kwak JO,Kim HW,Song JH,Kim MJ,Park HS,Hyun DK,Kim DS,Cha SH

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotides of transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are highly modified, particularly at the anticodon. Bacterial tRNAs that read A-ending codons are especially notable. The U34 nucleotide canonically present in these tRNAs is modified by a wide range of complex chemical constituents. An additional two A-ending codons are not read b...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Nilsson EM,Alexander RW

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen peroxide is a major regulator of plant programmed cell death (PCD) but little is known about the downstream genes from the H(2)O(2)-signaling network that mediate the cell death. To address this question, a novel system for studying H(2)O(2)-induced programmed cell death in Arabidopsis thaliana was used. The ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Gechev TS,Minkov IN,Hille J

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is a lethal malignancy and its prognosis remains dismal. Thus, a deeper understanding of the mechanisms is needed to provide a new insight for new therapies. It has been reported that long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) maternally expressed gene 3 (MEG3) was downregulated in OSCC tissues, h...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Tan J,Xiang L,Xu G

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, three independent laboratories reported the generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from pig (Sus scrofa). This finding sums to the growing list of species (mouse, human, monkey, and rat, in this order) for which successful reprogramming using exogenous factors has been achieved, and multiple ot...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Esteban MA,Peng M,Deli Z,Cai J,Yang J,Xu J,Lai L,Pei D

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumstatin is a candidate tumor suppressor that plays an important role in tumor growth and angiogenesis. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the correlation between tumstatin-mRNA expression and the clinicopathologic characteristics, tumor angiogenesis, outcome of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Luo YQ,Ming Z,Zhao L,Yao LJ,Dong H,Du JP,Wu SZ,Hu W

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrameric haemoglobins display a cooperative ligand binding behaviour, which has been attributed to the functional interrelationship between multiple ligand binding sites. The quantitative description of this feature was initially carried out with a phenomenological approach, which was limited to the functional effec...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ciaccio C,Coletta A,De Sanctis G,Marini S,Coletta M

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletion of tumor suppressor gene, lethal(2)giant larvae [l(2)gl], leads to brain tumor in Drosophila melanogaster at larval stage of development and severe brain dysplasia in mice. We have studied the effect of two potential antitumor drugs artemisinin and curcumin in the perspective of inhibiting l(2)gl brain tumor....

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Das SS,Nanda GG,Alone DP

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a new hypothesis for the molecular mechanism by which neuroglobin exerts its protective effect in hypoxia-induced cell death. Our recent observation of a very rapid electron-transfer reaction between ferrous neuroglobin and ferric cytochrome c is central to this hypothesis. In contrast to previously suggest...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Fago A,Mathews AJ,Brittain T

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the presence of senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. The beta-amyloid peptide (Abeta) is the primary constituent of the senile plaques, and has been proposed to be a key contributor to the neurodegeneration observed in AD. The molecular mechanisms underl...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Gong X,Lu X,Zhan L,Sui H,Qi X,Ji Z,Niu X,Liu L

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV or HHV-8) is linked to the etiopathogenesis of Kaposi's sarcoma, a plasma-blastic variant of Castleman's disease and primary effusion lymphoma. KSHV is related to a number of non-human primate viruses. Only a limited number of KSHV proteins are expressed in tumor cells. He...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Sharp TV,Boshoff C

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder that results in loss of memory and cognitive function, eventually leading to dementia. A key neuropathological event in AD is the cerebral accumulation of senile plaques formed by aggregates of amyloid-β-peptides (Aβ). Aβ results from two sequential ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Tamagno E,Guglielmotto M,Monteleone D,Vercelli A,Tabaton M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implantation is a complex developmental event that is initiated by recognition and adhesion of the embryo to the endometrial epithelium. sLeX is an oligosaccharide antigen acting as the ligand of L-selectin, and is stage-specifically expressed in the endometrial epithelium. The adhesion system mediated by L-selectin a...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Liu S,Zhang Y,Liu Y,Qin H,Wang X,Yan Q

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasal-type natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (NKTCL) is an aggressive malignancy with poor survival outcomes that is relatively resistant to chemotherapy. N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) modification, the most prevalent modification of eukaryotic messenger RNA, is involved in the progression of various tumors. However, it is un...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ma H,Shen L,Yang H,Gong H,Du X,Li J

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology of some inflammatory arterial diseases (such as vasculitis, atherogenesis and aneurysms) has been widely investigated in the last decades. Among different soluble molecules, proinflammatory cytokines (such as TNF-α, IL-1 and IL-6) were shown to trigger critical pathways regulating these arterial di...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Carbone F,Montecucco F

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide, one of the most prevalent forms of chronic disease is alcoholic fatty liver, which may progress to more severe forms of liver injury including steatohepatitis, fibrosis, and cirrhosis. The molecular mechanisms by which ethanol consumption causes accumulation of hepatic lipid are multiple and complex. Chroni...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Rogers CQ,Ajmo JM,You M

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00