Cytokine profiles, signalling pathways and effects of fluticasone propionate in respiratory syncytial virus-infected human foetal lung fibroblasts.

abstract：:Neuroinflammation is closely related with the pathogenesis and progress of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Loganin, an iridoid glycoside obtained from traditional Chinese medicine Cornus officinalis, has properties of inhibiting inflammation and improving memory. The present study was ai...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Cui Y,Wang Y,Zhao D,Feng X,Zhang L,Liu C

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TZDs (thiazolidinediones) are prescribed as anti-Type II diabetes drugs, but little is known regarding whether TZDs regulate the expression of sPLA2 (secretory phospholipase A2) in macrophages. We have investigated the effects of pioglitazone on LPS (lipopolysaccharide)-induced production of TNF-alpha (tumour necrosis...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Ao C,Huo Y,Qi L,Xiong Z,Xue L,Qi Y

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroblastoma is one of the most common solid tumours in children (8-10% of all malignancies). Over 22% of cases have N-myc amplification associated with aggressively growing neuroblastomas. Oncogene-induced sensitization of cells to apoptosis is an important mechanism for suppression of tumorigenesis. Tumour suppress...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Li T,Wang L,Ke XX,Gong XY,Wan JH,Hao XW,Xu M,Xiang Z,Cui ZB,Cui H

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was undertaken to test the reproducible formation of the extended chromatin fibres (ECF), beads and superbeads, and detect molecular order and crystallinity by optical anisotropies in those structures. Chicken erythrocyte smears and mouse liver cell imprints were treated with 2.0-3.0 m NaCl solution ...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： de Campos Vidal B

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila ovary provides an attractive model for studying the extrinsic or intrinsic factors that regulate the fate of germline stem cells (GSCs). Using this model, we identified a new role for Drosophila spaghetti (spag), encoding a homolog of human RNA polymerase II-associated protein 3 (RPAP3), in regulating t...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Chen D,Tao X,Zhou L,Sun F,Sun M,Fang X

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report deals with observations on the directional locomotion of amoeba before and after fixation and scanning electron microscopy. The study was aimed at visualization of the stepwise events of directional movements. After the analysis of the data it is proposed that the amoeba undergoes a sequence of movement ev...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Cameron I,Rinaldi RA,Kirby G,Davidson D

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The action of theophylline on the uptake of alpha-aminoisobutyric acid (AIB; an indicator of anti-inflammatory potency) stimulated by the glucocorticoid, dexamethasone, in cultured rat fibroblast monolayers was evaluated. Theophylline alone (0.1 m m) did not show significant activity (3314+/-27 cpm) compared with the ...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Xenos K,Kalogeromitros D,Markantonis SL,Katsambas A,Katsarou A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Properly metabolized globin synthesis and iron uptake are indispensable for erythroid cell differentiation and maturation. Mitochondrial participation is crucial in the process of haeme synthesis for cytochromes and haemoglobin. We studied the final biosynthesis site of haemoglobin using an ultrastructural approach, w...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Cianciarullo AM,Bertho AL,Soares MJ,Hosoda TM,Nogueira-Silva S,Beçak W

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As embryonic progenitors for the gametes, PGCs (primordial germ cells) proliferate and develop under strict regulation of numerous intrinsic and external factors. As the most active natural metabolite of vitamin A, all-trans RA (retinoic acid) plays pivotal roles in regulating development of various cells. The prolife...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Yu M,Ge C,Zeng W,Mi Y,Zhang C

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical cancer is considered a common yet preventable cause of death in women. In this report, we studied the role of the NF-kappaB gene family in HeLa human cervical cancer cells, using the Xrel3 c-Rel homologue of Xenopus laevis. The expression of Xrel3/c-Rel slowed cell growth 6-fold, consistent with an upregulate...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Shehata M,Shehata M,Shehata F,Pater A

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EGFP (enhanced green fluorescent protein) tagged to either the N (amino)-terminus [EGFP/hERG (human ether-a-go-go-related gene)] or C (carboxyl)-terminus (hERG/EGFP) of hERG channel is used to study mutant channel protein trafficking for several years. However, it has been reported that the process can alter hERG chan...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Huang N,Lian JF,Huo JH,Liu LY,Ni L,Yang X,Zhou JQ,Li ZF,Song TS,Huang C

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bisphosphonates (BPs), especially zoledronic acid (ZOL), are clinically used to treat osteolytic bone lesions. However, serious side-effects may be also induced during the therapeutic process. To improve the BPs drugs, here, we investigated the effects of a series of ZOL derivatives with increasing number of methylene...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Peng Y,Liu Q,Xu D,Li K,Li H,Qiu L,Lin J

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipose tissue is a potential site of retinoic acid (RA) action, but its physiological significance remains to be clarified. We have examined the effect of all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) on growth and differentiation of preadipocytes, and on adipokine gene expression in mature adipocytes using human preadipocyte cell ...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Morikawa K,Hanada H,Hirota K,Nonaka M,Ikeda C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dexmedetomidine (Dex) protects different cell types during hypoxia or ischemia-reperfusion injury by inhibiting cell apoptosis. However, the underlying mechanism and its impact on hepatic ischemia reperfusion injury are still not known. In this study, we established a model of oxygen-glucose deprivation/reperfusion (O...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Zhou Z,Chen Q,Wan L,Zheng D,Li Z,Wu Z

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic stroke is a major common cause of death and long-term disability worldwide. Several pathophysiological events including excitotoxicity, oxidative/nitrative stress, inflammation, and apoptosis are involved in ischemic injuries. Recently, the molecular mechanisms involved in cerebral ischemia through a focus on...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Behdarvandy M,Karimian M,Atlasi MA,Azami Tameh A

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditioned medium (CM) (cell secretome) is a cocktail of growth factors, cytokines, and other soluble mediators secreted by cells into a culture medium. These growth factors are fundamental in many cellular processes such as cell growth, differentiation, and others and the composition of these factors is individual f...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Mambelli-Lisboa NC,Frare EO,da Costa-Neves A,Prieto da Silva ÁRB,Kerkis I

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local anesthetic of bupivacaine may inhibit neurite outgrowth and induce apoptosis in mouse dorsal root ganglia (DRG) neurons. In this work, we intended to investigate the functional role of microRNA 26a (miR-26a) in regulating bupivacaine-induced nerve injury in DRG neurons. DRG neurons were extracted from C57BL/6 mi...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Cui C,Xu G,Qiu J,Fan X

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our study aimed to explore the function of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) in esophageal cancer. Twenty patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) and 20 patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA) were enrolled in this study. The levels of CFTR and NF-κB in tumor tissues and a...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Li W,Wang C,Peng X,Zhang H,Huang H,Liu H

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silicon dioxide induces acute injury and chronic pulmonary fibrosis. International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) listed it as a human carcinogen in 1996. However, the molecular mechanisms to induce cancer are not understood yet. The content of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARP) mRNA and protein in Hela cells ...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Gao A,Song S,Wang D,Peng W,Tian L

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introns of plant tubulin genes are useful molecular tools to study IME (Intron Mediated Enhancement of gene expression) and to define plant genetic and evolutionary relationships through ILP (Intron Length Polymorphism). Here we show that the intron present within the 5'UTR sequence of some rice beta-tubulin genes can...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Breviario D,Gianì S,Ponzoni E,Mastromauro F,Morello L

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to examine the changes in the activity and expression of ectonucleotidase enzymes in the model of unilateral cortical stab injury (CSI) in rat. The activities of ecto-nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase 1 (NTPDase 1) and ecto 5'-nucleotidase were assessed by measuring the levels ...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Nedeljkovic N,Bjelobaba I,Subasic S,Lavrnja I,Pekovic S,Stojkov D,Vjestica A,Rakic L,Stojiljkovic M

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in diverse cellular processes and carcinogenesis. Homeobox A cluster antisense RNA 2 (HOXA-AS2) is a 1,048-basepairs lncRNA located between human HOXA3 and HOXA4 genes, whose overactivation was previously found to promote the proliferation and invasion of solid tumors...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Qu Y,Wang Y,Wang P,Lin N,Yan X,Li Y

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomicine A1 (PA1) is a potential antineoplastic agent with high and selective toxicity toward peroxisomes of tumor cells. Pexophagy is a selective autophagy process that degrades damaged peroxisomes; this process has been studied mainly in methylotrophic yeasts. There are two main modes of pexophagy in yeast: ma...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Ortega-Martínez M,Gutiérrez-Dávila V,Niderhauser-García A,Salazar-Aranda R,Solís-Soto JM,Montes-de-Oca-Luna R,Jaramillo-Rangel G

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fndc5 has been recently recognized as a myokine which could be cleaved and secreted into blood stream. It is termed as irisin with an important role in thermogenesis and energy homeostasis. Increased expression of Fndc5 has been reported upon retinoic acid treatment during neural differentiation and its knockdown decr...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Forouzanfar M,Rabiee F,Ghaedi K,Beheshti S,Tanhaei S,Shoaraye Nejati A,Jodeiri Farshbaf M,Baharvand H,Nasr-Esfahani MH

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although clinical data suggest remarkable promise for targeting programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) and ligand (PD-L1) signaling in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), it is still largely undetermined which subtype of patients will be responsive to checkpoint blockade. In the present study, we explored whether PD-L...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Pan LN,Ma YF,Li Z,Hu JA,Xu ZH

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play an increasingly important role in cancer growth by coordinately suppressing genes that control cell migration, proliferation, and invasion. The above results can be achieved through the regulation of gene expression by miRNAs by suppressing translation or the direct sequence-specific degradatio...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Sun M,Wang X,Tu C,Wang S,Qu J,Xiao S

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNA-21 (miR-21) was reported to act as an oncogene during the development of many human tumors. However, little was revealed about the function of miR-21 in retinoblastoma (RB). In this study, we examined the expression of miR-21 in RB tissues and explored the relationship between miR-21 and phosphatase and tensi...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Gui F,Hong Z,You Z,Wu H,Zhang Y

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) belongs to one of the most common malignant tumors worldwide and possesses high mortality. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been demonstrated to be essential biological participants in the progression of ESCC. On the basis of bio-informatics prediction, forkhead box P4 anti...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Li Y,Li T,Yang Y,Kang W,Dong S,Cheng S

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spreading behaviour of dissociated hypoblast cells on and besides a band of aligned fibrils associated with the basal lamina of the epiblast was investigated by the use of scanning electron microscopy. A horse-shaped band of aligned fibrils, first demonstrated by Wakely and England (1979), is present during the ga...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Andries L,Harrisson F,Vakaet L

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipocyte lines are a useful tool for adipocyte research. Recently, a new preadipocyte line designated AP-18 was established from subcutaneous tissue of the C3H/He mouse. In this study, we further characterized AP-18 cells. Adipocyte differentiation was assessed by accumulation of fat droplets stained by Oil Red O. Th...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Chen C,Takahashi K,Yoshida A,Takizawa Y,Lee Y,Nakui M,Doi H,Takebayashi Y,Fukumoto M,Yamada T,Katagiri H,Oka Y,Satoh J

更新日期：2010-02-22 00:00:00