IGF2 expression in blood is not associated with its imprinting status in healthy pregnant Chinese women.

abstract：:Cyanobacteria display a large diversity of cellular forms ranging from unicellular to complex multicellular filaments or aggregates. Species in the group present a wide range of metabolic characteristics including the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen, resistance to extreme environments, production of hydrogen, seconda...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Stucken K,Koch R,Dagan T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to compare the effects of Mediterranean-type diet (MD), high-fat diet (HFD), and red wine supplementation on plasma concentration of emergent haemostatic cardiovascular risk factors (HCVRF) and on variables of primary haemostasis (bleeding time, plasma von Willebrand factor and platelet aggre...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Mezzano D

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common arthritic disease and multifactorial whole-joint disease. Interactions of chemokines and OA is inadequately documented. RESULTS:In vivo and in vitro studies were conducted to investigate monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) and receptor chemokine (C-C motif) receptor 2 ...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Xu YK,Ke Y,Wang B,Lin JH

更新日期：2015-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscles have the potential to regenerate by activation of quiescent satellite cells, however, the molecular signature that governs satellite cells during muscle regeneration is not well defined. Myosin light chains (Myls) are sarcomere-related proteins as traditional regulator of muscle contraction. In this r...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Zhang SZ,Xu Y,Xie HQ,Li XQ,Wei YQ,Yang ZM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of tumor-bearing mice with LD12.5 values of iodoacetate; IAA (1.84 mg/100 g b.w.) and/or dimethylsulphoxide; DMSO (350 mg/100 g b.w.) significantly increased the cumulative mean survival time and percentage of survivors and reduced the mean tumor weight, compared to tumor-bearing controls, however, a more pr...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Fahim FA,Esmat AY,Mady EA,Ibrahim EK

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Tridax procumbens flavonoids (TPF), are well known for their medicinal properties among local natives. The TPF are traditionally used for dropsy, anaemia, arthritis, gout, asthma, ulcer, piles, and urinary problems. It also used in treating gastric problems, body pain, and rheumatic pains of joints. The ...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Al Mamun MA,Islam K,Alam MJ,Khatun A,Alam MM,Al-Bari MA,Alam MJ

更新日期：2015-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last twenty years an important effort in brain sciences, especially in cognitive science, has been the development of mathematical tool that can deal with the complexity of extensive recordings corresponding to the neuronal activity obtained from hundreds of neurons. We discuss here along with some historical i...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Goles E,Palacios AG

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to determine the seasonal changes of total antioxidant activity and phenolic compounds in samples taken from leaves (April, July, October) and stems (April, July, October, January) of some almond (Prunus amygdalus L.) varieties (Nonpareil, Ferragnes and Texas). RESULTS:It was indicated that...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Sivaci A,Duman S

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red blood cell carbonic anhydrase (CA) activity has not been studied in high altitude natives. Because CA is an intraerythocytic enzyme and high altitude natives are polycythemic, it is important to know if the activity of CA per red cell volume is different from that of their sea level counterparts. Blood was collect...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Gamboa J,Caceda R,Gamboa A,Monge-C C

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psoralen is a coumarin-like and coumarin-related benzofuran glycoside, which is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine to treat patients with kidney and spleen-yang deficiency symptom. Psoralen has been reported to show estrogen-like activity, antioxidant activity, osteoblastic proliferation accelerati...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Wang X,Peng P,Pan Z,Fang Z,Lu W,Liu X

更新日期：2019-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have shown that long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) LINC00483 was aberrantly expressed in human cancers, including gastric cancer. However, the regulatory mechanism of this lncRNA in gastric cancer remains largely unknown. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of LINC00483 on gastric can...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Luo M,Liang C

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Impaired wound healing is a complication of diabetes and a serious problem in clinical practice. We previously found that whey protein (WP) was able to regulate wound healing normally in streptozotocin (STZ)-diabetic models. This subsequent study was designed to assess the effect of WP on heat shock protein-...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Ahmed RR,Mahmoud A,Ahmed OM,Metwalli A,Ebaid H

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain cells have a highly active oxidative metabolism, yet they contain only low to moderate superoxide dismutase and catalase activities. Thus, their antioxidant defenses rely mainly on cellular reduced glutathione levels. In this work, in cortical neurons we characterized viability and changes in reduced and oxidize...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Aguirre P,Mena N,Tapia V,Rojas A,Arredondo M,Núñez MT

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many motor skills, once acquired, are stored over a long time period, probably sustained by permanent neuronal changes. Thus, in this paper we have investigated with quantitative stereology the generation and persistence of neuronal density changes in primary motor cortex (MI) following motor skill learning (skilled r...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Morales P

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:miR-214 was demonstrated to be upregulated in models of renal disease and promoted fibrosis in renal injury independent of TGF-β signaling in vivo. However, the detailed role of miR-214 in acute kidney injury (AKI) and its underlying mechanism are still largely unknown. METHODS:In this study, an I/R-induced...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Zhu X,Li W,Li H

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor growth is the result of combined cell proliferation overwhelming cell death and neoangiogenesis. This report shows CAM angiogenesis promoted by TA3 tumor supernatant with or without low dosis of betamethasone (Minimal antiangiogenic concentration: beta-MAAC). Methylcellulose discs instilled with 10 microliters o...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Lemus D,Dabancens A,Illanes J,Fuenzalida M,Guerrero A,López C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium regulation of several transcription factors involves different calcium-dependent signaling cascades and engages cytoplasmic as well as nuclear calcium signals. The study of the specific sources of calcium signals involved in regulation of gene expression in skeletal muscle has been addressed only recently. In ...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Carrasco MA,Jaimovich E,Kemmerling U,Hidalgo C

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:7-ketocholesterol (7-KC) differs from cholesterol by a functional ketone group at C7. It is an oxygenated cholesterol derivative (oxysterol), commonly present in oxidized low-density lipoprotein (LDL). Oxysterols are generated and participate in several physiologic and pathophysiologic processes. For instance, the cyt...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Favero GM,Maranhão RC,Maria DA,Levy D,Bydlowski SP

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caffeic acid, rosmarinic acid and oligomers of caffeic acid with multiple catechol groups are all constituents of Salvia officinalis. Their antioxidant potential was investigated with regard to their radical scavenging activity and the stability and structure of the intermediate radicals. Pulse-radiolytic studies reve...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Bors W,Michel C,Stettmaier K,Lu Y,Foo LY

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella flexneri causes bacillary dysentery in humans. Essential to the establishment of the disease is the invasion of the colonic epithelial cells. Here we investigated the role of the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) O antigen in the ability of S. flexneri to adhere to and invade polarized Caco-2 cells. The S. flexneri 2a...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Hoare A,Bravo D,Martinić M,Valvano MA,Contreras I,Álvarez SA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Melanoma took top position among the lethal cancers and, despite there have been some great attempts made to increase the natural life of patients with metastatic disease, long-lasting and complete remissions are few. Piceatannol, owns the similar function as resveratrol, has been defined as an anti-cancer a...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Du M,Zhang Z,Gao T

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ubiquitin specific peptidase 39 (USP39), an essential factor in the assembly of the mature spliceosome complex, has an aberrant expression in several cancer. However, its function and the corresponding mechanism on human osteosarcoma has not been fully explored yet. METHODS:The mRNA and DNA copies of USP39 ...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Gan Z,Han K,Lin S,Hu H,Shen Z,Min D

更新日期：2017-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:After the progress made during the genomics era, bioinformatics was tasked with supporting the flow of information generated by nanobiotechnology efforts. This challenge requires adapting classical bioinformatic and computational chemistry tools to store, standardize, analyze, and visualize nanobiotechnological inform...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： González-Nilo F,Pérez-Acle T,Guínez-Molinos S,Geraldo DA,Sandoval C,Yévenes A,Santos LS,Laurie VF,Mendoza H,Cachau RE

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women. Chilean studies reveal that this cancer presents the third highest mortality rate. A family history of breast cancer is one of the major risk factors for the development of this disease. BRCA1 and BRCA2 are the two main hereditary breast cancer susceptibility ge...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Jara L,Ampuero S,Seccia L,Bustamante M,Blanco R,Ojeda JM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepcidin (Hepc) is a 25 amino acid cationic peptide with broad antibacterial and antifungal actions. A likely role for Hepc in iron metabolism was suggested by the observation that mice having disruption of the gene encoding the transcription factor USF2 failed to produce Hepc mRNA and developed spontaneous visceral i...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Mena NP,Esparza AL,Núñez MT

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve biological variables were submitted to dimensional analysis in accordance with the MLT-system of physics (M, mass; L, length; T, time). Each of these variables has a characteristic numerical value for the exponents alpha for mass, beta for length, and gamma for time. By means of Newton's reduction coefficient (...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Günther B,Gonzalez U,Morgado E

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of plant transformation in the mid-1980s and of many new tools for cell biology, molecular genetics, and biochemistry has resulted in enormous progress in plant biology in the past decade. With the completion of the genome sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana just around the corner, we can expect even fast...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Chrispeels MJ,Holuigue L,Latorre R,Luan S,Orellana A,Peña-Cortes H,Raikhel NV,Ronald PC,Trewavas A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasopressin and bradykinin are two of the most important peptides in regulating vascular tone, water, and ionic balance in the body, and thus they play a key role in controlling blood pressure. In addition to being a potent vasoconstrictor, Vasopressin also has an antidiuretic activity in the kidney, whereas kinins re...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Gonzalez CB,Figueroa CD

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most Colombian populations stem from the admixture of Caucasians, Amerindians and Negroids. In the world, these two latter ethnical groups show a significantly higher prevalence of epilepsy than the former one. We tested the hypothesis that the high prevalence of idiopathic epilepsy with generalized tonic clonic seizu...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Jiménez I,Mora O,Lopez G,Jiménez ME,Zuluga L,Isaza R,Sanchez JL,Uribe CS,Valenzuela CY,Blanco R,Arcos-Burgos M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As regards their morphology and biology, tumours consist of heterogeneous cell populations. The cancer stem cell (CSC) hypothesis assumes that a tumour is hierarchically organized and not all of the cells are equally capable of generating descendants, similarly to normal tissue. The only cells being able to self-renew...

journal_title：Biological research

authors： Fulawka L,Donizy P,Halon A

更新日期：2014-12-10 00:00:00