Diabetes inhibits cerebral ischemia-induced astrocyte activation - an observation in the cingulate cortex.

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by motor disorders and the destruction of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta. In addition to motor disability, many patients with PD present a spectrum of clinical symptoms, including cognitive decline, psychiatric alterations, loss of smell and bladder...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Pisa D,Alonso R,Carrasco L

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Basigin is a highly glycosylated transmembrane protein that is expressed in a broad range of tissues and is involved in a number of physiological and pathological processes. However, the in vivo role of basigin remains unknown. To better understand the physiological and pathological functions of basigin in vivo, we ge...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Yao H,Teng Y,Sun Q,Xu J,Chen YT,Hou N,Cheng X,Yang X,Chen ZN

更新日期：2013-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical evidence suggests that there exists a strong correlation between Zika virus (ZIKV) infection and abnormal development of the nervous system. However, the underlying mechanisms remain to be elusive. In this study, recombinant lentiviral vectors coding for ZIKV structural proteins and truncations (prM-Env, M-En...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Liu J,Li Q,Li X,Qiu Z,Li A,Liang W,Chen H,Cai X,Chen X,Duan X,Li J,Wu W,Xu M,Mao Y,Chen H,Li J,Gu W,Li H

更新日期：2018-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress-induced neuronal apoptosis is a crucial pathological process of spinal cord injury (SCI). In our previous study, icariin (ICA) showed neuroprotective effects in SCI. However, the relationships between ER stress and ICA in SCI are unclear yet. Therefore, whether ICA could ameliorate SC...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Li H,Zhang X,Qi X,Zhu X,Cheng L

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dyschromatosis universalis hereditaria (DUH) is an autosomal dominant pigmentary genodermatosis characterized by the presence of patches of hyperpigmentation and hypopigmented macules distributed over the body, with most cases reported in Asia. DUH is a heterogeneous disease and a small portion of patients carry the A...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Cui H,Guo S,He H,Guo H,Zhang Y,Wang B

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Colon cancer is a malignant type of cancer with high prevalence and is one of the primary causes of cancer-related deaths. Oxaliplatin plays a significant role in the treatment of cancer, but the application of oxaliplatin is restricted due to its toxic side effects and drug resistance in clinical practice. Therefore,...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Cao P,Xia Y,He W,Zhang T,Hong L,Zheng P,Shen X,Liang G,Cui R,Zou P

更新日期：2019-06-04 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：OBJECTIVES:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) induced lipid peroxidation is associated with sperm function. Malondialdehyde (MDA) concentration and glutathione peroxidase (GPx) activity represent the lipid peroxidation and spermicidal antioxidant, respectively. We aimed to evaluate the relationship of MDA and GPx levels wit...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Hsieh YY,Chang CC,Lin CS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the immune response, neutrophils display localized mechanical events by interacting with their environment through the micro-vascular transit, trans-endothelial, and trans-epithelial migration. Nano-mechanical studies of human neutrophils on localized nano-domains could provide the essential information for und...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Lee YJ,Patel D,Park S

更新日期：2011-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A LIM-homeobox gene, AmphiLim1/5, from the Florida amphioxus (Branchiostoma floridae) encodes a protein that phylogenetic analysis positions at the base of a clade comprising vertebrate Lim1 and Lim5. Amphioxus AmphiLim1/5 is expressed in domains that are a composite of those of vertebrate Lim1 and Lim5, which evident...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Langeland JA,Holland LZ,Chastain RA,Holland ND

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive inflammation induced by various risk factors is associated with the development of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Caffeine exerts potent anti-inflammatory effects as a clinical preventive medicine for BPD. Recently, NLRP3 inflammasome activation has been demonstrated to be essential for the pathogenesis o...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Zhao W,Ma L,Cai C,Gong X

更新日期：2019-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) is a major protein phosphatase with important cell functions. Known and utilized as a potent inhibitor of PP2A, microcystin-LR (MCLR) targets PP2A as a core element that affects numerous cellular mechanisms. But apart from direct inhibition, the exact effect of MCLR on PP2A in cell is lar...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Li T,Huang P,Liang J,Fu W,Guo Z,Xu L

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insulin-like growth factors (IGFs), IGF-I and IGF-II, are essential for regulating cell growth, differentiation and metastasis of a broad range of malignancies. The IGF-I/II actions are mediated through the IGF receptor type 1 (IGF-1R) and the insulin receptor (IR), which are overexpressed in multiple types of tum...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Chen Z,Liu J,Chu D,Shan Y,Ma G,Zhang H,Zhang XD,Wang P,Chen Q,Deng C,Chen W,Dimitrov DS,Zhao Q

更新日期：2018-05-21 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：:Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are transcribed from genome but not translated into proteins. Many ncRNAs are key regulators of plants growth and development, metabolism and stress tolerance. In order to make the web-based ncRNA resources for plant science research be more easily accessible and understandable, we made a comp...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Liao P,Li S,Cui X,Zheng Y

更新日期：2018-05-22 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：:Collagen XXIV (Col24α1) is a recently discovered fibrillar collagen. It is known that mouse Col24α1 is predominantly expressed in the forming skeleton of the mouse embryo, as well as in the trabecular bone and periosteum of the newborn mouse. However, the role and mechanism of Col24α1 in osteoblast differentiation and...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Wang W,Olson D,Liang G,Franceschi RT,Li C,Wang B,Wang SS,Yang S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) represents a debilitating complication following glucocorticoid (GC)-based therapy. Synovial-derived mesenchymal stem cells (SMSCs) can exert protective effect in the animal model of GC-induced ONFH by inducing cell proliferation and preventing cell apoptosis. Recent studies in...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Guo SC,Tao SC,Yin WJ,Qi X,Sheng JG,Zhang CQ

更新日期：2016-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have reported that cancer stem cells (CSCs) could be isolated from solid cancer cell lines, in which the purity of CSCs was higher than that from tumor tissues. Separation of CSCs from leukemic cell lines was rarely reported. In this study, CD34(+)CD38(-)stem-like cell subsets in human KG-1a leukemic ce...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Zhang L,Yang S,He YJ,Shao HY,Wang L,Chen H,Gao YJ,Qing FX,Chen XC,Zhao LY,Tan S

更新日期：2010-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this work was to evaluate the bioavailability of heme iron added to biscuit filling. It comprised two stages: first, the development of the heme iron enriched biscuit filling; second, the evaluation of the bioavailability of the mineral in fattening piglets. Two groups were selected randomly and fed: ...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Quintero-Gutiérrez AG,González-Rosendo G,Sánchez-Muñoz J,Polo-Pozo J,Rodríguez-Jerez JJ

更新日期：2008-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Investigate the DNA damage and its cellular response in blood samples from both mother and the umbilical cord of pregnancies complicated by hyperglycemia. METHODS:A total of 144 subjects were divided into 4 groups: normoglycemia (ND; 46 cases), mild gestational hyperglycemia (MGH; 30 cases), gestational diab...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Moreli JB,Santos JH,Lorenzon-Ojea AR,Corrêa-Silva S,Fortunato RS,Rocha CR,Rudge MV,Damasceno DC,Bevilacqua E,Calderon IM

更新日期：2016-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic cancer (PC) is one of the most lethal diseases, characterized by early metastasis and high mortality. Subunits of the SWI/SNF complex have been identified in many studies as the regulators of tumor progression, but the role of SMARCAD1, one member of the SWI/SNF family, in pancreatic cancer has not been elu...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Liu F,Xia Z,Zhang M,Ding J,Feng Y,Wu J,Dong Y,Gao W,Han Z,Liu Y,Yao Y,Li D

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteomic profiling of the pectoralis muscle of Thai indigenous chickens during growth period was analyzed using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) and matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF/MS). A total of 259, 161, 120 and 107 protein spots were found to be ex...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Teltathum T,Mekchay S

更新日期：2009-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Span 80 (sorbitan monooleate) vesicles behaved differently from conventional phospholipid vesicles (liposomes) because the former had a more fluid interface. After doxorubicin hydrochloride (DOX) was encapsulated into the Span 80 vesicle (loading efficiency: 63 %), DOX-loaded Span 80 vesicles (DVs) were thereafter add...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Hayashi K,Tatsui T,Shimanouchi T,Umakoshi H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling is an emerging pathway in tumor cell invasion and metastasis. Myeloid differentiation protein-2 (MD2) contributes to ligand recognition and activation of TLRs in response to exogenous microbial insults or endogenous agents. We hypothesized that blocking MD2 using a specific inhibitor...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Rajamanickam V,Yan T,Xu S,Hui J,Xu X,Ren L,Liu Z,Liang G,Wang O,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a tumor subtype with aggressive behavior and poor clinical outcome for lacking effective therapies. Breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs) have been suggested to have tumor-initiating properties, but it remains unclear whether their presence contributes to the increased aggressiveness...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Yang F,Cao L,Sun Z,Jin J,Fang H,Zhang W,Guan X

更新日期：2016-12-07 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：:With the advancement of nanotechnology, various nanocomposites have been applied in the diagnostics and treatment of cancer. We synthetized FePt nanoparticles which were assembled on the surface of graphene oxide (GO). These novel FePt/GO nanosheets simultaneously act as a chemotherapy drug and enhance radiosensitivit...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Ma S,Miao H,Luo Y,Sun Y,Tian X,Wang F,You C,Peng S,Tang G,Yang C,Sun W,Li S,Mao Y,Xu J,Xiao Y,Gong Y,Quan H,Xie C

更新日期：2019-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The current severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a global infection, and is seriously threatening human life, especially cancer patients. Thus, we sought to determine the clinical roles of ACE2 (the cell entry receptor of SARS-CoV-2) in ccRCC (clear cell renal cell carcinoma). TCGA, ...

journal_title：International journal of biological sciences

authors： Yang W,Li L,Zhang K,Ma K,Xie H,Gong Y,Zhou J,Gong K

更新日期：2021-01-01 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