Glucocorticoids: structure, signaling and molecular mechanisms in the treatment of diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interleukins IL1ß/IL18 and Inflammasome NLRP1/NLRP3 polymorphisms can change the course of multiple human diseases, both inflammatory as infectious. SNPs these proteins were associated with the constructive activation of the Inflammasome and excessive production of IL-1β induce a serious autoinflammatory dis...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： de Almeida E,Frantz SR,Cesar P,Tarragô AM,de Amorim Xabregas L,Garcia NP,Costa AG,de Paula EV,Malheiro A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conformational or misfolding diseases are a large class of devastating human disorders associated with protein misfolding and aggregation. Most conformational diseases are caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors, suggesting that spontaneous events can destabilize the protein involved in the pathol...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Cardinale A,Biocca S

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition of cellular immortality is a critical step in human tumorigenesis. While the vast majority of human tumors activate the catalytic component of telomerase (hTERT) to stabilize their telomeres and attain immortality, a significant portion (7-10%) utilize a poorly defined alternative form of telomere main...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Stewart SA

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The view that mitochondrial electron transport is the only site of aerobic respiration and the primary bioenergetic pathway in mammalian cells is well established in the literature. Although this paradigm is widely accepted for most tissues, the situation is less clear for proliferating cells. Increasing evidence indi...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Herst PM,Berridge MV

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ocular lens is a non-vascular and non-innervated transparent organ that plays an important role in vision processing. This unique organ is derived from the embryonic ectoderm of the brain region through a complicated differentiation process in which apoptosis plays a key role. First, when the committed ectoderm be...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zhang L,Yan Q,Liu JP,Zou LJ,Liu J,Sun S,Deng M,Gong L,Ji WK,Li DW

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oxidative stress and chronic hyperglycemia are two major side effects of type 2 diabetes affecting all cell types including mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). As a cell therapy choice, understanding the behavior of MSCs will provide crucial information for efficient treatment. METHODS:Placental mesenchymal stem...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Roohi A,Nikougoftar M,Montazeri H,Navabi S,Shokri F,Ostad SN,Ghahremani MH

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endometriosis is one of the most common gynecological inflammatory diseases, occurring in adolescents and women in the reproductive age group and leading to infertility. The precise etiopathogenesis of endometriosis is unknown, but several theories concerning the phenomena involved in its development have been propose...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zubrzycka A,Zubrzycki M,Janecka A,Zubrzycka M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eicosanoids are diverse mediators of inflammation that derive from a single cell membrane phospholipid-associated precursor, arachidonic acid. This precursor is metabolized to several groups of lipid mediators, including (but not limited to) prostaglandins, leukotrienes, and lipoxins, in a tightly regulated, coordinat...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Boyce JA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most lysosomal storage diseases (LSD) exhibit neurological symptoms and there has been limited success in their treatment. Innovative treatments employing novel therapy or gene therapy may offer the prospect of improvement. Recent attempts to treat the neurological forms of LSD include neural stem cell therapy, mesenc...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Eto Y,Ohashi T

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visfatin is one of the prominent adipokines secreted by adipose tissue. The level of visfatin increases significantly in persons with obesity owing to increased body mass index (BMI). During obesity, the adipocytes, which populate adipose tissue, undergo hypertrophy and hyperplasia and secrete a number of adipocytokin...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Kumari B,Yadav UCS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucolipidosis Type IV (MLIV) is a lysosomal storage disorder that is characterized by severe neurologic and ophthalmologic abnormalities. It is a progressive disease that usually presents during the first year of life with mental retardation, corneal opacities, and delayed motor milestones. First described in 1974, ML...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Slaugenhaupt SA

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an MHC class I protein, the disease association of HLA-B27 with inflammatory arthritis has been widely assumed to imply a role for the T cell antigen receptor (TCR) in disease. However, in addition to their classical antigen-presenting role, HLA class I proteins are recognised by members of the killer immunoglobuli...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Allen RL,Trowsdale J

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A critical challenge faced by clinical nephrologists today is the escalating number of patients developing end stage renal disease, a major proportion of which is attributed to diabetic nephropathy (DN). The need for new measures to prevent and treat this disease cannot be overemphasized. To this end, modern genetic a...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Ng DP,Krolewski AS

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mistletoe is often used as complementary therapy in oncology. The anti-tumor effects of mistletoe (Iscador) are well documented in-vitro in respect to inhibition of cell proliferation, induction of apoptosis, segmental activation of immune competent cells and trapping of chemotherapeutic drugs within cancer cells by m...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Matthes H,Friedel WE,Bock PR,Zänker KS

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p53 tumor suppressor plays a pivotal role in maintaining genomic integrity and preventing cancer development. The importance of p53 in tumor suppression is illustrated by the observation that about 50% human tumor cells have a dysfunctional p53 pathway. Although it has been well accepted that the activity of p53 is ma...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zhang J,Chen X

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many autoimmune diseases have genetic associations with the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class II loci. Susceptibility to Type 1 diabetes mellitus (TIDM) is particularly associated with Human Leucocyte Antigen (HLA) DR3, 4 and associated DQ2, 8 alleles and this is well documented in genetic association studi...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Wong FS,Wen L

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major benefit of the genomics revolution in biomedical research has been the establishment of transcriptome analysis as an enabling technology in the drug development process. Nowhere in the realm of drug development has the expectation of the impact of transcriptome analysis been greater than in the area of pre-cli...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Searfoss GH,Ryan TP,Jolly RA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chondroitin sulfate (CS)-glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are linear, negatively charged polysaccharides attached to CS proteoglycans that make up a major component of biological matrices throughout both central and peripheral tissues. The position of their attached sulfate groups to the CS disaccharide is predicted to influ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Alonge K,Harkewicz R,Guttman M

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal cerebral ischemia induces neurogenesis in the subventricular zone (SVZ) of the adult human brain. Neurogenesis is controlled by proliferation, differentiation, and migration of neural progenitor cells. This article reviews emerging data that changes of cell cycle kinetics of neural progenitor cells induced by st...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zhang RL,Zhang ZG,Chopp M

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disease characterized by low bone mineral density. Vitamin D metabolism may play a pivotal role in its pathophysiology. OBJECTIVES:To determine the association between Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms and bone density, as well as its relation to biochemical markers o...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Taha IM,Allah AMA,El Tarhouny S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lauric acid (LA) has antimicrobial effects and the potential to replace antibiotics in feeds to prevent postweaning diarrhea and increase overall swine productivity. The effects of lauric acid on the intestinal epithelial cells remain unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS:This study investigates the effects of LA on...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Yang Y,Huang J,Li J,Yang H,Yin Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor plays important roles in learning and memory. NMDA receptors are a tetramer that consists of two glycine-binding subunits GluN1, two glutamate-binding subunits (i.e., GluN2A, GluN2B, GluN2C, and GluN2D), a combination of a GluN2 subunit and glycine-binding GluN3 subunit (i.e., GluN...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Yamamoto H,Hagino Y,Kasai S,Ikeda K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obesity is a chronic condition associated with poorer cognitive functioning. Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) is a useful tool for evaluating executive functions. In this study, we assessed the association between dopaminergic gene polymorphisms: DAT1 (SLC6A3), COMTVal158Met, DRD4 (48-bp variable number of...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Bieliński M,Lesiewska N,Junik R,Kamińska A,Tretyn A,Borkowska A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this review is to provide a concise overview of developments over the last 15 years in the field of laboratory tests in human medicine that are based on the detection of alterations in the glycan part of glycoconjugates. We show how glycosylation-based diagnostic testing is widespread in the current cli...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Schulz BL,Laroy W,Callewaert N

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure and developmental mechanisms of vertebrate retina are highly conserved. One of the most distinctive events during retinogenesis is the temporally and spatially generation of seven types of retinal cells from the multipotent retinal progenitor cells. The importance and prevalence of SUMOylation in regulat...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zhang L,Li DW

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mood disorders and schizophrenia share a number of common properties, including: genetic susceptibility; differences in brain structure and drug based therapy. Some genetic loci may even confer susceptibility for bipolar mood disorder and schizophrenia, and some atypical antipsychotic drugs are used as mood stabilizer...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Harwood AJ

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibromyalgia (FM) is a prevalent disorder defined by the presence of chronic widespread pain in association with fatigue, sleep disturbances and cognitive dysfunction. Recent studies indicate that bipolar spectrum disorders frequently co-occur in individuals with FM. Furthermore, shared pathophysiological mechanisms a...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Bortolato B,Berk M,Maes M,McIntyre RS,Carvalho AF

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes carries a 2-6-fold increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and death. Indeed, the risk of major cardiovascular events in Type 2 diabetic patients without history of coronary heart disease (CHD) is equivalent to that observed in non-diabetic subjects with CHD. However, atherosclerosis may also pr...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Ziegler D

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bulimia nervosa (BN) and Anorexia Nervosa (AN) are currently classified as eating disorders (ED). Both disorders are the product of complex interaction between physiological and psychological and social processes; they are characterized by abnormal eating behavior. However, patients with BN differ from AN in their nut...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Takimoto Y,Inui A,Kumano H,Kuboki T

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines are newly discovered molecules that mediate the migration of leukocytes into inflammed tissues and control the inflammatory reactions in various immune-mediated diseases. Both in animal models and in human specimens, chemokine expression is associated with atherosclerotic lesion development and vascular rem...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Filippatos G,Parissis JT,Adamopoulos S,Kardaras F

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00