Some examples of the functions of metal ions in biology.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The current study aimed to investigate the functional roles and clinical significance of microRNA-148a (miR-148a) in the progression of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). METHODS:Relative expression of miR-148a in OSCC cells and tissues were detected using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Jia T,Ren Y,Wang F,Zhao R,Qiao B,Xing L,Ou L,Guo B

更新日期：2020-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus replication inhibitory peptide (carbobenzoxy-D-Phe-L-PheGly) was shown to be a potent specific inhibitor of the replication of paramyxovirus and myxovirus (Richardson, Scheid and Choppin (1980), Virology 105, 205-222). This peptide inhibits the membrane fusing activity of a viral glycoprotein. Many agents which ...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Epand RM

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) and its taurine-conjugate, tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA), play a unique role in modulating the apoptotic threshold in cells. The mechanism is thought to involve, in part, inhibition of translocation for Bax from the cytosol to mitochondria. Here, we attempted to use the native fluoresce...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Zhang W,Steer CJ,Douglas KT,Rodrigues CM

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of cancer stem cells (CSCs) is considered as a direct reason for the failure of clinic treatment in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Growing evidences have demonstrated that miRNAs play an important role in regulation of stem cell proliferation, differentiation and self-renewal and their aberrances cause ...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Liu Q,Xu Y,Wei S,Gao W,Chen L,Zhou T,Wang Z,Ying M,Zheng Q

更新日期：2015-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of Necturus gallbladder epithelium Benzel et al. (Benzel et al., 1980) found that low (0.2-1.2 microM) and higher concentrations (1.5 microM and more) of cytochalasin B (CB) caused an increase and decrease in the transepithelial electrical resistance (TER), respectively. Moreover, there were slight changes ...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Nybom P,Magnusson KE

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conflicting opinions were recently expressed concerning the possible effect of alpha 2-adrenergic agonists upon cyclic AMP production in pancreatic islets. In the present study, clonidine inhibited glucose-induced insulin release from rat pancreatic islets, this inhibitory effect being abolished by idazoxan. Clonidine...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Garcia-Morales P,Dufrane SP,Sener A,Valverde I,Malaisse WJ

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the topoisomerase enzyme in DNA recombination was investigated by extracting chromosomal deoxyribonucleoproteins from a variety of cultured mammalian cells and assaying for the formation of recombinant DNA structures. Although each of the crude deoxyribonucleoprotein preparations contained topoisomerase ac...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Hamelin C,Alain R,Houde D,Berthiaume L

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathepsin D occurs in two forms, a single polypeptide chain (Mr 44 000) and a non-covalent complex of two peptides of Mr 14 000 and 30 000 that is derived by proteolytic processing of the 44 000 polypeptide. The two forms from bovine spleen are closely similar in secondary structure content, in aromatic amino acid env...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Pain RH,Lah T,Turk V

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative proportions of immunoregulatory T-cell subpopulations defined by OKT monoclonal antibodies are disturbed in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) patients (even early mild cases) compared with normal subjects in the same age range. The mean ratio OKT4+:OKT8+ (helper:suppressor/cytotoxic) is reversed from th...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Johnstone AP,Height S,Millard RE

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-(2-Hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide copolymers bearing oligopeptide side-chains terminating in p-nitroaniline (NAp) were incubated with rat liver lysosomal enzymes in the presence of the thiol glutathione, and the rate of p-nitroaniline release was measured. Twelve of the 16 side-chains investigated were hydrolysed to r...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Duncan R,Cable HC,Lloyd JB,Rejmanová P,Kopecek J

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The marbled rockfish Sebastiscus marmoratus is an ecologically and economically important marine fish species distributed along the northwestern Pacific coast from Japan to the Philippines. Here, next-generation sequencing was used to generate a whole genome survey dataset to provide fundamental information of its gen...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Xu SY,Song N,Xiao SJ,Gao TX

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Kawasaki disease (KD) is a type of disease that includes the development of a fever that lasts at least 5 days and involves the clinical manifestation of multicellular vasculitis. KD has become one of the most common pediatric cardiovascular diseases. Previous studies have reported that miR-218 rs11134527 A>G is assoc...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Pi L,Fu L,Xu Y,Che D,Deng Q,Huang X,Li M,Zhang L,Huang P,Gu X

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Ki67 has been a key role for the treatment options and prognosis evaluation in some kinds of tumors; however, the spatial expression of Ki67 in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) has not been fully-evaluated. Therefore, in the present study, we aimed to elucidate the prognosis value of Ki67 spatial expres...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Jing Y,Yang Y,Hao F,Song Y,Zhang X,Zhang Y,Huang X,Hu Q,Ni Y

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A few studies suggested the contribution of PPARs to the etiology of schizophrenia (SCZ). However, it is still not clear whether variants in PPAR-encoding genes have a direct association with SCZ. The potential linkage between SCZ and the variants within PPAR encoding genes (PPARA, PPARD, and PPARG) was tested in a la...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Li X,Zhu Y,Keaton M,Baranova A,Liu S,Hu X,Li Q,Cheng L,Zhou P,Cao H,Xu Y

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth arrest special 5 (GAS5), as a research hotspot of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), has been reported to be associated with colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the association between polymorphisms in GAS5 and the risk of CRC was not clear. In the present study, a case-control study in 1078 CRC patients and 1175...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Wang Y,Wu S,Yang X,Li X,Chen R

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between dietary protein intake and ovarian cancer had been inconsistent in the previous epidemiological studies. The aim of the present study was to identify and synthesize all citations evaluating the relationship on ovarian cancer with protein intake. The search included PubMed, Embase, and Web of Sc...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Pang Y,Wang W

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The human bronchial epithelial cell line, 16HBE14o- (16HBE), is widely used as a model for respiratory epithelial diseases and barrier function. During differentiation, transepithelial electrical resistance (TER) increased to approximately 800 Ohms × cm2, while 14C-d-mannitol flux rates (Jm) simultaneously decreased. ...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Callaghan PJ,Ferrick B,Rybakovsky E,Thomas S,Mullin JM

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Identified and cloned in 1996 for the first time, G protein-coupled oestrogen receptor (ER) 30 (GPR30/GPER) has been a hot spot in the field of sex hormone research till now. In the present study, we examined the effects of low-dose oestradiol (E2) combined with G15, a specific antagonist of GPR30 on ovariectomy (OVX)...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Kang WB,Cong Y,Ru JY,Ying SQ,Zhu T,Wang DS,Liu XW,Liu G,Zhao JN

更新日期：2015-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute primary angle-closure (APAC) eyes show an early 'acute inflammatory' condition, while the inflammation condition has not been fully elucidated in the development of primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG). To evaluate the roles of inflammatory cytokines in the pathogenesis of PACG, this cross-sectional study invol...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Wang Y,Chen S,Liu Y,Huang W,Li X,Zhang X

更新日期：2018-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-1 (ET-1) and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) play important roles in pulmonary hypertension (PH) in sickle cell disease (SCD). Our previous studies show higher levels of placenta growth factor (PlGF) in SCD correlate with increased plasma levels of ET-1, PAI-1, and other physiological markers of P...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Gonsalves CS,Li C,Malik P,Tahara SM,Kalra VK

更新日期：2015-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Acidic airway microenvironment is one of the representative pathophysiological features of chronic inflammatory respiratory diseases. Epithelial barrier function is maintained by TJs (tight junctions), which act as the first physical barrier against the inhaled substances and pathogens of airway. As previous studies d...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Xu R,Li Q,Zhou J,Zhou XD,Perelman JM,Kolosov VP

更新日期：2013-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To explore the prognostic value of clusterin (CLU) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients treated with oxaliplatin (OXA). METHODS:Relative expression of plasma CLU mRNA was examined via fluorescence quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR), and CLU protein level in tissue samples was detected through immunohistoch...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Wang X,Liu Y,Qin Q,Zheng T

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Superoxide dismutase (SOD), a metal containing enzyme is present in parasite Leishmania donovani as well as in host macrophages both resident and activated in a detectable amount, although the level is much higher in the latter case. It is observed that at any particular protein concentration, the SOD activity is high...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Mukherjee S,Bandyapadhyay R,Basu MK

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical and physical stimuli trigger a cutaneous response by first inducing the main epidermal cells, keratinocytes, to produce specific mediators that are responsible for the initiation of skin inflammation. Activation modulates cell communication, namely leucocyte recruitment and blood-to-skin extravasation through...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Franchi J,Marteau C,Crola da Silva C,Mitterrand M,André P,Kieda C

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood platelets have the capacity to participate in a number of physiological as well as pathological processes within the circulation. In order to evaluate their cellular reactivity a number of platelet function tests have been developed. The main in vitro function tests are assessment of aggregation and adhesion, se...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Spangenberg P,Till U

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High concentrations of glucose and palmitate increase endothelial cell inflammation and apoptosis, events that often precede atherogenesis. They may do so by decreasing basal autophagy and AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) activity, although the mechanisms by which this occurs are not clear. Decreased function of th...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Weikel KA,Cacicedo JM,Ruderman NB,Ido Y

更新日期：2016-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study estimates the effect of rivaroxaban on preventing deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in aged diabetics with femoral neck fractures after hip replacement. Our study consisted of 236 aged diabetics with femoral neck fractures, which were divided into the rivaroxaban and control groups. Reaction time (R time), ...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Zhang YM,Jiang X,Sun YS

更新日期：2017-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the relationship between the volume of epicardial adipose tissue and long-term outcomes in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The patients with CHD were followed for at least 2 years after PCI. The epicardial adipose tissue volume (EATV) was meas...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Lu C,Jia H,Wang Z

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cilia and flagella are critical organelles with conserved internal structures and diverse developmental and physiological processes according to cell type. Although the core components of structures are shared with thousands of associated proteins involved in cilia or flagella formation, we hypothesized that some unkn...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Li ZZ,Zhao WL,Wang GS,Gu NH,Sun F

更新日期：2020-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Hippo pathway is a highly conservative signalling pathway related to the development of organisms, which has been demonstrated to be strongly linked to the tumorigenesis and tumour progression. As the major downstream effector of Hippo pathway, yes-associated protein (YAP), is a transcriptional activator of target gen...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Wang S,Ma K,Chen L,Zhu H,Liang S,Liu M,Xu N

更新日期：2016-09-29 00:00:00