Human endometrial stem cells differentiation into functional hepatocyte-like cells.

abstract：:Ras/myc-transformed serum-free mouse embryo (ras/myc SFME) cells were treated with interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma; 100 U/ml) and/or lipopolysaccharide (LPS; 0.5 microg/ml) for 24 h to simulate inflammatory and infectious conditions and investigate their effects on the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) ...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Yamaguchi H,Kidachi Y,Umetsu H,Ryoyama K

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulation tissue fibroblasts (myofibroblasts) develop several ultrastructural and biochemical features of smooth muscle (SM) cells, including the presence of microfilaments bundles and the expression of alpha-SM actin, the actin isoform typical of contractile vascular SM cells. Myofibroblasts have been suggested to ...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Desmoulière A

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observations made in live cells have clearly demonstrated that agonist-activated steroid/nuclear receptors reorganize in the nucleoplasm into hundreds of discrete speckled structures commonly referred to as nuclear foci. Subsequent studies have shown that nuclear foci are formed only with agonist- and not with pure an...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Kumar S,Saradhi M,Chaturvedi NK,Tyagi RK

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrillin-1 is the major component of extracellular matrix microfibrils. Microfibrils dysfunction is responsible for the onset of various connective tissue diseases, including Marfan syndrome. Although ADAMTSL (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motifs-like) 6β is one of the fibrillin-1 binding pr...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Orimoto A,Fukuda T

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the adult brain, neural stem cells from the subgranular zone (SGZ) of the hippocampus and the subventricular zone (SVZ) of the cortex progress through the following five developmental stages: radial glia-like cells, neural progenitor cells, neuroblasts, immature neurons, and mature neurons. These developmental stag...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Jia S,Mou C,Ma Y,Han R,Li X

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cloning efficiency in mammalian systems remains low because reprogramming of donor cells is frequently incomplete. Nuclear factors in the oocyte are removed by enucleation, and this removal may adversely affect reprogramming efficiency. Here, we investigated the role of porcine oocyte nuclear factors during reprogramm...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Fu B,Liu D,Ma H,Guo ZH,Wang L,Li ZQ,Peng FG,Bai J

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the presence of low density lipoprotein (LDL), Chlamydia pneumoniae induces macrophage-derived foam cell formation, a typical pathological feature of early atherosclerosis. However, its mechanism has not been fully understood. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) are key regulators of macrophage lipi...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Mei CL,He P,Cheng B,Liu W,Wang YF,Wan JJ

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MSCs (mesenchymal stem cells) are planned foruse in regenerative medicine to offset age-dependent alterations. However, MSCs are affected by replicative senescence associated with decreasing proliferation potential, telomere shortening and DNA damage during in vitro propagation. To monitor in vitro senescence, we have...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Fuchs R,Stelzer I,Drees CM,Rehnolt C,Schraml E,Sadjak A,Schwinger W

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) and hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) play important roles in postnatal neovascularization. However, the interaction of these two pathways is not fully understood. The present study utilized CoCl(2) treated-endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) (EPCs exposure to CoCl(2) are under mimic ...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Yu F,Lin Y,Zhan T,Chen L,Guo S

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of pathophysiological conditions are related to iron metabolism disturbances. Some of them are well known, others are newly discovered or special. Hepcidin is a newly identified iron metabolism regulating hormone, which could be a promising biomarker for many disorders. In this review, we provide background i...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Miseta A,Nagy J,Nagy T,Poór VS,Fekete Z,Sipos K

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large numbers of autogenous melanocytes (Mcs) are required when conducting studies on tissue engineering of skin and performing surgical treatment of depigmentation diseases. This study was conducted to explore the possibility of inducing differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) into Mcs as a means...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Mei X,Sun Y,Wu Z,Pan W,Zhu J,Shi W

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lead is a heavy metal of considerable environmental and occupational concern and there is growing evidence that it is toxic to the human immune system. In this regard, this study examined the effect of lead (Pb) exposure to peritoneal macrophages (Mvarphis) of mice (Mus musculus) cultivated in DMEM medium supplemented...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Gargioni R,Filipak Neto F,Buchi DF,Randi MA,Franco CR,Paludo KS,Pelletier E,Ferraro MV,Cestari MM,Bussolaro D,Oliveira Ribeiro CA

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genistein is one of the naturally occurring isoflavones present in plants such as soybeans and is commonly found in a variety of human foods. A number of studies indicated that this class of compounds exerts anticancerogenic and antimutagenic effects in various in vitro systems and in vivo animal models. We studied th...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Rucinska A,Roszczyk M,Gabryelak T

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aphidicolin, a selective inhibitor of DNA polymerase, totally blocks DNA replication in the micronucleus but not in the macronucleus of Paramecium caudatum. The ciliates no longer divide and after 4 days the DNA content of the macronucleus has increased by 64%. Concomitantly the cell volume has increased by 53%. ...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Sabaneyeva E,Tao W,Verbelen JP

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To establish useful human normal cell lines, TERT (telomerase reverse transcriptase) cDNA was transfected into normal female lung fibroblast, TIG-1. After long-term-sub-cultivation of 74 individual clones selected for resistance to G418, we obtained 55 cultures with normal range of life span [75 PDL (population doubli...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Kamada M,Kumazaki T,Matsuo T,Mitsui Y,Takahashi T

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to examine mechanisms controlling cell cycle progression/arrest and differentiation of mouse C2C12 myoblasts exposed to long-chain saturated fatty acid salt, palmitate. Treatment of proliferating myoblasts with palmitate (0.1 mmol/l) markedly decreased myoblast number. Cyclin A and cyclin ...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Grabiec K,Milewska M,Błaszczyk M,Gajewska M,Grzelkowska-Kowalczyk K

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous trials performed in our laboratory have demonstrated that stainless steel corrosion products induced morphological changes in mice seminiferous cells. In this study the functional nature of the blood-testis barrier was investigated, in view of the extensive use of this metallic alloy in orthopaedic surgery. T...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Pereira ML

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-temperature stress during microspore development alters cellular organization in rice anthers. The major cellular damage includes unusual starch accumulation in the plastids of the endothecium in postmeiotic anthers, abnormal vacuolation and hypertrophy of the tapetum, premature callose (1,3-beta-glucan) breakdown...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Al Mamun E,Cantrill LC,Overall RL,Sutton BG

更新日期：2010-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Ricin is internalized after binding at the cell surface via lectin activity of the B-chain recognizing terminal galactose residues. Ricin-A chain is then translocated to the cytosol from various endocytic structures. Cell death is the result of catalytic inactivation of protein synthesis. Using (125)I-ricin overlays, ...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Alami M,Taupiac MP,Beaumelle B

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BPD (bronchopulmonary dysplasia) is predominantly characterized by persistent abnormalities in lung structure and arrested lung development, but therapy can be palliative. While promising, the use of BMSC (bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell) in the treatment of lung diseases remains controversial. We have asses...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Zhang X,Wang H,Shi Y,Peng W,Zhang S,Zhang W,Xu J,Mei Y,Feng Z

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc-finger E-box binding homeobox 1 (ZEB1) is a master regulator of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and has been implicated in primary epithelial cancer biological processes, such as invasion and metastasis. However, the role of ZEB1 in progression of melanoma and cancer stem cells (CSCs) remains obscure. In ...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Dou J,He X,Liu Y,Wang Y,Zhao F,Wang X,Chen D,Shi F,Wang J

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the polarization of macrophages in the tumor microenvironment, as well as the effect of soluble factors secreted from these polarized macrophages on etoposide-induced cancer cell apoptosis. We investigated the effect of soluble factors secreted from the supernatant of PC3 cells t...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Malekghasemi S,Majidi J,Baradaran B,Aghebati-Maleki L

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterised, using both in vivo and in vitro methods, the effects of the metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 3 (mGlu3) antagonist (LY341495) and agonist (LY379268) on the proliferation and differentiation of glioma stem cells (GSC). For in vitro studies, a CCK-8 assay was used to determine the cell proli...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Zhou K,Song Y,Zhou W,Zhang C,Shu H,Yang H,Wang B

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium loss and muscle atrophy are two of the main metabolic changes experienced by astronauts and crew members during exposure to microgravity in space. Calcium and cytoskeletal events were investigated within sea urchin embryos which were cultured in space under both microgravity and 1 g conditions. Embryos were fi...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Schatten H,Chakrabarti A,Taylor M,Sommer L,Levine H,Anderson K,Runco M,Kemp R

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging evidence suggests that miR-143 plays an important role in the regulation of tumor sensitivity to chemotherapeutic agents. The study explores the underlying mechanism of miR-143 in reversing cisplatin resistance in ovarian cancer. The cisplatin-resistant ovarian cancer cell line A2780/CDDP was induced and esta...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Han X,Liu D,Zhou Y,Wang L,Hou H,Chen H,Zhang L,Chen W,Li X,Zhao L

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we investigated the effects of tetramethylpyrazine (TMP) on hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)-induced apoptosis in PC12 cells. The apoptosis in H2O2-induced PC12 cells was accompanied by a decrease in Bcl-2/Bax protein ratio, release of cytochrome c to cytosol and the activation of caspase-3. TMP not only...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Cheng XR,Zhang L,Hu JJ,Sun L,Du GH

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells can be differentiated into neural lineage cells, but the differentiation efficiency remains low. This study revealed two important factors that influence the neural differentiation efficiency of mouse ES cells: the first is the quality of embryonic bodies (EBs); good quality of EBs cons...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Zhou JM,Xing FY,Shi JJ,Fang ZF,Chen XJ,Chen F

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin resistance (IR) is a hallmark of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This study aimed to explore the effects of rapamycin, a specific inhibitor of kinase mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), on IR in T2DM rats, and to validate whether the underlying mechanism was associated with autophagy. In this study, the mod...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Zhou W,Ye S

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-small-cell carcinoma (NSCLC) is the most common cancer along with high mortality rate worldwide. In the present study, our data showed that lncRNA MAF BZIP Transcription Factor G Antisense RNA 1 (MAFG-AS1) was over-expressed in NSCLC tissues and cell lines. Overexpression of MAFG-AS1 promoted the migration, invasi...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Jia YC,Wang JY,Liu YY,Li B,Guo H,Zang AM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the effects of human yolk sac-derived endothelial cells (hYSECs) on the expansion of human hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HS/PCs) from umbilical cord blood (UCB) in vitro, we purified hYSEC-like cells from 4-5 week human yolk sacs, which were morphologically similar to endothelial cells a...

journal_title：Cell biology international

authors： Hu L,Cheng L,Wang J,Zhao H,Duan H,Lu G

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00