New Horizons in the Etiopathogenesis and Non-Invasive Diagnosis of Endometriosis.

abstract：:Many potential HIV vaccine strategies are being explored in both animal model and human settings. The success of any vaccine relies on relevant antigenic determinants being presented to the immune system for the activation of broad and long-lasting immunity. Effective immunity against HIV infection will likely require...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Pope M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the clinical validation of molecular targeted therapies inhibiting the action of pathogenic tyrosine kinase (TK) has been one of the most exciting developments in cancer research. In this context, medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) represents a promising model. It is well known that in MTC, the RET rec...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Torino F,Paragliola RM,Barnabei A,Corsello SM

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：: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：: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：PURPOSE:Accumulated evidence have well established that protein sumoylation plays multiple roles in various cellular processes. In the vertebrate eye, we and others have demonstrated that sumoylation displays indispensable roles in regulating eye development. Various ocular cell lines including human embryonic cell lin...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Liu Y,Zhang L,Tang X,Liu F,Fu JL,Gong XD,Wang L,Nie Q,Xiang JW,Xiao Y,Liu Y,Li DW

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) can be recruited to tumor sites and integrate into the stroma of tumors. When co-cultured with BMSCs, otherwise weakly metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells (NPC) showed improved metastatic ability. BMSCs in the tumor environment displayed the characteristics of m...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zhang L,Sun J,Liu Z,Dai Y,Luo Z,Jiang X,Li Z,Li Y,Cao P,Zhou Y,Zeng Z,Tang A,Li X,Li X,Xiang J,Li G

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Diabetic nephropathy, which represents a major form of chronic kidney disease (CKD), is a leading cause of end-stage renal disease worldwide, and is also a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Patients with diabetes and CKD have poorer outcomes after myocardial infarction. The underlying pathogenic mechanism ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Aso Y

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell adhesion molecule integrin αvβ3 is an important player in the process of angiogenesis. In the last decades, a series of radiolabeled Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) peptides targeting integrin αvβ3 has been prepared and optimized for positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon-emission computed tomography (SPECT) ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Liu Z,Wang F

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) provides unique machinery for the folding and posttranslational modification of many secretory and transmembrane proteins in eukaryotic cells. The unfolded protein response (UPR) is a signal transduction network from the ER to the nucleus activated when the folding demand imposed by nasc...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Schröder M,Kaufman RJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), and cystic fibrosis (CF), chronic diseases of the airways, are characterized by symptoms such as inflammation of the lung tissue, mucus hypersecretion, constriction of the airways, and excessive fibrosis of airway tissue. Transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta, a c...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Moore B,Murphy RF,Agrawal DK

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell research has been growing a new height throughout the world due to its potentialities in medical applications. We can explore several therapeutic applications through the iPS cell research. In this review, we have first discussed the development of iPS cells, reprogramming factors, ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Chakraborty C,Shah KD,Cao WG,Hsu CH,Wen ZH,Lin CS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strong epidemiological evidence indicates that migraine, especially migraine with aura, is associated with increased risk of ischemic stroke. However, the precise mechanisms of such a relation are currently not fully elucidated and are still a matter of speculation. Migraine may directly cause an ischemic event (i.e, ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Pezzini A,Del Zotto E,Giossi A,Volonghi I,Grassi M,Padovani A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Overexpression of MDA-9/Syntenin occurs in multiple human cancer cell lines and is associated with higher grade of tumor classification, invasiveness and metastasis. In some cases, its role in cancer biology depends on relationships between MDA-9/Syntenin and NF-κB. OBJECTIVE:This study aims to analyze the ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Notarbartolo M,Labbozzetta M,Pojero F,D'Alessandro N,Poma P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of tumor angiogenesis suppresses tumor growth and metastatic spreading in many experimental models, suggesting that anti-angiogenic drugs may be used to treat human cancer. During the past decade more than eighty molecules that showed anti-angiogenic activity in preclinical studies were tested in clinical c...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Rüegg C,Meuwly JY,Driscoll R,Werffeli P,Zaman K,Stupp R

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Although surgery and radiotherapy are highly efficient in local tumor control, distal metastases and tumor recurrence often limit therapeutic outcome. It is becoming progressively more evident that curative tumor therapy depends on the presence and maintenance of an intact immune system which has the capacity to elici...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Multhoff G,Pockley AG,Streffer C,Gaipl US

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Ubiquitin is involved in cell proliferation and differentiation, and the objective of this study is to investigate the potential of dominant negative Ubiquitin (Ub) with a lysine to tryptophan mutation at the 6 position (K6W) through an adenoviral expression vector in the prevention of posterior capsule opacifi...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Bao X,Hou M,Peng R,Luo F,Wu M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the leading causes of blindness in the working population worldwide. Vascular leakage, angiogenesis and neuronal degeneration are key features of DR. Current effective interventions for DR include treatment of systemic risk factors such as elevated blood glucose, blood pressure and ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zhang X,Wang N,Schachat AP,Bao S,Gillies MC

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Persistent hyperlactatemia is associated with greater mortality in shock. Liver is the main site of lactate metabolism. METHOD:In the first part, freshly isolated hepatocytes were incubated in 10% fetal bovine serum William's E medium supplemented with 10 mM lactate. Cells were then exposed to 100 μM ursode...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Wang L,He HW,Zhou X,Long Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickle cell disease (SCD) and beta-thalassemia (also referred to as beta-thalassemia) are common hereditary hemoglobinopathies with differing pathophysiologies and clinical courses. However, patients with both diseases exhibit increased platelet and coagulation activation, as well as decreased levels of natural antico...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Singer ST,Ataga KI

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary malignancies of the liver and the gastrointestinal tract constitute one of the main health problems worldwide. Together, these types of tumour are the first cause of death due to cancer, followed by lung and breast cancer respectively. One important limitation in the treatment of these tumours is that, with a ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Marin JJ,Romero MR,Martinez-Becerra P,Herraez E,Briz O

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) is now recognized as a B-cell-derived lymphoma which is characterized by only about 1% malignant pathognomonic Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg (HRS) cells and an abundant infiltrate of reactive bystander cells. HRS cells are unique with respect to their lost B-cell-specific gene expression ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Schwarzer R,Jundt F

更新日期：2011-04-01 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