Perfluorooctanoic acid induces oxidative damage and mitochondrial dysfunction in pancreatic β-cells.

abstract：:The present study aimed to investigate the mechanism underlying the effects of minocycline on diabetic retinopathy‑associated cellular apoptosis. A total of 40 Sprague Dawley (SD) rats were used as a diabetic retinopathy model following injection with streptozotocin. Among the 34 rats in which the diabetes model was s...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Wu Y,Chen Y,Wu Q,Jia L,Du X

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonadotrophin‑releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists (GnRHa) have been widely used to induce a state of downregulation for in vitro fertilization, and its direct effects on the pituitary are well known. However, the effects of GnRHa on the expression of anti‑mullerian hormone (AMH) by follicles in varying stages in vivo re...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Huang J,Wang X,Li Z,Ma R,Xiao W

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G-protein-coupled receptor 30 (GPR30) has been reported to act as a membrane-bound estrogen receptor that is involved in the mediation of non-genomic estradiol signalling. In this study, we demonstrated that male, but not female, GPR30-deficient mice suffer from impaired left‑ventricular cardiac function. Left ventric...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Delbeck M,Golz S,Vonk R,Janssen W,Hucho T,Isensee J,Schäfer S,Otto C

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to determine the intracellular localization of Cpn0425 in Chlamydophila pneumoniae-infected cells. The recombinant plasmid pGEX-6p/Cpn0425 was transformed into E.coli Bl21 cells to express the fusion protein. Following purification with glutathione S-transfer...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Liu L,You X,Chen L,Zeng Y,Tang S,Yu M,Wu Y,Xhen X

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multipotent and easily accessible characteristics of dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) make them a promising target for bone tissue engineering. Long non‑coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have an important role in the osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells. Nevertheless, whether lncRNAs are involved in the osteogen...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Tao R,Li YX,Liu YK,Liu F,Zhou ZY

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serious diabetic complications affect millions of patients worldwide. Skeletal muscle represents the largest insulin-regulated glucose sink in the body, making insulin resistance and abnormal glucose disposal in muscle fibres a critical aspect of diabetes mellitus. Advances in the biomedical analysis of the molecular ...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Mulvey C,Mullen E,Ohlendieck K

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The overexpression and hypersecretion of mucus is a hallmark of chronic pulmonary inflammatory disease. Mucin5AC (MUC5AC) is a major component of airway gel‑forming mucin. Members of the Unc13 (Munc13) protein family act as important activators of granule exocytosis from various types of mammalian cells. The present s...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

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

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor (TGF)‑β1 has a key role in the regulation of fibrosis and organ dysfunction. During the pathogenesis and progression of vital organ fibrosis, the microRNA (miR)‑29 family is irregularly downregulated and exogenous supplementation of miR‑29b has a strong anti‑fibrotic capacity. However, wheth...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Li J,Cen B,Chen S,He Y

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia (SZ) and cancer (Ca) have a broad spectrum of clinical phenotypes and a complex biological background, implicating a large number of genetic and epigenetic factors. SZ is a chronic neurodevelopmental disorder signified by an increase in the expression of apoptotic molecular signals, whereas Ca is convers...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Rizos E,Siafakas N,Skourti E,Papageorgiou C,Tsoporis J,Parker TH,Christodoulou DI,Spandidos DA,Katsantoni E,Zoumpourlis V

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to investigate functional networks underlying brain‑activity alterations in patients with acute unilateral open globe injury (OGI) and associations with their clinical features using the voxel‑wise degree centrality (DC) method. In total, 18 patients with acute OGI (16 males and 2 females), and...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Wang H,Chen T,Ye L,Yang QC,Wei R,Zhang Y,Jiang N,Shao Y

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that sevoflurane induces neurotoxicity in the developing brain. Dexmedetomidine is an α2 adrenoceptor agonist used for the prevention of sevoflurane‑induced agitation in children in clinical practice. The aim of the present study was to determine whether dexmedetomidine could prevent sevoflurane‑i...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Zhang Y,Li M,Cui E,Zhang H,Zhu X,Zhou J,Yan M,Sun J

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The healing of diabetic wounds represents a formidable clinical challenge, and the molecular mechanisms involved in diabetic wound healing are far from clear. In this study, we investigated the expression of β-catenin and cyclin D1 in the epidermal stem cells (ESCs) of diabetic rats, and explored whether the reduction...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Zhong QL,Liu FR,Liu DW,Peng Y,Zhang XR

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The costs of spinal cord injury and its complications are high in personal, social and financial terms. Complications include bladder cancer, for which the risk is 16-28 times higher than that of the general population, There is currently little consensus regarding the cause of this discrepancy. As microRNAs are stabl...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Wang T,Liu Y,Yuan W,Zhang L,Zhang Y,Wang Z,Zhou X,Zhou H,Chu T,Hao Y,Liu B,Zhao X,Lu L,Feng S,Kong X

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been discovered to have pivotal roles in regulating the drug resistance of various types of human cancer, including cisplatin (DDP) resistance in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Fewer studies have explored the roles of miR-106a in NSCLC-cell resistance to DDP and its precise molecular mecha...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Ma Y,Li X,Cheng S,Wei W,Li Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxemia and hypercarbia resulting from a lack of surfactant is considered to be the primary mechanism underlying neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (NRDS). Surfactant replacement therapy may mitigate the symptoms of the disease by decreasing the surface tension of alveoli and facilitating inflation. However, sur...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Mei H,Zhang Y,Liu C,Zhang Y,Liu C,Song D,Xin C,Wang J,Josephs-Spaulding J,Zhu Y,Tang F

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiotherapy is commonly used to treat thoracic malignancies, but often causes severe lung injury. Currently there are no effective protective strategies against radiation-induced lung injury (RILI). This study aimed to evaluate the ability of an angiogenesis antagonist, Endostar, against RILI, and the underlying mech...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Zhang K,Yang S,Zhu Y,Mo A,Zhang D,Liu L

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of tetramethylpyrazine (TMP), one of the alkaloids isolated from the Chinese herb Chuanxiong, on the proliferation and migration of brain endothelial cells. A different dosage of TMP was employed to stimulate the mouse microvascular cell line bEnd.3 in vitro. TM...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Zhang M,Gao F,Teng F,Zhang C

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multinucleated cells are present in impaired spermatogenesis and in the senescent testis. Following accumulating evidence from our previous studies on the identification of multinucleated cells during normal testicle development, the current study further investigated the possible mechanism and role of these multinucl...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Luo L,Li Y,Yang Y,He Y,Wang Y,Xu Z,Zhang Y

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated that microRNAs (miRNAs), a class of single‑stranded RNA molecules that are 18‑27 nucleotides in length, serve a critical function in tumorigenesis, including in the development of colon cancer. In the current study, miR‑100 levels were demonstrated to be reduced in colon cancer tissu...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Zhou MK,Liu XJ,Zhao ZG,Cheng YM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a highly conserved pathway that permits recycling of nutrients within the cell and is rapidly upregulated during starvation or cell stress. Autophagy has been implicated in the pathophysiological process of warm ischemia‑reperfusion injury in the rat lung. Cold ischemia (CI) preservation for lung transpla...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Chen X,Wu JX,You XJ,Zhu HW,Wei JL,Xu MY

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In postmenopausal women and elderly men, bone density decreases with age and vascular calcification is aggravated. This condition is closely associated with vitamin K2 deficiency. A total of 17 different vitamin K‑dependent proteins have been identified to date. Vitamin K‑dependent proteins are located within the bone...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Wen L,Chen J,Duan L,Li S

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The poor prognosis of non‑small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is related to epithelial‑mesenchymal transition (EMT). Recent studies demonstrated that non‑coding RNA activated by DNA damage (NORAD) displays a carcinogenic effect and targets microRNA (miR)‑422a, which may be involved in tumor cell migration and invasion. The...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Chen Z,Che Q,Xie C

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12‑year‑old Chinese girl presented with gradual vision loss and insulin‑dependent diabetes mellitus and was suspected to suffer from Wolfram syndrome (WFS). A series of clinical examinations were performed, as well as direct DNA sequencing to screen the entire coding region of the...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Xu Q,Qu H,Wei S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scavenger receptor class A, member 5 (SCARA5) is a member of the scavenger receptor family, and is involved in several types of human malignancy; however, its roles in osteosarcoma (OS) remain to be fully elucidated. Therefore, in the present study, the biological functions of SCARA5 in OS, and the potential underlyin...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Wen X,Wang N,Zhang F,Dong C

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the current study was to identify hub pathways of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) using a novel method based on differential pathway network (DPN) analysis. The present study proposed a DPN where protein‑protein interaction (PPI) network was integrated with pathway‑pathway interactions. Pathway data was obtained ...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Wei ST,Sun YH,Zong SH

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate the possible metabolic alterations in the frontal cortex and parietal white matter in patients with diabetic hypertension (DHT) using proton magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopic imaging. A total of 33 DHT patients and 30 healthy control subjects aged between 45 and 75 w...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Cao Z,Ye BD,Shen ZW,Cheng XF,Yang ZX,Liu YY,Wu RH,Geng K,Xiao YY

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucosamine is a possible cause of vascular endothelial injury in the initial stages of atherosclerosis, through endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress resulting in fatty streaks in the vascular wall. Quercetin is an anti‑diabetic and cardiovascular protective agent that has previously been demonstrated to reduce ER stress...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Cai X,Bao L,Ding Y,Dai X,Zhang Z,Li Y

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRs) can lead to mRNA degradation or inhibit protein translation through directly binding to the 3'‑untranslational region (UTR) of their target mRNAs. Deregulation of miR‑10b has been reported to be associated with chondrosarcoma. However, the role of miR‑10b in chondrosarcoma cell migration and invasion,...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Aili A,Chen Y,Zhang H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is much interest in the potential application of vector-induced gene therapeutic approaches to several forms of hearing disorders due to the poor efficacy of existing treatments. The cochlea is an ideal site for local gene transfection due to its anatomical encapsulation and fluid flow within its ducts. However,...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Xia L,Yin S

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is one of the main causes of death and nervous system damage in neonates. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of the Toll‑like receptor 4 (TLR4) antagonist TAK‑242 on HIE. The Rice‑Vannucci method was used for ligation of the left common carotid art...

journal_title：Molecular medicine reports

authors： Jiang L,Xu Z,Li H,Wu M,Wang F,Liu S,Tao J,Feng X

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00