Chitinase: diversity, limitations, and trends in engineering for suitable applications.

abstract：:Heterotopic ossification (HO) is the aberrant formation of mature, lamellar bone in nonosseous tissue. Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is a rare and devastating genetic disorder that causes progressive HO in the ligaments, tendons, and muscles throughout the body. FOP is attributed to an autosomal mutation...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Lin H,Shi F,Gao J,Hua P

更新日期：2019-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Hospital-acquired infections are common in burn patients and are the major contributors of morbidity and mortality. Bacterial infections such as Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) and Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) are difficult to treat due to their biofilm formation and rapidly acquiring resistance to antibio...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Khan A,Xu M,Wang T,You C,Wang X,Ren H,Zhou H,Khan A,Han C,Li P

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Micro-inflammation plays an important role in the pathogenesis of spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR). In the present study, we investigated the therapeutic potential of resveratrol (RSV), a polyphenol with anti-fibrosis activity in hypertensive renal damage model. In SHR renal damage model, RSV treatment blunted the...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Xue HY,Yuan L,Cao YJ,Fan YP,Chen XL,Huang XZ

更新日期：2016-06-03 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：:miRNAs have been implicated in processing of cardiac hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R)-induced injury. Recent studies demonstrated that miR-19a might provide a potential cardioprotective effect on myocardial disease. However, the effect of miR-19a in regulating myocardial ischemic injury has not been previously addressed. T...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Sun G,Lu Y,Li Y,Mao J,Zhang J,Jin Y,Li Y,Sun Y,Liu L,Li L

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:31p nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra have been obtained from animal and human tumours grown in laboratory rodents. The tumour cells are only slightly more acid than the surrounding muscle but they tend to have large Pi and sugar phosphate peaks, suggesting anoxia, and large but variable phosphodiester peaks. T...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Griffiths JR,Iles RA

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent developments in the study of peptide amidation are reviewed. The main areas covered are assay procedures, purification of amidating enzymes, co-factors and regulation, mechanism and specificity of the amidating reaction, and multiple forms of the amidating enzyme and glycosylation. Discussion is presented on as...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Bradbury AF,Smyth DG

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three myoid-cell clones were established from the thymuses of two Wistar rats; one thymus yielded two clones, R615A and R615B2, and the other yielded one clone, R613Ad. The three clones were divided into two subtypes. Both subtypes were able to form myofibrils, expressed AChR on their cell-surface membrane, and contai...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Kamo I,Nonaka I,Furukawa S,Satoyoshi E

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exon junction complex (EJC) is the main mechanism by which cells select specific mRNAs for translation into protein. We hypothesized that the EJC is involved in the regulation of gene expression during the stress response in cardiac myocytes, with implications for the failing heart. In cultured rat neonatal myocyt...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Pierrat OA,Paudyal A,Woodruff J,Koroleva O,Boateng SY

更新日期：2017-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Wilms tumor is the most common pediatric malignancy in the kidney. The miR34b/c is a downstream target gene of the transcription factor p53. The important role of TP53 mutations, the methylation of miR34b/c, and the interaction between these two molecules in tumorigenesis have been well documented. Due to the biologic...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Wang J,Lou S,Huang X,Mo Y,Wang Z,Zhu J,Tian X,Shi J,Zhou H,He J,Ruan J

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a disease highly sensitive to radiotherapy with the unclear etiology. However, the specific effects of microRNA-613 (miR-613) on NPC still remain elusive. Therefore, the present study probes into the underlying mechanism of miR-613 in NPC via AKT signaling pathway by regul...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Gao R,Feng Q,Tan G

更新日期：2019-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the mechanism of circGOLPH3 regulation on prostate cancer cells, we performed an overexpression and interference circGOLPH3 assay in prostate cancer cells PC-3 and then evaluated cellular viability, proliferation, cell cycle, and apoptosis of prostate cancer cells by MTT, CCK8, Edu stain, TUNEL stain, and f...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Gong L,Tang Y,Jiang L,Tang W,Luo S

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer (PCa), the second most mortal cancer from developed countries, presents a high level of chemoresistance. There is emerging evidence underscores the critical role of autophagy in the onset, progression, and chemoresistance of PCa. In the present study, we investigated the possible role of a novel autoph...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Liu J,Chen Z,Guo J,Wang L,Liu X

更新日期：2019-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNA-326 (miR-326) was reported to be dysregulated and involved in the progression of multiple cancers. However, the clinical significance, biological role and underlying mechanism of miR-326 in the carcinogenesis of breast cancer are still unclear. In the present study, we showed that miR-326 was down-regulated i...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Du Y,Shen L,Zhang W,Ding R,Li Q,Li S,Zhang H

更新日期：2019-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This research aimed to study the associations between XPD (G751A, rs13181), hOGG1 (C326G, rs1052133) and XRCC4 (G1394T, rs6869366) gene polymorphisms and the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) in a Chinese Han population. METHOD:A total of 225 Chinese Han patients with CRC were selected as the study group, and...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Jin D,Zhang M,Hua H

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The recognition of phosphate and sulphate esters of tyrosine residues has been studied employing antisera with specificity for tyrosine phosphate, and the enzymes aryl sulphatase, and acid and alkaline phosphatases. The ability of tyrosine phosphate, and of phosphate esters of phenol, to inhibit the antiserum was pH d...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Jones JA,Wood A,Cushley W

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) serves as a reference dicot for investigation of defence mechanisms in Asteraceae due to abundant secondary metabolites and high resistance/tolerance to environmental stresses. In plants, phenylpropanoid and flavonoid pathways are considered as two central defence signalling cascade...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Dehghan S,Sadeghi M,Pöppel A,Fischer R,Lakes-Harlan R,Kavousi HR,Vilcinskas A,Rahnamaeian M

更新日期：2014-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been frequently identified as key mediators in almost all developmental and pathological processes, including those in the liver. The present study was conducted with aims of investigating the role of microRNA-138 (miR-138) in acute liver failure (ALF) via a mechanism involving p53 and liver ma...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Wang YQ,Lan YY,Guo YC,Yuan QW,Liu P

更新日期：2019-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide sequencing of the complement system regulatory protein, factor H, permitted the synthesis of a mixed sequence oligonucleotide probe. Human liver cDNA libraries were screened and factor H-specific clones selected. No full-length clone was obtained, but the largest available clone, R2a, was found to encode the C...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Day AJ,Ripoche J,Lyons A,McIntosh B,Harris TJ,Sim RB

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The preadipocyte differentiation biological process involves a cascade of transcriptional events that culminates in the expression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) γ. The differentiation cocktail [insulin (INS), dexamethasone (DEX) and isobutylmethylxanthine (IBMX)] can induce preadipocyte differen...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Cheng B,Wu M,Xu S,Zhang X,Wang Y,Wang N,Leng L,Li H

更新日期：2016-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:TRα1 (thyroid hormone receptor α1) is well recognized for its importance in brain development. However, due to the difficulties in predicting TREs (thyroid hormone response elements) in silico and the lack of suitable antibodies against TRα1 for ChIP (chromatin immunoprecipitation), only a few direct TRα1 target genes...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Dudazy-Gralla S,Nordström K,Hofmann PJ,Meseh DA,Schomburg L,Vennström B,Mittag J

更新日期：2013-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:BRL 26830 is a thermogenic beta-adrenoceptor agonist which stimulates lipolysis and fatty acid oxidation in vivo. It also stimulates insulin secretion, and hence promotes glucose utilisation in vivo. The effect of this agent on white and brown adipose tissue of the rat was investigated. BRL 26830 increased the rate of...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Wilson S

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma pneumoniae is one of the most common pathogenic causes of community-acquired pneumonia. Hydrogen sulfide, alanine, and pyruvate producing enzyme (HapE) is a recently discovered M. pneumoniae virulence factor that can produce H2S to promote erythrocyte lysis. However, other cytotoxic effects of HapE have not...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Li S,Xue G,Zhao H,Feng Y,Yan C,Cui J,Sun H

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to gain information on the metabolism of dolichol, the rates of excretion of dolichol and dolichyl phosphate were determined in rats maintained on a dolichol-free diet for 10 days. Analysis of fecal samples collected every 48 h yielded mean output values of 9.0 +/- 1.4 and 20.7 +/- 3.0 micrograms/rat/day of d...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Connelly LW,Keller RK

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant amounts of somatostatin-like immunoreactivity (SLI) were detected in the extract of a human catecholamine-secreting adrenal medullary tumour. After salt fractionation and reconstitution the major portion of SLI was purified by gel filtration and two HPLC steps; in all three systems it eluted in the positio...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Corder R,Sykes JE,Lowry PJ

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether serum copper levels were higher in patients with cervical cancer than that in controls was controversial. Hence, we conducted the present study to explore the relationship between serum copper levels and cervical cancer. We searched PubMed, WanFang, and China National Knowledge Internet (CNKI) for relevant stu...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Zhang M,Shi M,Zhao Y

更新日期：2018-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-21 (IL-21) is a cytokine that plays a crucial role in pathogenesis and activity of the rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Meanwhile, genetic polymorphisms in the IL-21 gene may alter its expression. Previous studies have reported conflicting results assessing the association between the IL-21 rs6822844 G/T polymor...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Yu M,Hou J,Zheng M,Cao Y,Alike Y,Mi Y,Zhu J

更新日期：2020-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Two established cancer cell lines, MCF-7 and Ishikawa, were both obtained directly from a cell repository and through another laboratory. The karyotypes from the two MCF-7 cell lines had up to 83 chromosomes and similarities for chromosomal gain and structural abnormalities. The two Ishikawa cell lines had up to 60 ch...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Wenger SL,Senft JR,Sargent LM,Bamezai R,Bairwa N,Grant SG

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A consensus about the prognostic role of NIMA-related kinase 2 (NEK2) expression in various solid tumors has not been made yet. Thus, this meta-analysis aimed to systematically assess the prognostic role of NEK2 expression in patients with solid tumors. The eligible studies were identified through searching PubMed, We...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Wang X,Chen K,Liu H,Huang Z,Chen X,Yin L

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Ric c1, an allergenic protein from Ricinus communis , is an insect α-amylase inhibitor that has become an occupational allergen. Ric c1 can cross-react with allergens from wheat, soybean, peanut, shrimp, fish, gluten, house dust, tobacco, and air fungus, thereby amplifying the concern and risks caused by Ricinus aller...

journal_title：Bioscience reports

authors： Pacheco-Soares T,de Oliveira Carvalho A,da Silva Araújo J,de Souza GDS,Machado OLT

更新日期：2018-02-14 00:00:00