Control of SUMO and Ubiquitin by ROS: Signaling and disease implications.

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus associated with mitochondrial tRNA mutation at position 3243(DM-Mt3243) is a new disease. Patients have a distinctly different picture from MELAS (mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes). During observations at the Saiseikai Central Hospital, the following findings...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Suzuki Y,Taniyama M,Muramatsu T,Atsumi Y,Hosokawa K,Asahina T,Shimada A,Murata C,Matsuoka K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of blood flow depends on systemic and local release of vasoactive molecules such as insulin and adenosine. These molecules cause vasodilation by activation of plasma membrane receptors at the vascular endothelium. Adenosine activates at least four subtypes of adenosine receptors (A1AR, A2AAR, A2BAR, A3AR), ...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Silva L,Subiabre M,Araos J,Sáez T,Salsoso R,Pardo F,Leiva A,San Martín R,Toledo F,Sobrevia L

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one healthy subjects received oral Coenzyme Q10 supplementation in soft capsules of 30 mg t.i.d. for 9 months, followed by a withdrawal period of 3 months. Blood samples were taken before start of supplementation, after 3 and 9 months of supplementation, and finally 3 months after withdrawal. Average blood coen...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Folkers K,Moesgaard S,Morita M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a mutualistic symbiotic relationship between the components of the photoreceptor/retinal pigment epithelium (RPE)/Bruch's membrane (BrMb)/choriocapillaris (CC) complex that is lost in AMD. Which component in the photoreceptor/RPE/BrMb/CC complex is affected first appears to depend on the type of AMD. In atrop...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Bhutto I,Lutty G

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic phenomena are defined as heritable mechanisms that establish and maintain mitotically stable patterns of gene expression without modifying the base sequence of DNA. The major epigenetic features of mammalian cells include DNA methylation, post-translational histone modifications and RNA-based mechanisms inc...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Udali S,Guarini P,Moruzzi S,Choi SW,Friso S

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical activity is an important lifestyle factor for growth, development, and sustained health throughout life. In recent years, the benefits of physical activity have drawn more attention to its physiological effects on the body, including well-being. The endocannabinoid system (ECS) has emerged as a focal point to...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Watkins BA

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial cells (ECs) play a role in the optimal function of blood vessels. When endothelial function becomes dysregulated, the risk of developing atherosclerosis increases. Specifically, upregulation of adhesion molecule expression on ECs promotes the movement of leukocytes, particularly monocytes, into the vessel ...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Baker EJ,Yusof MH,Yaqoob P,Miles EA,Calder PC

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence changes with time and by variations in diet and lifestyle, as evidenced historically by migrant studies and recently by extensive epidemiologic evidence. The worldwide heterogeneity in CRC incidence is strongly suggestive of etiological involvement of environmental exposures, particul...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Murphy N,Moreno V,Hughes DJ,Vodicka L,Vodicka P,Aglago EK,Gunter MJ,Jenab M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global prevalence of diabesity is on the rise, and the clinical, social and economic health burden arising from this epidemic is aggravated by a significant co-morbidity of diabesity with neuropsychiatric disease, particularly depression. Importantly, not only is the prevalence of mood disorders elevated in patien...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Farzi A,Hassan AM,Zenz G,Holzer P

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the past decade, brown adipose tissue (BAT) has been extensively studied as a potential therapy for obesity and metabolic diseases due to its thermogenic and glucose-consuming properties. It is now clear that the function of BAT goes beyond heat production, as it also plays an important endocrine role by secreting...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Klepac K,Georgiadi A,Tschöp M,Herzig S

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of intrauterine embryo implantation site(s) in most mammalian species shows remarkably constant patterns: in monotocous species such as humans, an embryo tends to implant in the uterine fundus; in polytocous species such as rodents, embryos implant evenly along the uterine horns. These long-time evolv...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Chen Q,Zhang Y,Elad D,Jaffa AJ,Cao Y,Ye X,Duan E

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this article is to describe the roles of water channel proteins (WCPs) in brain functionality. The fluid compartments of the brain, which include the brain parenchyma (with intracellular and extracellular spaces), the intravascular and the cerebrospinal fluid compartments are presented. Then the localizatio...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Benga O,Huber VJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidant-mediated damage and the triggering of oxidant-sensitive transcription factors could be associated with the neurotoxic actions of aluminum, zinc and lead. Aluminum and lead could induce oxidative stress through their capacity to interact with active oxygen species, increasing their oxidant activity, or by affec...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Oteiza PI,Mackenzie GG,Verstraeten SV

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxidation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) is now commonly regarded as an important early event in atherogenesis. As such there is considerable interest in the ability of antioxidant supplementation to attenuate LDL oxidation and hence atherosclerosis. A majority of studies on LDL antioxidation have focused on alp...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Thomas SR,Neuzil J,Stocker R

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomes were long believed to play only a minor role in cellular metabolism but it is now clear that they catalyze a number of important functions. The importance of peroxisomes in humans is stressed by the existence of a group of genetic diseases in man in which one or more peroxisomal functions are impaired. Mos...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Wanders RJ,Tager JM

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this mini review we summarize recent studies from our laboratory, which show the involvement of 4-hydroxynonenal (4-HNE) in cell cycle signaling. We demonstrate 4-HNE induced apoptosis in various cell lines is accompanied with c-Jun-N-terminal kinase and caspase-3 activation. Cells exposed to mild, transient, heat ...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Awasthi YC,Sharma R,Cheng JZ,Yang Y,Sharma A,Singhal SS,Awasthi S

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a global health problem, being the second most common chronic viral infection in the world with a global prevalence of about 3% (about 180 million people). HCV is both an hepatotropic and a lymphotropic virus; and chronic infection could cause, on one hand, chronic hepatitis, cirrh...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Craxì A,Laffi G,Zignego AL

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The consensus of epidemiologic evidence indicates that an abundant intake of foodstuffs rich in folate conveys protection against the development of colorectal cancer, and perhaps some other common cancers as well. Pre-clinical models substantiate that the relationship is a genuinely causal one. Pre-clinical models ha...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Mason JB,Tang SY

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle mass and function decline with aging, a process known as sarcopenia, which restrains posture maintenance, mobility and quality of life in the elderly. Sarcopenia is also linked to a progressive reduction in the regenerative capacity of the skeletal muscle stem cells (satellite cells), which are critica...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Sousa-Victor P,Muñoz-Cánoves P

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review is focused on the mammalian SLC11 and SLC40 families and their roles in iron homeostasis. The SLC11 family is composed of two members, SLC11A1 and SLC11A2. SLC11A1 is expressed in the lysosomal compartment of macrophages and in the tertiary granules of neutrophils, playing a key role in innate resistance a...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Montalbetti N,Simonin A,Kovacs G,Hediger MA

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aldehyde 4-hydroxynonenal (HNE) is a major end-product of peroxidation of membrane n-6-polyunsaturated fatty acids. Primary reactants for HNE are the amino acids cysteine, histidine and lysine, and quantitatively, proteins and peptides represent the most important group of HNE-targeted biomolecules. HNE-protein ad...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Poli G,Biasi F,Leonarduzzi G

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ω3 Polyunsaturated fatty acids (ω3 PUFAs) have several biological properties including anti-arrhythmic effects. However, there are some evidences that it is not solely ω3 PUFAs per se that are biologically active but the non-enzymatic oxygenated metabolites of polyunsaturated fatty acids (NEO-PUFAs) like isoprostanes ...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Galano JM,Roy J,Durand T,Lee JC,Le Guennec JY,Oger C,Demion M

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the existence of intratumoral heterogeneity (ITH) in the expression of common biomarkers has been described by pathologists since the late 1890s, we have only recently begun to fathom the staggering extent and near ubiquity of this phenomenon. From the tumor's perspective, ITH provides a stabilizing diversity...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： McBride M,Rida PC,Aneja R

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carnosine (β-alanyl-L-histidine) is a natural dipeptide widely and abundantly distributed in excitable tissues of several animal tissues. Although its physiological role has not been completely understood yet, many beneficial actions have been attributed to carnosine, such as being an antioxidant, antiglycating and io...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Bellia F,Vecchio G,Cuzzocrea S,Calabrese V,Rizzarelli E

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delivery of cytokine genes at the tumor site in pre-clinical models has been shown to recruit host inflammatory cells followed by inhibition of tumor growth. This local effect is often accompanied by systemic protection mediated by the immune system, mainly by CD8(+) T and NK cells. On this basis, cytokine gene-transd...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Minuzzo S,Moserle L,Indraccolo S,Amadori A

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vitamin D endocrine system plays a central role in mineral ion homeostasis through the actions of the vitamin D hormone, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) [1,25(OH)(2)D(3)], on the intestine, bone, parathyroid gland, and kidney. The main function of 1,25(OH)(2)D(3) is to promote the dietary absorption of calcium and phos...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Brown AJ,Slatopolsky E

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When cells are confronted with an insufficient supply of nutrients in their extracellular fluid, they may begin to cannibalize some of their internal proteins as well as whole organelles for reuse in the synthesis of new components. This process is termed autophagy and it involves the formation of a double-membrane st...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Monastyrska I,Klionsky DJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All forms of diabetes share the common etiology of insufficient pancreatic β-cell function to meet peripheral insulin demand. In pancreatic β-cells, mitochondria serve to integrate the metabolism of exogenous nutrients into energy output, which ultimately leads to insulin release. As such, mitochondrial dysfunction un...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Kaufman BA,Li C,Soleimanpour SA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrosis is a common and important disease. It is a pathological state due to excessive scar formation mediated by an increase in activated fibroblasts that express alpha smooth muscle actin and copious amounts of extracellular matrix molecules. Epigenetics is an area of research that encompasses three main mechanisms...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： O'Reilly S

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The somatic mutation spectrum imprinted in the genome of a tumor represents the mutational processes that have been active in that tumor. Large sequencing efforts in various cancer types have resulted in the identification of multiple mutational signatures, of which several have been linked to specific biological mech...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Grolleman JE,Díaz-Gay M,Franch-Expósito S,Castellví-Bel S,de Voer RM

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00