The role of brown and beige adipose tissue in glycaemic control.

abstract：:The establishment of a functional, integrated vascular system is instrumental for tissue growth and homeostasis. Without blood vessels no adequate nutrition and oxygen would be provided to cells, nor could the undesired waste products be efficiently removed. Blood vessels constitute therefore one of the largest and mo...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Leite de Oliveira R,Hamm A,Mazzone M

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced thyroid cancer refers to thyroid tumors which are resistant to conventional therapies and do not respond to radioiodine and comprises metastatic or recurrent differentiated cancers, poorly differentiated and anaplastic tumors. Progress in the knowledge of genetic/epigenetic alterations in thyroid cancer cells...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Catalano MG,Poli R,Pugliese M,Fortunati N,Boccuzzi G

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

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：:Vitamin E and carotenoids are known to act as antioxidants both in vitro and in vivo. In this review we present a series of studies in healthy subjects and in patients who exhibit either acute or chronic oxidative stress. In the EU-Commission funded VITAGE project we investigated the status and effects of vitamin E an...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Winklhofer-Roob BM,Rock E,Ribalta J,Shmerling DH,Roob JM

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced glutathione (GSH) is critical for many cellular processes, and both its intracellular and extracellular concentrations are tightly regulated. Intracellular GSH levels are regulated by two main mechanisms: by adjusting the rates of synthesis and of export from cells. Some of the proteins responsible for GSH exp...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Ballatori N,Krance SM,Marchan R,Hammond CL

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth and development of higher organisms are regulated by the orchestrated change of epigenetic marks over time. In addition, there is also an epigenetic variation without any apparent role in development that is thought to be the result of the stochastic accumulation of epigenetic errors. The process depends on gen...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Huidobro C,Fernandez AF,Fraga MF

更新日期：2013-07-01 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

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 resolution of inflammation is a highly regulated process enacted by endogenous mediators including specialized pro-resolving lipid mediators (SPMs): the lipoxins, resolvins, protectins and maresins. SPMs activate specific cellular receptors to temper the production of pro-inflammatory mediators, diminish the recru...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Fredman G,Spite M

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：:Atherosclerosis is an important source of morbidity and mortality in the developed world. Despite the fact that the association between LDL cholesterol and atherosclerosis has been evident for at least three decades, our understanding of exactly how LDL precipitates atherosclerosis is still in its infancy. At least th...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Keaney JF Jr

更新日期：2000-08-01 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：: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：:Fibrosis denotes excessive scarring, which exceeds the normal wound healing response to injury in many tissues. Although the extracellular matrix deposition appears unstructured disrupting the normal tissue architecture and subsequently impairing proper organ function, fibrogenesis is a highly orchestrated process det...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Weiskirchen R,Weiskirchen S,Tacke F

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：: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：:Heme is critical for a variety of cellular processes, but excess intracellular heme may result in oxidative stress and membrane injury. Feline leukemia virus subgroup C receptor (FLVCR1), a member of the SLC49 family of four paralogous genes, is a cell surface heme exporter, essential for erythropoiesis and systemic i...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Khan AA,Quigley JG

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is the most abundant n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid in the brain where it serves to regulate several important processes and, in addition, serves as a precursor to bioactive mediators. Given that the capacity of the brain to synthesize DHA locally is appreciably low, the uptake of DHA from c...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Lacombe RJS,Chouinard-Watkins R,Bazinet RP

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer can be categorized into two major molecular subtypes according to the status of their DNA proofreading and repair machinery. The DNA repair status of tumor cells plays a major role in shaping the immune landscape of tumors and in determining the clinical response of colorectal cancer patients to immu...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： IJsselsteijn ME,Sanz-Pamplona R,Hermitte F,de Miranda NFCC

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyphenols and consequently many flavonoids have several beneficial actions on human health. However, the actual molecular interactions of polyphenols with biological systems remain mostly speculative. This review addresses the potential mechanisms of action that have been so far identified, as well as the feasibilit...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Fraga CG,Galleano M,Verstraeten SV,Oteiza PI

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coenzyme Q is uniquely designed as an electron and proton carrier within the lipid phase of membranes. It now appears that this unique chemistry has diverse application to important functions in all cellular membranes. The first function of coenzyme Q was defined in the energy transduction process in mitochondria. New...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Crane FL,Navas P

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：: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：:About 25% of all solute carriers (SLCs) are likely to transport amino acids as their primary substrate. One of the major phylogenetic clusters of amino acid transporters from the SLC family is the β-family, which is part of the PFAM APC clan. The β-family includes three SLC families, SLC32, SLC36 and SLC38 with one, f...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Schiöth HB,Roshanbin S,Hägglund MG,Fredriksson R

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of the innate immunity play an important role in tumor immunotherapy. Thus, NK cells can control tumor growth and metastatic spread. Thanks to their strong cytolytic activity against tumors, different approaches have been developed for exploiting/harnessing their function in patients with leukemia or solid tumor...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Sivori S,Pende D,Quatrini L,Pietra G,Della Chiesa M,Vacca P,Tumino N,Moretta F,Mingari MC,Locatelli F,Moretta L

更新日期：2020-08-13 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：:Carnosine and related dipeptides such as anserine are naturally-occurring histidine-containing compounds. They are found in several tissues most notably in muscle where they represent an appreciable fraction of the total water-soluble nitrogen-containing compounds. The biological role of these dipeptides are conjectur...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Quinn PJ,Boldyrev AA,Formazuyk VE

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：: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：:Resveratrol (3,4',5-trihydroxystilbene) is a member of natural, plant-derived chemicals known as polyphenols and is attracting increased attention due to its diverse health benefits especially in case of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and neurological problems. Despite impressive gains in diagnosis and treat...

journal_title：Molecular aspects of medicine

authors： Das M,Das DK

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00