Synergistic effects of Rho kinase inhibitor Y-27632 and Noggin overexpression on the proliferation and neuron-like cell differentiation of stem cells derived from human exfoliated deciduous teeth.

abstract：:Copper has a wide and important role in biological systems, determining conformation and activity of many metalloproteins and enzymes, such as cytochrome oxidase and superoxide dismutase . Furthermore, due to its possible reactivity with nonspecific proteins and toxic effects, elaborate systems of absorption, concentr...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Inesi G

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered activity of the proteolytic machine-the 26S proteasome is observed in many disease conditions. Hence, either inhibition or activation of the 26S proteasome is thought to be a novel therapy for treatment of certain diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. In this study, we tested the potential o...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Gopalakrishnan S,Ediga HH,Reddy SS,Reddy GB,Ismail A

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the years, microRNA-20b-3p (miR-20b-3p) has been found to play an essential role in human diseases; we aimed to investigate the effect of miR-20b-3p on the progression of diabetic retinopathy (DR). The DR rat models were established by streptozotocin injection and treated with miR-20b-3p mimics, silenced, or over...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Wang S,Du S,Lv Y,Wang W,Zhang F

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac hypoxia plays a significant role in various types of heart disease, and improper treatment of hypoxia often leads to myocardial cell damage or even death. Transcriptome profiling and open chromatin mapping have been used as powerful tools to understand the development of heart disease, but the interplay betwee...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Wang J,Wang Y,Duan Z,Hu W

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) are inherited metabolic diseases caused by deficiencies in lysosomal proteins, which result in accumulation of undegraded metabolites and disruption of lysosomal proteostasis. Despite significant progress in the molecular genetics and biochemistry underlying the cellular pathogenesis...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Segatori L

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The best known NADPH oxidase is that of phagocytes-neutrophils and monocytes. In these cells, the enzyme manufactures large quantities of O2- and other reactive oxidants that are used for the purpose of killing invading microorganisms. Recent studies, however, have suggested that a number of other tissues contain NADP...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Babior BM

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic targeting has shown promise to improve the efficacy and safety of different classes of therapeutic agents by enabling their active guidance to the site of disease and minimizing dissemination to nontarget tissues. However, its translation into clinic has proven difficult because of inherent limitations of tra...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Chorny M,Fishbein I,Forbes S,Alferiev I

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular matrix (ECM)-independent survival is an essential prerequisite for tumor metastasis, and a hallmark of epithelial cancer stem cells and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Here, we found that loss of TP53I11 enhanced, and overexpression of TP53I11 suppressed the ECM-independent survival, EMT, and mi...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Xiao T,Xu Z,Zhou Y,Zhang H,Geng J,Liang Y,Qiao H,Suo G

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In tsRSV-infected NRK (tsNRK) cells, pp60(v-src) reactivation by temperature-shift from a nonpermissive temperature, 39 C, to a permissive one, 32 degrees C, induced the production of inositol phosphates (IPt) and phosphatidylethanol (PEt). This was accompanied by an increase in membrane-associated protein kinase C (P...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Kim BY,Kim JH,Han YJ,Ahn SC,Kang DO,Oh WK,Ko HR,Lee HS,Mheen TI,Ahn JS

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence suggests a role for intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) as mediators of normal and pathological signal transduction pathways. In particular, a growing list of recent reports have demonstrated a rapid and significant increases in intracellular ROS following growth factor or cytokine stimulat...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Finkel T

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV or HHV-8) is linked to the etiopathogenesis of Kaposi's sarcoma, a plasma-blastic variant of Castleman's disease and primary effusion lymphoma. KSHV is related to a number of non-human primate viruses. Only a limited number of KSHV proteins are expressed in tumor cells. He...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Sharp TV,Boshoff C

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid fibroblast growth factor (aFGF) binds to its cell-surface receptors in a heparin-dependent manner. In an attempt to define the aFGF recognition site on fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1), we developed a screening strategy for identifying FGF ligands that bind to the receptor-binding region of FGF. To ret...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Fan H,Liu Y,Zhou H,Wang L,Li W,Guo L,Roeske RW

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acidic phospholipase A2 isoform from the spitting cobra Naja mossambica mossambica is activated irreversibly by treatment with a molar equivalent of oleoyl imidazolide. The kinetics of the chemical modification of the enzyme can also be monitored by measuring the large reduction of tryptophan fluorescence, which i...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ahmed T,Kelly SM,Price NC,Lawrence AJ

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human nuclear estrogen receptors (i.e., ERalpha and ERbeta), as other transcriptional factors, regulate cellular processes inducing genomic events. In addition, the binding of 17beta-estradiol to ERs induces different membrane initiating non-genomic signaling. The non-genomic effects of ER are independent of trans...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Acconcia F,Bocedi A,Ascenzi P,Marino M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently the crystal structure of creatine kinase from Torpedocalifornica was determined to 2.1 A. The dimeric structure revealed two different forms in the unit cell: one monomer was bound to a substrate, MgADP, and the other monomer was bound to a transition-state analogue complex composed of MgADP, nitrate and crea...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Wang PF,Flynn AJ,McLeish MJ,Kenyon GL

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate specific antigen (PSA) is a serine protease that is exclusively produced in the prostate, and its detection is the only laboratory test available for screening men for prostate cancer (PC). The interpretation of the assay is difficult since it is specific for prostate tissue and cellular growth, but not for P...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Mener DJ

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women with breast cancer show altered blood glucose compartmentation compared with healthy women, with lower concentrations in plasma and similar concentrations in blood cells. The goal of this paper was to study whether this pattern was the result of changes in the erythrocyte glucose transporter and, if so, to asses...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Crespí C,Quevedo S,Roca P,Palou A

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cooperative effects in ligand binding and dissociation kinetics are much less investigated than steady state kinetics or equilibrium binding. Nevertheless, cooperativity in ligand binding leads necessarily to characteristic properties with respect to kinetic properties of the system. In case of positive cooperativity ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Hellmann N

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25(OH)2 D3 ] has recently been shown to have immunomodulatory property. This study aimed to investigate the expression and potential role of 1,25(OH)2 D3 in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in the Uygur population. Blood samples were obtained from 22 patients with proliferative...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Yi X,Sun J,Li L,Wei Q,Qian Y,Chen X,Ma L

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR) contributes to maintain homeostatic levels of extracellular calcium. In addition, CaSR controls other cellular activities such as proliferation and migration, particularly in cells not related to extracellular calcium homeostasis, potentially by cross-talking with parallel signaling pat...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Organista-Juárez D,Carretero-Ortega J,Vicente-Fermín O,Vázquez-Victorio G,Sosa-Garrocho M,Vázquez-Prado J,Macías-Silva M,Reyes-Cruz G

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular nucleic acid binding protein (CNBP) has been implicated in vertebrate craniofacial development and in myotonic dystrophy type 2 (DM2) and sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM) human diseases. In these seemingly unrelated biological processes, CNBP appears to be involved in controlling cell death and prolife...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Calcaterra NB,Armas P,Weiner AM,Borgognone M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the impact of pancreatic cancer cell interaction with macrophages on the differentiation and function of macrophages and the behaviors of pancreatic cancer cells in vitro is evaluated. The expression of immunocompetent cell-associated markers in 22 pancreatic cancer specimens was characterized by immuno...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Meng F,Li C,Li W,Gao Z,Guo K,Song S

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris, a plant-associated pathogenic bacterium, is the causal agent of foliar spots and blights in crucifers. The major outer membrane protein, Omp37, of 37 kDa, has been identified, purified to homogeneity, and its characterization has also been carried out. Native Omp37 behaved as a t...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Wang L,Zheng Y,Zhang X

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cocaine is a powerful central nervous stimulant and among the most abused of drugs. Despite decades of efforts, however, no effective pharmacological treatments are available against cocaine addiction or toxic effects. Classical receptor-antagonist therapeutic approaches have not yielded significant effects, although ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ascenzi P,Clementi E,Polticelli F

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cisplatin (CP), as a chemotherapeutic drug, causes nephrotoxicity that has limited the clinical utility of CP. Gliclazide (GLZ), as an antihyperglycemic drug, at low dose has antioxidant property. In this study, we aimed to investigate the protective effect of GLZ against CP-induced acute renal injury. Sixty-four BALB...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Taghizadeh F,Hosseinimehr SJ,Zargari M,Karimpour Malekshah A,Talebpour Amiri FB

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria remains a worldwide health concern with an estimated quarter of a billion people infected and nearly half a million deaths annually. Malaria is caused by a parasite infection from Plasmodium strains which are transmitted from mosquitoes into the human host. Although several small molecule inhibitors have been ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Helton LG,Kennedy EJ

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SARS-CoV-2 is the causative agent for the ongoing COVID19 pandemic, and this virus belongs to the Coronaviridae family. Like other members of this family, the virus possesses a positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome. The genome encodes for the nsp12 protein, which houses the RNA-dependent-RNA polymerase (RdRP) acti...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Narayanan N,Nair DT

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic optic neuropathy is an important cause of severe vision loss. So, many attempts were performed to transplant stem cells systemically or locally to regenerate the injured retina. In this study, we investigated the effect of human umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cells (hUBMSCs) on histological structure,...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Mohamed EM,Abdelrahman SA,Hussein S,Shalaby SM,Mosaad H,Awad AM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinitis pigmentosa comprises a large and exceptionally heterogeneous group of hereditary disorders of the retina. As a result of an extensive investigation around the world, primary genetic lesions have been described in many genes. Some of these genes encode enzymes that are involved in the signal transduction path...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Shastry BS

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Streptomyces fradiae, calcium ions induce alterations in intensity and specificity of the secondary metabolism and stimulate sporulation. Using in vivo labeling, we demonstrate that in S. fradiae phosphorylation of some proteins are also influenced by Ca2+ added exogenously. Calcium ions at physiological concentrat...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Elizarov SM,Mironov VA,Danilenko VN

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00