The Effects of Lauric Acid on IPEC-J2 Cell Differentiation, Proliferation, and Death.

abstract：:The ocular lens is a non-vascular and non-innervated transparent organ that plays an important role in vision processing. This unique organ is derived from the embryonic ectoderm of the brain region through a complicated differentiation process in which apoptosis plays a key role. First, when the committed ectoderm be...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zhang L,Yan Q,Liu JP,Zou LJ,Liu J,Sun S,Deng M,Gong L,Ji WK,Li DW

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1968 Berger and Hinglais published the first description of IgA nephropathy (IgAN). In the ensuing 30 years, extensive clinical, epidemiologic, and immunologic characterizations of primary (idiopathic) glomerulonephritis with IgA as the predominant or co-dominant immunoglobulin deposited in the mesangia of all glom...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Hsu SI

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic complication is a leading cause of acquired blindness, end-stage renal failure, a variety of neuropathies and accelerated atherosclerosis. Chronic hyperglycemia is initially involved in the pathogenesis of diabetic micro- and macro-vascular complications via various metabolic derangements. High glucose increa...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Sato T,Iwaki M,Shimogaito N,Wu X,Yamagishi S,Takeuchi M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines are newly discovered molecules that mediate the migration of leukocytes into inflammed tissues and control the inflammatory reactions in various immune-mediated diseases. Both in animal models and in human specimens, chemokine expression is associated with atherosclerotic lesion development and vascular rem...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Filippatos G,Parissis JT,Adamopoulos S,Kardaras F

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our current understanding of the mechanisms of information processing and storage in the brain, based on the concept proposed more than fifty years ago by D. Hebb, is that a key role is played by changes in synaptic efficacy induced by coincident pre- and postsynaptic activity. Decades of studies of the properties of ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Muller D,Nikonenko I,Jourdain P,Alberi S

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of tumor angiogenesis suppresses tumor growth and metastatic spreading in many experimental models, suggesting that anti-angiogenic drugs may be used to treat human cancer. During the past decade more than eighty molecules that showed anti-angiogenic activity in preclinical studies were tested in clinical c...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Rüegg C,Meuwly JY,Driscoll R,Werffeli P,Zaman K,Stupp R

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally regarded as a genetic disease of the cardiac sarcomere, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common inherited cardiovascular disease and a significant cause of sudden cardiac death. While the most common etiologies of this phenotypically diverse disease lie in a handful of genes encoding critica...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Landstrom AP,Ackerman MJ

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomal proliferator activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) belongs to the family of nuclear hormone receptors (NHRs), which directly regulate transcription of target genes. The regulatory role of this receptor on lipid metabolism and insulin sensitization is well established. Recently, the overexpression of this re...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Krishnan A,Nair SA,Pillai MR

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary malignancies of the liver and the gastrointestinal tract constitute one of the main health problems worldwide. Together, these types of tumour are the first cause of death due to cancer, followed by lung and breast cancer respectively. One important limitation in the treatment of these tumours is that, with a ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Marin JJ,Romero MR,Martinez-Becerra P,Herraez E,Briz O

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), and cystic fibrosis (CF), chronic diseases of the airways, are characterized by symptoms such as inflammation of the lung tissue, mucus hypersecretion, constriction of the airways, and excessive fibrosis of airway tissue. Transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta, a c...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Moore B,Murphy RF,Agrawal DK

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor plays important roles in learning and memory. NMDA receptors are a tetramer that consists of two glycine-binding subunits GluN1, two glutamate-binding subunits (i.e., GluN2A, GluN2B, GluN2C, and GluN2D), a combination of a GluN2 subunit and glycine-binding GluN3 subunit (i.e., GluN...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Yamamoto H,Hagino Y,Kasai S,Ikeda K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide has emerged as one of the most important and diverse players in physiology. This small diatomic radical stunned researchers because of its existence and unique biological properties in human physiology. Over the last two decades it was found that NO often has fickle behavior in pathophysiological mechanis...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Mancardi D,Ridnour LA,Thomas DD,Katori T,Tocchetti CG,Espey MG,Miranda KM,Paolocci N,Wink DA

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chondroitin sulfate (CS)-glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are linear, negatively charged polysaccharides attached to CS proteoglycans that make up a major component of biological matrices throughout both central and peripheral tissues. The position of their attached sulfate groups to the CS disaccharide is predicted to influ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Alonge K,Harkewicz R,Guttman M

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood stage of the malaria parasite's life cycle is responsible for all the clinical symptoms of malaria. The development of clinical disease is dependent on the interplay of the infecting parasite with the immune status and genetic background of the host. Following repeated exposure to malaria parasites, individu...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Yazdani SS,Mukherjee P,Chauhan VS,Chitnis CE

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver cirrhosis, an end-result of a wide variety of the liver diseases, is a world wide health problem. Because of its unique organ system, i.e., portal blood supply, bile formation and enterohepatic circulation, drug metabolism system, and sinusoidal lining cells such as Kupffer, endothelial and stellate cells, the l...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Higuchi H,Gores GJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By eliminating the unneeded or mutant cells, programmed cell death actively participates in a wide range of biological processes from embryonic development to homeostasis maintenance in adult. Continuing efforts have identified multiple cell death pathways, with apoptosis, necrosis and autophage the mostly studied. Re...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Wang Y,Wang XD

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Celastrol, a quinone methide triterpenoid, could induce apoptosis in pancreatic cancer cells. The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is protective autophagy after celastrol treatment in pancreatic cancer cells and the synergistic effects of celastrol and 3-MA in vitro and in vivo. METHODS:T...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zhao X,Gao S,Ren H,Huang H,Ji W,Hao J

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Necrotic cell death has long been considered an accidental and uncontrolled mode of cell death. But recently it has become clear that necrosis is a molecularly regulated event that is associated with pathologies such as ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury, neurodegeneration and pathogen infection. The serine/threonine ki...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Vanlangenakker N,Vanden Berghe T,Krysko DV,Festjens N,Vandenabeele P

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In sum, the FTIs are signal transduction inhibitors that display promising clinical activity against a broad spectrum of malignancies. We are just beginning to explore and elucidate the mechanisms by which transformed cells respond to FTIs and the optimal settings in which they do so. The clinical trials that are curr...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Karp JE,Lancet JE

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) provides unique machinery for the folding and posttranslational modification of many secretory and transmembrane proteins in eukaryotic cells. The unfolded protein response (UPR) is a signal transduction network from the ER to the nucleus activated when the folding demand imposed by nasc...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Schröder M,Kaufman RJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Liver kinase B1 (LKB1)/5'-adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK) signaling, a metabolic checkpoint, plays a neuro-protective role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Amyloid-β (Aβ) acts as a classical biomarker of AD. The aim of the present study was to explore whether berberine...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Cai ZY,Wang CL,Lu TT,Yang WM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal cerebral ischemia induces neurogenesis in the subventricular zone (SVZ) of the adult human brain. Neurogenesis is controlled by proliferation, differentiation, and migration of neural progenitor cells. This article reviews emerging data that changes of cell cycle kinetics of neural progenitor cells induced by st...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zhang RL,Zhang ZG,Chopp M

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visfatin is one of the prominent adipokines secreted by adipose tissue. The level of visfatin increases significantly in persons with obesity owing to increased body mass index (BMI). During obesity, the adipocytes, which populate adipose tissue, undergo hypertrophy and hyperplasia and secrete a number of adipocytokin...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Kumari B,Yadav UCS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In vertebrates, cilium is crucial for Hedgehog signaling transduction. Forkhead box transcriptional factor FoxF1 is reported to be associated with Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) signaling in many cases. However, the role of FoxF1 in cilium remains unknown. Here, we showed an essential role of FoxF1 in the regulation o...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Huang L,Tjakra M,Luo D,Wen L,Lei D,Wang J,Yin T,Zhang X,Huang J,Wang Y,Wang G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bulimia nervosa (BN) and Anorexia Nervosa (AN) are currently classified as eating disorders (ED). Both disorders are the product of complex interaction between physiological and psychological and social processes; they are characterized by abnormal eating behavior. However, patients with BN differ from AN in their nut...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Takimoto Y,Inui A,Kumano H,Kuboki T

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic and duodenal homeobox-1 (PDX-1) is a homeodomain-containing transcription factor that plays a critical role in pancreatic development, β-cell differentiation, maintenance of normal β-cell function and tumorigenesis. PDX-1 is subjected to extensive post-translational modifications for its stability, subcellu...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zhou G,Wang H,Liu SH,Shahi KM,Lin X,Wu J,Feng XH,Qin J,Tan TH,Brunicardi FC

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune tolerance can be induced by numerous methods. This review article aims to draw lines of similarity and contrast between two unique models of immune tolerance, namely Anterior Chamber Associated Immune Deviation (ACAID) and Nickel-induced oral tolerance. ACAID is an immune tolerance model that leads to the gener...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Ashour HM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an organ-specific autoimmune disease resulting from the specific destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic beta-cells, culminating in a state of hypoinsulinemia and hyperglycemia. Pathogenesis of T1D comprises complex series of events from the initial sensitization of antigen-presenting cell...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Kim HS,Lee MS

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies or prion related disorders are fatal and infectious neurodegenerative diseases characterized by extensive neuronal apoptosis and accumulation of a misfolded form of the cellular prion protein (PrP), denoted PrP(Sc). Although the mechanism of neurodegeneration and the involveme...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Castilla J,Hetz C,Soto C

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of functional neural progenitor cells (NPCs) independent of donor brain tissue and embryonic tissues is of great therapeutic interest with regard to regenerative medicine and the possible treatment of neurodegenerative disorders. Traditionally, NPCs are derived through the differentiation of embryonic s...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Tian C,Ambroz RJ,Sun L,Wang Y,Ma K,Chen Q,Zhu B,Zheng JC

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00