Human fallopian tube epithelial cells exhibit stemness features, self-renewal capacity, and Wnt-related organoid formation.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prenatal alcohol exposure may cause cardiac development defects, however, the underlying mechanisms are not yet clear. In the present study we have investigated the roles of histone modification by curcumin on alcohol induced fetal cardiac abnormalities during the development. METHODS AND RESULTS:Q-PCR and ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Yan X,Pan B,Lv T,Liu L,Zhu J,Shen W,Huang X,Tian J

更新日期：2017-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To develop an individually-tailored dynamic risk assessment model following a multistep, multifactorial process of the Correa's gastric cancer model. METHODS:First, we estimated the state-to-state transition rates following Correa's five-step carcinogenic model and assessed the effect of risk factors, inclu...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Fann JC,Chiang TH,Yen AM,Lee YC,Wu MS,Chen HH

更新日期：2018-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cervical cancer is the second-most-common cause of malignancies in women worldwide, and the oncogenic activity of the human papilloma virus types (HPV) E7 protein has a crucial role in anogenital tumors. In this study, we have designed a therapeutic vaccine based on chitosan nanodelivery systems to deliver H...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Tahamtan A,Ghaemi A,Gorji A,Kalhor HR,Sajadian A,Tabarraei A,Moradi A,Atyabi F,Kelishadi M

更新日期：2014-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactive role of rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVL) cardiovascular neurons and brain angiotensin II (Ang II) in regulating the arterial blood pressure was examined by recording simultaneously the spontaneous activity of these spinal projecting neurons and the arterial blood pressure in the pentobarbital-anesth...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Chan RK,Chan YS,Wong TM

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:NKG2D, an activating immunoreceptor, is primarily restricted to NK cells and CD8(+) T cells. The existence of an atypical cytotoxic CD4(+)NKG2D(+) T cell population has also been found in patients with autoimmune dysfunctions. Nonetheless, contradictory evidence has categorized this population with a regulat...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Garcia-Chagollan M,Jave-Suarez LF,Haramati J,Bueno-Topete MR,Aguilar-Lemarroy A,Estrada-Chavez C,Bastidas-Ramirez BE,Pereira-Suarez AL,Del Toro-Arreola S

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dioscin, a typical steroid saponin, is isolated from Dioscorea nipponica Makino and Dioscorea zingiberensis Wright. It has estrogenic activity and many studies have also reported that dioscorea plants have an effect in preventing and treating osteoporosis. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying their e...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Zhang C,Peng J,Wu S,Jin Y,Xia F,Wang C,Liu K,Sun H,Liu M

更新日期：2014-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Autologous adipose stromal vascular fractions (SVFs) containing adipose tissue-derived stem cells (ASCs) are currently being used in clinical settings for various orthopedic applications for human patients. Due to its potential capability of regenerating cartilage, bone, and tendons, autologous adipose SVFs are being ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Pak J,Lee JH,Park KS,Park M,Kang LW,Lee SH

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The ARFP/F protein is synthesized from the +1 reading frame of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) core protein gene. The function of this protein remains unknown. To study the function of the HCV ARFP/F protein, we have conducted the yeast two-hybrid screening experiment to identify cellular proteins that may interact with t...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Ma HC,Lin TW,Li H,Iguchi-Ariga SM,Ariga H,Chuang YL,Ou JH,Lo SY

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by degeneration of lower motor neurons. We have assayed deletions in two candidate genes, the survival motor neuron (SMN) and neuronal apoptosis inhibitory protein (NAIP) genes, in 108 samples, of which 46 were from SMA patients, and 62 wer...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Haider MZ,Moosa A,Dalal H,Habib Y,Reynold L

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmentally regulated endothelial cell locus-1 (Del1) is an embryonic angiogenic factor expressed in early embryonic endothelial cells, but recently has been found to be expressed in some forms of cancers including colon and breast cancers, and melanoma, and human cancer cell lines. Overexpression of Del1 accelera...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Zou X,Qiao H,Jiang X,Dong X,Jiang H,Sun X

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Helicobacter pylori bacteria colonize human gastric mucosa, cause chronic inflammation, peptic ulcers and gastric cancer. Colonization is mediated by H. pylori adhesins, which preferentially bind mucin 5 (MUC5AC) and Lewis (Le) determinants. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of H. pylori an...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Gonciarz W,Walencka M,Moran AP,Hinc K,Obuchowski M,Chmiela M

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our previous report suggested that centrosomal P4.1-associated protein (CPAP) is required for Hepatitis B virus (HBV) encoded non-structure protein X (HBx)-mediated nuclear factor kappa light chain enhancer of activated B cells (NF-κB) activation. CPAP is overexpressed in HBV-associated hepatocellular carcin...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Yen CJ,Yang ST,Chen RY,Huang W,Chayama K,Lee MH,Yang SJ,Lai HS,Yen HY,Hsiao YW,Wang JM,Lin YJ,Hung LY

更新日期：2019-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The sigma-1 receptor (Sig-1R) is a chaperone that resides mainly at the mitochondrion-associated endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane (called the MAMs) and acts as a dynamic pluripotent modulator in living systems. At the MAM, the Sig-1R is known to play a role in regulating the Ca2+ signaling between ER and mitochondr...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Weng TY,Tsai SA,Su TP

更新日期：2017-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:As a neurotropic virus, enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) emerge and remerge in the Asia-Pacific region since the 1990s, and has continuously been a threat to global public health, especially in children. Annually, EV-A71 results in hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) and occasionally causes severe neurological disease. Here we...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Huang SW,Cheng D,Wang JR

更新日期：2019-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stroke is one of the leading causes of neuronal death. Sesamin is known for neuroprotection by its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties but it lacks blood-brain barrier (BBB) activity. A panel of sesamin derivatives was screened and 3-bis (3-methoxybenzyl) butane-1,4-diol (BBD) was selected for high ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Hou CW,Chen YL,Chuang SH,Wang JS,Jeng KC

更新日期：2014-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A considerable number of animal studies on the effects of dopaminergic agents on alcohol intake behavior have been performed. Acute alcohol administration in rats induces dopamine release in the caudate nucleus and in the nucleus accumbens, an effect related among others to reinforcement. It has been repeatedly sugges...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Walter H,Ramskogler K,Semler B,Lesch OM,Platz W

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bisphosphonates are an important class of antiresorptive drugs used in the treatment of metabolic bone diseases. Recent studies have shown that nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates induced apoptosis in rabbit osteoclasts and prevented prenylated small GTPase. However, whether bisphosphonates inhibit osteoclas...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Tsubaki M,Komai M,Itoh T,Imano M,Sakamoto K,Shimaoka H,Takeda T,Ogawa N,Mashimo K,Fujiwara D,Mukai J,Sakaguchi K,Satou T,Nishida S

更新日期：2014-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:While virus-like particles (VLPs) containing subgenomic replicons, which can transduce replicons into target cells efficiently for studying viral replication and vectors of gene therapy and vaccine, have been established for several flaviviruses, none has been reported for the four serotypes of dengue virus, the causa...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Lai CY,Hu HP,King CC,Wang WK

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are cell-derived membrane-bound vesicles that serve a means of cell-cell communication. Studying EVs at a single-particle level is important because EVs are inherently heterogeneous. Novel micro- and nanotechnological tools have open opportunities for realizing single-EV measurements explo...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Chiang CY,Chen C

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most of the circulating Vitamin D (VitD) is transported bound to vitamin D-binding protein (DBP), and several DBP single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been related to circulating VitD concentration and disease. In this study, we evaluated the association among DBP SNPs and AIDS progression in antiretr...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Jiménez-Sousa MÁ,Jiménez JL,Fernández-Rodríguez A,Bellón JM,Rodríguez C,Riera M,Portilla J,Castro Á,Muñoz-Fernández MÁ,Resino S

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among a variety of inflammatory mediators, visfatin is a proinflammatory adipocytokine associated with inflammatory reactions in obesity, metabolic syndrome, chronic inflammatory disease, and autoimmune disease. However, the biological role of visfatin in secretion of major mucins in human airway epithelial ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Song SY,Jung EC,Bae CH,Choi YS,Kim YD

更新日期：2014-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed at developing nerve growth factor (NGF) mimetics that selectively activate specific biological signals and, as a result, lack the side effects of the full-length protein. Two dimeric dipeptides, bis-(N-aminocaproyl-glycyl-L-lysine) hexamethylenediamide (GK-6) and bis(N-succinyl-L-glutamyl-L-...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Gudasheva TA,Povarnina PY,Antipova TA,Firsova YN,Konstantinopolsky MA,Seredenin SB

更新日期：2015-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endothelial cell (EC) dysfunctions, including turnover enrichment, gap junction disruption, inflammation, and oxidation, play vital roles in the initiation of vascular disorders and atherosclerosis. Hemodynamic forces, i.e., atherprotective pulsatile (PS) and pro-atherogenic oscillatory shear stress (OS), ca...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Lee DY,Chiu JJ

更新日期：2019-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The progression and metastasis of solid tumors, including head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), have been related to the behavior of a small subpopulation of cancer stem cells. Here, we have established a highly malignant HNSCC cell line, SASVO3, from primary tumors using three sequential rounds of xenotransp...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Chen CY,Chiou SH,Huang CY,Jan CI,Lin SC,Tsai ML,Lo JF

更新日期：2009-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cell adhesion has been shown to induce activation of certain growth factor receptors in a ligand-independent manner. However, the mechanism for such activation remains obscure. METHODS:Human epidermal carcinoma A431 cells were used as a model to examine the mechanism for adhesion-induced activation of hepat...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Lu YC,Chen HC

更新日期：2011-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Promoting post-stroke neurogenesis has long been proposed to be a therapeutic strategy for the enhancement of functional recovery after cerebral ischemic stroke. Despite numerous approaches have been widely reported the proliferation or differentiation of the neurogenic population therapeutic strategies by t...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Sheu JR,Hsieh CY,Jayakumar T,Lin GY,Lee HN,Huang SW,Yang CH

更新日期：2019-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) latency-associated transcript (LAT) promoter 1 (LP1) is an inducible and cell type-specific promoter involved in regulating the production of an 8.3-kb primary LAT transcript during acute and latent infection of peripheral sensory neurons and during subsequent virus reactivation...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Millhouse S,Kenny JJ,Quinn PG,Lee V,Wigdahl B

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although hypercholesterolemia is a well-known risk factor for atherosclerosis, little is known about the effect of hypercholesterolemia on cardiac contractile function. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of hypercholesterolemia on myocardial contractility. Fifteen New Zealand white rabbits were fed ...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Luo TY,Su MJ,Yang YF,Liu YB,Liang HC,Wu CC,Lee YT

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Detection of cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) remains a diagnostic challenge. We established diagnostic peptide biomarkers in bile and urine based on capillary electrophoresis coupled to mass spectrometry (CE-MS) to detect both local and systemic changes during CCA progression. In a prospective cohort study we recen...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Voigtländer T,Metzger J,Husi H,Kirstein MM,Pejchinovski M,Latosinska A,Frantzi M,Mullen W,Book T,Mischak H,Manns MP

更新日期：2020-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of N omega-nitro-L: -arginine (L: -NOARG) and N(G)-monomethyl-L: -arginine (L: -NMMA) on the spatial distribution of diaphragmatic microvascular blood flow were assessed in anesthetized, mechanically ventilated rats. Microvascular blood flow was measured after different periods at either a fixed site (Q st...

journal_title：Journal of biomedical science

authors： Lee CH,Chang HY,Chen CW,Hsiue TR

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00