Targeting Tumor-derived exosomes expressing CD73: new opportunities in the pathogenesis and treatment of cancer.

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：:Preeclampsia is a disease of high incidence in pregnant women which complicates pregnancy and may lead to the death of mother and baby. Preeclampsia is characterized by a series of clinical features such as hypertension and proteinuria associated with endothelial dysfunction. Although the causes of disease have not be...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Oujo B,Perez-Barriocanal F,Bernabeu C,Lopez-Novoa JM

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition of cellular immortality is a critical step in human tumorigenesis. While the vast majority of human tumors activate the catalytic component of telomerase (hTERT) to stabilize their telomeres and attain immortality, a significant portion (7-10%) utilize a poorly defined alternative form of telomere main...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Stewart SA

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasmid DNA has been widely used in vaccination as well as in cell and gene therapy. It exists in multiple isoforms, including supercoiled, nicked or open circular and linear forms. Regulatory agencies recommend having more than 80% of the supercoiled isoform for the bulk release of plasmid products; thus, i...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Cook KS,Luo J,Guttman A,Thompson L

更新日期：2020-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A framework was developed to provide an integrated view of mycobacterial growth and its regulation. The topics reviewed include the properties of cell cultures and their relation to properties of individual cells, cell sizes and macromolecular compositions, uptake of nutrients through the cell envelope, protein biosyn...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Cox RA,Cook GM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As tumors progress to increased malignancy, cells within them develop the ability to invade into surrounding normal tissues and through tissue boundaries to form new growths (metastases) at sites distinct from the primary tumor. The molecular mechanisms involved in this process are incompletely understood but those as...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Cairns RA,Khokha R,Hill RP

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing concern that gastrointestinal exposure to particles is associated with increased risk of toxicity to internal organs and carcinogenicity. The mechanism of action is related to particle-induced oxidative stress and oxidation of DNA. Observations from animal models indicate that gastrointestinal exposur...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Møller P,Folkmann JK,Danielsen PH,Jantzen K,Loft S

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：:p53 tumor suppressor plays a pivotal role in maintaining genomic integrity and preventing cancer development. The importance of p53 in tumor suppression is illustrated by the observation that about 50% human tumor cells have a dysfunctional p53 pathway. Although it has been well accepted that the activity of p53 is ma...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zhang J,Chen X

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eicosanoids are diverse mediators of inflammation that derive from a single cell membrane phospholipid-associated precursor, arachidonic acid. This precursor is metabolized to several groups of lipid mediators, including (but not limited to) prostaglandins, leukotrienes, and lipoxins, in a tightly regulated, coordinat...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Boyce JA

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:Hypoxia or oxygen deficiency is a salient feature of solid tumors. Hypoxic tumors are often resistant to conventional cancer therapies, and tumor hypoxia correlates with advanced stages of malignancy. Hypoxic tumors appear to be poorly differentiated. Increasing evidence suggests that hypoxia has the potential to inhi...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Kim Y,Lin Q,Glazer PM,Yun Z

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteroviruses are common human pathogens involved in a wide spectrum of clinical outcomes ranging from mild or non-symptomatic illness to severe diseases with neurological and/or cardiac manifestation. Despite being responsible for significant morbidity and mortality especially in immunocompromised patients and infant...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Schönhofer-Merl S,Wessely R

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although GHRH and GHRH-R are recognized as key factors in placental development, little is known about the mechanism(s) of the regulation in trophoblastic cells during placental development. The objective of this study is to determine the potential relationship between the expression levels of GHRH-R and the placental...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Liu AX,Zhang D,Zhu YM,Gao HJ,Jiang JY,Hu XL,Lv PP,Leung PC,Huang HF

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:Type 2 Diabetes occurs as a result of defects in insulin secretion and its function. Although mechanisms of disease are not fully elucidated, it is recognized that a progressive decline in insulin secretory capacity is responsible for its occurrence and natural course. Metabolic syndrome, known to be a precursor of Ty...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Tavintharan S,Chi LS,Fang SC,Arunmozhiarasi A,Jeyaseelan K

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the clinical validation of molecular targeted therapies inhibiting the action of pathogenic tyrosine kinase (TK) has been one of the most exciting developments in cancer research. In this context, medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) represents a promising model. It is well known that in MTC, the RET rec...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Torino F,Paragliola RM,Barnabei A,Corsello SM

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteopontin (OPN) is a matricellular protein that is produced by multiple tissues in our body and is most abundant in bone. It is also produced by cancer cells and plays a determinative role in the growth, progression and metastasis of cancer. Clinically, OPN has been reported to be upregulated in tumor cells per se; ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Shevde LA,Das S,Clark DW,Samant RS

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become increasingly widely used to determine regions of the genome which may contain loci influencing the risk of neurological disorders. While linkage studies have identified genes that cause a number of Mendelian disorders, linkage analysis is less well suited for the more...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Gubitz AK,Gwinn K

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mistletoe is often used as complementary therapy in oncology. The anti-tumor effects of mistletoe (Iscador) are well documented in-vitro in respect to inhibition of cell proliferation, induction of apoptosis, segmental activation of immune competent cells and trapping of chemotherapeutic drugs within cancer cells by m...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Matthes H,Friedel WE,Bock PR,Zänker KS

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interleukins IL1ß/IL18 and Inflammasome NLRP1/NLRP3 polymorphisms can change the course of multiple human diseases, both inflammatory as infectious. SNPs these proteins were associated with the constructive activation of the Inflammasome and excessive production of IL-1β induce a serious autoinflammatory dis...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： de Almeida E,Frantz SR,Cesar P,Tarragô AM,de Amorim Xabregas L,Garcia NP,Costa AG,de Paula EV,Malheiro A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The study aimed to evaluate the preventive effects of hydroxycitric acid（HCA） for stone formation in the glyoxylate-induced mouse model. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Male C57BL/6J mice were divided into a control group, glyoxylate(GOX) 100 mg/kg group, a GOX+HCA 100 mg/kg group, and a GOX+HCA 200 mg/kg group. Blood...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Liu X,Yuan P,Sun X,Chen Z

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HMGB1/Amphoterin is a ubiquitous, highly conserved DNA-binding protein that can be also released to the extracellular space by various cell types. Extracellular HMGB1 regulates migratory responses of several cell types through binding to RAGE that communicates with the cytoskeleton to regulate cell motility. HMGB1-ind...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Rauvala H,Rouhiainen A

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin is a complex tissue composed of two very different compartments -- the continuously renewing epidermis made up mostly by keratinocytes and the underlying matrix-rich dermis with the resting fibroblasts as its major cellular components. Both compartments are tightly interconnected and a paracrine mutual interactio...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Boukamp P

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) are powerful tools for studying developmental biology and neuronal diseases. Conventional differentiation protocols require several intermediate states and different culture conditions, inefficiently generating mixed subtypes of neuronal cells with immature characteristics. Direct program...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Gu J,Cromer B,Sumer H

更新日期：2020-04-21 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：:As an MHC class I protein, the disease association of HLA-B27 with inflammatory arthritis has been widely assumed to imply a role for the T cell antigen receptor (TCR) in disease. However, in addition to their classical antigen-presenting role, HLA class I proteins are recognised by members of the killer immunoglobuli...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Allen RL,Trowsdale J

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mood disorders and schizophrenia share a number of common properties, including: genetic susceptibility; differences in brain structure and drug based therapy. Some genetic loci may even confer susceptibility for bipolar mood disorder and schizophrenia, and some atypical antipsychotic drugs are used as mood stabilizer...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Harwood AJ

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic nephropathy, which represents a major form of chronic kidney disease (CKD), is a leading cause of end-stage renal disease worldwide, and is also a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Patients with diabetes and CKD have poorer outcomes after myocardial infarction. The underlying pathogenic mechanism ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Aso Y

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal mass is regulated by the coordinated action of bone forming osteoblasts and bone resorbing osteoclasts. Accelerated rates of bone resorption relative to bone formation lead to net bone loss and the development of osteoporosis, a devastating disease that predisposes the skeleton to fractures. Bone fractures ar...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Yamaguchi M,Vikulina T,Arbiser JL,Weitzmann MN

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00