Purification and characterization of tripeptide aminopeptidase from bovine dental follicles.

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the nephro-protective potential of N-acetylcysteine against hyperoxaluria-induced renal mitochondrial dysfunction in rats. Nine days dosing of 0.4 % ethylene glycol +1 % ammonium chloride, developed hyperoxaluria in male wistar rats which resulted in renal injury and dy...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Sharma M,Kaur T,Singla SK

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment with alpha-difluoromethylornithine (DFMO), an enzyme-activated irreversible inhibitor of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), depletes the putrescine and spermidine content, and reduces the growth rate of Ehrlich ascites tumor cells. The addition of putrescine, which is the immediate precursor of spermidine, promp...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Oredsson SM,Anehus S,Heby O

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both idiopathic restrictive cardiomyopathy (IRCM) and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are part of the same disease spectrum and are due to sarcomeric gene mutations. A patient with restrictive physiology without left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) would be diagnosed as IRCM, while one with LVH would be diagnosed as H...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Rai TS,Ahmad S,Ahluwalia TS,Ahuja M,Bahl A,Saikia UN,Singh B,Talwar KK,Khullar M

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to take osteopontin (OPN) as molecular target to study its effects on injured intima model of carotid artery in rat using perivascular transfer of OPN-small interference RNA (siRNA). OPN mRNA in cultured VSMCs was quantified by real-time RT-PCR, and OPN-siRNA-002 was determined as the ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Xu J,Sun Y,Wang T,Liu G

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of Ca2+ ionophores, A23187 and lasalocid, on superoxide anion generation by chemotactic peptide, N-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine methyl ester, in rabbit peritoneal exudate neutrophils were studied. The ionophores by themselves did not activate superoxide anion generation in these neutrophils. When prei...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Jacob J

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recombinant eukaryotic expression vector pCMV4-rmCGbeta, inserted full-length cDNA of the beta-subunit of rhesus monkey chorionic gonadotropin (rmCGbeta), as DNA immuno-contraceptive against CGbeta glycoprotein, has previously demonstrated the biological expression of rmCGbeta in vitro and in vivo. The plasmid DNA...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Chen Y,Liu Z,Yang Y,Chen YZ,Peng JP

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenovirus-mediated gene transfer is a promising method for studies of vascular biology and potentially for gene therapy. Intravascular approaches for gene transfer to blood vessels in vivo generally require interruption of blood flow and have several limitations. We have used two alternative approaches for gene trans...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Ooboshi H,Ríos CD,Heistad DD

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress granules are evolutionally conserved ribonucleoprotein structures that are formed in response to various stress stimuli. Recent studies have demonstrated that proteins with low complexity (LC) regions play a critical role for the formation of stress granules. In this study, we report that FAM98A, whose biologic...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Ozeki K,Sugiyama M,Akter KA,Nishiwaki K,Asano-Inami E,Senga T

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was aimed to investigate the protective effects of 17β-estradiol (E2) and estrogen receptor α (ERα) on isoproterenol (ISO)-treated H9c2 cardiomyoblast cells. In the present study, we treated H9c2 cells with ISO, a β-adrenergic receptor agonist, to induce myocardiac hypertrophy. Pre-administration of ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Pai P,Velmurugan BK,Kuo CH,Yen CY,Ho TJ,Lin YM,Chen YF,Lai CH,Day CH,Huang CY

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the role of the protein kinase C (PKC) signalling pathway in the regulation of expression of human complement factor I (CFI) gene. The production of CFI by Hep G2 cells was enhanced in a dose- and time-dependent fashion by 12-O-tetradecanoyl-1,2-phorbol 13-acetate (TPA), a potent PKC activator. 4Al...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Minta J,Fung M

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using freshly isolated single smooth muscle cells prepared by collagenase treatment, membrane currents were recorded by whole-cell voltage clamp. Intracellular constituents were modified by using an intracellular perfusion technique, i.e., pipette solutions were continuously exchanged from control to test solutions du...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Ohya Y,Sperelakis N

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article "JIP3 localises to exocytic vesicles and focal adhesions in the growth cones of differentiated PC12 cells", written by "Patrick T. Caswell, Martin Dickens", was originally published electronically on the publisher's internet portal https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11010-017-3222-7 on 20 November ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Caswell PT,Dickens M

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S-glutathionylation, the formation of mixed disulfides of glutathione with cysteine residues of proteins, is a broadly observed physiological modification that occurs in response to oxidative stress. Since cysteine residues are particularly susceptible to oxidative modification by reactive oxygen species, S-glutathion...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Leonberg AK,Chai YC

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human Fibroblast growth factor 1 (FGF1) has been recognized as a valuable protein drug for the treatment of many diseases because of its multiple functions in regulating a variety of biological processes involved in embryonic development, cell growth and differentiation, morphogenesis, tissue repair, and others. The a...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Zhou Y,Ren L,Zhu J,Yan S,Wang H,Song N,Li L,Ouyang H,Pang D

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:delta-Crystallin is a major structural protein of avian and reptilian lenses that is absent from the lenses of fish, amphibia and mammals. It appears to be a tetrameric protein with a native molecular weight near 200 000 (200K) and polypeptide molecular weight near 50K and 48K) (see Note added in proof). The alpha-cry...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Piatigorsky J

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Albumin complementary DNA (cDNA) was transcribed from purified albumin mRNA from the liver of Xenopus laevis. The resultant cDNA was an almost full length copy as defined by denaturing gel electrophoresis; was hybridized specifically to albumin mRNA with pseudo-first-order reaction kinetics and the mRNA . cDNA hybrid ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Dimitriadis GJ,Zongza-Dimitriadis V

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholine-induced, endothelium-dependent relaxation of norepinephrine-precontracted aortic strips, was severely impaired after exposure to a hypoxanthine/xanthine oxidase reaction generating oxygen radicals. This effect was more evident in aortic strips of aging rats (24 months old) in comparison to young rats (3 ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Guarnieri C,Giordano E,Muscari C,Grossi L,Caldarera CM

更新日期：1996-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Zonation of ethanol oxidation and metabolic effects along the hepatic acini were investigated in the bivascularly perfused liver of fed rats. Ethanol was infused into the hepatic artery in antegrade and retrograde perfusion. Inhibition of glycolysis by ethanol, expressed as micromol min(-1) (ml accessible cell space)(...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Lopez CH,Constantin J,Gimenes D,Suzuki-Kemmelmeier F,Bracht A

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac hypertrophy in rats was produced by aortic banding for 6 weeks and regression of hypertrophy in these experimental animals was induced by administration of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor, enalapril (10 mg/kg/day) for 6 weeks. The left ventricular muscle mass and systolic pressure were decrease upon tr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Makino N,Matsui H,Masutomo K,Hata T,Yanaga T

更新日期：1993-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A matricellular protein, osteopontin (OPN), is expressed in response to mechanical stress and similar stimuli in the heart, integrates the inter-ECM signal transduction network of component cells, and maintains efficient contractility through quantitative and qualitative control of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins....

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Okamoto H

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-1 (ET-1), a peptide isolated from the culture medium of endothelial cells, mediates a variety of physiological and pathological responses including mitogenesis. We have compared the expression of ET receptors in untransformed versus ras-transformed NIH-3T3 murine fibroblasts and in untransformed versus SV40...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Nambi P,Mattern MR,Wu HL,Pullen M,Nuthulaganti P,Hofmann GA,Kumar C

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured human and rat endothelial cells were used to study cellular toxicity and Ca2+ signalling upon exposure to reactive oxygen species. Superoxide and hydrogen peroxide (O2.-/H2O2) were produced by the hypoxanthine/xanthine oxidase system (HX/XO) and caused intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) to rise steadi...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Volk T,Hensel M,Kox WJ

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BTF3, initially discovered as a factor required for transcription inititation of RNA polymerase II, is expressed in two isoforms, termed a and b. BTF3b, the transcriptionally inactive isoform, was identified as an interaction partner of protein kinase CK2 subunit beta employing the interaction trap system for screenin...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Grein S,Pyerin W

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoterpene perillyl alcohol (POH) is a drug used in the treatment of several malignant tumors, including gliomas. The present study defines a POH inhibitory effect on Na/K-ATPase activity from kidney and brain guinea pig extracts and from a human glioblastoma cell line. This inhibition showed a high degree of sel...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Garcia DG,Amorim LM,de Castro Faria MV,Freire AS,Santelli RE,Da Fonseca CO,Quirico-Santos T,Burth P

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary cultures of skeletal muscle cells secrete plasminogen activator (PA) activity to the conditioning medium and display membrane-bound PA. Growth of these cells in culture in presence of 10(-7) M dexamethasone resulted in a marked reduction of the membranal and secreted PA activity. The hormone also reduced cytos...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Mayer M,Finci Z,Chaouat M,Sasson S

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acrolein is a highly reactive alpha, beta-unsaturated aldehyde, and a product of lipid peroxidation reactions. Acrolein is also an environmental pollutant and a key component of cigarette smoke, and has been implicated in multiple respiratory diseases. Lung tissue is a primary target for acrolein toxicity in smokers a...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Sarkar P,Hayes BE

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer cell aggregation has been long known to facilitate metastatic potential of cancer cells. In addition, the presence of nitric oxide (NO) in cancer area may have a significant impact on aggregation behavior of the cells. We show herein that lung cancer H460 cells possessing high ability of anoikis resistance form...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Powan P,Chanvorachote P

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid growth of the coronary vasculature occurs during prenatal and early postnatal periods as precursor cells from the epi- and sub-epicardium differentiate, migrate and form vascular structures (vasculogenesis) which then fuse, branch and in some cases recruit cells to form three tunics (angiogenesis). These proce...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Tomanek RJ,Zheng W,Yue X

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The OCT4 transcription factor is a crucial stem cells marker and it has been related to the cancer stem cells concept. Moreover, it has also been associated to the multiple drug resistance (MDR) phenotype. Our first results pointed out a straight relation between OCT4 and ABC transporters in K562-derivative MDR (Lucen...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Oliveira BR,Figueiredo MA,Trindade GS,Marins LF

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Those genes which are transcribed by RNA polymerase III continue to give surprising results with respect to their cis-acting elements and transacting factors. As a result, a broader view of class III promoters has emerged and the internal promoters are not universal in classical polymerase III genes. The involvement o...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Shastry BS

更新日期：1993-07-07 00:00:00