Atrial natriuretic peptide inhibits the phosphoinositide hydrolysis in murine Leydig tumor cells.

abstract：:Activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4), which is ubiquitously expressed, plays a crucial role in regulating various stress-responsive genes under pathophysiological conditions. Further, growth arrest and DNA damage-inducible gene 34 (GADD34), a downstream target of ATF4, has been reported to negatively regulate ATF4...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Oh-Hashi K,Sugiura N,Amaya F,Isobe KI,Hirata Y

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of bovine pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells with endothelin-1 (ET-1) caused an increase in the expression and activation of proMMP-2 in the cells. The present study was undertaken to determine the underlying mechanisms involved in this scenario. We demonstrated that (i) pretreatment with NADPH oxidase inh...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Sarkar J,Chowdhury A,Chakraborti T,Chakraborti S

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：:In hypertensive animals and patients, oxidative stress represents the primary risk factor for progression of left ventricular hypertrophy. Recently, it has been demonstrated that hydrogen, as a novel antioxidant, can selectively reduce hydroxyl radicals and peroxynitrite anion to exert therapeutic antioxidant activity...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Yu YS,Zheng H

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish and fish oils contain the omega-3 fatty acids known as eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) plus docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Epidemiological studies have shown an inverse relation between the dietary consumption of fish containing EPA/DHA and mortality from coronary heart disease. These relationships have been substantiat...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Holub DJ,Holub BJ

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are known as crucial regulators in the development of OC. In the current study, we aim to explore the function and molecular mechanism of lncRNA DLEU1 in OC. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) was applied to determine the expression of DLEU1, miR-429, and TFAP2A i...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Xu H,Wang L,Jiang X

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:This review describes a comprehensive analysis of a surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based biosensor study of molecular interactions in the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) molecular axis. In this study, we focus on the interaction between the polypeptide growth factors IGF-I and IGF-II with six soluble IGF binding pro...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Beattie J,Phillips K,Shand JH,Szymanowska M,Flint DJ,Allan GJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Henna leaf (Lawsonia inermis), commonly known as Mehndi is cultivated throughout India and is a very popular natural dye to color hand and hair. It is an integral part of indigenous culture, and is also known for its medicinal value. The effect of 200 and 400 mg/kg body weight of 80% ethanolic extract of the fresh lea...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Dasgupta T,Rao AR,Yadava PK

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Original studies with rat adrenocortical carcinoma identified a 180 kDa cell-surface protein which contained both guanylate cyclase and atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) receptor, representing a potentially new type of bifunctional receptor protein. It is both a receptor and a guanylate cyclase. This critical conclusion...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Marala RB,Sharma RK

更新日期：1991-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis revealed the presence of several hydrolases involved in lipid metabolism including the members of Lip gene family. Rv0646c (LipG) is one of them. It is annotated as putative esterase/lipase because of the presence of consensus sequence 'GXSXG.' The gene was cloned, exp...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Rastogi R,Kumar A,Kaur J,Saini V,Kaur J,Bhatnagar A

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids have been used in the treatment of a number of diseases where immunological intolerance plays a predominant role. Since immunological intolerance points to the involvement of lysosomal enzymes and glucocorticoids are known to affect their activities, we have attempted to study the effect of these stero...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Rajashree S,Puvanakrishnan R

更新日期：1996-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In rat adipocytes, the insulin stimulation of the rate of glucose uptake is due, at least partially, to the recruitment of glucose transporter proteins from an intracellular compartment to the plasma membrane. Vanadate is a known insulin mimetic agent and causes an increase in the rate of glucose transport in rat adip...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Päquet MR,Romanek RJ,Sargeant RJ

更新日期：1992-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonolobus condurango plant extract is used as an anticancer drug in some traditional systems of medicine including homeopathy, but it apparently lacks any scientific validation. Further, no detailed study is available to suggest whether condurango-glycoside-A (CGA), a major ingredient of condurango serves as a potent ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Bishayee K,Paul A,Ghosh S,Sikdar S,Mukherjee A,Biswas R,Boujedaini N,Khuda-Bukhsh AR

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Well-documented evidence suggests that environmental and occupational exposure of toxic metals or metal-containing compounds can cause a number of human diseases, including inflammation and cancer, through DNA damage, protein modifications, or lipid peroxidation. This mini-review addresses the mechanisms of cell death...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Chen F,Vallyathan V,Castranova V,Shi X

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes, induced by methyl-isobutylxanthine (MIX), dexamethasone (DEX), and insulin, results in cells with the morphological and biochemical characteristics of adipocytes. Following incubation of 3T3-L1 cells with MIX, DEX, and insulin, poly(ADP-ribose) synthetase activity decreased abr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Pekala PH,Moss J

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although considerable evidence lends credence to the association between insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia and essential hypertension, the precise nature of this relationship remains unexplained. In the present investigation, we examined the proposition that these metabolic defects contribute causally to the develo...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Bhanot S,Michoulas A,McNeill JH

更新日期：1995-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear receptor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) plays a central role in regulating metabolism, including interaction with the estrogen receptor-α (ERα). Significantly, PPARγ activity can be modulated by small molecules to control cancer both in vitro and in vivo (Yin et al., Cancer Res 69...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Mehta RG,Peng X,Roy S,Hawthorne M,Kalra A,Alimirah F,Mehta RR,Kopelovich L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accessibility of pyridoxal 5'-phosphates of the phosphorylase ab hybrid to resolution by imidazole citrate and cysteine was studied and compared with that of the b and a forms. Promotion of resolution of phosphorylated forms by raising the temperature or in the presence of glycogen indicates that the resistance of...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Vereb G,Pallagi E,Gergely P

更新日期：1992-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) have recently been shown to be involved in a multiplicity of physiological responses through modulation of signaling pathways. Some of the specific signaling components altered by reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS) have begun to be identified. ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Forman HJ,Torres M,Fukuto J

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports considered that it was the disturbance of calcium homeostasis and the accumulation of misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) that activated hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) apoptosis and promoted fibrosis resolution. However, the signal-transducing events that are activated by ER stress after...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Huang Y,Li X,Wang Y,Wang H,Huang C,Li J

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is associated with alterations in coronary vascular smooth muscle and endothelial function. The current study examined the contractile response of the isolated coronary arterioles to serotonin in pigs with and without MetS and investigated the signaling pathways responsible for serotonin-indu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Lawandy I,Liu Y,Shi G,Zhang Z,Scrimgeour LA,Pavlov V,Jaworski R,Sellke FW,Feng J

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms potentially responsible for cadmium carcinogenesis were investigated by differential gene expression analysis of Balb/c-3T3 cells morphologically transformed with cadmium chloride. Differential display analysis of gene expression revealed overexpression of mouse Translation Initiation Factor 3...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Joseph P,Lei YX,Ong TM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiologic importance of insulin resistance in diseases such as obesity and diabetes mellitus has led to great interest in defining the mechanism of insulin action as well as the means to overcome the biochemical defects responsible for the resistance. Vanadium compounds have been discovered to mimic many of...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Fantus IG,Tsiani E

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II has previously been reported to have in vivo and in vitro cardiac hypertrophic effects. We used the salt-sensitive Dahl rat genetic strain to separate mechanical (pressure overload) vs. hormonal (renin-angiotensin system) input in cardiac hypertrophy. Blood pressure was significantly increased and left ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Peeler TC,Baker KM,Esmurdoc CF,Chernin MI

更新日期：1991-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth hormone (GH) has been reported to be useful to treat heart failure. To elucidate whether GH has direct beneficial effects on the heart, we examined effects of GH on oxidative stress-induced apoptosis in cardiac myocytes. TUNEL staining and DNA ladder analysis revealed that hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)-induced apopt...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Gu Y,Zou Y,Aikawa R,Hayashi D,Kudoh S,Yamauchi T,Uozumi H,Zhu W,Kadowaki T,Yazaki Y,Komuro I

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia impairs the muscle fibre-type shift from fast-to-slow during post-natal development; however, this adaptation could be a consequence of the reduced voluntary physical activity associated with hypoxia exposure rather than the result of hypoxia per se. Moreover, muscle oxidative capacity could be reduced in hypo...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Chaillou T,Koulmann N,Meunier A,Chapot R,Serrurier B,Beaudry M,Bigard X

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, protein kinase CK2 has two isozymic forms of its catalytic subunit, designated CK2alpha and CK2alpha'. CK2alpha and CK2alpha' exhibit extensive similarity within their catalytic domains but have completely unrelated C-terminal sequences. To systematically examine the cellular functions of each CK2 isoform ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Litchfield DW,Bosc DG,Canton DA,Saulnier RB,Vilk G,Zhang C

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-asparaginase EC 3.5.1.1 was purified to homogeneity from Thermus thermophilus. The apparent molecular mass of L-asparaginase by SDS-PAGE was found to be 33 kDa, whereas by its mobility on Sephacryl S-300 superfine column was around 200 kDa, indicating that the enzyme at the native stage acts as hexamer. The purified...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Pritsa AA,Kyriakidis DA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computer retrieval in a database, comprising 7,225 muscle cases, revealed that mitochondrial myopathies do not occur more frequently in inflammatory myopathies (3.74%) than in the whole series (3.69%). A more detailed study of inclusion body myositis (IBM), however, showed that severe mitochondrial alterations were ap...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Schröder JM,Molnar M

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial respiratory parameters were measured in situ, i.e. in saponin-skinned rabbit cardiac fibers and in fibers treated with saponin + collagenase. It was found that the decrease of maximal ADP-stimulated respiration rate of saponin-skinned fibers with pyruvate + malate under the conditions of total ischem...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Toleikis A,Majiene D,Trumbeckaite S,Dagys A

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00