Culturing of human vascular endothelial cells strongly affects their endothelin-1 and prostacyclin production.

abstract：:The effects of purified Ca2+, phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (C-kinase) were studied on adenylate cyclase activity from rat brain striatum. C-kinase treatment of the membranes stimulated adenylate cyclase activity, the maximal stimulation between 50-80% was observed at 3.5 U/ml, whereas the catalytic subunit of...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Anand-Srivastava MB,Srivastava AK

更新日期：1990-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here a study of the incorporation and metabolism of various long chain fatty acids in SK-Hep-1 cultured hepatoma cells. Medium supplementation with radiolabelled palmitic, stearic, linoleic, alpha-linolenic and eicosa-8,11,14-trienoic acids (1 microM, 24 H) resulted in an active uptake of each of these precu...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Marra CA,de Alaniz MJ

更新日期：1992-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of iloprost, which is a stable prostacyclin analogue, on the ischemic myocardium were examined in the open-chest dog heart in terms of biochemical parameters. Ischemia was initiated by ligating the left anterior descending coronary artery. When the coronary artery was ligated for 3 min, the levels or glycogen,...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Ichihara K,Yamamoto K,Abiko Y

更新日期：1993-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Myofibroblasts are metabolically and morphologically distinctive fibroblasts expressing alpha-smooth muscle actin (alpha-SMA), and their activation plays a key role in development of the fibrotic response. In an activated state, myofibroblasts cease to proliferate and start to synthesize large amounts of extracellular...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Nakatani T,Honda E,Hayakawa S,Sato M,Satoh K,Kudo M,Munakata H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review we analyze the concepts and the experimental data on the mechanisms of the regulation of energy metabolism in muscle cells. Muscular energetics is based on the force-length relationship, which in the whole heart is expressed as a Frank-Starling law, by which the alterations of left ventricle diastolic v...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Saks VA,Kuznetsov AV,Vendelin M,Guerrero K,Kay L,Seppet EK

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited proteolysis of rabbit muscle phosphorylase kinase catalyzed by chymotrypsin generates a 33 kD product whose kinase activity is independent of both calcium and pH over the range of 6.8 to 8.3 (Malencik, D.A. & Fischer, E.H. Calcium and Cell Function III: 161-188, 1982). This active preparation consists of three...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Malencik DA,Zhao Z,Anderson SR

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monocyte chemotactic protein (MCP-1) is thought to play a major role in recruiting monocytes to the vascular endothelium where the adherence of monocytes is one of the earliest events in atherogenesis. We cloned MCP-1 cDNA from a lambda gt 11 cDNA library constructed from human aortic endothelial mRNA to test whethe...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Li YS,Shyy YJ,Wright JG,Valente AJ,Cornhill JF,Kolattukudy PE

更新日期：1993-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the current study was to comparatively investigate the effect of inhibition of nitric oxide (NO) production by N-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), an isoform non-specific inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase (NOS), after oral mucosal incision on wound tissue NO levels. A standard incision was applied to...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Coşkun S,Karataş F,Acartürk F,Olmuş H,Selvi M,Erbaş D

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemia of the heart is accompanied by the tissue accumulation of long-chain fatty acids and their metabolic derivatives such as beta-hydroxy fatty acids and fatty acyl-CoA and acyl-L-carnitine esters. These substances might be detrimental for proper myocardial function. Previously, it has been suggested that intrace...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Glatz JF,Vork MM,van der Vusse GJ

更新日期：1993-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:L-Asparaginase activity reaches maximal values at the stationary phase of growth of Tetrahymena pyriformis and fluctuates upon the growth conditions and the composition of the medium. Most of the L-asparaginase activity (80%) is associated with the endoplasmic reticulum, and the remaining with the pellicles. Detergent...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Triantafillou DJ,Georgatsos JG,Kyriakidis DA

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huge data accumulated in last few years have shown that differential expression of candidate miRNAs in normal versus transformed cell provides important insights into the pathogenesis of cancer including leukemias. In our previous report, we have revealed that miR-196b was significantly down-regulated in both EB-3 cel...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Bhatia S,Kaul D,Varma N

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of hypotonic solution on cell volume and electrophysiology properties of the failing heart of cardiomyopathic hamsters (TO-2) was investigated. The results showed an increase in cell volume of quiescent isolated ventricular myocytes by 66% within 30 min. Angiotensin (1-7) [Ang (1-7)] (10(-8) M) administe...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： De Mello WC

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fat cells were preincubated for 2 h in the presence and absence of growth hormone (GH) and Dexamethasone (Dex) before the addition of increasing concentrations of either epinephrine, theophylline or glucagon and final incubation of the cells for an additional 5 minutes. GH and Dex increased by 85%, 28% and 72%, respec...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Harris R,Bennun A

更新日期：1976-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The T-box transcription factor TBX2 is known for its role as a critical regulator of melanoma cell proliferation, but its role in regulating melanogenesis has not been widely studied. Here we use a series of experiments to show in primary and immortalized mouse melanocytes that TBX2 acts as regulator of melanogenesis ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Chen Y,Pan L,Su Z,Wang J,Li H,Ma X,Liu Y,Lu F,Qu J,Hou L

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been recently hypothesized that in PIH a placental oxidant-antioxidant imbalance might cause the release of lipoperoxidation products into the circulation, with subsequent damage of endothelial cell membranes. In this hypothesis the endothelial cell and further increase in circulating lipoperoxide levels, which...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Cester N,Staffolani R,Rabini RA,Magnanelli R,Salvolini E,Galassi R,Mazzanti L,Romanini C

更新日期：1994-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo administration of pyridine has been shown to increase the activity and content of several forms of cytochrome P450 by transcriptional and posttranscriptional mechanisms. The effect of pyridine on CYP1A and CYP2E1 isozymes was studied in a rat hepatocyte culture model. Hepatocytes were isolated from non-induced...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Wu D,Ramin SA,Cederbaum AI

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plexiform neurofibromas commonly found in patients with Neurofibromatosis type I (NF1) have a 5% risk of being transformed into malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST). Germline mutations in the NF1 gene coding for neurofibromin, which is a Ras GTPase activating protein (RasGAP) and a negative regulator of Ra...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Kraniak JM,Sun D,Mattingly RR,Reiners JJ Jr,Tainsky MA

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical training induces cardiovascular autonomic nervous system regulation adaptations, which could result from beta adrenergic receptor (AR) modifications. Among them, beta(3 )AR alterations have been recently reported but their functional effect remained to discuss. To explain the beta(3) AR gene expression in rel...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Barbier J,Rannou-Bekono F,Marchais J,Tanguy S,Carré F

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of transcription and translation inhibitors on NADP-glutamate dehydrogenase and glutamine synthetase synthesis in nitrogen-starving Ankistrodesmus braunii cells have been studied. Considering the results obtained one can suggest that both enzymes are coded in a chloroplast genome and that during nitrogen s...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Shatilov VR,Sof'in AV,Zabrodina TM,Kretovich WL

更新日期：1982-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Our interest in the role of sulfhydryl groups (SH) in regulating or altering transport across biological membranes has focused on the significance of a critical SH group associated with the Ca2+-release protein from skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). We have shown that binding of heavy metals to this group o...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Abramson JJ,Salama G

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromium(VI) [Cr(VI)] induces chronic inflammation in hepatocytes. Inflammation has been shown to play an important role in tumorigenesis, tumor progression, and metastasis. To examine the effects of the Styrax Japonica Siebold et al. Zuccarini (SJSZ) glycoprotein on inflammation in BNL CL.2 cells, we evaluated the ac...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Lee J,Lim KT

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin alone at concentrations of less than 1 to 5 uU/ml increased the enzyme activities of glycogen synthase, synthase phosphatase, phosphorylase, and phosphorylase phosphatase in hepatoma H4 cells in culture in the presence and absence of serum. Increase in total and active forms of glycogen synthase and phosphoryl...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Goheer MA,Larner J,Curnow RT

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly sensitive and specific synthetic substrates were used to quantitate cathepsin B and D activity in peritoneal macrophages in response to stimulation in vivo with mineral oil and thioglycollate. After intraperitoneal instillation of mineral oil the activity of cathepsin B increased significantly (to 15 300 units/...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Lesser M,Chang JC,Orlowski M

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although studies performed in vitro and with transfected cells in culture suggest a role for liver fatty acid binding protein (L-FABP) in regulating fatty acid oxidation and fat deposition, the physiological significance of this possibility is not completely clear. To begin to address this question, the effect of L-FA...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Martin GG,Atshaves BP,McIntosh AL,Payne HR,Mackie JT,Kier AB,Schroeder F

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver-X-Receptor alpha (LXR-alpha) that belongs to nuclear receptor/transcriptional factor family has been recognized to play crucial role in the regulation of lipid metabolism and inflammation. Consequently, the present study was addressed to explore the functional genomics of LXR-alpha within human blood immunomodul...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Kaul D,Gautam A,Sikand K

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress genes can be ascribed to have been generated by the organism for their intrinsic urge to survive against the changing environmental odds, during the evolutionary process. This concept has been supported by a large number of reports describing individual types of phenomena. These have been reconciled and globali...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Ray PK

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A noncholinergic nicotine receptor on human phagocytic leukocytes has been characterized using the binding of 3H-(d,1)-nicotine. The average affinity +/- standard deviation of (d,1)-nicotine for the receptor on neutrophils is 36 +/- 18 nM (n = 6). The binding is saturable with an average of 8.7 x 10(4) sites per neutr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Davies BD,Hoss W,Lin JP,Lionetti F

更新日期：1982-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of nucleic acid hybridization techniques to the study of liver regeneration has led to a revision of some well-established ideas about the patterns of gene expression during regenerative growth. This paper focuses on two broad problems: a) the extent to which mRNA populations in regenerating liver diff...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Fausto N

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amida was first isolated from a rat hippocampal cDNA library as an Arc-associated protein. Although previous studies have shown that Amida mRNA is predominantly expressed and developmentally regulated in rat testis and overexpression induces apoptosis, the function of Amida remains unclear. In this study, we found tha...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Gan Y,Taira E,Irie Y,Fujimoto T,Miki N

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the oxidative effects of raloxifene use in postmenopausal women by investigating protein carbonyl levels in the plasma. METHODS:Nineteen osteoporotic postmenopausal women treated with raloxifene for 12 months were included in the study. Another seventeen postmenopausal women matched for age and po...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Korucuoğlu U,Ciftçi B,Gülbahar O,Biri A,Nas T,Gürsoy R,Aricioğlu A

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00