Inhibition of P-glycoprotein activity and chemosensitization of multidrug-resistant ovarian carcinoma 2780AD cells by hexanoylglucosylceramide.

abstract：:Inflammation has been implicated in a variety of psychiatric disorders. We aimed to determine whether levels of complement C5 protein in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which may reflect activation of the complement system in the brain, are altered in patients with major psychiatric disorders. Additionally, we examined...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ishii T,Hattori K,Miyakawa T,Watanabe K,Hidese S,Sasayama D,Ota M,Teraishi T,Hori H,Yoshida S,Nunomura A,Nakagome K,Kunugi H

更新日期：2018-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The onset of labour is associated with an increase in prostaglandin synthesis in amnion which appears to be mediated at least in part by an increase in cyclo-oxygenase (COX) expression. We have tested the hypothesis that COX expression is controlled in amnion by the binding of a protein to the COX mRNA which may inhib...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Slater D,Berger L,Moore G,Bennett P

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The large protein L of negative-sense RNA viruses is a multifunctional protein involved in transcription and replication of genomic RNA. It also possesses enzymatic activities involved in capping and methylation of viral mRNAs. The pathway for mRNA capping followed by the L protein of the viruses in the Morbillivirus ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Singh PK,Ratnam N,Narayanarao KB,Bugatha H,Karande AA,Melkote Subbarao S

更新日期：2015-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:L-arginine may aid in the liver detoxification and may benefit in the treatment of liver disorders such as liver injury. The present study was to investigate the possible protective and curative effects of L-arginine on carbon tetrachloride (CCl(4)) induced hepatotoxicity. Mice received a single dose of CCl(4). L-argi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Saad EA

更新日期：2012-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The family of G-protein-activated inward-rectifiers K+ channels presently comprise at least 3 cloned members called GIRK1, GIRK2 and GIRK3. A close structural parent of GIRK channels has recently been described as being an ATP-sensitive K+ channel. This paper shows that Xenopus expression of this new channel that we c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Duprat F,Lesage F,Guillemare E,Fink M,Hugnot JP,Bigay J,Lazdunski M,Romey G,Barhanin J

更新日期：1995-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory systems of endogenous endothelin-1 (ET-1) production from intact tissues and the effects of produced ET-1 on vascular tonus by a closed circuit perfusion system of rat mesenteric artery were investigated. It was demonstrated that ET-1 is released from intact mesenteric arterial beds from Wistar rats bot...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tomobe Y,Yanagisawa M,Fujimori A,Masaki T,Goto K

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized genomic structure and transcription of a murine odorant receptor (OR) gene, MOR23. This gene has two distinct transcriptional initiation regions, which are differentially utilized in the olfactory and testicular cells. We have found that the MOR23 gene has an intron within the 5'-untranslated reg...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Asai H,Kasai H,Matsuda Y,Yamazaki N,Nagawa F,Sakano H,Tsuboi A

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA) is known to prevent apoptosis through the Bax pathway and to promote neovascularization by enhancing the mobilization of stem cells, their differentiation. This study was performed to investigate the effect of TUDCA on erythropoiesis in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Since erythropo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hong SH,Yoon KJ,Lim KH,Um YJ,Cho JG,Jo YJ,Park SG

更新日期：2016-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-gene is a potent inhibitor of transcriptional promoter activity and subsequent gene expression. This property has been exploited to suppress the expression of a variety of oncogenes for regulating tumor proliferation or viral activities. In this paper, we describe a novel retroviral vector designed to express hum...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okada T,Amanuma H,Okada Y,Obata M,Hayashi Y,Yamaguchi K,Yamashita J

更新日期：1997-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Fe-NTA is a known renal carcinogen. However, little is known about its carcinogenic potential in liver. In this study we for the first time show that Fe-NTA is a potent hepatic tumor promoter. Fe-NTA administration induced dose dependently the hepatic ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity several folds as compared to...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iqbal M,Giri U,Athar M

更新日期：1995-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Farnesoid X receptor (FXR) belongs to the ligand-activated nuclear receptor superfamily, and functions as a transcription factor regulating the transcription of numerous genes involved in bile acid homeostasis, lipoprotein and glucose metabolism. In the present study, we identified RECK, a membrane-anchored inhibitor ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Peng X,Wu W,Zhu B,Sun Z,Ji L,Ruan Y,Zhou M,Zhou L,Gu J

更新日期：2014-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain is triggered by damage to or as a result of the dysfunction of the somatosensory nervous system. Gene expression profiling using DNA microarray and real-time PCR have emerged as powerful tools for the elucidation of pain-specific pathways and identification of candidate biomarkers and therapeutic targ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wan G,Yang K,Lim Q',Zhou L,He BP,Wong HK,Too HP

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gut epithelium is critically involved in maintaining intestinal immune homeostasis. Acting as a physical barrier, it separates the intestinal microflora from cells of the immune system. In addition to its barrier function, the intestinal epithelium expresses defensins, natural, endogenous antimicrobial peptides. I...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhao A,Lu W,de Leeuw E

更新日期：2015-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Human sera from autoimmune gastritis patients containing autoantibodies to gastric parietal cells were analyzed by immunological methods. Enzyme linked immuno-sorbent assay demonstrated that all nine sera reacted with pig gastric vesicles enriched in H+/K(+)-ATPase (gastric proton pump). Immunoblotting experiments ind...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang XH,Miyazaki Y,Shinomura Y,Moriyama Y,Nakamoto RK,Matsuzawa Y,Maeda M,Futai M

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Class-I phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI 3-kinases) are dual specificity enzymes that possess both lipid and protein kinase activity. While the best characterized property of this protein kinase is as an autokinase activity, there have also been reports it can phosphorylate exogenous substrates including peptides, IRS-1...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Foukas LC,Shepherd PR

更新日期：2004-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of at least two distinct Mg2+- or Mn2+-dependent, Ca2+-independent endonuclease activities was shown in the myeloid leukemia cell line P39. One of them was recovered from nuclear extracts and the other from a cytoplasmic fraction. The molecular size of the former was 30 kDa in both gel filtration and acti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kawabata H,Anzai N,Masutani H,Hirama T,Hishita T,Dodo M,Masuda T,Yoshida Y,Okuma M

更新日期：1997-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Computing the ligand-protein binding affinity (or the Gibbs free energy) with chemical accuracy has long been a challenge for which many methods/approaches have been developed and refined with various successful applications. False positives and, even more harmful, false negatives have been and still are a common occu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Villarreal OD,Yu L,Rodriguez RA,Chen LY

更新日期：2017-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin and its receptors are overexpressed in breast cancer tissues and correlate with poor prognosis. Survivin, a member of the inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP) gene family, is generally upregulated in tumor tissues and prevents tumor cells from apoptosis. Here we showed that leptin upregulated survivin mRNA and ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jiang H,Yu J,Guo H,Song H,Chen S

更新日期：2008-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Several protein quality control systems in bacteria and/or mitochondrial matrix from lower eukaryotes are absent in higher eukaryotes. These are transfer-messenger RNA (tmRNA), The N-end rule ATP-dependent protease ClpAP, and two more ATP-dependent proteases, HslUV and ClpXP (in yeast). The lost proteases resemble the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lehmann G,Ziv T,Braten O,Admon A,Udasin RG,Ciechanover A

更新日期：2016-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Most human cancers are of epithelial origin, but many cell culture models for the study of cancer-causing genes use fibroblasts. In addition, efficient delivery and stable expression of foreign genes into non-transformed cell lines are often difficult. To address both questions, we here established a non-transformed r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fu SL,Huang YJ,Liang FP,Huang YF,Chuang CF,Wang SW,Yao JW

更新日期：2005-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here on the cloning and functional characterization of human LAT1, a subunit of the amino acid transport system L. The hLAT1 cDNA, obtained from a human placental cDNA library, codes for a protein of 507 amino acids. When functionally expressed in mammalian cells together with the heavy chain of the rat 4F2 ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Prasad PD,Wang H,Huang W,Kekuda R,Rajan DP,Leibach FH,Ganapathy V

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes is a chronic disease that disrupts the balance between bone formation and bone desorption, which can lead to osteoporosis, increasing the risk of fracture. However, compared with osteoblasts, the biological effects of hyperglycemia on osteoclastogenesis remain to be elucidated. Therefore, we investigated the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cai ZY,Yang B,Shi YX,Zhang WL,Liu F,Zhao W,Yang MW

更新日期：2018-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance of Fas receptor at the surface of pancreatic beta-cells affected by progressive insulitis strongly suggests that Fas-mediated beta-cell apoptosis plays an important role in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes. In support of this concept, the present study has shown that islet cells from NOD mice and the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Augstein P,Dunger A,Salzsieder C,Heinke P,Kubernath R,Bahr J,Fischer U,Rettig R,Salzsieder E

更新日期：2002-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have seen considerable evolution in our understanding of the mechanisms of oxygen activation by non-heme iron enzymes, with high-valent iron-oxo intermediates coming to the forefront as formidably potent oxidants. In the absence of substrate, the generation of vividly colored chromophores deriving from th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Farquhar ER,Koehntop KD,Emerson JP,Que L Jr

更新日期：2005-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural crest cells originating from the posterior rhombencephalon migrate to the cardiac outflow tract and participate in division of the aorta and pulmonary trunk. Ablation of this region of premigratory neural crest in the chick embryos results in nondivision of the outflow vessels. Subtractive hybridization was use...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kirby ML,Cheng G,Stadt H,Hunter G

更新日期：1995-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral ischemia is accompanied by fulminant cellular and humoral inflammatory changes in the brain which contribute to lesion development after stroke. A tight interplay between the brain and the peripheral immune system leads to a biphasic immune response to stroke consisting of an early activation of peripheral im...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Czech B,Pfeilschifter W,Mazaheri-Omrani N,Strobel MA,Kahles T,Neumann-Haefelin T,Rami A,Huwiler A,Pfeilschifter J

更新日期：2009-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, T cell cytokines such as IL-17 and IFN-γ have been shown to play important roles in the progression of brain injury induced by ischemia. We have shown that IL-23 from infiltrated macrophages activates γδT cells, thereby inducing IL-17 from these cells. However, deletion of the IL-23 gene in mice showed a mor...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Konoeda F,Shichita T,Yoshida H,Sugiyama Y,Muto G,Hasegawa E,Morita R,Suzuki N,Yoshimura A

更新日期：2010-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubulointerstitial nephritis antigen (TIN-ag) is an extracellular matrix basement protein which was originally identified as a target antigen involved in anti-tubular basement membrane (TBM) antibody-mediated interstitial nephritis (TIN). Further investigations elucidated that TIN-ag plays a role in renal tubulogenesi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ikeda M,Takemura T,Hino S,Yoshioka K

更新日期：2000-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The 3(')-->5(')-exonucleolytic activity of human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) on mispaired DNA at the 3(')-termini of recessed, nicked or gapped DNA molecules was analyzed and compared with the primary endonucleolytic activity. We found that under reaction conditions optimal for AP endonuclease activity...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lebedeva NA,Khodyreva SN,Favre A,Lavrik OI

更新日期：2003-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:O-GlcNAcylation is a kind of post-translational modification and many nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins are O-GlcNAcylated. In this study, we demonstrated that thiazolidinediones (TZDs), which are used as insulin sensitizer, specifically inhibited the O-GlcNAcylation of Sp1 but did not affect the O-GlcNAcylation of the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chung SS,Kim JH,Park HS,Choi HH,Lee KW,Cho YM,Lee HK,Park KS

更新日期：2008-08-08 00:00:00