The CYP P450 arachidonic acid monooxygenases: from cell signaling to blood pressure regulation.

abstract：:We attempted to attenuate neointimal formation following vascular injury using a retroviral suicide vector. Epicardial coronary arteries of adult miniature swine were injured by deployment of oversized tantalum stents. One week later, injured segments were exposed to packaged retroviral constructs with or without the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Barbee RW,Stapleton DD,Madras DE,Ré RN,Murgo JP,Davenport WD,Giardina J,Cook JL

更新日期：1995-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:To search for the signaling critical for the production of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-2 (TIMP-2), we investigated the role of SHP-2 in TIMP-2 production with Concanavalin A (Con A)-treated cells. In wild-type fibroblasts, Con A-treatment dramatically activated TIMP-2 production. In contrast, production of T...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Biswas MH,Hasegawa HH,Rahman MA,Huang P,Mon NN,Ruhul Amin AR,Senga T,Kannagi R,Hamaguchi M

更新日期：2006-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Although GPRC5B and GPRC5C are categorized into the G protein-coupled receptor family C, including glutamate receptors, GABA receptors, and taste receptors, their physiological functions remain unknown. Since both receptors are expressed in the brain and evolutionarily conserved from fly to human, it is conceivable th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sano T,Kim YJ,Oshima E,Shimizu C,Kiyonari H,Abe T,Higashi H,Yamada K,Hirabayashi Y

更新日期：2011-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prognosis of patients after acute kidney injury (AKI) is poor and treatment is limited. AKI is mainly caused by renal ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI). During the extension phase of IRI, endothelial damage may participate in ischemia and inflammation. Endothelin-1 (ET-1) which is mostly secreted by endo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Arfian N,Emoto N,Vignon-Zellweger N,Nakayama K,Yagi K,Hirata K

更新日期：2012-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In the rat mammary tumoral cell line (WRK1 cells), vasopressin was previously described to stimulate a phospholipase C. In this study, we have analysed the effect of vasopressin both on intracellular calcium mobilization and on the accumulation of inositol phosphates. Maximal concentration of vasopressin simultaneousl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mouillac B,Balestre MN,Guillon G

更新日期：1989-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of authors. The Journal received an expression of concern from a reader, which noted that: “The problem is that there is no IL-26 gene in t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bao J,Lv Z,Wang S

更新日期：2018-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of TNF-alpha gene in the retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells was studied by using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). PCR for human TNF-alpha gene using complementary DNA (cDNA) of control RNA prepared from non-stimulated RPE cells failed to show expression of TNF-alpha gene. However, PCR by using cDNA prep...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tanihara H,Yoshida M,Yoshimura N

更新日期：1992-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The peptide endothelin causes a biphasic rise in intracellular free calcium levels in cultured Type-1 astrocytes and C6 glioma cells, suggesting that glial cells may be the physiological target of endothelin in the brain. Endothelin also causes a calcium-dependent increase [3H]thymidine incorporation in primary cultur...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Supattapone S,Simpson AW,Ashley CC

更新日期：1989-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Native LDL would be a mitogenic and chemotactic stimulus of VSMC proliferation and differentiation in the atherosclerotic lesion where endothelial disruption occurred. In previous studies, our group investigated the molecular mechanisms by which LDL induces IL-8 production and by which PPARalpha activation abolishes L...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Heo KS,Kim DU,Ryoo S,Nam M,Baek ST,Kim L,Park SK,Myung CS,Hoe KL

更新日期：2007-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of growth hormone (GH) increases muscle mass in F344 x BN rats, but not in Sprague-Dawley (S-D) rats. S-D rats are insulin-resistant and insulin responsiveness is required for the anabolic actions of GH. We hypothesized that correction of insulin resistance with metformin might also restore anabolic eff...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Borst SE,Snellen HG,Ross H,Scarpace PJ,Kim YW

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O2-dependent reactions of the ferric and ferrous forms of alpha-hydroxyheme complexed with water-soluble rat heme oxygenase-1 were examined by rapid-scan stopped-flow measurements. Ferric alpha-hydroxyheme reacted with O2 to form ferric verdoheme with an O2-dependent rate constant of 4x10(5) M(-1) s(-1) at pH 7.4 and ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sakamoto H,Takahashi K,Higashimoto Y,Harada S,Palmer G,Noguchi M

更新日期：2005-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism(s) involved in the generation of free radicals in human leukocytes by phorbol myristate acetate (PMA), formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (FMP), lipopolysaccharide (LPS), arachidonic acid (AA), and recombinant-tumor necrosis factor-1-alpha (r-TNF-1 alpha) was investigated. Calmodulin antagonists, chlo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Das UN,Padma M,Sagar PS,Ramesh G,Koratkar R

更新日期：1990-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Arl13b is an atypical Arf/Arl-family GTPase consisting of an extending large C-terminal region (C domain) and Arf-homologous GTP-binding motifs in the N terminus (N domain). Although Arl13b appears to be involved in cilia formation, its precise function and roles of the domains remain unknown. Here, we show the unique...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hori Y,Kobayashi T,Kikko Y,Kontani K,Katada T

更新日期：2008-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is caused by mutations in human NOTCH3. We have recently reported that mutant Notch3 shows a greater propensity to form aggregates, and these aggregates resist degradation, leading to accumulation in the endoplasmic re...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takahashi K,Adachi K,Kunimoto S,Wakita H,Takeda K,Watanabe A

更新日期：2010-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfactant convertase is required for conversion of heavy density (H) natural surfactant to light density (L) subtype during cycling in vitro, a technique that reproduces surfactant metabolism. To study mechanisms of H to L conversion, we prepared liposomes of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and phosphatidylglyc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dhand R,Sharma VK,Teng AL,Krishnasamy S,Gross NJ

更新日期：1998-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists have been used to treat type 2 diabetic patients and shown to reduce food intake and body weight. The anorexigenic effects of GLP-1 and GLP-1 receptor agonists are thought to be mediated primarily via the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN). GLP-1, an intestinal...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Katsurada K,Maejima Y,Nakata M,Kodaira M,Suyama S,Iwasaki Y,Kario K,Yada T

更新日期：2014-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation has been postulated as a risk factor for several cancers. 3-Nitrotyrosine is a biochemical marker for inflammation. We investigated the ability of nitrotyrosine and nitrotyrosine-containing peptides (nitroY-peptide) to induce DNA damage by the experiments using 32P-labeled DNA fragments obtained from the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Murata M,Kawanishi S

更新日期：2004-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Manganese-dependent superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) is localized in the mitochondria and is important for oxidative stress resistance. Although transcriptional regulation of MnSOD has been relatively well studied, much less is known about the protein's posttranslational regulation. In budding yeast, MnSOD is activated af...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takahashi H,Suzuki T,Shirai A,Matsuyama A,Dohmae N,Yoshida M

更新日期：2011-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete nucleotide sequence of human fibroblast poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase cDNA was determined. The cDNA contains an open reading frame for a 1014 amino acid polypeptide. In the DNA binding domain of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase, there are predicted alpha-helix-turn-alpha-helix structures and two sequences each o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Uchida K,Morita T,Sato T,Ogura T,Yamashita R,Noguchi S,Suzuki H,Nyunoya H,Miwa M,Sugimura T

更新日期：1987-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Imipenem is often used to treat intensive care unit patients infected by Enterobacter aerogenes, but it is leading to an increasing number of antibiotic resistant strains. Clinical isolates and imipenem resistant variants presented a high level of resistance to beta-lactam antibiotic group and to chemically unrelated ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bornet C,Chollet R,Malléa M,Chevalier J,Davin-Regli A,Pagès JM,Bollet C

更新日期：2003-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are crucial secondary messengers of signaling pathways. Redox-dependent signaling events have been previously described in the innate immune response. However, the mechanism by which ROS modulates anti-viral innate immune signaling is not fully clarified. Here, we report that mitochondria...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gonzalez-Dosal R,Horan KA,Paludan SR

更新日期：2012-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemorrhagic snake venom induces apoptosis of vascular endothelial cells [S. Araki, T. Ishida, T. Yamamoto, K. Kaji, and H. Hayashi (1993) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 190 , 148-153]. We have identified that a cytotoxic substance of Korean snake venom which is responsible for the apoptosis is L-amino acid oxidase (LAO)...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Suhr SM,Kim DS

更新日期：1996-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromedin B and neuromedin C are the novel mammalian bombesin-like peptides isolated from porcine spinal cord. We have developed highly specific and sensitive radioimmunoassays for neuromedin B and neuromedin C, and determined their regional distribution in rat central nervous system. Prior to measurements of the tis...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Minamino N,Kangawa K,Matsuo H

更新日期：1984-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-induced smooth muscle cell migration, measured in Boyden chambers, and cellular arachidonic acid cascade was studied by using rat aortic smooth muscle cells. Partially purified PDGF stimulated cell migration significantly at a concentration of 1.33-133.0 micro...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakao J,Ito H,Chang WC,Koshihara Y,Murota S

更新日期：1983-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the role of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) in cancer cell invasion, we have compared the invasiveness of mouse mammary carcinoma, FM3A and its variant cell line, EXOD, which overproduces ODC. We have found that EXOD cells showed about 5.6-fold more invasiveness through a reconstituted basement membrane (Ma...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kubota S,Yamada T,Kamei S,Seyama Y

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:tsBN75 and tsBN423 are independently isolated temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants of the BHK21 cell line for cell growth. Both tsBN75 and tsBN423 belong to the same complementation group and show G2 block at the nonpermissive temperature. Both were efficiently transformed to ts+ cells with the mouse and human cDNA enco...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nishitani H,Goto H,Kaneda S,Yamao F,Seno T,Handley P,Schwartz AL,Nishimoto T

更新日期：1992-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Semaphorins provide crucial attractive and repulsive cues involved in axon guidance during neural development. Out of them, Semaphorin 4D (Sema4D) is enriched in the nervous and immune tissues, and acts as proliferative and survival factors of peripheral lymphocytes in the immune system, but is poorly understood in th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fujioka S,Masuda K,Toguchi M,Ohoka Y,Sakai T,Furuyama T,Inagaki S

更新日期：2003-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a multi-target cell tracking program TADOR, which we applied to a series of fluorescence images. TADOR is based on an active contour model that is modified in order to be free of the problem of locally optimal solutions, and thus is resistant to signal fluctuation and morphological changes. Due to ad...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kurokawa H,Noda H,Sugiyama M,Sakaue-Sawano A,Fukami K,Miyawaki A

更新日期：2012-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein phosphatase was partially purified from myofibrils of bovine heart by sequential column chromatographies. The purified protein phosphatase was immunologically identified as a delta isoform of PP1 (PP1delta). The myosin-binding subunit (MBS) of myosin-binding phosphatase (MBP) in smooth muscle was co-purified w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nishio H,Ichikawa K,Hartshorne DJ

更新日期：1997-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) molecules expressed by different cell types have been examined using cDNA transfection into cells of epithelial, neuroectodermal and hematopoietic origin. Variability in the CEA molecules was observed in terms of monoclonal antibody binding, apparent molecular weig...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Grimm T,Riethmüller G,Johnson JP

更新日期：1994-11-15 00:00:00