Identification of an alternatively spliced isoform of the fyn tyrosine kinase.

abstract：:Astrocytic glycogen metabolism sustains neuronal activity but its impact on basal glutamatergic synaptic transmission is not clear. To address this issue, we have compared the effect of glycogen breakdown inhibition on miniature excitatory postsynaptic currents (mEPSCs) in rat hippocampal pure neuronal culture (PNC) a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mozrzymas J,Szczęsny T,Rakus D

更新日期：2011-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the deposition of β-amyloid (Aβ) peptide in the brain, which is produced by the proteolysis of β-amyloid precursor protein (APP). Recently, the mitochondrial transcription factor 4 (MTERF4), a member of the MTERF family, was implicated in regulating mitochondrial DNA transc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang XL,Liu Q,Chen GJ,Li ML,Ding YH

更新日期：2017-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Ambient cold temperature, as an abiotic stress, regulates the survival, stability, transmission, and infection of pathogens. However, the effect of cold temperature on the host receptivity to the pathogens has not been fully studied. In this study, the expression of terminal α-2,3- and α-2,6-sialic acids were increase...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moon SC,Joo SY,Chung TW,Choi HJ,Park MJ,Choi HJ,Bae SJ,Kim KJ,Kim CH,Joo M,Ha KT

更新日期：2016-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoliquiritigenin (ILTG) is a chalcone compound and has valuable pharmacological properties such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, and antiallergic activities. Recently, the anxiolytic effect of ILTG has been reported; however, its action mechanism and hypnotic activity have not yet been demonstrated. The...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cho S,Kim S,Jin Z,Yang H,Han D,Baek NI,Jo J,Cho CW,Park JH,Shimizu M,Jin YH

更新日期：2011-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A great challenge for gene therapy is to develop a high efficient gene delivery system with low toxicity. Nonviral vectors are still attractive although the current agents displayed some disadvantages (i.e., low transfection efficiency, high toxicity). To overcome the high toxicity of poly(ethylene imine) (PEI) and lo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liang B,He ML,Xiao ZP,Li Y,Chan CY,Kung HF,Shuai XT,Peng Y

更新日期：2008-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A new modified nucleoside 2'-O-methyl-l-methyl adenosine has been found to be present in the tRNA of Eleusine coracana ( ragi ) seedlings. The sequence of the dinucleotide of which this modified nucleoside is a part suggests its presence in phenylalanine-tRNA. The structural implications of the presence of this new mo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Raviprakash KS,Cherayil JD

更新日期：1984-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian cancer is a gynecological cancer that has the highest mortality rate and is often resistant to conventional treatments. Therefore, development of new therapies is essential. Metformin (MET), which is the priority drug for treatment of type 2 diabetes, has received increasing attention because of its anti-tumor...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cui Y,Zhou J,Rong F

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocytes isolated from normal adult rats were maintained at sub-confluent density in a defined medium in primary culture. In control cultures with added epidermal growth factor and low concentrations of dexamethasone, the rate of DNA synthesis was initially low but increased after about 30 hours in culture. Additio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Edwards AM,Lucas CM

更新日期：1985-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-terminal leucine residue of snake venom cardiotoxin II (CTX II) (Naja naja atra) was systematically replaced with D-leucine (CTXII-L1-D-L), glycine (CTXII-L1G) or deleted [CTXII-(2-60)] to study the role of leucine residue in CTX II molecule. CTX II, CTXL1-D-L, CTXL1G and CTX(2-60) were produced by chemical synt...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu CY,Chen WC,Ho CL,Chen ST,Wang KT

更新日期：1997-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:With aging and stress, the myocardium undergoes structural remodeling, often leading to fibrosis. The purpose of this study is to examine whether lumican, one of the class II small leucine-rich proteoglycans, has a protective role in cardiac remodeling and fibrosis. In attempts to elucidate the hypothesis that lumican...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen SW,Tung YC,Jung SM,Chu Y,Lin PJ,Kao WW,Chu PH

更新日期：2017-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The dodecapeptide MCLV3 is a functional peptide, derived from the CLV3 precursor protein, which is a candidate ligand of the CLV1/CLV2 receptor complex that restricts the stem cell population in the shoot apical meristem (SAM). MCLV3 can induce shoot and root meristem consumption, the typical phenotype of transgenic p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kondo T,Nakamura T,Yokomine K,Sakagami Y

更新日期：2008-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of human follicular fluid revealed the presence of polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs) and dibenzofurans (PCDFs) at concentrations of approximately 1 pg/ml (0.01 pg TEQ/ml). To study their possible action, two-cell mouse embryos were cultured in the presence of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tsutsumi O,Uechi H,Sone H,Yonemoto J,Takai Y,Momoeda M,Tohyama C,Hashimoto S,Morita M,Taketani Y

更新日期：1998-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon glucose depletion, a massive reprogramming of gene expression occurs in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the use of alternate carbon sources such as the nonfermentable compounds ethanol and glycerol. This process is mediated by the master kinase Snf1 that controls the activity of various targets including t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Soontorngun N,Baramee S,Tangsombatvichit C,Thepnok P,Cheevadhanarak S,Robert F,Turcotte B

更新日期：2012-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that estrogen effects in the heart include direct hormone effects on the myocardium. In a recent study we found that one beneficial effect of estradiol on the myocardium is the inhibition of apoptosis in cardiac myocytes. This effect was associated with a reduction of NF-kappaB activity. In th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pelzer T,Neumann M,de Jager T,Jazbutyte V,Neyses L

更新日期：2001-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Ly6k, a putative mouse glycosylphosphatidyl-inositol (GPI)-anchored membrane protein is specifically associated with a unique germ-cell marker, TEX101. Although a human orthologue LY6K has been proposed as a novel cancer/testis antigen, its molecular nature is largely obscure, because its characteristics have been gle...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Maruyama M,Yoshitake H,Tsukamoto H,Takamori K,Araki Y

更新日期：2010-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The adipose tissue of genetically obese Zucker rats is characterized by coordinated tissue specific overtranscription of a subset of genes related to lipid storage such as Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (GAPDH). We show that CCAAT/Enhancer Binding Protein alpha (C/EBP alpha) is an activator of GAPDH proximal...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rolland V,Le Liepvre X,Houbiguian ML,Lavau M,Dugail I

更新日期：1995-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate whether residues in the extracellular domains of melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) are required for ligand binding, a number of mutants were constructed where charged residues were converted to alanine. The residues targeted for mutagenesis were Ser6, Glu102, Arg109, Asp184, Glu269, and Thr272. The mutant ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chhajlani V,Xu X,Blauw J,Sudarshi S

更新日期：1996-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of endothelin (ET) on the cytosolic-free calcium [(Ca2+]i) changes in polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) from normal humans and Wistar rats was investigated. ET induced a dose-related [Ca2+]i peak. This [Ca2+]i transient was blunted by TMB-8 (10(-5)M) and by Ca(2+)-free EGTA medium, therefore suggesting a r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lopez Farre A,Riesco A,Moliz M,Egido J,Casado S,Hernando L,Caramelo C

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoproteasome is a multicatalytic protease complex in all eukaryotic cells, which plays a key role in regulating essential cellular processes. However, the role of immunoproteasome subunit β2i in regulation of cardiac fibrosis and inflammation in deoxycorticosterone-acetate (DOCA)/salt mice remains unknown. Wil...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yan W,Bi HL,Liu LX,Li NN,Liu Y,Du J,Wang HX,Li HH

更新日期：2017-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The oral mucosa is an active though poorly understood immunological site. Using an experimental animal system involving antigen priming into the oral mucosa of transgenic mice expressing T cell receptor (TCR) for a peptide antigen of hen-egg lysozyme (HEL), the expression of six chemokine receptors and seven chemokine...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Otten K,Dragoo J,Wang HC,Klein JR

更新日期：2003-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:RAB3A interacting protein (Rab3IP) has been determined to be involved in cancer progression; however, its expression pattern and function in gastric cancer remain unknown. The aim of this study was to determine the association between Rab3IP and gastric cancer, in addition to its functional role in this disease. Overe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ren H,Xu Z,Guo W,Deng Z,Yu X

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The observation that spermine inhibits the endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide; LPS) induced production of nitric oxide (NO) in macrophages has been ascribed to the conversion of SP to active metabolites by the action of enzymes, such as diamine oxidases, found, for example, in bovine sera. Inhibitory effect is also observe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Southan GJ,Szabó C,Thiemermann C

更新日期：1994-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate-gated chloride (GluCl) channels are pentameric receptors for the inhibitory neurotransmitter glutamate in invertebrates and are a major target for macrolide anthelmintics. Three amino acids in GluCl channels are reported to render macrolide resistance in nematodes and insects. To examine whether these three ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamaguchi M,Sawa Y,Matsuda K,Ozoe F,Ozoe Y

更新日期：2012-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:C-type natriuretic (CNP) caused concentration-dependent relaxations in porcine coronary arteries with a maximal relaxation (10(-6)M) of 46%. Relaxations to CNP in isolated coronary arteries were significantly attenuated with potassium channel antagonists charybdotoxin (10(-7)M) and glibenclamide (10(-7)M). Membrane po...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wei CM,Hu S,Miller VM,Burnett JC Jr

更新日期：1994-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic cells of Coprinus contain a protein that can be identified by its ability to enhance activity of the meiotic DNA polymerase reported previously (8). Its activity is found only during the prophase stages in meiotic cells, and is accompanied by the meiotic polymerase. The protein, which was purified to near homo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gomi K,Sakaguchi K

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway is an important regulatory system for the lifetime of inducible nitric-oxide synthase (iNOS), a high-output isoform compared to neuronal NOS (nNOS) and endothelial NOS (eNOS), to prevent overproduction of NO that could trigger detrimental effects such as cytotoxicity. Two E3 ubiquitin ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Matsumoto K,Nishiya T,Maekawa S,Horinouchi T,Ogasawara K,Uehara T,Miwa S

更新日期：2011-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Exogenous angiogenin undergoes rapid nuclear translocation in cultured human umbilical artery endothelial cells at 37 degrees C but not at 4 degrees C. Treatment of cells with colchicine, nocodazole and taxol, which disrupt the microtubule system, does not affect the nuclear translocation process of angiogenin, sugges...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li R,Riordan JF,Hu G

更新日期：1997-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A sulfotransferase activity present in the cytosol fraction of rat submandibular and parotid salivary glands catalyzes the transfer of sulfate group from 3'-phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphosulfate to C-6 of the terminal glucose residue of Glc alpha 1 leads to 6Glc alpha 1 leads to 6Glc alpha 1 leads to 3-1, (3)-0-alkyl-2-0...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Slomiany BL,Liau YH,Zdebska E,Murty VL,Slomiany A

更新日期：1983-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we established a unique human glial cell line, GDC90, derived from a human glioma and demonstrated its utility as a glial scaffold for the polarization and differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neural progenitor cells (iPSC-NPCs). When co-cultured with GDC90 cells, iPSC-NPCs underwent rap...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bamba Y,Shofuda T,Kanematsu D,Nonaka M,Yamasaki M,Okano H,Kanemura Y

更新日期：2014-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We had earlier reported a uteroglobin promoter-binding factor in nuclei from progesterone-stimulated rabbit endometrium that was inhibited by a factor in nuclei without progesterone stimulation or from non-target tissues (Rider, V., and Bullock, D.W., 1988. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 156, 1368-1375). In the course o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Daniel PB,Molloy C,Rayner JC,Hill AM,Bullock DW

更新日期：1994-10-14 00:00:00