Evaluation of the anti-allergic activity of Citrus unshiu using rat basophilic leukemia RBL-2H3 cells as well as basophils of patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis to pollen.

abstract：:Accumulating evidence has demonstrated that endometrial stromal cells (ESCs) are responsible for the pathogenesis of endometriosis (Ems), which is characterized by the presence of functional endometrial‑like tissues outside the uterine cavity. Abnormal expression of microRNAs (miRNAs) in ESCs may be implicated in the ...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Wang X,Ren R,Shao M,Lan J

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decreased skeletal muscle capillarization is considered to significantly contribute to the development of pulmonary cachexia syndrome (PCS) and progressive muscle wasting in several chronic inflammatory diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It is unclear to which extent the concurrent prese...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Basic VT,Jacobsen A,Sirsjö A,Abdel-Halim SM

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evodiamine is a botanical alkaloid compound extracted from Tetradium plants. Previous studies have reported that evodiamine (Evo) treatment can reduce food uptake and improve insulin resistance in animals . The skeletal muscle comprises about 40% of the body mass of adults and has a vital role in regulating whole body...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Yao X,Yu T,Zhao C,Li Y,Peng Y,Xi F,Yang G

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1) inhibits tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) and urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA), which convert plasminogen to plasmin, a strong proteolytic enzyme. Thus, PAI-1 is a primary and negative regulator of plasmin-driven proteolysis. In ...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Małgorzewicz S,Skrzypczak-Jankun E,Jankun J

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated the possible growth inhibitory activity of both first generation of the effective microorganism fermentation extract (EM-X) as well as the second generation (EM-X2) on cancer cell lines in vitro. The possible anti-angiogenic potential of EM-X has not been reported. Herein we show that u...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Chui CH,Gambari R,Lau FY,Hau DK,Wong RS,Cheng GY,Kok SH,Higa T,Ke B,Chan AS,Fong DW,Tang JC

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential diagnosis between adrenal cortical and adrenal medullary lesions may be difficult in many cases. Different immunohistochemical, histochemical tools as well as ultrastructural diagnostic techniques have been employed to aid in differentiating between these lesions. Recently, both inhibin-A and BCL-2 have b...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Fogt F,Zimmerman RL,Mulligan N,Vortmeyer AO,Poremba C,Harris CA,Alsaigh N,Tomaszewski JE,Nikulasson ST

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Down syndrome (DS) is caused by the presence of part or all of a third copy of chromosome 21. DS is associated with several phenotypes, including intellectual disability, congenital heart disease, childhood leukemia and immune defects. Specific microRNAs (miRNAs/miR) have been described to be associated with DS, altho...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Salvi A,Vezzoli M,Busatto S,Paolini L,Faranda T,Abeni E,Caracausi M,Antonaros F,Piovesan A,Locatelli C,Cocchi G,Alvisi G,De Petro G,Ricotta D,Bergese P,Radeghieri A

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell numbers are regulated by a balance between proliferation and apoptosis (programmed cell death). Recent evidence suggests that proteins regulating cell proliferation also mediate apoptosis. Therefore, cellular fate might be determined by cross talk between regulators of cell cycle progression and apoptosis. Previo...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： An B,Johnson DE,Jin JR,Antoku K,Dou QP

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, naringin (NAR; 4',5,7-trihydroxyflavanone-7-rhamnoglucoside) has been shown to have cardioprotective properties. However, the specific mechanisms underlying its cardioprotective effects remain unclear. In this study, we aimed to investigate the cardioprotective effects of NAR and the possible underlying mole...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Huang H,Wu K,You Q,Huang R,Li S,Wu K

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CDH1, a cell adhesion molecule, which plays a key role in maintaining the epithelial phenotype, is regarded as an invasion-suppressor gene in light of accumulating evidence from in vitro experiments and clinical observations. In an attempt to clarify the mechanism responsible for inactivation of this gene in carcinoma...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Ling ZQ,Li P,Ge MH,Zhao X,Hu FJ,Fang XH,Dong ZM,Mao WM

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Claudins (CLDNs) constitute the major transmembrane proteins of tight junctions. It may be hypothesized that changes in or loss of expression of tight junctional proteins such as CLDNs can lead to cellular disorientation and detachment, which is commonly seen in neoplasia. Recent studies have suggested that claudin-1 ...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Morohashi S,Kusumi T,Sato F,Odagiri H,Chiba H,Yoshihara S,Hakamada K,Sasaki M,Kijima H

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of CD34+ cells was performed in bone marrow and G-CSF mobilised peripheral blood samples. We adopted three different protocols of analysis: the Milan/Mulhouse protocol, the ISHAGE guidelines for CD34+ cell determination and our own protocol based upon the use of PAINT-A-GATEPRO software analysis program....

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Venditti A,Buccisano F,Del Poeta G,Battaglia A,Tamburini A,Bruno A,Adorno G,Caravita T,Santinelli S,Del Moro B,Epiceno AM,Ballatore G,Amadori S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of the skin to ultraviolet (UV) radiation causes extracellular matrix (ECM) collapse in the dermis, owing to an increase in matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) production in both the epidermis and dermis, and a decrease in type I collagen expression in the dermis. Recently, black rice (Oryza sativa L.) was reporte...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Han M,Bae JS,Ban JJ,Shin HS,Lee DH,Chung JH

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acidic pH is frequently used to inactivate viruses. We have previously shown that arginine synergizes with low pH in enhancing virus inactivation. Considering a potential application of the acid inactivation of viruses for the prevention and treatment of superficial virus infection at body surfaces and fixtures, herei...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Nishide M,Tsujimoto K,Uozaki M,Ikeda K,Yamasaki H,Koyama AH,Arakawa T

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propofol is a commonly used drug for the induction and maintenance of anesthesia. Previous studies have reported that propofol is involved in the progression of numerous human cancer types, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the underlying molecular mechanisms in HCC are yet to be elucidated. The prese...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Song F,Liu J,Feng Y,Jin Y

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three human pleural malignant mesothelioma cell cultures (MM) of epithelioid (E1), fibrous (F1) and byphasic (B1) histotype were studied in their synthesis of the extracellular matrix (ECM) components laminin (LM), fibronectin (FN), type IV collagen (cIV), and in their chemotactic and haptotactic migration towards the...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Scarpa S,Giuffrida A,Fazi M,Coletti A,Palumbo C,Pass HI,Procopio A,Modesti A

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis may limit the utility of cell-based therapies for articular cartilage disorders. We tested the hypothesis that chondrocyte apoptosis can be reduced by optimizing the conditions employed to expand chondrocyte numbers in culture. Chondrocyte apoptosis was examined in monolayer and suspension culture, in the pr...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Takahashi T,Yamamoto H,Ogawa Y,Yoshida S,Kataoka S,Majumdar M,Morris E,Tripple SB

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenomedullin (ADM) is a hypotensive peptide, that derives from the proteolytic cleavage of pro(p)ADM and acts through two subtypes of receptors, called L1-receptor (L1-R) and calcitonin receptor-like receptor (CRLR). CRLR may function as a calcitonin gene-related peptide or a selective ADM receptor depending on the ...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Rebuffat P,Forneris ML,Aragona F,Ziolkowska A,Malendowicz LK,Nussdorfer GG

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CREB binding protein (CBP) plays a central role in cell differentiation and proliferation, interacting with a large number of nuclear factors. To find novel nuclear factors associating with CBP, we have carried out yeast two-hybrid screening of human chondrocyte cDNA library using the C/H3 region of CBP as a bait and ...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Hirose T,Fujii R,Nakamura H,Aratani S,Fujita H,Nakazawa M,Nakamura K,Nishioka K,Nakajima T

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic and progressive interstitial lung disease with unknown etiology and undefined treatment modality. Fibroblasts are regarded as the major cell type that mediates the onset and progression of lung fibrosis by secreting large amounts of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins, ...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Zhang L,Li Y,Liang C,Yang W

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burn trauma is a clinical condition accompanied by muscle wasting that severely impedes rehabilitation in burn survivors. Mitochondrial uncoupling protein 3 (UCP3) is uniformly expressed in myoskeletal mitochondria and its expression has been found to increase in other clinical syndromes that, like burn trauma, are as...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Zhang Q,Cao H,Astrakas LG,Mintzopoulos D,Mindrinos MN,Schulz J 3rd,Tompkins RG,Rahme LG,Tzika AA

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive expansion of the transit-amplifying (TA) cell compartment is a distinct morphological characteristic of psoriatic epidermal hyperplasia. In order to examine the activation of basal stem cells and how they replenish such an enlarged compartment of TA cells in psoriatic epidermis, we utilized a BrdU labeling m...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Jia HY,Shi Y,Luo LF,Jiang G,Zhou Q,Xu SZ,Lei TC

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we aimed to explore the effect of environmental endocrine disruptors (EEDs) on sexual differentiation in androgen receptor (AR)-/-, AR+/- and AR+/+ male mice. By using a Cre-loxP conditional knockout strategy, we generated AR knockout mice. By mating flox-AR female mice with AR-Cre male mice, the...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Liu D,Shen L,Tao Y,Kuang Y,Cai L,Wang D,He M,Tong X,Zhou S,Sun J,Shi C,Wang C,Wu Y

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-mannoheptulose was recently proposed as a tool to label preferentially insulin-producing cells in the pancreatic gland in the perspective of the non-invasive imaging of the endocrine pancreas. In such a perspective, we have now synthesized 1-deoxy-1-[125I]iodo-D-mannoheptulose ([125I]MH) and examined its uptake by d...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Sener A,Bessieres B,Courtois P,Ladriere L,Louchami K,Jijakli H,Malaisse WJ

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For a number of years, seaweed has been used as a functional food in Asian countries, particularly in Korea, Japan and China. Pyropia yezoensis is a marine red alga that has potentially beneficial biological activities. In this study, we examined the mechanisms through which a Pyropia yezoensis peptide [PYP1 (1-20)] i...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Lee MK,Kim IH,Choi YH,Choi JW,Kim YM,Nam TJ

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antitumor vaccination therapy approaches using naked plasmid DNA or recombinant viruses encoding tumor-associated antigens are currently in development. In the present study, we examined the therapeutic efficacy of vaccination using the mouse alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) gene in mouse hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells. ...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Saeki A,Nakao K,Nagayama Y,Yanagi K,Matsumoto K,Hayashi T,Ishikawa H,Hamasaki K,Ishii N,Eguchi K

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the therapeutic effects of three different cellulose membranes (CMs) manufactured from Styela clava tunics (SCTs) on the healing of cutaneous wounds. We examined the physical properties and therapeutic effects of three CMs regenerated from SCTs (referred to as SCT‑ CMs), includ...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Song SH,Seong KY,Kim JE,Go J,Koh EK,Sung JE,Son HJ,Jung YJ,Kim HS,Hong JT,Hwang DY

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapy is the preferred and most common treatment for cancer in clinical practice. An increasing number of researchers all over the world are focusing on natural medicines to find new antitumor drugs, and several reports have shown that Camellia nitidissima (C. nitidissima) Chi could reduce blood-lipid, decrease...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Hou X,Du H,Yang R,Qi J,Huang Y,Feng S,Wu Y,Lin S,Liu Z,Jia AQ,Yuan S,Sun L

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the expression of several homeobox genes of the HOX family in the adult human intestinal mucosa. HOX genes are regulatory genes homologous to the homeotic genes controlling the body plan of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The HOX genes are distributed in four homologous HOX loci termed HOX-A, B, C an...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Freschi G,Taddei A,Bechi P,Faiella A,Gulisano M,Cillo C,Bucciarelli G,Boncinelli E

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A role of GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) in the recovery of the metabolic conditions of morbidly obese patients after bariatric surgery has been proposed. Exendin 4 (Ex-4) and exendin 9 (Ex-9) both have GLP-1-like effects upon glucose metabolism in human myocytes. We investigated in normal human adipocytes the effect...

journal_title：International journal of molecular medicine

authors： Sancho V,Nuche B,Arnés L,Cancelas J,González N,Díaz-Miguel M,Martín-Duce A,Valverde I,Villanueva-Peñacarrillo ML

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00