Identification of a common microdeletion cluster in 7q21.3 subband among patients with myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome.

abstract：:1alpha,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1alpha,25(OH)2D3) increases the binding of transforming growth factor beta1(TGF beta1) via TGF beta receptors to the surface of human osteoblasts. The increase in TGF beta receptors induced by 1alpha,25(OH)2D3 is dependent on increases in TGF beta secretion induced by 1alpha,25(OH)2D3, s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nagel D,Kumar R

更新日期：2002-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial evidence suggests that peroxynitrite generated from the bi-radical reaction of nitric oxide and superoxide is critically involved in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease. Reaction with sulfhydryl (SH)-containing molecules has been proposed to be a major detoxificatio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cao Z,Hallur S,Qiu HZ,Peng X,Li Y

更新日期：2004-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:p21-activated kinase (PAK) and Rho-associated kinase (Rho-kinase) have been shown to induce Ca(2+)-independent contraction of smooth muscle. PAK-induced contraction of Triton-skinned smooth muscle correlates with increased phosphorylation of caldesmon and desmin, although the role of desmin phosphorylation has remaine...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ohtakara K,Inada H,Goto H,Taki W,Manser E,Lim L,Izawa I,Inagaki M

更新日期：2000-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasion and metastasis are major causes of malignant tumor-associated mortality. The present study aimed to investigate the molecular events underlying inhibitory effect of N-benzylcantharidinamide, a novel synthetic analog of cantharidin, on matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9)-mediated invasion in highly metastatic h...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee JY,Chung TW,Choi HJ,Lee CH,Eun JS,Han YT,Choi JY,Kim SY,Han CW,Jeong HS,Ha KT

更新日期：2014-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) production is increased in the intestine and may contribute to intestinal injury in sepsis. However, the tissue expression of inducible NO synthase (iNOS) mRNA throughout the digestive tract and its relation with the mucosal damage after endotoxin challenge remain unknown. We therefore measured tissu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen K,Inoue M,Okada A

更新日期：1996-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The hereditary renal carcinoma (RC) in the rat, originally reported by R. Eker in 1954, is an excellent example of a Mendelian dominantly inherited predisposition to a specific cancer in an experimental animal. Recently, we have identified a germline mutation of the sclerosis (Tsc2) gene in the Eker rat (Nature Geneti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Orimoto K,Tsuchiya H,Kobayashi T,Matsuda T,Hino O

更新日期：1996-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2.8-kb sequence of cDNA encoding southeastern diamondback rattlesnake venom L-amino acid oxidase was determined. A translated single open reading frame revealed a 58.7-kDa polypeptide containing a signal sequence and FAD binding motif. The protein similarity search and analysis showed that the snake L-amino acid o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Raibekas AA,Massey V

更新日期：1998-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:After screening the data base of the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project with a sequence coding for the transmembrane region of a G protein-coupled receptor, we found that Drosophila might contain a gene coding for a receptor that is structurally related to the Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) receptors from verte...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hauser F,Søndergaard L,Grimmelikhuijzen CJ

更新日期：1998-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncoupling proteins (UCPs) are mitochondrial membrane proton transporters that uncouple oxidative phosphorylation by dissipating the proton gradient across the membrane. We have investigated regulation of the UCP3 gene in skeletal muscle and C2C12 muscle cells. UCP3 mRNA in mouse skeletal muscle is markedly increased ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hwang CS,Lane MD

更新日期：1999-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:CD40-stimulated human B lymphocytes are highly permissive to a productive infection by the human immunodeficiency virus type 1. In these cells, nuclear factors involved in activation of the HIV-1 LTR, which contains the transcriptional control elements of the virus, are unknown. Transient expression assays with plasmi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lapointe R,Lemieux R,Darveau A

更新日期：1996-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well-established that non-random patterns in coding DNA sequence (CDS) features can be partially explained by translational selection. Recent extensions of microarray and proteomic expression data have stimulated many genome-wide investigations of the relationships between gene expression and various CDS feature...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu G,Nie L,Freeland SJ

更新日期：2007-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence indicates that telomerase activity is stringently repressed in normal human somatic cells but reactivated in cancers and immortal cells, suggesting that activation of telomerase activity may play a role in carcinogenesis and immortalization. Recently, down-regulation of telomerase activity by ind...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cheng AJ,Liao SK,Chow SE,Chen JK,Wang TC

更新日期：1997-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The expansion of a CAG trinucleotide repeat (TNR) sequence has been linked to several neurological disorders, for example, Huntington's disease (HD). In HD, healthy individuals have 5-35 CAG repeats. Those with 36-39 repeats have the premutation allele, which is known to be prone to expansion. In the disease state, gr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jarem DA,Delaney S

更新日期：2011-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfur(S)-starvation was previously shown to induce the degradation of an acidic lipid in chloroplasts, sulfoquinovosyl diacylglycerol (SQDG), to yield a major internal S-source in a green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. We here found that the synthesis of phosphatidylglycerol (PG), the other acidic lipid in chloropl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sugimoto K,Midorikawa T,Tsuzuki M,Sato N

更新日期：2008-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Akt is one of the critical mediators in cellular signaling, and overactivation of Akt related pathway frequently occurs in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In this study, we presented that Akt was upregulated in HCC cell lines, and its active phosphorylated form was mainly located in the nucleus. Employing the laser co...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhu L,Hu C,Li J,Xue P,He X,Ge C,Qin W,Yao G,Gu J

更新日期：2007-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV)-encoded 1a protein has been implicated to play a role in replication of the viral genome along with 2a and one or more host factors. To identify the host cell factors interacting with CMV 1a, we used the yeast two-hybrid system using tobacco cDNA library. One of the cDNA clones encoded ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim MJ,Ham BK,Paek KH

更新日期：2006-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The repair of point mutations in hprt gene by single-stranded oligonucleotides represents a model to test targeted nucleotide exchange. We studied the concurrent nucleotide exchange of two or three nucleotides in the hprt deficient hamster cell line V79-151. The used oligonucleotides resulted in mismatches at two (151...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kenner O,Lutomska A,Speit G,Vogel W,Kaufmann D

更新日期：2004-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:CYP2A5 is a major enzyme responsible for nicotine and cotinine metabolism in mice. Nicotine and cotinine enhance alcoholic fatty liver in wild type (WT) mice but not in CYP2A5 knockout (KO) mice, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated during the CYP2A5-mediated metabolism contributes to the enhancing effect. In c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen X,Wang K,Cederbaum AI,Lu Y

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the IL-1 beta converting enzyme (ICE) family cysteine proteases responsible for the Fas-mediated apoptosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) synoviocytes and their involvement in proinflammatory cytokine production. CPP32 inhibitor, but not ICE inhibitor, was capable of inhibiting the Fas-med...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sekine C,Yagita H,Kobata T,Hasunuma T,Nishioka K,Okumura K

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of gamma-guanidinooxypropylamine (GAPA), a novel agmatine analogue against protozoan parasite, Leishmaniadonovani was evaluated. Wild-type and ornithine decarboxylase-overexpressors of L. donovani were used to study the effect and mode of action of this inhibitor. GAPA inhibited the growth of both promast...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Singh S,Jhingran A,Sharma A,Simonian AR,Soininen P,Vepsalainen J,Khomutov AR,Madhubala R

更新日期：2008-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil discharge of calcium into the ambient medium was measured, using an ion-sensitive electrode, after cells were stimulated with phorbol myristate acetate. Dose-dependent calcium efflux was observed over the same range of stimulus concentrations associated with specific granule marker release. Calcium efflux w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Styrt B,Schwartz MA,Klempner MS

更新日期：1988-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Northern hybridization studies showed that the level of ovalbumin mRNA decreases in the oviduct of the Japanese quail after adulthood. In order to find out if this is due to changes in the conformation of the chromatin containing the promoter region of the gene, nuclei of the oviduct of young, adult and old birds were...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Upadhyay R,Gupta S,Kanungo MS

更新日期：1996-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:To delineate the functional importance of the highly conserved triplet amino acid sequence, Asp-Arg-Tyr (DRY) among G protein-coupled receptors in the second intracellular loop, these residues of rat angiotensin II (Ang II) receptor type 1A (AT(1A)) were changed by alanine or glycine by site-directed mutagenesis. Thes...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ohyama K,Yamano Y,Sano T,Nakagomi Y,Wada M,Inagami T

更新日期：2002-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many advances have been made in the treatment of gastric cancer (GC), numerous difficulties, such as the emergence of chemo-drug resistance, continue to lead to disappointing GC prognoses. Thus, novel alternative strategies are urgently needed. The use of natural products could be a viable option to treat GC....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhou Q,Wu X,Wen C,Wang H,Wang H,Liu H,Peng J

更新日期：2018-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To simultaneously assess the effects of exonic mutations on RNA splicing and protein functions, we report here an intron-inclusive cDNA (Intinc) expression system. As a test model, twenty-four mutations in exon 9 of the phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene were examined in an Intinc expression plasmid composed of the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ho PY,Huang MZ,Fwu VT,Lin SC,Hsiao KJ,Su TS

更新日期：2008-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclo-oxygenase (COX) exists as two isoforms. In endothelial cells, the induction of COX (COX-2) elicited by endotoxin or inflammatory cytokines is mediated by tyrosine kinase. Here we have investigated whether the induction of COX-2 elicited by IL-1beta in human pulmonary epithelial cells (A549) is mediated by tyrosi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Akarasereenont P,Thiemermann C

更新日期：1996-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro effects of various steroid and thyroid hormones on synthesis of rat atrial natriuretic peptide (rANP) were studied using new-born rat atrial myocytes in culture. Dexamethasone, testosterone and triiodothyronine markedly stimulated both synthesis and secretion of immunoreactive (IR)-rANP with the same peak...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Matsubara H,Hirata Y,Yoshimi H,Takata S,Takagi Y,Iida T,Yamane Y,Umeda Y,Nishikawa M,Inada M

更新日期：1987-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant activation of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway is common in human cervical cancers and has great potential therapeutic value. We show that tigecycline, a FDA-approved antibiotic drug, targets cervical squamous cell carcinoma through inhibiting Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway. Tigecycline is effective in in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li H,Jiao S,Li X,Banu H,Hamal S,Wang X

更新日期：2015-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of nitric oxide (NO.) and the induction of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase by lipopolysaccharides (LPS) from different sources was studied in bone marrow derived macrophages (BMM phi). NO. production was found to be linked to the induction of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, suggesting the possible ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Corraliza IM,Campo ML,Fuentes JM,Campos-Portuguez S,Soler G

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic syndrome describes a group of clinical features that together increase the incidence of coronary artery disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes. Insulin resistance is a major risk factor for developing metabolic syndrome. A chronic state of inflammation accompanies the accumulation of surplus lipids in adipose a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ko SH,Lee JK,Lee HJ,Ye SK,Kim HS,Chung MH

更新日期：2014-01-10 00:00:00