Augmenter of liver regeneration (ALR) protects human hepatocytes against apoptosis.

abstract：:Hairpin antisense oligodeoxyribonucleotides containing 2'-methoxynucleosides were more active in the micromolar concentration range than linear and DNA hairpin phosphorothioate oligonucleotides with the same sequence. Furthermore, the abilities of hairpin antisense and random hairpin phosphorothioate oligonucleotides ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kuwasaki T,Hosono K,Takai K,Ushijima K,Nakashima H,Saito T,Yamamoto N,Takaku H

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:When linoleic acid was incubated with the purified potato lipoxygenase under O2 atmosphere, a mixture of 9 and 13-hydroperoxyoctadecadienoic acids was formed. Stereochemical analysis of the respective methyl-hydroxyoctadecadienoic acids revealed that the 9-isomer was in S-configuration whereas 13-hydroxyoctadecadienoi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nikolaev V,Reddanna P,Whelan J,Hildenbrandt G,Reddy CC

更新日期：1990-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent in vitro and in vivo studies have shown that either animal- or human-derived embryonic stem cells can differentiate into insulin-secreting cells and lower blood glucose levels. However, studies utilizing human umbilical cord blood (HUCB) mononuclear cells to improve blood glucose levels in diabetic animals have...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ende N,Chen R,Reddi AS

更新日期：2004-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 80% of ovarian cancer (OC) is diagnosed at late stages, and most patients die within 5 years of diagnosis due to recurrence or drug resistance. Novel treatments are required to improve patient survival. Immune therapy against cancer is promising; however, therapeutic vaccination has been limited by the i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yu W,Qu H,Cao G,Liu C,Deng H,Zhang Z

更新日期：2017-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The preferred dye binding sites and the microenvironment of known nucleotide sequences within mitochondrial and plasmid pBR322 DNA was probed in a gross fashion with restriction endonucleases. The intercalating dyes, ethidium bromide and propidium iodide, do not inhibit a given restriction endonuclease equally at all ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Soslau G,Pirollo K

更新日期：1983-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of 1 alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 is known to be down regulated by 1 alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 itself. It was recently shown that liver mitochondrial sterol 27-hydroxylase CYP27, present also in kidney, catalyzes 1 alpha-hydroxylation of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3. Treatment of vitamin D-deficient rats wit...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Axén E,Postlind H,Wikvall K

更新日期：1995-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to inhibiting matrix metalloproteinases, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) is involved in the regulation of cell growth and survival. To determine its mechanism of action, we investigated effects of TIMP-1 on cell proliferation and survival and signaling pathways induced by TIMP-1 in the hum...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee SJ,Yoo HJ,Bae YS,Kim HJ,Lee ST

更新日期：2003-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of the vasodilator nitric oxide (NO) can be inhibited by the endogenous methylarginines L-NMMA and ADMA. ADMA is elevated in a number of cardiovascular disorders in which NO availability is reduced. Elimination of ADMA from the body occurs primarily by enzymatic breakdown through the action of DDAH, of which...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jones LC,Tran CT,Leiper JM,Hingorani AD,Vallance P

更新日期：2003-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Krebs cycle of Helicobacter pylori, the absence of alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase and succinyl CoA synthetase are shown. Instead, alpha-ketoglutarate is converted to succinyl CoA and succinate by alpha-ketoglutarate oxidoreductase (KOR) and CoA transferase (CoAT). In the present study, when H. pylori transfo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tsugawa H,Suzuki H,Nakagawa I,Nishizawa T,Saito Y,Suematsu M,Hibi T

更新日期：2008-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The suppressor of cytokine signalling 1 protein (SOCS-1) belongs to a novel family of cytokine inducible factors which function as inhibitors of the JAK/STAT pathway. While SOCS-1 previously has been described as a single-exon gene, here we present evidence for an additional 5' exon, separated by a 509 bp intron from ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Schlüter G,Boinska D,Nieman-Seyde SC

更新日期：2000-02-16 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：:HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor statins are used to treat patients with hypercholesterolemia. The pleiotropic effects of statins have been recently extended to the regulation of angiogenesis. However, the observations on the effects of statins on endothelial cells seem to be contradictory. In this work, we systematically ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hu K,Wan Q

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) contributes to various gastric diseases such as chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, and gastric carcinoma. Host innate immune response against the pathogen plays a significant role in elimination of pathogen infection. Importantly, pathogen elimination is closely related to numerous infla...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li N,Cao M,Yi S,Cheng J,Wang L,Tao Y,Wu D,Peng J,Zhang M,Qi P,Zhao J

更新日期：2018-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequences coding for the cytoplasmic and transmembrane domains were removed from the cDNA of the human Golgi resident membrane protein beta 1,4 galactosyltransferase (gal-T). The remaining sequences coding for the stem and catalytical domains of this glycosyltransferase were fused to sequences coding for the yeast inv...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kleene R,Krezdorn CH,Watzele G,Meyhack B,Herrmann GF,Wandrey C,Berger EG

更新日期：1994-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we used, for the first time, atomic force microscope (AFM) images to investigate the mode of action of DNA topoisomerase I (topo I) in the presence and absence of its inhibitors: camptothecin (CPT) and tyrphostin AG-1387. The results revealed that in the absence of the inhibitors, the enzyme relaxed sup...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Argaman M,Bendetz-Nezer S,Matlis S,Segal S,Priel E

更新日期：2003-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we evaluated the effect of interleukin 1-beta on adenylate cyclase activity in 235-1 pituitary cell line. The dose-response curve of interleukin 1 beta effect on adenylate cyclase activity showed a significant inhibition of basal enzyme activity at 1 pM concentration, while the inhibition of forsk...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Schettini G,Florio T,Meucci O,Scala G,Landolfi E,Grimaldi M

更新日期：1988-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was made of the effects of the venom of the Chilean spider Latrodectus mactans on endogenous ion-currents of Xenopus laevis oocytes. 1 microg/ml of the venom made the resting plasma membrane potential more negative in cells voltage-clamped at -60 mV. The effect was potentially due to the closure of one or seve...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Parodi J,Romero F,Miledi R,Martínez-Torres A

更新日期：2008-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombination in a bovine papillomavirus shuttle vector carrying direct repeats of Moloney murine leukemia virus LTR sequence was examined. Differently from similar vectors carrying direct repeats of SV40 polyA addition signal or neomycin resistance gene, the vector exhibited no homologous recombination between the re...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kitamura Y,Naito A,Yoshikura H

更新日期：1991-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A phosphate buffer containing a mixture of glucose oxidase, acrylic acid derivatives, N,N'-1,2 dihydroxy-ethylene-bis(acrylamide), N,N'-(methylene)-bisacrylamide and surface-modified silica was radically polymerized with (NH4)2S2O8. The polymer formed a thin layer around the silica beads. After sieving of these polyme...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Burow M,Minoura N

更新日期：1996-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study provides the first evidence for in vitro metabolic conversion of a 1,1-disubstituted hydrazine to the corresponding nitrosamine. The study shows that superoxide radical which is generated by NADPH-cytochrome c reductase is involved in the oxidation of 1,1-diphenylhydrazine to N-nitrosodiphenylamine c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tatsumi K,Kitamura S,Sumida M

更新日期：1984-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The most recently described region of alternate splicing of fibronectin mRNA results in expression of an isoform which includes the type III repeat termed ED B (EIII B). To date this isoform has been detected in transformed cells in culture, in the synovial membrane and ovary but in no other adult tissue, and in embry...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Burton-Wurster N,Lust G,Wert R

更新日期：1989-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have been investigating the efficacy of an intratumoral interferon (IFN)-alpha gene transfer against solid cancers, and found that when the gene is transduced into the subcutaneous tumors, IFN-alpha concentration is markedly increased in the injected tumor but not in the serum. To explain this effective confinement...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yoshida K,Kondoh A,Narumi K,Yoshida T,Aoki K

更新日期：2008-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor content in cultured kidney (LLC-PK1) cells was found to be modulated following the introduction of a culture medium change, declining to 40% of control values at 18 h. Scatchard analysis indicated that the reduced 1,25(OH)2-[3H]D3 nuclear binding we detected was due to decreased abundance of receptors (3811 v...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hirst M,Feldman D

更新日期：1983-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Nikkomycins act as a competitive inhibitor of chitin synthetase and display potent activities against phytopathogenic and human pathogenic fungi. sanT is located in the gene cluster of nikkomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces ansochromogenes. Sequence analysis revealed that the deduced product of sanT has an unusual do...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jia L,Tian Y,Tan H

更新日期：2007-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Thioproline (Thiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid) and proline were nitrosated by stimulated mouse macrophages in vitro. A macrophage cell line (J774.1, 1.0 x 10(6)/well, 1 ml) was incubated with Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide, interferon-gamma and thioproline (5 mM) or proline (5 mM). After 72 hr incubation at 37 degr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miwa M,Tsuda M,Kurashima Y,Hara H,Tanaka Y,Shinohara K

更新日期：1989-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The function and intracellular localisation of the non-catalytic NH(2)-terminal region of focal adhesion kinase (FAK) are unclear. We investigated the targetting of the FAK NH(2)-terminal domain in HEK 293 and epithelial MDCK cells. Exogenous expression of a variety of GFP-fused and epitope-tagged NH(2) terminal domai...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Stewart A,Ham C,Zachary I

更新日期：2002-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Using genomic restriction analysis of 14 unrelated patients with salt-losing congenital adrenal hyperplasia, we identified three different CA21HB mutation patterns: no detectable restriction fragment abnormalities (16/28 haplotypes), deletion of the active CA21HB gene (9/28), and apparent conversion of the active CA21...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jospe N,Donohoue PA,Van Dop C,McLean RH,Bias WB,Migeon CJ

更新日期：1987-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of combined hormone replacement therapy (HRT) with oestrogens and progestins in postmenopausal women has been associated with an increased risk for developing breast cancer. The reasons are not fully understood, but influence of HRT on endogenous conversion of female sex hormones may be involved. The expressio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sivik T,Jansson A

更新日期：2012-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor receptor can interact directly with F-actin through an actin-binding domain. In the present study, a mutant EGFR, lacking a previously identified actin-binding domain (ABD 1), was still able to bind elements of the cytoskeleton. A second EGFR actin-binding domain (ABD 2) was identified in the r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Song W,Wu J,Ge G,Lin Q

更新日期：2008-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure is described which employs pepstatin-agarose for the affinity purification of either HIV-1 or HIV-2 protease from two similar recombinant E. coli constructs that were developed for the expression of these enzymes. HIV-2 protease was routinely expressed at much higher levels than the HIV-1 enzyme and pepsta...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rittenhouse J,Turon MC,Helfrich RJ,Albrecht KS,Weigl D,Simmer RL,Mordini F,Erickson J,Kohlbrenner WE

更新日期：1990-08-31 00:00:00