miR-421 induces cell proliferation and apoptosis resistance in human nasopharyngeal carcinoma via downregulation of FOXO4.

abstract：:Although D-glucosamine has been reported as an inhibitor of tumor growth both in vivo and in vitro, the mechanism for the anticancer effect of D-glucosamine is still unclear. Since there are several reports suggesting D-glucosamine inhibits protein synthesis, we examined whether D-glucosamine affects p70S6K activity, ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oh HJ,Lee JS,Song DK,Shin DH,Jang BC,Suh SI,Park JW,Suh MH,Baek WK

更新日期：2007-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaspin, an adipocytokine recently identified in a rat model of type 2 diabetes, has been suggested to have an insulin-sensitizing effect. However, the exact mechanism underlying this action has not been fully elucidated. Furthermore, the specific function of vaspin is largely unknown, especially in vascular cells. We ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jung CH,Lee WJ,Hwang JY,Seol SM,Kim YM,Lee YL,Park JY

更新日期：2011-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of opioids on NO production by LPS-stimulated murine macrophages J774 has been investigated. Morphine (mu and k opioid receptor agonist), DAGO (selective mu receptor agonist) and U50-488H (selective k receptor agonist), added (10(-10)-10(-6) M) to the cells 0.5 h before activation with LPS, significantly in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iuvone T,Capasso A,D'Acquisto F,Carnuccio R

更新日期：1995-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymoquinone (TQ), a component derived from the bioactive constituent of black seed (Nigella sativa), has been shown to exert biological activity on various types of human cancers. However, there are few studies addressing its effects on gastric cancer. Here, we present the first report describing the chemosensitizing...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lei X,Lv X,Liu M,Yang Z,Ji M,Guo X,Dong W

更新日期：2012-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene that encodes a small conductance cAMP-activated chloride ion channel. In the CF pancreatic duct, mutations in CFTR cause a reduction in bicarbonate secretion. This is thought to result from CFTR operating...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hyde K,Harrison D,Hollingsworth MA,Harris A

更新日期：1999-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Myostatin belongs to the transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta superfamily and is a potent negative regulator of skeletal muscle development and growth. We utilized microinjection of an antisense RNA-expressing vector to establish a hereditarily stable myostatin gene knockdown zebrafish strain with a double-muscle phe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee CY,Hu SY,Gong HY,Chen MH,Lu JK,Wu JL

更新日期：2009-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been assumed that Ca2+ are translocated from the cytosol to the cell nucleus by a long distance to activate transcription machinery buried deep in the nucleoplasm. However, this model has been recently challenged. When HeLa cells were loaded with fluo-3, highly fluorescent spots of approximately 2 microns ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lui PP,Kong SK,Kwok TT,Lee CY

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitotic arrest deficient 2 (MAD2) is an essential component of the mitotic spindle checkpoint pathway. It was previously shown to be associated with drug resistance of tumor cells. To further explore the roles of MAD2 in responses of gastric cancer cells to chemotherapy drugs, we constructed the siRNA vectors of MAD2 ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Du Y,Yin F,Liu C,Hu S,Wang J,Xie H,Hong L,Fan D

更新日期：2006-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of heteromeric phosphoinositide (PI) 3-kinase activity in insulin signal transduction was studied by investigating the effects of (i) overexpression of a dominant negative mutant p85 (delta p85) that lacks the binding site for p110 (delta p85-overexpressing cells) and (ii) inhibition of PI 3-kinase activity b...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hara K,Yonezawa K,Sakaue H,Kotani K,Kotani K,Kojima A,Waterfield MD,Kasuga M

更新日期：1995-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Calreticulin isolated from spinach leaves has been specifically phosphorylated in vitro by protein kinase CK2 while animal calreticulin from rabbit liver is not a substrate of this kinase under the same conditions. Phosphoserine is the only phosphoamino acid detected. High affinity binding (Km = 4.4 microM) and a near...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Baldan B,Navazio L,Friso A,Mariani P,Meggio F

更新日期：1996-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We generated a three-dimensional (3-D) model of human airway tissues in order to study initiation of inhalational form of anthrax infection. The system was designed to model the air-blood barrier of the respiratory tract represented by epithelial cells and macrophages. When grown on collagen/fibronectin gel support at...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Radyuk SN,Mericko PA,Popova TG,Grene E,Alibek K

更新日期：2003-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Strikingly variable clinical phenotypes can be found in X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) even with the same ABCD1 mutation. ABCD2 is the closest homolog to ABCD1. Since ABCD2 overexpression complements the loss of ABCD1 in vivo and in vitro, we have investigated the possible role of the ABCD2 gene locus as determ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Maier EM,Mayerhofer PU,Asheuer M,Köhler W,Rothe M,Muntau AC,Roscher AA,Holzinger A,Aubourg P,Berger J

更新日期：2008-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of new molecular targeting agents has improved the prognosis of patients with multiple myeloma (MM). However, MM remains incurable because MM stem cells are likely resistant to these agents. Thus, it is important to further investigate the biology of MM stem cells, which reside in the hypoxic bone marrow...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakagawa Y,Ashihara E,Yao H,Yokota A,Toda Y,Miura Y,Nakata S,Hirai H,Maekawa T

更新日期：2018-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is associated with high mortality and morbidity. Early diagnosis and risk stratification in patients with ARDS should improve prognosis. Unfortunately, no clinical biomarkers are available for use in early diagnosis. Quantitative proteomics is a powerful tool for biomarker di...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ren S,Chen X,Jiang L,Zhu B,Jiang Q,Xi X

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The green tea gallocatechins, (-)-epigallocatechin-3-O-gallate (EGCG) (IC(50) = 0.69 microM), (-)-gallocatechin-3-O-gallate (GCG) (IC(50) = 0.67 microM), (-)-epicatechin-3-O-gallate (ECG) (IC(50) = 1.3 microM), and theasinensin A (IC(50) = 0.13 microM), were found to be potent and selective inhibitors of rat squalene ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Abe I,Seki T,Umehara K,Miyase T,Noguchi H,Sakakibara J,Ono T

更新日期：2000-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Complementation studies, using fused cell lines from patients with peroxisomal disorders, have shown correction of defective plasmalogen synthesis and phytanic acid oxidation as well as an increase in the number of peroxisomes. At least six complementation groups have been reported. We demonstrate here that complement...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McGuinness MC,Moser AB,Moser HW,Watkins PA

更新日期：1990-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteasome is a recently identified intracellular protease whose catalytic active site is a threonine residue and has been shown to play key roles in a variety of important intracellular events, including cell cycle progression, the antigen-presenting pathway, and apoptosis. However, its biological significance in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oikawa T,Sasaki T,Nakamura M,Shimamura M,Tanahashi N,Omura S,Tanaka K

更新日期：1998-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the retinitis pigmentosa GTPase regulator (RPGR) gene, are the major cause of X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (RP), in which exon open reading frame 15 (ORF15) of RPGR has been implicated to play a substantial role. We identified a novel hemizygous missense mutation E585K of RPGR from whole-exome sequencing...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu YS,Pan JQ,Wan JF,Ren CY,Xu ZH,Pan XB,Gao RN,Liu SQ,Zhang JL,Yao QH,Wang JH,Li EM,Rao JH,Hou P,Chen JH

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular location of phosphoprotein pp 105 was determined in various mouse cell lines with rabbit anti mouse pp 105 serum. Immunofluorescence was predominantly observed in the nucleoli in addition to a diffuse but weaker fluorescence of the whole nucleus. Cell surface fluorescence was obtained only with cells grow...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pfeifle J,Anderer FA

更新日期：1983-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that lipid metabolism is controlled, in part, by circadian clocks. However, circadian clocks lose temporal precision with age and correlates with elevated incidence in dyslipidemia and metabolic syndrome in older adults. Because our lab has shown that lipoic acid (LA) improves lipid homeostasis ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Keith D,Finlay L,Butler J,Gómez L,Smith E,Moreau R,Hagen T

更新日期：2014-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) is the causal molecule of familial Parkinson's disease (PD), but its true physiological function remains unknown. In the normal mouse, LRRK2 is expressed in kidney, spleen, and lung at much higher levels than in brain, suggesting that LRRK2 may play an important role in these organ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Maekawa T,Kubo M,Yokoyama I,Ohta E,Obata F

更新日期：2010-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of various growth factors on endothelial cell survival in vitro were studied. Using rat heart endothelial cells, the cell survival curves were obtained; the cells were cultured until confluent, the medium was changed to serum-free medium with or without growth factors, and the cells were counted after 3, 6...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Etoh T,Takehara K,Igarashi A,Ishibashi Y

更新日期：1989-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic alterations and abnormal expression of the fragile histidine triad (FHIT) gene in gastric carcinomas were examined to determine whether the FHIT gene is actually a frequent target for alteration during gastric carcinogenesis. To correlate DNA and RNA lesions of the FHIT gene with the effect on FHIT protein exp...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee SH,Kim WH,Kim HK,Woo KM,Nam HS,Kim HS,Kim JG,Cho MH

更新日期：2001-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidized low-density lipoprotein (ox-LDL) is a critical mediator of atherogenesis. Macrophage uptake of ox-LDL and their subsequent development into foam cells is the principal event in atherosclerosis. Interleukin-1β (IL-1β), a prototypic multifunctional cytokine involved in inflammation, has an important effect on t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jiang Y,Wang M,Huang K,Zhang Z,Shao N,Zhang Y,Wang W,Wang S

更新日期：2012-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the role of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), a major mediator of innate immune responses, on cognitive performance in a type 1 diabetes model (T1D). After administration of streptozotocin, both TLR4 knockout (TLR4 KO) and wild type (WT) diabetic mice displayed metabolic alterations similar to those observe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kawamoto EM,Cutler RG,Rothman SM,Mattson MP,Camandola S

更新日期：2014-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Preadipocytes constitutively express GATA-2 and GATA-3 that are required to halt the cells at the undifferentiated stage. However, we unexpectedly found that K-7174, a GATA-specific inhibitor, did not induce but rather inhibited differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes. It was associated with lack of lipid accumulation...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shimada T,Hiramatsu N,Okamura M,Hayakawa K,Kasai A,Yao J,Kitamura M

更新日期：2007-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Type VII collagen (Col7) is the major component of anchoring fibrils and very important for skin integrity. This is emphasized by the Col7 related skin blistering diseases dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa and epidermolysis bullosa acquisita. Structural data that provides insights into the interaction network of Col7 a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wegener H,Leineweber S,Seeger K

更新日期：2013-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of nitric oxide in biological systems has led to the discovery of a number of post-translational protein modifications that could regulate protein function or potentially be utilized as transducers of nitric oxide signaling. Principal among the nitric oxide-mediated protein modifications are: the nitric ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ischiropoulos H

更新日期：2003-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Long repeated stretches of d(CCG) and tri-nucleotide are crucial mutations that cause hereditary forms of mental retardation (fragile X-syndrome). Moreover, the alternating (CG) di-nucleotide is one of the candidates for Z-DNA conformation. Solution NMR structure of d(CCGCGG)(2) has been solved and is discussed. The d...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Monleón D,Esteve V,Celda B

更新日期：2003-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin administration attenuates cardiac ischemia-reperfusion apoptosis via activation of Akt-mediated cell-survival signaling. As p70s6 kinase is a cognate Akt-mediated phosphorylation target we evaluated whether p70s6 kinase activation is a functional requirement in insulin-mediated cell survival program during pos...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jonassen AK,Mjøs OD,Sack MN

更新日期：2004-02-27 00:00:00