Amino acid sequence surrounding the chondroitin sulfate attachment site of thrombomodulin regulates chondroitin polymerization.

abstract：:The effects of 1 microM concentrations of arachidonic acid hydroperoxide (HPETES) products of 5-, 12- and 15-lipoxygenase on Na+, K(+)-ATPase activity were investigated in synaptosomal membrane preparations from rat cerebral cortex. 5-HPETE inhibited Na+, K(+)-ATPase activity by up to 67 %. In contrast, 12-HPETE and 1...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Foley TD

更新日期：1997-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In rat mesenteric vessels changes in external pH (pHo) alter tension. Changes in intracellular pH (pHi) and calcium ([Ca2+]i) have both been suggested to underlie the tension changes. As no simultaneous measurements of pHi and [Ca2+]i had been made, however, the relative importance and temporal relationship between pH...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Austin C,Dilly K,Eisner D,Wray S

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous report has shown that honokiol (HNK), a constituent of Magnolia officinalis, induces a novel form of non-apoptotic programmed cell death in human leukemia NB4 and K562 cells. In this study, we further explored the relationship between the cell death pathway and cytoplasmic vacuolization and studied the un...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang Y,Zhu X,Yang Z,Zhao X

更新日期：2013-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrosis is an abnormal response to organ injury, characterized by accumulation of activated fibroblasts at the sites of injury. Fibroblasts arise from several sources, including resident fibroblasts and circulating fibrocytes that infiltrate organ tissue. Recently, epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) has been rec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mikami Y,Yamauchi Y,Horie M,Kase M,Jo T,Takizawa H,Kohyama T,Nagase T

更新日期：2012-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The death of nigral neurons in Parkinson's disease is thought to involve the formation of the endogenous neurotoxin, 5-S-cysteinyl-dopamine. In the present study, we show that the polyphenols, (+)-catechin and caffeic acid, which contain a catechol moiety, inhibit tyrosinase-induced formation of 5-S-cysteinyl-dopamine...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vauzour D,Vafeiadou K,Spencer JP

更新日期：2007-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we demonstrated that there is a direct relationship between scratching behaviors induced by itch and functional changes in the brain reward system. Using a conditional place preference test, the rewarding effect was clearly evoked by scratching under both acute and chronic itch stimuli. The induc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Setsu T,Hamada Y,Oikawa D,Mori T,Ishiuji Y,Sato D,Narita M,Miyazaki S,Furuta E,Suda Y,Sakai H,Ochiya T,Tezuka H,Iseki M,Inada E,Yamanaka A,Kuzumaki N,Narita M

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteogenic protein-1 (OP-1) is a member of the bone morphogenetic protein subfamily of the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) superfamily. Since members of the TGF-beta superfamily have a role in tissue development the distribution of OP-1 in developing human embryos (gestational age 5-14 weeks) was examined b...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vukicevic S,Latin V,Chen P,Batorsky R,Reddi AH,Sampath TK

更新日期：1994-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylglyoxal (MG) (pyruvaldehyde) is an endogenous metabolite which is present in increased concentrations in diabetics and implicated in formation of advanced glycosylation end-products (AGEs) and secondary diabetic complications. Carnosine (beta-alanyl-L-histidine) is normally present in long-lived tissues at conce...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hipkiss AR,Chana H

更新日期：1998-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:While Aspergillus ficuum phytaseA (phyA) was rapidly inactivated by 1,2-cyclohexanedione and phenylglyoxal, both specific modifiers of arginine, phytaseB (phyB) showed a markedly different behavior. First, phyB was totally insensitive to 1,2-cyclohexanedione even in the presence of 0.2 M guanidinium hydrochloride; sec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ullah AH,Sethumadhavan K

更新日期：1998-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The main transport mechanism of reabsorption of sodium bicarbonate and fluid in the renal proximal tubules involves Na(+)/H(+) exchanger 3 (NHE3), which is acutely and chronically downregulated by parathyroid hormone (PTH). Although PTH is known to exert an inhibitory effect on NHE3 expression and transcription, the m...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Neri EA,Bezerra CN,Queiroz-Leite GD,Polidoro JZ,Rebouças NA

更新日期：2015-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the breast cancer susceptibility gene (BRCA1) account for a significant proportion of hereditary breast and ovarian cancers. Cofactor of BRCA1 (COBRA1) was isolated as a BRCA1-interacting protein and exhibited a similar chromatin reorganizing activity to that of BRCA1. However, the biological role of COBR...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhong H,Zhu J,Zhang H,Ding L,Sun Y,Huang C,Ye Q

更新日期：2004-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of parathyroid hormone (PTH) to enhance bone formation has recently been exploited in the treatment of osteoporosis. Several studies have suggested that the activation of bone marrow stromal cells could be preceded to show the anabolic effect of PTH on bone formation, but little is known of PTH-regulated p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim SH,Jun S,Jang HS,Lim SK

更新日期：2005-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Planar bilayer studies are reported on the channel activity of des-L X Val7-D X Val8-Gramicidin A. This analog is designed to provide more long-lived side chain distributions involving the Trp residues than occur with Gramicidin A. The carbonyls of these residues coordinate the permeant cation and the energetics of th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Urry DW,Alonso-Romanowski S,Venkatachalam CM,Harris RD,Prasad KU

更新日期：1984-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A focal freeze injury to rat cerebral cortex induces an early (less than 5 min) increase in brain ornithine decarboxylase activity and an accumulation of polyamines involving cerebral microvessels. This polyamine synthesis correlates with the abnormal increase in microvascular permeability, monitored by uptake of Evan...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Koenig H,Goldstone AD,Lu CY

更新日期：1983-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid β (Aβ) oligomers may be a real culprit in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD); therefore, the elimination of these toxic oligomers may be of great significance for AD therapy. Autophagy is the catabolic process by which lysosomes degrade cytosolic components, and heat shock cognate 70 kDa protein (Hsc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dou J,Su P,Xu C,Wen Z,Mao Z,Li W

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:An important role for the Rel/NF-kappaB family of transcription factors in the differentiation process of dendritic cells (DC) and macrophages (MAC) was recently suggested by a number of mouse knockout studies but only little information is available for defined populations of human cells. To investigate the role of i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ammon C,Mondal K,Andreesen R,Krause SW

更新日期：2000-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:miR-199b-5p is up-regulated significantly during the osteogenesis process in human bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs). Inhibiting miR-199b-5p notably reduces while over-expressing miR-199b-5p promotes the BMSCs osteoblast differentiation, suggested by the alternations of osteogenic genes expression, ALP activity and th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhao R,Li Y,Lin Z,Wan J,Xu C,Zeng Y,Zhu Y

更新日期：2016-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine, a metabolite of ATP, ubiquitously exists in a wide range of organs and tissues. We previously reported that adenosine was implicated in apoptosis in many cancer cells by extrinsic and/or intrinsic pathways. Here, we found that adenosine suppresses the cell growth by induction of apoptosis of human colonic c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yu S,Hou D,Chen P,Zhang Q,Lv B,Ma Y,Liu F,Liu H,Song EJ,Yang D,Liu J

更新日期：2015-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:microRNAs (miRNAs) are short noncoding RNAs that function in RNA silencing and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. They play critical regulatory roles in many cardiovascular diseases, including ischemia-induced cardiac injury. Here, we report microRNA-22, highly expressed in the heart, can protect card...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li G,Wang G,Ma L,Guo J,Song J,Ma L,Zhao X

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of how PPARgamma decrease gluconeogenic gene expressions in liver is still unclear. Since PPARgamma is a transcriptional activator, it requires a mediator to decrease the transcription of gluconeogenic genes. Recently, SHP has been shown to mediate the bile acid-dependent down regulation of gluconeogenic...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim HI,Koh YK,Kim TH,Kwon SK,Im SS,Choi HS,Kim KS,Ahn YH

更新日期：2007-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutation responsible for the juvenile form of Batten disease was mapped to a single gene, Cln3 (T. J. Lerner et al. (1995) Cell 82:949-957). Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has an open reading frame, BTN1 (YHC3), that encodes the putative homologue of Cln3p. Primary structure comparison indicates that the human Cln...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Croopnick JB,Choi HC,Mueller DM

更新日期：1998-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino-acid sequence of human glutathione reductase was measured according to two- and three-amino-acid sequences. The measured frequency and probability were compared with predicted frequency and probability. Of 477 two-amino-acid sequences in human glutathione reductase, 176 (36.897%) and 90 (18.868%) sequences c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu G

更新日期：2000-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of amino acid-derived sulfonate salts have been synthesized. They were found to inactivate efficiently and selectively human leukocyte elastase. The sulfonate salts of the methyl esters of L-norleucine, L-norvaline and L-valine were the most potent. The enzyme is inactivated irreversibly with concomitant rele...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Groutas WC,Brubaker MJ,Zandler ME,Stanga MA,Huang TL,Castrisos JC,Crowley JP

更新日期：1985-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:As many structurally diverse chemicals have been reported to function as estrogens, evaluations for estrogenicity of compounds are of widespread concern. Recently, we identified WISP-2 (Wnt-1 inducible signaling pathway protein 2) as a novel estrogen-inducible gene in human breast cancer cells. In this study, we exami...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Inadera H,Dong HY,Matsushima K

更新日期：2002-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) produced by hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells are responsible for the growth of HCC cells. Accumulating evidence shows that insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3) suppresses HCC cell proliferation in both IGF-dependent a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ma Y,Han CC,Li Y,Wang Y,Wei W

更新日期：2016-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Hedgehog (Hh) signaling plays key roles in animal development and tissue homeostasis. Binding of the secreted ligand to its Ptch1 receptor triggers Hh signaling through distinct canonical or noncanonical signaling pathways. Canonical Hh signaling leads to the activation of Gli transcription factors to induce Hh target...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee H,Ko HW

更新日期：2016-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to its interaction at hypothalamic sites to affect feeding and energy expenditure, leptin has been shown to exhibit a proliferative response in erythropoietic cells. The functional leptin receptor is also present in pancreatic islets and we now demonstrate that a commonly used clonal insulin secreting beta...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Islam MS,Morton NM,Hansson A,Emilsson V

更新日期：1997-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular chaperones prevent the aggregation of partially folded or misfolded forms of protein. alpha-crystallin performs such a function in the ocular lens. To gain insight into the mechanism of the anti-aggregation activity of alpha-crystallin, we performed dynamic light scattering (DLS) measurements investigating i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bettelheim FA,Ansari R,Cheng QF,Zigler JS Jr

更新日期：1999-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence indicates that microRNAs function as oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes in human cancer. MiR-503 is deregulated in various human cancers and has been associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) progression. However, the underlying mechanisms of miR-503 involvement in the development and progr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li B,Liu L,Li X,Wu L

更新日期：2015-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudohypoaldosteronism type II (PHAII), an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by hypertension, hyperkalemia, and hyperchloremic acidosis, is reportedly due to mutations in WNK1 and WNK4 kinase genes. However, the pathogenesis of the disease remains unknown. Mutations in the WNK1 gene are the deletions in the f...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ohta A,Yang SS,Rai T,Chiga M,Sasaki S,Uchida S

更新日期：2006-10-20 00:00:00