Alzheimer's disease brain extract stimulates the survival of cerebral cortical neurons from neonatal rats.

abstract：:To elucidate genetic determinants of insulin resistance, we investigated insulin receptor (IR) and insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) genes, in vitro IR function and in vivo insulin sensitivity in a family with Type A syndrome. Two missense IR mutations (Asp59Gly and Leu62Pro) found in the proband, resulted in reduc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rouard M,Macari F,Bouix O,Lautier C,Brun JF,Lefebvre P,Renard E,Bringer J,Jaffiol C,Grigorescu F

更新日期：1997-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening for inhibitors of DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) revealed 3-cyano-5-(4-pyridyl)-6-hydrazonomethyl-2-pyridone, designated OK-1035, to be a potent and selective inhibitor. When a synthetic peptide was used as a substrate, OK-1035 caused 50% inhibition of DNA-PK activity at 8 microM, a concentration more...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Take Y,Kumano M,Hamano Y,Fukatsu H,Teraoka H,Nishimura S,Okuyama A

更新日期：1995-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysates of rabbit reticulocytes and other mammalian cells are known to contain an activity which binds with high specificity ppp(A2'p)3A,3'-[32P]pCp. The binding activity shows a marked dependence on preincubation of lysates at different temperatures (4 degrees C - 45 degrees C). For example, binding was increased 50%...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu JM,Eslami B,Semproni AR

更新日期：1983-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence shows that Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS), the major functional deficit of which is limited growth, both intrauterine and postnatal, is due to a double dose of a gene within 7p11.2-p13 that is normally expressed exclusively from the maternal copy. Of the several growth-related genes in this chromosomal ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McCann JA,Zheng H,Islam A,Goodyer CG,Polychronakos C

更新日期：2001-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:By its antioxidant effect, molecular hydrogen gas (H2) was reported to protect organs from tissue damage induced by ischemia reperfusion. To evaluate its anti-inflammatory effects, we established a mouse model of human inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by supplying mice with water containing (1) dextran sodium sulfate ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kajiya M,Silva MJ,Sato K,Ouhara K,Kawai T

更新日期：2009-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Urocotins (Ucns) are newly discovered members of the corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) neuropeptide family. Ucn 2 is expressed in the adrenal medulla, and its receptor, CRF2 receptor, is also expressed in the adrenal gland. To predict the physiological significance of Ucn 2 expression in the adrenal medulla, we exa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nemoto T,Mano-Otagiri A,Shibasaki T

更新日期：2005-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We used fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) to study the activation of fibrinogen by thrombin and the subsequent aggregation of fibrin monomers into fibrin polymers at a very low and at physiological fibrinogen concentrations. In the labeling procedure used the fibrinogen was randomly labeled and the label was...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bark N,Földes-Papp Z,Rigler R

更新日期：1999-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A murine IgG mAb, WR321, selected for the ability to bind to phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate and phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate, but an inability to bind to any of 17 other lipids, including phosphatidylinositol, was examined as a probe for studying interactions of HIV-1 with primary human peripheral blood mon...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Matyas GR,Wieczorek L,Bansal D,Chenine AL,Sanders-Buell E,Tovanabutra S,Kim JH,Polonis V,Alving CR

更新日期：2010-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is an apoptosis-independent mechanism of cell death that protects the cell from environmental imbalances and infection by pathogens. We identified a novel small molecule, 2-(3-Benzyl-4-oxo-3,4,5,6,7,8-hexahydro-benzo[4,5]thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-2-ylsulfanylmethyl)-oxazole-4-carboxylic acid (2-pyrrolidin-1-yl-...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Choi IK,Cho YS,Jung HJ,Kwon HJ

更新日期：2010-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of the Ca stores in the skinned fiber bundles of the guinea-pig taenia caeci were studied by a novel method to measure Ca released from the stores using a fluorescent Ca indicator, fura-2. It is found that the capacity of the Ca stores amounts some 170 mumoles/liter cell water. There are at least two Ca...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iino M

更新日期：1987-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Most proteins synthesized in cytoplasm target to mitochondria through sequences at their amino termini. However, a previous study suggests that the native carboxyl terminus of ISP6 might be critical of its specific delivery. Here we investigated the sequence directing ISP6 to yeast mitochondrial outer membrane. Unlike...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cao W,Douglas MG

更新日期：1996-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclei of the dorsolateral prostate of rats contain a large amount of androgen-dependent non-histone protein (20K-NHP) (mol. wt. not equal to 20,000; pI not equal to 11.5) (Matuo et al. (1]. Its content in the nuclei increased most markedly during 4-8 weeks of age, when functional differentiation of the prostate was m...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Matuo Y,Nishi N,Tanaka Y,Muguruma Y,Tanaka K,Akatsuka Y,Matsui SI,Sandberg AA,Wada F

更新日期：1984-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence analysis of a new lignin peroxidase (LIP) gene, GLG6, from P. chrysosporium showed that it encodes a mature LIP protein with a predicted Mr of 36,454. A 28 aa signal peptide precedes the mature protein. The coding region of GLG6 is interrupted by nine introns ranging in size from 50-57 bp. GLG6 encoded-LIP ha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Naidu PS,Zhang YZ,Reddy CA

更新日期：1990-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Glial cells have been shown to induce enzyme activities, which are characteristically high in brain capillaries, in cerebral and non cerebral endothelial cells in culture. We evaluated the activity of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (gamma GT) in freshly isolated (ex vivo) bovine blood (BEC) and lymphatic (LEC) endothel...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Weber E,Lorenzoni P,Raffaelli N,Cavina N,Sacchi G

更新日期：1996-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factor NF-kappaB has both pro-apoptotic and anti-apoptotic properties depending on the cell type. Its role in the intestinal epithelial cell has not been well elucidated. Trefoil factor 3 (TFF3) is an anti-apoptotic peptide secreted by intestinal goblet cells. Here we show that TFF3 activated NF-kappaB p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen YH,Lu Y,De Plaen IG,Wang LY,Tan XD

更新日期：2000-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of viruses, when they bind to cells, activate intracellular signals that facilitate post-binding steps of infection. To determine if retroviruses activate intracellular signaling, we transduced HeLa cells with amphotropic retroviruses produced by TelCeB6 cells and examined cell lysates for activated Rac1. We ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Krishna D,Le Doux JM

更新日期：2006-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The left-handed Z-DNA form of the short unmodified alternating guanine-cytosine oligonucleotides, 5'-(dGdC)(24) and 5'-(dGdC)(18), was selectively detected under physiological ionic strength and pH conditions using the anionic nickel(II) porphyrin, NiTPPS. No spectroscopic signal was observed for NiTPPS with any right...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： D'Urso A,Choi JK,Shabbir-Hussain M,Ngwa FN,Lambousis MI,Purrello R,Balaz M

更新日期：2010-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Human apoprotein(apo) CI and apo AII cDNA probes have been used to analyze the segregation of the human genes in panels of human-mouse hybrids. The apo CI (APOCI) gene segregates with chromosome 19 and the apo AII (APOA2) gene with chromosome 1. Somatic cell hybrids containing chromosome translocations were used to ma...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Knott TJ,Eddy RL,Robertson ME,Priestley LM,Scott J,Shows TB

更新日期：1984-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of Na+ in insulin-secretory responses to metabolizable and nonmetabolizable amino acids known to be cotransported with Na+, were examined using islet-derived BRIN-BD11 cells. At stimulatory (16.7 mM) glucose, 10 mM of l-alanine, alpha-aminoisobutyric acid (AIB) or l-proline stimulated 1.3- to 10. 4-fol...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McClenaghan NH,Barnett CR,Flatt PR

更新日期：1998-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The developing and the adult brain respond in similar ways to ischemia, but also display clear differences. For example, the relative contributions of necrosis and apoptosis to neuronal death may be different, such that apoptotic mechanisms would be more prevalent in the developing brain. During normal development, mo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Blomgren K,Zhu C,Hallin U,Hagberg H

更新日期：2003-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc-finger antiviral protein (ZAP) is a recently isolated host antiviral factor that inhibits the replication of many viruses such as Moloney murine leukemia virus (MLV) and Sindbis virus (SIN) by preventing the accumulation of viral mRNA in the cytoplasm. ZAP comprises four CCCH zinc-finger motifs, the second and fo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jeong MS,Kim EJ,Jang SB

更新日期：2010-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The adeno-associated virus site 1 (AAVS1) locus in the human genome is a strong candidate for gene therapy by insertion of an exogenous gene into the locus. The AAVS1 locus includes the coding region for myosin binding subunit 85 (MBS85). Although the function of MBS85 is not well understood, myosin II-dependent contr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mizutani T,Li R,Haga H,Kawabata K

更新日期：2015-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:N-acyl-homoserine lactones (AHLs) are a class of bacterial quorum-sensing (QS) signals that are commonly used by Gram-negative bacteria for cell-to-cell communication. Recently, it has become evident that AHLs can regulate plant root growth and trigger plant defense responses; however, little is known about the plant ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miao C,Liu F,Zhao Q,Jia Z,Song S

更新日期：2012-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic injury is a primary contributor to the initiation of renal tubular epithelial cell damage in sickle cell disease (SCD). In this study, we investigated the effects of bilateral ischemia-reperfusion injury, which is a common type of acute kidney injury (AKI), in male and female genetic mouse model of SCD. Bilat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Park F,Soni H,Pressly JD,Adebiyi A

更新日期：2019-07-12 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：:The proper development of the cerebral cortex is essential for brain formation and functioning. O-GlcNAcylation, an important posttranslational modification, regulates the pathways critical for neuronal health and the survival of the cerebral cortex in neurodegenerative diseases. However, the role of O-GlcNAcylation i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cheng J,Wu Y,Chen L,Li Y,Liu F,Shao J,Huang M,Fan M,Wu H

更新日期：2020-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of a novel foot-and-mouth disease virus, HKN/2002, was 8104 nucleotides (nt) in length (excluding the poly(C) tract and poly(A) tail) and was composed of a 1042-nt 5'-untranslated region (UTR), a 6966-nt open reading frame, and a 93-nt 3'-UTR. Genome sequences of HKN/2002 and other known FMDV strains were c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Feng Q,Yu H,Liu Y,He C,Hu J,Sang H,Ding N,Ding M,Fung YW,Lau LT,Yu AC,Chen J

更新日期：2004-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of full-length ovine fibroblast growth factor-1 (FGF-1) was determined by a combination of protein and cDNA sequencing. FGF-1 cDNA analysis indicated that ovine kidney cells express mRNAs encoding both full-length FGF-1 and a truncated FGF-1 variant. An overall comparison of the ovine FGF-1 pri...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Grieb TW,Ring M,Brown E,Palmer C,Belle N,Donjerkovic D,Chang H,Yun J,Subramanian R,Forozan F,Guo Y,Vertes A,Winkles JA,Burgess WH

更新日期：1998-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate pathophysiological roles of endothelin-1 (ET-1) in collagen remodeling in pulmonary hypertension, we measured: (a) mRNA expression, concentration, localization of ET-1; (b) changes in types and content of collagen in the lung; (c) and confirmed direct effects of ET-1 on type V collagen metabolism in vas...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mansoor AM,Honda M,Saida K,Ishinaga Y,Kuramochi T,Maeda A,Takabatake T,Mitsui Y

更新日期：1995-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of multidrug resistance-associated protein 2 (MRP2), an efflux pump contributing to biliary secretion of xenobiotics, was investigated in primary rat and human hepatocytes exposed to sulforaphane, a naturally-occurring chemopreventive agent. Northern blot indicated that sulforaphane increased MRP2 mRNA leve...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Payen L,Courtois A,Loewert M,Guillouzo A,Fardel O

更新日期：2001-03-23 00:00:00