Increased cold allodynia following intrathecal N-methyl-D-aspartate in rats with a mononeuropathy.

abstract：AIMS:Hyperphosphatemia is an independent risk factor of cardiovascular events in the patients with chronic kidney disease. High phosphate can induce endothelial cell apoptosis, but the exact mechanism is not clear. This study fills this knowledge gap. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Microarray analysis was used to identify diff...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Qin L,Tang B,Deng B,Mohan C,Wu T,Peng A

更新日期：2015-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:TsTX-I scorpion toxin, also known as γ-toxin, is a β-toxin which binds to site 4 of the sodium channel, shifting its activation potential. There are few studies about its pharmacological action in the central nervous system. The objective of this work was to determine the electroencephalographic, behavioral and hi...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Teixeira VF,Conceição IM,Lebrun I,Nencioni AL,Coronado Dorce VA

更新日期：2010-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Inositol hexaphosphate (InsP6 or IP6) is ubiquitous. At 10 microM to 1 mM concentrations, IP6 and its lower phosphorylated forms (IP(1-5)) as well as inositol (Ins) are contained in most mammalian cells, wherein they are important in regulating vital cellular functions such as signal transduction, cell proliferation a...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Shamsuddin AM,Vucenik I,Cole KE

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine whether the adhesion of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) to endothelial cells and/or reactive oxygen species (ROS) released from PMNs are responsible for inducing angiogenesis. Angiogenesis was assessed by tube formation using endothelial cells obtained from bovine thoracic ...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Yasuda M,Shimizu S,Tokuyama S,Watanabe T,Kiuchi Y,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2000-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of local pH on the in vivo efflux of endogenous dopamine (DA) and 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) following administration of d-amphetamine (AMPH) was examined in the striatum of the anesthetized rat using two bilaterally placed push-pull cannulae. At both pH 7.3 and 6.4, the baseline efflux values f...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Guan XM,McBride WJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome-proliferator activated receptor-gamma (PPARgamma) has been demonstrated to exert an inhibitory effect on cell growth in most cell types studied, but its role in colon cancer is still uncertain. The molecular mechanism between the activation of PPARgamma and its consequence is unknown. In the present report,...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Chen GG,Lee JF,Wang SH,Chan UP,Ip PC,Lau WY

更新日期：2002-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:L-lysine, an essential amino acid for man and animals, and its metabolite pipecolic acid (PA) have been studied for their effects on pentylenetetrazol (PTZ)-induced seizures in mice. L-Lysine or L-PA i.p. significantly increased clonic and tonic latencies in a dose-dependent manner against 90 mg/kg PTZ-induced seizure...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Chang YF,Hargest V,Chen JS

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:RNA regulatory genes were closely associated with tumorigenesis and prognosis in multiple tumors. Copy number variation (CNV) is a frequent characteristic in soft tissue sarcomas (STS). However, little is known regarding their possible roles in STS. MAIN METHODS:RNA sequence profiles and CNV data of 255 STS patie...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Wang X,Han Y,Li J,Hong D,Xue Z,Huang H,Du Z,Hou Y,Li H,Li H,Liao H,Xie X,Ding C

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been previously shown that treatment of newborn rats with the polyamines putrescine, spermidine and spermine can rescue sympathetic neurons from naturally occurring cell death and from induced death after axotomy or immunosympathectomy. The present study demonstrates that polyamine treatment can also prevent th...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Gilad GM,Gilad VH

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：HEADING AIMS:MicroRNA-27b (miR-27b) has been shown to play a role in the progression of many different forms of cancer, but its specific relevance in the context of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains uncertain. As such, this study sought to explore the role of miR-27b in NSCLC and the mechanisms whereby it func...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Zhang J,Hua X,Qi N,Han G,Yu J,Yu Y,Wei X,Li H,Chen X,Leng C,Liu Q,Lu Y,Li Y

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing literature indicating that opioid abuse by human addicts and opioid administration to animals have profound effects on the immune system. In the present study, implantation of morphine pellets in mice was associated with reduced phenotypic expression of the cell surface antigens specific to T-lympho...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Kimes AS,Smith WJ,Winchell CJ,London ED

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current therapy for type 1 diabetes mellitus involves a daily regimen of multiple subcutaneous or intramuscular injections of recombinant human insulin. To achieve long-term insulin delivery in vivo, we investigated the applicability of cytomedical therapy using beta TC6 cells or MIN6 cells, both of which are murine p...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Suzuki R,Okada N,Miyamoto H,Yoshioka T,Sakamoto K,Oka H,Tsutsumi Y,Nakagawa S,Miyazaki J,Mayumi T

更新日期：2002-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific binding sites for atrial natriuretic peptide have been identified in membrane of the phaeochromocytoma cell line PC12. Scatchard analysis of binding studies revealed a Kd of 794 pM and a density (Bmax) of 254 fmol/mg protein. Hormones unrelated to ANP such as angiotensin II, bradykinin and arginine-8-vasopres...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Boumezrag A,Lyall F,Dow JA

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optically active hydroperoxides of phospholipids including phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, and phosphatidic acid were synthesized, and their cytotoxicity to cultured bovine pulmonary artery endothelial cells was examined. Phospholipid hydroperoxides were readily incorporated into c...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Kaneko T,Baba N,Matsuo M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TCDD was assessed as a biological response modifier for increasing MMC cytotoxicity through aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) activation and increasing levels of bioreductive enzymes. Human MCF-7 cells were exposed to TCDD, MMC and combinations thereof under aerobic or hypoxic conditions. Cytotoxicity, enzyme activities...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Collier AC,Pritsos KL,Pritsos CA

更新日期：2006-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of Hypericum perforatum (St. John's wort) have antidepressant properties in depressed patients and exert antidepressant-like action in laboratory animals. The phloroglucinol derivative hyperforin has become a topic of interest, as this Hypericum component is a potent inhibitor of monoamines reuptake. The mole...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Roz N,Rehavi M

更新日期：2003-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Fructose administration induces hepatic oxidative stress, insulin resistance, inflammatory and metabolic changes. We tested their potential pathogenic relationship and whether these alterations can be prevented by R/S-α-lipoic acid. MAIN METHODS:Wistar rats received during 21days a commercial diet or the same die...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Castro MC,Massa ML,Arbeláez LG,Schinella G,Gagliardino JJ,Francini F

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic social defeat stress (CSDS) is an ethologically relevant psychosocial stress animal model and has been widely used in depression studies. Ginsenoside Rg1 (Rg1) is the major active ingredients of ginseng with low toxicity and neuroprotective effects. The present study aims to investigate the antidepressant effe...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Jiang N,Lv J,Wang H,Huang H,Wang Q,Lu C,Zeng G,Liu XM

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When s-triazolo[3,4-a]phthalazine (Tri-P) was orally administered in rats, a more lipophilic metabolite M-1 than the parent compound was isolated from the urine. The metabolite M-1 was identified as 7-methylthio Tri-P by means of high resolution MS and two-dimensional NMR spectrometry. Furthermore, the 7-methylthio co...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Imamura Y,Noda A,Imamura T,Ono Y,Okawara T,Noda H

更新日期：2003-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Superoxide dismutase (SOD), neuron specific enolase (NSE) and lactic dehydrogenase (LDH) were measured in the serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of ischemic cerebrovascular patients, other neurological patients and in age-matched healthy controls (serum only). The levels of SOD in the CSF or serum of the ischemic pat...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Gruener N,Gross B,Gozlan O,Barak M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Although approving new anticonvulsants was a major breakthrough in the field of epilepsy control, so far we have met limited success in almost one third of patients suffering from epilepsy and a definite and reliable method is yet to be found. Levosimendan demonstrated neuroprotective effects and reduced mortality...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Gooshe M,Tabaeizadeh M,Aleyasin AR,Mojahedi P,Ghasemi K,Yousefi F,Vafaei A,Amini-Khoei H,Amiri S,Dehpour AR

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the myocardial production of nitric oxide, as a consequence of expression of the inducible isoform of nitric oxide synthase (NOS), plays an important role in the pathophysiology of heart failure. We determined the net cardiac production of nitrogen oxides (NOx), as a measure of NOS activity,...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Kaye DM,Chin-Dusting J,Esler MD,Jennings GL

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that while bacteria and higher plants possess two different pathways for the biosynthesis of putrescine, via ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) and arginine decarboxylase (ADC); the fungi, like animals, only use the former pathway. We found that contrary to the earlier reports, two of the phytopathogen...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Khan AJ,Minocha SC

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf-2) binds to a specific polyamine responsive element (PRE) in the promoter region of the spermidine-spermine acetyltransferase (SSAT) gene, a key component of the polyamine catabolic pathway. Regulation of SSAT gene transcription requires the additional interaction of Nr...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Stephenson AH,Seidel ER

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A single intravenous injection of alloxan in mice induced hyperglycemia in a dose dependent fashion. This diabetogenic action of alloxan was prevented by a single intraperitoneal injection of the alpha 2-adrenergic agonists, i.e. oxymetazoline, clonidine or epinephrine 40 min prior to the injection of alloxan. The alp...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Nakadate T,Nakaki T,Yamamoto S,Kato R

更新日期：1983-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent neuropathological study has reported decreased levels of dynorphin A immunoreactivity in striato-pallidal fibers in the brain of a patient with severe Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome (TS). This observation, taken with the neuroanatomic distribution of dynorphin and its broad range of motor and behavioral eff...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Leckman JF,Riddle MA,Berrettini WH,Anderson GM,Hardin M,Chappell P,Bissette G,Nemeroff CB,Goodman WK,Cohen DJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha 1-adrenoceptors present in liver membranes from rats, hamsters and mice were characterized using [3H]prazosin. In the liver membranes from the three species a relatively large number of receptors was observed (500-900 fmol/mg of protein) and the affinities for [3H]prazosin were very similar (0.2-0.3 nM). Mem...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： García-Sáinz JA,Casas-González P,Romero-Avila MT,González-Espinosa C

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Absent in melanoma 2 (AIM2) is a cytosolic DNA sensor which plays an important role in inflammasome formation and is involved in various cellular functions including pyroptosis, fibrosis, and tissue injury. Our study aimed to investigate whether AIM2 plays a role in diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) and to explore its...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Wang X,Pan J,Liu H,Zhang M,Liu D,Lu L,Tian J,Liu M,Jin T,An F

更新日期：2019-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cells have potential to develop into numerous cell types, thus they are good cell source for tissue engineering. As an external physical signal, material stiffness is capable of regulating stem cell fate. Biomaterial stiffness is an important parameter in tissue engineering. We summarize main measurements of mate...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Lv H,Wang H,Zhang Z,Yang W,Liu W,Li Y,Li L

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs plays important role in the development of myocardial infarction (MI). The aim of this study was to analyze whether miR-429 has effect on the process of autophagy in myocardial anoxia/reoxygenation (AR) or ischemia/reperfusion (IR) injury and explore the underlying mechanism. The results showed that miR-429 ...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Zhu Q,Hu F

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00