Haemopoietic activity associated with biglycan like proteoglycan.

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) contributes to insulin resistance by binding to the 55kDa TNF receptor (TNF-R55), resulting in serine phosphorylation of proteins such as insulin receptor (IR) substrate (IRS)-1, followed by reduced tyrosine phosphorylation of IRS-1 through the IR and, thereby, diminished IR signal transduc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Csehi SB,Mathieu S,Seifert U,Lange A,Zweyer M,Wernig A,Adam D

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm (EHS) gel has been reported to maintain the mature hepatocyte phenotypes in primary cultured hepatocytes. We investigated the effect of EHS gel on the differentiation of fetal liver cells, which contain stem/progenitor cells. The isolated fetal liver cells cultured on EHS gel formed a spherical s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tsukada Y,Nagaki M,Suetsugu A,Osawa Y,Moriwaki H

更新日期：2009-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Since we recently reported that high density lipoprotein, which contains the bioactive lipid sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) [Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol. 23 (2003) 802], induced human coronary artery endothelial cell (HCEC) tube formation mediated by a Ras/Raf/ERK (extracellular signal-activated kinase) pathway, w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miura S,Tanigawa H,Matsuo Y,Fujino M,Kawamura A,Saku K

更新日期：2003-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild type p53 protein requires posttranslational modification within a carboxy-terminal negative regulatory domain to activate DNA binding and transcription. Binding of monoclonal antibody PAb421 to the carboxy-terminal domain reproduces this activation. In the absence of PAb421, we found that wild type p53 bound acti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kaku S,Albor A,Kulesz-Martin M

更新日期：2001-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide synthase (EC 1.14.23) substrate analog inhibitors NG-monomethyl-L-Arg, NG-nitro-L-Arg, NG-nitro-L-Arg methyl ester, and aminoguanidine were examined as potential inhibitors of rat liver arginase (EC 3.5.3.1). NG-nitro-L-Arg was found to inhibit arginase catalyzed conversion of L-Arg to L-Orn at pH 7.5 wit...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Robertson CA,Green BG,Niedzwiecki L,Harrison RK,Grant SK

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) is a pleiotropic cytokine involved in apoptotic cell death, cellular proliferation, differentiation, inflammation, and tumorigenesis. In tumors it is secreted by tumor associated macrophages and can have both pro- and anti-tumorigenic effects. To identify genes regulated by TNFal...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Guardiola-Serrano F,Haendeler J,Lukosz M,Sturm K,Melchner Hv,Altschmied J

更新日期：2008-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been demonstrated in several animal species that neuropeptide Y (NPY) exerts a modulatory effect on luteinizing hormone (LH) secretion. However, whether NPY plays a similar role also in humans has yet to be determined. Therefore, in this study we examined the effect of human NPY on the anterior pituitary hormon...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Watanobe H,Nigawara T,Anzai J,Sakihara S,Kageyama K,Nasushita R,Sasaki S,Habu S,Takebe K

更新日期：1994-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously by selection and inbreeding of Wistar rats susceptible or resistant to the cataractogenic effect of galactose the S and R rat strains were developed as a model of oxidative stress. It was earlier found S rats have elevated level of OH-radical generation and enhanced lipid peroxidation compared with that for...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yelinova V,Glazachev Y,Khramtsov V,Kudryashova L,Rykova V,Salganik R

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen synthase kinase-3beta (GSK3beta) is recognized as one of major kinases to phosphorylate tau in Alzheimer's disease (AD), thus lots of AD drug discoveries target GSK3beta. However, the inactive form of GSK3beta which is phosphorylated at serine-9 is increased in AD brains. This is also inconsistent with phosph...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lim YW,Yoon SY,Choi JE,Kim SM,Lee HS,Choe H,Lee SC,Kim DH

更新日期：2010-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer is a major contributor of cancer-related mortality. The mammalian target or rapamycin (mTOR) signaling is frequently hyper-activated in colorectal cancers, promoting cancer progression and chemo-resistance. In the current study, we investigated the anti-colorectal cancer effect of a novel mTOR comple...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Huo HZ,Zhou ZY,Wang B,Qin J,Liu WY,Gu Y

更新日期：2014-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoprotein130 (gp130) is an important signal transducer in the interleukin-6 (IL-6) trans-signaling pathway, which plays a crucial role in chronic inflammation in atherosclerosis. Studies suggest that estrogen can inhibit IL-6/gp130 signaling and reduce the risk of coronary artery disease, but the precise mechanism ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhou M,Dai W,Cui Y,Li Y

更新日期：2020-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a comprehensive comparison of the anatomical distributions of the cloned mu, delta and kappa opioid receptor mRNA in rat brain. Northern blot analysis revealed that mRNA species encoding the three receptors differed in size and were differentially localized in brain regions. In peripheral tissues analyzed, ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： George SR,Zastawny RL,Briones-Urbina R,Cheng R,Nguyen T,Heiber M,Kouvelas A,Chan AS,O'Dowd BF

更新日期：1994-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a mechanism to digest cells' own components, and its importance in many physiological and pathological processes is being recognized. But the molecular mechanism that regulates autophagy is not understood in detail. In the present study, we found that cholesterol depletion induces macroautophagy. The cell...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cheng J,Ohsaki Y,Tauchi-Sato K,Fujita A,Fujimoto T

更新日期：2006-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated by RNase protection the differential expression of CYP3A4 and CYP3A7 mRNAs in fetal and adult human livers and in adult hepatocytes in primary culture. Our results show that CYP3A7 is expressed in the liver of 8 of 9 adult Caucasians examined, at an average level of 1.7% of the level found in a fetal l...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Greuet J,Pichard L,Bonfils C,Domergue J,Maurel P

更新日期：1996-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Hop/STI1 is a co-chaperone adaptor protein for Hsp70/Hsp90 complexes. Hop/STI1 is found extracellularly and modulates cell death and differentiation through interaction with the prion protein (PrP(C)). Here, we investigated the expression of hop/STI1 and its role upon cell proliferation and cell death in the developin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Arruda-Carvalho M,Njaine B,Silveira MS,Linden R,Chiarini LB

更新日期：2007-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) inhibition increases insulin sensitivity and normalizes blood glucose levels in animals. The molecular events associated with PTP1B inhibition that increase insulin sensitivity remain controversial. Insulin resistant, diabetic ob/ob mice, dosed with PTP1B antisense for 3 weeks e...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rondinone CM,Clampit J,Gum RJ,Zinker BA,Jirousek MR,Trevillyan JM

更新日期：2004-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating microparticles (MPs) are involved in many physiological processes and numbers are increased in a variety of cardiovascular disorders. The present aims were to characterize levels of MPs in a rodent model of chronic cerebral hypoperfusion (CCH) and to determine their signaling properties. MPs were isolated ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Schock SC,Edrissi H,Burger D,Cadonic R,Hakim A,Thompson C

更新日期：2014-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite decades of intensive studies, the failure to identify plasmodesmata (PD) localization sequences has constrained our understanding of Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) movement. Recently, we identified the first PD localization signal (major PLS) in the TMV movement protein (MP), which encompasses the first 50 amino a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu Y,Huang C,Zeng J,Yu H,Li Y,Yuan C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive, and often fatal pulmonary disorder, and its pathology is characterized by parenchymal fibrosis. To investigate the characteristics of fibroblasts in IPF, we obtained eight fibroblast cell lines from lungs with IPF and eight lines from normal lungs. We foun...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shoda H,Yokoyama A,Nishino R,Nakashima T,Ishikawa N,Haruta Y,Hattori N,Naka T,Kohno N

更新日期：2007-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia is generally detected in central regions of solid tumors and regulates a variety of transcription factors including hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1). HIF-1 plays a pivotal role in cellular response to low oxygen concentration, such as angiogenesis in tumor. Here, we found that a histone deacetylase (HDAC) in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mie Lee Y,Kim SH,Kim HS,Jin Son M,Nakajima H,Jeong Kwon H,Kim KW

更新日期：2003-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor, RASSF2 (Ras association domain family 2), is frequently downregulated in a number of cancers. Although exogenously expressed RASSF2 induces apoptotic cell death, the precise roles of RASSF2 under pro-apoptotic conditions remain largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate that MST1 (mammalian sterile 20...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Song H,Oh S,Oh HJ,Lim DS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lampreys are one of the most primitive vertebrates diverged some 500 million years ago. It has long been known that parasitic lampreys secrete anticoagulant from their buccal glands and prevent blood coagulation of host fishes. We found two major protein components of 160 and 26 kDa in the buccal gland secretion of pa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ito N,Mita M,Takahashi Y,Matsushima A,Watanabe YG,Hirano S,Odani S

更新日期：2007-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyrotropin receptor (TSHR) in extrathyroidal tissue, especially fat tissue, is supposed to have important roles in the development of extrathyroidal manifestations of Graves' disease. However, the molecular mechanism of TSHR expression is not known. Expression of TSHR mRNA and TSH-dependent cAMP production were obser...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Haraguchi K,Shimura H,Lin L,Saito T,Endo T,Onaya T

更新日期：1996-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclooxygenase 2 (COX)-2 is induced by bacterial and viral infections and has complex, poorly understood roles in anti-pathogen immunity. Here, we use a knock-in luciferase reporter model to image Cox2 expression across a range of tissues in mice following treatment with the either the prototypical bacterial pathogen-...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kirkby NS,Zaiss AK,Wright WR,Jiao J,Chan MV,Warner TD,Herschman HR,Mitchell JA

更新日期：2013-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamine catabolism is considered to be an important metabolic pathway for cancer cells. Glutaminase (GLS) is the important rate-limiting enzyme of glutamine catabolism. miR-137 functions as a tumor suppressor in many human malignant tumors. However, the role and molecular mechanism of miR-137 and GLS in malignant me...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Luan W,Zhou Z,Zhu Y,Xia Y,Wang J,Xu B

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we reported that Lumbricusin, an antimicrobial peptide isolated from earthworm Lumbricus terrestris, enhanced neuronal proliferation and ameliorated motor dysfunction and dopaminergic neurodegeneration. Accumulating evidence suggests that neurodegeneration is the primary pathological feature of acute or chro...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Seo M,Lee JH,Baek M,Kim MA,Ahn MY,Kim SH,Yun EY,Hwang JS

更新日期：2017-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel conformation-specific antibodies were raised against a cyclic chimeric dodecapeptidyl multiple antigen peptide (cCD-MAP) constructed with a spacer-armed Gly-Asp dipeptide and two pentapeptides (S(169)-Q(170)-K(171)-E(172)-G(173) of CCR5 and E(179)-A(180)-D(181)-D(182)-R(183) of CXCR4) which are components of the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Misumi S,Takamune N,Ido Y,Hayashi S,Endo M,Mukai R,Tachibana K,Umeda M,Shoji S

更新日期：2001-08-03 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：:Green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged phospholipase C (PLC)-delta1 and its mutants were expressed in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells. GFP-PLC-delta1 or the GFP-tagged pleckstrin homology (PH) domain of PLC-delta1 itself was found to be predominantly localized at the plasma membrane. The DeltaPH mutant or a sit...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fujii M,Ohtsubo M,Ogawa T,Kamata H,Hirata H,Yagisawa H

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that the estrogen receptor bears proteolytic activity responsible for its own transformation. This activity was inhibited by aprotinin. Incubation of transformed ER with aprotinin modified the proteolytic digestion of the hormone binding subunit by proteinase K. The smallest hormone-binding fragme...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nigro V,Medici N,Abbondanza C,Minucci S,Moncharmont B,Molinari AM,Puca GA

更新日期：1990-07-31 00:00:00