Rat insulinoma-derived pancreatic beta-cells express a functional leptin receptor that mediates a proliferative response.

abstract：:Beta-catenin has essential roles in morphogenesis and human cancer, both as a subunit of adhesive complexes in the cell membrane and as a transcriptional coactivator in the Wnt signaling pathway. In addition, beta-catenin also has the ability to transport lymphoid enhancer binding factor-1 into the nucleus. In this st...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hsu HT,Liu PC,Ku SY,Jung KC,Hong YR,Kao C,Wang C

更新日期：2006-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta1, a cytokine released into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) after intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH), stimulates the expression of the components of the extracellular matrix (ECM), which causes progressive ventricular dilatation by impaired CSF absorption. Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okamoto T,Takahashi S,Nakamura E,Nagaya K,Hayashi T,Fujieda K

更新日期：2009-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-specific regulatory CD4(+) T cells have been described but there are few reports on regulatory CD8(+) T cells. We generated islet-specific glucose-6-phosphatase catalytic subunit-related protein (IGRP)-specific regulatory CD8(+) T cells from 8.3-NOD transgenic mice. CD8(+) T cells from 8.3-NOD splenocytes were...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kishi M,Yasuda H,Abe Y,Sasaki H,Shimizu M,Arai T,Okumachi Y,Moriyama H,Hara K,Yokono K,Nagata M

更新日期：2010-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of lipoxin A4 (LXA4) either with human leukocytes or with rat liver microsomes in the presence of NADPH very selectively led to a more polar metabolite retaining the conjugated tetraenic structure of LXA4. Lipoxin B4 (LXB4) underwent a very similar metabolism into a more polar metabolite, whereas the all-tr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Boucher JL,Delaforge M,Mansuy D

更新日期：1991-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A high concentration of immunoreactive neuropeptide Y was observed in rat platelets using a specific and sensitive radioimmunoassay for neuropeptide Y. Three kinds of high performance liquid chromatography combined with radioimmunoassay for neuropeptide Y showed that immunoreactive neuropeptide Y in rat platelets is i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ogawa T,Kitamura K,Kawamoto M,Eto T,Tanaka K

更新日期：1989-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies in our laboratory have shown that specific glycan structures are required for the normal secretion of some glycoproteins. Bromoconduritol is known to inhibit the removal of the innermost glucose moiety from the Glc3Man9(GlcNAc)2 precursor of N-linked glycoproteins. We have used this inhibitor to inves...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yeo KT,Yeo TK,Olden K

更新日期：1989-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein microarray based on DNA microarray platform was developed to identify protein-protein interactions in vitro. The conventional DNA chip surface by 156-bp PCR product was prepared for a substrate of protein microarray. High-affinity sequence-specific DNA binding domain, GAL4 DNA binding domain, was introduced ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Choi YS,Pack SP,Yoo YJ

更新日期：2005-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of DNA damage induced by metabolites of nitrobenzene was investigated in relation to the carcinogenicity and reproductive toxicity of nitrobenzene. Nitrosobenzene, a nitrobenzene metabolite, induced NADH plus Cu(II)-mediated DNA cleavage frequently at thymine and cytosine residues. Catalase and bathocupr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ohkuma Y,Kawanishi S

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) is an inducible form of heme oxygenase that catabolizes heme to carbon monoxide, biliverdin, and ferrous iron. We have investigated whether HO-1 can induce angiogenic effects in vivo. Rats were subjected to a bolus injection of either wild type adenovirus (ad-wt) or adenovirus encoding HO-1 (ad...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Suzuki M,Iso-o N,Takeshita S,Tsukamoto K,Mori I,Sato T,Ohno M,Nagai R,Ishizaka N

更新日期：2003-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformational dependence of the interresidue interproton distances in peptides, C alpha H ... Ni + 1 H and NiH ... Ni + 1 H, have been used to identify zones of sterically allowed phi, psi space, where both distances are less than 3A and expected to yield nuclear Overhauser effects (NOEs). L-residues in left-hand...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ramakrishnan C,Sukumar M,Balaram P

更新日期：1987-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Universal protein networks conserved from bacteria to animals dictate the core functions of cells. Inorganic pyrophosphatase (IPP) is an essential enzyme that plays a pivotal role in a broad spectrum of cellular biosynthetic reactions such as amino acid, nucleotide, polysaccharide, and fatty acid biosynthesis. However...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takahashi K,Inuzuka M,Ingi T

更新日期：2004-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases leading to dementia. Although cytotoxicity of amyloid β peptides has been intensively studied within pathophysiology of AD, the physiological function of amyloid precursor protein (APP) still remains unclarified. We have shown previously tha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kwak YD,Hendrix BJ,Sugaya K

更新日期：2014-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:N-terminal of Leu-norleucinal or Leu-methioninal was modified to obtain a cell penetrative peptide inhibitor against calpain. Benzyloxycarbonyl (Z) derivatives had less active against papain than phenylbutyryl derivatives and leupeptin. Z-Leu-nLeu-H (calpeptin) was more sensitive to calpain I than Z-Leu-Met-H and leup...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tsujinaka T,Kajiwara Y,Kambayashi J,Sakon M,Higuchi N,Tanaka T,Mori T

更新日期：1988-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Spin-trapping experiments in alkaline aqueous dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) solution using sodium 3,5-dibromo-4-nitrosobenzenesulfonate (DBNBS) yielded a strong signal of the sulfur trioxide anion radical adduct. This radical adduct is identical to that obtained by the oxidation of sulfite with horseradish peroxidase/hydr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Stolze K,Mason RP

更新日期：1987-03-30 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：:Pancreatic elastase has been implicated in the pathophysiology of severe acute pancreatitis, characterized by systemic inflammatory response, distant organ failure, and high mortality. Here we show that pancreatic elastase activates transcription factors NF-kappaB, AP-1, and NFAT in human myeloid cells (U-937 and THP-...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hietaranta A,Mustonen H,Puolakkainen P,Haapiainen R,Kemppainen E

更新日期：2004-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Incorporation of 1-[3H]-O-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine ([3H] PAF-acether) into rabbit platelet phosphatidylcholine (PC) was inhibited by a specific antagonist, BN 52021 (IC50 5.6 X 10(-6) M, maximal effect, i.e 70% inhibition, at 10(-4) M). Under the same conditions, [3H] lyso-PAF-acether incorporation r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lachachi H,Plantavid M,Simon MF,Chap H,Braquet P,Douste-Blazy L

更新日期：1985-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth and metastasis of tumors depend on angiogenesis. Tumor angiogenesis is initiated by the secretion of growth factors from tumor cells; downstream signals are then triggered in pre-existing blood vessels to sprout a new vascular network. Trichosanthin (TCS) is a type I ribosome-inactivating protein that has a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： He D,Jin J,Zheng Y,Bruce IC,Tam S,Ma X

更新日期：2013-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:To search autoantigens in autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP), we have screened the human pancreas cDNA library with a patient's serum and obtained 10 positive clones. Seven out of 10 clones were amylase alpha-2A, the autoantibody to which was specifically detected in sera from patients with AIP and fulminant type 1 diabete...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takizawa S,Endo T,Wanjia X,Tanaka S,Takahashi M,Kobayashi T

更新日期：2009-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydrogen bond network leading from bulk water to the trinuclear copper center in bilirubin oxidase is constructed with Glu463 and water molecules to transport protons for the four-electron reduction of dioxygen. Substitutions of Glu463 with Gln or Ala were attributed to virtually complete loss or significant reduc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Morishita H,Kurita D,Kataoka K,Sakurai T

更新日期：2014-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is an important pathophysiological process in the development of many diseases. However, the mechanism responsible for the development of PH remains unknown. The objective of the study was to explore the possible impact of sulfur dioxide (SO2) on the endogenous hydrogen sulfide (H2S) pathwa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Luo L,Liu D,Tang C,Du J,Liu AD,Holmberg L,Jin H

更新日期：2013-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:There are tremendous drug candidates that suffer from insolubility in water. In the present study, it is shown that Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), a model water-insoluble compound, can be nanoparticulated into a water-soluble form using apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I). Similar to the way that apoA-I forms nascent discoidal high de...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shin JY,Shin JI,Kim JS,Yang YS,Hwang Y,Yang JS,Shin D,Seo JH,Jin YS,Park YC,Hwang JS,Kweon DH

更新日期：2009-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the effects of a replacement of the proximal or the distal histidine on the structure of hemoglobin (Hb), absorption and circular dichroic (CD) spectra of five species of Hbs M in the visible region were measured. Four Hbs M had a characteristic but a similar absorption spectrum upon amino acid substitution...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nagai M,Takama S,Yoneyama Y

更新日期：1985-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the WNK1 and WNK4 genes result in an inherited hypertensive disease, pseudohypoaldosteronism type II (PHAII). Recently, the KLHL3 and Cullin3 genes were also identified as responsible genes for PHAII. Although we have reported that WNK4 is a substrate for the KLHL3-Cullin3 E3 ligase complex, it is not cle...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takahashi D,Mori T,Wakabayashi M,Mori Y,Susa K,Zeniya M,Sohara E,Rai T,Sasaki S,Uchida S

更新日期：2013-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a unique phenomenon in cancer patients and is commonly associated with an overexpression of the human MDR gene mdr1, which encodes an energy-dependent Mr 180 kDa membrane bound protein, known as P-glycoprotein. P-glycoprotein serves as a membrane efflux to pump the drugs out of the cancer...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chu TM,Lin TH,Kawinski E

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapeutic efficacy is also regulated by the tumor microenvironment. IL-6 produced by TAMs and downstream IL-6/STAT3 signaling pathway is central regulator in chemotherapeutic response. The M2-like phenotype of TAMs is characterized by elevated iron uptake. Whether iron participates in chemo-resistance need to b...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li J,He K,Liu P,Xu LX

更新日期：2016-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have reported elevated expression of miR-181a in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), suggesting that it may play an important role in liver lipid metabolism and insulin resistance. We aimed to investigate the effect of miR-181a in lipid metabolism and find new treatments for NAFLD. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Huang R,Duan X,Liu X,Cao H,Wang Y,Fan J,Wang B

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:T-type Ca(2+) channels are important regulators of peripheral sensory neuron excitability. Accordingly, T-type Ca(2+) currents are often increased in various pathological pain conditions, such as inflammation or nerve injury. Here we investigated effects of inflammation on functional expression of T-type Ca(2+) channe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Huang D,Liang C,Zhang F,Men H,Du X,Gamper N,Zhang H

更新日期：2016-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular matrix regulates many fundamental cellular processes such as proliferation, migration, and differentiation. Among the ECM components, type I collagen induces endothelial tube formation in vitro. By analysing genes participating in this event, the bone morphogenetic protein receptor-II (BMPR-II) was d...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Regazzoni C,Winterhalter KH,Rohrer L

更新日期：2001-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The marked impairment of hepatic drug metabolism during inflammation and infections has been known for many years and shown to result from down-regulation of cytochrome P450s (CYP) by cytokines. However, the mechanism of this repression is unknown. Using primary cultures of human hepatocytes, we show here that interle...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pascussi JM,Gerbal-Chaloin S,Pichard-Garcia L,Daujat M,Fabre JM,Maurel P,Vilarem MJ

更新日期：2000-08-11 00:00:00