abstract：:Laboratory and clinical studies have provided evidence of feasibility, safety and efficacy of cell transplantation to treat a wide variety of diseases characterized by tissue and cell dysfunction ranging from diabetes to spinal cord injury. However, major hurdles remain and limit pursuing large clinical trials, includ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Borlongan CV,Masuda T,Walker TA,Maki M,Hara K,Yasuhara T,Matsukawa N,Emerich DF

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomal proliferator activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) belongs to the family of nuclear hormone receptors (NHRs), which directly regulate transcription of target genes. The regulatory role of this receptor on lipid metabolism and insulin sensitization is well established. Recently, the overexpression of this re...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Krishnan A,Nair SA,Pillai MR

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal cerebral ischemia induces neurogenesis in the subventricular zone (SVZ) of the adult human brain. Neurogenesis is controlled by proliferation, differentiation, and migration of neural progenitor cells. This article reviews emerging data that changes of cell cycle kinetics of neural progenitor cells induced by st...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Zhang RL,Zhang ZG,Chopp M

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this review is to provide a concise overview of developments over the last 15 years in the field of laboratory tests in human medicine that are based on the detection of alterations in the glycan part of glycoconjugates. We show how glycosylation-based diagnostic testing is widespread in the current cli...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Schulz BL,Laroy W,Callewaert N

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A framework was developed to provide an integrated view of mycobacterial growth and its regulation. The topics reviewed include the properties of cell cultures and their relation to properties of individual cells, cell sizes and macromolecular compositions, uptake of nutrients through the cell envelope, protein biosyn...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Cox RA,Cook GM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Similar to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the hepatitis B virus (HBV) replicates via reverse transcription, in this case, within infected hepatocytes. Substantial advances have been achieved in the past ten years in developing and utilizing nucleoside/nucleotide analog drugs to inhibit HBV replication. Most a...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Yuan HJ,Lee WM

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric cancer is thought to result from a combination of environmental factors and the accumulation of specific genetic alterations due to increasing genetic instability, and consequently affects mainly older patients. Less than 10% of patients present with the disease before 45 years of age (early onset gastric carc...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Milne AN,Sitarz R,Carvalho R,Carneiro F,Offerhaus GJ

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The view that mitochondrial electron transport is the only site of aerobic respiration and the primary bioenergetic pathway in mammalian cells is well established in the literature. Although this paradigm is widely accepted for most tissues, the situation is less clear for proliferating cells. Increasing evidence indi...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Herst PM,Berridge MV

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery almost fifteen years ago that E2F transcription factors are key targets of the retinoblastoma protein (RB), studies of the E2F family have uncovered critical roles in the control of transcription, cell cycle and apoptosis. E2F proteins are encoded by at least eight genes, E2F1 through E2F8. While s...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： DeGregori J,Johnson DG

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plaque disruption and subsequent thrombus formation play a critical role in the clinical manifestations of atherothrombosis. Vulnerable lesions are characterized by the existence of core rich in lipid, macrophages and tissue factor (TF). Plaque disruption facilitates the interaction between flowing blood with the inne...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Viles-Gonzalez JF,Fuster V,Badimon JJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Islet cell transplantation is an attractive alternative therapy to conventional insulin treatment or vascularized whole pancreas transplantation for type 1 diabetic patients. It represents a successful example of somatic cell therapy in humans based on complex procedures for islet isolation from whole pancreas. The is...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Bertuzzi F,Marzorati S,Secchi A

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic complication is a leading cause of acquired blindness, end-stage renal failure, a variety of neuropathies and accelerated atherosclerosis. Chronic hyperglycemia is initially involved in the pathogenesis of diabetic micro- and macro-vascular complications via various metabolic derangements. High glucose increa...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Sato T,Iwaki M,Shimogaito N,Wu X,Yamagishi S,Takeuchi M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood stage of the malaria parasite's life cycle is responsible for all the clinical symptoms of malaria. The development of clinical disease is dependent on the interplay of the infecting parasite with the immune status and genetic background of the host. Following repeated exposure to malaria parasites, individu...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Yazdani SS,Mukherjee P,Chauhan VS,Chitnis CE

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) provides unique machinery for the folding and posttranslational modification of many secretory and transmembrane proteins in eukaryotic cells. The unfolded protein response (UPR) is a signal transduction network from the ER to the nucleus activated when the folding demand imposed by nasc...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Schröder M,Kaufman RJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) is an important human pathogen, which is the cause of a tick-borne illness occurring in many areas of Africa, Asia, and Europe. CCHF is characterized by a sudden onset of high fever, chills, and severe headache. Other symptoms can include gastrointestinal disorders, such a...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Flick R,Whitehouse CA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In sum, the FTIs are signal transduction inhibitors that display promising clinical activity against a broad spectrum of malignancies. We are just beginning to explore and elucidate the mechanisms by which transformed cells respond to FTIs and the optimal settings in which they do so. The clinical trials that are curr...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Karp JE,Lancet JE

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcutaneous immunization (TCI) involves the direct application of antigen plus adjuvant to skin, taking advantage of the large numbers of Langerhans cells and other resident skin dendritic cells, that process antigen then migrate to draining lymph nodes where immune responses are initiated. We have used this form o...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Hickey DK,Bao S,Ikeda LT,Carey AJ,Beagley KW

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A critical challenge faced by clinical nephrologists today is the escalating number of patients developing end stage renal disease, a major proportion of which is attributed to diabetic nephropathy (DN). The need for new measures to prevent and treat this disease cannot be overemphasized. To this end, modern genetic a...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Ng DP,Krolewski AS

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After several years of controversy, antibodies (Abs) are now believed to play an important role in the protection against fungal infections. Among them, recent data are strongly supporting the relevance of protective yeast killer toxin-like Abs ("antibiobodies", KT-Abs), which are able to exert a direct microbicidal a...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Magliani W,Conti S,Frazzi R,Ravanetti L,Maffei DL,Polonelli L

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes carries a 2-6-fold increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and death. Indeed, the risk of major cardiovascular events in Type 2 diabetic patients without history of coronary heart disease (CHD) is equivalent to that observed in non-diabetic subjects with CHD. However, atherosclerosis may also pr...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Ziegler D

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin is a complex tissue composed of two very different compartments -- the continuously renewing epidermis made up mostly by keratinocytes and the underlying matrix-rich dermis with the resting fibroblasts as its major cellular components. Both compartments are tightly interconnected and a paracrine mutual interactio...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Boukamp P

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition of cellular immortality is a critical step in human tumorigenesis. While the vast majority of human tumors activate the catalytic component of telomerase (hTERT) to stabilize their telomeres and attain immortality, a significant portion (7-10%) utilize a poorly defined alternative form of telomere main...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Stewart SA

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major benefit of the genomics revolution in biomedical research has been the establishment of transcriptome analysis as an enabling technology in the drug development process. Nowhere in the realm of drug development has the expectation of the impact of transcriptome analysis been greater than in the area of pre-cli...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Searfoss GH,Ryan TP,Jolly RA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline mutations in the VHL tumour suppressor gene may cause a variety of phenotypes including von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease, familial phaeochromocytoma and inherited polycythaemia. VHL disease is a multisystem familial cancer syndrome and is the commonest cause of familial renal cell carcinoma (RCC). VHL disease ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Maher ER

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide has emerged as one of the most important and diverse players in physiology. This small diatomic radical stunned researchers because of its existence and unique biological properties in human physiology. Over the last two decades it was found that NO often has fickle behavior in pathophysiological mechanis...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Mancardi D,Ridnour LA,Thomas DD,Katori T,Tocchetti CG,Espey MG,Miranda KM,Paolocci N,Wink DA

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several species of kinetoplastid protozoa cause major human infectious diseases. Trypanosoma cruzi is responsible for the fatal Chagas disease in large parts of South America, the various species of Leishmania cause a number of different human diseases with millions of patients world-wide, and the African trypanosome ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Seebeck T,Schaub R,Johner A

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisense technology exploits oligonucleotide analogs to bind to target RNAs via Watson-Crick by hybridization. Once bound, the antisense agent either disables or induces the degradation of the target RNA. Antisense agents may also be used to alter splicing. Developing antisense technology involves the creation of a n...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Crooke ST

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies or prion related disorders are fatal and infectious neurodegenerative diseases characterized by extensive neuronal apoptosis and accumulation of a misfolded form of the cellular prion protein (PrP), denoted PrP(Sc). Although the mechanism of neurodegeneration and the involveme...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Castilla J,Hetz C,Soto C

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central role of glutamate receptors in mediating excitotoxic neuronal death in stroke, epilepsy and trauma has been well established. Glutamate is the major excitatory amino acid transmitter within the CNS and it's signaling is mediated by a number of postsynaptic ionotropic and metabotropic receptors. Although ca...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Aarts MM,Tymianski M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an MHC class I protein, the disease association of HLA-B27 with inflammatory arthritis has been widely assumed to imply a role for the T cell antigen receptor (TCR) in disease. However, in addition to their classical antigen-presenting role, HLA class I proteins are recognised by members of the killer immunoglobuli...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Allen RL,Trowsdale J

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of tumor angiogenesis suppresses tumor growth and metastatic spreading in many experimental models, suggesting that anti-angiogenic drugs may be used to treat human cancer. During the past decade more than eighty molecules that showed anti-angiogenic activity in preclinical studies were tested in clinical c...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Rüegg C,Meuwly JY,Driscoll R,Werffeli P,Zaman K,Stupp R

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As tumors progress to increased malignancy, cells within them develop the ability to invade into surrounding normal tissues and through tissue boundaries to form new growths (metastases) at sites distinct from the primary tumor. The molecular mechanisms involved in this process are incompletely understood but those as...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Cairns RA,Khokha R,Hill RP

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver cirrhosis, an end-result of a wide variety of the liver diseases, is a world wide health problem. Because of its unique organ system, i.e., portal blood supply, bile formation and enterohepatic circulation, drug metabolism system, and sinusoidal lining cells such as Kupffer, endothelial and stellate cells, the l...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Higuchi H,Gores GJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mood disorders and schizophrenia share a number of common properties, including: genetic susceptibility; differences in brain structure and drug based therapy. Some genetic loci may even confer susceptibility for bipolar mood disorder and schizophrenia, and some atypical antipsychotic drugs are used as mood stabilizer...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Harwood AJ

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bulimia nervosa (BN) and Anorexia Nervosa (AN) are currently classified as eating disorders (ED). Both disorders are the product of complex interaction between physiological and psychological and social processes; they are characterized by abnormal eating behavior. However, patients with BN differ from AN in their nut...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Takimoto Y,Inui A,Kumano H,Kuboki T

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many potential HIV vaccine strategies are being explored in both animal model and human settings. The success of any vaccine relies on relevant antigenic determinants being presented to the immune system for the activation of broad and long-lasting immunity. Effective immunity against HIV infection will likely require...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Pope M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines are newly discovered molecules that mediate the migration of leukocytes into inflammed tissues and control the inflammatory reactions in various immune-mediated diseases. Both in animal models and in human specimens, chemokine expression is associated with atherosclerotic lesion development and vascular rem...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Filippatos G,Parissis JT,Adamopoulos S,Kardaras F

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many autoimmune diseases have genetic associations with the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class II loci. Susceptibility to Type 1 diabetes mellitus (TIDM) is particularly associated with Human Leucocyte Antigen (HLA) DR3, 4 and associated DQ2, 8 alleles and this is well documented in genetic association studi...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Wong FS,Wen L

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unexpected encounter between the fields of HIV and chemokines has opened new perspectives for understanding the mechanisms of AIDS pathogenesis, as well as for the development of effective therapies and vaccines. Selected chemokines act as potent natural inhibitors of HIV infection, as they bind and downmodulate c...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Verani A,Lusso P

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our current understanding of the mechanisms of information processing and storage in the brain, based on the concept proposed more than fifty years ago by D. Hebb, is that a key role is played by changes in synaptic efficacy induced by coincident pre- and postsynaptic activity. Decades of studies of the properties of ...

journal_title：Current molecular medicine

authors： Muller D,Nikonenko I,Jourdain P,Alberi S

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00