abstract：:Respiratory sensory gating function has been found decreased by induced negative emotion in healthy adults. The increased ratio of the respiratory-related evoked potential (RREP) N1 peak amplitude for the second occlusion (S2) vs. the first occlusion (S1), S2/S1, is indicative of such decreased respiratory sensory gat...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Chan PY,Cheng CH,Jhu YJ,Chen CL,von Leupoldt A

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchanger (NCX) proteins extrude Ca(2+) from the cell to maintain cellular homeostasis. Since NCX proteins contribute to numerous physiological and pathophysiological events, their pharmacological targeting has been desired for a long time. This intervention remains challenging owing to our poor understan...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Giladi M,Tal I,Khananshvili D

更新日期：2016-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In an emerging bioelectronics era, there is a clinical need for physiological devices incorporating biofeedback that permits natural and demand-dependent control in real time. Here, we describe a novel device termed a central pattern generator (CPG) that uses cutting edge analog circuitry producing temporally controll...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： O'Callaghan EL,Chauhan AS,Zhao L,Lataro RM,Salgado HC,Nogaret A,Paton JF

更新日期：2016-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to constitute the leading cause of death globally. CVD risk stratification is an essential tool to sort through heterogeneous populations and identify individuals at risk of developing CVD. However, applications of current risk scores have recently been shown to result in conside...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Björnson E,Borén J,Mardinoglu A

更新日期：2016-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent progress in high-throughput data acquisition has shifted the focus from data generation to processing and understanding of how to integrate collected information. Context specific reconstruction based on generic genome scale models like ReconX or HMR has the potential to become a diagnostic and treatment tool t...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Pacheco MP,Pfau T,Sauter T

更新日期：2016-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipose tissue, dietary lipids and de novo lipogenesis are sources of hepatic free fatty acids (FFAs) that are stored in lipid droplets (LDs) as triacylglycerols (TAGs). Destiny of TAGs stored in LDs is determined by LD proteomic equipment. When adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL) localizes at LD surface the lipid mobi...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Grasselli E,Voci A,Demori I,Vecchione G,Compalati AD,Gallo G,Goglia F,De Matteis R,Silvestri E,Vergani L

更新日期：2016-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies reported enhanced cerebrovascular CO2 reactivity upon ascent to high altitude using linear models. However, there is evidence that this response may be sigmoidal in nature. Moreover, it was speculated that these changes at high altitude are mediated by alterations in acid-base buffering. Accordingly, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Fan JL,Subudhi AW,Duffin J,Lovering AT,Roach RC,Kayser B

更新日期：2016-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) have become a popular tool for systems biology, and they have been used in many fields such as industrial biotechnology and systems medicine. Since more and more studies are being conducted using GEMs, they have recently received considerable attention. In this review, we introduce...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Zhang C,Hua Q

更新日期：2016-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Data indicate endothelium-dependent dilation (EDD) may be preserved in the skeletal muscle microcirculation of young, obese adults. Preserved EDD might be mediated by compensatory mechanisms, impeding insight into preclinical vascular dysfunction. We aimed to determine the functional roles of nitric oxide synthase (NO...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Harrell JW,Johansson RE,Evans TD,Sebranek JJ,Walker BJ,Eldridge MW,Serlin RC,Schrage WG

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbiopsies of human skeletal muscle are increasingly adopted by physiologists for a variety of experimental assays given the reduced invasiveness of this procedure compared to the classic Bergstrom percutaneous biopsy technique. However, a recent report demonstrated lower mitochondrial respiration in saponin-permea...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Hughes MC,Ramos SV,Turnbull PC,Nejatbakhsh A,Baechler BL,Tahmasebi H,Laham R,Gurd BJ,Quadrilatero J,Kane DA,Perry CG

更新日期：2015-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor cells alter their metabolism to maintain unregulated cellular proliferation and survival, but this transformation leaves them reliant on constant supply of nutrients and energy. In addition to the widely studied dysregulated glucose metabolism to fuel tumor cell growth, accumulating evidences suggest that utiliz...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Ghaffari P,Mardinoglu A,Nielsen J

更新日期：2015-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of -omics technologies has allowed the collection of vast amounts of data on biological systems. Although, the pace of such collection has been exponential, the impact of these data remains small on many critical biomedical applications such as drug development. Limited resources, high costs, and low hit...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Kandoi G,Acencio ML,Lemke N

更新日期：2015-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The main purpose was to analyze quantitatively the the average surface EMGs of the muscles that function around the elbow and shoulder joints of both arms in bimanual "rowing" movements, which were produced under identical elastic loads applied to the levers ("oars"). The muscles of PM group ("pulling" muscles: elbow ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Tomiak T,Gorkovenko AV,Tal'nov AN,Abramovych TI,Mishchenko VS,Vereshchaka IV,Kostyukov AI

更新日期：2015-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic kidney disease (CKD) caused by renal fibrosis is an important public health concern. It is therefore necessary to understand the molecular pathogenesis of renal fibrosis in order to develop novel therapeutic strategies. KLF4 is the most extensively studied factor among the various members of the Krüppel-like f...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Ke B,Zhang A,Wu X,Fang X

更新日期：2015-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Dental and periodontal tissue development is a complex process involving various cell-types. A finely orchestrated network of communications between these cells is implicated. During early development, communications between cells from the oral epithelium and the underlying mesenchyme govern the dental morphogenesis w...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Gama A,Navet B,Vargas JW,Castaneda B,Lézot F

更新日期：2015-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac arrest is a prevalent condition with a poor prognosis, attributable in part to persistent myocardial dysfunction following resuscitation. The molecular basis of this dysfunction remains unclear. We induced cardiac arrest in a porcine model of acute sudden death and assessed the impact of ischemia and reperfusi...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Woodward M,Previs MJ,Mader TJ,Debold EP

更新日期：2015-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Following partial hepatectomy, a coordinated series of molecular events occurs to regulate hepatocyte entry into the cell cycle to recover lost mass. In rats during the first 6 h following resection, hepatocytes are primed by a tightly controlled cytokine response to prepare hepatocytes to begin replication. Although ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Cook DJ,Patra B,Kuttippurathu L,Hoek JB,Vadigepalli R

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal here is to describe our current understanding of heme metabolism and the deleterious effects of "free" heme on immunological processes, endothelial function, systemic inflammation, and various end-organ tissues (e.g., kidney, lung, liver, etc.), with particular attention paid to the role of hemopexin (HPX). B...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Smith A,McCulloh RJ

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Moonlighting proteins are a subset of multifunctional proteins characterized by their multiple, independent, and unrelated biological functions. We recently set up a large-scale identification of moonlighting proteins using a protein-protein interaction (PPI) network approach. We established that 3% of the current hum...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Zanzoni A,Chapple CE,Brun C

更新日期：2015-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of the human brain to interpret and respond to multiple temporal scales in its surroundings suggests that its internal interactions must also be able to operate over a broad temporal range. In this paper, we utilize a recently introduced method for characterizing the rate of change of the phase difference...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Botcharova M,Berthouze L,Brookes MJ,Barnes GR,Farmer SF

更新日期：2015-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoietin (Epo) is an indispensable erythropoietic hormone primarily produced from renal Epo-producing cells (REPs). Epo production in REPs is tightly regulated in a hypoxia-inducible manner to maintain tissue oxygen homeostasis. Insufficient Epo production by REPs causes renal anemia and anemia associated with c...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Souma T,Suzuki N,Yamamoto M

更新日期：2015-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactic acid and short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) produced by vaginal microbiota have reported antimicrobial and immune modulatory activities indicating their potential as biomarkers of disease and/or disease susceptibility. In asymptomatic women of reproductive-age the vaginal microbiota is comprised of lactic acid-pro...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Aldunate M,Srbinovski D,Hearps AC,Latham CF,Ramsland PA,Gugasyan R,Cone RA,Tachedjian G

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Reperfusion of ischemic cardiac tissue is the standard treatment for improving clinical outcome following myocardial infarction but is inevitably associated with ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI). Ischemic myocardial injury can be alleviated by exposing the heart to brief episodes of sublethal ischemia-reperfusion pri...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Martin-Puig S,Tello D,Aragonés J

更新日期：2015-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent strategies to treat peripheral arterial disease (PAD) have focused on stem cell based therapies, which are believed to result in local secretion of vascular growth factors. Little is known, however, about the role of ischemic endogenous cells in this context. We hypothesized that ischemic muscle cells (MC) are ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： McClung JM,Reinardy JL,Mueller SB,McCord TJ,Kontos CD,Brown DA,Hussain SN,Schmidt CA,Ryan TE,Green TD

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, schizophrenia is considered a multifactorial disease. Over the past 50 years, many investigators have considered the role of toxic free radicals in the etiology of schizophrenia. This is an area of active research which is still evolving. Here, we review the recent data and current concepts on the roles of ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Nasyrova RF,Ivashchenko DV,Ivanov MV,Neznanov NG

更新日期：2015-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:While it is widely known that marine mammals possess adaptations which allow them to make repetitive and extended dives to great depths without suffering ill effects seen in humans, the response of marine mammal immune cells to diving is unknown. Renewed interest in marine mammal dive physiology has arisen due to repo...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Thompson LA,Romano TA

更新日期：2015-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemoglobin (Hb) is a highly conserved molecule present in all life forms and functionally tied to the complexity of aerobic organisms on earth in utilizing oxygen from the atmosphere and delivering to cells and tissues. This primary function sustains the energy requirements of cells and maintains cellular homeostasis....

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Quaye IK

更新日期：2015-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide range of adipokines identified over the past years has allowed considering the white adipose tissue as a secretory organ closely integrated into overall physiological and metabolic control. Apelin, a ubiquitously expressed peptide was known to exert different physiological effects mainly on the cardiovascular s...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Bertrand C,Valet P,Castan-Laurell I

更新日期：2015-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-channel kinetics has proven a powerful tool to reveal information about the gating mechanisms that control the opening and closing of ion channels. This introductory review focuses on the gating of large conductance Ca(2+)- and voltage-activated K(+) (BK or Slo1) channels at the single-channel level. It starts ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Geng Y,Magleby KL

更新日期：2015-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemoglobin (Hb) continuously undergoes autoxidation producing superoxide which dismutates into hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and is a potential source for subsequent oxidative reactions. Autoxidation is most pronounced under hypoxic conditions in the microcirculation and for unstable dimers formed at reduced Hb concentrati...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Rifkind JM,Mohanty JG,Nagababu E

更新日期：2015-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Chaste is an open-source C++ library for computational biology that has well-developed cardiac electrophysiology tissue simulation support. In this paper, we introduce the features available for performing cardiac electrophysiology action potential simulations using a wide range of models from the Physiome repository....

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Cooper J,Spiteri RJ,Mirams GR

更新日期：2015-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:While many effectors have been identified in enamel matrix and cells via genetic studies, physiological networks underlying their expression levels and thus the natural spectrum of enamel thickness and degree of mineralization are now just emerging. Several transcription factors are candidates for enamel gene expressi...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Babajko S,de La Dure-Molla M,Jedeon K,Berdal A

更新日期：2015-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The spawning migration of the European eel is an extensive journey over 5000 to 7000 km from the European coast to the Sargasso Sea. Eels do not feed during this journey and on-board fuels must be sufficient to support the journey of 3.5 to 6 month, as well as sexual maturation and the spawning activity. Swimming of e...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Pelster B

更新日期：2015-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of energy homeostasis is fundamental for life. In animal species and humans, the Central Nervous System (CNS) plays a critical role in such regulation by integrating peripheral signals and modulating behavior and the activity of peripheral organs. A precise interplay between CNS and peripheral signals is ne...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Kim JD,Leyva S,Diano S

更新日期：2014-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological calibration (Physiocal) improves the quality of continuous blood pressure (BP) signal from finger. However, the effects of Physiocal on spectral characteristics of systolic BP (SBP) variability are not well-known. We tested the hypothesis that the use of Physiocal may alter the results on SBP variability...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Kiviniemi AM,Hintsala H,Hautala AJ,Ikäheimo TM,Jaakkola JJ,Tiinanen S,Seppänen T,Tulppo MP

更新日期：2014-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:An increase in calorie consumption is associated with the recent rise in obesity prevalence. However, our current understanding of the effects of nutrient excess on major metabolic pathways appears insufficient to develop safe and effective metabolic interventions to prevent obesity. Hence, we sought to identify syste...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Sansbury BE,Bhatnagar A,Hill BG

更新日期：2014-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is the leading cause of death worldwide. Over the past two decades, it has been clearly recognized that atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease of the arterial wall. Accumulating data from animal experiments have supported this hypothesis, however, clinical applications making use of this knowledge ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Linden F,Domschke G,Erbel C,Akhavanpoor M,Katus HA,Gleissner CA

更新日期：2014-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoking causes chronic lung inflammation that is mainly regulated by redox-sensitive pathways. Our previous studies have demonstrated that cigarette smoke (CS) activates reactive oxygen species (ROS)-sensitive mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs)/nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) signaling resulting in inductio...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Liu MH,Lin AH,Lu SH,Peng RY,Lee TS,Kou YR

更新日期：2014-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Gases, such as nitric oxide (NO), carbon monoxide (CO), or hydrogen sulfide (H2S), termed gasotransmitters, play an increasingly important role in understanding of how electrical signaling of cells is modulated. H2S is well-known to act on various ion channels and receptors. In a previous study we reported...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Sitdikova GF,Fuchs R,Kainz V,Weiger TM,Hermann A

更新日期：2014-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined structural properties of the marine mammal respiratory system, and tested Scholander's hypothesis that the chest is highly compliant by measuring the mechanical properties of the respiratory system in five species of pinniped under anesthesia (Pacific harbor seal, Phoca vitulina; northern elephant seal, Mi...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Fahlman A,Loring SH,Johnson SP,Haulena M,Trites AW,Fravel VA,Van Bonn WG

更新日期：2014-11-10 00:00:00