abstract：:Significant progress has been made in the last decade in the development of optogenetic effectors and sensors that can be deployed to understand complex biological signaling in mammals at a molecular level, without disrupting the distributed, lineage specific signaling circuits that comprise nuanced physiological resp...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Shui B,Lee JC,Reining S,Lee FK,Kotlikoff MI

更新日期：2014-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Since Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) have been suggested to contribute to dentin caries progression, the hypothesis that MMP inhibition would affect the progression of dentin caries is clinically relevant. Grape seed extracts (GSE) have been previously reported to be natural inhibitors of MMPs. OBJECTIVE:...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Khaddam M,Salmon B,Le Denmat D,Tjaderhane L,Menashi S,Chaussain C,Rochefort GY,Boukpessi T

更新日期：2014-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in the development of voltage sensitive dyes and Ca(2+) sensors in combination with innovative microscopy techniques allowed researchers to perform functional measurements with an unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. At the moment, one of the shortcomings of available technologies is their incapabil...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Crocini C,Coppini R,Ferrantini C,Pavone FS,Sacconi L

更新日期：2014-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:3-iodothyronamine (T1AM) is an endogenous amine, that has been detected in many rodent tissues, and in human blood. It has been hypothesized to derive from thyroid hormone metabolism, but this hypothesis still requires validation. T1AM is not a ligand for nuclear thyroid hormone receptors, but stimulates with nanomola...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Zucchi R,Accorroni A,Chiellini G

更新日期：2014-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Remote focussing microscopy allows sharp, in-focus images to be acquired at high speed from outside of the focal plane of an objective lens without any agitation of the specimen. However, without careful optical alignment, the advantages of remote focussing microscopy could be compromised by the introduction of depth-...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Corbett AD,Burton RA,Bub G,Salter PS,Tuohy S,Booth MJ,Wilson T

更新日期：2014-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Caveolae are membrane micro-domains enriched in cholesterol, sphingolipids and caveolins, which are transmembrane proteins with a hairpin-like structure. Caveolae participate in receptor-mediated trafficking of cell surface receptors and receptor-mediated signaling. Furthermore, caveolae participate in clathrin-indepe...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Navarro G,Borroto-Escuela DO,Fuxe K,Franco R

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep apnea/hypopnea disorders include centrally originated diseases and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). This last condition is renowned as a frequent secondary cause of hypertension (HT). The mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of HT can be summarized in relation to two main pathways: sympathetic nervous system st...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Diogo LN,Monteiro EC

更新日期：2014-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:New therapeutic agents are needed in digestive tract tumors. Co-029/tspan8 is a tetraspanin frequently expressed on human colorectal tumors, In this work, we report the effects of the monoclonal antibody Ts29.2, targeting Co-029/tspan8, on colorectal tumor cells in vitro and after implantation in nude mice. HT29, Isre...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Ailane N,Greco C,Zhu Y,Sala-Valdés M,Billard M,Casal I,Bawa O,Opolon P,Rubinstein E,Boucheix C

更新日期：2014-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A primary goal of enamel research is to understand and potentially treat or prevent enamel defects related to amelogenesis imperfecta (AI). Rodents are ideal models to assist our understanding of how enamel is formed because they are easily genetically modified, and their continuously erupting incisors display all sta...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Pugach MK,Gibson CW

更新日期：2014-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), due to point mutations in genes for sarcomere proteins such as myosin, occurs in 1/500 people and is the most common cause of sudden death in young individuals. Similar mutations in skeletal muscle, e.g., in the MYH7 gene for slow myosin found in both the cardiac ventricle a...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Månsson A

更新日期：2014-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Consumption of acidic foods and drinks and other factors that cause enamel wear are responsible for the daily enamel loss and degradation. Use of some toothpastes that have been showed to possess different properties of remineralisation and/or repair of the enamel surface may help to protect tooth enamel. The aim of t...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Lelli M,Putignano A,Marchetti M,Foltran I,Mangani F,Procaccini M,Roveri N,Orsini G

更新日期：2014-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells (ESCs) are pluripotent mammalian cells derived from the Inner Cell Mass (ICM) of mouse blastocysts, which give rise to all three embryonic germ layers both in vivo and in vitro. Mouse ESCs have a distinct epigenetic landscape and a more decondensed chromatin compared to differentiated cells....

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Karnavas T,Pintonello L,Agresti A,Bianchi ME

更新日期：2014-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The dynamic interaction between blood pressure (BP) and cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV) is not fully understood, especially for CBFV changes lasting longer than 50 s. The interaction between BP and CBFV is relatively well characterized for periods <50 s using transfer function (TF) estimations of phase, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Müller MW,Osterreich M

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitatory and inhibitory junction potentials of circular smooth muscle cells in guinea pig ileum and colon are suppressed 30-90 min after setting up in vitro preparations. We have previously shown this "unresponsive" period is associated with a transient loss of dye coupling between smooth muscle cells, which subsequ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Carbone SE,Wattchow DA,Spencer NJ,Hibberd TJ,Brookes SJ

更新日期：2014-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Current scientific debates center on the impact of lipids and mitochondrial function on diverse aspects of human health, nutrition and disease, among them the association of lipotoxicity with the onset of insulin resistance in skeletal muscle, and with heart dysfunction in obesity and diabetes. Mitochondria play a fun...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Aon MA,Bhatt N,Cortassa SC

更新日期：2014-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human labor is a complex series of cellular and molecular events that occur at the materno-fetal and uterine levels. Many hypotheses have been proposed for the initiation of human labor, one hypothesis suggests that maturation of the fetus releases a signal in the amniotic fluid that will be transmitted to m...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Alzamil HA,Pawade J,Fortier MA,Bernal AL

更新日期：2014-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ameloblasts are ectoderm-derived cells that produce an extracellular enamel matrix that mineralizes to form enamel. The development and use of immortalized cell lines, with a stable phenotype, is an important contribution to biological studies as it allows for the investigation of molecular activities without the cont...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Sarkar J,Simanian EJ,Tuggy SY,Bartlett JD,Snead ML,Sugiyama T,Paine ML

更新日期：2014-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Severely affected patients with autonomic failure require pressor agents to counteract the blood pressure fall and improve presyncopal symptoms upon standing. Previous studies suggest that combination ergotamine and caffeine may be effective in the treatment of autonomic failure, but the efficacy of this drug has not ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Arnold AC,Ramirez CE,Choi L,Okamoto LE,Gamboa A,Diedrich A,Raj SR,Robertson D,Biaggioni I,Shibao CA

更新日期：2014-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin (SST) is a regulatory peptide and acts as an endogenous inhibitory regulator of the secretory and proliferative responses of target cells. SST's actions are mediated by a family of seven transmembrane domain G protein-coupled receptors that comprise five distinct subtypes (SSTR1-5). SSTR5 is one of the ma...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Zhou G,Sinnett-Smith J,Liu SH,Yu J,Wu J,Sanchez R,Pandol SJ,Abrol R,Nemunaitis J,Rozengurt E,Brunicardi FC

更新日期：2014-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder typified by involuntary body movements, and psychiatric and cognitive abnormalities. Many HD patients also exhibit metabolic changes including progressive weight loss and appetite dysfunction. Here we have investigated metabolic function in pre-manif...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Wang R,Ross CA,Cai H,Cong WN,Daimon CM,Carlson OD,Egan JM,Siddiqui S,Maudsley S,Martin B

更新日期：2014-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal computations are important in the acoustic communication of anurans. In many cases, calls between closely related species are nearly identical spectrally but differ markedly in temporal structure. Depending on the species, calls can differ in pulse duration, shape and/or rate (i.e., amplitude modulation), dir...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Rose GJ

更新日期：2014-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is considered as a chronic disease of arterial wall, with a strong contribution of inflammation. Dendritic cells (DCs) play a crucial role in the initiation of proatherogenic inflammatory response. Mature DCs present self-antigens thereby supporting differentiation of naïve T cells to effector cells th...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Chistiakov DA,Sobenin IA,Orekhov AN,Bobryshev YV

更新日期：2014-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women and despite recent advances in the medical field, there are still some inherent limitations in the currently used screening techniques. The radiological interpretation of screening X-ray mammograms often leads to over-diagnosis and, as a consequence, to unnec...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Gerasimova E,Audit B,Roux SG,Khalil A,Gileva O,Argoul F,Naimark O,Arneodo A

更新日期：2014-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Exploration of non-coding genome has recently uncovered a growing list of formerly unknown regulatory long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) with important functions in stem cell pluripotency, development and homeostasis of several tissues. Although thousands of lncRNAs are expressed in mammalian brain in a highly patterned m...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Antoniou D,Stergiopoulos A,Politis PK

更新日期：2014-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Many animals use a diverse repertoire of complex acoustic signals to convey different types of information to other animals. The information in each vocalization therefore must be coded by neurons in the auditory system. One way in which the auditory system may discriminate among different vocalizations is by having h...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Dimitrov AG,Cummins GI,Mayko ZM,Portfors CV

更新日期：2014-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A colony of social insects is not only an aggregation of individuals but also a functional unit. To achieve adaptive social behavior in fluctuating environmental conditions, in addition to coordination of physiological status in each individual, the whole colony is coordinated by interactions among colony members. The...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Watanabe D,Gotoh H,Miura T,Maekawa K

更新日期：2014-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation is evolutionarily conserved. Vertebrates exhibit high, widespread DNA methylation whereas invertebrate genomes are less methylated, predominantly within gene bodies. DNA methylation in invertebrates is associated with transcription level, alternative splicing, and genome evolution, but functional outco...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Rivière G

更新日期：2014-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell function and survival are controlled by intracellular signals, and modulated by surrounding cells and the extracellular environment. Connexin channels participate in these processes by mediating cell-to-cell communication. In bone cells, gap junction channels were detected in the early 1970s, and are present amon...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Plotkin LI

更新日期：2014-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Ginseng, the root of Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer, is one of the oldest traditional medicines and is thought to be a tonic. It has been claimed that ginseng may improve vitality and health. Recent studies have advanced ginseng pharmacology and shown that ginseng has various pharmacological effects in the nervous system. G...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Nah SY

更新日期：2014-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Most insect species exhibit characteristic behavioral changes after mating. Typical post-mating behaviors in female insects include noticeable increases in food intake, elevated oviposition rates, lowered receptivity to courting males, and enhanced immune response. Although it has been reported that mated females of s...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Tsukamoto Y,Kataoka H,Nagasawa H,Nagata S

更新日期：2014-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor angiogenesis is an essential process for supplying rapidly growing malignant tissues with essential nutrients and oxygen. An angiogenic switch allows tumor cells to survive and grow, and provides them access to vasculature resulting in metastatic disease. Monocyte-derived macrophages recruited and reprogrammed b...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Riabov V,Gudima A,Wang N,Mickley A,Orekhov A,Kzhyshkowska J

更新日期：2014-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During caesarean section spinal anesthesia may provoke maternal hypotension that we prevent by administration of phenylephrine and/or ephedrine. Phenylephrine is however reported to reduce the near infrared spectroscopy-determined frontal lobe oxygenation (ScO2) but whether that is the case for patients expo...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Foss VT,Christensen R,Rokamp KZ,Nissen P,Secher NH,Nielsen HB

更新日期：2014-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Severe dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is a viral infection that acts to increase permeability of capillaries, resulting in internal hemorrhage. Linear frequency domain Fourier spectral analysis represents the most published noninvasive tool for diagnosing and assessing health status via calculated heart ra...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Carter R 3rd,Hinojosa-Laborde C,Convertino VA

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive aging induces several structural and functional alterations in the cardiovascular system, among whom particularly important are a reduced number of myocardial cells and increased interstitial collagen fibers, which result in impaired left ventricular diastolic function. Even in the absence of cardiovascula...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Vigorito C,Giallauria F

更新日期：2014-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease with an unacceptably high mortality to incidence ratio. Traditional therapeutic approaches such as surgery in combination with chemo- or radiotherapy have had limited efficacy in improving the outcome of this disease. Up until just under a decade ago, the prominent desmoplast...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Wilson JS,Pirola RC,Apte MV

更新日期：2014-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of present investigation was to evaluate marginal bone level after 5-year follow-up of implants placed in healed ridges and fresh extraction sockets in maxilla with immediate loading protocol. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Thirty-six patients in need of a single-tooth replacement in the anterior maxilla receiv...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Berberi AN,Sabbagh JM,Aboushelib MN,Noujeim ZF,Salameh ZA

更新日期：2014-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest human malignancies and little progress has been achieved in its treatment over the past decades. Advances in our understanding of the biology of this disease provide new potential opportunities for treatment. Pancreatic cancer is preceded by precursor lesions, the most common ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Collins MA,Pasca di Magliano M

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of genomic sequences from diverse vertebrate species has revealed numerous highly conserved regions that do not appear to encode proteins or functional RNAs. Often these "conserved non-coding elements," or CNEs, can direct gene expression to specific tissues in transgenic models, demonstrating they have reg...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Turner EE,Cox TC

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a causal link between chronic inflammation and cancer has been established, the exact molecular mechanism linking inflammation to cancer remains largely unknown. It was previously postulated that molecular switches responsible for cancer cell development, and for infiltration of inflammatory cells into cancer...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Liu ST,Pham H,Pandol SJ,Ptasznik A

更新日期：2014-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver was among the first organs in which connexin proteins have been identified. Hepatocytes harbor connexin32 and connexin26, while non-parenchymal liver cells typically express connexin43. Connexins give rise to hemichannels, which dock with counterparts on adjacent cells to form gap junctions. Both hemichannel...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Maes M,Decrock E,Cogliati B,Oliveira AG,Marques PE,Dagli ML,Menezes GB,Mennecier G,Leybaert L,Vanhaecke T,Rogiers V,Vinken M

更新日期：2014-01-10 00:00:00