abstract：:Vaccinia virus (VV) and other pathogenic poxviruses encode for a complement control protein. The VV complement control protein or VCP, was one of the first soluble microbial proteins postulated to have an active role in the immunomodulation of the host defense. Since then, 2 other poxviruses, including variola virus a...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Kotwal GJ,Miller CG,Justus DE

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lithostathine may play a physiological role in preventing the precipitation of excess calcium in the pancreatic juice. The hypothesis has been advanced that in chronic calcifying pancreatitis the abnormal biosynthesis of lithostathine might be the original defect to which genetic proneness to the disease may be ascrib...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Cavallini G,Bovo P,Bianchini E,Carsana A,Costanzo C,Merola M,Sgarbi D,Frulloni L,Di Francesco V,Libonati M,Palmieri M

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidation of semiquinone by O2 in the Q cycle is known to be one of the sources of superoxide anion (O2.-) in aerobic cells. In this paper, such a phenomenon was analyzed using the chemical kinetics model of electron transfer from succinate to cytochrome c, including coenzyme Q, the complex III non-heme iron protein F...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Demin OV,Kholodenko BN,Skulachev VP

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring the kinetic behavior of adenylate kinase (AK) and creatine kinase (CK) in intact cells by 18O-phosphoryl oxygen exchange analysis has provided new perspectives from which to more fully define the involvement of these phosphotransferases in cellular bioenergetics. A primary function attributable to both AK a...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Dzeja PP,Zeleznikar RJ,Goldberg ND

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the model of the control of mitochondrial substrate oxidation by Ca2+ ions. The mechanism is the activation by Ca2+ of four mitochondrial dehydrogenases, viz. glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, the pyruvate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex (PDH), NAD-linked isocitrate dehydrogenase (NAD-IDH) and 2...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Hansford RG,Zorov D

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic protein synthesis initiation factor eIF-2 is usually isolated as a heterotrimer (alphabeta gamma). By use of Sephacryl S-300 fractionation an alpha subunit-deficient form of eIF-2 was identified in impure preparations from rabbit reticulocyte lysate and it appeared in these preparations to be still active i...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Mouat MF,Manchester K

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcolemmal Ca2+/Mg2+ ecto-ATPase (Myoglein; MW 180 kD) is a membrane bound enzyme which requires a millimolar concentration of either Ca2+ or Mg2+ for maximal hydrolysis of ATP. The isoelectric point (pI) of the cardiac ecto-ATPase was 5.7. The purified Ca2+/Mg2+ ecto-ATPase from the rat heart sarcolemmal appeared as...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Kannan S,Elimban V,Dakshinamurti K,Dhalla NS

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin elicits its divergent metabolic and mitogenic effects by binding to its specific receptor, which belongs to the family of receptor tyrosine kinases. The activated insulin receptor phosphorylates the intracellular substrate IRS-1, which then binds various signalling molecules that contain SRC homology 2 domains...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Ogawa W,Matozaki T,Kasuga M

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiologic importance of insulin resistance in diseases such as obesity and diabetes mellitus has led to great interest in defining the mechanism of insulin action as well as the means to overcome the biochemical defects responsible for the resistance. Vanadium compounds have been discovered to mimic many of...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Fantus IG,Tsiani E

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-1beta (IL-1) is a potent inducer of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) synthesis. We previously showed that ceramide accumulates in fibroblasts treated with IL-1 and that it enhances IL-1-induced PGE2 production. The present study was undertaken to determine the mechanism(s) by which ceramide and IL-1 interact to enh...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Kirtikara K,Laulederkind SJ,Raghow R,Kanekura T,Ballou LR

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was addressed to understand the interrelationship between Receptor-Ck activation, mevalonate pathway and primary response genes such as c-fos, c-myc and cyclin 'D' involved in the cell cycle. The results reported here unambiguously revealed that the phosphatidic acid (generated through the activation...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Kaur M,Kaul D,Sobti RC

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been established that diabetes results in a cardiomyopathy, and increasing evidence suggests that an altered substrate supply and utilization by cardiac myocytes could be the primary injury in the pathogenesis of this specific heart muscle disease. For example, in diabetes, glucose utilization is insignificant,...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Rodrigues B,Cam MC,McNeill JH

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that severe hypertrophy induces metabolic and structural changes in the heart which result in enhanced susceptibility to ischemic damage during cardioplegic arrest while much less is known about the effect of cardioplegic arrest on moderately hypertrophied hearts. The aim of this study was to el...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Smolenski RT,Jayakumar J,Seymour AM,Yacoub MH

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory muscle injury may result from excessive loading due to a decrease in respiratory muscle strength, an increase in the work of breathing, or an increase in the rate of ventilation. Other conditions such as hypoxemia, hypercapnia, aging, decreased nutrition, and immobilization may potentiate respiratory muscl...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Reid WD,MacGowan NA

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle injury is a common result of muscle exertion caused by overload and over-activity. In this presentation, an attempt was made to discuss models of muscle injury which involve exertion but not excessive strain, although most functional activities of the extremities require some eccentric muscle actions. Muscle in...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Stauber WT,Smith CA

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) regulates survival, proliferation, and differentiation of myeloid precursor cells. One of the signaling mechanisms for the G-CSF receptor (G-CSF-R) involves the activation of Ras/MAP kinase (MEK) pathway. Since Raf is an important, common link between Ras and MEK in the Ra...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Deshpande RV,Moore MA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated that in normal and b/b rat red blood cells (RBCs) hsp70-like protein (heat shock protein 70-like) is localized in the cytosol and it is exported via exosomes during in vivo reticulocytes maturation. As we have presumed, in the mutant (b/b) rat, hsp70-like protein transfers from cytosol to the RBC ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Zarić J,Glisin V,Popović Z

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility of four major rat tissues to oxidative damage in terms of lipid peroxidation induced by in vitro by ascorbate-Fe2+ in homogenates and mitochondria has been examined. Lipid peroxidation, as assessed by thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) and conjugated dienes was maximum in brain followed by ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Pushpendran CK,Subramanian M,Devasagayam TP,Singh BB

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of calcium-binding protein regucalcin mRNA in the kidney cortex of rats ingested with saline was investigated. The alteration in regucalcin mRNA levels was analyzed by Northern blotting using liver regucalcin complementary DNA (0.9 kb of open reading frame). Rats were freely given saline as drinking wat...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Shinya N,Yamaguchi M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies suggest that n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) are involved in the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Stress is known to increase the incidence of CVD and the present study was realised to evaluate some physiological and biochemical effects of dietary docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in male ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Rousseau D,Moreau D,Raederstorff D,Sergiel JP,Rupp H,Muggli R,Grynberg A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of alloxan-induced diabetes was studied on the activity of monoamine oxidase (MAO), the oxidative deaminating enzyme of monoamine neurotransmitters. MAO was assayed from discrete brain regions like medial preoptic area and median eminence--arcuate region of hypothalamus, septum, amygdala, thalamus, hippocam...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Lakhman SS,Kaur G

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal angiogenesis underlies many pathological conditions and is critical for the growth and maintenance of various types of tumors, including hormone-dependent cancers. Since estrogens are potent carcinogens in humans and rodents, and are involved in regulating angiogenesis, this study was designed to examine the ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Banerjee SK,Campbell DR,Weston AP,Banerjee DK

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether interleukin-1alpha (IL-1) would induce gene expression of vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) in cardiac myocytes and, if so, whether nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) was involved. We evaluated the VCAM-1 gene expression in cultured neonatal rat cardiac myocytes by the reverse transcrip...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Hattori Y,Akimoto K,Murakami Y,Kasai K

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) are a widely used model to study the regulation of endothelial production of vasoactive substances such as endothelin-1 (ET-1) and prostacyclin (PGI2) in human. As even short term culturing is known to affect the function of many cell types, we studied whether t...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Ranta V,Orpana A,Mikkola T,Ylikorkala O,Viinikka L

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasoactive peptides such as angiotensin II (AII), atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and vasopressin play an important role in the regulation of blood pressure. We have recently shown an augmentation of Gi alpha levels in heart and aorta from genetic and experimentally-induced hypertensive rats, which may be attributed ...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Anand-Srivastava MB,Palaparti A,Pion J

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we characterized regulation of the Na+/H+ exchanger promoter in several tissue types. A conserved poly (dA:dT) region was important in regulation of the promoter. Nuclear extracts from rat myocardium and from mouse proximal tubule cells protected the poly (dA:dT) region of the NHE1 promoter. A protein fr...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Wang H,Yang W,Fliegel L

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in fatty acid composition of myocardial lipids were examined in rats with heart failure following myocardial infarction. Left ventricular systolic pressure (LVSP) was decreased and left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP) was elevated 24 h, 1 and 12 weeks after left coronary artery ligation (CAL), sugge...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Nasa Y,Sakamoto Y,Sanbe A,Sasaki H,Yamaguchi F,Takeo S

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To help resolve the controversy as to whether or not Na(+)-H+ exchange is functioning during reperfusion of the ischemic myocardium we assessed the effects of dimethylamiloride (DMA, an amiloride analogue possessing selectivity for inhibition of the Na(+)-H+ exchanger) on cardiac function and intracellular pH during i...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Docherty JC,Yang L,Pierce GN,Deslauriers R

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-1 (ET-1), a peptide isolated from the culture medium of endothelial cells, mediates a variety of physiological and pathological responses including mitogenesis. We have compared the expression of ET receptors in untransformed versus ras-transformed NIH-3T3 murine fibroblasts and in untransformed versus SV40...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Nambi P,Mattern MR,Wu HL,Pullen M,Nuthulaganti P,Hofmann GA,Kumar C

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphorylation of rat cardiac microsomal proteins was investigated with special attention to the effects of okadaic acid (an inhibitor of protein phosphatases), inhibitor 2 of protein phosphatase 1 and inhibitor of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase A). The results showed that okadaic acid (5 mic...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Sulakhe PV,Vo XT,Morris TE,Pato MD,Khandelwal RL

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the search for MBP phosphorylating activities in Dictyostelium discoideum, we have found a proteolysis-activated protein kinase. This activity which is distributed between the soluble and the particulate fractions of the cell, uses MBP and histone as substrate and has a molecular mass of 140 kDa as detected in an '...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Nuñez A,Fernández-Renart M

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for non-invasive, quantitative 31P NMR spectroscopic investigation of mitochondrial function in human skeletal muscle in situ is described. High time resolution 31P NMR measurements of phosphocreatine, inorganic phosphate and ATP resonances were conducted on human forearm flexor muscle during involuntary twit...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Jeneson JA,Wiseman RW,Kushmerick MJ

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial respiratory parameters were measured in situ, i.e. in saponin-skinned rabbit cardiac fibers and in fibers treated with saponin + collagenase. It was found that the decrease of maximal ADP-stimulated respiration rate of saponin-skinned fibers with pyruvate + malate under the conditions of total ischem...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Toleikis A,Majiene D,Trumbeckaite S,Dagys A

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial pathologies are a heterogeneous group of metabolic disorders that are characterized by anomalies of oxidative phosphorylation, especially in the respiratory chain. The diagnosis of these pathologies involves many investigations among which biochemical study is at present the main tool. However, the a...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Durrieu G,Letellier T,Antoch J,Deshouillers JM,Malgat M,Mazat JP

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MERRF (myoclonic epilepsy with ragged-red fibers) is a severe, multisystem disorder characterized by myoclonus, seizures, progressive cerebellar syndrome, muscle weakness, and the presence of ragged-red fibers in the muscle biopsy. MERRF is associated with heteroplasmic point mutations, either A8344G or T8356C, in the...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Masucci JP,Schon EA,King MP

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computer retrieval in a database, comprising 7,225 muscle cases, revealed that mitochondrial myopathies do not occur more frequently in inflammatory myopathies (3.74%) than in the whole series (3.69%). A more detailed study of inclusion body myositis (IBM), however, showed that severe mitochondrial alterations were ap...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Schröder JM,Molnar M

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein-X (Lp-X) is found in the plasma of patients with familial lecithin: cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) deficiency syndromes. The majority of the patients with this disorder develop progressive glomerulosclerosis. In this study, the effect of Lp-X on lipid metabolism in perfused rat kidney was investigated....

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： O K,Ly M,Fang DZ,Frohlich J,Choy PC

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo administration of pyridine has been shown to increase the activity and content of several forms of cytochrome P450 by transcriptional and posttranscriptional mechanisms. The effect of pyridine on CYP1A and CYP2E1 isozymes was studied in a rat hepatocyte culture model. Hepatocytes were isolated from non-induced...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Wu D,Ramin SA,Cederbaum AI

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The localization of the membrane-bound cyclic 3',5'-AMP phosphodiesterase in cardiac tissues of both, rat and dog was studied by cytochemical method. 40 microm thick slices from glutaraldehyde fixed heart tissue were incubated in the medium with cAMP as a substrate and Pb ions as a capture metal of the reaction produc...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Okruhlicová L,Tribulová N,Styk J,Eckly A,Lugnier C,Slezk J

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenovirus-mediated gene transfer is a promising method for studies of vascular biology and potentially for gene therapy. Intravascular approaches for gene transfer to blood vessels in vivo generally require interruption of blood flow and have several limitations. We have used two alternative approaches for gene trans...

journal_title：Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors： Ooboshi H,Ríos CD,Heistad DD

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00