Journal Articles

Review

Elucidating the regulation of T cell subsets (Review)

Yasuko Kitagishi, Mayumi Kobayashi, Yurie Yamashina, Satoru Matsuda

Pages: 1255-1260 Published online on: 09 October 2012
Review

GPR40: A therapeutic target for mediating insulin secretion (Review)

Xiao-Tao Feng, Jing Leng, Zhen Xie, Shuang-Lei Li, Wei Zhao, Qian-Li Tang

Pages: 1261-1266 Published online on: 26 September 2012
Article Open Access

Polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 2 regulates cellular metastasis-associated behavior in gastric cancer

Dong Hua, Li Shen, Lan Xu, Zhi Jiang, Yinghui Zhou, Aihuan Yue, Shitao Zou, Zhihong Cheng, Shiliang Wu

Pages: 1267-1274 Published online on: 18 September 2012
Article Open Access

Possible role of transforming growth factor-β1 and vascular endothelial growth factor in Fabry disease nephropathy

Mi Hee Lee, Eun Nam Choi, Yeo Jin Jeon, Sung-Chul Jung

Pages: 1275-1280 Published online on: 24 September 2012
Article Open Access

RING-finger type E3 ubiquitin ligase inhibitors as novel candidates for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

Naoko Yagishita, Satoko Aratani, Craig Leach, Tetsuya Amano, Yoshihisa Yamano, Ko Nakatani, Kusuki Nishioka, Toshihiro Nakajima

Pages: 1281-1286 Published online on: 18 September 2012
Article Open Access
Article

Restoration of alveolar type II cell function contributes to simvastatin-induced attenuation of lung ischemia-reperfusion injury

Yaqin Wu, Junjie Lv, Dongjie Feng, Feng Jiang, Xiaohu Fan, Zhi Zhang, Rong Yin, Lin Xu

Pages: 1294-1306 Published online on: 16 October 2012
Article

Arginine inactivates human herpesvirus 2 and inhibits genital herpesvirus infection

Keiko Ikeda, Hisashi Yamasaki, Sawako Minami, Yukiko Suzuki, Kazuko Tsujimoto, Yoshihisa Sekino, Hiroshi Irie, Tsutomu Arakawa, A. Hajime Koyama

Pages: 1307-1312 Published online on: 04 October 2012
Article

Hyperglycemia suppresses cardiac stem cell homing to peri-infarcted myocardium via regulation of ERK1/2 and p38 MAPK activities

Tonghui She, Xiaoyan Wang, Yaping Gan, Dong Kuang, Junqiu Yue, Juan Ni, Xia Zhao, Guoping Wang

Pages: 1313-1320 Published online on: 11 September 2012
Article

microRNA-29a suppresses cell proliferation by targeting SPARC in hepatocellular carcinoma

Xu-Chao Zhu, Qiong-Zhu Dong, Xiao-Fei Zhang, Biao Deng, Hu-Liang Jia, Qin-Hai Ye, Lun-Xiu Qin, Xing-Zhong Wu

Pages: 1321-1326 Published online on: 25 September 2012
Article

Comparative study of the osteogenic differentiation capacity of human bone marrow- and human adipose-derived stem cells under cyclic tensile stretch using quantitative analysis

Yaping Ye, Yu Du, Fengjing Guo, Chen Gong, Kaixiang Yang, Liang Qin

Pages: 1327-1334 Published online on: 07 September 2012
Article

Prophylactic and therapeutic efficacy of an attenuated Listeria monocytogenes-based vaccine delivering HPV16 E7 in a mouse model

Yanyan Jia, Yuelan Yin, Feifei Duan, Hong Fu, Maozhi Hu, Yunfei Gao, Zhiming Pan, Xinan Jiao

Pages: 1335-1342 Published online on: 20 September 2012
Article

Construction and characterization of a eukaryotic expression vector for small interfering RNA targeting the NEDD9 gene

Jing-Xia Chang, Hua-Qi Wang, Guo-Qiang Zhao, He-Ying Chu, Guo-Jun Zhang

Pages: 1343-1348 Published online on: 20 September 2012
Article

Centella asiatica protects against UVB-induced HaCaT keratinocyte damage through microRNA expression changes

In-Sook An, Sungkwan An, Tae-Βoo Choe, Sang-Μo Kang, Jae Ho Lee, In-Chul Park, Young-Woo Jin, Su-Jae Lee, Seunghee Bae

Pages: 1349-1356 Published online on: 15 October 2012
Article

Inhibition of cardiac hypertrophy by probiotic-fermented purple sweet potato yogurt in spontaneously hypertensive rat hearts

Pei-Pei Lin, You-Miin Hsieh, Wei-Wen Kuo, Chien-Chung Lin, Fuu-Jen Tsai, Chang-Hai Tsai, Chih-Yang Huang, Cheng-Chih Tsai

Pages: 1365-1375 Published online on: 12 October 2012
Article

Significant correlation between the acceleration of platelet aggregation and phosphorylation of HSP27 at Ser-78 in diabetic patients

Haruhiko Tokuda, Kenji Kato, Senji Kasahara, Rie Matsushima-Nishiwaki, Takahiko Mizuno, Seiko Sakakibara, Osamu Kozawa

Pages: 1387-1395 Published online on: 01 October 2012
Article

Coxsackievirus and adenovirus receptor promotes antitumor activity of oncolytic adenovirus H101 in esophageal cancer

Junfen Ma, Jimin Zhao, Jing Lu, Yanan Jiang, Hongyan Yang, Pei Li, Mingyao Zhao, Kangdong Liu, Ziming Dong

Pages: 1403-1409 Published online on: 19 September 2012
Article

Grape seed proanthocyanidins inhibit colon cancer-induced angiogenesis through suppressing the expression of VEGF and Ang1

Shuangsheng Huang, Ninggang Yang, Yuanyuan Liu, Jing Gao, Tao  Huang, Lamei Hu, Jin Zhao, Yongquan Li, Caili Li, Xiaosu Zhang

Pages: 1410-1416 Published online on: 01 October 2012
Article

MMP-9 inhibition suppresses wear debris-induced inflammatory osteolysis through downregulation of RANK/RANKL in a murine osteolysis model

Desheng Chen, Xianlong Zhang, Yongyuan Guo, Sifeng Shi, Xin Mao, Xiaoyun Pan, Tao Cheng

Pages: 1417-1423 Published online on: 01 October 2012
Article

Differential expression of PTEN in hepatic tissue and hepatic stellate cells during rat liver fibrosis and its reversal

Libo Zheng, Xiuli Chen, Jinbo Guo, Huicong Sun, Lei Liu, David Q. Shih, Xiaolan Zhang

Pages: 1424-1430 Published online on: 05 October 2012
Article

Sodium butyrate restores ASC expression and induces apoptosis in LS174T cells

Shuai Zhang, Jingqiao Bai, Shuangyi Ren, Ran Wang, Li Zhang, Yunfei Zuo

Pages: 1431-1437 Published online on: 15 October 2012
Article

Mutations in different regions of the genome of hepatitis C virus genotype 1b and association with response to interferon therapy

Lin Zhang, Feng Han, Dan Zhang, Xiao-Guang Dou

Pages: 1438-1442 Published online on: 15 October 2012
Article

HBV promotes the proliferation of hepatic stellate cells via the PDGF-B/PDGFR-β signaling pathway in vitro

Qixuan Bai, Jing An, Xiaoning Wu, Hong You, Hong Ma, Tianhui Liu, Na Gao, Jidong Jia

Pages: 1443-1450 Published online on: 04 October 2012
Article

Sphingosine-1-phosphate inhibits interleukin-1β-induced inflammation in human articular chondrocytes

Myung-Hee Moon, Jae-Kyo Jeong, You-Jin Lee, Jae-Won Seol, Sang-Youel Park

Pages: 1451-1458 Published online on: 19 September 2012
Article

Involvement of the WNT and FGF signaling pathways in non-isolated anorectal malformations: Sequencing analysis of WNT3A, WNT5A, WNT11, DACT1, FGF10, FGFR2 and the T gene

Markus Draaken, Wiebke Prins, Claudia Zeidler, Alina Hilger, Sadaf S. Mughal, Jeanette Latus, Thomas M. Boemers, Dominik Schmidt, Eberhard Schmiedeke, Nicole Spychalski, Enrika Bartels, Markus M. Nöthen, Heiko Reutter, Michael Ludwig

Pages: 1459-1464 Published online on: 07 September 2012
Article

Hexane extract from Uncaria sinensis exhibits anti-apoptotic properties against glutamate-induced neurotoxicity in primary cultured cortical neurons

Ji-Yeon Jang, Ha-Neui Kim, Yu-Ri Kim, Jin-Woo Hong, Young-Whan Choi, Yung-Hyun Choi, Hwa-Kyoung Shin, Byung-Tae Choi

Pages: 1465-1472 Published online on: 19 September 2012
Article

Ciprofloxacin has antifibrotic effects in scleroderma fibroblasts via downregulation of Dnmt1 and upregulation of Fli1

Andreea M. Bujor, Paul Haines, Cristina Padilla, Romy B. Christmann, Monica Junie, Percival D. Sampaio-Barros, Robert Lafyatis, Maria Trojanowska

Pages: 1473-1480 Published online on: 05 October 2012
Article

Suppression of lung cancer metastasis-related protein 1 promotes apoptosis in lung cancer cells

Yang Xu, Chunsun Li, Qing Tian, Yanqin Li, Zhen Yang, Zhixin Liang, Liangan Chen

Pages: 1481-1486 Published online on: 16 October 2012
Article

AMP-activated protein kinase inhibitor decreases prostaglandin F2α-stimulated interleukin-6 synthesis through p38 MAP kinase in osteoblasts

Akira Kondo, Takanobu Otsuka, Kenji Kato, Hideo Natsume, Gen Kuroyanagi, Jun Mizutani, Yoshiki Ito, Rie Matsushima-Nishiwaki, Osamu Kozawa, Haruhiko Tokuda

Pages: 1487-1492 Published online on: 15 October 2012
Article

Regulation of mammalian MOR-1 gene expression after chronic treatment with morphine

Rose V. Prenus, Ebens Luscar, Zhi-Ping Zhu, Ramesh B. Badisa, Carl B. Goodman

Pages: 1493-1497 Published online on: 19 September 2012
Article

Impairment of the retinoic acid-inducible gene-I-IFN-β signaling pathway in chronic hepatitis B virus infection

Gangde Zhao, Baoyan An, Huijuan Zhou, Hui Wang, Yumin Xu, Xiaogang Xiang, Zhixia Dong, Fangmei An, Dongshan Yu, Weijing Wang, Shisan Bao, Qing Xie

Pages: 1498-1504 Published online on: 19 September 2012
Article

Gemcitabine reactivates epigenetically silenced genes and functions as a DNA methyltransferase inhibitor

Steven G. Gray, Anne-Marie Baird, Fardod O'Kelly, Georgios Nikolaidis, Malin Almgren, Armelle Meunier, Eilis Dockry, Donal Hollywood, Tomas J. Ekström, Antoinette S. Perry, Kenneth J. O'Byrne

Pages: 1505-1511 Published online on: 21 September 2012
Article

Bambusae Caulis in Taeniam modulates neuroprotective and anti-neuroinflammatory effects in hippocampal and microglial cells via HO-1- and Nrf-2-mediated pathways

Hye Won Eom, Sun Young Park, Young Hun Kim, Su Jin Seong, Mei Ling Jin, Eun Yeon Ryu, Min Ju Kim, Sang Joon Lee

Pages: 1512-1520 Published online on: 18 September 2012
Article

Proteomic analysis of changes in protein expression in serum from animals exposed to paraquat

Yong-Sik Kim, Hana Jung, Hyo-Wook Gil, Sae-Yong Hong, Ho-Yeon Song

Pages: 1521-1527 Published online on: 27 September 2012
Article

Short- and long-term effects of various Citrullus colocynthis seed extracts in normal and streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats

Nabila Benariba, Rabeh Djaziri, Bouchra Hanane Zerriouh, Wafaa Bellakhdar, Emeline Hupkens, Zahia Boucherit, Willy J. Malaisse

Pages: 1528-1536 Published online on: 18 September 2012
Article

Stromal cell-derived factor-1α and macrophage migration-inhibitory factor induce metastatic behavior in CXCR4-expressing colon cancer cells

Han-Na Shin, Hyun-Hye Moon, Ja-Lok Ku

Pages: 1537-1543 Published online on: 25 September 2012
Journal Cover

December 2012
Volume 30 Issue 6

Print ISSN: 1107-3756
Online ISSN: 1791-244X

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