Journal Articles

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Gene silencing of human RAMP2 mediated by short-interfering RNA

Giovanna Albertin, Maristella Ruggero, Diego Guidolin, Gastone G. Nussdorfer

Pages: 531-535 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Highly liver-specific heme oxygenase-1 induction by interleukin-11 prevents carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatotoxicity

Tomoko Kawakami, Toru Takahashi, Hiroko Shimizu, Kiichi Nakahira, Mamoru Takeuchi, Hiroshi Katayama, Masataka Yokoyama, Kiyoshi Morita, Reiko Akagi, Shigeru Sassa

Pages: 537-546 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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CD40 expression in HCV-associated chronic liver diseases

Katsuya Shiraki, Kazushi Sugimoto, Hiroshi Okano, Hidetaka Wagayama, Katsuhiko Fujikawa, Takenari Yamanaka, Takeshi Ito, Shigeru Ohmori, Takahisa Sakai, Koujiro Takase, Takeshi Nakano

Pages: 559-563 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Estradiol and resveratrol stimulating effect on osteocalcin, but not osteonectin and collagen-1α gene expression in primary culture of rat calvarial osteoblast-like cells

Marcin Rucinski, Agnieszka Ziolkowska, Anna Hochol, Andrzej Pucher, Carlo Macchi, Anna S. Belloni, Gastone G. Nussdorfer, Ludwik K. Malendowicz

Pages: 565-570 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Role of vascular endothelial growth factor in protein loss of Ménétrier's disease

Teiko Takeda, Keiichi Mitsuyama, Osamu Tsuruta, Shinichi Kuboyama, Shigehiko Kitazaki, Michio Sata

Pages: 571-576 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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TGFβ induces transdifferentiation of iBREC to αSMA-expressing cells

Heidrun Deissler, Helmut Deissler, Gerhard K. Lang, Gabriele E. Lang

Pages: 577-582 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Inhibitory action of C22-fatty acids on DNA polymerases and DNA topoisomerases

Yuko Yonezawa, Takahiko Hada, Keisuke Uryu, Hiroshi Iijima, Hiromi Yoshida, Yoshiyuki Mizushina

Pages: 583-588 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Mutational analysis of Kir6.1 in Japanese patients with coronary spastic angina

Hirofumi Tomita, Satoko Sasaki, Tomohiro Osanai, Takao Nakano, Takumi Higuma, Jin Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Hanada, Minoru Yasujima, Ken Okumura

Pages: 589-591 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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crv4, a mouse model for human ataxia associated with kyphoscoliosis caused by an mRNA splicing mutation of the metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 (Grm1)

Valerio Conti, Asadollah Aghaie, Michele Cilli, Natalia Martin, Gianluca Caridi, Luca Musante, Giovanni Candiano, Maura Castagna, Alfonso Fairen, Roberto Ravazzolo, Jean-Louis Guenet, Aldamaria Puliti

Pages: 593-600 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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The immediate upstream sequence of the mouse Ret gene controls tissue-specific expression in transgenic mice

Paola Zordan, Sara Tavella, Antonella Brizzolara, Roberta Biticchi, Isabella Ceccherini, Silvio Garofalo, Roberto Ravazzolo, Renata Bocciardi

Pages: 601-608 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Using caffeoyl pyrrolidine derivative LY52, a potential inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase-2, to suppress tumor invasion and metastasis

Xian-Jun Qu, Yun-Xia Yuan, Zhi-Gang Tian, Wen-Fang Xu, Ming-Hui Chen, Shu-Xiang Cui, Qian Guo, Ruoyan Gai, Masatoshi Makuuchi, Munehiro Nakata, Wei Tang

Pages: 609-614 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Leptin and leptin receptors in the prostate and seminal vesicles of the adult rat

Witold Malendowicz, Marcin Rucinski, Carlo Macchi, Raffaella Spinazzi, Agnieszka Ziolkowska, Gastone G. Nussdorfer, Zbigniew Kwias

Pages: 615-618 Published online on: 01 October 2006
Article

Coexistence of psoriasis and pemphigoid - only a coincidence?

Maciej Lazarczyk, Katarzyna Wozniak, Norito Ishii, Anna Gorkiewicz-Petkov, Takashi Hashimoto, Robert Schwarz, Cezary Kowalewski

Pages: 619-623 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Methylation of green tea polyphenols affects their binding to and inhibitory poses of the proteasome β5 subunit

Kenyon G. Daniel, Kristin R. Landis-Piwowar, Di Chen, Sheng Biao Wan, Tak-Hang Chan, Q. Ping Dou

Pages: 625-632 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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In utero transplantation of human hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells partially repairs injured liver in mice

Hui Qian, Juan Wang, Shu Wang, Zhijuan Gong, Meijue Chen, Zhaorui Ren, Shuzhen Huang

Pages: 633-642 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Multiple colon carcinomas in a patient with Cowden syndrome

Anja-Katrin Bosserhoff, Elke-Ingrid Grussendorf-Conen, Albert Rübben, Sabine Rudnik-Schöneborn, Klaus Zerres, Reinhard Buettner, Sabine Merkelbach-Bruse

Pages: 643-647 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Identification of the mineralocorticoid receptor in human spermatozoa

Cristina Fiore, Daniele Sticchi, Donatella Pellati, Sante Forzan, Guglielmo Bonanni, Alessandro Bertoldo, Michele Massironi, Lorenzo Calò, Ambrogio Fassina, Gian Paolo Rossi, Decio Armanini

Pages: 649-652 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Identification and characterization of the human StARD9 gene in the LGMD2A-region on chromosome 15q15 by in silico methods

Niels Halama, Silke A. Grauling-Halama, Dirk Jäger Shimizu

Pages: 653-656 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Inhibition of oxidative stress-induced invasiveness of cancer cells by Ganoderma lucidum is mediated through the suppression of interleukin-8 secretion

Anita Thyagarajan, Jiahua Jiang, Amber Hopf, Jiri Adamec, Daniel Sliva

Pages: 657-664 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Morphological identification of hepatitis C virus E1 and E2 envelope glycoproteins on the virion surface using immunogold electron microscopy

Masahiko Kaito, Shozo Watanabe, Hideaki Tanaka, Naoki Fujita, Masayoshi Konishi, Motoh Iwasa, Yoshinao Kobayashi, Esteban Cesar Gabazza, Yukihiko Adachi, Kyoko Tsukiyama-Kohara, Michinori Kohara

Pages: 673-678 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Effects of lysine to arginine mutations in HIV-1 Vif on its expression and viral infectivity

Boonruang Khamsri, Mikako Fujita, Kazuya Kamada, Ahmad Piroozmand, Tomoki Yamashita, Tsuneo Uchiyama, Akio Adachi

Pages: 679-683 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Microarray profiling of gene expression patterns in glomerular cells of astaxanthin-treated diabetic mice: A nutrigenomic approach

Yuji Naito, Kazuhiko Uchiyama, Katsura Mizushima, Masaaki Kuroda, Satomi Akagiri, Tomohisa Takagi, Osamu Handa, Satoshi Kokura, Norimasa Yoshida, Hiroshi Ichikawa, Jiro Takahashi, Toshikazu Yoshikawa

Pages: 685-695 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Protection of aortic endothelial function in both normal and diabetic rats by intravenous bolus injection of a medium-chain triglyceride: fish oil emulsion

David Fontaine, Anne Otto, Laurence Portois, Jeanine Fontaine, Guy Berkenboom, Willy J. Malaisse, Yvon A. Carpentier

Pages: 697-704 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Comparison of human chorionic gonadotropin +β and invasive trophoblast antigen disappearance rates in serum after evacuation of molar pregnancy

Nienke E. Van Trommel, Fred C. G.J. Sweep, H. Alec Ross, Leon F. A.G. Massuger, Chris M.G. Thomas

Pages: 705-711 Published online on: 01 October 2006
Article

UVB radiation induces expression of HIF-1α and VEGF through the EGFR/PI3K/DEC1 pathway

Yanhua Li, Zhigang Bi, Bingfang Yan, Yinsheng Wan

Pages: 713-719 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Mucosal function in rat jejunum and ileum is altered by induction of colitis

Einat Amit-Romach, Ram Reifen, Zehava Uni

Pages: 721-727 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Sequence analysis shows that Lifeguard belongs to a new evolutionarily conserved cytoprotective family

Kerstin Reimers, Claudia Y.-U. Choi, Eddy Mau-Thek, Peter M. Vogt

Pages: 729-734 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Role of bone morphogenetic protein 2 in the crosstalk between endothelial progenitor cells and mesenchymal stem cells

M. Raida, A. C. Heymann, C. Günther, D. Niederwieser

Pages: 735-739 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Acute in vivo administration of a fish oil-containing emulsion improves post-ischemic cardiac function in n-3-depleted rats

S. Peltier, W. J. Malaisse, L. Portois, L. Demaison, V. Novel-Chate, J. M. Chardigny, J. L. Sebedio, Y. A. Carpentier, X. M. Leverve

Pages: 741-749 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Preclinical investigations of a medium-chain triglyceride:fish oil emulsion. I. Effects of bovine milk lipoprotein lipase on lipid composition

Yvon A. Carpentier, Isabelle Dupont, Laurence Portois, Willy J. Malaisse

Pages: 761-773 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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Proteomic analysis of rat cerebral cortex, hippocampus and striatum after exposure to morphine

Anna Bierczynska-Krzysik, Julius Paul Pradeep John, Jerzy Silberring, Jolanta Kotlinska, Tomasz Dylag, Maureen Cabatic, Gert Lubec

Pages: 775-784 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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The effect of stromal cell-derived factor 1 (SDF1/CXCL12) genetic polymorphism on HIV-1 disease progression

Edna Maria Vissoci Reiche, Maria Angelica Ehara Watanabe, Ana Maria Bonametti, Helena Kaminami Morimoto, Arilson Akira Morimoto, Susana Lilian Wiechmann, Jose Wander Breganó, Tiemi Matsuo, Fernando Vissoci Reiche, Helen Cristina Miranda, Karen Brajão Oliveira, Ingridt Hildegard Vogler, Alexandra Regina Siscar

Pages: 785-793 Published online on: 01 October 2006
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October 2006
Volume 18 Issue 4

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

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