30 articles in this issue
Thitima Benjachat, Pumipat Tongyoo, Pornpen Tantivitayakul, Poorichaya Somparn, Nattiya Hirankarn, Santitham Prom-On, Prapaporn Pisitkun, Asada Leelahavanichkul, Yingyos Avihingsanon and Natavudh Townamchai
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Magdalena Matusiewicz, Iwona Kosieradzka, Magdalena Zuk and Jan Szopa
Flaxseed cake containing antioxidants is a valuable dietary component. Its nutritional effect may be diminished by the presence of anti-nutrients. The work was aimed at determining the effect of different contents of flaxseed cake in diets and their admin... see more
Yoshika Suzawa, Norihiko Kubo, Soichi Iwai, Yoshiaki Yura, Hajime Ohgushi and Mitsuru Akashi
Hydroxyapatite (HA) or calcium carbonate (CaCO3) formed on an organic polymer of agarose gel is a biomaterial that can be used for bone tissue regeneration. However, in critical bone defects, the regeneration capability of these materials is limited. Mese... see more
Rui Zhang, Yueqiao Wang, Rui Li and Guoxun Chen
Daniela F. S. Fonseca, Ângelo C. Salvador, Sónia A. O. Santos, Carla Vilela, Carmen S. R. Freire, Armando J. D. Silvestre and Sílvia M. Rocha
Ruijun Duan, Huiyan Xiong, Aidong Wang and Guoxiong Chen
Chih-Yuan Huang, Liang-Chao Wang, Yan-Shen Shan, Chia-Hsin Pan and Kuen-Jer Tsai
Ji-Min Kim, Sung-Hwan Park, Ho-Youn Kim and Seung-Ki Kwok
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a prototypic autoimmune disease that is characterized by the generation of immune responses to various nuclear components. Impaired clearance of apoptotic cells and loss of tolerance to self-antigens are involved both... see more
Yoshitomo Honda, Tomonari Tanaka, Tomoko Tokuda, Takahiro Kashiwagi, Koji Kaida, Ayato Hieda, Yasuyuki Umezaki, Yoshiya Hashimoto, Koichi Imai, Naoyuki Matsumoto, Shunsuke Baba and Kimishige Shimizutani
Glenn Francis and Sandra Stein
With the development of new sensitive molecular techniques, circulating cell-free tumour DNA containing mutations can be identified in the plasma of cancer patients. The applications of this technology may result in significant changes to the care and man... see more
Hidetoshi Komatsu
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the most common targets of the neuropharmacological drugs in the central nervous system (CNS). GPCRs are activated by manifold neurotransmitters, and their activation in turn evokes slow synaptic transmission. They ... see more
Qinghong Li, Lisa M. Freeman, John E. Rush and Dorothy P. Laflamme
Hirayuki Enomoto, Hideji Nakamura, Weidong Liu and Shuhei Nishiguchi
The development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an important complication of viral infection induced by hepatitis virus C, and our major research theme is to identify a new growth factor related to the progression of HCC. HDGF (hepatoma-derived growt... see more
Paolo Conca, Giovanni Cafaro, Amalia De Renzo, Antonio Coppola, Ernesto Cimino and Giovanni Tarantino
Donald S. Silverberg, Dov Wexler and Doron Schwartz
Anemia is present in about 40% of heart failure (HF) patients. Iron deficiency (ID) is present in about 60% of the patients with anemia (about 24% of all HF patients) and in about 40% of patients without anemia (about 24% of all HF patients). Thus ID is p... see more
Juan Ling, Yanying Zhang, Meilin Wu, Youshao Wang, Junde Dong, Yufeng Jiang, Qingsong Yang and Siquan Zeng
Qin Li, Juan Li, Shuoqian Liu, Jianan Huang, Haiyan Lin, Kunbo Wang, Xiaomei Cheng and Zhonghua Liu
Julietta Moustaka, Georgia Tanou, Ioannis-Dimosthenis Adamakis, Eleftherios P. Eleftheriou and Michael Moustakas
Masayuki Ishihara, Vinh Quang Nguyen, Yasutaka Mori, Shingo Nakamura and Hidemi Hattori
Size-controlled spherical silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) can be simply prepared by autoclaving mixtures of glass powder containing silver with glucose. Moreover, chitins with varying degrees of deacetylation (DDAc < 30%) and chitosan powders and sheets ... see more
Jun Cui, Jian Xu, Songhao Zhang, Kai Wang, Yanliang Jiang, Shahid Mahboob, Khalid A. Al-Ghanim and Peng Xu
Min Chen, Hai Bao, Qiuming Wu and Yanwei Wang
Nina Weishaupt, Patricia Riccio, Taylor Dobbs, Vladimir C. Hachinski and Shawn N. Whitehead
Subcortical ischemic strokes are among the leading causes of cognitive impairment. Selective atrophy of remote brain regions connected to the infarct is thought to contribute to deterioration of cognitive functions. The mechanisms underlying this secondar... see more
Xiao-Wen Pan and Xin-Huai Zhao
Qin Wang, Sergei Chuikov, Sophina Taitano, Qi Wu, Arjun Rastogi, Samuel J. Tuck, Joseph M. Corey, Steven K. Lundy and Yang Mao-Draayer
Laurent Laboureur, Mario Ollero and David Touboul
This review enlightens the role of supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) in the field of lipid analysis. SFC has been popular in the late 1980s and 1990s before almost disappearing due to the commercial success of liquid chromatography (LC). It is only... see more
Kim-Chung Lee, Emily W. T. Tam, Ka-Ching Lo, Alan K. L. Tsang, Candy C. Y. Lau, Kelvin K. W. To, Jasper F. W. Chan, Ching-Wan Lam, Kwok-Yung Yuen, Susanna K. P. Lau and Patrick C. Y. Woo
Aidan Petrovich, Adam Borne, Vladimir N. Uversky and Bin Xue
Computational methods are prevailing in identifying protein intrinsic disorder. The results from predictors are often given as per-residue disorder scores. The scores describe the disorder propensity of amino acids of a protein and can be further represen... see more
Jie Xu, Chunmei Lu, Jiao Wang, Ruotong Zhang, Xin Qian and Hui Zhu
Glucose transporter isoform-3 (GLUT3), one of the primary placental facilitative glucose transporters responsible for basal glucose transport, has a crucial role in glucose transport and fetal growth during early pregnancy. A GLUT3 mutation in mice has be... see more
Maggie Chan, Heather J. L. Brooks, Stephen C. Moratti, Lyall R. Hanton and Jaydee D. Cabral
Muazzez Gürgan, Nilüfer Afsar Erkal, Ebru Özgür, Ufuk Gündüz, Inci Eroglu and Meral Yücel