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International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Volume 15, Issue 2

February 2014 - 100 articles

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Articles (100)

  • Review
  • Open Access
189 Citations
20,339 Views
9 Pages

Autophagic Cell Death and Cancer

  • Shigeomi Shimizu,
  • Tatsushi Yoshida,
  • Masatsune Tsujioka and
  • Satoko Arakawa

21 February 2014

Programmed cell death (PCD) is a crucial process required for the normal development and physiology of metazoans. The three major mechanisms that induce PCD are called type I (apoptosis), type II (autophagic cell death), and type III (necrotic cell d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,675 Views
18 Pages

21 February 2014

The tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL), either alone or in combination with other anti-cancer agents, has been considered as a new strategy for anti-cancer therapy. In this study, we demonstrated that evodiamine, a quinol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,253 Views
14 Pages

21 February 2014

Intracellular calcium homeostasis disorder and mitochondrial dysfunction are involved in many acute and chronic brain diseases, including ischemic brain injury. An imbalance in mitochondrial fission and fusion is one of the most important structural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,555 Views
18 Pages

Pattern Recognition Techniques Applied to the Study of Leishmanial Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Inhibition

  • Norka B. H. Lozano,
  • Rafael F. Oliveira,
  • Karen C. Weber,
  • Kathia M. Honorio,
  • Rafael V. C. Guido,
  • Adriano D. Andricopulo,
  • Alexsandro G. De Sousa and
  • Albérico B. F. Da Silva

21 February 2014

Chemometric pattern recognition techniques were employed in order to obtain Structure-Activity Relationship (SAR) models relating the structures of a series of adenosine compounds to the affinity for glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase of Leishm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,975 Views
16 Pages

A New Pepstatin-Insensitive Thermopsin-Like Protease Overproduced in Peptide-Rich Cultures of Sulfolobus solfataricus

  • Marta Gogliettino,
  • Alessia Riccio,
  • Ennio Cocca,
  • Mosè Rossi,
  • Gianna Palmieri and
  • Marco Balestrieri

21 February 2014

In this study, we gain insight into the extracellular proteolytic system of Sulfolobus solfataricus grown on proteinaceous substrates, providing further evidence that acidic proteases were specifically produced in response to peptide-rich media. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
8,223 Views
14 Pages

21 February 2014

Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) play a key role in many cellular processes. Unfortunately, the experimental methods currently used to identify PPIs are both time-consuming and expensive. These obstacles could be overcome by developing computation...

  • Review
  • Open Access
55 Citations
20,088 Views
19 Pages

The Neuroprotective Role of Acupuncture and Activation of the BDNF Signaling Pathway

  • Dong Lin,
  • Ike De La Pena,
  • Lili Lin,
  • Shu-Feng Zhou,
  • Cesar V. Borlongan and
  • Chuanhai Cao

21 February 2014

Recent studies have been conducted to examine the neuroprotective effects of acupuncture in many neurological disorders. Although the neuroprotective effects of acupuncture has been linked to changes in signaling pathways, accumulating evidence sugge...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
25 Citations
10,560 Views
9 Pages

21 February 2014

Inhibitors of human DNA methyltransferases (DNMT) are of increasing interest to develop novel epi-drugs for the treatment of cancer and other diseases. As the number of compounds with reported DNMT inhibition is increasing, molecular docking is shedd...

  • Review
  • Open Access
82 Citations
11,205 Views
10 Pages

miR-137: A New Player in Schizophrenia

  • Jingwen Yin,
  • Juda Lin,
  • Xudong Luo,
  • Yanyan Chen,
  • Zheng Li,
  • Guoda Ma and
  • Keshen Li

21 February 2014

Schizophrenia is a complex genetic disease and characterized by affective, cognitive, neuromorphological, and molecular abnormalities that may have a neurodevelopmental origin. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are critical to neurodevelopment and adult neuronal pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,413 Views
15 Pages

21 February 2014

The oriental fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) causes devastating losses to agricultural crops world-wide and is considered to be an economically important pest. Little is known about the digestive enzymes such as serine proteases (SPs) in B. do...

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