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International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Volume 17, Issue 6

2016 June - 200 articles

Cover Story: Detection of the Inflammasome in the Transplanted Heart.
Bioptic samples are used to monitor the type and severity of organ rejection. The fluorescent staining of a bioptic sample is depicted in this picture, to detect the presence of the inflammasome scaffold protein, ASC (in red). The inflammasome is part of the innate immune response. The co-staining of the cardiac alpha-actin (in green) is used to mark the cardiac myocytes. Myocytes are surrounded by infiltrating cells (leukocytes), visible through the nuclear staining (blue). In this particular picture, the myocardial structure is disrupted and ASC positivity is detected in both cardiomyocytes and non-cardiomyocyte cells.
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Articles (200)

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
11,133 Views
12 Pages

Quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) is the most classical technique in the field of gene expression study. This method requires an appropriate reference gene to normalize mRNA levels. In this study, the expression stability of four frequently-used r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
76 Citations
12,116 Views
18 Pages

Bone Metastasis from Renal Cell Carcinoma

  • Szu-Chia Chen and
  • Po-Lin Kuo

About one-third of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) have bone metastasis that are often osteolytic and cause substantial morbidity, such as pain, pathologic fracture, spinal cord compression and hypercalcemia. The presence of bone me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,655 Views
17 Pages

Stipa purpurea (S. purpurea) is the dominant plant species in the alpine steppe of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China. It is highly resistant to cold and drought conditions. However, the underlying mechanisms regulating the stress tolerance are unknown...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
10,140 Views
13 Pages

MicroRNAs act by post-transcriptionally regulating the gene expression of 30%–60% of mammalian genomes. MicroRNAs are key regulators in all cellular processes, though the mechanism by which the cell activates or represses microRNA-mediated translatio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
13,211 Views
19 Pages

Breast cancer develops over a timeframe of 2–3 decades prior to clinical detection. Given this prolonged latency, it is somewhat unexpected from a biological perspective that obesity has no effect or reduces the risk for breast cancer in premenopausa...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,856 Views
9 Pages

Serum Levels of Substance P and Mortality in Patients with a Severe Acute Ischemic Stroke

  • Leonardo Lorente,
  • María M. Martín,
  • Teresa Almeida,
  • Antonia Pérez-Cejas,
  • Luis Ramos,
  • Mónica Argueso,
  • Marta Riaño-Ruiz,
  • Jordi Solé-Violán and
  • Mariano Hernández

Substance P (SP), a member of tachykinin family, is involved in the inflammation of the central nervous system and in the appearance of cerebral edema. Higher serum levels of SP have been found in 18 patients with cerebral ischemia compared with heal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,662 Views
11 Pages

Molecular Characteristics of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis on the Abdominal Skin of Females before Laparotomy

  • Pin-Jia Wang,
  • Cheng-Bin Xie,
  • Feng-Hui Sun,
  • Li-Juan Guo,
  • Min Dai,
  • Xi Cheng and
  • Yong-Xin Ma

Staphylococcus epidermidis, especially methicillin-resistant strains, may be the source of surgical site infections and may be a reservoir of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) for S. aureus. The aim of this study was to investigate the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
121 Citations
8,474 Views
16 Pages

Polysaccharides from Morchella esculenta have been proven to be functional and helpful for humans. The purpose of this study was to investigate the chemical structure and anti-proliferating and antitumor activities of a Morchella esculenta polysaccha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
7,362 Views
17 Pages

TRAIL (tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand) is an endogenous ligand, which plays role in immune surveillance and anti-tumor immunity. It has ability to selectively kill tumor cells showing no toxicity to normal cells. We tested th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
98 Citations
11,423 Views
25 Pages

DNA Damage and Pulmonary Hypertension

  • Benoît Ranchoux,
  • Jolyane Meloche,
  • Roxane Paulin,
  • Olivier Boucherat,
  • Steeve Provencher and
  • Sébastien Bonnet

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is defined by a mean pulmonary arterial pressure over 25 mmHg at rest and is diagnosed by right heart catheterization. Among the different groups of PH, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is characterized by a progressi...

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