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Cells, Volume 11, Issue 3

February-1 2022 - 279 articles

Cover Story: Recently gleaned data show that ghrelin, a stomach-derived peptide, and liver-expressed antimicrobial peptide 2 (LEAP-2) play opposite roles in food intake. Nevertheless, some key questions regarding the interplay among ghrelin and LEAP-2 remain to be answered. In this work we extend previous findings regarding the relevance of LEAP-2 as an anorexigenic signal. Specifically, our data, using different experimental models: lean, obese (ob/ob and DIO), aged rats and GH-deficient rats, show that LEAP-2 is a potent anorexigenic agent and maintains its capacity to blunt ghrelin-induced hyperphagia. In contrast, the inhibitory effect on glucose levels can only be observed in some specific experimental models. Taken together from these data, LEAP-2 emerged as a potential candidate to be therapeutically useful in obesity. View this paper
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Articles (279)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,744 Views
14 Pages

8 February 2022

In recent years, growing evidence has indicated the pivotal role of mitochondria in mast cell immunological activation. We have previously reported a decrease in degranulation and cytokine secretion following the inhibition of pyruvate dehydrogenase...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,550 Views
27 Pages

Biomarker Development in Cardiology: Reviewing the Past to Inform the Future

  • Katharine A. Kott,
  • Michael Bishop,
  • Christina H. J. Yang,
  • Toby M. Plasto,
  • Daniel C. Cheng,
  • Adam I. Kaplan,
  • Louise Cullen,
  • David S. Celermajer,
  • Peter J. Meikle and
  • Stephen T. Vernon
  • + 1 author

8 February 2022

Cardiac biomarkers have become pivotal to the clinical practice of cardiology, but there remains much to discover that could benefit cardiology patients. We review the discovery of key protein biomarkers in the fields of acute coronary syndrome, hear...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,028 Views
11 Pages

8 February 2022

Angiogenesis is a vital biological process, and neovascularization is essential for the development, wound repair, and perfusion of ischemic tissue. Neovascularization and inflammation are independent biological processes that are linked in response...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,937 Views
13 Pages

Arabinogalactan Proteins in the Digestive Glands of Dionaea muscipula J.Ellis Traps

  • Bartosz J. Płachno,
  • Małgorzata Kapusta,
  • Piotr Stolarczyk and
  • Piotr Świątek

8 February 2022

The arabinogalactan proteins (AGP) play important roles in plant growth and developmental processes. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no information on the spatial distribution of AGP in the plant organs and tissues of carnivorous plan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,791 Views
11 Pages

Shear-Stress-Gradient and Oxygen-Gradient Ektacytometry in Sickle Cell Patients at Steady State and during Vaso-Occlusive Crises

  • Camille Boisson,
  • Elie Nader,
  • Céline Renoux,
  • Alexandra Gauthier,
  • Solène Poutrel,
  • Yves Bertrand,
  • Emeric Stauffer,
  • Emilie Virot,
  • Arnaud Hot and
  • Romain Fort
  • + 3 authors

8 February 2022

Oxygen gradient ektacytometry (oxygenscan) measures the changes in red blood cell (RBC) deformability in normoxia and during deoxygenation. We investigated the changes in RBC deformability, measured by both oxygenscan and classical shear-stress-gradi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,519 Views
13 Pages

8 February 2022

High mobility group box 2 (HMGB2) is a non-histone chromosomal protein involved in various biological processes, including cellular senescence. However, its role in cellular senescence has not been evaluated extensively. To determine the regulatory r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,980 Views
15 Pages

Functional Genomic Screening in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Reveals New Roadblocks in Early Pancreatic Endoderm Formation

  • Jana Krüger,
  • Markus Breunig,
  • Lino Pascal Pasquini,
  • Mareen Morawe,
  • Alexander Groß,
  • Frank Arnold,
  • Ronan Russell,
  • Thomas Seufferlein,
  • Ninel Azoitei and
  • Hans A. Kestler
  • + 4 authors

8 February 2022

Human pluripotent stem cells, with their ability to proliferate indefinitely and to differentiate into virtually all cell types of the human body, provide a novel resource to study human development and to implement relevant disease models. Here, we...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,904 Views
17 Pages

What Have We Learned in 30 Years of Investigations on Bari Transposons?

  • Antonio Palazzo,
  • Ruggiero Caizzi,
  • Roberta Moschetti and
  • René Massimiliano Marsano

8 February 2022

Transposable elements (TEs) have been historically depicted as detrimental genetic entities that selfishly aim at perpetuating themselves, invading genomes, and destroying genes. Scientists often co-opt “special” TEs to develop new and po...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,487 Views
49 Pages

Glycomic and Glycoproteomic Techniques in Neurodegenerative Disorders and Neurotrauma: Towards Personalized Markers

  • Firas Kobeissy,
  • Abir Kobaisi,
  • Wenjing Peng,
  • Chloe Barsa,
  • Mona Goli,
  • Ahmad Sibahi,
  • Samer El Hayek,
  • Samar Abdelhady,
  • Muhammad Ali Haidar and
  • Mirna Sabra
  • + 5 authors

8 February 2022

The proteome represents all the proteins expressed by a genome, a cell, a tissue, or an organism at any given time under defined physiological or pathological circumstances. Proteomic analysis has provided unparalleled opportunities for the discovery...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,961 Views
16 Pages

8 February 2022

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are myeloid neoplasms characterized by bone marrow dysfunction and increased risk of transformation to leukemia. MDS represent complex and diverse diseases that evolve from malignant hematopoietic stem cells and involv...

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