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Cells, Volume 9, Issue 10

October 2020 - 193 articles

Cover Story: Immune cells not only defend against pathogens, they also survey the metabolic state of organs. In the paper by Diehl et al. in this issue of Cells, the authors studied how fat is deposited in hepatocytes in a high fat diet animal model, a process called steatosis. In addition to hepatocytes, the liver contains tissue macrophages, the Kupffer cells. When hepatocytes from lean animals were exposed to the culture supernatant of Kupffer cells from fat animals, they became steatotic. The signaling factor TNF is a key player in this process, since blocking signaling by TNF also prevented the development of steatosis. These experiments show that the Kupffer cell acts as a sensor for metabolic overload by excess fatty acid and secretes TNF to instruct the hepatocytes to store fat. View this paper
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Articles (193)

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,672 Views
33 Pages

21 October 2020

Cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) is a promising new agent for (selective) cancer treatment, but the underlying cause of the anti-cancer effect of CAP is not well understood yet. Among different theories and observations, one theory in particular has bee...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,997 Views
14 Pages

Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone in Lung Physiology and Pulmonary Disease

  • Chongxu Zhang,
  • Tengjiao Cui,
  • Renzhi Cai,
  • Medhi Wangpaichitr,
  • Mehdi Mirsaeidi,
  • Andrew V. Schally and
  • Robert M. Jackson

21 October 2020

Growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) is secreted primarily from the hypothalamus, but other tissues, including the lungs, produce it locally. GHRH stimulates the release and secretion of growth hormone (GH) by the pituitary and regulates the produ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,796 Views
18 Pages

Impact of Polyallylamine Hydrochloride on Gene Expression and Karyotypic Stability of Multidrug Resistant Transformed Cells

  • Larisa Alekseenko,
  • Mariia Shilina,
  • Irina Kozhukharova,
  • Olga Lyublinskaya,
  • Irina Fridlyanskaya,
  • Nikolay Nikolsky and
  • Tatiana Grinchuk

21 October 2020

The synthetic polymer, polyallylamine hydrochloride (PAA), is found in a variety of applications in biotechnology and medicine. It is used in gene and siRNA transfer, to form microcapsules for targeted drug delivery to damaged and tumor cells. Conven...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,487 Views
29 Pages

21 October 2020

Tafazzin is a phospholipid transacylase that catalyzes the remodeling of cardiolipin, a mitochondrial phospholipid required for oxidative phosphorylation. Mutations of the tafazzin gene cause Barth syndrome, which is characterized by mitochondrial dy...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,302 Views
21 Pages

Development of Radiotracers for Breast Cancer—The Tumor Microenvironment as an Emerging Target

  • Amelie Heesch,
  • Jochen Maurer,
  • Elmar Stickeler,
  • Mohsen Beheshti,
  • Felix M. Mottaghy and
  • Agnieszka Morgenroth

21 October 2020

Molecular imaging plays an increasingly important role in the diagnosis and treatment of different malignancies. Radiolabeled probes enable the visualization of the primary tumor as well as the metastases and have been also employed in targeted thera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,852 Views
12 Pages

21 October 2020

Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is caused by Trypanosoma brucei parasites. The T. brucei aquaglyceroporin isoform 2, TbAQP2, has been linked to the uptake of pentamidine. Negative membrane potentials and transmembrane pH gradients were suggested...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,451 Views
19 Pages

Characterization of Living Dental Pulp Cells in Direct Contact with Mineral Trioxide Aggregate

  • Tamaki Hattori-Sanuki,
  • Takeo Karakida,
  • Risako Chiba-Ohkuma,
  • Yasuo Miake,
  • Ryuji Yamamoto,
  • Yasuo Yamakoshi and
  • Noriyasu Hosoya

21 October 2020

Mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) was introduced as a material for dental endodontic regenerative therapy. Here, we show the dynamics of living dental pulp cells in direct contact with an MTA disk. A red fluorescence protein (DsRed) was introduced int...

  • Review
  • Open Access
58 Citations
11,271 Views
21 Pages

Modeling Adipogenesis: Current and Future Perspective

  • Hisham F. Bahmad,
  • Reem Daouk,
  • Joseph Azar,
  • Jiranuwat Sapudom,
  • Jeremy C. M. Teo,
  • Wassim Abou-Kheir and
  • Mohamed Al-Sayegh

20 October 2020

Adipose tissue is contemplated as a dynamic organ that plays key roles in the human body. Adipogenesis is the process by which adipocytes develop from adipose-derived stem cells to form the adipose tissue. Adipose-derived stem cells’ differenti...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,784 Views
15 Pages

In Vivo Remodeling of Altered Autophagy-Lysosomal Pathway by a Phosphopeptide in Lupus

  • Fengjuan Wang,
  • Inmaculada Tasset,
  • Ana Maria Cuervo and
  • Sylviane Muller

20 October 2020

The phosphopeptide P140/Lupuzor, which improves the course of lupus disease in mice and patients, targets chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA), a selective form of autophagy that is abnormally upregulated in lupus-prone MRL/lpr mice. Administered intra...

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Cells - ISSN 2073-4409