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Biomolecules, Volume 6, Issue 1

March 2016 - 15 articles

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Articles (15)

  • Review
  • Open Access
87 Citations
12,819 Views
20 Pages

The Production Processes and Biological Effects of Intravenous Immunoglobulin

  • Ana Filipa Barahona Afonso and
  • Cristina Maria Pires João

Immunoglobulin is a highly diverse autologous molecule able to influence immunity in different physiological and diseased situations. Its effect may be visible both in terms of development and function of B and T lymphocytes. Polyclonal immunoglobuli...

  • Review
  • Open Access
58 Citations
10,327 Views
13 Pages

25 February 2016

Covalent attachment of ubiquitin (Ub) or SUMO to DNA repair proteins plays critical roles in maintaining genome stability. These structurally related polypeptides can be viewed as distinct road signs, with each being read by specific protein interact...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,638 Views
12 Pages

Multidisciplinary View of Alcohol Use Disorder: From a Psychiatric Illness to a Major Liver Disease

  • Stefano Gitto,
  • Lucia Golfieri,
  • Fabio Caputo,
  • Silvana Grandi and
  • Pietro Andreone

15 January 2016

Alcohol use disorder is a significant health problem being a cause of increased morbidity and mortality worldwide. Alcohol-related illness has a relevant economic impact on the society and a negative influence on the life of patients and their family...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,000 Views
13 Pages

15 January 2016

Skeletal muscle possesses a robust capacity to regenerate functional architectures with a unidirectional orientation. In this study, we successfully arranged skeletal myoblast (C2C12) cells along micropatterned gold strips on which chitohexaose was d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,786 Views
15 Pages

13 January 2016

Glutamate is a neurotransmitter used at both the peripheral and central terminals of nociceptive primary sensory neurons, yet little is known concerning regulation of glutamate metabolism during peripheral inflammation. Glutaminase (GLS) is an enzyme...

  • Review
  • Open Access
122 Citations
16,604 Views
20 Pages

Nuclear Tau and Its Potential Role in Alzheimer’s Disease

  • Mahmoud Bukar Maina,
  • Youssra K. Al-Hilaly and
  • Louise C. Serpell

Tau protein, found in both neuronal and non-neuronal cells, forms aggregates in neurons that constitutes one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). For nearly four decades, research efforts have focused more on tau’s role in physiology and pat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
67 Citations
17,592 Views
17 Pages

Alcoholic Liver Disease: Update on the Role of Dietary Fat

  • Irina A. Kirpich,
  • Matthew E. Miller,
  • Matthew C. Cave,
  • Swati Joshi-Barve and
  • Craig J. McClain

Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) spans a spectrum of liver pathology, including fatty liver, alcoholic steatohepatitis, and cirrhosis. Accumulating evidence suggests that dietary factors, including dietary fat, as well as alcohol, play critical roles in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
105 Citations
20,323 Views
24 Pages

Activation of the DNA Damage Response by RNA Viruses

  • Ellis L. Ryan,
  • Robert Hollingworth and
  • Roger J. Grand

RNA viruses are a genetically diverse group of pathogens that are responsible for some of the most prevalent and lethal human diseases. Numerous viruses introduce DNA damage and genetic instability in host cells during their lifecycles and some speci...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
11,797 Views
19 Pages

Targeting Stromal-Cancer Cell Crosstalk Networks in Ovarian Cancer Treatment

  • Tsz-Lun Yeung,
  • Cecilia S. Leung,
  • Fuhai Li,
  • Stephen T. C. Wong and
  • Samuel C. Mok

Ovarian cancer is a histologically, clinically, and molecularly diverse disease with a five-year survival rate of less than 30%. It has been estimated that approximately 21,980 new cases of epithelial ovarian cancer will be diagnosed and 14,270 death...

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