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Biomedicines, Volume 10, Issue 2

February 2022 - 318 articles

Cover Story: While patients with an early or locally advanced breast cancer can be cured, the metastatic disease remains a challenge and so far, palliative treatment is the only option. Metastasis formation is a critical step in breast cancer development. It involves activation of miscellaneous processes, including activation of angiogenesis, vasculogenesis, chemotaxis or coagulation. These are essential for subsequent events occurring during systemic cancer spread, including the escaping of tumor cells from the primary tumor, migration through the basement membrane, extracellular matrix and vascular walls into the circulation, and extravasation and homing to the target organs, finally resulting in growth of secondary tumors. Understanding the pathogenesis of breast cancer metastasis formation is crucial for development of new treatment strategies. View this paper
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Articles (318)

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,633 Views
12 Pages

Ribose and Non-Ribose A2A Adenosine Receptor Agonists: Do They Share the Same Receptor Recognition Mechanism?

  • Giovanni Bolcato,
  • Matteo Pavan,
  • Davide Bassani,
  • Mattia Sturlese and
  • Stefano Moro

Adenosine receptors have been a promising class of targets for the development of new therapies for several diseases. In recent years, a renewed interest in this field has risen, thanks to the implementation of a novel class of agonists that lack the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,118 Views
25 Pages

Parthenolide and Its Soluble Analogues: Multitasking Compounds with Antitumor Properties

  • Daniela Carlisi,
  • Marianna Lauricella,
  • Antonella D’Anneo,
  • Anna De Blasio,
  • Adriana Celesia,
  • Giovanni Pratelli,
  • Antonietta Notaro,
  • Giuseppe Calvaruso,
  • Michela Giuliano and
  • Sonia Emanuele

Due to its chemical properties and multiple molecular effects on different tumor cell types, the sesquiterpene lactone parthenolide (PN) can be considered an effective drug with significant potential in cancer therapy. PN has been shown to induce eit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,296 Views
18 Pages

IGF-1 as a Potential Therapy for Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3

  • Yong-Shiou Lin,
  • Wen-Ling Cheng,
  • Jui-Chih Chang,
  • Ta-Tsung Lin,
  • Yi-Chun Chao and
  • Chin-San Liu

Although the effects of growth hormone (GH) therapy on spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) have been examined in transgenic SCA3 mice, it still poses a nonnegligible risk of cancer when used for a long term. This study investigated the efficacy of I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,051 Views
31 Pages

Single Application of Low-Dose, Hydroxyapatite-Bound BMP-2 or GDF-5 Induces Long-Term Bone Formation and Biomechanical Stabilization of a Bone Defect in a Senile Sheep Lumbar Osteopenia Model

  • Ines Hasenbein,
  • André Sachse,
  • Peter Hortschansky,
  • Klaus D. Schmuck,
  • Victoria Horbert,
  • Christoph Anders,
  • Thomas Lehmann,
  • René Huber,
  • Alexander Maslaris and
  • Frank Layher
  • + 4 authors

Effects of hydroxyapatite (HA) particles with bone morphogenetic BMP-2 or GDF-5 were compared in sheep lumbar osteopenia; in vitro release in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) or sheep serum was assessed by ELISA. Lumbar (L) vertebral bone defects (&Os...

  • Review
  • Open Access
64 Citations
9,171 Views
16 Pages

Cigarette Smoking and Human Gut Microbiota in Healthy Adults: A Systematic Review

  • Martina Antinozzi,
  • Monica Giffi,
  • Nicolò Sini,
  • Francesca Gallè,
  • Federica Valeriani,
  • Corrado De Vito,
  • Giorgio Liguori,
  • Vincenzo Romano Spica and
  • Maria Sofia Cattaruzza

The intestinal microbiota is a crucial regulator of human health and disease because of its interactions with the immune system. Tobacco smoke also influences the human ecosystem with implications for disease development. This systematic review aims...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,879 Views
11 Pages

Comparative Study of the Aftereffect of CO2 Inhalation or Tiletamine–Zolazepam–Xylazine Anesthesia on Laboratory Outbred Rats and Mice

  • Oksana N. Khokhlova,
  • Natalya A. Borozdina,
  • Elena S. Sadovnikova,
  • Irina A. Pakhomova,
  • Pavel A. Rudenko,
  • Yuliya V. Korolkova,
  • Sergey A. Kozlov and
  • Igor A. Dyachenko

CO2 inhalation is currently the most common method of euthanasia for laboratory rats and mice, and it is often used for further terminal blood sampling for clinical biochemical assays. Lately, this method has been criticized due to animal welfare iss...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,342 Views
14 Pages

Preventive Effects of a Human Hematopoietic Mesenchymal Stem Cell (hHMSC) Therapy in Ovalbumin-Induced Food Allergy

  • Dong-Geon Lee,
  • Yu-Jin Lee,
  • Song-Hee Park,
  • Hye-Ree Park,
  • Hoon Kang and
  • Jung-Eun Kim

No effective therapeutic strategies have been developed against food allergies. Immunomodulation during early infant period could prevent the development of food allergies. We investigated the preventive effects of human hematopoietic mesenchymal ste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,035 Views
16 Pages

Age and Intrinsic Fitness Affect the Female Rotator Cuff Tendon Tissue

  • Manuela Thierbach,
  • Estelle Heyne,
  • Michael Schwarzer,
  • Lauren G. Koch,
  • Steven L. Britton and
  • Britt Wildemann

The risk of the development of tendon disorders or ruptures increases with age, but it is unclear whether intrinsic fitness during lifetime might also affect tendon properties. To investigate this, a contrasting rat model of high-capacity runners (HC...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,118 Views
13 Pages

Familial Predisposition to Leiomyomata: Searching for Protective Genetic Factors

  • Maria V. Kuznetsova,
  • Nelly S. Sogoyan,
  • Andrew J. Donnikov,
  • Dmitry Y. Trofimov,
  • Leila V. Adamyan,
  • Natalia D. Mishina,
  • Jekaterina Shubina,
  • Dmitry V. Zelensky and
  • Gennady T. Sukhikh

In order to determine genetic loci associated with decreasing risk of uterine leiomyomata (UL), a genome-wide association study (GWAS) was performed. We analyzed a group of patients with a family history of UL and a control group consisting of patien...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,689 Views
26 Pages

Oxidative Stress, Inflammation and Connexin Hemichannels in Muscular Dystrophies

  • Arlek González-Jamett,
  • Walter Vásquez,
  • Gabriela Cifuentes-Riveros,
  • Rafaela Martínez-Pando,
  • Juan C. Sáez and
  • Ana M. Cárdenas

Muscular dystrophies (MDs) are a heterogeneous group of congenital neuromuscular disorders whose clinical signs include myalgia, skeletal muscle weakness, hypotonia, and atrophy that leads to progressive muscle disability and loss of ambulation. MDs...

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