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Wei-Hsin Chen Ching-Liang Hsieh Chun-Ping Huang Tzu-Jou Lin Jason TC Tzen Tin-Yun Ho Yi-Wen Lin 《Journal of biomedical science》2011,18(1):82
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Peripheral tissue inflammation initiates hyperalgesia accompanied by tissue acidosis, nociceptor activation, and inflammation mediators. Recent studies have suggested a significantly increased expression of acid-sensing ion channel 3 (ASIC3) in both carrageenan- and complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA)-induced inflammation. This study tested the hypothesis that acupuncture is curative for mechanical hyperalgesia induced by peripheral inflammation. 相似文献3.
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Owing to rapid expansion of protein structure databases in recent years, methods of structure comparison are becoming increasingly effective and important in revealing novel information on functional properties of proteins and their roles in the grand scheme of evolutionary biology. Currently, the structural similarity between two proteins is measured by the root-mean-square-deviation (RMSD) in their best-superimposed atomic coordinates. RMSD is the golden rule of measuring structural similarity when the structures are nearly identical; it, however, fails to detect the higher order topological similarities in proteins evolved into different shapes. We propose new algorithms for extracting geometrical invariants of proteins that can be effectively used to identify homologous protein structures or topologies in order to quantify both close and remote structural similarities. 相似文献4.
Fuhai Li Xiaobo Zhou Wanting Huang Chung-Che Chang Stephen TC Wong 《BMC bioinformatics》2010,11(1):200
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DNA copy number aberration (CNA) is very important in the pathogenesis of tumors and other diseases. For example, CNAs may result in suppression of anti-oncogenes and activation of oncogenes, which would cause certain types of cancers. High density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array data is widely used for the CNA detection. However, it is nontrivial to detect the CNA automatically because the signals obtained from high density SNP arrays often have low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which might be caused by whole genome amplification, mixtures of normal and tumor cells, experimental noise or other technical limitations. With the reduction in SNR, many false CNA regions are often detected and the true CNA regions are missed. Thus, more sophisticated statistical models are needed to make the CNAs detection, using the low SNR signals, more robust and reliable. 相似文献5.
ABCA1-dependent lipid efflux to apolipoprotein A-I mediates HDL particle formation and decreases VLDL secretion from murine hepatocytes 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Sahoo D Trischuk TC Chan T Drover VA Ho S Chimini G Agellon LB Agnihotri R Francis GA Lehner R 《Journal of lipid research》2004,45(6):1122-1131
High levels of expression of the ATP binding cassette transporter A1 (ABCA1) in the liver and the need to over- or underexpress hepatic ABCA1 to impact plasma HDL levels in mice suggest a major role of the liver in HDL formation and in determining circulating HDL levels. Cultured murine hepatocytes were used to examine the role of hepatic ABCA1 in mediating the lipidation of apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) for HDL particle formation. Exogenous apoA-I stimulated cholesterol efflux to the medium from wild-type hepatocytes, but not from ABCA1-deficient (abca1(-/-)) hepatocytes. ApoA-I induced the formation of new HDL particles and enhanced the lipidation of endogenously secreted murine apoA-I in ABCA1-expressing but not abca1(-/-) hepatocytes. ABCA1-dependent cholesterol mobilization to apoA-I increased new cholesterol synthesis, indicating depletion of the regulatory pool of hepatocyte cholesterol during HDL formation. Secretion of triacylglycerol and apoB was decreased following apoA-I incubation with ABCA1-expressing but not abca1(-/-) hepatocytes. These results support a major role for hepatocyte ABCA1 in generating a critical pool of HDL precursor particles that enhance further HDL generation and passive cholesterol mobilization in the periphery. The results also suggest that diversion of hepatocyte cholesterol into the "reverse" cholesterol transport pathway diminishes cholesterol availability for apoB-containing lipoprotein secretion by the liver. 相似文献
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Predicting drug-protein interactions from heterogeneous biological data sources is a key step for in silico drug discovery. The difficulty of this prediction task lies in the rarity of known drug-protein interactions and myriad unknown interactions to be predicted. To meet this challenge, a manifold regularization semi-supervised learning method is presented to tackle this issue by using labeled and unlabeled information which often generates better results than using the labeled data alone. Furthermore, our semi-supervised learning method integrates known drug-protein interaction network information as well as chemical structure and genomic sequence data.Results
Using the proposed method, we predicted certain drug-protein interactions on the enzyme, ion channel, GPCRs, and nuclear receptor data sets. Some of them are confirmed by the latest publicly available drug targets databases such as KEGG.Conclusions
We report encouraging results of using our method for drug-protein interaction network reconstruction which may shed light on the molecular interaction inference and new uses of marketed drugs.7.
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The freezing tolerance or cold acclimation of plants is enhanced over a period of time by temperatures below 10°C and by a
short photoperiod in certain species of trees and grasses. During this process, freezing tolerance increases 2–8°C in spring
annuals, 10–30°C in winter annuals, and 20–200°C in tree species. Gene upregulation and downregulation have been demonstrated
to be involved in response to environmental cues such as low temperature. Evidence suggests ABA can substitute for the low
temperature stimulus, provided there is also an adequate supply of sugars. Evidence also suggests there may be ABA-dependent
and ABA-independent pathways involved in the acclimation process. This review summarizes the role of ABA in cold acclimation
from both a historical and recent perspective. It is concluded that it is highly unlikely that ABA regulates all the genes
associated with cold acclimation; however, it definitely regulates many of the genes associated with an increase in freezing
tolerance. 相似文献
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Wentao Zhang Sheila D. S. Chiwocha Russell Trischuk Lawrence V. Gusta 《Journal of Plant Growth Regulation》2010,29(1):91-105
Abscisic acid (ABA) and gibberellins (GAs) are two major phytohormones that regulate seed germination in response to internal
and external factors. In this study we used HPLC-ESI/MS/MS to investigate hormone profiles in canola (Brassica napus) seeds that were 25, 50, and 75% germinated and their ungerminated counterparts imbibed at 8°C in either water, 25 μM GA4+7, a 80 mM saline solution, or 50 μM ABA, respectively. During germination, ABA levels declined while GA4 levels increased. Higher ABA levels appeared in ungerminated seeds compared to germinated seeds. GA4 levels were lower in seeds imbibed in the saline solution compared to seeds imbibed in water. Ungerminated seeds imbibed
in ABA had lower GA4 levels compared to ungerminated seeds imbibed in water; however, the levels of GA4 were similar for germinated seeds imbibed in either water or ABA. The ABA metabolites PA and DPA increased in seeds imbibed
in either water, the saline solution, or ABA, but decreased in GA4+7-imbibed seeds. In addition, ABA inhibited GA4 accumulation, whereas GA had no effect on ABA accumulation but altered the ABA catabolism pathway. Information from our studies
strongly supports the concept that the balance of ABA and GA is a major factor controlling germination. 相似文献