Hepatocyte nuclear factor 4alpha (HNF-4alpha), a liver-specific transcription factor, plays a significant role in many liver-specific functions, including lipid, glucose, drug, and ammonia metabolism, and also in embryonal liver development. However, its functions and regulation are not yet clearly understood. In this study, we constructed an adenovirus vector carrying rat HNF-4alpha cDNA and t...

results like other cancers, prostate cancer is caused by an accumulation of genetic alterations in a cell that drives it to malignant growth. specific genes and gene alterations have been suggested to play a role in its development and progression. aneuploidy, loss of heterozygosity, gene mutations, hypermethylation and inactivation of specific tumour suppressor genes such as gstpi, apc, mdr1, ...

Recent research is about the role of miR-29 accompanied by various conditions especially during the physical activity is a case of special attention, such as high intensity interval training (HIIT) and continuous aerobic training (CT) protective in heart, renal, lung, liver  and even immune system adaptation. Since recent studies indicated the rolls of miR family on health and disease such as t...

The study aims to identify phylogenetic groups and antibiotic susceptibility of poultry Escherichia coli (APEC) isolates. E. was phenotypically biochemically characterized. Isolates from 8/30 (26.66%) liver, 7/30 (23.33%) heart, 4/30 (13.33%) spleen 37-42 days old vaccinated broiler chickens were assessed. Then the isolates (19/90; 21.11%) phylogrouped by quadruplex genotyping based on presence...

Sex differences in susceptibility to alcohol-induced liver injury have been observed in both humans and experimental animal models. Using a standard model of alcohol-induced fatty liver injury and microarray analysis, we have identified differential expression of hepatic genes in both sexes. The genes that exhibit differential expression are of three types: those that are changed only in male r...

The natural course of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections follows distinct clinical disease phases, characterized by fluctuating levels serum HBV DNA and ALT. immune cells their features that govern these transitions remain unknown. In the current study, we performed RNA sequencing on purified from blood (n = 42) liver 10) healthy controls patients. We found gene expression profiles betw...

Natural immunological tolerance can be induced in certain types of allogeneic liver transplantation in rats. To screen for genes associated with the induction of tolerance, suppression subtractive hybridization was performed in the rat liver transplantation model between a DA donor and PVG recipient combination where spontaneous immunological tolerance is known to occur without any immunosuppre...

Cytochromes P450 are a superfamily of heme proteins involved in oxidative metabolism of endogenous chemicals such as steroid hormones and human-made xenobiotics including drugs and environmental pollutants. Hundreds of P450s have been demonstrated by cDNA and gene cloning in animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria. Most of the mammalian xenobiotic-metabolizing P450s, found within the eight subfami...

Hepatocyte-specific, albumin-Cre recombinase-mediated deletion of the entire mouse Stat5a-Stat5b locus was carried out to evaluate the role of signal transducer and activator of transcription 5a and 5b (STAT5ab) in the sex-dependent transcriptional actions of GH in the liver. The resultant hepatocyte STAT5ab-deficient mice were fertile, and unlike global STAT5b-deficient male mice, postnatal bo...