The relationship between the pathophysiology of osteoarthritis (OA) and metabolic disorders (metabolic syndrome, obesity) is provided not only by mechanical causes (increased body weight pressure on joints). A complex molecular mechanisms, which mediates OA effect development obesity, was established. Excessive activity toll receptors, NF-κB cascade, endogenous chondroitin sulfates (CS) lead to...

Background: One of the main reasons of environmental contaminations is the broad application of herbicides. Controlled release technologies such as encapsulation of herbicides are as an effective tool to reduce environmental contaminations. The aim of the present study was successful nanocapsulation of Gallant Super (GS), its characterization and compare the physiological responses of Spirodela...

Spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) present the potential to acquire pluripotency under specific culture conditions. However, the frequency of pluripotent cell derivation is low, and the mechanism of SSC reprogramming remains unknown. In this study, we report that induction of global DNA hypomethylation in germline stem (GS) cells (cultured SSCs) induces pluripotent cell derivation. When DNA demet...

To explore the hypothesis that altered vascular muscle signal transduction may underlie some of the vascular changes observed in hypertensive models, we measured expression of GTP-binding protein (G protein) alpha-subunits, Gs, G(i), and Gq, in aortic muscle of reduced renal mass and sham-operated rats and proximal and distal aortic segments from rats with interrenal aortic coarctation (IR-AC)....

Although adherence to surfaces is central to neutrophil function many of the determinants of neutrophil adherence are still unknown. The possible involvement of cell surface material, fibronectin in particular, was therefore studied. Surface coat material was visualized ultrastructurally by the ferrocyanide--reduced osmium technique of Karnovsky (1971). Loosely attached surface coat material wa...

Cereal Chem. 84(3):271-275 Wheat protein quantity and composition are important parameters for wheat baking quality. The objective of this study was to use fractionation techniques to separate the proteins of flour mill streams into various protein fractions, to examine the distribution of these protein fractions, and to establish a relationship between protein composition and breadmaking quali...

The metabolic bioactivation of a drug to a reactive metabolite (RM) and its covalent binding to cellular macromolecules is believed to be involved in clinical adverse events, including idiosyncratic drug toxicities. Therefore, it is important to assess the potential of drug candidates to generate RMs and form drug-protein covalent adducts during lead optimization processes. In this study, the R...

Evidence is presented indicating that initiation of glycogen synthesis in Agrobacterium tumefaciens does not require the presence of alpha(1,4)-linked glucans. Crude cell extracts incubated with ADP-glucose (Glc) were able to form alpha(1,4)-linked glucans despite the fact that cells used for extract preparation displayed a genotype that prevented synthesis of Glc-containing sugar nucleotides a...

Time-dependent changes in sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca-handling and Na-K-ATPase activity, as assessed in vitro, were investigated in the superficial (GS) and deep regions (GD) of rat gastrocnemius muscles undergoing short-term (up to 30 min) electrical stimulation. There was a rapid and progressive loss of force output during the first 5 min of stimulation. For GS, significant depressions (P ...