background & objectives: anaplastic lymphoma kinase (alk) is a receptor tyrosine kinase involved in the genesis of several human cancers. alk was initially identified because of its involvement in anaplastic large cell lymphoma (alcl). alk is believed to foster tumorigenesis following activation by autocrine and/or paracrine growth loops. studies reveal that the presence of anti-alk antibod...

Biatractylolide is an Atractylodes macrocephala derived bisesquiterpenoid that has been found treatment of dementia in model mice. This study aims to explore the therapeutic effect on vascular dementia. Network pharmacological techniques have used elaborate involved mechanisms biatractylolide treating Based PubChem database, Swiss target prediction and human gene database GeneCards, 19 common m...

background: the mitogen-activated protein kinase (mapk) pathway is one of the major signaling pathways that transmit intracellular signals initiated by extracellular stimuli to the nucleus. the stress-activated protein kinase (sapk)/c-jun nh2-terminal kinase is a subfamily of map kinases implicated in cytokine and stress responses. objective: in this study, we have examined total and phosphoryl...

the gene tp53 (also known as protein 53 or tumor protein 53), encoding transcription factor p53, is mutated or deleted in half of human cancers, demonstrating the crucial role of p53 in tumor suppression. there are reports of nearly 250 independent germ line tp53 mutations in over 100 publications. the p53 protein has the structure of a transcription factor and, is made up of several domains. t...

expression of receptor tyrosine kinase ror1 in a wide variety of cancers has emerged as a new era focusing on targeting this receptor in cancer therapy. our preliminary re-sults indicate the presence of a truncated transcript of ror1 in tumor cells. the trun-cated ror1 encompasses extracellular and transmembrane domains, lacking catalytic kinase domain (ror1-ecd). as enzyme activity is highly d...

considering that mapk (mitogen- activated protein kinase) signaling pathway has an important role in the progression of inflammatory cytokine secretion in type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2dm), we have recently investigated the reported genetic polymorphism from genome wide association study in map3k1 (mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase 1) in diabetes as an important member of mapk signal...

Background: Novel roles for the interaction of cardiotonic steroids to Na+/K+-ATPase have been established in recent years. The aim of the present study was to investigate the intracellular signaling events downstream the action of ouabain on Na+/K+-ATPase in Sertoli cell obtained from immature rats. Treatment of Sertoli cells with ouabain (1 μM) induced a rapid and transient increase in the ex...

Background: When Staphylococcus aureus is grown in the presence of high concentration of external glucose, this sugar is phosphorylated by glucokinase (glkA) to form glucose-6-phosphate. This product subsequently enters into anabolic phase, which favors biofilm formation. The presence of ROK (repressor protein, open reading frame, sugar kinase) motif, phosphate-1 and -2 sites, and tyrosine kina...

Our study was aimed at exploring the roles of lncRNA RP11-400K9.4 (RP11-400K9.4) on hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R) -induced cardiomyocytes apoptosis. H/R model constructed in rat primary (PC) and H9c2 cells. In this study, results showed that significantly induced apoptosis PC The expression upregulated H/R-induced cells, but miR-423 downregulated. Silencing could attenuate We also found a potenti...

Osteoarthritis is the fourth leading cause of disability affecting more than 300 million people around globe. In this disease, chondrocytes responsible for growth and maintenance articular joints start to deplete due rogue involvement phosphoinositide 3-kinase, protein kinase-B p38 mitogenactivated kinases. Presently, there are medications providing symptomatic treatment, however, they cannot t...