... additional factors and/ or cofactors thatsecondarily contribute to their function and that maybecome prevalent in the absence of TGF-β and/ or if TGF-βis dysregulated. The identification and intersection ... theperiphery, and to represent less than 10% of CD4+T cells 67for the induction and/ or expansion of Treg to enhancetheir role in autoimmunity, allergy, and graft rejection.ConclusionInnate and adaptive ... important new evidencedocuments that Treg can be expanded and/ or induced denovo from CD4+CD25–precursor T cells. How, where, and if the size and function of this population can beintentionally...
... orders@intechopen.com Oxidative Stressand Diseases, Edited by Volodymyr Lushchak and Dmytro V. Gospodaryov p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0552-7 Oxidative Stress: Cause and Consequence of Diseases ... pathologies andoxidative modification of proteins. Most antioxidant and related enzymes are targets for oxidative modification. Hence, if oxidativestress was primary event, possible oxidative ... and Ortiz-Butron Rocio Chapter 19 OxidativeStress in Human Autoimmune Joint Diseases 437 Martina Škurlová Chapter 20 OxidativeStress in Multiple Organ Damage in Hypertension, Diabetes and...
... Ambient particulate air pollution induces oxidative stressand alterations of mitochondria and gene expression inbrown and white adipose tissues. Particle and Fibre Toxicology 2011 8:20.Submit ... (eWAT,rWAT, and iWAT, left), and brown adipose depots (iBAT, and mBAT, right) by real-time PCR.n=8.*P < 0.05 vs. FA.Xu et al. Particle and Fibre Toxicology 2011, 8:20http://www.particleandfibretoxicology.com/content/8/1/20Page ... insulinresistan ce, oxidative stress, alteration of vasomotor tone,vascular and visceral inflammation, adiposity, and atherosclerosis in apolipoprotein E knockout (ApoE-/-)mice and other several...
... of RhoA and Rac1 GTPases and their downstram effectorsROCK kinase, LIMK and cofilin, and the concomitantupregulation of a-SMA gene expression [141].TGFb-induced Rho GTPase activation and actinremodeling ... essential for transforminggrowth factor-beta-mediated stress fiber formation. J Biol Chem 276,15362–15368.159 Engel ME, Datta PK & Moses HL (1998) RhoB isstabilized by transforminggrowth factor ... & Colicelli J (2008) Integration of transforming growth factor beta and RAS signalingsilences a RAB5 guanine nucleotide exchange factor and enhances growth factor-directed cell migration.Mol...
... AGP2_BOVIN; O77802), and human (AGP1_HUMAN; Q15389 and AGP2_HUMAN; O15123). (iv) Ficolins: ficolin A and B frompig (FICOLA_PIG; L12344 and FICOLB_PIG; L12345), mouse (FICOLA_MOUSE; AB007813 and FICOLB_MOUSE; ... (TECL5A-TACTR; AB024737.1 and TECL5B_TACTR; AB024738.1).(iii) Angiopoietin: angiopoietin 1 and 2 precursors from mouse (AGP1_MOUSE; O08538 and AGP2_MOUSE; O35608), bovine (AGP1_BOVIN;O18920 and AGP2_BOVIN; ... EGF and required for biological activity[77], are also found in the sponge and are highly conservedin domain 2. Likewise, amino acids, which are involved inligand-receptor binding [52] and...
... Induction of DNA strand breaks and oxidative stress in HeLa cells by ethanol is dependent on CYP2E1expression. Mutagenesis 22, 189–194.5 McKillop IH & Schrum LW (2005) Alcohol and livercancer. ... &Pacher P (2005) Role of oxidative- nitrosative stress and downstream pathways in various forms of cardiomyop-athy and heart failure. Curr Vasc Pharmacol 3,221–229.33 Narula J, Pandey P, Arbustini ... evidence indicating that the over-expression of CYP2E1 causes cardiacoxidative stress, myocyte apoptosis and the DCM phenotype.Materials and methodsAnimalsThe a-MHC-cTnTR141Wtransgenic mice...
... lipopolysaccharide-inducedtumour necrosis factor-a production by transforming growth factor-b1Tarnjit K. Khera1, Andrew D. Dick1,2 and Lindsay B. Nicholson1,21 Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, School of ... anti-inflammatorycytokine transforminggrowth factor-b1 (TGF-b1) ofthe proinflammatory cytokine TNF-a via the inductionof FXR1 is the focus of this article.TGF-b1, a member of the large transforming growth factor-b ... of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), IL-10,IL-12 andtransforminggrowth factor-beta (TGF-beta) mRNA in synovial fluid cells from patients inthe early and late phases of rheumatoid arthritis(RA)....
... oxidative stress (Fig. 4A,B). Under oxidative stress, partial inhi-bition of PARP activity led to altered growth, suggest-ing that oxidativestress could be leading to cell cyclearrest [22] and ... during oxidative stress- induced growth changes in D. discoideum. Under oxidative stress, the growth curve showed a dose-dependent increase in the lag phase.The log phase was shortened, and this ... transcription by oxi-dative stress. Mol Biol Cell 15, 5659–5669.23 Vohra I (2005) Effect of UV-C irradiation and oxidative stress on Dictyostelium discoideum growth, development and cell death. MPhil...
... effects of BA, ATR and ANT1 siRNA on cell viability and glucose consumption. (A,B) Cell growth curves analyzed bycrystal violet assay in BA and vehicle-treated (A) and in ATR and vehicle-treated ... Scramble- and ANT1 siRNA-transfected U-87-MG cells, 24 and 48 h after transfection. (C) Cell growth curves analyzed by crystal violet assay in nontransfected U87-MG cells, and in Scramble- and ANT1siRNA ... RNAFig. 2. Effect of ANT1 and ANT2-silencing on ADF cells. (A) Cell growth curves analyzed by crystal violet assay in nontransfected ADF cells, and in Scramble- and ANT1 siRNA and ANT2 siRNA ADF-transfected...
... apoptosis protein and heat shock proteins [47,48].Caspase-like activity andoxidative stress After the finding of caspase-like activities and aresponse by these enzymes to heat stress, parallel ... stud-ies and supports the occurrence of an oxidative stress period in heat stressed A. viridis [24]. We suggest thatapoptosis induction could be the consequence of theprevious oxidativestress ... underlined.Apoptosis andoxidativestress in bleaching S. Richier et al.4190 FEBS Journal 273 (2006) 41864198 ê 2006 The Authors Journal compilation ê 2006 FEBS Oxidativestressand apoptotic events...