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  1. Disturbance of the equilibrium between reactive oxygen species (ROS) and anti-oxidants (AOX) has been implicated in various diseases, including atherosclerosis, the most common pathologic process underlying co...

    Authors: Yosra Souiden, Hela Mallouli, Salah Meskhi, Yassine Chaabouni, Ahmed Rebai, Foued Chéour and Kacem Mahdouani
    Citation: Biological Research 2016 49:22
  2. Osteoarthritis (OA) can be defined as degradation of articular cartilage of the joint, and is the most common degenerative disease. To regenerate the damaged cartilage, different experimental approaches includ...

    Authors: Dong-Sik Chae, Chang Youn Lee, Jiyun Lee, Hyang-Hee Seo, Chong-Hyuk Choi, Seahyoung Lee and Ki-Chul Hwang
    Citation: Biological Research 2018 51:41
  3. Heavy metals can cause great harm to Siberian tigers in the natural environment. Cadmium (Cd2+) is an environmental contaminant that affects multiple cellular processes, including cell proliferation, differentiat...

    Authors: Hui Wang, Zheng Liu, Wenxiu Zhang, Ziao Yuan, Hongyi Yuan, Xueting Liu, Chunwen Yang and Weijun Guan
    Citation: Biological Research 2016 49:42
  4. Multiple techniques exist for detecting Mycobacteria, each having its own advantages and drawbacks. Among them, automated culture-based systems like the BACTEC-MGITâ„¢ are popular because they are inexpensive, reli...

    Authors: Roli Kargupta, Sachidevi Puttaswamy, Aiden J. Lee, Timothy E. Butler, Zhongyu Li, Sounak Chakraborty and Shramik Sengupta
    Citation: Biological Research 2017 50:21
  5. Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is a common disease that occurs during the perinatal period. The primary cause of neonatal HIE is related to fetal intrauterine anoxia. Carbamylated erythropoietin (CEPO),...

    Authors: Min Diao, Yi Qu, Hui Liu, Yushan Ma and Xuemei Lin
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:28
  6. Improper control on reactive oxygen species (ROS) elimination process and formation of free radicals causes tissue dysfunction. Pineal hormone melatonin is considered a potent regulator of such oxidative dama...

    Authors: Mahammed Moniruzzaman, Indranath Ghosal, Debjit Das and Suman Bhusan Chakraborty
    Citation: Biological Research 2018 51:17
  7. Free fatty acid receptor 1 (FFAR1) is G-protein coupled receptor predominantly expressed in pancreatic β-cells that is activated by a variety of free fatty acids (FFAs). Once activated, it promotes glucose-sti...

    Authors: Sulaiman K. Marafie, Eman M. Al-Shawaf, Jehad Abubaker and Hossein Arefanian
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:44
  8. Cancer, being the foremost challenge of the modern era and the focus of world-class investigators, gargantuan research is in progress worldwide to explore novel therapeutic for its management. The exploitation...

    Authors: Sajjad Ahmad, Farhat Ullah, Muhammad Ayaz, Anwar Zeb, Farman Ullah and Abdul Sadiq
    Citation: Biological Research 2016 49:18
  9. The Eurasian grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) is the most widely cultivated and economically important horticultural crop in the world. As a one of the origin area, Anatolia played an important role in the diversifi...

    Authors: Sadiye Peral Eyduran, Meleksen Akin, Sezai Ercisli, Ecevit Eyduran and David Maghradze
    Citation: Biological Research 2015 48:2
  10. Insects have developed resistance against Bt-transgenic plants. A multi-barrier defense system to weaken their resistance development is now necessary. One such approach is to use fusion protein genes to incre...

    Authors: Adnan Muzaffar, Sarfraz Kiani, Muhammad Azmat Ullah Khan, Abdul Qayyum Rao, Arfan Ali, Mudassar Fareed Awan, Adnan Iqbal, Idrees Ahmad Nasir, Ahmad Ali Shahid and Tayyab Husnain
    Citation: Biological Research 2015 48:14
  11. chronic hypoxia increases basal ventilation and pulmonary vascular resistance, with variable changes in arterial blood pressure and heart rate, but it’s impact on heart rate variability and autonomic regulatio...

    Authors: Julio Alcayaga, Rodrigo Del Rio, Esteban A. Moya, Matías Freire and Rodrigo Iturriaga
    Citation: Biological Research 2018 51:57
  12. CD4+ T cells play an important role in the initiation of an immune response by providing help to other cells. Among the helper T subsets, interferon-γ (IFN-γ)-secreting T helper 1 (Th1) and IL-17-secreting T help...

    Authors: Youra Kang, Maheshwor Timilshina, Tae-gyu Nam, Byeong-Seon Jeong and Jae-Hoon Chang
    Citation: Biological Research 2017 50:8
  13. Heat stress proteins are implicated in stabilizing and refolding denatured proteins in vertebrates and invertebrates. Members of the Hsp70 gene family comprise the cognate heat shock protein (Hsc70) and induci...

    Authors: Marcelo González-Aravena, Camila Calfio, Luis Mercado, Byron Morales-Lange, Jorn Bethke, Julien De Lorgeril and César A. Cárdenas
    Citation: Biological Research 2018 51:8
  14. Psoralen is a coumarin-like and coumarin-related benzofuran glycoside, which is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine to treat patients with kidney and spleen-yang deficiency symptom. Psoralen has been ...

    Authors: Xiaomin Wang, Peike Peng, Zhiqiang Pan, Zhaoqin Fang, Wenli Lu and Xiaomei Liu
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:34
  15. Aged garlic extract (AGE) and its main constituent S-allylcysteine (SAC) are natural antioxidants with protective effects against cerebral ischemia or cancer, events that involve hypoxia stress. Cobalt chlorid...

    Authors: Marisol Orozco-Ibarra, Jorge Muñoz-Sánchez, Martín E. Zavala-Medina, Benjamín Pineda, Roxana Magaña-Maldonado, Edgar Vázquez-Contreras, Perla D. Maldonado, José Pedraza-Chaverri and María Elena Chánez-Cárdenas
    Citation: Biological Research 2016 49:7
  16. Prognosis remains one of most crucial determinants of gastric cancer (GC) treatment, but current methods do not predict prognosis accurately. Identification of additional biomarkers is urgently required to ide...

    Authors: Wei Li, Yan Chen, Xuan Sun, Jupeng Yang, David Y. Zhang, Daguang Wang and Jian Suo
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:42
  17. Low phosphorus availability is a major factor restricting rice growth. Dongxiang wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.) has many useful genes lacking in cultivated rice, including stress resistance to phosphorus defi...

    Authors: Qian-Wen Deng, Xiang-Dong Luo, Ya-Ling Chen, Yi Zhou, Fan-Tao Zhang, Biao-Lin Hu and Jian-Kun Xie
    Citation: Biological Research 2018 51:7
  18. Mammary cell cultures are convenient tools for in vitro studies of mammary gland biology. However, the heterogeneity of mammary cell types, e.g., glandular milk secretory epithelial or myoepithelial cells, oft...

    Authors: Edgar Corneille Ontsouka, Janique Sabina Bertschi, Xiao Huang, Michael Lüthi, Stefan Müller and Christiane Albrecht
    Citation: Biological Research 2016 49:1
  19. Honey is a natural product obtained from the nectar that is collected from flowers by bees. It has several properties, including those of being food and supplementary diet, and it can be used in cosmetic produ...

    Authors: Kanyaluck Jantakee and Yingmanee Tragoolpua
    Citation: Biological Research 2015 48:4
  20. A highly regulated trafficking of cargo vesicles in eukaryotes performs protein delivery to a variety of cellular compartments of endomembrane system. The two main routes, the secretory and the endocytic pathw...

    Authors: Beatriz Vásquez-Soto, Nicolás Manríquez, Mirna Cruz-Amaya, Jan Zouhar, Natasha V Raikhel and Lorena Norambuena
    Citation: Biological Research 2015 48:39
  21. Excessive production of free radicals causes direct damage to biological molecules such as DNA, proteins, lipids, carbohydrates leading to tumor development and progression. Natural antioxidant molecules from ...

    Authors: Bruno Moukette Moukette, Constant Anatole Pieme, Jacques Romain Njimou, Cabral Prosper Nya Biapa, Bravi Marco and Jeanne Yonkeu Ngogang
    Citation: Biological Research 2015 48:15
  22. Chronic prostatitis has been supposed to be associated with preneoplastic lesions and cancer development. The objective of this study was to examine how chronic inflammation results in a prostatic microenviron...

    Authors: Yong Gao, Lijuan Wei, Chenbang Wang, Yuanjie Huang, Weidong Li, Tianyu Li, Chaohua Mo, Huali Qin, Xiaoge Zhong, Yun Wang, Aihua Tan, Zengnan Mo, Yonghua Jiang and Yanling Hu
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:30
  23. Breast cancer remains a worldwide public health dilemma and is currently the most common tumour in the globe. Awareness of breast cancer, public attentiveness, and advancement in breast imaging has made a posi...

    Authors: Muhammad Akram, Mehwish Iqbal, Muhammad Daniyal and Asmat Ullah Khan
    Citation: Biological Research 2017 50:33
  24. A number of dysregulated miRNAs have been identified and are proposed to have significant roles in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus or renal pathology. Alpinia oxyphylla has shown significant anti-inf...

    Authors: Guankui Du, Man Xiao, Xuezi Zhang, Maoyu Wen, Chi Pang, Shangfei Jiang, Shenggang Sang and Yiqiang Xie
    Citation: Biological Research 2017 50:9
  25. Understanding the molecular basis underlying the formation of bone-forming osteocytes and lipid-storing adipocytes will help provide insights into the cause of disorders originating in stem/progenitor cells an...

    Authors: Alma Madrigal, Lun Tan and Yuanxiang Zhao
    Citation: Biological Research 2017 50:43
  26. Cognitive ecologist posits that the more efficiently an animal uses information from the biotic and abiotic environment, the more adaptive are its cognitive abilities. Nevertheless, this approach does not test...

    Authors: Daniela S. Rivera, Nibaldo C. Inestrosa and Francisco Bozinovic
    Citation: Biological Research 2016 49:10
  27. New evidence demonstrates that aging and dyslipidemia are closely associated with oxidative stress, DNA damage and apoptosis in some cells and extravascular tissues. However, in monocytes, which are naturally ...

    Authors: Thais A. Jacinto, Giselle S. Meireles, Ananda T. Dias, Rafaela Aires, Marcella L. Porto, Agata L. Gava, Elisardo C. Vasquez, Thiago Melo C. Pereira, Bianca P. Campagnaro and Silvana S. Meyrelles
    Citation: Biological Research 2018 51:33
  28. To evaluate the hepatoprotective potential and invitro cytotoxicity studies of whole plant methanol extract of Rumex vesicarius L. Methanol extract at a dose of 100 mg/kg bw and 200 mg/kg bw were assessed for its...

    Authors: Asha Tukappa NK, Ramesh L Londonkar, Hanumantappa B Nayaka and Sanjeev Kumar CB
    Citation: Biological Research 2015 48:19
  29. The current state of the art in medical genetics is to identify and classify the functional (deleterious) or non-functional (neutral) single amino acid substitutions (SAPs), also known as non-synonymous SNPs (...

    Authors: Shabana Kouser Ali, C George Priya Doss, D Thirumal Kumar and Hailong Zhu
    Citation: Biological Research 2015 48:35
  30. Prunella vulgaris L. has been an important medicinal plant for the treatment of thyroid gland malfunction and mastitis in China for over 2000 years. There is an urgent need to select effective wavelengths for gre...

    Authors: Yuhang Chen, Xuerong Zhang, Qiaosheng Guo, Liping Cao, Qin Qin, Chen Li, Miao Zhao and Wenming Wang
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:17
  31. Rumex species are traditionally used for the treatment of neurological disorders including headache, migraine, depression, paralysis etc. Several species have been scientifically validated for ...

    Authors: Sajjad Ahmad, Farhat Ullah, Muhammad Ayaz, Abdul Sadiq and Muhammad Imran
    Citation: Biological Research 2015 48:20
  32. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is one of the leading causes of death in the world. NSCLC diagnosed at an early stage can be highly curable with a positive prognosis, but biomarker limitations make it diffi...

    Authors: Hyunhee Do, Dain Kim, JiHoon Kang, Beomseok Son, Danbi Seo, HyeSook Youn, BuHyun Youn and Wanyeon Kim
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:35
  33. From ancient times, marine algae have emerged as alternative medicine and foods, contains the rich source of natural products like proteins, vitamins, and secondary metabolites, especially Chlorella vulgaris (C. ...

    Authors: Soundharrajan Ilavenil, Da Hye Kim, Mayakrishnan Vijayakumar, Srisesharam Srigopalram, Sang Gun Roh, Mariadhas Valan Arasu, Jong Suk Lee and Ki Choon Choi
    Citation: Biological Research 2016 49:38
  34. ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGPase), the key enzyme in plant starch biosynthesis, is a heterotetramer composed of two identical large subunits and two identical small subunits. AGPase has plastidial and cyt...

    Authors: Jie Dong, Yongxing Zheng, Yihan Fu, Jinxi Wang, Shasha Yuan, Yonghua Wang, Qidi Zhu, Xingqi Ou, Gezi Li and Guozhang Kang
    Citation: Biological Research 2019 52:56
  35. Tear desiccation on a glass surface followed by transmitted-light microscopy has served as diagnostic test for dry eye. Four distinctive morphological domains (zones I, II, III and transition band) have been r...

    Authors: Felipe Traipe-Salas, Leonidas Traipe-Castro, Daniela Salinas-Toro, Daniela López, Felipe Valenzuela, Christian Cartes, Héctor Toledo-Araya, Claudio Pérez and Remigio López Solís
    Citation: Biological Research 2016 49:28