Laboratory evaluation of estrogen metabolism - Estrogen Metabolism 28/11/2011 06:53:08Higher levels of estradiol (E2), and especially estrone (E1), in serum and urine have been consistently associated with a moderately elevated risk of breast cancer. There is some e...
ESTROGEN AND THE RISK OF BREAST C ANCER AND ESTROGEN AND BREAST CARCINOGENESIS 10/05/2011 09:10:52THE connection between breast cancer and estrogen has been recognized for more than 100 years, since George Beatson demonstrated that bilateral oophorectomy resulted in the remissi...
Mitochondrial Structure and Function Are Disrupted by Standard Isolation Methods 28/04/2011 05:27:25Mitochondria regulate critical components of cellular function via ATP production, reactive oxygen species production, Ca2+ handling and apoptotic signaling. Two classical methods ...
Mitochondrial genetics and human systemic hypertension 06/04/2011 11:35:44E
volution of biological processes is fascinating and more
so the evolutionary reduction of mitochondrial genome.
A proteobacterium that invaded the nucleus-containing host
cel...
Arginine methylation of BCL-2 antagonist of cell death (BAD) counteracts its phosphorylation and inactivation by Akt [Biochemistry] 29/03/2011 07:05:01Protein arginine methylation is a common posttranslational modification catalyzed by a family of the protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs). We have previously reported that P...
Inactivation of a Mitochondrial Carrier [Metabolism] 28/03/2011 06:29:44An ATP-Mg2+/Pi inner mitochondrial membrane solute transporter (SLC25A25), which is induced during adaptation to cold stress in the skeletal muscle of mice with defective UCP1/brow...
BIOGENESIS OF MITOCHONDRIA 21/03/2011 10:32:43
ABSTRACT
Growth under conditions of oxygen restriction results in a generalized decrease in the definition of the mitochondrial membranes, a decrease in the mitochondrial cytoch...
Exercise Increases Mitochondrial PGC-1{alpha} Content [Metabolism] 21/03/2011 10:23:40Exercise Increases Mitochondrial PGC-1α Content and Promotes Nuclear-Mitochondrial Cross-talk to Coordinate Mitochondrial Biogenesis*
Adeel Safdar‡§¶,1, Jonathan P. Little‡,2...
Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life 18/03/2011 12:41:54Flies are one of four superradiations of insects (along with beetles,
wasps, and moths) that account for the majority of animal life on
Earth. Diptera includes species known for ...
PUBMED: Effect of acute and delayed hyperbaric oxygen therapy on cyanide whole blood levels during acute cyanide intoxication. 10/03/2011 07:50:54Abstract
Cyanide and carbon monoxide, which are often found in fire victims, are toxic gases emitted from fires. Cyanide and carbon monoxide have similar molecular structure. Cyan...