Search Results - "Kato, Taiji"
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Induction of blood–brain barrier properties in immortalized bovine brain endothelial cells by astrocytic factors
Published in Neuroscience research (01-11-1999)“…The blood–brain barrier (B-BB) protects the free passage of substances into the brain and maintains the homeostasis of the central nervous system. It is…”
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Alpha-fetoprotein producing gastric cancer lacks transcription factor ATBF1
Published in Oncogene (15-02-2001)“…Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) producing gastric cancer (AFP-GC) is very malignant and highly metastatic compared with common gastric cancer. However, the causal…”
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Cyclic ADP‐ribose as a potential second messenger for neuronal Ca2+ signaling
Published in Journal of neurochemistry (01-01-2001)“…Cyclic ADP‐ribose (cADPR), a known endogenous modulator of ryanodine receptor Ca2+ releasing channels, is found in the nervous system. Injection of cADPR into…”
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Alterations in the expression of the AQP family in cultured rat astrocytes during hypoxia and reoxygenation
Published in Brain research. Molecular brain research. (20-05-2001)“…Aquaporins (AQPs) are a family of water-selective transporting proteins with homology to the major intrinsic protein (MIP) of lens [Cell 39 (1984) 49], that…”
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Epidermal growth factor down-regulates connexin-43 expression in cultured rat cortical astrocytes
Published in Neuroscience letters (02-11-2001)“…Astrocytes are coupled via gap junction channels, predominantly formed by connexin-43 (Cx43), and contribute to neuronal function in the normal and diseased…”
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Interleukin-1β induces the expression of lipocortin 1 mRNA in cultured rat cortical astrocytes
Published in Neuroscience research (01-05-2001)“…Lipocortin 1 (LC1) has been shown to increase in neuronal damage and act as a neuroprotectant and a neurotrophic factor. IL-1β acts as a mediator of…”
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Hyperthermic induction of apoptosis in malignant fibrous histiocytoma cells: possible involvement of a p53-independent pathway in the induction of bax gene
Published in Journal of orthopaedic science : official journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (2002)“…We have previously reported the unique heat sensitivity of a cell line of malignant fibrous histiocytoma cells, the MFH-2NR cell line. In the present study,…”
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Cholesterol Homeostasis in Rat Astrocytoma Cells GA-1
Published in Journal of biochemistry (Tokyo) (01-11-2000)“…Astrocytes play a key role in cholesterol metabolism in central nervous system. We have shown that fetal rat astrocytes in primary culture secrete…”
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Isolation and characterization of a new immortal rat astrocyte with a high expression of NGF mRNA
Published in Neuroscience research (01-02-2001)“…We have established a new line of immortalized rat astrocytes through transfection of plasmid pSV3-neo encoding the large T antigen of simian virus 40 into…”
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The Mouse ZFH-4 Protein Contains Four Homeodomains and Twenty-Two Zinc Fingers
Published in Biochemical and biophysical research communications (05-07-2000)“…We isolated the mouse zfh-4 cDNA which is 12 kb long and capable of encoding a 3,550-amino acid protein containing four homeodomains and 22 zinc fingers…”
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Astrocytic contributions to blood-brain barrier (BBB) formation by endothelial cells: A possible use of aortic endothelial cell for In vitro BBB model
Published in Neurochemistry international (01-05-1996)“…Astrocytic contribution of endothelial cell monolayer permeability was examined in two blood-brain barrier (BBB) models, using the coculture in a double…”
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ASTROCYTE-CONDITIONED MEDIUM INDUCES BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER PROPERTIES IN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS
Published in Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology (01-10-1997)“…SUMMARY 1. We evaluated the induction of endothelial barrier functions by the type 1 astrocyte‐derived supernatant in culture using horseradish peroxidase…”
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Cloning of a Rat Glia Maturation Factor-γ (rGMFG) cDNA and Expression of Its mRNA and Protein in Rat Organs
Published in Journal of biochemistry (Tokyo) (01-03-2000)“…We isolated a rat glia maturation factor-λ (rGMFG) cDNA and examined the tissue distribution of GMFG in rat by Northern and Western blot analyses. Sequence…”
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Critical Role for the 310 Helix Region of p57Kip2 in Cyclin-dependent Kinase 2 Inhibition and Growth Suppression
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (26-06-1998)“…Although crystal structural analysis of cyclin A/cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (Cdk2)/p27 (Russo, A. A., Jeffrey, P. D., Pattern, A. K., Massague, J., and…”
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Microsatellite instability in in situ and invasive sporadic breast cancers of Japanese women
Published in Cancer letters (29-11-1996)“…We studied the timing of microsatellite instability (referred to as replication error; RER) presentation during human breast carcinogenesis using tissue…”
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Cisplatin and radiation sensitivity in human head and neck squamous carcinomas are independently modulated by glutathione and transcription factor NF-?B
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A novel glial growth inhibitory factor, gliostatin, derived from neurofibroma
Published in Journal of neurochemistry (01-07-1992)“…Neurofibroma tissue was investigated for the presence of glial growth modulators that would suppress the proliferation of glial cells. A novel endogenous…”
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Calcium oxalate crystal attachment to cultured rat kidney epithelial cell, NRK-52E
Published in Urologia internationalis (2001)“…Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells have been used in research on crystal adhesion to epithelial cells. Recently, matrix proteins were identified, and…”
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Expression of glia maturation factor during retinal development in the rat
Published in Brain research. Molecular brain research. (01-11-2001)“…Glia maturation factor plays important roles in the development and growth of glia and neurons. We investigated the expression and localization of Glia…”
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Noncardiogenic Pulmonary Edema as the Chief Manifestation of a Pheochromocytoma: A Case Report of MEN 2A with Pedigree Analysis of the RET Proto-Oncogene
Published in The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine (01-06-1999)“…Pheochromocytomas are rare neoplasias of the adrenal medulla which generally present with paroxysmal or sustained hypertension. Cardiogenic pulmonary edema is…”
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