Department of Biomedicine: Recent submissions
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The Benefit of Large Neutral Amino Acid Supplementation to a Liberalized Phenylalanine-Restricted Diet in Adult Phenylketonuria Patients: Evidence from Adult Pah-Enu2 Mice
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09-19)Many phenylketonuria (PKU) patients cannot adhere to the severe dietary restrictions as advised by the European PKU guidelines, which can be accompanied by aggravated neuropsychological impairments that, at least in part, ... -
Long-term treatment with valganciclovir improves lentiviral suicide gene therapy of glioblastoma
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: Suicide gene therapy for malignant gliomas has shown encouraging results in the latest clinical trials. However, prodrug application was most often restricted to short-term treatment (14 days), especially when ... -
Sub-atomic resolution crystal structures reveal conserved geometric outliers at functional sites
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-22)Myelin protein 2 (P2) is a peripheral membrane protein of the vertebrate nervous system myelin sheath, having possible roles in both lipid transport and 3D molecular organization of the multilayered myelin membrane. We ... -
The Culture Dish Surface Influences the Phenotype and Cytokine Production of Human Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-10-02)Monocyte-derived dendritic cells (moDC) are an important scientific and clinical source of functional dendritic cells (DC). However, the optimization of the generation process has to date mainly been limited to the variation ... -
The effect of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) on serum tryptophan metabolites
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-31)Background: Prior studies suggest that activation of the tryptophan catabolism via the kynurenine pathway by proinflammatory cytokines may be involved in the pathophysiology of depression. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) ... -
A Functional Role of GAS6/TAM in Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Progression Implicates AXL as Therapeutic Target
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background and Aims GAS6 signaling, through the TAM receptor tyrosine kinases AXL and MERTK, participates in chronic liver pathologies. Here, we addressed GAS6/TAM involvement in Non-Alcoholic SteatoHepatitis (NASH) ... -
Bortezomib administered prior to temozolomide depletes MGMT, chemosensitizes glioblastoma with unmethylated MGMT promoter and prolongs animal survival
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-15)Background Resistance to temozolomide (TMZ) is due in part to enhanced DNA repair mediated by high expression of O6-methyl guanine DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) that is often characterised by unmethylated promoter. Here, ... -
Cancer-associated fibroblasts in desmoplastic tumors: emerging role of integrins
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The tumor microenvironment (TME) is a complex meshwork of extracellular matrix (ECM) macromolecules filled with a collection of cells including cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), blood vessel associated smooth muscle ... -
Multiphoton excitation microscopy for the reconstructionand analysis of single neuron morphology
(Neuromethods, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)Neurons are the main cellular components of the circuits of the central nervous system (CNS). The dendritic and axonal morphology of individual neurons display marked variability between neurons in different regions of the ... -
Propofol alleviates DNA damage induced by oxygen glucose deprivation and reperfusion via FoxO1 nuclear translocation in H9c2 cells
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-03-15)Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury induces irreversible oxidative stress damage to the cardiac myocytes. Many studies have revealed that propofol alleviates the important organelle-mediated injury from oxidative stress in ... -
Propofol ameliorates H9c2 cells apoptosis induced by oxygen glucose deprivation and reperfusion injury via inhibiting high levels of mitochondrial fusion and fission
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-02-12)Background: The cardioprotective effect of propofol on ischemia-reperfusion injury (I/R injury) is partly due to suppressing apoptosis. Mitochondrial dynamics are also involved in apoptosis. Mitochondrial fusion and fission ... -
Pretreatment of glioblastoma with bortezomib potentiates natural killer cell cytotoxicity through TRAIL/DR5 mediated apoptosis and prolongs animal survival
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-07-17)Background: Natural killer (NK) cells are potential effectors in anti-cancer immunotherapy; however only a subset potently kills cancer cells. Here, we examined whether pretreatment of glioblastoma (GBM) with the proteasome ... -
Protein expression profiling of plasma and lungs at different stages of metastatic development in a human triple negative breast cancer xenograft model.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-01)The main objective of this study was to identify single proteins or protein networks that might be used as diagnostic biomarkers or for therapeutic purposes by evaluating the protein expression profiling of plasma and lungs ... -
BioContainers: An open-source and community-driven framework for software standardization
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-03-30)Motivation BioContainers (biocontainers.pro) is an open-source and community-driven framework which provides platform independent executable environments for bioinformatics software. BioContainers allows labs of all sizes ... -
The Natural Flavonoid Galangin Elicits Apoptosis, Pyroptosis, and Autophagy in Glioblastoma
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09-27)Galangin (GG), a flavonoid, elicits a potent antitumor activity in diverse cancers. Here, we evaluated the efficacy of GG in the treatment of human glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) and investigated the molecular basis for its ... -
Proteomics Standards Initiative Extended FASTA Format
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Mass-spectrometry-based proteomics enables the high-throughput identification and quantification of proteins, including sequence variants and post-translational modifications (PTMs) in biological samples. However, most ... -
SearchGUI: a highly adaptable common interface for proteomics search and de novo engines
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Mass-spectrometry-based proteomics has become the standard approach for identifying and quantifying proteins. A vital step consists of analyzing experimentally generated mass spectra to identify the underlying peptide ... -
Stromal integrin α11 regulates PDGFR-β signaling and promotes breast cancer progression
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are key actors in modulating the progression of many solid tumors, such as breast cancer (BC). Herein, we identify an integrin α11/PDGFRβ–positive CAF subset displaying tumor-promoting ... -
A simple DMSO-based method for cryopreservation of primary hippocampal and cortical neurons
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-03)Background Primary neuronal cultures are widely used to elucidate fundamental aspects of neuronal anatomy, physiology, cell biology, and neuronal dysfunction in animal models of disease. However, preparation of primary ...