Background:The breast cancer has been the most common form of cancer among women.The triple negative subtype represents 20%of all breast cancer cases in the world and is standing out by affecting young women and being...
Purpose of the study: Research of the clinical and diagnostic significance of determination of Lipocalin-2 associated with neutrophilic gelatinases (uNGAL) in the urine of children with urinary tract infection (UTI) a...
funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (81201211, 81471803);Funding of State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases (SKLOD201527);The youth start-up fund (2015SCU11013)
Osteoarthritis is recognised to be an interactive pathological process involving the cartilage, subchondral bone and synovium. The signals from the synovium play an important role in cartilage metabolism, but little i...
To the editor:It has been known that invasion and metastasis of skin melanoma in situ is a complex multi-step process involving in the interaction between melanoma cells and the adjacent stromal cells and basement me...
supported by Universita di Milano(PUR.2009) to Nicoletta Basilico and Charity Funds from Mrs.Franca Squazza to Mauro Prato;Mauro Prato holds a professorshipgranted by Universita Torino and Azienda Sanitaria Locale-19(ASL-19)
Objective:To investigate the regulation of matrix metalloproteinases(MMPs) and tissue inhibitors of melalloproleinases(TIMPs) in human microvascular endothelium(HMEC-1) exposed to erythrocytes infected by different st...
Gelatinases matrix metalloproteinase-2 and matrix metalloproteinase-9 have been shown to mediate claudin-5 and occludin degradation, and play an important regulatory role in blood-brain barrier permeability. This stud...
Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.30500586
AIM:To investigate the possible correlation between osteoglycin expression and gelatinase activity of mouse hepatocarcinoma Hca-F cells.METHODS:A eukaryotic expression plasmid pIRE Spuro3 osteoglycin(+)was constructed...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.30500586)
Objective: To investigate the possible correlation between osteoglycin expression and gelatinases activity of tumor cells. Methods: Eukaryotic expression plasmid and antisense expression plasmid of osteoglycin were...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.30670805);Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 7063081);the"985"Project Foundation;"211" Project Foundation (TIAN Xin-xia) from Peking University Health Science Center.
Background E-cadhedn, beta-catenin, cathepsin D, matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2, MMP-9, tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinase (TIMP)-1 and TIMP-2 are all invasion-related proteins. The expression patterns of th...
Supported by grants from the Federal Ministry of Education Research of Germany, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), and Aachen University
AIM: To study the effect of gelatinases (especially MMP-9) on migration of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase (TIMP-1) overexpressing hepatoma cells. METHODS: Wild type HepG2 cells, cells stably transfected with TI...