This study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. NSC31300791) and the Opening Project of Hubei Key Laboratory of Purification and Application of Plant Anti-cancer Active Ingredients (No. HLPAI 2014006).
The poor survival of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) compromises the efficacy of stem cell therapy. Growth factor deprivation is one of the important factors that have challenged the survival of donor MSCs in cell the...
supported in part by research grants from the Astellas Foundation for Research on Metabolic Disorders,the Japan Foundation for Applied Enzymology,the Uehara Memorial Foundation,Mochida Memorial Foundation for Medical and Pharmaceutical Research,YOKOYAMA Foundation for Clinical Pharmacology(YRY1308);Japan Intractable Diseases Research Foundation,Japan Research Foundation for Clinical Pharmacology,ONO Medical Research Foundation,Takeda Science Foundation,Japan National Society for the Prevention of Blindness,a Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(24791850,to IHO;15K20255,to HM);the Ministry of Education,Culture,Sports,Science,and Technology of Japan(to IHO);the Ministry of Health,Labour and Welfare of Japan(to IHO)
Retinal ischemia causes several vision-threatening diseases, including diabetic retinopathy, retinal artery occlusion, and retinal vein occlusion. Intracellular adenosine triphosphate(ATP) depletion and subsequent i...
This work was supported by the National Basic Research Pro- gram of China (No 2014CB932002), the CAS Strategic Priority Research Program (No XDB14030502), the CAS/SAFEA Inter- national Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 81273004, 31470829, 20977093, and 10935009). We thank Prof Daisuke ITO from Keio University (Japan) for providing the seipin plasmids.
Aim: Seipin is a protein that resides in endoplasmic reticulum, and involved in both lipid metabolic disorders and motor neuropathy. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of mutant seipin on autopha~ s...
This work was supported in part by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81360073, 81260063, 81360027), and the Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Ningxia (NZ 13054, NZ 12174).
Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is emerging as an import- ant modulator of different pathological process and as a mechanism contributing to homocysteine (Hcy)-induced hepar injury. However, the molecular event ...
Acknowledgements This work was supported by the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars (Grant 30725039) and the key project for the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 30930091).
a process for the degradation of protein aggregates and dysfunctional organelles, is required for cellular homeostasis and cell survival in response to stress and is implicated in endogenous protection. Ischemic preco...
Taurine, a conditionally essential amino acid, plays a critical role in cardiovascular function. Here we examined the effect of taurine on mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum in rat cardiomyocytes during glucose de...