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The renal phenotype of allopurinol-treated HPRT-deficient mouse.

PLoS ONE, 2017
Excess of uric acid is mainly treated with xanthine oxidase (XO) inhibitors, also called uricostatics because they block the conversion of hypoxanthine and xanthine into urate.
Cristina Zennaro, Federica Tonon, Paola Zarattini, Milan Clai, Alessandro Corbelli, Michele Carraro, Marialaura Marchetti, Luca Ronda, Gianluca Paredi, Maria Pia Rastaldi, Riccardo Percudani   +10 more
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Cathepsin B modulates lysosomal biogenesis and host defense against Francisella novicida infection [PDF]

, 2016
Lysosomal cathepsins regulate an exquisite range of biological functions, and their deregulation is associated with inflammatory, metabolic, and degenerative diseases in humans.
Gurung, Prajwal, Guy, Clifford S, Kanneganti, Thirumala-Devi, Karki, Rajendra, Lamkanfi, Mohamed, Lupfer, Christopher, Malireddi, RK Subbarao, Man, Si Ming, Neale, Geoffrey, Qi, Xiaopeng   +9 more
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The In Vitro Transgenic Rodent Assay in Primary MutaMouse Hepatocytes Compared to the Mammalian Cell Gene Mutation Assay Using the HPRT Gene

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gene mutations can be detected in mammalian cells in vitro using indicator genes such as the hypoxanthine‐guanine‐phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) gene. These assays have been adopted as OECD test guidelines (TG, e.g., OECD TG no. 476) and are used for regulatory purposes.
Alina Göpfert, Kylee Kendra Marie Ronnenberg, Claudia Ruelker, Silke Spang, Naveed Honarvar, Robert Landsiedel   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide (GIP) Induces Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP)-I and Procalcitonin (Pro-CT) Production in Human Adipocytes [PDF]

, 2011
Context: Increased plasma levels of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP), calcitonin CT gene-related peptide (CGRP)-I, and procalcitonin (Pro-CT) are associated with obesity.
Christ-Crain, Mirjam, Dembinski, Kaethi, Frey, Daniel M., Grisouard, Jean, Häring, Andreas, Keller, Ulrich, Müller, Beat, Peterli, Ralph, Radimerski, Tanja, Timper, Katharina, Zulewski, Henryk   +10 more
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Late diagnosis of Lesch–Nyhan disease complicated with end-stage renal disease and tophi burst: a case report

Renal Failure, 2020
Background Lesch–Nyhan disease (LND) is a rare X-linked recessive inborn error of purine metabolism. Late diagnosis of LND may cause significant morbidity. LND cases have never been reported in Indonesia.
Cahyani Gita Ambarsari, Daffodilone Cahyadi, Lenny Sari, Oryza Satria, Felly Sahli, Thyrza Laudamy Darmadi, Agustina Kadaristiana   +6 more
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Aquaporin‐1, aquaporin‐3 and aquaporin‐5 differentially modulate cell biophysical and biomechanical properties, impacting cell stiffness and cell–cell adhesion

The FEBS Journal, EarlyView.
GA text Overexpression of aquaporins AQP1, AQP3, or AQP5 in HEK‐293 T cells induced changes in cell biophysical properties and migration. Atomic force microscopy (AFM)–based force spectroscopy studies demonstrated that AQP1 overexpression increased cell stiffness and cell–cell adhesion, AQP3 augmented cell stiffness but reduced cell–cell adhesion ...
Catarina Pimpão, Filomena A. Carvalho, Inês Vieira da Silva, Andreia Barateiro, Nuno C. Santos, Graça Soveral   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nucleosided derived antibiotics to fight microbial drug resistance: New utilities for an established class of drugs? [PDF]

, 2016
Novel antibiotics are urgently needed to combat the rise of infections due to drug-resistant microorganisms. Numerous natural nucleosides and their synthetically modified analogues have been reported to have moderate to good antibiotic activity against ...
Ferrari, Valentina, Pertusati, Fabrizio, Serpi, Michaela   +2 more
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Achilles tenocytes from diabetic and non diabetic donors exposed to hyperglycemia respond differentially to inflammatory stimuli and stretch

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
Scheme depicting the experimental set up of the study. Achilles tendons and tenocytes were isolated from heterozygous (fa/+, non diabetic: non DMT2) and homozygous (fa/fa, diabetic: DMT2) Zucker Diabetic Fatty (ZDF) rats. Tendon degeneration, collagen type 1 alpha 1 chain (COL1A1) and alpha smooth muscle actin (αSMA) expression was determined in rat ...
Nils Fleischmann, Sarah Hofmann, Clemens Gögele, Eva Frank, Christian Werner, Maria Kokozidou, Bernd Hoffmann, Jens Konrad, Gundula Schulze‐Tanzil   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

PLK4 is a potential therapeutic target in nonmelanoma skin cancers: Evidence from molecular and in vivo studies

Photochemistry and Photobiology, EarlyView.
Exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation is the main etiologic driver of nonmelanoma skin cancers (NMSCs), including basal cell (BCC) and cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas (cSCC), which are the most prevalent types of cancers in the US. In this study, we demonstrate that the serine/threonine kinase Polo‐like kinase 4 (PLK4) is overexpressed in NMSCs ...
Mary A. Ndiaye, Debra R. Garvey, Gagan Chhabra, Chandra K. Singh, Minakshi Nihal, Nihal Ahmad   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Falling from grace: HPRT is not suitable as an endogenous control for cancer-related studies

Molecular & Cellular Oncology, 2019
HPRT is a housekeeping enzyme involved in recycling guanine and inosine in the purine salvage pathway. As a housekeeping gene, HPRT has been widely used as an endogenous control for molecular studies evaluating changes in gene expression.
Michelle H. Townsend, Abigail M. Felsted, Zac E. Ence, Stephen R. Piccolo, Richard A. Robison, Kim L. O’Neill   +5 more
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