Specific patterns of neural impulses regulate genes controlling nervous system development and plasticity, but it is not known how intracellular signaling cascades and transcriptional activation… (More)
We investigated how the neural cell adhesion molecule L1 mediates neurite outgrowth through L1-L1 homophilic interactions. Wild-type L1 and L1 with mutations in the cytoplasmic domain (CD) were… (More)
The tumor suppressor phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN) regulates diverse cellular functions by dephosphorylating the lipid second messenger, phosphatidylinositol… (More)
The small GTPase ADP-ribosylation factor 6 (ARF6) plays crucial roles in a wide variety of cell functions. To better understand the molecular mechanisms of ARF6-mediated signaling and cellular… (More)
Bone tissues reportedly contain considerable amounts of activin A and follistatin, an activin A-binding protein. In the present study, we found that follistatin strongly inhibited osteoclast… (More)
Inhibition of histone deacetylase (HDAC) is a novel strategy for the treatment of leukemias via restoration of aberrantly silenced genes. In this study, we conducted a detailed analysis of… (More)
The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular…
2015
Growing evidence shows that steroid hormones, especially 17β-estradiol (E2), protect neuronal cells by attenuating excess activation of microglia. However, the use of E2 in the clinic is… (More)
Apoptosis induced by ionizing irradiation of the developing mouse brain was investigated by using histology, analysis of DNA fragmentation on agarose gel and electron microscopy. A TUNEL-labeled… (More)
The authors have investigated gene expression of ST2 in the lung tissue of a bleomycin (BLM)-induced lung fibrosis model in vivo and in a human lung fibroblast cell line, WI38, and a human type II… (More)
We examined the effects of nerve growth factor (NGF) and cell-cell contact on expression of the neural cell adhesion molecule L1 in PC12 cells. After 7 d exposure to NGF, but not after exposure to… (More)