MODERATION OF QUANTITATIVE CHANGES OF REGENERATING ERYTHROPOIETIC CELLS BY EXTRACELLULAR UBIQUITIN.

Hematological disorders caused by radiation remain the most challenging problem of the last decades. Environmental radiation, as well as medical application of radiation causes serious problems especially from the point of view of blood formation and passage of blood functional cells. Bone marrow emptying followed by the rise of immature cells in the bloodstream is the main pathology that must be eliminated.

ALTERED MICROCIRCULATION IN SEPTIC SHOCK.

Retrospective data analysis of microcirculation in septic shock was conducted. Sepsis is characterized by a severe microvascular dysfunction that persists despite fluid resuscitation and leads to multi-organ failure even after normalization of hemodynamics in response to fluid resuscitation, vasopressors and the treatment of infection. Several clinical studies suggest that microcirculatory alterations in severe sepsis are stronger predictors of outcome than global hemodynamic variables.

Myocardial dysfunction during septic shock (review).

Patients with septic shock frequently develop myocardial dysfunction evidenced by severely depressed ejection fraction with ventricular dilatation, as measured by an increase in mean systolic and end diastolic ventricular volumes. The pathophysiology of myocardial dysfunction is complex and involves a multitude of factors. The current review describes individual contributing factors and mechanisms such as upregulation of proinflammatory cytokines (IL-1, TNFα, IL-2, IL-6, IFN-γ), reduced myocardial responsiveness to ß-adrenergic stimulation, elevated circulating endothelin levels, Impaired calcium uptake and release from calcium sarcoplasmic reticulum storage, and decreased calcium channel sensitivity, overexpression of inducible NOS and increased production of Nitric oxide.

Promoting E2F1-mediated apoptosis in oestrogen receptor-α-negative breast cancer cells.

Background: Because oestrogen receptor α (ERα) regulates E2F1 expression to mediate tamoxifen resistance in ERα-positive breast cancer cells, we aimed to define the possible roles of ERα and E2F1 in promoting the resistance of ERα-negative breast cancer cells to 4-hydroxy-tamoxifen (4OHT).

Methods: This study utilised conventional techniques to demonstrate the effects of 4OHT on the expression of ERα and E2F1 and also examined the individual and combined effects of 4OHT with dipyridamole (DIPY) and 3-O-(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzoyl)-(-)-catechin (TMCG) on the oestrogen-negative MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell line using viability assays, Hoechst staining, MALDI-TOF mass spectroscopy, and confocal microscopy.

Results: Despite the ERα-negative status of the MDA-MB-231 cells, we observed that 4OHT efficiently up-regulated ERα in these cells and that this upregulation promoted E2F1-mediated cell growth.

T4 bacteriophage as a phage display platform.

Analysis of molecular events in T4-infected Escherichia coli has revealed some of the most important principles of biology, including relationships between structures of genes and their products, virus-induced acquisition of metabolic function, and morphogenesis of complex structures through sequential gene product interaction rather than sequential gene activation. T4 bacteriophages and related strains were applied in the first formulations of many fundamental biological concepts. These include the unambiguous recognition of nucleic acids as the genetic material, the definition of the gene by fine-structure mutation, recombinational and functional analyses, the demonstration that the genetic code is triplet, the discovery of mRNA, the importance of recombination and DNA replications, light-dependent and light-independent DNA repair mechanisms, restriction and modification of DNA, self-splicing of intron/exon arrangement in prokaryotes, translation bypassing and others.