FasL-mediated cytotoxicity is one of the mechanisms that CTLs use to kill tumor cells. However, human colon carcinoma often deregulates the Fas signaling pathway to evade host cancer immune surveillance. We aimed at testing the hypothesis that novel ceramide analogs effectively modulate Fas function to sensitize colon carcinoma cells to FasL-induced apoptosis. We used rational design and synthe...

Clostridium perfringens is a common cause of the fatal disease gas gangrene (myonecrosis). Established gas gangrene is notable for a profound absence of neutrophils and monocytic cells (phagocytes), and it has been suggested that the bactericidal activities of these cells play an insignificant role in controlling the progression of the infection. However, large inocula of bacteria are needed to...

BACKGROUND Over the past few years, the rapid use of high frequency electromagnetic fields like mobile phones has raised global concerns about the negative health effects of its use. Adaptive response is the ability of a cell or tissue to better resist stress damage by prior exposure to a lesser amount of stress. This study aimed to assess whether radiofrequency radiation can induce adaptive re...

The present communication reports the dose and exposure dependent effects of a dioxin on few ion dependent membrane bound ATPases of mice kidney. Effects of TCDD on the specific activity of few membrane bound ATPases viz., Total ATPase, Na K ATPase, Ca ATPase, Mg ATPase, Ca++, HCO3 ATPase, Mg, HCO3 ATPase were observed. Two basic hypotheses were tested viz., (a) the sublethal in vivo exposure o...

PURPOSE Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a minimally invasive energy delivery technique increasingly used for focal therapy to eradicate localized disease. RFA-induced tumor-cell necrosis generates an immunogenic source of tumor antigens known to induce antitumor immune responses. However, RFA-induced antitumor immunity is insufficient to control metastatic progression. We sought to characteriz...

Carnocyclin A (CCLA) is an antimicrobial peptide produced by Carnobacterium maltaromaticum ATCC PTA-5313, which can be used to control the growth of Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat meat products. The aim of this research was to elucidate the cellular responses of L. monocytogenes 08-5923 exposed to a sublethal dose of CCLA. Microarray, quantitative reverse transcription-PCR, tandem mass ...

Chlorophyll and carotenoid content (ChCar), lipid peroxidation (LP) and growth parameters (GP) in plants are often used for environmental pollution estimation. However, the nonmonotonic dose-response dependences (hormesis and paradoxical effects) of these indices are insufficiently explored following exposure to different pollutants. In this experiment, we studied nonmonotonic changes in ChCar,...

Pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) was produced by fermentation of the Methylovorus sp. MP688 strain and purified by ion-exchange chromatography, crystallization and recrystallization. The yield of PQQ reached approximately 125 mg/L and highly pure PQQ was obtained. To determine the optimum dose of PQQ for radioprotection, three doses (2 mg/kg, 4 mg/kg, 8 mg/kg) of PQQ were orally administrated to ...