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Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
A Combination Of Generated Hydrogen Sulfide And Nitric Oxide Activity Has A Potentiated Protectant Effect Against Cisplatin Induced Nephrotoxicity, Faria Khurshid, Javeid Iqbal, Fiaz Ud Din Ahmad, Arslan Hussain Lodhi, Abdul Malik, Suhail Akhtar, Azmat Ali Khan, Marvi Imam Bux, Mohammed Younis
A Combination Of Generated Hydrogen Sulfide And Nitric Oxide Activity Has A Potentiated Protectant Effect Against Cisplatin Induced Nephrotoxicity, Faria Khurshid, Javeid Iqbal, Fiaz Ud Din Ahmad, Arslan Hussain Lodhi, Abdul Malik, Suhail Akhtar, Azmat Ali Khan, Marvi Imam Bux, Mohammed Younis
Biomedical Sciences Faculty Publications
Aim: Hydrogen sulfide and nitricoxide possess cytoprotective activity and in vivo, they are generated from exogenous sodium hydrosulfide and L-arginine respectively. Cisplatin is a major chemotherapeutic agent used to treat cancer and has a high incidence of nephrotoxicity as a side effect. The study aim was to explore the effects of NaHS and L-arginine or their combination on cisplatin induced nephrotoxicity in rats. Methods: Wistar Kyoto rats were given a single intraperitoneal dose of cisplatin (5 mg/kg) followed either by NaHS (56 μmol/kg, i. p.), L-arginine (1.25 g/L in drinking water) or their combination daily for 28-days. Post-mortem plasma, urine …
The Purification And Thermal Stability Of The Peroxidase Enzyme In Cucurbita Moschata, Garen Hamner
The Purification And Thermal Stability Of The Peroxidase Enzyme In Cucurbita Moschata, Garen Hamner
Senior Honors Theses
Peroxidases are enzymes that catalyze the reduction of hydrogen peroxide to water while oxidizing organic substrates and are valuable in spheres like industrial and medical applications and histochemistry. Limitations still exist in the use of the well-studied horseradish peroxidase for certain activities due to limitations like poor thermal stability, thus the search for novel peroxidases that can overcome these limitations is an active area of research. Butternut squash peroxidase (Cucurbita moschata) (BSP) shows promise due to significant activity being found in the skin and apparent enhanced thermal stability, but an efficient purification scheme for it is lacking, as well as …
Discovery Of A Small-Molecule Inhibitor That Traps Polθ On Dna And Synergizes With Parp Inhibitors, William Fried, Mrityunjay Tyagi, Leonid Minakhin, Gurushankar Chandramouly, Taylor Tredinnick, Mercy Ramanjulu, William Auerbacher, Marissa L Calbert, Timur Rusanov, Trung Hoang, Nikita Borisonnik, Robert Betsch, John Krais, Yifan Wang, Umeshkumar Vekariya, John Gordon, George Morton, Tatiana Kent, Tomasz Skorski, Neil Johnson, Wayne Childers, Xiaojiang Chen, Richard Pomerantz
Discovery Of A Small-Molecule Inhibitor That Traps Polθ On Dna And Synergizes With Parp Inhibitors, William Fried, Mrityunjay Tyagi, Leonid Minakhin, Gurushankar Chandramouly, Taylor Tredinnick, Mercy Ramanjulu, William Auerbacher, Marissa L Calbert, Timur Rusanov, Trung Hoang, Nikita Borisonnik, Robert Betsch, John Krais, Yifan Wang, Umeshkumar Vekariya, John Gordon, George Morton, Tatiana Kent, Tomasz Skorski, Neil Johnson, Wayne Childers, Xiaojiang Chen, Richard Pomerantz
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers
The DNA damage response (DDR) protein DNA Polymerase θ (Polθ) is synthetic lethal with homologous recombination (HR) factors and is therefore a promising drug target in BRCA1/2 mutant cancers. We discover an allosteric Polθ inhibitor (Polθi) class with 4-6 nM IC50 that selectively kills HR-deficient cells and acts synergistically with PARP inhibitors (PARPi) in multiple genetic backgrounds. X-ray crystallography and biochemistry reveal that Polθi selectively inhibits Polθ polymerase (Polθ-pol) in the closed conformation on B-form DNA/DNA via an induced fit mechanism. In contrast, Polθi fails to inhibit Polθ-pol catalytic activity on A-form DNA/RNA in which the enzyme binds in …
The Effect Of Ethanol Treatment On The Protein Content Of Difi Exosomes, Kenzie Rushing
The Effect Of Ethanol Treatment On The Protein Content Of Difi Exosomes, Kenzie Rushing
Belmont University Research Symposium (BURS)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cause of cancer death in the United States in both men and women combined, second only to lung cancer.1 CRC metastasis is the primary cause of mortality largely due to therapy resistant cancer cells.2 Therefore, detection before metastasis is of great importance and could potentially lead to earlier detection and decreased mortality. Extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes, are lipid bound vesicles secreted by cells3 that are involved in cell-cell communication and have been found to promote CRC progression and metastasis.4 The proteome of exosomes is thought to reflect that of the originating …
Differentially Disrupted Spinal Cord And Muscle Energy Metabolism In Spinal And Bulbar Muscular Atrophy, Danielle Debartolo, Frederick Arnold, Y Liu, Elana Molotsky, Hsin-Yao Tang, Diane Merry
Differentially Disrupted Spinal Cord And Muscle Energy Metabolism In Spinal And Bulbar Muscular Atrophy, Danielle Debartolo, Frederick Arnold, Y Liu, Elana Molotsky, Hsin-Yao Tang, Diane Merry
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers
Prior studies showed that polyglutamine-expanded androgen receptor (AR) is aberrantly acetylated and that deacetylation of the mutant AR by overexpression of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide-dependent (NAD+-dependent) sirtuin 1 is protective in cell models of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA). Based on these observations and reduced NAD+ in muscles of SBMA mouse models, we tested the therapeutic potential of NAD+ restoration in vivo by treating postsymptomatic transgenic SBMA mice with the NAD+ precursor nicotinamide riboside (NR). NR supplementation failed to alter disease progression and had no effect on increasing NAD+ or ATP content in muscle, despite producing a modest increase of …
Course Portfolio For Biochemistry 1: Structure And Metabolism (Bioc431), Didier Mena
Course Portfolio For Biochemistry 1: Structure And Metabolism (Bioc431), Didier Mena
UNL Faculty Course Portfolios
This benchmark portfolio encapsulates a comprehensive exploration aimed at enhancing the educational landscape of the BIOC431 course, a part of the general biochemistry course series (431 and 432). These courses are designed to offer a general introduction to the structure and function of cells in the body, along with their chemical reactions. Specifically, BIOC431 focuses on the structure, function, and metabolism of proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and other major metabolic pathways. The three primary objectives addressed in this portfolio were the reevaluation of learning objectives, reassessment of assessment methods, and documentation of effective classroom strategies. Through background design, the learning objectives …