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Distinct Roles of mTOR Targets S6K1 and S6K2 in Breast Cancer (open access)

Distinct Roles of mTOR Targets S6K1 and S6K2 in Breast Cancer

The purpose of this article is to compare and contrast the expression, structure, regulation and function of these two S6K homologs in breast cancer.
Date: February 11, 2020
Creator: Sridharan, Savitha & Basu, Alakananda
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intermittent Hypoxic Conditioning Alleviates Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder-Induced Damage and Dysfunction of Rat Visceral Organs and Brain (open access)

Intermittent Hypoxic Conditioning Alleviates Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder-Induced Damage and Dysfunction of Rat Visceral Organs and Brain

Study examines intermittent hypoxic conditioning's (IHC) ability to alleviate harmful PTSD effects on a rat's heart, liver, and brain.
Date: January 5, 2020
Creator: Manukhina, Eugenia B.; Tseilikman, Vadim E.; Karpenko, Marina N.; Pestereva, Nina S.; Tseilikman, Olga B.; Komelkova, Maria V. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Novel Prodrug Approach for Central Nervous System-Selective Estrogen Therapy (open access)

A Novel Prodrug Approach for Central Nervous System-Selective Estrogen Therapy

This article gives an overview of the discovery of small-molecule bioprecursor prodrugs carrying the para-quinol scaffold on the steroidal A-ring that are preferentially metabolized in the CNS to the corresponding estrogens. Selected examples are shown to illustrate that, independently of the route of administrations and duration of treatments, these agents produce high concentration of estrogens only in the CNS without peripheral hormonal liability. 10β,17β-Dihydroxyestra-1,4-dien-3-one (DHED) has been the best-studied representative of this novel type of prodrugs for brain and retina health. Specific applications in preclinical animal models of centrally-regulated and estrogen-responsive human diseases, including neurodegeneration, menopausal symptoms, cognitive decline and depression, are discussed to demonstrate the translational potential of their prodrug approach for CNS-selective and gender-independent estrogen therapy with inherent therapeutic safety.
Date: November 19, 2019
Creator: Prokai-Tatrai, Katalin & Prókai, László, 1958-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigation of the Dermal Absorption and Irritation Potential of Sertaconazole Nitrate Anhydrous Gel (open access)

Investigation of the Dermal Absorption and Irritation Potential of Sertaconazole Nitrate Anhydrous Gel

Study used in vitro tape stripping to evaluate efficacy of an anhydrous gel containing sertaconazole nitrate.
Date: July 7, 2016
Creator: Manian, Mahima; Madrasi, Kumpal & Chaturvedula, Ayyappa
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nanoparticle Effects on Human Platelets in Vitro: A Comparison between PAMAM and Triazine Dendrimers (open access)

Nanoparticle Effects on Human Platelets in Vitro: A Comparison between PAMAM and Triazine Dendrimers

The article looks at Triazine and PAMAM dendrimers of similar size and number of cationic surface groups and compared them for their ability to promote platelet aggregation.
Date: March 29, 2016
Creator: Enciso, Alan E.; Neun, Barry; Rodriguez, Jamie & Ranjan, Amalendu P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Potential Role of Nanotechnology in Therapeutic Approaches for Triple Negative Breast Cancer (open access)

The Potential Role of Nanotechnology in Therapeutic Approaches for Triple Negative Breast Cancer

This review is focused on opportunities for developing new approaches for filling the current void in an effective treatment for Triple Negative Breast Cancer, TNBC, patients. Triple Negative Breast Cancer, TNBC, a highly aggressive and metastatic type of breast cancer, is characterized by loss of expression of the estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and a lack of overexpression of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2).
Date: June 18, 2013
Creator: Johnson, Rebecca; Sabnis, Nirupama; McConathy, Walter J. & Lacko, Andras G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chronic Inhibition of Mitochondrial Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase (DLDH) as an Approach to Managing Diabetic Oxidative Stress (open access)

Chronic Inhibition of Mitochondrial Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase (DLDH) as an Approach to Managing Diabetic Oxidative Stress

This article investigates if chronic inhibition of DLDH could also attenuate oxidative stress in type 2 diabetes. It is the authors' belief that DLDH inhibition could be a novel approach to fighting type 2 diabetes.
Date: February 2, 2019
Creator: Yang, Xiaojuan; Song, Jing & Yan, Liang-Jun
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Data from the National Library of Medicine

Presentation for the 2017 UNT Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides an overview of data types and repositories for accessing data from the National Library of Medicine.
Date: May 19, 2017
Creator: Burgard, Daniel E.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine Share Similar Philosophical Approaches to Fight COVID-19 (open access)

Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine Share Similar Philosophical Approaches to Fight COVID-19

This article is a commentary exploring the disciplines of Western medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine's philosophical methods to fight COVID-19 to understand their philosophical theories that could achieve the maximum benefits for treatment of COVID-19 and other diseases.
Date: August 1, 2021
Creator: Zhao, Fangfang; Yang, Zhenhong; Wang, Ningqun; Jin, Kunlin & Luo, Yumin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thymus Functionality Needs More Than a Few TECs (open access)

Thymus Functionality Needs More Than a Few TECs

Article is a review exploring the contributions of the many stromal cell types participating in the formation, expansion, and contraction of the thymus under normal and pathophysiological processes. Such information will better inform approaches for restoring thymus functionality, including thymus organoid technologies, beneficial when an individuals’ own tissue is congenitally, clinically, or accidentally rendered non-functional.
Date: June 10, 2022
Creator: Bhalla, Pratibha; Su, Dong-Ming & van Oers, Nicolai S. C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flanking Variation Influences Rates of Stutter in Simple Repeats (open access)

Flanking Variation Influences Rates of Stutter in Simple Repeats

This article shows that rates of stutter can vary substantially depending on the flanking haplotype, and while there are cases where the LUS is a better predictor of stutter than the PAL, examples to the contrary are apparent in commonly assayed forensic markers. Further, flanking variation that is 7 bp from the repeat region can impact rates of stutter. These findings suggest that non-proximal effects, such as DNA secondary structure, may be impacting the rates of stutter in common forensic short tandem repeat markers.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Woerner, August E.; King, Jonathan L. & Budowle, Bruce
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Treatment and Prevention of Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection with Functionalized Bovine Antibody-Enriched Whey in a Hamster Primary Infection Model (open access)

Treatment and Prevention of Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection with Functionalized Bovine Antibody-Enriched Whey in a Hamster Primary Infection Model

This article focuses on the development of an alternative drug for the treatment of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). Oral administration of anti-CD-WPI is a functional therapy of CDI in infected hamsters for both primary treatment and prevention of recurrence. Thus, anti-CD-WPI could address the urgent unmet medical need for treating and preventing recurrent CDI in humans.
Date: February 6, 2019
Creator: Heidebrecht, Hans-Jürgen; Weiss, William J.; Pulse, Mark; Lange, Anton; Gisch, Karina; Kliem, Heike et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cataract Preventive Role of Isolated Phytoconstituents: Findings from a Decade of Research (open access)

Cataract Preventive Role of Isolated Phytoconstituents: Findings from a Decade of Research

This review aims to find effective phytoconstituents in cataract treatments in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo. Scientists have focused their attention not only for anti-cataract activity in vitro, but also in ex vivo and in vivo from the review of active phytoconstituents in medicinal plants. In our present review, we identified 58 active phytoconstituents with strong anti-cataract effects at in vitro and ex vivo with lack of in vivo studies.
Date: October 26, 2018
Creator: Lim, Vuanghao; Schneider, Edward; Wu, Hongli & Pang, Iok-Hou
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Breakthroughs in Medicinal Chemistry: New Targets and Mechanisms, New Drugs, New Hopes-2 (open access)

Breakthroughs in Medicinal Chemistry: New Targets and Mechanisms, New Drugs, New Hopes-2

This article is part of a series of Editorials published biannually that highlights a number of recently published articles that describe crucial findings.
Date: December 28, 2017
Creator: Muñoz-Torrero, Diego; Mangoni, Arduino A; Liu, Hong; Hulme, Christopher; Rautio, Jarkko; Karaman, Rafik et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brain Delivery of Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone via a Novel Prodrug Approach (open access)

Brain Delivery of Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone via a Novel Prodrug Approach

Using thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) as a model, paper explores whether synergistic combination of lipoamino acid(s) and a linker cleaved by prolyl oligopeptidase (POP) can be used as a promoiety for prodrug design for the preferential brain delivery of the peptide.
Date: July 18, 2019
Creator: Prokai-Tatrai, Katalin; De La Cruz, Daniel L.; Nguyen, Vien; Ross, Benjamin P.; Toth, Istvan & Prókai, László, 1958-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Breakthroughs in Medicinal Chemistry: New Targets and Mechanisms, New Drugs, New Hopes-3 (open access)

Breakthroughs in Medicinal Chemistry: New Targets and Mechanisms, New Drugs, New Hopes-3

A series of editorials highlighting in brief reports recently published articles describing crucial findings in the field of medical chemistry.
Date: June 30, 2018
Creator: Mangoni, Arduino A; Tuccinardi, Tiziano; Collina, Simona; Vanden Eynde, Jean Jacques; Muñoz-Torrero, Diego; Karaman, Rafik et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
17β-Estradiol Delivered in Eye Drops: Evidence of Impact on Protein Networks and Associated Biological Processes in the Rat Retina through Quantitative Proteomics (open access)

17β-Estradiol Delivered in Eye Drops: Evidence of Impact on Protein Networks and Associated Biological Processes in the Rat Retina through Quantitative Proteomics

Study analyzes target engagements through the identification of functional protein networks impacted after delivery of 17β-estradiol in eye drops to facilitate the development of broad-spectrum retina neuroprotectants that can be delivered through topical dosage forms.
Date: January 27, 2020
Creator: Prókai, László, 1958-; Zaman, Khadiza; Nguyen, Vien & Prokai-Tatrai, Katalin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Safety of Continuous Infusion Ketorolac in Postoperative Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Patients (open access)

Safety of Continuous Infusion Ketorolac in Postoperative Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Patients

This article evaluates the safety of continuous infusion ketorolac which is sometimes utilized for analgesia in postoperative coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) patients. This retrospective cohort study evaluated the primary outcome of mortality and secondary outcomes of incidence of bleeding and myocardial infarction (MI). No association was found between continuous infusion ketorolac and increased risk of mortality, MI, or bleeding events in postoperative CABG patients.
Date: June 28, 2016
Creator: Howard, Meredith L.; Warhurst, Robert D. & Sheehan, Courtney
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Single actomyosin motor interactions in skeletal muscle (open access)

Single actomyosin motor interactions in skeletal muscle

This article presents a study of intramuscular motion during contraction of skeletal muscle myofibrils.
Date: February 21, 2011
Creator: Földes-Papp, Zeno; Liao, Jeff Shih-Chu; Barbieri, Ben; Grycznski, Karol G.; Luchowski, Rafal; Gryczynski, Ignacy et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regulation of Autophagy by Kinases (open access)

Regulation of Autophagy by Kinases

This review focuses on the regulation of autophagy by several kinases with particular emphasis on serine/threonine protein kinases such as mTOR, AMP-activated kinase, Akt, mitogen-activated protein kinase (ERK, p38 and JNK) and protein kinase C that are often deregulated in cancer and are important therapeutic targets.
Date: June 9, 2011
Creator: Sridharan, Savitha; Jain, Kirti & Basu, Alakananda
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pulmonary Carcinoid Surface Receptor Modulation Using Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors (open access)

Pulmonary Carcinoid Surface Receptor Modulation Using Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors

Study describes the use of a non-cytotoxic dose of histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors to induce pulmonary carcinoid somatostatin receptor subtype 2 (SSTR2) expression to diagnose pulmonary carcinoids.
Date: June 3, 2019
Creator: Guenter, Rachael E.; Aweda, Tolulope; Matos, Danilea M. Carmona; Whitt, Jason; Chang, Alexander W.; Cheng, Eric Y. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Emerging Roles of mTORC1 in Macromanaging Autophagy (open access)

The Emerging Roles of mTORC1 in Macromanaging Autophagy

Review critically analyzes current literature to provide an integrated view of how rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) regulates various steps of the autophagy process.
Date: September 24, 2019
Creator: Dossou, Akpedje S. & Basu, Alakananda
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Multifunctional Protein Kinase C-ε in Cancer Development and Progression (open access)

The Multifunctional Protein Kinase C-ε in Cancer Development and Progression

Paper focuses on the role of protein kinase C in different processes that lead to cancer development and progression.
Date: April 10, 2014
Creator: Jain, Kirti & Basu, Alakananda
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Enigmatic Protein Kinase C-eta (open access)

The Enigmatic Protein Kinase C-eta

The purpose of this review article is to discuss how PKCη regulates various cellular processes that may contribute to its contrasting roles in cancer. Protein kinase C-eta (PKCη) is a unique member of the PKC family since its regulation is distinct from other PKC isozymes. PKCη was shown to regulate cell proliferation, differentiation and cell death.
Date: February 13, 2019
Creator: Basu, Alakananda
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library