The critical role of zinc in plants facing the drought stress

M Umair Hassan, M Aamer, M Umer Chattha, T Haiying… - Agriculture, 2020 - mdpi.com
Drought stress affects plant growth and development by altering physiological and
biochemical processes resulting in reduced crop productivity. Zinc (Zn) is an essential …

Ion channels in cancer: are cancer hallmarks oncochannelopathies?

N Prevarskaya, R Skryma, Y Shuba - Physiological reviews, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Genomic instability is a primary cause and fundamental feature of human cancer. However,
all cancer cell genotypes generally translate into several common pathophysiological …

Getting across the cell membrane: an overview for small molecules, peptides, and proteins

NJ Yang, MJ Hinner - Site-Specific Protein Labeling: Methods and …, 2015 - Springer
The ability to efficiently access cytosolic proteins is desired in both biological research and
medicine. However, targeting intracellular proteins is often challenging, because to reach …

[HTML][HTML] Principles of using cold atmospheric plasma stimulated media for cancer treatment

D Yan, A Talbot, N Nourmohammadi, X Cheng… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
To date, the significant anti-cancer capacity of cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) on dozens of
cancer cell lines has been demonstrated in vitro and in mice models. Conventionally, CAP …

Adaptable and multifunctional ion-conducting aquaporins

SD Tyerman, SA McGaughey, J Qiu… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Aquaporins function as water and neutral solute channels, signaling hubs, disease virulence
factors, and metabolon components. We consider plant aquaporins that transport ions …

Toward understanding the selective anticancer capacity of cold atmospheric plasma—A model based on aquaporins

D Yan, A Talbot, N Nourmohammadi, JH Sherman… - …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Selectively treating tumor cells is the ongoing challenge of modern cancer therapy.
Recently, cold atmospheric plasma (CAP), a near room-temperature ionized gas, has been …

[HTML][HTML] Physiology of cholangiocytes

JH Tabibian, AI Masyuk, TV Masyuk… - Comprehensive …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cholangiocytes are epithelial cells that line the intra-and extrahepatic ducts of the biliary
tree. The main physiologic function of cholangiocytes is modification of hepatocyte-derived …

Inhibitors of mammalian aquaporin water channels

M Abir-Awan, P Kitchen, MM Salman… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Aquaporins (AQPs) are water channel proteins that are essential to life, being expressed in
all kingdoms. In humans, there are 13 AQPs, at least one of which is found in every organ …

Evolution and functional diversity of aquaporins

RN Finn, J Cerdà - The Biological Bulletin, 2015 - journals.uchicago.edu
In this review, we provide a brief synopsis of the evolution and functional diversity of the
aquaporin gene superfamily in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. Based upon the latest …

A novel micro cold atmospheric plasma device for glioblastoma both in vitro and in vivo

Z Chen, H Simonyan, X Cheng, E Gjika, L Lin… - Cancers, 2017 - mdpi.com
Cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) treatment is a rapidly expanding and emerging technology
for cancer treatment. Direct CAP jet irradiation is limited to the skin and it can also be …