CaMK

ROCK Inhibitors as an Alternative Therapy for Corneal Grafting: A Systematic Review

116 views | Feb 15 2024

The review on ROCK inhibitors for corneal wound healing showcases their diverse therapeutic potential across various ocular conditions, offering promise as an effective alternative to human donor tissue for addressing the significant unmet medical need in corneal blindness. [Read the Full Post]

Proteomic and Phosphoproteomic Profiling Reveals the Oncogenic Role of Protein Kinase D Family Kinases in Cholangiocarcinoma

88 views | Feb 15 2024

The comprehensive analysis of protein and phosphorylation signatures in cholangiocarcinoma revealed the PRKD family's pivotal role, highlighting their potential as novel treatment targets validated by the inhibitory effects of 1-naphthyl PP1 on CCA cell proliferation, migration, and invasion. [Read the Full Post]

Hippocampal CaMKII inhibition induces reactivation-dependent amnesia for extinction memory and causes fear relapse

26 views | Feb 11 2024

Inhibition of hippocampal CaMKII activity post-fear extinction memory recall in rats disrupts extinction consolidation, facilitating GluN2B-NMDAR-dependent fear recovery, underscoring CaMKII's pivotal role in fear memory reconsolidation. [Read the Full Post]

Icariside II induces rapid phosphorylation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase via multiple signaling pathways

27 views | Nov 13 2023

Icariside II stimulates the rapid phosphorylation of eNOS at Ser1177 and Thr495 through multiple signaling pathways, leading to increased eNOS expression and nitric oxide release in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs), suggesting its potential therapeutic relevance in conditions related to endothelial dysfunction. [Read the Full Post]

A high-concentrate diet induces inflammatory injury via regulating Ca2+/CaMKKβ-mediated autophagy in mammary gland tissue of dairy cows

52 views | Jul 26 2023

The study found that a high-concentrate diet induced autophagy in mammary gland tissue through the Ca2+/CaMKKβ-AMPK signaling pathway, leading to inflammatory injury in dairy cows. [Read the Full Post]

Late sodium current in synergism with Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II contributes to β-adrenergic activation-induced atrial fibrillation

91 views | Jun 08 2023

Late INa and CaMKII play important roles in β-adrenergic stimulation-induced atrial fibrillation, and the inhibition of both can exert synergistic anti-arrhythmic effects. [Read the Full Post]

Protein kinase D1 promotes the survival of random-pattern skin flaps in rats

38 views | May 28 2023

The study demonstrated that PKD1 improves skin flap survival by promoting angiogenesis, reducing oxidative stress, and inhibiting apoptosis and inflammation, suggesting it as a potential therapeutic target for flap failure treatment. [Read the Full Post]

Staurosporine analogues from microbial and synthetic sources and their biological activities

95 views | Feb 20 2023

Staurosporine and its analogues have strong inhibitory effects against a variety of kinases and have various biological properties such as antifungal, antibacterial, and immunosuppressive activities, but have limited clinical effectiveness due to cross-reactivity and poor selectivity. [Read the Full Post]

Synthesis, structural characterization, DFT calculations, molecular docking, and molecular dynamics simulations of a novel ferrocene derivative to unravel its potential antitumor activity

371 views | Jun 12 2022

Mohamed M Hammoud et al. revealed the antitumor potential of ferrocene derivative (10) through targeting and inhibiting mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases interacting kinase (Mnk) 1.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma. [Read the Full Post]

Angiokinase inhibition of VEGFR-2, PDGFR and FGFR and cell growth inhibition in lung cancer: Design, synthesis, biological evaluation and molecular docking of novel azaheterocyclic coumarin derivatives

1232 views | Jul 21 2021

Eman Y Ahmed et al. found that 4a was capable of arresting the cell cycle at pre-G1 phase and S phase and inducing apoptosis. [Read the Full Post]