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ABCB1 protects kidney proximal tubule cells against cadmium-induced apoptosis: roles of cadmium and ceramide transport

scientific article published on 23 March 2011

Acute short-term mental stress does not influence salivary flow rate dynamics

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Biochemical and Structural Characterization of the Interaction between the Siderocalin NGAL/LCN2 (Neutrophil Gelatinase-associated Lipocalin/Lipocalin 2) and the N-terminal Domain of Its Endocytic Receptor SLC22A17.

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Cadmium Complexed with β2-Microglubulin, Albumin and Lipocalin-2 rather than Metallothionein Cause Megalin:Cubilin Dependent Toxicity of the Renal Proximal Tubule

scientific article published on 14 May 2019

Cadmium induces Wnt signaling to upregulate proliferation and survival genes in sub-confluent kidney proximal tubule cells

scientific article published on 8 May 2010

Cadmium-induced DNA damage triggers G(2)/M arrest via chk1/2 and cdc2 in p53-deficient kidney proximal tubule cells

scientific article published on 18 November 2009

Cadmium-induced ceramide formation triggers calpain-dependent apoptosis in cultured kidney proximal tubule cells

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Caspase-dependent and -independent pathways for cadmium-induced apoptosis in cultured kidney proximal tubule cells

scientific article published on 4 April 2006

Cd2+-induced swelling-contraction dynamics in isolated kidney cortex mitochondria: role of Ca2+ uniporter, K+ cycling, and protonmotive force

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Cell organelles as targets of mammalian cadmium toxicity

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Channels, transporters and receptors for cadmium and cadmium complexes in eukaryotic cells: myths and facts

scientific article published on 30 January 2019

Cyclosporin a, but not FK506, induces osmotic lysis of pancreas zymogen granules, intra-acinar enzyme release, and lysosome instability by activating K+ channel

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Cytosolic calcium measurements in renal epithelial cells by flow cytometry

scientific article published on 28 October 2014

Dependence of ABCB1 transporter expression and function on distinct sphingolipids generated by ceramide synthases-2 and -6 in chemoresistant renal cancer

scientific article published on 13 December 2021

Differential transcytosis and toxicity of the hNGAL receptor ligands cadmium-metallothionein and cadmium-phytochelatin in colon-like Caco-2 cells: implications for in vivo cadmium toxicity

scientific article published on 8 February 2014

Dynamic changes in saliva after acute mental stress

scientific article published on 8 May 2014

ERK1/2-dependent bestrophin-3 expression prevents ER-stress-induced cell death in renal epithelial cells by reducing CHOP.

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Evidence for KCNQ1 K+ channel expression in rat zymogen granule membranes and involvement in cholecystokinin-induced pancreatic acinar secretion

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Ferroportin 1 is expressed basolaterally in rat kidney proximal tubule cells and iron excess increases its membrane trafficking

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Glutathione and mitochondria determine acute defense responses and adaptive processes in cadmium-induced oxidative stress and toxicity of the kidney

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Initial autophagic protection switches to disruption of autophagic flux by lysosomal instability during cadmium stress accrual in renal NRK-52E cells.

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Inverse Regulation of Lipocalin-2/24p3 Receptor/SLC22A17 and Lipocalin-2 Expression by Tonicity, NFAT5/TonEBP and Arginine Vasopressin in Mouse Cortical Collecting Duct Cells mCCD(cl.1): Implications for Osmotolerance

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Lipocalin-2 (24p3/neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL)) receptor is expressed in distal nephron and mediates protein endocytosis.

scientific article published on 14 November 2011

Nickel-induced cell death and survival pathways in cultured renal proximal tubule cells: roles of reactive oxygen species, ceramide and ABCB1.

scientific article published on 22 January 2014

Novel roles for ceramides, calpains and caspases in kidney proximal tubule cell apoptosis: lessons from in vitro cadmium toxicity studies.

scientific article published on 11 July 2008

Oncogenic PITX2 facilitates tumor cell drug resistance by inverse regulation of hOCT3/SLC22A3 and ABC drug transporters in colon and kidney cancers

scientific article published on 10 February 2019

Organic cation transporters OCT1, 2, and 3 mediate high-affinity transport of the mutagenic vital dye ethidium in the kidney proximal tubule

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Organic cation transporters: physiology, toxicology and special focus on ethidium as a novel substrate.

scientific article published on 15 July 2009

Pituitary homeobox 2 (PITX2) protects renal cancer cell lines against doxorubicin toxicity by transcriptional activation of the multidrug transporter ABCB1

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Proximal tubule transferrin uptake is modulated by cellular iron and mediated by apical membrane megalin-cubilin complex and transferrin receptor 1

scientific article published on 04 March 2019

Rapamycin: a therapy of choice for endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced renal proximal tubule toxicity?

scientific article published on 07 February 2015

Renal cells exposed to cadmium in vitro and in vivo: normalizing gene expression data.

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Role of ARF6 in internalization of metal-binding proteins, metallothionein and transferrin, and cadmium-metallothionein toxicity in kidney proximal tubule cells

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Role of Arf1 in endosomal trafficking of protein-metal complexes and cadmium-metallothionein-1 toxicity in kidney proximal tubule cells

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Sphingolipid abnormalities in cancer multidrug resistance: Chicken or egg?

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Substrate- and cell contact-dependent inhibitor affinity of human organic cation transporter 2: studies with two classical organic cation substrates and the novel substrate cd2+.

scientific article published on 24 June 2013

Tonicity inversely modulates lipocalin-2 (Lcn2/24p3/NGAL) receptor (SLC22A17) and Lcn2 expression via Wnt/β-catenin signaling in renal inner medullary collecting duct cells: implications for cell fate and bacterial infection

scientific article published on 07 November 2018

Toxicology of Cadmium and Its Damage to Mammalian Organs

scientific article published on January 1, 2013