• Another important question is what

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  Another important question is what ligand(s) bind to GPR84 in vivo? Previous studies have identified medium-chain FFAs of 9 to 14 carbons in length and two other organic molecules (6-n-octylaminouracil and 3,3′-diindolylmethane) as agonists of GPR84 in vitro (Wang et al., 2006, Suzuki et al., 2013).

• br Acknowledgement The author expresses her sincere apprecia

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  Acknowledgement The author expresses her sincere appreciation to Brian P. Kenealy, Ph.D. for his contributions to the series of studies described in this article that were conducted during his tenure in the lab, as a graduate student first and then a postdoctoral research fellow. She also thanks

• In the present study administration of both

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  In the present study, administration of both muscimol and bicuculline also affected the biosynthesis of GnRHR. A significant decrease in GnRHR level in the POA, AH, VMH and SME following muscimol treatment as well as the opposite effect induced by bicuculline indicates that GnRHR gene expression is,

• Glucagon (19-29), human br Acknowledgements Support provided

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  Acknowledgements Support provided by projects PTDC/SAU-MIC/115178/2009 and PEst-OE/QUI/UI0612/2011 from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal. Diabetes Mellitus Diabetes mellitus is a chronic, multisystem metabolic disorder caused by a combination of environmental and genetic f

• Experiments conducted on the human parasite Leishmania major

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  Experiments conducted on the human parasite Leishmania major has shown that specific parasitic antigens are involved in steering the immune responses to “protective” as opposed to “disease” state (Reiner et al., 1993; Reiner and Locksley, 1995; and Sjölander et al., 1998) and that antigenic composit

• In response to oxidative stress

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  In response to oxidative stress in DM, antioxidant defence systems are activated in β-cells. Glutathione (GSH) is one of the most abundant antioxidants and has been shown to be expressed at lower concentrations in patients with DM [12], [13]. Furthermore, plasma levels of glycine, which is a synthet

• br Materials and methods br Results In this study

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  Materials and methods Results In this study we re-examined the kinetics of ET transport and tested the ability of various suggested substrates of OCNT1 to inhibit ET uptake. Using a native ET transporter expressed in the human HeLa cell line ET was found to be taken up with a Km of 51 μM and V

• Hippo signaling is an emerging tumor

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  Hippo signaling is an emerging tumor suppressor pathway that plays key roles in normal physiology and tumorigenesis through the regulation of cellular proliferation and survival [4]. In humans, YAP is over-expressed as a result of genomic amplification of the 11q22 locus in a wide spectrum of human

• A number of GCK activators for treating T D

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  A number of GCK activators for treating T2D have been developed and tested but not progressed successfully from clinical trials into therapy [45]. Our observations suggest that increased risk of hypoglycemia might be possible, particularly if drugs penetrate into brain. A further possibility is that

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  Fig. 3a and b illustrates a slow inhibition by PMA in 2 μM Ca2+. Moreover, channel inhibition was reversed by addition of PKC19–31, a peptide inhibitor specific for PKC, as shown in Fig. 3c. In three experiments, Im was reduced to 14.5±0.6% of the control value by PMA to increase to 207.6±73.6% by a

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  As we showed earlier [19], a 20- to 30-min incubation with 2mM t-BHP resulted in erythrocyte swelling, which was less in a Ca2+-containing medium. Given that this effect was abolished in the presence of the Gardos channel inhibitor CLT, as well as in media high in K+, we suggested the contribution f

• The secretase complex comprises four core subunits presenili

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  The γ-secretase complex comprises four core subunits: presenilin (PS), nicastrin (NCT), anterior pharynx-defective 1 (Aph1), and presenilin enhancer 2 (Pen2) [7], [8]. PS is the catalytic subunit of γ-secretase, and many PS mutations associated with familial AD result in a high Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio [5].

• Mitochondrial DNA Isolation Kit Introduction Since the devel

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  Introduction Since the development of the first radioimmunoassay (RIA) to measure hormone levels in the late 1950s, for which Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1977 (the second woman ever receiving it), the use of Mitochondrial DNA Isolation Kit in molecular researc

• ampa receptors Next we studied the effects of the compounds

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  Next, we studied the effects of the compounds PA-Glu, PA-hSuc, and PA-hPim on the IGly of rat hippocampal neurons. As in the experiments with IGABA, IGly was affected by steroids with a pregnane skeleton, but not those with an androstane skeleton. At the same time, androstane steroids were shown to

• Receptor interactions and binding mode of in hGPR were deter

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  Receptor interactions and binding mode of in hGPR40 were determined by docking studies. The compound was docked in the rebuilt co-crystal structure of hGPR40 (PDB ID: ) using MOE for loop modeling and energy minimization and Glide for molecular docking. The docking site used for the docking simulat

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