• TNF a major cytokine that is

  2019-11-15

  

  TNF-α, a major cytokine that is critical in acute and chronic inflammation, is responsible from chemotaxis, acute phase reactions and endothelial activation (Mahalingam and Karupiah, 1999). Our study showed that TNF-α is increased significantly in the pyelonephritic rats and montelukast displayed an

• br Materials and methods br Results and discussion

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  Materials and methods Results and discussion Conclusions Data about the ability of non-conventional ligands to operate class-A GPCRs have been accumulating. Specifically, increasing evidence indicates that oxysterols, oxidized derivatives of cholesterol, are involved in many activities that

• br Introduction Vitis vinifera L is one of the

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  Introduction Vitis vinifera L. is one of the most worldwide-grown fruit crop and is mostly used in the wine industry (Bouquet, 2011). Domestication and history changed dramatically the biology of this species and today there are thousands of V. vinifera varieties, being many of them closely relat

• Addition of deoxyuridine to CY cultures

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  Addition of deoxyuridine to CY11 cultures led to a significant decline in the amount of uracil-DNA (Fig. 5). Deoxyuridine effectively induces the deo operon and is efficiently degraded to uracil and deoxyribose 1-phosphate by the deoA gene product, thymidine phosphorylase; a minor percentage of deox

• Moreover the imbalance between pro and anti inflammatory cyt

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  Moreover, the imbalance between pro and anti-inflammatory cytokine production is present in various types of diseases. The use of substances able to induce anti-inflammatory cytokines could represent an important advance in the therapeutic treatment of a range of diseases. In this context, medicinal

• br Discussion The use of carp primary cell

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  Discussion The use of carp primary cell cultures proved to be a valuable approach to evaluate the piscine immune response. A. hydrophila was a more potent stimulator of NO formation by carp leukocytes compared to commercial LPS often used for leukocyte stimulation (Mustafa and Olson, 1998, Chao e

• Tibolone is also efficacious on bone in elderly women and

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  Tibolone is also efficacious on bone in elderly women and induces a clear reduction in bone turnover markers [50], [51]. Rymer et al. showed that, after 10 years of treatment with tibolone, the difference in bone mineral density compared with a placebo group was more than 12% for both lumbar spine a

• Apoptosis type I programmed cell death is

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  Apoptosis, type I programmed cell death, is considered to be involved in the pathogenesis of various liver diseases, such as autoimmune hepatitis [[5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]] and hepatocellular carcinoma [11,12]. Apoptosis is activated by a variety of extrinsic or intrinsic pathways factors. Prev

• EPAC induces SOCS gene expression in VECs resulting in suppr

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  EPAC1 induces SOCS3 gene expression in VECs, resulting in suppression of the JAK–STAT activation initiated by the sIL-6Rα/IL-6 trans-signalling complex [67]. EPAC1 regulates SOCS3 gene induction through the activation of C/EBP and c-Jun transcription factors, which interact directly with the SOCS3 p

• br Conclusions In conclusion the substrates c

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  Conclusions In conclusion, the substrates 18c–18e all produced highly fluorescent colonies with the panel of Gram-negative microorganisms. This has been attributed to the combination of two synergistic effects; the wide distribution of l-alanylaminopeptidase in Gram-negative microorganisms and th

• The Acat gene was identified

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  The Acat1 gene was identified by functional complementation of a Chinese hamster ovary cell mutant lacking ACAT activity [12]. Unlike most other genes, human Acat1 is located in two different chromosomes, Kartogenin 1 and 7, with each site containing a distinct promoter: chromosome 1 contains exons

• Enolases are among the most abundantly expressed

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  Enolases are among the most abundantly expressed cytosolic proteins. They are metalloenzymes that catalyze the conversion of 2-phosphoglycerate to phosphoenolpyruvate [18]. Eubacteria and archaebacteria have a single enolase gene (reviewed in [19]). Despite the lack of signal peptides or cognate pr

• Gupta et al have shown that

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  Gupta et al have shown that a genetic variant associated with the 5 vascular diseases (coronary artery disease, migraine, carotid artery dissection, fibro-muscular dysplasia, and hypertension) is a distal regulator of the ET-1 gene [30]. They found that a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) located

• br Introduction Epidermal growth factor receptor EGFR activa

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  Introduction Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-activating-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) often initially responds well to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) (Haber et al., 2011); however, the disease almost always recurs about 10–13 months of therapy. Analysis of clinical spe

• Structure similarity searches were conducted using the stand

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  Structure similarity searches were conducted using the standalone version of the DALI program with the query structures scanned against a local current version of the PDB that has all chains as separate entries (Holm and Sander, 1995). The structural hits for each query were collected, even if the D

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