• Although many factors influence the effects

  2024-02-21

  

  Although many factors influence the effects of medications, during recent years it has become evident that genetic factors could explain the differences between individuals in drug response. These differences are due to variants in genes encoding drug targets [8]. The challenge for pharmacogenetics

• While there is much in vivo work on prion

  2024-02-21

  

  While there is much in vivo work on prion-like Aβ, it has not been shown that one can induce inclusions of Aβ in cultured cells as has been shown for tau and α-synuclein. One reason is practical; Aβ is a low molecular weight metabolite cleaved from within the larger amyloid precursor protein (APP) a

• br Introduction AMPA receptors AMPARs mediate the majority o

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  Introduction AMPA receptors (AMPARs) mediate the majority of fast excitatory postsynaptic currents (EPSCs) in the NVP-BEP800 (Jonas, 2000). The brevity of EPSCs and rapid deactivation of AMPARs depend upon a short lifetime of synaptically released glutamate, estimated to be about 1 ms (Clements e

• br cDNA cloning gene structure and chromosomal

  2024-02-21

  

  cDNA cloning, gene structure and chromosomal localization The cDNA for the leukocyte-type 12S-lipoxygenase was first cloned from porcine leukocytes [9], and later from mouse [10], [11], rat [12], [13], bovine [14] and rabbit [15] sources. The cDNA for the platelet-type 12S-lipoxygenase cDNA has b

• The preferential expression of ALOX B in human macrophages m

  2024-02-21

  

  The preferential expression of ALOX15B in human macrophages may explain why human genetic studies investigating the association of ALOX15 with cardiovascular disease did not show consistent results. Two rare functional polymorphisms have been characterized in the ALOX15 gene, which leads to increase

• br Conclusions br Acknowledgments The authors are

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  Conclusions Acknowledgments The authors are thankful to Hugo Santos, Olga Martinez and Ricardo Lacerda for the technical assistance provided in the maintenance of the aquaria. This work was supported by national funds, through FCT and co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

• In young animals the HT A

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  In young animals, the 5-HT2A LY2090314 antagonist ketanserin, at relatively low concentrations, shifted 5-HT concentration-response curves rightward, suggesting a role for 5-HT2A receptors in mediating 5-HT-induced contractions of the ureter. The slopes of the ketanserin Schild plots for the antago

• Although the role of mossy fiber sprouting in

  2024-02-21

  

  Although the role of mossy fiber sprouting in epileptogenesis has been challenged (Elmer et al., 1997, Nissinen et al., 2001), in addition to astrogliosis, mossy fiber sprouting is one of the characteristic histopathological findings in TLE (Kharatishvili et al., 2006, Pitkanen et al., 2007, Represa

• We further analyzed selected hit compounds

  2024-02-21

  

  We further analyzed selected hit compounds for their ability to inhibit human AdK in intact cells. Human 1321N1 astrocytoma S63845 were utilized which were found to express AdK. The whole cell assay was performed using a 96-well format. The standard AdK inhibitor 5-iodotubercidin was employed as a p

• The role of DHT in early

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  The role of DHT in early teleost embryogenesis is not entirely clear or established, however additional studies that treat fish embryos to DHT or to specific srd5a inhibitors at critical stages of development (i.e. prior to sex differentiation) will shed light on the early functions of this androgen

• Axl has been reported to mediate

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  Axl has been reported to mediate cell-cell adhesion and sphere-growth [11], [18] and to be important for metastasis to secondary organs [12], [14], [20]. We found an Axl-dependent CCRCC-ability of sphere-formation and repopulation after non-adhesive growth. Axl-inhibited cells could not attach to ea

• Chromatin proteins play important roles in gene expression

  2024-02-21

  

  Chromatin proteins play important roles in gene expression and DNA repair. The importance of chromatin composition on gene expression is exemplified by X-inactivation, where one of the two X chromosomes in female mammalian TAK-632 is transcriptionally silenced by heterochromatin , , , . In the ATR

• Because ASK signaling in microglia and

  2024-02-21

  

  Because ASK1 signaling in microglia and astrocytes is important during EAE, we hypothesized that a combination therapy that targets T cells along with microglia and astrocytes would further ameliorate the severity of EAE. We tested this hypothesis by applying valproic tcY-NH2 (VPA)—a short-chain fa

• Cilnidipine br Conclusion br Introduction Breast cancer is t

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  Conclusion Introduction Breast cancer is the most common cancer and second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women [1,2]. There were about 1.7 million new cases of breast cancer worldwide in 2012 [3], and the number of new cases of female breast cancer is expected to increase to 3.2 mi

• Analysis of the enzyme activity expressed as rate of

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  Analysis of the enzyme activity, expressed as rate of product formation per unit serum volume (20μl), between the diagnostic groups revealed that ApB activity was significantly decreased in the patient group both at recruitment and after 13months when the substrate concentration used was 1.5mM (pthe

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