• Besides degrading cholesterol the cholesterol degradation pa

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  Besides degrading cholesterol, the cholesterol degradation pathway also offers a route to obtain useful starting materials for the production of steroid drugs and hormones. Indeed, steroids are among the most marketed pharmaceuticals with about 300 approved steroid drugs [15] and a worldwide market

• During host cell interactions G

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  During host-cell interactions, G. intestinalis trophozoites up-regulate several cell-associated proteins, including high-cysteine membrane proteins (HCMPs) and variant surface proteins (VSPs) [8]. The parasite also releases around 200 proteins upon host-cell contact, including many proteases [9,10].

• In recent years the use of liquid chromatography tandem mass

  2020-06-08

  

  In recent years, the use of liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) has become a preferred approach to measure drugs and metabolites in biological fluids due to its very high selectivity and sensitivity [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [25], [30]. The great sensitivity of

• In the present study the expression of the CYP

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  In the present study, the Indirubin of the CYP2C11 gene and the levels of its protein and activity were decreased in rats with liver insufficiency and in rats after induced dysfunction of the serotonergic system during normal liver function. Moreover, serotonergic system dysfunction during liver in

• CDK lacks DNA binding domains and nuclear

  2020-06-08

  

  CDK6 lacks DNA-binding domains and nuclear localization sequences, and therefore will probably be transported to the nucleus by a ‘piggy-back’ mechanism and needs to contact its specific sites indirectly through DNA-binding proteins. Besides NF-κB p65, a further candidate transcription factor is PAX

• Models and theories The CPA equation of state

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  Models and theories The CPA equation of state is composed predominantly of two parts: physical item and the association item based on the thermodynamic perturbation theory [21], [22], [26], [27]. The physical item is used to represent intermolecular physical interaction, usually representing the SR

• In the current study although EP agonist was the most

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  In the current study, although EP4 agonist was the most effective in relaxing corpus cavernosum, it did not affect the neuronally-mediated relaxation. On the other hand, both alprostadil and iloprost, which were less effective as direct relaxants, potentiated EFS-induced relaxation of rat corpus cav

• Since its inception ADEPT approach has been widely reported

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  Since its inception, ADEPT approach has been widely reported by many groups using a variety of enzymes and prodrugs (see reviews) [12], [14]. Both mammalian and non-mammalian enzymes have been utilised. Of the mammalian variety, human β-glucuronidase in combination with many prodrugs [17], [18] and

• Introduction The COMT gene is located on chromosomal band q

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  Introduction The COMT gene is located on chromosomal band 22q11.2, extends over 28 kb, contains six exons, and encodes for catechol-O-methyl-transferase (Weinshilboum and Raymond, 1977; Grossman et al., 1992; Lundström et al., 1995; Bearden et al., 2005). This enzyme plays a major role in regulatio

• Spinal cord injury leads to an

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  Spinal cord injury leads to an extensive inflammatory cascade on spinal cord and the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines can sensitize neurons, activating signaling pathways that will result in thermal and mechanical hypersensitivity [39]. In this regard, Guo and collaborators (2014) demonstrated

• Both progesterone and the calcium ionophore

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  Both progesterone and the calcium ionophore A23187 rely on the synthesis of cAMP by sAC to elicit exocytosis in human sperm (Fig. 2E-H and [8], [60]). We had reported earlier that digestion of endogenous cAMP with recombinant cAMP-specific phosphodiesterase 4D [9] or inhibition of its synthesis with

• The discoidin domain receptors DDR and DDR are receptor

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  The discoidin domain receptors, DDR1 and DDR2, are receptor tyrosine kinases that are activated by different types of collagen (Shrivastava et al., 1997, Vogel et al., 1997). Both receptors interact with a number of fibrillar collagens, and DDR1, but not DDR2, is also activated by the network-formin

• It is also critical that APC

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  It is also critical that APC/CCDC20 is inhibited by MCC during the spindle assembly checkpoint, prior to correct chromosome alignment on the mitotic spindle (Box 1, reviewed in 13, 34). As proposed in [13] and demonstrated in [82], human MCC is a heterotetrameric complex consisting of its own molecu

• It is conceivable however that the

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  It is conceivable, however, that the distortion induced by adozelesin in dsDNA may decrease the processivity of the translocating RecBCD enzyme so that it dissociates more frequently from adducted DNA relative to unmodified DNA. Premature termination from the DNA would also produce partially unwound

• This pathway appears to have importance in epilepsy

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  This pathway appears to have importance in epilepsy. DGKε(−/−) mice had significantly fewer motor seizure and epileptic events compared with DGKε(+/+) mice [18]. This could be explained by the fact that in the knockout mice a greater fraction of the SAG would be converted to 2-AG. 2-AG itself is kno

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