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Fatty acid oxidation plays a crucial
2021-05-05
Fatty PD123319 β-oxidation plays a crucial role in maintaining body energy homoeostasis mainly during catabolic states. It mainly occurs in mitochondria and involves a cyclical series of reactions that result in the shortening of fatty acids. Fatty acids comprise an efficient source of energy that r
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Impulsive burying and freezing behaviors in
2021-05-05
Impulsive burying and freezing behaviors in response to aversive stimuli may represent attempts to avoid novel and/or aversive stimuli. These behaviors can be assessed utilizing the marble burying and conditioned fear tasks, respectively. For example, Wistar rats in proestrus and ovariectomized rats
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In vitro studies suggest that cPLA does
2021-05-05
In vitro studies suggest that cPLA2α does not show clear preference for the headgroup present at the sn-3 position, although a slight preference for zwitterionic phospholipids such as PC and PE has recently been pointed out [24]. In this regard, mass spectrometry analyses of glycerophospholipid hydr
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notch signaling Dual inhibition of ACE and NEP
2021-05-05
Dual inhibition of ACE and NEP as a strategy for treating hypertension has been extensively investigated, including contributions from these laboratories through the discovery of Sampatrilat . Given that both targets are related zinc metalloproteinases, dual enzyme inhibition can be achieved within
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When six chemical inhibitors were incubated with TRB or
2021-05-05
When six chemical inhibitors were incubated with TRB or TRC and human liver microsomal preparation, HLM2, the results showed that ketoconazole (a CYP3A4 inhibitor) was very effective in inhibiting 4β-C hydroxylation of TRB and TR, whereas sulfaphenazole (a CYP2C9 inhibitor) and quinidine (a CYP2D6 i
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Recently a method for in
2021-05-05
Recently, a method for in vivo photoactivation of energy metabolism expressing PA-GFP in precise microanatomical compartments was described (Victora et al., 2010), which makes it possible to optically mark Tfh cells and track them 20 hr later (Shulman et al., 2013). Unexpectedly, it was reported th
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In glioblastoma methylation of pMGMT is predictive of the
2021-05-05
In glioblastoma, methylation of pMGMT is predictive of the efficacy of temozolomide with an increased survival [22], [23], [24], [25]. As in glioblastoma [24], [26], [27], [28], pMGMT methylation assessed by pyrosequencing (with immunochemistry, IHC) is the most effective and reproducible technique
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br Results br Discussion In addition
2021-05-05
Results Discussion In addition to contributing to amino crm1 and lipid biosynthesis, mitochondrial metabolism affects nucleotide biosynthesis. Indeed, many components that contribute to both pyrimidine and purine bases are derived directly or indirectly from mitochondria. Besides glutamine an
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Pentamidine synthesis Instead of receptor interaction or GT
2021-05-05
Instead of receptor interaction or GT activity, we focused on the CPD and autoprocessing. The CPDs from the 2 toxins are highly homologous: each cysteine protease targets an intramolecular substrate and mediates InsP6-induced autoprocessing to release the GTD into host cytosol.40, 41 However, TcdB i
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Significantly less is known about regulation
2021-05-05
Significantly less is known about regulation of phytocystatin gene expression. A genomic clone corresponding to the barley cystatin Icy gene has been characterized (Gaddour et al., 2001) and the function of its promoter region has been analysed by Martínez et al. (2005b). Bioinformatic analysis of t
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Genomic DNA Isolation Kit In the pleural exudates which refl
2021-05-05
In the pleural exudates, which reflect the in vivo conditions, the concentrations of CysLTs and PGE2 were quite similar. However, when cancer Genomic DNA Isolation Kit were cultured for 24 h, both analyses of cell culture medium and cell incubations with Ca2+ ionophore showed low levels of CysLTs. I
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Cytochrome P CYP enzymes plays an essential role in
2021-05-05
Cytochrome P450 (CYP-450) enzymes plays an essential role in pharmacology of drugs and toxicology of xenobiotics. Inhibition of these enzymes may lead to increase plasma levels of a concomitantly administered drug (Lee et al., 2013). It may prolong or reduce the pharmacological effects and increase
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In agreement with the study on porcine
2021-05-05
In agreement with the study on porcine microsomes (Ekstrand et al., 2015), our results indicated a somewhat higher degree of inhibition of CYP2E1 activity in the male pools compared to females. Nevertheless, the degree of this Triciribine inhibition did not reach 50%, indicating that quercetin is u
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In conclusion the magnitude of the association between prena
2021-05-05
In conclusion, the magnitude of the association between prenatal exposure to MeHg and child neuropsychological development appears to be modified by polymorphisms in CYP3A7 and CYP3A5 genes in some of the populations studied. These results provide some support for the hypothesis that CYP3A genes may
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Proteins that associate to PCNA are characterized by having
2021-05-05
Proteins that associate to PCNA are characterized by having conserved motifs as the PCNA-interacting protein (PIP) motif [29,30], its variant PIP-like motif [31,32] or the APIM motif (Alk B homologue 2 PCNA interacting motif [33,34]); for instance, p21 contains a PIP motif [30], and DNA polymerases