• Lubiprostone A number of anti diabetic drugs

  2022-07-21

  

  A number of anti-diabetic drugs are available that inhibit α-glucosidase activity, including acarbose, voglibose and miglitol [6,7]. These inhibitors, however, also exhibit undesirable side effects, such as adverse gastrointestinal symptoms and liver toxicity [8,9]. For diabetics, it would therefore

• Halopemide The SLC A mutations identified

  2022-07-21

  

  The SLC45A1 mutations identified in both families appear to be hypomorphic given that they resulted in a reduction but not abolition of intracellular glucose transport by SLC45A1 in our in vitro assay. It is tempting to speculate that recessive mutations causing a more severe dysfunction of the tran

• The bFGF induced upregulation of both GR

  2022-07-21

  

  The bFGF-induced upregulation of both GR and MR levels observed in our study raises a question regarding whether the simultaneous augmentation of the two receptors has a physiological and/or medical significance. It has been suggested that MR stimulates intracellular signaling pathways to minimize s

• Rare mutations can impair the molecular function of

  2022-07-21

  

  Rare mutations can impair the molecular function of GR and alter tissue sensitivity to GCs in humans, resulting in primary generalized GC resistance (PGGR) and hypersensitivity (PGGH) [14]. Familial and sporadic PGGR, or Chrousos Syndrome, is characterized by general and partial insensitivity of tis

• br Learning from our ancestors As mentioned earlier

  2022-07-21

  

  Learning from our ancestors As mentioned earlier, homologues of all γ-secretase components have been identified in plants and protozoans, some of which have emerged as model systems for the study of γ-secretase independent functions of the presenilins [27]. The moss P. patens was the first plant

• Prior to proceeding to the main

  2022-07-21

  

  Prior to proceeding to the main tests, essential conditions were optimized. At first, we tested whether the parameters that were successful in inducing LacZ gene for the production of β-galactosidase enzymes in E. coli culture system in our previous study would be sufficient to induce LacZ gene in t

• br Materials and methods br Results The immunoblot analysis

  2022-07-21

  

  Materials and methods Results The immunoblot analysis demonstrated the presence of similar immunoreactivity by liver FBPase in hepatic and renal extracts. These results indicate that FBPase is present in a similar amount in both tissues. Moreover, the analysis revealed that the antibody detect

• Sumoylation is involved in regulating protein protein intera

  2022-07-21

  

  Sumoylation is involved in regulating protein-protein interactions, subcellular protein localization, protein stability, and transcriptional factor activity (reviewed in [29]). The small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) protein is covalently attached to a lysine residue in a Ψ-K-X-D/E consensus sequen

• br Introduction Isoprenoid structures play

  2022-07-21

  

  Introduction Isoprenoid structures play an essential role in biology and over 30,000 natural products of this class are known (Greenhagen et al., 2003). Like other animals, insects require these compounds for many disparate processes, including electron transport (e.g., ubiquinones), protein glyc

• Our data show that oxidative stress high

  2022-07-21

  

  Our data show that oxidative stress (high levels of ROS) suppresses the process of lysosomal exocytosis, which would be predicted to impair the expulsion of toxic compounds from cells. Therefore, we propose that ROS have a biphasic effect on the lysosomal clearance: consistent with their role as a s

• Our observation that glioblastoma tumor cells

  2022-07-20

  

  Our observation that glioblastoma tumor cells express ETA-R in 6/10 cases contrasts with a recent publication reporting ETB-R expression in these tumors [17]. The reason for the discrepancy between that report and the present study might be due to the fact that glioblastomas with oligodendroglial co

• Oltipraz Heme activates the master regulator

  2022-07-20

  

  Heme activates the master regulator of the anti-oxidant stress response, NRF2, which mediates the up-regulation of a battery of phase II detoxifying genes [106]. Remarkably, HO-1 induction by NRF2 is regulated via an interplay with the transcriptional repressor BACH1 at the Maf recognition Oltipraz

• In summary we have designed and explored synthetic

  2022-07-19

  

  In summary, we have designed and explored synthetic routes towards novel acylsulfamoyl benzoxaborole-based HCV NS3 protease inhibitors. Interestingly, the resulting, unoptimized P1–P3 and P2–P4 macrocyclic inhibitors were equipotent in an enzyme assay and somewhat less potent in replicon assays, com

• In plants NO production is one of the

  2022-07-19

  

  In plants, NO production is one of the early responses to stress (Tossi, Lamattina, & Cassia, 2009). Usually, NO signal transduction requires the involvement of downstream signaling compounds. We further investigated the effects of cGMP on GSK-3 expression. The data showed that LY83583 (a cGMP inhib

• Although it is currently unknown why the longer

  2022-07-19

  

  Although it is currently unknown why the longer splice variant found in the human has not been found in any other species, similar results have been reported for other receptors, including the nitric oxide inhibitor receptor splice variant ERbeta2 identified in human and primate, but not other spec

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