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br Methods br Results br Discussion Exercise results in
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Methods Results Discussion Exercise results in a remarkable redistribution of blood flow, which increases in active skeletal muscles but decreases in the splanchnic circulation. The regional blood flow in the kidney, spleen, stomach and intestine was measured by using the microsphere techni
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Since its development the HCV replicon system
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Since its development, the HCV replicon system (Lohmann et al., 1999) has been a critical tool in the HCV antiviral discovery process (Gottwein et al., 2009, Imhof and Simmonds, 2010, Lohmann et al., 1999, Pietschmann et al., 2001, Imhof and Simmonds, 2010, Gottwein et al., 2009). The replicon assay
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Our data indicate that curcumin reduced MDA and
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Our data indicate that curcumin reduced MDA and LOOH formation in plasma and kidney induced by gentamicin treatment. The results demonstrate the protective effect of this compound against oxidative damage to these membranes. Moreover, the ability of curcumin to reduce the formation of LOOH induced b
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br Acknowledgments br Introduction Myelin one of the fundame
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Acknowledgments Introduction Myelin, one of the fundamental adaptations of vertebrates, is a multilamellar structure deriving from the spiral wrapping around the enkephalin of the plasma membrane of myelin forming glia, oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system and Schwann cells (SC) in t
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Selective pharmacological inhibition of tonic currents indic
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Selective pharmacological inhibition of tonic currents indicated that the effects of gp120 are predominantly mediated by α5-containing GABAARs. The other dominant subtype that contributes to tonic current in the hippocampus, the δ-containing GABAAR, was unaffected by gp120 treatment. Additionally, i
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Elevated methylglyoxal levels also contribute to carbonyl st
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Elevated methylglyoxal levels also contribute to carbonyl stress, cytotoxicity, DNA damage, apoptosis and cell death. These mechanisms may be important for normal aging of the nervous system as well as for the development of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease wher
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Glial cells have emerged as important protagonists of the ce
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Glial cells have emerged as important protagonists of the central nervous system (CNS) physiology (Chen and Swanson, 2003; Kettenmann and Verkhratsky, 2008; Parpura and Verkhratsky, 2012). As widely described in the literature, astrocytes regulate glutamatergic synapses by clearance of glutamate in
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Exposure of human and animals to MPTP
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Exposure of human and animals to MPTP can reproduce all the characteristic motor and non-motor signs of PD, in addition to mimicking the same responses and side effects to drugs used to treat PD [37], [38]. Anatomically, intoxication with MPTP induces the same selective loss of substantia nigra DA n
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Studies have shown that coexpression of the HAC gene in
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Studies have shown that coexpression of the HAC1 gene in P. pastoris improved the 5416 level of foreign proteins [24,25]. By coexpression with PDI and Ero1, the expression level of the coexpressed strains was increased by 60% [26]. In our study, the α-galactosidase gene was coexpressed with four en
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Factor Xa FXa has emerged as a particularly
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Factor Xa (FXa) has emerged as a particularly promising target for the development of effective anticoagulant drugs because FXa acts at the convergence point of the extrinsic and intrinsic coagulation pathways. It efficiently catalyzes the conversion of prothrombin to thrombin with one molecule of F
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The effects of C on the NF
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The effects of C646 on the NF-κB pathway could be explained by the role for p300 that has been described in the regulation of the NF-κB pathway [5]. For instance, acetylations of the p65 NF-κB subunit on lysines 218, 221 and 310 are mediated by the HATs p300 and PCAF [11] and increase transcriptiona
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The variants all occurred at residues
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The 17 variants all occurred at residues conserved among vertebrates (Figure 1B) and in regions depleted in missense variants in gnomAD. Indeed, when we assessed missense tolerance ratios for TRRAP, we observed that most of the 17 variants were in regions intolerant to missense variants (Figure 2B).
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Uridine br Histamine H R The cloning
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Histamine H4R The cloning of the H3R (Lovenberg et al., 1999) provided a template for the search of other Uridine receptors, and resulted in the most recent discovery of histamine H4R. This concluded with six independent groups that have reported the cloning of the H4R (Leurs et al., 2009, Liu et
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Mupirocin However despite medicinal chemistry efforts lead t
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However, despite medicinal chemistry efforts lead to considerable improvement in potency and selectivity of new HO-1 inhibitors, still have not identified inhibitors in the low nanomolar range. Therefore, due to the possible in vivo non-specific effects at high dosage, novel strategies should be dev
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br Acknowledgments This research was funded
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Acknowledgments This research was funded by generous grants from the Singapore National Medical Research Council (NMRC CBRG grant NMRC/CBRG12Nov114 (BD)). WJC is supported by NMRC Clinician Scientist Investigator award and partly supported by a Singapore Cancer Syndicate Grant, the National Resea