• The difficulty of characterizing nAChRs in the central nervo

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  The difficulty of characterizing nAChRs in the central nervous system is also exemplified by early observations that nicotine caused no detectable effect when applied on a brain slice and it is only with the focal and high time resolution of more recent experiments that the effects of nicotinic neur

• Bioactive peptides contain amino acids

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  Bioactive peptides contain 2–20 amino acids with possible bioactivities including antihypertensive, antioxidant, antimicrobial, anticancer, and opioid activity [9], [10], [11]. There has been a great interest in antihypertensive peptides for their efficiency in lowering blood pressure. The antihyper

• A large number of studies have

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  A large number of studies have shown that oxidative stress is involved in the pathophysiological process of ventricular remodeling and is associated with left ventricular dysfunction (Hori and Nishida, 2009, Lord et al., 2010). The generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) that exceeds anti-oxidat

• br Regulatory mechanisms of ASK activity br The functions

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  Regulatory mechanisms of ASK1 activity The functions of ASK1 in disease ASK1 inhibitor As mentioned above, ASK1 plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of various diseases; hence, an ASK1 inhibitor has therapeutic potential. Although inhibitors of the ASK1 downstream kinases p38 and JNK ar

• Introduction Cytochrome P CYP aromatase catalyzes the conver

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  Introduction Cytochrome P450 19 (CYP19; aromatase) catalyzes the conversion of androgens to estrogens in a three-reaction sequence, where each step depends on NADPH and O2 [[1], [2], [3]]. The first two steps are accepted to be hydroxylations of the steroid C19 methyl group, whereas the final step

• Patients with cardiovascular disorders typically have lower

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  Patients with cardiovascular disorders typically have lower plasma apelin levels than matched healthy controls. For example, plasma apelin levels are reduced in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), and among CAD patients with unstable angina or acute myocardial infraction there is a further

• Notably we have characterized the

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  Notably, we have characterized the mechanism of action of ALK in the context of our current understanding of NLRP3 activation [5]. Non-priming macrophages, including BMDMs, exhibit no or minimal activation of NLRP3 in response to ATP. In contrast, LPS priming of macrophages makes them highly suscept

• Thus we presumed that ALDH

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  Thus, we presumed that ALDH1A3 might play an important role in TMZ-chemoresistance in glioblastoma patients. As we expected, the glioblastoma cell lines and primary glioma Vicriviroc maleate were more sensitive to TMZ treatment when ALDH1A3 was inhibited or depleted. Consistently, it has been shown

• br Disclosures br Author contributions br

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  Disclosures Author contributions Grants This work was supported by National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute MERIT Award R37 HL040696 to J.A.F. Acknowledgments Introduction The AGC kinases, named after the protein A, G and C kinases, are an evolutionaril

• Curcumin is able to upregulate the

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  Curcumin is able to upregulate the protein level of NGF through cannabinoid receptor CB1, where the activation of Akt pathway probably plays an important part in the CB1-mediated signal transmission [9,10]. This finding suggested that the protection of curcumin in spinal motor neurons of SNI rats is

• Within the PARP family TIPARP is most evolutionarily

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  Within the PARP family, TIPARP is most evolutionarily conserved with PARP12 (ARTD12) and PARP13 (ARTD13) [27,28,41]. All three proteins contain at least one RNA-type CCCH zinc finger domain, a poly-ADP-ribose binding WWE domain and a PARP catalytic domain (Fig. 1). PARP13 is catalytically inactive,

• In a recent series of studies from our

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  In a recent series of studies from our laboratory, to characterize the contractile systems within the rat flunixin meglumine wall, three conditions were identified that led to detrusor activity: spontaneous micro-contractions, electrical field stimulated (EFS) contractions and muscarinic agonist in

• br Materials and methods br Discussion

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  Materials and methods Discussion Few studies have examined peripheral PACAP levels in migraineurs, and no reports have described PACAP levels in blood samples from patients with CM. Here, we demonstrated that plasma PACAP concentrations were lower in patients with interictal migraine (in both

• br Concluding Remarks The effects

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  Concluding Remarks The effects of point mutations of the four ARs on ligand binding affinities, functional potencies, and efficacies constitute a valuable source of pharmacological information. We analyzed the existing data and mapped it on the collection of available AR crystal structures, allow

• In pioneering work from Ikeda and colleagues showed that GMF

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  In 2006, pioneering work from Ikeda and colleagues showed that GMF localizes to and regulates the kras-pdeδ pathway cytoskeleton (see Glossary), and noted its sequence similarity to ADF/cofilin[11]. In 2009, the structure of GMF [6] was solved, revealing it to be a bona fide member of the actin dep

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