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Despite the significant associations between TNF and
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Despite the significant associations between TNF-α and TRAIL in our results, the use of a single top cytokine in predicting sPTB is limited, and the previous study using the specific candidate cytokines failed to accurately predict the risk for sPTB in asymptomatic women, with AUC ranged from 0.48 t
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For human health risk assessment of chemicals a default
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For human health risk assessment of chemicals, a default uncertainty factor (UF) of 3.16 is used to capture inter individual variation in toxicokinetics (Dorne and Renwick, 2005). However, the scientific background for this default UF remains unsatisfactory., Several studies have reported that a fac
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Introduction Klebsiella pneumoniae a Gram negative enteric
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Introduction Klebsiella pneumoniae, a Gram-negative enteric bacterium, is an organism with significance in both biomedicine and biotechnology. Some of the strains of K. pneumoniae are opportunistic pathogens, which can cause suppurative infection, pneumoniae and urinary tract infection in humans (B
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br COTSget based Architectures This section describes how ou
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COTSget-based Architectures This section describes how our COTSget-based architectures are defined. We use a design inspired by MDE to build a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) of the architecture, as can be seen in the metamodel of Fig. 3. This metamodel defines the abstract syntax of our DSL and i
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AMPHs facilitate dopamine release which
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AMPHs facilitate dopamine release, which further triggers dopamine depletion [72]. Indeed, we observed that repeated treatment of MPA significantly inhibited TH-, DAT-, and VMAT-2 levels. Since DAT and VMAT-2 are important for dopaminergic terminal markers [10], their decreases suggest that MPA-indu
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br Conformational properties of DGK br Interaction of
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Conformational properties of DGKϵ Interaction of DGKϵ with its lipid substrate A major component of the interaction between DGKϵ and lipid bilayers is the insertion of the hydrophobic segment comprising residues 20–42 into the membrane, as discussed above. However, this is not the only interac
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LTD and LTC cause contraction
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LTD4 and LTC4 cause contraction in the rat stomach and these contractions are sensitive to CysLT1 receptor antagonists (Goldenberg and Subers, 1983, Miura et al., 1992, Miyata et al., 1995). However, effects of other leukotrienes in the gastric contraction and inhibitory effects of potent, selective
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An intriguing feature of the pre and postsynaptic
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An intriguing feature of the pre and postsynaptic processes at the level of the VTA that have been shown to be mediated by CRF2 receptors [9], [34] is that they are exerted only by agonists with high affinity for both CRF2 receptors and CRF-BP. The four endogenous peptides of the CRF system have hig
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br Other pathways involved in the preventive
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Other pathways involved in the preventive and therapeutic potential of flavonoids in neurodegenerative diseases Rather than the induction of MAPK/ERK pathway, flavonoids actively modulate other critical intracellular neuronal survival and death protein kinases pathways, more importantly PI3K/Akt,
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DDR is one of two non integrin tyrosine kinase
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DDR1 is one of two, non-integrin tyrosine kinase receptors activated by collagen. Although DDR1 has five isoforms (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e) generated by alternative splicing, only DDR1a and 1b have active kinase domains, whereas DDR2, encoded by a distinct gene, has one isoform (Vogel et al., 2006). Coll
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Transduction of cellular signals by G protein coupled recept
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Transduction of cellular signals by G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is stringently regulated to prevent the deleterious effects of unrestrained GPCR signaling. The rapid termination of signaling mediated by agonist-occupied GPCRs is referred to as homologous desensitization and involves the foll
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In summary our findings indicate that bFGF stimulates CPT ex
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In summary, our findings indicate that bFGF stimulates CPT1 expression, FA oxidation and lactate production with the participation of PPARβ/δ activation. On the other hand, this investigation shows that FSH concomitantly regulates the expression of genes involved in FA metabolism and in mitochondria
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Conventional assays rely on a comparable transformation of
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Conventional assays rely on a comparable transformation of the target analytes and the structurally similar (but not identical) proxy substrates and are commonly used to measure individual enzyme activities in (pre-treated) intact sludge flocs (Burgess and Pletschke, 2008a, Gessesse et al., 2003, Yu
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Epiandrosterone In the present study we investigated the dee
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In the present study, we investigated the deeper role of eNOS in the pathogenesis of nasal polyps and analyzed the influence of 1,8-cineol on nasal polyp gene and protein expression of eNOS in vitro. Different studies dealt with the localization and expression of eNOS in nasal polyps and nasal mucos
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br Materials and methods br Results and
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Materials and methods Results and discussion Conclusions Data about the ability of non-conventional ligands to operate class-A GPCRs have been accumulating. Specifically, increasing evidence indicates that oxysterols, oxidized derivatives of cholesterol, are involved in many activities that