• In cholesterol synthesis HMG CoA reductase is

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  In cholesterol synthesis, HMG-CoA reductase is the rate limiting step in cholesterol biosynthesis. Statins or HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors are commonly used for management of hypercholesterolemia. The presence of an HMG-like moiety on these drugs allows them to competitively bind to the catalytic do

• br Conclusions and future perspectives It is now

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  Conclusions and future perspectives It is now evident that selective ETA or nonselective endothelin receptor antagonism provides therapeutic potentials against a variety of cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, PAH, and diabetic microvascular dysfunction (Fig. 1). However, PAH is currentl

• SBI-0206965 All tested antibodies exhibited positive immunor

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  All tested SBI-0206965 exhibited positive immunoreactivity in NSCLC tumors, with N’-epitope being the less expressed (both as overall positivity and number of positive cases, or intensity combined with number of positive cells, as provided by H-Score. This result is in accordance with previous studi

• br Materials and methods br Results To

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  Materials and methods Results To investigate the effect of 17βE on cell proliferation in the human renal tubular epithelia, BrdU uptake was measured in HRTEC primary and 3D-HRTEC cultures, allowing determination of the DNA replication rate. Representative microphotographs show BrdU uptake in H

• Acknowledgments br Introduction Steroidogenesis the process

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  Acknowledgments Introduction Steroidogenesis, the process of testosterone synthesis, occurs in the adrenal cortex, testis and ovary, and it is controlled by luteinizing hormone (LH), which is synthesized and secreted from the pituitary (Hanukoglu, 1992, Payne and Youngblood, 1995). In the testis

• It is well established that a number of intracellular

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  It is well established that a number of intracellular signaling pathways mediate sensitization of sensory neurons (Gold and Gebhart, 2010, Richardson and Vasko, 2002). This redundancy could be advantageous since it provides diversity in initiating and maintaining hypersensitivity in response to inju

• In view of the hypotensive effect of endothelial specific

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  In view of the hypotensive effect of endothelial-specific overexpression of eNOS [17], [19], [28] we correlated skeletal muscle eNOS expression with sBP including data on colony 5 of eNOS-Tg [17] which was used to generate eNOS-Tg/KO (Fig. 4D). We found a highly significant one phase exponential dec

• As with all meta analysis this study certainly

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  As with all meta-analysis, this study certainly has some limitations. First, our results were derived from unadjusted analyses due to lack of raw data, and lack of further adjusted analyses for age, gender and co-morbidity conditions may impact the reliability of our findings [63]. Second, obvious h

• Enolases are among the most abundantly expressed

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  Enolases are among the most abundantly expressed cytosolic proteins. They are metalloenzymes that catalyze the conversion of 2-phosphoglycerate to phosphoenolpyruvate [18]. Eubacteria and archaebacteria have a single enolase gene (reviewed in [19]). Despite the lack of signal peptides or cognate pro

• Our previous work has demonstrated that

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  Our previous work has demonstrated that two glutamate residues (Glu-305 and Glu-331 in murine and human TPP II) in the active site are important for exopeptidase activity in mTPP II [17]. At least one of these, Glu-331, seems to form a salt bridge to the N-terminal amino group of the substrate, posi

• Elastase belongs to chymotrypsin family of proteases and it

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  Elastase belongs to chymotrypsin family of proteases and it is responsible for the breakdown of elastin and other proteins, such as collagen and fibronectin, which are fundamental for the ECM elastic properties (Imokawa and Ishida, 2015). Misregulations of this enzyme are involved in skin ageing pro

• At first cartilage damage in osteoarthritis reflects the

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  At first, cartilage damage in osteoarthritis reflects the loss of proteoglycan and collagen network that increases the swelling of tissues. The incremented expression of DDR2 receptor has also co-related with the depletion of cartilage in surgically induced OA model [8]. Osteoarthritis, a degenerati

• br Conclusions When the authors joined

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  Conclusions When the authors joined the field of oxysterol analysis around the turn of the century, oxysterols and cholestenoic acids were mostly considered as uninteresting intermediates of cholesterol metabolism. Some oxysterols had been shown to have biological activity, but the most studied o

• EBI and its ligand s EBI was

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  EBI2 and its ligand(s) EBI2 was found in a screen of upregulated genes in human B cells upon infection with EBV [1]. EBI2 is a G-protein (Gαi type) coupled receptor [2] but as long as 18 years after its discovery the nature of its ligand remained undisclosed. With the help of transfected cell lines

• br Conclusion In the last year significant advances in our

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  Conclusion In the last year, significant advances in our understanding of ubiquitin transfer by IAPs and related E3 ligases have been made. The three crystal structures of the RING-bound E2~Ub show that the conjugate is bound by the RING domain in the closed conformation, where the I44-centered f

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