• Targeting a specific cell type rather than

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  Targeting a specific cell type, rather than the broad cytotoxicity exhibited by some of the pharmacological agents currently used to treat lupus, may improve efficacy and decrease off target toxicity. Thus, evidence that macrophages and microglia are important to the pathogenesis of LN and NPSLE, re

• casr Apart from neutrophil mediated inflammation

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  Apart from neutrophil-mediated inflammation, the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines from PGD2/CRTH2 activated macrophages could further aggravate LPS-induced lung injury (Eguchi et al., 2011; Jandl et al., 2016). Interestingly, genetic ablation of CRTH2 diminishes the TNF-α prod

• br Introduction The cys loop ligand gated ion channels LGICs

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  Introduction The cys-loop ligand gated ion channels (LGICs) are membrane-bound proteins mediating fast transduction from chemical to electrical signals at neuronal synapses and neuromuscular junctions [1], [2]. Each subunit that makes up the pentameric LGIC architecture possesses a dicysteine br

• The effect of transformation of the linker

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  The effect of transformation of the linker Y between the carboxylic Ezatiostat hydrochloride residue and the phenyl moiety of 2b was also investigated, and is illustrated in Table 5. Analogs 2b, 16, and 17, possessing conformationally restricted carboxylic acid residues, tended to show stronger anta

• Another interesting finding regarding substrate selectivity

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  Another interesting finding regarding substrate selectivity of iPLA2-VIA in whole cellular systems stems from the observation that some of the major species hydrolyzed by the enzyme contain a 16:1 fatty guanabenz at the sn-2 position [57,119], raising the possibility that iPLA2-VIA may constitute a

• br Acknowledgements This research was

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  Acknowledgements This research was supported by Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS). We thank prof. R. Marinšek Logar for helpful advice, Dr. T. Kranjc for help with data management, N. Vrhovnik and G. Lavrič for technical help with preliminary growth experiments and dr. J. Burkeljca for help with g

• The indigenous populations living at high

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  The indigenous populations living at high mountain regions of the Himalayas represent successful human Medetomidine HCl mg to hypoxia. These populations have undergone selective positive natural selection over millennia across several genomic loci and exhibit unique respiratory, cardiopulmonary and

• PI K Akt eNOS signaling is

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  PI3K-Akt-eNOS signaling is long been known as a cell survival pathway in cardiology [8]. Current study has shown that ginsenosides, which is demonstrated to exhibit cardioprotective effect in several aspects, prevented cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury via upregulation of PI3K and phosphorylations

• The glycolytic pathway is a catabolic

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  The glycolytic pathway is a catabolic route that ends with the synthesis of pyruvate (Pyr). In Arabidopsis embryos, the conversion of phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) to Pyr, catalyzed by pyruvate kinase (PK), is mainly located in the plastids [10], [11]. The preceding reaction is catalyzed by enolase (ENO

• Some family I DNA ligases can use dATP as

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  Some family I DNA ligases can use dATP as nucleotide cofactor. For instance, human leucine enkephalin I uses dATP with a catalytic efficiency that is only 36-fold lower in comparison to ATP [9]. EhDNAlig is unable to use dATP as a nucleotide cofactor, indicating a more constrained active site in co

• The outcome of DGK function will thus depend on

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  The outcome of DGK function will thus depend on the binding partners of each DGK isoform, and the effects that they exert can be quite different. A clear example of this concept has been demonstrated for the type IV DGKs, ζ and ι, which are structurally very similar but have opposing effects on Ras

• Expression of DDR in endothelial cells

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  Expression of DDR1 in endothelial cells has been previously described in human corneal blood vessels, and more recently, in murine atherosclerotic plaques (Franco et al., 2008, Mohan et al., 2001). So far, there is a lack of evidence for DDR1 expression in endothelial cells in the mouse PLX3397 (Fr

• We have performed our MSP analyses as real time PCR

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  We have performed our MSP analyses as real-time PCR using SybrGreen (Fig. 2). The results of the beta-actin PCR vary in each sample group because the amount of DNA for bisulfite treatment was adjusted to a constant volume of serum (500μl) rather than to equal amounts of DNA. Because we expected lowe

• Interestingly some drugs have been

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  Interestingly, some drugs have been shown to be effective in the regulation of cytokine production (such as IL-2, IL-10, IL-27, IL-35, IL-37 and transforming growth factor-β, TGF-β) and, therefore, having a key role in the management of certain inflammatory-based clinical conditions (Banchereau et a

• br Future direction and conclusion

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  Future direction and conclusion Conflict of interest References and recommended reading Papers of particular interest, published within the period of review, have been highlighted as: Introduction Colony stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1; also referred to as the macrophage-colony stimulating

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