• Testosterone can be converted into estrogens

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  Testosterone can be converted into estrogens by aromatase action. Aromatase is encoded by CYP19, belongs to cytochrome P450 superfamily, and synthesizes estradiol (E2) and estrone (E1) from testosterone and androstenedione respectively (Fig. 1). Aromatase is expressed in the ORS of anagen hair folli

• In view of the ubiquitous distribution of the

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  In view of the ubiquitous distribution of the arachidonate 12S-lipoxygenase isoforms and the variety of cellular reactions influenced by the resulting arachidonate metabolites, these products widely play important roles in many biological systems. The development of new type-specific inhibitors of t

• Decrease in soluble protein content in diabetic lenses

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  Decrease in soluble protein content in diabetic lenses compared with those in control lenses in present study could be due to leakage of proteins and insolubilization. T. purpurea treatment could increase the levels of soluble proteins in diabetic lenses may be by preventing cross-linking/aggregatio

• Various compounds have been designed to inhibit aldose reduc

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  Various compounds have been designed to inhibit aldose reductase (AR) [12]. These compounds can be classified into two main categories, the first category comprises those containing a carboxylic jnk inhibitor moiety, for example, 3-thiazolidineacetic acid derivative, which has been reported to be a

• br Conflict of interest br Acknowledgements

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  Conflict of interest Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Mrs. Amparo Pacheco from CMPL, PUC, for her technical and secretarial assistance. This work was supported by the Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (FONDECYT 1150344, 1050377, 11150083), and the Direccioń

• Adenosine is a ubiquitous homeostatic substance

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  Adenosine is a ubiquitous homeostatic substance released from most cells, including neurons and glias. Endogenous adenosine acts at four principal G-protein-associated receptor subtypes: A1, A2a, A2b and A3 (Ralevic and Burnstock, 1998). The stimulation of adenosine receptors by extracellular adenos

• Epithelial mesenchymal transition EMT is the process by whic

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  Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is the process by which epithelial cells are trans-differentiated into motile mesenchymal cells. During EMT, epithelial cells reorganize their cortical HATU cytoskeleton, lose their junctions and apical-basal polarity, change cell shape, and reprogram gene ex

• br Discussion The clinical course

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  Discussion The clinical course of our patient until May 2012 was rather typical of early onset AChR-MG. Later on, the pattern of the disease was more typical of MuSK-MG, as evidenced by the distribution of myasthenic weakness and the unprovoked exacerbations. The Boc-D-Asp(OtBu)-OH.DCHA of MuSK-

• The zebrafish Danio rerio is a popular model organism

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  The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a popular model organism for virtually any biological function of vertebrates, and has, therefore, received a wide distribution in particular in developmental biology and toxicology (Strähle et al., 2012). With respect to AChE, the zebrafish has, e.g., been identified

• br Materials and methods br Results The determination of the

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  Materials and methods Results The determination of the intrinsic inhibitory potential of the oximes HI-6 and MMB-4 with human and guinea pig AChE revealed marked differences between both oximes (Table 1). MMB-4 had an only marginal effect on both AChE species, calculated IC50 of >1000μM, while

• The presence of different LO splice variants

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  The presence of different 5-LO splice variants was first demonstrated in human Pyrene azide 3 tumour cells and in dimethyl sulfoxide-differentiated HL-60 cells [40] and a correlation between the 5-LO splicing pattern and the malignancy of the brain tumours was found. Later, other splice variants we

• In PMCA Mg favors the conversion E

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  In PMCA, Mg2+ favors the conversion E1P → E2P [13] and, as in SERCA [11], it accelerates the phosphorylation displacing the E1–E2 equilibrium towards E1. In SERCA, Sørensen et al. [41], proposed that ATP reacts by an associative mechanism mediated by two Mg2+ ions to form an aspartyl-phosphorylated

• br Animals Female Sprague Dawley SD rats aged months

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  Animals Female Sprague Dawley (SD) rats, aged 3 months with body weight between 180-210 g were housed in cages and acclimatized to standardized lab conditions (temperature 23 ± 2°C, humidity 50 ± 5% and 12 h light-dark cycles). The rats were fed with standard rodent food pellet (Harlan Diet, Ross

• Analyzed by qRT PCR Fig

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  Analyzed by qRT-PCR (Fig. 8), the variation of the expressions of DtACLA and DtACLB was fairly consistent in response to nitrogen deficiency, suggesting that DtACLA and DtACLB may be coordinate to function in the catalysis. It was reported that in Arabidopsis, the coordinated ACLA and ACLB mRNA accu

• ASK has been identified as an ASK

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  ASK2 has been identified as an ASK1 binding protein (Wang et al., 1998). ASK1 supports the stability and active configuration of ASK2 in the heteromeric complex, while ASK2 has been found to activate ASK1 by direct phosphorylation (Takeda et al., 2007). Unlike ASK1, which is ubiquitously expressed i

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