• Acknowledgments br Introduction Prostate cancer is

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  Acknowledgments Introduction Prostate cancer is the first leading cause of cancer-related deaths among males in the UK and the second in the US. Despite recent advances in surgery, radiation, medical management and screening, prostate cancer patients suffer high morbidity and mortality and signi

• br Aromatase the key enzyme

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  Aromatase: the key enzyme for estrogen formation in adipose tissue Estrogens are synthesized from androgens by aromatase, a member of the cytochrome P450 superfamily, which is the rate-limiting enzyme in estrogen biosynthesis (Santen et al, 2009, Simpson et al, 1994). At the cellular level, aroma

• br Conclusions In summary the

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  Conclusions In summary, the present results showed that ageing diminished arginase activity only in clearance tissues and that l-arginine supplementation did not induce major changes in arginase activity thus refuting a role of arginase in the potential deleterious effects of l-arginine supplemen

• The mitochondrial protein AIF was

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  The mitochondrial protein AIF was the first caspase-independent death effector. AIF can induce caspase-independent chromatin condensation and large-scale DNA fragmentation to approximately 50 KB. AIF that is released to cytoplasm can mediate apoptosis when special extracellular signals trigger the o

• br Introduction The apelin receptor angiotensin receptor lik

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  Introduction The apelin receptor (angiotensin receptor-like 1, APJ) is a seven transmembrane receptor (7TMR) that belongs to the class A peptidergic G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) superfamily [1]. The endogenous ligands of APJ are the different isoforms of apelin (namely apelin-13, −17, and −

• Physical and chemical preservatives such as

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  Physical and chemical preservatives such as ultraviolet and ɣ-rays irradiation, sulphur and aluminium phosphide fumigation, etc, have been introduced to inhibit the growth of fungi. Nevertheless, due to the potential decomposition reactions and residues, as well as their own potential toxicity, and

• br Conflict of interest br Acknowledgements We would like

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  Conflict of interest Acknowledgements We would like to thank Editage (www.editage.jp) for English language editing. This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant Number 24592576. Co-existence of β- and β-adrenergic recept

• Further evidence for action mechanism was provided

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  Further evidence for action mechanism was provided by assays using [3H]nisoxetine, a selective NET inhibitor used as standard radioligand for competitive binding experiments. The results showed dose-dependent blocking of [3H]nisoxetine binding by both xylazine and dexmedetomidine. Nisoxetine binds t

• The activation of the A

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  The activation of the A2BR subtype triggers different intracellular metabolic pathways, often linked to the activation of adenylyl cyclase and increased levels of intracellular cAMP (Lynge et al., 2003, Bernareggi et al., 2015). The nAChR-channel c-di-AMP mediated by the cAMP/PKA pathway was report

• Adenosine receptors are proposed to

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  Adenosine receptors are proposed to play proangiogenic role in vascular and immune Ro 3306 within microenvironment of hypoxic tissues to maintain tissue oxygenation in chronic ischemic condition [9]. Adenosine also stimulates the production of angiopoetin-1, VEGF and Interleukin-6 (IL6) via adenosi

• Glucose permeability studies demonstrated a high

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  Glucose permeability studies demonstrated a high glucose flux through the SF films used in the present work. Recent diffusion studies, including small molecular drugs and oxygen permeation through SF membranes [32], further support the quality of SF and its possible application as a material for bio

• Our previous work fails to show any

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  Our previous work fails to show any maternal effect with blockade of 5-HT2A receptor, as acute and repeated treatment of MDL100907 does not alter maternal behavior at the behaviorally active doses (Chen et al., 2014). In the present study, MDL100907 pretreatment attenuated the maternal disruptive ef

• ras inhibitor In this report the natural compound deguelin

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  In this report, the natural compound deguelin potently and dose-dependently suppressed Aurora B kinase activity in vitro, indicating that this compound is an effective Aurora B inhibitor. The docking study indicated that deguelin was docked into the ATP-binding pocket of Aurora B and formed hydropho

• Congruously our findings of voltage electrode

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  Congruously, our findings of voltage-electrode-clamping assays indicate that hipN851K mutation mediates partial loss of Na+/K+-ATPase pump currents, also confirming our thesis that hipN851K mutation acts as a hypomorph. As demonstrated here by our external electrical stimulation studies and ECG reco

• In this review we will present

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  In this review, we will present the traditional and actual strategies to study orphan receptors and identify their ligands. An extensive description of the orphan GPCR field has been published in 2013 by Davenport et al. [22]. Therefore, we will focus on the deorphanizations that were reported since

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