• Adenosine is a ubiquitous homeostatic

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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

• Adenosine A A agonists have been

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  Adenosine A2A agonists have been shown to significantly reduce albuminuria in diabetic mice as well as plasma creatinine [24]. Proteinuria was greater in diabetic A2A knock-out (KO) mice than diabetic wild type (WT) mice [24]. Consistent with these findings, our laboratory initially found that prote

• Epithelial mesenchymal transition EMT is the process

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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 D-(-)-Salicin cytoskeleton, lose their junctions and apical-basal polarity, change cell shape, and reprogra

• Furthermore new strategies to achieve a total androgen depri

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  Furthermore, new strategies to achieve a total androgen deprivation namely by blocking either androgen biosynthesis as well as AR are being considered and should be a relevant topic in the near future. A successful example of this approach is galeterone (159), which not only inhibits the CYP17 enzym

• Purification of Rv c In order to investigate

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  Purification of Rv2477c. In order to investigate the catalytic capabilities of Rv2477c, we expressed the protein as an N-terminal histidine-tagged fusion protein in E. coli BL21 cells and purified the protein by cobalt-affinity chromatography. As shown in Fig. 2A, the 65 kDa fusion protein was expre

• Consistent with a damaging role for increased LOX activity

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  Consistent with a damaging role for increased 12/15-LOX activity in stroke, systemic administration of the 12/15-LOX inhibitor, LB1, 2 h after permanent focal cerebral ischemia significantly reduced infarct size 24 h after the ischemia, and the treatment group demonstrated improved behavioral and he

• How does the ATM to ATR switch

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  How does the ATM-to-ATR switch occur at DSBs? The progressive attenuation of ATM activation could be attributed to the loss of DNA structures that activate ATM, or to the generation of DNA structures that interfere with ATM activation. Our finding that SSOs do not directly affect the binding of puri

• Regulators of the DDR have

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  Regulators of the DDR have therefore become attractive targets for cancer therapy primarily through two potential approaches. First, to be used as chemo- or radiosensitisers to increase the effectiveness of standard genotoxic treatments and to help prevent or overcome the development of resistance.

• In conclusion the partial sequencing and characterization

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  In conclusion, the partial sequencing and characterization of R. quelen cyp19a1b provides essential information about this gene and its presence in peripheral tissues outside of the central nervous system in a teleost. Furthermore, we covered sex differences in the effects of E2 on the cyp19a1b gene

• Serum concentrations of APP and antioxidants of the queens

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  Serum concentrations of APP and antioxidants of the 10 queens with pyometra before surgery (T0), at day two (T1) and at day 10 (T2) after ovariohysterectomy are presented in Fig. 1. Concentrations of SAA and Hp were significantly lower (P  Discussion Acute phase protein responses were already desc

• br Experimental section br Acknowledgements This work was fu

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  Experimental section Acknowledgements This work was funded by the Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC IG18590 to A.A.), by “Fondi di Ateneo-University of Pisa” years 2009 and 2010 (E. N., S. N., E. O., and A. R.) and partially by the Unipi project P.R.A.2016_27 (E. N., E.O. and A. R.

• RNA interference assays have shown that the inhibition of

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  RNA interference assays have shown that the inhibition of AMPK expression leads to increases in TNF-α, IL-6 and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) levels after LPS stimulus, whereas the transfection of macrophages with a constitutively active form of AMPKα1 results in decreased LPS-induced TNF-α and IL-6 prod

• Initially DPP DPP and prolyl tripeptidyl peptidase A PtpA

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  Initially, DPP4, DPP7, and prolyl tripeptidyl peptidase A (PtpA) were the only exopeptidases identified in P. gingivalis. These share substrates according to their altered specificities, as DPP4 is highly specific for Pro at the penultimate position from the N-terminus (P1 position), though it accep

• The proposed formulation is however challenging

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  The proposed formulation is, however, challenging to solve since the structured sparsity-inducing norms are non-smooth. In order to solve the new objective function, we consider two different approaches: proximal averaging, which takes the average the solutions from the proximal operator for the ind

• br Study approval br Author contributions br Conflicts

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  Study approval Author contributions Conflicts of interest Acknowledgements This work was supported by grants of the Youth Backbone Program (to Jianming Ying) of Cancer Hospital, CAMS, Beijing, Beijing Hope Run Special Fund of Cancer Foundation of China (LC2015A06) and the National Natura

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