• The widespread involvement of HH GLI in human malignancies h

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  The widespread involvement of HH/GLI in human malignancies has initiated a remarkable effort to identify selective HPIs. As shown in Table 2.1, most of these small molecule inhibitors target the essential effector protein SMO, which should lead to pathway abrogation by eventually decreasing the GLIA

• 81 5 Some of the key aspects of the myofibroblasts biology

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  Some of the key aspects of the myofibroblasts’ biology, including their signaling sensitivity and residual regenerative potential, are shaped by their origin. In this respect, lineage studies on myofibroblast precursors are critical for increasing our understanding of the natural history of fibrosis

• In a meta analysis of

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  In a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies, a variant (rs10423928) in the GIPR gene has been found to be associated with elevated postprandial glucose and insulin (Saxena et al., 2010) as well as lean body composition including decreased BMI, lean mass and waist circumference (Lyssenko et

• Despite a robust impact on learned social feeding

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  Despite a robust impact on learned, social feeding behaviors, we observed no differences in body weight or food intake when the control or vHP GHSR-1A KD animals were maintained on either a normal chow diet or a Western diet high in fat and sugar. This is interesting in light of our previous work sh

• br Results br Discussion In this study we investigated

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  Results Discussion In this study, we investigated the role of galanin and GAL2 receptors on anxiety-like behaviours mediated by the dorsal hippocampus of rats. We showed that locally administered galanin (1 nmol) decreased exploration of the open arms in the EPM, suggesting an anxiogenic-like

• Encouraged by the observation obtained from region A we sele

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  Encouraged by the observation obtained from region A, we selected the structure of 1 as the next template to successively pursue the SAR on regions B-D of 1 (lower side of Fig. 2). Next, we turned attention to the external aromatic ring of 1 to verify the impact on the antagonistic activity and prep

• Fatty acids are also known to

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  Fatty acids are also known to activate G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). LCFAs activate the GPCRs for free fatty perifosine (FFA)1 and FFA4 (Briscoe et al., 2003; Hirasawa et al., 2005), whereas SCFAs activate FFA2 and FFA3 receptors, which are expressed in bovine neutrophils (Alarcon et al., 20

• All models used here rely on WT FGFR

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  All models used here rely on WT FGFR3, which is activated by exogenous FGF ligand to alter chondrocyte proliferation and differentiation. This approach toward modeling the aberrant FGFR signaling in cartilage differs from the actual situation in ACH or TD, where the chondrocytes are exposed to long-

• br Conflict of interests br

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  Conflict of interests Acknowledgements This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health grants HD058577 and ES01678 to Kirill Kiselyov. We thank Sreeram Ravi for technical support. We also thank Mike Myers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Flow Cytometry Facility.

• In various models histamine has been shown to induce

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  In various models, histamine has been shown to induce chemotaxis. This was first appreciated over 40 years’ ago in studies with eosinophils (Clark et al., 1977). At that time, only histamine H1 and histamine H2 receptors were recognized and studies with ligands to these receptors indicated that neit

• br Materials and methods br Results

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  Materials and methods Results Discussion It was previously shown that heterologous DNA vaccines composed of fused cDNA fragments encoding chimeric NH2-terminal human HER2 and COOH-terminal rat neu sequences stimulated stronger antibody responses and protective antitumor immunity than either

• br Introduction The signaling molecule nitric oxide NO plays

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  Introduction The signaling molecule nitric oxide (NO) plays an essential role in vessel homeostasis by initiating vasodilation [1], [2], [3]. After biosynthesis in endothelial cells, NO diffuses into the subjacent smooth muscle layer to reach its target enzyme, soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC, EC 4

• Compared with the tetrazole derivative the potency of analog

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  Compared with the tetrazole derivative , the potency of analogs – was 3- to 17-fold improved. Of the range of heterocycles prepared, 1,2,4-thiadiazol-5(4)-one and 1,3,4-oxadiazol-2(3)-one showed the best potencies of 0.52μM and 0.61μM, respectively. Introduction of a second hydrogen bond donor, su

• Interestingly the rabbit cornea exhibited

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  Interestingly, the rabbit cornea exhibited a more than two-fold higher level of total GST activity compared with that of the porcine cornea, whereas their levels of GSTO1‐1 and GSTP1‐1 activity were similar (Fig. 4). Because members of the GST Alpha, Mu, Pi and Omega hematopoietic stem cells primar

• Pharmacologic approaches of inhibiting GSNOR activity have r

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  Pharmacologic approaches of inhibiting GSNOR activity have reached the point of clinical development with the recent announcement of the first cystic fibrosis patients treated with the first-in-class GSNOR inhibitor, N6022 (N30 Pharmaceuticals). Clinical development is ongoing for other indications

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