• Imaging QTL studies may have several potential advantages

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  Imaging QTL studies may have several potential advantages over case-control studies, including increased power . Imaging endophenotypes of disease in QTL studies can separate patients and normal subjects more accurately and therefore limit the confound of including asymptomatic subjects in the contr

• To verify whether circulating APN

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  To verify whether circulating APN could protect cognitive function during aging, we detected the alterations in circulating adipoenctin levels in aging rats. Our results suggested that circulating APN levels reduced with age. Kawasumi et al’s study results are consistent with ours. They concluded th

• Interestingly as observed with Treg cells

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  Interestingly, as observed with Treg cells, adenosine can regulate the function of Breg cells, a subset of immunosuppressive cells that support immunological tolerance [115]. In particular, Bregs were able to regulate both their own function and T cell activity via an adenosine signaling originating

• During myeloid cell maturation expression of

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  During myeloid cell maturation, expression of 5-LO mRNA and protein is strongly induced (60–130-fold) by calcitriol (1,25(OH)2D3) and transforming growth factor-β (TGFβ) [6,7]. The upregulation of 5-LO mRNA transcription is mainly due to transcript elongation and mRNA maturation [8,9]. Interestingly

• Acknowledgements The work was supported by grants from Swedi

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  Acknowledgements The work was supported by grants from Swedish Research Council (J.Z.H.) (A.R.M.). We thank Protein Science Facility (PSF), Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. We thank Prof. Ralf Morgenstern (Department for Environmental Medic

• Finasteride has been shown to be a mechanism based

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  Finasteride has been shown to be a mechanism-based inhibitor of 5AR-2 [9]. Finasteride acts as an alternate substrate for 5AR-2 and is initially bound in an extremely stable enzyme-bound NADP-dihydrofinasteride adduct which is ultimately processed to dihydrofinasteride. The NADP-dihydrofinasteride a

• br Results br Discussion Both ATM and

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  Results Discussion Both ATM and ATR are key regulators of the cellular response to DSBs, yet how exactly they function in concert is not well understood. Recent studies revealed that ATM is required for the resection of DSBs (Jazayeri et al., 2006, Myers and Cortez, 2006), a process necessary

• br In vivo visualization of aromatase with

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  In vivo visualization of aromatase with positron emission tomography (PET) Positron emission tomography (PET) utilizes the high ML-291 photons formed during the annihilation of positrons to detect the changes in the amount and localization of injected radiopharmaceuticals in the living body (rec

• br The role of apelin in

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  The role of apelin in respiratory diseases At present, several scientific studies have suggested that the apelin/APJ system may play an important role in the development of pulmonary diseases (Table 4). For example, in an experiment on rats suffering from acute lung injury, apelin-13 decreases th

• This progressive behaviour is summarized in Fig which depict

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  This progressive behaviour is summarized in Fig. 4, which depicts the variation in convexity of the obtained cut-off patterns for the series of six antioxidants. The form and degree of convexity of the obtained cut-off curves should in principle correlate with the AOs hydrophobicities, and therefor

• br G protein activation through croaker ZIP

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  G protein activation through croaker ZIP9 An essential criterion for designating a steroid binding protein as a membrane steroid receptor is to demonstrate that it can transduce steroid signals in order to elicit a cellular response. Treatment with 100nMT caused G protein activation in croaker ZI

• Breast Cancer Although androgens have been considered to be

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  Breast Cancer: Although androgens have been considered to be a risk factor in prostate cancer they have been recommended to treat breast cancers. Even before the discovery of SERMs and aromatase inhibitors, steroidal androgens such as medroxyprogesterone and fluoxymesterone were used to treat breast

• In addition to differential expression of AR protein primari

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  In addition to differential expression of AR protein primarily in surgical specimens, genetic alterations involving the AR gene have been documented in human 94 8 cancer. Loss of heterozygosity at the AR locus was identified in all 3 informative cases of muscle-invasive bladder tumors, whereas, ins

• Despite clear evidence of a causative role

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  Despite clear evidence of a causative role for Aβ in AD, Aβ-mediated toxicity alone is insufficient to explain all facets of fully manifested AD. Indeed, a recent report found that two familial AD mutations in PSEN1, PSEN-L435F and PSEN-C410Y, resulted in a dysfunctional protein that does not cleave

• br Methods The study population included neuropathologically

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  Methods The study population included 64 neuropathologically confirmed AD patients (6 male, 58 female) that were recruited into a longitudinal follow-up study of patients with dementia of Alzheimer’s type from the geriatric department of Harjula Hospital in Kuopio, Finland. At baseline the patien

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