• br Discussion Elevated blood BCAA levels are

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  Discussion Elevated blood BCAA levels are a common feature of a developed pathophysiological state characterized by obesity and IR [4]. It has been suggested that this profile is part of a panel of biomarkers able to predict the onset of more severe complications like diabetes in humans [14]. In

• br Materials and methods br Results br Discussion Knowledge

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  Materials and methods Results Discussion Knowledge of the molecular basis of an inherited genetic disease is crucial for understanding the disease pathology and, ultimately, for therapeutic design. Several recent reports have stressed the need for physical characterization of disease-associ

• APN accounts for of total plasma proteins

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  APN accounts for 0.01% of total plasma proteins in humans; this proportion increases with age to a small extent (Barb et al., 2007). Normal APN levels in the circulation range 3–30μg/mL (Aprahamian and Sam, 2011). APN levels are lower in men than women due to the presence of testosterone and even mo

• br Conclusions br Acknowledgments This research

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  Conclusions Acknowledgments This research was funded by the National Science Foundation Committee (NSFC) of China (Nos. 81171058 and 81471146) and Capital Development Scientific Research in China (Nos. 2011-5001-04 and 2014-4-5013). We are grateful for all of the participants who donated blood

• br Introduction Adenosine deaminase ADA which can catalyze t

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  Introduction Adenosine deaminase (ADA), which can catalyze the conversion of AD to inosine by removing an amino group, is a key hydrolytic enzyme of purine metabolism (Conway and Cooke, 1939), and plays an important role in an amount of diseases. For example, an increase of ADA activity in serum

• br Conflict of interest br

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  Conflict of interest Ethics committee Introduction Severe combined immunodeficiency due to adenosine deaminase deficiency (ADA-SCID) is characterized by impaired function and differentiation of T, B, and natural killer (NK) cells. Non-immunological abnormalities may also occur, including fa

• During myeloid cell maturation expression of LO mRNA and pro

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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

• br Funding br Introduction l Dihydroxyphenylalanine l

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  Funding Introduction l-3,4-Dihydroxyphenylalanine (l-DOPA) is the gold-standard treatment for the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD); however, its chronic use induces severe motor complications that eventually limit its long-term efficacy (Bastide et al., 2015). The most disabling side

• br Acknowledgements Authors wish to thank

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  Acknowledgements Authors wish to thank Sabanci University (Turkey), Tubitak (Cost Eu-Ros, 113Z463), and the University of Turin (Italy) for supporting this work. Beyza Vurusaner is supported by Sabanci University Post-doctoral research scholarship. Introduction Endometriosis is defined as the

• br Acknowledgment Supported in part by NIH

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  Acknowledgment Supported in part by NIH1R21EB012707 (Biegon, Anat PI). Introduction Estrogens exert pleiotropic effects on a variety of morphological, physiological and behavioral responses in all vertebrate classes ranging from fishes to mammals. Effects of estrogens in the NMS-873 receptor

• Autocrine regulations of several adipokines e g leptin

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  Autocrine regulations of several adipokines (e.g., leptin and resistin) on adipocytes have been reported (Karastergiou and Mohamed-Ali, 2010, Ye et al., 2010). Several lines of evidence have shown that apelin influences adipocyte functions, such as, lipolysis and glucose uptake (Dray et al., 2008, Y

• Apelin is involved in various physiological functions

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  Apelin is involved in various physiological functions, including MK-4827 hydrochloride contraction (Ashley et al., 2005), vasodilatation (Jia et al., 2007), feeding control (Valle et al., 2008), and metabolic homeostasis (Higuchi et al., 2007, Dray et al., 2008, Attane et al., 2010). Its plasma lev

• br Introduction It is well known that

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  Introduction It is well known that when epithelial cells are deprived of anchorage, they undergo detachment-induced apoptosis, also known as anoikis. Cancer cells, by contrast, are able to suppress anoikis and survive under anchorage -independent conditions in the circulating system, which is tho

• Another important finding of our study is the observation

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  Another important finding of our study is the observation that high glucose per se does not affect TER in mature HREC monolayers; but at the same time it does upregulate ICAM-1 directly and activates HRECs to leukocyte adhesion. This would imply that high glucose affects TER in mature HREC monolayer

• Blocking the action of CREB

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  Blocking the action of CREB with the C646 inhibitor together with increasing Akt activation with the SC79 agonist is particularly interesting as it significantly reduced wound closure time from 7 days (which is required for complete closure of control hTECs exposed to DMSO) to only 4 days (when hTEC

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