• The fibulins are a newly abundantly in the basement

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  The fibulins are a newly abundantly in the basement membrane of blood vessels. Among them, fibulin-1 is essential for elastin polymerization. Tropoelastin cannot be assembled into mature elastin fibrils without the functional fibulin-1. In adult blood vessels, pronounced fibulin 1 deposition can be

• NCSs are helical proteins containing four EF hand motifs wit

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  NCSs are α-helical proteins containing four EF-hand motifs with EF1 being incapable of Ca-binding throughout the family (atomic-resolution structure was firstly resolved for recoverin [5]; for review on NCS structure, see [6]). Some of the NCS proteins (i.e. recoverin and KChIP3) have two while othe

• receptor tyrosine kinase Considering its role in regulating

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  Considering its role in regulating cytoskeletal dynamics, the Rho kinase effector ROCK has been particularly implicated in tumor metastasis. The ROCK inhibitors Y27632 and fasudil have been extensively studied in cancer and beneficial effects have been observed in many types of cancers (Kale et al.,

• br Acknowledgments This research was supported by

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  Acknowledgments This research was supported by the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports by grants MSM LH11013 and Czech Grant Agency (501/12/0590). David Kopečný and Martina Kopečná were supported by the grant LO1204 from the National Program of Sustainability I by the Ministry of Educat

• Decreasing GSK activity has therapeutic benefits in

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  Decreasing GSK-3β activity has therapeutic benefits in animal model of colitis [45] and traumatic glycogen synthase kinase injury [46] and ischemia/reperfusion injury [47,48]. In brain, activation of GSK-3β promotes Aβ toxicity by elevating APP expression and its amyloidogenic cleavage, and by dysr

• Finally a potentially effective therapeutic approach is to

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  Finally, a potentially effective therapeutic approach is to target the LDH enzymes that mediate bidirectional conversion of pyruvate into lactate. In particular, because LDHA is the predominant isoform expressed in glycolytic tumours, an array of LDHA-targeting compounds have been proposed and valid

• br Conclusion br Acknowledgements This work

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  Conclusion Acknowledgements This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for challenging Exploratory Research (15K12715) and was a partly supported by Suzuken Memorial Foundation (2014). The authors would like to thank Enago (www.enago.jp) for the English language review. G protein-coupled rec

• In addition analysis of the functional elements in the GnRH

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  In addition, analysis of the functional elements in the GnRH promoter region also identified other transcription factor binding sites, such as those for GATA-1 and Oct-1. However, those sites were not further validated in this study. Nevertheless, it has been reported that transcription factors such

• The typical pharmacophore for GPR

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  The typical pharmacophore for GPR40 agonists contains four parts: head (acid moiety), central (phenyl ring), linker and tail (aromatic carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring) [20]. On the other hand, the chemical features that are required for the PPARγ agonists include hydrogen bond donors and acceptors

• In a previous study M ykkynen et al

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  In a previous study (Möykkynen et al., 2003), we reported that ethanol lengthens the time needed for the AMPA receptors to recovery from desensitization in isolated hippocampal neurons. Here, we did not observe any effect of ethanol on recovery from desensitization in recombinant homomeric GluR-D re

• While CART increased circulating levels

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  While CART increased circulating levels of GIP and GLP-1 in vivo, we were unable to detect any effect of exogenous CART on GIP and GLP-1 mRNA expression or GLP-1 secretion in vitro. There is no ready explanation for this discrepancy. The CART doses used (both in vivo and in vitro) have been shown to

• Ghrelin receptors in non mammals are reportedly more

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  Ghrelin receptors in non-mammals are reportedly more “complicated/complex and diverse” than in mammals, having additional paralogs and splice variants (Kaiya et al., 2014). Several teleost fish GHS-Rs have been identified; however, functional characterization has been conducted in only a few (see, K

• br Secretase in inflammatory diseases Secretase appears to p

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  γ-Secretase in inflammatory diseases γ-Secretase appears to play a more important role than previously recognized in inflammatory diseases. Studies have shown that mice partially deficient in PS genes (PS1+/− PS2−/−) develop an immune system deficit in late adulthood, such as ulcerated skin or a

• br Acknowledgements br Introduction Galanin shows widespread

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  Acknowledgements Introduction Galanin shows widespread distribution in the central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS) as well as in the immune, endocrine and endothelial vascular systems (Lang et al., 2007). Galanin controls diverse physiological processes such as arousal

• In the present study we

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  In the present study, we also found that specificity concerns persist for antibody-based tools, like ELISAs. Measuring the same human plasma sample with four different commercial galanin ELISA kits produced four widely different galanin concentrations. No recovery of synthetic galanin peptide added

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