• Introduction Pain is frequently the first clinical symptom

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  Introduction Pain is frequently the first clinical symptom of head and neck carcinoma. Indeed, pain is the initial reason leading ∼70% of cancer patients to seek professional assistance (Lam & Schmidt, 2011; Rettig & D’Souza, 2015; Schmidt, 2014). Clinically, cancer-induced facial pain can be evoke

• One of the most fundamental distinctions between Ub signals

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  One of the most fundamental distinctions between Ub signals is substrate monoubiquitination versus polyubiquitination. With the exception of the E2, UBE2W, which represents a special case because it CCT007093 only ubiquitinates the flexible N-termini of substrates [5], [6], [20], most examples of m

• Gliptins have become a part of various therapeutic regimens

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  Gliptins have become a part of various therapeutic regimens to treat type 2 diabetics in recent decades. Gliptins were developed to lower the blood glucose in type 2 diabetes patients and have been shown to be effective [4,5]. More than a dozen gliptins have been developed for the treatment of T2DM,

• br GPCRs form heterotetramers In

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  GPCRs form heterotetramers In addition to homodimers and heterodimers, for several family A receptor heteromers, experimental evidence supports the presence of higher order rearrangements as tetrameric structures, comprised of two different homodimers, each able to signal with its preferred G pro

• Introduction Amphetamine AMPH methamphetamine MA and ethylen

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  Introduction Amphetamine (AMPH), methamphetamine (MA), and 3,4-ethylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) are widely abused psychoactive substances, with the basic chemical structure of phenylethylamine [1]. The abuse of these drugs is associated with psychostimulant, anorectic and hallucinogenic properti

• One step in pyrimidine biosynthesis

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  One step in pyrimidine biosynthesis is conversion of l-dihydroorotate (DHO) to orotate (ORO), under action of the enzyme dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH, EC 1.3.99.11), which contains a flavine (FMN) as redox cofactor [1]. In this transformation, electrons resulting from DHO oxidation are transf

• CYP A is involved in the metabolism of approximately

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  CYP3A is involved in the metabolism of approximately 50% of all drugs that are currently prescribed to patients [1], [15], [16]. Marked interindividual variabilitity of the catalytic function for metabolizing CYP3A substrates has been demonstrated with variability exceeding 20-fold [1]. Levonorgestr

• IL is not expressed in tissues

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  IL-8 is not expressed in tissues constitutively because of its strong chemoattractant, proinflammatory, and angiogenic activities. Rather, it is an inducible factor, produced by a variety of cell types, including leukocytes, fibroblasts, endothelial and epithelial cells, in response to proinflammato

• The genomic DNA sequences of CXCL and CXCRs were retrieved

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  The genomic DNA sequences of CXCL8 and CXCRs were retrieved from the fugu genome database v4.0. The intron–exon boundaries were identified with the corresponding cDNA sequences. This comparison revealed that the fugu gene is about 1.13kb long and contains four exons separated by three introns (top

• ApoE is secreted from astrocytes glia into the interstitial

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  ApoE is secreted from astrocytes/glia into the interstitial fluid and is important for metabolizing Aβ because of its propensity for binding Aβ as a cholesterol and phospholipid acceptor in reverse cholesterol transport [8]. Aβ oligomers show a direct toxicity to neurons, and ApoE inhibits oligomer

• Since cognitive disturbances are core

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  Since cognitive disturbances are core features of PTSD [3,4], and in some studies COMT Val158/108Met was associated with cognition [10] and hippocampal volume [12], the hypothesis was that carriers of the Met allele will show better cognitive performance compared to Val/Val carriers in PTSD. The aim

• Tibolone is also efficacious on bone in elderly

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  Tibolone is also efficacious on bone in elderly women and induces a clear reduction in bone turnover markers [50], [51]. Rymer et al. showed that, after 10 years of treatment with tibolone, the difference in bone mineral density compared with a placebo group was more than 12% for both lumbar spine a

• The mechanisms by which Cav enhances embryonal tumor progres

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  The mechanisms by which Cav-1 enhances embryonal tumor progression are currently unknown. Given the documented ability of Cav-1 to drive increased biogenesis of caveolae and accelerate the flow of nutrients (mostly glucose and fatty acids) across the membrane, as observed in particular in adipocytes

• pramiracetam in br Funding This work was

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  Funding This work was supported by intramural funding of the Department of Internal Medicine I-Cardiology, University Hospital Aachen, RWTH Aachen. Acknowledgments Introduction Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) is a central second messenger that controls a plethora of vital functions.

• Interestingly anti inflammatory actions for

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  Interestingly, anti-inflammatory actions for sPLA2-V were also described in mice a few years ago in a model of autoimmune complex mediated arthritis [148]. A novel mechanism was delineated, whereby sPLA2-V promotes phagocytosis of immune complexes by macrophages to ameliorate inflammation in autoim

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