• Despite the significant associations between TNF and TRAIL i

  2020-11-23

  

  Despite the significant associations between TNF-α and TRAIL in our results, the use of a single top cytokine in predicting sPTB is limited, and the previous study using the specific candidate cytokines failed to accurately predict the risk for sPTB in asymptomatic women, with AUC ranged from 0.48 t

• In the present study we used a

  2020-11-23

  

  In the present study, we used a new luminescent method to measure CYP activity with Luciferin-ME as a substrate which is used for wide ranges of mammalian CYPs, including CYP1A2, CYP2C8, CYP2C9, CYP2J2, CYP4A11, and CYP4F3B. As a result, no significant modulations of CYP activities in B[a]P exposure

• Natural and synthetic glucocorticoids perform their biologic

  2020-11-23

  

  Natural and synthetic glucocorticoids perform their biological action in the organism through receptor-dependent mechanisms (e.g., by binding to the glucocorticoid receptors). It has been determined that glucocorticoid receptors cross-talk with other nuclear receptors, including AhR (Celander et al.

• Steady state mRNA levels of CYP A

  2020-11-23

  

  Steady-state mRNA levels of CYP3A isoforms were not changed during liver insufficiency. Suppression of these isoforms was observed only at the protein and activity levels, suggesting a nongenomic mechanism of CYP3A isoform downregulation during liver insufficiency. Nonetheless, transcriptional activ

• In humans CYP A major isoforms of CYP As

  2020-11-23

  

  In humans, CYP3A4/5, major isoforms of CYP3As in the liver, have variants that reduce the enzyme activities [33], [34]. In addition, Werk et al. recently reported the first case of a complete failure of CYP3A enzyme activity due to homozygous loss-of-function mutation of CYP3A4 combined with nonfunc

• br Conflict of interest br Acknowledgments Dr Hauger was sup

  2020-11-23

  

  Conflict of interest Acknowledgments Dr. Hauger was supported by a BLR&D Merit Review grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Office of Research and Development. Dr. Hauger also received support from the VA Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Healt

• Alternatively procedural factors may have contributed to the

  2020-11-23

  

  Alternatively, procedural factors may have contributed to the conflicting results. For instance, in order to have a more circumscribed area of drug diffusion, a volume of 0.05μl was injected in experiment 1b, which is four times lower than the one used in the mentioned plus-maze investigation. Besid

• To respond to the need for

  2020-11-23

  

  To respond to the need for QNAT, commercial assays have been developed on automated systems. The first reagents for CMV and EBV VLs in whole blood were Abbott RealTime kits on the m2000 SP/RT system (Abbott Molecular Inc, Des plaines, USA) (M2000) [4,5] and Artus QS-RGQ kits on the QIAsymphony RGQ s

• An ideal CHK inhibitor would

  2020-11-23

  

  An ideal CHK-1 inhibitor would be minimally cytotoxic, while enhancing the anti-tumor effect of a real cytotoxic agent that would be used in combination with the inhibitor. Our CHK-1 inhibitors have shown excellent selectivity over a panel of kinases including those regulating the cell cycle, but th

• br Experimental Procedures br Author

  2020-11-20

  

  Experimental Procedures Author Contributions Acknowledgments Introduction Estrogen-related receptors (ERRα, ERRβ, and ERRγ) are orphan nuclear receptors whose physiological ligands have not yet been identified. Although ERRs are closely related to estrogen receptors (ERs) they do not res

• We have previously shown that sustained pCPT treatment favor

  2020-11-20

  

  We have previously shown that sustained 8-pCPT treatment favored Ca2+-dependent arrhythmogenic activity in rat ventricular cardiomyocytes [8]. Fig. 2 shows line-scan Ca2+ images of myocyte incubated without (Fig. 2A left) and with 8-pCPT (Fig. 2A right) subjected to a train of electrical stimulation

• The effect of transformation of the

  2020-11-20

  

  The effect of transformation of the linker Y between the carboxylic q vd oph residue and the phenyl moiety of 2b was also investigated, and is illustrated in Table 5. Analogs 2b, 16, and 17, possessing conformationally restricted carboxylic acid residues, tended to show stronger antagonist activity

• br Conclusion br Introduction Biological wastewater

  2020-11-20

  

  Conclusion Introduction Biological wastewater treatment is targeted towards the removal of phosphorous, nitrogen and organic substances by the metabolic activity of a diverse activated sludge microbial community. More precisely, it is based on the versatile catalytic activity of the microbial

• Repulsive interactions towards undesirable substrates are ar

  2020-11-20

  

  Repulsive interactions towards undesirable substrates are arguably a very efficient means to implement specificity [8]. In particular, it could be assumed that discrimination against a substrate that is larger than the cognate substrate may be achieved easily by restricting the active site and explo

• br Materials and methods br Results and discussion br

  2020-11-20

  

  Materials and methods Results and discussion Concluding remarks Together, the results of the theoretical kinetic simulations and of the analysis of the experimentally determined kinetic data of SoBADH performed in this work show that ignoring substrate inhibition causes potentially importan

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