• The rapidity of this specific immunosuppressive therapy

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  The rapidity of this specific immunosuppressive therapy suggests that it inhibits or apoptoses plasma cells. Most serum autoantibodies to AChR are produced by long-lived plasma cells residing in spleen and bone marrow. These terminally differentiated cells are resistant to most non-specific immunosu

• br The MIR The MIR

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  The MIR The MIR is defined by the ability of a single rat mAb to muscle or electric organ AChRs, typically mAb 35, to block binding of half or more of autoantibodies in human MG or EAMG [44], [45], [46]. Antibodies to the MIR are pathologically significant because they exhibit all the major patho

• Although experiments on animals and cells

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  Although experiments on animals and cells indicate that antioxidant and free radical scavenging agents have protective effects against brain damage, the results of preclinical trials are not as encouraging. Edaravone is a type of free radical scavenging drug that was first used as a neuroprotective

• retinoic acid receptor Introduction Chronic inflammation is

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  Introduction Chronic inflammation is increasingly known as one of the most critical etiological factors in gastrointestinal (GI) cancers (Lee et al., 2016; Wang and Cho, 2015). Overexpression of 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX), 5-LOX-activating protein (FLAP), as well as other leukotriene (LT) biosynthetic

• 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

• Although CP has been an important research subject in

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  Although CP has been an important research subject in the field of antigen processing and presentation, the mechanisms of presentation of intracellular Naphthoquine phosphate by MHC II received considerably less attention. Interestingly, pioneering work by the Münz laboratory has pointed to an invo

• Here we investigate the ATM to ATR

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  Here, we investigate the ATM to ATR switch in normal human fibroblasts (82-6 cells) after irradiation with γ-rays, or high LET 56Fe and 28Si and moderate LET 16O particles. Our data provide important evidence of LET dependence on the transition of ATM to ATR as well as end resection at the sites of

• When skeletal muscle ages there is an increase in frailty

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  When skeletal muscle ages, there is an increase in frailty, which is coincident with a decrease in muscle mass and function—this condition is called sarcopenia (Cruz-Jentoft et al., 2010). It has been shown that one of the major pathways downregulated at the onset of sarcopenia is the mitochondrial

• A different mechanism has been suggested for the role of

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  A different mechanism has been suggested for the role of TRX1 in ASK1 regulation based on disulfide bond-mediated ASK1 multimerization and its reduction through the thiol-reductase activity of TRX1 (Nadeau et al., 2007, Nadeau et al., 2009). In this model, oxidative stress induces intermolecular dis

• In order to postulate its

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  In order to postulate its binding mode in APN, WY-14643 13v was docked into the active site of APN (PDB code: 2DQM) using Sybyl_X 1.3. As illustrated in Fig. 5A, the catalytic zinc ion of APN was chelated by the hydroxamate moiety of 13v, and the S1, S1′ and S2′ pockets of APN were occupied by the l

• Epidermal growth factor EGF has been shown to

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  Epidermal growth factor (EGF) has been shown to increase the 12S-lipoxygenase mRNA level by about two-fold in human epidermoid carcinoma A431 cells [71]. This enzyme was shown to be of the platelet-type and associated with the microsomal fraction of the cells [71], [72]. A requirement for EGF recept

• Extracellular adenosine acts as a local modulator of cell

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  Extracellular adenosine acts as a local modulator of cell function via four adenosine receptor subtypes (A1Rs A2AR, A2BR, and A3R) that are involved in numerous physiological and pathophysiological processes [31]. Each is encoded by a separate gene and has different functions, although with some ove

• br Adenosine as a mediator of procedures

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  Adenosine as a mediator of procedures used to manage pain The issue of caffeine Caffeine, from dietary sources, is perhaps the most widely consumed behaviorally active agent in the world (Fredholm et al., 1999). Initial characterization indicated caffeine had a higher affinity at A1−, A2A− and

• br Discussion Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

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  Discussion Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is a main threat to mankind, with one third of the world population being infected. [9] Over nine million new cases of tuberculosis and two million deaths from this disease occur yearly worldwide. [10] The rising incidence of tuberculosis over the l

• However for a molecular target to be useful

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  However, for a molecular target to be useful in AD, it must rescue behavioral as well as biochemical insults. In humans, AD memory impairments typically declare themselves initially as disruption of episodic memory and consolidation of new memories, eventually progressing to global cognitive decline

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