• Introduction Diabetic nephropathy is a

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  Introduction Diabetic nephropathy is a rapidly growing cause of end-stage renal disease [1]. Glomerular, tubular and vascular toxicity resulting from hyperglycemia (glucotoxicity) have been evaluated extensively at the molecular level as contributing factors for diabetic nephropathy [[1], [2], [3]]

• MicroRNA miRNA is an abundant group

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  MicroRNA (miRNA) is an abundant group of small (22-nucleotide) noncoding RNA molecules that directly binds with 3′ untranslated region (UTR) of target messenger RNAs (mRNAs) to regulate gene expression, playing an important role in variety of biological processes including cell proliferation, apopto

• During myeloid cell maturation expression of LO mRNA

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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 The Molecular Machinery of Autophagy and Regulation by

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  The Molecular Machinery of Autophagy and Regulation by Sphingolipids Sphingolipid-Mediated Autophagy in Cancer: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved stress response that typically promotes survival and antagonizes apoptosis. However, excessive autophagy was found to

• Ryoichi et al modified potent clinical candidate VX with

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  Ryoichi et al. modified potent clinical candidate VX-680 (6) with 3-cyano-6-(5-methyl-3-pyrazolamino)pyridine as Aurora kinase inhibitor. Substituted cyano pyridine derivative (7) inhibited proliferation of HCT-116 cells with an IC50 value of 115 nM. It showed tumor inhibition in mice model at a dos

• The relative stereochemistry of both the major and minor dia

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  The relative stereochemistry of both the major and minor diastereoisomer of (±)-2-(hydroxymethyl)blebbistatin (±)- (and thus (±)-2-(allyloxymethyl)blebbistatin (±)-) was determined with 1D-NOESY experiments (), as crystallization efforts failed. These experiments revealed an interaction between H an

• To evaluate the ability of both sets of

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  To evaluate the ability of both sets of compounds to inhibit the activity of 15-LOX an initial screen was performed, whose results are shown in . The comparison of inhibition values would seem to indicate that, in the HYD series, an electron donor group at the position increases and an electron att

• br Author contributions br Conflicts of

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  Author contributions Conflicts of interest The authors declare no competing financial interests. Acknowledgement This work was supported by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 166–Project C1 and grant CA 1014/1-1 to D.C.) and the IZKF Würzbur

• br Regulatory mechanisms of ASK activity br The functions

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  Regulatory mechanisms of ASK1 activity The functions of ASK1 in disease ASK1 inhibitor As mentioned above, ASK1 plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of various diseases; hence, an ASK1 inhibitor has therapeutic potential. Although inhibitors of the ASK1 downstream kinases p38 and JNK ar

• HMGA proteins have also been linked to

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  HMGA proteins have also been linked to localized changes in chromatin/nucleosome structure and alterations of cellular phenotype during induction of gene transcription in activated T lymphocytes. An adaptive immune response is initiated when naïve resting T lymphocytes encounter their corresponding

• Globally the total number of patients included in the

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  Globally, the total number of patients included in the meta-analysis was 1885, ranging from 40 to 442 patients per study. All eligible studies reported the association between ALDH1 expression and patients' OS [24-26, 3241], whereas nine studies evaluated the relationship between ALDH1 expression an

• br AKT signaling is essential during

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  AKT signaling is essential during early dorsal patterning, neural crest induction and maturation AKT signaling modulates EMT and migration of the neural crest cells The defining feature of NC cells is their delamination from the dorsal neural epithelium. At the end of neurulation, mature premi

• br Functions essentially consisting in transport

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  Functions essentially consisting in transport of substrates across plasma membranes Direct activation of neurotransmitter transporters elicits responses in neurons As previously mentioned (Section 2.1), nerve terminals handling classical transmitters possess transporters able to (re)capture se

• agonists simulate norepinephrine NE in binding to presynapti

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  α2 agonists simulate norepinephrine (NE) in binding to presynaptic surface autoreceptors, which in turn mediates feedback inhibition of NE release. Another major control mechanism for noradrenergic neurotransmission is termination of signaling by presynaptic NE transporter (NET)-mediated NE reuptake

• Besides its multiple peripheral effects adiponectin

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  Besides its multiple peripheral effects adiponectin may ameliorate insulin resistance by acting in the brain, and intracerebroventricular administration of adiponectin in rodents decreases body weight by stimulating energy expenditure [13]. Adiponectin most likely crosses the blood-CSF-barrier (BCB)

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