• In stark contrast to this study Zhang

  2021-12-09

  

  In stark contrast to this study, Zhang and colleagues demonstrated that FFA4, along with FFA1, play roles in suppressing cell proliferation and promoting apoptosis in CRC CI 976 treated with omega-3 PUFA [53]. In this study design, in vivo CRC was induced in mice upon treatment with the genotoxic co

• As a part of our continuing efforts towards

  2021-12-09

  

  As a part of our continuing efforts towards discovery of new class of compounds against different therapeutic areas and based on the literature reports, we designed a dual pharmacophore which possess a long aliphatic chain of free fatty acids and a phenyl propanoid part of known GPR40 agonists. Here

• Interestingly hSMC displayed a similar

  2021-12-09

  

  Interestingly, hSMC displayed a similar morphological response to ET-1 as CHOETA. This dramatic lowering of normalized cell index in hSMC mimics ET-1 induced smooth muscle contraction. Earlier studies have shown that stress-fiber formations in CHOETA are mediated by Gq/PLC and G12 and in CHOETB by G

• Background Chronic hepatitis C virus HCV infection is a majo

  2021-12-08

  

  Background Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major public health concern, with 71 million people infected worldwide [1]. Treatment options have improved with the availability of interferon-free direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapies with cure in >95% of people [2]. However, broadenin

• New follicular wave emergence is associated closely with the

  2021-12-08

  

  New follicular wave emergence is associated closely with the stage of the estrous 5-Formyl-UTP (Sirois and Fortune, 1988). As indicated by results from the present experiment, cows that had regression of the largest follicle on Day 0 of treatment onset had follicle wave characteristics that were co

• Introduction Glycine Fig has two pivotal functions as

  2021-12-08

  

  Introduction Glycine (Fig. 1; 1) has two pivotal functions as neurotransmitter in the central nervous system (CNS). Firstly, it can act as an inhibitory neurotransmitter at inhibitory glycinergic synapses where it binds to the strychnine-sensitive glycine-A binding site on glycine receptors (GlyR)

• br Flavonoid function Antioxidants are compounds when

  2021-12-08

  

  Flavonoid function Antioxidants are compounds - when present at a lower concentration compared oxidizable substrate - that delay or prevent oxidation of the substrate [14], [106]. Antioxidants act as nucleophiles to reduce an oxidative molecule to prevent its interaction with another molecule [14

• PBI is an agonist of GPR

  2021-12-08

  

  PBI-4050 is an agonist of GPR40 and acts as an antagonist or inverse agonist of GPR84. It cannot be excluded that other targets besides GPR40 and GPR84 could be implicated in the mechanism of action of PBI-4050 and could be explored in future studies. However, the present study, and in particular th

• FFAR is highly expressed not only in cells but also

  2021-12-08

  

  FFAR1 is highly expressed not only in β cells but also in α AZD7687 (Segerstolpe et al., 2016), which gives the interesting perspective that 20-HETE may function both as an autocrine and as a paracrine regulator of islet cell function (Figure 1A), i.e., acting in symphony with the many other intra-i

• Due to the requirement of high end methods such

  2021-12-08

  

  Due to the requirement of high-end methods such as total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy to visualize lipid rafts, isolation procedures are employed to study the protein content of lipid rafts [29]. The different methods utilized to isolated lipid rafts and other low density micro

• br Materials and methods br Results

  2021-12-08

  

  Materials and methods Results Discussion Here, we investigated the inhibitory effects and associated mechanisms of phloroglucinol on α-glucosidase. Our results showed that phloroglucinol reversibly inhibited α-glucosidase in a dose-dependent manner (Fig. 1), with the double-reciprocal plot

• Cyclopiazonic acid LbGlcK and the HsHxKIV d glucose complex

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  LbGlcK and the HsHxKIV-d-glucose complex (PDB entry 3IDH) [17] were superimposed from individual subunits. The active site regions revealed the key Cyclopiazonic acid binding residues to be present for LbGlcK; also, the superposition showed that HsHxKIV had residues that were absent in LbGlcK, such

• Introduction br Channel activity Since initial reports

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  Introduction Channel activity Since initial reports of the Ca2+-activated K+ permeability of erythrocytes (see Gardos, 1958), several ‘criteria’ have been established to certify K+ fluxes as being due to the Gárdos channel. For example, the requirement for Ca2+ at the intracellular face of the c

• br Conflict of interest br Introduction Milk and dairy produ

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  Conflict of interest Introduction Milk and dairy products are nutritious foods that provide lactose, calcium, phosphorous, magnesium and proteins, among other nutrients, which have been reported to have a fundamental role in bone development and healthy diets. An adequate consumption of dairy

• In early a collaborative effort between the group that pione

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  In early 2017, a collaborative effort between the group that pioneered the above described evidence of platinum-induced PUFA chemotherapy resistance and a group that has contributed to much of the known molecular pharmacology of FFA4, revealed that the molecular target of 16:4(n-3), which affords ch

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