• br Introduction The signaling molecule nitric oxide NO plays

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  Introduction The signaling molecule nitric oxide (NO) plays an essential role in vessel homeostasis by initiating vasodilation [1], [2], [3]. After biosynthesis in endothelial cells, NO diffuses into the subjacent smooth muscle layer to reach its target enzyme, soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC, EC 4

• Renal disease is characterized by aberrant fibrotic remodeli

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  Renal disease is characterized by aberrant fibrotic remodeling of renal tissue, elevated apoptosis in kidney tissue, and eventual organ failure. In addition, patients with renal disease are more likely to suffer from systemic hypertension due to oxidative damage (reviewed in Ref. [18]). Treatment of

• To solve the atomic structures of

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  To solve the atomic structures of several individual domains and a complete molecular architecture of sGC, tangible experimental research work has been done which resulted in a cryo-electron density map of R. norvegicus. However, the full structure of the human sGC remains to be determined. In the p

• NCSs are helical proteins containing four EF

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  NCSs are α-helical proteins containing four EF-hand motifs with EF1 being incapable of Ca-binding throughout the family (atomic-resolution structure was firstly resolved for recoverin [5]; for review on NCS structure, see [6]). Some of the NCS proteins (i.e. recoverin and KChIP3) have two while othe

• br Introduction Coat colors are determined by

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  Introduction Coat colors are determined by both genetics and environment, especially genetics. The phenotype of coat color of animals depends on two types of melanin, black to brown eumelanin and yellow to reddish brown pheomelanin produced in mammalian melanocyte (Ito et al., 2000; Ito and Wakam

• A second feature of the Ras type GTPases

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  A second feature of the Ras-type GTPases is that their ‘on’ and ‘off’ states are temporally and often spatially separated from one another. This feature is essential for GTPases mediating signaling and other processes that need to be kept ‘off’ until the arrival of signaling cues. The need to recrui

• Probenecid Screening of the compounds allowed for

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  Screening of the compounds allowed for a number of interesting SAR observations. First of all, pyridyl analogue demonstrated that a pyridine ring would be beneficial for both log as well as increasing the potency (entry 2 versus entry 1). Electron-poor aryl groups next to the oxadiazolone were detri

• The biological activity at GPR a

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  The biological activity at GPR109a of each of the 4-functionalized-5-alkyl-pyrazole-3-carboxylic acids (–) was measured using a cAMP whole cell Dynamic2 Homogenous Time-Resolved Fluorescence (HTRF) assay (). Twelve compounds were found to exhibit an EC below 1μM, and of these seven exhibited EC valu

• br Conclusions The whole mRNA

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  Conclusions The whole mRNA sequence of equine HRG was identified. Consequently, we successfully generated recombinant equine HRG. By the Western blot procedure, blood HRG in horses was detected. Acknowledgments Introduction Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic neurological disorder with c

• br Materials and Methods br Results All of

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  Materials and Methods Results All of the studied transporter genes were expressed at detectable levels in all the analyzed samples at mRNA level by means of applied rt-PCR method (CTBTB06584 was observed for ABCC4, ABCC1, ABCG2, SLC22A3, and SLC22A18 (less than 10% of mean expression for the

• The third generation cephalosporin antibiotics

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  The third-generation cephalosporin ttp stock can cross the blood brain barrier (BBB) [94]. In addition, several studies have shown that CEF can also cross the BBB [95,96] through a facilitated transport process [95]. However, due to the fact that CEF has poor bioavailability when taken orally, CEF m

• br Experimental methods br Acknowledgments

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  Experimental methods Acknowledgments We thank all members of the Hermanson lab, especially Ana Teixeira, Shirin Ilkhanizadeh and Karolina Wallenborg, for assistance and discussions, Peter Löw for anti-synaptotagmin antibody, and Lars Björklund, Ole Isacson, Christer Höög, Claes Wahlestedt and

• br Materials and methods Rat forebrains were obtained

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  Materials and methods Rat forebrains were obtained from Sprague–Dawley rats at 2, 7, 14, 21, and 30–35 postnatal days and were homogenized in 1:5 volumes (w/v) of 0.32 M sucrose containing 1 mM EGTA, 1 mM EDTA, 1 μg/ml TPCK, 50 μM leupeptin, and 3 μM antipain with 10 strokes in a glass-teflon hom

• Ghrelin is a brain gut

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  Ghrelin is a brain-gut peptide hormone secreted from the stomach to stimulate food intake by acting on its receptor, growth hormone secretagogue receptor (GHSR). GHSR is expressed throughout the brain and in NPY/AgRP neurons in the ARC (Cowley et al., 2003, Willesen et al., 1999). Ghrelin-expressing

• Analgesic activity was evaluated by measuring tail flick lat

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  Analgesic activity was evaluated by measuring tail flick latencies to the immersion of rat’s tail in water, maintained at ∼51°C [18] after recovery from anesthesia. Typically, rats were immobilized inside a restrainer, leaving only the tail exposed, which was then immersed into the hot water bath, a

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