• br Introduction Addiction to opioids such

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  Introduction Addiction to opioids such as morphine is a chronic disorder that affects the mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic pathway in the brain. Activation of the pathway ultimately leads to dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) (Di Chiara et al., 1998) and stimulation of dopamine recepto

• br Regulation of DGK activity Activation of the

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  Regulation of DGK activity Activation of the DGKs is complex and unique for each DGK isotype. In most cases, DGKs must translocate to a membrane compartment to access DAG. However, translocation does not necessarily activate the enzyme [57]. In addition, DGK activity can be modified by other cofa

• br Materials and methods br Results

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  Materials and methods Results Discussion The first DGAT1 gene was described in the mouse in 1998 [28], and a few years later DGAT2 was identified from the oleaginous fungus Mortierella ramanniana[29]. Although both of them are known as the primary enzymes for de novo TAG biosynthesis, they

• Acidic substituents showed moderate biochemical activity but

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  Acidic substituents () showed moderate biochemical activity, but these compounds showed reduced cellular potency. Additional compounds bearing a carboxylic Ro 48-8071 synthesis were also prepared and tested (data not shown). All of acidic compounds showed low cellular potency regardless of their bi

• Prostaglandins PGs are lipid mediators that

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  Prostaglandins (PGs) are lipid mediators that exhibit a variety of physiological properties by interacting specific G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) [10]. PGD2 is synthesized from PGH2 through two distinct PGD synthases; lipocalin-type PGD synthase (L-PGDS) and hematopoietic PGD synthase (H-PGDS)

• MTT results show that both pancreatic

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  MTT results show that, both pancreatic cell lines were quite sensitive to camptothecin (CPT), a well known topoisomerase I poison. Interestingly, CPT does not show any selectivity over cancer cell lines probably due to the duplication times for cancerous (MIA PaCa-2) and immortalized healthy (HPDEC)

• br Introduction The dorsal periaqueductal gray

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  Introduction The dorsal periaqueductal gray matter (dPAG) is a midbrain site markedly involved in fear/anxiety-evoked responses as well as in nociception (see, for example, Bandler and Carrive, 1988, Deakin and Graeff, 1991, Fardin et al., 1984a, Fardin et al., 1984b, Litvin et al., 2007). Chemic

• ARCA australia Two are the sigma receptors identified to dat

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  Two are the sigma receptors identified to date: the non-opioid receptor, σ1R, and σ2R, whose identity with the Progesterone Receptor Membrane Component 1 (PGRMC-1) protein is in doubt (Chu et al., 2015). Despite endogenous ligands have not been yet identified, drugs of abuse may interact with these

• Sterol regulatory element binding proteins SREBPs regulate t

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  Sterol regulatory element binding proteins (SREBPs) regulate transcription of genes involved in fatty vlx 600 mg synthesis [38] (fatty acid synthase, and acetyl-CoA carboxylase) as well as triglyceride synthesis [39]. SREBP-1 protein levels are reduced in 3T3-F442A adipocytes [40] and increased in

• The CYP D inferred metabolizer phenotype

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  The CYP2D6-inferred metabolizer phenotype describes only one phase of the tramadol (T) ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion) and response process and does not explain all genotypic contribution of an individual’s phenotypic expression [11]. Numerous polymorphisms in the downstre

• Within the cluster of North African populations

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  Within the cluster of North African populations the Sousse population sample is somewhat different from the other six populations. One has to analyze more in depth the reasons of this isolation that has been shown by other genetic studies (Fadhlaoui-Zid et al., 2015). It seems that the particular ge

• The Lyapunov exponent plays a

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  The Lyapunov exponent, plays a key role in the spectral analysis of the family . Here, S denotes the so-called Szegő transfer matrix, defined by Because the matrices so defined satisfy for , we have for . We define By general considerations, there is a compact set with for μ-a.e. . Moreover, by the

• Among the members of the GH

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  Among the members of the GH106 family, which groups 319 different sequences, a single 3D-structure has been reported, the BT0986 from Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron that shows a (β/α)8 barrel and catalyzes the hydrolysis of an α-l-rhamnopyranoside bound to the C2 position of an arabinofuranoside (L-Rh

• The use of the periplasmic fraction

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  The use of the periplasmic fraction as starting material and the presence of a unique purification step concurred in improving the purification yield to 25.3%, which is significantly higher than what obtained with the previous purification protocol (6.7%). In addition, the analysis of the kinetic co

• The mitogen activated protein kinase MAPK

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  The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway is a highly conserved module that mediates the transduction of signals from the cell surface to the nucleus (M. Köbel et al., 2005), meanwhile, it is known to be activated by a wide array of signals ranging from growth and differentiation factors t

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