• The present study is the first time

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  The present study is the first time to investigate the effect of piperine on intestinal sterol transporters and enzymes in the small intestine. NPC1L1 is a sterol transporter responsible for taking up cholesterol from the lumen to enterocytes (Davis et al., 2004). ACAT2 is an enzyme, which esterifie

• Here two labs that helped characterize these two

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  Here, two labs that helped characterize these two pathways have worked together to further test whether these apparently parallel pathways from β-AR to CaMKII-RyR might be related in series. Much of the work leading to the Epac pathway involved measurement of Ca sparks as an index of SR Ca leak, oft

• br Conclusion The past few years

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  Conclusion The past few years have witnessed substantial progress in understanding the structural mechanisms of substrate recognition and the reactions catalyzed by the O-GlcNAc-cycling enzymes, but more work remains. In particular, future research will be needed to establish how OGT and OGA inte

• The quaternary structure of many of the family

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  The quaternary structure of many of the family B members (i.e., secretin, glucagon, glucagon-like peptide and Special Health Care Needs receptors) have been actively studied and it has been demonstrated that they can form homodimers/oligomers (Gao et al., 2009; Ng & Chow, 2015; Ng, Lee, & Chow, 201

• Altogether these data suggested that GlmU might be involved

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  Altogether these data suggested that GlmU might be involved in the M. smegmatis biofilm mediated defence mechanisms. GlmU belongs to a metabolic pathway leading to UDP-GlcNAc from fructose-1-phosphate involved in the biosynthesis of peptidoglycan and lipopolysaccharide (Fig. 8). Recently, we demonst

• The conventional medical therapy for IBD consists in

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  The conventional medical therapy for IBD consists in reducing the inflammatory response using various strategies that exert severe side-effects, a strategy that also decreases the risk of colon carcinoma [13], [14]. During the last decade, the activation of the cholinergic system has been proposed f

• Collectively these data suggest the potential

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  Collectively, these data suggest the potential clinical utility of COMT inhibitors for the treatment of addiction disorders. Similar to current pharmacotherapies such as naltrexone, tolcapone\'s effects were not ethanol specific, therefore tolcapone may be effective in reducing other drug reinforced

• br Discussion This study characterized longitudinal

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  Discussion This study characterized longitudinal changes of cholinesterase and PON1 enzyme activities in greenhouse workers over two periods of a crop season with different levels of pesticide exposure. Although study participants were not exposed to OP insecticides, because they worked under int

• Members of the Nudix family typically contain a

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  Members of the Nudix family typically contain a 23-amino-acid sequence (Nudix box) of GxExREUxEExGU, where U is usually Ile, Leu, or Val and x represents any amino acid. The EUxEE core residues serve as anchors for an Mg ligand that associates with a characteristic pyrophosphate linkage that is comm

• br Results and Discussion br Conclusions Based on their comm

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  Results and Discussion Conclusions Based on their common NTP pyrophosphatase activity, similar size of the catalytic domains, and the conservation of glutamate residues, it was assumed previously that the MazG and HisE families were related to MutT and other Nudix family hydrolases (see Zhang

• br Acknowledgements This study is sponsored by

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  Acknowledgements This study is sponsored by the Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 51178161), 111 Project (grant no. B13024) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (grant no. 2017B00914) Introduction Highway and pavement engineers are facing concrete pavem

• A cocktail approach can detect the activities of multiple

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  A cocktail approach can detect the activities of multiple CYP 450 isoforms following administration of multiple CYP-specific substrates in a single experiment. Caffeine, losartan, omeprazole, dextromethorphan and midazolam are often used as substrates in “cocktail probes” of human cytochrome CYP1A2,

• While oxysterols were most extensively studied for its poten

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  While oxysterols were most extensively studied for its potent ability to mediate feedback regulation of cholesterol biosynthesis, some early investigations showed that the enzymes involved in its syntheses were highly upregulated in macrophages and dendritic cells—an indication of possible roles in

• br Results and discussion br

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  Results and discussion Conclusion In this investigation, pharmacophore models of CK1 inhibitors were developed using a pharmacophore modeling protocol proposed by us. The optimal pharmacophore hypothesis, Hypo2, was adopted to retrieve potential CK1 inhibitors from the commercial chemical data

• Although the presence of at least one

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  Although the presence of at least one triple helix domain is typically the collagen signature, collagens are modular proteins composed of a succession of collagenous (COL) and non-collagenous domains (NC) that are both involved in collagen functions and in receptor binding. COL domains are linked b

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