• Historically pharmacological investigations have been carrie

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  Historically, pharmacological investigations have been carried out by first identifying a biological response to a ligand, and then subsequently using that ligand to identify the receptor(s) responsible for the response (Wilson et al., 1998). However, this approach needed revision with the discovery

• Screening of the compounds allowed for a number

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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

• Introduction Non alcoholic hepatic steatosis is characterize

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  Introduction Non-alcoholic hepatic steatosis is characterized by the presence of steatosis in hepatocytes [1], which leads to the development of fatty liver [2]. It is strongly associated with obesity, insulin resistance, and type II diabetes [3]. They are major risk factors of non-alcoholic hepati

• Cichlasoma dimerus as most teleost fish species

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  Cichlasoma dimerus, as most teleost fish species, present neurons expressing GnRH3 (Pandolfi et al., 2005). As in most Firefly Luciferase mRNA species, the neurons expressing GnRH3 are mainly located in the NOR, although few neurons were detected in the olfactory bulb, ventral telencephalon and the

• br Materials and methods br Results

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  Materials and methods Results Discussion DNA repair pathways have evolved for a long time to act independently of one another. However, over the past decade several overlaps and crosstalks between these pathways were identified, showing that the DNA repair system is more complex than previo

• As discussed above both endogenous and

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  As discussed above, both endogenous and exogenous lesions can lead to adverse health effects [43]. Damaged nucleobases can block DNA replication which is often lethal to cells [44]. The effectiveness of DNA restoration by DNA glycosylases should be closely monitored to gain an insight of the functio

• Introduction Human pathogenic Leishmania protozoa

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  Introduction Human pathogenic Leishmania protozoa comprise 20 different species that are distributed throughout the world and cause the disease leishmaniasis [1]. Transmission primarily occurs through the bite of a female sand fly and clinical manifestations of the disease span from cutaneous lesio

• br Acknowledgments This work was

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  Acknowledgments This work was funded by NIH Grant 2R01 MH066958 (JGT) and NSF CAREER award IOS- 1053716 (NV). We thank Dr. Greti Aguilera for the generous gift of the GRE-Luciferase construct and Dr. Louis Muglia for the generous gift of the GR-GFP construct. Introduction Prostate cancer (PCa

• Considerable evidence links sustained GCG administration to

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  Considerable evidence links sustained GCG administration to the reduction of food intake, enhancement of energy expenditure and weight loss in rodent and human studies [16], [17], [18]. Moreover, patients presenting with GCG-producing tumors frequently manifest severe weight loss, through mechanisms

• All of the abovementioned effects of PUFAs

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  All of the abovementioned effects of PUFAs signal their involvement in a cellular phenotype switching phenomenon, which is increasingly recognized as a potential target for future pharmacotherapies of atherosclerosis, especially for individuals who do not respond to the classical lipid-lowering stra

• Receptor tyrosine kinases RTKs consist of

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  Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) consist of 20 subfamilies in humans, all of which share a common structure consisting of extracellular ligand-binding region, a single-pass transmembrane domain and an intracellular tyrosine kinase domain [2]. Binding of a growth factor to the ligand-binding domain r

• br Clinical development of FGFR inhibitors in

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  Clinical development of FGFR inhibitors in breast cancer The rationale to explore the role of FGFR inhibitors in patients with breast cancer comes from a variety of sources. These include genomic aberrations frequently identified in the FGF/FGFR pathway in breast cancer, the increased sensitivity

• As an inflammatory mediator histamine plays

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  As an inflammatory mediator, histamine plays a pivotal role in nociceptive processes in both the central and peripheral nervous systems (Gemkow et al., 2009; Hough & Rice, 2011; Tiligada et al., 2009). In this respect, the participation of H3Rs in modulating pain, especially neuropathic pain, has at

• Organisms can adapt to increasing ROS production

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  Organisms can adapt to increasing ROS production by up-regulating antioxidant defences, such as the activities of antioxidant enzymes (Livingstone, 2003). Failure of antioxidant defences to detoxify excess ROS production can lead to significant oxidative damage including enzyme inactivation, protein

• br Conclusion and perspectives Guanylyl cyclases are ubiquit

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  Conclusion and perspectives Guanylyl cyclases are ubiquitous enzymes that regulate critical functions in bacteria to humans. In mammals there are seven mGCs and activators of all members have now been identified. Mutations in the genes that encode mGCs or pathologic activation of these enzymes or

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