• While ghrelin s role in addictive behaviors has been

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  While ghrelin's role in addictive behaviors has been most extensively explored with alcohol, ghrelin has also been implicated in biobehavioral substrates of other drugs of abuse. For example, preclinical experiments suggest that GHS-R1a blockade may improve nicotine [155,156], opioids [[157], [158],

• Cx is a phosphoprotein that

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  Cx43 is a phosphoprotein that is predominantly phosphorylated in the control state. Cx43 can be phosphorylated by a number of kinases and dephosphorylated by protein phosphatases such as PP1 and PP2A [6], [10]. Posttranslational phosphorylation of Cx43 is thought to influence intercellular coupling

• tetracycline hydrochloride Regulation of Gja involves a memb

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  Regulation of Gja4 involves a member of the wingless-type MMTV integration site family, WNT4. Mice deficient in Wnt4 had reduced (30%) expression of GJA1 compared to WT mice [40]. It is thought that WNT signaling regulates GJA1 expression and GJIC in granulosa tetracycline hydrochloride by modulatin

• br Conclusions br Acknowledgments This study

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  Conclusions Acknowledgments This study was supported by funds from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 31360245, 31460258) and the Applied Basic Research Foundation of Yunnan Province of China (2011FZ111). Introduction Acute myocardial infarction is the undoubted cause o

• FFA expression was also noted to be upregulated

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  FFA4 expression was also noted to be upregulated in eight human CRC cell lines. Compared to two normal colon cell lines with relative one-fold expression of FFA4, CRC cell lines HCT116 (3.5-fold higher), Colo205 (3-fold), Caco-2 (2.2-fold), HT-29 (2.3-fold), RKO (2.8-fold), DLD-1 (2.9-fold), SW480 (

• Compounds were tested for GPR activity in a functional

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  Compounds , were tested for GPR40 activity in a functional assay monitoring calcium flux in CHO reductase enzyme transiently transfected with human GPR40 gene. As shown in , compound was found to be a nanomolar GPR40 agonist, while compound was much less potent than . To explore the structure act

• br Author contributions br Acknowledgements

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  Author contributions Acknowledgements The work was supported in part by Natural Science Foundation of China (31601995, 31501028) and an internal research grant of Jianghan University (14042). The authors thank HY of Jingchu University of technology for revising the manuscript. Introduction

• br Materials and methods br Results br Discussion

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  Materials and methods Results Discussion The major findings of the present study are that: 1) the response to inverse agonists may be crossregulated by the activation of either Flavin adenine dinucleotide H1 or H2 receptors, 2) histamine H1 and H2 receptor inverse agonists crossdesensitize

• Obesity is one of the

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  Obesity is one of the worldwide concerns, with high prevalence and adverse effects on human health and life expectancy. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), obesity is defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation in the body with body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more. Obesity increas

• br Materials and methods Rat forebrains

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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

• br Experimental Procedures br Acknowledgments This work was

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  Experimental Procedures Acknowledgments This work was supported by NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) R00 HG006922 and NIH/NHGRI R01 HG008974 (to J.G.), the Huntsman Cancer Institute, and the Women’s Cancers Disease-Oriented Team at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. Research rep

• cAMP is a key secondary messenger which

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  cAMP is a key secondary messenger which transduces extracellular signals at glucagon receptors to intracellular effector molecules. cAMP-protein kinase A (PKA) pathway increases the gene expression of enzymes including phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) and glucose 6-phosphatase (G6Pase) whic

• br Ghrelin and energy balance

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  Ghrelin and Z-DEVD-FMK balance To characterize the physiological role of ghrelin in energy homeostasis, ghsr−/− and ghrelin−/− mice were generated [33], [36], [41], [47]. Although ghrelin regulates the amplitude of episodic GH release, ghsr−/− mice were not dwarfs, and in fact appear identical t

• A model substance often used in the

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  A model substance often used in the studies of oxidative processes in erythrocytes is tert-butyl hydroperoxide (t-BHP), which, being lipophilic, passes easily across the erythrocyte membrane [9]. In erythrocytes treated with t-BHP (0.1–3mM) for less than 1h, a dramatic decline in the reduced glutath

• SKF 83566 hydrobromide receptor br Conflict of interest stat

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  Conflict of interest statement Introduction Gap junction assembly Induced disassembly of gap junctions The regulation of connexin and gap junction turnover are still not well understood. This is, in part, due to the fact that while the overall turnover of connexin molecules is fairly con

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