• Collagen alignment can contribute to

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  Collagen alignment can contribute to tissue stiffening (Malik et al., 2015, Paszek et al., 2005), and ECM stiffness in turn is a powerful activator of integrin function (Levental et al., 2009). These findings highlight the contribution of the mechanical properties of the ECM to signal transduction.

• Another potential source of variable affinities is

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  Another potential source of variable affinities is inherent in the method of RBA determination. While several reports simply use relative IC50 values as RBAs [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], these are only an approximate measure of relative affinity since IC50 varies due to experimental and biological

• br Theory br Method To

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  Theory Method To test our hypotheses as shown in Fig. 1, we conducted a survey at an international media company (hereafter referred to as ‘MediaCo’) headquartered in the UK. Its 5500 employees are dispersed throughout the world, partly due to massive acquisitions within the past decade. In ex

• This study focused on NPC L because it is

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  This study focused on NPC1L1 because it is critical for intestinal Decoquinate of both dietary and biliary cholesterol.1, 7, 8 Overall, regulation in the intestine of cholesterol, BAs, and lipids by FGF19 and SHP may involve the combined actions of regulation of other genes that were identified in

• br Materials and methods br Results br Discussion

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  Materials and methods Results Discussion In the present study, as a trial to evaluate the marine ciliate E. crassus for further studies, its susceptibilities to B[a]P and β-NF were measured. Acute toxicity of B[a]P in aquatic organisms has been extensively studied, but not enough data is av

• EBI remains an orphan GPCR

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  EBI2 remains an orphan GPCR and the identity and source of its ligand are yet to be described. Molecular studies of EBI2 have suggested that this receptor has constitutive activity, similar to that observed for many herpesvirus-encoded 7TM receptors (Benned-Jensen and Rosenkilde, 2008, Rosenkilde et

• br Acknowledgments br Introduction Cell cycle

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  Acknowledgments Introduction Cell cycle arrest or delay may occur at 3 major checkpoints, i.e. G1/S, intra-S and G2/M. p53 has a central role in controlling the G1/S checkpoint, and its loss or deactivation, occurring in the majority of cancers, forces cancer cells to rely on the S and G2/M ch

• UVRAG is a mammalian ortholog of yeast Vps

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  UVRAG is a mammalian ortholog of yeast Vps38 and a promoter of autophagy [51,60,61]. It forms distinct complexes with BECN1 (mammalian ortholog of yeast Vps30/Atg6) and the class III phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (whose catalytic subunit [PIK3C3] is the mammalian ortholog of yeast Vps34) and contrib

• br Early developments Historically the advent of SMEPT can

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  Early developments Historically, the advent of SMEPT can be traced to the 1980′s, where the first example of localized prodrug conversion was achieved using a judiciously placed enzyme – in order to achieve a localized feed of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). Immobilization of E. coli-derived cytosine deam

• br Acknowledgements We thank Joseph Granger and Bryan

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  Acknowledgements We thank Joseph Granger and Bryan Neumann for careful reading of this manuscript. This work is supported by NIH grants AG37609 and HL 60306 to TYC and CCYC. Introduction Eleven million tonnes of waste are produced yearly by the European pulp and paper industry (Monte et al.,

• Several studies on the collagen

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  Several studies on the collagen receptor DDR1 have revealed a defined collagen signaling pathway that causes cell scattering and cadherin switching. As mentioned earlier, DDR Isorhamnetin on collagens are distinct from integrin binding sites; therefore, the same collagen protein can bind to DDR and

• br Conflict of interest br Acknowledgments

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  Conflict of interest Acknowledgments and funding We thank Jaakko Matomäki, MSc, for the statistical analysis of the data. The study was supported by the Medical Research Council of the Academy of Finland, Decisions no. 250124 and 250114 (Centre of Excellence in Molecular Systems Immunology and

• Determination of relative potency EC by dose response

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  Determination of relative potency (EC50) by dose response assays in vitro is subject to the same sources of variability as determination of affinity, since the EC50 and Hill slope of the dose response curve are highly dependent on the binding of ligand to a competing receptor that may be present, an

• Next we compared the protease

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  Next, we compared the protease-specificity of viruses NS116-GFP/AE and NS116-GFP/AT for trypsin, neutrophilic elastase or supernatant of human neutrophils. For later purposes, we determined the viral yield in a co-cultivation system of infected Vero 2-Hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin with human neutrop

• The discoidin domain receptors DDR and DDR

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  The discoidin domain receptors, DDR1 and DDR2, are receptor tyrosine kinases that are activated by different types of collagen (Shrivastava et al., 1997, Vogel et al., 1997). Both receptors interact with a number of fibrillar collagens, and DDR1, but not DDR2, is also activated by the network-formin

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