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Ethyl naphthoates a h were successfully reduced
2021-03-04
Ethyl 1-naphthoates (10a–h) were successfully reduced to 1-naphthylmethanols (12a–h) by using LiAlH4 with 8–87% yields. Then PCC was used to convert the alcohols into the corresponding 4-alkyl-1-naphthaldehyde derivatives (13a–h) with relatively higher yields (58–90%) as represented in Scheme 2. The
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Alternatively procedural factors may have contributed to the
2021-03-04
Alternatively, procedural factors may have contributed to the conflicting results. For instance, in order to have a more circumscribed area of drug diffusion, a volume of 0.05μl was injected in experiment 1b, which is four times lower than the one used in the mentioned plus-maze investigation. Besid
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To respond to the need for QNAT commercial assays
2021-03-04
To respond to the need for QNAT, commercial assays have been developed on automated systems. The first reagents for CMV and EBV VLs in whole blood were Abbott RealTime kits on the m2000 SP/RT system (Abbott Molecular Inc, Des plaines, USA) (M2000) [4,5] and Artus QS-RGQ kits on the QIAsymphony RGQ s
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The vascular endothelium is a highly dynamic
2021-03-04
The vascular endothelium is a highly dynamic multifunctional organ that is critically involved in the regulation of vessel integrity, vascular growth and remodeling, tissue growth and metabolism, immune responses, cell adhesion, angiogenesis, hemostasis and vascular permeability [23]. Therefore, the
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We experienced difficulties in observing maturation of hESC
2021-03-04
We experienced difficulties in observing maturation of hESC retinas in rd1 mice even with immunosuppression, but with NOG-rd1-2J mice the transplanted hESC retinas consistently developed mature ONL with rod and cone opsins. Furthermore, graft photoreceptors show signs of developing IS/OS structures
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br Introduction Maintaining the normal function of fetal tro
2021-03-04
Introduction Maintaining the normal function of fetal trophoblasts is essential for a successful pregnancy. Preeclampsia (PE), a pregnancy-specific disorder, is often associated with excessive trophoblast cell apoptosis and superficial trophoblast invasion leading to insufficient spiral artery re
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br Conclusion In the last year significant advances
2021-03-04
Conclusion In the last year, significant advances in our understanding of ubiquitin transfer by IAPs and related E3 ligases have been made. The three crystal structures of the RING-bound E2~Ub show that the conjugate is bound by the RING domain in the closed conformation, where the I44-centered f
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br Conflicts of interest br Introduction Diacylglycerols DAG
2021-03-04
Conflicts of interest Introduction Diacylglycerols (DAGs) and phosphatidic Cytidine 5-triphosphate (PA) play fundamental roles in biology as basic components of membranes, intermediates in lipid metabolism, and secondary messengers in cellular signaling (Carrasco and Merida, 2007, Fang et al.,
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Trehalose synthesis Till date several predictive models have
2021-03-04
Till date, several predictive models have been developed by different research groups to speed up the process of library selection and drug optimization (Walters et al., 1999, Caldwell, 2000, Plewczynski et al., 2006, Wang and Ramnarayan, 1999, Pogorelcnik et al., 2015, Greenbaum et al., 2002, Sadow
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Several research groups have disclosed potent
2021-03-04
Several research groups have disclosed potent and selective DGAT-1 inhibitors from several chemically-distinct series. Pre-clinical studies with these compounds have confirmed that small molecule DGAT-1 inhibitors can elicit metabolic outcomes comparable to those observed in DGAT-1−/− mice.19, 20,
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Patients with a tumor of
2021-03-04
Patients with a tumor of 4 cm or greater were more likely to have lymph node or tumor metastasis (Fisher’s test p = 0.0001 and 0.0003, respectively). In this smaller patient group a significant correlation between higher DAPK-1 mRNA vorapaxar in tumor and normal tissue in tumor-free patients compar
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Some limitations of this study must
2021-03-03
Some limitations of this study must be noted. First, since the pretransplant evaluation of the T-cell immune response was performed just before transplantation, we cannot establish whether samples obtained at different times before the transplant would offer similar results, since end terminal disea
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In the Cu bioassay notwithstanding the absence
2021-03-03
In the Cu bioassay, notwithstanding the absence of significant Cu bioaccumulation in bulk tissues over the 96-h exposure period (less than 2-fold difference in tissue Cu between controls and the second-highest treatment), T-ChE activity increased with Cu concentration in gill and, to a lesser exten
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There have been reports regarding
2021-03-03
There have been reports regarding the use of enolases as novel vaccine candidates for A. suum, S. suis, T. pisiformis and T. multiceps on account of this enzyme class's critical role in plasminogen activation and migration across tissue barriers (Chen et al., 2012; Zhang et al., 2009; Zhang et al.,
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Mitochondrial depolarization induced by DHODH inhibition Fig
2021-03-03
Mitochondrial depolarization induced by DHODH inhibition (Figure 5A) may also contribute to the selective effects of DHODH inhibitors on KRAS mutant cells. If so, the effect may arise more from pro-apoptotic effects of mitochondrial depolarization (Lemasters et al., 1998) than from impaired oxidativ