... bone metabolism and repair remains unclear Review ofthe evidence To determine theroleof COX -2 in bone repair, investigators have studied fracture healing in animal models of COX -2 inhibition or ... effects of an absence of COX -2 Thus, withdrawal ofthe drug in a patient might lead to a restoration of prostaglandin synthesis and a normal bone repair process Another point relates to the use of indomethacin ... COX-1-null and COX -2- null mice, they demonstrated the essential roleof COX -2 in both endochondral and intramembranous ossification Moreover, the healing of stabilized tibia fractures in COX -2- null...
... 44 :26 0 -26 5 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Hallbeck AL, Walz TM, Briheim K, Wasteson A: TGF-alpha and ErbB2 production in synovial joint tissue: increased expression in arthritic joints Scand J ... affected joints and involved inthe pathology of RA In previous studies, we investigated the involvement of bone marrow inthe pathology of RA An increase in myeloid cells expressing abnormal ... error bars indicate the 90th and 10th percentiles, respectively The upper and lower edges of each box indicate the 75th and 25 th percentiles, respectively, andthe line inside the box shows the median...
... first-line metastatic therapy in February 20 02 for four months The chemotherapy regimen was then changed to 40 mg/m2 vinorelbine plus 600 mg/m2 gemcitabine on days one and eight in a 21 -day cycle and ... of metastatic lesion inthe liver taken in 20 02 Page of Figure Magnetic resonance imaging scan taken in 20 03 The hepatic lesion has disappeared of trastuzumab treatment during pregnancy andthe ... remission inthe liver but relapsed inthe central nervous system within two months of withdrawal of trastuzumab maintenance therapy [9] Support for the importance of maintaining HER2 suppression...
... might not be involved inthe allosteric regulation of ligand binding affinity inthereceptor [86] Interestingly, the occurrence of in- frame tandem duplication of exons 18 25 ⁄ 18 26 inthe EGFR gene ... activation ofthe EGFR, where the C-terminal lobe ofthe kinase domain of one ofthe monomers forming the dimeric receptor interacts with the N-terminal lobe ofthe apposed monomer [19,47,84] Of relevance ... A (19 92) Calmodulin inhibits theepidermalgrowthfactorreceptor tyrosine kinase J Biol Chem 26 7, 1 523 7–1 524 5 52 Martı´ n-Nieto J & Villalobo A (1998) The human epidermalgrowthfactor receptor...
... 114, 22 55 22 63 Takata, H., Kato, M., Denda, K & Kitamura, N (20 00) A Hrs binding protein having a Src homology domain is involved in intracellular degradation ofgrowth factors and their receptors ... Biol Chem 27 2, 20 538 20 544 27 Ebner, R & Derynck, R (1991) Epidermalgrowthfactorand transforming growth factor- alpha: differential intracellular routing and processing of ligand -receptor complexes ... between the PDGF receptorand members ofthe src family of tyrosine kinases Cell 62, 481–4 92 Dahl, M.E., Arai, K.I & Watanabe, S (20 00) Association of Lyn tyrosine kinase to the GM-CSF and IL-3 receptor...
... maturation [20 ] Furthermore, studies indicate that EGF induces oscillations in calcium efflux in COCs of mice, and also promotes the synthesis of GSH within the oocyte [8] Theroleof calcium ... serum [25 ,29 ], gonadotrophin [15] or steroid hormone [15] The present study investigated the effect of βME or EGF supplementation on the base ofthe stages ofthe estrus cycle ofthe ovaries, and ... [3, 12] The EGF is one of many growth factors found throughout the body, including growing antral follicles within the ovary, and has shown to stimulate DNA synthesis and cell proliferation in...
... survival and pattern of relapse in patients with Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Radiation Oncology 20 06, 1:11 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 advanced head and neck carcinoma ... release of transforming growthfactor α activates theepidermalgrowthfactorreceptorand mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway in carcinoma cells, leading to increased proliferation and protection ... growthfactorreceptorin patients with squamous cell carcinoma ofthe head and neck Cancer 1996, 78: 128 4- 129 2 Baumann M, Krause M: Targeting theepidermalgrowthfactorreceptorin radiotherapy:...
... The tyrosine kinase inhibitor ZD1839 (‘Iressa’) inhibits HER2-driven signaling and suppresses thegrowthof HER2-overexpressing tumor cells Cancer Res 61, 7184–7188 FEBS Journal 27 6 (20 09) 125 5– 126 5 ... c-Abl tyrosine kinase inthe stress response to DNA-damaging agents Nature 376, 785–788 22 Davis RJ (20 00) Signal transduction by the JNK group of MAP kinases Cell 103, 23 9 25 2 23 Chang NS (20 01) ... signaling route by which the EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor AG1478 induces apoptosis in PC-9 cells There is a general agreement on the hypothesis that the inhibition of ERK1 ⁄ MAPK and ⁄ or PtdIns3K...
... miR- 122 51 169 621 4494 51 62 909 10 713 538 9069 620 5 5990 303 6483 29 9 21 099 1309 1661 11 565 3379 1536 21 710 11 620 315 27 2 29 20 21 505 5450 28 71 43 82 16 23 6 68 82 9 822 14 071 13 905 723 7 666 ... roleof miR- 125 a-5p in lung carcinogenesis and to examine the clinical relevance of our findings, we investigated the expression of miR- 125 a-5p in a panel of lung cancer patient samples together ... Table S2) Interestingly, among them, some miRNAs, such as miR-16, miR-143, miR -20 0b, and miR -20 5, were shown to be involved in human cancer [8 ,20 ,21 ] In view of our findings here andthe results of...
... Choi et al (Eur J Biochem 26 9) 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 roles of insulin and glucagon inthe regulation of hepatic glycogen synthesis and turnover in humans J Clin Invest 97, 6 42 648 Petersen, K.F., ... at % 2, % 3, and > h from the start of glucose infusion For the calculation of glycogen C6 changes, data acquired within h ofthe start ofthe glucose infusion was not included to avoid any in uence ... detected inthe glycogen C1 and C6 resonances Net synthesis of glycogen inthe liver is visible from the natural abundance signal increase of glycogen C2–C5 The resonance of glycerol C1 and C3 at 62. 5...
... transcription factors and targets in osteoblast differentiation and matrix mineralization Exp Cell Res 20 00, 25 7 :21 3 -22 2 28 Chen D, Zhao M, Mundy GR: Bone morphogenetic proteins Growth Factors 20 04, 22 :23 3 -24 1 ... regulation of gene expression from the early phase of osteoblast proliferation to the final steps of mineralization Figure FGF -2 and BMP -2, the yin and yang of mineralization: Contrast of effect of 24 ... abundance of FGF -2 treated cells (Figure 3) we found that in general, BMP -2 maintained the mineralizing RNA profile of igf-1, alp, and bmp -2 and significantly increased expression of other genes...
... transcription factors and targets in osteoblast differentiation and matrix mineralization Exp Cell Res 20 00, 25 7 :21 3 -22 2 28 Chen D, Zhao M, Mundy GR: Bone morphogenetic proteins Growth Factors 20 04, 22 :23 3 -24 1 ... regulation of gene expression from the early phase of osteoblast proliferation to the final steps of mineralization Figure FGF -2 and BMP -2, the yin and yang of mineralization: Contrast of effect of 24 ... abundance of FGF -2 treated cells (Figure 3) we found that in general, BMP -2 maintained the mineralizing RNA profile of igf-1, alp, and bmp -2 and significantly increased expression of other genes...
... containing the following mutations: -21 6 G/T, 22 35 -22 49 del, 22 36 -22 50 del, 22 40 -22 57 del, and 25 73 T>G for detecting EGFR mutations in 81 cases of NSCLC The two protocols identified the same 26 mutations, ... mutation(s) L747-S7 52 del L858R -21 6 G/T 22 35 -22 49 del E746-A750 del 22 36 -22 50 del 22 40 -22 57 del 25 73 T>G Adenocarcinoma (n = 26 ) 3 Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (n = 6) 0 Squamous cell carcinoma (n = ... promoter) rate was 32% (26 of 81) Mutations in exons 18 -21 of EGFR TK domain were detected in 19 (23 %) ofthe 81 NSCLCs in which there were 12 adenocarcinomas, three bronchioloaveolar carcinomas, two...
... might increase the number of NK cells, andthe increase of NK cells might play an important roleinthe pathogenesis of BD Conclusions Qa -2 levels were lower inthe PBMC of BD mice than inthe ... toward Th2 by promoting the secretion of IL-3, IL-4 and IL-10 while down-regulating the production of IFNγ and TNFα [41-43] Inthe present study, Qa -2 siRNA increased the IFNγ mRNA levels inthe spleens ... rather to down-regulation of Qa -2 In addition, the present results showed that the injection of Qa -2 Figure The frequency of NK cells in BD and BDN mice The frequency of NK cells was analyzed in...
... endotoxin inthe rat Br J Pharmacol 1997, 121 :695-704 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Inflammation 20 09, 6 :20 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ... prostaglandin synthesis [40], and S-nitrosylation of COX -2 activates the enzyme and contributes to cell injury [41, 42] The impact ofthe co-induction of iNOS and COX -2 in endothelium requires further investigation ... PD 150606 increased the induction of COX -2 in KD and Control MAEC (figure 4B), further suggesting that calpain is responsible for restraining the induction of COX -2 in MAEC In support of this idea,...