Metabolic constraint of human telomere length by nucleotide salvage efficiency
Nature CommunicationsHuman telomere length is tightly regulated and associated with diseases at either extreme, but how these bounds are established remains incompletely understood.
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Serum levels of RBP4 and adipose tissue levels of PTP1B are increased in obese men resident in northeast Scotland without associated changes in ER stress response genes [PDF]
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BMC Pediatrics, 2018 Background Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is a rare inborn error of purine metabolism marked by a complete deficiency of the enzyme hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT).
Lisa B. E. Shields +2 more
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Leishmania promastigotes evade interleukin 12 (IL-12) induction by macrophages and stimulate a broad range of cytokines from CD4+ T cells during initiation of infection. [PDF]
, 1994 Leishmania major are intramacrophage parasites whose eradication requires the induction of T helper 1 (Th1) effector cells capable of activating macrophages to a microbicidal state.
Locksley, RM +4 more
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A Golgi study of neuronal architecture in a genetic mouse model for Lesch–Nyhan disease
Neurobiology of Disease, 2005 Lesch–Nyhan disease (LND) is an inherited disorder associated with deficiency of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT), an enzyme essential for purine recycling.
Ivan Mikolaenko +4 more
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5'-nucleotidases, nucleosides and their distribution in the brain: pathological and therapeutic implications [PDF]
, 2013 Elements of the nucleoside system (nucleoside levels, 5'-nucleotidases (5'NTs) and other nucleoside metabolic enzymes, nucleoside transporters and nucleoside receptors) are unevenly distributed in the brain, suggesting that nucleosides have region ...
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The prognostic effect of PTEN expression status in colorectal cancer development and evaluation of factors affecting it: MiR-21 and promoter methylation [PDF]
, 2016 Background: PTEN is a tumor suppressor gene which is involved in cellular proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. Loss or down-regulation of PTEN plays an important role in human cancers development.
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Induction of Mineralization [PDF]
, 2014 Vascular mineralization contributes to the high cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients who suffer from chronic kidney disease and in individuals who have undergone solid organ transplantation. The immunosuppressive regimen used to treat these
Giet, Markus van der +6 more
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Targeted Nucleotide Substitution in Mammalian Cell by Target-AID
Bio-Protocol, 2017 Programmable RNA-guided nucleases based on CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)-Cas (CRISPR-associated protein) systems have been applied to various type of cells as powerful genome editing tools. By using activation-induced
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