• The GPR receptor is also emerging as

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  The GPR55 receptor is also emerging as an important therapeutic target. GPR55−/− mice possess no overt phenotype, but were protected in models of inflammatory and neuropathic pain (Staton et al., 2008). Staton et al. (2008) reported that no GPR55 mRNA could be detected by RT-PCR in the animals. Also

• Studies utilising GPR mice however report different effects

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  Studies utilising GPR55−/− mice, however, report different effects of GPR55 on body weight and insulin sensitivity. Genetic deletion of GPR55 appears to have no effect on overall body weight 5, 6, 7. However, one of these studies found increased fat deposition and insulin resistance in GPR55−/− mice

• All HFD fed groups in our study having

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  All HFD fed groups in our study, having significantly higher levels of EE (heat production) is consistent with previous studies [91], where a significant increase in EE was observed within just one week of HFD feeding [81]. It is hypothesized that this phenomenon is due to the increased body mass an

• Level of CD and other blood parameters in patients

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  Level of CD4 and other blood parameters in patients before and after intervention are presented in Table 2. The mean of the CD4+ level before treatment in the intervention and placebo groups was 161.5 ± 291.1 and 159.9 ± 337.4, respectively (P = 0.232), which increased after treatment in both groups

• br Experimental procedures br Results

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  Experimental procedures Results Discussion Although the presence and localization of the GlyR subunits have been determined in the adult retina, the proportion of each GlyR subunit has not been assessed in the adult or in the developing retina. In the present study, we carried out the absol

• Progesterone Entry into CNS is tightly regulated

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  Entry into CNS is tightly regulated by highly dynamic barriers, namely, the BBB, the blood-CSF barrier, and the arachnoid epithelium (Abbott et al., 2010; Yasuda et al., 2013). Similar barriers also exist within the CNS including the ependymal barrier as well as the cellular membrane barriers of the

• Several groups studied CTD mouse

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  Several groups studied CTD mouse models, which largely mimicked the symptoms (i.e. impaired cognition and autistic-like behaviour) of the human disease (Kurosawa et al., 2012; Baroncelli et al., 2016; Stockebrand, 2018). The CRT-1 knockout mice showed a drastic deterioration in the GABAergic system,

• To confirm the in vitro findings atorvastatin or pravastatin

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  To confirm the in vitro findings, atorvastatin or pravastatin was given to C57BL6/J mice fed with high fat diet. Doses of atorvastatin were set to be 6 mg/kg and 12 mg/kg, which were within clinical therapeutic doses. The results revealed that treatment of atorvastatin but not pravastatin impaired g

• br Acknowledgements Supported by the

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  Acknowledgements Supported by the grant from National Natural Science Funds of China (81371262). I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Professor Yonghua Zhu, who help language editing. Introduction Glucocorticoids are steroid hormones secreted from the adrenal glands in response t

• br STAR Methods br Acknowledgments We would

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  STAR★Methods Acknowledgments We would like to thank Dr. Xiping Cheng for help with the immunohistochemistry staining, Qi Su for help with gene expression analysis, and Dr. Chaoying Liang at the UTSW Genomics Microarray Core facility for assistance on RNA-seq. W.-H.L. was supported by grant awa

• CaCl was from the Radiochemical Centre Amersham UK NaVO

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  45CaCl2 was from the Radiochemical Centre (Amersham, UK), NaVO3 was from Reachim (Moscow, Russia). Tetrodotoxin was purchased from Calbiochem, DTNB from Merck, Darmstadt, Germany. Nifedipine was synthesized in the Institute of Drug Research, Modra, Slovakia and was kindly provided by Dr. Zdeno Mahrl

• br Conclusions br Acknowledgement Work in the authors

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  Conclusions Acknowledgement Work in the authors’ labs was funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (OGP0194652 and OGP0041653) and Diabète Québec. Introduction Fifty years ago, Sydney Brenner proposed Caenorhabditis elegans as a useful model for the study of an

• br Introduction Conversion of visual input

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  Introduction Conversion of visual input into electrical information and routing this information to the brain is the main function of the eye (Levin et al., 2011). These processes require a microenvironment that offers adequate supply with oxygen and nutrients and also removal of all unwanted and

• The C terminal regions in both FGF

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  The C-terminal regions in both FGF19 and FGF21 define their KLB interaction [15], [16], [23], [25]. However, less than 40% identity in comparative alignment of C-terminal sequences for these two proteins (Table 1) suggests that their interaction with KLB may require higher-order association with oth

• Several other assay parameters were

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  Several other assay parameters were also explored. First, the thermal dependence of the assay was investigated by measuring the specific activity at different temperatures (Fig. 7). That data show that enzymatic activity increases with increasing temperature. Interestingly, the observed rate increas

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