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Proinflammatory circulating molecules in peripheral arterial disease (Review)

Salvatore S. Signorelli, Maria C. Mazzarino, Demetrios A. Spandidos, Grazia Malaponte

Pages: 279-286 Published online on: 01 September 2007
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Dandelion T-1 extract up-regulates reproductive hormone receptor expression in mice

Xu Zhi, Ken-Ichi Honda, Koji Ozaki, Takuya Misugi, Toshiyuki Sumi, Osamu Ishiko

Pages: 287-292 Published online on: 01 September 2007
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Optimization of an RNA isolation procedure from plasma samples

Petra Cerkovnik, Andraz Perhavec, Janez Zgajnar, Srdjan Novakovic

Pages: 293-300 Published online on: 01 September 2007
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Cobalt protoporphyrine IX-mediated heme oxygenase-I induction alters the inflammatory cytokine response, but not antigen presentation after experimental allogeneic bone marrow transplantation

Patricia Ewing, Gerhard C. Hildebrandt, Simone Planke, Reinhard Andreesen, Ernst Holler, Armin Gerbitz

Pages: 301-308 Published online on: 01 September 2007
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Efficacy of puffer fish (Takifugu rubripes) sauce in reducing hydroxyl radical damage to DNA assessed using the apurinic/apyrimidinic site method

Kazuki Harada, Yoshio Makino, Tomio Yamauchi, Nami Fukuda, Miki Tamaru, Yasue Okubo, Toshimichi Maeda, Yutaka Fukuda, Tsuneo Shiba

Pages: 309-314 Published online on: 01 September 2007
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Coincidence of mutations in different connexin genes in Hungarian patients

Tímea Tóth, Susan Kupka, Birgit Haack, Ferenc Fazakas, Laszló Muszbek, Nikolaus Blin, Markus Pfister, István Sziklai

Pages: 315-321 Published online on: 01 September 2007
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The antitumor activities of curcumin and of its isoxazole analogue are not affected by multiple gene expression changes in an MDR model of the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line: Analysis of the possible molecular basis

Paola Poma, Monica Notarbartolo, Manuela Labbozzetta, Annamaria Maurici, Valeria Carina, Alessandra Alaimo, Michele Rizzi, Daniele Simoni, Natale D'Alessandro

Pages: 329-335 Published online on: 01 September 2007
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CCR5-Δ32 genetic polymorphism associated with benign clinical course and magnetic resonance imaging findings in Brazilian patients with multiple sclerosis

Damacio Ramón Kaimen-Maciel, Edna Maria Vissoci Reiche, Doralina Guimarães Brum Souza, Elisabeth Regina Frota Comini, Flavio Bobroff, Helena Kaminami Morimoto, Maria Angélica Ehara Watanabe, Jaqueline Carvalho De Oliveira, Tiemi Matsuo, Josiane Lopes, Eduardo Antonio Donadi

Pages: 337-344 Published online on: 01 September 2007
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Neuropeptide Y and glucocorticoid secretion from guinea pig adrenal gland: An in vivo and in vitro study

N. Venkat Appa Rao, Carlo Macchi, Cinzia Tortorella, M. Firoz Ahmad, Gastone G. Nussdorfer

Pages: 345-349 Published online on: 01 September 2007
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Re-evaluation of fatty acid metabolism-related gene expression in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Motoyuki Kohjima, Munechika Enjoji, Nobito Higuchi, Masaki Kato, Kazuhiro Kotoh, Tsuyoshi Yoshimoto, Tatsuya Fujino, Masayoshi Yada, Ryoko Yada, Naohiko Harada, Ryoichi Takayanagi, Makoto Nakamuta

Pages: 351-358 Published online on: 01 September 2007
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The role of protein kinase C isoenzymes in the regulation of calcineurin activity in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells

Zsolt Szíjgyártó, Kornélia Szucs, Ildikó Kovács, Róza Zákány, Sándor Sipka, Pál Gergely

Pages: 359-364 Published online on: 01 September 2007
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Curcumin induces apoptosis and inhibits prostaglandin E2 production in synovial fibroblasts of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Cheol Park, Dong-Oh Moon, Il-Whan Choi, Byung Tae Choi, Taek-Jeong Nam, Chung-Ho Rhu, Taeg Kyu Kwon, Won Ho Lee, Gi-Young Kim, Yung Hyun Choi

Pages: 365-372 Published online on: 01 September 2007
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Association between genetic polymorphisms in thecyclooxygenase-1 gene promoter and peptic ulcers in Japan

Tomiyasu Arisawa, Tomomitsu Tahara, Tomoyuki Shibata, Mitsuo Nagasaka, Masakatsu Nakamura, Yoshio Kamiya, Hiroshi Fujita, Masahiko Nakamura, Daisuke Yoshioka, Yuko Arima, Masaaki Okubo, Ichiro Hirata, Hiroshi Nakano

Pages: 373-378 Published online on: 01 September 2007
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Ceftezole, a cephem antibiotic, is an α-glucosidase inhibitor with in vivo anti-diabetic activity

Dong-Sun Lee, Jin-Man Lee, Sung-Uk Kim, Kyu-Tae Chang, Sang-Han Lee

Pages: 379-383 Published online on: 01 September 2007
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Polymorphisms in genes coding for mediators in the interleukin cascade and their effect on susceptibility to sarcoidosis in the Slovenian population

Ales Maver, Igor Medica, Barbara Salobir, Miso Sabovic, Marjeta Tercelj, Borut Peterlin

Pages: 385-390 Published online on: 01 September 2007
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Differential secretion of prostaglandin E2, thromboxane A2 and interleukin-6 in intact and ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms

Bernice L.Y. Cheuk, Stephen W.K. Cheng

Pages: 391-395 Published online on: 01 September 2007
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Pre-clinical evaluation of [111In]-benzyl-DOTA-ZHER2:342, a potential agent for imaging of HER2 expression in malignant tumors

Anna Orlova, Thuy Tran, Charles Widström, Torun Engfeldt, Amelie Eriksson Karlström, Vladimir Tolmachev

Pages: 397-404 Published online on: 01 September 2007
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September 2007
Volume 20 Issue 3

Print ISSN: 1107-3756
Online ISSN: 1791-244X

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