• Lastly certain populations of immune cells may

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  Lastly, certain populations of immune cells may be Hh responsive. Although PC have not been demonstrated in healthy liver-resident macrophages or lymphocytes, macrophages in injured livers have been shown to produce Hh ligands[58], [100], [101] and treating liver-derived macrophages with neutralisi

• As previously discussed even though glucose is

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  As previously discussed, even though glucose is the major fuel of the brain, neuronal cells may use alternative fuels such as ketone bodies in metabolically challenging situations in which glucose availability is limited [6]. Ketogenesis takes place mainly in the liver, although astrocytes can also

• br Disclosure summary br Acknowledgments br Introduction Sym

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  Disclosure summary Acknowledgments Introduction Symbionts are live microorganisms that seem to promote host defense systems and regulate intestinal homeostasis, preventing gut infectious and inflammatory diseases (Fuller, 1989, Sartor, 2004). Numerous studies have shown the beneficial effec

• PBI is an agonist of GPR and acts as an

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  PBI-4050 is an agonist of GPR40 and acts as an antagonist or inverse agonist of GPR84. It cannot be excluded that other targets besides GPR40 and GPR84 could be implicated in the mechanism of action of PBI-4050 and could be explored in future studies. However, the present study, and in particular th

• Natural products have been always the most important

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  Natural products have been always the most important and productive sources of lead compounds for the development of drugs [[15], [16], [17]]. A variety of potent α-glucosidase inhibitors have been identified from natural products, such as quercetin, resveratrol, isorhamnetin, calein C and curcumin

• As glucagon stimulated hepatic glucose production

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  As glucagon-stimulated hepatic CHIR-124 mg production is a key component of the normal response to hypoglycemia, the potential of a GCGr antagonist to delay or prevent recovery from a hypoglycemic state is a critical safety issue that must be addressed. Studies of the effects on time to recovery fr

• Ghrelin contains an n octanoylation at its Ser

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  Ghrelin contains an n-octanoylation at its Ser3 residue (Kojima et al., 1999). While des-acyl ghrelin is found in high concentrations in the blood, only the lipidated form is active at GHSR (Bednarek et al., 2000). We previously showed that ghrelin interacts with the membrane via its lipid modificat

• Encouraged by the observation obtained from region A

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  Encouraged by the observation obtained from region A, we selected the structure of 1 as the next template to successively pursue the SAR on regions B-D of 1 (lower side of Fig. 2). Next, we turned attention to the external aromatic ring of 1 to verify the impact on the antagonistic activity and prep

• Hydantoin in region F bridging the phenoxybenzene and benzim

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  Hydantoin in region F bridging the phenoxybenzene and benzimidazole moieties was replaced by cyclic building blocks, diketopiperazine (25) and imidazolidinone (26), and linear bonds, amide (27) and urea (28). Analogs 25–28 possessing the linkers other than hydantoin were not tolerated in LBD of FXR,

• The PK profile and tissue distribution of which

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  The PK profile and tissue distribution of 30, which has biological properties almost equivalent to those of 12, were examined in comparison with 12. Analog 30 was evaluated in a 6 h rat PK study at an intravenous (iv) dosing of 1 mg/kg in 10% 2-hydroxypropyl--cyclodextrin (HP-β-CD) (Table 2) and an

• LPCs have been previously described

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  LPCs have been previously described as potential anti-diabetic factors due to stimulation of secretory activity from the isolated rodent pancreas, L-type cells, ands insulin-producing cell lines, with LPC 18:1 as the main structure of interest (Soga et al., 2005, Sakamoto et al., 2006, Overton et al

• The objective of this study is to

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  The objective of this study is to design and synthesize drug-like molecules with agonistic activity on both receptors; PPARγ and FFAR1. These agents would act as insulin sensitizers and insulin secretagogues through their action on PPARγ and FFAR1, respectively. The design of drugs with dual mode of

• cyp3a inhibitors There have been a few studies investigating

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  There have been a few studies investigating the effects of histamine on mast cells but the majority of these has been on rodent and cultured mast cells (Hofstra et al., 2003, Lippert et al., 2004, Jemima et al., 2014). How representative these systems are of primary human cells is a moot point since

• In humans polymorphisms in the lengths of GT sequences from

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  In humans, polymorphisms in the lengths of GT sequences (from 11 to 40) within the HMOX1 promoter impact the magnitude of HO-1 expression profiles. Long GT repeats code for less stable (Z-conformational) DNA with blunted transcriptional activity resulting in lower resting and stimulated HO-1 protein

• br Hedgehog pathway The Hedgehog pathway Fig derives its

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  Hedgehog pathway The Hedgehog pathway (Fig. 1) derives its name from Hh gene mutant Drosophila, which presents a spiked phenotype resembling the animal “hedgehog” [13]. The Hh proteins control embryonic development in vertebrates, where the signaling mechanisms mediated by the proteins are multip

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