Recension av: Siivonen, Katriina 2008. Saaristoidentiteetit merkkien virtoina. Varsinaissuomalainen arki ja aluekehitystyö globalisaation murroksessa. Helsinki: Suomen muinaismuistoyhdistys [Finska Fornminnesföreningen]. 408 s.

ThehumanpregnaneX receptor (hPXR) is a xenobiotic-sensing nuclear receptor that transcriptionally regulates drug metabolism–related genes. The aim of the present study was to elucidate the mechanism by which hPXR is regulated through threonine-408. A phosphomimetic mutationat threonine-408 (T408D) reduced the transcriptional activity of hPXR and its protein stability in HepG2 and SW480 cells in...

PC (pyruvate carboxylase) plays a crucial role in intermediary metabolism including glucose-induced insulin secretion in pancreatic islets. In the present study, we identified two regions of the 1.2 kb distal promoter, the -803/-795 site and the -408/-403 E-box upstream of the transcription start site, as the important cis-acting elements for transcriptional activation of the luciferase reporte...

BACKGROUND In Malaysia, researchers and medical practitioners are unfamiliar with Naegleria infections. Thus little is known about the existence of pathogenic Naegleria fowleri, and the resultant primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) is seldom included in the differential diagnosis of central nervous system infections. This study was conducted to detect the presence of Naegleria species in ...