interest in hydroxy - carboxylic acid 2 (hca2) receptor has been raised since it is the target of antidyslipidemic drug nicotinic acid. the present study aimed to evaluate the presence of mrna of this receptor in different organs of laboratory rat. twenty two different organs of rats including mesenteric fat, epididymis (head, body and tail), testis, ovary, xiphoid process, liver, adrenal gland...

runx3, a member of runt-related transcription factor (runx) proteins with tumor suppressor effect, is a tissue–restricted and cancer related transcription factor that regulate cell proliferation and growth, as well as differentiation. in the present study, exogenous run3 was transiently expressed in ags (human gastric adenocarcinoma), with undetectable runx3 protein and in a549 (human lung carc...

introduction: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (nadph) oxidase-2 (nox2) is one of the predominant sources of ros production during myocardial ischemia-reperfusion and can be induced by angiotensin ii. the evidence suggests that pharmacological blockers of renin-angiotensin system can exert direct tissue effects independent of their ability to regulate blood pressure. the mechanism(s)...

iny hairs on Arabidopsis thaliana roots elongate via tip growth, in which new membrane is added specifically at the root hair tip. Vincent et al. (page 801) now show that a phosphatidylinositol transfer protein (PITP) related to yeast Sec14p is critical for this polarized growth, suggesting that PIP 2 may be the start of the polarity cascade in this system. The authors show that Arabidopsis has...

Introduction: The effect of regular exercise in decreasing the incidence of heart diseases is well known. The abuse of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) has been associated with cardiovascular disorders. Uncoupling proteins (UCPs) transport protons across the inner mitochondrial membrane thereby proton gradient can be diminished by the action of UCPs. This process will result in the uncoupl...

Introduction: GTPase regulator associated with focal adhesion kinase (GRAF) is a recently identified GTPase activating protein that has the tumor suppressor properties. However, the expression level of GRAF in leukemia had received less attention. The main purpose of this research was the evaluating of the expression level of GRAF in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Materials and met...