Delayed engraftment remains a limitation of umbilical cord blood (UCB) transplantation. We previously showed that inhibition of dipeptidylpeptidase (DPP)-4 using sitagliptin 600 mg daily was safe with encouraging results on engraftment, but inhibition was not sustained. We evaluated the efficacy and feasibility of higher doses of sitagliptin to enhance engraftment of UCB in patients with hemato...

beauveria spp. as entomopathogenic fungi have extremely diverse insect host ranges.here, a comparative transcript analysis of a bassiasin i (bsni), a dipeptidyl peptidase (dpp), a cytochrom p450 monooxygenase (cyp52), a mitogen activated protein kinase (mapk), and a neuronal calcium sensor 1 (ncs) in two isolates of beauveria bassiana., with low and high virulence, were carried out. for this, i...

Mothers against dpp (Mad) is the prototype of a family of genes required for signaling by TGF-beta related ligands. In Drosophila, Mad is specifically required in cells responding to Decapentaplegic (DPP) signals. We further specify the role of Mad in DPP-mediated signaling by utilizing tkvQ199D, an activated form of the DPP type I receptor serine-threonine kinase thick veins (tkv). In the embr...

AIMS/INTRODUCTION Recently, dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors have become available in Japan. It has not yet been clarified what clinical parameters could discriminate DPP-4 inhibitor-effective patients from DPP-4 inhibitor-ineffective patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS We reviewed 33 consecutive patients with type 2 diabetes admitted to Osaka University Hospital for glycemic control. Al...

Rationale DPP-4 may regulate immunological pathways implicated in asthma. Assessing whether DPP-4 inhibitor (DPP-4i) use might affect asthma control is clinically important because DPP-4i use in type 2 diabetes mellitus management (T2DM) is increasing. This study evaluated associations between DPP-4i use and asthma control. Methods This was a retrospective, observational, matched cohort study...

Limited data exist on HIV-1 drug resistance patterns in South Africa following second-line protease-inhibitor containing regimen failure. This study examined drug resistance patterns emerging in 75 HIV-1 infected adults experiencing virologic failure on a second-line regimen containing 2 NRTI and lopinavir/ritonavir. Ninety six percent of patients (n = 72) were infected with HIV-1 subtype C, tw...

decapentaplegic (dpp), a Drosophila member of the TGFbeta family of secreted molecules, functions as a long-range morphogen in patterning of the embryo and the adult appendages. Dpp signals via the SMAD proteins Mad and Medea. Here we show that in the absence of brinker (brk), Mad is not required for the activation of Dpp target genes that depend on low levels of Dpp. brk encodes a novel protei...

BACKGROUND Dipeptidyl-peptidase 4 (DPP-4) inhibitors are increasingly used to accomplish glycemic targets in patients with type II diabetes mellitus. Because DPP-4 is expressed in inflammatory cells, we hypothesized that its inhibition will exert favorable effects in atherosclerosis. METHODS AND RESULTS Male LDLR(-/-) mice (6 weeks) were fed a high-fat diet or normal chow diet for 4 weeks and...