In this study the role of P2Y12 receptors (P2Y12R) was explored in rodent models of inflammatory and neuropathic pain and in acute thermal nociception. In correlation with their activity to block the recombinant human P2Y12R, the majority of P2Y12R antagonists alleviated mechanical hyperalgesia dose-dependently, following intraplantar CFA injection, and after partial ligation of the sciatic ner...

The P2Y(12) receptor plays a crucial role in platelet aggregation. In the present study, we analyzed the properties of non-nucleotide antagonists at the recombinant human P2Y(12) receptor and searched for amino acids involved in the molecular interaction. Receptor function was assessed by measuring the cAMP response element (CRE)-directed luciferase expression in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Th...

0739-5175/04/$20.00©2006IEEE I n this article, we investigate the possible existence of errordetection/correction mechanisms in the genetic machinery by means of a recently proposed coding strategy [11]. On this basis, we numerically code exons, creating binary parity strings and successively we study their dependence structure by means of rigorous statistical methods (moving block bootstrap, a...

© 2010 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-0739 Journal Compilation © 2010 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Sir, Paraneoplastic pemphigus (PNP) is an autoimmune bullous disease characterized by severe mucous membrane involvement, polymorphous skin eruptions, and underlying neoplasms. Most cases are associated with lymphoproliferative neoplasms, and solid tumours have rarely been associ...