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... metalloproteinase activity in health and disease Elin Hadler-Olsen, Bodil Fadnes, Ingebrigt Sylte, Lars Uhlin-Hansen and Jan-Olof Winberg Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University ... metalloproteinase 2 from human rheumatoid synovial fibroblasts. Purification and activation of the precursor and enzymic properties. Eur J Biochem 194, 721–730. 20 Das S, Mandal M, Mandal A, Chakraborti ... various human MMPs [3]. The various domains, modules and motifs in the MMPs are involved in interactions with other molecules, and hence affect or determine the activ- ity, substrate specificity, and...

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... environmental health disparities and improving the health of all children. The ultimate goal of the Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers is to create a healthy and sustainable ... Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks, which directs federal agencies to identify and assess environmental risks to children’s health. 1998: Eight Children’s Centers are est ablished by NIEHS and ... is to reduce children’s health risks, protect children from environmental threats and promote their health and well-being in the communities where they live, learn and play. Background For...

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... must be consistently expanded to include women. 2. Women, Health and Poverty: Review and Looking Forward 41 by Jayne Melville Whyte The report Women, Health and Poverty: Review and Looking Forward ... Between Women’s Health and Poverty 2 Defining Health In 1948, the World Health Organization issued a definition of health “as a state of complete physical, mental and social well- being and not merely ... with health conditions, particularly stress and mental health concerns. Largely, however, the causal relationships between women’s poverty and all types of illness and disease remain invisible and...

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... levels. TEC kinases and disease A. Hussain et al. 2002 FEBS Journal 278 (2011) 2001–2010 ª 2011 The Authors Journal compilation ª 2011 FEBS MINIREVIEW TEC family kinases in health and disease – loss-of-function of ... ITK–SYK fusion oncogene induces a T-cell lymphoproliferative disease in mice mimicking human disease. Cancer Res 70, 6193–6204. TEC kinases and disease A. Hussain et al. 2010 FEBS Journal 278 (2011) ... individuals with mild disease, thereby providing the missing data. The phenotype of XLA and the potential of BTK and ITK inhibitors The outcome of defective BTK signaling in humans has been described...

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... SHIKE Section E. Prevention and Management of Skeletal and Joint Disorders Chapter 83. Bone Biology in Health and Disease ROBERT P. HEANEY Chapter 84. Nutrition and Diet in Rheumatic Diseases CLAUDIO GALPERIN, ... Respiratory Function, and Disease MARGARET M. JOHNSON, ROBERT CHIN, JR., AND EDWARD F. HAPONIK Chapter 91. Nutrition and Retinal Degenerations ELIOT L. BERSON Chapter 92. Diagnosis and Management of ... Ph.D. Director and Research Nutritionist Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center United States Department of Agriculture Grand Forks, North Dakota MAN S. OH, M.D. Professor of Medicine Health Sciences...

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... management and communication components, a number of international regulatory and standard-setting bodies have introduced uniform standards. These include standards for human- health and environmental-safety ... impacts — both positive and negative — on human health and the environment. 1.4 Recent international controversies and study initiative Conflicting assessments and incomplete substantiation ... productivity, or improved quality and nutritional and processing characteristics, which can contribute directly to enhancing human health and development. From a health perspective, there may also...

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... evolution: selection, drift, mutation and migration. Evolution’s role is central in the sub-discipline of biology that addresses health and disease in humans and training in evolutionary thinking ... very complex manner, therefore the understanding of the diseases that affect human beings has been equally complicated, and thus the treatment of many diseases has had to be very aggressive; ... invading bacteria and which now are called mitochondria, and which I refer to as biological competition [2], could explain the great majority of human diseases, which are more than diseases, they...

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... (I ha ), permeant to K + and Na + , has CNS Microenvironment and Excitability 3 3 From: The Neuronal Environment: Brain Homeostasis in Health and Disease Edited by: W. Walz © Humana Press Inc., Totowa, ... Homeostasis in Health and Disease Edited by Wolfgang Walz The Neuronal Environment Neuronal Energy Requirements 33 those under resting conditions, both in humans (4,5,7,8,37,38) and rats (9). ... bodies (A and B) and their processes (arrows, C and D). ERG immuno- reactivity was confined within the cell body cytoplasm of astrocytes, and within large primary astrocytic processes, and on small,...

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... novel antagonistic ligand of the Met receptor. J Cell Biol 185, 743–754. 54 Theocharis AD, Skandalis SS, Tzanakakis GN & Karamanos NK (2010) Proteoglycans in health and disease: novel roles ... involved in many aspects of mammalian biology, both in health and disease. They are now being rec- ognized as key signaling molecules with an expanding repertoire of molecu- lar interactions affecting ... during quiescence [20,21]. Indeed, both the mouse and human decorin structural organization of their gene and promoter are quite complex [22–24] and subject to an intricate transcriptional regulation...

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... processes and are key to normal matrix turnover, but also have essential roles in development and reproduction, and in pathological tissue remodel- ling during inflammatory disease, cancer invasion and metastasis. ... tissues and some musculoskeletal tissue. Here, our under- standing of syndecan shedding and its function in wound healing and tumour progression is reviewed. Other reviews on syndecan structure and ... Syndecans-1 and -3 core proteins are larger than those of syndecan-2 and -4, and can bear both heparan and chondroitin sulfate chains. The GAG chains are substituted on core protein serine residues and...

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... signaling function, and elucidation of heparanase route and function in the cell nucleus, will advance the field of heparanase research and reveal its significance in health and disease. Resolving ... in health and disease: new concepts for heparanase function in tumor progression and metastasis Uri Barash 1 , Victoria Cohen-Kaplan 1 , Ilana Dowek 2 , Ralph D. Sanderson 3 , Neta Ilan 1 and Israel ... 388–392. 92 Theocharis AD, Skandalis SS, Tzanakakis GN & Karamanos NK (2010) Proteoglycans in health and adisease: novel roles for proteoglycan in malignancy and their pharmacological targeting....

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... programmes and better diagnosis and control of avian diseases. Of all these core elements, poultry health and disease can be the least predictable. Although poultry diseases from nutritional and metabolic ... Respiratory and kidney disease, egg production drops + Infectious larnygotracheitis Virus Respiratory disease (varying severities) and conjunctivitis + Newcastle disease Virus # Respiratory and nervous ... Poultry disease Agent Main signs and lesions produced in diseases in the field Major route of spread Faeco-oral (and contact) Aerosols (and contact) Eggs Avian mycoplasmosis Bacterium Respiratory disease, ...

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... pregnancy (with the associated health risks to mothers and children). On the other hand, modem methods such as the pill and IUD are associated with side effects and health risks at least as perceived ... would be large and positive health benefits. The study estimated that if births to women in four health risk categories (aged 35 and over, aged less than 20, parity 4 and over, and spacing births ... determinants of women's health is presented in Figure 1.The basic components of this framework arethe health outcomes and fertility, the proximate determinants, and socioeconomic and cultural factors....

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... NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL1 HEALTH SCIENCES; AWARDS FOR DEVELOP-2 MENT AND OPERATION OF MULTIDISCI-3 PLINARY RESEARCH CENTERS REGARDING4 WOMEN’S HEALTH AND DISEASE PREVEN-5 TION.6 Subpart ... the Public Health7 Service Act (42 U.S.C. 285 L et seq.) is amended by adding8 at the end the following section:9 ‘‘ MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH CENTERS REGARDING 10 WOMEN ’ S HEALTH AND DISEASE ... Director of19 the Office of Research on Women’s Health and with the20 advisory council for the Institute.21 ‘‘(b) R ESEARCH , T RAINING , AND I NFORMATION AND 22 E DUCATION .—23 ‘‘(1) I N GENERAL .—Each...

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... additional novel physiological substrates and functions for ABC transporters and define additional roles in human disease. The powerful combination of genetic and physiological approaches not only ... levels and gout. Subsequent in-depth physiological characterization of the gene and its protein product lays the foundation for an improved understanding of physiology and pathophysiology and may ... absorption and secretion and with significance for human diseases are shown with the direction of urate transport indicated [21,69,70]. Other transporters expressed in the human kidney and shown to transport...

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