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...

leptin is secreted mainly by fat, which is involved in energy metabolism and reproduction. leptin and itsreceptor (ob-r) have been detected in human spermatozoa and testis, thus it can be concluded leptin involves in male physiology. the goal of this study was determination of the presence of leptin receptor mrna in the ram testis, epididymis and spermatozoa by reverse transcription polymerase ...

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)...

several cell lines (18) of poorly differentiated rat ascites hepatomas which grown intraperitoneally were analyzed with respect to their mrna levels of gst-p and albumin. the expression of albumin was dramatically decreased and became undetectable in all of the examined hepatomas compared with normal rat liver. the gst-p mrna level in the hepatomas was correlated with their ability for formatio...