multiple  sclerosis  (ms) is  an  autoimmune  multifactorial  degenerative  disease  with detrimental affliction on central nervous system. mhc class i chain- related genea,b(mica and micb) are nonclassical human leukocyte antigens that can affect on some diseases and also on transplantation. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the mica and micb mrna expression in multiple sclerosis patie...

Posttranscriptional mechanisms play important roles in insulin receptor gene regulation; variability in cellular insulin receptor number and the growth arrest-mediated increases in insulin receptor mRNA are secondary to changes in insulin receptor mRNA stability. Therefore, further characterization of the pathways and kinetics of insulin receptor mRNA degradation were investigated. The insulin ...

BACKGROUND Hydroxy-carboxylic acid receptor 2 (HCA2, also called GPR109A) belongs to the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) family and is found in humans, rats, mice, hamsters and guinea pigs, but there are almost no reports of this protein in other species. In this investigation, we speculated that AMP010014A09 (AMP+) is a homologue of GPR109A in swine. METHODS To test this hypothesis, the fo...

mast cells play an important role in a variety of inflammatory diseases, particularly asthma and atopy. peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (pparγ) is a member of the large nuclear hormone  receptor  transcription  factor  superfamily, and  has  been  recently implicated in the anti-inflammatory response. to investigate a possible role for pparγ in human mast cells, we studied the ...

Background: Heparanase and endothelin-1/endothelin A receptor (ET-1/ETAR) expressions increase in cancer. This condition enhances tumor progression and correlates with poor survival. Limited data are documented regarding the role of heparanase and ET-1/ETAR in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). We sought to characterize the correlation between heparanase and ET-1/ETAR in EOC.Methods: Thirty patie...

Abstract Multiple susceptibility genes can be involved in the development of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. Some these are implicated other autoimmune diseases, while others specific to thyroid response. 153 patients with pathology were enrolled study (152 women and 1 man, average age was 46,02±14,3). They divided into 3 groups: 16 postoperative hypothyroidism; 65 hypothyroidism resulting from thyroi...

Background: Androgens are critical steroid hormones in progression of spermatogenesis process and determine the male phenotype that their actions are mediated by the androgen receptor (AR), a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily. In the Androgen receptor, transactivation domain encoded by exon 1, DNA binding domain encoded by exons 2 and 3, hinge region encoded by part of exon 4, and C-te...

The expression of epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor mRNA was examined using thyroid hormone L-3,5,3'-triiodothyronine (T3) by Northern blot analysis in rat hepatoma cells. The expression of full-length, but not truncated receptor mRNA was enhanced and destabilized with T3. These results suggest that T3 induces not only the expression of full-length EGF receptor mRNA but also accelerates th...