background there are hoarding documents for the biological importance of cyclooxygenase-2 (cox-2) in pancreatic carcinogenesis. we aimed to thoroughly investigate the dna sequence variations of whole cox-2 exons in a large case-control study of pancreatic cancer by direct sequencing.   methods the entire exonic regions of cox-2 including 10 exons were sequenced in the germline dna of 96 patient...

non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids) are the competitive inhibitors of cyclooxygenase (cox), the enzyme which mediates the bioconversion of arachidonic acid to inflammatory prostaglandins (pgs). their use is associated with the side effects such as gastrointestinal and renal toxicity. the therapeutic anti-inflammatory action of nsaids is produced by the inhibition of cox-2, while the ...

objective(s): a fast and reliable evaluation of the binding energy from a single conformation of a molecular complex is an important practical task. artificial neural networks (anns) are strong tools for predicting nonlinear functions which are used in this paper to predict binding energy. we proposed a structure that obtains binding energy using physicochemical molecular descriptions of the se...

background: nepeta dschuparensis bornm (np) is used as a medicinal herb in iran. in traditional medicine, this herb is extensively employed for curing ailments such as cardiovascular diseases. np has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. this project examined the effects of the np extract on cyclooxygenase-2 (cox-2) and interleukin-1β (il-1β) protein levels and its efficacy in neuroprot...