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Activin a and Follistatin in Systemic Inflammation

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Inflammation is a complex process regulated by a cascade of cytokines and growth factors. This review summarizes the emerging evidence / implicating activin A and follistatin in the inflammatory process. Our recent studies have highlighted that activin A is released early in the / process as part of ...

11/16/2009
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Follistatin Gene Delivery Enhances Muscle Growth and Stre...

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Antagonists of myostatin, a blood-borne negative regulator of muscle growth produced in muscle cells, have / shown considerable promise for enhancing muscle mass and strength in rodent studies and could serve as / potential therapeutic agents for human muscle diseases. One of the most potent of these...

11/16/2009
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Open Science at Web-Scale - Optimising participation and ...

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This Report has attempted to draw together and synthesise evidence and opinion associated / with data-intensive open science from a wide range of sources. The potential impact of dataintensive / open science on research practice and research outcomes, is both substantive and / far-reaching. There are i...

11/12/2009
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Open Science at Web-Scale - Optimising participation and ...

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This Report has attempted to draw together and synthesise evidence and opinion associated / with data-intensive open science from a wide range of sources. The potential impact of dataintensive / open science on research practice and research outcomes, is both substantive and / far-reaching. There are i...

11/12/2009
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R / We haz yo / A / N / S / O / M / D / E / M A / N D / ur stuff. Star at 3pm, unless you meet our demands, tart

10/13/2009
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Genome-wide association study identifies 19p13.3 (UNC13A)...

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"ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a neurodegenerative disorder / characterized by progressive wasting and weakness of limb, bulbar / and respiratory muscles. The disease is caused by loss of motor / neurons in the spinal cord, brain stem and motor cortex and can occur / at any time in adul...

09/29/2009
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Straight talk with…James Ironside

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Would you entrust your brain to a bank? Well, many people do after they die, and such brain banks—often funded by government / agencies or disease charities—are essential for neuroscience research. They collect and store the healthy and diseased brain / specimens that neuroscientists need to explor...

08/16/2009
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Design, power, and interpretation of studies in the stand...

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Abstract / Identification of SOD1 as the mutated protein in a significant subset of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS) cases / has led to the generation of transgenic rodent models of autosomal dominant SOD1 FALS. Mice carrying 23 copies of the / human SOD1G93A transgene are considered th...

08/05/2009
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Rhes, A Striatal Specific Protein, Mediates Mutant-Huntin...

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ABSTRACT / Huntington’s disease (HD) is caused by a polyglutamine repeat in the protein huntingtin (Htt) with / mutant Htt (mHtt) expressed throughout the body and similarly in all brain regions. Yet, HD / neuropathology is largely restricted to the corpus striatum. We report that the small guanin...

06/07/2009
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Structural and Biophysical Properties of the Pathogenic S...

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ABSTRACT: Over 100 mutations in the gene encoding human copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD1) / cause an inherited form of the fatal neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Two / pathogenic SOD1 mutations, His46Arg (H46R) and His48Gln (H48Q), affect residues that act as cop...

05/30/2009
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05/19/2009
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Depletion of TDP-43 Affects Drosophila Motoneurons Termin...

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Pathological modifications in the highly conserved and ubiquitously expressed heterogeneous ribo- / nucleoprotein TDP-43 were recently associated to neurodegenerative diseases including amyotro- / phic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a late-onset disorder that affects predominantly motoneurons / [Neuman...

04/24/2009
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Uniquely Hominid Features of Adult Human Astrocytes - Obe...

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Defining the microanatomic differences between the human brain and that of other mammals is key to understanding its unique / computational power. Although much effort has been devoted to comparative studies of neurons, astrocytes have received far less / attention.Wereport here that protoplasmic a...

03/30/2009

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