C McKinney, ME Merriman, PT Chapman, PJ Gow, … - British Medical …, 2008 - ard.bmj.com Objective: There is increasing evidence that gene copy-number variation influences phenotypic
variation. Chemokine ligand 3-like 1 (CCL3L1) is encoded by a variable copy-number gene, and binds
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S Danese, F Scaldaferri, S Vetrano, T Stefanelli, C … - British Medical …, 2007 - gut.bmj.com Methods: Human nonimmune cells of colonic origin—namely, human intestinal fibroblasts (HIFs) and
human intestinal microvascular endothelial cells (HIMECs)—were activated with either soluble CD40L
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S Marzorati, A Pileggi, C Ricordi - Expert Opin. Biol. Ther., 2007 - informahealthcare.com Significant progress has been made in the field of β-cell replacement therapies by islet
transplantation in patients with unstable Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). Recent clinical trials
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this hormone is still not completely understood. Studies concerning hepcidin regulation are
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NJ Hill, M Hultcrantz, N Sarvetnick, M … - European journal of …, 2007 - interscience.wiley.com Central and peripheral tolerance mechanisms were for a long time the only regulatory circuits known
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TG D'Aversa, EA Eugenin, JW … - Journal of neuroscience …, 2008 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov CXCL8 is a CXC chemokine that recruits leukocytes to sites of inflammation. Expression of CXCL8 in
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M Rizvi, D Pathak, JE Freedman, S Chakrabarti - Trends in Molecular Medicine, 2008 - Elsevier CD40 ligand (CD40L) and its receptor CD40 participate in numerous inflammatory pathways that
contribute to multiple pathophysiological processes. A role for CD40–CD40L interactions has been
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E Margolles-Clark, MC Jacques-Silva, L Ganesan, … - Biochemical …, 2009 - Elsevier Suramin is a symmetric polysulfonated naphthylamine–benzamide urea derivative approved for the
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H Ichii, A Miki, T Yamamoto, RD Molano, S … - Laboratory …, 2008 - medscape.com Substantial amounts of nonendocrine cells are implanted as part of human islet grafts, and a
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D Klein, F Timoneri, H Ichii, C Ricordi, RL Pastori - Diabetologia, 2008 - Springer Abstract Aims/hypothesis CD40 expression on non-haematopoietic cells is linked to inflammation. We
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