Vasopressin: friend or foe?
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The article discusses the benefits as well as the adverse actions of the antidiuretic hormone vasopressin. Despite being extremely important in homeostatis, the drug is also found to weaken the inflammatory response to Escherichia coli that causes several complications.
Publication Name: Nature Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1078-8956
Year: 2008
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Control of osteoblast function and regulation of bone mass
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A brief overview of skeletal homeostasis is given and a number of questions related to this system, including hierarchies that exist among regulatory factors is addressed. The recent advances in the osteoblast function and regulation of bone mass are discussed.
Publication Name: Nature Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1078-8956
Year: 2003
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Reciprocal CD40 signals through p38MAPK and ERK-1/2 induce counteracting immune responses
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Reciprocal signaling pathways of CD40 modulated by cell surface receptor help to identify a definitive drug target through p38MAPK and ERK-1/2. The study provides a new conceptual framework for immune homeostasis and uncovers immune evasion strategy.
Publication Name: Nature Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1078-8956
Year: 2004
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