Example sentences for: carbohydrate

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  • QUASI's findings may be consistent with the existence of gaps in the carbohydrate groups thought to mask the silent face from gp120 from immune surveillance.

  • In response to glucose, transcription of several glycolytic and lipogenic genes are activated through the glucose/carbohydrate/insulin response element (GIRE, ChoRE or IRE) [ 3 4 ] . Upstream stimulatory factors (USF) 1 and 2 are characterized by a basic/helix loop helix/leucine zipper domain responsible for dimerization and DNA binding, and are major components of the GIRE complex [ 5 6 7 8 ] .

  • The signaling pathways affecting Pck1 transcription are discussed in the section "cAMP signaling/links to carbohydrate metabolism".

  • Various genes involved in cholesterol metabolism (microsomal transfer protein, MTP; apolipoprotein C3, Apoc3; cholesterol 7α hydroxylase, Cyp7a1), carbohydrate metabolism (pyruvate kinase; facilitative glucose transporter gene, GLUT2), and coagulation (vitamin K dependent coagulation factors VII, IX, X) have been previously found to be induced by PPARs [ 32 ] , but were not transcriptionally regulated in the present experiment.

  • Capsaicin's use in the treatment of chronic pain is due to an analgesic effect that is explained by capsaicin's action of depletion of stores of substance P from primary sensory neurons as a consequence of the reduced production of prostaglandin [ 39 60 ] . Capsaicin's antiphlogistic activity is due to the "counter-irritant effect"; which means that a local irritant effect exerts an additional more remote antiinflammatory effect [ 60 ] . This is explained by a liberation of corticoids under the influence of certain cutivisceral reflexes [ 60 ] . The counter-irritant effect on the gastric mucosa also occurs because capsaicin stimulates production of the cytoprotective prostaglandin E 2 [ 60 ] . Capsaicin produces analgesic and antiinflammatory effects because it inhibits both 5-lipoxygenase and cycoloxygenase [ 39 ] . A 10 g human ingestion of red pepper stimulated carbohydrate oxidation [ 62 ] . This may explain why the Chocó Indians used it to give their hunting dogs more "energy" [ 25 ] .


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