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This mutual co-suppression suggests that slimb and E2F exert opposing activities on the same process and perhaps that Slimb acts on E2F or on a critical regulator of E2F activity.
Mice were fed relatively low fat diets to minimize the accretion of body fat and to avoid the confounding effects that LC-PUFA -rich diets are known to exert on the progression of obesity.
The picture of him linking arms with the white and Hispanic soldiers "will exert great power in the United States, and Jesse Jackson should be applauded for making it happen," it added.
Furthermore, this alternate pathway may explain the TGFβ 1 resistance of cells with no detectable defect in the SMAD pathway [ 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 ] , as one can imagine that the cooperative action of the both pathways is necessary to exert the complete growth inhibitory effect of TGFβ 1 . Comparable effects have been described for the synergistic operation of growth factor receptor and anchorage dependent integrin signaling [ 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 ] .
Then, and even more importantly, it must be stable enough to reach its target cells before it is degraded or excreted; it must get into those cells, link up with its intracellular target, and exert its effect; and it must exert enough of an effect to improve the health of the person taking it.