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In addition, although glucose and, to a lesser extent, sorbitol retard seed germination rates, both additives retard mobilization of storage lipids to a significantly greater extent than seed germination.
The rate of reproductive development and the onset of fertility are influenced by an array of environmental factors that can be broadly grouped as physical, nutritional, and social [ 1 ] . Chief among social cues in mammals are priming pheromones that can retard or accelerate sexual development within constraints of factors such as photoperiod and nutritional status of the individual.
Any, or a combination, of these biological changes may retard aging.
Although the etiologies and pathologies of RA and OA differ, it is clear that in both of these diseases pro-inflammatory cytokines are present, resulting in an inflammatory state as well as cartilage degradation [ 14 ] . As further evidence for the role of pro-inflammatory cytokines in RA, anti-tumor necrosis factor-α (anti-TNF-α) and anti-interleukin 1 (anti-IL-1) therapies can reduce inflammation and retard the progression of disease as assessed radiographically [ 15 16 ] . However, side-effects with these approaches, such as the development of lymphomas in patients using anti-TNF-α therapies, demonstrate that alternative therapies are needed [ 17 ] .
Therapeutic strategies to inhibit a broad spectrum of MMPs, including MMP-2 and possibly MMP-9, may therefore present a more powerful approach to retard or prevent early erosions in patients with an inflammatory arthropathy.
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