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In later stages of tumorigenesis, TGFβ can act as a stimulator of invasion and metastasis [ 3 ] acting directly on the tumor cells or inducing angiogenesis and facilitating local and systemic immunosuppression, respectively [ 4 ] . For example, TGFβ may stimulate the expression of proteases such as uPA, MMP-3 or MMP-9, enzymes frequently overexpressed in invasive tumor cells [ 5 6 ] .
Activation of the ionic current was induced by preincubation of AQP1-expressing oocytes for 10-30 minutes in 10 mM 8Br-cGMP (Sigma) in high K +saline, containing (in mM): 30 KCl, 80 K gluconate, 5 MgCl 2 , 5 HEPES, pH 7.3, or by addition of 2-4 mM sodium nitroprusside (SNP), a stimulator of guanylate cyclase and cGMP production [ 34 35 ] . Control oocytes treated in the same conditions showed no induction of an ionic current.
The muscles were stimulated with a Grass S44 stimulator (Grass Instruments, Quincy, Massachusetts) with pulses 1.5 times above those needed to achieve maximal twitch force (120 V, 5 ms pulses).
Levels of ghrelin, a potent stimulator of appetite [23,24,25], were higher in those with shorter sleep.
This chemokine belongs to the CC chemokine family and stimulates Coll I production both by lung fibroblasts taken from areas of inflammation [ 26 ] and in kidneys that suffer from crescentic nephritis [ 45 ] . The former investigators reported that MCP-1 increases collagen accumulation not by decreasing the levels of the collagenase MMP-1, but by stimulating the production of TGFβ1, a well-known stimulator of collagen expression and expression of TIMPs, the natural inhibitors of MMPs.
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