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The small G protein GDP dissociation stimulator (smg GDS) acts on a group of small G proteins including the Rho and Rap1 family members and Ki-Ras.
Calcium is an established stimulator of LH secretion that is thought to act at sites downstream of phospholipase C [ 39 40 ] . Therefore, adeno-RGS3 infected pituitary cells were treated with a calcium ionophore (A23187).
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.
There the GR acts as a ligand-activated transcriptional stimulator or repressor of primary response genes by binding to glucocorticoid hormone-responsive elements (GRE) contained in the promoter regions of steroid-responsive genes and either facilitating or repressing the formation of an active transcriptional complex.
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.