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Assessing the contribution of the chemical exposome to neurodegenerative disease
Over the past few decades, numerous environmental chemicals from solvents to pesticides have been suggested to be involved in the development and progression of neurodegenerative diseases. Most of the evidence...
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Article
The aryl hydrocarbon receptor regulates focal adhesion sites through a non-genomic FAK/Src pathway
The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is commonly described as a transcription factor, which regulates xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes. Recent studies have suggested that the binding of ligands to the AhR also a...
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Chapter
Le tissu adipeux : stockage, source et cible des polluants
Initialement considéré comme un tissu de «stockage», relativement passif, cantonné aux fonctions physiques et énergétiques, le tissu adipeux (TA) s’est vu progressivement attribuer de nouvelles fonctions physi...
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≪ 3es Rencontres médecins-chirurgiens ≫ sur la chirurgie de l’obésité
Le tissu adipeux est capable de stocker certains polluants organiques mais aussi de libérer ces derniers, tout particulièrement en cas d’amaigrissement important ou prolongé. Les conséquences défavorables ou, ...
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Nedd9/Hef1/Cas-L mediates the effects of environmental pollutants on cell migration and plasticity
Aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), or dioxin receptor, is a transcription factor that induces adaptive metabolic pathways in response to environmental pollutants. Recently, other pathways were found to be altere...
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Activation of the dioxin/aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) modulates cell plasticity through a JNK-dependent mechanism
Environmental chemicals such as dioxin adversely affect immune, neurological and reproductive functions and have been implicated in cancer development. However, the mechanisms responsible for dioxin toxicity a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Cytosolic aspartate aminotransferase : tissue-specific hormonal regulation of a housekee** gene promoter
The cytosolic aspartate aminotransferase gene is an unusual housekee** gene that is hormonally regulated in a highly tissue-specific manner. The cAspAT enzyme is involved in several cellular metabolic pathwa...
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Different chromosomal localization of two adenylyl cyclase genes expressed in human brain
Recently, we characterized a cDNA clone that encodes a human brain adenylyl cyclase (HBAC1). In the present study, we identified a second population of mRNA suspected to encode a new brain adenylyl cyclase (HB...
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Chromosomal localization of human aspartate aminotransferase genes by in situ hybridization
The localization of the human genes for cytosolic and mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase (AspAT) has been determined by chromosomal in situ hybridization with specific human cDNA probes previously charac...