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Interpersonal Trust and Its Associations with Respondents’ Community Characteristics
Jeong-han Kang and Eehyun Kim aims to . They link KGSS respondents in the city from 2003 to 2016 to their dong-level information, thanks to the recent digitalization of , and conduct multi-level regressi...
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Religious Affiliation, Religious Service Attendance, and Mortality
Very few studies have examined the effects of both religious affiliation and religiosity on mortality at the same time, and studies employing multiple dimensions of religiosity other than religious attendance ...
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Caffeic acid induces glutathione synthesis through JNK/AP-1-mediated γ-glutamylcysteine ligase catalytic subunit induction in HepG2 and primary hepatocytes
Previously our research found that caffeic acid (CA) has antioxidant activity in vitro and in vivo. However, the antioxidant mechanism of CA has not been clearly demonstrated. We investigated the protective mecha...
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Perilla frutescens modulates CYP1A1/2 and HO-1 and activates Nrf2 in oxidative stress-induced hepatotoxicity
We speculated that lipid peroxidation induced by tert-butyl hydroperoxide (t-BHP) in liver is closely linked with the metabolism mediated by CYPs. In this study, we have examined the effect of Perilla leaf extrac...
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Open AccessComparative proteome analysis of Tumor necrosis factor α-stimulated human Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells in response to melittin
Bee venom has been used to relieve pain and to treat inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, in humans. To better understand the mechanisms of the anti-inflammatory and anti-atherosclerosis effe...
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Ascochlorin suppresses TGF-β1-induced PAI-1 expression through the inhibition of phospho-EGFR in rat kidney fibroblast cells
Fibrosis is induced by the excessive and abnormal deposition of extracellular matrix (ECM) with various growth factors in tissues. Transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1), the growth factor involved in fibrosis...
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Autophagy and Cell Death
Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved biological phenomenon related to protein degradation and organelle turnover. Three types of autophagy have been defined: macroautophagy, microautophagy, and chaperone-m...