Browsing by Subject "activin"

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Hypoxia-induced changes in plasma micro-RNAs correlate with pulmonary artery pressure at high altitude

Blissenbach B., Nakas C.T., Krönke M., Geiser T., Merz T.M., Pichler Hefti J. (2018)

In vitro and animal studies revealed micro-RNAs (miRs) to be involved in modulation of hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension (HPH). However, knowledge of circulating miRs in humans in the context of HPH is very limited. ...
Physiology of activins/follistatins: associations with metabolic and anthropometric variables and response to exercise

Perakakis N., Mougios V., Fatouros I., Siopi A., Draganidis D., Peradze N., Ghaly W., Mantzoros C.S. (2018)

Context: Clinical trials are evaluating the efficacy of inhibitors of the myostatin pathway in neuromuscular and metabolic diseases. Activins and follistatins are major regulators of the myostatin pathway, but their ...
TGF-β signaling is activated in patients with chronic HBV infection and repressed by SMAD7 overexpression after successful antiviral treatment

Argentou N., Germanidis G., Hytiroglou P., Apostolou E., Vassiliadis T., Patsiaoura K., Sideras P., Germenis A.E., Speletas M. (2016)

Objectives: Although animal studies demonstrated that Smad7 induction ameliorates TGF-β/SMAD-mediated fibrogenesis, its role in human hepatic diseases is rather obscure. Our study explored the activation status of TGF-β/activin ...