Liz is definitely a good speaker and I hope she will get the funding she needs. However, I don’t like too much idea of creating a clinic offshore without the proper trials.

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I studied Zen for fifteen years, and still have an interest in philosophy, particularly the eastern ones, and also stoicism. But I do resent how Zen has been used by modern culture and even used as an excuse to embrace death. A Zen monk would live an austere existence, but with a rich inner life. In many ways a recipe for a healthy, long and happy life.

Graeff, R. & Lee, H. C. A novel cycling assay for cellular cADP-ribose with nanomolar sensitivity. Biochem. J. 361, 379–384 (2002).

Schulze, F. et al. Asymmetric dimethylarginine is an independent risk factor for coronary heart disease: results from the multicenter Coronary Artery Risk Determination investigating the Influence of ADMA Concentration (CARDIAC) study. American heart journal 152, 493. e491-493. e498 (2006).

Aramchol is a synthetic conjugate of cholic acid, or a type of bile acid, and arachidic acid, or a type of saturated fatty acid, both of which, in their non-synthetic forms, are naturally occurring. The conjugated molecule acts upon important metabolic pathways, reducing fat accumulation in the liver, improving fatty acid oxidation and regulating the transport of cholesterol. The ability of Aramchol to decrease liver fat content may also reduce the inflammation and fibrosis in the liver and the risk of cardiovascular complications associated with NASH. Pre-clinical studies suggest Aramchol effect on fibrosis is also direct via collagen production from human hepatic stellate cells. We believe that Aramchol’s ability to reduce liver fat and liver fibrosis and the safety profile observed to date will enable it to be a safe and effective treatment for all stages of NASH in patients who are overweight or obese and have pre diabetes or type II diabetes mellitus and prevent the hepatic complications associated therewith.

Recently I had to go see my idiot doctor( ID) to get an insurance referral for an echocardiogram that I want to check my cardiac ejection fraction. I’m positive that it’s gone up since rapamycin 3 months ago because of the way that I can now take hills.

In CTLs, TCR activation recruits NAADP to activate TPC channels present on cytolytic granules9. These cytolytic granules store and release Ca2+, although SOCE through the Orai1-STIM1 complex is necessary for lytic granule exocytosis and tumor cell killing8. Our data show that NAADP is not involved in tumor-induced cytolytic degranulation in NK cells (Fig. 3). Thus, different cells use different Ca2+ signaling messengers for similar cellular events, and such interesting mechanisms remain to be determined.

Mark you asked earlier about the implications of using rapamycin before old age, again if we look at it from an Aesthetic point of view what we see in old age is the enlargement of nose, ears and hands, i believe this to be mainly driven by mTOR (and to some extent: HGH, IGF, Insulin), these changes is not something that happens overnight but is changes that occur over many years of increased mTOR, i believe that this increase/negative effect of mTOR begins already when you are fully grown, late 20’s early 30’s and at somepoint later in life really goes haywire.

(A) TβR I mRNA expression was determined by real-time PCR in kidneys from P311+/+ (n = 6) and P311−/− (n = 6) after mice 7 days after UUO or sham operation. (B) TβR II mRNA expression was determined by real-time PCR in kidneys from P311+/+ (n = 6) and P311−/− (n = 6) mice 7 days after UUO or sham operation. (C) p-Smad2, p-Smad3, Smad2, Smad3, Smad4, Smad7 and GAPDH protein levels were determined in kidneys by western blot. (D) Relative density of Smad2 protein (n = 3 per group) in each treatment group. (E) Relative density of Smad3 protein (n = 3 per group) in each treatment group. (F) Relative density of p-Smad2 protein (n = 3 per group) in each treatment group. (G) Relative density of p-Smad3 protein (n = 3 per group) in each treatment group. (H) Relative density of Smad4 protein (n = 3 per group) in each treatment group. (I) Relative density of Smad7 protein (n = 3 per group) in each treatment group. A-I are representative of at least three similar experiments. Data are presented as the mean ± SD. *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01.

Cells were lysed with ice-cold RIPA buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5; 150 mM NaCl; 1% NP-40; 0.25% sodium deoxycholate, 1mM EDTA), supplemented with a protease inhibitor cocktail (Sigma-Aldrich). Equal amounts of extracts (30μg) were then electrophoresed on a sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) polyacrylamide gel and electroblotted to nitrocellulose filter membranes (Millipore). Then, membranes were immersed in blocking buffer (5% degreased milk powder) for 1 h and incubated with antibodies against HIF-1α, HIF-2α (Novus Biologicals, Littleton, CO), Smad5, TATA-binding protein (TBP), α-tubulin, Bmpr2, Bmpr1a (ProteinTech Group, Chicago, IL), β-actin or Smad4 (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA) overnight at 4°C. They were then incubated with horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibodies (Jackson Immuno-Research, West Grove, PA) and the protein bands were visualized using the SuperSignal chemiluminescent detection module (Pierce).