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Hi I Aldebaran, AD is 2 hot disease with first hit being severe damage to micro vascular system. Second hit is amyloid cascDe with Tau. Late problem is microfilm activation which causes chronic inflammation which causes more damage. Want to lower activity microfilm not increase, but this late stage and will not help. I rate their chance for success less than zero.

The TGF-β/Smad signaling pathway plays a key role in fibrotic disease pathogenesis33. TGF-β1 binds to TβR II and then recruits TβR I. The activated complex directly phosphorylates downstream intracellular molecules, including Smad2 and Smad3. Phosphorylated Smad2/3 associates with Smad4 to form a complex that translocates into the nucleus to initiate gene transcription and regulate cell behavior33,34. TGF-β receptor activation mediates many physiological and pathological processes, including CKD18. Increased TβR II expression aggravates ECM accumulation in fibrotic tissue. Inhibition of TGF-β1/Smad2 signaling pathways modulates the development of fibrosis in adriamycin-induced nephropathy35. TGF-β/Smad3 signaling promotes renal fibrosis by inhibiting miR-29 and up-regulating miR-2136,37. Furthermore, inhibiting the endothelial-mesenchymal transition with a Smad3-specific inhibitor (SIS3) delays the early development of diabetic nephropathy20. Herein, we found that TβR I and TβR II mRNA expression was induced in the UUO model, but P311 knockout significantly inhibited this up-regulation in this mouse model. Similarly, obstructed kidneys from P311−/− mice showed obviously impaired TGF-β1, p-Smad2, Smad2, p-Smad3, Smad3 and Smad4 protein expression compared to those from P311+/+ mice. Taken together, these results indicated that P311 regulates not only TGF-β1 but also the corresponding receptors and the Smad signaling pathway, which may be involved in the regulation of renal fibrosis by P311. However, Meng XM et al. found that Smad2 deletion promotes collagen I and III expression in a mouse UUO model38. This finding differs from our previous data, and additional studies are required to clarify this discrepancy. TGF-β signaling pathway activation results in the protein expression of inhibitory Smads, such as Smad6 and Smad7. The inhibitor Smad7 can bind to activated TβR I to interfere with TGF-β-induced Smad2/3 activation. In renal fibrosis, Smad7 is renoprotective and blocks the fibrotic effect of TGF-β in renal tubular epithelial cells by inhibiting Smad2 activation and altering TGF-β/Smad3-regulated microRNA expression39,40. Smad7 over-expression restores the balance of TGF/Smad signaling and exerts a therapeutic effect in CKD41. We found that Smad7 protein expression in both P311+/+ and P311−/− mice decreased after UUO compared to sham operation, but the decrease was more marked in P311−/− mice. This result was unexpected. Notably, P311 differentially regulated TGF-β1 and Smad proteins. We also found that TGFβ1-positive regions seem to be co-localized with P311-positive regions, α-SMA positive regions and acidophilic degeneration in some tubular epithelial cells within obstructed kidney tissue. We hypothesize that TGF-β/Smad signaling is involved in P311-induced EMT in renal fibrogenesis.

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Although this study was paid for by the manufacturers for the cell type they looked at the results seem impressive. And the natural substances used all have decent bioavailability, unlike cycloastranagol.

Chronic dosing of patients with zilucoplan could lead to an immune response that causes adverse reactions or impairs the activity and/or efficacy of the drug, or causes other side effects.

First part of theory is cancer is normal growth from prior to 500,000 million years ago, prior to Cambian period. That was before plants and before oxygen rich atmosphere; life was fermentation, unlimited telomerase, no aging, cells were immortal.

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