Muscular Physiology and Pharmacology Research
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Inflammatory response and stress signaling have been implicated in many human diseases, including critical illness (e.g., burn injury, sepsis), diabetes, atherosclerosis, neurodegenerative disorders and cancer. Despite the intense investigation for a number of years, two fundamental questions remain to be answered: 1) How does inflammatory response/stress signaling mediate these diseases?; 2) How is inflammatory response/stress signaling initiated and sustained?
Major efforts in our laboratory have been focused to answer these questions so as to contribute to the development of novel preventive and/or therapeutic strategies against human diseases. To this end, we have been clarifying the roles of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and protein S-nitrosylation, Sirt family proteins, and protein farnesylation in the pathogenesis of inflammation-involved diseases.
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