Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF)
Macrophage migration inhibitory factor enhances lipopolysaccharide induced fibroblast proliferation by inducing toll like receptor 4
... and macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), we fortuitously found LPS alone stimulates fibroblast pro- liferation, with MIF playing a co-stimulatory role in enhancing ...
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Role of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor in Otitis Media with Effusion in Adults
... of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) as well as interleukin 1 (IL-1), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-␣), RANTES (regulated upon activation, normal T-cell expressed ...
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Original Article Association of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) with metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma
... on macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), which was confirmed in vitro and in ...that MIF mRNA expression was elevated ...of MIF in the ...abundant MIF ...
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Increased serum levels of macrophage migration inhibitory factor in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome
... disease. Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) was discovered in 1966 and initially characterized as a T-cell-derived cytokine that inhibits the migration of macrophages ...
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Role of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) in Peripheral Nerve Regeneration: Anti-MIF Antibody Induces Delay of Nerve Regeneration and the Apoptosis of Schwann Cells
... recruitment, macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is considered to play a pivotal role to concentrate macrophages at inflammatory loci ...
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Mass Spectrometric Immunoassay for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the cytokine Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF)
... Mass Spectrometric Immunoassay (MSIA), an immu- noenrichment technique that was developed by Nelson et al. [50], utilizes antibodies immobilized to an acti- vated solid support within an affinity pipette tip to cap- ture ...
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Macrophage migration inhibitory factor regulating the expression of VEGF C through MAPK signal pathways in breast cancer MCF 7 cell
... of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) and vascular endothelial growth factor-C (VEGF-C) have been reported in a wide variety of ...between MIF and VEGF-C are ...
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Macrophage migration inhibitory factor acts as a neurotrophin in the developing inner ear
... cytokine macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) acts as a neurotrophic factor in the developing zebrafish inner ear (Holmes et ...that MIF plays a similar role in ...
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Functional disruption of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) suppresses proliferation of human H460 lung cancer cells by caspase-dependent apoptosis
... of MIF in ...dampening MIF ex- pression using specific siRNA sequences. We found that MIF siRNA transfection inhibited both the proliferation and induced the apoptosis of H460 cells through mecha- ...
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Reversal of Established Rat Crescentic Glomerulonephritis by Blockade of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF): Potential Role of MIF in Regulating Glucocorticoid Production
... Consistent with a previous study (12), the cellular immune response in this disease was suppressed by anti-MIF Ab treatment as demon- strated by inhibition of the skin DTH response, a re[r] ...
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Human circulating eosinophils secrete macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) Potential role in asthma
... random migration of guinea pig peritoneal macrophages (2–4). MIF has subsequently been shown to be a key modulator of both inflammatory and immune responses and has been implicated in macrophage ...
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A genetic role for macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) in adult onset Still's disease
... allele frequencies in patients and controls were compared using Pearson’s chi-square test and when appropriate, Fisher’s exact test. No deviation from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium was seen. The plasma MIF expression ...
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Regulation of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) Expression by Glucose and Insulin in Adipocytes In Vitro
... The MIF mRNA level was significantly de- creased in adipose tissues in vivo, as described above, despite the fact that there was no signif- icant difference in plasma insulin level betwe[r] ...
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Increased serum levels of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) in patients with microscopic polyangiitis
... serum MIF levels are increased in patients with systemic vasculitis as compared with normal ...serum MIF were seen in patients with MPA as compared with the levels seen in patients of the other two ...
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Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF): A Key Player in Protozoan Infections
... of MIF in the pathogenesis and outcome of cerebral malaria showed that patients with mild malaria and survivors of cerebral malaria had low peripheral blood MIF levels compared to cerebral malaria ...
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Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) Enzymatic Activity and Lung Cancer
... of MIF to be used in the treatment of lung ...recombinant MIF in the presence of the inhibitors was ...of MIF tautomerase activity, whereas ISO-1 is also shown to be less effective at inhibit- ing ...
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Involvement of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) in Experimental Uric Acid Nephropathy
... for MIF mRNA by in situ hybridization, compared with immuno- histochemistry staining of the protein product as previously described in rat kidneys ...of MIF mRNA and protein, even though both use optimized ...
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MIF coordinates the cell cycle with DNA damage checkpoints. Lessons from knockout mouse models
... Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a ubiquitously expressed pro-inflammatory mediator that has also been implicated in the process of oncogenic transformation and tumor ...
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MIF: Mood Improving/Inhibiting Factor?
... pression, macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) has emerged as a strong candidate for a pathophysio- logical ...role. MIF is one of the first cytokines to be inves- ...
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Renal replacement therapy neutralizes elevated MIF levels in septic shock
... Background: Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is known to amplify the immune response in septic animal ...that MIF can be effectively removed from the circulating ...
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