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| Luis F CongoteSummaryAffiliation: McGill University Country: Canada Publications
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Monitoring insulin-like growth factors in HIV infection and AIDSLuis F Congote
Endocrine Laboratory, Rm L2 05, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1A1
Clin Chim Acta 361:30-53. 2005..IGF-I levels are also likely to increase with other hormones used in HIV patients, such as erythropoietin for the treatment of anemia or anabolic androgens in HIV-infected women...- Comparison of the effects of serpin A1, a recombinant serpin A1-IGF chimera and serpin A1 C-terminal peptide on wound healingLuis Fernando Congote
Endocrine Laboratory, McGill University Health Centre, 687 avenue des pins, ouest, Montreal, Canada H3A 1A1
Peptides 29:39-46. 2008..The hydrophobic A1-C26 peptide significantly increased the production of collagen I in skin fibroblasts, an appealing asset for skin care applications... - Serpin A1 and CD91 as host instruments against HIV-1 infection: are extracellular antiviral peptides acting as intracellular messengers?Luis Fernando Congote
Endocrine Laboratory, McGill University Health Centre, 687 avenue des pins, ouest, Montreal, H3A 1A1, Canada
Virus Res 125:119-34. 2007.... - The C-terminal peptide of thrombospondin-4 stimulates erythroid cell proliferationLuis F Congote
Endocrine Laboratory, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 324:673-8. 2004..SC21, a homologous peptide of identical amino acid composition but with interchanged residues, was non-amphipathic and had no erythroid cell stimulating activity... - The C-terminal 26-residue peptide of serpin A1 stimulates proliferation of breast and liver cancer cells: role of protein kinase C and CD47Luis Fernando Congote
Endocrine Laboratory, McGill University Health Centre, 687 avenue des pins, ouest, Montreal, Que, Canada H3A 1A1
FEBS Lett 576:343-7. 2004..Phosphorylation of C26 at T24 (a putative PKC phosphorylation site) resulted in a 1.9-2.5 increase in mitogenic activity over C26 in MCF-7 cells... - Thrombospondin 1, produced by endothelial cells under the action of erythropoietin, stimulates thymidine incorporation into erythroid cells and counteracts the inhibitory action of insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3Luis F Congote
Endocrine Laboratory, Rm L2 05, McGill University Health Centre, 687 avenue des pins, ouest Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1A1
Cytokine 30:248-53. 2005..We suggest that EPO-dependent, endothelial-derived TSP-1 may play a positive role in red cell production by acting directly on erythroid cells, stimulating DNA synthesis and preventing the inhibitory action of IGFBP-3... - The C-terminal 26-residue peptide of serpin A1 is an inhibitor of HIV-1Luis Fernando Congote
Endocrine Laboratory, McGill University Health Centre, 687 avenue des pins, ouest, Montreal, Canada H3A 1A1
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 343:617-22. 2006..These serpin peptides represent a novel class of antiviral agents... 
Regulator of differentiation 1 (ROD1) binds to the amphipathic C-terminal peptide of thrombospondin-4 and is involved in its mitogenic activityGulzhakhan Sadvakassova
Endocrine Laboratory, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal H3A 1A1, Canada
J Cell Physiol 220:672-9. 2009....- Erythropoietin-dependent endothelial proteins: potential use against erythropoietin resistanceLuis F Congote
Endocrine Laboratory, McGill University Health Centre, 687 avenue des pins, ouest, Montreal, Canada H3A 1A1
Cytokine 51:113-8. 2010..Finally, chaperonin 10 stimulates hemoglobin synthesis and has anti-inflammatory properties through the inhibition of Toll-like receptor signaling pathways... - Biological activities and molecular interactions of the C-terminal residue of thrombospondin-4, an epitome of acidic amphipathic peptidesLuis F Congote
Endocrine Laboratory, McGill University Health Centre, 687 avenue des pins, ouest, Montreal, Canada H3A 1A1
Peptides 31:723-35. 2010.... - Chaperonin 10 as an endothelial-derived differentiation factor: role of glycogen synthase kinase-3Monica C Dobocan
Endocrine Laboratory, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada
J Cell Physiol 219:470-6. 2009..These experiments support the idea that GSK-3-regulated signal transduction pathways are not only important for stem cell maintenance but may be involved in events controlling cell differentiation... - Enhanced proliferative effects of a baculovirus-produced fusion protein of insulin-like growth factor and alpha(1)-proteinase inhibitor and improved anti-elastase activity of the inhibitor with glutamate at position 351C Sandoval
Endocrine Laboratory, McGill University Health Centre, 687 avenue des pins, ouest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1A1
Protein Eng 15:413-8. 2002.... - Potentiation of hematopoietic cell migration with an IGF-interleukin-3 fusion proteinMarcos R Difalco
Endocrine Laboratory, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
FEBS Lett 524:149-53. 2002..These results suggest a key role of the PI-3 kinase pathway in the potentiation of migration caused by the linkage of BOMIGF and IL-3... - The improved survival of hematopoietic cells cultured with a fusion protein of insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) and interleukin 3 (IL-3) is associated with increases in Bcl-xL and phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase activityMarcos R Difalco
Department of Medicine, University Health Centre, McGill University, 687 avenue des pins, ouest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1A1
J Leukoc Biol 73:297-305. 2003..This potentiation of survival and its preferential inhibition by LY294002 were also observed in a nontransformed, primary culture of human umbilical cord endothelial cells... - Antagonism between interleukin 3 and erythropoietin in mice with azidothymidine-induced anemia and in bone marrow endothelial cellsMarcos R Difalco
Department of Experimental Medicine, Endocrine Laboratory, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada
Cytokine 18:51-60. 2002..These results suggest that endothelial cells treated simultaneously with EPO and IL-3 have a negative effect on erythroid cell production...