“…BISA exerts several pharmacological activities, including antiinflammatory action by inhibition of NF-kB or AP1 activation in macrophages, antiulcer effects in animal models induced by ethanol or Pylorus ligation, and acaricidal effects against Dermatophagoides farinae or D. pteronyssinus (Kang et al, 2006;Wang et al, 2009;Jung et al, 2010). The molecular bases for these bioactivities might be attributable in part to the primary target of BISA, that is, cAMP-dependent PKA activation, as determined in this study, as PKA is often activated by extracellular stressors or various specific receptors, and its downstream substrate CREB can affect the expression of many genes containing conserved CRE elements adjacent to the TATA boxes (Zhang et al, 2005;Sands and Palmer, 2008;Taylor et al, 2008).…”