https://www.selleckchem.com/products/abt-199.html Pressure overload and other stress stimuli elicit a host of adaptive and maladaptive signaling cascades that eventually lead to cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure. Among those, the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway has been shown to play a prominent role. The dual specificity phosphatases (DUSPs), also known as MAPK specific phosphatases (MKPs), that can dephosphorylate the MAPKs and inactivate them are gaining increasing attention as potential drug targets. Here we try to review recent advancements in understanding the roles of the different DUSPs, and the pathways that they regulate in cardiac remodeling. We focus on the regulation of three main MAPK branches - the p38 kinases, the c-Jun-N-terminal kinases (JNKs) and the extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERK) by various DUSPs and try to examine their roles.Lycopene has a wide range of biological functions, especially its antioxidant capacity. However, effects of lycopene on muscle fatigue resistant and muscle fiber type conversion are unknown. In this study, we found that lycopene significantly prolonged the swimming time to exhaustion in mice. We also showed that lycopene increased the proportion of slow-twitch muscle fiber by promoting muscle fiber type conversion from fast-twitch to slow-twitch in mice and in C2C12 myotubes. The AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) signaling was activated by lycopene. AMPK upstream and downstream regulators including nuclear respiratory factor 1, calcium calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase-β, sirtuin 1 and peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-γ coactivator-1ɑ were also increased by lycopene. AMPK inhibitor compound C markedly attenuated the lycopene-induced skeletal muscle fiber type conversion in C2C12 myotubes. Taken together, we provided the first evidence that lycopene increases the proportion of slow-twitch muscle fiber through AMPK signaling pathway to improve fatigue resistant