Expression and regulation of breast cancer resistance protein and multidrug resistance associated protein 2 in BALB/c mice.

abstract：:Hairy roots of interspecific hybrid ginseng (Panax ginseng x P. quinquefolium), induced by Agrobacterium rhizogenes ATCC 15834, grew well in B5 liquid media supplemented with 2.5 microM auxins (3-indole butyric acid (IBA), 1-naphtaleneacetic acid (NAA) and 3-indoleacetic acid (IAA)). The hairy roots cultured in B5 liq...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Washida D,Shimomura K,Takido M,Kitanaka S

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitooligosaccharides, the oligomers made up of beta-1,4-linked D-glucosamine, are obtained by partial hydrolysis of chitosan, a deacetylation product of chitin. The antioxidant activity of various chitooligosaccharides was tested in vitro with aminoguanidine, pyridoxamine, and Trolox as reference compounds. Hydroxyla...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Chen AS,Taguchi T,Sakai K,Kikuchi K,Wang MW,Miwa I

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory disease with joint dysfunction following cartilage degradation. The level of lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) has been reported to be augmented in human synovial fluid from patients with RA. However, it remains to be elucidated whether LPA participates in cartilage destruction. ...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Mizuno K,Komiya M,Okuyama K,Imada K,Sato T

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to determine the occurrence of autophagy following ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury in the rat spinal cord and whether autophagy inhibition contributes to neural tissue damage and locomotor impairment. A spinal cord I/R model was induced via descending thoracic aorta occlusion for 10 min using...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Wei X,Zhou Z,Li L,Gu J,Wang C,Xu F,Dong Q,Zhou X

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta 1 and beta 2 adrenoceptor ligand activity has been shown to be down-regulated in failing myocardium. It is the aim of this study to test the hypothesis that also mRNA levels are down-regulated in dilated cardiomyopathy. beta 1 and beta 2 adrenoceptor ligand activities and mRNA expressions were analyzed in left ve...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Sylvén C,Mischa G,Jansson E,Sotonyi P,Fu LX,Waagstein F,Brönnegård M

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylmercury (MeHg) is a causative agent of Minamata disease and an environmental pollutant that comprises a large portion of organically occurring mercury. Many aspects of the biological defense mechanisms against MeHg toxicity remain unclear. Recently, nuclear factor-E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2), heat shock factor pr...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Hwang GW

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to investigate the effects of the extracts of green romaine lettuce (GRE) on sleep enhancement. GRE contains 1071.7 and 199.2 µg/g of extracts of lactucin and lactucopicrin, respectively, known as sleep enhancement substances. When 100 mg/kg of GRE was administered orally, sleep latency and du...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Kim HW,Suh HJ,Choi HS,Hong KB,Jo K

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doxorubicin (DOX) is a potent antitumor agent, but the cardiotoxicity mediated by the formation of reactive oxygen species limit its clinical use. The present study aims to explore electrocardiographic and biochemical evidence for the cardioprotective effect of two antioxidants, Lycium barbarum polysaccharides (LBP, t...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Xin Y,Zhang S,Gu L,Liu S,Gao H,You Z,Zhou G,Wen L,Yu J,Xuan Y

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ogi-Keishi-Gomotsu-To-Ka-Kojin (OKGK) is a traditional herbal medicine (Kampo medicine) which has been found to ameliorate hypercholesterolemia and hypertriglyceridemia in rats and rabbits. In the present study, the effect of OKGK on acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT) was studied in order to elucidate the mec...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Wu CZ,Inoue M,Ogihara Y

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two C-type lectins (OLLafs and OLLafl) were isolated from Osmerus (Spirinchus) lanceolatus eggs using asialofetuin-Sepharose column. OLLafs and OLLafl were eluted with 0.2 M sucrose and 0.2 M lactose from the same column, respectively. OLLafl has been estimated to be a heterodimeric protein composed of H- and L-subuni...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Sugawara S,Hosono M,Ogawa Y,Takayanagi M,Nitta K

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) is a central mediator of cellular responses to low oxygen and has recently become an important therapeutic target for solid tumor therapy. To identify small molecule inhibitors of the HIF-1 transcriptional activation, we have established a high through-put assay system using a stable...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Yamazaki Y,Hasebe Y,Egawa K,Nose K,Kunimoto S,Ikeda D

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a silent polymorphism of C3435T of the MDR1 gene, encoding the multidrug resistant transporter MDR1/P-glycoprotein, has been found to be associated with susceptibility to ulcerative colitis (UC), but this remains controversial. This study was conducted to find a possible reason for the discrepancies, and it ...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Osuga T,Sakaeda T,Nakamura T,Yamada T,Koyama T,Tamura T,Aoyama N,Okamura N,Kasuga M,Okumura K

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermis is one of the well-known estrogen target tissues. Information regarding estrogen metabolism in epidermis is still very limited compared to that of estrogen action. In the breast cancer tissue, 17β-estradiol (E(2)) is inactivated by sulfation and the expression level of estrogen sulfotransferase (SULT1E1) is ...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Kushida A,Hattori K,Yamaguchi N,Kobayashi T,Date A,Tamura H

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of the present study were to assess pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, tolerability and safety of intravenous administration of bivalirudin, a direct thrombin inhibitor, in healthy Chinese subjects. 48 subjects were equally divided into 4 groups (0.5 mg/kg, 0.75 mg/kg, 1.05 mg/kg intravenous bolus, and...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Zhang D,Wang Z,Zhao X,Lu W,Gu J,Cui Y

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases have been attributed to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) depletion in the brain. In order to provide a pharmacological basis for the neuroprotective actions of the enhanced accumulation of GABA in mulberry leaves (ML) against cerebral ischemia i...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Kang TH,Oh HR,Jung SM,Ryu JH,Park MW,Park YK,Kim SY

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of pH on the microenvironment surrounding 34Cys in human serum albumin (HSA) has been studied using acrylodan, a Cys-specific fluorescence probe. The reactivity of 34Cys with 5,5'-dithiobis(2-nitro benzoic acid) (DTNB) followed a pseudo-first-order reaction, and the increase in reactivity was dependent on p...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Narazaki R,Maruyama T,Otagiri M

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly inhibitory effects of hybrid liposomes on the growth of human breast tumor cells in vitro were obtained. It is worthy to note that induction of apoptosis through activation of caspases by hybrid liposomes was clearly observed. ...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Nagami H,Matsumoto Y,Ueoka R

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have observed the surface images of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) monolayer and DMPC vesicles with an atomic force microscope (AFM). It was confirmed that the lattice structure of polar head groups of DMPC molecules in a Langmuir-Blodgett monolayer is similar to those of large unilamellar DMPC vesicles. AFM...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Sato Y,Chen Z,Takahashi T,Suzuki Y

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There may be cardio-renal interactions in rats of isoproterenol-induced heart failure, which may be associated with renal fibrosis and endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndMT). Since its discovery, relaxin (RLX) which was regarded as a reproductive hormone for a long time, is recently considered an effective anti...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Zheng G,Cai J,Chen X,Chen L,Ge W,Zhou X,Zhou H

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the plant isoflavones, daidzin and genistin, on bone loss in ovariectomized (ovx) rats fed a calcium-deficient diet were investigated. Daidzin and genistin were orally administered to ovx rats for 4 weeks. The femurs of these rats showed significantly lower density, strength (breaking forces), ash weigh...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Ishida H,Uesugi T,Hirai K,Toda T,Nukaya H,Yokotsuka K,Tsuji K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the par to rep region of the 24653 bp plasmid pN315, which is present in Staphylococcus aureus strain N315, we constructed three vectors that can be shuttled between Escherichia coli and S. aureus and maintained stably in S. aureus. Due to plasmid incompatibility, the resident plasmid in S. aureus cells can be r...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Matsuo M,Kurokawa K,Lee BL,Sekimizu K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies show that the combined method using thrombolytic drugs and ultrasonic irradiation enhances the effect of thrombolysis in in vitro and in vivo experiments. However, the mechanism of the clot lysis was unclear. In previous studies the evaluation of the clot lysis effect was determined by the rate of dec...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Kimura M,Iijima S,Kobayashi K,Furuhata H

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metronidazole (MTZ) ointment has been used widely as a hospital preparation against cancerous malodor. Although cancerous tissue with ulcer-like symptoms is likely to have a higher capacity to absorb drugs than normal skin, the extent to which MTZ is absorbed when a topical preparation is applied to cancerous tissue r...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Iida J,Kudo T,Shimada K,Yatsuno Y,Yamagishi S,Hasegawa S,Ike H,Sato T,Kagaya H,Ito K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis, the process of new vessel formation from the pre-existing blood vasculature, is critical for continuous tumor growth and is considered to be a validated antitumor target. The results of our previous study demonstrate the anti-angiogenic potential of an extract of Gleditsia sinensis thorns, which has been...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Lee J,Yi JM,Kim H,Lee YJ,Park JS,Bang OS,Kim NS

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Thiophenecarboxylic acid (I) exhibited growth-inhibitory activity in five kinds of plants. In particular, I strongly inhibited the growth of the roots of Lactuca sativa L. var. longifolia LAM and Echinochloa utilis OHWI et YABUNO, even at the low concentration of 5.0 x 10(-3) M. Furthermore, all of the I-related com...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Inamori Y,Muro C,Funakoshi Y,Usami Y,Tsujibo H,Numata A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early diagnosis of Niemann-Pick diseases (NPDs) is important for better prognosis of such diseases. N-Palmitoyl-O-phosphocholine-serine (PPCS) is a new NPD biomarker possessing high sensitivity, and with its combination with sphingosylphosphocholine (SPC) it may be possible to distinguish NPD-C from NPD-A/B. In this s...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Iwahori A,Maekawa M,Narita A,Kato A,Sato T,Ogura J,Sato Y,Kikuchi M,Noguchi A,Higaki K,Okuyama T,Takahashi T,Eto Y,Mano N

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to determine the effect of delta(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on susceptibility to stress. We reported that THC significantly prolonged the immobility time during the forced swim-stress. The selective cannabinoid CB(1) receptor antagonist O-2050 significantly reduced the enhancement of ...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Sano K,Koushi E,Irie K,Higuchi S,Tsuchihashi R,Kinjo J,Egashira N,Oishi R,Uchida N,Nagai H,Nishimura R,Tanaka H,Morimoto S,Mishima K,Iwasaki K,Fujiwara M

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the anti-allergic effect of tea-leaf saponin (TLS), which was a mixture of saponins separated from the leaves of Camellia sinensis var. sinensis, in guinea pigs and rats. TLS (20-100 mg/kg) dose-dependently inhibited experimentally-induced asthma, and ID50 was 61.7 mg/kg. TLS (20-100 mg/kg) dose-depend...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Akagi M,Fukuishi N,Kan T,Sagesaka YM,Akagi R

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is characterized by disabling fatigue of at least 6 months, in addition to symptoms such as muscle pain and muscle weakness. There is no treatment provides long-term benefits to most patients. Recently, clinical research suggested the involvement of pyruvate ...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Ohba T,Domoto S,Tanaka M,Nakamura S,Shimazawa M,Hara H

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of exercise on the metabolism of caffeine (CA) were studied 3h after administration of the drug to race horses which then underwent exercise sets (1000-m gallop). Analysis was made of pharmacokinetics of CA, changes in its plasma concentrations, its metabolites, i.e., theophylline (TP), theobromine (TB) an...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Aramaki S,Suzuki E,Ishidaka O,Momose A

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00