Proteomic analysis of the effects of tetramethylpyrazine on irradiated QXMSC1 cells.

abstract：:Recent reports have shown that dimethyl fumarate (DMF) prevents brain damage induced by intracerebral hemorrhage and this beneficial effect is mediated by the nuclear erythroid 2 p45-related factor-2-antioxidant response element (Nrf2-ARE) pathway. However, the downstream mechanism underlying the activation of the Nrf...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Kume T,Suenaga A,Izumi Y,Akaike A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment with antipsychotic drugs has been associated with hyperprolactinemia. The same antipsychotic drugs have also been associated with side effects such as menstruation disorders. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of hyperprolactinemia and menstruation disorders in women undergoing antipsychoti...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Takechi K,Yoshioka Y,Kawazoe H,Tanaka M,Takatori S,Kobayashi M,Matsuoka I,Yanagawa H,Zamami Y,Imanishi M,Ishizawa K,Tanaka A,Araki H

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared effects of the antiarrhythmic drug bepridil on the electrophysiological parameters in the isolated pulmonary vein preparation from guinea pigs with those in the left atrium. Three pairs of bipolar electrodes were attached to the left atrium, pulmonary vein and junctional region of left atrium and pulmonary...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Takahara A,Takeda K,Hagiwara M,Tanaka H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxyproline (Hyp) content in biological fluids is used as a parameter of collagen catabolism, especially bone resorption. In this paper, we examined the relationship between aging and serum free 4-Hyp and proline (Pro) content using a newly introduced analytical technique which is chemiluminescence determination wi...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Koike K,Li Y,Seo M,Sakurada I,Tezuka K,Uchikura K

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of arachidonic acid-induced peripheral vascular disease in rats. Injecting arachidonic acid (2 mg/leg) into the femoral artery caused hind limb gangrene. Histopathological examination revealed occlusive thrombi and marked vascular injury, including denud...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Tanaka T,Takei M,Fukuta Y,Higashino R,Fukuda Y,Nomura Y,Ito S,Tamaki H,Kurimoto T,Suzuki Y

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utility of using a multifunctional envelope-type nano device (MEND) for delivering a gene to the liver was examined. Lipotrust, a commercially available transfection reagent whose lipid composition is DC6- 14 :DOPE: cholesterol=4 : 3 : 3, was used as a reference. When Lipotrust was administrated intravenously, luc...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Yamauchi J,Hayashi Y,Kajimoto K,Akita H,Harashima H

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophyllan (SPG) is used to treat cervical cancer in combination with irradiation to enhance the immunological surveillance system. Dectin-1 is a cell surface receptor for 1,3-beta-glucan. In this study, we prepared two anti-Dectin-1 monoclonal antibodies, 4B2 and SC30 having a K(D) of 7.04 x 10(-8) M and 1.55 x 10...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Ikeda Y,Adachi Y,Ishii T,Tamura H,Aketagawa J,Tanaka S,Ohno N

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A current anti-inflammatory agent often targets the prevention of inflammatory disorder development. The standardized Centella asiatica ECa 233 extract has been previously reported for anti-inflammatory effect. This study aimed to investigate its anti-inflammatory effect and mechanisms of ECa 233 in lipopolysaccharide...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Sukketsiri W,Tanasawet S,Moolsap F,Tantisira MH,Hutamekalin P,Tipmanee V

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of DNA breaking hydroxyfuranone and hydroxypyranone derivatives in the Maillard reaction of glucose and bovine serum albumin (BSA) under physiological conditions was investigated. A mixture of glucose and BSA was incubated at 37 degrees C in water or in 1 M phosphate buffer (pH 7.4). The ethyl acetate/2-prop...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Hiramoto K,Ishihara A,Sakui N,Daishima S,Kikugawa K

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-D-Xylosidase (EC 3.2.1.37) has been purified from ginsenoside Ra-metabolizing Bifidobacterium breve K-110, which was isolated from human intestinal microflora. beta-D-Xylosidase was purified to apparent homogeneity by a combination of ammonium sulfate precipitation, QAE-cellulose, butyl-toyopearl, hydroxyapatit a...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Shin HY,Lee JH,Lee JY,Han YO,Han MJ,Kim DH

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astilbin, a dihydroflavonol rhamnoside isolated from the leaves of Engelhardtia chrysolepis, enhanced the vanadate-stimulated release of lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity from rat isolated fat pads. N-[2-(Methyl-amino)ethyl]-5-isoquinolinesulfonamide (H-8), a potent inhibitor of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA), ma...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Motoyashiki T,Miyake M,Morita T,Mizutani K,Masuda H,Ueki H

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lithium is commonly used in treating mental disorders and bipolar diseases. As physicians frequently keep the patients on long-term lithium therapy, awareness of the numerous side effects and pathogenesis of this lightest alkali metal is needed for such treatments. The present study was designed to evaluate the toxic ...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Ahmad M,Elnakady Y,Farooq M,Wadaan M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemorrhoids are a common anorectal disease. Epidemiological studies on medication trends and risk factors using information from real-world databases are rare. Our objective was to analyze the relationship between hemorrhoid treatment prescription trends and several risk factors using the National Database of Health I...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Mukai R,Shimada K,Suzuki T,Nakao S,Tanaka M,Matsumoto K,Yoshida Y,Goto F,Inoue M,Satake R,Nishibata Y,Sugihara H,Nakamura M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Digitalis has been used to treat congestive heart failure for more than 200 years, although the dual effects (proliferation and death) induced by digitalis on cell growth have been known for many years, the mechanisms by which digitalis causes the actions were not completely known. The aim of this work was to characte...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Qiu J,Gao HQ,Zhou RH,Liang Y,Zhang XH,Wang XP,You BA,Cheng M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was performed to investigate the effects of histamine H(1)-antagonists on the sleep-awake state in rats placed on a grid suspended over water in comparison with rats placed on sawdust. When rats were placed on the grid suspended over water, significant increases in the awake time and decreases in non...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Tokunaga S,Tsutsui R,Obara Y,Ishida T,Kamei C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro antimalarial activity against human malaria parasite (Plasmodium falciparum, FCR-3 strain) was examined using 59 triterpenoids obtained during studies on the triterpenic constituents of Cimicifuga spp. The 50% effective concentration values (EC50) of 25 active triterpenoids were 1.0-3.0 microM, and 19 of ...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Takahira M,Kusano A,Shibano M,Kusano G,Koizumi K,Suzuki R,Kim HS,Wataya Y

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports have indicated that isosteviol sodium (STVNa) has neuroprotective effects against acute focal cerebral ischemia in rats; however, the exact underlying mechanisms and ideal treatment paradigm are not known. To find a reasonable method for STVNa administration and to determine its possible therapeutic m...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Zhang H,Sun X,Xie Y,Tian F,Hu H,Tan W

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apocynum venetum LINN. is an important Chinese crude drug, and its sibling species A. pictum SCHRENK is a confusable herb which is similar to it. The purpose of this study is to develop DNA molecular markers to distinguish A. venetum from A. pictum through the combinative technologies of bulked segregate analysis (BSA...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Lu C,Zhang W,Peng X,Gu G,Chen M,Tang Z

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative structure activity relationship, Hansch approach was applied on twenty compounds of chromene derivatives as Lanosterol 14alpha-demethylase inhibitory activity against eight fungal organisms. Various physicochemical descriptors and reported minimum inhibitory concentration values of different fungal orga...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Vasanthanathan P,Lakshmi M,Arockia Babu M,Kaskhedikar SG

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle is a major site for glucose metabolism and its injury by cytokines can induce insulin resistance leading to type 2 diabetes. It has been suggested that quercetin may act as an anti-diabetic agent, however, the effects of quercetin on insulin resistance in skeletal muscle remain unknown. We aimed to inv...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Dai X,Ding Y,Zhang Z,Cai X,Bao L,Li Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of aging on the intestinal transport of hydrophilic drugs (and probe compounds) was investigated in the rat small intestine. Passive transport was suggested to be unchanged with aging from 8 (young) to 54 (old) and further to 101 (very old) weeks old, as shown for D-xylose and urea in single-pass intestinal...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Yuasa H,Soga N,Kimura Y,Watanabe J

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) functions as a phosphoinositide 3-phosphatase, that antagonizes phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase action, and negatively regulates cell proliferation and survival signals. Inactivation of PTEN by loss-of-function mutations gives rise to deregulated hyperproliferat...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Maehama T

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusion peptide P-9 was isolated from bovine serum albumin by controlled pepsin degradation in the presence of caprylic acid, followed by Sephadex G-75 gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatography of CM-cellulose. By this procedure, P-9 could be strictly separated from peptic fragment P-Phe, which has a molecular wei...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Sato Y,Kaneko K,Mikami K,Mizugaki M,Suzuki Y

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photodynamic therapy (PDT) depends on the presence of molecular oxygen. Thus, the efficiency of PDT is limited in anoxic regions of tumor tissue and vascular shutdown. It is reported the use of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) may enhance the efficiency of PDT. However, there are rarely studies about utilizing HBO plus PDT...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Mei LH,Yang G,Fang F

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) system, we investigated the lipid membrane-binding properties of four analogues of the 18-residue linear amphipathic beta-sheet cationic antimicrobial peptide (KIGAKI)3-NH2, each of which contains a single isoleucine-to-tryptophan substitution. The results of the SPR study revea...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Kamimori H,Blazyk J,Aguilar MI

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:We studied in vitro metabolites of 2,4,6,2',4',6'-hexachlorobiphenyl (HCB, IUPAC PCB No. 155) produced by liver microsomes of a phenobarbital (PB)-treated beagle dog. The major metabolites were 3-hydroxy-2,4,6,2',4',6'-HCB (M-1), 4-hydroxy-2,6,2',4',6'-pentachlorobiphenyl (PenCB, M-2) and 3,4-dihydroxy-2,6,2',4',6'-Pe...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Ariyoshi N,Yoshimura H,Oguri K

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medicinal plants with reported anti-inflammatory activity could have the potential use as anti-allergens and inhibitors of allergic contact dermatitis reactions produced by allergens and chemicals. Some species from the genus Artocarpus were reported to have anti-inflammatory activity. In the Philippines one local sou...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Salonga RB,Hisaka S,Nose M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate the mechanism by which the human lung cancer drug resistance-related gene BC006151 regulates chemosensitivity by down-regulating BC006151 expression via antisense gene transfer in H446/(C)DDP cells. A retroviral vector containing the antisense BC006151 sequence was constructed and trans...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Li S,Shi H,Ji F,Wang B,Feng Q,Feng X,Jia Z,Zhao Q,Qian G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an attempt to find bioactive medicinal herbs exerting anti-asthmatic activity, the effects of an ethanol extract from the parts of Saururus chinensis were evaluated in both in vitro and in vivo. The ethanol extract of S. chinensis (ESC) inhibited generation of the cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) dependent phases of prosta...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Lee E,Haa K,Yook JM,Jin MH,Seo CS,Son KH,Kim HP,Bae KH,Kang SS,Son JK,Chang HW

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00