Astragalus membranaceus ameliorates renal interstitial fibrosis by inhibiting tubular epithelial-mesenchymal transition in vivo and in vitro.

abstract：:In order to provide a scientific basis for rational use of antibiotics, we studied and compared the therapeutic effects of step-down and step-up antibiotic treatment schemes in children with lobar pneumonia. Eighty cases of children with lobar pneumonia were enrolled in this study and were randomly divided into two gr...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Li Y,Han F,Yang Y,Chu J

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly aggressive malignancy due to its broad resistance to chemotherapy. Gemcitabine is used as a standard chemotherapeutic drug for PDAC treatment, either alone or in combination with other chemotherapeutics. However, in patients with advanced disease, survival is rarely ...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Yao M,Hong Y,Liu Y,Chen W,Wang W

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-based tissue engineering has the potential to restore cartilage defects. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are regarded as an alternative cell source in regenerative medicine. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the use of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) derived from human iPSCs (hiPSCs) for the r...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Xu X,Shi D,Liu Y,Yao Y,Dai J,Xu Z,Chen D,Teng H,Jiang Q

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is common in elderly patients. Senegenin, an active component of extracts from Polygala tenuifolia root, a traditional Chinese medicine, has neuroprotective and neuroregenerative effects. However, the mechanism underlying the effects of senegenin against postoperative cogniti...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Yu L,Sun L,Chen S

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of acute liver failure has not been fully elucidated. The present study investigated the effects of the serum from patients with hepatitis E virus (HEV)-related acute liver failure on human liver cell survival and apoptosis, and evaluated the protective effects of anti-lipopolysaccharide(LPS) antibody...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Wu F,Wang M,Tian D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy has been shown to be involved in the pathophysiology of developmental seizure-induced brain damage. The present study aimed to examine whether E-64d, an autophagy inhibitor, was able to facilitate developmental seizure-induced hippocampal mossy fiber sprouting, in particular sprouting-associated zinc transpo...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Ni H,Zhang LL,Ren SY,Sun BL

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor hypoxia contributes to the development of resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs in several human cancer cell lines. Atovaquone, an anti-malaria drug approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, has recently demonstrated anti-cancer effects in vitro and in vivo in several cancer models. To assess the potential...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Fu C,Xiao X,Xu H,Lu W,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a novel class of transcripts, which are pervasively transcribed in the genome and a have greatly unknown biological function. Previous studies have identified that lncRNAs serve an important role in embryonic development. However, the function and mechanism of lncRNAs in the developm...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Gao L,Yin J,Wu W

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alteration of behavior and PSD proteins in cerebral cortex and hippocampal synaptosome in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) mouse model were determined. AD was established by intraperitoneal injection of streptozotocin (STZ) in neonatal mice (intraperitoneal AD group) or intracerebroventricular injection of STZ in adult mi...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Zhang Y,Ding R,Wang S,Ren Z,Xu L,Zhang X,Zhao J,Ding Y,Wu Y,Gong Y

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:microRNAs (miRNAs) are evolutionarily conserved, endogenous, small, noncoding RNA molecules of approximately 22 nucleotides in length that function as post-transcriptional gene regulators. Their aberrant expression may be involved in human diseases, including cancer. Although miRNA-184 (miR-184) has been reported in o...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Su Z,Chen D,Li Y,Zhang E,Yu Z,Chen T,Jiang Z,Ni L,Yang S,Gui Y,Ye J,Lai Y

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate the anti-tumor effects of a culture filtrate of Paecilomyces farinosus J3. Various anti-tumor assays using B16 melanoma cells were carried out. Paecilomyces farinosus J3 significantly decreased the wound healing capability, invasiveness and angiogenic activity, which was...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Lee HJ,Park CH,Son HU,Heo JC,Nam SH,Lee KG,Yeo JH,Yoon CS,Kim JM,Shin YK,Kim SO,Lee SH

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to detect early changes (within 1-4 h) in the brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels of rats with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). A total of 35 Wistar rats were established as models of AMI and 30 sham-operated rats were used as the control group. The myocardia of the two groups were obser...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Li J,Yin FF,Hou YL

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to investigate the expression of complement component 1, q subcomponent-binding protein (C1QBP) in colon cancer cells, and identify proteins that interact with C1QBP. Total proteins were extracted from both the tumor and normal tissues of 22 patients with colon cancer and analyzed using liquid ...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Kim K,Kim MJ,Kim KH,Ahn SA,Kim JH,Cho JY,Yeo SG

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic criteria of osteoporosis were established based on bone mineral density (BMD). Therefore, BMD measured by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry has been recognized as the gold standard to diagnose osteoporosis. However, discrepancies between fracture risk and BMD have been recognized. Bone is composed of col...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Suzuki Y,Maruyama-Nagao A,Sakuraba K,Kawai S

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Late spontaneous recanalization (SR) of an occluded internal carotid artery (ICA) has been rarely reported and the prognosis of affected patients remains elusive. In the present study, the incidence of late SR of atherosclerotic occlusion of the ICA and associated outcomes were assessed in a single center. A total of ...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Wu H,Liu Y,Li B,Zhang H,Liu C

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of vitamin D (VD) on the learning and memory ability of fetal growth restriction (FGR) rat and the expression of NMDA receptor in hippocampus. The FGR models of rat were established through passive smoking, and divided into two groups randomly, i.e. the control group ...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Zong L,Chu P,Huang P,Guo Y,Lv Y

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Choroidal neovascularization secondary to retinitis pigmentosa is rarely observed in clinical practice. The present study describes a case of atypical retinitis pigmentosa, crystalline retinal pigmentary degeneration, complicated by choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in a 26-year-old man presenting with blurred vision...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Hua R,Chen K,Hu Y,Wang X,Chen L

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is among the leading causes of irreversible neurological damage and death worldwide. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether edaravone (EDA) had a neuroprotective effect on TBI as well as to identify the potential mechanism. Results demonstrated that EDA suppressed inflamma...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Zhang M,Teng CH,Wu FF,Ge LY,Xiao J,Zhang HY,Chen DQ

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study is a retrospective analysis of 11 cases with severe acute liver failure combined with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) performed during the period June, 2012 to December, 2014. After part of plasmapheresis with plasma filtration adsorption combined with continuous hemodiafiltration treatmen...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Li M,Wang Z,Wang Y,Du C,Li S,Shi Z,Lu B

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic heart diseases are a serious health problem worldwide. The transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) has been investigated in numerous clinical trials on various other diseases due to the self-renewal capacity of these cells and their potential to differentiate into a variety of cell types. The presenc...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Nimsanor N,Phetfong J,Plabplueng C,Jangpatarapongsa K,Prachayasittikul V,Supokawej A

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Icariin (ICA), the main active flavonoid glucoside isolated from Herba Epimedii, has been shown to prevent postmenopausal bone loss in vitro. However, the mechanisms by which ICA prevents bone loss in vivo remain poorly understood. In the present study, the effect of ICA in an ovariectomized (OVX) rat model of osteopo...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Chen G,Wang C,Wang J,Yin S,Gao H,Xiang LU,Liu H,Xiong Y,Wang P,Zhu X,Yang LI,Zhang R

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a prominent public health issue that has a significant negative impact on patients and their family members. It is the leading cause of mortality and disability among young (below 50 years old) individuals. Intracranial hypertension (ICH) remains the single most difficult therapeutic ch...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Chen JH,Xu YN,Ji M,Li PP,Yang LK,Wang YH

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapeutic drug resistance is an obstacle for the successful therapy of prostate cancer. The aim of the present study was to identify the effects of proto-oncogene serine/threonine-protein kinase pim-1 (pim-1) in the proliferation of chemotherapeutic drug-resistant prostate cancer cells. Androgen-independent hum...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Zhang X,Sun Y,Wang P,Yang C,Li S

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated the value of black-blood high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (HRMRI) for the visualization of intracranial atherosclerosis (ICAS) plaques. A total of 110 patients with cerebral artery or vertebrobasilar stenosis, vessel occlusion or a significantly weakened signal in black-blood magn...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Yang H,Zhu Y,Geng Z,Li C,Zhou L,Liu QI

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to investigate whether c-mesenchymal epithelial transition factor (C-MET) overexpression combined with RAS (including KRAS, NRAS and HRAS) or BRAF mutations were associated with late distant metastases and the prognosis of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). A total of 374 patients with stag...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Liu J,Zeng W,Huang C,Wang J,Xu L,Ma D

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) have been demonstrated to have immunoinhibitory activity. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of HSCs in the development of immunotolerance following liver transplantation. A rat liver transplantation tolerance model [donor Lewis into recipient Dark Agouti (DA)] and rejectio...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Jiang Z,Chen Y,Feng X,Jiang J,Chen T,Xie H,Zhou L,Zheng S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 inhibitors are widely used for postoperative pain control in clinical practice. However, it is unknown whether spinal sensitization is involved in the analgesic effects of COX-2 inhibitors on surgical pain. Extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) in the spinal cord is implicated in various t...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Guo YJ,Shi XD,Fu D,Yang Y,Wang YP,Dai RP

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the in vivo and in vitro inhibitory effects of deuterium-depleted water (DDW) on human lung cancer and the possible mechanisms underlying these effects, we cultured and treated human lung carcinoma cell line A549 and human embryonic lung fibroblasts HLF-1 with various concentrations of DDW from 2 to 72 ...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Cong FS,Zhang YR,Sheng HC,Ao ZH,Zhang SY,Wang JY

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although thrombocytosis has been reported in a variety of cancer types, the standard of thrombocytosis in gastric cancer (GC) and the association between thrombocytosis and the clinicopathological features of patients with GC remain unclear. In the present study, 1,763 GC patients were retrospectively filtered by preo...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Hu C,Chen R,Chen W,Pang W,Xue X,Zhu G,Shen X

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preeclampsia is a major cause of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity, characterized by gestational hypertension, proteinuria, systemic endothelial cell activation and an exaggerated inflammatory response. The precise cause of preeclampsia is not currently known; however, it is widely accepted that the patho...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Liu X,Dai LI,Zhou R

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00