Analyses of metal ions in spider venoms in relation to insecticidal activity of clavamine.

abstract：:To develop an external vehicle for skin hydration and enhanced dermal drug delivery, a hydrogel-based ultra-moisturizing cream (HUMC) was successfully formulated with carbopol 934P, urea, Tinocare GL, grape seed oil, and other excipients. The HUMC showed plastic flow behavior due to a gel structure with a cream base. ...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Lee SG,Kim SR,Cho HI,Kang MH,Yeom DW,Lee SH,Lee S,Choi YW

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously screened the anti-itching activities of 33 herbal medicines in substance P (SP)-induced itching model mice. One of the most potent antipruritogenic extracts, the methanol extract of fruits of Cnidium monnieri (Cnidii Fructus) was studied further. The chloroform-soluble fraction of the methanol extract ma...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Basnet P,Yasuda I,Kumagai N,Tohda C,Nojima H,Kuraishi Y,Komatsu K

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fossilia Mastodi OSSIS, which is a skeletal fossil of a Mastodon, an ancient mammal, has been found to have anxiolytic, sedative and anticonvulsant activities in Oriental medicine. In this study, in vivo characterization of the sedative activities of Fossilia Mastodi OSSIS was performed in order to obtain basic inform...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Ha JH,Lee MG,Chang SM,Lee JT

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prophylactic oral administration of a novel immunomodulator (immunosuppressant), FTY720 (1 mg/kg, three times a week), completely prevented the development of experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis (EAMG) in C57BL/6 mice. EAMG has been used as an animal model for human myasthenia gravis, and was established by immu...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Kohno T,Tsuji T,Hirayama K,Iwatsuki R,Hirose M,Watabe K,Yoshikawa H,Kohno T,Matsumoto A,Fujita T,Hayashi M

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immediate early genes (IEG) are rapidly but transiently induced directly by intracellular signaling cascades to alter patterns of gene expression. It has been proposed that histone modifications could be the key to the quick alteration of chromatin structure, as this spread occurs too rapidly to be the consequence of ...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Sng JC,Taniura H,Yoneda Y

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlling axon and dendrite elongation is critical in developing precise neural circuits. Using isolated cultures of dentate granule neurons, we succeeded in simultaneously monitoring the behaviors of axonal and dendritic outgrowth. Our previous study shows that cAMP contributes differentially to Sema3F-induced resp...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Yamada RX,Matsuki N,Ikegaya Y

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Possible involvement of the peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptor (PBR) in hemin/protoporphyrin-induced erythroid differentiation of human leukemia K562 cells was investigated by the use of the ligands, diazepam and PK11195. Diazepam itself exhibited differentiation-inducing activity on K562 cells. The PBR-specific ...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Nakajima O,Hashimoto Y,Iwasaki S

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We attempted to produce a model mouse with a liver injury resulting from an immunological mechanism in C57BL/6J mice, and the effect of hepatitis on the hepatic microsomal mixed-function oxidase system was studied. An experimental immunological liver injury model was caused by the intravenous injection of an anti-basi...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Ishikawa M,Takayanagi Y,Sasaki K

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the use of in vitro-transcribed mRNA (IVT-mRNA) in therapeutics is a rapidly expanding area, the transfection of the exogenous IVT-mRNA is accompanied by a risk of immune activation. This immunological defense mechanism suppresses cellular translation process and can reduce transfection efficiency to a considera...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Ohto T,Konishi M,Tanaka H,Onomoto K,Yoneyama M,Nakai Y,Tange K,Yoshioka H,Akita H

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop an isoelectric focusing apparatus using a cellulose acetate membrane (Separax EF), we have designed a thermoelectric cooling isoelectric apparatus. This apparatus has two characteristics. Firstly, the cooling system was switched to a thermoelectric cooling system from an ice-cooling system. Secondly, the ch...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Shiba K,Toda T,Iijima S,Inoue J,Yoshida T,Cho H,Kimura M

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：:Previously, we reported that dibenzylbutyrolactone lignans (DBLLs) from the fruit of Forsythia koreana NAKAI (Oleaceae) has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anti-asthmatic effects. In this study, to clarify the anti-inflammatory mechanisms of DBLL, we evaluated the effects of DBLLs on lipopolysaccharide-stimulated ...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Lee JY,Cho BJ,Park TW,Park BE,Kim SJ,Sim SS,Kim CJ

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four lavandulyl flavanones, (2S)-2'-methoxykurarinone (1), sophoraflavanone G (2), leachianone A (3), and (-)-kurarinone (4), which are isolated from the roots of Sophora flavescens have been tested for in vitro antimalarial activity against Plasmodium falciparum. Compounds 1-3 showed moderate antimalarial activities ...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Kim YC,Kim HS,Wataya Y,Sohn DH,Kang TH,Kim MS,Kim YM,Lee GM,Chang JD,Park H

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endometriosis, a disease affecting 5-15% of women of reproductive age, is characterized by the ectopic growth of endometrial tissue. Costunolide, a sesquiterpene lactone, has anti-proliferative and pro-apoptotic activities that may be efficacious in therapy for endometriosis. In the present study, we investigated the ...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Kim JH,Yang YI,Lee KT,Park HJ,Choi JH

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethyl sulfate, a minor and direct ethanol metabolite in adult human body, has been implicated as a biomarker for alcohol consumption and in utero exposure to ethanol. To understand better the physiological relevance of the sulfation of ethanol, it is important to clarify the cytosolic sulfotransferase (SULT) enzymes t...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Kurogi K,Davidson G,Mohammed YI,Williams FE,Liu MY,Sakakibara Y,Suiko M,Liu MC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baculovirus vectors (BVs) enable safe and efficient gene delivery to mammalian cells and are useful in a wide range of applications, including gene therapy and in vivo analysis of gene functions. We previously developed BVs expressing malaria sporozoite surface proteins for targeting liver cells or hepatocytes. Howeve...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Kawai Y,Kawabata C,Sakaguchi M,Tamura T

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to develop potent cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1) inhibitors used as anticancer agent, a series of 2',5'-dimethoxychalcones was screened to evaluate their antiplatelet effect on human washed platelets suspension. Compound 2 exhibited potent inhibition of human washed platelet aggregation induced by collagen, sig...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Wu CM,Lin KW,Teng CH,Huang AM,Chen YC,Yen MH,Wu WB,Pu YS,Lin CN

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uridine 5'-diphosphate-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) catalyzes a major phase II reaction in a drug-metabolizing enzyme system. Although the UGT1A subfamily is expressed mainly in the liver, it is also expressed in the brain. The purpose of the present study was to elucidate the effect of β-naphthoflavone (BNF), one of...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Sakakibara Y,Katoh M,Kondo Y,Nadai M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillin binding proteins (PBPs) are penicillin-sensitive DD-peptidases catalyzing the terminal stages of bacterial cell wall assembly. We identified a Dictyostelium discoideum gene that encodes a protein of 522 amino acids showing similarity to Escherichia coli PBP4. The D. discoideum protein conserves three consen...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Yasukawa H,Kuroita T,Tamura K,Yamaguchi K

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequences of [2Fe-2S] ferredoxin from Atropa belladonna and Hyoscyamus niger have been determined by automated Edman degradation of the entire S-carboxymethylcysteinyl proteins and of the peptides obtained by enzymatic digestion. These two ferredoxins exhibited 1-8 differences in their amino ac...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Mino Y,Yukita M,Hiratsuka N,Wariishi H

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A homogeneous fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA) was developed to measure levels of progesterone in urine using a TDx analyzer in photocheck mode (Abbott Labs). Two tracers of ethylenediamine fluorescein thiocarbamyl (EDF) were employed; one was synthesized from 11 alpha-hydroxyhemisuccinate progesterone (Pr...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Choi MJ,Choi J,Yoon DY,Park J,Eremin SA

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effective cure for oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) patients is challenging due late diagnosis and fatal metastasis. The standard diagnosis for OSCC often depends on the subjective interpretation of conventional histopathology. Additionally, there is no standard way for OSCC prognosis. Over the past decade, nan...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Park S,Jang WJ,Jeong CH

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many lines of evidences have shown that Panax ginseng exhibits beneficial effects on cardiovascular systems. We previously demonstrated that ginsenoside Rg(3) (Rg(3)), one of active ingredients of Panax ginseng, inhibits Ca(2+) channel currents in a stereospecific manner and affects the steady-state activation but not...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Choi SH,Lee JH,Pyo MK,Lee BH,Shin TJ,Hwang SH,Kim BR,Lee SM,Oh JW,Kim HC,Bae CS,Rhim H,Nah SY

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) are commonly seen in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other forms of senile dementia. BPSD have a serious impact on the quality of life of dementia patients, as well as on that of their caregivers. However, effective drug therapy for BPSD has not been ...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Uchida N,Egashira N,Iwasaki K,Ishibashi A,Tashiro R,Nogami A,Manome N,Abe M,Takasaki K,Mishima K,Takata J,Oishi R,Nishimura R,Fujiwara M

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diosgenyl saponins are the most abundant steroid saponins, and exert a large variety of biological functions. In a previous report, we showed that dioscin was able to induce cytotoxicity and apoptosis in human myeloblast leukemia HL-60 cells. This study further investigated the action mechanisms underlying this effect...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Liu MJ,Wang Z,Ju Y,Zhou JB,Wang Y,Wong RN

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orally disintegrating tablets (ODTs) are formulated to disintegrate upon contact with saliva, allowing administration without water. Olopatadine hydrochloride, a second-generation antihistamine, is widely used for treating allergic rhinitis. However, it has a bitter taste; therefore, the development of taste-masked ol...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Sotoyama M,Uchida S,Tanaka S,Hakamata A,Odagiri K,Inui N,Watanabe H,Namiki N

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate chemopreventive effect of liposomal beta-sitosterol on tumor metastasis, we prepared liposomal beta-sitosterol composed of egg yolk phosphatidylcholine for oral delivery. Although orally administered beta-sitosterol (4 micromol as beta-sitosterol/mouse) was not absorbed into plasma, the amount of immune...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Imanaka H,Koide H,Shimizu K,Asai T,Kinouchi Shimizu N,Ishikado A,Makino T,Oku N

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotine, an addictive substance, is absorbed from the lungs following inhalation of tobacco smoke, and distributed to various tissues such as liver, brain, and retina. Recent in vivo and in vitro studies suggest the involvement of a carrier-mediated transport process in nicotine transport in the lung, liver, and inne...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Tega Y,Yamazaki Y,Akanuma SI,Kubo Y,Hosoya KI

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Markedly inhibitory effects of Ca(2+) on the growth of human tumor cells were attained through the induction of apoptosis in vitro. On the other hand, a good correlation between the growth inhibition effects of Ca(2+) and the amounts of phosphatidylserines (PS) in the cell membranes (plasma membranes) was obtained. Fu...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Goto K,Tatsumi K,Nagata T,Komizu Y,Ueoka R

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the action mechanism of oleanolic acid 3-O-monodesmoside, momordin Ic (1), and oleanolic acid 3-O-glucuronide (2) for the inhibitory effect on the increase in serum glucose levels in oral glucose-loaded rats. Although 1 and 2 dose-dependently inhibited the increase in serum glucose levels in oral glucose-l...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Matsuda H,Murakami T,Shimada H,Matsumura N,Yoshikawa M,Yamahara J

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00