Cardiac toxicity of resibufogenin: electrophysiological evidence.

abstract：AIM:To study the effects of the caspase-1 inhibitor Ac-YVAD-CHO on quinolinic acid (QA)-induced apoptosis. METHODS:Rats were pre-treated with intrastriatal infusion of Ac-YVAD-CHO (2-8 microg) before intrastriatal injection of QA (60 nmol). Striatal total proteins, genomic DNA, and nuclear proteins were isolated. The ...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Cao Y,Gu ZL,Lin F,Han R,Qin ZH

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To study the association between APOE polymorphisms and cerebral infarction through a case-control study among the Chinese Han population. METHODS:First-ever cerebral infarction patients (n=226) whose ages ranged from 40 to 60 years old were recruited from Department of Neurology, Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai, and...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Jin ZQ,Fan YS,Ding J,Chen M,Fan W,Zhang GJ,Zhang BH,Yu SJ,Zhang YS,Ji WF,Zhang JG

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tobacco use is estimated to be the largest single cause of premature death in the world. Nicotine is the major addictive substance in tobacco products. After cigarette smoking, nicotine quickly acts on its target, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs), which are widely distributed throughout the mammalian central...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Wu J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The substrate cocktail is frequently used to evaluate cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzyme-mediated drug interactions and potential interactions among the probe substrates. Here, we re-optimized the substrate cocktail method to increase the reliability and accuracy of screening for candidate compounds and expanded the meth...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Chen ZH,Zhang SX,Long N,Lin LS,Chen T,Zhang FP,Lv XQ,Ye PZ,Li N,Zhang KZ

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate molecular mechanism of testis development and spermatogenesis. METHODS:A human testis cDNA microarray was hybridized with probes from human adult testis, embryo testis and human sperm, and the differential expressed clones were sequenced and analyzed. Expression of PIAS-NY gene was analyzed by RT-PC...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Zheng Y,Zhou ZM,Yin LL,Li JM,Sha JH

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Esophageal cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the world, and it demonstrates a distinct geographical distribution pattern in China. In the last decade, inducing apoptosis with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has become an active area in both fundamental and clinical research on cancer therapy. In t...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Zhang YS,Shen Q,Li J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the ultrastructural localization of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP)-synthesizing cells and the relationship between ANP-synthesizing cells and microvessels in rat gastric mucosa. METHODS:Immunohistochemistry techniques and postembedding immunoelectron microscopy techniques were used to validate the...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Li CH,Yang ZW,Yin ZR,Jin Z,Xing DG,Piao LH,Kim YC,Xu WX

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over half of patients with BRCA1-deficient cancers do not respond to treatment with poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors. In this study, we report that a combination of 53BP1 and BRCA1 may serve as a biomarker of PARP inhibitor sensitivity. Based on the mRNA levels of four homologous recombination repair (HR)...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Yang ZM,Liao XM,Chen Y,Shen YY,Yang XY,Su Y,Sun YM,Gao YL,Ding J,Zhang A,He JX,Miao ZH

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As autophagy is involved in cell growth, survival, development and death, impaired autophagic flux has been linked to a variety of human pathophysiological processes, including neurodegeneration, cancer, myopathy, cardiovascular and immune-mediated disorders. There is a growing need to identify and quantify the status...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Zhang XJ,Chen S,Huang KX,Le WD

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The role of caveolin-1 (Cav-1) in angiogenesis remains poorly understood. The endothelial nitric oxide (NO) synthase (eNOS), a caveolin-interacting protein, was demonstrated to play a predominant role in vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) -induced angiogenesis. The purpose of our study was to examine the rol...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Pan YM,Yao YZ,Zhu ZH,Sun XT,Qiu YD,Ding YT

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lappaconitine (LA) has been widely used for postoperative and cancer pain control. LA exhibits excellent analgesic activity with a longer effective time than common local anesthetics such as tetracaine and bupivacaine. However, the mechanisms underlying the featured analgesic activity of LA remain largely unknown. Her...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Li YF,Zheng YM,Yu Y,Gan Y,Gao ZB

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To study the effect of nociceptin (orphanin FQ), a newly discovered heptadecapeptide, on cholinergic constrictions in isolated trachea and bronchus of rat. METHODS:The electric field stimulation (EFS) induced a monophasic constriction, which was due to an activation of the cholinergic nerves. RESULTS:Nociceptin 0...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Wu Y,Fang LB,Yang QH

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of technological advances, genomic sequences and market success is catalyzing rapid development of antibody-based therapeutics. Cell surface receptors and ion channel proteins are well known drug targets, but the latter has seen less success. The availability of crystal structures, better understanding...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Sun H,Li M

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the anti-neuroinflammatory activity of a novel synthetic compound, 7-methylchroman-2-carboxylic acid N-(2-trifluoromethyl) phenylamide (MCAP) against LPS-induced microglial activation in vitro. METHODS:Primary mouse microglia and BV2 microglia cells were exposed to LPS (50 or 100 ng/mL). The express...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Kim BW,More SV,Yun YS,Ko HM,Kwak JH,Lee H,Suk K,Kim IS,Choi DK

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) plays a critical role in platelet functions. This study sought to understand the effects of the STAT3 inhibitor SC99 on platelet activation and aggregation. Immunoblotting assays were applied to measure the effects of SC99 on the STAT3 signaling pathway. A...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Xu Z,Xu YJ,Hao YN,Ren LJ,Zhang ZB,Xu X,Cao BY,Dai KS,Zhu L,Fang Q,Kong Y,Mao XL

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the effect of edaravone (MCI-186), a free radical scavenger, against ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury in the rat retina. METHODS:Retinal ischemia was induced in male Sprague-Dawley rats by elevating intraocular pressure to 110 mmHg for 60 min. The rats were intraperitoneally injected with edaravone...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Song Y,Gong YY,Xie ZG,Li CH,Gu Q,Wu XW

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To study the effects of tanshinone IIA (TIIA) on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced acute lung injury in mice and the underlying mechanisms. METHODS:Mice were injected with LPS (10 mg/kg, i.p.), then treated with TIIA (10 mg/kg, i.p.). Seven hours after LPS injection, the lungs were collected for histological study....

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Xu M,Cao FL,Zhang YF,Shan L,Jiang XL,An XJ,Xu W,Liu XZ,Wang XY

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Localized delivery of growth factors has significant potential as a future therapeutic strategy in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. A nanoparticle vehicle was created and evaluated in this study with the intent to deliver growth factors for periodontal regeneration. METHODS:Novel composite nanoparticl...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Chen FM,Ma ZW,Dong GY,Wu ZF

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the blood pressure (BP), baroreflex sensitivity (BRS), and organ damage in hybrids of spontaneously hypertensive rats and Sprague-Dawley rats. METHODS:Spontaneously hypertensive rats and Sprague-Dawley rats were crossbred, and the F1 hybrids were inbred randomly to produce an F2 generation. At the a...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Xie HH,Shen FM,Miao CY,Su DF

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Filamin binding LIM protein 1, also known as migfilin, is a skeleton organization protein that binds to mitogen-inducible gene 2 at cell-extracellular matrix adhesions. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of migfilin in cisplatin-induced apoptosis in human glioma cells, to determine the functional dom...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Fan J,Ou YW,Wu CY,Yu CJ,Song YM,Zhan QM

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To characterize the in vitro bioactivities of rhodanine derivatives as novel peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) gamma modulators, based on a hit (SH00012671) identified during high-throughput screening (HTS) of a diverse synthetic compound library, and to preliminarily elucidate the structure-activit...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Liu Q,Zhang YY,Lu HL,Li QY,Zhou CH,Wang MW

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To establish a 96-well plate based kinase assay using a recombinant vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor 1 kinase domain protein. METHODS:A human VEGF receptor 1 kinase domain protein was expressed in E coli, and its activity was monitored by its ability of phosphorylating the polyE4Y substrate coate...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Zhuang SF,Zhou CH,Qian J,Qian Z,Shibuya M,Ye QZ

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Seipin is a protein that resides in endoplasmic reticulum, and involved in both lipid metabolic disorders and motor neuropathy. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of mutant seipin on autophagy system and the morphology of lipid droplets in vitro. METHODS:HEK-293, H1299 and MES23.5 cells were tran...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Fan HD,Chen SP,Sun YX,Xu SH,Wu LJ

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoid X receptor-α (RXRα), a unique member of the nuclear receptor superfamily, represents an intriguing and unusual target for pharmacologic interventions and therapeutic applications in cancer, metabolic disorders and neurodegenerative diseases. Despite the fact that the RXR-based drug Targretin (bexarotene) is c...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Zhang XK,Su Y,Chen L,Chen F,Liu J,Zhou H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II isoform δA (CaMKIIδA) disturbs intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis in cardiomyocytes during chronic heart failure (CHF). We hypothesized that upregulation of CaMKIIδA in cardiomyocytes might enhance Ca2+ leak from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) via activation o...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Gui L,Guo X,Zhang Z,Xu H,Ji YW,Wang RJ,Zhu JH,Chen QH

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Chinese medicine CGA formula consists of polysaccharide from Cordyceps sinensis mycelia (CS-PS), gypenosides and amygdalin, which is derived from Fuzheng Huayu (FZHY) capsule for treating liver fibrosis. In this study we attempted to confirm the therapeutic effects of CGA formula in dimethylnitrosamine (DMN)-induce...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Li XM,Peng JH,Sun ZL,Tian HJ,Duan XH,Liu L,Ma X,Feng Q,Liu P,Hu YY

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Endothelium-dependent relaxations to certain neurohumoral substances are mediated by pertussis toxin-sensitive Gi/o protein. Our experiments were designed to determine the role, if any, of pertussis toxin-sensitive G-proteins in relaxations attributed to endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF). METHODS:P...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Ng KF,Leung SW,Man RY,Vanhoutte PM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the nasal absorption enhancement of insulin by sodium deoxycholate (SDC) in combination with cyclodextrins (CD). METHODS:The concentration of glucose in blood was measured. Scanning electron microscopy technique was used to investigate the effect of enhancers on the nasal mucocilia. The effect of SDC i...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Zhang Y,Jiang XG,Yao J

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To study the effects of cimetidine (Cim) on the production of interferon gamma (IFN gamma) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) by splenocytes in immune-derived aplastic anemic (AA) mice. METHODS:Aplastic anemic mice model was constructed first, and then the splenocytes were induced to secrete IFN gamma and...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Xia T,Wang QR,Xu YH

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the release characteristics of a 5-fluorouracil-loaded poly (lactic acid) disc (5-FU-PLA-DS) and the effect of sustained drug delivery on the success of glaucoma filtration surgery in rabbit eyes. METHODS:A method of microspheres accumulated by excessive carriers was used in the preparation of the 5-F...

journal_title：Acta pharmacologica Sinica

authors： Cui LJ,Sun NX,Li XH,Huang J,Yang JG

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00