Effect on free radical processes of some ascorbic acid analogues.

abstract：:Turnera ulmifolia is a plant belonging to the family Turneraceae, popularly known in Brazil as chanana. This species is distributed from Guyana to southern Brazil where it is considered a weed. The plant occurs in tropical rain forest, fields, and gardens. Chanana tea is used in Brazilian folk medicine for the treatme...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Gracioso Jde S,Vilegas W,Hiruma-Lima CA,Souza Brito AR

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to elucidate the transport mechanism(s) of L-glutamate (L-Glu), a neuroexcitatory neurotransmitter, in the inner blood-retinal barrier (BRB). The L-Glu transport was evaluated by an in vitro uptake study with a conditionally-immortalized rat retinal capillary endothelial cell line, TR-iBR...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Sakurai T,Akanuma S,Usui T,Kubo Y,Tachikawa M,Hosoya K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the possible protective effects of benidipine (Coniel), a calcium antagonist, on mechanical dysfunction, metabolic damage and changes in vascular reactivity during ischemia and reperfusion in the Langendorff-perfused rat heart. The responses of perfusion pressure to U-46619, a vasoconstrictor, and acet...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Yao K,Karasawa A

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been well known that Vibrio cholerae inhabit in environmental water. As many patients infected with cholera toxin-producing V. cholerae O1 (toxigenic V. cholerae O1) emerge in Kolkata, India, it has been thought that toxigenic V. cholerae O1 is easily detected in environmental water in Kolkata. However, we coul...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Paul SS,Takahashi E,Chowdhury G,Miyoshi SI,Mizuno T,Mukhopadhyay AK,Dutta S,Okamoto K

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although hypokalemia is an adverse effect of Yokukansan preparation, especially in geriatric patients, its association with age is unclear. We investigated whether age is a risk factor for hypokalemia. This single-center retrospective cohort study, conducted at Tokyo Women's Medical University, Medical Center East bet...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Hirai T,Yamaga R,Kei M,Hosohata K,Itoh T

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous study using apoptosis analysis suggested that Ca(2+) release through inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) receptors and the subsequent Ca(2+) influx through store-operated channels (SOCs) constitute a triggering signal for H2O2-induced β-cell apoptosis. In the present study, we further examined the obligato...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Sato T,Kaneko YK,Sawatani T,Noguchi A,Ishikawa T

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Permeation enhancement of ketoprofen (KP) from supersaturated systems and the effects of antinucleant polymers on both stability and permeation of supersaturated KP were investigated using silicone membrane as a skin model. The supersaturation was prepared by the cosolvent technique with water and propylene glycol (PG...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Kumprakob U,Kawakami J,Adachi I

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct detection of nitric oxide (NO) is essential for understanding the precise mechanism of its production from endothelial cells. Previously, we developed an NO detection system based on the chemiluminescence reaction between NO and luminol-H2O2. Here, we have applied this system to cultured endothelial cells for t...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Kurumatani H,Kikuchi K,Nagano T,Hirobe M,Yamazaki J,Nagao T

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate molecular mechanisms of adipocyte differentiation, we previously isolated TC10-like/TC10betaLong (TCL/TC10betaL), regulators of G protein signaling 2 (RGS2), factor for adipocyte differentiation (fad) 104 and fad158, which were transiently expressed in the early phase of adipogenesis. These four genes see...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Kawaji A,Nishizuka M,Osada S,Imagawa M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of liver cancer with high mortality worldwide. Traditional chemotherapy for HCC is not widely accepted by clinical practitioners because of its toxic side effects. Thus, there is a need to identify chemotherapeutic drugs against HCC. AMP-activated protein kinase (...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Sul YH,Lee MS,Cha EY,Thuong PT,Khoi NM,Song IS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indomethacin is used as an anti-inflammatory drug and a nonselective cyclooxygenase inhibitor. When indomethacin in methanol was photo-irradiated with an Hg lamp, methyl ester, ethyl ester, and gamma-lactone derivatives of indomethacin were produced. In the present study, we found that the methyl ester derivative of i...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Chao SH,Wu AB,Lee CJ,Chen FA,Wang CC

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessment of biological potency and its comparison with clinical effects are important in the quality control of therapeutic glycoproteins. Animal models are usually used for evaluating bioactivity of these compounds. However, alternative methods are required to simplify the bioassay and avoid ethical issues associat...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Yanagihara S,Taniguchi Y,Hosono M,Yoshioka E,Ishikawa R,Shimada Y,Kadoya T,Kutsukake K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) was diagnosed in a 39-year-old woman, treated with ampicillin (4000-8000 mg daily), phenytoin (250 mg daily), and furosemide (20-40 mg daily) for 25, 21, and 20 d, respectively, before the appearance of the eruption. The lymphocyte stimulation test with the MTT [3-(4,5-dimethyl thiazol-2...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Yoshimura T,Hamaguchi E,Usami E,Nakashima K,Kawaguchi M,Suzuki N,Okamoto Y,Nakao T,Yamazaki F

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplast trnK gene sequences of Cnidium officinale and Ligusticum chuanxiong were determined to establish an effective method for identifying Japanese Senkyu and Chinese Chuanxiong, the two which have the same drug name in Chinese characters, similar external feature, but different botanical origins. Three sites of...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Zhu S,Fushimi H,Han G,Tsuchida T,Uno T,Takano A,Komatsu K

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Curcumin, a bioactive component in tumeric, has been shown to exert antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anticarcinogenic, hepatoprotective, and neuroprotective effects, but the effects of curcumin against manganese (Mn)-mediated neurotoxicity have not been studied. This study examined the protective effects of curcumin on...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Park E,Chun HS

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Berberine is one of the main alkaloids of Rhizoma coptidis which has been used as a folk medicine to treat diabetes mellitus for more than 1400 years in China. To investigate the chronic effect of berberine on diabetic hyperlipidemic rats, fasted rats were intraperitoneally injected 35 mg/kg streptozotocin. Diabetic r...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Zhou JY,Zhou SW,Zhang KB,Tang JL,Guang LX,Ying Y,Xu Y,Zhang L,Li DD

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient protocol for the in vitro germination and propagation of Larrea divaricata CAV. (Jarilla) was established. To determine the effect of different growth regulators on the growth rates and phenol production, apical-node microshoots from in vitro germinated plantlets were incubated on the following media: 1) ...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Palacio L,Baeza MC,Cantero JJ,Cusidó R,Goleniowski ME

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acori graminei Rhizoma is one of the best-known traditional herbal medicines frequently used for the treatment of cardiovascular symptoms in Asian countries. The anti-ischemic effect of Acori graminei Rhizoma on ischemia-induced isolated rat heart was investigated through analysis of changes in perfusion pressure, aor...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Kang M,Kim JH,Cho C,Chung HS,Yoon YS,Lee Y,Hong M,Shin M,Bae H

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma hyaluronan biding protein (PHBP) is a novel serine protease, which has an amino acid sequence homology to that of hepatocyte growth factor activator (HGFA), and has a similar domain structure to that of urinary plasminogen activator (u-PA), found in human plasma. We searched the PHBP substrate in human plasma b...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Choi-Miura NH,Yoda M,Saito K,Takahashi K,Tomita M

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of exogenously applied gibberellic acid (GA(3)) or brassinolide (BL) on the H(+)-pumps and aquaporin in the vacuolar membrane of rice seedling leaf sheath were investigated. Antibodies against mung bean H(+)-PPase, the B subunit of V-ATPase, and radish tonoplast intrinsic protein (TIP) cross-reacted with t...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Yang S,Maeshima M,Tanaka Y,Komatsu S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By means of successive heparin-affinity and glycyrrhizin (GL)-affinity column chromatographies (HPLC), a 55 kDa GL-binding protein (gp55) was purified to apparent homogeneity from the Superdex P-I fraction of Habu snake venom. This gp55 was identified as an apoxin I-like protein, because (i) its 20 N-terminal amino ac...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Abe Y,Shimoyama Y,Munakata H,Ito J,Nagata N,Ohtsuki K

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:Proteasome inhibitors are a novel class of molecular-targeted anti-cancer drugs that suppress the degradation of malfolded proteins, trigger endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, and activate apoptosis signals. Glucose-regulated protein 78 (GRP78), a major ER chaperone, is one of the most important molecules for transduc...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Matsumura K,Sakai C,Kawakami S,Yamashita F,Hashida M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MeOH and water extracts of the Netherlands propolis were tested for their inhibitory activity toward nitric oxide (NO) production in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-activated murine macrophage-like J774.1 cells. Both of the extract possessed significant NO inhibitory activity with IC(50) values of 23.8 and 51.5 microg/ml...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Nagaoka T,Banskota AH,Tezuka Y,Midorikawa K,Matsushige K,Kadota S

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxynybomycin was identified as an inducer of p21the/WAF1 gene following screening using a reporter, p21/luciferase. The present study examined its anti-proliferative effect on human tumor cell lines. Deoxynybomycin selectively inhibited growth of human osteoblastic sarcoma Saos-2, gastric cancer TMK-1, and monocytic...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Egawa K,Yamori T,Nosaka C,Kunimoto S,Takeuchi T,Nos K

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homocysteine-inducible endoplasmic reticulum (ER) protein (Herp) is an ER stress-inducible membrane protein involved in ER-associated degradation. Herp expression is maintained at low levels through a strict regulatory mechanism, but the details of this mechanism and the reasons why Herp expression is restricted in th...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Maeda T,Fujita Y,Tanabe-Fujimura C,Zou K,Liu J,Liu S,Kikuchi K,Shen X,Nakajima T,Komano H

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of restraint and footshock stress and norepinephrine treatment on gastric emptying. The gastric emptying was significantly inhibited by restraint stress. beta(3)-adrenergic antagonist canceled the inhibition of gastric emptying caused by restraint stress, while beta(1)-, beta(2)-, alpha(1)-...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Tsukada F,Nagura Y,Abe S,Sato N,Ohkubo Y

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the protective effect of ginsenoside Re (Re) against cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury, adult male Wistar rats weighing 250-300 g were subjected to either sham surgery or middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) for 2 h of brain ischemia and 2 h reperfusion. A fluorescence polarization assay was carri...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Zhou XM,Cao YL,Dou DQ

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant phenolic compounds isolated from a 70% aqueous acetone extract of the leaves of Malus doumeri A. CHEV. var. formosana (KAWAK. & KOIDZ.) S. S. YING, a type of Taiwanese indigenous plant, were evaluated for potential application in the field of skin care. A phytochemical investigation of the active fractions resul...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Leu SJ,Lin YP,Lin RD,Wen CL,Cheng KT,Hsu FL,Lee MH

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00