Targeting of soybean-derived sterylglucoside liposomes to liver tumors in rat and mouse models.

abstract：:Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) technology has revolutionized therapeutic gene editing by providing researchers with a new method to study and cure diseases previously considered untreatable. While the full range and power of CRISPR technology for t...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Çiçek YA,Luther DC,Kretzmann JA,Rotello VM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two glucuronides (4'-O-, and 7-O-) and a glucuronyl (7-O-) sulfate (4'-O-) of genistein, two glucuronides (4'-O-, and 7-O-) and a glucuronyl (7-O-) sulfate (4'-O-) of daidzein, 7-O-glucuronides of glycitein, dihydrodaidzein and O-desmethylangolensin were isolated from the urine of volunteer subjects fed soy bean curds...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Kinjo J,Tsuchihashi R,Morito K,Hirose T,Aomori T,Nagao T,Okabe H,Nohara T,Masamune Y

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the pharmacokinetic profile of cyclosporin A (CyA) after intravenous administration to rats prepared as models of various disease states found in patients who receive organ transplantations. After intravenous bolus administration to normal rats, the total blood clearance (CLt) of CyA showed a dose-dependent...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Shibata N,Shimakawa H,Minouchi T,Yamaji A

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo redox reactions of nitroxyl contrast agents in bile and blood under an oxidative atmosphere were investigated using normal healthy Wistar rats. Differences in intracellular and extracellular volumes in redox environments are discussed. Pharmacokinetic profiles of two nitroxyl contrast agents, 3-carbamoyl-2,2,5...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Okajo A,Ui I,Manda S,Nakanishi I,Matsumoto K,Anzai K,Endo K

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) is a central mediator of cellular responses to low oxygen and has recently become an important therapeutic target for solid tumor therapy. To identify small molecule inhibitors of the HIF-1 transcriptional activation, we have established a high through-put assay system using a stable...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Yamazaki Y,Hasebe Y,Egawa K,Nose K,Kunimoto S,Ikeda D

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic organic anion transporters OATP1B1 and OATP1B3 are expressed at the sinusoidal membrane of hepatocytes and contribute to the hepatic uptake of a wide variety of clinically used drugs. To identify the antibiotics that interact with the human organic anion transporters OATP1B1 and OATP1B3, we applied a screening...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Yamaguchi H,Takeuchi T,Okada M,Kobayashi M,Unno M,Abe T,Goto J,Hishinuma T,Shimada M,Mano N

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duloxetine is a widely used antidepressant worldwide. In the present report, we evaluated its capacity to induce micronucleated polychromatic erythrocytes (MNPEs) and micronucleated normochromatic erythrocytes (MNNEs) in mice. Two assays were performed, one with a single chemical administration and the other with dail...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Madrigal-Bujaidar E,Álvarez-González I,Madrigal-Santillán EO,Morales-González JA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of ecabet sodium (TA-2711), a locally acting antiulcer agent, on prostanoid production and the morphology of the rat gastrointestinal mucosa were studied in comparison with sucralfate. Ecabet, at therapeutic doses (25 and 100 mg/kg, p.o.), dose-dependently increased the gastric mucosal level of prostaglandin E...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Kinoshita M,Iwasaki H,Yasoshima A,Tamaki H

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that glycyrrhizin (GL) enhanced Fas-mediated apoptotic body formation and DNA fragmentation in T cell lines although GL alone did not induce apoptosis. The enhancement effect of Fas-mediated apoptosis by GL was dose-dependent above 0.3 microM. Time course study revealed that simultaneous co-treatment of...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Ishiwata S,Nakashita K,Ozawa Y,Niizeki M,Nozaki S,Tomioka Y,Mizugaki M

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consuming food at uncommon times during the day might be associated with obesity in experimental animals and humans. We previously reported that mice become obese and their metabolism becomes disrupted when they consume food during the daytime (sleep phase feeding; SPF), but not during the nighttime (active phase feed...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Oishi K,Okauchi H

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swallowing involves several motor processes such as bolus formation and intraoral transport of a food bolus (oral stage) and a series of visceral events that occur in a relatively fixed timed sequence but are to some degree modifiable (pharyngeal stage or swallow reflex). Reflecting the progressive aging of society, p...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Yamamura K,Kitagawa J,Kurose M,Sugino S,Takatsuji H,Mostafeezur RM,Zakir HM,Yamada Y

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is one of the chemoresistant cancers. There is a pressing need to establish therapeutic approaches to prevent RCC proliferation and metastasis. The electrophilic 15-deoxy-Δ12,14-prostaglandin J2 (15d-PGJ2) is an endogenous anti-cancerous agent. Treatment with high concentrations of 15d-PGJ2 ...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Yamamoto Y,Koma H,Yagami T

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous people die of paraquat (PQ) poisoning every year in the world. Although several studies regarding paraquat (PQ) poisoning have been conducted, the metabolic changes in plasma remain unknown. In this study, the metabolomics of 15 PQ poisoned patients with plasma PQ concentrations in excess of 0.1 µg/mL and 16 ...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Wang X,Zhang M,Ma J,Zhang Y,Hong G,Sun F,Lin G,Hu L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to isolate a cholesterol-lowering compound from Alpinia katsumadai, an inhibitor for acyl-CoA : cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT), an enzyme responsible for the cholesterol ester formation in liver, was purified, its chemical structure was determined, and in vivo and in vitro inhibition activities were perfo...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Choi SY,Lee MH,Choi JH,Kim YK

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:In order to prepare fine granules of sparfloxacin (SPFX), a new quinolone anti-bacterial drug that shows masking of the bitter taste of SPFX and dissolutes at a rapid rate, various film-coated fine granules containing 20% SPFX and 0-52% low-substituted hydroxypropylcellulose(L-HPC) in the cores, were prepared by a spr...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Shirai Y,Sogo K,Yamamoto K,Kojima K,Fujioka H,Makita H,Nakamura Y

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corneal transplantation has been used to treat severe eye disease for decades, but the therapeutic effect of the operation is highly compromised by immunological allograft rejection. To improve the success rate of corneal transplantation, we studied the protective effects of cyclosporine nanomicelle eye drops (CNED) o...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Zhang H,Wang L,Zhang L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The permeability of insulin across Xenopus pulmonary membrane and the effects of various absorption enhancers on insulin permeability were examined using an in vitro Ussing chamber technique. Absorption enhancers used in this study were sodium caprate (NaCap), sodium glycocholate (NaGC), sodium salicylate (NaSal) and ...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Yamamoto A,Tanaka H,Okumura S,Shinsako K,Ito M,Yamashita M,Okada N,Fujita T,Muranishi S

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine murine monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) raised against recombinant soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (sICAM-1) were evaluated by means of ELISAs, and their neutralizing activity was investigated in two bioassays employing Raji cells activated with phorbol myristate acetate. Three of the MAbs inhibited autoagg...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Inuzuka H,Seita T,Okamoto K,Iida K,Ogawa Y,Iwasa S

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of atorvastatin and pravastatin on glucose tolerance in mildly induced diabetic rats by streptozotocin at 24 mg/kg, i.v. were studied. Non-diabetic and diabetic rats were given orally 0.5% carboxymethylcellulose (control), 8 mg/kg atorvastatin or 8 mg/kg pravastatin once a day for 6 weeks. An oral glucose tole...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Kanda M,Satoh K,Ichihara K

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sauchinone, a biologically active lignan found in Saururus chinensis (Saururaceae), exerts various biological activities against jaundice, inflammatory disease, hepatic steatosis, and oxidative injury. Despite its diverse applications, there exists some information about sauchinone's pharmacokinetics but its tissue di...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Kim YJ,Han SY,Seo JS,Chin YW,Choi YH

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the mechanism responsible for the increased bioavailability of propranolol in bilateral ureter-ligated (BUL) rats, the intestinal absorption and hepatic extraction of propranolol and metoprolol were evaluated. The initial absorption rate of these drugs after intra-intestinal administration was only slig...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Okabe H,Higashi T,Ohta T,Hashimoto Y

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：:A previous study showed that macelignan extracted from Myristica fragrans has anti-inflammatory properties using hippocampal neuronal and primary microglial cells. Subsequently, a study using animals with chronic lipopolysaccharide (LPS) infusion into the brain showed that oral treatments of macelignan reduced the hip...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Ma J,Hwang YK,Cho WH,Han SH,Hwang JK,Han JS

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：:Site-directed mutagenesis was used to investigate the molecular interactions involved in sarpogrelate binding to the human 5-Hydroxytryptamine(5-HT)2C receptor. Based on molecular modeling studies, Aspartic acid (Asp)155[3.32] in transmembrane region III and Serine(Ser)361[7.46] in transmembrane region VII of the 5-HT...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Muntasir HA,Takahashi J,Rashid M,Ahmed M,Komiyama T,Hossain M,Kawakami J,Nashimoto M,Nagatomo T

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery that angiogenesis is a key condition for the growth of a tumor beyond a millimeter or two, brings about a new approach in the treatment of tumors using drugs able to inhibit the formation of new blood vessels. Also, it has been realized that antiangiogenic drugs can be useful in the treatment of other pa...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： González RP,Leyva A,Moraes MO

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly sensitive ELISA for the determination of polymyxin B sulfate (PMB) was developed which is capable of measuring as low as 32 pg/ml. Anti-PMB antibody was obtained by immunizing rabbits with PMB conjugated with mercaptosuccinyl bovine serum albumin (MS. BSA) using N-(gamma-maleimidobutyryloxy) succinimide (GMBS...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Saita T,Yoshida M,Nakashima M,Matsunaga H,Fujito H,Mori M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Albumin extracted from serum by a simple technique using trichloroacetic acid and ethanol has been applied to a fructosamine assay using nitroblue tetrazolium. A fructosamine assay using extracted albumin sample was carried out without interference from low molecular weight substances with reducing activities and othe...

journal_title：Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin

authors： Ohkawara E,Nohara Y,Kanno Y,Suzuki H,Matsumoto G,Kinoshita T,Watanabe M

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00