abstract：:It is firmly established that smoking is a risk factor of cardiovascular disease, stroke and peripheral vascular disease. Although smoking alters the hemostatic process, the influence of smoking on human platelet activation remains controversial. For patients undergoing surgery, cessation of smoking prior to the proce...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Kito Y,Iida M,Tanabe K,Onuma T,Tsujimoto M,Nagase K,Tokuda H,Iwama T,Kozawa O,Iida H

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exercise training is an integral component of the pulmonary rehabilitation program for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The aim of this study was to systematically search the published literature and analyze the evidence on the efficacy of supplemental oxygen in improving outcomes during exe...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Liu Y,Gong F

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is a highly complex and often fatal syndrome which varies widely in its clinical manifestations, and therapies that target the underlying uncontrolled immune status in sepsis are needed. The failure of preclinical approaches to provide significant sepsis survival benefit in the clinic is often attributed to ina...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Stevens NE,Nash CH,Fraser CK,Kuchel TR,Maiden MJ,Chapman MJ,Diener KR,Hayball JD

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angelicin is an active compound isolated from the Chinese herb Angelica archangelica, which has been reported to exert antitumor effects by inhibiting malignant behaviors in several types of tumor, including proliferation, colony formation, migration and invasion. However, the effects of angelicin on human cervical ca...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Wang Y,Chen Y,Chen X,Liang Y,Yang D,Dong J,Yang N,Liang Z

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to determine the expression of microRNA (miRNA or miR)-145 in hypertrophic scars at the tissue and cellular levels, and to investigate its biological functions and mechanism of action. A total of 36 patients who were diagnosed with hypertrophic scar were included in the present study. Reverse t...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Wang S,Li C,Yu Y,Qiao J

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) serve important roles in colorectal cancer. The aim of the present study was to investigate the expression and role of cervical carcinoma expressed PCNA regulatory (CCEPR) lncRNA in colorectal cancer progression. The results demonstrated that CCEPR expression was significantly higher in ...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Duan Y,Fang Z,Shi Z,Zhang L

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of venous-arterial CO2 to arterial-venous O2 (Cv-aCO2/Da-vO2) for patients with septic shock treated by fluid resuscitation. A total of 108 cases who received fluid resuscitation for septic shock at the Intensive Care Unit were retrospectively screened according...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Zang H,Shen X,Wang S,He Z,Cheng H

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to systematically search literature and conduct a meta-analysis comparing the clinical efficacy and safety of Evolut R and Sapien 3 valves for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). The PubMed, Biomed Central, Scopus, Cochrane library and Google scholar databases were searched for ar...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： He C,Xiao L,Liu J

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to investigate the role of microRNA-146a (miR-146a) in intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), and to further assess its underlying mechanism. An ICH rat model was established in the current study and 1 h following ICH induction, rats were treated with or without an miR-146a mimic. A total of 3 days fo...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Qu X,Wang N,Cheng W,Xue Y,Chen W,Qi M

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) maternally expressed 3 (MEG3) has been reported to be a key component in cancer biology. Preliminary microarray data from a previous study indicated that lncRNA MEG3 expression was altered in plasma of patients with sepsis. The present study found that the plasma levels of lncRNA MEG3 were...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Chen K,Shi X,Jin Y,Wang F,Shen Q,Xu W

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared to other diseases, early or atypical spinal tuberculosis (TB) is prone to being misdiagnosed due to the lack of specific clinical manifestations and misleading negative results of various laboratory analyses and imaging examinations. Various methods for diagnosing spinal TB have become research hotspots. Rece...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Pu F,Feng J,Yang L,Zhang L,Xia P

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stromal cell-derived growth factor (SDF)-1α acts as a ligand to C-X-C chemokine receptors 4 (CXCR4) and 7 (CXCR7), which are involved in the formation of choroidal neovascularization. Previous studies have demonstrated crosstalk between the platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-BB/PDGF receptor (PDGFR)-β and SDF-1α/CX...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Xiang DN,Feng YF,Wang J,Zhang X,Shen JJ,Zou R,Yuan YZ

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most prevalent causes of joint disease. However, the pathological mechanisms of OA have remained to be completely elucidated, and further investigation into the underlying mechanisms of OA development and the identification of novel therapeutic targets are urgently required. In the pr...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Gao X,Sun Y,Li X

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies performed previously have indicated that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) may be involved in skeletal muscle regeneration; however, the roles of lncRNAs during the repair of skeletal muscle contusion remain unclear. The present study established a mouse skeletal muscle contusion injury model to identify the role...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Zheng L,Liu X,Chen P,Xiao W

更新日期：2019-10-01 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 aim of the present study was to screen for biomarkers of Parkinson's disease (PD) using proteomics and bioinformatics approaches. PD patients were divided into three groups: Those without surgery (PD1 group); those who had undergone deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery without electrode stimulation (PD2 group); an...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Dong W,Qiu C,Gong D,Jiang X,Liu W,Liu W,Zhang L,Zhang W

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central venous catheter is one of the most commonly used vascular therapies in patients receiving hemodialysis and vascular perforation is a rare but serious complication. The present study reports on a case of a 64-year-old female who developed massive hemothorax and hemorrhagic shock after long-term dialysis due to ...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Zhou CZ,Liu KC,Wang P,Ren W,Lv WF

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate the susceptibility of two coronary artery disease (CAD)-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms on 9p21 (rs1333049 and rs10757278) to myocardial infarction (MI) in a primary (stratification of high risk group for MI) and secondary prevention setting. The prospective o...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Nikulina S,Artyukhov I,Shesternya P,Gavrilyuk O,Maksimov V,Voyevoda M,Brusentsov D

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of microRNAs (miRs) have been revealed to be involved in the development of osteoporosis, including postmenopausal osteoporosis. The aim of the present study was to investigate miR-135a-5p expression and the cellular function of miR-135a-5p and its underlying mechanism in postmenopausal osteoporosis. miR-135a...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Shi X,Zhang Z

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteonecrosis is a condition that frequently affects patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, reports on severe multifocal osteonecrosis involving more than three anatomical sites in patients with SLE are scarce. The present study describes a case of SLE with multifocal osteonecrosis involving all fo...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Sun S,Wang Q,Gong Y,Qi X,Liu J

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a rare but highly aggressive type of malignancy. MicroRNA (miR)-25 has been demonstrated to be involved in the genesis of numerous cancer types. The aim of the present study was to investigate the prognostic value and functional role of miR-25 in CCA. The expression of miR-25 was determined...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Liu H,Ma L,Wang J

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to elucidate the underlying mechanism of antitumor activity of gambogic acid (GA) in colon cancer. Human colon cancer SW620 cells were divided into five treatment groups, including no-treatment control (NC), low dose GA (10 µg/ml), medium dose GA (50 µg/ml), high dose GA (100 µg/ml) an...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Zhou Z,Ma J

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to determine the prognostic value of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPAR-γ) and phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome ten (PTEN) for bladder cancer. Data were collected from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a public database, and were analyzed to assess P...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Zhang Z,Xu H,Ji J,Shi X,Lyu J,Zhu Y,Yu H,Wang F

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Krüppel-associated box zinc-finger protein 545 (ZNF545) was recently identified as a tumor suppressor in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). However, the role of ZNF545 in the tumorigenesis of esophageal cancer cells expressing loss-of-function mutant p53 has not been elucidated. In the present study, the r...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Fan Y,Wang Y,Fu S,Liu D,Lin S

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of ivabradine hydrochloride (Iva) and trimetazidine on myocardial fibrosis (MF) in rats with chronic heart failure (CHF) werφe explored. Fifty Wistar rats were randomly divided into sham operation, model, Iva, trimetazidine and combined drug group with 10 rats each. All rats except those in sham operation grou...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Ma D,Xu T,Cai G,Wu X,Lei Z,Liu X,Li J,Yang N

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we assessed the effects of pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) on the pregnancy outcomes of women of advanced age using a back-propagation (BP) artificial neural network. We conducted a retrospective analysis on postpartum and hospital delivery data from 1,015 women of ...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Lin J,Fu Y,Han Q,Yan J,Chen R,Zhang H

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explored the effect of pidotimod combined with azithromycin on children with mycoplasma pneumonia and the expression of interleukin-10 (IL-10) and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) in serum. The clinical data of 149 children with mycoplasma pneumonia from May 2014 to May 2018 in Zhangqiu Distric...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Shi H,Lan L,Lv X,Sun L

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low differentiation and high proliferation rates are critical factors affecting bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell (BMSC) tumorigenesis. The present study aimed to investigate the role of the Notch signaling pathway in BMSC proliferation and osteogenic differentiation. Mouse BMSCs were divided into control, vector, Not...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： He Y,Zou L

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is the leading cause of end-stage renal disease worldwide with high morbidity and mortality. Glomerular mesangial cell (MC) proliferation, inflammatory cell infiltration and extracellular matrix (ECM) accumulation are the main pathological characteristics of DN. A previous study revealed that...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Xiao L,Chen Y,Yuan Y,Xu B,Gao Q,Chen P,Zhang T,Guan T

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a strategy to prevent the well-known immunosuppressant effects of cyclophosphamide (CY), the immunomodulatory activity of the polysaccharide isolated from Urtica macrorrhiza Hand.-Mazz. (UMHMPS) was investigated in the present study. The chemical properties of UMHMPS, including total carbohydrates, uronic acid, pro...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Wang Z,Li Y,Wang C,Xia H,Liang Y,Li Z

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Driving under the influence of alcohol and/or psychoactive substances increases the risk of severe, even fatal motor vehicle accidents. The aim of this descriptive study was to present the impact of alcohol and/or psychoactive substances on fatal road traffic accidents (RTAs) during the period 2011-2017. For this purp...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Papalimperi AH,Athanaselis SA,Mina AD,Papoutsis II,Spiliopoulou CA,Papadodima SA

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate the protective effects of sodium ferulate (SF) on HT22 hippocampal cells under a high glucose concentration. Cells were cultured in normal glucose (25 mM D-glucose) or high glucose (50 mM D-glucose) with various concentrations of SF (50, 100, 250 or 500 µM) for 0, 48 and...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Zhao J,Liu L,Zhang L,Lv J,Guo X,Li X,Zhao T

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study aimed to investigate the effect of sepsis on rat serotonin (5-HT) responses and cardiac action potentials. A total of 20 rats were randomly divided into a sepsis and control group (each, n=10). Rat hearts were harvested and perfused using the Langendorff method 18-h after the induction of sepsis, whi...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Liu ZJ,Liu H,Wu C,Xue K

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic therapy in patients with concurrent psoriasis and chronic hepatitis B is a challenging task for both dermatologists and gastroenterologists since there is a high risk for hepatitis B virus (HBV) reactivation and hepatic toxicity under biological therapy. The therapeutic management of a patient with psoriasis ...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Raducan A,Bucur S,Caruntu C,Constantin T,Nita IE,Manolache N,Constantin MM

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic inducible urticaria (CIndU) is a subgroup of chronic urticaria which can cause severe quality of life impairment by their refractory forms. The recommended treatment approach in CindU is the same as that for chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU). However, CIndU seem to be more resistant to standard doses of H1 a...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Bumbăcea RS,Deaconu CG,Berghea EC

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated the effects of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) on bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMMSCs) in vitro and in a rat model of mandibular distraction osteogenesis (MDO). Rat BMMSCs were isolated then treated with CGRP or CGRP antagonist (CGRP8-37). The proliferation and migration abili...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Jia S,Zhang SJ,Wang XD,Yang ZH,Sun YN,Gupta A,Hou R,Lei DL,Hu KJ,Ye WM,Wang L

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormalities in insulin hormone levels leads to a hyperglycemic condition of diabetic mellitus. Hyperglycemia seriously induces organ and system destructions. The excessive accumulation of collagen fiber deposits occurs in inflammatory and reorganization processes of chronic liver diseases in type I insulin-dependent...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Komolkriengkrai M,Nopparat J,Vongvatcharanon U,Anupunpisit V,Khimmaktong W

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of the β-catenin gene are common in various cancer types. MicroRNA (miR)-24 suppresses gene expression during the cell cycle. However, the effects of miR-24 on the cell viability and autophagy of glioma cells, and how these biological processes are regulated by β-catenin are largely unclear. The current stud...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Chen H,Lu Q,Chen C,Di Y,Li Y,Min W,Yu Z,Dai D

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to apply the best single-energy (SE) scanning in energy spectrum computed tomography (CT) to evaluate the usefulness of lower extremity arterial angiography imaging in patients with lower extremity arterial occlusive disease. A total of 64 patients diagnosed with lower extremity arterial occlus...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Wang G,Zhao D,Ling Z,Wang H,Yu S,Zhang J

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clobetasol propionate (Clo) is a potent topical glucocorticoid and a potential remyelinating agent that has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. However, the effect of Clo on neural stem cells (NSCs) remains largely unknown. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of Clo on the di...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Shi W,Bi S,Dai Y,Yang K,Zhao Y,Zhang Z

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00