1.Otopoint-penetrative needling and aligned needling therapy for 61 cases of cervical spondylosis of nerve-root type.
Xian-Bing HOU ; Ying-Li LIU ; Mei-Ying WANG
Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion 2014;34(7):651-652
Acupuncture Points
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Acupuncture, Ear
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instrumentation
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Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle Aged
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Spinal Nerve Roots
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physiopathology
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Spondylosis
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physiopathology
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therapy
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Young Adult
2.Changes of plasma ghrelin concentrations after oral glucose loading in obese children.
Ge-li LIU ; Shu-ying WANG ; Xian-cheng MA
Chinese Journal of Pediatrics 2007;45(7):543-544
Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Ghrelin
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blood
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Glucose
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pharmacology
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Humans
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Male
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Obesity
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blood
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Time Factors
3.The application of enzyme-sensitive activatable cell-penetrating peptides to targeted delivery system.
Fan HE ; Li CAO ; Xue-Jing ZHANG ; Bai XIANG ; De-Ying CAO ; Xian-Rong QI
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica 2015;50(2):141-147
Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) offer a non-selective and receptor-independent mode to promote cellular uptake. Although the non-specificity of CPP-mediated internalization allows this approach applicable to a wide range of tumor types potentially, their universality is a significant obstacle to their clinical utility for targeted delivery of cancer therapeutics and imaging agents. Accordingly, many reports have focused on selective switching of systemically delivered inert CPPs into their active form in lesions (tumor). In this review, our attention is mainly confined to such an enzyme-sensitive domain incorporated delivery system with activatable CPPs (ACPPs), which have displayed the exciting strength in balancing the CPPs' pros and cons, and potential in the treatment and diagnosis of some diseases.
Cell-Penetrating Peptides
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chemistry
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Drug Delivery Systems
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Enzymes
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chemistry
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Humans
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Neoplasms
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drug therapy
4.The molecular mechanism between baicalin metal complexes and bovin serum album.
Ming GUO ; Xian TAN ; Ying WANG ; Xiao-yan GAO ; Zhou-ling WU ; Li-jun ZHANG
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica 2015;50(5):613-620
In this paper, the new carbon nanotube modified glassy carbon electrode (F-CNTs/GCE) was prepared to establish a new method for studying the molecular interaction mechanism between baicalin metal complexes (BMC) and bovine serum album (BSA), and the principle of this method was discussed deeply. Under the physiological condition, the thermodynamics and kinetics properties of interaction between BMC and BSA were studied by cyclic voltammetry (CV) to inference their molecular effective mechanism. The results show that the presence of F-CNTs can accelerate the electron transfer, and better response signal was showed in the BMC/BMC-BSA system. The detection of interaction of BMC-BSA used new method show that BMC-BSA generates stable thermodynamically non-covalent compounds, and the obtained average binding sites of BMC-BSA were 1.7; the number of electron transfer in BMC/BMC-BSA reaction process was 2, and non electroactive supramolecular compounds of BMC-BSA were generated by this interacting reaction. The relevant research work provides a new way to study the molecular mechanism for the interaction of drugs with protein, and with a certain reference value for discussion on the non covalent interactions.
Animals
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Cattle
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Coordination Complexes
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chemistry
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Electrodes
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Flavonoids
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chemistry
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Kinetics
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Nanotubes, Carbon
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Serum Albumin, Bovine
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chemistry
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Thermodynamics
5.Study on impact of ethanol extracts from Sedum sarmentosum in inhibiting STAT-3 signaling and inducing apoptosis of human hepatocellular carcinoma cell line HepG2.
Jun-Ying ZENG ; Sheng-Hua LI ; Xian-Jin WU ; Dan LIU ; Xiong WAN
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica 2014;39(17):3349-3352
OBJECTIVETo investigate the impact of ethanol extracts from Sedum sarmentosum (ESB) on STAT-3 signaling and its probable molecular mechanism in inducing apoptosis.
METHODMTT assay was used to detect the impact of ESB on HepG2 cell proliferation. FITC-Annexin V-FITC /PI double-labeling were used to investigate the impact on hepatoma carcinoma cell apoptosis. Western blot analysis was used to test the expression levels of cell apoptosis-related proteins Caspase-3, Caspase-9, PARP, P-STAT-3 (Tyr705) , STAT-3, Bcl-2, Mcl-1.
RESULTESB could notably inhibit proliferation of HepG2 cells, and induce HepG2 cell apoptosis, with the dose-dependent inhibitory effect. In addition, ESB could inhibit STAT-3 signaling, down-regulate Mcl-1 and Bcl-2 expressions, and induce degradation/activation of apoptosis-related proteins Caspase-3 and Caspase-9 and PARP degradation in a dose-dependent manner.
CONCLUSIONESB inhibits HepG2 cell proliferation and induces apoptosis by inhibiting STAT-3 signaling and Mcl-1 and Bcl-2 expressions.
Apoptosis ; drug effects ; Blotting, Western ; Caspase 3 ; metabolism ; Caspase 9 ; metabolism ; Cell Proliferation ; drug effects ; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ; Ethanol ; chemistry ; Flow Cytometry ; Hep G2 Cells ; Humans ; Myeloid Cell Leukemia Sequence 1 Protein ; metabolism ; Plant Extracts ; chemistry ; pharmacology ; Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases ; metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2 ; metabolism ; STAT3 Transcription Factor ; metabolism ; Sedum ; chemistry ; Signal Transduction ; drug effects ; Time Factors
6.Comparative analysis of seven marine biological source of mineral drugs.
Wei SI ; Ru-na A ; Shang-rong LI ; Jing-Xian ZHANG ; Wan-ying WU ; Ya-jun CUI
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica 2014;39(17):3321-3325
The marine biological source of mineral drugs recorded in Chinese Pharmacopoeia (2010 version) mainly including pearl, nacre, clam shell, common oyster shell, ark shell, cuttle bone, and sea-ear shell are widely used in clinical. Calcium carbonate and a small amount of protein are the main components in this type of drugs. In this paper, a systematical and comparable study were carried out by determination of calcium carbonate by EDTA titration method, the crystal of calcium carbonate by X-Ray powder diffraction and the total amino acids (TAAs) of the hydrolyzed samples by ultraviolet spectrophotometry method. As a result, the crystal structure is calcite for common oyster shell, mixture of calcite and aragonite for nacre and sea-ear shell, aragonite for the other drugs. The content of calcium carbonate ranged from 86% to 96%. Cuttle bone has the highest amount of TAAs among the seven drugs which reached 1.7% while clam shell has the lowest content of 0.16% on average. In conclusion, an effective method was developed for the quality control of marine mineral drugs by comprehensive analysis of calcium carbonate and TAAs in the seven marine mineral drugs.
Amino Acids
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analysis
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chemistry
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Animal Shells
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chemistry
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Animals
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Calcium Carbonate
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analysis
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chemistry
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Crystallization
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Edetic Acid
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chemistry
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Mollusca
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chemistry
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classification
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Pharmaceutical Preparations
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analysis
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chemistry
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standards
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Quality Control
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Reproducibility of Results
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Seawater
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Species Specificity
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Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
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X-Ray Diffraction
7.Comprehensive therapy for 53 cases of qi-stagnation constitution.
Xian-Bing HOU ; Hui ZHAO ; Ying-Li LIU
Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion 2012;32(3):227-228
Acupuncture Therapy
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Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Anxiety Disorders
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therapy
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle Aged
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Qi
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Young Adult
8.Study on integrative point of traditional and western medicine--from "integrative disease and syndrome" to "integrative pathological process and syndrome".
Zhen-ying LI ; Xing-xian ZHANG ; Zi-cheng XU
Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine 2005;25(3):259-262
The clinical thinking modes of "integrative disease and Syndrome" and "integrative macroscopical Syndrome-differentiation and microscopical Syndrome-differentiation" formed in the past half century were merely the primary train of thought and methodology of integrative traditional Chinese and Western medicine. In order to develop them to a higher level, stress should be put on the unity and holism of disordered organism and unity of function, structure and metabolism. It has long been ignored that a parallel and correlated relationship exists between the TCM Syndrome and pathological process of Western medicine, which is a common, set-formed and regular pathophysiological changes with certain development phase, presented in various diseases. Both have common features as that the same pathological process can be seen in different diseases and several pathological progresses can present in one disease, the same Syndrome also can be seen in different diseases and several Syndromes can present in a disease. Moreover, they have the compatible connotation and denotation. The author deduced that pathophysiological basis of main Syndrome is indeed the basic pathological process. Essence of Syndrome is the related pathological processes including abnormal changes in function, metabolism and morphological structure.
Biomedical Research
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methods
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Clinical Medicine
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methods
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Drug Therapy, Combination
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Holistic Health
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Humans
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Medicine, Chinese Traditional
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methods
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Pathology, Clinical
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methods
9.Ginkgo biloba extract 50 inhibited beta-amyloid-induced oxidative stress in rats' hippocampal neurons: an experimental study.
Chen-Yi XIA ; Xian-Wen DONG ; Yan ZHAO ; Ying XU ; Li HAO ; Zhi-Xiong ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine 2014;34(7):833-838
UNLABELLEDOBJECTIVE To study the in vitro effect and mechanism of Ginkgo biloba Extract 50 (GBE50) for inhibiting beta-amyloid (Abeta)-induced oxidative stress in rats' hippocampal neurons.
METHODSThe primary hippocampal neurons were cultured in vitro and divided into 4 groups, i. e. the normal control group (Ctrl), the Abeta group, the propanediol control group (PDO), and the six GBE50 concentrations groups (5, 10, 25, 50, 100, and 200 microg/mL). Excepted the Ctrl group, neurons were induced to oxidative stress by 20 gmolLAbeta25-35. The MTT and fluorescent probes labeling were used to observe the effect of GBE50 with different concentrations on the cell viability and the generation of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) in neurons. Furthermore, Western blot was used to detect the cytoplasmic/total cytochrome C (Cyto C) ratio and total intracytoplasmal Cyto C, and the effect of the expression of oxidative stress-related protein Cyto C and activated Caspase-3 in three GBE50 concentrations groups (25, 50, and 100 microg/mL).
RESULTSCompared with the Ctrl group, the cell vitality was obviously lowered and intracellular ROS generation significantly increased after induction of 20 micromol/L Abeta25-35 (both P < 0.05). Compared with the Abeta group, the cell vitality was evidently improved after treated with different GBE50 doses. Except for 10 microg/mL, the cell vitality could be obviously elevated along with increased drug concentrations (P < 0.05). Meanwhile, the intracellular ROS generation decreased significantly in each GBE50 dose groups (P < 0.05). Abeta could increase the cytoplasmic/total Cyto C ratio and enhance the activated Caspase-3 expression significantly (P < 0.05). Compared with the Abeta group, among the three concentrations of GBE50, the Cyto C ratio was obviously lowered in the 100 microg/mL GBE50 group (P < 0.05), and the expression of activated Caspase-3 significantly decreased in 50 microg/mL and 100 microg/mL GBE50 groups (P < 0.05).
CONCLUSIONS20 micromol/L Abeta25-35 could induce the generation of intracellular ROS in hippocampal neurons. GBE50 could inhibit Abeta induced intracellular oxidative stress of neurons through lowering the cytoplasmic/total Cyto C ratio and inhibiting the activation of apoptosis protein Caspase-3 expression.
Amyloid beta-Peptides ; toxicity ; Animals ; Cells, Cultured ; Cytochromes c ; metabolism ; Hippocampus ; metabolism ; Neurons ; drug effects ; metabolism ; Oxidative Stress ; drug effects ; Peptide Fragments ; toxicity ; Plant Extracts ; pharmacology ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley
10.Enhanced effect of guizhi plus Gegen Decoction on learning and memory disorder in LPS induced neuroinflammatory mice.
Ying XU ; Zong-Qi ZHANG ; Yan ZHAO ; Xian-Wen DONG ; Xing-Yu WANG ; Li-Qing ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine 2014;34(2):179-184
OBJECTIVETo explore the potential effect of Guizhi plus Gegen Decoction (GGD) in improving learning and memory of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) induced neuroinflammatory mice and its possible mechanisms.
METHODSTotally 63 male ICR mice were randomly divided into 5 groups, i.e., the normal control (n = 13), the model group (n = 13), the low dose GGD group (n = 10), the high dose GGD group (n = 14), and the positive control group (n = 13). Mice were intraperitoneally injected with LPS (0.33 mg/kg) to induce Alzheimer's disease (AD) model. Mice in the high and the low dose GGD groups were administered with 12 g/kg or 6 g/kg by gastrogavage for 4 successive weeks. Mice in the control group were intraperitoneally injected with minocycline (50 mg/kg) for 3 days. By the end of treatment LPS were injected 4 h before behavior test each day, and then behavior test was conducted in mice of each group. Effect of GGD on learning and memory of AD mice was observed by using open field test, novel object recognition task, and Morris water maze.
RESULTSOpen field test showed there was no statistical difference in the movement time and the movement distance among all groups (P > 0.05), suggesting that LPS and GGD had no effect on locomotor activities of mice. In novel object recognition test, AD mice spent significantly shorter time to explore novel object after they were induced by LPS (P < 0.05), while for AD mice in the low and high dose GGD groups, their capacities for exploration and memory were significantly improved (P < 0. 05, P < 0.01). Results of Morris water maze showed that AD mice exhibited increased escape latency (P < 0.05) and spent much less time in swimming across the original platform (both P < 0.05). However, AD mice in the low and high dose GGD groups had obvious shortened latency and increased time percentage for swimming (P < 0.05, P < 0.01).
CONCLUSIONGGD possessed certain improvement in learning and memory disorder of LPS induced AD mice.
Alzheimer Disease ; chemically induced ; drug therapy ; psychology ; Animals ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; therapeutic use ; Lipopolysaccharides ; adverse effects ; Male ; Memory Disorders ; prevention & control ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred ICR ; Neuritis ; chemically induced ; drug therapy ; psychology ; Phytotherapy