Background and objectives: Achillea is an ancient medicinal herb. The genus comprises about 100 species which are mostly distributed in northern hemisphere and some have been investigated for different biological activities. There are also several reports in Iranian Traditional Medicine (ITM) texts about its anti-tumor effect. The cytotoxic activity of the methanol extract of Achil...

Macrophages (Mphi) contribute to the resolution of early inflammation by recognizing and ingesting apoptotic polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN). In addition, experiments reported here demonstrated that Mphi can actively induce PMN apoptosis. Coculture of cells from 2- or 5-day-old wounds in rats, or of Mphi purified from such preparations, with PMN-rich wound cell populations obtained 1 day af...

Background/Aim: This study was designed to investigate the effect of IL-39 on T24 bladder cancer (BC) cell line survival and growth. Materials Methods: In order assess direct survival, proliferation, apoptosis BC cells, we utilized a clonogenic assay, proliferation caspase-3 activity kits. Potential proliferative apoptotic molecular mechanisms were evaluated by RT-PCR. Results: Treatment cells ...

Eosinophils have crucial role in allergic inflammation and asthma. Prolong survival and pathological accumulation at the site of inflammation exclusively related to destructive activity of these pathogenic granulocytes by releasing tissue toxic and inflammatory granule proteins. Any deficiency in eosinophil apoptosis may put in to condition of eosinophilia. Thus, removal of eosinophils by induc...

background: alzheimer’s disease (ad) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease and nowadays the role of endothelial cell (ec) injury has been proposed in pathological process in ad. peroxisome proliferator‑activated receptor‑γ (ppar‑γ) agonist has anti‑inflammatory properties through activation in glial cells and improves vascular function and prevent atherosclerotic disease progression. the a...

Vaccinia virus (VACV) is a large dsDNA virus encoding ~200 proteins, several of which inhibit apoptosis. Here, a comparative study of anti-apoptotic proteins N1, F1, B13 and Golgi anti-apoptotic protein (GAAP) in isolation and during viral infection is presented. VACVs strains engineered to lack each gene separately still blocked apoptosis to some degree because of functional redundancy provide...

Abstract A poptosis r elated protein in T GF-? s ignaling pathway (ARTS) was originally discovered cells undergoing apoptosis response to TGF-?, but ARTS also acts downstream of many other apoptotic stimuli. induces by antagonizing the anti-apoptotic proteins XIAP and Bcl-2. Here we identified pro-apoptotic Sept4/ARTS gene as a p53-responsive target gene. Ectopic p53 variety p53-inducing agents...

Biodegradable polymeric nanoparticles (NPs) have been intensively studied as a possible way to enhance anti-tumor efficacy while reducing side effects. ICD-85, derived from the venom of two separate species of venomous animals, has been shown to exhibit anti-cancer activity. In this report polymer based sodium alginate nanoparticles of ICD-85 was used to enhance its therapeutic effects and redu...