Hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia have been symptoms of many serious diseases such as diabetes and atherosclerosis overall the world. Thus, drug researchers have focused on new, natural and healthy drug alternatives. Marine macroalgae is a great source of hypoglycemic, hypolipidemic or hypocholesterolemic agents. In this study, we investigated that hypoglycemic, hypolipidemic a...

The effect of selective PDE-I (vinpocetine), PDE-III (milrinone, CI-930), PDE-IV (rolipram, nitroquazone), and PDE-V (zaprinast) isozyme inhibitors on TNF-alpha and IL-1beta production from LPS stimulated human monocytes was investigated. The PDE-IV inhibitors caused a concentration dependent inhibition of TNF-alpha production, but only partially inhibited IL-1beta at high concentrations. High ...

Streptokinase-plasmin complex (SkPl) was prepared with human plasminogen. Regulation of SkPl and plasmin by the plasma proteinase inhibitors, alpha 2-antiplasmin (alpha 2AP) and alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha 2M), was studied as a function of temperature in plasminogen-depleted human plasma, mouse plasma, and solutions of purified proteins. The reaction of plasmin with proteinase inhibitors in hu...

Treatment of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) from Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) has evolved from surgical therapy to medical monotherapy to combination therapy. First-line medical therapy for men with LUTS remains agents that decrease outlet resistance: alpha-adrenergic antagonists and 5alpha-reductase inhibitors. Alpha-adrenergic agents decrease smooth muscle tone in the prostate and ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the associations between preoperative treatment with 5-alpha reductase inhibitors and the risks of blood transfusion during transurethral resection of the prostate and blood clot evacuation or emergency department visits for hematuria within 1 month after surgery. METHODS We used data from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database in this population-based coh...