Purpose: To evaluate the effects of trifolirhizin on diabetic nephropathy (DN), and mechanism action. 
 Methods: Male db/db mice (8 weeks, n = 24) age-matched control (n 6) were obtained. The further divided into four groups administered increasing doses (0, 12.5, 25 50 mg/kg). Histological analysis renal tissues performed by H & E staining. Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) creatinine determi...

AIM To investigate whether early apoptotic changes in spermatozoa can be significant markers for sperm quality. METHODS Two early apoptotic changes in the semen of 56 men were assessed using Annexin V (AN)/propidium iodide (PI) staining for phosphatidylserine externalization and JC-1 staining for mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP). The results were compared with conventional semen paramet...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Ku70 and Ku86, multifunctional DNA repair proteins, bind to broken DNA ends, including double-strand breaks, and trigger a DNA repair pathway. To investigate the involvement of these proteins in DNA fragmentation after ischemia/reperfusion, Ku protein expression was examined before and after transient focal cerebral ischemia (FCI) in mice. METHODS Adult male CD-1 mice w...

We applied in situ hybridization and the TUNEL technique to free-floating (vibratomed) sections of embryonic and postnatal mouse CNS. Full-length cDNAs specific for oligodendrocyte- or astrocyte-specific genes were labeled with digoxigenin using the random primer method. With paraformaldehyde-fixed sections, the nonradioactive in situ hybridization method provides detection of individual, very ...

Monocrotaline (MCT) is a pyrrolizidine alkaloid (PA) plant toxin that produces sinusoidal endothelial cell (SEC) injury, hemorrhage, fibrin deposition, and coagulative hepatic parenchymal cell (HPC) oncosis in centrilobular regions of rat livers. Cells with apoptotic morphology have been observed in the livers of animals exposed to other PAs. Whether apoptosis occurs in the livers of MCT-treate...

Objective: Even if epileptic women can give birth to healthy babies, the rates of premature birth, low weight, fetal and neonatal death risk, congenital malformations growth retardation in pregnant who use antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are high compared population. The present study aimed examine effects AED Lacosamide (LCM) during pregnancy on fetus terms neuronal embryonic development 48-hour ch...

PURPOSE To evaluate myofibroblast differentiation as an etiology of haze at the graft-host interface in a cat model of Descemet's Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty (DSAEK). METHODS DSAEK was performed on 10 eyes of 5 adult domestic short-hair cats. In vivo corneal imaging with slit lamp, confocal, and optical coherence tomography (OCT) were performed twice weekly. Cats were sacrifi...

Transient receptor potential cation (TRPC) channel proteins are abundantly expressed in brain. However, the functions of these TRPC proteins such as TRPC1 are largely unclear. In this study, we reported that TRPC1 deficiency caused movement disorder as measured by swimming test, modified open field test and sunflower seeds eating test. Immunofluorescent staining showed significant loss of both ...

Artemisinin (AR) is a widely used antimalarial drug. Recently, additional uses for AR as an anticancer drug were discovered. Using TUNEL, immunohistochemistry (IHS) markers and flow cytometry techniques, we evaluated the effect of AR and 5-FU on HPV 16 immortalized and transformed human gingival epithelial (IHGK) cells. The results of TUNEL showed that AR-treated IHGK cells consisted of 82% pos...