Liver fibrosis is an outcome of many chronic liver diseases and often results in cirrhosis, failure even hepatocarcinoma. Zhuyu zhenggan decoction as a classical traditional Chinese medicine formula used to clinical practice while its mechanism unclear. The aim this study was investigate the anti-fibrosis effect explore molecular mechanisms by combining network pharmacology animal experiment. c...

Long-term potentiation (LTP) is a process that certain types of synaptic stimulation lead to a long-lasting enhancement in the strength of synaptic transmission. Studies in recent years indicate the importance of molecular pathways in the development of memory and learning. Tropomyosin receptor kinase B (TrkB) is a member of the neurotrophin receptor tyrosine kinase family, that its ligand is b...

oxymatrine, a potent monosomic alkaloid extracted from chinese herb sophora japonica (sophora flavescens ait.). possesses anti-inflammatory activittyes.  this study was designed to investigate the effects of oxymatrine on nuclear factor–kappa b (nf-κb) and mitogen-activated protein kinase (mapk)-dependent inflammatory responses in lipopolysaccharide (lps)-activated microglia. in this paper, bv2...

signaling amp-activated protein kinase (ampk), an energy sensing enzyme, has been implicated in controlling inflammation. in this study we investigated whether activation of ampk by metformin could protect the lung from lipopolysaccharide (lps)-induced acute injury by inhibitingng tlr4 pathway. male wistar rats were randomly divided into 3 groups (n=6): control group received normal saline (0.5...

the ds-rna activated protein kinase (pkr) is a serine-threonine kinase with mw of 68 kda. it belongs to a family of kinases that control one of the translational initiation factors, eif2. pkr is produced at high level in response to viral infection. this protein by phosphorylating eif2 inhibits cellular protein synthesis. in this study, the effect of gamma interferon (ifn-γ), an activator, and ...

methods campylobacter jejuni atcc 33291 and seven isolates donated from instituto de biotecnologia were used in this study. the presence of cdt genes in c. jejuni strains was determined by pcr. to evaluate the effect of cdt, hela cells were treated with bacterial lysate, and the damage and morphological changes were analyzed by microscopy, immunofluorescence staining, and flow cytometry. to eva...

Considering that MAPK (mitogen- activated protein kinase) signaling pathway has an important role in the progression of inflammatory cytokine secretion in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), we have recently investigated the reported genetic polymorphism from genome wide association study in MAP3K1 (mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase 1) in diabetes as an important member of MAPK signal...

The aim of the present study was todeterminecharacteristics of Rheb gene and protein in Raini Cashmere goat. Comparative analyses of the nucleotide sequences were performed. Open reading frames (ORFs), theoretical molecular weights of deduced polypeptides, the protein isoelectric point, protein characteristics and three-dimensional structures was predicted using online standard softwares. The f...

Objective(s): This study aims to investigate the pathogenicity and possible mechanisms of S100A9 function in mice models of scleroderma. Materials and Methods: The content of S100A9 in the skin tissues of mice with scleroderma was determined. Different concentrations of bleomycin (BLM) and S100A9 were subcutaneously injected into the backs of mice simultaneously, and then pathological changes i...