Leukemia is a malignant clonal illness stem from the mutations of hematopoietic cells. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is one of the utmost prevalent kinds of leukemia, is brought on by atypical lymphoid progenitor cell division in the bone marrow. A comparative study between, titanium Nanoparticle-loaded doxorubicin or cisplatin and lactoferrin-loaded doxorubicin or cisplatin, on 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]-anthracene (DMBA)-induced leukemia was investigated and confirming the hypothesis that messenger RNA of is a forthcoming signaling pathways in leukemia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo clarify the alternation of gene expression responsible for resistance of Adriamycin (ADR) in rats, in addition to investigation of a novel promising drug-delivery system using titanium dioxide nanoparticles loaded with ADR (TiO2-ADR). Breast cancer was induced in female Sprague-Dawley rats, followed by treatment with ADR (5 mg/kg) or TiO-ADR (2 mg/kg) for 1 month. Significant improvements in both zinc and calcium levels were observed with TiO-ADR treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPharmacol Res
March 2023
Triple-negative breast cancer is one of the most aggressive breast cancer. The first therapeutic option is chemotherapy, often based on anthracycline as doxorubicin. However, chemotherapy efficacy is limited in by the presence of P-glycoprotein (Pgp), a membrane transporter protein that effluxes doxorubicin, reducing its cellular accumulation and toxicity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiabetes is considered one of the most important health emergencies worldwide and Egypt has 8.2 million diabetic patients according to the International Diabetes Federation report in 2017. The objective of this study was to monitor the time-course variation in the metabolic profile of diabetic rats to detect urinary metabolic biomarkers using the metabolomics approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFis a sea grass belonging to the family Posidoniaceae, which stands out as a substantial reservoir of bioactive compounds. In this study, the secondary metabolites of the rhizome were annotated using UPLC-HRESI-MS/MS, revealing 86 compounds including simple phenolic acids, flavonoids, and their sulphated conjugates. Moreover, the butanol extract exhibited substantial antioxidant and antidiabetic effects .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLiposomal drug-delivery systems (LDDs) provide a promising opportunity to precisely target organs, improve drug bioavailability and reduce systemic toxicity. On the other hand, PIK/Akt signaling pathways control various intracellular functions including apoptosis, invasion and cell growth. Hyper activation of PI3K and Akt is detected in some types of cancer that posses defect in PTEN.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DMT2) is contributed to dual interactions between environmental factors and certain genetic factors. This impressed a great need for novel treatment strategy. Nevertheless, ( as a terrestrial herb is considered to be an important source of natural antioxidants, it could be assessed as an anti-hyperglycemic agent.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMultidrug resistance (MDR) is a critical hindrance to the success of cancer chemotherapy. The main thing responsible for MDR phenotypes are plasma-membranes associated with adenosine triphosphate (ATP) Binding Cassette (ABC) drug efflux transporters, such as the P-glycoprotein (Pgp) transporter that has the broadest spectrum of substrates. Curcumin (CURC) is a Pgp inhibitor, but it is poorly soluble and bioavailable.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of the present work is to evaluate the toxicity of titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiONPs) according to their doses and particle sizes. The effect of five days oral administration of TiONPs (21 and 80 nm) with different doses (50, 250 and 500 mg/kg body weight) was assessed in mice via measurement of oxidative stress markers; glutathione (GSH), superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), malondialdehyde (MDA) and nitric oxide (NO), liver function indices; aspartate and alanine aminotransferases (AST and ALT), chromosomal aberrations and liver histopathological pattern. The results revealed drastic alterations in all the measured parameters and showed positive correlation with the gradual dose increment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe expedient fungi (s) is able to thrive in many host niches including blood stream, skin, mucosal surfaces, and different body organs. Herein, the assessment of novel synthesized pyrimidine derivatives as anti fungal agent was investigated. Female albino mice were injected intraperitoneally by s (1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNon-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a leading cause of chronic liver disease in western countries. The current study aimed to detect and evaluate lipidomic biomarkers for early detection of NAFLD as well as the potential efficiency of methanolic extract of Eclipta prostrata (E. prostrata) on disease management.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA polysaccharide characterized as galactomannan (GMann) with a molecular weight of 117.76 kDa was isolated from the aqueous extract of Caesalpinia gilliesii (C. gilliesii) seeds then assessed for antiproliferative potential against human hepatocellular carcinoma cell line (HepG2).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNanotechnology is a promising era of medicine for developing targeted drug delivery system. Chitosan nanoparticles (CNPs) have attracted increasing attention for their wide applications as anticancer drugs. This article is concerned with the therapeutic index of chitosan nanoparticles against diethyl nitrosamine (DEN) induced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObesity is one of the independent risk factors for several health problems, leading to metabolic perturbations and for which analytical approaches i.e., "metabolomics" is needed to monitor the underlying metabolic changes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Dengue is one of the major public health problems in the world, affecting more than fifty million cases in tropical and subtropical region every year. The metabolome, as pathophysiological end-points, provide significant understanding of the mechanism and progression of dengue pathogenesis via changes in the metabolite profile of infected patients. Recent developments in diagnostic technologies provide metabolomics for the early detection of infectious diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBreast Cancer (Dove Med Press)
February 2017
Background: Recently, several research studies have been focused on the isolation and function of the polysaccharides derived from different algal species, which revealed multiple biological activities such as antioxidant and antitumor activities. This study assesses the possible breast cancer chemopreventive properties of common seaweeds, sea lettuce, (ulvan) polysaccharides using in vitro bioassays on human breast cancer cell line (MCF-7) and an in vivo animal model of breast carcinogenesis.
Methods: Cytotoxic effect of ulvan polysaccharides on MCF-7 was tested in vitro.
Objective: To determine the metabolic response associate with dengue infection based on human gender metabolic differences by means of (1)H NMR-spectrometry.
Methods: The mid-stream urine collected from both male and female patients diagnosed with dengue fever at Penang General Hospital and fourty-three healthy individuals were analyzed with (1)H NMR spectroscopy, followed by chemometric multivariate analysis. NMR signals which highlighted in the OPLS-DA S-plot were further selected and identified using Human Metabolome Database, Chenomx Profiler.
Egypt has the highest prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the world. It has been suggested that not only the virus but also the interaction between the virus and the host immune system is important in determining the course of the infection and the response to interferon (IFN)-based therapy. While the adaptive immune system plays a critical role in HCV infection, the innate immune system has only been recognized recently.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To study the influence of sociological factors, breast feeding and weaning on aflatoxin exposure in children as well as to determine the effect of aflatoxin exposure on child's growth.
Methods: A questionnaire, administered to the mothers of forty-six children, obtained information on the child's age, sex, residence, feeding, weaning and general health status. Maternal parity, education and occupation were also collected.
In schistosomiasis, the host/parasite interaction remains not completely understood. Many questions related to the susceptibility of snails to infection by respective trematode still remain unanswered. The control of schistosomiasis requires a good understanding of the host/parasite association.
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