Berberine attenuates Aβ-induced neuronal damage through regulating miR-188/NOS1 in Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a public health issue worldwide. Berberine (Ber) acts as the neuroprotective role in an animal experiment of AD. MicroRNA-188 (miRNA-188) was reported to be decreased in primary hippocampal neurons of mice.

MicroRNA-425-5p promotes tau phosphorylation and cell apoptosis in Alzheimer's disease by targeting heat shock protein B8.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent and age-related dementia accompanied by neurodegenerative disorder, memory loss, and abnormal behaviors. Recent studies have shown an increasing interest in studying the role of microRNAs (miRNAs) and their potential values in the early diagnostics of AD. MiR-425-5p has extensively expression within various tissues and organs, acting as an important regulator in many pathological procedures.

Study of symptom dimensions and clinical characteristics in Chinese patients with OCD.

Background: The current study explored the main symptom dimensions and clinical characteristics of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in Chinese patients.

Methods: Obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms of participants (N=512) were assessed through the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale Checklist (YBOCS-CL). Exploratory category-level and item-level factor analyses were performed.

A scalable synthesis of an azabicyclooctanyl derivative, a novel DPP-4 inhibitor.

A practical synthetic strategy to a chiral azabicycclooctanyl derivative (1), a potent DPP-4 inhibitor, starting from a commercially available nortropine is described. The stereogenic center of 1 was established employing a modified protocol of Ellman's diastereoselective addition of a benzylic nucleophile to tert-butanesulfinimine. Other key steps include Corey-Chaykovsky reaction, Meinwald rearrangement, and CDMT-promoted amide bond formation involving a sterically hindered amine 2.

[Application of high resolution mass spectra to the analysis of alpha-thiocarbonylthioformamides].

Acetophenone and its derivatives reacted on thionyl chloride to form an intermediate, which can react on the secondary aminnes to form alpha-carbonylthioformamides (1a-1f), followed by sulfurization with lawesson reagent to give target compounds alpha-thiocarbonylthioformamides (2a-2f). Compounds 2a-2f are the deep-red or deep-green crystals because there are two thiocarbonyl groups in the molecule, and they can be used as far-infraed adsorbent dyes, laser-Q switch and organic conductors. Moreover, they are very important intermediates, can react on reagents with amino or diamino groups to produce a variety of acyclic or heterocyclic compounds, which can be used as pesticides and medicines.