Publications by authors named "Doudou Hao"

Timely treatment of acute inflammatory diseases induced by bacteria or fungi is essential to prevent infectious damage. Baricitinib is an inhibitor of Janus kinases (JAKs) which was approved to treat rheumatoid arthritis, atoptic dermatitis, and alopecia areata. It is also known that JAKs play important roles in innate immunity and inflammatory response.

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  • High-altitude environments can lead to bone density loss, and understanding how this happens is crucial for developing treatments; this study investigated bone changes in young rats exposed to low oxygen conditions and the effects of bloodletting therapy.
  • Male juvenile Sprague-Dawley rats were placed in simulated high-altitude conditions for 12 weeks, with some receiving a weekly bloodletting treatment, and various techniques were used to analyze their bone structure.
  • Results showed a significant decrease in bone quality due to low oxygen, with changes in specific bone-related proteins, but bloodletting's overall impact on bone structure was minimal despite some regulatory effects on gene expression.
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  • The study aimed to identify factors that influence plasma clot retraction and improve the experimental methods for analyzing this process, focusing on platelet function regulation and drug effects.
  • Researchers experimented with varying concentrations of thrombin, calcium ions, and platelets to refine a detection system for plasma clot retraction, ensuring its reliability by testing various signaling pathway inhibitors.
  • Results indicated that using platelet rich plasma with specific thrombin and calcium concentrations led to significant plasma clot retraction, and confirmed that certain inhibitors could notably affect this retraction process.
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Introduction: Intestinal microorganisms play an important role in the health of both humans and animals, with their composition being influenced by changes in the host's environment.

Methods: We evaluated the longitudinal changes in the fecal microbial community of rats at different altitudes across various time points. Rats were airlifted to high altitude (3,650 m) and acclimatized for 42 days (HAC), before being by airlifted back to low altitude (500 m) and de-acclimatized for 28 days (HADA); meanwhile, the control group included rats living at low altitude (500 m; LA).

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Objective To compare the functional differences between bone marrow derived macrophages and peritoneal macrophages, which may provide the basis for the selection of macrophages in immunological research and immunoregulatory drug evaluation. Methods Marophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) was used to induce the differentiation of bone marrow monocytes into macrophages, and thioglycolate medium was used to induce peritonitis to obtain peritoneal macrophages. After both macrophages being stimulated by zymosan, LPS, R848 and CpG respectively, mRNA levels of tumor necrosis factor α(TNF-α), interleukin 6(IL-6), macrophage inflammatory protein 1α(MIP-1α), monocyte chemoattractant protein 1(MCP-1) were measured by Real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR and the concentrations of secreted TNF-α, IL-6, MIP-1α and MCP-1 were detected by ELISA.

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Background:  Vascular injury results in uncontrollable hemorrhage in hemorrhagic diseases and excessive antithrombotic therapy. Safe and efficient hemostatic agents which can be orally administered are urgently needed. Platelets play indispensable roles in hemostasis, but there is no drug exerting hemostatic effects through enhancing platelet function.

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As an emerging drug delivery vehicle, yeast glucan particles (YGPs) derived from yeast cells could be specifically taken up by macrophages. Therefore, these vehicles could rely on the recruitment of macrophages at the site of inflammation and tumors to enable targeted imaging and drug delivery. This review summarizes recent advances in the application of YGPs in oral targeted delivery systems, covering the basic structure of yeast cells, methods for pre-preparation, drug encapsulation and characterization.

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Due to environmental hypoxia on the Tibetan Plateau, local residents often exhibit a compensative increase in hemoglobin concentration to maintain the body's oxygen supply. However, increases in hemoglobin and hematocrit (Hct) pose a serious challenge to the quality of stored suspended red blood cells (SRBCs) prepared from the blood of high-hemoglobin populations, especially populations at high altitude with polycythemia in Tibet. To explore the difference in storage quality of SRBCs prepared from plateau residents with a high hemoglobin concentration, blood donors were recruited from Tibet (> 3600 m) and Chengdu (≈ 500 m) and divided into a high-altitude control (HAC) group, high-altitude polycythemia (HAPC) group and lowland control (LLC) group according to their hemoglobin concentration and altitude of residence.

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This study aimed to explore the potentiating effect and mechanism of the extract of Jingfang Granules(JFG) on the activation of macrophages. The RAW264.7 cells were treated with JFG extract and then stimulated by multiple agents.

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Oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy regimens are recommended for patients with advanced colorectal cancer (CRC). However, oxaliplatin (OXA) can cause toxic side effects at the recommended dosage. Therefore, it is necessary to find new drug candidates that can synergize with OXA and thereby lower the OXA dose while still maintaining its efficacy.

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Iron overload can lead to chronic complications, serious organ dysfunction or death in the body. Under hypoxic conditions, the body needs more iron to produce red blood cells to adapt to the hypoxic environment. The prevalence of iron overload in the Tibetan population is higher than that in the Han population.

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the regulatory effect of salidroside on the intestinal flora of mice with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and its protective effect in the body.

Patients And Methods: We acclimated 8-week-old mice for 7 days, divided them into 4 groups, and continued dosing for 8 weeks. We recorded weekly blood glucose levels and body weight for each mouse.

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Antimicrobial resistance has been an increasing public health threat in recent years. Antimicrobial peptides are considered as potential drugs against drug-resistant bacteria because they are mainly broad-spectrum and are unlikely to cause resistance. In this study, a novel peptide was obtained from the skin secretion of Agalychnis callidryas using the "shotgun" cloning method.

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is the major etiological agent for most gastric cancer. CagA has been reported to be an important virulence factor of , but its effect on the immune response is not yet clear. In this study, wild-type C57BL/6 mice and Ptpn6 mice were randomly assigned for infection with We demonstrated that CagA suppressed -stimulated expression of proinflammatory cytokines in vivo.

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  • Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is linked to poor islet mass and survival rates, prompting a study to identify genes and pathways that could enhance islet longevity during culture.
  • The researchers utilized bioinformatics by analyzing gene expression data from a specific microarray, examining differently methylated genes, and conducting gene ontology and pathway enrichment analyses.
  • Their findings highlighted several key genes (FN1, MKI67, IGF1, MAPK14, COL1A1) associated with important signaling pathways (TGF-beta, MAPK, VEGF) that may play a role in improving islet survival and culture conditions.
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Type I interferons play a pivotal role in innate immune response to virus infection. The protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1 was reported to function as a negative regulator of inflammatory cytokine production by inhibiting activation of NF-κB and MAPKs during bacterial infection, however, the role of SHP-1 in regulating type I interferons remains unknown. Here, we demonstrated that knockout or knockdown of SHP-1 in macrophages promoted both HSV-1- and VSV-induced antiviral immune response.

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The protein translocated intimin receptor (Tir) from enteropathogenic shares sequence similarity with the host cellular immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibition motifs (ITIMs). The ITIMs of Tir are required for Tir-mediated immune inhibition and evasion of host immune responses. However, the underlying molecular mechanism by which Tir regulates immune inhibition remains unclear.

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Dysphania schraderiana is widely distributed in Lhasa (Tibet, China) and used as a traditional medicine. However, the lack of genetic information hinders the understanding of its physiological processes, such as the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites. Herein, we used Illumina Hiseq4000 platform to sequence the transcriptome of flower and leaf tissues from D.

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Many pathogens infect hosts through various immune evasion strategies. However, the molecular mechanisms by which pathogen proteins modulate and evade the host immune response remain unclear. Enterohemorrhagic (EHEC) is a pathological strain that can induce mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase (Erk, Jnk and p38 MAPK) and NF-κB pathway activation and proinflammatory cytokine production, which then causes diarrheal diseases such as hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic uremic syndrome.

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Naringenin, extracted from grapefruits and citrus fruits, is a bioactive flavonoid with antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, antifibrogenic, and anticancer properties. In the past two decades, the growth of publications of naringenin in PubMed suggests that naringenin is quickly gaining interest. However, systematically regarding its biological functions connected to its direct and indirect target proteins remains difficult but necessary.

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Inflammation is usually the defensive reaction of the immune system to the invasion of pathogen and the exogenous objects. The activation of inflammation helps our body to eliminate pathogenic microbe, virus, and parasite harming our health, while under many circumstances inflammation is the direct cause of the pathological damage in tissues and dysfunction of organs. The posttranslational modification (PTM) of the inflammatory pathways, such as TLR pathways, RLR pathways, NLR pathway, intracellular DNA sensors, intracellular RNA sensors, and inflammasomes, is crucial in the regulation of these signaling trails.

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