Publications by authors named "Maoru Li"

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a chronic liver disease with a global prevalence of 25%. However, the medicines approved by the FDA or EMA are still not commercially available for the treatment of NAFLD. The NOD-like receptor thermal protein domain-associated protein 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome plays a crucial role in inflammatory responses, and the mechanisms related to steatohepatitis have been sufficiently clarified.

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Rhizoma Gastrodia (Orchidaceae; Blume), the rhizome of Blume (GE), is traditionally used as both a medicinal and functional food, with proven efficacy in treating mental disorders. In traditional processing, GE is washed, steamed with water, dried, and sliced. In this study, a novel processing technology-alcohol steamed GE (AGE) was proposed as an alternative.

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Boiss. et Huet (CG) and L. (CI) are widely used as the main raw material of functional food with hepatoprotective and hypoglycemic effects.

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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), defined in recent years as metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD), is one of the most common liver diseases in the world, with no drugs on market. Esculetin (ESC) is an active compound discovered in a variety of natural products that modulates a wide range of metabolic diseases and is a potential drug for the treatment of NAFLD. In this study, we used an HCD-induced NAFLD larval zebrafish model in vivo and an FFA-induced BRL-3A hepatocyte model in vitro to evaluate the anti-NAFLD effect of ESC.

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Objectives: . (DH) is a Chinese herbal medicine, which is often used to make tea to improve immunity in China. Rumor has it that DH has a protective effect against cardiovascular disease.

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NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) is one of the most prominent liver diseases in the world. As a metabolic-related disease, the development of NAFLD is closely associated with various degrees of lipid accumulation, oxidation, inflammation, and fibrosis. Ilex chinensis Sims is a form of traditional Chinese medicine which is used to treat bronchitis, burns, pneumonia, ulceration, and chilblains.

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5-Hydroxytryptamine (also known as 5-HT, serotonin) is one of the monoamine neurotransmitters which is distributed widely in plasma and brain of mammals and plays important roles in physiological manipulations. In the present method, we describe the development of a simple, efficient and rapid high performance liquid chromatographic method coupled with ultraviolet (HPLC-UV) detector for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of 5-HT in both cell extract and cell culture medium (RIN-14B). The experiments use repeated freeze-thaw cycles followed by centrifugation and direct injection of the supernatant into the chromatography.

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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disease around the world. However, there is still no drug for NAFLD in the market, the study of potential therapeutic drugs on NAFLD is extraordinarily pressing and urgent. The rodent models for NAFLD drugs' study are always with a long time cost.

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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is the most common chronic liver disease in the world. However, there are still no drugs for NAFLD/NASH in the market. Gastrodin (GAS) is a bioactive compound that is extracted from which is used as an active compound on nervous system diseases.

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Background: Quercetin (Qr), isoquercitrin (IQ), and quercetin-3-O-β-D-glucuronide (QG) are powerful phytochemicals that have been shown to exhibit disease prevention and health promotion properties. However, there may exist transformations between Qr, IQ, and QG . And the pharmacokinetic profiles of Qr, IQ, and QG have not been systematically compared.

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Isoquercetin (IQ), a glucoside derivative of quercetin, has been reported to have beneficial effects in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). In this study, we investigated the potential improvement of IQ in liver lipid accumulation, inflammation, oxidative condition, and activation in Kupffer cells (KCs) on a high-fat diet (HFD) induced NAFLD models. Male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were induced by HFD, lipopolysaccharides/free fatty acids (LPS/FFA) induced co-culture cells model between primary hepatocytes and Kupffer cells was used to test the effects and the underlying mechanism of IQ.

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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disease worldwide. Cichorium glandulosum Boiss. et Huet (CG) is a common traditional Uighur medicine, and it has been widely used as active therapy on various hepatic diseases.

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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common liver disease with a broad spectrum of liver injury. Oxidant stress is believed to be the pathogenesis of NAFLD as the "second hit". Hydrogen peroxide is widely used as an oxidant reagent to induce the oxidant injury of cells and larval zebrafish.

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Because of the absence of the time course of histological nonalcoholic fatty hepatitis with subsequent fibrotic progression, the effective approaches available for controlling the onset and progression of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) remain limited. Therefore, we detected the serum and liver tissue related lipid metabolism disorder, liver pathology and relative molecular makers alteration dynamically in a high fat-sucrose diet during different time points. High fat-sucrose diet significantly increased the serum lipid level on day 10.

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