Evaluation of the Effect of Food on the Pharmacokinetics of SHR6390, An Oral CDK4/6 Inhibitor, in Healthy Volunteers.

Background And Introduction: SHR6390 is a new developed highly effective and selective small-molecule oral CDK4/6 inhibitor. We aimed to evaluate the effect of food on the pharmacokinetics of SHR6390 tablets.

Methods: In an open-label two-way crossover study, 24 healthy Chinese volunteers were randomly divided into Group A and Group B, and 12 volunteers in each group received a single oral dose of a SHR6390 150-mg tablet under fasting and high-fat conditions.

Apoptosis in human myelodysplastic syndrome CD34+ cells is modulated by the upregulation of TLRs and histone H4 acetylation via a β-arrestin 1 dependent mechanism.

Excessive apoptosis of hematopoietic precursors in the bone marrow underlies the ineffective hematopoiesis characteristic of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling is abnormally activated in MDS and may be involved in excessive programmed cell death in the pathogenesis of MDS. TLRs expression and global histone H3/H4 acetylation were analyzed in bone marrow (BM) CD34+ cells from 20 lower-risk and 20 higher-risk MDS patients and 10 healthy controls.

A novel double loop control model design for chemical unstable processes.

In this manuscript, based on Smith predictor control scheme for unstable process in industry, an improved double loop control model is proposed for chemical unstable processes. Inner loop is to stabilize integrating the unstable process and transform the original process to first-order plus pure dead-time dynamic stable process. Outer loop is to enhance the performance of set point response.

[Identifying the origin of chromophoric dissolved organic matter in Xiamen Bay using fluorescence spectroscopy and chemometrics].

The fluorescent components of chromophoric dissolved matter (CDOM) in water samples collected from Xiamen Bay in spring and autumn, 2009 were examined using excitation-emission matrix fluorescence spectroscopy combined with parallel factor analysis (EEMs-PARAFAC). PARAFAC decomposed the fluorescence matrices of CDOM into three humic-like (C1: 250, 345/454 nm; C2: 230, 310/374 nm; C5: 265, 424/478 nm) and two protein-like (C3: 230/342 nm; C4: 230, 275/322 nm) components. Good linear correlation occurred among three humic-like components and between two protein-like components, respectively.

Protective Properties of Laggera alata Extract and its Principle Components Against d-Galactosamine-Injured Hepatocytes.

Laggera alata extract (LAE) was quantitatively analyzed, and its principle components isochlorogenic acids were isolated and authenticated. Protective properties of LAE were studied using a d-galactosamine (d-GalN)-induced injury model in neonatal rat hepatocytes and a d-GalN-induced acute liver damage model in mice. Meanwhile, the effect of isochlorogenic acids derived from LAE on d-GalN-induced hepatocyte injury were also measured in vitro.

Chemotherapeutic effects of bioassay-guided extracts of the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana.

The organic extract of Periplaneta americana L. (Dictyoptera; Blattidae) has been traditionally used in southwestern China as an alternative medicine against disorders such as hepatitis, trauma, gastric ulcers, burns, and heart disease. The present study describes bioassay-guided purification and chemotherapeutic evaluation of the 60% ethanolic fraction of P americana organic extracts (PAE60).

[Influence of Shengxue mixture on the expression of T-bet/GATA-3, their relevant signal transduction molecules, cytokines, and Th1/Th2 balance in patients with chronic aplastic anemia].

Objective: To study the actions of transcription factors, T-bet and GATA-3, and their relevant signal transduction pathways on the immune-related pathogenesis with chronic aplastic anemia (CAA), and to investigate the immunological regulation mechanism of Shengxue Mixture (SXM) in regulating levels of Th cell imbalance, transcriptional factor and relevant signal pathways.

Methods: All CAA patients selected from Yueyang Hospital of Shanghai University of traditional Chinese medicine were equally randomized into the treated group and the control group, 20 patients in each group, and 20 healthy persons were selected as normal group, the former was treated with SXM according to patients' syndrome patterns, namely, SXM-1 was given to patients of Pi-Shen yang-deficiency pattern, and SXM-2 to those of Pi-Shen yin-deficiency pattern. Patients in the control group were treated with cyclosporin A (CsA).

[Impact of cyclosporine A on the expression of T-bet, GATA-3, relevant signal transduction molecules, cytokine and Th1/Th2 balance in patients with chronic aplastic anemia].

The study was aimed to explore the effects of T-bet (T-box expressed in T cell), GATA-3(GATA binding protein 3) and relevant signal transduction pathways on the immune-related pathogenesis of chronic aplastic anemia (CAA), and to investigate the immunological regulation mechanism in the treatment of CAA by using cyclosporine A (CsA) at the level of Th cell imbalance, transcriptional factors, and relevant signal pathways. The real-time fluorescent quantitative polymerase chain reaction (real-time FQ-PCR) was used to determine the mRNA expression of T-bet, GATA-3, signal transducers and activators of transcription 4 (STAT4) and signal transducers and activators of transcription 6 (STAT6) in peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMNC) of CAA patients before and after treatment with CsA; the flow cytometry (FCM) and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) were used to determine the Th1/Th2 proportion in peripheral blood, and levels of IFN-γ, IL-12 and IL-4 in PBMNC-cultured supernatant. Healthy people were included to test the above indexes.

Effect of Laggera alata on hepatocyte damage induced by carbon tetrachloride in vitro and in vivo.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Laggera alata, as a traditional Chinese herbal medicine, has been widely used to ameliorate some ailments associated with inflammation including hepatitis in folk.

Aim Of The Study: Based on anti-inflammatory activity of total phenolics from Laggera alata (TPLA), to further validate the remarkable curative effect Laggera alata in hepatitis, hepatoprotective effect of TPLA was examined.

Materials And Methods: TPLA was prepared and its principle components were quantificationally analyzed.

A new dibenzofuran and other constituents from Ligularia caloxantha, a Chinese medicinal plant.

A new dibenzofuran named 1,2,4-trimethyl-7,8-dimethoxy-dibenzofuran (1), together with seven known compounds, euparin (2), 2,5-diacetyl-6-hydroxy-benzofuran (3), 2-acetyl-5,6-dimethoxy-benzofuran (4), gummosogenin (5), lupeol (6), stigmasterol (7) and (E)-2,5-dihydroxy-cinnamic acid (8), were isolated from the roots of Ligularia caloxantha, a Chinese medicinal plant. The structures of the compounds were elucidated by spectroscopic methods.

[Review on investigations related to chemical constituents and biological activities of Periplaneta americana].

With the fast development of medicinal animals as new drugs, research on Periplaneta americana become hot recently. Several drugs which mainly consisted of P. americana were approved for clinical applications.

[Effects of Jianpi Bushen Huoxue recipe on hematopoietic cell apoptosis in a mouse model of aplastic anemia].

Objective: Adopting methods of cell culture to explore the effects and mechanisms of Jianpi Bushen Huoxue Prescription (JPBSHXP), a traditional Chinese compound herbal medicine for strengthening spleen, reinforcing kidney and activating blood circulation, in inhibiting hematopoietic cells apoptosis in a mouse model of aplastic anemia (AA).

Methods: Blood serum of AA mice was made from an AA mouse model. Blood serums containing different traditional Chinese compound herbal medicine were made from rats after intragastric administration of JPBSHXP and its related decoctions, respectively.

Clinical study on the effect of Shengxueling on idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.

Objective: To observe the clinical effect of Shengxueling (SXL) on idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), and study the possible mechanism.

Methods: Eighty-six cases of ITP were randomly divided into two groups. The SXL group, 56 patients treated with SXL, a traditinal Chinese medicine and 30 patients administered with prednisone were taken as control.

[Clinical study on idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura treated with Shengxueling Granule].

Objective: To observe the clinical effect of Shengxueling Granule (SXLG) in treating idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), and to study its possible mechanism.

Methods: Eighty-six cases of ITP were divided into two groups randomly. Fifty-six cases in the treatment group were treated with SXLG, a traditional Chinese medicine, and 30 cases administered with Western medicine (prednisone) were taken as control.

[Pathogenetic characteristics and therapeutic approaches of aplastic anemia].

According to TCM theory of the wholistic concept and the principles of syndrome differentiation and treatment, the characteristics of the pathogenesis of aplastic anemia (AA) were summarized and corresponding treatment was put forward on the basis of clinical observation and the study of literature. In the pathogenesis of AA, the deficiency of spleen and kidney is the primary aspect, fire attacking blood vessels is the secondary aspect and there is change because of blood stasis. In treatment, the method of invigorating spleen and tonifying kidney is adopted in order to get at the root, and releasing fire to stop bleeding is adopted in order to bring about a temporary solution, and activating blood circulation to dissipate blood stasis is adopted in order to produce blood.