Publications by authors named "Ming-hua Wu"

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  • The study investigates the effects of Zuogui Pills on neural recovery and functional improvement in mice after an ischemic stroke.
  • Male C57BL/6J mice were divided into several groups to assess behavior, brain injury, and protein expression over 28 days using various tests and imaging techniques.
  • Findings indicate that Zuogui Pills help reduce brain damage, increase neuronal activity, and enhance the expression of growth-related proteins, suggesting the pills promote neural function recovery through specific biological pathways.
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During eukaryotic evolution, the TOR-AGC kinase signaling module is involved in the coordinated regulation of cell growth and survival. However, the AGC kinases in plant-pathogenic fungi remain poorly understood. In this study, we have identified 20 members of the AGC family of protein kinases.

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People's pursuit of public health continues to improve with the rapid economic development. Physical activity is an important way to achieve public health. Excessive physical activity intensity and uncomfortable forms of physical activity can affect people's physical and mental health.

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is the causal agent of rice blast outbreaks. L-ascorbic acid (ASC) is a famous antioxidant found in nature. However, while ASC is rare or absent in fungi, a five-carbon analog, D-erythroascorbic acid (EASC), seems to appear to be a substitute for ASC.

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Magnaporthe oryzae is an important plant pathogen that causes rice blast. Hse1 and Vps27 are components of ESCRT-0 involved in the multivesicular body (MVB) sorting pathway and biogenesis. To date, the biological functions of ESCRT-0 in M.

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There have been many clinical trials, systematic reviews/Meta-analysis proving that Xingnaojing Injection has a good clinical efficacy in treatment of cerebral ischaemic stroke, but with fewer comprehensive descriptions. In this study, an overview of systematic reviews/Meta-analysis of Xingnaojing Injection in treating cerebral ischaemic stroke was performed to provide current situation of evidences and basis for clinical practice. CNKI, Wanfang, VIP, CBM, EMbase, PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science were retrieved through computers.

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Background: As an important cash crop, the yield of peanut is influenced by soil acidification and pathogen infection. Receptor-like protein kinases play important roles in plant growth, development and stress responses. However, little is known about the number, location, structure, molecular phylogeny, and expression of RLKs in peanut, and no comprehensive analysis of RLKs in the Al stress response in peanuts have been reported.

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Autophagy can protect stressed cancer cell by degradation of damaged proteins and organelles. However, the regulatory mechanisms behind this cellular process remain incompletely understood. Here, we demonstrate that RSK2 (p90 ribosomal S6 kinase 2) plays a critical role in ER stress-induced autophagy in breast cancer cells.

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Objective: Understanding the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis (SSc) is confounded by considerable disease heterogeneity. Animal models of SSc that recapitulate distinct subsets of disease at the molecular level have not been delineated. We applied interspecies comparative analysis of genomic data from multiple mouse models of SSc and patients with SSc to determine which animal models best reflect the SSc intrinsic molecular subsets.

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Background And Purpose: Few reports concerned on recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) treatment in stroke patients with decreased consciousness. This study assesses the efficacy and safety of intravenous rt-PA administration within 4.5 h in stroke patients with decreased consciousness.

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Although several miRNAs have been identified to be involved in glioblastoma tumorigenesis, little is known about the global expression profiles of miRNAs and their functional targets in astrocytomas at earlier stages of malignancy. In this study the global expression of miRNAs and mRNAs in normal brain tissue samples and grade I-III astrocytomas were analyzed parallelly using microarrays, and the grade-specific expression profiles of them were obtained by unsupervised hierarchical clustering. It was also confirmed that miR-107, miR-124, miR-138, and miR-149 were downregulated significantly in grade I-IV astrocytomas, and overexpression of miR-124 and miR-149 inhibited glioblastoma cell proliferation and migration.

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Background: Serum peptidome profile is a promising tool to identify physiologic or pathologic conditions. Stable serum peptidome profiles with high quality are essential for serum peptidome research. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of experimental and demographic variables in serum peptide profiling.

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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma-associated gene 6 (NGX6) was shown to be a novel putative tumor suppressor gene in colon cancer. The purpose of this study is to investigate its role in regulation of miRNA expression for in the hopes of translating this data into a novel strategy in control of colon cancer. In this study colon cancer HT-29 cells were stably transfected with NGX6 or vector-only plasmid and then subjected to miRNA array analysis, and Q-RT-PCR was then used to verify miRNA array data.

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Transcription factors (TFs) are crucial modulators of gene regulation during the development and progression of tumors. We previously reported the activation of TFs in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) cell lines. In this study, we explored the activity profiles of TFs in Protein/DNA array data of a 12-tissue independent set and a 13-tissue pooled set of NPC that included different clinical stages.

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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is closely associated with several malignancies, including nasopharyngeal carcinoma. To investigate the EBV activity in tumor development, we tried to establish a malignant model of EBV-infected cells in nude mice. On the basis of the Maxi-EBV system, a human embryonic kidney epithelial cell line (293) with a low malignant potential was used for a stable EBV genome infection.

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Objective: To explore the effect of all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) on the growth inhibition and cellular differentiation of C6 glioma cells.

Methods: Human glioma C6 cells were treated with 5 mg/L ATRA,and the inhibition of cell growth was assessed by methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium assay. The differentiation of C6 cells was determined by flow cytometry, microscopy,transmission electron microscope, and immunohistochemical technique.

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There is obvious allele disequilibrium in nasopharyngeal carcinoma at chromosome 3p, 9p, 6q, 11q, 13q and 14q. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) susceptibility/suppressor gene candidates were obtained by molecular biology methods,such as cDNA representational difference ana-lysis. The functional research of NPC susceptibility/ suppressor gene candidates indicated: (1) The increased expression of Cx contributed to obstacles of gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC), and resulted an aberration of GJIC; (2) BRD7, a transcript factor, was associated with cell cycle regulation; (3) NAG7,an estrogen receptor repressor, inhibited the invasive potential of human NPC cells by regulating ERalpha expression and the H-ras/p-c-Raf and JNK/AP-1/MMP1 signaling pathways; (4) NGX6, a metastasis-associated protein, can negative-regulate EGF/Ras/MAPK signaling transduction pathway, and interact with ezrin protein to inhibit invasion and metastasis of NPC cells; (5) SPLUNC1, a secreted protein, can inhibit the bacterium clone formation, and is an innate immune molecule.

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The signals mediating transforming growth factor beta (TGFbeta)-stimulated kidney fibrogenesis are poorly understood. We previously reported TGFbeta-stimulated, Smad-mediated collagen production by human kidney mesangial cells, and that ERK MAP kinase activity optimizes collagen expression and enhances phosphorylation of the Smad3 linker region. Furthermore, we showed that disrupting cytoskeletal integrity decreases type I collagen production.

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Objective: To explore the effect of LRRC4 on the mobility and invasion of glioblastomas U251 cells through the SDF-1alpha/CXCR4 axis.

Methods: RT-PCR, transfilter cell invasion assay, adhesion assay, scraping test, scrape loading, and dye transfer assay were used to determine the effect of LRRC4 on U251 cells.

Results: SDF-1 alpha could increase the invasion in U251 which expressed CXCR4.

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Objective: To prepare anti-LRRC4 polyclonal antibody and analyze the correlation between the expression of LRRC4 and pathological grades of gliomas in rabbits.

Methods: Appropriate protein sequence with good hydrophilicity and antigenicity was chosen by analyzing with DS Gene 1.1 software.

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Objective: To examine the expression absence of LRRC4 gene in glioblastoma cell lines.

Methods: RT-PCR and Northern blot were used to detect the expression of LRRC4 gene in 6 glioblastomas cells lines. Polymerase chain reaction and DNA sequencing were used to screen the LRRC4 gene mutation, while bioinformation assay was used to search for the reason of LRRC4 gene absence in U251 cell lines.

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Objective: To explore the effect of LRRC4, a glioma suppressive gene, on blocking U251 cells in G0/G1 by MAPK signaling pathway.

Methods: LRRC4 was transfected into U251 cells, and at 24 hour of post-transfection, cells were split at a 1:3 dilution, challenged with 500 microg /mL G418 and formed a stable transfected clone pool. RT-PCR, Northern blot and Western blot were used to identify the stable transfectants.

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Metabolomics is a new science and technology, which it refers to a holistic analytical approach to all the low molecular weight metabolites in an organism or a cell. In this paper, the definition and objective of metabolomics are provided, and the current application of metabolomic research in malignant tumors (diagnosis and therapy) are summarized.

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Omics docking study for polygenic inheritance tumors has become an important strategy in oncology research. This review focuses on the conceptions and technologies of omics, and puts forward the central contents and omics docking for polygenic inheritance tumor to reveal the role of molecular changes at different stages of polygenic inheritance tumor at multidisciplinary and multilayer level. It is a new strategy to explore the mechanism of tumor carcinogenesis, and to regulate the network, key molecules, and drug target by combined biology effects.

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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a particularly common malignant disease in areas of south China and Southeast Asia. To characterize the gene expression profiling of NPC, we detected the gene expression profiles in 22 NPC and 10 nontumor nasopharyngeal epithelial tissues by complementary DNA microarray. We identified 503 genes that were significantly (P < .

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