Exploring the therapeutic potential of simvastatin in pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms: insights into cell cycle regulation and apoptosis.

Background: Pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasm (pNEN) poses significant challenges in clinical management due to their heterogeneity and limited treatment options. In this study, we investigated the potential of simvastatin (SIM) as an anti-tumor agent in pNEN.

Methods: We conducted cell culture experiments using QGP-1 and BON-1 cell lines and assessed cell viability, proliferation, migration, and invasion following SIM treatment.

Overexpression of bond-forming active protein for efficient production of silk with structural changes and properties enhanced in silkworm.

Silkworm silk exhibits excellent mechanical properties, biocompatibility, and has potential applications in the biomedical sector. This study focused on enhancing the mechanical properties of Bombyx mori silk by overexpressing three bond-forming active proteins (BFAPs): AFP, HSP, and CRP in the silk glands of silkworms. Rheological tests confirmed increased viscoelasticity in the liquid fibroin stock solution of transgenic silkworms, and dynamic mechanical thermal analysis (DMTA) indicated that all three BFAPs participated in the interactions between fibroin molecular networks in transgenic silk.

MTM-HCC at Previous Liver Resection as a Predictor of Overall Survival in Salvage Liver Transplantation.

Objectives: Salvage liver transplantation (sLT) is considered an effective method to treat hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence. This multicenter research aimed to identify the prognostic factors associated with recurrence-free survival (RFS) and overall survival (OS) after sLT.

Material And Methods: A retrospective analysis of 114 patients who had undergone sLT for recurrent HCC between February 2012 and September 2020 was performed.

Some properties of the Catalan-Qi function related to the Catalan numbers.

In the paper, the authors find some properties of the Catalan numbers, the Catalan function, and the Catalan-Qi function which is a generalization of the Catalan numbers. Concretely speaking, the authors present a new expression, asymptotic expansions, integral representations, logarithmic convexity, complete monotonicity, minimality, logarithmically complete monotonicity, a generating function, and inequalities of the Catalan numbers, the Catalan function, and the Catalan-Qi function. As by-products, an exponential expansion and a double inequality for the ratio of two gamma functions are derived.

Effects of curcumin on sodium currents of dorsal root ganglion neurons in type 2 diabetic neuropathic pain rats.

Along with the development of economy and society, type 2 diabetic mellitus (T2DM) has become one of the most common diseases at the global level. As one of the complications of T2DM, diabetic neuropathic pain (DNP) stubbornly and chronically affects the health and life of human beings. In the pain field, dorsal root ganglion (DRG) is generally considered as the first stage of the sensory pathway where the hyperexcitability of injured neurons is associated with different kinds of peripheral neuropathic pains.

Green tea and liver cancer risk: A meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies in Asian populations.

Objectives: The aim of this meta-analysis was to investigate whether an association existed between green tea consumption and the risk for liver cancer in prospective cohort studies in Asian populations.

Methods: Relevant studies were identified by searching PubMed, EMBASE, ISI Web of Science, and the Chinese Bio-medicine Database published before April 2015. Study-specific risk estimates for the highest versus non- or lowest and increment of daily cup of green tea consumption levels were combined based on fixed- or random-effects models.

Effects of curcumin on TTX-R sodium currents of dorsal root ganglion neurons in type 2 diabetic rats with diabetic neuropathic pain.

Type 2 diabetic mellitus (T2DM) has reached pandemic status and shows no signs of abatement. Diabetic neuropathic pain (DNP) is generally considered to be one of the most common complications of T2DM, which is also recognized as one of the most difficult types of pain to treat. As one kind of peripheral neuropathic pain, DNP manifests typical chronic neuralgia symptoms, including hyperalgesia, allodynia, autotomy, and so on.

[Protective effect of curcumin against Aβ25-35-induced neurotoxicity in differentiated PC12 cells].

Objective: To explore the effects of curcumin on the expression of high mobility group box1 (HMGB1) , cell viability and morphology in a cellular model of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Methods: Cultured PC12 cells in logarithmic growth phase were divided into 5 groups: normal cell group (A, non-treatment), model control group (B, 20 µmol/L Aβ25-35), curcumin treatment group (C, 20 µmol/L Aβ25-35+1 µmol/L Cur), Aβ25-35+rHMG1 (D, 20 µmol/L Aβ25-35+500 ng/ml HMGB1) and solvent control group (E, 20 µmol/L Aβ25-35+1 µl/ml DMSO). Cell viability was examined by methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium (MTT).

Rumination as a vulnerability factor to depression in adolescents in mainland China: lifetime history of clinically significant depressive episodes.

The current study tested the vulnerability and sex differences hypotheses of the response styles theory of depression (Nolen-Hoeksema, 1991). Participants included 494 tenth-grade students (M = 15.25 years, SD = 0.