Effect of complex amino acid imbalance on growth of tumor in tumor-bearing rats.

Aim: To investigate the effect of complex amino acid imbalance on the growth of tumor in tumor-bearing (TB) rats.

Methods: Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats underwent jejunostomy for nutritional support. A suspension of Walker-256 carcinosarcoma cells was subcutaneously inoculated.

Tamoxifen combined with octreotide or regular chemotherapeutic agents in treatment of primary liver cancer: a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of tamoxifen (TAM) combined with a somatostatin analogue, octretide (OCT) on advanced liver cancer and whether tamoxifen combined with OCT is superior to regular chemotherapeutic agents 5-Fu and mitomycin C (MMC).

Methods: Thirty-nine patients with inoperable liver cancer were randomly subdivided into TAM+OCT group (n=24) and regular chemotherapeutic group (n=15). They received treatment for three months respectively.

Influence of methionine/valine-depleted enteral nutrition on nucleic acid and protein metabolism in tumor-bearing rats.

Aim: To investigate the effects of methionine/valine-depleted enteral nutrition (EN) on RNA, DNA and protein metabolism in tumor-bearing (TB) rats.

Methods: Sprague-Dawlley (SD) rats underwent jejunostomy for nutritional support. A suspension of Walker-256 carcinosarcoma cells was subcutaneously inoculated.

Influence of platelet activating factor on expression of adhesion molecules in experimental pancreatitis.

Aim: To determine whether Platelet activating factor (PAF) has a regulation role in the expression of adhesion molecules and accumulation of neutrophils in a murine model of acute pancreatitis.

Methods: One hundred twenty-eight Kunming mice were divided into four groups. Group 1 received 0.