Forsythiaside A ameliorates bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis by inhibiting oxidative stress and apoptosis.

Background: Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a common clinically critical disease characterized by high morbidity and high mortality. Forsythiaside A (FA) is a phenylethanol glycoside component in Forsythia suspensa, which has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antiviral activities. However, the effects of FA on bleomycin (BLM)-induced PF are unclear.

Evening primrose and its compounds of 1-Oxohederagenin and remangilone C ameliorate bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis by regulating β-catenin signaling.

Background: Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a progressive and severe respiratory disease for which there is still a lack of satisfactory treatment methods other than lung transplantation. Evening primrose (EP) is widely used in Chinese folk medicinal herbs, especially for the treatment of lung-related diseases. However, the protective effect of evening primrose against PF has yet to be reported.

Forsythoside A regulates pulmonary fibrosis by inhibiting endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition and lung fibroblast proliferation via the PTPRB signaling.

Background: Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is an end-stage change in many interstitial lung diseases, whereas no proven effective anti-pulmonary fibrotic treatments. Forsythoside A (FA) derived from Forsythia suspensa (Thunb.) Vahl, has been found to possess lung-protective effect.

Epimedium sagittatum Maxim ameliorates adriamycin-induced nephropathy by restraining inflammation and apoptosis via the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway.

Background: Modern pharmacological studies show that Epimedium sagittatum Maxim (EPI) has antioxidant, antiapoptotic, anti-inflammatory effects. However, the effects of EPI on adriamycin-induced nephropathy are unclear.

Aim: The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of EPI on adriamycin-induced nephropathy in rats.

Salvianolactone acid A isolated from Salvia miltiorrhiza ameliorates lipopolysaccharide-induced acute lung injury in mice by regulating PPAR-γ.

Background: Severe inflammation of the lungs results from acute lung injury (ALI), a common life-threatening lung disease with a high mortality rate. The ligand-activated transcription factor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) γ plays essential roles in diverse biological processes including inflammation, metabolism, development, and immune response. Salvianolactone acid A (SA) is a terpenoid derived from the herb Salvia miltiorrhiza.

The effect of the overexpression of miR-490 on the biological function of prostate cancer cell PC-3.

Purpose: To investigate the effect and molecular mechanism of miR-490 in prostate cancer.

Methods: qRT-PCR was used to detect the expression of miR-490 in human prostate cancer PC-3 cell line (the control group B) and normal human prostate cells (the control group A), the overexpression vector (the positive group) and human prostate cancer PC-3 cells transfected by negative control (the negative group) were built, and the results of the transfection were detected by qRT-PCR.

Results: The relative expression levels of miR-490 in the cells in the control group A, the control group B and the negative group were lower than that in the positive group (p<0.

Long non-coding RNA CASC2 regulates Sprouty2 via functioning as a competing endogenous RNA for miR-183 to modulate the sensitivity of prostate cancer cells to docetaxel.

Prostate cancer (PC) is the most common cancer in men; however, limited effect is obtained due to the therapy resistance. CASC2 acts as a tumor suppressor in human malignancies serving as a ceRNA for miRNAs; Sprouty2 (SPRY2), a key antagonist of RTK signaling, also serves as a tumor suppressor. Herein, CASC2 and SPRY2 expression was down-regulated in PC tissues and cell lines; the overexpression of CASC2 and SPRY2 could suppress PC cell proliferation, promote PC cell apoptosis, and enhance the sensitivity of PC cells to docetaxel.

Independent prognostic miRNAs for bladder urothelial carcinoma.

Bladder cancer is the most common malignant tumor of the urinary system, and it is also an important cause of death by cancer globally. Increasing number of studies have shown that miRNAs can be used as prognostic markers for cancers. This study made use of the data available in the Cancer Genome Atlas in order to statistically analyze reported expression levels of miRNAs in samples from bladder urothelial carcinoma patients.