PANoptosis is a distinct inflammatory cell death mechanism that involves interactions between pyroptosis, apoptosis, and necroptosis. It can be regulated by diverse PANoptosome complexes built by integrating components from various cell death modalities. There is a rising interest in PANoptosis' process and functions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFViral pneumonia (VP) is a serious health risk to humans, however, there is still a lack of specific treatments for VP. The spread of the virus in the body induces an excessive inflammatory response that can cause chronic or irreversible damage to lungs. Hence, VP treatment requires rapid clearance of the virus and sustained inflammation control.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSever fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is a new infectious disease that has emerged in recent years and is widely distributed, highly contagious, and lethal, with a mortality rate of up to 30%, especially in people with immune system deficiencies and elderly patients. SFTS is an insidious, negative-stranded RNA virus that has a major public health impact worldwide. The development of a vaccine and the hunt for potent therapeutic drugs are crucial to the prevention and treatment of Bunyavirus infection because there is no particular treatment for SFTS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPachymic acid, a well-known natural lanostane-type triterpenoid, exhibits various pharmacological properties. In this study, 18 derivatives of pachymic acid were synthesized by modifying their molecular structures and evaluated for their anticancer activity against two human cancer cell lines using the CCK-8 assay. Structure-activity relationship studies according to the in vitro cytotoxicity unexpectedly found one promising derivative (namely tumulosic acid, also found in ), which had stronger anti-proliferative activity than the positive drug cisplatin against HepG2 and HSC-2 cell lines with IC values of 7.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Sweet Tea (ST), derived from the leaves of , is a Chinese folk medicine with wide pharmacological activities. However, the promotive effects of ST water extract on hepatocytes proliferation and its underlying mechanism remains still unknown. In the present study, the beneficial effects of ST water extract on human hepatocytes and its possible mechanism were investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFis a saprophytic fungus that grows in diverse species of . Its sclerotium, called fu-ling or hoelen, has been used in various traditional Chinese medicines and health foods for thousands of years, and in several modern proprietary traditional Chinese medicinal products. It has extensive clinical indications, including sedative, diuretic, and tonic effects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNrf2-mediated oxidative stress is a promising target of exhaustive exercise-induced fatigue (EEIF). Trilobatin (TLB) is a naturally occurring food additive with antioxidant effect and Nrf2 activation potency. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of TLB on EEIF and elucidate its underlying mechanism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndirubin is the crucial ingredient of Danggui Longhui Wan and Qing-Dai, traditional Chinese medicine herbal formulas used for the therapy of chronic myelocytic leukemia in China for hundreds of years. Although the monomeric indirubin has been used in China for the treatment human chronic myelocytic leukemia. However, due to low water solubility, poor pharmacokinetic properties and low therapeutic effects are the major obstacle, and had significantly limited its clinical application.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFModified medial arc incision of Achilles tendon and traditional straight incision were applied to treat 50 cases of old rupture of Achilles tendon. Among them, there were 20 cases involved in the modified medial arc incision of Achilles tendon (group A).Furthermore, 30 cases accepted traditional straight incision treatment (group B).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEmerging evidence reveals that an aberrant accumulation of β-amyloid (Aβ) is the main reason of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. Thus, inhibition of Aβ-induced neurotoxicity may be promising therapeutic tactics to mitigate AD onset and advance. The development of agent candidates by cultured neurons against Aβ-induced cytotoxicity is widely accepted to be an efficient strategy to explore the drug for AD patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study, three hybrids of podophyllotoxin and formononetin were synthesized and evaluated for anticancer efficacy. Some of the derivatives exhibited potent cytotoxicity against a panel of human and mouse cancer cell lines, with IC values in the low micromolar to submicromolar range. Evaluation against A549 lung tumor cell line identified that the IC value of compound 10a was 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZiyuglycoside I (ZgI), a major effective ingredient of Sanguisorba officinalis L, has shown good activity in increasing leukocyte of myelosuppression mice. However, oral ZgI therapy has been deterred by poor bioavailability because of its low aqueous solubility and permeability. Our study was to develop ZgI-loaded self-microemulsifying drug delivery system (SMEDDS) and evaluate its intestinal absorption, and pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic activity for increasing leukocyte.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLithocarpus polystachyus Rehd. (sweet tea; ST) leaves is a type of Chinese folkloric medicine from southern China. The purpose of the present study was to explore the neuroprotective effect of ST, and to explore its underlying mechanisms in hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)‑induced neuronal cell injury in cultured human neuroblastoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo overcome cancer drug resistance, in present study, a series of podophyllotoxin-indirubin hybrids were designed, synthesized, and evaluated for anticancer efficacy against two human chronic myeloid leukemia cell cultures. Among them, compound Da-1 was the most potent in resistent K562/VCR cells with an IC value of 0.076 ± 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIcariside II (ICS II), a phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitor (PDE 5-I), is a major ingredient of Epimedium brevicornum, with wide spectrum of neuroprotective properties. However, little is known about the potential beneficial effect of ICS II on neuronal cell proliferation, and its possible underlying mechanism remains still unclear. We hypothesized that the beneficial effect of ICS II on neuron-like highly differentiated rat pheochromocytoma (PC12) cell proliferation is correlated with the nitric oxide (NO) signaling pathway and its upstream of PI3K/AKT pathway.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA simple, efficient, and general method has been developed for the synthesis of various alpha-aminophosphonate derivatives 4a-4l by treatment of substituted benzaldehydes and aniline with bis(2-methoxyethyl)- or bis(2-ethoxyethyl) phosphite under microwave irradiation without solvents and catalysts. The products were characterized by elemental analysis, IR, 1H-NMR, 13C- and 31P-NMR spectra. The X-ray crystallographic data of the representative compound 4l was determined.
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