Publications by authors named "Zhaoshan Tang"

The protopine alkaloids are widely distributed within the opium poppy family and have a wide range of pharmacological effects. MPTA is a product of the protopine total alkaloids extracted from the (Willd.) R.

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extract (MCE) is widely used for its diverse pharmacological actions and beneficial effects on farm animals. Modern pharmacological studies have shown that it has anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, and anti-bacterial activities, and is gradually becoming a long-term additive veterinary drug used to improve animal intestinal health and growth performance. Although some evidence points to the DNA mutagenic potential of sanguinarine (SAN), a major component of MCE, there is a lack of sufficient basic toxicological information on the oral route, posing a potential safety risk for human consumption of food of animal origin.

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Drought is one of the most serious factors affecting crop yields in the world. Macleaya cordata (Willd.) is a draught-tolerant medicinal plant that has been proposed as a pioneer crop to be cultivated in arid areas.

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Isoquinoline alkaloids, which are one of the most important types of alkaloids, are extensively distributed in herbal medicines. However, systematic and comprehensive investigations of the fragmentation behaviours of isoquinoline alkaloids have rarely been reported. Therefore, the goal of the present study is to simultaneously investigate the collision-induced dissociation patterns and the corresponding mechanism of isoquinoline alkaloids by mass spectrometry (MS) combined with computations.

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Macleaya cordata produces a variety of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs), such as sanguinarine, protopine, and berberine, which are potential anticancer drugs and natural growth promoters. The genes encoding the berberine bridge enzyme (BBE) were isolated from M. cordata and Papaver somniferum, and then the two genes were overexpressed in M.

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Sanguinarine is currently widely used to replace antibiotic growth promoters in animal feeding and has demonstrated useful anticancer activity. Currently, the main source of sanguinarine is from an important medicinal plant, Macleaya cordata. To obtain a new source of sanguinarine production, we established hairy root cultures of M.

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The overuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture and medicine has caused a series of potential threats to public health. Macleaya cordata is a medicinal plant species from the Papaveraceae family, providing a safe resource for the manufacture of antimicrobial feed additive for livestock. The active constituents from M.

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Objective: Pyroptosis is a caspase-1 dependent programmed cell death and involves pathogenesis of infectious diseases by releasing many pro-inflammatory cytokines to induced inflammation. TLR-4 plays an important role in mediating pathogenesis of some infectious diseases. In this study, we detected the expression of TLR-4 and some molecules (e.

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