Farrerol Alleviates Cerebral Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury by Promoting Neuronal Survival and Reducing Neuroinflammation.

Ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury is a key influencing factor in the outcome of stroke. Inflammatory response, oxidative stress, and neuronal apoptosis are among the main factors that affect the progression of I/R injury. Farrerol (FAR) is a natural compound that can effectively inhibit the inflammatory response and oxidative stress.

Joint Resource Allocation for Multiuser Opportunistic Beamforming Systems with OFDM-NOMA.

Opportunistic beamforming (OBF) is an effective technique to improve the spectrum efficiencies (SEs) of multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems, which can obtain multiuser diversity gains with both low computation complexity and feedback information. To serve multiple users simultaneously, many multiple-access schemes have been researched in OBF. However, for most of the multiple-access schemes, the SEs are not satisfactory.

Shikonofuran E plays an anti-inflammatory role by down-regulating MAPK and NF-κB signaling pathways in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated RAW264.7 macrophages.

The anti-inflammatory effects of shikonofuran E from Onosma paniculatum on RAW 264.7 murine macrophage cells induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were first time examined. A series of non-cytotoxic concentrations of shikonofuran E (< 10 μM) treatments were found to reduce the accumulation of pro-inflammatory cytokine, including tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα), interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-1β (IL-1β), and inhibit the expression of nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and cyclooxidase-2 (COX-2) in the LPS-stimulated macrophages as compared to the LPS-only treated cells.