12 results match your criteria: "Lanzhou University School of Pharmacy[Affiliation]"

Drug testing has many test elements. It aims to prevent unqualified drugs from entering the market and ensure drug safety. The existing artificial intelligence (AI) online monitoring system identifies active ingredients in the process of use.

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With the continuous development of the pharmaceutical industry, people have always paid attention to the safety and effectiveness of drugs, including innovative drugs and generic drugs. For pharmaceutical companies as manufacturers, drug development is a very lengthy process that requires high costs, millions of man-hours, thousands of trials, and the mobilization of hundreds of researchers. Therefore, efforts need to be made to develop drugs with high safety and effectiveness.

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Association between AhR in B cells and systemic lupus erythematosus with renal damage.

Int Immunopharmacol

December 2022

The First Clinical Medical College, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China; Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China. Electronic address:

Background: Renal damage is one of the typical clinical manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and few effective markers can be used to predict SLE with renal damage. Additionally, the relationship among AhR, B cells and SLE with renal damage is poorly understood.

Method: A case-control study was performed, and the clinical and laboratory data were acquired from medical records.

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The high-altitude environment damages the intestinal mucosal barrier, leading to a high incidence of intestinal diseases and seriously affects the working ability of people at high altitude. However, how high altitude induces intestinal mucosal barrier injury has not been well defined. The purpose of this study was to investigate the mechanism of colonic tissue injury induced by the influence of the high-altitude environment on the colonic microenvironment.

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Design, Synthesis, and biological evaluation of HDAC6 inhibitors based on Cap modification strategy.

Bioorg Chem

August 2022

Materia Medica Development Group, Institute of Medicinal Chemistry, Lanzhou University School of Pharmacy, Lanzhou 730000, China. Electronic address:

The abnormal biological functions of HDAC6 were closely related to the occurrence and development of various tumors, making HDAC6 gradually become promising therapeutic target for cancer treatment and inspiring researchers to explore and develop selective HDAC inhibitors. In this study, based on the classical pharmacophore model of HDAC inhibitors, 20 compounds were designed and synthesized by modifying the Cap group, and the biological activities of the target compounds were assessed through anti-proliferation and enzyme inhibition experiments. The title compounds exhibited varying degrees of inhibitory activities against the selected tumor cell lines, especially the compounds 9m, 9q, and 12c, which were further evaluated at the enzymatic level.

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Background: Metabolites present in human urine can be influenced by individual physiological parameters (e.g., body mass index [BMI], age, and sex).

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Fascaplysin is a natural marine product originating from sponges, attracting widespread attention due to its potential inhibitory activities against CDK4. However, its clinical application has been largely limited because of serious adverse effects caused by planar skeleton. To reduce the serious adverse effects, 18 tetrahydro-β-carboline analogs (compounds 6a-i and 7a-i) were designed and synthesized via breaking the planarity of fascaplysin, and the biological activities of the synthesized compounds were evaluated by MTT assay and CDK4/CycD3 enzyme inhibition assay.

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Vorinostat (SAHA) with great therapeutic potential has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma as the first HDACs inhibitor, but the drawbacks associated with hydroxamic acid group (poor stability, easy metabolism, weak binding ability to class IIa isozymes, and poor selectivity) have been exposed during the continuous clinical application. Based on the pharmacophore of HDAC inhibitors, two series of compounds with novel zinc binding group (ZBG) were designed and synthesized, and the antitumor bioactivities were evaluated in four human cancer cell lines (A549, Hela, HepG2, and MCF-7). Among the synthesized compounds, compounds , , , , and exhibited promising inhibitory activities against the selected tumor cell lines, especially compounds and on Hela's cytostatic activity (: IC = 11.

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The abnormal expression of histone deacetylase 8 (HDAC8) has been reported to associate with various cancer entities (colon, breast cancer, pancreas, etc.) as well as parasitic diseases, making HDAC8 gradually develop into an attractive and potential therapeutic target. Among the various design strategies of selective HDAC8 inhibitors (modification of Cap, Linker, or zinc binding group regions), the optimization of Cap region has aroused great interest among the researchers.

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Synthesis of Chalcone Derivatives: Inducing Apoptosis of HepG2 Cells Regulating Reactive Oxygen Species and Mitochondrial Pathway.

Front Pharmacol

November 2019

Innovative Drug Research Department, Lanzhou Weihuan Biological Science and Technology Development Co, Ltd., Lanzhou, China.

Chalcone derivatives, as a hot research field, exhibit a variety of physiological bioactivities and target multiple biological receptors. Based on the skeleton of ()-1,3-diphenyl-2-propene-1-one, 14 chalcone derivatives were designed and synthesized, and evaluated as the antitumor candidates agents against four human cancer cell lines (A549, Hela, HepG2, and HL-60) as well as one normal cell line (WI-38). Among the title compounds, compound showed better inhibitory activity against HepG2 cells (IC = 38.

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Genome-wide expression profiling of glioblastoma using a large combined cohort.

Sci Rep

October 2018

Innovative Drug Research and Bioinformatics Group, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Innovative Drug Research Centre, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 401331, China.

Glioblastomas (GBMs), are the most common intrinsic brain tumors in adults and are almost universally fatal. Despite the progresses made in surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation over the past decades, the prognosis of patients with GBM remained poor and the average survival time of patients suffering from GBM was still short. Discovering robust gene signatures toward better understanding of the complex molecular mechanisms leading to GBM is an important prerequisite to the identification of novel and more effective therapeutic strategies.

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miR-221/222 promotes S-phase entry and cellular migration in control of basal-like breast cancer.

Molecules

May 2014

Research Center for Translational Medicine, Key Laboratory of Arrhythmias of the Ministry of Education, East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, 150 Jimo Road, Shanghai 200120, China.

The miR-221/222 cluster has been demonstrated to function as oncomiR in human cancers. miR-221/222 promotes epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and confers tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer. However, the effects and mechanisms by which miR-221/222 regulates breast cancer aggressiveness remain unclear.

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