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    Clinical application of immune checkpoints in targeted immunotherapy of prostate cancer

    Immunotherapy is considered as an effective method for cancer treatment owing to the induction of specific and long-lasting anti-cancer effects. Immunotherapeutic strategies have shown significant success in h...

    Sevda Jafari, Ommoleila Molavi, Houman Kahroba in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (2020)

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    STAT3 inhibitory stattic enhances immunogenic cell death induced by chemotherapy in cancer cells

    Induction of immunogenic cell death (ICD) is considered a promising strategy for cancer immunotherapy. Stattic is an inhibitor of STAT3, which is found constitutively active in many cancers and plays a major r...

    Sevda Jafari, Afsaneh Lavasanifar in DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (2020)

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    Tacrolimus ameliorates functional disturbances and oxidative stress in isoproterenol-induced myocardial infarction

    The inflammatory responses play a major role in the pathogenesis of acute myocardial infarction (MI). Early inhibition of inflammation may improve post MI cardiac function. The aim of this study was to investi...

    Arash Khorrami, Mojtaba Hammami in DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (2014)

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    Pioglitazone prevents morphine antinociception tolerance and withdrawal symptoms in rats

    Long-term exposure to opiates induces tolerance to the analgesic effect and dependence. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effects of pioglitazone, a peroxisome proliferator-activated recep...

    Hamed Ghavimi, Kambiz Hassanzadeh in Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmaco… (2014)

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    Phytochemical screening and evaluation of cardioprotective activity of ethanolic extract of Ocimum basilicum L. (basil) against isoproterenol induced myocardial infarction in rats

    The objectives of the present study were phytochemical screening and study of the effects of ethanolic extract of aerial parts of Ocimum basilicum (basil) on cardiac functions and histopathological changes in iso...

    Fatemeh Fathiazad, Amin Matlobi, Arash Khorrami in DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (2012)

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    Acute treatment with metformin improves cardiac function following isoproterenol induced myocardial infarction in rats

    It has been proposed that metformin exerts protective effects on ischemic hearts. In the present study, we evaluated the effects of metformin on cardiac function, hemodynamic parameters, and histopathological ...

    Hamid Soraya, Arash Khorrami, Afagh Garjani in Pharmacological Reports (2012)

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    Protective effects of hydroalcoholic extract from rhizomes of Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. on compensated right heart failure in rats

    The rhizomes of Cynodon dactylon are used for the treatment of heart failure in folk medicine. In the present study, we investigated the effects of hydroalcoholic extract of C. dactylon rhizomes on cardiac contra...

    Alireza Garjani, Arash Afrooziyan in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2009)

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    Antinociceptive properties of extracts and two flavonoids isolated from leaves ofDanae racemosa

    The antinociceptive properties of the hydro-methanolic extract (HME) and two flavonoids isolated fromDanae racemosa have been investigated in several nociceptive rat models. The HME fromD. racemosa (100-400 mgkg-...

    Nasrin Maleki-Dizaji, Fatemeh Fathiazad, Alireza Garjani in Archives of Pharmacal Research (2007)