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**g-Ze Zhang
Biomedicine
Immunology
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Progress in the treatment of Osteoarthritis with avocado–soybean unsaponifiable
Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the leading causes of joint dysfunction and disability in the elderly, posing serious social problems and a huge socio-economic burden. Existing pharmacological treatments have si...
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Hepatic kynurenic acid mediates phosphorylation of Nogo-A in the medial prefrontal cortex to regulate chronic stress-induced anxiety-like behaviors in mice
Exercise training effectively relieves anxiety disorders via modulating specific brain networks. The role of post-translational modification of proteins in this process, however, has been underappreciated. Her...
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Rheumatoid arthritis is a protective factor against Alzheimer’s disease: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study
Epidemiological evidence suggests that there is an association between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, the causal relationship between RA and AD remains unclear. Therefore, thi...
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Therapeutic potential of colchicine in cardiovascular medicine: a pharmacological review
Colchicine is an ancient herbal drug derived from Colchicum autumnale. It was first used to treat familial Mediterranean fever and gout. Based on its unique efficacy as an anti-inflammatory agent, colchicine has ...
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SAF-248, a novel PI3Kδ-selective inhibitor, potently suppresses the growth of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
PI3Kδ is expressed predominately in leukocytes and overexpressed in B-cell-related malignances. PI3Kδ has been validated as a promising target for cancer therapy, and specific PI3Kδ inhibitors were approved fo...
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Open AccessThe immune response of T cells and therapeutic targets related to regulating the levels of T helper cells after ischaemic stroke
Through considerable effort in research and clinical studies, the immune system has been identified as a participant in the onset and progression of brain injury after ischaemic stroke. Due to the involvement ...
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Characteristics of Changes in Inflammatory Cytokines as a Function of Hepatic Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury Stage in Mice
Liver ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) can severely compromise the prognosis of patients receiving liver surgery. While inflammation contributes to the damage resulting from IRI, only a limited number of infl...
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Penehyclidine Hydrochloride Decreases Pulmonary Microvascular Endothelial Inflammatory Injury Through a Beta-Arrestin-1-Dependent Mechanism
Penehyclidine hydrochloride (PHC), a type of hyoscyamus drug, has both antimuscarinic and antinicotinic activities and retains potent central and peripheral anticholinergic activities. Compared with other hyos...
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Open AccessThe CXCL5/CXCR2 axis contributes to the epithelial-mesenchymal transition of nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells by activating ERK/GSK-3β/snail signalling
Distant metastasis is the major cause of treatment failure in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Although several biomarkers correlate with metastasis and prognosis, the molecular mechanisms of NPC ...
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IL-3 and CTLA4 gene polymorphisms may influence the tacrolimus dose requirement in Chinese kidney transplant recipients
The highly variable pharmacokinetics and narrow therapeutic window of tacrolimus (TAC) has hampered its clinical use. Genetic polymorphisms may contribute to the variable response, but the evidence is not comp...
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Substrate-dependent modulation of the catalytic activity of CYP3A by erlotinib
To ascertain the effects of erlotinib on CYP3A, to investigate the amplitude and kinetics of erlotinib-mediated inhibition of seven major CYP isoforms in human liver microsomes (HLMs) for evaluating the magnit...
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Myosin light chain kinase is responsible for high proliferative ability of breast cancer cells via anti-apoptosis involving p38 pathway
To investigate whether myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) contributed to the high proliferative ability of breast cancer cells.
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NF-κB downregulation may be involved the depression of tumor cell proliferation mediated by human mesenchymal stem cells
It has been reported that stem cells are able to home to tumorigenesis and inhibit the proliferation of tumor cells. The purpose of our study was to demonstrate the molecular mechanism of the inhibitory prolif...
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Promotion of cell proliferation by HBXIP via upregulation of human telomerase reverse transcriptase in human mesenchymal stem cells
We previously found that the hepatitis B X-interacting protein (HBXIP) was able to promote the proliferation of cells. Telomerase activity is known to be critical in cellular senescence and its level is modula...
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Involvement of hepatitis B X-interacting protein (HBXIP) in proliferation regulation of cells
To investigat the effect of Hepatitis B X-interacting protein (HBXIP) on cell proliferation.
