funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.82370742);the Key Program of Jiangsu Health and Health Committee(No.ZD2022045).
Background:Renal osteodystrophy(ROD)is a skeletal pathology associated with chronic kidney disease-mineral and bone disorder(CKD-MBD)that is characterized by aberrant bone mineralization and remodeling.ROD increases t...
Supported by grants from the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province(No.2017A020211007),China;the Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(No.2016A030311014),China;the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81870420);Special Project on the Integration of Industry,Education and Research of Guangdong Province(No.2014B090902002);Science and Technological Program for Dongguan’s Social Development(No.2016108101043).
To the Editor:Hyperuricemia,the second most common metabolic disease after diabetes mellitus in China,is characterized by the elevated serum uric concentration which is due to the overactive uric acid production or un...
Background:Epilepsy is a chronic and severe neurological disorder.Phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome ten(PTEN)-deficient mice exhibit learning and memory deficits and spontaneous epilepsy.The aim of ...
Background: Coronary microembolization (CME) has been frequently seen in acute coronary syndromes and percutaneous coronary intervention. Small animal models are required for further studies of CME related to sever...
This work was supported by Project of Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (NO. BK2008164).
Background The sodium-iodide symporter (NIS) protein can mediate the active radioiodine uptake.The human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) promoter is known to be selectively reactivated in majority of tumo...
Background Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase (TIMP)-1 is a multifunctional protein. The aim of the study was to examine the feasibility of using a combination of adenovirus-mediated gene delivery of TIMP-1 plus ...
This work was supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 300740076), Jiangsu Six Kinds of Outstanding Talents Foundation (No. 2006B070), Jiangsu Science and Education for Health Foundation (No. RC2007054) and Jiangsu Province Post-doctor Foundation (No. 0601048B).
Background A satisfactory animal model of breast cancer metastasizing to bone is unavailable. In this study, we used human breast cancer stem-like cells and human bone to build a novel “human-source” model of human ...
Background Osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic and incurable disease, lacking effective treatment. Gene therapy offers a radical different approach to the treatment of arthritis. Even though the etiology of OA remains ...
This study was supported by grants from the National Youth NaturalScience Foundation of China(No.30400191)and the Key Subjectof’135’Project of Jiangsu Province(No.20013102).
Nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) overactivation, requiring phosphorylation and degradation of its inhibitor IκBα, is the basis for chronicity of airway inflammation in asthma. Based on our previous plasmid pShuttle-Iκ...
Background Inhibition of tumor growth by endostatin has been shown to be an effective strategy in cancer therapy in mice However, its widespread application has been hampered by difficulties in a large scale productio...