This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.82070712,81873603,81670664)to LML,and(No.81873603)to XXW.The authors would like to thank the research participants for volunteering their time in the study.
Ischemia/reperfusion(I/R)injury is a major cause of acute kidney injury(AKI)in clinic.The activation of NLRP3 inflammasome is associated with inflammation and renal injury in I/R-induced AKI.In the current study we ex...
This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(3147107,91132711,30970960);a Key Project of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission(15JC1400102,19ZR1416600).
Neuronal oscillations in the hippocampus are critical for many brain functions including learning and memory.The underlying mechanism of oscillation generation has been extensively investigated in terms of chemical sy...
Pectin is a biopolymer that has numerous useful purposes in food and beverage industry, cosmetic products and pharmaceutical fields. One of the important properties of pectin is its bioadhesive properties. Native pect...
Aim: Glyoxalase I (GLOI), a glutathione (GSH)-dependent enzyme, is overexpressed in tumor cells and related to multi-drug resistance in chemotherapy, making GLOI inhibitors as potential anti-tumor agents. But the...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30872731);Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province, China (2008GS01435 and 1010RJZA114)
Accumulating evidence has suggested that the gap junction plays an important role in the determination of cerebral ischemia, but the underlying mechanisms remain to be elucidated. In this study, we assessed the effect...
supported by the Social Development Program of Nantong, No. S2009035
Gap junction blocking agents can inhibit spontaneous discharge frequency in cells. We established a rat model of posttraumatic epilepsy induced using ferric ions. Rats were intraperitoneally injected with carbenoxolon...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province, No. 2010CHB01001
General anesthetics induce loss of consciousness by inhibiting ascending arousal pathways, and they interfere with gap junction electrical coupling. The present study aimed to determine whether inhibition of gap junct...
supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China(No.39770251);the Medical Foundation of the People's Liberation Army,China(No.01Z082,06MA234);the Foundation of the Fourth Military Medical University(No.05ZXJM001)
Objective To investigate whether hypertonic saline (HS) can induce the synthesis and release of glutamate in cultured hypothalamic astrocytes or C6 cell line. Methods Astrocytes were isolated, cultured, purified and...