Breviscapine,extracted from the herb Erigeron breviscapus,is widely used for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases,cerebral infarct,and stroke,but its mechanism of action remains unclear.This study established a ra...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81401428)
Objective:To observe the protective effect of breviscapineon mice with cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity.Methods:Mice were given a single injection of cisplalin(8 mg/kg,up.);then,breviscapine was given to mice at 25 mg...
Aim: Breviscapine isolated from the Chinese herb Erigeron breviscapus (Vant) Hand-Mazz is widely used to treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The aim of this study was to improve the pharmacokinetic p...
Aim: To investigate the influences of breviscapine, a flavonoid extracted from Erigeron breviscapus, on the proliferation and migration of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) cultured in a high glucose medium and ...
Supported by Funds of Natural Science of Shaanxi Education, No.05JK176;Natural Science of Shaanxi Province, No.2010JM4023;Natural Science of Xianyang City, No. 2010K14-02(6)
AIM:To study the effect of breviscapine (Bre) on activity of protein kinase Cα (PKCα) and nuclear factor (NF)-κB in pancreas,and the mechanism of Bre attenuating acute pancreatitis (AP). METHODS:One hundred and eig...
Aim: To investigate the influence of breviscapine on high glucose-induced hypertrophy of cardiomyocytes and the relevant mechanism in vitro and in vivo. Methods: Cultured neonatal cardiomyocytes were divided into i...
This study was supported by a grant from the Distinguished Innovation of Henan Province (0421002500).
BACKGROUND: Brain-dead donors are the main sources for organ transplantation, but many studies show that brain-death affects the organ's function after transplantation. This study was undertaken to investigate liver i...
This study was supported by a research grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.30370629).
Fractalkine (FKN) is the only known chemokine that fulfils the dual functions of an adhesive molecule and a soluble chemoattractant.1 FKN expression was reported increase in lungs of patients with severe pulmonary a...
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of Breviscapine on essential hypertension (EH) patients complicated with micro-albuminuria of renal impairment. Methods: Seventy-six EH patients were randomly assigned to the contro...