Background:Although hypomethylating agents are currently used to treat patients with cancer,whether they can also reactivate and up-regulate oncogenes is not well elucidated.Methods:We examined the effect of hypomethy...
BACKGROUND Serpin peptidase inhibitor,clade A member 3(SERPINA3)belongs to the serpin family with an inhibitory activity against proteases.Its aberrant expression has been observed in a wide range of tumor cells.Howev...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31060328);the Natural Science Foundation of Inner Mongolia(No.2014BS0801);the Doctor's Start-up Fund in Inner Mongolia Medical University(NY2011BQ003);the Youth Entrepreneurship Foundation of Inner Mongolia Medical University(NY2010QN003)
[ Objective] To investigate the mechanisms involved in the Up-regulatory effects of 17β-estrodiol on β-defensin-2 (SBD-2) in epithelial cells of ovine oviduct. [ Methods] Epithelial cells of ovine oviduct were iso...
Supported by Aerospace Medicine Research Project funded by the Medical Division,Headquarter,Republic of Korea Air Force(2012)
AIM: To investigate the effect of hypoxia or hyperoxia on the progression of hepatic fibrosis and to examine the role of transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) in the livers of rats exposed to hypoxic or...
supported by grant from National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (No. 39970307);Hubei Provincial Natural Sciences Foundation of China (No. 2005ABA092).
Very low density lipoprotein receptor (VLDLR) is thought to participate in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis induced by VLDL and β-VLDL. The present study was undertaken to elucidate the effects of VLDL and β-VL...
Obje, etive To analyze how the infection of human papillomavirus 16 ( HPV16 ) affects expression of DNA poly- merase β(DNA polB) with the aim of probing the mechanism of over-expression of DNA polB in human cance...
In order to study the significance of FasL expression in immune escape of breast cancer, FasL protein expression and the number of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in 40 specimens of breast cancer were detected...
Objective To determine the number of goblet cells, the change of MUC5AC expression in chronic obstructive pul- monary disease (COPD) patients and the relationship of smoking with goblet cell, MUC5AC, and lung function...
Supported by the National Key Basic Research Specific Funds (No. G19990 75 6 0 7) and the National ScienceFoundation for Outstanding Young Scientist of China(No. 30 0 2 5 0 38)
Chemokine receptors, mainly CCR5 and CXCR4, have been proved to be the important coreceptors in HIV 1 entry. HIV 1 disease progression is, in general, characterized by an initial predominance of CCR5 using macrop...