Objective This study aimed to investigate possible serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D[25(OH)D]cutoffs for the associations between 25(OH)D and Bone turnover markers(BTMs),and how GC gene variation influences such cutoffs in Ch...
supported by the Ministry of Trade,Industry&Energy,Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology and Busan Institute For Regional Program Evaluation through the Encouragement Program for the Social and Economic Innovation Growth(project number,P0008724)
Objective:To determine the effect of Lentinula edodes extract on ultraviolet(UV)A and UVB-induced changes in matrix metalloproteinase(MMP)and type I procollagen expression using human immortalized HaCaT keratinocytes....
Wangjing Hospital,China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences Program:Clinical Study on Improving the Life Quality of Cancer Patients by Nourishing Yin and Tonifying the Kidney(No.2007-01);Specific Science and Technology Improvement Project of Beijing Traditional Chinese Medical Science and Technology Development Fund:Clinical Study on Chinese Herbs of Bushen Huayu Combined with Hyperthermia in Treating Bone Metastatic Pain(No.KJTS2011-13);Beijing Science and Technology Program"the Capital of special":Clinical Study on Chinese Herbs of Fuzheng Jiedu Huayu in Treating Cancer Pain(Z141107002514045)
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of Yishengukang decoction on the expression of the metabolic bone markers, bone-specific alkaline phosphatase(BAP), carboxyterminal propeptide of type Ⅰ procollagen(PICP), and car...
Project supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China (No. ZR2012HL19);the Science and Technology Development Plan of Tai’an City, China (No. 20113096)
Adiponectin plays an important role in the development of hypertension, atherosclerosis, and cardio- myocyte hypertrophy, but very little was known about the influence of serum adiponectin or the adiponectin gene poly...
Supported by the National Natural Scientific Foundation of China,No.30170417
AIM: To investigate the effects of adrenomedullin (AM) gene overexpression on the biological characteristics of human hepatic stellate cells (hHSCs) by stable transfection.METHODS: hHSCs which express low basal levels...
This study was supported by the grant from the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Foundation (No. A 1999--198).
OBJECTIVE: To assess the significance of serum hyaluronic acid (HA), proeollagen type Ⅲ (PCⅢ), collagen type Ⅳ (CⅣ) in the histological diagnosis of liver fibrosis. METHODS: The concentrations of serum HA, PCⅢ, C...
Scirrhous carcinoma is charactertzed by reinarkable amount of collagen fibrils, mainly type I and type III collagens. The origin of collagens is still under debate.cDNA fragments of type I and type III procollagens ...