AIM:To test whether colchicine would be an effective antif ibrotic agent for treatment of chronic liver diseases in patients who could not be treated with α-interferon.METHODS:Seventy-four patients(46 males,28 female...
AIM: To observe the anti-liver fibrosis effect of Astragalus complanatus fiavonoids (ACF) in rats. METHODS: The liver fibrosis model in rats was established by injecting interperitoneally 0.2 mL/100 g 0.5% dimethy...
AIM: To investigate the effects of leptin administration on liver fibrosis induced by thioacetamide (TAA). METHODS: Twenty-four male C57BI/6 mice were randomly allocated into four groups, which were intra-peritone...
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...
Objective: To study the effects of quercetin (QU) on matrix metallo-proteinases (MMPs) , the tissue inhibitor of matalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) , procollagen I and 2 proteoglycans (decorin and biglycan) mRNA expression ...
AIM: To assess the impact of procollagen Ⅲ peptide as a marker of collagenesis in the development of pseudopolyps in patients with ulcerative colitis.METHODS: Development of pseudopolyps was monitored in 25 patients ...
Objective: To study the relationship between the ser- um levels of hyaluronic acid (HA), procollagen type Ⅲ (PCⅢ), collagen type Ⅳ (CIV) and the histologi- cal degree of hepatic fibrosis evaluated by image analysis...
Supported by the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China(No.1999-10 State Postdoctoral Foundation Commission)
AIM: To observe the inhibition of antisense oligonucleotides (asON) phosphorthioate to the tissue inhibitors metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) gene and protein expression in the liver tissue of immunologically induced hepa...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 39500138
INTRODUCTIONLiver fibrosis is a dynamic course leading tocirrhosis from a various chronic liver diseases. Thepathological basis of fibrosis is the disturbance ofproduction and degradation of the extracellularmatrix (E...