This research was funded by the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(Grant Nos.2021-I2M-1-030 and CAMS-I2M-1-012,China);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.81802019,81902075 and 81673358);the National Mega-project for Innovative Drugs(Grant No.2018ZX09711003-002-002,China);the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.7184228,China);the Peking Union Medical College Youth Fund(Grant Nos.3332016063 and 3332018096,China);the China Ministry of Science and Technology National 973 Project(Grant No.2014CB542503);the Excellent Young Scientist Program from the NSFC(Grant No.81622031,China);the National Key Research and Development program of China(Grant No.2016YFD0500307).
Ebola virus(EBOV)infection leads to staggeringly high mortality rate.Effective and low-cost treatments are urgently needed to control frequent EBOV outbreaks in Africa.In this study,we report that a natural compound c...
This work was supported by Hong Kong Research Grant Council(RGC)grants(11101717 and 11103620),NSFC(21778045 and 32070702);Shenzhen government research grant(JSGG20200225150702770).
Dear Editor,Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus(MERS-CoV)is the pathogen responsible for the outbreak of MERS,and we are currently being affected by coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)due to infection ...
National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(No.81701573);Key Technologies of Prevention and Control for Major and Infectious Diseases Project of Suzhou(No.GWZX201604);Youth Medical Talent Project of Jiangsu(No.QNRC2016214)。
Alcoholic liver disease(ALD) has become one of the leading causes of death in the world. Berbamine(BM), a natural product mainly derived from Berberis vulgaris L, possesses multiple bioactivities as a traditional medi...
Ovarian cancer is a common and lethal cancer affecting women globally. Berbamine is a natural compound from the plant Berberis amurensis, which is used in Chinese traditional medicine. Recent studies have shown the an...
This work was supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant number 81430094).
Objective:Lipid droplet(LD)deposition in adipose tissue is a critical factor leading to metabolic dysfunction.Various herbal medicines in traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)are used to treat hyperlipidemia,type 2 diabet...
Myocardial infarction resulting from coronary atherosclerosis is the leading cause of death in modern soci- ety. Reperfusion is an essential treatment to salvage ischemia myocardium from necrosis, while it also leads ...
The recent article by Liang et al. (2011), pub- lished in Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B (Biomedicine & Biotechnology), is highly interesting. Interestingly, the past few years have seen the in- creasin...
Sankezhen(Berberidis Radix)is a traditional Chinese materia medica,cold in nature and bitter in taste,for treating syndromes of liver,stomach,and large intestinal meridians,in which berberine and berbamine are the maj...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30873095);the Natural Science Foundation of Zheji-ang Province, China (No. 491020-N20529)
Objective: The cytotoxic effect of berbamine on chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) cell line KU812 was evaluated,and the mechanisms of its action were explored.Methods: The effect of berbamine on the KU812 cell growth was...
Aim: We sought to investigate the effect of berbamine on the growth of human multiple myeloma cell line KM3 and elucidate the mechanism of its action. Methods: MTT assay was used to determine the inhibitory effect o...