BACKGROUND Remarkable progress over the last decade has equipped clinicians with many options in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.Clinicians now have the unique opportunity to provide individualized treatme...
Inflammatory bowel disease(IBD)is chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract that has a high epidemiological prevalence worldwide.The increasing disease burden worldwide,lack of response to current biologic th...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China;No.81160065
AIM: To determine the therapeutic potential of sphingosine kinase 1(Sphk1) inhibition and its underlying mechanism in a well-characterized mouse model of D-galactosamine(D-Gal N)/lipopolysaccharide(LPS)-induced acute ...
Supported by The National Natural Science Foundation of China;No.81160065
AIM: To investigate the role of protein kinase C(PKC)-δ activation in the pathogenesis of acute liver failure(ALF) in a well-characterized mouse model of D-galactosamine(D-Gal N)/lipopolysaccharide(LPS)-induced ALF.M...
Supported by Ministry of Education;Culture;Sports;Science;and Technology of Japan;KAKENHI;No.23390319
AIM: To investigate the cytoprotective effects in hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury, we developed a new formulation of hyaluronic acid(HA) and sphingosine 1-phophate.METHODS: We divided Sprague-Dawley rats into 4 gr...
Supported by United States National Institute of Health(to Kazuaki Takabe),No.R01CA160688;Investigator Initiated Research Grant(to Susan G Komen),No.IIR12222224
Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma(PM) is an infrequent disease which has historically been associated with a poor prognosis. Given its long latency period and non-specific symptomatology, a diagnosis of PM can be sugg...
Accumulated evidences have demonstrated that signal transducer and activator of transcription 3(STAT3)is a critical link between inflammation and cancer.Multiple studies have indicated that persistent activation of ST...
Supported by The Key Project of Ministry of Education, No. 209105;Sichuan Youth Science and Technology Foundation, No. 08ZQ026-081;Key Laboratory Foundation of North Sichuan Medical College, No. KFJJ (08)-03
AIM:To investigate the sphingosine 1phosphate (S1P) receptor expression profile in human esophageal cancer cells and the effects of S1P5 on proliferation and migration of human esophageal cancer cells. METHODS: S1P re...
AIM: To investigate whether alphastatin could inhibit human gastric cancer growth and furthermore whether sphingosine kinase (SPK) activity is involved in this process. METHODS: Using migration assay, MTT assay an...