Supported by National Nature Science Foundation of China,No.81172331 and No.30972890;Shandong Provincial Medicine and Health Science Technology Development Planning,China,No.2013WS0145
Liver cancer, a large proportion of which is hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC), is diagnosed in more than 700000 people each year worldwide. Liver cancer is particularly prevalent in Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the South...
Supported by The Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, No. Y201016273
AIM: To explore effects of telomerase RNA-targeting phosphorothioate antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (PS-ASODN) on growth of human gastrointestinal stromal tumors transplanted in mice. METHODS: A SCID mouse model for ...
Supported by The Fondazione "Umberto di Mario" Onlus, Rome;the Broad Medical Research Foundation,No.IBD0301R;Giuliani SpA,Milan,Italy
Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis,the major forms of inflammatory bowel diseases(IBD) in man,are complex diseases in which genetic and environmental factors interact to promote an excessive mucosal immune respons...
AIM: To screen for genes related to metabotropic re- ceptors that might be involved in the development of chronic hepatitis. METHODS: Assessment of 20 genes associated with metabotropic receptors was performed in li...
Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province,No. 0311043700the Foundation for Young Mainstay Teachers in Colleges and universities of Henan Province, No.100(2003)the Building Foundation for 211 Key Fields during the 15th Five-year Plan Period of Ministry of Education, No. 2(2002)
AIM: To investigate the effed3 of anti-sense oligonucleotides (ASODNs) on mRNA expression of heparanase in human esophageal cancer EC9706 cells. METHODS: One non-sense oligonucleotide (N-ODN) and five ASODNs aga...
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...
INTRODUCTIONEpidermal-growth-factor receptor(EGFR) is apolypeptide with 1186 amino acids,which binds toEGF family growth factors.Two major naturalligands in the family interact with EGFR:one isEGF,the other is transfo...