National Natural Sciences Foundation of China,No.81872883;Zhejiang Major Medical Health&Sciences Technology Foundation Projects,No.WKJ-ZJ-13.
The receptor protein tyrosine kinase RON belongs to the c-MET proto-oncogene family.Research has shown that RON has a role in cancer pathogenesis,which places RON on the frontline of the development of novel cancer th...
Pancreatic cancer is a highly aggressive tumour that is very resistant to treatments and it is rarely diagnosed early because of absence of specific symptoms. Therefore, the prognosis for this disease is very poor and...
Supported by A grant of the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung through the FORSYS partner program, No.0315255;the Helmholtz Society as part of the Systems Biology Network
AIM:To gain insights into the molecular action of erlotinib in pancreatic cancer (PC) cells. METHODS:Two PC cell lines, BxPC-3 and Capan-1, were treated with various concentrations of erlotinib, the specific mitogen-a...
Supported by Grants From Shanghai Committee of Scienceand Technology,Shanghai,China,No.044119624
AIM:To study the effects of synthetic nonmethylated CpG-containing oligodeoxynucleotides(CpG-ODNs) ,either alone or combined with recombinant Hepatitis B surface antigen(HBsAg) polypeptide,on the phenotype,function,an...
Supported by The National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.30470780
AIM:To investigate the relationship between late SV40 factor(LSF)and Notch signaling in the development and progress of hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC).METHODS:Liver cancer tissue specimens from 25 patients were analyze...
Supported by A Grant from the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality,No. 09QA1404600;a grant from the Affiliated First People’s Hospital of ShanghaiJiao Tong University,No. 0801
AIM:To evaluate the effect of RNA interference (RNAi) mediated silence of signal transduction and activation of transcription (STAT)3 on the growth of human pancreatic cancer cells both in vitro and in vivo.METHODS:ST...
AIM: To evaluate the possible role of Tribble 3 (TRB3) in a rat model of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and its signal transduction mechanism.METHODS: Thirty Sprague-Dawley rats were randomized into t...
Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 30750013 ;Key Science Research Project Natural Science Foundation of Xiamen, No. WKZ0501
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are molecules or ions formed by the incomplete one-electron reduction of oxygen. Ofinterest, it seems that ROS manifest dual roles, cancer promoting or cancer suppressing, in tumorigenesi...
Supported by Development funds from the Section of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center;Bridge Research Grant from the University of Nebraska Medical Center;Medical Research Funds from the Department of Veterans Affairs, United States of America
The majority of ethanol metabolism occurs in the liver. Consequently, this organ sustains the greatest damage from ethanol abuse. Ethanol consumption disturbs the delicate balance of protein homeostasis in the liver, ...
The Medical Research Council of the Academy of Finland and the Sigrid Juselius Foundation
AIM: To analyze the ability of nine different potentially probiotic bacteria to induce maturation and cytokine production in human monocyte-derived dendritic cells (moDCs). METHODS: Cytokine production and maturat...