In the present study, two cell-based systems for assessing Yang and Yin activities were for the first time used to investigate the effect of ursolic acid (UA) and oleanolic acid (OA)...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.81270829,81102247,and 81670681)
Macrophages have a diverse set of functions based upon their activation states. The activation states, including resting(M0) and polarizing(M1 and M2) states, of macrophages derived from the mouse bone marrow, spl...
The authors would like to thank the NIH tetramer core facil- ity for the CDld tetramers, Dr Qin YANG of the Institute of Pathology, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Senior Engineer Yaqin Wang and Asso- ciate Prof Xia WEI of the Department of Histology and Embry- ology, Medical College of China Three Gorges University for their help and technical assistance in histological examination. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 31370885, 31000150, and 81302528) and the 973 Program from the Ministry of Science and Tech- nology of China (No 2013CB530505).
Hedyotis hedyotidea has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. However, the mechanisms underlying for the effect remain unknown. We previously showed that, among 11 compoun...
supported by the Special Non-profit Agricultural Industrial Research Fund of China (201103027)
Sesquiterpenes in Eupatorium adenophorum are abundant in leaves and have great development potential as biopesticides. The toxicity of sesquiterpenes in immune cells and their corresponding immune functions are not fu...
Partially Supported by Ministry of Higher Education and Universiti Teknologi MARA,Malaysia(Grant No.LESTARI:600-RMI/DANA 5/3/LESTARI(52/2015)
Objective:To assess the immunopotentiality of Ayurvedic polyherbal preparations,"Saribadi" and "Anantamul Salsa".Methods: Freshly prepared BALB/c mice splenocytes were cultured with "Saribadi" or"Anantamul Salsa" trea...
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play a key role in B cell-mediated innate and adaptive immunity. It has been shown that interleukin 10 (IL-10)-producing regulatory B cells (B10 cells) can negatively regulate cellular immun...
This study aimed to explore a pharmacological activity marker for quality assurance of Dendrobium species. The immunopotentiating activity in aqueous extracts prepared from four Dendrobium species, including D. offici...
This work was supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30500468).
Background The common y chain (γc) plays a critical role in regulating proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis of peripheral T-cells. It was previously confirmed that blocking the yc signal can successfully i...
Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(No.2009CB521908);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.30470405, 30570864,30670477 and 30770493);the National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China(No.30325011)
Aquaporins(AQPs) are molecular water channels that play important physiological roles in fluid trans-porting organs. The expression and function of AQPs in the immune system are largely unknown. CD 11 (a-d)/CD18 i...
financially supported by Woman Scientist Scheme-A to the first author from the Department of Science and Technology,New Delhi
Objective:To investigate the regulatory effect of aqueous extract of leaves of Ocimum sanctum on IL-2 cytokine production in vivo and in vitro,and the effect of leaves extract on general blood picture including T& B l...