ThisresearchwassupportedbyagrantfromtheScienceFoundationforSARSofGuangdongProvince (No 2 0 0 3Z3 E0 461)
BACKGROUND: The etiologic agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has been confirmed to be a novel coronavirus (CoV), namely SARS-CoV. Developing safe and effective SARS-CoV vaccines is essential for us to p...
BACKGROUND: The Taq/B, Msp/ and I405V polymorphisms of cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP), an important regulatory factor of lipid metabolism, have been attracted much more attention by the researchers. In this...
ThisprojectwassupportedbytheNationalNaturalScienceFoundationofChina (No 3 9770 3 40 )
BACKGROUND: Asthma is clinically related with the degree of eosinophilic inflammation. How asthmatic airway inflammation is affected is still poorly understood. So the effects of bone marrow-derived hematopoietic cell...
BACKGROUND: To compare the efficacy and safety of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) combined with fluoxetine, with HRT alone, in post-menopausal women suffering from depression. METHODS: A randomized, open-label, para...
ThisstudywassupportedinpartbyagrantfromtheNationalNaturalScienceFoundationofChina (No 3 0 2 713 14 )
BACKGROUND: Osteosarcoma is characterized by high neovascularization and a high propensity for metastasis through bloodstream. This study was to examine whether there is evidence for vasculogenic mimicry in osteosarco...
OBJECTIVE: To determine the distribution of aortic arch and intra/extracranial cerebral arterial atherosclerosis in Chinese patients who had suffered acute ischemic strokes. METHODS: Eighty-nine patients with acute is...
OBJECTIVE: To investigate an method for hepatic differentiation from embryonic stem cells (ES cells) in vitro and the resulting differentiation ratio, in order to develop a procedure for producing a new type of hepato...
This work was supported by a grant from the Natural Science Foundation of China (No.39970830).
OBJECTIVE: To study the apoptotic effects of influenza A virus on the Raji cell line. METHODS: Cultured Raji cells were infected with influenza A virus at a multiplicity of infection (m.o.i) of 20 and the effects of a...