Loss of dopaminergic i a compensatory increase in nput to the striatum associated with Parkinson' s disease brings about glutamate release onto the dopaminergic cell bodies in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNp...
Hepatic stellate cell (HSC) activation is an essential event during liver fibrogene- sis. Phosphatase and tension homolog deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN), a tumor suppressor, is a negative regulator of this proces...
Background/Aims: To reveal the miR-146a expression and related roles in TGF-β1-in- duced hepatic stellate cells activation. Methods. miR-146a expression was analyzed in TGF-β1-treated HSC and CC14-in- duced liver b...
Aims: Total triterpenoid from Prunella vulgaris L. (TTP), known as medicinehad, had a preventive effect against hepatic steatosis in our previous was to evaluate whether TTP could improve liver fibrosis nism of act...
ticles (ACNP-DOC) on the cell membrane of A549 human lung cancer cells using atomic force microscope (AFM) . Methods: ACNP was prepared by grinding- suspenssion- centrifugation process and ACNP diameters were mea...
Objective: To investigate the effect of single-wall carbon nanotubes on the mitochondrial electron transport chain (METC) of tumor cells. Methods: Human hepatocarcinoma cell line HepG2 were cultured in DMEM medium...