Seyed Ali ziai

[ 1 ] - Antitumor effects of umbelliprenin in a mouse model of colorectal cancer

Umbelliprenin is a sesquiterpene coumarin with vitro anti-carcinogenic activities. The aim of this study was to investigate the antitumor effects of umbelliprenin in animal models of colorectal cancer. The cytotoxic effects of umbelliprenin were explored on CT26 and L929by MTT assay. In this study, colorectal tumors developed in mice by intradermal injection of CT26 cell line. Tumor size, serum...

[ 2 ] - Peganum Harmala L. Extract Reduces Oxidative Stress and Improves Symptoms in 6-Hydroxydopamine-Induced Parkinson’s Disease in Rats

Parkinson’s disease is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders. There are many documents about the effects of oxidative stress in Parkinson’s disease etiology. Angiotensin II activates NADPH dependent oxidases and causes superoxides formation. Peganum harmala L. extract, which has angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory effect, is considered to evaluate oxidative stress inhi...

[ 3 ] - Mcl-1 Is Up Regulated by Prenylated Coumarin, Umbelliprenin in Jurkat Cells

Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is the most common B-cell malignancy in the western world and exists as subtypes with very different clinical courses. Myeloid cell leukemia 1 (Mcl-1) is one member of Bcl-2 family proteins that has been shown to be expressed in various tissues and malignant cells, including CLL, where its expression is significantly associated with a failure to achieve compl...

[ 4 ] - Umbelliprenin from Ferula szowitsiana Activates both Intrinsic and Extrinsic Pathways of Apoptosis in Jurkat T-CLL Cell Line

Umbelliprenin is a prenylated compound, which belongs to the class of sesquiterpene coumarins. It is extracted from dried roots of Ferula szwitsiana collected from the mountains of Golestan forest (Golestan Province, north of Iran). Induction of apoptosis in Jurkat T-CLL cells has been previously shown. In this study, effect of umbelliprenin on proapoptotic caspases (caspase-8 and -9) and antia...

[ 5 ] - Umbelliprenin Induces Apoptosis in CLL Cell Lines

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) remains an incurable disease that requires innovative new approaches to improve therapeutic outcome. Many Ferula species, including F. asa-foetida, synthesize terpenyloxy coumarins. One of these coumarins is umbelliprenin, which has been implicated with induction of apoptosis in some cancer cell lines. In this study induction of apoptosis by umbellipre...

[ 6 ] - Antitumor effects of umbelliprenin in a mouse model of colorectal cancer

Umbelliprenin is a sesquiterpene coumarin with vitro anti-carcinogenic activities. The aim of this study was to investigate the antitumor effects of umbelliprenin in animal models of colorectal cancer. The cytotoxic effects of umbelliprenin were explored on CT26 and L929by MTT assay. In this study, colorectal tumors developed in mice by intradermal injection of CT26 cell line. Tumor size, serum...

[ 7 ] - Peganum Harmala L. Extract Reduces Oxidative Stress and Improves Symptoms in 6-Hydroxydopamine-Induced Parkinson’s Disease in Rats

Parkinson’s disease is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders. There are many documents about the effects of oxidative stress in Parkinson’s disease etiology. Angiotensin II activates NADPH dependent oxidases and causes superoxides formation. Peganum harmala L. extract, which has angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory effect, is considered to evaluate oxidative stress inhi...

[ 8 ] - Mcl-1 Is Up Regulated by Prenylated Coumarin, Umbelliprenin in Jurkat Cells

Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is the most common B-cell malignancy in the western world and exists as subtypes with very different clinical courses. Myeloid cell leukemia 1 (Mcl-1) is one member of Bcl-2 family proteins that has been shown to be expressed in various tissues and malignant cells, including CLL, where its expression is significantly associated with a failure to achieve compl...

[ 9 ] - Umbelliprenin from Ferula szowitsiana Activates both Intrinsic and Extrinsic Pathways of Apoptosis in Jurkat T-CLL Cell Line

Umbelliprenin is a prenylated compound, which belongs to the class of sesquiterpene coumarins. It is extracted from dried roots of Ferula szwitsiana collected from the mountains of Golestan forest (Golestan Province, north of Iran). Induction of apoptosis in Jurkat T-CLL cells has been previously shown. In this study, effect of umbelliprenin on proapoptotic caspases (caspase-8 and -9) and antia...

[ 10 ] - Umbelliprenin Induces Apoptosis in CLL Cell Lines

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) remains an incurable disease that requires innovative new approaches to improve therapeutic outcome. Many Ferula species, including F. asa-foetida, synthesize terpenyloxy coumarins. One of these coumarins is umbelliprenin, which has been implicated with induction of apoptosis in some cancer cell lines. In this study induction of apoptosis by umbellipre...

[ 11 ] - اثر حفاظت نورونی عصاره آبی زرشک (Berberis vulgaris L.) در مدل بیماری پارکینسون در موش صحرایی نر

مقدمه: بیماری پارکینسون، تحلیل نورون‌های دوپامینی در ساختمان متراکم جسم سیاه و دیگر نواحی ساقه مغز است. استرس اکسیداتیو نقش اصلی را در مرگ نرون‌ها در این بیماری بازی می‌کند. مهارکنندگان ACE (آنزیم مبدل آنژیوتانسین) نقش ثابت شده‌ای در جلوگیری از استرس اکسیداتیو دارند. زرشک یک مهارکننده ACE شناخته شده است. هدف: هدف این تحقیق بررسی عصاره آبی زرشک در درمان بیماری پارکینسون است. روش بررسی: 32 موش...

[ 12 ] - بررسی گیاهان دارویی مورد استفاده در طب سنتی ایران برای درمان فشار خون از طریق بررسی قدرت مهارکنندگی فعالیت ACE

مقدمه: آنزیم مبدل آنژیوتانسین (ACE)، اگزوپپتیدازی است که باعث تبدیل آنژیوتانسین I به II می‌شود. آنژیوتانسین II سبب انقباض عروق و ترشح آلدسترون شده و با تجزیه برادی‌کینین باعث بی‌اثر شدن آن می‌گردد. به این ترتیب ACE نقش مهمی در تنظیم فشار خون بازی می‌کند. هدف: جستجو به دنبال داروهایی با اثرات ضد فشار خون در طب سنتی جهت پیدا کردن مهارکنندگان ACE از گونه‌های گیاهی مورد مصرف در طب سنتی ایران به عن...

[ 13 ] - بررسی اثر حلال‌های مختلف در استخراج سیلی‌مارین از بذر گیاه خارمریم

مقدمه: پودر عصاره بذر گیاه خارمریم که به سیلی‌مارین معروف است از گیاهی با نام علمی Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. استخراج می‌شود. این گیاه در درمان سیروز کبدی دیابت شیرین، هایپرکلسترولمی مصرف دارد. روش‌های متعددی برای استخراج سیلی‌مارین پیشنهاد شده و به خاطر اهمیت پودر سیلی‌مارین بهترین روش استخراج در انحصار است. هدف: در این مطالعه سعی شده تا اثر حلال‌های مختلف و راندمان هر کدام در تولید سیلی...

[ 14 ] - Study of the correlation between ACE gene polymorphism and coronary artery disease

Introduction: Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) is an exopeptidase that converts Angiotensin I to Angiotensin II. Angiotensin II is a potent vasoconstrictor and releases aldosterone, and have a critical role in hypertension. In this study, ACE insertion / deletion (I/D) polymorphism and ACE activity was determined in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and normal subjects. The corr...

[ 15 ] - اثر غلظتهای مختلف عصاره آبی گیاه جعفری بر جلوگیری از پراکسیداسیون سلولهای عصبی در مدل تجربی پارکینسون القا شده با 6-هیدروکسی دوپامین در موشهای صحرایی نر

Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) accompanies with degeneration of dopaminergic neurons of substantia nigra compacta and other regions of brainstem. Oxidative stress plays an important role in neuronal death in PD. Superoxide formation is one of the main etiologies of this disease, and angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) are able to suppress superoxide formation. Petroselinum...

[ 16 ] - Semi-IPN Films and Electrospun Nanofibers Based On Chitosan/PVA as an Antibacterial Wound Dressing

The antimicrobial activity of a wound dressing is a key factor for preventing and treating wound infection. The current study evaluated the physiochemical properties and antimicrobial activities of semi-IPNs (interpenetrating polymer networks) based on chitosan/polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) films and nanofibers as candidates for wound dressings and investigated the effects of morphologies (nanofibrou...

[ 17 ] - Investigation of osteoblast-like cells cultured on nano-hydroxyapatite/chitosan based composite scaffold in the treatment of bone defects and limited mobility

Objective(s): Design and construction of biocompatible and biodegradable scaffolds are among the main goals of tissue engineering. Recently, use of nano-hydroxyapatite as a bioactive bioceramic agent with high similarity to the mineral phase of the human bone tissue, in combination with biodegradable polymers and implant coatings has attracted the attention of researchers in the field of biomat...

[ 18 ] - Semi-IPN Films and Electrospun Nanofibers Based On Chitosan/PVA as an Antibacterial Wound Dressing