BACKGROUND Baboons receiving xenogeneic livers from wild type and transgenic pigs survive less than 10 days. One of the major issues is the early development of profound thrombocytopenia that results in fatal hemorrhage. Histological examination of xenotransplanted livers has shown baboon platelet activation, phagocytosis and sequestration within the sinusoids. In order to study the mechanisms ...

objective: to study the mechanisms involved in amyloid formation processes, we made a mammalian cell culture model of amylin aggregation and characterized its properties. materials and methods: amyloid fibrils were extracted from cho cells and binding affinity to thioflavin t and congo red was investigated. then the apple-green birefringence of extracted fibrils was detected under polarized li...

Abstract In preclinical studies, simple coumarins (scoparone, limettin) and furanocoumarins (imperatorin, xanthotoxin, bergapten) have already found to demonstrate procognitive abilities. This suggests that they hold antioxidative, anti-inflammatory inhibitory action towards acetylcholinesterase activities. However, little is known about their influence on the amyloidal structure formation, lea...

OBJECTIVES Aspirin is the mainstay of anti-platelet therapy in the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. However, problems with aspirin safety and resistance demand clinical strategies based on multiple pharmacological approaches. Prodrugs of aspirin may offer beneficial effects in terms of gastro-intestinal safety and multiple pharmacological approaches. However, the pharmacological ...

Resveratrol (Fig. 1A) is a natural phytoalexin produced by some plants and it is also found in food and beverages, particularly red wine [1]. The biological activity of resveratrol is associated with health benefits including anti-tumour, antiinflammatory, anti-oxidant and anti-platelet aggregation properties that make it particularly interesting for applications in pharmaceutical and nutraceut...

Eptifibatide is the active substance of the medicinal product Integrilin. Eptifibatide is an anti-platelet agent with high affinity and specificity for the Glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa receptor that mediates platelet aggregation. Eptifibatide is an inhibitor of platelet aggregation and belongs to a new class of RGD mimeticsarginin (R), glycin (G), aspartic acid (D). Eptifibatide reversibly inhibi...

alzheimer disease (ad) is a neurodegenerative disorder marked by cognitive and behavioral impairment. amyloid beta (aβ) peptides are involved in ad as the main component of amyloid plaques found in the brain. recent in vivo and in vitro studies have shown that there is a lot of substances that alter aβ pathogenesis of ad. aβ induces toxicity lead to increasing ros. in the other hand, 5-ht6 and ...