Background: Multiple myeloma (MM) is a malignant plasma cell proliferative disorder with limited immunotherapy treatment because of T cell dysfunction. Objective: To investigate the immunomodulatory function of bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells (MM-BMSCs) on CD8+ T cells. Methods: Proliferation and cytotoxicity were detected by c...

Objective(s): Impairment of nerve cells of brain induced by hypoxia results in energy-deprivation and dysfunction, which accompanies with neurons apoptosis. Improving function of nerve cells is important for treating cerebral anoxia. This study aimed to investigate the role of Quercetin (Quer) in hypoxia-induced injury of pheochromocytoma (PC-12) cells. Materials and Methods: PC-12 cells were c...

The lung cancer is one of the most dangerous cancers and is also the leading cause of cancer death worldwide, accounting for about 1.3 million deaths annually. However in clinical practice, lung cancer therapies commonly do with chemotherapy, although it is hard because the lung cancer may progress to metastasis stage. The metastasis of lung cancer is highly dependent of expression of matrix me...

Abstract BACKGROUND Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the most malignant primary brain tumors. Despite development treatment, prognosis GBM still poor. Here, we identified lomerizine, a prophylactic drug for migraine, as potential anti-GBM from thousands existing compounds. We investigated its therapeutic effects both in vitro and vivo with purpose repositioning. Materials method: Human patient-deri...

Introduction: Cardiac glycosides such as digoxin or digitoxin are the natural products that are traditionally used to increase cardiac contractile force in patients with heart failure and cardiac arrhythmias. It has been shown that digoxin can directly inhibit the cell proliferation and lead to cell apoptosis. Present study was conducted to analyze the effect of digoxin in the cohorts of ...

Abstract Background Long non-coding RNA is considered to be essential modulate the development and progression of human malignant cancers. And long can act as crucial modulators by sponging corresponding microRNA in tumorigenesis. We aimed elucidate function ACTA2-AS1 its molecular mechanism colon adenocarcinoma. Materials methods The expression ACTA2-AS1, miR-4428 BCL2L11 adenocarcinoma tissue...

Preeclampsia (PE) is a severe pregnancy-specific complication responsible for majority of maternal and fetal mortality. The dysfunction trophoblast cells known to be associated with the etiology PE. Moreover, elevated expression hsa_circ_0001326 was found in patients PE without elucidating specific mechanisms. Thus, this study aimed investigate role vitro. Human SWAN71 were used study. Cell pro...

objective(s): juglone is isolated from many species of the juglandaceae family and used as an anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and anti-tumor therapeutic. here, we evaluated juglone-induced antitumor effect in ovarian cancer skov3 cells. materials and methods: mtt assay was performed to examine juglone anti-proliferative effect. cell cycle and apoptosis were studied using flow cytometry in juglone-tr...

Purpose: To investigate the involvement of aldo-keto reductase family 1 member C1 (AKR1C1) in glycyrrhizic acid-mediated gastric cancer.Methods: Immunohistochemistry, quantitative real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR), and western blot were used to assess AKR1C1 expression cancer. Cell proliferation was assessed using 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl-2H-te...