Background and Objectives: Curcumin and exercise training are suggested to improve hepatic disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate effects of two weeks of swimming training and curcumin supplementation on platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF-BB) and transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-β1) gene expressions following ethanol consumption in Wistar male rats. Materials and Methods: ...

Peroxiredoxin 1 (PRDX1) participates in tumor cell proliferation, apoptosis, migration, invasion, and the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). This study aimed to investigate effect of PRDX1 on EMT airway epithelial cells stimulated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β1). overexpression significantly increased proliferation migration human bronchial (BEAS-...

Background: During antigen capture and processing, mature dendritic cells (DC) express large amounts of peptide-MHC complexes and accessory molecules on their surface. DC are antigen-presenting cells that have an important role in tolerance and autoimmunity. The transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-β1) cytokine has a regulatory role on the immune and non-immune cells. The aim of this study is ...

Objective(s): Yu-Ping-Feng-San (YPFS) is a classical traditional Chinese medicine that is widely used for treatment of the diseases in respiratory systems, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) recognized as chronic inflammatory disease. However, the molecular mechanism remains unclear. Here we detected the factors involved in transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-β1)/Smad2 si...

Background: The production of recombinant proteins in Escherichia coli is one of the most valuable achievements in biotechnology, with many therapeutic and diagnostic applications; however, the aggregation and misfolding of proteins that result in the formation of insoluble inclusion bodies is a disruptive factor in this process. Various solubilization and refolding methods can be used to impro...

background: during antigen capture and processing, mature dendritic cells (dc) express large amounts of peptide-mhc complexes and accessory molecules on their surface. dc are antigen-presenting cells that have an important role in tolerance and autoimmunity. the transforming growth factor-beta1 (tgf-β1) cytokine has a regulatory role on the immune and non-immune cells. the aim of this study is ...

The imbalance in the expression of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and lysyl oxidases (LOXs) synovial fibroblasts (SFs) caused by mechanical injury inflammatory response prevents injured anterior cruciate ligaments (ACLs) from self-healing. However, research on effect growth factors SFs regulating microenvironment is limited. In this study, exogenous transform factor-β1 (TGF-β1) were employed ...

The epithelial‑mesenchymal transition (EMT) of retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells is an important underlying mechanism proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR). We previously found that L‑carnitine (β‑hydroxy‑γ‑N-trimethylammonium‑butyrate, LC) was significantly lower during the transforming growth factor‑β1 (TGF‑β1)‑induced EMT process in ARPE‑19 cells. present study assessed role LC RPE migr...