The protective effects of Rheum tanguticum polysaccharide 1 (RTP1), which is extracted from the Chinese traditional medicine Rheum tanguticum, on radiation-induced intestinal mucosal injury was investigated. Rat intestinal crypt epithelial cells (IEC-6 cells) and Sprague-Dawley rats were each divided into control, irradiated and RTP1-pretreated irradiated groups. After irradiation, cell surviva...

Pathogens infecting mammalian cells have developed various strategies to suppress and evade their hosts’ defensive mechanisms. In this line, the intracellular bacteria that are able to survive and propagate within their host cells must have developed strategies to avert their host’s killing attitude. Studying the interface of host-pathogen confrontation can provide valuable information for defi...

52 β- thalassemia major patients were studied. Their ages ranged from two to 20 years. The group consisted of 22 girls and 30 boys. Candida intracellular killing and NBT (nitroblue tetrazolium) tests were performed on the peripheral blood neutrophils of these patients. Average results of the intracellular killing test was within normal range for the patients, but showed an appreciable decr...

pathogens infecting mammalian cells have developed various strategies to suppress and evade their hosts’ defensive mechanisms. in this line, the intracellular bacteria that are able to survive and propagate within their host cells must have developed strategies to avert their host’s killing attitude. studying the interface of host-pathogen confrontation can provide valuable information for defi...

52 β- thalassemia major patients were studied. their ages ranged from two to 20 years. the group consisted of 22 girls and 30 boys. candida intracellular killing and nbt (nitroblue tetrazolium) tests were performed on the peripheral blood neutrophils of these patients. average results of the intracellular killing test was within normal range for the patients, but showed an appreciable decrease ...

background: various fixation and permeabilization techniques have been developed for detection of intracellular antigens by flow cytometry; however, there are few studies using flow cytometry to detect the frequency of intracellular nucleic acids, particularly rna. we tested six different permeabilization methods in order to gain access to a high quality method with minimal damage to intracellu...

the protective effects of rheum tanguticum polysaccharide 1 (rtp1), which is extracted from the chinese traditional medicine rheum tanguticum, on radiation-induced intestinal mucosal injury was investigated. rat intestinal crypt epithelial cells (iec-6 cells) and sprague-dawley rats were each divided into control, irradiated and rtp1-pretreated irradiated groups. after irradiation, cell surviva...

objective: glut4 is a type of glucose transporter and plays a central role in whole-body metabolism of carbohydrates. the muscle is the major site of glut4 and cell line models, to explore glut4 behaviors under new therapeutic approach, such as herbal components, should be evaluated. here, c2c12 cell line is evaluated for glut4 translocation from intracellular compartment into the cell membrane...

human mitochondrial dna (mtdna) is 16,569 base pairs (bp) in length, coding for 37 genes. during the course of evolution, nearly all the genes expressing ribosomal proteins and ribosomal rnas (rrna) genes have been transferred from the mitochondria to the nucleus. however, mitochondrial dna contains two ribosomal rnas genes (12s and 16s), which have not yet transferred to the nucleus. these two...

Diffusion of transported particles in the intracellular medium is described by means of a generalized diffusion equation containing forces due to the cytoskeleton network and to the protein motors. We find that the enhanced diffusion observed in experiments depends on the nature of the force exerted by the protein motors and on parameters characterizing the intracellular medium which is describ...