Valproic acid (VPA), a well-known histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor, is used as an anti-cancer drug for various cancers, but the synergistic anti-cancer effect of VPA and doxorubicin (DOX) combination treatment and its potential underlying mechanism in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remain to be elucidated. Here, we evaluate the mono- and combination-therapy effects of VPA and DOX in HCC and...

In the present study, we used CaCO3 nanoparticles (CCNPs) as carriers to assess the physicochemical characteristics and antibacterial effect of gentamicin sulfate (GS)-loaded CCNPs (CGPs). The results indicated that CCNPs had relatively regular chain-like structure, and the size of the crystallites was around 62.5 nm. FT-IR analysis indicated that the GS could effectively load onto CCNPs. Meanw...

Two or more factors can simultaneously make their combined effects on the biological objects. This study has focused on theoretical approach to synergistic interaction due to the combined action of radiation and another factor on cell inactivation. A mathematical model for the synergistic interaction of different environmental agents was suggested for quantitative prediction of irreversibly dam...

pluronic/bile salt/phospholipid mixed micelles (pluronic/bs/ps-mm) drug carrier system for solubilization hydrophobic drugs was developed. a typical hydrophobic compound, pyrene, was selected as a representative hydrophobic compound to model the hydrophobic drugs. five pluronics, f68, f88, f98, f108, and f127 with different ppo chain length were studied. cmc data and solubilization capacities w...

The initiation of sound change requires the emergence of innovated variants. One possible source of innovated variants is non-faithful transference of linguistic features during accommodation to a received speech signal. If the subphonemic cues associated with a phonological contrast are realized differently in an accommodating speaker's speech than in both the speaker's previous speech and in ...