in this work, we report the effect of biopolymers (starch and gelatin) on in vitro biocompatibility property of nano hydroxyapatite (nhap) composites. cell culture and mtt assays were performed for in vitro biocompatibility. they show that nhap can affect the proliferation of cells and the nhap-starch and nhap-gelatin biocomposites have no negative effect on the cell morphology, viability and p...

Bioactive peptides derived from fish the byproduct protein hydrolysate have wide potential as functional food ingredients. The preparation of bioactive is commonly achieved via enzymatic hydrolysis; this most preferred method because it has high specificity, fewer residual organic solvents in product, and usually carried out mild conditions. use various enzymes such proteases widely practiced i...

Osteosarcoma is the most frequent primary bone malignant tumor that develops mainly in children and adolescents. Despite recent improvements in chemotherapy and surgery, survival rate is approximately 50% after 5 years. Osteoprotegerin (OPG) is a potent inhibitor of osteoclast differentiation and activation, but its use as therapeutic agent in cancer-associated osteolysis remains controversial ...

BACKGROUND The genus Wikstroemia has about 70 species, but only a limited number of species have been studied chemically. Wikstroemia indica has long been used as a traditional crude drug in China. However, there is no report about the bioactivity of Wikstroemia scytophylla. OBJECTIVE This paper reports the chemical investigation and biological evaluation of the W. scytophylla. MATERIALS AN...

Traditional uses of herbal medicine have depended mostly on anecdotal evidence for much of history. The increasing application of scientific rigor to the study some of these traditional therapies in recent years has revealed potent bioactivity, notably demonstrated by the 2015 Nobel Prize for the discovery of an antimalarial compound from traditional Chinese herbs. Given the recent successes of...

Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) signaling is thought to play a role in the development and progression of multiple cancer types. To date, therapeutic strategies aimed at disrupting IGF signaling have largely focused on antibodies that target the IGF-I receptor (IGF-IR). Here, we describe the pharmacologic profile of BI 836845, a fully human monoclonal antibody that utilizes an alternative appr...

background : immunogenicity of streptokinase (stk), as a thrombolytic drug, have limited its clinical use. elimination of the amino acid residues that are responsible for immunogenicity while don’t affect the bioactivity of stk is worthy. recently, we modified the stk through elimination of 42 amino acids from its’ c-terminal and assessed its bioactivity in vitro . objective : in this study, bi...

Eg5 is a kinesin spindle protein that controls chromosomal segregation in mitosis and is thus a critical drug target for cancer therapy. We report the discovery of a potent, selective inhibitor of Eg5 designated YL001. YL001 was obtained through shape similarity based virtual screening, and it bears a 1,5-disubstituted tetrazole scaffold. YL001 exhibits favorable bioactivity in a variety of can...

The potency of cancer immunotherapy can be enhanced by administration of high-avidity ligands specific to receptors expressed on T cells. Antibodies or cytokines are the main agents used in such capacity. Antibody-mediated inhibition of cytotoxic T cell antigen-4 (CTLA-4) function in mice augments antitumor immunity and could serve as an important adjunct in cancer immunotherapy. However, antib...