Cleistocactus winteri is a succulent plant of the Cactaceae family, commonly known as the golden rat tail. Many members of the Cactaceae family are the focus of chemical and biological studies as they contain bioactive compounds, well known for their health-related properties. We aimed to investigate Cleistocactus winteri stems both phytochemically and biologicallyfor the firs...

For the development of an efficient intestinal delivery system for Porcine interferon-α (PoIFN-α), the understanding of transport mechanisms of which in the intestinal cell is essential. In this study, we investigated the absorption mechanisms of PoIFN-α in intestine cells. Caco-2 cells and fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled (FITC)-PoIFN-α were used to explore the whole transport process, inclu...

To further the development of a model for simultaneously assessing intestinal absorption and first-pass metabolism in vitro, Caco-2, LS180, T84, and fetal human small intestinal epithelial cells (fSIECs) were cultured on permeable inserts, and the integrity of cell monolayers, CYP3A4 activity, and the inducibility of enzymes and transporters involved in intestinal drug disposition were measured...

The present study used various amounts of P-arsanilic acid (AsA) in pot experiments to evaluate the effects AsA on arsenic (As) accumulation, speciation and meanwhile using vitro digestion/Caco-2 cell model bioavailability As rice. results indicated a linear relationship between rice soil, at 75 mg AsA/kg content exceeded statutory permissible limit 0.2 As/kg dry weight China. Speciation studie...

The work presented here demonstrates the utility of Caco-2 cells in the isolation of enteroviruses (EVs) from environmental and clinical materials. Thirty-two samples of cerebrospinal fluid positive in Pan-entero RT-PCR were taken for EV strain isolation in cell culture. Out of the 32 samples analysed, 22 (68.75%) were positive for enteroviruses by isolation in Caco-2 cells, and 10 (31.25%) wer...

Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) was recently reported (M. Tsujii and R. N. DuBois, Cell, 83: 493-501, 1995) to affect the metastatic potential of cells. Previous studies (M. Fukuda, Cancer Res., 56: 2237-2244, 1996) indicated that sialyl Lewis antigen expression is correlated with hematogenous metastasis of colon cancer. In the present study, we investigated the interaction between COX-2 activity, exp...

The objective of this study was to elucidate the role and mechanism of nitric oxide (NO) synthase (NOS) in modulating the growth of the Caco-2 human colon carcinoma cell line. The two novel observations reported here are, first, that N G-hydroxy-l-arginine (NOHA) inhibits Caco-2 tumor cell proliferation, likely by inhibiting arginase activity, and, second, that NO causes cytostasis by mechanism...

A human small intestinal epithelial cell (HIEC) monolayer was recently established in our laboratories as a novel system to evaluate the Papp (apparent permeability coefficient) of compounds during their absorption in humans. An effusion-based analysis using polyethylene glycol oligomers with molecular weights ranging from 194-898 indicated that HIEC and Caco-2 cell monolayers both had paracell...