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In vitro cartilage tissue formation by Co-culture of primary and passaged chondrocytesLu Gan
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Tissue Eng 13:831-42. 2007..Confocal microscopy showed that fluorescently labeled primary cells were distributed throughout the tissue. This coculture approach could provide a new way to solve the problem of limited cell number for cartilage tissue engineering...
A polysaccharide-protein complex from Lycium barbarum upregulates cytokine expression in human peripheral blood mononuclear cellsLu Gan
Institute of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, People s Republic of China
Eur J Pharmacol 471:217-22. 2003..The results suggest that LBP(3p) may induce immune responses and possess potential therapeutic efficacy in cancer...
Immunomodulation and antitumor activity by a polysaccharide-protein complex from Lycium barbarumLu Gan
Institute of Materia Medica, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China
Int Immunopharmacol 4:563-9. 2004..A total of 10 mg/kg dose is more effective than 5 and 20 mg/kg doses. This suggests that LBP3p at 10 mg/kg has a highly significant effect on tumor weight and improves the immune system...
Membrane-associated cytotoxicity induced by realgar in promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 cellsHan qing Ye
College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, People s Republic of China
J Ethnopharmacol 103:366-71. 2006..These results suggested that such membrane toxicity induced by realgar might play an important role in the process of apoptotic induction and could be considered as one of mechanisms underlying the cytotoxicity of realgar...
Biphasic effects of H(2)O(2) on BK(Ca) channelsBo Liu
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, PR China
Free Radic Res 44:1004-12. 2010..BK(Ca) channels and PI3K signaling pathway were involved in H(2)O(2)-induced vasodilation and H(2)O(2)-induced vasodilation by PI3K pathway was mainly due to modulation of BK(Ca) channel activity...
Role of cellular uptake in the reversal of multidrug resistance by PEG-b-PLA polymeric micellesLing Xiao
National Engineering Research Center for Nanomedicine, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China
Biomaterials 32:5148-57. 2011..This study provides a foundation for understanding the mechanism of reversing MDR by nanoparticles better and designing more effective nano drug carriers...
Inhibitory effects of thioredoxin reductase antisense RNA on the growth of human hepatocellular carcinoma cellsLu Gan
College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
J Cell Biochem 96:653-64. 2005....
Activation of large-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels by puerarin: the underlying mechanism of puerarin-mediated vasodilationXiao hui Sun
Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China
J Pharmacol Exp Ther 323:391-7. 2007..This is the first study demonstrating that puerarin activates BK(Ca) channels, especially BK-alpha+beta1 channels. The activation of the BK(Ca) channel probably contributes to the puerarin-mediated vasodilation action...
Cellular uptake and intracellular trafficking of PEG-b-PLA polymeric micellesZhen Zhang
National Engineering Research Center for Nanomedicine, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Biomaterials 33:7233-40. 2012..These results suggested that dynamin- and caveolin-dependent but clathrin-independent endocytosis was involved in M-NR cellular uptake. We further found that M-NR colocalized with lysosome and microtubulin after internalization...
Chitosan as a condensing agent induces high gene transfection efficiency and low cytotoxicity of liposomeRuizhen Liu
College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Luoyu Road 1037, Wuhan 430074, China
J Biosci Bioeng 111:98-103. 2011..The precondensation of DNA with chitosan can be a promising approach to further increase the transfection efficiency of cationic liposomes in clinical application...
Resistance to docetaxel-induced apoptosis in prostate cancer cells by p38/p53/p21 signalingLu Gan
College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Prostate 71:1158-66. 2011..However, the working mechanisms are not fully understood. We aimed to investigate the possible molecular mechanism of apoptosis induced by taxanes in prostate cancer...
Puerarin protects rat pancreatic islets from damage by hydrogen peroxideFu-Liang Xiong
College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China
Eur J Pharmacol 529:1-7. 2006..Puerarin may be effective in preventing islet cells from the toxic action of reactive oxygen species in diabetes...
Nidus vespae protein inhibiting proliferation of HepG2 hepatoma cells through extracellular signal-regulated kinase signaling pathways and inducing G1 cell cycle arrestChangdong Wang
China UK HUST RRes Genetic Engineering and Genomics Joint Laboratory, the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Acta Biochim Biophys Sin (Shanghai) 40:970-8. 2008..These results demonstrate that NVP(1) inhibits proliferation of HepG2 through ERK signaling pathway. NVP(1) could be a potential drug for liver cancer...
Enhancement of BK(Ca) channel activity induced by hydrogen peroxide: involvement of lipid phosphatase activity of PTENBo Liu
College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China
Biochim Biophys Acta 1788:2174-82. 2009..These findings may elucidate a new mechanism for H(2)O(2)-induced BK(Ca) channel activation and provide some evidences for the role of PTEN on vasodilation induced by H(2)O(2)...
Membrane toxicity accounts for apoptosis induced by realgar nanoparticles in promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 cellsHan-Qing Ye
College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, People's Republic of China
Biol Trace Elem Res 103:117-32. 2005..However, raw realgar particles are not sufficient to elicit apoptosis, although they can reduce membrane fluidity in HL-60 cells...
Loss of the innate immunity negative regulator IRAK-M leads to enhanced host immune defense against tumor growthQifa Xie
Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Inflammation, Department of Biological Sciences, Fralin Biotechnology Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, United States
Mol Immunol 44:3453-61. 2007..Collectively, we demonstrate that IRAK-M is directly involved in the regulation of both innate and adaptive immune signaling processes, and deletion of IRAK-M enhances host anti-tumor immune response...
Enhanced expression of dopamine D(1) and glutamate NMDA receptors in dopamine D(4) receptor knockout miceLu Gan
Mailman Research Center, McLean Division of Massachusetts General Hospital, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
J Mol Neurosci 22:167-78. 2004....
Large-scale purification and characterization of human parathyroid hormone-1 receptor stably expressed in HEK293S GnTI- cellsLu Gan
Department of Physiology, Tufts University, School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111-1800, USA
Protein Expr Purif 47:296-302. 2006..This work describes an approach for preparing milligram-scale quantities of receptor for elucidation of the structural biology of this seven-transmembrane GPCR...
