13 results on '"Chengfu Yuan"'
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2. Corrigendum to 'The development of a sensitive fluorescent protein-based transcript reporter for high throughput screening of negative modulators of lncRNAs' [Genes & Diseases 5 (2018) 62–74]
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Zongyue Zeng, Bo Huang, Shifeng Huang, Ruyi Zhang, Shujuan Yan, Xinyi Yu, Yi Shu, Chen Zhao, Jiayan Lei, Wenwen Zhang, Chao Yang, Ke Wu, Ying Wu, Liping An, Xiaojuan Ji, Cheng Gong, Chengfu Yuan, Linghuan Zhang, Wei Liu, Yixiao Feng, Bo Zhang, Zhengyu Dai, Yi Shen, Xi Wang, Wenping Luo, Rex C. Haydon, Hue H. Luu, Lan Zhou, Russell R. Reid, Tong-Chuan He, and Xingye Wu
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Cell Biology ,Molecular Biology ,Biochemistry ,Genetics (clinical) - Published
- 2023
3. Corrigendum to 'Establishment and functional characterization of the reversibly immortalized mouse glomerular podocytes (imPODs)' [Genes & Diseases 5 (2018) 137–149]
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Xinyi Yu, Liqun Chen, Ke Wu, Shujuan Yan, Ruyi Zhang, Chen Zhao, Zongyue Zeng, Yi Shu, Shifeng Huang, Jiayan Lei, Xiaojuan Ji, Chengfu Yuan, Linghuan Zhang, Yixiao Feng, Wei Liu, Bo Huang, Bo Zhang, Wenping Luo, Xi Wang, Bo Liu, Rex C. Haydon, Hue H. Luu, Tong-Chuan He, and Hua Gan
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Cell Biology ,Molecular Biology ,Biochemistry ,Genetics (clinical) - Published
- 2023
4. Total saponins from Panax japonicus reduce inflammation in adipocytes through the miR155/SOCS1/NFκB signaling pathway
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Yan Gao, Rui Wang, Luoying Li, Yumin He, Ding Yuan, Yifan Zhang, Yaqi Hu, Shuwen Wang, and Chengfu Yuan
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Pharmacology ,Complementary and alternative medicine ,Drug Discovery ,Pharmaceutical Science ,Molecular Medicine - Published
- 2023
5. Saponins from Panax japonicus ameliorate age-related renal fibrosis by inhibition of inflammation mediated by NF-κB and TGF-β1/Smad signaling and suppression of oxidative stress via activation of Nrf2-ARE signaling
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Ding Yuan, Chengfu Yuan, Liyue Gai, Yan Gao, Yue Shi, Yumin He, Chaoqi Liu, Xuelian Wu, Gang Zhou, and Changcheng Zhang
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0301 basic medicine ,Aging ,Cys C, cystatin C ,SPJ-L, low-dose of SPJ ,TIMPs, tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases ,SMAD ,Matrix metalloproteinase ,medicine.disease_cause ,TNF-α, tumor necrosis factor-α ,Nrf2, nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 ,α-SMA, α-smooth muscle aorta ,0302 clinical medicine ,Renal fibrosis ,Fibrosis ,HO-1, human heme oxygenase 1 ,TGF-β1, tumor growth factor-β1 ,IL-6, interleukin-6 ,IκB, inhibitor of NF-κB ,biology ,NQO1, recombinant NADH dehydrogenase quinone 1 ,Total saponins of panax japonicus ,MCP-1, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 ,ECM, extracellular matrix ,UA, uric acid ,SPJ-H, high-dose of SPJ ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,medicine.symptom ,Research Article ,Biotechnology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,SPJs, saponins from panax japonicus ,ARE, antioxidant response element ,Inflammation ,Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) ,03 medical and health sciences ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,PJ, Panax japonicas ,COX2, cyclooxygenase-2 ,LPO, lipid peroxides ,business.industry ,TGF-β1/Smad ,Botany ,SD, Sprague-Dawley ,medicine.disease ,NF-κB, nuclear factor kappa-B ,030104 developmental biology ,Endocrinology ,Complementary and alternative medicine ,Cystatin C ,QK1-989 ,Nrf2-ARE signaling pathways ,biology.protein ,MMPs, matrix metalloproteinases ,β2-MG, β2-microglobulin ,business ,Oxidative stress ,Transforming growth factor - Abstract
Background: The decreased renal function is known to be associated with biological aging, of which the main pathological features are chronic inflammation and renal interstitial fibrosis. In previous studies, we reported that total saponins from Panax japonicus (SPJs) can availably protect acute myocardial ischemia. We proposed that SPJs might have similar protective effects for aging-associated renal interstitial fibrosis. Thus, in the present study, we evaluated the overall effect of SPJs on renal fibrosis. Methods: Sprague-Dawley (SD) aging rats were given SPJs by gavage beginning from 18 months old, at 10 mg/kg/d and 60 mg/kg/d, up to 24 months old. After the experiment, changes in morphology, function and fibrosis of their kidneys were detected. The levels of serum uric acid (UA), β2-microglobulin (β2-MG) and cystatin C (Cys C) were assayed with ELISA kits. The levels of extracellular matrix (ECM), matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs), inflammatory factors and changes of oxidative stress parameters were examined. Results: After SPJs treatment, SD rats showed significantly histopathological changes in kidneys accompanied by decreased renal fibrosis and increased renal function; As compared with those in 3-month group, the levels of serum UA, Cys C and β2-MG in 24-month group were significantly increased (p
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- 2021
6. Effects of Deficit Irrigation on Soil Water Distribution and Water Use Efficiency of Waxy Maize Under Rain-Shelter Cultivation in Southern China
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Chengfu Yuan
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- 2022
7. BMP9-induced osteoblastic differentiation requires functional Notch signaling in mesenchymal stem cells
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Jennifer Moriatis Wolf, Bo Huang, Yixiao Feng, Wei Liu, Tong-Chuan He, Zhengyu Dai, Shifeng Huang, Zongyue Zeng, Gopal Thinakaran, Wenping Luo, Jing Cui, Cheng Gong, Jia Wang, Wenwen Zhang, Hue H. Luu, Shujuan Yan, Alexander J. Li, Russell R. Reid, Liping An, Yi Shu, Xiaojuan Ji, Linghuan Zhang, Junyi Liao, Ruidong Li, Xi Wang, Ailong Huang, Ying Wu, Enyi Huang, Xinyi Yu, Chao Yang, Chen Zhao, Yi Shen, Jiayan Lei, Bo Zhang, Ruyi Zhang, Michael J. Lee, Chengfu Yuan, and Ke Wu
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0301 basic medicine ,Cellular differentiation ,Notch signaling pathway ,GDF2 ,Biology ,Bone morphogenetic protein ,Article ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Osteogenesis ,Growth Differentiation Factor 2 ,Humans ,Progenitor cell ,Molecular Biology ,Receptors, Notch ,Mesenchymal stem cell ,Cell Differentiation ,Mesenchymal Stem Cells ,Cell Biology ,Embryonic stem cell ,Up-Regulation ,Cell biology ,Growth Differentiation Factors ,HEK293 Cells ,030104 developmental biology ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Signal transduction ,Signal Transduction - Abstract
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent progenitors that can differentiate into multiple lineages including osteoblastic lineage. Osteogenic differentiation of MSCs is a cascade that recapitulates most, if not all, of the molecular events occurring during embryonic skeletal development, which is regulated by numerous signaling pathways including bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs). Through a comprehensive analysis of the osteogenic activity, we previously demonstrated that BMP9 is the most potent BMP for inducing bone formation from MSCs both in vitro and in vivo. However, as one of the least studied BMPs, the essential mediators of BMP9-induced osteogenic signaling remain elusive. Here we show that BMP9-induced osteogenic signaling in MSCs requires intact Notch signaling. While the expression of Notch receptors and ligands are readily detectable in MSCs, Notch inhibitor and dominant-negative Notch1 effectively inhibit BMP9-induced osteogenic differentiation in vitro and ectopic bone formation in vivo. Genetic disruption of Notch pathway severely impairs BMP9-induced osteogenic differentiation and ectopic bone formation from MSCs. Furthermore, while BMP9-induced expression of early-responsive genes is not affected by defective Notch signaling, BMP9 upregulates the expression of Notch receptors and ligands at the intermediate stage of osteogenic differentiation. Taken together, these results demonstrate that Notch signaling may play an essential role in coordinating BMP9-induced osteogenic differentiation of MSCs., Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) 9 is a potent inducer of osteogenic differentiation from mesenchymal stem cells, but the mediators of BMP9-induced osteogenesis remain elusive. Here, the authors show that inhibition of Notch1 signaling effectively diminishes BMP9-induced osteogenesis. Genetic disruption of Notch pathway severely impairs BMP9-induced bone formation. Thus, these results demonstrate that Notch signaling may play an essential role in coordinating osteogenic differentiation.
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- 2019
8. The Preventive Effect of Total Saponins from Panax japonicas on Inflammation and Insulin Resistance in Adipose Tissue of Mice Induced by High-Fat Diet
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Changcheng Zhang, Yumin He, Liyue Gai, Yue Shi, Zhengtai Liu, Chaoqi Liu, Gang Zhou, Yan Gao, Ding Yuan, and Chengfu Yuan
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Glucose tolerance test ,Normal diet ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Insulin ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Adipose tissue ,AMPK ,Inflammation ,medicine.disease ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Endocrinology ,Insulin resistance ,chemistry ,Internal medicine ,Adipocyte ,medicine ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
Background: In the present research, we aimed to investigate the effects of total saponins from Panax japonica (TSPJ) on adipocyte inflammation and insulin resistance induced by a high-fat diet (HFD). Moreover, its underlying mechanism was also further explored. Methods: C57/BL mice were randomly divided into four groups as follows: normal diet (ND) group, HFD group, and two TSPJ + HFD groups (30 mg/kg and 90 mg/kg). Insulin resistance test, glucose tolerance test, fat index analysis, histopathological assay, Western blotting analysis, and real-time PCR were performed to analyze the protective effect of TSPJ on adipose tissue. The protective mechanism of TSPJ on 3T3-L1 cells was studied in vitro by Oil Red O staining, 2-deoxyglucose uptake measurement etc. . Findings: In vivo, we found that TSPJ inhibited the activation of NF-κB and increase the transcription of p-AKT, leading to reduced inflammation and improved the sensitivity of adipocytes to insulin. In vitro evaluation revealed that palmitic acid (PA) induced inflammation by activating the NF-κB pathway, and induced insulin resistance by affecting the expressions of p-AKT in adipocytes. TSPJ pre-treatment could prevent such these response in a dose-dependent manner. TSPJ might exert its protective effect on 3T3-L1 cells by affecting the expression of AMPK. Interpretations: Our study showed that TSPJ could inhibit adipocyte inflammation by inhibiting NF-κB pathways. In addition, TSPJ could also affect the expressions of p-AKT to increase insulin sensitivity in adipocytes via targeting AMPK. Funding: This study was financially supported by the grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China. Declaration of Interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Ethics Approval Statement: This study was financially supported by the grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 81773959 to C.F. Yuan and No. 81974528 to C.F. Yuan) and Health commission of Hubei Province scientific research project in China. (Grant No. WJ2019H527 to C.F. Yuan).
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- 2020
9. Establishment and functional characterization of the reversibly immortalized mouse glomerular podocytes (imPODs)
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Hue H. Luu, Xinyi Yu, Chen Zhao, Shifeng Huang, Chengfu Yuan, Bo Zhang, Zongyue Zeng, Xiaojuan Ji, Bo Huang, Wei Liu, Hua Kui Gan, Liqun Chen, Rex C. Haydon, Xi Wang, Yixiao Feng, Ke Wu, Jiayan Lei, Ruyi Zhang, Wenping Luo, Bo Liu, Linghuan Zhang, Tong-Chuan He, Shujuan Yan, and Yi Shu
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0301 basic medicine ,lcsh:QH426-470 ,Vimentin ,Biochemistry ,Podocyte ,Nephrin ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Molecular Biology ,Genetics (clinical) ,lcsh:R5-920 ,biology ,Mesenchymal stem cell ,Cell Biology ,Nestin ,Cell biology ,CTGF ,lcsh:Genetics ,030104 developmental biology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Glomerular Filtration Barrier ,biology.protein ,Synaptopodin ,lcsh:Medicine (General) - Abstract
Glomerular podocytes are highly specialized epithelial cells and play an essential role in establishing the selective permeability of the glomerular filtration barrier of kidney. Maintaining the viability and structural integrity of podocytes is critical to the clinical management of glomerular diseases, which requires a thorough understanding of podocyte cell biology. As mature podocytes lose proliferative capacity, a conditionally SV40 mutant tsA58-immortalized mouse podocyte line (designated as tsPC) was established from the Immortomouse over 20 years ago. However, the utility of the tsPC cells is hampered by the practical inconvenience of culturing these cells. In this study, we establish a user-friendly and reversibly-immortalized mouse podocyte line (designated as imPOD), on the basis of the tsPC cells by stably expressing the wildtype SV40 T-antigen, which is flanked with FRT sites. We show the imPOD cells exhibit long-term high proliferative activity, which can be effectively reversed by FLP recombinase. The imPOD cells express most podocyte-related markers, including WT-1, Nephrin, Tubulin and Vinculin, but not differentiation marker Synaptopodin. The imPOD cells do not form tumor-like masses in vivo. We further demonstrate that TGFβ1 induces a podocyte injury-like response in the FLP-reverted imPOD cells by suppressing the expression of slit diaphragm-associated proteins P-Cadherin and ZO-1 and upregulating the expression of mesenchymal markers, α-SMA, Vimentin and Nestin, as well as fibrogenic factors CTGF and Col1a1. Collectively, our results strongly demonstrate that the newly engineered imPOD cells should be a valuable tool to study podocyte biology both under normal and under pathological conditions. Keywords: Chronic kidney disease, FLP recombinase, Glomerular disease, Glomerulus, Immortalization, Nephropathy, Podocyte, SV40 T antigen
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- 2018
10. Characterization of the essential role of bone morphogenetic protein 9 (BMP9) in osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) through RNA interference
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Jing Zhao Cui, Bo Liu, Michael J. Lee, Liping An, Linghuan Zhang, Hue H. Luu, Shifeng Huang, Bo Zhang, Cheng Gong, Rex C. Haydon, Yixiao Feng, Xi Wang, Shujuan Yan, Chengfu Yuan, Russell R. Reid, Jennifer Moriatis Wolf, Tong-Chuan He, Wenping Luo, Yi Shen, Xiaojuan Ji, Wei Liu, Ruyi Zhang, Yaguang Weng, Qiong Shi, Zhengyu Dai, and Ke Wu
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0301 basic medicine ,lcsh:R5-920 ,Small interfering RNA ,Cell type ,lcsh:QH426-470 ,Mesenchymal stem cell ,Cell Biology ,Biology ,Chondrogenesis ,Biochemistry ,Cell biology ,lcsh:Genetics ,03 medical and health sciences ,030104 developmental biology ,Adipogenesis ,RNA interference ,Multipotent Stem Cell ,Gene silencing ,lcsh:Medicine (General) ,Molecular Biology ,Genetics (clinical) - Abstract
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent stem cells and capable of differentiating into multiple cell types including osteoblastic, chondrogenic and adipogenic lineages. We previously identified BMP9 as one of the most potent BMPs that induce osteoblastic differentiation of MSCs although exact molecular mechanism through which BMP9 regulates osteogenic differentiation remains to be fully understood. Here, we seek to develop a recombinant adenovirus system to optimally silence mouse BMP9 and then characterize the important role of BMP9 in osteogenic differentiation of MSCs. Using two different siRNA bioinformatic prediction programs, we design five siRNAs targeting mouse BMP9 (or simB9), which are expressed under the control of the converging H1 and U6 promoters in recombinant adenovirus vectors. We demonstrate that two of the five siRNAs, simB9-4 and simB9-7, exhibit the highest efficiency on silencing exogenous mouse BMP9 in MSCs. Furthermore, simB9-4 and simB9-7 act synergistically in inhibiting BMP9-induced expression of osteogenic markers, matrix mineralization and ectopic bone formation from MSCs. Thus, our findings demonstrate the important role of BMP9 in osteogenic differentiation of MSCs. The characterized simB9 siRNAs may be used as an important tool to investigate the molecular mechanism behind BMP9 osteogenic signaling. Our results also indicate that recombinant adenovirus-mediated expression of siRNAs is efficient and sustained, and thus may be used as an effective delivery vehicle of siRNA therapeutics. Keywords: BMP9, Bone formation, Mesenchymal stem cells, Osteogenic differentiation, RNA interference, Recombinant adenovirus, siRNA
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- 2018
11. The development of a sensitive fluorescent protein-based transcript reporter for high throughput screening of negative modulators of lncRNAs
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Zhengyu Dai, Yi Shu, Russell R. Reid, Yi Shen, Jiayan Lei, Chengfu Yuan, Ruyi Zhang, Liping An, Linghuan Zhang, Xingye Wu, Tong-Chuan He, Xiaojuan Ji, Bo Zhang, Bo Huang, Wei Liu, Wenwen Zhang, Ke Wu, Chao Yang, Chen Zhao, Shujuan Yan, Cheng Gong, Shifeng Huang, Rex C. Haydon, Lan Zhou, Xi Wang, Xinyi Yu, Wenping Luo, Ying Wu, Hue H. Luu, Zongyue Zeng, and Yixiao Feng
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0301 basic medicine ,Small interfering RNA ,RNA-binding protein ,Cell Biology ,Biology ,Non-coding RNA ,Biochemistry ,Fusion protein ,Article ,3. Good health ,Cell biology ,Green fluorescent protein ,03 medical and health sciences ,030104 developmental biology ,Gene expression ,microRNA ,Human genome ,Molecular Biology ,Genetics (clinical) - Abstract
While the human genome is pervasively transcribed
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- 2018
12. Antioxidative and immunoprotective effects of Pyracantha fortuneana (Maxim.) Li polysaccharides in mice
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Fangzhou Song, Faping Yi, Changdong Wang, Guosheng Ren, Xiuning Huang, Chengfu Yuan, Geli Liu, Zhiwei Wang, Youquan Bu, and Tingxiu Xiang
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Cytotoxicity, Immunologic ,Antioxidant ,NF-E2-Related Factor 2 ,T-Lymphocytes ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Immunology ,Pyracantha fortuneana ,medicine.disease_cause ,Superoxide dismutase ,Mice ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Polysaccharides ,medicine ,Splenocyte ,Animals ,Immunology and Allergy ,Cells, Cultured ,Cell Proliferation ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,Glutathione Peroxidase ,biology ,Superoxide Dismutase ,Glutathione peroxidase ,Immunity ,biology.organism_classification ,Malondialdehyde ,Molecular biology ,Enzyme Activation ,Killer Cells, Natural ,Oxidative Stress ,chemistry ,Biochemistry ,Fruit ,biology.protein ,Cytokines ,Tumor necrosis factor alpha ,Pyracantha ,Spleen ,Oxidative stress - Abstract
This study was undertaken to determine the effects of Pyracantha fortuneana (Maxim.) Li polysaccharides (PFP) on antioxidant and immune functions in mice. Results from this study showed that PFP administration significantly increased thymus and spleen indices, promoted splenocyte proliferation and natural killer (NK) cell activity, and elevated CD4 T cell numbers as well as CD4(+)/CD8(+) ratios. PFP also increased interleukin-2 (IL-2) levels, and decreased the levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) in splenocytes. In addition, PFP treatment led to remarkable increases in glutathione peroxidase (GSH-PX) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) activities, and dramatic decreases in malondialdehyde (MDA) levels in splenocytes. Moreover, PFP increased mRNA and protein expression of nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor (Nrf2) in splenocytes. Taken together, these results suggest that PFP treatment enhances the immune function and decreases the oxidative stress in mice.
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- 2010
13. Evaluation of antioxidant and immune activity of Phellinus ribis glucan in mice
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Faping Yi, Fangzhou Song, Xiuning Huang, Zhengmei Yang, Geli Liu, Youquan Bu, Li Cheng, and Chengfu Yuan
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chemistry.chemical_classification ,Antioxidant ,GPX3 ,biology ,Chemistry ,Thiobarbituric acid ,medicine.medical_treatment ,General Medicine ,Lymphocyte proliferation ,Pharmacology ,medicine.disease_cause ,Analytical Chemistry ,Superoxide dismutase ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Immune system ,Biochemistry ,medicine ,biology.protein ,Oxidative stress ,Food Science ,Glucan - Abstract
The potential protective effects of Phellinus ribis glucan (PRG) administration against immune injury due to free radical formation were evaluated in mice. The results showed that glucan administration significantly increased thymus and spleen indices, spleen lymphocyte proliferation and NK cells activity, as well as CD8 T cell numbers, and decreased CD4+/CD8+. In accordance with a previous study, glucan administration significantly enhanced plasma glutathione peroxidase, superoxide dismutases activity and reduced plasma thiobarbituric acid reactive species level. In conclusion, our results indicate that glucan administration improve immune function by its free radicals scavenging activity and reducing oxidative stress in mice.
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- 2009
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