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A shock-and-kill approach involving the simultaneous treatment of HIV-1-infected patients with latency-reversing agents (LRAs) and combination antiretroviral therapy was proposed as a means to eradicate viral reservoirs. Currently available LRAs cannot discriminate between HIV-1-infected and
A rapid and simple method was established for the simultaneous determination of ten diterpenes by reversed phase HPLC coupled with evaporative light scattering detection. Chromatographic separation was carried out in gradient mode by using a WondaSil™ C(18) column (250mm×4.6mm, 5μm) with mobile
Chinese jujube (also known as Chinese date) is the fruit of Ziziphus jujuba Mill. (Rhamnaceae). As a famous folk medicine, it is used as antidote in traditional Chinese formula, Shi Zao Decoction, to relieve the drastic inflammatory irritant nature of Euphorbia species. The irritant activities may
Prostratin and 12-deoxyphorbol 13-phenylacetate (dPP) form a new class of protein kinase C activators of unique biological activity. Although they bind to and activate protein kinase C, in mouse skin they either fail to induce typical phorbol ester (PMA) effects (e.g., hyperplasia) or induce only
Early European visitors to Samoa tended to denigrate the authenticity and efficacy of Samoan herbal medicine, yet bioassays indicate pharmacological activity in over 86% of Samoan medicinal plants. Novel anti-inflammatory compounds have been isolated from Alphitonia zyzyphoides and Erythrina
In previous experiments, pretreatment of CD-1 mouse skin with prostratin (12-deoxyphorbol 13-acetate) inhibited hyperplasia, induction of ornithine decarboxylase and edema in response to acute treatment with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA). We report here that prostratin inhibits biological
Aims: The fact that HIV-1 inside human bodies can perform reverse transcription and integrate resultant DNA into host chromosome remains a challenge in AIDS treatment. "Shock and kill" strategy was proposed to achieve the functional cure,
For pharmaceuticals ranging from digitalis to vincristine the ethnobotanical approach to drug discovery has proven successful. The advent of high-throughput, mechanism-based in vitro bioassays coupled with candidate plants derived from pain-staking ethnopharmacological research has resulted in the
In patients with sepsis, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria triggers cardiac dysfunction and heart failure, but target therapy for septic cardiomyopathy remains unavailable. In this study we evaluated the beneficial effects of cardamonin (CAR), a flavone
The methanol extract of the roots and stems of Daphne genkwa and its constituents yuanhuacin (1) and genkwanine N were previously reported to have Nurr1 activating effects and neuroprotective effects in an animal model of Parkinson's disease (PD). In this study, four more daphnane-type diterpenes
Recent evidence from our laboratory has demonstrated that high salt (Δ0.05 M NaCl) induced inflammatory response and cancer cell proliferation through salt inducible kinase-3 (SIK3) upregulation. As calcium influx is known to effect inflammatory response and drug resistance, we examined the impact
The Early Pediatric Initiation Canada Child Cure Cohort (EPIC4) study is a prospective, multicenter Canadian cohort study investigating HIV-1 reservoirs, chronic inflammation and immune responses in children with perinatally-acquired HIV-1 infection. The focus of this report is HIV-1