To our knowledge, this is the first report confirming that Akabane virus infection is common in cattle and sheep of Xinjiang province, northwest China and providing useful epidemiological information for cattle and sheep abortion prevention and control.
Using the theory on the combination of disease with syndrome, we found that the curative effect of Jianjining and Western Medicine on MG patients with deficiency of both spleen and kidney is worth further exploration.
Reactive
oxygen species and subsequent oxidative stress are reported
to play important roles in chronic metabolic diseases. Plant-derived
polyphenols, especially food-derived phenolics, have attracted a lot
of attention due to their potential usage against oxidative stress-related
diseases. The leaf of Psidium guajava (known as guava) is regarded as a good resource of polyphenols and
its products are commercially available in Japan as functional foods
against multiple chronic metabolism disorders. In the course of finding
novel polyphenols with antioxidative activities from guava leaf, 11
acylated phenolic glycosides (1–11), including 5 new oleuropeic acid-conjugated phenolic glycosides,
named guajanosides A–E (1, 2, and 5–7), along with 17 known meroterpenoides
(12–28), were isolated and identified.
Their structures were determined by spectroscopic data analysis, chemical
degradation, and acid hydrolysis. Compounds 1, 2, and 5–11 displayed potent
reactive oxygen species-scavenging activity in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated
RAW 264.7 macrophage cells. Western blot revealed that compound 6 markedly increased the expression levels of nuclear factor-erythroid
2-related factor 2 (Nrf2), NAD(P)H quinone dehydrogenase 1 (NQO1),
and the glutamate–cysteine ligase catalytic subunit. The current
study revealed the presence of oleuropeic acid-derived phenolic glycosides
in guava leaf and highlighted the potential usage of this type of
phenolics against oxidative stress-related metabolic diseases via
activation of the Nrf2 signaling pathway.
This study aimed to determine the effect of applying stimulatory agents to liquid cultured Inonotus obliquus on the simultaneous accumulation of exo-polysaccharides (EPS) and their monosaccharide composition. Different stimulatory agents (VB6, VB1, betulin and birch extract) were investigated for their effects on active exo-polysaccharides by submerged fermentation of I. obliquus. The mycelial biomass, reducing sugar content, EPS yield and α-glucosidase inhibition rate were determined, and the EPS obtained was analyzed for monosaccharide composition. The results showed that the addition of all the four stimulatory agents could significantly increase the inhibitory activity against α-glucosidase of EPS than the control, whereas EPS from 4 μg/mL VB1-containing medium had the best effect with an estimated IC50 value 24.34 μg/mL. Among the four stimulatory agents, VB6 gave maximum production of mycelial biomass and EPS at the concentration of 4 μg/mL with a increase of 50.79% and 114.46%, respectively. In addition, betulin had a significant effect on increasing the EPS yield and activity, and birch extract had a significantly stimulatory effect on the mycelial growth and the polysaccharides activity, only slightly worse than VB6 and VB1. Moreover, the addition of different stimulatory agents changed the monosaccharide composition of polysaccharides, which had a correlation with polysaccharide activity.
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