Ethnopharmacological relevance: Compound Danshen tablet, an herbal preparation consisting of salviae miltiorrhizae, notoginseng and borneolum, is extensively employed clinically to treat angina pectoris, coronary arteriosclerosis and significantly improve …

Poly(n-butyl cyanoacrylate) microbubbles (PBCA-MB) are extensively employed for functional and molecular ultrasound (US) imaging, as well as for US-mediated drug delivery. To facilitate the use of PBCA-MB as a commercial platform for biomedical …

Background: Spaceflight or microgravity conditions cause myocardial atrophy and dysfunction, contributing to post-flight orthostatic intolerance. However, the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood and preventive approaches are limited. This …

Deficiency in DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair mechanisms has been widely exploited for the treatment of different malignances, including homologous recombination (HR)-deficient breast and ovarian cancers. Here we demonstrate that diffuse large B cell …

SUMOylation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR γ) plays important regulatory role in its transcriptional activity. Our recent studies in vitro found that over-SUMOylation of PPARγ, like high glucose and high fat (HG/HF), induced …

Coronary microvascular dysfunction combined with maladaptive cardiomyocyte morphology and energetics is a major contributor to heart failure advancement. Thus, dually enhancing cardiac angiogenesis and targeting cardiomyocyte function to slow, or reverse, …

Isorhynchophylline (IRN) is one of the major tetracyclic oxindole alkaloids found in Uncaria rhynchophylla. Studies have found that IRN has diverse biological activities including antioxidant, anti-apoptosis, and neuroprotection. However, little is known …

The protein kinase mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) performs diverse cellular functions through 2 distinct multiprotein complexes, mTOR complex (mTORC)1 and 2. Numerous studies using rapamycin, an mTORC1 inhibitor, have implicated a role for mTORC1 …

Phototheranostics refers to advanced photonics-mediated theranostic methods for cancer and includes imaging-guided photothermal/chemotherapy, photothermal/photodynamic therapy, and photodynamic/chemotherapy, which are expected to provide a paradigm of …

Myocardial infarction (MI) is a leading cause of mortality in adults worldwide. Over the last two decades, gene therapy has been a hot topic in cardiology, and there has been a focus on cell cycle inhibitors and their protective effects on the myocardium …