The anti-inflammatory effects of flavanol-rich lychee fruit extract in rat hepatocytes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Yamanishi, Ryota ^a   Yoshigai, Emi ^a   Okuyama, Tetsuya ^a   Mori, Masatoshi ^a   Murase, Hiromitsu ^a   Machida, Toru ^a   Okumura, Tadayoshi ^a,b   Nishizawa, Mikio ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; FLAVANOL DERIVATIVE; I KAPPA B KINASE ALPHA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LITCHI CHINENSIS EXTRACT; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; PLANT EXTRACT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FLAVAN-3-OL; FLAVONOID; LUCIFERASE; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE GENE; FRUIT; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INOS GENE; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; LIVER CELL; LIVER PROTECTION; LUCIFERASE ASSAY; LYCHEE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; FLAVONOIDS; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEPATOCYTES; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; LITCHI; LUCIFERASES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84899426053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093818     Document Type: Article

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