Echinocystic acid, isolated from Gleditsia sinensis fruit, protects endothelial progenitor cells from damage caused by oxLDL via the Akt/eNOS pathway

Life Sciences

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 62-69

  Lai, Peng ^a   Liu, Yixin ^b  

^a XIHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Akt eNOS; echinocystic acid; endothelial progenitor cells; oxidised low density lipoprotein

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CYTOPROTECTIVE AGENT; ECHINOCYSTIC ACID; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN KINASE B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WORTMANNIN; ANDROSTANE DERIVATIVE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; OLEANOLIC ACID; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL COUNTING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FRUIT; GENE REPRESSION; GLEDITSIA; GLEDITSIA SINENSIS; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STAINING; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; METABOLISM; STEM CELL; WISTAR RAT;

GLEDITSIA SINENSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROSTADIENES; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOVEMENT; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FRUIT; GLEDITSIA; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; MALE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; OLEANOLIC ACID; PLANT EXTRACTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84908464656     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: 18790631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2014.07.026     Document Type: Article

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