Vol 28, No 4 (April 2007): Acta Pharmacologica Sinica

Review

Natural dietary anti-cancer chemopreventive compounds: redox-mediated differential signaling mechanisms in cytoprotection of normal cells versus cytotoxicity in tumor cells   Pages (459–472)
Sujit Nair, Wenge Li, Ah-Ng Tony Kong

Original Article

Clonidine attenuates morphine withdrawal and subsequent drug sensitization in rhesus monkeys   Pages (473-483)
Su-qing Chen, Hai-feng Zhai, Yan-ying Cui, Jie Shi, Bernard Le foll, Lin Lu
Circadian expression of clock genes and angiotensin II type 1 receptors in suprachiasmatic nuclei of sinoaortic-denervated rats   Pages (484–492)
Hui Li, Ning-ling Sun, Jin Wang, Ai-jun Liu, Ding-feng Su
Adeno-associated virus vectors simultaneously encoding VEGF and angiopoietin-1 enhances neovascularization in ischemic rabbit hind-limbs   Pages (493–502)
Feng Chen, Zui Tan, Chang-yuan Dong, Xiao Chen, Shu-fang Guo
Inhibitory effects of coronary vasodilator papaverine on heterologously-expressed HERG currents in Xenopus oocytes   Pages (503–510)
Cuk-seong Kim, Nam Lee, Sook-jin Son, Kyu-seung Lee, Hyo-shin Kim, Yong-geun Kwak, Soo-wan Chae, Sang-do Lee, Byeong-hwa Jeon, Jin-bong Park
Effect of atorvastatin on non-ischemic heart failure and matrix metalloproteinase-2 and 9 in rats   Pages (511–517)
Gang Cheng, Geng Xu, Hong-wen Cai, Hui-hua Wang, Xiao-feng Bao
(5R)-5-hydroxytriptolide (LLDT-8) protects against bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis in mice   Pages (518–525)
Yong-xin Ren, Ru Zhou, Wei Tang, Wen-hai Wang, Yuan-chao Li, Yi-fu Yang, Jian-ping Zuo
A novel recombinant, VPAC2-selective agonist enhancing insulin release and glucose disposal   Pages (526–533)
Rong-jie Yu, Ngai-lik Tam, Yuan Gao, Zhi-hong Zeng, Tian-hong Zhou, An Hong
Beneficial metabolic effects of nateglinide versus acarbose in patients with newly-diagnosed type 2 diabetes   Pages (534–539)
Hong-wei Gao, Chao Xie, Hai-ning Wang, Yu-jing Lin, Tian-pei Hong
Autophagy is involved in cytotoxic effects of crotoxin in human breast cancer cell line MCF-7 cells   Pages (540-548)
Ci-hui Yan, Ya-ping Yang, Zheng-hong Qin, Zhen-lun Gu, Paul Reid, Zhong-qin Liang
Embryo-chondrocyte expressed gene 1, downregulating hypoxiainducible factor 1α, is another marker of lung tumor hypoxia   Pages (549–558)
Li Zhang, Qing-quan Li
Antitumor activity of a novel bis-aziridinylnaphthoquinone (AZ4) mediating cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in non-small cell lung cancer cell line NCI-H460   Pages (559–566)
Kou-gea Shyu, Sheng-tung Huang, Hsien-shou Kuo, Wen-pin Cheng, Yuh-ling Lin
Gum mastic increases maspin expression in prostate cancer cells   Pages (567–572)
Mei-lan He, Wei-wen Chen, Peng-ju Zhang, An-li Jiang, Wei Fan, Hui-qing Yuan, Wen-wen Liu, Jian-ye Zhang
Effect of baicalin and berberine on transport of nimodipine on primary-cultured, rat brain microvascular endothelial cells   Pages (573–578)
Dong-mei Zhang, Hai-yan Liu, Lin Xie, Xiao-dong Liu
Effect of MDR1 gene polymorphism on progression of end-stage renal disease   Pages (579–583)
Wei-xia Zhang, Bing Chen, Wen Zhang, Nan Chen, Zi-cheng Yu, Wei-min Cai
Preparation of ion-activated in situ gel systems of scopolamine hydrobromide and evaluation of its antimotion sickness efficacy   Pages (584–590)
Shi-lei Cao, Qi-zhi Zhang, Xin-guo Jiang
Prediction of human skin permeability using artificial neural network (ANN) modeling   Pages (591–600)
Long-jian Chen, Guo-ping Lian, Lu-jia Han