Journal: Experimental Animals

Article Title: Emodin reactivated autophagy and alleviated inflammatory lung injury in mice with lethal endotoxemia

doi: 10.1538/expanim.19-0004

Figure Lengend Snippet: Emodin reduced the activity of pulmonary myeloperoxidase (MPO), the levels of pulmonary tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and IL-6, nitric oxide (NO), lactic acid (LA) in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-exposed mice. A. The activities of MPO in lung tissue were determined by ELISA. B. The levels of TNF-α in lung tissue were determined by ELISA. C. The levels of IL-6 in lung tissue were determined by ELISA. D. The levels of NO in lung tissue were determined by ELISA. E. The levels of LA in lung tissue were determined by ELISA. Emodin was administered in mice with intraperitoneal exposure to LPS and the lung samples were harvested 18 h post LPS exposure. Data are representative of four independent experiments and values were presented as mean ± SD (n=8).

Article Snippet: The ELISA kits for judgement of mouse tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and IL-6 were generated by NeoBioscience Technology Co. (Shenzhen, China).

Techniques: Activity Assay, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay

Journal: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Article Title: Effect of Ampelopsis Radix on wound healing in scalded rats

doi: 10.1186/s12906-015-0751-z

Figure Lengend Snippet: VEGF levels in cutaneous scald injury. Abbreviations: CON, control; SSD, silver sulfadiazine; AJE, Ampelopsis japonica tuberous root ethanol extract; VEGF, vascular endothelial growth factor. Values expressed as mean ± standard error of the mean ( n = 5–8). *** P < 0.001 vs . control. # P < 0.05, ### P < 0.001 vs . Vaseline

Article Snippet: Rat tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) ELISA kits and rat vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) ELISA kits were purchased from Koma Biotech Inc. (Seoul, Korea).

Techniques: Control