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Strong Inhibition of Celastrol Towards UDP-Glucuronosyl Transferase (UGT) 1A6 and 2B7 Indicating Potential Risk of UGT-Based Herb-Drug Interaction

open access: yesMolecules, 2012
Celastrol, a quinone methide triterpene isolated from <em>Tripterygium wilfordii</em> Hook F., has various biochemical and pharmacological activities, and is now being developed as a promising anti-tumor agent.
Qi Wang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Age-dependent Hepatic UDP-glucuronosyltransferase Gene Expression and Activity in Children

open access: yesFrontiers in Pharmacology, 2016
UDP-glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs) are important phase II drug metabolism enzymes. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between age and changes in mRNA expression and activity of major human hepatic UGTs, as well as to understand the ...
Elizabeth Neumann   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gossypol Exhibits a Strong Influence Towards UDP-Glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) 1A1, 1A9 and 2B7-Mediated Metabolism of Xenobiotics and Endogenous Substances

open access: yesMolecules, 2012
Gossypol, the polyphenolic constituent isolated from cottonseeds, has been used as a male antifertility drug for a long time, and has been demonstrated to exhibit excellent anti-tumor activity towards multiple cancer types.
Liang Wang   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Revisiting the Latency of Uridine Diphosphate-Glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs)—How Does the Endoplasmic Reticulum Membrane Influence Their Function?

open access: yesPharmaceutics, 2017
Uridine diphosphate-glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs) are phase 2 conjugation enzymes mainly located in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of the liver and many other tissues, and can be recovered in artificial ER membrane preparations (microsomes).
Yuejian Liu, Michael W. H. Coughtrie
doaj   +1 more source

Functional Characterization of Hepatocytes for Cell Transplantation: Customized Cell Preparation for Each Receptor

open access: yesCell Transplantation, 2010
The first indication of hepatocyte transplantation is inborn liver-based metabolic disorders. Among these, urea cycle disorders leading to the impairment to detoxify ammonia and Crigler-Najjar Syndrome type I, a deficiency in the hepatic UDP ...
A. Bonora-Centelles   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of the genetic mutant G71R in uridine diphosphate-glucuronosyltransferase 1A1 on the conjugation of bilirubin

open access: yesOpen Life Sciences, 2022
We aimed to investigate the effect of the genetic mutant G71R (c. 211G > A) in uridine diphosphate (UDP)-glucuronosyltransferase 1A1 (UGT1A1) on the glucuronidation of unconjugated bilirubin.
Chen Hong   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Demethylzeylasteral Exhibits Strong Inhibition towards UDP-Glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) 1A6 and 2B7

open access: yesMolecules, 2012
Inhibition of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) isoforms can result in severe clinical results, including clinical drug-drug interactions (DDI) and metabolic disorders of endogenous substances.
Xiao-Qi Ji   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Current trends in single‐cell RNA sequencing applications in diabetes mellitus

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Single‐cell RNA sequencing is a powerful approach to decipher the cellular and molecular landscape at a single‐cell resolution. The rapid development of this technology has led to a wide range of applications, including the detection of cellular and molecular mechanisms and the identification and introduction of novel potential diagnostic and ...
Seyed Sajjad Zadian   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

UDP-glucuronosyltransferase is involved in susceptibility of Chironomus kiiensis Tokunaga, 1936 (Diptera: Chironomidae) to insecticides

open access: yesEcotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2023
UDP-glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs) could transform various exogenous and endogenous compounds, which help detoxification of pesticides in insects. To investigate the role of UGTs in the detoxification metabolism of insecticides in Chironomus kiiensis ...
Chengcheng Fan   +4 more
doaj  

Effect of Efavirenz on UDP-Glucuronosyltransferase 1A1, 1A4, 1A6, and 1A9 Activities in Human Liver Microsomes

open access: yesMolecules, 2012
Efavirenz is a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor used for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infections. Drug interactions of efavirenz have been reported due to in vitro inhibition of CYP2C9, CYP2C19, CYP3A4, and UDP ...
Hye Suk Lee   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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