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World J Gastroenterol. May 28, 2008; 14(20): 3242-3248
Published online May 28, 2008. doi: 10.3748/wjg.14.3242
Published online May 28, 2008. doi: 10.3748/wjg.14.3242
Effects of quercetin on hyper-proliferation of gastric mucosal cells in rats treated with chronic oral ethanol through the reactive oxygen species-nitric oxide pathway
Jing-Li Liu, Jun Du, Xiao-Yan Liu, Luo Gu, Ying-Bin Ge, Department of Physiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, Jiangsu Province, China
Ling-Ling Fan, Department of Physiology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471003, Henan Province, China
Author contributions: Liu JL and Fan LL developed the chronic drinking rat model and performed the assay of lipid peroxidation, protein oxidation, nitric oxide, and nitrotyrosine (NT); Du J assayed the cell proliferation by Western blot; Liu XY did the immunohistochemistry; Gu L carried out the statistical analysis and assisted in the experiment design; Ge YB designed the experiment and wrote the paper.
Correspondence to: Ying-Bin Ge, MD, PhD, Department of Physiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, Jiangsu Province, China. ybge@njmu.edu.cn
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Received: January 26, 2008
Revised: April 1, 2008
Accepted: April 8, 2008
Published online: May 28, 2008
Revised: April 1, 2008
Accepted: April 8, 2008
Published online: May 28, 2008
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