BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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Open Access Research article

Protective effects of a compound herbal extract (Tong Xin Luo) on free fatty acid induced endothelial injury: Implications of antioxidant system

Lin Zhang1, Yiling Wu2*, Zhenhua Jia2, Yun Zhang3, Hu Ying Shen1* and Xing Li Wang1*

Author Affiliations

1 Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas, USA

2 Research Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine of Hebei, Hebei, PR China

3 Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research, Chinese Ministry of Education and Chinese Ministry of Health, Shandong University Qilu Hospital; Jinan, PR China

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BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2008, 8:39 doi:10.1186/1472-6882-8-39

Published: 14 July 2008

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Protein identification in the Kinex antibody microarray that contains 608 antibodies each that target various cell signaling proteins.

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Fluorescence images of the Kinex antibody microarray in detecting changes of protein expression in cultured endothelial cells treated with ethanol or control medium (Figure A), PA and/or TXL (Figure B).

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Protein expressions with significant changes in cultured human endothelial cells exposed to PA with or without TXL and vehicle controls detected by Kinex antibody microarray.

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