Haijun Chen

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus
review 2025
Frontiers in pharmacology ·doi:10.3389/fphar.2025.1586364

Pyroptosis is an inflammatory form of cell death involving caspase-1 or caspase-4/5/11, initiated by inflammasomes or cytoplasmic endotoxins as part of the immune defense. It is specifically characterized by Gasdermin-mediated pore formatio…

lab-animal 2014
The AAPS journal ·doi:10.1208/s12248-013-9559-2

Mifepristone (RU486) is marketed and used widely by women as an abortifacient, and experimentally for psychotic depression and anticancer treatments. After administration, metapristone is found to be the most predominant metabolite of mifep…