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        | Category | Integrative & Complementary Medicine | 
    
        | Manuscript Type | Basic Study | 
    
        | Article Title | Herbal cake-partitioned moxibustion inhibits colonic autophagy in Crohn’s disease via signaling involving distinct classes of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases | 
    
        | Manuscript Source | Unsolicited Manuscript | 
    
        | All Author List | Shi-Yuan Wang, Ji-Meng Zhao, Ci-Li Zhou, Han-Dan Zheng, Yan Huang, Min Zhao, Zhi-Ying Zhang, Lu-Yi Wu, Huan-Gan Wu and Hui-Rong Liu | 
            
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                                | Funding Agency | Grant Number |  
                                        | Program of Shanghai Academic Research Leader | No.17XD1403400 |  
                                        | National Natural Sciences Foundation of China | No. 81574079, 81873374 |  
                                        | Three-year Action Plan Project of Shanghai Traditional Chinese Medicine Development | ZY(2018-2020)-CCCX-2004-01 |  
                                        | Chinese Medicine Inheritance and Innovation "100 Million" Talent Project | Qi Huang Scholar |  
                                        | Shanghai Rising-Star Program | No. 16QA1403400 |  | 
    
        | Corresponding Author | Hui-Rong Liu, MD, PhD, Doctor, Doctor, Professor, Research Fellow, Key Laboratory of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Immunology, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, No. 650 South Wanping Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 201203, China. lhr_tcm@139.com | 
    
        | Key Words | Crohn’s disease; Colon; Moxibustion; Macroautophagy; Immunity; Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase signaling | 
    
        | Core Tip | Here, we demonstrate that overactivation of colonic autophagy can be observed in a 2, 4, 6-Trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid (TNBS)-induced rat Crohn’s Disease (CD) model. Herbal cake-partitioned moxibustion (HM) ameliorates TNBS-induced inflammation and colon damage, facilitates the repair of colonic epithelial cells and inhibits colonic overactivated autophagy by activating the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase Class I (PI3KC1)/protein kinase B akt-1 (Akt1)/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway while inhibiting the class III phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3KC3/Vps34)-coiled-coil myosin-like BCL2-interacting protein (Beclin-1) complex in CD rats. | 
            
                | Publish Date | 2020-10-21 15:38 | 
    
        | Citation | Wang SY, Zhao JM, Zhou CL, Zheng HD, Huang Y, Zhao M, Zhang ZY, Wu LY, Wu HG, Liu HR. Herbal cake-partitioned moxibustion inhibits colonic autophagy in Crohn’s disease via signaling involving distinct classes of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases. World J Gastroenterol 2020; 26(39): 5997-6014 | 
            
                | URL | https://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v26/i39/5997.htm | 
            
                | DOI | https://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v26.i39.5997 |