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Geovanna Nallely Quiñonez-Bastidas Claudia Cervantes-Durán Héctor Isaac Rocha-González Janet Murbartián Vinicio Granados-Soto 《Life sciences》2013
Aims
The purpose of this study was to investigate the antinociceptive effect of epicatechin as well as the possible mechanisms of action in diabetic rats.Main methods
Rats were injected with streptozotocin to produce hyperglycemia. The formalin test was used to assess the nociceptive activity.Key findings
Acute pre-treatment with epicatechin (0.03–30 mg/kg, i.p.) prevented formalin-induced nociception in diabetic rats. Furthermore, daily or every other day treatment for 2 weeks with epicatechin (0.03–30 mg/kg, i.p.) also prevented formalin-induced nociception in diabetic rats. Acute epicatechin-induced antinociception was prevented by l-NAME (Nω-nitro-l-arginine methyl ester hydrochloride, 1–10 mg/kg, non-selective nitric oxide synthesis inhibitor), 7-nitroindazole (0.1–1 mg/kg, selective neuronal nitric oxide synthesis inhibitor), ODQ (1H-(1,2,4)-oxadiazolo(4,2-a)quinoxalin-1-one, 0.2–2 mg/kg, guanylyl cyclase inhibitor) or glibenclamide (1–10 mg/kg, ATP-sensitive K+ channel blocker). Moreover, epicatechin (3 mg/kg)-induced antinociception was fully prevented by methiothepin (0.1–1 mg/kg, serotonergic receptor antagonist), WAY-100635 (0.03–0.3 mg/kg, selective 5-HT1A receptor antagonist) or SB-224289 (0.03–0.3 mg/kg, selective 5-HT1B receptor antagonist). In contrast, BRL-15572 (0.03–0.3 mg/kg, selective 5-HT1D receptor antagonist) only slightly prevented the antinociceptive effect of epicatechin. Naloxone (0.1–1 mg/kg, opioid antagonist) did not modify epicatechin's effect.Significance
Data suggest the involvement of the nitric oxide–cyclic GMP–K+ channel pathway as well as activation of 5-HT1A and 5HT1B, and at a lesser extent, 5-HT1D, but not opioid, receptors in the antinociceptive effect of epicatechin in diabetic rats. Our data suggest that acute or chronic treatment with epicatechin may prove to be effective to treat nociceptive hypersensitivity in diabetic patients. 相似文献2.
Aims
The purpose of this study was to compare the changes of antihyperalgesic effectiveness of zonisamide (25 and 50 mg/kg), an antiepileptic drug, on the early and late phases of neuropathy and to investigate the role of serotonergic descending inhibitory pain pathways in antihyperalgesic effectiveness of zonisamide in the streptozotocin-induced rat model for painful diabetic neuropathy.Main methods
The hot-plate and tail-immersion, to determine thermal thresholds, and paw pressure withdrawal tests, to determine mechanical thresholds, were performed as hyperalgesia tests. To investigate the role of serotonergic pathway, 1 mg/kg ketanserin (5-HT2A/2C antagonist) and ondansetron (serotonin 5-HT3 receptor antagonist) were used.Key findings
Zonisamide enhanced pain thresholds significantly in the 3rd, 6th and 8th weeks as the reference drugs morphine (5 mg/kg) and carbamazepine (32 mg/kg, tested only in the 3rd week). There were no observed differences on the potency of antihyperalgesic effect between weeks and between doses. Each antagonist reversed the effect of zonisamide in the hot-plate and tail-immersion tests significantly, but, relatively in the paw pressure withdrawal tests.Significance
These results support the role for zonisamide in the management of diabetic neuropathic pain in all phases. Serotonin 5-HT2A/2C and 5-HT3 receptors are involved in the antihyperalgesic effect of zonisamide by enhancement of thermal threshold, and partially by mechanical threshold, so they may not mediate mechanical hyperalgesia in diabetic neuropathy. 相似文献3.
Bruce X. Wong Scott Ayton Linh Q. Lam Peng Lei Paul A. Adlard Ashley I. Bush James A. Duce 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2014
Background
Iron oxidation is thought to be predominantly handled enzymatically in the body, to minimize spontaneous combustion with oxygen and to facilitate cellular iron export by loading transferrin. This process may be impaired in disease, and requires more accurate analytical assays to interrogate enzymatic- and auto-oxidation within a physiologically relevant environment.Method
A new triplex ferroxidase activity assay has been developed that overcomes the previous assay limitations of measuring iron oxidation at a physiologically relevant pH and salinity.Results
Revised enzymatic kinetics for ceruloplasmin (Vmax ≈ 35 μM Fe3 +/min/μM; Km ≈ 15 μM) are provided under physiological conditions, and inhibition by sodium azide (Ki for Ferric Gain 78.3 μM, Ki for transferrin loading 8.1 × 104 μM) is quantified. We also used this assay to characterize the non-enzymatic oxidation of iron that proceeded linearly under physiological conditions.Conclusions and general significance
These findings indicate that the requirement of an enzyme to oxidize iron may only be necessary under conditions of adverse pH or anionic strength, for example from hypoxia. In a normal physiological environment, Fe3 + incorporation into transferrin would be sufficiently enabled by the biological polyanions that are prevalent within extracellular fluids. 相似文献4.
Ken Masuguchi Hitomi WatanabeTakehiro Kawashiri Soichiro UshioNana Ozawa Haruka MoritaRyozo Oishi Nobuaki Egashira 《Life sciences》2014
Aims
Oxaliplatin is a key drug in the treatment of colorectal cancer, but it causes acute and chronic peripheral neuropathies. We previously reported that repeated administration of neurotropin prevents oxaliplatin-induced mechanical allodynia by inhibiting axonal degeneration in rats. In the present study, we investigated the analgesic effect of a single administration of neurotropin on oxaliplatin-induced neuropathy in rats.Main methods
Oxaliplatin (4 mg/kg) was administered intraperitoneally twice a week for 4 weeks. Cold hyperalgesia was assessed using the acetone test and mechanical allodynia was evaluated using the von Frey test.Key findings
Repeated injection of oxaliplatin induced cold hyperalgesia on day 5 and mechanical allodynia on day 28. A single administration of neurotropin transiently relieved both pain behaviors. The analgesic effect of neurotropin was inhibited by pretreatment with 5-HT1A, 5-HT2, 5-HT3, and α2 receptor antagonists and by monoamine depletion. Moreover, the analgesic effect of neurotropin was abolished by intrathecal injection of pertussis toxin, a Gi protein inhibitor.Significance
These results suggest that neurotropin is effective in relieving oxaliplatin-induced neuropathy, and that Gi protein-coupled receptors in the monoaminergic descending pain inhibitory system may be involved in the analgesic effect of neurotropin. Neurotropin may have clinical potential for the treatment of oxaliplatin-induced neuropathies. 相似文献5.
AimThis study examines if injection of cobalt chloride (CoCl2) or antagonists of muscarinic cholinergic (atropine), μ1-opioid (naloxonazine) or 5-HT1 serotonergic (methiothepin) receptors into the dorsal or ventral portions of the anterior pretectal nucleus (APtN) alters the antinociceptive effects of stimulating the retrosplenial cortex (RSC) in rats.Main methodChanges in the nociceptive threshold were evaluated using the tail flick or incision pain tests in rats that were electrically stimulated at the RSC after the injection of saline, CoCl2 (1 mM, 0.10 μL) or antagonists into the dorsal or ventral APtN.Key findingsThe injection of CoCl2, naloxonazine (5 μg/0.10 μL) or methiothepin (3 μg/0.10 μL) into the dorsal APtN reduced the stimulation-produced antinociception from the RSC in the rat tail flick test. Reduction of incision pain was observed following stimulation of the RSC after the injection of the same substances into the ventral APtN. The injection of atropine (10 ng/0.10 μL) or ketanserine (5 μg/0.10 μL) into the dorsal or ventral APtN was ineffective against the antinociception resulting from RSC stimulation.Significanceμ1-opioid- and 5-HT1-expressing neurons and cell processes in dorsal and ventral APtN are both implicated in the mediation of stimulation-produced antinociception from the RSC in the rat tail flick and incision pain tests, respectively. 相似文献
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Harmanpreet Kaur Rebecca Heeney Rupp Carriveau Gabriel Sosne Bulent Mutus 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2010
Background
Thymosin beta 4 (Tβ4) is a major actin sequestering peptide present in most mammalian cells. It also acts as an anti-inflammatory agent and promotes corneal wound healing.Methods
In the present study, we constructed a four channel cylindrical flow chambers out of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) on microscope coverslips. The platelet-binding proteins–fibrinogen and collagen–were immobilized onto the middle ~ 25% of the inner cylindrical surface. The flow method introduced here was employed to determine the effect of Tβ4, on the deposition of ADP-activated platelets onto fibrinogen cross-linked flow chambers.Results
The binding data from the flow chambers indicated that the both the rate constant of platelet deposition (average: 0.026 ± 0.0015 s− 1, corresponding to a half-life of 26.7 s) and the total number of deposited platelets were independent of the platelet binding protein and the activating agent. Our results show that low concentrations of Tβ4 (0.2 μM to 0.5 μM) increased both the rate constant of platelet deposition by ~ 1.5-fold (i.e. half-life decreased from 26.7 s to 17.6 s) and the total number of deposited platelets by ~ 3-fold. However at higher concentrations (> 1 μM) the Tβ4-potentiating effect was diminished to near control levels. Tβ4 did interact with fibrinogen with an estimated KD of ~ 126 ± 18 nM or 66 ± 20 nM under equilibrium or flow, respectively.Conclusion
These results suggest that Tβ4 could potentially increase the affinity of platelet receptors for their ligands thus promoting platelet deposition. Tβ4 could also bind to fibrinogen and as its concentration increased would prevent platelet–fibrinogen interactions resulting in the attenuation of platelet deposition.General significance
This work suggests that Tβ4 might have a dual role in platelet function. 相似文献7.
Rungusa Pantan Amnart Onsa-ard Jiraporn Tocharus Orawan Wonganan Apichart Suksamrarn Chainarong Tocharus 《Life sciences》2014
Aims
The aim of this study is to investigate the vasorelaxant effect of 16-O-acetyldihydroisosteviol (ADIS) and its underlying mechanisms in isolated rat aorta.Main methods
Rat aortic rings were isolated, suspended in organ baths containing Kreb's solution, maintained at 37 °C, and mounted on tungsten wire and continuously bubbled with a mixture of 95% O2 and 5% CO2 under a resting tension of 1 g. The vasorelaxant effects of ADIS were investigated by means of isometric tension recording experiment.Key findings
ADIS (0.1 μM–3 mM) induced relaxation of aortic rings pre-contracted by phenylephrine (PE, 10 μM) and KCl (80 mM) with intact-endothelium (Emax = 79.26 ± 3.74 and 79.88 ± 3.79, respectively) or denuded-endothelium (Emax = 88.05 ± 3.69 and 78.22 ± 6.86, respectively). In depolarization Ca2+-free solution, ADIS inhibits calcium chloride (CaCl2)-induced contraction in endothelium-denuded rings in a concentration-dependent manner. In addition, ADIS attenuates transient contractions in Ca2+-free medium containing EGTA (1 mM) induced by PE (10 μM) and caffeine (20 mM). By contrast, relaxation was not affected by tetraethylammonium (TEA, 5 mM), 4-aminopyridine (4-AP, 1 mM), glibenclamide (10 μM), barium chloride (BaCl2, 1 mM), and 1H-[1,2,3]oxadiazolo[4,3-α]quinoxalin-1-one (ODQ, 1 μM).Significance
These findings reveal the vasorelaxant effect of ADIS, through endothelium-independent pathway. It acts as a Ca2 + channel blocker through both intracellular and extracellular Ca2 + release. 相似文献8.
Christian J. Steib Leonore Gmelin Susanne Pfeiler Julia Schewe Stephan Brand Burkhard Göke Alexander L. Gerbes 《Life sciences》2013
Aims
In liver cirrhosis, inflammation triggers portal hypertension. Kupffer cells (KC) produce vasoconstrictors upon activation by bacterial constituents. Here, we hypothesize that the anti-inflammatory action of the cannabinoid receptor 2 (CB2) agonists JWH-133 and GP 1a attenuate portal hypertension.Main methods
In vivo measurements of portal pressures and non-recirculating liver perfusions were performed in rats 4 weeks after bile duct ligation (BDL). Zymosan (150 μg/ml, isolated liver perfusion) or LPS (4 mg/kg b.w., in vivo) was infused to activate the KC in the absence or presence of JWH-133 (10 mg/kg b.w.), GP 1a (2.5 mg/kg b.w.) or ZnPP IX (1 μM). Isolated KC were treated with Zymosan (0.5 mg/ml) in addition to JWH-133 (5 μM). The thromboxane (TX) B2 levels in the perfusate and KC media were determined by ELISA. Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) and CB2 were analyzed by Western blot or confocal microscopy.Key findings
JWH-133 or GP 1a pre-treatment attenuated portal pressures following KC activation in all experimental settings. In parallel, HO-1 expression increased with JWH-133 pre-treatment. However, the inhibition of HO-1 enhanced portal hypertension, indicating the functional role of this novel pathway. In isolated KC, the expression of CB2 and HO-1 increased with Zymosan, LPS and JWH-133 treatment while TXB2 production following KC activation was attenuated by JWH-133 pre-treatment.Significance
JWH-133 or GP 1a treatment attenuates portal hypertension. HO-1 induction by JWH-133 plays a functional role. Therefore, the administration of JWH-133 or GP 1a represents a promising new treatment option for portal hypertension triggered by microbiological products. 相似文献9.
Hussein Kaddour Jacques Vergne Guy Herve Marie-Christine Maurel 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2014
Background
Viroids are the smallest pathogens known to date. They infect plants and cause considerable economic losses. The members of the Avsunviroidae family are known for their capability to form hammerhead ribozymes (HHR) that catalyze self-cleavage during their rolling circle replication.Methods
In vitro inhibition assays, based on the self-cleavage kinetics of the hammerhead ribozyme from a Chrysanthemum chlorotic mottle viroid (CChMVd-HHR) were performed in the presence of various putative inhibitors.Results
Aminated compounds appear to be inhibitors of the self-cleavage activity of the CChMVd HHR. Surprisingly the spermine, a known activator of the autocatalytic activity of another hammerhead ribozyme in the presence or absence of divalent cations, is a potent inhibitor of the CChMVd-HHR with Ki of 17 ± 5 μM. Ruthenium hexamine and TMPyP4 are also efficient inhibitors with Ki of 32 ± 5 μM and IC50 of 177 ± 5 nM, respectively.Conclusions
This study shows that polyamines are inhibitors of the CChMVd-HHR self-cleavage activity, with an efficiency that increases with the number of their amino groups.General significance
This fundamental investigation is of interest in understanding the catalytic activity of HHR as it is now known that HHR are present in the three domains of life including in the human genome. In addition these results emphasize again the remarkable plasticity and adaptability of ribozymes, a property which might have played a role in the early developments of life and must be also of significance nowadays for the multiple functions played by non-coding RNAs. 相似文献10.
Hélène Piraux Jun Hai Philippe Verbeke Nawal Serradji Souad Ammar Rémi Losno Nguyêt-Thanh Ha-Duong Miryana Hémadi Jean-Michel El Hage Chahine 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2013
Background
Targeting nanoobjects via the iron-acquisition pathway is always reported slower than the transferrin/receptor endocytosis. Is there a remedy?Methods
Maghemite superparamagnetic and theragnostic nanoparticles (diameter 8.6 nm) were synthesized, coated with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (NP) and coupled to four holotransferrin (TFe2) by amide bonds (TFe2–NP). The constructs were characterized by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, FTIR, X-ray Electron Spectroscopy, Inductively Coupled Plasma with Atomic Emission Spectrometry. The in-vitro protein/protein interaction of TFe2–NP with transferrin receptor-1 (R1) and endocytosis in HeLa cells were investigated spectrophotometrically, by fast T-jump kinetics and confocal microscopy.Results
In-vitro, R1 interacts with TFe2–NP with an overall dissociation constant KD = 11 nM. This interaction occurs in two steps: in the first, the C-lobe of the TFe2–NP interacts with R1 in 50 μs: second-order rate constant, k1 = 6 × 1010 M− 1 s− 1; first-order rate constant, k− 1 = 9 × 104 s− 1; dissociation constant, K1d = 1.5 μM. In the second step, the protein/protein adduct undergoes a slow (10,000 s) change in conformation to reach equilibrium. This mechanism is identical to that occurring with the free TFe2. In HeLa cells, TFe2–NP is internalized in the cytosol in less than 15 min.Conclusion
This is the first time that a nanoparticle–transferrin construct is shown to interact with R1 and is internalized in time scales similar to those of the free holotransferrin.General significance
TFe2–NP behaves as free TFe2 and constitutes a model for rapidly targeting theragnostic devices via the main iron-acquisition pathway. 相似文献11.
Silvia Castrignanò Sheila J. Sadeghi Gianfranco Gilardi 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2012
Background
Nanosized particles of gold are widely used as advanced materials for enzyme catalysis investigations. In some bioanalytical methods these nanoparticles can be exploited to increase the sensitivity by enhancing electron transfer to the biological component i.e. redox enzymes such as drug metabolizing enzymes.Methods
In this work, we describe the characterization of human flavin-containing monooxygenase 3 (hFMO3) in a nanoelectrode system based on AuNPs stabilized with didodecyldimethylammonium bromide (DDAB) on glassy carbon electrodes. Once confirmed by FTIR spectroscopy that in the presence of DDAB-AuNPs the structural integrity of hFMO3 is preserved, the influence of AuNPs on the electrochemistry of the enzyme was studied by cyclic voltammetry and square wave voltammetry.Results
Our results show that AuNPs improve the electrochemical performance of hFMO3 on glassy carbon electrodes by enhancing the electron transfer rate and the current signal-to-noise ratio. Moreover, the electrocatalytic activity of hFMO3-DDAB-AuNP electrodes which was investigated in the presence of two well known substrates, benzydamine and sulindac sulfide, resulted in KM values of 52 μM and 27 μM, with Vmax of 8 nmol min− 1 mg− 1 and 4 nmol min− 1 mg− 1, respectively, which are in agreement with data obtained with the microsomal enzyme.Conclusions
The immobilization of hFMO3 protein in DDAB stabilized AuNP electrodes improves the bioelectrochemical performance of this important phase I drug metabolizing enzyme.General significance
This bio-analytical method can be considered as a promising advance in the development of new techniques suitable for the screening of novel hFMO3 metabolized pharmaceuticals. 相似文献12.
Valentina Bosello-Travain Marcus Conrad Giorgio Cozza Alessandro Negro Silvia Quartesan Monica Rossetto Antonella Roveri Stefano Toppo Fulvio Ursini Mattia Zaccarin Matilde Maiorino 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2013
Background
Mammalian GPx7 is a monomeric glutathione peroxidase of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), containing a Cys redox center (CysGPx). Although containing a peroxidatic Cys (CP) it lacks the resolving Cys (CR), that confers fast reactivity with thioredoxin (Trx) or related proteins to most other CysGPxs.Methods
Reducing substrate specificity and mechanism were addressed by steady-state kinetic analysis of wild type or mutated mouse GPx7. The enzymes were heterologously expressed as a synuclein fusion to overcome limited expression. Phospholipid hydroperoxide was the oxidizing substrate. Enzyme–substrate and protein–protein interaction were analyzed by molecular docking and surface plasmon resonance analysis.Results
Oxidation of the CP is fast (k+ 1 > 103 M− 1 s− 1), however the rate of reduction by GSH is slow (k′+ 2 = 12.6 M− 1 s− 1) even though molecular docking indicates a strong GSH–GPx7 interaction. Instead, the oxidized CP can be reduced at a fast rate by human protein disulfide isomerase (HsPDI) (k+ 1 > 103 M− 1 s− 1), but not by Trx. By surface plasmon resonance analysis, a KD = 5.2 μM was calculated for PDI–GPx7 complex. Participation of an alternative non-canonical CR in the peroxidatic reaction was ruled out. Specific activity measurements in the presence of physiological reducing substrate concentration, suggest substrate competition in vivo.Conclusions
GPx7 is an unusual CysGPx catalyzing the peroxidatic cycle by a one Cys mechanism in which GSH and PDI are alternative substrates.General significance
In the ER, the emerging physiological role of GPx7 is oxidation of PDI, modulated by the amount of GSH. 相似文献13.
Shinjinee Sengupta Shakri BanerjeeSagar Lahiri Trina DuttaTarun K. Dhar Anil K. Ghosh 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2014
Background
In Saccharomyces cerevisiae methylation at cysteine residue displayed enhanced activity of trehalose-6-phosphate synthase (TPS).Methods
The cysteine methyltransferase (CMT) responsible for methylating TPS was purified and characterized. The amino acid sequence of the enzyme protein was determined by a combination of N-terminal sequencing and MALDI-TOF/TOF analysis. The nucleotide sequence of the CMT gene was determined, isolated from S. cerevisiae and expressed in E. coli. Targeted disruption of the CMT gene by PCR based homologous recombination in S. cerevisiae was followed by metabolite characterization in the mutant.Results
The purified enzyme was observed to enhance the activity of TPS by a factor of 1.76. The 14 kDa enzyme was found to be cysteine specific. The optimum temperature and pH of enzyme activity was calculated as 30 °C and 7.0 respectively. The Km Vmax and Kcat against S-adenosyl-l-methionine (AdoMet) were 4.95 μM, 3.2 U/mg and 6.4 s− 1 respectively. Competitive inhibitor S-Adenosyl-l-homocysteine achieved a Ki as 10.9 μM against AdoMet. The protein sequence contained three putative AdoMet binding motifs. The purified recombinant CMT activity exhibited similar physicochemical characteristics with the native counterpart. The mutant, Mataα, cmt:: kanr exhibited almost 50% reduction in intracellular trehalose concentration.Conclusion
A novel cysteine methyltransferase is purified, which is responsible for enhanced levels of trehalose in S. cerevisiae.General significance
This is the first report about a cysteine methyltransferase which performs S methylation at cysteine residue regulating TPS activity by 50%, which resulted in an increase of the intercellular stress sugar, trehalose. 相似文献14.
Yan Liu Yu Zhang Kun Lin De-xian Zhang Miao Tian Hong-yang Guo Yu-tang Wang Yang Li Zhao-liang Shan 《Life sciences》2014
Aims
Piperine had protective effects on oxidative stress damage of ventricular myocytes by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). In this study we aimed to explore the protective effect of piperine on abnormalities of the cardiac action potential (AP) and several ion currents induced by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in single rabbit left atrial myocyte.Main methods
Conventional microelectrodes were used to record action potential duration (APD), resting membrane potential (RMP) and some ion currents (ICa,L,Ito,IK1 and Ikur,ect.), before and after H2O2 administration with or without piperine.Key findings
The piperine (7 μmol/L) had no significant effect on APD, ICa,L,Ito,IK1 and Ikur and their channel dynamics. In the presence of 50 μmol/L H2O2, APD50 and APD90 shortened (P < 0.01), amplitude of RMP decreased (P < 0.05), the peak of ICa,L reduced significantly (P < 0.05). Piperine (7 μmol/L) significantly alleviated the inhibiting effect of H2O2 on APD and ICa,L (P < 0.01) and protected the changes of ICa,L dynamics induced by H2O2. The peak current of Ito was reduced significantly (P < 0.05); Piperine (7 μmol/L) significantly alleviated the inhibiting effect of H2O2 on Ito (P < 0.01). In addition, piperine protected the changes of Ito dynamics induced by H2O2. The peak current of IK1 and IKUr was significantly reduced (P < 0.05); Piperine (7 μmol/L) alleviated the inhibiting effect of H2O2 on IK1 and IKUr significantly (P < 0.01). In addition, piperine protected the changes of IKUr dynamics induced by H2O2.Significance
These results suggest that piperine effectively protects atrial myocytes from oxidative stress injury in atrial electrophysiology. 相似文献15.
Keun Han Choi Seung Il Jeong Jun Ho Lee Byung Soon HwangSang Jun Kim Seoul LeeBong Kyu Choi Kyu Yong Jung 《Phytomedicine》2011,18(5):408-413
Background and aim
Atractylodes japonica Koidz (Compositae) has been commonly used to treat the gastrointestinal (GI) disorders in Korean traditional medicine, but its pharmacological roles in the regulation of GI motility have not been clarified yet.Methods
Atractylodes japonica was sequentially partitioned with MeOH, n-hexane, CHCl3, EtOAc and n-BuOH saturated with H2O, and the effects of Atractylodes japonica extracts on the spontaneous contractility of GI muscle strips prepared from rats were measured.Results
Among five different fractionations, EtOAc extracts of Atractylodes japonica (AJEA) dose-dependently increased the low frequency contraction of distal colon longitudinal muscles (DCLM), and the ED50 values were revealed to be 1.71 × 10−9 g/ml. Among GI tracts, a prominent contractile response to AJEA was observed only in the DCLM. The contractile patterns produced by AJEA remarkably differed from those caused by acetylcholine and 5-HT. 4-DAMP and methoctramine at 0.5 μM significantly blocked the AJEA (1.0 μg/ml)-induced contraction of DCLM, but ondansetron, GR113808 and methysergide at 1.0 μM in combination did not change the AJEA-induced DCLM contractions. Acetylethylcholine mustard (5.0 μM) significantly diminished the AJEA-induced DCLM contractions, whereas p-chlorophenyl alanine (1.0 μM) did not affect the stimulatory effects of AJEA on the DCLM contractions.Conclusion
The present results suggest that AJEA may specifically act on the DCLM among GI smooth muscles, and AJEA-induced DCLM contraction is likely mediated, at least, by activation of ChAT and acetylcholinergic muscarinic receptors. 相似文献16.
Carolina P. Bellusci Carlos Rocco Paula Aulicino Debora Mecikovsky Verónica Curras Soledad Hegoburu Guillermo F. Bramuglia Rosa Bologna Luisa Sen Andrea Mangano 《Gene》2013
Background
Variability in MDR1 and PXR has been associated with differences in drug plasma levels and response to antiretroviral therapy. We investigated whether polymorphisms in MDR1 (T-129C, C1236T and C3435T) and PXR (C63396T) affect lopinavir plasma concentration and the virological or immunological response to HAART in HIV-1-infected children.Methods
Genotypes were identified in 100 blood donors and 38 HIV-1-infected children. All children received HAART with lopinavir boosted with ritonavir (LPV/r) at the time of LPV plasma level quantification, before (Ctrough) and between 1 and 2 h after (Cpost-dose) the administration of the next dose of drug. CD4+ T-cell counts and plasma viral load were analyzed before and after the initiation of LPV/r.Results
MDR1 1236T, MDR1 3435T and PXR 63396T alleles showed a frequency of ~ 50% while the MDR1 -129C allele only reached 5%. Children heterozygotes 1236CT showed a significantly lower LPV Cpost-dose than homozygotes 1236TT (median Cpost-dose = 3.04 μg/ml and 6.50 μg/ml, respectively; p = 0.016). Children heterozygotes 1236CT also had a lower decrease of viral load after 36 weeks of LPV/r exposure compared with homozygotes 1236CC (median viral load changes = − 0.50 log10 copies/ml and − 2.08 log10 copies/ml, respectively; p = 0.047). No effect on the immunological response was observed for polymorphisms of MDR1 or PXR.Conclusions
Our results suggest that the MDR1 C1236T SNP significantly reduces LPV plasma concentration affecting the virological response to HAART. Heterozygotes 1236CT might have an altered level of P-gp expression/activity in enterocytes and CD4+ T lymphocytes that limits the absorption of LPV leading to an impaired virological suppression. 相似文献17.
Bennett L. Ibey Andrei G. Pakhomov Betsy W. Gregory Vera A. Khorokhorina Caleb C. Roth Mikhail A. Rassokhin Joshua A. Bernhard Gerald J. Wilmink Olga N. Pakhomova 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2010
Background
Nanosecond electric pulses (EP) disrupt cell membrane and organelles and cause cell death in a manner different from the conventional irreversible electroporation. We explored the cytotoxic effect of 10-ns EP (quantitation, mechanisms, efficiency, and specificity) in comparison with 300-ns, 1.8- and 9-μs EP.Methods
Effects in Jurkat and U937 cells were characterized by survival assays, DNA electrophoresis and flow cytometry.Results
10-ns EP caused apoptotic or necrotic death within 2–20 h. Survival (S, %) followed the absorbed dose (D, J/g) as: S = αD(−K), where coefficients K and α determined the slope and the “shoulder” of the survival curve. K was similar in all groups, whereas α was cell type- and pulse duration-dependent. Long pulses caused immediate propidium uptake and phosphatidylserine (PS) externalization, whereas 10-ns pulses caused PS externalization only.Conclusions
1.8- and 9-μs EP cause cell death efficiently and indiscriminately (LD50 1–3 J/g in both cell lines); 10-ns EP are less efficient, but very selective (LD50 50–80 J/g for Jurkat and 400–500 J/g for U937); 300-ns EP show intermediate effects. Shorter EP open propidium-impermeable, small membrane pores (”nanopores”), triggering different cell death mechanisms.General significance
Nanosecond EP can selectively target certain cells in medical applications like tumor ablation. 相似文献18.
Background
The deposition of aggregated β-amyloid peptide senile plaques and the accumulation of arginine within the astrocytes in the brain of an Alzheimer's patient are classic observations in the neuropathology of the disease. It would be logical, in the aetiology and pathogenesis, to investigate arginine-metabolising enzymes and their intimate association with amyloid peptides.Methods
Neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) was isolated, purified and shown, through fluorescence quenching spectroscopy and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), to interact with structural fragments of Aβ1–40 and be catalytic towards amyloid fibril formation.Results
Only one binding site on the enzyme was available for binding. Two amyloid peptide fragments of Aβ1–40 (Aβ17–28 and Aβ25–35) had Stern–Volmer values (KSV) of 0.111 μM−1 and 0.135 μM−1 indicating tight binding affinity to nNOS and easier accessibility to fluor molecules during binding. The polarity of this active site precludes binding of the predominantly hydrophobic amyloid peptide fragments contained within Aβ17–28 and within two glycine zipper motifs [G-X-X-X-G-X-X-X-G] [Aβ29–37] and bind to the enzyme at a site remote to the active region.Conclusions
The interaction and binding of Aβ17–28 and Aβ25–35 to nNOS causes the movement of two critical tryptophan residues of 0.77 nm and 0.57 nm respectively towards the surface of the enzyme.General significance
The binding of Aβ-peptide fragments with nNOS has been studied by spectrofluorimetry. The information and data presented should contribute towards understanding the mechanism for deposition of aggregated Aβ-peptides and fibrillogenesis in senile plaques in an AD brain. 相似文献19.
Hideaki Tagashira Chen Zhang Ying-mei Lu Hideyuki Hasegawa Hiroshi Kanai Feng Han Kohji Fukunaga 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2013
Background
We previously reported that the σ1-receptor (σ1R) is down-regulated following cardiac hypertrophy and dysfunction in transverse aortic constriction (TAC) mice. Here we address how σ1R stimulation with the selective σ1R agonist SA4503 restores hypertrophy-induced cardiac dysfunction through σ1R localized in the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR).Methods
We first confirmed anti-hypertrophic effects of SA4503 (0.1–1 μM) in cultured cardiomyocytes exposed to angiotensin II (Ang II). Then, to confirm the ameliorative effects of σ1R stimulation in vivo, we administered SA4503 (1.0 mg/kg) and the σ1R antagonist NE-100 (1.0 mg/kg) orally to TAC mice for 4 weeks (once daily).Results
σ1R stimulation with SA4503 significantly inhibited Ang II-induced cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. Ang II exposure for 72 h impaired phenylephrine (PE)-induced Ca2 + mobilization from the SR into both the cytosol and mitochondria. Treatment of cardiomyocytes with SA4503 largely restored PE-induced Ca2 + mobilization into mitochondria. Exposure of cardiomyocytes to Ang II for 72 h decreased basal ATP content and PE-induced ATP production concomitant with reduced mitochondrial size, while SA4503 treatment completely restored ATP production and mitochondrial size. Pretreatment with NE-100 or siRNA abolished these effects. Chronic SA4503 administration also significantly attenuated myocardial hypertrophy and restored ATP production in TAC mice. SA4503 administration also decreased hypertrophy-induced impairments in LV contractile function.Conclusions
σ1R stimulation with the specific agonist SA4503 ameliorates cardiac hypertrophy and dysfunction by restoring both mitochondrial Ca2 + mobilization and ATP production via σ1R stimulation.General significance
Our observations suggest that σ1R stimulation represents a new therapeutic strategy to rescue the heart from hypertrophic dysfunction. 相似文献20.
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