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Taube A Schlich R Sell H Eckardt K Eckel J 《American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology》2012,302(11):H2148-H2165
Abdominal obesity is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and recent studies highlight a key role of adipose tissue dysfunction, inflammation, and aberrant adipokine release in this process. An increased demand for lipid storage results in both hyperplasia and hypertrophy, finally leading to chronic inflammation, hypoxia, and a phenotypic change of the cellular components of adipose tissue, collectively leading to a substantially altered secretory output of adipose tissue. In this review we have assessed the adipo-vascular axis, and an overview of adipokines associated with cardiovascular disease is provided. This resulted in a first list of more than 30 adipokines. A deeper analysis only considered adipokines that have been reported to impact on inflammation and NF-κB activation in the vasculature. Out of these, the most prominent link to cardiovascular disease was found for leptin, TNF-α, adipocyte fatty acid-binding protein, interleukins, and several novel adipokines such as lipocalin-2 and pigment epithelium-derived factor. Future work will need to address the potential role of these molecules as biomarkers and/or drug targets. 相似文献
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Marcin Moch Reinhard Windoffer Nicole Schwarz Raphaela Pohl Andreas Omenzetter Uwe Schnakenberg Fabian Herb Kraisorn Chaisaowong Dorit Merhof Lena Ramms Gloria Fabris Bernd Hoffmann Rudolf Merkel Rudolf E. Leube 《PloS one》2016,11(3)
The keratin intermediate filament cytoskeleton protects epithelial cells against various types of stress and is involved in fundamental cellular processes such as signaling, differentiation and organelle trafficking. These functions rely on the cell type-specific arrangement and plasticity of the keratin system. It has been suggested that these properties are regulated by a complex cycle of assembly and disassembly. The exact mechanisms responsible for the underlying molecular processes, however, have not been clarified. Accumulating evidence implicates the cytolinker plectin in various aspects of the keratin cycle, i.e., by acting as a stabilizing anchor at hemidesmosomal adhesion sites and the nucleus, by affecting keratin bundling and branching and by linkage of keratins to actin filament and microtubule dynamics. In the present study we tested these hypotheses. To this end, plectin was downregulated by shRNA in vulvar carcinoma-derived A431 cells. As expected, integrin β4- and BPAG-1-positive hemidesmosomal structures were strongly reduced and cytosolic actin stress fibers were increased. In addition, integrins α3 and β1 were reduced. The experiments furthermore showed that loss of plectin led to a reduction in keratin filament branch length but did not alter overall mechanical properties as assessed by indentation analyses using atomic force microscopy and by displacement analyses of cytoplasmic superparamagnetic beads using magnetic tweezers. An increase in keratin movement was observed in plectin-depleted cells as was the case in control cells lacking hemidesmosome-like structures. Yet, keratin turnover was not significantly affected. We conclude that plectin alone is not needed for keratin assembly and disassembly and that other mechanisms exist to guarantee proper keratin cycling under steady state conditions in cultured single cells. 相似文献
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Katharine N. Savage Kathy Burek-Huntington Sadie K. Wright Anna L. Bryan Gay Sheffield Marc Webber Raphaela Stimmelmayr Pam Tuomi Martha A. Delaney William Walker 《Marine Mammal Science》2021,37(3):843-869
Presented here is the first comprehensive and updated compilation of history, distribution, and findings of Stejneger's beaked whales (Mesoplodon stejnegeri) in Alaska. Stejneger's beaked whales are a poorly understood, elusive, deep-diving cetacean species found in the North Pacific Ocean. Since Stejneger's beaked whale strandings data in Alaska through 1994 were last published, 35 additional strandings have been documented. Twenty-seven animals stranded in the Aleutian Islands, seven stranded in Southcentral Alaska, and one animal stranded on St. Lawrence Island. Twenty-two carcasses were necropsied, but only four were fresh. Seventeen of the 22 died during mass stranding events and cause of death could not be definitively determined. Barotrauma was suspected in three cases and infectious disease possibly complicated by barotrauma occurred in two cases. We documented an expansion of strandings into the northern Bering Sea, characterized a sex bias, examined stomach contents that included macroplastic, and identified parasites not previously associated with Stejneger's beaked whales. Also included are data on the largest known mass stranding of Stejneger's beaked whales, which occurred on Adak Island in 2018. The history, distribution, and findings presented here are central to further our understanding of this species. 相似文献
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Newkirk MM Goldbach-Mansky R Lee J Hoxworth J McCoy A Yarboro C Klippel J El-Gabalawy HS 《Arthritis research & therapy》2003,5(2):R82-R90
Advanced glycation end-product (AGE)-damaged IgG occurs as a result of hyperglycemia and/or oxidative stress. Autoantibodies
to IgG-AGE were previously demonstrated in patients with severe, longstanding rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We investigated whether
IgG-AGE and anti-IgG-AGE antibodies were present early in the course of RA and other inflammatory arthropathies. We prospectively
followed a cohort of 238 patients with inflammatory arthritis of duration less than 1 year. Patients were evaluated clinically
and serologically, and radiographs were obtained at initial and 1-year visits. Sera were assayed for IgG-AGE and anti-IgG-AGE
antibodies by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Rheumatoid factor (RF) was determined by nephelometry and ELISA.
Of all patients, 29% had RF-positive RA, 15% had RF-negative RA, 18% had spondyloarthropathy, and 38% had undifferentiated
arthritis. IgG-AGE was present in 19% of patients, and was similar in amount and frequency in all groups. Patients with elevated
IgG-AGE levels had significantly higher levels of the inflammatory markers C-reactive protein and erythrocyte sedimentation
rate, but there was no correlation with blood glucose levels. Overall, 27% of the patients had IgM anti-IgG-AGE antibodies.
These antibodies were highly significantly associated with RFs (P < 0.0001) and with swollen joint count (P < 0.01). In early onset arthritis, IgG damaged by AGE was detected in all patient groups. The ability to make IgM anti-IgG-AGE
antibodies, however, was restricted to a subset of RF-positive RA patients with more active disease. The persistence of the
anti-IgG-AGE response was more specific to RA, and was transient in the patients with spondyloarthropathy and with undifferentiated
arthritis who were initially found to be positive for anti-IgG-AGE antibodies. 相似文献
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da Silveira VC Benezra H Luz JS Georg RC Oliveira CC Ferreira AM 《Journal of inorganic biochemistry》2011,105(12):1692-1703
Previous studies on copper(II) complexes with oxindole-Schiff base ligands have shown their potential antitumor activity towards different cells, inducing apoptosis through a preferential attack to DNA and/or mitochondria. Herein, we better characterize the interactions between some of these copper(II) complexes and DNA. Investigations on its binding ability to DNA were carried out by fluorescence measurements in competitive experiments with ethidium bromide, using plasmidial or calf-thymus DNA. These results indicated an efficient binding process similar to that observed with copper(II)-phenanthroline species, [Cu(o-phen)2]2+, with binding constants in the range 3 to 9 × 102 M− 1. DNA cleavage experiments in the presence and absence of distamycin, a recognized binder of DNA, indicated that this binding probably occurs at major or minor groove, leading to double-strand DNA cleavage, and being modulated by the imine ligand. Corroborating these data, discrete changes in EPR spectra of the studied complexes were observed in the presence of DNA, while more remarkable changes were observed in the presence of nucleotides (AMP, GMP, CMP or UMP). Additional evidence for preferential coordination of the copper centers to the bases guanine or cytosine was obtained from titrations of these complexes with each nucleotide, monitored by absorption spectral changes. Therefore, the obtained data point out to their action as groove binders to DNA bases, rather than as intercalators or covalent cross-linkers. Further investigations by SDS PAGE using 32P-ATP or 32P-oligonucleotides attested that no hydrolysis of phosphate linkage in DNA or RNA occurs, in the presence of such complexes, confirming their main oxidative mechanism of action. 相似文献
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