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Claire L. Allen Gerry Clare Elizabeth A. Stewart Matthew J. Branch Owen D. McIntosh Megha Dadhwal Harminder S. Dua Andrew Hopkinson 《PloS one》2013,8(10)
Purpose
Dried amniotic membrane (AM) can be a useful therapeutic adjunct in ophthalmic surgery and possesses logistical advantages over cryopreserved AM. Differences in preservation techniques can significantly influence the biochemical composition and physical properties of AM, potentially affecting clinical efficacy. This study was established to investigate the biochemical and structural effects of drying AM in the absence and presence of saccharide lyoprotectants and its biocompatibility compared to cryopreserved material.Methods
AM was cryopreserved or dried with and without pre-treatment with trehalose or raffinose and the antioxidant epigallocatechin (EGCG). Structural and visual comparisons were assessed using electron microscopy. Localisation, expression and release of AM biological factors were determined using immunoassays and immunofluorescence. The biocompatibility of the AM preparations co-cultured with corneal epithelial cell (CEC) or keratocyte monolayers were assessed using cell proliferation, cytotoxicity, apoptosis and migration assays.Results
Drying devitalised AM epithelium, but less than cryopreservation and cellular damage was reduced in dried AM pre-treated with trehalose or raffinose. Dried AM alone, and with trehalose or raffinose showed greater factor retention efficiencies and bioavailability compared to cryopreserved AM and demonstrated a more sustained biochemical factor time release in vitro. Cellular health assays showed that dried AM with trehalose or raffinose are compatible and superior substrates compared to cryopreserved AM for primary CEC expansion, with increased proliferation and reduced LDH and caspase-3 levels. This concept was supported by improved wound healing in an immortalised human CEC line (hiCEC) co-cultured with dried and trehalose or raffinose membranes, compared to cryopreserved and fresh AM.Conclusions
Our modified preservation process and our resultant optimised dried AM has enhanced structural properties and biochemical stability and is a superior substrate to conventional cryopreserved AM. In addition this product is stable and easily transportable allowing it to be globally wide reaching for use in clinical and military sectors. 相似文献2.
Eun Ju Lee Majid Rasool Kamli Smritee Pokharel Adeel Malik K. M. A. Tareq Abdul Roouf Bhat Hee-Bok Park Yong Seok Lee SangHoon Kim Bohsuk Yang Ki Young Chung Inho Choi 《PloS one》2013,8(11)
Background
Muscle satellite cells (MSCs) represent a devoted stem cell population that is responsible for postnatal muscle growth and skeletal muscle regeneration. An important characteristic of MSCs is that they encompass multi potential mesenchymal stem cell activity and are able to differentiate into myocytes and adipocytes. To achieve a global view of the genes differentially expressed in MSCs, myotube formed-cells (MFCs) and adipocyte-like cells (ALCs), we performed large-scale EST sequencing of normalized cDNA libraries developed from bovine MSCs.Results
A total of 24,192 clones were assembled into 3,333 clusters, 5,517 singletons and 3,842contigs. Functional annotation of these unigenes revealed that a large portion of the differentially expressed genes are involved in cellular and signaling processes. Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery (DAVID) functional analysis of three subsets of highly expressed gene lists (MSC233, MFC258, and ALC248) highlighted some common and unique biological processes among MSC, MFC and ALC. Additionally, genes that may be specific to MSC, MFC and ALC are reported here, and the role of dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase2 (DDAH2) during myogenesis and hemoglobin subunit alpha2 (HBA2) during transdifferentiation in C2C12 were assayed as a case study. DDAH2 was up-regulated during myognesis and knockdown of DDAH2 by siRNA significantly decreased myogenin (MYOG) expression corresponding with the slight change in cell morphology. In contrast, HBA2 was up-regulated during ALC formation and resulted in decreased intracellular lipid accumulation and CD36 mRNA expression upon knockdown assay.Conclusion
In this study, a large number of EST sequences were generated from the MSC, MFC and ALC. Overall, the collection of ESTs generated in this study provides a starting point for the identification of novel genes involved in MFC and ALC formation, which in turn offers a fundamental resource to enable better understanding of the mechanism of muscle differentiation and transdifferentiation. 相似文献3.
Abdul Roouf Bhat Mohammad Arshad Eun Ju Lee Smritee Pokharel Inho Choi Fareeda Athar 《化学与生物多样性》2013,10(12):2267-2277
A new series of N‐(pyrimidin‐2‐yl)benzenesulfonamide derivatives, 3a – 3i and 4a – 4i , was synthesized from pyrimidin‐2‐amines, 2a – 2i , with the aim to explore their effects on in vitro growth of Entamoeba histolytica. The chemical structures of the compounds were elucidated by elemental analysis, FT‐IR, 1H‐ and 13C‐NMR, and ESI mass‐spectral data. In vitro anti‐amoebic activity was evaluated against HM1 : IMSS strain of Entamoeba histolytica. The IC50 values were calculated by using the double dilution method. The results were compared with the IC50 value of the standard drug ‘metronidazole’. The selected compounds were tested for their cytotoxic activities by cell‐viability assay using H9C2 cardiac myoblasts cell line, and the results indicated that all the compounds displayed remarkable >80% viabilities to a concentration of 100 μg/ml. 相似文献
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Lee EJ Lee HJ Kamli MR Pokharel S Bhat AR Lee YH Choi BH Chun T Kang SW Lee YS Kim JW Schnabel RD Taylor JF Choi I 《Genomics》2012,100(3):195-202
We report a systematic study of gene expression during myogenesis and transdifferentiation in four bovine muscle tissues and of adipogenesis in three bovine fat tissues using DNA microarray analysis. One hundred hybridizations were performed and 7245 genes of known and unknown function were identified as being differentially expressed. Supervised hierarchical cluster analysis of gene expression patterns revealed the tissue specificity of genes. A close relationship in global gene expression observed for adipocyte-like cells derived from muscle and adipocytes derived from intramuscular fat suggests a common origin for these cells. The role of transthyretin in myogenesis is a novel finding. Different genes were highly induced during the transdifferentiation of myogenic satellite cells and in the adipogenesis of preadipocytes, indicating the involvement of different molecular mechanisms in these processes. Induction of CD36 and FABP4 expression in adipocyte-like cells and adipocytes may share a common pathway. 相似文献
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Raina V Suar M Singh A Prakash O Dadhwal M Gupta SK Dogra C Lawlor K Lal S van der Meer JR Holliger C Lal R 《Biodegradation》2008,19(1):27-40
Soil pollution with hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) has caused serious environmental problems. Here we describe the targeted degradation
of all HCH isomers by applying the aerobic bacterium Sphingobium indicum B90A. In particular, we examined possibilities for large-scale cultivation of strain B90A, tested immobilization, storage
and inoculation procedures, and determined the survival and HCH-degradation activity of inoculated cells in soil. Optimal
growth of strain B90A was achieved in glucose-containing mineral medium and up to 65% culturability could be maintained after
60 days storage at 30°C by mixing cells with sterile dry corncob powder. B90A biomass produced in water supplemented with
sugarcane molasses and immobilized on corncob powder retained 15–20% culturability after 30 days storage at 30°C, whereas
full culturability was maintained when cells were stored frozen at −20°C. On the contrary, cells stored on corncob degraded
γ-HCH faster than those that had been stored frozen, with between 15 and 85% of γ-HCH disappearance in microcosms within 20 h
at 30°C. Soil microcosm tests at 25°C confirmed complete mineralization of [14C]-γ-HCH by corncob-immobilized strain B90A. Experiments conducted in small pits and at an HCH-contaminated agricultural site
resulted in between 85 and 95% HCH degradation by strain B90A applied via corncob, depending on the type of HCH isomer and
even at residual HCH concentrations. Up to 20% of the inoculated B90A cells survived under field conditions after 8 days and
could be traced among other soil microorganisms by a combination of natural antibiotic resistance properties, unique pigmentation
and PCR amplification of the linA genes. Neither the addition of corncob nor of corncob immobilized B90A did measurably change the microbial community structure
as determined by T-RFLP analysis. Overall, these results indicate that on-site aerobic bioremediation of HCH exploiting the
biodegradation activity of S. indicum B90A cells stored on corncob powder is a promising technology. 相似文献
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Abhra Chanda Anirban Akhand Sudip Manna Sourav Das Anirban Mukhopadhyay Indrani Das Sugata Hazra S. B. Choudhury K. H. Rao V. K. Dadhwal 《Wetlands Ecology and Management》2016,24(3):293-315
Mangrove species are broadly classified as ‘true mangroves’ and ‘mangrove associates’. We hypothesized that the leaf litter decomposition rates of true mangroves differ significantly from the mangrove associates under the same ecological and bio-climatic conditions. In order to test this hypothesis, the leaf litter decay rates of 24 true mangrove species and 10 mangrove associates along with the concomitant carbon and nitrogen dynamics of the litters were studied in the tropical mangrove forest of Sundarban by means of litter bags. The decomposition was monitored for six consecutive weeks in the pre-monsoon, monsoon and post-monsoon season. All the species in general went through a rapid decay phase in the first 2 weeks, however, the rate substantially decreased in the following 4 weeks. Most of the species studied had significant seasonal variability (p < 0.05) in the decay rate. Species-specific decay was highest throughout the monsoon and least during the post-monsoon season. The mean dry weight composition (i.e. percentage of dry weight of the leaf litters remaining at the end of weekly intervals) of the true mangroves was 10–12 % higher than the mangrove associates throughout the sampling period. The mean decay constants (K in week?1) of the true mangroves were 0.15 ± 0.05, 0.20 ± 0.06 and 0.16 ± 0.05 in the pre-monsoon, monsoon and post-monsoon season respectively. The mangrove associates had significantly higher decay constants in the respective seasons that followed the order 0.23 ± 0.09, 0.25 ± 0.06 and 0.24 ± 0.09. As a consequence, the computed mean half-life period of the true mangrove litters (32 ± 11 days) was much higher than the mangrove associates (23 ± 11 days). This showed that collectively the leaf litters of mangrove associates degraded at a much faster rate than the true mangroves throughout the annual cycle and thus our hypothesis was justified. 相似文献
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The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, must abundantly produce outer surface lipoprotein A (OspA) in the tick vector but downregulate OspA in mammals in order to evade the immune system and maintain its natural enzootic cycle. Here, we show that BosR binds two regulatory elements of the ospAB operon and that increasing BosR expression leads to downregulation of OspA. Both regulatory sequences, cisI and cisII, showed strong BosR-binding and cisII bound much tighter than cisI. A promoterless bosR gene fused with an inducible promoter was introduced into an rpoS mutant and a wild-type strain to assess RpoS-independent and -dependent downregulation of OspA by BosR. With the induction of BosR expression, OspA expression was reduced more significantly in the RpoS-deficient than wild-type background, but not completely repressed. In the presence of constitutive expression of OspC, DbpA and DbpB, increasing BosR production resulted in complete repression of OspA in the RpoS mutant. Taken together, the study clearly demonstrated BosR serves as a repressor that binds both regulatory elements of the ospAB operon and shuts off expression. 相似文献
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Smritee Pokharel Majid Rasool Kamli Bilal Ahmad Mir Adeel Malik Eun Ju Lee Inho Choi 《In vitro cellular & developmental biology. Animal》2014,50(8):756-765
Adult myogenesis responsible for the maintenance and repair of muscle tissue is mainly under the control of myogenic regulatory factors (MRFs) and a few other genes. Transthyretin gene (TTR), codes for a carrier protein for thyroxin (T4) and retinol binding protein bound with retinol in blood plasma, plays a critical role during the early stages of myogenesis. Herein, we investigated the relationship of TTR with other muscle-specific genes and report their expression in muscle satellite cells (MSCs), and increased messenger RNA (mRNA) and protein expression of TTR during MSCs differentiation. Silencing of TTR resulted in decreased myotube formation and decreased expression of myosin light chain (MYL2), myosin heavy chain 3 (MYH3), matrix gla protein (MGP), and voltage-dependent L type calcium channel (Cav1.1) genes. Increased mRNA expression observed in TTR and other myogenic genes with the addition of T4 decreased significantly following TTR knockdown, indicating the critical role of TTR in T4 transportation. Similarly, decreased expression of MGP and Cav1.1 following TTR knockdown signifies the dual role of TTR in controlling muscle myogenesis via regulation of T4 and calcium channel. Our computational and experimental evidences indicate that TTR has a relationship with MRFs and may act on calcium channel and related genes. 相似文献
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