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Michael K. Dame Tejaswi Paruchuri Marissa DaSilva Narasimharao Bhagavathula William Ridder James Varani 《In vitro cellular & developmental biology. Animal》2009,45(9):551-557
Göttingen minipigs were treated topically for 6 d with a novel retinoid (MDI 301) at concentrations ranging from 0.3% to 30% in cream vehicle. Treatment of the minipigs did not adversely affect their health (hematological and necropsy parameters) or produce changes in the skin suggestive of retinoid-induced skin irritation. After killing the animals, skin samples from each treatment site were excised and maintained in organ culture for 6 d. In addition, untreated skin was also maintained in organ culture and treated with MDI 301 (0.1–5 μg/ml). After 3 d, the culture supernatants were collected and analyzed for levels of collagen type I and for matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). Both skin samples treated in vivo and skin samples exposed to MDI 301 in culture demonstrated increased collagen production. Only slight changes in levels of MMP-2 (gelatinase A) or MMP-9 (gelatinase B) were seen. After 6 d, the organ-cultured skin was fixed in formalin and prepared for histology. The organ-cultured skin was compared to skin that was fixed at killing after in vivo treatment. Epidermal hyperplasia was quantified at various MDI 301 concentrations. In vivo and in vitro treatments showed similar results—although the thickness was not substantially changed on average, there were focal areas of hyperplasia at higher retinoid concentrations. Taken together, these data suggest that MDI 301 enhances collagen production in minipig skin, without irritation. Furthermore, these studies suggest that minipig skin exposed to the retinoid in organ culture is equally predictive as topically treated skin. The in vitro organ culture approach may provide a cost-effective alternative model to that of the intact animal for skin retinoid testing. 相似文献
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Rajesh Yarra Si-Jie He Sadanandam Abbagani Biao Ma Mallesham Bulle Wan-Ke Zhang 《Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture》2012,111(1):49-57
Soil salinity is a major environmental stress limiting plant productivity. Vacuole Na+/H+ antiporters play important roles for the survival of plants under salt stress conditions. We have developed salt stress tolerant transgenic tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum cv. PED) by overexpression of the wheat Na+/H+ antiporter gene TaNHX2 using Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain LBA4404 harbouring a binary vector pBin438 that contains the TaNHX2 gene under the control of double CaMV 35S promoter and npt II as a selectable marker. PCR and Southern blot analysis confirmed that TaNHX2 gene has been integrated and expressed in the T1 generation transgenic tomato plants. When TaNHX2 expressing plants were exposed to 100 or 150 mM NaCl, they were found to be more tolerant to salt stress compared to wild type plants. Biochemical analyses also showed that transgenic plants have substantial amount of relative water content and chlorophyll content under salt stress conditions compared to wild type plants. The relative water content in transgenic and wild type plants ranged from 68 to 75 % and 46–73 % and chlorophyll content fall in between 1.8 to 2.4 mg/g fw and 1.0 to 2.4 mg/g fw, respectively, in all stress conditions. In the present study, we observed a better germination rate of T1 transgenic seeds under salt stress conditions compared with wild type plants. Our results indicated that TaNHX2-transgenic tomato plants coped better with salt stress than wild type plants. 相似文献
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Michael K. Dame Narasimharao Bhagavathula Cohra Mankey Marissa DaSilva Tejaswi Paruchuri Muhammad Nadeem Aslam James Varani 《In vitro cellular & developmental biology. Animal》2010,46(2):114-122
Normal and neoplastic human colon tissue obtained at surgery was used to establish conditions for organ culture. Optimal conditions
included an atmosphere of 5% CO2 and 95% O2; tissue partially submerged with mucosa at the gas interface; and serum-free medium with 1.5 mM Ca2+ and a number of growth supplements. Histological, histochemical, and immunohistochemical features that distinguish normal
and neoplastic tissue were preserved over a 2-d period. With normal tissue, this included the presence of elongated crypts
with small, densely packed cells at the crypt base and mucin-containing goblet cells in the upper portion. Ki67 staining,
for proliferating cells, was confined to the lower third of the crypt, while expression of extracellular calcium-sensing receptor
was seen in the upper third and surface epithelium. E-cadherin and β-catenin were expressed throughout the epithelium and
confined to the cell surface. In tumor tissue, the same disorganized, abnormal glandular structures seen at time zero were
present after 2 d. The majority of cells in these structures were mucin-poor, but occasional goblet cells were seen and mucin
staining was present. Ki67 staining was seen throughout the abnormal epithelium and calcium-sensing receptor expression was
weak and variable. E-cadherin was seen at the cell surface (similar to normal tissue), but in some places, there was diffuse
cytoplasmic staining. Finally, intense cytoplasmic and nuclear β-catenin staining was observed in cultured neoplastic tissue. 相似文献
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Spexin is novel biomarker, which plays a potential role in glucose and lipid metabolisms. However, there was paucity of serum spexin levels in obesity and diabetes mellitus subjects. Hence the current study was aimed to find the relationship between the serum spexin levels in type 2 Diabetes mellitus (type 2 DM) with extrapolation of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. A cross-sectional study included 330 participants, subdivided as control (n=110), type 2 DM (n=110) and type 2 DM with CVD groups (n=110). HbA1c, insulin, lipid profile, spexin & leptin including blood pressure and body mass index were analyzed from all the participants. The serum spexin levels (ng/ml) were significantly decreased in type 2 DM (mean ± sd: 0.65 ± 0.03) and type 2 DM with CVD (0.48 ± 0.02) groups compared to the control (0.79 ± 0.03) group (p<0.001). The decreased spexin levels were observed in type 2 DM, and further more decreased in type 2 DM with CVD patients compared to controls indicating that spexin levels could be served as an early prediction of obesity-induced T2DM with CVD risk. 相似文献
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Manga Vijjulatha Yamini Lingala RaviRaja Tejaswi Merugu 《Journal of molecular modeling》2014,20(7):1-14
AT1 receptor is an interesting biological target involved in several important diseases, such as blood hypertension and cardiovascular pathologies. In this study we investigated the main electrostatic and steric features of a series of AT1 antagonists related to hypertensive activity using structure and ligand-based strategies (docking and CoMFA). The generated 3D model had good internal and external consistency and was used to predict the potency of an external test set. The predicted values of pIC50 are in good agreement with the experimental results of biological activity, indicating that the 3D model can be used to predict the biological property of untested compounds. The electrostatic and steric CoMFA maps showed molecular recognition patterns, which were analyzed with structure-based molecular modeling studies (docking). The most and the least potent compounds docked into the AT1 binding site were subjected to molecular dynamics simulations with the aim to verify the stability and the flexibility of the ligand-receptor interactions. These results provided valuable insights on the electronic/structural requirements to design novel AT1 antagonists. 相似文献
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Choudhury Mitali Koduru Tejaswi Naidu Kumar Naveen Salimi Sasan Desai Kavya Prabhu Nagu Prakash Sritharan Manjula 《Biometals》2021,34(3):511-528
BioMetals - Iron-starved Mycobacterium tuberculosis utilises the carboxymycobactin-mycobactin siderophore machinery to acquire iron. These two siderophores have high affinity for ferric iron and... 相似文献
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Elizabeth E. Palmer Seungbeom Hong Fatema Al Zahrani Mais O. Hashem Fajr A. Aleisa Heba M. Jalal Ahmed Tejaswi Kandula Rebecca Macintosh Andre E. Minoche Clare Puttick Velimir Gayevskiy Alexander P. Drew Mark J. Cowley Marcel Dinger Jill A. Rosenfeld Rui Xiao Megan T. Cho Suliat F. Yakubu Stefan T. Arold 《American journal of human genetics》2019,104(3):542-552
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Molecular Biology Reports - Sunflower (Helianthus annuus. L) is one of the principal oil seed crops affected by the salinity stress, which limits the oil content and crop yield of sunflower plants.... 相似文献