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Viswanathan Rajagopalan Youhua Zhang Kaie Ojamaa Yue-feng Chen Alessandro Pingitore Christine J. Pol Debra Saunders Krithika Balasubramanian Rheal A. Towner A. Martin Gerdes 《PloS one》2016,11(3)
Background
A large body of evidence suggests that thyroid hormones (THs) are beneficial for the treatment of cardiovascular disorders. We have shown that 3 days of triiodo-L-thyronine (T3) treatment in myocardial infarction (MI) rats increased left ventricular (LV) contractility and decreased myocyte apoptosis. However, no clinically translatable protocol is established for T3 treatment of ischemic heart disease. We hypothesized that low-dose oral T3 will offer safe therapeutic benefits in MI.Methods and Results
Adult female rats underwent left coronary artery ligation or sham surgeries. T3 (~6 μg/kg/day) was available in drinking water ad libitum immediately following MI and continuing for 2 month(s) (mo). Compared to vehicle-treated MI, the oral T3-treated MI group at 2 mo had markedly improved anesthetized Magnetic Resonance Imaging-based LV ejection fraction and volumes without significant negative changes in heart rate, serum TH levels or heart weight, indicating safe therapy. Remarkably, T3 decreased the incidence of inducible atrial tachyarrhythmias by 88% and improved remodeling. These were accompanied by restoration of gene expression involving several key pathways including thyroid, ion channels, fibrosis, sympathetic, mitochondria and autophagy.Conclusions
Low-dose oral T3 dramatically improved post-MI cardiac performance, decreased atrial arrhythmias and cardiac remodeling, and reversed many adverse changes in gene expression with no observable negative effects. This study also provides a safe and effective treatment/monitoring protocol that should readily translate to humans. 相似文献2.
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T. Nõges J. Haberman A. Jaani R. Laugaste S. Lokk A. Mäemets P. Nõges E. Pihul H. Starast T. Timm T. Virro 《Hydrobiologia》1996,337(1-3):1-9
Neural networks and multiple linear regression models of the abundance of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) on the mesohabitat scale were developed from combinations of physical habitat variables in 220 channel morphodynamic units (pools, riffles, runs, etc.) of 11 different streams in the central Pyrenean mountains. For all the 220 morphodynamic units, the determination coefficients obtained between the estimated and observed values of density or biomass were significantly higher for the neural network (r
2 adjusted= 0.93 and r
2 adjusted=0.92 (p<0.01) for biomass and density respectively with the neural network, against r
2 adjusted=0.69 (p<0.01) and r
2 adjusted = 0.54 (p<0.01) with multiple linear regression). Validation of the multivariate models and learning of the neural network developed from 165 randomly chosen channel morphodynamic units, was tested on the 55 other channel morphodynamic units. This showed that the biomass and density estimated by both methods were significantly related to the observed biomass and density. Determination coefficients were significantly higher for the neural network (r
2 adjusted =0.72 (p<0.01) and 0.81 (p<0.01) for biomass and density respectively) than for the multiple regression model (r
2 adjusted=0.59 and r
2 adjusted=0.37 for biomass and density respectively). The present study shows the advantages of the backpropagation procedure with neural networks over multiple linear regression analysis, at least in the field of stochastic salmonid ecology. 相似文献
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Deletion of the vesicular acetylcholine transporter from pedunculopontine/laterodorsal tegmental neurons modifies gait
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Koichiro Takahashi Kiyokazu Koga Helena M Linge Yinzhong Zhang Xinchun Lin Christine N Metz Yousef Al-Abed Kaie Ojamaa Edmund J Miller 《Respiratory research》2009,10(1):33
Background
MIF is a critical mediator of the host defense, and is involved in both acute and chronic responses in the lung. Neutralization of MIF reduces neutrophil accumulation into the lung in animal models. We hypothesized that MIF, in the alveolar space, promotes neutrophil accumulation via activation of the CD74 receptor on macrophages.Methods
To determine whether macrophage CD74 surface expression contributes MIF-induced neutrophil accumulation, we instilled recombinant MIF (r-MIF) into the trachea of mice in the presence or absence of anti-CD74 antibody or the MIF specific inhibitor, ISO-1. Using macrophage culture, we examined the downstream pathways of MIF-induced activation that lead to neutrophil accumulation.Results
Intratracheal instillation of r-MIF increased the number of neutrophils as well as the concentration of macrophage inflammatory protein 2 (MIP-2) and keratinocyte-derived chemokine (KC) in BAL fluids. CD74 was found to be expressed on the surface of alveolar macrophages, and MIF-induced MIP-2 accumulation was dependent on p44/p42 MAPK in macrophages. Anti-CD74 antibody inhibited MIF-induced p44/p42 MAPK phosphorylation and MIP-2 release by macrophages. Furthermore, we show that anti-CD74 antibody inhibits MIF-induced alveolar accumulation of MIP-2 (control IgG vs. CD74 Ab; 477.1 ± 136.7 vs. 242.2 ± 102.2 pg/ml, p < 0.05), KC (1796.2 ± 436.1 vs. 1138.2 ± 310.2 pg/ml, p < 0.05) and neutrophils (total number of neutrophils, 3.33 ± 0.93 × 104 vs. 1.90 ± 0.61 × 104, p < 0.05) in our mouse model.Conclusion
MIF-induced neutrophil accumulation in the alveolar space results from interaction with CD74 expressed on the surface of alveolar macrophage cells. This interaction induces p44/p42 MAPK activation and chemokine release. The data suggest that MIF and its receptor, CD74, may be useful targets to reduce neutrophilic lung inflammation, and acute lung injury. 相似文献8.
Flowers of Ruppia are normally arranged into an open two-flowered spike, but sometimes the two lateral flowers are congenitally united with each other and form a terminal flower-like structure. This developmental abnormality resembles those described in well-investigated mutants of model organisms of developmental genetics such as Arabidopsis Antirrhinum. A study of Ruppia allows investigating morphogenetic lability of this feature in natural populations. These data will be important for understanding evolutionary transitions between open and closed inflorescences. This paper presents first data on frequencies ofterminal flower-like structures in natural populations of Ruppia maritima and first observations of their development. Vascular supply of inflorescences with free and united flowers is compared for the first time. Strong differences in frequencies of occurrence of terminal flower-like structures among examined natural populations are revealed. Data on variation of organ numbers in flowers of plants from different populations allow hypothesizing that increased size of floral primordia is a factor that plays a role in their amalgamation into ajoint primordium of a terminal structure. Vascular system of inflorescences of R. maritima with united flowers is quite similar to the vascular system of a flower and nothing contradicts a hypothesis on terminal position ofthis structure. Transversally inserted stamens in inflorescences with united flowers are usually of inverted polarity. This appears to be the first documented example of an inversion of relative polarity of stamens and carpels in angiosperms. 相似文献
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Marc Jan Bonder Silva Kasela Mart Kals Riin Tamm Kaie Lokk Isabel Barragan Wim A Buurman Patrick Deelen Jan-Willem Greve Maxim Ivanov Sander S Rensen Jana V van Vliet-Ostaptchouk Marcel G Wolfs Jingyuan Fu Marten H Hofker Cisca Wijmenga Alexandra Zhernakova Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg Lude Franke Lili Milani 《BMC genomics》2014,15(1)