The mechanism of rotator cuff injury remains to be elucidated. And COX-2 plays a dual role in skeletal muscle injury and regeneration, would be associated with the development of rotator cuff injury. Therefore, we chose human skeletal muscle cells (HSKMC) as an in vitro muscle tissue model and transfected lentivirus with overexpressed COX-2 to simulate the in vitro environment of rotator cuff injury. To investigate the specific molecular biological mechanism of COX-2, transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq) was used to analyze the differentially expressed mRNAs in HSKMC overexpressing COX-2. Enrichment analysis was performed to analyze these differentially expressed genes and real-time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) was used to examine the mRNA levels of genes induced by overexpression. Subsequently, the role of COX-2 in cell proliferation was confirmed by cell counting kit-8 (CCK-8), and focal adhesion kinase (FAK) and signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) phosphorylation induced by COX-2 was utilized by western blotting (WB). The results showed that total of 30,759 differentially expressed genes were obtained, and the expression of CYP4F3 and GPR87 was significantly increased. COX-2 could bind CYP4F3 and GPR87 and co-localize with them in the cytoplasm. Finally, COX-2 promoted the proliferation of human skeletal muscle cells by activating the FAK and STAT3 pathways.
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- cyklooxygenasa 2 * metabolismus genetika MeSH
- kosterní svalová vlákna metabolismus enzymologie patologie MeSH
- kosterní svaly metabolismus patologie MeSH
- kultivované buňky MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- poranění rotátorové manžety * metabolismus patologie enzymologie genetika MeSH
- proliferace buněk MeSH
- transkripční faktor STAT3 metabolismus MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) is a recently discovered RNA virus that belongs to the family Coronaviridae and genus Deltacoronavirus. This virus causes enteric disease in piglets that is characterized by enteritis and diarrhoea. In our present investigation, 189 diarrhoeic samples were collected between July 2016 and May 2017 from Tibetan pigs inhabiting in three different provinces surrounding the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. We then applied the molecular-based method of reverse transcription polymerase chain reactions (RT-PCRs) to detect the presence of PDCoV in collected samples, and RT-PCR indicated that the prevalence of PDCoV was 3.70% (7/189) in Tibetan pigs. Four of 7 PDCoV-positive pigs were monoinfections of PDCoV, three samples were co-infections of PDCoV with porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus (PEDV), and 52 (27.51%) samples were positive for PEDV. Four strains with different full-length genomes were identified (CHN/GS/2016/1, CHN/GS/2016/2, CHN/GS-/2017/1 and CHN/QH/2017/1), and their genomes were used to analyse the characteristics of PDCoV currently prevalent in Tibetan pigs. We found a 3-nt insertion in the spike gene in four strains in Tibetan pigs. Phylogenetic analysis of the complete genome and spike and nucleocapsid gene sequences revealed that these strains shared ancestors with the strain CHN-AH-2004, which was found in pigs from the Anhui province of China mainland. However, PDCoV strains from Tibetan pigs formed different branches within the same cluster, implying continuous evolution in the field. Our present findings highlight the importance of epidemiologic surveillance to limit the spread of PDCoV in livestock at high altitudes in China.
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- Coronavirus genetika izolace a purifikace MeSH
- feces virologie MeSH
- fylogeneze MeSH
- genom virový genetika MeSH
- koronavirové infekce diagnóza epidemiologie veterinární virologie MeSH
- kvantitativní polymerázová řetězová reakce veterinární MeSH
- nemoci prasat diagnóza epidemiologie virologie MeSH
- prasata virologie MeSH
- prevalence MeSH
- průjem veterinární virologie MeSH
- sekvenční analýza DNA MeSH
- virové proteiny genetika MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- Geografické názvy
- Tibet epidemiologie MeSH
Acute renal failure (ARF) is mainly characterized by acute tubular necrosis. No significant change was found for mortality rates over the past few decades despite significant advances in supportive care. In recent years, great effort has been focused on traditional and herbal medicine, which is much less toxic than those agents conventionally used and which is nowadays considered as a novel therapeutic agent for ARF. However, the effect of ginsenosides (GS) administered orally on ARF has not been reported yet and little is known about its cellular and molecular mechanism. The purpose of the study is to investigate the protective effect of ginsenoside in rats with ARF on the changes of tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity (TH-IR) as well as on the involvement of mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) in the locus coeruleus. In our assay, glycerol-induced acute renal failure in rats was employed to study the protective effects of ginsenoside. Our results indicated that the treatment of ARF rats with ginsenosides for 48 h significantly reduced the serum blood urea nitrogen, creatinine level, and lipid peroxidation, restored the GSH level and the normal renal morphology. Immunohistochemistry showed that an obvious increase of TH-IR was further enhanced in ARF+GS group. The same effect was also observed in the changes of p-ERK1/2-IR in the locus coeruleus. Our results suggest that ginsenoside administered orally may have a strong renal protective effect against glycerol-induced ARF, and ginsenoside can also activate the brain catecholaminergic neurons in the locus coeruleus. Our future attention will be focused to the question whether there is a correlation between the renal protective effect of ginsenosides against acute renal failure and the activation of tyrosine hydroxylase in the locus coeruleus.
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- akutní poškození ledvin MeSH
- aplikace orální MeSH
- biologické markery krev MeSH
- časové faktory MeSH
- deprivace z nedostatku vody MeSH
- dusík močoviny v krvi MeSH
- financování organizované MeSH
- fosforylace MeSH
- ginsenosidy aplikace a dávkování farmakologie MeSH
- glutathion metabolismus MeSH
- glycerol MeSH
- imunohistochemie MeSH
- kreatinin krev MeSH
- krysa rodu rattus MeSH
- ledviny MeSH
- locus coeruleus enzymologie účinky léků MeSH
- malondialdehyd metabolismus MeSH
- mitogenem aktivovaná proteinkinasa 1 metabolismus MeSH
- mitogenem aktivovaná proteinkinasa 3 metabolismus MeSH
- modely nemocí na zvířatech MeSH
- ochranné látky aplikace a dávkování farmakologie MeSH
- peroxidace lipidů účinky léků MeSH
- potkani Sprague-Dawley MeSH
- tyrosin-3-monooxygenasa metabolismus MeSH
- upregulace MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- krysa rodu rattus MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
Central administration of losartan effectively blocked the increase of blood pressure and drinking response induced by angiotensin II (Ang II) or carbachol. However, the relationship between angiotensin AT1 receptors and the natriuresis induced by brain cholinergic stimuli is still not clear. The purpose of the study is to reveal the role of brain angiotensin AT1 receptor in the carbachol-induced natriuresis and expression of neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) in the locus coeruleus (LC) and proximal convoluted tubule (PCT). Our results indicated that 40 min after intracerebroventricular (ICV) injection of carbachol (0.5 µg), urinary sodium excretion was significantly increased to 0.548±0.049 µmol·min-1·100 g-1. Immunohistochemistry showed that carbachol induced an increase of neuronal nitric oxide synthase immunoreactivity (nNOS-IR) in the LC and renal proximal tubular cells. After pretreatment with losartan (20 µg), carbachol-induced urinary sodium excretion was reduced to 0.249±0.067 µmol·min-1·100 g-1. The same was true for carbachol-induced increase of nNOS-IR in the LC and PCT. The present data suggest that ICV cholinergic stimulation could induce a natriuresis and upregulate the activity of nNOS in the LC and PCT. The blockade of AT1 receptors might downregulate the effects induced by carbachol in the LC and PCT. Consequently, we provide a new evidence that brain angiotensinergic pathway and NO-dependent neural pathway contribute to the natriuresis following brain cholinergic stimulation and thus play an important role in the regulation of fluid homeostasis. Furthermore, the final effect of nitric oxide on proximal tubular sodium reabsorption participated in the natriuresis induced by brain cholinergic stimulation.
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- financování organizované využití MeSH
- karbachol farmakokinetika MeSH
- ledvinové kanálky fyziologie patofyziologie účinky léků MeSH
- locus coeruleus fyziologie patofyziologie účinky léků MeSH
- mozek metabolismus patofyziologie patologie MeSH
- natriuréza fyziologie účinky léků MeSH
- potkani Sprague-Dawley chirurgie MeSH
- receptor angiotensinu typ 1 účinky léků MeSH
- synthasa oxidu dusnatého účinky léků MeSH
