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Gao Y, Nan Z. Mechanistic insights into the use of rhubarb in diabetic kidney disease treatment using network pharmacology. Medicine (Baltimore) 2022; 101:e28465. [PMID: 35029893 PMCID: PMC8735741 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000028465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2021] [Accepted: 12/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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In this study, we predicted the core active compounds of rhubarb used in the treatment of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) and the related core gene targets and pathways using network pharmacological approaches.The Traditional Chinese Medicine Systems Pharmacology Database and Analysis Platform was used to identify active compounds of rhubarb. PharmMapper was used to predict the gene targets of active compounds, which were subsequently provided a standard nomenclature using the UniProt database. In addition, DKD-related target genes were predicted using GeneCards, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, and Therapeutic Target Database. The genes that were targeted both by rhubarb active compounds and implicated in DKD (hereafter referred to as overlapping target genes) were identified using Venny 2.1. A drug-target-disease network diagram was obtained using Cytoscape and a protein-protein interaction network diagram was constructed using the STRING database. Gene Ontology and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes enrichment analyses of overlapping target proteins were performed using the Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery Bioinformatics Resources 6.8.Eighteen core active compounds of rhubarb were extracted, and 136 target genes of rhubarb were identified. Some of the active compounds revealed by the network pharmacological analysis were catechin, aloe-emodin, rhein, and emodin; certain core target proteins suggested by the protein-protein interaction network analysis were AKT1, PIK3R1, and SRC. The overlapping target genes were primarily involved in apoptosis and proteolysis, with the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway identified as significantly enriched.Network pharmacological strategies were used to identify core active compounds of rhubarb and their related pathways. We believe that our study will provide potential and effective novel targets to identify active compounds of rhubarb for treating DKD.
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- Yingyuan Gao
- Internal medicine of traditional Chinese Medicine, Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, China
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- Internal medicine of traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Jilin Province, Changchun, China
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Teixeira GR, Mendes LO, Veras ASC, Thorpe HHA, Fávaro WJ, de Almeida Chuffa LG, Pinheiro PFF, Martinez FE. Physical resistance training-induced changes in lipids metabolism pathways and apoptosis in prostate. Lipids Health Dis 2020; 19:14. [PMID: 31996229 PMCID: PMC6990525 DOI: 10.1186/s12944-020-1195-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2019] [Accepted: 01/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Altered lipid metabolism is an important characteristic of neoplastic cells, with androgens and growth factors being major regulatory agents of the lipid metabolism process. We investigated the effect of physical resistance training on lipid metabolism and apoptosis in the adult Wistar rat prostate. METHODS Two experimental groups represented sedentary and physical resistance training. Three days per week for 13 weeks, rats performed jumps in water carrying a weight load strapped to their chests as part of a physical resistance exercise protocol. Two days after the last training session, rats were anesthetized and sacrificed for blood and prostate analysis. RESULTS Physical exercise improved feeding efficiency, decreased weight gain, regulated the serum-lipid profile, and modulated insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and free testosterone concentration. Furthermore, upregulation of cluster of differentiation 36 (CD36), sterol regulatory element binding protein-1 (SREBP-1), sterol regulatory element-binding protein cleavage-activating protein (SCAP), and reduced lysosome membrane protein (LIMPII) expression were also observed in the blood and prostates of trained rats. Consistent with these results, caspase-3 expression was upregulating and the BCL-2/Bax index ratio was decreased in trained rats relative to sedentary animals. CONCLUSIONS In this work, physical resistance training can alter lipid metabolism and increase markers of apoptosis in the prostate, suggesting physical resistance training as a potential novel therapeutic strategy for treating prostate cancer.
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- Giovana Rampazzo Teixeira
- Department of Physiotherapy, School of Technology and Sciences, UNESP, campus of Presidente Prudente, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
- Postgraduate Program in Movement Sciences, Sao Paulo State University-UNESP, Presidente Prudente, SP, Brazil.
- Multicenter Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences, SBFis, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araçatuba, SP, Brazil.
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- Postgraduate Program in Animal Science and Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences University of Western São Paulo-UNOESTE, Presidente Prudente, SP, Brazil
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- Postgraduate Program in Movement Sciences, Sao Paulo State University-UNESP, Presidente Prudente, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Structural and Functional Biology, State University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Institute of Biology, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Anatomy, São Paulo State University, UNESP - Institute of Biosciences, Botucatu, SP, Brazil
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Pathological lesions and global DNA methylation in rat prostate under streptozotocin-induced diabetes and melatonin supplementation. Cell Biol Int 2018; 42:470-487. [DOI: 10.1002/cbin.10920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2017] [Accepted: 12/17/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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L-López F, Sarmento-Cabral A, Herrero-Aguayo V, Gahete MD, Castaño JP, Luque RM. Obesity and metabolic dysfunction severely influence prostate cell function: role of insulin and IGF1. J Cell Mol Med 2017; 21:1893-1904. [PMID: 28244645 PMCID: PMC5571563 DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.13109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2016] [Accepted: 01/01/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Obesity is a major health problem that courses with severe comorbidities and a drastic impairment of homeostasis and function of several organs, including the prostate gland (PG). The endocrine–metabolic regulatory axis comprising growth hormone (GH), insulin and IGF1, which is drastically altered under extreme metabolic conditions such as obesity, also plays relevant roles in the development, modulation and homeostasis of the PG. However, its implication in the pathophysiological interplay between obesity and prostate function is still to be elucidated. To explore this association, we used a high fat–diet obese mouse model, as well as in vitro primary cultures of normal‐mouse PG cells and human prostate cancer cell lines. This approach revealed that most of the components of the GH/insulin/IGF1 regulatory axis are present in PGs, where their expression pattern is altered under obesity conditions and after an acute insulin treatment (e.g. Igfbp3), which might have some pathophysiological implications. Moreover, our results demonstrate, for the first time, that the PG becomes severely insulin resistant under diet‐induced obesity in mice. Finally, use of in vitro approaches served to confirm and expand the conception that insulin and IGF1 play a direct, relevant role in the control of normal and pathological PG cell function. Altogether, these results uncover a fine, germane crosstalk between the endocrine–metabolic status and the development and homeostasis of the PG, wherein key components of the GH, insulin and IGF1 axes could play a relevant pathophysiological role.
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- Fernando L-López
- Maimónides Institute of Biomedical Research of Cordoba (IMIBIC), Cordoba, Spain.,Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain.,Reina Sofía University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain.,CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Cordoba, Spain.,International Campus of Excellence on Agrifood, CeiA3, Cordoba, Spain
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- Maimónides Institute of Biomedical Research of Cordoba (IMIBIC), Cordoba, Spain.,Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain.,Reina Sofía University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain.,CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Cordoba, Spain.,International Campus of Excellence on Agrifood, CeiA3, Cordoba, Spain
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- Maimónides Institute of Biomedical Research of Cordoba (IMIBIC), Cordoba, Spain.,Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain.,Reina Sofía University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain.,CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Cordoba, Spain.,International Campus of Excellence on Agrifood, CeiA3, Cordoba, Spain
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- Maimónides Institute of Biomedical Research of Cordoba (IMIBIC), Cordoba, Spain.,Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain.,Reina Sofía University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain.,CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Cordoba, Spain.,International Campus of Excellence on Agrifood, CeiA3, Cordoba, Spain
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- Maimónides Institute of Biomedical Research of Cordoba (IMIBIC), Cordoba, Spain.,Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain.,Reina Sofía University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain.,CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Cordoba, Spain.,International Campus of Excellence on Agrifood, CeiA3, Cordoba, Spain
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- Maimónides Institute of Biomedical Research of Cordoba (IMIBIC), Cordoba, Spain.,Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain.,Reina Sofía University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain.,CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Cordoba, Spain.,International Campus of Excellence on Agrifood, CeiA3, Cordoba, Spain
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Gobbo MG, Dizeyi N, Abrahamsson PA, Bertilsson PA, Masitéli VS, Pytlowanciv EZ, Taboga SR, Góes RM. Influence of Melatonin on the Proliferative and Apoptotic Responses of the Prostate under Normal and Hyperglycemic Conditions. J Diabetes Res 2015; 2015:538529. [PMID: 26295055 PMCID: PMC4534615 DOI: 10.1155/2015/538529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2015] [Revised: 06/22/2015] [Accepted: 06/24/2015] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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The antitumor properties of melatonin (MLT) are known for prostate cancer cells. This study investigated whether MLT affects prostate maturation and interferes with tissue injuries induced by diabetes. MLT was administered to Wistar rats from 5 weeks of age in the drinking water (10 μg/kg b.w.), and diabetes was induced at the 13th week by streptozotocin (4.5 mg/100g b.w., i.p.). The animals were euthanized in the 14th and 21st weeks. MLT reduced the immunostained cells for androgen receptor (AR) by 10% in younger rats. Diabetes decreased cell proliferation and increased apoptosis. MLT treatment impeded apoptosis (p = 0.02) and augmented proliferation (p = 0.0008) and PCNA content in prostate following long-term diabetes due to restoration of testosterone levels and expression of melatonin receptor type 1B. The effect of MLT (500 µM, 5 mM, and 10 mM) on androgen-dependent (22Rv1) and androgen-independent (PC3) cancer cells and human prostate epithelial cells (PNTA1) under normal and hyperglycemic conditions (HG, 450 mg/dL) was analyzed. Contrary to PNTA1 and 22Rv1 cells, MLT improved the proliferation of PC3 cells in hyperglycemic medium. The combined data indicated that MLT had proliferative and antiapoptotic effects in prostate cells subjected to HG levels and it seems to involve specific MLT pathways rather than AR.
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- Marina G. Gobbo
- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Biology, UNICAMP, Avenue Bertrand Russel, 6109 Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Urological Research, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, 205 02 Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Urological Research, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, 205 02 Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Urological Research, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, 205 02 Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Biosciences, Humanities and Exact Sciences, UNESP, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Biology, UNICAMP, Avenue Bertrand Russel, 6109 Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Biosciences, Humanities and Exact Sciences, UNESP, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Biosciences, Humanities and Exact Sciences, UNESP, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil
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de Melo Neto JS, de Campos Gomes F, Pinheiro PFF, Pereira S, Scarano WR, Fávaro WJ, Domeniconi RF. The effects of high doses of nandrolone decanoate and exercise on prostate microvasculature of adult and older rats. Life Sci 2015; 121:16-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2014.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2014] [Revised: 10/06/2014] [Accepted: 11/05/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Schindler CE, Partap U, Patchen BK, Swoap SJ. Chronic rapamycin treatment causes diabetes in male mice. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2014; 307:R434-43. [PMID: 24965794 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00123.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Current evidence indicates that the mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor rapamycin both increases longevity and, seemingly contradictorily, impairs glucose homeostasis. Most studies exploring the dimensions of this paradox have been based on rapamycin treatment in mice for up to 20 wk. We sought to better understand the metabolic effects of oral rapamycin over a substantially longer period of time in HET3 mice. We observed that treatment with rapamycin for 52 wk induced diabetes in male mice, characterized by hyperglycemia, significant urine glucose levels, and severe glucose and pyruvate intolerance. Glucose intolerance occurred in male mice by 4 wk on rapamycin and could be only partially reversed with cessation of rapamycin treatment. Female mice developed moderate glucose intolerance over 1 yr of rapamycin treatment, but not diabetes. The role of sex hormones in the differential development of diabetic symptoms in male and female mice was further explored. HET3 mice treated with rapamycin for 52 wk were gonadectomized and monitored over 10 wk. Castrated male mice remained glucose intolerant, while ovariectomized females developed significant glucose intolerance over the same time period. Subsequent replacement of 17β-estradiol (E2) in ovariectomized females promoted a recovery of glucose tolerance over a 4-wk period, suggesting the protective role of E2 against rapamycin-induced diabetes. These results indicate that 1) oral rapamycin treatment causes diabetes in male mice, 2) the diabetes is partially reversible with cessation of treatment, and 3) E2 plays a protective role against the development of rapamycin-induced diabetes.
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- Department of Biology, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
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- Department of Biology, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
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- Department of Biology, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
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Vikram A, Kushwaha S, Jena GB. Relative influence of testosterone and insulin in the regulation of prostatic cell proliferation and growth. Steroids 2011; 76:416-23. [PMID: 21215763 DOI: 10.1016/j.steroids.2010.12.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2010] [Revised: 12/22/2010] [Accepted: 12/28/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Prostatic hyperplasia is a common problem of the aged men population. Recent experimental and clinical studies provide sufficient evidence that apart from androgens, insulin also plays an important role in the pathogenesis of prostatic hyperplasia. The present study was aimed to investigate the relative influence of testosterone and insulin on the cellular proliferation and prostatic growth. Effect of testosterone on the prostate of hypoinsulinemic, and glandular injection of insulin-receptor antagonist S961 on the prostate of castrated Sprague-Dawley rat (220±10 g) was examined. Significant decrease in the weight of the ventral prostate was observed in the streptozotocin-induced hypoinsulinemic rats (~6 fold), which is restored by the intervention of testosterone. Although, glandular injection of S961 did not led to any change in the frequency of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) positive cells in normal rats, significant decrease was observed in the castrated rats. Castration led to increase in the frequency of the caspase-3 and the TUNEL positive cells in the ventral prostate. Further, long-term (6 weeks) administration of S961 induced significant decrease in the weight of the ventral prostate. Results of the present study provide that both testosterone and insulin promote prostatic cell proliferation and change in the level of either of the hormone results in the destabilization of cellular equilibrium, and modulation of the insulin-receptor signaling in the prostate may provide an alternative strategy for the treatment of prostatic enlargement. Further, studies are required to better understand the interplay between these hormones in the regulation of prostatic growth.
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- A Vikram
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), SAS Nagar, Mohali, Punjab 160062, India.
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