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Mukherjee S, Gupta P, Ghosh S, Choudhury S, Das A, Ahir M, Adhikary A, Chattopadhyay S. Targeted tumor killing by pomegranate polyphenols: Pro-oxidant role of a classical antioxidant. J Nutr Biochem 2023; 115:109283. [PMID: 36791995 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2023.109283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2022] [Revised: 01/03/2023] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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One of the key biochemical features that distinguish a cancer cell from normal cells is its persistent pro-oxidative state that leads to intrinsic oxidative stress. Malignant cells have evolved sophisticated adaptation systems that involve high dependency on antioxidant functions and upregulation of pro-survival molecules to counteract the deleterious effects of reactive species and to maintain dynamic redox balance. This situation renders them vulnerable to further oxidative challenges by exogenous agents. In the present study, we advocated that pomegranate polyphenols act as pro-oxidants and trigger ROS-mediated apoptosis in cancer cells. With the help of both in vitro and in vivo models, we have established that pomegranate fruit extract (PFE) can cause a significant reduction in tumor proliferation while leaving normal tissues and cells unharmed. Administration of PFE (0.2% v/v) in Erhlich's ascites carcinoma-bearing mice for 3 weeks, inhibited the nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2-antioxidant response element signaling cascade, increased intracellular reactive oxygen species content, altered glutathione cycle thereby activating reactive oxygen species-induced apoptotic pathway in Erhlich's ascites carcinoma cells. Moreover, PFE mitigated epithelial to mesenchymal transition and migration in triple negative breast cancer cells (MDA-MB 231 cells) by down-regulating nuclear factor kappa light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells. Pre-treatment of tumor cells with N-acetyl cysteine protected these cells from undergoing PFE-induced apoptosis while siRNA-mediated silencing of Nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2 and nuclear factor kappa light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells in tumor cells increased the cytotoxic potential and pro-oxidative activity of PFE, indicating a clear role of these transcription factors in orchestrating the anticancer/pro-oxidative properties of PFE. The seminal findings provided may be exploited to develop potential therapeutic targets for selective killing of malignant cells.
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
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- Centre for Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
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- Centre for Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India; Centre for Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
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The Intestinal Redox System and Its Significance in Chemotherapy-Induced Intestinal Mucositis. OXIDATIVE MEDICINE AND CELLULAR LONGEVITY 2022; 2022:7255497. [PMID: 35585883 PMCID: PMC9110227 DOI: 10.1155/2022/7255497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2022] [Revised: 04/04/2022] [Accepted: 04/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Chemotherapy-induced intestinal mucositis (CIM) is a significant dose-limiting adverse reaction brought on by the cancer treatment. Multiple studies reported that reactive oxygen species (ROS) is rapidly produced during the initial stages of chemotherapy, when the drugs elicit direct damage to intestinal mucosal cells, which, in turn, results in necrosis, mitochondrial dysfunction, and ROS production. However, the mechanism behind the intestinal redox system-based induction of intestinal mucosal injury and necrosis of CIM is still undetermined. In this article, we summarized relevant information regarding the intestinal redox system, including the composition and regulation of redox enzymes, ROS generation, and its regulation in the intestine. We innovatively proposed the intestinal redox “Tai Chi” theory and revealed its significance in the pathogenesis of CIM. We also conducted an extensive review of the English language-based literatures involving oxidative stress (OS) and its involvement in the pathological mechanisms of CIM. From the date of inception till July 31, 2021, 51 related articles were selected. Based on our analysis of these articles, only five chemotherapeutic drugs, namely, MTX, 5-FU, cisplatin, CPT-11, and oxaliplatin were shown to trigger the ROS-based pathological mechanisms of CIM. We also discussed the redox system-mediated modulation of CIM pathogenesis via elaboration of the relationship between chemotherapeutic drugs and the redox system. It is our belief that this overview of the intestinal redox system and its role in CIM pathogenesis will greatly enhance research direction and improve CIM management in the future.
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Gai F, Guo X, Ding G, Zhang K, Zhang Y, Zuo Y. Turn-on silicon-based fluorescent probe for visualizing endogenous CO during hypoxia. NEW J CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d2nj01696f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A turn-on fluorescent probe for the fast imaging of endogenous CO has been developed and applied under different stimuli and hypoxia.
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- Fengqing Gai
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Jinan, Shandong, 250022, P. R. China
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- Leibniz-Institute für Katalyse e. V., Albert-Einstein-Straße 29a, D-18059, Rostock, Germany
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Jinan, Shandong, 250022, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Jinan, Shandong, 250022, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Jinan, Shandong, 250022, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Jinan, Shandong, 250022, P. R. China
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Mukherjee S, Ghosh S, Choudhury S, Gupta P, Adhikary A, Chattopadhyay S. Pomegranate Polyphenols Attenuate Inflammation and Hepatic Damage in Tumor-Bearing Mice: Crucial Role of NF-κB and the Nrf2/GSH Axis. J Nutr Biochem 2021; 97:108812. [PMID: 34224820 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2021.108812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2021] [Revised: 05/12/2021] [Accepted: 06/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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It has been widely reported that cancer, along with its treatment regimens, cause severe toxicity in the host. A suitable agent having chemopreventive properties as well as capabilities of ameliorating tumor- and drug-induced toxicities is of imminent need. Pomegranate has been projected as an excellent anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant agent. In this study, for the first time, we delineated the exact signaling cascade by which dietary supplementation of pomegranate fruit extract (PFE) protects tumor-bearing mice from tumor-induced hepatotoxicity. Increased activities of serum Alanine transaminase, Aspartate transaminase, Lactate dehydrogenase and Alkaline phosphatase, as well as histological studies confirmed the establishment of a state of hepatic dysfunction in tumor-bearers. Further investigations revealed that increased hepatic reactive oxygen species content and glutathione depletion-initiated apoptosis in these hepatocytes as we observed an alteration in the apoptotic proteins. PFE supplementation in tumor-bearing mice, on the other hand, differentially modulated redox-sensitive transcription factors Nrf2 and NF-κB, ultimately decreasing tumor-induced hepatic oxidative damage and cell death. siRNA-mediated inhibition of Nrf2 and NF-κB completely abolished the hepato-protective activities of PFE while pre-treatment of tumor-conditioned hepatocytes with N-acetyl cysteine augmented the cyto-protective properties of PFE. The present study clearly identified Nrf2/NF-κB/glutathione axis as the key factor behind the hepatoprotective potential of PFE. These findings would add to the existing knowledge about cancer chemoprevention by dietary polyphenols and might lead to the application of pomegranate polyphenols as supplement to escalate the effectiveness of cancer therapy by protecting normal cells from cancer related toxicities.
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta; Kolkata, India
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta; Kolkata, India
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- Centre for Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta; Kolkata, India; Centre for Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
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Gentle SJ, Tipple TE, Patel R. Neonatal comorbidities and gasotransmitters. Nitric Oxide 2020; 97:27-32. [PMID: 32014495 DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2020.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2019] [Revised: 12/10/2019] [Accepted: 01/29/2020] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Hydrogen sulfide, nitric oxide, and carbon monoxide are endogenously produced gases that regulate various signaling pathways. The role of these transmitters is complex as constitutive production of these molecules may have anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, and/or vasodilatory effects whereas induced production or formation of secondary metabolites may lead to cellular death. Given this fine line between friend and foe, therapeutic attenuation of these molecules' production has involved both inhibition of endogenous formation and therapeutic supplementation. All three gases have been implicated as regulators of critical aspects of neonatal physiology, and in turn, comorbidities including necrotizing enterocolitis, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, and pulmonary hypertension. In this review, we present current perspectives on these associations, highlight areas where insights remain sparse, and identify areas for potential for future investigations.
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- Samuel J Gentle
- Department of Pediatrics, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
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- Section of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Center for Free Radical Biology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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Novel structured diacylglycerol (DAG) rich oleo formulations activate the Nrf2 pathway and impedes NF-κB translocation to mitigate pre-clinical conditions of hypertension. J Funct Foods 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jff.2019.103650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Rodriguez LA, Mohammadipoor A, Alvarado L, Kamucheka RM, Asher AM, Cancio LC, Antebi B. Preconditioning in an Inflammatory Milieu Augments the Immunotherapeutic Function of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells. Cells 2019; 8:cells8050462. [PMID: 31096722 PMCID: PMC6562603 DOI: 10.3390/cells8050462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2019] [Revised: 05/09/2019] [Accepted: 05/13/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) have emerged as potent therapeutic agents for multiple indications. However, recent evidence indicates that MSC function is compromised in the physiological post-injury milieu. In this study, bone marrow (BM)- and adipose-derived (AD)-MSCs were preconditioned in hypoxia with or without inflammatory mediators to potentiate their immunotherapeutic function in preparation for in vivo delivery. Human MSCs were cultured for 48 hours in either normoxia (21% O2) or hypoxia (2% O2) with or without the addition of Cytomix, thus creating 4 groups: 1) normoxia (21%); 2) Cytomix-normoxia (+21%); 3) hypoxia (2%); and 4) Cytomix-hypoxia (+2%). The 4 MSC groups were subjected to comprehensive evaluation of their characteristics and function. Preconditioning did not alter common MSC surface markers; nonetheless, Cytomix treatment triggered an increase in tissue factor (TF) expression. Moreover, the BM-MSCs and AD-MSCs from the +2% group were not able to differentiate to chondrocytes and osteoblasts, respectively. Following Cytomix preconditioning, the metabolism of MSCs was significantly increased while viability was decreased in AD-MSCs, but not in BM-MSCs. MSCs from both tissues showed a significant upregulation of key anti-inflammatory genes, increased secretion of IL-1 receptor antagonist (RA), and enhanced suppression of T-cell proliferation following the Cytomix treatment. Similarly, following a lipopolysaccharide challenge, the Cytomix-treated MSCs suppressed TNF-α secretion, while promoting the production of IL-10 and IL-1RA. These preconditioning approaches facilitate the production of MSCs with robust anti-inflammatory properties. AD-MSCs preconditioned with Cytomix under normoxia appear to be the most promising therapeutic candidates; however, safety concerns, such as thrombogenic disposition of cells due to TF expression, should be carefully considered prior to clinical translation.
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- Luis A Rodriguez
- United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, TX 78234, USA.
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- United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, TX 78234, USA.
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA.
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- United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, TX 78234, USA.
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA.
- University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA.
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- United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, TX 78234, USA.
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- United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, TX 78234, USA.
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA.
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- United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, TX 78234, USA.
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- United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, TX 78234, USA.
- University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA.
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Alteration of murine duodenal morphology and redox signalling events by reactive oxygen species generated after whole body γ-irradiation and its prevention by ferulic acid. Free Radic Res 2017; 51:886-910. [DOI: 10.1080/10715762.2017.1388916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Seveso D, Montano S, Reggente MAL, Maggioni D, Orlandi I, Galli P, Vai M. The cellular stress response of the scleractinian coral Goniopora columna during the progression of the black band disease. Cell Stress Chaperones 2017; 22:225-236. [PMID: 27988888 PMCID: PMC5352596 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-016-0756-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2016] [Revised: 12/06/2016] [Accepted: 12/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Black band disease (BBD) is a widespread coral pathology caused by a microbial consortium dominated by cyanobacteria, which is significantly contributing to the loss of coral cover and diversity worldwide. Since the effects of the BBD pathogens on the physiology and cellular stress response of coral polyps appear almost unknown, the expression of some molecular biomarkers, such as Hsp70, Hsp60, HO-1, and MnSOD, was analyzed in the apparently healthy tissues of Goniopora columna located at different distances from the infection and during two disease development stages. All the biomarkers displayed different levels of expression between healthy and diseased colonies. In the healthy corals, low basal levels were found stable over time in different parts of the same colony. On the contrary, in the diseased colonies, a strong up-regulation of all the biomarkers was observed in all the tissues surrounding the infection, which suffered an oxidative stress probably generated by the alternation, at the progression front of the disease, of conditions of oxygen supersaturation and hypoxia/anoxia, and by the production of the cyanotoxin microcystin by the BBD cyanobacteria. Furthermore, in the infected colonies, the expression of all the biomarkers appeared significantly affected by the development stage of the disease. In conclusion, our approach may constitute a useful diagnostic tool, since the cellular stress response of corals is activated before the pathogens colonize the tissues, and expands the current knowledge of the mechanisms controlling the host responses to infection in corals.
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- Davide Seveso
- Department of Biotechnologies and Biosciences, University of Milano - Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126, Milan, Italy.
- MaRHE Center (Marine Research and High Education Centre), Magoodhoo Island, Faafu Atoll, Republic of Maldives.
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- Department of Biotechnologies and Biosciences, University of Milano - Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126, Milan, Italy
- MaRHE Center (Marine Research and High Education Centre), Magoodhoo Island, Faafu Atoll, Republic of Maldives
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- Department of Biotechnologies and Biosciences, University of Milano - Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126, Milan, Italy
- MaRHE Center (Marine Research and High Education Centre), Magoodhoo Island, Faafu Atoll, Republic of Maldives
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- Department of Biotechnologies and Biosciences, University of Milano - Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126, Milan, Italy
- MaRHE Center (Marine Research and High Education Centre), Magoodhoo Island, Faafu Atoll, Republic of Maldives
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- Department of Biotechnologies and Biosciences, University of Milano - Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnologies and Biosciences, University of Milano - Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126, Milan, Italy
- MaRHE Center (Marine Research and High Education Centre), Magoodhoo Island, Faafu Atoll, Republic of Maldives
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- Department of Biotechnologies and Biosciences, University of Milano - Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126, Milan, Italy
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Das K, Ghosh M. Structured DAG oil ameliorates renal injury in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats through inhibition of NF-κB and activation of Nrf2 pathway. Food Chem Toxicol 2016; 100:225-238. [PMID: 28025123 DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2016.12.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2016] [Revised: 12/21/2016] [Accepted: 12/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Accumulating evidence suggested that inflammatory processes are involved in the development of diabetic nephropathy (DN). Here, we have tested the hypothesis that Caprylic Acid (Cy)-diacylglycerol (DAG) oil (Cy-DAG), a novel structurally formulated lipid with high nutritional value, ameliorated DN in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats through the anti-inflammatory mechanisms. Basic hematological, biochemical parameters, immunoblotting, immunofluorescence and flow cytometry analysis were performed to observe the anti-inflammatory potential of Cy-DAG oil. The data revealed that STZ significantly increased the renal oxidative stress markers and decreased the levels of renal enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants. Moreover, renal nitric oxide (NO), tissue necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6) and nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NF-κB) were also increased in the renal tissue of STZ-treated rats. Further, DAG oil pretreatment produced a significant improvement in renal antioxidant status, reduced the lipid peroxidation and the levels of inflammatory markers in STZ-treated kidney. Similarly, results of protein expression showed that DAG oil pretreatment normalized the renal expression of Nrf2/Keap1 and its downstream regulatory proteins in STZ-treated condition. Immunohistochemical observations provided further evidence that DAG oil effectively protected the kidney from STZ-mediated oxidative damage. These results suggested that the DAG oil ameliorated STZ-induced oxidative renal injury by the activation of AKT/Nrf2/HO-1 pathway and the inhibition of ROS/MAPK/NF-κB pathway.
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- Kankana Das
- Department of Chemical Technology, University of Calcutta, India
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- Department of Chemical Technology, University of Calcutta, India.
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Grau M, Lauten A, Hoeppener S, Goebel B, Brenig J, Jung C, Bloch W, Suhr F. Regulation of red blood cell deformability is independent of red blood cell-nitric oxide synthase under hypoxia. Clin Hemorheol Microcirc 2016; 63:199-215. [DOI: 10.3233/ch-162044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Marijke Grau
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Sport Medicine, German Sport University Cologne, Germany
- The German Research Center of Elite Sport (momentum), German Sport University Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine I (Cardiology, Angiology, Pneumology), Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Sport Medicine, German Sport University Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine I (Cardiology, Angiology, Pneumology), Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Sport Medicine, German Sport University Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine I (Cardiology, Angiology, Pneumology), Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Sport Medicine, German Sport University Cologne, Germany
- The German Research Center of Elite Sport (momentum), German Sport University Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Sport Medicine, German Sport University Cologne, Germany
- The German Research Center of Elite Sport (momentum), German Sport University Cologne, Germany
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Choudhury S, Ghosh S, Mukherjee S, Gupta P, Bhattacharya S, Adhikary A, Chattopadhyay S. Pomegranate protects against arsenic-induced p53-dependent ROS-mediated inflammation and apoptosis in liver cells. J Nutr Biochem 2016; 38:25-40. [PMID: 27723467 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2016.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2016] [Revised: 08/31/2016] [Accepted: 09/02/2016] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Molecular mechanisms involved in arsenic-induced toxicity are complex and elusive. Liver is one of the most favored organs for arsenic toxicity as methylation of arsenic occurs mostly in the liver. In this study, we have selected a range of environmentally relevant doses of arsenic to examine the basis of arsenic toxicity and the role of pomegranate fruit extract (PFE) in combating it. Male Swiss albino mice exposed to different doses of arsenic presented marked hepatic injury as evident from histological and electron microscopic studies. Increased activities of enzymes alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, lactate dehydrogenase and alkaline phosphatase corroborated extensive liver damage. It was further noted that arsenic exposure initiated reactive oxygen species (ROS)-dependent apoptosis in the hepatocytes involving loss of mitochondrial membrane potential. Arsenic significantly increased nuclear translocation of nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) and nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), coupled with increase in phosphorylated Iκ-B, possibly as adaptive cellular survival strategies. Arsenic-induced oxidative DNA damage to liver cells culminated in p53 activation and increased expression of p53 targets like miR-34a and Bax. Pomegranate polyphenols are known to possess remarkable antioxidant properties and are capable of protecting normal cells from various stimuli-induced oxidative stress and toxicities. We explored the protective role of PFE in ameliorating arsenic-induced hepatic damage. PFE was shown to reduce ROS generation in hepatocytes, thereby reducing arsenic-induced Nrf2 activation. PFE also inhibited arsenic-induced NF-κB-inflammatory pathway. Data revealed that PFE reversed arsenic-induced hepatotoxicity and apoptosis by modulating the ROS/Nrf2/p53-miR-34a axis. For the first time, we have mapped the possible signaling pathways associated with arsenic-induced hepatotoxicity and its rescue by pomegranate polyphenols.
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- Sreetama Choudhury
- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta, UCSTA, 92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata 700009, India
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta, UCSTA, 92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata 700009, India
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta, UCSTA, 92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata 700009, India
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta, UCSTA, 92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata 700009, India
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- Centre for Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Calcutta, JD-2, Salt Lake, Sector III, Kolkata 700098, India
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- Centre for Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Calcutta, JD-2, Salt Lake, Sector III, Kolkata 700098, India
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta, UCSTA, 92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata 700009, India; Centre for Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Calcutta, JD-2, Salt Lake, Sector III, Kolkata 700098, India.
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Kraft BD, Suliman HB, Colman EC, Mahmood K, Hartwig MG, Piantadosi CA, Shofer SL. Hypoxic Gene Expression of Donor Bronchi Linked to Airway Complications after Lung Transplantation. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2016; 193:552-60. [PMID: 26488115 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201508-1634oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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RATIONALE Central airway stenosis (CAS) after lung transplantation has been attributed in part to chronic airway ischemia; however, little is known about the time course or significance of large airway hypoxia early after transplantation. OBJECTIVES To evaluate large airway oxygenation and hypoxic gene expression during the first month after lung transplantation and their relation to airway complications. METHODS Subjects who underwent lung transplantation underwent endobronchial tissue oximetry of native and donor bronchi at 0, 3, and 30 days after transplantation (n = 11) and/or endobronchial biopsies (n = 14) at 30 days for real-time polymerase chain reaction of hypoxia-inducible genes. Patients were monitored for 6 months for the development of transplant-related complications. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Compared with native endobronchial tissues, donor tissue oxygen saturations (Sto2) were reduced in the upper lobes (74.1 ± 1.8% vs. 68.8 ± 1.7%; P < 0.05) and lower lobes (75.6 ± 1.6% vs. 71.5 ± 1.8%; P = 0.065) at 30 days post-transplantation. Donor upper lobe and subcarina Sto2 levels were also lower than the main carina (difference of -3.9 ± 1.5 and -4.8 ± 2.1, respectively; P < 0.05) at 30 days. Up-regulation of hypoxia-inducible genes VEGFA, FLT1, VEGFC, HMOX1, and TIE2 was significant in donor airways relative to native airways (all P < 0.05). VEGFA, KDR, and HMOX1 were associated with prolonged respiratory failure, prolonged hospitalization, extensive airway necrosis, and CAS (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS These findings implicate donor bronchial hypoxia as a driving factor for post-transplantation airway complications. Strategies to improve airway oxygenation, such as bronchial artery re-anastomosis and hyperbaric oxygen therapy merit clinical investigation.
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- Bryan D Kraft
- 1 Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine
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- 1 Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine
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- 1 Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine
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- 3 Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- 1 Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine.,2 Department of Anesthesiology, and
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- 1 Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine
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Choudhury S, Ghosh S, Gupta P, Mukherjee S, Chattopadhyay S. Inflammation-induced ROS generation causes pancreatic cell death through modulation of Nrf2/NF-κB and SAPK/JNK pathway. Free Radic Res 2015; 49:1371-83. [PMID: 26189548 DOI: 10.3109/10715762.2015.1075016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Chronic pancreatitis is characterized by progressive loss of exocrine and endocrine functions of the pancreas and is considered to be the single most important cause for development of pancreatic cancer. Recent evidence suggests that inflammation and oxidative stress play pivotal roles in the development of clinical conditions like pancreatitis, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and metabolic syndrome. Nonetheless, molecular signaling pathways linking inflammation, oxidative stress, and pancreatic cell death are not yet well defined. In this study, bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was used (injected twice a week for three weeks) to emulate a chronic systemic inflammatory state in experimental Swiss albino mice. Using this model, we traced the genesis of inflammation-induced pancreatic dysfunction and mapped the signaling events which contribute to the induction of this state. Histopathological studies revealed the appearance of cell injuries and increased collagen content in LPS-exposed group, indicative of fibrosis. Assays for intraperitoneal glucose tolerance, insulin levels, and insulin receptor mRNA expression signified inflammation-induced insulin insensitivity. For the first time we present evidence that cellular inflammation and subsequent oxidative stress modulate the nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NF-κB)/NF-E2-related factor 2 or Nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2 pathway and initiates pancreatic cell death by activation of stress-responsive Rho/stress-activated protein kinase or SAPK/Jun-N-terminal kinase (JNK) pathway. Scavenging of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) by a standard antioxidant N-acetyl cysteine led to pancreatic cell survival. The data obtained strongly indicates that the LPS/toll-like receptor-4 or TLR-4/ROS/NF-κB pathway is critically involved in the initiation of inflammation, oxidative stress, and pancreatic cell death and might prove to be an excellent choice as a target for novel therapeutic strategies in the management of metabolic disorders.
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- S Choudhury
- a Department of Physiology , University of Calcutta , Kolkata , India
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- a Department of Physiology , University of Calcutta , Kolkata , India
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- a Department of Physiology , University of Calcutta , Kolkata , India
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- a Department of Physiology , University of Calcutta , Kolkata , India
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- a Department of Physiology , University of Calcutta , Kolkata , India.,b Centre for Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Calcutta , Kolkata , India
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Mukherjee S, Ghosh S, Das DK, Chakraborty P, Choudhury S, Gupta P, Adhikary A, Dey S, Chattopadhyay S. Gold-conjugated green tea nanoparticles for enhanced anti-tumor activities and hepatoprotection--synthesis, characterization and in vitro evaluation. J Nutr Biochem 2015; 26:1283-97. [PMID: 26310506 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2015.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2014] [Revised: 06/03/2015] [Accepted: 06/10/2015] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Green tea (GT)-based chemoprevention has shown promising results in various cancer models. However, the effective dose may not be far from the toxic dose because of inefficient systemic delivery and limited bio-availability of GT polyphenols. We have used GT polyphenols to successfully reduce gold to corresponding gold nanoparticles (NPs) in a single step; a process that fulfils all criteria of green nanotechnology as no "man-made" chemical other than gold acids are used. GT and (-) - epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) conjugated gold NPs (diameters <50 nm), showed remarkable stability, significantly rapid cellular uptake and excellent in vitro anti-oxidant activities. These NPs were observed to be selectively toxic towards cancer cells (Ehrlich's Ascites Carcinoma and MCF-7) while showing absolutely no lethality towards normal primary mouse hepatocytes. In cancer cells, NPs altered the redox status and limited Nrf2 activation by almost 50%. These NPs significantly decreased nuclear translocation of NF-κB, coupled with decreased phosphorylation of IĸB and down-regulation of NF-κB-dependent anti-apoptotic proteins Bcl2 and Akt in a dose-dependent manner, triggering onset of apoptosis. Culturing normal hepatocytes with tumor-conditioned media prompted apoptosis by increasing reactive oxygen species (ROS) and depleting the anti-oxidant defense mechanism of hepatocytes. Pre-treatment with NPs protected hepatocytes from tumor-induced cellular damage by scavenging excess ROS, increasing the levels of reduced glutathione and anti-oxidant enzymes. There was evidence of decreased Bax/Bcl2 ratio and active Caspase 3 levels in these hepatocytes, indicating apoptosis escape. Nanoformulations of GT-based polyphenols might serve as an operative platform for effective delivery, increased bio-availability, enhanced effects and minimal chemotherapy-associated toxicities.
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- Sudeshna Mukherjee
- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta; UCSTA, 92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata-700009, India
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta; UCSTA, 92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata-700009, India
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta; UCSTA, 92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata-700009, India
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta; UCSTA, 92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata-700009, India
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta; UCSTA, 92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata-700009, India
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta; UCSTA, 92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata-700009, India
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- Centre for Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Calcutta, JD-2, Salt Lake, Sector III, Kolkata-700098, India
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta; UCSTA, 92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata-700009, India; Centre for Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Calcutta, JD-2, Salt Lake, Sector III, Kolkata-700098, India
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta; UCSTA, 92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata-700009, India; Centre for Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Calcutta, JD-2, Salt Lake, Sector III, Kolkata-700098, India.
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Konrad FM, Braun S, Ngamsri KC, Vollmer I, Reutershan J. Heme oxygenase-1 attenuates acute pulmonary inflammation by decreasing the release of segmented neutrophils from the bone marrow. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2014; 307:L707-17. [DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00145.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Recruiting polymorphonuclear neutrophil granulocytes (PMNs) from circulation and bone marrow to the site of inflammation is one of the pivotal mechanisms of the innate immune system. During inflammation, the enzyme heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) has been shown to reduce PMN migration. Although these effects have been described in various models, underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Recent studies revealed an influence of HO-1 on different cells of the bone marrow. We investigated the particular role of the bone marrow in terms of HO-1-dependent pulmonary inflammation. In a murine model of LPS inhalation, stimulation of HO-1 by cobalt (III) protoporphyrin-IX-chloride (CoPP) resulted in reduced segmented PMN migration into the alveolar space. In the CoPP group, segmented PMNs were also decreased intravascularly, and concordantly, mature and immature PMN populations were higher in the bone marrow. Inhibition of the enzyme by tin protoporphyrin-IX increased segmented and banded PMN migration into the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid with enhanced PMN release from the bone marrow and aggravated parameters of tissue inflammation. Oxidative burst activity was significantly higher in immature compared with mature PMNs. The chemokine stromal-derived factor-1 (SDF-1), which mediates homing of leukocytes into the bone marrow and is decreased in inflammation, was increased by CoPP. When SDF-1 was blocked by the specific antagonist AMD3100, HO-1 activation was no longer effective in curbing PMN trafficking to the inflamed lungs. In conclusion, we show evidence that the anti-inflammatory effects of HO-1 are largely mediated by inhibiting the release of segmented PMNs from the bone marrow rather than direct effects within the lung.
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- Franziska M. Konrad
- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Li CM, Li L, Wu J, Bai JY, Sun Y, Huang S, Wang GL. Upregulation of heat shock protein 32 with hemin alleviates acute heat-induced hepatic injury in mice. Cell Stress Chaperones 2014; 19:675-83. [PMID: 24473736 PMCID: PMC4147065 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-014-0495-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2013] [Revised: 12/30/2013] [Accepted: 01/08/2014] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Heat shock protein 32 (HSP32) is a stress response protein that can be induced by heat stress in the liver, and its induction can act as an important cellular defence mechanism against heat-induced liver injury. To investigate the functional role of HSP32 in protecting liver tissue against heat stress in mice and the mechanism by which it achieves this protective effect, HSP32 expression and carbon monoxide (CO) contents in a model of mice subjected to acute, transient heat exposure were examined. Furthermore, functional and histological parameters of liver damage and the possible involvement of oxidative stress to induce oxidative deterioration of liver functions and caspase-3 expression were also investigated in this study. We found that heat treatment of mice produced severe hepatic injury, whereas upregulation of HSP32 with hemin pretreatment prevented mice from liver damage. In contrast, addition of Sn-protoporphyrin (SnPP) to inhibit HSP32 expression completely reversed its hepatoprotective effect. It is concluded that upregulation of HSP32 by hemin could alleviate acute heat-induced hepatocellular damage in mice, and its by-product CO seems to play a more important role in hepatoprotective mechanism.
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- Cheng-min Li
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 China
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Pomegranate reverses methotrexate-induced oxidative stress and apoptosis in hepatocytes by modulating Nrf2-NF-κB pathways. J Nutr Biochem 2014; 24:2040-50. [PMID: 24231097 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2013.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2013] [Revised: 06/18/2013] [Accepted: 07/10/2013] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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The clinical efficacy of the widely used chemotherapeutic drug methotrexate (MTX) is limited due to its associated hepatotoxicity. Pomegranate polyphenols are of huge health benefits and known to possess remarkable antioxidant properties capable of protecting normal cells from various stimuli-induced oxidative stress and cell death. In this study, we explored the protective role of pomegranate fruit extract (PFE) in ameliorating MTX-induced hepatic damage. Male Swiss albino mice exposed to MTX (20 mg/kg body weight) exhibited distinct markers of toxicity such as increased activities of enzymes alanine transaminase, aspartate transaminase, lactate dehydrogenase and alkaline phosphatase and also increased oxidative stress in liver evidenced by increased ROS generation and lipid peroxidation. Decrease in reduced glutathione levels, superoxide dismutase, catalase, hepatic heme oxygenase 1 and NQO-1 activities were also observed. Tracing the signal transduction pathways, it was seen that MTX exposure significantly increased nuclear translocation of NF-κB coupled with increase in phosphorylated Iκ-B and down-regulation of NF-kappaB-dependent antiapoptotic protein Bcl-2. Treatment with MTX increased the expression of the apoptotic enhancer Rho/Cdc42 as well as the phosphorylation of SAPK/JNK. A shift in the Bax/Bcl-2 ratio towards apoptosis and increase in the caspase 3 level was also evident. Administration of PFE for 7 consecutive days before and after MTX challenge suppressed MTX-induced cell death, mitigated the injurious effects of MTX and offered protection against apoptosis. PFE was shown to reduce ROS generation in hepatocytes by activating the Nrf2-ARE pathway and inhibiting NF-κB as a consequence of which the antioxidant defense mechanism in the liver was up-regulated, thereby conferring protection against MTX-induced hepatotoxicity and apoptosis.
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Mathieu JRR, Heinis M, Zumerle S, Delga S, Le Bon A, Peyssonnaux C. Investigating the real role of HIF-1 and HIF-2 in iron recycling by macrophages. Haematologica 2014; 99:e112-4. [PMID: 24727819 DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2013.102319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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- Jacques R R Mathieu
- INSERM, U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris CNRS, UMR8104, Paris Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris Laboratory of Excellence GR-Ex, Paris, France
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- INSERM, U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris CNRS, UMR8104, Paris Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris Laboratory of Excellence GR-Ex, Paris, France
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- INSERM, U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris CNRS, UMR8104, Paris Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris Laboratory of Excellence GR-Ex, Paris, France
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- INSERM, U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris CNRS, UMR8104, Paris Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris Laboratory of Excellence GR-Ex, Paris, France
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- INSERM, U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris CNRS, UMR8104, Paris Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris
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- INSERM, U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris CNRS, UMR8104, Paris Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris Laboratory of Excellence GR-Ex, Paris, France
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Acute lung injury (ALI) and its more severe form of clinical manifestation, the acute respiratory distress syndrome is associated with significant dysfunction in air exchange due to inflammation of the lung parenchyma. Several factors contribute to the inflammatory process, including hypoxia (inadequate oxygen), hyperoxia (higher than normal partial pressure of oxygen), inflammatory mediators (such as cytokines), infections (viral and bacterial), and environmental conditions (such as cigarette smoke or noxious gases). However, studies over the past several decades suggest that oxidants formed in the various cells of the lung including endothelial, alveolar, and epithelial cells as well as lung macrophages and neutrophils in response to the factors mentioned above mediate the pathogenesis of ALI. Oxidants modify cellular proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and DNA to cause their aberrant function. For example, oxidation of lipids changes membrane permeability. Interestingly, recent studies also suggest that spatially and temporally regulated production of oxidants plays an important role antimicrobial defense and immunomodulatory function (such as transcription factor activation). To counteract the oxidants an arsenal of antioxidants exists in the lung to maintain the redox status, but when overwhelmed tissue injury and exacerbation of inflammation occurs. We present below the current understanding of the pathogenesis of oxidant-mediated ALI.
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- J Vidya Sarma
- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Zhou S, Ye W, Shao Q, Zhang M, Liang J. Nrf2 is a potential therapeutic target in radioresistance in human cancer. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 2013; 88:706-15. [PMID: 24126138 DOI: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2013.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2013] [Revised: 07/14/2013] [Accepted: 09/17/2013] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Radiation therapy can effectively kill cancer cells through ROS generation. Cancer cells with upregulated antioxidant systems can develop high radioresistance ability, and the transcription factor NF-E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) is a key regulator of the antioxidant system. Currently, there are numerous data indicating the important role of Nrf2 in cancer radioresistance. In this review, we summarize the aberrant regulation of Nrf2 in radioresistant cells and discuss the effects and underlying mechanism of Nrf2 in promoting radioresistance. These findings suggest that Nrf2 might be a potential therapeutic target in cancer radiation resistance or a promising radioprotector for normal organs during radiation therapy in the future.
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- Suna Zhou
- Department of Radiotherapy, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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Levytska K, Kingdom J, Baczyk D, Drewlo S. Heme oxygenase-1 in placental development and pathology. Placenta 2013; 34:291-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2013.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2012] [Revised: 01/08/2013] [Accepted: 01/12/2013] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Hualin C, Wenli X, Dapeng L, Xijing L, Xiuhua P, Qingfeng P. The anti-inflammatory mechanism of heme oxygenase-1 induced by hemin in primary rat alveolar macrophages. Inflammation 2012; 35:1087-93. [PMID: 22160840 DOI: 10.1007/s10753-011-9415-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Alveolar macrophages (AMs) can initiate lung inflammation by producing pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines, but they participate actively in the prevention of inflammation during acute lung injury (ALI). Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) is mainly expressed in AMs and has anti-inflammatory properties in ALI, but the anti-inflammatory mechanisms of HO-1 are largely unknown. In this study, AMs were treated with saline, LPS (1 μg/ml), hemin (10 μM), zinc protoporphyrin (ZnPP; 10 μM, 1 h prior to LPS and hemin), SB203580 (10 μM, 1 h prior to LPS and hemin), or their combination up to 24 h. The specific HO-1 inhibitor ZnPP and SB203580 were used to inhibit the effects of HO-1 and the phosphorylated p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), respectively. The protein levels of HO-1 and p38 MAPK were analyzed by western blotting; arginase activity was measured in lysates obtained from cultured cells; nitric oxide production in the extracellular medium of AMs cultured for 24 h was monitored by assessing nitrite levels; the phagocytic ability of macrophage was measured by neutral red uptake. IL-10 of culture supernatants in AMs was determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The results indicated that HO-1 induced by hemin increased arginase activity and phagocytic ability and decreased iNOS activity via p38 MAPK pathway in primary rat AMs. These changes and p38 MAPK may be the anti-inflammatory mechanism of HO-1 induced by hemin in primary rat AMs.
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- Chen Hualin
- Jiangsu Province Institute of Anesthesiology, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221002, China
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Li C, Lönn ME, Xu X, Maghzal GJ, Frazer DM, Thomas SR, Halliwell B, Richardson DR, Anderson GJ, Stocker R. Sustained expression of heme oxygenase-1 alters iron homeostasis in nonerythroid cells. Free Radic Biol Med 2012; 53:366-74. [PMID: 22579918 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2012.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2010] [Revised: 02/08/2012] [Accepted: 03/07/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Heme oxygenases initiate the catabolism of heme, releasing carbon monoxide, iron, and biliverdin. Sustained induction of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) in nonerythroid cells plays a key role in many pathological processes, yet the effect of long-term HO-1 expression on cellular iron metabolism in the absence of exogenous heme is poorly understood. Here we report that in a model nonerythroid cell, both transient and stable HO-1 expression increased heme oxygenase activity, but total cellular heme content was decreased only with transient enzyme expression. Sustained HO-1 activity increased the expression of both the mitochondrial iron importer mitoferrin-2 and the rate-limiting enzyme in heme synthesis, aminolevulinate synthase-1, and it augmented the mitochondrial content of heme. Also, the expression of transferrin receptor-1 and the activities of iron-regulatory proteins 1 and 2 decreased, whereas total labile iron and the regulatory activity of the heme-binding transcription factor Bach1 were unaltered. In addition, stable, but not transient, HO-1 expression decreased the activities of aconitase, as well as increasing proteasomal degradation of ferritin. Together, our results reveal a novel and coordinated adaptive response of nonerythroid cells to sustained HO-1 induction that has an impact on cellular iron homeostasis.
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- Cheng Li
- Centre for Vascular Research, School of Medical Sciences (Pathology) and Bosch Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Riddle MA, Walker BR. Regulation of endothelial BK channels by heme oxygenase-derived carbon monoxide and caveolin-1. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2012; 303:C92-C101. [PMID: 22555843 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00356.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A novel vasodilatory influence of endothelial cell (EC) large-conductance Ca(2+)-activated K(+) (BK) channels is present after in vivo exposure to chronic hypoxia (CH) and may exist in other pathological states. However, the mechanism of channel activation that results in altered vasoreactivity is unknown. Previously, we demonstrated that inhibition of either BK channels or heme oxygenase (HO) restores vasoconstrictor reactivity after CH. Additionally, administration of the scaffolding domain of caveolin (Cav)-1 inhibits EC BK activity and restores vasoconstrictor reactivity in this setting. These results led us to hypothesize that CH exposure results in a loss in Cav-1 inhibition of EC BK channels, resulting in their activation by HO-derived carbon monoxide (CO). Experiments were conducted on freshly dispersed aortic ECs from control and CH-exposed (barometric pressure: 380 mmHg for 48 h) rats. In electrophysiology experiments, outward currents were greater in cells from CH rats as well as from cells from control rats treated with the cholesterol-depleting agent methyl-β-cyclodextrin. These enhanced currents were returned to control by HO inhibition. Channel activity could be restored by the CO donor CO-releasing molecule (CORM)-2 during HO inhibition. Administration of the Cav-1 scaffolding domain eliminated BK currents in cells from CH rats, and current was not restored by the addition of CORM-2. Colocalization experiments in ECs from control and CH rats demonstrated an association between HO-2, Cav-1, and BK. We conclude that EC BK channel activity is HO dependent in the absence of the inhibitory effect of the Cav-1 scaffolding domain.
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- Melissa A Riddle
- Vascular Physiology Group, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, USA
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Yin Y, Liu Q, Wang B, Chen G, Xu L, Zhou H. Expression and function of heme oxygenase-1 in human gastric cancer. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 2012; 237:362-71. [PMID: 22490514 DOI: 10.1258/ebm.2011.011193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) potently influences tumor growth and metastasis. To date, no study has been performed on HO-1 expression pattern and its clinicopathological significance in human gastric cancer (GC) cases. In this study, the expression of HO-1 in human GC tissues (n = 74) and matched non-tumoral adjacent parenchyma (n = 46) was investigated by immunohistochemistry. The correlation of HO-1 with the clinicopathological characteristics was analyzed. Results showed that HO-1 was expressed in 62 GC tissues from 74 cases (83.8%), which is significantly higher than non-tumoral adjacent parenchyma (20/46, 43.8%, P < 0.05). A high HO-1 expression rate showed a close association with well/moderate histological differentiation and negative lymph node metastasis (P < 0.05). The expression of matrix metallopeptidase 9 (MMP9) and vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) as well as chemosensitivity to cisplatin of MKN-45 cell lines with genetically altered HO-1 status were then determined by realtime polymerase chain reaction and 3-(4,5 dimethyl thiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT), respectively. Whether the induction or inhibition of HO-1 by cobalt-protoporphyrin-IX (CoPP) or zinc-protoporphyrin-IX (ZnPP) could affect the sensitivity of MKN-45 cells to cisplatin was also studied. Results showed that the expression of MMP9 and VEGF-A were up-regulated in MKN-45 cells overexpressing HO-1, and down-regulated in HO-1 interfered cells. HO-1 overexpression could lead to an increased resistance to cisplatin, whereas down-regulation of HO-1 expression by siRNA or chemical inhibition of HO-1 could lead to increased chemosensitivity to cisplatin in MKN-45 cells. HO-1 may have multiple effects on protection against carcinogenesis and progression in GC.
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- Yujing Yin
- Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, 27 Taiping Road, Beijing 100850, PR China
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Fireman E. Ultrafine and nanoparticles-induced oxidative stress: the role of heme oxygenase-1 and carbon monoxide as anti-inflammatory pathways. J Asthma 2011; 49:8-9. [PMID: 22191422 DOI: 10.3109/02770903.2011.641047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Particulate matter (PM) is an environmental factor that has been associated with increased respiratory morbidity and mortality. The major effect of ambient PM on the pulmonary system is that it promotes inflammation in susceptible people. One of the mechanisms by which ambient PM exerts its proinflammatory effects is by generating increased oxidative stress induced by chemical compounds and metal constituents. Cellular responses to PM-induced oxidative stress include activation of antioxidant defense. OBJECTIVE. To investigate the anti-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic roles of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) and carbon monoxide (CO) in the PM-induced oxidative stress arm, inflammation, and toxicity. Methods. Particle size analyses were performed according to a laser technique based on the time of transition theory using an Eyetech Analyzer (Donner Technologies Ltd., Israel). HO-1 was analyzed by quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in induced sputum (IS) samples. RESULTS We demonstrate the feasibility of measuring micro- and nanoparticles in IS samples of exposed individuals in and out of the workplace to determine the protective role of HO-1 and CO. CONCLUSIONS Ongoing studies will further elucidate the protective role of HO-1 and CO in the PM-induced oxidative stress model.
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- Elizabeth Fireman
- Institute of Pulmonary and Allergic Diseases, National Laboratory Service for ILD, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
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Heme Oxygenase-1 Attenuates Hypoxia-Induced sFlt-1 and Oxidative Stress in Placental Villi through Its Metabolic Products CO and Bilirubin. Int J Hypertens 2011; 2012:486053. [PMID: 22195275 PMCID: PMC3238375 DOI: 10.1155/2012/486053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2011] [Accepted: 09/20/2011] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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One of the most prevalent complications of pregnancy is preeclampsia, a hypertensive disorder which is a leading cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and premature birth with no effective pharmacological intervention. While the underlying cause is unclear, it is believed that placental ischemia/hypoxia induces the release of factors into the maternal vasculature and lead to widespread maternal endothelial dysfunction. Recently, HO-1 has been shown to downregulate two of these factors, reactive oxygen species and sFlt-1, and we have reported that HO-1 induction attenuates many of the pathological factors of placental ischemia experimentally. Here, we have examined the direct effect of HO-1 and its bioactive metabolites on hypoxia-induced changes in superoxide and sFlt-1 in placental vascular explants and showed that HO-1 and its metabolites attenuate the production of both factors in this system. These findings suggest that the HO-1 pathway may be a promising therapeutic approach for the treatment of preeclampsia.
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Lv X, Yang L, Tao K, Liu Y, Yang T, Chen G, Yu W, Lv H, Wu F. Isoflurane preconditioning at clinically relevant doses induce protective effects of heme oxygenase-1 on hepatic ischemia reperfusion in rats. BMC Gastroenterol 2011; 11:31. [PMID: 21453462 PMCID: PMC3088533 DOI: 10.1186/1471-230x-11-31] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2010] [Accepted: 03/31/2011] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Background Activation of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) has been proved to reduce damages to the liver in ischemia reperfusion injury. The objective of present study was to determine whether clinic relevant doses of isoflurane treatment could be sufficient to activate HO-1 inducing, which confers protective effect against hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury. Methods The hepatic artery and portal vein to the left and the median liver lobes of forty male Sprague-Dawley rats were occluded for 60 minutes. Reperfusion was allowed for 4 hours before the animal subjects were sacrificed. Six groups (n = 12) were included in the study. A negative control group received sham operation and positive control group a standard ischemia-reperfusion regimen. The third group was pretreated with isoflurane prior to the ischemia-reperfusion. The fourth group received an HO-1 inhibitor zinc protoporphyrin (Znpp) prior to the isoflurane pretreatment and the ischemia-reperfusion. The fifth group received Znpp alone before ischemia-reperfusion procedure, and the sixth group was administrated with a HO-1 inducer hemin prior to IR. HO-1 in the liver was measured using an enzymatic activity assay, a Western blot analysis, as well as immunohistochemical method. Extent of liver damage was estimated by determination of the serum transaminases, liver lipid peroxidation and hepatic histology. Infiltration of the liver by neutrophils was measured using a myeloperoxidase activity assay. TNFα mRNA in the liver was measured using RT-PCR. Results Isoflurane pretreatment significantly attenuated the hepatic injuries and inflammatory responses caused by the ischemia reperfusion. Selectively inhibiting HO-1 with ZnPP completed blocked the protective effects of isoflurane. Inducing HO-1 with hemin alone produced protective effects similar in magnitude to that of isoflurane. Conclusions Clinic relevant doses of isoflurane attenuate ischemia reperfusion injury in rats by increasing the HO-1 expression and activity.
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- Xin Lv
- Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, the Second Military Medical University, 225 Changhai Road, Shanghai 200438, PR China
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Weeks CL, Singh S, Madzelan P, Banerjee R, Spiro TG. Heme regulation of human cystathionine beta-synthase activity: insights from fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2009; 131:12809-16. [PMID: 19722721 DOI: 10.1021/ja904468w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Cystathionine beta-synthase (CBS) plays a central role in homocysteine metabolism, and malfunction of the enzyme leads to homocystinuria, a devastating metabolic disease. CBS contains a pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) cofactor which catalyzes the synthesis of cystathionine from homocysteine and serine. Mammalian forms of the enzyme also contain a heme group, which is not involved in catalysis. It may, however, play a regulatory role, since the enzyme is inhibited when CO or NO are bound to the heme. We have investigated the mechanism of this inhibition using fluorescence and resonance Raman spectroscopies. CO binding is found to induce a tautomeric shift of the PLP from the ketoenamine to the enolimine form. The ketoenamine is key to PLP reactivity because its imine C horizontal lineN bond is protonated, facilitating attack by the nucleophilic substrate, serine. The same tautomer shift is also induced by heat inactivation of Fe(II)CBS, or by an Arg266Met replacement in Fe(II)CBS, which likewise inactivates the enzyme; in both cases the endogenous Cys52 ligand to the heme is replaced by another, unidentified ligand. CO binding also displaces Cys52 from the heme. We propose that the tautomer shift results from loss of a stabilizing H-bond from Asn149 to the PLP ring O3' atom, which is negatively charged in the ketoenamine tautomer. This loss would be induced by displacement of the PLP as a result of breaking the salt bridge between Cys52 and Arg266, which resides on a short helix that is also anchored to the PLP via H-bonds to its phosphate group. The salt bridge would be broken when Cys52 is displaced from the heme. Cys52 protonation is inferred to be the rate-limiting step in breaking the salt bridge, since the rate of the tautomer shift, following CO binding, increases with decreasing pH. In addition, elevation of the concentration of phosphate buffer was found to diminish the rate and extent of the tautomer shift, suggesting a ketoenamine-stabilizing phosphate binding site, possibly at the protonated imine bond of the PLP. Implications of these findings for CBS regulation are discussed.
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- Colin L Weeks
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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Sunderram J, Semmlow J, Thakker-Varia S, Bhaumik M, Hoang-Le O, Neubauer JA. Heme oxygenase-1-dependent central cardiorespiratory adaptations to chronic hypoxia in mice. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2009; 297:R300-12. [PMID: 19458275 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.90737.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Adaptations to chronic hypoxia (CH) could reflect cellular changes within the cardiorespiratory regions of the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM), the C1 region, and the pre-Bötzinger complex (pre-BötC). Previous studies have shown that the hypoxic chemosensitivity of these regions are heme oxygenase (HO) dependent and that CH induces HO-1. To determine the time course of HO-1 induction within these regions and explore its relevance to the respiratory and sympathetic responses during CH, the expression of HO-1 mRNA and protein in the RVLM and measures of respiration, sigh frequency, and sympathetic activity (spectral analysis of heart rate) were examined during 10 days of CH. Respiratory and sympathetic responses to acute hypoxia were obtained in chronically instrumented awake wild-type (WT) and HO-1 null mice. After 4 days of CH, there was a significant induction of HO-1 within the C1 region and pre-BötC. WT mice acclimated to CH by increasing peak diaphragm EMG after 10 days of CH but had no change in the respiratory response to acute hypoxia. There were no significant differences between WT and HO-1 null mice. In WT mice, hypoxic sigh frequency and hypoxic sensitivity of sympathetic activity initially declined before returning toward baseline after 5 days of CH, correlating with the induction of HO-1. In contrast, HO-1 null mice had a persistent decline in hypoxic sigh frequency and hypoxic sensitivity of sympathetic activity. We conclude that induction of HO-1 in these RVLM cardiorespiratory regions may be important for the hypoxic sensitivity of sighs and sympathetic activity during CH.
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- Jagadeeshan Sunderram
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dept. of Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
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Hsu HH, Ko WJ, Hsu JY, Chen JS, Lee YC, Lai IR, Chen CF. Simvastatin ameliorates established pulmonary hypertension through a heme oxygenase-1 dependent pathway in rats. Respir Res 2009; 10:32. [PMID: 19409105 PMCID: PMC2681458 DOI: 10.1186/1465-9921-10-32] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2009] [Accepted: 05/02/2009] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Simvastatin has been shown to ameliorate pulmonary hypertension by several mechanisms in experimental animal models. In this study, we hypothesized that the major benefits of simvastatin in pulmonary hypertension occur via the heme oxygenase-1 pathway. METHODS Simvastatin (10 mg/kgw/day) was tested in two rat models of pulmonary hypertension (PH): monocrotaline administration and chronic hypoxia. The hemodynamic changes, right heart hypertrophy, HO-1 protein expression, and heme oxygenase (HO) activity in lungs were measured in both models with and without simvastatin treatment. Tin-protoporphyrin (SnPP, 20 micromol/kg w/day), a potent inhibitor of HO activity, was used to confirm the role of HO-1. RESULTS Simvastatin significantly ameliorated pulmonary arterial hypertension from 38.0 +/- 2.2 mm Hg to 22.1 +/- 1.9 mm Hg in monocrotaline-induced PH (MCT-PH) and from 33.3 +/- 0.8 mm Hg to 17.5 +/- 2.9 mm Hg in chronic hypoxia-induced PH (CH-PH) rats. The severity of right ventricular hypertrophy was significantly reduced by simvastatin in MCT-PH and CH-PH rats. Co-administration with SnPP abolished the benefits of simvastatin. Simvastatin significantly increased HO-1 protein expression and HO activity in the lungs of rats with PH; however co-administration of SnPP reduced HO-1 activity only. These observations indicate that the simvastatin-induced amelioration of pulmonary hypertension was directly related to the activity of HO-1, rather than its expression. CONCLUSION This study demonstrated that simvastatin treatment ameliorates established pulmonary hypertension primarily through an HO-1-dependent pathway.
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- Hsao-Hsun Hsu
- Graduate Institute of Physiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
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Li HG, Ren YM, Guo SC, Cheng L, Wang DP, Yang J, Chang ZJ, Zhao XQ. The protein level of hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha is increased in the plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) inhabiting high altitudes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 311:134-41. [PMID: 19048601 DOI: 10.1002/jez.510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) is a high hypoxia-tolerant species living only at 3,000-5,000 m above sea-level on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau. Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) is a key transcription factor that regulates a variety of cellular and systemic adaptations to hypoxia. To investigate how the plateau pika adapts to a high-altitude hypoxic environment at the molecular level, we examined the expression pattern of the HIF-1alpha protein in the pika by Western blot and immunohistochemical analysis. We found that HIF-1alpha protein is expressed at a significantly high level in the pika, which is higher in most tissues (particularly in the lung, liver, spleen and kidney) of the plateau pika than that of mice living at sea-level. Importantly, we found that the protein levels of HIF-1alpha in the lung, liver, spleen and kidney of the pika were increased with increased habitat altitudes. We observed that the plateau pika HIF-1alpha localized to the nucleus of cells by an immunostaining analysis, and enhanced HRE-driven gene expression by luciferase reporter assays. Our study suggests that the HIF-1alpha protein levels are related to the adaptation of the plateau pika to the high-altitude hypoxic environment.
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- Hong-Ge Li
- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, People's Republic of China
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Dani C, Giannini L, Bertini G, Pratesi S, Corsini I, Longini M, Buonocore G, Masini E, Rubaltelli FF. Changes of nitric oxide, carbon monoxide and oxidative stress in term infants at birth. Free Radic Res 2008; 41:1358-63. [PMID: 18075838 DOI: 10.1080/10715760701732822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The higher risk of respiratory problem in infants delivered by elective caesarean section in comparison with vaginally born infants may be favoured by lower level of nitric oxide (NO) and carbon monoxide (CO) and higher oxidative stress in infants born by caesarean section. We studied healthy term infants born by vaginal delivery or by elective caesarean section. Nitric oxide, CO, guanosine 3-5 cyclic monophosphate, total hydroperoxide and advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP) were measured at birth and 48-72 h of life. Nitric oxide, CO and cGMP were lower at birth and at 48-72 h of life in infants born by elective caesarean delivery. Total hydroperoxide and AOPP levels were similar in the two groups and increased from birth to 48-72 h of life. In conclusion, nitric oxide and CO concentrations were higher in term infants vaginally born than in infants born by elective caesarean section and decreased from birth to 48-72 h of life. The mode of delivery did not affect the oxidative stress which increases from birth to 48-72 h of life.
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- Carlo Dani
- Department of Surgical and Medical Critical Care, Section of Neonatology, Careggi University Hospital of Florence, Viale Morgagni, Florence, Italy.
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Swiderek H, Logan A, Al-Rubeai M. Cellular and transcriptomic analysis of NS0 cell response during exposure to hypoxia. J Biotechnol 2008; 134:103-11. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2008.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2007] [Revised: 11/23/2007] [Accepted: 01/02/2008] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Shibahara S, Han F, Li B, Takeda K. Hypoxia and heme oxygenases: oxygen sensing and regulation of expression. Antioxid Redox Signal 2007; 9:2209-25. [PMID: 17887916 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2007.1784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Heme is an essential molecule for life, as it is involved in sensing and using oxygen. Heme must be synthesized and degraded within an individual nucleated cell. Physiologic heme degradation is catalyzed by two functional isozymes of heme oxygenase, heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) and HO-2, yielding carbon monoxide, iron, and biliverdin, an immediate precursor to bilirubin. HO-1 is an inducible enzyme, but the expression level of HO-2 is maintained in a narrow range. Characteristically, human HO-1 contains no Cys residue, whereas human HO-2 contains three Cys residues, each of which might be involved in heme binding. These features suggest separate physiologic roles of HO-1 and HO-2. Recent studies have shown that the expression levels of HO-1 and HO-2 are reduced under hypoxia, depending on the cell types. Moreover, we have proposed HO-2 as a potential O(2) sensor, because HO-2-deficient mice show hypoxemia and a blunted hypoxic ventilatory response with normal hypercapnic ventilatory response. HO-2-deficient mice also show hypertrophy of the pulmonary venous myocardium and enlargement of the carotid body. These morphometric changes are attributable to chronic hypoxemia. Here, we update the understanding of the regulation of HO-1 and HO-2 expression and summarize the regulatory role of HO-2 in the intercellular communication.
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- Shigeki Shibahara
- Department of Molecular Biology and Applied Physiology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.
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Carbon monoxide (CO) is much more than just a toxic gas. Carbon monoxide is produced endogenously by the enzyme heme oxygenase and has important functions under physiological and pathophysiological conditions. Recent studies suggested antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, antiproliferative, anti-apoptotic, and vasodilating characteristics. Regarding clinically-relevant diseases in anesthesiology and critical care medicine, such as adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), sepsis, or during organ transplantation, cytoprotective properties have been demonstrated by low-dose CO in experimental models. In view of a potential CO application in future human studies, this review discusses what is known to date about CO as it relates to functional, protective and toxic aspects.
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- A Hoetzel
- Department of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, W640 Montefiore University Hospital, 3459 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15213, USA.
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Kinobe RT, Vlahakis JZ, Soong JM, Szarek WA, Brien JF, Longo LD, Nakatsu K. Heme oxygenase activity in fetal and adult sheep is not altered by acclimatization to high altitude hypoxia. Can J Physiol Pharmacol 2006; 84:893-901. [PMID: 17111034 DOI: 10.1139/y06-034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Hypoxic stress has been reported to induce the expression of stress proteins such as heme oxygenase (HO), which catalyze the breakdown of heme to generate biliverdin, ferrous iron, and carbon monoxide. These degradation products play a role in the regulation of a variety of processes such as vascular tone, inflammation, and central nervous system function. In mammals, there are 2 catalytically functional HO isozymes, HO-1 (inducible) and HO-2 (constitutive). HO-1 expression is regulated by an array of nonphysiological and physiological stimuli including acute hypoxemia. As relatively little is known of the HO response to prolonged hypoxia in whole animals other than small laboratory rodents, the aim of this work was to examine the effect of long-term hypoxia on total HO activity in fetal and adult ovine tissue. Sheep were maintained at high altitude (3820 m), after which the following tissues were harvested from near-term fetal and non-pregnant ewes for in vitro measurement of HO activity: left ventricle, renal papilla, lung apex, pulmonary artery, carotid artery, mesenteric artery, placental cotyledon, spleen, and brain frontal cortex. There were no significant differences between HO activities in tissues from hypoxic fetal and adult sheep compared with their normoxic controls. Fetal heart HO activities were higher than those of adult tissue (p < 0.05), whereas adult spleen HO activity was significantly higher than that of fetal tissue (p < 0.05). In conclusion, these data indicate that long-term exposure to high altitude hypoxia does not have a persistent effect on HO activity in ovine tissues. Also, except for the spleen where there is a high expression of HO-1 under normal conditions, tissue HO activity is correlated with the expression of HO-2, the constitutive isozyme.
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- Robert T Kinobe
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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Rahman I, Biswas SK, Kode A. Oxidant and antioxidant balance in the airways and airway diseases. Eur J Pharmacol 2006; 533:222-39. [PMID: 16500642 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2005.12.087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 469] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/13/2005] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Although oxygen is a prerequisite to life, at concentrations beyond the physiological limits it may be hazardous to the cells. Since the lungs are directly exposed to very high amounts of oxygen, it is imperative for the organ to possess defences against possible oxidative challenge. The lungs are therefore endowed with an armamentarium of a battery of endogenous agents called antioxidants. The antioxidant species help the lungs ward off the deleterious consequences of a wide variety of oxidants/reactive oxygen species such as superoxide anion, hydroxyl radical, hypohalite radical, hydrogen peroxide and reactive nitrogen species such as nitric oxide, peroxynitrite, nitrite produced endogenously and sometimes accessed through exposure to the environment. The major non-enzymatic antioxidants of the lungs are glutathione, vitamins C and E, beta-carotene, uric acid and the enzymatic antioxidants are superoxide dismutases, catalase and peroxidases. These antioxidants are the first lines of defence against the oxidants and usually act at a gross level. Recent insights into cellular redox chemistry have revealed the presence of certain specialized proteins such as peroxiredoxins, thioredoxins, glutaredoxins, heme oxygenases and reductases, which are involved in cellular adaptation and protection against an oxidative assault. These molecules usually exert their action at a more subtle level of cellular signaling processes. Aberrations in oxidant: antioxidant balance can lead to a variety of airway diseases, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis which is the topic of discussion in this review.
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- Irfan Rahman
- Department of Environmental Medicine, Division of Lung Biology and Disease, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Ave., Box 850, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.
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Han F, Takeda K, Yokoyama S, Ueda H, Shinozawa Y, Furuyama K, Shibahara S. Dynamic changes in expression of heme oxygenases in mouse heart and liver during hypoxia. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2005; 338:653-9. [PMID: 16137650 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.08.100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2005] [Revised: 08/12/2005] [Accepted: 08/15/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Heme oxygenase cleaves heme to form biliverdin, carbon monoxide (CO), and iron, and consists of two structurally related isozymes, HO-1 and HO-2. HO-2 is also known as a potential oxygen sensor. Here we show that the relative CO content in arterial blood, which reflects the total amount of endogenous heme degradation, dynamically changes in mice during acclimatization to normobaric hypoxia (10% O2), with the two peaks at 1 day and 21 days of hypoxia. The expression levels of HO-1 and HO-2 proteins were decreased by 20% and 40%, respectively, in the mouse liver at 7 days of hypoxia, which returned to the basal levels at 14 days. On the other hand, HO-1 and HO-2 proteins were increased 2-fold and 1.3-fold, respectively, in the heart at 28 days of hypoxia. Thus, hypoxia induces or represses the expression of HO-1 and HO-2 in vivo, depending on cellular microenvironments.
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- Feng Han
- Department of Molecular Biology and Applied Physiology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai 980-8575, Japan
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Moore BA, Overhaus M, Whitcomb J, Ifedigbo E, Choi AMK, Otterbein LE, Bauer AJ. Brief inhalation of low-dose carbon monoxide protects rodents and swine from postoperative ileus. Crit Care Med 2005; 33:1317-26. [PMID: 15942350 DOI: 10.1097/01.ccm.0000166349.76514.40] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Carbon monoxide (CO), an endogenous byproduct of heme metabolism, is produced at high levels in injured tissue via induction of heme-oxygenase-1 activity, where it contributes to the modulation of proinflammatory processes. Alone, CO has potent anti-inflammatory effects in models of acute and chronic inflammation. In rodents, inhalation of low concentrations of CO (250 ppm) for 24 hrs protects against postoperative gastrointestinal ileus. The current study determined whether shorter exposures and lower concentrations were equally protective and whether CO treatment would be effective in a large animal species (swine) managed under conditions approximating the clinical setting. DESIGN Dosing studies were first performed in rats by exposing them to CO (30-250 ppm) or air by inhalation for 1 or 3 hrs before anesthesia. An effective dosing regimen was then selected for testing in swine. Postoperative ileus in both species was induced by laparotomy and mild compression (running) of the small intestine. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS In rats, inhalation of 75 ppm CO for 3 hrs before anesthesia and surgery ameliorated the surgically induced delay in gastrointestinal transit to levels achieved using 250 ppm for 24 hrs. Swine treated with 250 ppm CO for the same time period exhibited significantly improved postoperative intestinal circular muscle contractility in vitro and gastrointestinal transit in vivo. Carboxyhemoglobin concentrations measured after termination of CO exposure averaged 5.8% (baseline, 1.5%). No deleterious effects on heart rate, oxygen saturation, blood chemistries, and serum electrolytes were observed. CONCLUSIONS These findings demonstrate that inhalation of a low concentration of CO before surgery attenuates postoperative ileus in rodents and, more importantly, in a large animal species without risk to well-being during surgery or perioperatively. Exposures need not be prolonged, with significant benefit occurring with a 3-hr pretreatment.
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- Beverley A Moore
- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Hartsfield CL, McMurtry IF, Ivy DD, Morris KG, Vidmar S, Rodman DM, Fagan KA. Cardioprotective and vasomotor effects of HO activity during acute and chronic hypoxia. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2004; 287:H2009-15. [PMID: 15217799 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00394.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Prolonged hypoxia leads to the development of pulmonary hypertension. Recent reports have suggested enhancement of heme oxygenase (HO), the major source of intracellular carbon monoxide (CO), prevents hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension and vascular remodeling in rats. Therefore, we hypothesized that inhibition of HO activity by tin protoporphyrin (SnPP) would exacerbate the development of pulmonary hypertension. Rats were injected weekly with either saline or SnPP (50 micromol/kg) and exposed to hypobaric hypoxia or room air for 5 wk. Pulmonary and carotid arteries were catheterized, and animals were allowed to recover for 48 h. Pulmonary and systemic pressures, along with cardiac output, were recorded during room air and acute 10% O2 breathing in conscious rats. No difference was detected in pulmonary artery pressure between saline- and SnPP-treated animals in either normoxic or hypoxic groups. However, blockade of HO activity altered both systemic and pulmonary vasoreactivity to acute hypoxic challenge. Despite no change in baseline pulmonary artery pressure, all rats treated with SnPP had decreased ratio of right ventricular (RV) weight to left ventricular (LV) plus septal (S) weight (RV/LV + S) compared with saline-treated animals. Echocardiograms suggested dilatation of the RV and decreased RV function in hypoxic SnPP-treated rats. Together these data suggest that inhibition of HO activity and CO production does not exacerbate pulmonary hypertension, but rather that HO and CO may be involved in mediating pulmonary and systemic vasoreactivity to acute hypoxia and hypoxia-induced RV function.
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- Cynthia L Hartsfield
- Div of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, Univ. of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 4200 East Ninth Ave., B-133, Denver, CO 80262, USA
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Allanson M, Reeve VE. Immunoprotective UVA (320–400 nm) Irradiation Upregulates Heme Oxygenase-1 in the Dermis and Epidermis of Hairless Mouse Skin. J Invest Dermatol 2004; 122:1030-6. [PMID: 15102094 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-202x.2004.22421.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The induction of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) by ultraviolet A (UVA) (320-400 nm) radiation provides a protective cellular defence against oxidative stress, and has been well demonstrated in cultured human skin fibroblasts, although keratinocytes were unreactive. The UVA responsiveness of HO-1 however, has not been confirmed in intact skin. Previously, we reported that UVA-inducible HO enzyme activity in mouse skin is protective against UVB-induced immunosuppression. This study identifies the induced HO isoform and its localization in mouse skin irradiated in vivo with such an immunoprotective UVA dose. We found that HO-1 mRNA was expressed in UVA-irradiated skin, but not in normal or UVB-irradiated skin, whereas constitutive HO-2 was always present. UVA-irradiated skin had increased HO enzyme activity and bilirubin content, and decreased heme content, consistent with HO-1 induction. In situ hybridization and immunohistochemical staining localized HO-1 mRNA and protein to both epidermis and dermis, with strongest expression in basal keratinocytes and weaker expression in dermal fibroblast-like and other cells, in contrast with UVA-induced HO-1 in cultured human skin fibroblasts. This suggests that cultured skin cells may not fully represent skin functions in vivo, or that there may be inherent differences between human and hairless mouse skin HO-1 responses.
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- Munif Allanson
- Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Gong LM, Du JB, Shi L, Shi Y, Tang CS. Effects of endogenous carbon monoxide on collagen synthesis in pulmonary artery in rats under hypoxia. Life Sci 2004; 74:1225-41. [PMID: 14697406 DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2003.07.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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To study the role of endogenous carbon monoxide (CO) in collagen metabolism during hypoxic pulmonary vascular remodeling, a total of 18 Wistar rats were used in the study and they were randomly divided into three groups: hypoxia group (n = 6), hypoxia with zinc protoporphyrin-IX (ZnPP-IX) group (n = 6) and control group (n = 6). The measurement of mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) and carboxyhemoglobin (HbCO) formation in lung tissue homogenates was measured. A morphometric analysis of pulmonary vessels was performed, in which the percentage of muscularized arteries (MA); partially muscularized arteries (PMA) and nonmuscularized arteries (NMV) in small and median pulmonary vessels, relative medial thickness (RMT) and relative medial area (RMA) of pulmonary arteries were analyzed. Collagen type I and III and transforming growth factor-beta3 (TGF-beta3) expressions were detected by immunohistochemical assay. The expressions of procollagen type I and III and TGF-beta3 mRNA were detected by in situ hybridization. The results showed that ZnPP-IX significantly increased mPAP and markedly decreased HbCO formation in lung tissue homogenates in rats under hypoxia (P < 0.01). In the hypoxia rats treated with ZnPP-IX, the percentage of muscularized arteries of small and median pulmonary vessels was obviously increased, and RMT and RMA of intra-acinar muscularized pulmonary arteries were markedly increased compared with hypoxic rats. Ultrastructural changes, such as hyperplasia and hypertrophy of endothelial cells (ECs) and smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and the increased number of SMCs in synthetic phenotype were found in intra-acinar pulmonary muscularized arteries of hypoxic rats treated with ZnPP-IX. Meanwhile, ZnPP-IX promoted the expression of collagen type I and III and TGF-beta3 protein in pulmonary arteries of rats under hypoxia (P < 0.01). Furthermore, ZnPP-IX elevated obviously the expressions of procollagen type I and III mRNA, and TGF-beta3 mRNA in pulmonary arteries of rats under hypoxia (P < 0.01). The results of this study suggested that ZnPP-IX played an important role in promoting collagen synthesis in pulmonary arteries of rats with hypoxic pulmonary structural remodeling by increasing the expression of TGF-beta3. The above findings also suggested a possible role of endogenous CO in the pathogenesis of chronic hypoxic pulmonary hypertension.
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- Li-min Gong
- Department of Pediatrics, First Hospital of Peking University, Xi An Men Street No. 1, Beijing 100034, PR China
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Nozik-Grayck E, Huang YCT, Carraway MS, Piantadosi CA. Bicarbonate-dependent superoxide release and pulmonary artery tone. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2003; 285:H2327-35. [PMID: 12842815 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00507.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Pulmonary vasoconstriction is influenced by inactivation of nitric oxide (NO) with extracellular superoxide (O2-*). Because the short-lived O2-* anion cannot diffuse across plasma membranes, its release from vascular cells requires specialized mechanisms that have not been well delineated in the pulmonary circulation. We have shown that the bicarbonate (HCO3-)-chloride anion exchange protein (AE2) expressed in the lung also exchanges O2-* for HCO3-. Thus we determined whether O2-* release involved in pulmonary vascular tone depends on extracellular HCO3-. We assessed endothelium-dependent vascular reactivity and O2-* release in the presence or absence of HCO3- in pulmonary artery (PA) rings isolated from normal rats and those exposed to hypoxia for 3 days. Lack of extracellular HCO3- in normal PA rings significantly attenuated endothelial O2-* release, opposed hypoxic vasoconstriction, and enhanced acetylcholine-mediated vasodilation. Release of O2-* was also inhibited by an AE2 inhibitor (SITS) and abolished in normoxia by an NO synthase inhibitor (NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester). In contrast, hypoxia increased PA AE2 protein expression and O2-* release; the latter was not affected by NG-nitro-l-arginine methyl ester or other inhibitors of enzymatic O2-* generation. Enhanced O2-* release by uncoupling NO synthase with geldanamycin was attenuated by hypoxia or by HCO3- elimination. These results indicate that O2-* produced by endothelial NOS in normoxia and unidentified sources in hypoxia regulate pulmonary vascular tone via AE2.
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- Eva Nozik-Grayck
- Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710,USA.
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Lundby C, Pilegaard H, van Hall G, Sander M, Calbet J, Loft S, Møller P. Oxidative DNA damage and repair in skeletal muscle of humans exposed to high-altitude hypoxia. Toxicology 2003; 192:229-36. [PMID: 14580789 DOI: 10.1016/s0300-483x(03)00328-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Recent research suggests that high-altitude hypoxia may serve as a model for prolonged oxidative stress in healthy humans. In this study, we investigated the consequences of prolonged high-altitude hypoxia on the basal level of oxidative damage to nuclear DNA in muscle cells, a major oxygen-consuming tissue. Muscle biopsies from seven healthy humans were obtained at sea level and after 2 and 8 weeks of hypoxia at 4100 m.a.s.l. We found increased levels of strand breaks and endonuclease III-sensitive sites after 2 weeks of hypoxia, whereas oxidative DNA damage detected by formamidopyrimidine DNA glycosylase (FPG) protein was unaltered. The expression of 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase 1 (OGG1), determined by quantitative RT-PCR of mRNA levels did not significantly change during high-altitude hypoxia, although the data could not exclude a minor upregulation. The expression of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) was unaltered by prolonged hypoxia, in accordance with the notion that HO-1 is an acute stress response protein. In conclusion, our data indicate high-altitude hypoxia may serve as a good model for oxidative stress and that antioxidant genes are not upregulated in muscle tissue by prolonged hypoxia despite increased generation of oxidative DNA damage.
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- Carsten Lundby
- The Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre, Rigshospitalet, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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Dubuis E, Gautier M, Melin A, Rebocho M, Girardin C, Bonnet P, Vandier C. Chronic carbon monoxide exposure of hypoxic rats increases in vitro sensitivity of pulmonary artery smooth muscle. Can J Physiol Pharmacol 2003; 81:711-9. [PMID: 12897819 DOI: 10.1139/y03-070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Exogenous carbon monoxide (CO) induces pulmonary vasodilation by acting directly on pulmonary artery (PA) smooth muscle cells. We investigated the contribution of K+ channels and soluble guanylyl cyclase to the regulation of PA tone by acute CO in chronic hypoxic rats (3 weeks at 0.5 atm (1 atm = 101.325 kPa); hypoxic) and in chronic hypoxic rats exposed to exogenous CO (3 weeks at 0.5 atm + 50 ppm CO; hypoxic-CO). Acute CO induced relaxation in PA rings from all animals. However, the amplitude of CO relaxation was significantly decreased in hypoxic rings and increased in hypoxic-CO rings. This different effect occurred with a decrease and an increase of pD2, respectively, in hypoxic and hypoxic-CO rings. We showed a positive relation between the percentage of inhibition of CO relaxation by a blocker of K+ channels and the increase of CO sensitivity. Thus, we showed for the first time that chronic hypoxia decreases acute CO sensitivity, which in contrast, increases in the presence of chronic CO. The present study provides initial evidence of a link between increased K(+)-channel activity and CO sensitivity.
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- Eric Dubuis
- Laboratoire de physiopathologie de la paroi artérielle (LABPART), Institut Fédératif de Recherche no 120, Faculté de Médecine, 2 bis, boulevard Tonnellé, 37032 Tours, France
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Solari V, Piotrowska AP, Puri P. Expression of heme oxygenase-1 and endothelial nitric oxide synthase in the lung of newborns with congenital diaphragmatic hernia and persistent pulmonary hypertension. J Pediatr Surg 2003; 38:808-13. [PMID: 12720199 DOI: 10.1016/jpsu.2003.50172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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BACKGROUND/PURPOSE Heme oxygenase (HO-1), an inducible isoform of HO is a regulator of vascular tone and cell proliferation through the production of endogenous carbon monoxide (CO). Endothelium-derived nitric oxide (NO) occurs in the endothelial layers of blood vessels and mediates vasorelaxation. Both CO and NO have similar properties and are potent vasodilators. The aim of this study was to examine the expression of HO-1 and endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) in the Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDI) lung. METHODS RNA was extracted from archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded lung tissue from 11 patients with CDH complicated by persistent pulmonary hypertension (PPH). Five age-matched newborns served as controls. Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was performed using specific primers for human HO-1 and eNOS. Immunohistochemistry using HO-1 and eNOS antibodies was performed and examined using laser scanning microscope. RESULTS HO-1 and eNOS mRNA expression was significantly decreased in CDH lung compared with controls (P <.05). HO-1 and eNOS immunoreactivity was reduced markedly reduced in the endothelium and arterial wall in the CDH samples compared with normal lung. CONCLUSIONS Decreased expression of HO-1 and eNOS in the CDH lung suggests deficiency of endogenous NO and CO, which may contribute to altered vascular tone causing PPH.
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- Valeria Solari
- Children's Research Centre, Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children and University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Naik JS, O'Donaughy TL, Walker BR. Endogenous carbon monoxide is an endothelial-derived vasodilator factor in the mesenteric circulation. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2003; 284:H838-45. [PMID: 12446283 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00747.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Chronic hypoxia (CH) is associated with both blunted agonist-induced and myogenic vascular reactivity, possibly due to an enhanced production of heme oxygenase (HO)-derived carbon monoxide (CO). However, the cellular location of the HO responsible for these effects has not been clearly established. Therefore, we examined the response to administration of the substrate for HO, heme-l-lysinate (HLL), in endothelium-intact and endothelium-denuded small mesenteric arteries from CH male Sprague-Dawley rats. Mesenteric arteries were isolated and mounted on glass cannulas, pressurized to 60 mmHg, and superfused with physiological saline solution. All experiments were performed in the presence of 100 microM N(omega)-nitro-l-arginine. The vasodilator response to HLL or exogenous CO was examined. HLL experiments were performed in the presence and absence of the HO inhibitor zinc protoporphyrin IX (ZnPPIX). HLL administration resulted in a dose-dependent vasodilator response that was abolished in the presence of ZnPPIX or by endothelial removal. Exogenous CO produced a vasodilator response that was independent of an intact endothelium. Cellular localization of HO was verified through immunohistochemistry in sections of the gut and aorta from CH and control animals. Staining for HO-1, HO-2, and endothelial nitric oxide synthase was confined to the endothelium. Thus we conclude that CO is a product of HO located within the endothelium.
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- Jay S Naik
- Vascular Physiology Group, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of New Mexico Health Science Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-5218, USA
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Yang F, Haile DJ, Berger FG, Herbert DC, Van Beveren E, Ghio AJ. Haptoglobin reduces lung injury associated with exposure to blood. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2003; 284:L402-9. [PMID: 12388365 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00115.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The biological functions of the acute- phase protein haptoglobin (Hp) may be related to its ability to bind hemoglobin (Hb) or to modulate immune response. Hp is expressed at a high level in lung cells, yet its protective role(s) in the lung is not known. With the use of transgenic mice overexpressing Hp in alveolar macrophages, we demonstrated that Hp diminished Hb-induced lung injury when the lung was exposed to whole blood. In transgenic mouse lungs, Hb was more efficiently removed, and the induction of stress- responsive heme oxygenase-1 gene was significantly lower when compared with wild-type mice. At 24 h after blood treatment, the ferritin level that serves as an index for intracellular iron content was also lower in alveolar macrophages in transgenic mice than in wild-type mice. We propose that an Hp-mediated Hb catabolism process exists in alveolar macrophages. This process is likely coupled to an iron mobilization pathway and may be an efficient mechanism to reduce oxidative damage associated with hemolysis.
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- Funmei Yang
- Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
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