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We found the binding affinities of amide naphthotube to neutral organic molecules in water are not influenced by most of small biomolecules, inorganic salts, and PBS and Tris buffers but are reduced in HEPES buffer through competitive binding. Nevertheless, salts do change the binding affinities of amide naphthotube to charged molecules through a screening effect.
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Amidas , Sais , Soluções Tampão , HEPES/química , Água/químicaRESUMO
AIMS: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent disorder of neurodevelopment in children. The diagnosis of ADHD mainly relies on the symptoms and some may be misdiagnosed due to age-based variation in behaviours. This study aimed to explore biomarkers that are greatly needed for the accurate diagnosis of ADHD. METHODS: Seven hundred and forty-two samples were retrospectively investigated in three independent cohorts, screening, training, and validation, for circulation microRNA measurement using microarray, Taqman polymerase chain reaction, and regression analysis. RESULTS: A panel of five miRNAs (miR-4516, miR-6090, miR-4763-3p, miR-4281, and miR-4466) were identified as ADHD independent risk factors that provided a high diagnostic accuracy and specificity of ADHD (AUC = 0.940 and 0.927 in the training and validation datasets, respectively). This panel of miRNAs differentiated ADHD well from control groups. After clinical improvement by treatment, the panel of miRNAs in patients and AUC changed significantly and were close to those in healthy controls. Importantly, the targets of the miRNAs identified were commonly enriched in receptor signalling pathways, ion channels, and synapse structures. CONCLUSION: Our study identified a useful panel of miRNAs that have considerable clinical value in evaluating ADHD and provide important evidence for aberrant epigenetic regulation in ADHD.
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Transtorno do Deficit de Atenção com Hiperatividade , MicroRNAs , Transtorno do Deficit de Atenção com Hiperatividade/diagnóstico , Transtorno do Deficit de Atenção com Hiperatividade/genética , Biomarcadores , Biomarcadores Tumorais , Criança , Epigênese Genética , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Humanos , MicroRNAs/genética , Estudos RetrospectivosRESUMO
Stabilizing water-sensitive reaction intermediates is challenging but desirable for guiding reactions to desired products in water. Herein, we report that labile imine and hemiaminal functional groups can be stabilized inside a synthetic container compound, a water-soluble naphthotube. The naphthotube features a primary amine group anchored in a cavity with both hydrogen bonding sites and hydrophobic surfaces. Aldehydes in bulk aqueous solution are trapped in the cavity by the amine to form hemiaminals stabilized through hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic effects. Dehydration of the hemiaminal to the imine is favored by the release of water from the hydrophobic microenvironment. Both the hemiaminals and imines can be detected at room temperature by NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry.
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Iminas , Água , Aldeídos/química , Aminas/química , Ligação de Hidrogênio , Iminas/químicaRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: To study the clinical features of children with periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and adenitis (PFAPA) syndrome, a polygenic and multifactorial autoinflammatory disease with unknown pathogenesis. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was performed on the medical data of 13 children with PFAPA syndrome. RESULTS: All 13 children had disease onset within the age of 3 years, with a mean age of onset of (14±10) months. They all had periodic fever, with 8-18 attacks each year. The mean interictal period of fever was (30±5) days. Pharyngitis, cervical adenitis, and aphthous stomatitis were the three cardinal symptoms, with incidence rates of 100% (13/13), 85% (11/13), and 38% (5/13) respectively. There were increases in white blood cells, C-reactive protein, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate during fever. Of all the 13 children, 6 underwent whole exome sequencing and 7 underwent panel gene detection for autoinflammatory disease, and the results showed single heterozygous mutations in the MEFV gene in 6 children (46%). Recurrent fever in all children gradually returned to normal without antibiotics. Ten children were treated with a single dose of glucocorticoids, and fever was relieved after treatment. Of all the children, 4 were treated with cimetidine, among whom 2 had response; 4 children were treated with colchicine, among whom 2 had response and 2 were withdrawn from the drug due to adverse reactions. Tonsillectomy was performed for 2 children, among whom 1 was followed up for 3 years without recurrence and 1 still had recurrence. CONCLUSIONS: For children with unexplained periodic fever with early onset accompanied by pharyngitis, cervical adenitis, aphthous stomatitis, elevated inflammatory indices, and good response to glucocorticoids, PFAPA syndrome should be considered. This disorder has good prognosis, and early diagnosis can avoid the long-term repeated use of antibiotics.
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Linfadenite , Faringite , Estomatite Aftosa , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Febre/etiologia , Humanos , Lactente , Linfadenite/diagnóstico , Faringite/diagnóstico , Faringite/tratamento farmacológico , Pirina , Estudos Retrospectivos , Estomatite Aftosa/diagnóstico , Estomatite Aftosa/tratamento farmacológico , Estomatite Aftosa/genéticaRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: To find out the prevalence of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) genotypes in southern Zhejiang Province, China, and to study the genetic characteristics of G protein from subtype A of RSV. METHODS: The lower respiratory tract secretions of children under 5 years of age who were hospitalized for pneumonia and bronchiolitis in three hospitals in southern Zhejiang Province from July 2009 to June 2014 were collected. Direct immunofluorescence assay was used to detect RSV antigens from the collected secretions. A total of 200 samples were randomly selected from RSV-positive specimens in each prevailing year (from July of a specific year to June of the next year). RT-PCR was used to determine RSV subtypes, and the near-full length gene sequence of G protein from subtype A was amplified and sequenced to identify the genotype. RESULTS: A total of 25 449 samples of lower respiratory tract secretions were collected from 2009 to 2014, among which 6 416 (25.21%) samples were RSV-positive. Among the 1 000 RSV-positive specimens randomly sampled, 462 strains (46.2%) were subtype A, and 538 strains (53.8%) were subtype B. Subtype A accounted for 22.5%, 74.5%, 84.5%, 19.0%, and 30.5% of the total strains in each year from 2009 to 2014. A total of 25 RSV subtype A strains were randomly sampled and sent out for bidirectional sequencing in each year, which confirmed 52 positive subtype A strains. Four genotypes of subtype A strains were obtained from the above strains, including NA1 (39 strains), NA4 (1 strain), ON1 (10 strains), and GA2 (2 strains). NA1 was the dominant genotype between 2009 and 2012, and ON1 was the only genotype of subtype A during 2013-2014. The nucleotide homology and amino acid homology between the G protein of subtype A and the prototype strain A2 were 80.7%-89.3% and 74.4%-82.6%, respectively. The nucleotide homology and amino acid homology between the isolates of subtype A were 81.5%-100% and 80.2%-100%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: In southern Zhejiang Province from 2009 to 2014, there was a co-circulation of RSV subtypes A and B, as well as a co-circulation of several different genotypes of RSV subtype A, which had highly variable G protein genes.
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Infecções por Vírus Respiratório Sincicial , Vírus Sincicial Respiratório Humano , Pré-Escolar , China , Estudos Epidemiológicos , Genótipo , Humanos , Lactente , Recém-Nascido , Filogenia , Infecções por Vírus Respiratório Sincicial/epidemiologiaRESUMO
Sialic acid modification is a kind of post-translational modification. To investigate the regulation effect of sialic acid on neural differentiation, we used CycloManN propanyl perac (CycloManN pro), a metabolic precursor of sialic acid, to treat PC12 cells. We noted that CycloManN pro indeed robustly promoted global sialylation detected by MAL II lectin blot in PC12 cells. Simultaneously, we interestingly found that the neurite outgrowth of PC12 cells was significantly promoted by the CycloManN pro treatment. The profile analysis of sialylated proteins showed that a protein band at 55KD was greatly enhanced especially in PC12L cells after CycloManN pro treatment. After enrichment with lectin MAL II, the proteins in this band were analyzed by mass spectrometry. The results showed that 23 proteins were in the band, but the score of vimentin was the highest among them. To investigate further the role of vimentin in the process of neurite differentiation, vimentin construct was transfected into PC12 cells. We interestingly observed that ectopic expression of vimentin significantly enhanced the neurite outgrowth induced by CycloManN pro. However, after three potential glycosylation sites (Ser-7, Thr-33, Ser-34:) of vimentin were mutated to alanine, overexpression of the mutated vimentin completely lost the enhancement activity for the neural differentiation even in the presence of CycloManN pro. Taken together, our study demonstrated that vimentin was important in the induction of neural differentiation by CycloManN pro.
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Neuritos/metabolismo , Crescimento Neuronal , Processamento de Proteína Pós-Traducional , Ácidos Siálicos/metabolismo , Vimentina/metabolismo , Animais , Lectinas/metabolismo , Mutação , Células PC12 , Ratos , Vimentina/genéticaRESUMO
At field scale, surface soil had special characteristics of volumetric moisture content (VMC) with a relatively little difference and spatial heterogeneity induced by physical and chemical properties, roughness, straw residues, etc. It has been a great challenge for near infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (NIR-DRS) measurement of surface soil moisture in situ. In this study, exonential decay models based on seven water-related wavelengths (1200, 1400, 1450, 1820, 1940, 2000 and 2250 nm), linear models of normalized difference soil moisture index (NSMI) and relative absorption depth (RAD) based on wave-length combinations, linear or quadratic model of width of the inflection (σ), center amplitude of the function (Rd) and area under the Gaussian curve (A) from soil moisture Gaussian model (SMGM), and partial least square (PLS) regression models based on bands were used to quantify VMC. The results indicated that (1) of all the single wavelengths, 2 000 nm showed the best validation result, indicated by the lowest RMSEp (2.463) and the highest RPD value (1.060). (2) Comparing with RAD, the validation of NSMI was satisfactory with higher R² (0.312), lower RMSEp (2.133) and higher RPD value (1.224). (3) In the validation results of SMGM parameters and PLS fitting, Rd was found to produce the best fitting quality identified by the highest R² (0.253), the lowest RMSEp (2.222), and the highest RPD value (1.175). (4) Comprehensively, a linear model based on NSMI showed the highest validation accuracy of all the methods. What is more, its calculation process is simple and easy to operate, and therefore become the preferred method to quantify surface soil moisture content in situ.
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: The biological relevance and regulation mechanism of aberrant miR-223 expression in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remain unknown. Our aim was to investigate miR-223 regulation in HCC. METHODS: miR-223 and integrin αV dysregulation were verified in 57 HCC specimens. Immunohistochemical analysis of integrin αV and sulfatide levels was performed on another cohort of 103 HCC samples. Epigenetic analysis was used to explore the effect of sulfatide on miR-223 transcription. Orthotopic growth, and intrahepatic and pulmonary metastasis of tumors derived from SMMC-7721 cells expressing miR-223 or cerebroside sulfotransferase were monitored in mice. RESULTS: miR-223 was reduced in HCC specimens and highly metastatic cell lines. Enhanced miR-223 expression had a negative effect on integrin αV-mediated cell migration. In vivo assays of metastasis in an orthotopically implanted model demonstrated that miR-223 effectively inhibited HCC metastasis. Further analysis demonstrated that integrin αV is negatively regulated by miR-223. Moreover, the integrin αV subunit was significantly positively correlated with highly expressed sulfatide in 103 HCC specimens. Intriguingly, miR-223 expression was suppressed by sulfatide in HCC in association with reduced recruitment of acetylated histone H3 and C/EBPα to the pre-miR-223 gene promoter, where monocytic leukemia zinc finger (MOZ) protein, a MYST-type histone acetyltransferase, lost its attachment. The expression of histone deacetylases, HDAC9 and HDAC10, were greatly stimulated by sulfatide and their recruitment to miR-223 gene promoter was enhanced. CONCLUSIONS: Downregulation of miR-223 in HCC is associated with the epigenetic regulation by highly expressed sulfatide and involved in tumor metastasis.
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Carcinoma Hepatocelular/genética , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/metabolismo , Epigênese Genética , Neoplasias Hepáticas/genética , Neoplasias Hepáticas/metabolismo , MicroRNAs/genética , MicroRNAs/metabolismo , Sulfoglicoesfingolipídeos/metabolismo , Animais , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/patologia , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Movimento Celular , Regulação para Baixo , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Xenoenxertos , Humanos , Integrina alfaV/genética , Integrina alfaV/metabolismo , Neoplasias Hepáticas/patologia , Camundongos , Camundongos Nus , Metástase Neoplásica , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas , RNA Neoplásico/genética , RNA Neoplásico/metabolismoRESUMO
Integrin is important in migration and metastasis of tumor cells. Changes of integrin expression and distribution will cause an alteration of cellular adhesion and migration behaviors. In this study, we investigated sulfatide regulation of the integrin αV subunit expression in hepatoma cells and observed that either exogenous or endogenous sulfatide elicited a robust upregulation of integrin αV subunit mRNA and protein expression in hepatoma cells. This regulatory effect occurred with a corresponding phosphorylation (T739) of the transcription factor Sp1. Based on the electrophoretic mobility shift assay, sulfatide enhanced the integrin αV promoter activity and strengthened the Sp1 complex super-shift. The results of chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis also indicated that sulfatide enhanced Sp1 binding to the integrin αV promoter in vivo. Silence of Sp1 diminished the stimulation of integrin αV expression by sulfatide. In the early stage of sulfatide stimulation, phosphorylation of Erk as well as c-Src was noted, and inhibition of Erk activation with either U0126 or PD98059 significantly suppressed Sp1 phosphorylation and integrin αV expression. We demonstrated that sulfatide regulated integrin αV expression and cell adhesion, which was associated with Erk activation.
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Integrina alfaV/metabolismo , Sulfoglicoesfingolipídeos/farmacologia , Butadienos/farmacologia , Adesão Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Cerebrosídeos/metabolismo , Imunoprecipitação da Cromatina , Flavonoides/farmacologia , Humanos , Nitrilas/farmacologia , Fosforilação/efeitos dos fármacos , Fator de Transcrição Sp1/metabolismoRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: To examine the anti-inflammatory effect of grape seed extract (GSE) in animal and cellular models and explore its mechanism of action. METHODS: This study determined the inhibitory effect of GSE on macrophage inflammation and Th1 and Th17 polarization in vitro. Based on the in vitro results, the effects and mechanisms of GSE on multiple sclerosis (MS)-experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) mice model were further explored. The C57BL/6 mice were intragastrically administered with 50 mg/kg of GSE once a day from the 3rd day to the 27th day after immunization. The activation of microglia, the polarization of Th1 and Th17 and the inflammatory factors such as tumor necrosis factor- α (TNF- α), interleukin-1 ß (IL-1 ß), IL-6, IL-12, IL-17 and interferon-γ (IFN-γ) secreted by them were detected in vitro and in vivo by flow cytometry, enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), immunofluorescence staining and Western blot, respectively. RESULTS: GSE reduced the secretion of TNF-α, IL-1 ß and IL-6 in bone marrow-derived macrophages stimulated by lipopolysaccharide (P<0.01), inhibited the secretion of TNF-α, IL-1 ß, IL-6, IL-12, IL-17 and IFN-γ in spleen cells of EAE mice immunized for 9 days (P<0.05 or P<0.01), and reduced the differentiation of Th1 and Th17 mediated by CD3 and CD28 factors (P<0.01). GSE significantly improved the clinical symptoms of EAE mice, and inhibited spinal cord demyelination and inflammatory cell infiltration. Peripherally, GSE downregulated the expression of toll-like-receptor 4 (TLR4) and Rho-associated kinase (ROCKII, P<0.05 or P<0.01), and inhibited the secretion of inflammatory factors (P<0.01 or P<0.05). In the central nervous system, GSE inhibited the infiltration of CD45+CD11b+ and CD45+CD4+ cells, and weakened the differentiation of Th1 and Th17 (P<0.05). Moreover, it reduced the secretion of inflammatory factors (P<0.01), and prevented the activation of microglia (P<0.05). CONCLUSION: GSE had a beneficial effect on the pathogenesis and progression of EAE by inhibiting inflammatory response as a potential drug and strategy for the treatment of MS.
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Encefalomielite Autoimune Experimental , Extrato de Sementes de Uva , Camundongos , Animais , Encefalomielite Autoimune Experimental/tratamento farmacológico , Encefalomielite Autoimune Experimental/patologia , Extrato de Sementes de Uva/farmacologia , Extrato de Sementes de Uva/uso terapêutico , Interleucina-17 , Interleucina-1beta , Fator de Necrose Tumoral alfa/metabolismo , Interleucina-6/metabolismo , Células Th1 , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Interferon gama/metabolismo , Interferon gama/farmacologia , Interferon gama/uso terapêutico , Células Th17/metabolismo , Interleucina-12/farmacologia , Interleucina-12/uso terapêutico , Citocinas/metabolismoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: The therapeutic value of targeted therapies in patients with lung cancer is reduced when tumours acquire secondary resistance after an initial period of successful treatment. However, the molecular events behind the resistance to targeted therapies in lung cancer remain largely unknown. AIMS: To discover the important role and mechanism of lncRNA BC in promoting tumor metastasis and influencing clinical prognosis of LUAD. MATERIALS & METHODS: Microarrays were used to screen a comprehensive set of lncRNAs with differential expression profiles in lung cancer cells. The functional role and mechanism of lncRNA were further investigated by gain- and loss-of-function assays. RNA pull-down, protein assays, and mass spectrometry were used to identify proteins that interacted with lncRNA. TaqMan PCR was used to measure lncRNA in lung adenocarcinoma and adjacent nontumor tissues from 428 patients. The clinical significance of lncRNA identified was statistically confirmed in this cohort of patients. RESULTS: In this study, we show that the long non-coding RNA BC009639 (BC) is involved in acquired resistance to EGFR-targeted therapies. Among the 235 long non-coding RNAs that were differentially expressed in lung cancer cell lines, with different metastatic potentials, BC promoted growth, invasion, metastasis, and resistance to EGFR-tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs), both in vitro and in vivo. BC was highly expressed in 428 patients with lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and high BC expression correlated with reduced efficacy of EGFR-TKI therapy. To uncover the molecular mechanism of BC-mediated EGFR-TKI resistance in lung cancer, we screened and identified nucleolin and hnRNPK that interact with BC. BC formed the splicing complex with nucleolin and hnRNPK to facilitate the production of a non-protein-coding inositol monophosphatase domain containing 1 (IMPAD1) splice variant, instead of the protein-coding variant. The BC-mediated alternative splicing (AS) of IMPAD1 resulted in the induction of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition and resistance to EGFR-TKI in lung cancer. High BC expression correlated with clinical progress and poor survival among 402 patients with LUAD. DISSCUSSION: Through alternative splicing, BC boosted the non-coding IMPAD1-203 transcript variant while suppressing the IMPAD1-201 variant. In order to control the processing of pre-mRNA, BC not only attracted RNA binding proteins (NCL, IGF2BP1) or splicing factors (hnRNPK), but also controlled the formation of the splicing-regulator complex by creating RNA-RNA-duplexes. CONCLUSION: Our results reveal an important role for BC in mediating resistance to EGFR-targeted therapy in LUAD through IMPAD1 AS and in implication for the targeted therapy resistance.
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Adenocarcinoma , Processamento Alternativo , Neoplasias Pulmonares , RNA Longo não Codificante , Humanos , Adenocarcinoma/genética , Adenocarcinoma/patologia , Processamento Alternativo/genética , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Receptores ErbB/genética , Receptores ErbB/metabolismo , Pulmão/metabolismo , Neoplasias Pulmonares/patologia , RNA Longo não Codificante/metabolismoRESUMO
Molecular recognition and spectral tuning of 13 organic dyes were achieved in water by amide naphthotubes. The association affinity to a styryl derivative is up to 4.5 × 107 M-1, which is the highest among all the known hosts. In addition, great fluorescence enhancement was observed for styryl derivatives. This would lay a basis for the potential analysis application.
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Corantes Fluorescentes , Água , Amidas , Espectrometria de FluorescênciaRESUMO
Objectives: Optic neuritis is (ON) is believed to be an immune-mediated disease; however, the association between optic neuritis and autoimmune diseases remains unclear. This study aimed to identify the incidence rate and adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) of autoimmune diseases in patients with optic neuritis. Methods: This nationwide, population-based, retrospective cohort study collected patients' data between 1999 and 2013 from the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan. A total of 9,235 patients were included. Using 1:4 propensity scoring, 1,847 patients were enrolled in the optic neuritis group and 7,388 in the non-optic neuritis group according to age, sex, comorbidities, and corticosteroid use. Follow-up was started from the index date and the endpoint was a diagnosis of new-onset autoimmune diseases including, myasthenia gravis (MG), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Results: The Kaplan-Meier curves depicted that patients with optic neuritis had a higher cumulative incidence of autoimmune diseases than patients without optic neuritis. Cox proportional hazard regression showed that patients with optic neuritis were at a high risk of autoimmune diseases (aHR: 1.40; 95% C.I., 1.05-1.87), including MG (aHR: 4.16, 95% C.I.: 1.33-12.94), SLE (aHR: 3.33, 95% C.I.: 1.24-8.97), and AS (aHR: 2.86, 95% C.I.: 1.54-5.31). Subgroup analysis provided that patients with optic neuritis aged below 65 years (aHR: 1.42, 95% C.I.: 1.03-1.96) or who were females (aHR: 1.59, 95% C.I.: 1.11-2.27) had a significantly increased risk of autoimmune diseases compared to respective controls. The use of corticosteroids reduced the risk of autoimmune diseases in patients with optic neuritis (aHR for corticosteroids non-users: 1.46, 95% C.I.: 1.03-2.07). Conclusion: Patients with optic neuritis presented with a high risk of autoimmune diseases such as MG, SLE, and AS, especially patients with optic neuritis who were young or females. Corticosteroids attenuated the link between optic neuritis and subsequent autoimmune diseases.
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In the present work, 111 soil samples from 11 different Chinese apple plant areas were used to take the diffuse reflection spectra from 12 500 to 4 000 cm(-1) by FT-NIR. The models of organic substance and pH value of soil samples were built by using partial least square regression (PLSR). The calibration model gave the correlation coefficients of 0.818 and 0.836 for the two values respectively, with the root mean square error of prediction (RMSEP) of 0.377 (%) and 0.251, respectively. In order to improve the robustness and performance of calibration, several spectra preprocessing methods were employed, including standard normalized variate (SNV), multiplicative scatter correction (MSC) and direct orthogonal signal correction (DOSC). Finally, the performance of DOSC was found to be the best for organic substance and pH value with RMSEP of 0.258 (%) an 0.248, respectively. The results showed that the technology of NIR spectroscopy was useful to nondestructive determination of the organic substance and pH value of soil. These research findings provide theoretic base for fertilization and pomiculture by means of NIR diffuse reflection.
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Agricultura/métodos , Solo/química , Espectroscopia de Luz Próxima ao Infravermelho , Calibragem , Concentração de Íons de Hidrogênio , Análise dos Mínimos Quadrados , MalusRESUMO
In the present study, 22 certified milk samples without melamine were collected, then 50 adulterated milk samples with added different content of melamine (0.1-1 500 mg x kg(-1)) were prepared. The near-infrared (NIR) spectra of these milk samples were measured. The possibility of using NIR spectra to detect melamine in milk was studied. Partial least square regression (PLSR) was applied to construct the calibration model between NIR spectra and the content of melamine. The results showed that NIR spectroscopy can not accurately predict the content of melamine because of its poor detection limit. However, the combination of NIR spectra and partial least square-discriminate analysis (PLS-DA) was applied to differentiate the certified milk samples and the adulterated milk sample. The classification accuracy was 100%. Therefore, NIR spectra could be used to preliminarily detect whether the milk was adulterated with melamine. As a complementary detecting method to the high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), NIR spectra could improve the detecting efficiency of milk
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Contaminação de Alimentos/análise , Leite , Espectroscopia de Luz Próxima ao Infravermelho , Triazinas/análise , Animais , Análise dos Mínimos QuadradosRESUMO
Integrin αV gene expression is often dysregulated in cancers especially in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); however, the mechanism of regulation is poorly understood. Here, it is demonstrated that sulfatide activated integrin αV gene transcription, through histone H3K9/14 acetylation at the promoter, and high integrin αV expression are closely associated with poor prognosis. To elucidate the mechanism of regulation of acetylation, sulfatide-bound proteins were screened by mass spectrometry (MS), and bromodomain containing protein 1 (BRD1) was identified as an interacting protein that also colocalized with sulfatide in HCC cells. BRD1 was also formed a complex with Sp1, which was recruited to the integrin αV gene promoter. Sulfatide was also found to induce BRD1, monocytic leukemia zinc finger (MOZ) and histone acetyltransferase binding to ORC1 (HBO1) acetyltransferase multiprotein complex recruitment to the integrin αV promoter, which is responsible for histone H3K9/14 acetylation. Finally, knockdown of BRD1 limited sulfatide-induced H3K9/14 acetylation and occupancy of MOZ or HBO1 on integrin αV gene promoter.Implications: This study demonstrates that sulfatide interaction with BRD1 mediates acetylation and is important for regulation of integrin αV gene expression. Mol Cancer Res; 16(4); 610-22. ©2018 AACR.
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Carcinoma Hepatocelular/metabolismo , Integrina alfaV/genética , Neoplasias Hepáticas/metabolismo , Proteínas Nucleares/metabolismo , Sulfoglicoesfingolipídeos/metabolismo , Regulação para Cima , Acetilação , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/genética , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Feminino , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Histona Acetiltransferases , Chaperonas de Histonas , Humanos , Integrina alfaV/metabolismo , Neoplasias Hepáticas/genética , Masculino , Modelos Moleculares , Metástase Neoplásica , Proteínas Nucleares/química , Prognóstico , Análise de Sobrevida , Análise Serial de TecidosRESUMO
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Recent epidemiological studies indicated that metformin might improve the survival of various cancers. However, its benefit on pancreatic cancer was controversial. METHODS: We performed this meta-analysis to investigate the benefit of metformin on pancreatic cancer. A comprehensive literature search was performed through PubMed, Cochrane Library and Embase. Relative risk (RR) and hazard ratio (HR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) were pooled. RESULTS: The meta-analysis of 2 randomized controlled trials including181 pancreatic patients, revealed that metformin use was not associated with an improved overall survival at 6 months (RR=0.90, 95% CI=0.67-1.21), overall survival (HR=1.19, 95% CI=0.86-1.63) and progression-free survival (HR=1.39, 95% CI=0.97-1.99). But the meta-analysis of 8 cohorts, involving 2805 pancreatic patients with diabetes, demonstrated a favorable result with improved overall survival (HR=0.78, 95% CI=0.66-0.92). CONCLUSIONS: Observations in the cohort studies supported a favorable role of metformin while the data from randomized controlled trials did not support that. Therefore, more high-quality RCTs are warranted.
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a child developmental and behavioral disorder which seriously hinders their education and development. To investigate the key regulators in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), the major affected areas of ADHD, microRNA (miR)-138,138*, 34c*, 296, and 494, were noted for their significant downregulation in ADHD model rats spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) compared to Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rat control. Based on promoter sequence analysis and activity assay, glucocorticoid receptor (Nr3c1) was identified for the inhibition of the promoter activity of miR-138-1, 34c*, 296, and 494 genes and their transcription. In the PFC of ADHD model rats SHR, Nr3c1 expression was abnormally elevated and reversely correlated with the levels of miR-138-1, 34c, 296, and 494 expression. Luciferase report assays indicated that all miR-138, 138*, 34c*, 296, and 494 targeted the 3' untranslated region of transcription factor Bhlhb2 (Bhlhe40) messenger RNA (mRNA) in common and ectopic expression of miR-138,138*, 34c*, 296, and 494 further suppressed the expression of Bhlhb2 gene. Consistently, Bhlhb2 expression was significantly higher in PFC of ADHD model SHR than control. Overexpressed Bhlhb2 in vitro significantly suppressed PC12 cell differentiation, and silence of Bhlhb2 enhanced the growth of neurite axon and dendrite. To observe the roles of Bhlhb2 further in vivo, Bhlhb2 was silenced in the PFC of nine SHR rats. Interestingly, knockdown of Bhlhb2 significantly improved the hyperactivity behaviors in SHRs compared to control. These findings show that Nr3c1-Bhlhb2 axis dysregulation was involved in the development of attention deficit and hyperactivity.
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Transtorno do Deficit de Atenção com Hiperatividade/genética , Transtorno do Deficit de Atenção com Hiperatividade/fisiopatologia , Fatores de Transcrição Hélice-Alça-Hélice Básicos/genética , Proteínas de Homeodomínio/genética , Receptores de Glucocorticoides/genética , Animais , Transtorno do Deficit de Atenção com Hiperatividade/metabolismo , Fatores de Transcrição Hélice-Alça-Hélice Básicos/biossíntese , Redes Reguladoras de Genes/fisiologia , Células HEK293 , Proteínas de Homeodomínio/biossíntese , Humanos , Masculino , Células PC12 , Córtex Pré-Frontal/metabolismo , Córtex Pré-Frontal/fisiopatologia , Ratos , Ratos Endogâmicos SHR , Ratos Endogâmicos WKY , Receptores de Glucocorticoides/biossínteseRESUMO
Tumor metastasis is the major cause of cancer-related death especially in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Although microRNAs have been implicated in tumor development, the roles of miR-124 in HCC metastasis are still not well understood. We conducted functional analysis in this study to investigate miR-124. We observed that miR-124 significantly retarded the wound healing and migration of HCC SMMC-7721 and BEL-7404 cells. Further analysis indicated miR-124 directly targeting the transcriptional factor Sp1 which is an important transcription factor for the integrin αV subunit gene transcription. Co-transfection of miR-124 with the luciferase reporter containing Sp1 3' untranslated region (UTR) significantly suppressed the luciferase activities. While mutation of the binding site of miR-124 in Sp1 mRNA 3'UTR completely abrogated the suppression of miR-124. Overexpression of miR-124 resulted in robust downregulation of Sp1 and integrin αV expression at either mRNA or protein level. Ectopic expression of miR-124 in HCC dramatically repressed the wound healing and migration in vitro and tumor metastasis in mouse experiments. Our findings demonstrated that miR-124 played as an important role in regulation of integrin αV expression in HCC, and reintroduction of miR-124 might be an alternative therapeutic strategy for controlling integrin αV expression in HCC.
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Carcinoma Hepatocelular/genética , Movimento Celular/genética , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Integrina alfaV/genética , Neoplasias Hepáticas/genética , MicroRNAs/genética , Interferência de RNA , Animais , Apoptose/genética , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/patologia , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Proliferação de Células , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Feminino , Humanos , Neoplasias Hepáticas/patologia , Camundongos , Invasividade Neoplásica , Metástase Neoplásica , Fator de Transcrição Sp1/genéticaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Inflammatory responses play decisive roles in tumor development, immune surveillance, and responses to therapy. High neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), as an inflammation index, has been reported to be a predictor for poor prognosis of various cancers. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the prognostic value of NLR in patients with rectal cancer. METHODS: A comprehensive search of the literature was conducted through PubMed and EMBASE. Pooled hazard ratio (HR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) was used to evaluate the association between NLR and three outcomes: overall survival, disease-free survival, and recurrence-free survival. RESULTS: Seven cohorts involving 959 patients were included in this meta-analysis. Our pooled results demonstrated that elevated NLR was associated with poor overall survival (HR: 13.41, 95% CI: 4.90-36.72), disease-free survival (HR: 4.37, 95% CI: 2.33-8.19), and recurrence-free survival (HR: 3.64, 95% CI: 1.88-7.05). CONCLUSION: An elevated NLR is a valuable and easily available prognostic marker for rectal cancer. It is associated with unfavorable overall survival, disease-free survival, and recurrence-free survival. NLR could be a useful candidate factor for making treatment decisions for individual patients with rectal cancer.