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The dried blood spot (DBS) is a novel alternative matrix used in 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics. It is capable of distinguishing anabolic androgenic steroid (AAS) esters without the gas chromatography-combustion-isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC-C-IRMS) confirmation. In this study, a method for detection of 22 anabolic steroid esters in DBS based on ultra-high liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS) with parallel reaction monitoring (PRM) was developed and validated. Methoxylamine was used as the derivatization reagent to improve the sensibility. Specificity, limit of detection (LOD), linearity, stability, robustness, and carryover were evaluated. Steroid esters are nine testosterone esters, six nandrolone esters, five boldenone esters, methenolone enanthate, and trenbolone acetate. UV spectra were determined by HPLC. And density functional theory (DFT) calculation methods could provide theoretical UV spectra data. Three basis set of B3LYP/6-31G(d), B3LYP/6-31+G(d, p), and WB97XD/6-31+G(d, p) were used for the geometry optimizations and TD-DFT calculation. The average deviation (%RD) of B3LYP/6-31+G(d) for all 44 ester oximes are less than 3.0%. This study for the first time provides a method to tentatively identify the 44 E/Z configurations of steroid oxime products.
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The abuse of recombinant erythropoietin (rEPO) and other erythropoietin (EPO) receptor agonists (ERAs) in sports prompted the need for sensitive detection methods of these substances. Dried blood spot (DBS) samples offer an easy solution for simultaneous collection of blood and urine during a doping control, but sensitivity issues are often presented as a challenge for routine EPO analysis from DBS. Its potential use for detecting rEPO micro-doses and the EPO gene c.577del variant thus needed further demonstration. Here, capillary blood collected from the arm skin of 111 athletes with Tasso-M20 (17.5 µL/spot), collected during professional triathlon competitions, were analysed. Also, venous blood samples from healthy volunteers were used to prepare several spots of 20 µL on Mitra VAMS (from an rEPO micro-dose study) and Whatman filter paper (from an EPO gene variant study). Immunopurification of 2 spots with MAIIA EPO Purification Gel Kit and analysis with sodium N-lauroylsarcosinate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SAR-PAGE)/Western blot resulted in sensitive detection of (1) micro-doses of rEPO from Mitra VAMS, (2) endogenous EPO from Tasso-M20 in all in-competition subjects, and (3) the EPO c.577del variant from Whatman filter paper. Additionally, in-competition endogenous EPO was detected in DBS even when matching urine samples had undetectable EPO. In conclusion, this work demonstrated that DBS can be a useful complementary matrix to urine samples for EPO detection.
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Since the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) Prohibited List is updated on an annual basis, screening methods must be continually adapted to align with these changes. In accordance with Technical Document-MRPL 2022, a newly combined, comprehensive, rapid and high-throughput doping control screening method has been developed for the analysis of 350 substances with different polarities in human urine using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled with Q Exactive Plus Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap mass spectrometer (UPLC-QE Plus-HRMS) and ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled with triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (UPLC-QQQ-MS). The limits of detection were in the range of 0.12-50 ng mL-1 for beta-2 agonists, hormone and metabolic modulators, narcotics, cannabinoids and glucocorticoids, 0.1-14 ng mL-1 for the manipulation of blood and blood components, beta blockers, anabolic agents and hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) activating agents, and 2.5-100 000 ng mL-1 for substances of Appendix A, diuretics & masking agents and stimulants. The sample preparation consisted of two parts: one is the dilute & shoot part analyzed in UPLC-QQQ-MS, another is a mixture of the dilute & shoot part and a liquid-liquid extraction part of hydrolyzed human urine analyzed in UPLC-QE Plus-HRMS in full scan mode with polarity switching and parallel reaction monitoring (PRM) mode. The method has been fully validated for doping control purposes. All the substances were compliant with WADA's required 1/2 minimum requirement performance level (MRPL) or minimum reporting level (MRL), and this method was successfully used in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympic Games for anti-doping purpose.
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Anabolizantes , Ensaios de Triagem em Larga Escala , Humanos , Cromatografia Líquida de Alta Pressão/métodos , Ensaios de Triagem em Larga Escala/métodos , Espectrometria de Massas/métodos , Anabolizantes/urina , Glucocorticoides , Diuréticos/urinaRESUMO
OBJECTIVES: We sought to investigate the effect of maternal hypothyroidism during pregnancy on fetal cardiac structural and functional remodeling using fetal echocardiography. METHODS: A total of 59 pregnant women with history of hypothyroidism were prospectively enrolled as the study group, and 74 normal fetuses as the control group. Fetal echocardiography was performed on each subject. Demographic, clinical, and fetal echocardiographic variables were measured, including left ventricular (LV) and right ventricular (RV) free wall and ventricular septal thickness, fractional shortening (FS), stroke volume (SV), cardiac output (CO), combined cardiac output (CCO), cardiac index (CI), combined cardiac index (CCI), aortic and pulmonary artery velocity, ductus venosus (DV) and pulmonary vein (PV) spectral Doppler, and Tei index. RESULTS: The incidence of echogenic intracardiac foci (EIF) was higher in the study group than that in the control group (18.6% vs. 6.8%, p = .036). The thickness of LV free wall and interventricular septum was reduced, the pulmonary velocities and CCI, RV FS, CO, and CI were lower, the S, D, S/A, and pulsatility index (PI) of DV were higher, and LV Tei index was higher in the study group compared with the control group. There was no significant difference in other variables between the two groups. CONCLUSIONS: There is cardiac remodeling, and systolic, diastolic functional alterations in fetuses with maternal hypothyroidism. Further investigation is warranted to develop strategies to optimize the outcome of these fetuses.
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Coração Fetal , Hipotireoidismo , Gravidez , Feminino , Humanos , Coração Fetal/diagnóstico por imagem , Idade Gestacional , Ecocardiografia , Ventrículos do Coração/diagnóstico por imagem , Hipotireoidismo/complicações , Hipotireoidismo/diagnóstico por imagem , Ultrassonografia Pré-NatalRESUMO
Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata Sieb. et Zucc) is an economically and ecologically important chestnut species in East Asia. Here, we presented a high-quality chromosome-level reference genome of the Japanese chestnut cultivar 'Tsukuba' by combining Nanopore long reads and Hi-C sequencing. The final assembly has a size of 718.30 Mb and consists of 12 pseudochromosomes ranging from 41.03 to 92.03 Mb, with a BUSCO complete gene percentage of 97.6%. A total of 421.37 Mb repetitive sequences and 46,744 gene models encoding 46,463 proteins were predicted in the genome. Genome evolution analysis showed that Japanese chestnut is closely related to Chinese chestnut and these species shared a common ancestor ~6.5 million years ago. This high-quality Japanese chestnut genome represents an important resource for the chestnut genomics community and will improve our understanding of chestnut biology and evolution.
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Doping analysis with a fast-turnaround-time reporting of 24/48 h is a "traditional" requirement for major competitions such as the Olympic Games, which require tremendously increased allocation of resources, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The "Closed-Loop" concept and operation mode established by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (BOCOG) provided a relatively isolated environment to non-Games-related civilians. To maintain this system, more than 200 persons were included as supporting crew of the laboratory with massive logistic resources allocated. The National Anti-Doping Laboratory in Beijing carried out the analysis mission of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. During the Winter Olympics, 3165 samples were analyzed, whereas during the Paralympics, 679 samples were analyzed. The workforce accomplishing this work was composed of 36 domestic analysts, 20 international experts from other World Anti-Doping Agency-accredited laboratories, 61 university students with suitable majors, and 12 on-site instrumental engineers. This article summarizes the achievements from the laboratory's preparation phase; in-Game operational details such as instruments, methods, workforces, and facility; and the Quality Assurance measures to maintain the integrity and correctness of results reported to the Result Management Authority, with the effect of the pandemic and "Closed-Loop" situation during the whole process highlighted.
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COVID-19 , Esportes , Humanos , Laboratórios , Pequim , Pandemias , COVID-19/epidemiologiaRESUMO
Recently, some athletes were repetitively found to have rEPO positive results, including a characterized double-band pattern in blood samples, in routine doping analysis. In contrast to previous findings from excretion studies, this double-band pattern showed the same relative intensity even when the samples were collected weeks (/months) apart. We therefore suspected that these "positive" doping control samples were related with a novel pathway of endogenous EPO production. Thus, follow-up investigations were warranted to characterize the origin of such analytical test results and to avoid the issuing of adverse analytical findings in the absence of rEPO by identifying the root cause of these "constantly positives." In this study, we designed and conducted a series of causal studies, including population screening of EPO profiles, exploration of EPO de-N-glycosylation, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) browsing in EPO, sequencing of EPO exons, genealogical analysis of the c.577del EPO variant, and finally expression and investigation of mutant EPO. In summary, we found that these "constantly positives" were related to endogenous EPO production associated with the c.577del EPO variant. The frequency of this variant was 0.39% in our Chinese population pool. The mutant EPO encoded by this variant is 27 amino acids longer than the wild-type. The molecular weight of this mutant EPO is approximately the same as that of rEPO, exhibiting a similar electrophoretic behavior. To prevent charges against carriers of the c.577del variant, a revised rEPO testing strategy has been implemented in the new version of TD EPO.
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Dopagem Esportivo , Eritropoetina , Dopagem Esportivo/prevenção & controle , Humanos , Proteínas Recombinantes/genética , Detecção do Abuso de Substâncias/métodosRESUMO
Jimaixin™ (Jintan Ltd, China) is a biosimilar of recombinant erythropoietin (rEPO) now authorized for therapeutic application in China. With a risk of abuse by athletes, a clear evaluation of its detection using the electrophoretic methods in use in antidoping laboratories was necessary. In a previous work, we showed that Jimaixin™ electrophoretic profile presented slight changes compared with the original drug (first generation rEPO) and that a spike of Jimaixin™ in urine and serum was well identified by SDS-PAGE but with less performance by IEF-PAGE unless a neuraminidase treatment was applied first. The aims of this research were to perform an intravenous administration of Jimaixin™ on three healthy subjects (one microdose [10 IU/kg] and three therapeutic doses [50 IU/kg]) and to evaluate the detection in urine and blood up to 7 days post administration. Analysis of the samples showed that Jimaixin™ detection was complicated by IEF-PAGE due to the loss of the most distinctive basic isoforms. In addition, a neuraminidase treatment did not improve detection (contrary to the observations from spike experiments). On the contrary, Jimaixin™ was very efficiently detected in blood and urine by SDS-PAGE: up to 40 h after a microdose and up to 7 days after the therapeutic doses. The effect of Jimaixin™ on hematological parameters was limited to a clear but transitory increase of the reticulocytes. These data give new elements to better survey a potential misuse of Jimaixin™ by athletes.
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Medicamentos Biossimilares/análise , Dopagem Esportivo/prevenção & controle , Eritropoetina/análise , Detecção do Abuso de Substâncias/métodos , Administração Intravenosa , Adulto , Medicamentos Biossimilares/administração & dosagem , Medicamentos Biossimilares/farmacocinética , Relação Dose-Resposta a Droga , Eletroforese em Gel de Poliacrilamida/métodos , Eritropoetina/administração & dosagem , Eritropoetina/farmacocinética , Humanos , Masculino , Proteínas Recombinantes , Fatores de TempoRESUMO
This study described a reliable analytical method, which combines solid-phase extraction (SPE) with liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) employing the parallel reaction monitoring (PRM) mode, for screening 41 small peptides and 3 non-peptide growth hormone secretagogues in human urine. Additionally 36 small peptides and 3 non-peptide growth hormone secretagogues were also confirmed in the same way. For the whole screening procedure, the PRM mode was applied to the HRMS detection of small peptides, which reduces the background noise from matrix compounds to a large extent and thus improves the selectivity and reliability of the peptide analytes. Meanwhile, competent chromatographic separation was achieved within a total runtime of 14 minutes, indicating an improvement in the detection efficiency. Moreover, the PRM mode could also be applied to the confirmation procedure due to its strong identification power with a low risk of generating false positives or negatives and good selectivity. Validation was performed according to the relevant World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) criteria, including selectivity and reliability, limit of detection (LOD), limit of identification (LOI), recovery, extraction stability and carryover. The LODs of the peptide analytes ranged between 0.20 ng mL-1 and 0.92 ng mL-1 in urine, while their LOIs ranged between 0.20 ng mL-1 and 2.00 ng mL-1, which met the corresponding Minimum Required Performance Levels (MRPLs) as defined by WADA. The developed method furnished the rapid and sensitive detection of small peptides in urine for more than 5000 samples with no false-positive or false-negative, indicating that it is an eligible method for doping control analysis.
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Espectrometria de Massas , Peptídeos , Cromatografia Líquida de Alta Pressão/métodos , Cromatografia Líquida/métodos , Humanos , Espectrometria de Massas/métodos , Peptídeos/urina , Reprodutibilidade dos TestesRESUMO
Recognizing plant cultivars reliably and efficiently can benefit plant breeders in terms of property rights protection and innovation of germplasm resources. Although leaf image-based methods have been widely adopted in plant species identification, they seldom have been applied in cultivar identification due to the high similarity of leaves among cultivars. Here, we propose an automatic leaf image-based cultivar identification pipeline called MFCIS (Multi-feature Combined Cultivar Identification System), which combines multiple leaf morphological features collected by persistent homology and a convolutional neural network (CNN). Persistent homology, a multiscale and robust method, was employed to extract the topological signatures of leaf shape, texture, and venation details. A CNN-based algorithm, the Xception network, was fine-tuned for extracting high-level leaf image features. For fruit species, we benchmarked the MFCIS pipeline on a sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) leaf dataset with >5000 leaf images from 88 varieties or unreleased selections and achieved a mean accuracy of 83.52%. For annual crop species, we applied the MFCIS pipeline to a soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) leaf dataset with 5000 leaf images of 100 cultivars or elite breeding lines collected at five growth periods. The identification models for each growth period were trained independently, and their results were combined using a score-level fusion strategy. The classification accuracy after score-level fusion was 91.4%, which is much higher than the accuracy when utilizing each growth period independently or mixing all growth periods. To facilitate the adoption of the proposed pipelines, we constructed a user-friendly web service, which is freely available at http://www.mfcis.online .
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Sweet cherry (Prunus avium) is an economically significant fruit species in the genus Prunus. However, in contrast to other important fruit trees in this genus, only one draft genome assembly is available for sweet cherry, which was assembled using only Illumina short-read sequences. The incompleteness and low quality of the current sweet cherry draft genome limit its use in genetic and genomic studies. A high-quality chromosome-scale sweet cherry reference genome assembly is therefore needed. A total of 65.05 Gb of Oxford Nanopore long reads and 46.24 Gb of Illumina short reads were generated, representing ~190x and 136x coverage, respectively, of the sweet cherry genome. The final de novo assembly resulted in a phased haplotype assembly of 344.29 Mb with a contig N50 of 3.25 Mb. Hi-C scaffolding of the genome resulted in eight pseudochromosomes containing 99.59% of the bases in the assembled genome. Genome annotation revealed that more than half of the genome (59.40%) was composed of repetitive sequences, and 40,338 protein-coding genes were predicted, 75.40% of which were functionally annotated. With the chromosome-scale assembly, we revealed that gene duplication events contributed to the expansion of gene families for salicylic acid/jasmonic acid carboxyl methyltransferase and ankyrin repeat-containing proteins in the genome of sweet cherry. Four auxin-responsive genes (two GH3s and two SAURs) were induced in the late stage of fruit development, indicating that auxin is crucial for the sweet cherry ripening process. In addition, 772 resistance genes were identified and functionally predicted in the sweet cherry genome. The high-quality genome assembly of sweet cherry obtained in this study will provide valuable genomic resources for sweet cherry improvement and molecular breeding.
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The sweet cherry (Prunus avium) is one of the most economically important fruit species in the world. However, there is a limited amount of genetic information available for this species, which hinders breeding efforts at a molecular level. We were able to describe a high-quality reference genome assembly and annotation of the diploid sweet cherry (2n = 2x = 16) cv. Tieton using linked-read sequencing technology. We generated over 750 million clean reads, representing 112.63 GB of raw sequencing data. The Supernova assembler produced a more highly-ordered and continuous genome sequence than the current P. avium draft genome, with a contig N50 of 63.65 KB and a scaffold N50 of 2.48 MB. The final scaffold assembly was 280.33 MB in length, representing 82.12% of the estimated Tieton genome. Eight chromosome-scale pseudomolecules were constructed, completing a 214 MB sequence of the final scaffold assembly. De novo, homology-based, and RNA-seq methods were used together to predict 30,975 protein-coding loci. 98.39% of core eukaryotic genes and 97.43% of single copy orthologues were identified in the embryo plant, indicating the completeness of the assembly. Linked-read sequencing technology was effective in constructing a high-quality reference genome of the sweet cherry, which will benefit the molecular breeding and cultivar identification in this species.
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According to the current Technical Document (TD) for erythropoietin (EPO), SAR-PAGE is the most commonly applied method for both screening and confirmation procedures. Although this method is effective and robust, it lacks an internal standard (IS) to monitor the efficiency of analysis for each sample covering every step of the whole procedure, including preparation, immunopurification, and western blotting. This internal standard needs to be recognized by both anti-EPO antibodies used for immunopurification and western blotting, respectively. Besides that, the band of IS could not be allowed to interfere with the recognition of all types of targeted EPO and analogs. To meet these two principles, rat EPO was selected. In this study, rat EPO was used to spike both urine and blood samples at the beginning of analysis. After preparation and immunopurification, single blotting was performed with biotinylated AE7A5 as the primary antibody, followed by incubation with streptavidin-coupled HRP. Based on the comparison of different immunopurification methods, the AB-286-NA antibody coupled to M-280 magnetic beads was the better choice for urine samples, whereas the MAIIA column was suitable for blood samples. All these methods were validated for selectivity, repeatability, and sensitivity. The modified method in this study could not only eliminate the cross-reactivity between antibodies but also monitor the whole procedure of the analysis of EPO with spiked rat EPO. Besides that, rat EPO could also be used as an indicator for monitoring the presence of protease(s) in urine samples.
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Dopagem Esportivo/prevenção & controle , Eletroforese em Gel de Poliacrilamida/métodos , Eritropoetina/análise , Detecção do Abuso de Substâncias/métodos , Animais , Anticorpos/imunologia , Biotinilação , Western Blotting , Eritropoetina/sangue , Eritropoetina/urina , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Ratos , Reprodutibilidade dos TestesRESUMO
Erythropoietins (EPOs) are substances listed in S2 of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Prohibited List and are used commonly by athletes to increase endurance performance. According to the current WADA Technical Documents, sarcosyl-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SAR-PAGE) followed by western blotting to differentiate erythropoietins based on their molecular weights is the only method that can be used for both screening and confirmation of all types of erythropoietins. The efficiency of immunopurification and protein transfer is crucial for ensuring the selectivity and sensitivity of erythropoietin detection. Several comparisons and optimization of the SAR-PAGE tests were conducted in this study. We optimized the first blotting conditions and then compared different immunopurification methods based on their selectivity, repeatability, and sensitivity for both urine and blood analysis. Additionally, rapid procedures for both urine and blood analysis were established and compared. The two-step procedure at 1.0 mA/cm2 for 60 min followed by 1.56 mA/cm2 for 20 min increased the blotting efficiency compared with the commonly used constant current approach. Comparison of immunopurification revealed no significant difference in selectivity and sensitivity between the different methods. For other factors, such as operation complexity, time and cost, a StemCell® purification kit followed by single blotting and magnetic beads followed by double blotting are recommended for urine screening and confirmation, respectively. While magnetic beads and a MAIIA® kit followed by double blotting are recommended for both screening and confirmation of blood samples, respectively. To ensure high sensitivity and selectivity, double blotting is recommended for a rapid procedure for both urine and blood analysis.
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Eletroforese em Gel de Poliacrilamida/métodos , Eritropoetina/sangue , Eritropoetina/urina , Western Blotting/economia , Western Blotting/métodos , Dopagem Esportivo , Eletroforese em Gel de Poliacrilamida/economia , Humanos , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Detecção do Abuso de Substâncias/economia , Detecção do Abuso de Substâncias/métodos , Fatores de TempoRESUMO
Prunus canescens is an endemic cherry species in China, which is distributed in Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, and Sichuan provinces of China. The chloroplast (cp) genome of P. canescens is 157,890 bp in size containing 125 unique genes, including 8 rRNA genes, 37 tRNA genes, and 80 protein-coding genes (PCGs). Phylogenetic analysis exhibited that P. canescens is most related to P. pseudocerasus.
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Diaphragma juglandis fructus contains various bioactive constituents. Fourteen compounds were isolated from Diaphragma juglandis fructus by preparative high performance liquid chromatography (pre-HPLC) and high-speed counter-current chromatography (HSCCC). Their structures were identified by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). Compounds (+)-dehydrovomifoliol (12), (6R,9R)-9-hydroxymegastigman-4-en-3-one (13) and (6R,9S)-9-hydroxymegastigman-4-en-3-one (14) are found from Juglans regia L. for the first time. Compounds dihydrophaseic acid (2), blumenol B (3) and (4S)-4-hydroxy-1-tetralone (11) are isolated from Diaphragma juglandis fructus for the first time. The anti-inflammatory effects of isolated compounds were evaluated by an in vitro model of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated RAW 264.7 macrophages. Compounds gallic acid (1), ethyl gallate (9) and (+)-dehydrovomifoliol (12) exhibited inhibitory activity on the nitric oxide production of RAW 264.7 at a concentration of 25 µM. The result indicated that the combination HSCCC with pre-HPLC is an effective way for compound separation and purification. And Diaphragma juglandis fructus constituents have the potential for the treatment of inflammatory-related diseases.
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Acetatos/química , Juglandaceae/química , Óxido Nítrico/biossíntese , Extratos Vegetais/química , Extratos Vegetais/farmacologia , Animais , Anti-Inflamatórios/farmacologia , Cromatografia Líquida de Alta Pressão , Distribuição Contracorrente , Lipopolissacarídeos , Camundongos , Células RAW 264.7RESUMO
The miRNAs play important roles in regulating myocardial fibrosis. The purpose of this study was to determine the potential roles of microRNA-214 (miR-214) in cardiac fibrosis in vitro and in vivo. In vitro experiment, Ang II-induced cardiac fibroblasts (CFBs) are transfected with pre-miR-214, anti-miR-214 and their oligo controls. Gene expression was checked by Quantitative realtime-PCR (qRT-PCR) and western blotting. In the present experiment, compared with controls, expressions of collagen type I (COL I), collagen type III (COL III), transforming growth factor (TGF)-ß1, and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinase (TIMP)-1 were all increased, but matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-1 was reduced in CFB by Ang II treatment at both mRNA and protein levels, and these alterations were found reversed by miR-214 transfection. In vivo, an anterior transmural acute myocardial infarction (AMI) was created by occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery after Ad-pre-miR-214, Ad-anti-miR-214 or Ad-GFP was delivered separately. Four weeks after AMI, protein contents of COL I, COL III and TGF-ß1 in tissue from border area were found increased after AMI, but impaired by overexpression of miR-214. While the expression of MMP-1 was increased by miR-214 stimulation but decreased by miR-214 inhibition. These results suggested that miR-214 exerts cardio-protective effects by inhibition of fibrosis and the inhibitory effect involves TGF-ß1 suppression and MMP-1/TIMP-1 regulation. Anat Rec, 299:1348-1357, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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Fibroblastos/metabolismo , Fibrose/metabolismo , Coração/efeitos dos fármacos , MicroRNAs/metabolismo , Infarto do Miocárdio/metabolismo , Miocárdio/metabolismo , Angiotensina II/farmacologia , Animais , Colágeno Tipo I/metabolismo , Colágeno Tipo III/metabolismo , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Fibroblastos/efeitos dos fármacos , Fibroblastos/patologia , Fibrose/patologia , Masculino , MicroRNAs/genética , Infarto do Miocárdio/patologia , Miocárdio/patologia , Ratos , Ratos Sprague-Dawley , Inibidor Tecidual de Metaloproteinase-1/metabolismo , Transfecção , Fator de Crescimento Transformador beta1/metabolismoRESUMO
OBJECTIVES AND DESIGN: Transplanted cell survival might greatly improve the therapeutic efficacy of cell therapy. Diazoxide (DZ), a highly selective mitochondrial ATP-sensitive potassium channel opener, is known to suppress cell apoptosis and protect cells in oxidative stressed ischemic environment. We explored the mechanisms involved in DZ pre-treatment-induced anti-apoptotic effect on L6 skeletal myoblast (SKM). MATERIALS AND METHODS: L6 SKMs were divided into control group, H2O2 group, DZ + H2O2 group and DZ + LY + H2O2 group. Treatments of 400 µmol/L H2O2 for 24 h alone, or after 200 µmol/L DZ pre-treatment for 30 min, or after DZ and 50 µmol/L LY294002 co-administration for 30 min were performed. The cell apoptosis rates were assessed by flow cytometric analysis. The changes of mitochondrial membrane potential were determined by JC-1 mitochondrial staining. The activation of phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI3K)/Akt, caspase-9 and caspase-3 was detected by western blot. RESULTS: Compared with the H2O2 group, DZ pre-treatment protected cells from H2O2-induced damage, increased Akt phosphorylation, prevented mitochondrial membrane depolarization as well as the activation of caspase-9 and caspase-3 and decreased the cell apoptosis rate. However, the DZ-induced cytoprotective and anti-apoptosis effects were partly inhibited by co-administration of a PI3K inhibitor, LY294002. CONCLUSIONS: These data suggest that DZ pre-treatment contributes to protection of L6 SKMs against apoptosis at least partly by activating the PI3K/Akt pathway and subsequently inhibiting the mitochondrial-mediated caspase-dependent apoptotic signalling pathway.
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Apoptose/efeitos dos fármacos , Diazóxido/farmacologia , Diuréticos/farmacologia , Peróxido de Hidrogênio/farmacologia , Mioblastos/efeitos dos fármacos , Proteína Oncogênica v-akt/efeitos dos fármacos , Oxidantes/toxicidade , Fosfatidilinositol 3-Quinases/efeitos dos fármacos , Caspases/metabolismo , Linhagem Celular , Cromonas/farmacologia , Ativação Enzimática/efeitos dos fármacos , Humanos , Potencial da Membrana Mitocondrial/efeitos dos fármacos , Morfolinas/farmacologia , Músculo Esquelético/citologia , Músculo Esquelético/efeitos dos fármacosRESUMO
Vicinal bis(trifluoroacetimidoyl chloride)s, a novel kind of fluorinated building block, were obtained from o-phenylenediamines in the presence of TFA, triethylamine, triphenylphosphine and tetrachloromethane. Based on these blocks, a new synthesis involving [2 + 2 + 2] cycloaddition reactions for trifluoromethylated benzo-fused eight-membered rings was disclosed.
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A novel method for the synthesis of 2-trifluoromethylquinolines via Cu-catalyzed tandem reactions was reported. A strong electronic effect was observed, but the steric effect was negligible.