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Hormona Antimülleriana/sangre , Femenino , Humanos , Infertilidad Femenina , Embarazo , Resultado del EmbarazoRESUMEN
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the expression and function of up-regulator of gene-4 (URG4) in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). PATIENTS AND METHODS: Fresh NPC tumor tissue samples with paired adjacent normal nasopharyngeal tissues samples of 9 NPC patients were collected from NPC curative resection surgery. NPC cell lines (CNE1, CNE2 and HONE1) were cultured. Lentivirus-mediated URG4-specific short hairpin RNA (shRNA) stable transfection was done. The effect of URG4 on CNE4 and HONE1 cells viability was determined via 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide (MTT). The plate-colony-formation assay was performed. Apoptosis analysis was done by flow cytometry. The expression levels of protein and RNA were detected by Western blotting and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). RESULTS: We determined the expression of URG4/URGCP in NPC tissues and cell lines using qPCR analysis and found it was significantly upregulated in NPC. After that, stable URG4-silencing NPC cells were constructed by transfection with lentivirus-mediated shRNA. Functionally analyses indicated that knockdown of URG4 significantly impaired cell viability and colony formation ability, as confirmed by MTT and colony formation assays. Furthermore, URG4-silencing NPC cells showed more cells in the stage of early and late apoptosis compared with controls by flow cytometry assay. Western blot analysis further confirmed that knockdown of URG4 enhanced the expression of cleaved caspase-3, cleaved PARP and Bax, while decreased the expression of Bcl-2 and survivin. CONCLUSIONS: URG4/URGCP might play an essential role in NPC cell growth and proliferation and its silencing might be as a potential therapeutic target for NPC.
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Apoptosis/genética , Proliferación Celular/genética , Silenciador del Gen , Carcinoma Nasofaríngeo/genética , Neoplasias Nasofaríngeas/genética , Proteínas de Neoplasias/genética , Línea Celular Tumoral , Supervivencia Celular/genética , Técnicas de Silenciamiento del Gen , Humanos , Carcinoma Nasofaríngeo/patología , Neoplasias Nasofaríngeas/patología , ARN Interferente Pequeño/genética , Regulación hacia ArribaRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Chinese healthcare institutions have undergone constant changes in recent years. A large number of research studies conducted on work-related factors revealed that nurses in China experienced a low level of job satisfaction and a high level of turnover intention. Empowerment is one of the most important concepts in nursing and is most relevant to the study of nursing professionals' job-related outcomes. AIM: The aim of this study was to test the Job Characteristics Model and the mediating role of structural empowerment on the relationships between the job characteristics and work-related outcomes among clinical nurses from central China. METHODS: Three self-reported questionnaires were administered to a sample of 238 clinical nurses from two hospitals in central China. The results were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation analysis and multiple linear regressions. FINDINGS: Correlations were significant between job characteristics and job-related outcomes, and the estimated model on the effect of empowerment reduced the unique contribution of job characteristics on internal work motivation (from 17.2% to 13.0%) and general job satisfaction (from 13.4% to 10.1%), and eliminated the unique contribution of job characteristics on growth satisfaction (from 18.4% to 0%). CONCLUSIONS: The results supported the Job Characteristics Model in a nursing sample and empowerment mediated the impact of job characteristics on internal work motivation and general job satisfaction partially and on growth satisfaction completely.