Study of the effect of inhibition of c-Kit and Cx43 on bladder contractile function and its mechanism of action / 安徽医科大学学报
Acta Universitatis Medicinalis Anhui
; (6): 1941-1947, 2022.
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Objective @#To investigation of the interaction between interstitial cells of Cajal (ICCs) and connexin 43 ( Cx43) in bladder contraction and its significance.@*Methods @#Eighty male guinea pigs were randomly divided into blank control group,Glivec group,Gap27 group and Glivec + Gap27 group.Four groups of guinea pigs were per- fused with saline,Glivec,Gap 27,and Glivec + Gap 27 every morning for 2 months.Success of urodynamic testing model after 2 months.Bladder tissue was collected for an in vitro muscle strip test to detect muscle contraction in each group.Correlation between c-Kit and Cx43 was detected by immunofluorescence.The interaction between c- Kit and Cx43 in the bladder was further validated by qRT-PCR and Western blot.Ultrastructural changes in the muscle layer of the bladder were observed by electron microscopy. @*Results @#Urodynamics revealed increased blad- der compliance in the experimental group compared to the blank control group (P<0. 05) ; bladder compliance increased in the Glivec + Gap27 group compared to the Glivec and Gap27 groups (P<0. 01) .In vitro muscle strip experiments revealed that the frequency and tone of bladder muscle strip contractions were lower in the experimental group compared to the blank control group (P<0. 05) ,and that muscle strip contractions were weaker in the ex- perimental group after administration of acetylcholine (ACH) compared to the control group(P<0. 05) .Immuno- fluorescence showed that c-Kit was co-expressed with Cx43 on ICCs cells.qRT-PCR and Western blot suggested that the protein expression level and gene expression level of Cx43 in bladder tissues were lower after inhibition of c-Kit than in the blank control (P<0. 05) ; after inhibition of Cx43,the protein expression level and gene expres- sion level of c-Kit in bladder tissues the levels of c-Kit protein expression and gene expression in bladder tissues were lower than those in the blank control group (P<0. 05) .Electron microscopy revealed that the mitochondrial structure of bladder smooth muscle was disrupted after simultaneous inhibition of c-Kit and Cx43.@*Conclusion@#Cx43 is expressed on bladder ICCs and the two may be jointly involved in regulating bladder contractile function ; the joint reduction of Cx43 and c-Kit may have disrupted the mitochondria of bladder smooth muscle,affecting its function and consequently bladder contractile function.
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2022
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