BRAIN RESEARCH
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2019
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Linjie Wei,Jianbo Zhang,Bo Zhang,Junjun Geng,Qiang Tan,Ling Wang,Zhi Chen,Hua Feng,Gang Zhu
Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) leads to severe mortality and disability, in which secondary injury induced by complement activation plays an important role. TBI tends to be associated with more severe cerebral edema and worse neurological functional recovery if it occurs in high-altitude areas than in low-altitude areas. However, the underlying mechanism of this difference is unknown. Thus, we used cobra venom factor (CVF) to deplete complement C3 in simulated high-altitude areas to explore whether the differences in outcome at different altitudes are related to secondary injury caused by complement C3. Methods The weight-drop model was adopted to induce TBI in rats. Rats were randomly divided into the following groups: sham + saline (sham), high altitude + TBI + saline (HAT), high altitude + TBI + CVF (H-CVF), low altitude + TBI + saline (LAT), and low altitude + TBI + CVF (L-CVF). Brain contusion and edema volumes, brain water content, myelin basic protein (MBP) expression, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-a) expression, interleukin 1 beta (IL1B) expression, mortality rate, neurological function, and complement component 3 (C3) mRNA expression were measured by techniques such as Evans blue fluorescence, Perls staining, TUNEL staining, ELISA, immunohistochemistry and Western blotting to evaluate correlations between complement activation and secondary injury. Results The activation of complement after TBI was significantly higher at high altitude than at low altitude. High-altitude TBI resulted in a leakier blood-brain barrier, more severe cerebral edema and higher mortality than low-altitude TBI did. In addition, high-altitude TBI tended to be associated with more MBP degradation, ferric iron deposition, neuronal apoptosis, and inflammatory factor deposition than low-altitude TBI. All of these effects of TBI were partially reversed by inhibiting complement activation using CVF. Conclusion Our study provided evidence that TBI at high altitude leads to severe edema and high mortality and disability rates. Complement C3 activation is one of the important factors contributing to secondary brain injury.
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NEUROCHEMICAL RESEARCH
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2025
·Vol. 50
·期 5
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IF 3.8
Huang Manqian,Tang Meiling,Liu Lu
Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder featured by abnormal neural discharges that can lead to cognitive impairment. Salidroside (Sal), a biologically active component, protects neurons against various insults. The current study aims to explore the therapeutic potential of Sal in epilepsy and elucidate the mechanisms underlying its effects. We established a rat model of status epilepticus (SE) using pentylenetetrazol-kindling. SE rats were treated with Sal. Assessment of seizure latency and epileptic stage scores were performed. Cognitive function of rats was evaluated using a novel object recognition test and a Morris water maze test. Neuronal damage and hippocampal pathology were examined, alongside microglial and astrocyte activation, complement C3-C3a receptor (C3-C3aR) pathway involvement, and inflammatory factor levels. Sal prolonged seizure latency, decreased epilepsy stage scores, and improved cognitive performance compared to untreated SE rats. Furthermore, Sal suppressed the activation of C3-C3ar, microglia, and astrocytes, while decreasing the levels of inflammatory factors, which ameliorated hippocampal damage and neuronal loss. Sal may attenuate epilepsy and cognitive dysfunction by downregulating complement C3-C3aR pathway-mediated activation of microglia and astrocytes.
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神经病学
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药理学
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神经药理学
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JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A
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2018
·Vol. 106
·期 5
·1223-1235
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IF 3.231
Mengxia Guo,Yifan Dong,Jiangwei Xiao,Ruicai Gu,Maochao Ding,Tao Huang,Junhua Li,Naru Zhao,Hua Liao
Inorganic/organic hybrid silica-chitosan (CS) scaffolds have promising potential for bone defect repair, due to the controllable mechanical properties, degradation behavior, and scaffold morphology. However, the precise in vivo immuno-reactivity of silica-CS hybrids with various compositions is still poorly defined. In this study, we fabricated the three-dimensional (3D) interconnected porous chitosan-silica (CS/SiO 2 ) and chitosan-silica-hydroxyapatite (CS/SiO 2 /HA) hybrids, through sol–gel process and 3D plotting skill, followed by the naturally or freeze drying separately. Scanning electron microscopy demonstrated the hybrids possessed the uniform geometric structure, while, transmission electron microscopy displayed nanoscale silica, or HA nanoparticles dispersed homogeneously in the CS matrix, or CS/silica hybrids. After intramuscular implantation, CS/SiO 2 and CS/SiO 2 /HA hybrids triggered a local and limited monocyte/macrophage infiltration and myofiber degeneration. Naturally dried CS/SiO 2 hybrid provoked a more severe inflammation than the freeze-dried ones. Dendritic cells were attracted to invade into the implants embedded-muscle, but not be activated to prime the adaptive immunity, because the absence of cytotoxic T cells and B cells in muscle received the implants. Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) analysis indicated the implanted hybrids were incapable to initiate splenocytes activation. Plasma complement C3 enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) assay showed the hybrids induced C3 levels increase in early implanting phase, and the subsequent striking decrease. Thus, the present results suggest that, in vivo , 3D plotted porous CS/SiO 2 and CS/SiO 2 /HA hybrids are relatively biocompatible in vivo, which initiate a localized inflammatory procedure, instead of a systematic immune response. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part A: 106A: 1223–1235, 2018.
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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
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2024
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Peng Zhang,Guanghua Lu,Yu Sun,Zhenhua Yan,Leibo Zhang,Jianchao Liu
Microplastics and antibiotics are prevalent and emerging pollutants in aquatic ecosystems, but their interactions in aquatic food chains remain largely unexplored. This study investigated the impact of polypropylene microplastics (PP-MPs) on oxytetracycline (OTC) trophic transfer from the shrimp ( Neocaridina denticulate ) to crucian carp ( Carassius auratus ) by metagenomic sequencing. The carrier effects of PP-MPs promoted OTC bioaccumulation and trophic transfer, which exacerbated enterocyte vacuolation and hepatocyte eosinophilic necrosis. PP-MPs enhanced the inhibitory effect of OTC on intestinal lysozyme activities and complement C3 levels in shrimp and fish, and hepatic immunoglobulin M levels in fish (p < 0.05). Co-exposure of MPs and OTC markedly increased the abundance of Actinobacteria in shrimp and Firmicutes in fish, which caused disturbances in carbohydrate, amino acid, and energy metabolism. Moreover, OTC exacerbated the enrichment of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in aquatic animals, and PP-MPs significantly increased the diversity and abundance of ARGs and facilitated the trophic transfer of teta and tetm . Our findings disclosed the impacts of PP-MPs on the mechanism of antibiotic toxicity in aquatic food chains and emphasized the importance of gut microbiota for ARGs trophic transfer, which contributed to a deeper understanding of potential risks posed by complex pollutants on aquatic ecosystems.
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AQUACULTURE
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2022
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Min Li,Xueqin Wu,Jixing Zou,Yingqian Lai,Jiawen Zhang,Xiumei Chen,Xiaotian Niu,Yidi Kong,Guiqin Wang
This study was aimed to evaluate the ameliorative effects of thymol-supplemented diets on the toxicity damage of Channa argus induced by deltamethrin (DEL). After 28 d, the results are as follows: thymol can attenuate DEL-induced oxidative stress by reversing the decrease of the activities of antioxidant enzyme (SOD, CAT , GSH , GST and GSH-Px) and the increase of the MDA content in the tissues (liver and spleen), and also by reversing the decrease of the mRNA expression levels of Nrf2, Cu/Zn SOD and HO-1, and the increase of the Keap1 mRNA expression level in the tissues (liver and spleen). Thymol can attenuate DEL-induced immunotoxicity of fish by reverse the decrease of the levels of humoral immune parameters (C4, C3, IgM and LYS) in the serum, and by reversing the increase of the expression levels of NF-κB p65, TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-8 and IL-6, and the decrease of the IL-10 expression level in the tissues (liver and spleen). Thymol can attenuate DEL-caused apoptosis reversing the increase of the expression levels of pro-apoptosis (p53, Bax and Apaf-1) and the decrease of the expression level of anti-apoptosis Bcl-2 in the tissues (liver and spleen). Therefore, this study reveals that dietary supplementation of thymol alleviates DEL-caused immunotoxicity, oxidative stress, and apoptosis of C. argus in association with the NF-κB/Nrf2/p53 pathway.
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