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Shao D, Zhao ZN, Zhang YQ, Zhou XY, Zhao LB, Dong M, Xu FH, Xiang YJ, Luo HY. Efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for post-stroke depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. Braz J Med Biol Res 2021; 54:e10010. [PMID: 33470386 PMCID: PMC7812912 DOI: 10.1590/1414-431x202010010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2020] [Accepted: 09/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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We aimed to conduct a meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in patients with post-stroke depression (PSD). Six relevant electronic databases (PubMed, CENTRAL, Embase, Web of Science, CINAHL, and PsycINFO) were searched. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that compared rTMS with control condition for PSD were included. The mean change in depression symptom scores was defined as the primary efficacy outcome. Secondary outcomes included the remission rate of depression, stroke recovery, and cognitive function recovery. In total, 7 RCTs with 351 participants were included. At post-treatment, rTMS was significantly more effective than the control condition, with a standardized mean difference (SMD) of -1.15 (95%CI: -1.62 to -0.69; P<0.001, I2=71%) and remission with an odds ratio (OR) of 3.46 (95%CI: 1.68 to 7.12; P<0.001; I2=11%). As for stroke recovery, rTMS was also better than the control condition (SMD=-0.67, 95%CI: -1.02 to -0.32; P<0.001). However, no significant difference was found for cognitive function recovery between the two groups (SMD=4.07, 95%CI: -1.41 to 9.55; P=0.15). To explore the potential moderators for the primary outcome, a series of subgroup and sensitivity analyses were performed. The results implied that rTMS may be more effective in Asian samples than in North American samples (P=0.03). In conclusion, from the current evidence in this study, rTMS could be an effective treatment for patients with PSD. Further clinical studies with larger sample sizes and clearer subgroup definitions are needed to confirm these outcomes.
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- D Shao
- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Yuzhong District, Chongging, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical and Pharmaceutical College, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Yuzhong District, Chongging, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Yongchuan Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Yuzhong District, Chongging, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Yuzhong District, Chongging, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Yuzhong District, Chongging, China
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Jiang DK, Xu FH, Liu MY, Chen XD, Li MX, Liu YJ, Shen H, Deng HW. No evidence of association of the osteocalcin gene HindIII polymorphism with bone mineral density in Chinese women. J Musculoskelet Neuronal Interact 2007; 7:149-54. [PMID: 17627084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Osteoporosis is a major health problem, mainly characterized by low bone mineral density (BMD). Osteocalcin (also known as BGP, for bone Gla protein) is a significant biomarker of bone turnover and thus the BGP gene has been considered as an important candidate gene for osteoporosis. A few studies on the relationship between variants of the BGP gene and BMD variation, via traditional association and/or linkage methods, have yielded conflicting results. In the present study, we simultaneously tested linkage and/or association of the BGP HindIII polymorphism with BMD in a large cohort of pre-menopausal Chinese women. A total of 1,263 subjects from 402 Chinese nuclear families were examined. Each family consists of both parents and at least one daughter aged between 20-45 years. BMDs at the lumbar spine and hip were measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). Using the QTDT (quantitative transmission disequilibrium test) program, we did not detect significant evidence of linkage or association between the BGP HindIII polymorphisms and the BMD variation at any skeletal site. Our data do not support the BGP gene having a major effect on BMD variation in pre-menopausal Chinese women.
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- D K Jiang
- Laboratory of Molecular and Statistical Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China
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Gardner A, Xu FH, Fady C, Sarafian T, Tu Y, Lichtenstein A. Evidence against the hypothesis that BCL-2 inhibits apoptosis through an anti-oxidant effect. Cell Death Differ 2006; 4:487-96. [PMID: 16465270 DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4400264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/1999] [Revised: 01/27/1999] [Accepted: 04/08/1999] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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We contrasted possible protection against apoptosis afforded by either BCL-2 expression or anti-oxidant inhibitors in the same tumor target challenged by two distinct triggers of apoptosis. Exposure of L929 fibroblasts to tumor necrosis factor (TNF) or etoposide (VP-16) induced apoptotic death with similar kinetics. Enforced expression of BCL-2 significantly protected against apoptosis induced by VP-16 but had no effect against TNF-induced apoptosis. In contrast, the anti-oxidants desferrioxamine, butylated hydroxyanisol and N-acetyl cysteine all inhibited TNF-induced apoptosis in a concentration-dependent fashion. Although exposure to VP-16 resulted in a significant generation of intracellular oxyradicals, the above three anti-oxidant inhibitors had no effect on VP-16-induced apoptotic death. Interestingly, enforced expression of BCL-2 also inhibited the ability of VP-16 to generate oxy-radicals and to depress intracellular glutathione levels. These results indicate that BCL-2 can exert anti-oxidant effects but argue against the hypothesis that these effects are critical to its protection against apoptosis.
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- A Gardner
- Department of Medicine, VA West Los Angeles Hospital-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Deng HW, Livshits G, Yakovenko K, Xu FH, Conway T, Davies KM, Deng H, Recker RR. Evidence for a major gene for bone mineral density/content in human pedigrees identified via probands with extreme bone mineral density. Ann Hum Genet 2002; 66:61-74. [PMID: 12015001 DOI: 10.1017/s0003480001008958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Bone mineral content (BMC) and/or bone mineral density (BMD, i.e. BMC scaled by bone size) are major determinants for osteoporosis, which is a serious health problem. The major determinant of variation in BMD/BMC is genetic. The few studies now available are inconsistent in the identification and/or even in the existence of major gene(s) for BMD/BMC. In 51 human pedigrees with 941 individuals (526 measured for phenotypes) identified via probands with extreme BMD values, we performed complex segregation analyses to test the existence of a genetic locus with a major effect on BMD/BMC variation. We analyzed BMD and BMC at the spine, hip and wrist jointly by employing, as the study phenotype, factor scores (FS) of the principle component that explains approximately 75% of the total BMD/BMC variation at the three sites. The results indicate that a major gene exists with a codominant effect that is responsible for approximately 16% of the FS variation when adjusted for significant effects of sex, body weight and age. A significant genotype-x-sex-x-age interaction was found, which may explain approximately 14% of the FS variation after adjusting for body weight. Testing of various models did not provide support for shared familial environmental effects but suggested the existence of residual polygenic effects, which may explain approximately 50% of the FS variation when adjusting for sex, body weight and age. This study indicates a promising aspect of studies to identify a major gene for BMD/BMC variation in our pedigrees identified via extreme probands.
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- H W Deng
- Osteoporosis Research Center, Creighton University, Omaha, USA.
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Deng HW, Xu FH, Conway T, Deng XT, Li JL, Davies KM, Deng H, Johnson M, Recker RR. Is population bone mineral density variation linked to the marker D11S987 on chromosome 11q12-13? J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2001; 86:3735-41. [PMID: 11502804 DOI: 10.1210/jcem.86.8.7762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Our purpose is to test linkage of human chromosome 11q12-13 to BMD variation. Chromosome 11q12-13 has been linked to three BMD-related phenotypes that are inherited as Mendelian traits in human pedigrees: an autosomal dominant high bone mass trait, autosomal recessive osteoporosis pseudoglioma, and autosomal recessive osteopetrosis. A sibling pair study with 374 sibships showed significant linkage of D11S987 to normal BMD variation, with a maximum logarithm of odds score of 3.5. However, a subsequent linkage study with a total of 595 sibling pairs demonstrated reduced significance for linkage of D11S987 to bone mineral density variation, with a logarithm of odds score less than 2.2. We genotyped five markers in a genomic region of approximately 27 cM centering on D11S987 and measured bone mineral density and other traits (weight, etc.) for 635 individuals from 53 human pedigrees. Each of these pedigrees was ascertained through a proband with bone mineral density Z-scores less than -1.28 at the hip or spine. Adjusting for age, sex, and weight as covariates, we performed two-point and multipoint linkage analyses using the variance component linkage analysis method implemented in Sequential Oligogenic Linkage Analysis Routines. We found little evidence of linkage of these five markers to bone mineral density at the spine, hip, wrist and total body bone mineral content. The maximum logarithm of odds score at these five markers was 0.25, and the maximum logarithm of odds score at D11S987 was 0.15. Therefore, although we cannot exclude the linkage of D11S987 region to bone mineral density variation, there is no evidence for linkage of the marker D11S987 on human chromosome 11q12-13 to bone mineral density variation in our study population.
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- H W Deng
- Osteoporosis Research Center, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68131, USA
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Gao F, Xu FH, Zhou XC, Han XB, Liu YX. Mifepristone regulates expression of apoptosis related genes Fas and FasL in mouse endometrium. Acta Pharmacol Sin 2001; 22:524-9. [PMID: 11747759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023] Open
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AIM To investigate the anti-implantation mechanism of mifepriston. METHODS In situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry were applied to determine mRNA and protein. RESULTS After mifepriston injection, the number of implantation sites were obviously reduced, mifepriston could inhibit the embryo implantation in mouse. The expression of apoptosis related genes, Fas and FasL, in mouse endometrium was also decreased after mifepriston treatment. CONCLUSION The expression of apoptosis related genes Fas and FasL is regulated by mifepriston and the inhibitory effect of mifepriston on the embryo implantation may be mediated by action on the Fas/FasL system.
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- F Gao
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
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Deng HW, Lai DB, Conway T, Li J, Xu FH, Davies KM, Recker RR. Characterization of genetic and lifestyle factors for determining variation in body mass index, fat mass, percentage of fat mass, and lean mass. J Clin Densitom 2001; 4:353-61. [PMID: 11748340 DOI: 10.1385/jcd:4:4:353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2001] [Revised: 03/06/2001] [Accepted: 04/16/2001] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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In this study, we simultaneously characterized genetic and lifestyle factors (exercise, smoking, and alcohol consumption) in determining variation in body mass index (BMI), fat mass, percentage of fat mass (PFM), and lean mass while adjusting for the effects of age and sex. Six hundred fifty-eight Caucasian individuals from 48 pedigrees were studied for BMI. Among these individuals, 289 from 38 pedigrees were studied for fat mass, PFM, and lean mass measured by dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). After adjusting for age, sex, and lifestyle factors, the heritabilities (h(2)) of BMI, fat mass, PFM, and lean mass ranged from 0.52 to 0.57 with associated standard errors ranging from 0.09 to 0.14. After accounting for significant sex and age effects, exercise had significant effects for all the phenotypes studied, and the effects of smoking and alcohol consumption were not significant. Therefore, significant proportions of variation in BMI, fat mass, PFM, and lean mass were under genetic control, and exercise had a significant effect in reducing BMI, fat mass, and PFM and in increasing lean mass. This study warrants further genetic linkage analyses to search for genes for the obesity-related phenotypes measured by DXA in our population.
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- H W Deng
- Osteoporosis Research Center, Creighton University, 601 N. 30th Street, Suite 6787, Omaha, NE 68131, USA.
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Xu FH, Uebaba K, Cyong JC. Effects of Kampo formulations (Chinese herbal medicine traditionally used in Japan) on event-related electric potentials. ACUPUNCTURE ELECTRO 1999; 24:89-104. [PMID: 10579241 DOI: 10.3727/036012999816356363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Contingent negative variation (CNV) is a brain function test of the central nervous system in reference to attention, will preparation and motivation. We compared the neuropharmacological effects of 6 main Kampo formulations (1. Mao-to: MA HUANG TANG; 2. Shimbu-to: ZHEN WU TANG; 3. Ninjin-to: REN SHEN TANG; 4. Shigyaku-san: SI NI SAN; 5. Keishi-to: GUI ZHI TANG; and 6. Shimotsu-to: SI WU TANG) on CNV. Mao-to induced significant decrease of CNV in 90 minutes after oral administration. Shimbu-to showed a tendency to increase CNV in 90 minutes after oral administration. Shimotsu-to also induced a transient tendency to increase CNV in 60 minutes after oral administration. Keishi-to showed a decrease of CNV in the early stage of the experiment, while Ninjin-to and Shigyaku-san showed no changes of CNV. From these, it may be concluded that Mao-to and Keishi-to induce sedation of brain function, but Shimbu-to and Shimotsu-to show activation, while Ninjin-to and Shigyaku-san show no changes of brain function regarding CNV related brain function. Furthermore, the time courses of CNV changes were different within the same group (sedation or activation) of Kampo formulations.
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- F H Xu
- International Traditional Medicine Research Center of the Toyama Prefecture International Health Complex, Japan
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The pharmacological action of 6 main Kampo formulations (1.Mao -to: [Japanese pictograph see text] MA HUANG TANG; 2. Shimbu -to: [Japanese pictograph see text]: ZHEN WU TANG; 3. Ninjin -to: [Japanese pictograph see text] : REN SHEN TANG; 4.Shigyaku-san: [Japanese pictograph see text] : SI NI SAN; 5.Keishi-to: Japanese pictograph see text] : GUI ZHI TANG; 6. Shimotsu - to: [Japanese pictograph see text] : SI WU TANG) on circulatory and autonomic nervous system were studied. 7 healthy adult males( age, 22.3 +/- 1.8 years old ) had 6 basic Kampo formulations, followed by noninvasive measurement of systolic blood pressure (SBP), mean blood pressure (MBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), heart rate (HR), stroke volume (SV), cardiac output (CO ), cardiacindex (CI), total peripheral resistance (TPR) by means of systolic area method of brachialsphygmography, every 30 minutes for 2 hours. As results, Mao - to induced an increase of BP,HR,SV,CO and CI, but a decrease of TPR. Keishi - to induced an increase of SBP and SV, and Shimotsu-to induced an increase of DBP and MBP, HR was slowed during former period after oral administration of Shigyaku - san, and later period after oral administration of Shimbu-to and Shimotsu-to. Regarding autonomic activity, Mao-to(former period of experiment ), Shimbu - to and Shimotsu-to induced supression of sympathetic activity, on the other hand, Mao-to (later period of experiment ) and Shiyaku - san showed a tendency of parasympathomimetic action. Mao -to induced the strongest activation of circulatory system of 6 main farmulations, and showed change of autonomic nervous activity, however, the change of circulatory and automonic nervous activity were not coincident each other. It was speculated that comprehensive mechanism of Mao-to were not only dependent of ephedrin, main active constituent of Mao, but also dependent on Keishi's vasodilatory action in it. Ninjin -to showed no actions on circulatory or autonomic system. This is indicated that there are difference of actions on circulatory and autonomic nervous system among 6 main Kampo fromulations.
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- F H Xu
- International Traditional Medicine Research Center of the Toyama Prefecture International Health Complex, Japan
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Xu FH, Jiang XT. [Preparation and in vitro activity of monoclonal antibody-pharmorubicin immunoconjugates]. Yao Xue Xue Bao 1998; 31:632-6. [PMID: 9772712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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Bifunctional agent adipic dihydrate was used to form hydrazon bond between polyglutamic acid (PGA) and pharmorubicin (PAR). Under controlled condition, a relatively high rate of conjugation was obtained with no self-condensation. The value of PGA/PAR was in positive portion with the molecular weight (MW) of PGA: per 8-11 glutamic acid monomer linking one pharmorubicin. When PGA of MW 14,300 was used as carrier, the ratio of PGA/PAR was 1:11. After conjugating with anti-hepatoma monoclonal antiboty (McAb), an immunoconjugate of McAb:PGA:PAR being 1:2:22 was obtained. The immunoconjugate retained the binding activity to targeted cell compared with the purified and the oxidized antibody. Pharmacological studies in vitro showed lower cytotoxicity of the immunoconjugate than the free drug, but selective cytotoxicity directed by antibody was observed. Consequently, the immunoconjugate McAb-PGA-PAR with high ratio of drug/McAb as well as moderate targeting cytotoxity in vitro was successfully prepared. That makes it possible for the preparation of cell-targeted drug which is expected to be benificial to tumor treatment.
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- F H Xu
- Department of Pharmaceutics, Secondary Military Medical University, Shanghai
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Xu FH, Sharma S, Gardner A, Tu Y, Raitano A, Sawyers C, Lichtenstein A. Interleukin-6-induced inhibition of multiple myeloma cell apoptosis: support for the hypothesis that protection is mediated via inhibition of the JNK/SAPK pathway. Blood 1998; 92:241-51. [PMID: 9639523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The mechanism by which interleukin-6 (IL-6) protects multiple myeloma (MM) plasma cells from apoptosis induced by anti-fas antibodies and dexamethasone was studied. Anti-apoptotic concentrations of IL-6 had no effect on cell-cycle distribution or activation of RAF-1 or ERK in dexamethasone- or anti-fas-treated 8226 and UCLA #1 MM cell lines. However, IL-6-dependent protection of viability correlated with an inhibition of dexamethasone- and anti-fas-induced activation of jun kinase (JNK) and AP-1 transactivation. To test the hypothesis that cytokine-induced protection was mediated through inhibition of JNK/c-jun, we also inhibited c-jun function in 8226 cells via introduction of a mutant dominant negative c-jun construct. Mutant c-jun-containing MM cells were also resistant to anti-fas-induced apoptosis but were significantly more sensitive to dexamethasone-induced apoptosis. These results support the notion that IL-6 protects MM cells against anti-fas through its inhibitory effects on JNK/c-jun but indicate protection against dexamethasone occurs through separate, yet unknown pathways.
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- F H Xu
- Department of Medicine, West LA VA Medical Center, and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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The regulation of cellular cytotoxicity induced by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) over a wide concentration range was assessed. Three distinct patterns were detected: the highest concentrations (> 10 mM) rapidly induced a necrotic form of death characterized by smeared patterns of DNA digestion and morphological evidence of primary cytoplasm and plasma membrane damage; In contrast, 10 and 5 mM H2O2 induced endonucleosomal DNA digestion concurrently with cytotoxicity and target cell death was associated with morphologic evidence of apoptosis. Apoptosis was inhibited by cycloheximide, emetine, aminobenzamide (ABA), aurintricarboxylic acid, and calcium depletion. The lowest concentrations of H2O2 (0.5 and 0.1 mM)-induced delayed cytotoxicity (at 24 or 48 hr), which was not associated with DNA ladder formation or morphologic evidence of apoptosis, but was inhibited by ABA. Enforced expression of BCL-2 induced resistance to 0.5 and 0.1 mM H2O2 but had no effect on cytotoxicity induced by 5 and 10 mM. Exposure of isolated nuclei to H2O2 in the absence of calcium or magnesium failed to induce endonucleosomal fragmentation. These data indicate that distinct pathways of H2O2-induced cytotoxicity can be distinguished by their different concentration dependences, and that BCL-2 can protect against some forms of H2O2-induced cytotoxicity.
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- A M Gardner
- Department of Medicine, VA Wadsworth-UCLA Medical Center 90073, USA
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Tu Y, Xu FH, Liu J, Vescio R, Berenson J, Fady C, Lichtenstein A. Upregulated expression of BCL-2 in multiple myeloma cells induced by exposure to doxorubicin, etoposide, and hydrogen peroxide. Blood 1996; 88:1805-12. [PMID: 8781438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Enhanced expression of the antiapoptotic gene BCL-2 may participate in chemoresistance. To ascertain if multiple myeloma cells surviving exposure to chemotherapy alter their BCL-2 expression, we treated the myeloma cell lines 8226, IM-9, and U266 as well as a primary myeloma cell culture with various injurious agents. Doxorubicin, etoposide, and hydrogen peroxide consistently induced a concentration- and time-dependent upregulation of BCL-2 expression in all myeloma target cell types assayed by flow cytometry and Western blot analysis. In contrast, serum starvation, dexamethasone, and anti-fas antibodies had no effect on expression. Enhanced expression of BCL-2 was relatively selective as treatments had no effect on expression of Ig light chains, BCL-X, or actin. An reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assay showed increased levels of BCL-2 RNA in 8226 cells as early as 4 hours after treatment with doxorubicin at a time when cell recoveries were not decreased. Thus, doxorubicin stimulates BCL-2 expression in individual 8226 cells rather than simply allowing a selected survival of high BCL-2-expressing cells in culture. Doxorubicin-treated 8226 cells with upregulated BCL-2 expression were relatively resistant to a second exposure of doxorubicin. In addition, BCL-2-transfected IM-9 cells, with enhanced expression of BCL-2 which was comparable to that achieved by initial exposure to doxorubicin, were resistant to doxorubicin and etoposide cytotoxicity. These data suggest that exposure to chemotherapeutic agents may enhance BCL-2 expression in surviving myeloma cells and contribute to acquired chemoresistance.
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- VA Wadsworth-UCLA Medical Center, CA 16042, USA
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Girling R, Bandara LR, Zamanian M, Sørensen TS, Xu FH, La Thangue NB. DRTFI/E2F transcription factor: an integrator of cell-cycle events with the transcriptional apparatus. Biochem Soc Trans 1993; 21:939-42. [PMID: 8132098 DOI: 10.1042/bst0210939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- R Girling
- Laboratory of Eukaryotic Molecular Genetics, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, U.K
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Xu FH, Zhu YS. [Structural organization and function of fatty acid synthetase]. Sheng Li Ke Xue Jin Zhan 1986; 17:322-6. [PMID: 3541192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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