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Gul R, Khan I, Alam I, Almajwal A, Hussain I, Sohail N, Hussain M, Cena H, Shafiq S, Aftab A. Ramadan-specific nutrition education improves cardio-metabolic health and inflammation-a prospective nutrition intervention study from Pakistan. Front Nutr 2023; 10:1204883. [PMID: 38249603 PMCID: PMC10798056 DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2023.1204883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 01/23/2024] Open
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There are recent reports that Ramadan fasting (RF) results in weight gain instead of weight loss. In addition, the data on the efficacy of brief nutrition education on healthy eating practices in Ramadan for better health are scarce. Therefore, a study was conducted to investigate the effects of brief nutrition education before the start of RF on healthy eating practices during RF. For this purpose, a prospective observational study focused on "Dietary Education and Awareness for Ramadan (DEAR)" as an intervention was carried out. The participants (n = 74) were recruited and divided into two groups, i.e., intervention and control groups (n = 37 each). As an intervention, nutrition education lessons were given before and during RF month. The control group did not attend these nutrition education lessons. Data on anthropometrics, dietary intake, and other parameters were collected at three time points: before, in the end, and 4 weeks after RF. Weight was measured in kg; height, waist circumference (WC), and hip circumference (HC) were measured in cm; and body mass index (BMI) was calculated. Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) was calculated by dividing the waist value by the hip value. Body composition analysis was performed by the body composition analyzer (BF-907). Blood pressure (BP) was measured using a validated automated blood pressure. A 3-5 ml of venous blood was collected, and plasma and serum were separated. Serum and plasma samples were processed for general blood chemistry (blood lipid profile, glucose, and CRP) within 2 h. CRP was determined by the immunoturbidimetry method using an auto-analyzer. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to determine cytokine/chemokines. Adherence to nutrition education (intervention) was assessed. The results show that nutrition education has positive effects on overall nutrition. Significant improvement in dietary adherence to dietary advice in the intervention group was noted. Significant BW loss (mean loss: 1.21 kg) in the intervention group was observed. The majority (63.3%) had lost BW ≥ 1.0 kg. Other changes observed as a result of the intervention included improvements in blood glucose, cholesterol, CRP levels, and systolic and diastolic BP. There was a notable shift in pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokine concentrations: IL-7, IL-4, and TGF-α decreased, while IL-2, TNF-α and resistin, IL-1 RA, IL-17 A, and sCD40 increased. In conclusion, RF resulted in a loss in mean BW and an improvement in related blood chemistry and cytokine profiles. Furthermore, nutrition education before RF resulted in better nutrition practices during RF and a desirable healthy BW, blood lipid, and cytokine profiles.
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- Rahmat Gul
- Department of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Nutrition Sciences, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan
- Department of Dietetics and Nutritional Science, Faculty of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sialkot, Sialkot, Pakistan
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- Department of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Nutrition Sciences, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan
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- Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, Pakistan
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- Department of Community Health Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Poonch Rawalakot Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Poonch, Pakistan
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- Department of Dietetics and Nutritional Science, Faculty of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sialkot, Sialkot, Pakistan
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- Department of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Nutrition Sciences, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan
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- Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Laboratory, Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Dietetics and Nutritional Sciences, University of Sialkot, Sialkot, Pakistan
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- Department of Dietetics and Nutritional Sciences, University of Sialkot, Sialkot, Pakistan
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Mitchell S, Saber S, Shafiq S, Bosah I, Sathanandan K, Haque K. 35DELIRIUM CLINIC: THINKING OF DELIRIUM AS THE TIA OF DEMENTIA. Age Ageing 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afy211.35] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- S Mitchell
- Department of Elderly Care, Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals
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- Department of Elderly Care, Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals
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- Department of Elderly Care, Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals
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- Department of Elderly Care, Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals
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- Department of Elderly Care, Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals
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- Department of Elderly Care, Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals
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Muhammadi, Shafiq S. Genetic, structural and pharmacological characterization of polymannuronate synthesized by algG mutant indigenous soil bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa CMG1421. J Appl Microbiol 2018; 126:113-126. [PMID: 30179291 DOI: 10.1111/jam.14098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2018] [Revised: 07/29/2018] [Accepted: 08/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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AIMS It was aimed to study the genetic, structural and pharmacological characteristics of polymannuronate synthesized by Pseudomonas aeruginosa CMG1421. METHODS AND RESULTS Synthesis was analysed by transmission electron microscopy, FT/IR, 1 H-NMR and gel permeation chromatography followed by in vitro bioassays. Colony PCR followed by sequence analysis was employed for screening of structural genes. FT/IR analysis indicated the presence of hydroxyl, carboxyl and O-acetyl groups linked to mannuronate. 1 H-NMR analysis indicated M-M bond characteristics for mannuronic acid residues. The average relative molecular weight was found in range of 20 000-250 000 Da. The amplified DNA fragments were identified as 16S rRNA, algD, alg8, alg44, algG, algE and algX genes showing 99-100% homology with those of P. aeruginosa. However, in algG there were transition mutations of adenine and cytosine at nucleotide position 766 and 769, and 878 and 881 respectively. Polymannuronate and its oligomannuronates respectively showed moderate and significant antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-obesity and antidiabetic activities. CONCLUSIONS Alginate synthesized by ∆algG mutant P. aeruginosa CMG1421 was bioactive and solely consists of acetylated d-mannuronates. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY We investigated biocompatible, nonimmunogenic and nontoxic pharmacological agents for treatment and attenuation of degenerative, inflammatory, autoimmune disease, and metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes.
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- Muhammadi
- Centre for Bioresource Research, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Centre for Bioresource Research, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Wani AA, Wani MA, Ramzan AU, Nizami FA, Malik NK, Shafiq S, Ahmad R, Kumar A, Lone I, Makhdoomi R. Combination of needle aspiration and core needle biopsy: A new technique of stereotactic biopsy. Asian J Neurosurg 2016; 11:94-7. [PMID: 27057212 PMCID: PMC4802960 DOI: 10.4103/1793-5482.145188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Aim: The study aims at describing the results of using a new technique to acquire the tissue sample in stereotactic biopsy of brain lesions. Materials and Methods: The study was performed in 19 patients over a period of 5 years in which we used the new technique, i.e., Abrar and Afzal technique (AT) of obtaining tissue biopsy. It is a combination of core tissue biopsy and needle aspiration techniques. The technique was devised to acquire greater amount of tissue for pathologic study. Results: While we could give pathologic diagnosis in 18 patients out of 19 (94.7%), in one patient, the tissue sample revealed only inflammatory cells and definitive diagnosis could not be reached. There was no significant morbidity or any mortality in the series. Conclusion: Abrar and Afzal technique is a reasonably accurate technique of acquiring larger tissue sample in stereotactic brain biopsy without any additional risks. It can be done with little modification of the conventional equipment available with the stereotactic system.
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- Abrar Ahad Wani
- Department of Neurosurgery, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- Department of Pathology, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- Department of Pathology, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- Department of Pathology, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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Al Za’abi M, Shafiq S, Al Riyami D, Ali BH. Utilization Pattern of Vancomycin in a University Teaching Hospital in Oman: Comparison with International Guidelines. TROP J PHARM RES 2013. [DOI: 10.4314/tjpr.v12i1.19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Shafiq S, Taqi A. GRP-066 Evaluation of Pharmaceutical Care Issues in the Aseptic Preparation Unit at a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Focus on Chemotherapy Prescribing and Preparation. Eur J Hosp Pharm 2013. [DOI: 10.1136/ejhpharm-2013-000276.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Faiyazuddin M, Akhtar N, Akhter J, Suri S, Shakeel F, Shafiq S, Mustafa G. Production, characterization, in vitro and ex vivo studies of babchi oil-encapsulated nanostructured solid lipid carriers produced by a hot aqueous titration method. Pharmazie 2010; 65:348-355. [PMID: 20503927 DOI: 10.1691/ph.2010.9329] [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: 06/22/2023]
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An aqueous dispersion of solid fat nanoparticles of babchi oil (BOSLN) was prepared by means of the hot water titration method. Surface morphology was determined by HR-TEM which revealed a fairly spherical shape of the formulations. Further they were evaluated for in vitro drug release characteristics and ex vivo skin permeation profile, zeta potential and particle diameter, rheological measures and droplet size distribution. Highest values for steady state flux (Jss), permeability coefficient (Kp) and enhancement ratio (Er) were observed for formulation, BOSLN3 comprised of oil [10% v/v; BO (3.33%), CAT (6.67%)], Tween 80 (9.25% v/v), transcutol-P (28.75% v/v) and distilled water (53% v/v). These results suggest that the studied SLN might be promising vehicles for babchi oil in the management of psoriasis.
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- M Faiyazuddin
- Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jamia Hamdard, Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi, India
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The purpose of the present investigation was to evaluate the capacity of Labrasol as surfactant for self-nanoemulsification efficiency of ramipril nanoemulsion formulation. Based on the solubility profile of ramipril, Sefsol-218, Labrasol and Carbitol were selected as oil phase, surfactant and cosurfactant, respectively. Based on the stability profile of ramipril, standard buffer solution of pH 5.0 was selected as an aqueous phase for the development of ramipril nanoemulsion formulation. Nanoemulsion formulations of ramipril were developed using an aqueous phase titration method. Pseudoternary phase diagrams were constructed to identify the nanoemulsion region. Selected formulations were subjected to different thermodynamic stability tests using centrifugation, heating cooling cycles and freeze thaw cycles. The formulations which were stable at thermodynamic stability tests were taken for self-nanoemulsification efficiency test. No creaming, cracking, coalescence or phase inversion was observed on most of the formulations upon thermodynamic stability tests. All the formulations passed self-nanoemulsification tests in grade C, D and E but not in grade A and B. Because none of the formulation passed self-nanoemulsification efficiency test in grade A and B, it was concluded that Labrasol is not suitable as surfactant for oral or self nanoemulsifying drug delivery system of ramipril.
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- S Shafiq
- New Drug Delivery System (NDDS), Zydus Cadila Healthcare Ltd., Ahemdabad, Gujrat, India.
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Shakeel F, Baboota S, Ahuja A, Ali J, Shafiq S. Celecoxib Nanoemulsion for Transdermal Drug Delivery: Characterization and In Vitro Evaluation. J DISPER SCI TECHNOL 2009. [DOI: 10.1080/01932690802644012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Shakeel F, Baboota S, Ahuja A, Ali J, Shafiq S. Enhanced anti-inflammatory effects of celecoxib from a transdermally applied nanoemulsion. Pharmazie 2009; 64:258-259. [PMID: 19435145 DOI: 10.1691/ph.2009.8282] [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: 06/22/2023]
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The aim of the present study was to evaluate the enhanced anti-inflammatory effects of celecoxib (CXB) from a transdermally applied nanoemulsion. The anti-inflammatory effects of an optimized nanoemulsion formulation were compared with those of conventional CXB gel and nanoemulsion gel on carrageenan-induced paw edema in rats. These tests were compared using the Dunnett test of one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The % inhibition value after 24 h application was significant for optimized formulation C2 (85.4%) compared with CXB gel and nanoemulsion gel (p < 0.05). These results suggest that nanoemulsions can be successfully used to enhance the anti-inflammatory effects of CXB.
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- F Shakeel
- Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Alarab Medical University, Benghazi, Libya.
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Shakeel F, Baboota S, Ahuja A, All J, Shafiq S. Skin permeation mechanism of aceclofenac using novel nanoemulsion formulation. Pharmazie 2008; 63:580-584. [PMID: 18771006 DOI: 10.1691/ph.2008.8036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/22/2023]
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The aim of the present study was to investigate the skin permeation mechanism of aceclofenac using a novel nanoemulsion formulation. An optimized oil-in-water nanoemulsion of aceclofenac was prepared by the spontaneous emulsification method. The optimized nanoemulsion contained 2% w/w aceclofenac, 10% w/w Labrafil, 5% w/w Triacetin, 35.33% w/w Tween 80, 17.66% w/w Transcutol P and 32% w/w distilled water. The skin permeation mechanism was evaluated by FTIR spectroscopy, DSC thermography, activation energy measurement and histopathological examination. FTIR spectra of skin treated with the nanoemulsion formulation indicated breaking of the hydrogen bond network at the head of ceramides. DSC thermograms indicated that intracellular transport could be a possible mechanism of permeation enhancement and that permeation occurred due to the extraction of SC lipids by the nanoemulsion. The significant decrease in activation energy for aceclofenac permeation across rat skin indicated that the SC lipid bilayers were significantly disrupted (p < 0.05). Photomicrography of skin showed disruption and extraction of lipid bilayers as distinct voids and empty spaces visible in the epidermal region. Overall these findings indicated that nanoemulsions can be successfully used to enhance skin permeation of drugs.
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- F Shakeel
- Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Arab Medical Sciences University, Benghazi, Libya.
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Rahman A, Alam M, Rao S, Cai L, Clark LT, Shafiq S, Siddiqui MA. Differential effects of doxorubicin on atrial natriuretic peptide expression in vivo and in vitro. Biol Res 2002; 34:195-206. [PMID: 11715857 DOI: 10.4067/s0716-97602001000300007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Doxorubicin (Dox) is a potent anti-cancer agent with cardiotoxic side-effects but the mechanism of its cardiotoxicity and its effect on expression of the vasoactive atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), an important marker for cardiac hypertrophy, are little understood. The present study examined Dox-induced changes in vivo in hearts of 6 mongrel dogs and 5 Sprague-Dawley rats and in vitro in cardiac cultures of neonatal rats. Quantitative RT-PCR analysis using gamma 32-p labeled primers for beta-actin, phospholamban (PLB) and ANP showed a selective 5-fold increase of ANP mRNA in Dox-treated dog hearts in comparison to controls. Similarly, northern analysis of GAPD, beta-actin, cardiac alpha-actin and ANP gave a selective 4.5-fold increase in ANP transcripts in Dox-treated rat hearts. On the other hand, there was a selective decrease (approximately 39%) of ANP transcripts in Dox-treated cardiac cultures relative to controls. Immunohistochemistry localized the ANP changes both in tissue sections and in cultures to the cardiomyocytes. The data clearly showed that Dox selectively increases ANP expression in dog and rat hearts in absence of cardiocyte hypertrophy but selectively decreases it in cardiac cultures. This differential effect of Dox on cardiocytes in vivo and in vitro should be a useful parameter for studies of transcriptional control of ANP expression.
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- A Rahman
- Division of Cardiology, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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Recent gene knock-out studies in mice have suggested that ventricular myosin light chain-2 (vMLC2) has a role in the regulation of cardiogenic development and that perturbation in expression of vMLC2 is linked to the onset of dilated cardiomyopathy. In an attempt to develop an avian model for such studies, we examined the expression pattern of vMLC2 in chicken embryos at various stages and analyzed the effect of antisense oligonucleotide-mediated interference of vMLC2 function in cultures of whole embryos. Our results showed vMLC2 to be a specific marker for ventricular chamber throughout chicken embryonic development and antisense vMLC2 treatment of primitive streak stage (stage 4) embryos to produce pronounced dilation of heart tube with severe deficiency in formation of striated myofibrils. Further studies with antisense mRNA techniques of whole embryo cultures should, therefore, be useful to evaluate the role of vMLC2 and other putative regulatory factors in cardiac myofibrillogenesis.
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- S Ghatpande
- Dept. of Anatomy & Cell Biology, State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
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Hypertrophic stimulation of cardiac myocytes results in rapid induction of a number of transcription factors, including members of the AP-1 family, which is followed by a programmed alteration in the pattern of gene expression. In the ventricular cardiocytes there is re-expression of the fetal atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) gene and upregulation of its myosin light chain-2 (MLC-2v). The mechanism(s) by which the induction ofAP-1 is coupled to the promoters of these target genes is largely unknown. In this report, we demonstrate that in transient co-transfection assay, c-Jun inhibited while Jun B stimulated the MLC-2v promoter activity. Mutant c-Jun recombinants, in which the activation domains were deleted, still remained inhibitory, but a specific mutation in the leucine zipper, which changes the alignment of Jun with its dimerization partner, caused a reversal of its effect on the target MLC-2v promoter. Based on these findings, we propose that in chicken cardiac myocytes, the regulation of MLC-2v promoter by Jun may occur via its interaction with other proteins, possibly of the leucine zipper family.
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- S K Goswami
- Center for Cardiovascular and Muscle Research and the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, 11203, USA
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Ghatpande S, Goswami S, Mathew S, Rong G, Cai L, Shafiq S, Siddiqui MA. Identification of a novel cardiac lineage-associated protein(cCLP-1): A candidate regulator of cardiogenesis. Dev Biol 1999; 208:210-21. [PMID: 10075853 DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.9180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [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: 11/22/2022]
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We describe the isolation and characterization of a cDNA clone, called cCLP-1, that is a candidate for the previously described early cardiac-specific transcription factor BBF-1. BBF-1 binds the MEF2 (or element B) binding site within the cardiac myosin light chain 2 (MLC2) gene promoter. We used the element B sequence as a probe to screen an expression library constructed from mRNA obtained from the presumptive heart-forming regions of stage 6 chicken embryos. This yielded the cCLP-1 cDNA clone. Gel-shift analysis of stage 6 embryonic chicken protein extracts suggests that a protein that is recognized by the anti-cCLP-1 antibody binds to the same element B binding site to which BBF-1 binds. cCLP-1 mRNA was detected early in chicken development, prior to cardiac fate assignment at stage 4. The expression pattern of cCLP-1, based on whole mount in situ hybridization, coincides remarkably well with the established morphogenetic field of early heart formation. The nuclear localization of cCLP-1 is phosphorylation-dependent, suggesting that cCLP-1 may be a member of that class of transcription factors whose activity is regulated by cytoplasm to nucleus transport. Taken together, these data suggest that cCLP-1 may encode a novel transcription factor whose expression pattern is in agreement with that of the cardiogenic precursor cells of the early chicken embryo.
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- S Ghatpande
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York 11203, USA
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Kumar A, Shafiq S, Wadgaonkar R, Stracher A. The effect of protease inhibitors, leupeptin and E64d, on differentiation of C2C12 myoblasts in tissue culture. Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) 1992; 38:477-83. [PMID: 1468108] [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: 12/27/2022]
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Intracellular calcium levels play an important role in myofibril disintegration and regeneration of muscle fibers. Earlier studies have shown that the calcium activated protease, calpain, is involved in the removal of Z-discs from myofibrils of striated muscle and the tripeptide-aldehyde, leupeptin, which is an inhibitor of calpain, inhibits this activity. In the present communication, we demonstrate that leupeptin and another calpain inhibitor, E64d, inhibit the fusion of mouse skeletal muscle C2C12 myoblasts to form multinucleated myotubes in tissue culture.
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- A Kumar
- Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn 11203
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Kumar A, Shafiq S, Wadgaonkar R, Stracher A. The effect of protease inhibitors, leupeptin and E64d, on differentiation of C2C12 myoblasts in tissue culture. Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) 1992; 38:687-91. [PMID: 1483117] [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: 12/27/2022]
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Intracellular calcium levels play an important role in myofibril disintegration and regeneration of muscle fibers. Earlier studies have shown that the calcium activated protease, calpain, is involved in the removal of Z-discs from myofibrils of striated muscle and the tripeptide-aldehyde, leupeptin, which is an inhibitor of calpain, inhibits this activity. In the present communication, we demonstrate that leupeptin and another calpain inhibitor, E64d, inhibit the fusion of mouse skeletal muscle C2C12 myoblasts to form multinucleated myotubes in tissue culture.
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- A Kumar
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, SUNY Health Science Center, Brooklyn 11203
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Khalid SM, Khan SA, Arif M, Shafiq S, Saifi ZS. In vitro antibacterial studies of some newly synthesized phenacyl-thiosemicarbazones. Pak J Pharm Sci 1992; 5:161-6. [PMID: 16414716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Four different phenacyl-thiosemicarbazone compounds were studied for their antibacterial activity against seventeen different species/strains. Of the four compounds under study, O-methoxy- phenacyl-thiosemicarbazone was found to be highly active against almost all the cultures under study. The other compounds were also found to possess antibacterial spectrum, but in very high concentrations for some of the cultures.
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- S M Khalid
- Department of Microbiology, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan
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Reinach FC, Masaki T, Shafiq S, Obinata T, Fischman DA. Isoforms of C-protein in adult chicken skeletal muscle: detection with monoclonal antibodies. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1982; 95:78-84. [PMID: 6183271 PMCID: PMC2112370 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.95.1.78] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Monoclonal antibodies (McAbs) specific for the C-proteins of chicken pectoralis major and anterior latissimus dorsi (ALD) muscles have been produced and characterized. Antibody specificity was demonstrated by solid phase radioimmunoassay (RIA), immunoblots, and immunofluorescence cytochemistry. Both McAbs MF-1 (or MF-21) and ALD-66 bound to myofibrillar proteins of approximately 150,000 daltons; the former antibody reacted with pectoralis but not ALD myofibrils, whereas the latter recognized ALD but not pectoralis myofibrils. Chromatographic elution of the antigens from DEAE-Sephadex, and their distribution in the A-band, support the conclusion that both of these antibodies recognize variant isoforms of C-protein. Since both McAbs react with a protein of similar molecular weight in the A-band of all myofibrils of the posterior latissimus dorsi (PLD) muscle, we suggest that either another isoform of C-protein exists in the PLD muscle or both pectoralis and ALD-like isoforms coexist in the A-bands of PLD muscle.
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