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Copyright© Bentham Science Publishers; For any queries, please email at [email protected] cancer is the fourth most common tumor and the second leading cause of cancer-correlated death. Multi-drug resistance is one of the most significant reasons for the chemotherapeutics failure in gastric cancer. ABBV-CLS-484 in vivo Although accumulating investigations and researches have been made to elucidate the mechanisms of multi-drug resistance, the detail is far from completely understood. There are different biological processes such as signal transduction, biochemical pathways, cell differentiation, proliferation, and cell autophagy and apoptosis involving in microRNAs targeted more than one-third of protein coding genes. The importance of microRNAs in cancer chemotherapeutic resistance has recently been demonstrated which provides a new strategy to overcome multi-drug resistance. In turn, the aim of this review was to summarize recent publications of microRNAs in regulating multi-drug resistance in gastric cancer, thereby potentially develop as targeted therapies. Further unraveling the molecular mechanisms of multi-drug resistance will be helpful for us to win the battle against it. Copyright© Bentham Science Publishers; For any queries, please email at [email protected] consumption has long been a part of human culture. However, alcohol consumption levels and alcohol consumption patterns are associated with chronic diseases. Overall, light and moderate alcohol consumption (up to 14 g per day for women and up to 28 g per day for men) may be associated with reduced mortality risk, mainly due to reduced risks for cardiovascular disease and type-2 diabetes. However, chronic heavy alcohol consumption and alcohol abuse lead to alcohol-use disorder, which results in physical and mental diseases such as liver disease, pancreatitis, dementia, and various types of cancer. Risk factors for alcohol-use disorder are largely unknown. Alcohol-use disorder and frequent heavy drinking have detrimental effects on personal health.Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) occurs in humans either as heritable form (hPVOD) due to biallelic inactivating mutations of EIF2AK4 (encoding GCN2), or as a sporadic form at older age (sPVOD). The chemotherapeutic agent Mitomycin C is a potent inducer of PVOD in humans and in rats (MMC-PVOD). Here we compared human hPVOD and sPVOD, and MMC-PVOD pathophysiology at the histological, cellular and molecular levels to unravel common altered pathomechanisms. MMC-exposure in rats was primarily associated with arterial and microvessels remodeling and secondarily followed by venous remodeling, when PVOD became symptomatic. In all forms of PVOD tested, there were convergent GCN2-dependent but eIF2α-independent pulmonary protein overexpression of heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) and CCAAT-enhancer-binding protein (C/EBP) homologous protein (CHOP), two downstream effectors of GCN2 signaling and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. In human PVOD samples, CHOP immunohistochemical staining mainly labeled endothelial cells in remodeled veins and arteries. Strong HO-1 staining was observed only within capillary hemangiomatosis foci, where intense microvascular proliferation occurs. HO-1 and CHOP stainings were not observed in control and pulmonary arterial hypertension lung tissues, supporting the specificity for CHOP and HO-1 involvement in PVOD pathobiology. In vivo loss of GCN2 (EIF2AK4 mutations carriers and Eif2ak4-/- rats) or in vitro GCN2 inhibition in cultured pulmonary artery endothelial cells (PAECs) using pharmacological and siRNA approaches demonstrated that GCN2 loss-of-function negatively regulates BMP-dependent SMAD1/5/9 signaling. Exogenous BMP9 was still able to reverse GCN2 inhibition-induced PAECs proliferation. In conclusion, we identified CHOP and HO-1 inhibition, and BMP9 as potential therapeutic options for PVOD.Aim A surrogate matrix is needed to quantify 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 in dried whole blood (DWB). To date, there has been limited guidance on approaches for quantification of endogenous analytes in atypical matrices, such as DWB. Methods Different surrogate matrices were investigated in a systematic process using an LC-MS/MS assay. Performance assessment was made using quality controls of DWB with different hematocrits. Results & conclusion Suitability of both phosphate-buffered saline containing bovine serum albumin and washed red blood cells recombined with phosphate-buffered saline containing bovine serum albumin as a surrogate matrix was demonstrated across a range of concentrations and hematocrits representative of expected endogenous analyte samples.Emerging evidence suggest that gut microbiota-derived short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs; acetate, propionate, and butyrate) are important modulators of the inflammatory state in diseases such as asthma. However, the functional expression of the Gi protein-coupled free fatty acid receptors (FFAR2/GPR43 and FFAR3/GPR41) have not been identified on airway smooth muscle (ASM). Classically, acute activation of Gi-coupled receptors inhibits cyclic AMP (cAMP) synthesis which impairs ASM relaxation and can also induce crosstalk between Gi- and Gq-signaling pathways, potentiating increases in intracellular Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i), favoring ASM contraction. In contrast, chronic activation of Gi-coupled receptors can sensitize adenylyl cyclase resulting in increased cAMP synthesis favoring relaxation. We questioned whether the Gi-coupled FFAR2 or FFAR3 are expressed on human ASM, whether they modulate cAMP and [Ca2+]i，and whether SCFAs modulate human ASM tone. We detected the protein expression of FFAR3 but not FFAR2 in native human ASM and primary cultured human airway smooth muscle (HASM) cells. In HASM cells, acute activation of FFAR3 with SCFAs inhibited forskolin-stimulated cAMP accumulation, but chronic activation did not sensitize cAMP synthesis. SCFAs induced [Ca2+]i increases which were attenuated by pertussis toxin, gallein, U73122 or Xestospongin C. Acute treatment with SCFAs potentiated acetylcholine-stimulated [Ca2+]i increases and stress fiber formation in cells and contraction of ex vivo human airway tissues. In contrast, chronic pretreatment of human ASM with propionate did not potentiate airway relaxation. Together, these findings demonstrate that FFAR3 is expressed in human ASM, and contributes to ASM contraction via reduced cAMP and increased [Ca2+]i.
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