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Peripheral nerve injury typically leads to chronic inflammation through recruitment of immune cells, which may induce neuropathic pain. We previously reported that M1-like macrophages at sites of peripheral nerve injury induced neuropathic pain; however, the involvement of other immune cells (e.g. M2-like macrophages) in the progression of neuropathic pain remains unclear. In addition, the immune responses that occur at sites of nerve injury have not been well characterized. In this study, we show that M2-like macrophages accumulate in injured nerves to participate in the clearance of dead or dying cells (i.e., efferocytosis). Because MerTK (a receptor of dead or dying cells) levels on the surface of macrophages are limited, it seems to induce the insufficient of efferocytosis, such that the levels of dead or dying cells cannot be controlled in injured nerves. Given that efferocytosis is pivotal for resolution of inflammation, our data suggest that insufficient efferocytosis is a contributing factor in the development of chronic inflammation in injured nerves. Lipin1 is important in lipid synthesis because of its phosphatidate phosphatase activity, and it also functions as transcriptional coactivators to regulate the expression of genes involved in lipid metabolism. We found that fld mice exhibit cognitive impairment, and it is related to the DAG-PKD-ERK pathway. We used fld mice to explore the relationship between lipin1 and cognitive function. Our results confirmed the presence of cognitive impairment in the hippocampus of lipin1-deficient mice. As shown in behavioral test, the spatial learning and memory ability of fld mice was much worse than that of wild-type mice. Electron microscopy results showed that the number of synapses in hippocampus of fld mice was significantly reduced. BDNF,SYP, PSD95 were significantly reduced. These results suggest that lipin1 impairs synaptic plasticity. Hence,a deficiency of lipin1 leads to decreased DAG levels and inhibits PKD activation, thereby affecting the phosphorylation of ERK and the CREB. RyeA/SraC is a cis-encoded small RNA (sRNA), which act as an anti-toxin to RpoS-regulated RyeB toxin in Escherichia coli. Ectopic expression of RyeA was reported to diminish the RyeB accumulation by serving as a RNA trap. Lower abundance of RyeA in the early exponential growth phase turned out to be the outcome of its degradation by RNase BN/Z. In the current study, we show that RyeA is an acid stress inducible sRNA, and global stress responsive factor RpoS appeared to be inessential in RyeA induction. Although, ryeB-pphA dicistronic transcript at low pH condition was stimulated by ∼4-fold, however, RyeB population was found to be decreased by > 50% under the same condition by the decoy action of enhanced RyeA accumulation. Investigation of the mechanism of RyeA induceduction at low pH in the exponential phase, revealed that RNase BN/Z, which catabolizes RyeA in the exponential phase, appeared to be highly sensitive to low pH stress. Both mRNA and protein level of RNase BN transpired to be decreased to less then 10% of their initial population. The expression of RyeA under acid stress is regulated by a feed-forward mechanism to normalize the RyeB profusion. Matrix stiffness regulates the physiology of the cells and plays an important role in maintaining its homeostasis. It has been reported to regulate cell division, proliferation, migration, extracellular uptake and various other physiological processes. The alteration in matrix stiffness has also been well reported in various disease pathologies. However, in ocular system, Keratoconus (KC) is an ideal model to study the effect of matrix stiffness on endocytosis since the progression of the disease is controlled by increasing the stromal elasticity. Our study using corneal epithelial and retinal pigment epithelial cell lines showed that ocular cells do respond to matrix stiffness by altering their morphology and endocytic uptake of FITC-Dextran 20 kDa. Further, by using KC epithelium as a clinical model, we hypothesize that change in stromal elasticity may also affect the endocytosis of KC epithelium. Our results clearly showed alteration in the expression of actin binding proteins such as Phosphorylated Cofilin, Profilin, Focal adhesion kinase, and Vinculin. Apart from cytoskeletal rearrangement proteins, we also observed endocytic proteins such as Clathrin, Caveolin1 and Rab 11 to be affected by matrix stiffness. Our study thus establishes connecting role between endocytosis and matrix stiffness which could be used to understand the pathophysiology of keratoconus that it is influenced by both mechanical and biochemical factors. 'Fear neurons' in the basal amygdala (Ba) acquire excitatory responsiveness to conditioned stimuli (CS) after fear conditioning and are believed to encode aversive valence of conditioned fear. However, it is unclear whether identical fear conditioning sessions given at different times engage the same population of 'fear neurons'. Here, we recorded electrical activity from single neurons in the Ba while the same fear conditioning paradigm was performed at two different times. Conditioned fear was monitored during CS presentation after each conditioning session in order to identify 'fear neurons'. Surprisingly, we found that initial conditioning and re-conditioning recruited different populations of 'fear neurons' in the Ba. We performed a control experiment in which conditioned fear was monitored twice after a single fear conditioning session. AM1241 The majority of the 'fear neurons', which were activated during the first retrieval, were re-activated during the second retrieval, suggesting that conditioning-induced 'fear neurons' are stable. Our findings, therefore, suggest that 'fear neurons' in the Ba encode specific learned events as well as their aversive valence. pH-sensitive CuS@Cu2S@Au nanoparticles (NPs) are successfully prepared by sacrificing template method. The NPs are of hollow structure, which is certified by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The CuS@Cu2S@Au NPs can be used as carriers for doxorubicin (DOX). The DOX loaded NPs exhibit pH-sensitive release of the drug, which are prospective as controllable drug delivery system. Besides, relative to the high toxicity and lethality of the free DOX, the time-dependent release of drug from the NPs is more suitable for the long-time and lasting treatment for colon cancer. The CuS@Cu2S@Au NPs with good biocompatibility are promising biomaterials in the application of biomedical and tissue engineering fields.
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