Journal: Annals of Medicine
Article Title: Human adipose-derived stem cells promote migration of papillary thyroid cancer cell via leptin pathway
doi: 10.1080/07853890.2024.2419990
Figure Lengend Snippet: Leptin receptor (Ob-R) antagonist reduced the number of metastatic lung nodules and the diameter of nodules. (A) Procedure of animal experiment. Nude mice received venous transplantation of TPC-1 cells. To block OB-R, 1 mg/kg of Allo-aca was administrated to the animal per day. (B) Gross morphology of mice lungs showed nodules. Allo-aca reduced the number of pulmonary nodules. (C) Lung nodules were diagnosed as metastatic tumour under the light microscope. Allo-aca reduced the diameter of the nodules. (D) The lung nodules were examined by Western blot of thyroglobulin (TG). The nodules in the lungs were TG -positive, while the lung tissue was TG -negative. This result confirmed that the lung nodules were from thyroid carcinoma. (E–H) Allo-aca increased the level of serum T3, and had no significant effect on the level of T4, TSH and the body weight of the animal. Experiments were repeated at least five times. Data are expressed as mean ± standard deviation. * p < 0.05, *** p < 0.001, ns: not statistically significant.
Article Snippet: The PVDF membranes were blocked with BSA (Sigma-Aldrich) and then hybridized with antibodies, including the following: mouse monoclonal IgG of leptin receptor (Ob-R) antibody (R&D Systems, catalog# MAB867, diluted 1:500), rabbit polyclonal MMP-2 (Cell Signaling Technology, catalog# 4022, diluted 1:1000), MMP-9 antibodies (Signaling Technology, catalog# 3852, diluted 1:1000), rabbit monoclonal thyroglobulin antibody (Abcam, catalog# ab243094, diluted 1:1000), rabbit polyclonal GAPDH antibody (Abcam, catalog# ab9485, diluted 1:1000), goat anti-mouse IgG (Abcam, catalog# ab6789, diluted 1:2000), goat anti-rabbit IgG (Abcam, catalog# ab205718, diluted 1:2000).
Techniques: Transplantation Assay, Blocking Assay, Light Microscopy, Western Blot, Standard Deviation