Journal: Scientific Reports

Article Title: IL-37 alleviates inflammatory effects and NLRP3 inflammasome activation in LPS-induced preterm birth

doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-34506-1

Figure Lengend Snippet: rhIL-37 delays preterm delivery by reducing LPS-induced inflammatory effects and NLRP3 inflammasome activation in mice. ( A ) Orbital blood was collected from the control mice ( n = 6), LPS-induced preterm mice (LPS; n = 6), and rhIL-37 + LPS-co-treated preterm mice (rhIL-37 + LPS; n = 6).Serum levels of IL-1β, IL-6 and TNF-α were detected via ELISA. ( B ) Foetal membrane and placental tissues were collected from mice ( n = 6 per group) immediately before labour,, and the mRNA expression levels of NLRP3, Caspase-1 and ASC were detected via qRT-PCR. ( C ) Foetal membrane and placental tissues were collected from the mice in each group ( n = 3 per group), and the protein levels of NLRP3, Caspase-1, Pro-caspase-1 and ASC were analyzed by western blotting. ( D ) Western blot Results were normalised to β-actin. Bar graphs show statistical quantification of the western blot data. All data met the assumption of homogeneity of variance. Data are presented as mean ± s.e.m. Results are representative of at least three independent experiments. * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01;*** p < 0.001;**** p < 0.0001 (one-way ANOVA).

Article Snippet: Supernatants collected from HTR-8/SVneo cells were assayed for IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α levels using a human ELISA kit (LiankeBio, Hangzhou, China).

Techniques: Activation Assay, Control, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay, Membrane, Expressing, Quantitative RT-PCR, Western Blot

Journal: Scientific Reports

Article Title: IL-37 alleviates inflammatory effects and NLRP3 inflammasome activation in LPS-induced preterm birth

doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-34506-1

Figure Lengend Snippet: IL-37 knockdown enhances LPS-induced inflammatory and NLRP3 inflammasome activation in HTR-8/Svneo cells. ( A ) Cell supernatants were collected from control, si_NC- or si_IL37-treated cells following LPS exposure, and IL-37 expression level were detected by ELISA, qRT-PCR and Western blotting. ( B ) IL-1β, IL-6 and TNF-α levels in the cell supernatants were detected by ELISA. ( C ) The mRNA expression levels of NLRP3, Caspase-1 and ASC after cell treatment with LPS ( n = 5) were measured by qRT-PCR analysis. ( D ) NLRP3,pro-caspase-1, caspase-1 and ASC protein levels were detected by Western blotting, and the results were normalised to β-actin. All data exhibited equal variance.The data are shown as the mean ± s.e.m. The results are representative of at least three independent experiments. * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01;*** p < 0.001;**** p < 0.0001 (One-way ANOVA).

Article Snippet: Supernatants collected from HTR-8/SVneo cells were assayed for IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α levels using a human ELISA kit (LiankeBio, Hangzhou, China).

Techniques: Knockdown, Activation Assay, Control, Expressing, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay, Quantitative RT-PCR, Western Blot

Journal: Scientific Reports

Article Title: IL-37 alleviates inflammatory effects and NLRP3 inflammasome activation in LPS-induced preterm birth

doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-34506-1

Figure Lengend Snippet: Nigericin reversed the anti-inflammatory effects and effects of rhIL-37 and its inhibition of NF-κB p65 activation in LPS-induced PTB.t ( A ) Cell supernatants were collected from HTR-8/Svneo cells co-treated with rhIL-37 and LPS, then either left untreated or treated with nigericin.The mRNA expression of NLRP3, caspase-1, and ASC was detected. ( B ) Cells were collected, and the protein expression of NLRP3, caspase-1, pro-caspase-1, and ASC was detected by western blotting. Results were normalised to β-actin and statistically analyzed.( C ) HTR-8/Svneo cell supernatants were collected after co-treatment with rhIL-37 and LPS (with or without nigericin), and the expression levels of IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α were detected by ELISA. ( D ) HTR-8/Svneo cells co-treated with rhIL-37 and LPS (with or without nigericin) were collected. The mRNA expression of p65 was detected by qRT-PCR, and protein expression of p65 and p-p65 was detected by western blotting. Densitometric quantification of p-p65 relative to p65 was performed. Statistical analysis of the western blot results was performed.All data exhibited equal variance.The data are shown as the means ± s.e.m. The results are representative of at least three independent experiments..

Article Snippet: Supernatants collected from HTR-8/SVneo cells were assayed for IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α levels using a human ELISA kit (LiankeBio, Hangzhou, China).

Techniques: Inhibition, Activation Assay, Expressing, Western Blot, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay, Quantitative RT-PCR

Journal: International Journal of Molecular Medicine

Article Title: Selective autophagic degradation of glycolytic activator PFKFB3 contributes to maintaining intestinal epithelial barrier in inflammatory bowel disease

doi: 10.3892/ijmm.2025.5714

Figure Lengend Snippet: Impaired autophagy and upregulated glycolysis levels in IECs were observed under inflammatory conditions. (A) Establishment of acute colitis mouse model and chronic colitis mouse model. (B) The protein levels of P62 and LC3b in colonic epithelial cells of acute DSS-induced mice (n=3) and chronic DSS-induced mice (n=3) determined by western blot analysis. (C) mRNA levels of PFKP, LDHA, HK2, PKM2, PFKFB3 in DSS-induced mice epithelial cells. (D) Autophagic flux was measured by transfecting cells with mRFP-GFP-LC3 dual-fluorescence adenovirus (Ad-LC3), allowing differentiation between autophagosomes (mRFP+/GFP+ fluorescence, appearing as yellow puncta) and autolysosomes (mRFP+/GFP-fluorescence, appearing as red puncta). TNF-α (200 ng/ml) induced epithelial cells for 48 h. Representative immunofluorescence images were shown. (Original magnification, ×20). Quantification of LC3 puncta number of representative cells. (E) Relative glucose content and lactate (Lac) production in control vs. TNF-α induced epithelial cells. (F) 2-NBDG and (G) BCECF fluorescent counter-staining in TNF-α induced epithelial cells vs. control. Representative immunofluorescence images were shown. (Original magnification, ×20). Quantitative fluorescence intensity of 2-NBDG and BCECF (n=3). Data were presented as the mean ± SD of n=3 per group. Statistical analysis was performed using unpaired t-tests. **** P<0.0001, *** P<0.001, ** P<0.01, * P<0.05, ns, non-significant vs. control group. IECs, intestinal epithelial cells; DSS, dextran sulfate sodium salt; 2-NBDG, 2-deoxy-2-[(7-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazol-4-yl) amino]-D-glucose; BCECF, 2',7'-bis(carboxyethyl)-5-carboxyfluorescein.

Article Snippet: TNF-α (HY-P70426A) was purchased from MedChemExpress.

Techniques: Western Blot, Fluorescence, Immunofluorescence, Control, Staining

Journal: International Journal of Molecular Medicine

Article Title: Selective autophagic degradation of glycolytic activator PFKFB3 contributes to maintaining intestinal epithelial barrier in inflammatory bowel disease

doi: 10.3892/ijmm.2025.5714

Figure Lengend Snippet: PFKFB3 was upregulated in IBD. (A) Analysis of PFKFB3 mRNA expression in normal and Crohn's disease tissues within public datasets ( GSE119600 , GSE126124 , GSE112057 ). (B) mRNA levels of PFKPFB3 in control (n=10) vs. tissue of patients with Crohn's disease (n=10), control (n=26) vs. blood of patients with Crohn's disease (active stage n=12; remission stage n=7). (C) Immunohistochemical staining of PFKFB3 in tissue of patients with Crohn's disease and semiquantitative analysis (n=3). (D) Immunofluorescence images of PFKFB3 in colonic epithelial tissue of patients with Crohn's disease and quantification of the fluorescence intensity of PFKFB3 (n=3). (E) Protein levels of PFKFB3 in control vs. colonic epithelium of DSS-induced mice (acute n=3, chronic n=3). (F) Immunofluorescence images of PFKFB3 in colonic epithelium of DSS-induced mice and quantification of the fluorescence intensity of PFKFB3 (acute n=3, chronic n=3). (G) Representative hematoxylin and eosin staining of the colon. DSS-induced colitis mice were treated with intraperitoneal injection of PFK-15 every three days. (H) Immunohistochemical staining of claudin-5, claudin-8, claudin-2 and occludin in colon tissue. (I) mRNA levels of IL-6, TNF-α and IL-1β. The P values for all figures except B, F, and H were calculated using unpaired t-tests, while one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey's multiple comparisons test was used for B, F and H. The values were presented as the means ± SEM, * P<0.05, ** P<0.01, *** P<0.001, **** P<0.0001. PFKFB3, 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase 3; IBD, inflammatory bowel disease; DSS, dextran sulfate sodium salt; PFK-1, phosphofructokinase-1; CD, Crohn's disease; WT, Wild-type.

Article Snippet: TNF-α (HY-P70426A) was purchased from MedChemExpress.

Techniques: Expressing, Control, Immunohistochemical staining, Staining, Immunofluorescence, Fluorescence, Injection

Journal: bioRxiv

Article Title: Inexpensive High-Throughput Multiplexed Cytokine Detection for Tuberculosis Diagnostics Using Amplified Enzymatic Metallization

doi: 10.64898/2026.01.27.700981

Figure Lengend Snippet: (a) Schematic of immunoassay for cytokine detection. (b) Initial LOD optimization for the IFN-γ assay. (c-e) IFN-γ (n=2), IL-2 (n=5), TNF-α (n=2) dilution curves using recombinant cytokines (f-h) Correlation plots of ELISA absorbance values at 450 nm versus silver darkness values for IFN-γ (f), TNF-α (g), and IL-2 (h). All fit lines are four-parameter logistic sigmoidal curves.

Article Snippet: Recombinant human IFN-γ protein (11725-HNAS), biotinylated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-B), anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R238), HRP-conjugated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-H), recombinant human TNF-α protein (10602-HNAE), biotinylated anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM08-B), and anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM01) were obtained from SinoBiological.

Techniques: Recombinant, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay

Journal: bioRxiv

Article Title: Inexpensive High-Throughput Multiplexed Cytokine Detection for Tuberculosis Diagnostics Using Amplified Enzymatic Metallization

doi: 10.64898/2026.01.27.700981

Figure Lengend Snippet: (a) Schematic demonstrating the stimulation groups and controls. Dilution curves for IFN-γ (b-c), IL-2 (d-e), and TNF-α (f-g) in pooled LTB+ and LTB-clinical supernatant samples. Clinical samples consisted of NIL (negative control), Ag1, Ag2, and Mitogen (positive control) groups (n=2).

Article Snippet: Recombinant human IFN-γ protein (11725-HNAS), biotinylated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-B), anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R238), HRP-conjugated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-H), recombinant human TNF-α protein (10602-HNAE), biotinylated anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM08-B), and anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM01) were obtained from SinoBiological.

Techniques: Negative Control, Positive Control

Journal: bioRxiv

Article Title: Inexpensive High-Throughput Multiplexed Cytokine Detection for Tuberculosis Diagnostics Using Amplified Enzymatic Metallization

doi: 10.64898/2026.01.27.700981

Figure Lengend Snippet: Individual participant silver darkness values for IFN-γ (a), IL-2 (b), and TNF-α (c) detection from NIL, Ag1, Ag2, and Mitogen samples of IGRA+ and IGRA-patients using a sample dilution of 1:10. Average of n=2 repeats was plotted for each sample.

Article Snippet: Recombinant human IFN-γ protein (11725-HNAS), biotinylated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-B), anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R238), HRP-conjugated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-H), recombinant human TNF-α protein (10602-HNAE), biotinylated anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM08-B), and anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM01) were obtained from SinoBiological.

Techniques:

Journal: bioRxiv

Article Title: Inexpensive High-Throughput Multiplexed Cytokine Detection for Tuberculosis Diagnostics Using Amplified Enzymatic Metallization

doi: 10.64898/2026.01.27.700981

Figure Lengend Snippet: (a) Schematic of immunoassay for cytokine detection. (b) Initial LOD optimization for the IFN-γ assay. (c-e) IFN-γ (n=2), IL-2 (n=5), TNF-α (n=2) dilution curves using recombinant cytokines (f-h) Correlation plots of ELISA absorbance values at 450 nm versus silver darkness values for IFN-γ (f), TNF-α (g), and IL-2 (h). All fit lines are four-parameter logistic sigmoidal curves.

Article Snippet: Recombinant human IFN-γ protein (11725-HNAS), biotinylated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-B), anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R238), HRP-conjugated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-H), recombinant human TNF-α protein (10602-HNAE), biotinylated anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM08-B), and anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM01) were obtained from SinoBiological.

Techniques: Recombinant, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay

Journal: bioRxiv

Article Title: Inexpensive High-Throughput Multiplexed Cytokine Detection for Tuberculosis Diagnostics Using Amplified Enzymatic Metallization

doi: 10.64898/2026.01.27.700981

Figure Lengend Snippet: (a) Schematic demonstrating the stimulation groups and controls. Dilution curves for IFN-γ (b-c), IL-2 (d-e), and TNF-α (f-g) in pooled LTB+ and LTB-clinical supernatant samples. Clinical samples consisted of NIL (negative control), Ag1, Ag2, and Mitogen (positive control) groups (n=2).

Article Snippet: Recombinant human IFN-γ protein (11725-HNAS), biotinylated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-B), anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R238), HRP-conjugated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-H), recombinant human TNF-α protein (10602-HNAE), biotinylated anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM08-B), and anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM01) were obtained from SinoBiological.

Techniques: Negative Control, Positive Control

Journal: bioRxiv

Article Title: Inexpensive High-Throughput Multiplexed Cytokine Detection for Tuberculosis Diagnostics Using Amplified Enzymatic Metallization

doi: 10.64898/2026.01.27.700981

Figure Lengend Snippet: Individual participant silver darkness values for IFN-γ (a), IL-2 (b), and TNF-α (c) detection from NIL, Ag1, Ag2, and Mitogen samples of IGRA+ and IGRA-patients using a sample dilution of 1:10. Average of n=2 repeats was plotted for each sample.

Article Snippet: Recombinant human IFN-γ protein (11725-HNAS), biotinylated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-B), anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R238), HRP-conjugated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-H), recombinant human TNF-α protein (10602-HNAE), biotinylated anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM08-B), and anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM01) were obtained from SinoBiological.

Techniques:

Journal: bioRxiv

Article Title: Inexpensive High-Throughput Multiplexed Cytokine Detection for Tuberculosis Diagnostics Using Amplified Enzymatic Metallization

doi: 10.64898/2026.01.27.700981

Figure Lengend Snippet: (a) Schematic of laser-cut PDMS microwell array reversibly assembled on a polystyrene petri dish and workflow of enzymatically amplified silver metallization using Biotin-BSA and poly-HRP-SA. (b) Cell-phone image of silver metallized wells after assay. (c) Biotin-BSA dilution curve obtained from cell-phone image silver darkness quantification in ImageJ. (d) Assay stack for initial biotinyl tyramide signal amplification testing using biotinylated anti-IFN-γ as capture. (e) Dilution curve of silver darkness of increasing biotinylated anti-IFN-γ as target and 10 µg/mL, 1 µg/mL, and 0 µg/mL biotinyl tyramide. All assays were repeated three (n=3) times and fit lines are four-parameter logistic sigmoidal curves.

Article Snippet: Recombinant human IFN-γ protein (11725-HNAS), biotinylated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-B), anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R238), HRP-conjugated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-H), recombinant human TNF-α protein (10602-HNAE), biotinylated anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM08-B), and anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM01) were obtained from SinoBiological.

Techniques: Amplification

Journal: bioRxiv

Article Title: Inexpensive High-Throughput Multiplexed Cytokine Detection for Tuberculosis Diagnostics Using Amplified Enzymatic Metallization

doi: 10.64898/2026.01.27.700981

Figure Lengend Snippet: (a) Schematic of immunoassay for cytokine detection. (b) Initial LOD optimization for the IFN-γ assay. (c-e) IFN-γ (n=2), IL-2 (n=5), TNF-α (n=2) dilution curves using recombinant cytokines (f-h) Correlation plots of ELISA absorbance values at 450 nm versus silver darkness values for IFN-γ (f), TNF-α (g), and IL-2 (h). All fit lines are four-parameter logistic sigmoidal curves.

Article Snippet: Recombinant human IFN-γ protein (11725-HNAS), biotinylated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-B), anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R238), HRP-conjugated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-H), recombinant human TNF-α protein (10602-HNAE), biotinylated anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM08-B), and anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM01) were obtained from SinoBiological.

Techniques: Recombinant, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay

Journal: bioRxiv

Article Title: Inexpensive High-Throughput Multiplexed Cytokine Detection for Tuberculosis Diagnostics Using Amplified Enzymatic Metallization

doi: 10.64898/2026.01.27.700981

Figure Lengend Snippet: (a) Schematic demonstrating the stimulation groups and controls. Dilution curves for IFN-γ (b-c), IL-2 (d-e), and TNF-α (f-g) in pooled LTB+ and LTB-clinical supernatant samples. Clinical samples consisted of NIL (negative control), Ag1, Ag2, and Mitogen (positive control) groups (n=2).

Article Snippet: Recombinant human IFN-γ protein (11725-HNAS), biotinylated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-B), anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R238), HRP-conjugated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-H), recombinant human TNF-α protein (10602-HNAE), biotinylated anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM08-B), and anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM01) were obtained from SinoBiological.

Techniques: Negative Control, Positive Control

Journal: bioRxiv

Article Title: Inexpensive High-Throughput Multiplexed Cytokine Detection for Tuberculosis Diagnostics Using Amplified Enzymatic Metallization

doi: 10.64898/2026.01.27.700981

Figure Lengend Snippet: Individual participant silver darkness values for IFN-γ (a), IL-2 (b), and TNF-α (c) detection from NIL, Ag1, Ag2, and Mitogen samples of IGRA+ and IGRA-patients using a sample dilution of 1:10. Average of n=2 repeats was plotted for each sample.

Article Snippet: Recombinant human IFN-γ protein (11725-HNAS), biotinylated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-B), anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R238), HRP-conjugated anti-human IFN-γ antibody (11725-R209-H), recombinant human TNF-α protein (10602-HNAE), biotinylated anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM08-B), and anti-human TNF-α antibody (10602-MM01) were obtained from SinoBiological.

Techniques: