Journal: Translational Pediatrics
Article Title: Adolescent high fructose consumption induces cardiac dysfunction in adulthood via elevated histone acetylation
doi: 10.21037/tp-2025-aw-728
Figure Lengend Snippet: Reduced Cpt1b expression and elevated histone acetylation mediated by Sirt1 downregulation contributed to fructose-induced cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis respectively in adulthood. (A) The mRNA expression levels of Cpt1b , Khk and ChREBP in the heart (ND: n=12, HFD: n=12). (B) Histone acetylation in heart tissue from two groups were measured by immunoblotting and densitometric analyses (ND: n=3, HFD: n=3). (C) Histone acetylation levels were measured in cardiac fibroblasts and cardiac cells with or without fructose by immunoblotting and densitometric analyses. (ND: n=3, HFD: n=3). (D) The mRNA expression levels of Hdac 1 – 3 and Sirt 1 – 3 in the heart (ND: n=12, HFD: n=12). (E) The protein expression levels of Sirt1 in heart tissue by immunoblotting and densitometric analyses (ND: n=3, HFD: n=3). (F) The protein expression levels of Sirt1 by immunoblotting and densitometric analyses after fructose treatment for MEF and H9c2 cells (ND: n=3, HFD: n=3). ns, not significant (P≥0.05); *, P<0.05; **, P<0.01; ***, P<0.001; ****, P<0.0001. HFD, high-fructose drinking; MEF, Mouse embryonic fibroblast; ND, normal diet.
Article Snippet: H9c2 (Rat myocardial cells), MEF (Mouse embryonic fibroblast; ATCC Number: SCRC-1008) and NIH/3T3 (MEF cells; ATCC Number: CRL-1658) cells were used in this study.
Techniques: Expressing, Western Blot