Journal: Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine
Article Title: Ursolic acid ameliorates adipose tissue insulin resistance in aged rats via activating the Akt-glucose transporter 4 signaling pathway and inhibiting inflammation
doi: 10.3892/etm.2021.10901
Figure Lengend Snippet: Effect of UA on IRS-1/PI3K/Akt signaling pathway in eWAT of aged rats. (A) Expression of IRS-1, p-IRS-1 (Ser307), p-IRS-1 (Ser307)/IRS-1, Akt, p-Akt (Ser473) and p-Akt (Ser473)/Akt protein levels. (B) PI3K protein levels. Treatment groups were: Young (untreated, n=8), aged (untreated, n=9), treated with 10 mg/kg UA (UA-L, n=8) or 50 mg/kg UA (UA-H, n=9) for 7 weeks. All animals had free access to a standard diet. *P<0.05 compared with aged group. UA-H, high ursolic acid; eWAT, epididymis white adipose tissue; IRS-1, insulin receptor substrate-1; p, phosphorylated; Akt, protein kinase B; PI3K, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase.
Article Snippet: Membranes were incubated in blocking buffer (5% skimmed milk) for 2 h at room temperature and immunoblotted with the following primary antibodies for 14 h at 4˚C: Rabbit polyclonal anti-IRS-1 antibody (1:1,000; cat. no. TA312859; Origene Technologies, Inc.), rabbit polyclonal anti-phosphorylated(p)-IRS-1 Ser307 antibody (1:1,000; cat. no. TA325573; Origene Technologies, Inc.), rabbit monoclonal anti-Akt antibody (1:1,000; cat. no. ab179463; Abcam), rabbit monoclonal anti-p-Akt Ser473 antibody (1:1,000; cat. no. 4060; Cell Signaling Technology, Inc.), rabbit polyclonal PI3K antibody (1:6,000; cat. no. 2225185; EMD Millipore), rat monoclonal GLUT4 antibody (1:1,000; cat. no. 10613; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.), rabbit polyclonal NF-κB antibody (1:2,000; cat. no. ab16502; Abcam), rabbit polyclonal IL-1β antibody (1:1,000; cat. no. ab9722; Abcam), rat monoclonal IL-6 antibody (1:1,000; cat. no. ab9324; Abcam), and rabbit polyclonal anti-sodium/potassium-transporting ATPase subunit alpha-1 (ATP-1a1) antibody (1:1,000; cat. no. TA326844; Origene Technologies, Inc.).
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