Journal: Biomedicines

Article Title: Acetylated Diacylglycerol 1-palmitoyl-2-linoleoyl-3-acetyl-rac-glycerol in Autoimmune Arthritis and Interstitial Lung Disease in SKG Mice

doi: 10.3390/biomedicines9091095

Figure Lengend Snippet: Histologic examination of the lung tissue from SKG mice at 20 weeks after a curdlan injection with/without PLAG treatment. ( A ) Hematoxylin and eosin (upper panels) and Masson’s trichrome (lower panels) staining of the lung tissues. Severe lung inflammations were observed in the curdlan-induced SKG mice and these features were attenuated in the PLAG-treated curdlan-induced SKG mice. ( B ) Opal multiplexed immunofluorescent images and semi-quantitation of the total, GM-CSF + and IL-17A + neutrophil accumulation in the lung tissues. The GM-CSF + neutrophil accumulation was significantly decreased in the PLAG-treated curdlan-induced SKG mice compared with those without PLAG treatment whereas the IL-17A + neutrophil accumulation was not attenuated. The values represent the mean of three independent experiments ± SEM. * p < 0.05. PLAG: acetylated diacylglycerol 1-palmitoyl-2-linoleoyl-3-acetyl-rac-glycerol.

Article Snippet: The slides were again placed in a citrate buffer (pH 6.0), heated in a microwave and incubated with primary rabbit antibodies for IL-17A (Novus Biologicals, Centennial, CO, USA, NBP1-76337, 1:500) for 1 h in a humidified chamber at RT followed by a detection using polymer HRP Ms + Rb.

Techniques: Injection, Staining, Quantitation Assay

Journal: International Journal of Cardiology

Article Title: Enhanced IL-17 signalling following myocardial ischaemia/reperfusion injury

doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2011.08.849

Figure Lengend Snippet: Primers sequences used for qPCR analysis.

Article Snippet: In a different set of experiments rats were treated with 200 μg of anti-IL-17A polyclonal antibody intraperitoneally (R & D Systems, AF-421-NA) or PBS 2 h before undergoing in vivo ischemia/reperfusion injury.

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Journal: International Journal of Cardiology

Article Title: Enhanced IL-17 signalling following myocardial ischaemia/reperfusion injury

doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2011.08.849

Figure Lengend Snippet: IL-17A, IL-17F, IL-17 receptor and IL-17 target genes are transcriptionally upregulated following in vivo I/R injury. RNA and protein was extracted from the left ventricles of rats undergoing sham operation or 25 min ischaemia and 2 h reperfusion (I/R). (A) IL-17RA, IL-17A and IL-17F expression was measured by qPCR. (B) IL-17A and IL-17RA protein levels were assessed by western blot, GAPDH was used as a loading control. (C) Expression of the IL-17 target genes IL-6, IL-1, iNOS and MMP-9 was measured by qPCR.

Article Snippet: In a different set of experiments rats were treated with 200 μg of anti-IL-17A polyclonal antibody intraperitoneally (R & D Systems, AF-421-NA) or PBS 2 h before undergoing in vivo ischemia/reperfusion injury.

Techniques: In Vivo, Expressing, Western Blot, Control

Journal: International Journal of Cardiology

Article Title: Enhanced IL-17 signalling following myocardial ischaemia/reperfusion injury

doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2011.08.849

Figure Lengend Snippet: IL-17 induces Cxcl1, IL-6 and Socs3 expression in cardiac myocytes. Neonatal rat ventricular myocytes were treated with 10 ng/ml IL-17 for the indicated times and the levels of (A) Cxcl1, (B) IL-6, (C) MCP-1 and (D) Socs3 were measured by qPCR. Experiments were repeated in duplicate, statistical analysis was carried out using a one-way ANOVA followed by Dunnett's post test, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001. (E) I/R injury and IL-17 have additive effects on Cxcl1 expression. NRVMs were subjected to 4 h ischaemia and 6 h reperfusion with or without 10 ng/ml IL-17 which was added at the time of reperfusion. The expression of Cxcl1 was analysed by qPCR. Statistical analysis was carried out using student's t -test. **p < 0.01, **p < 0.001.

Article Snippet: In a different set of experiments rats were treated with 200 μg of anti-IL-17A polyclonal antibody intraperitoneally (R & D Systems, AF-421-NA) or PBS 2 h before undergoing in vivo ischemia/reperfusion injury.

Techniques: Expressing

Journal: International Journal of Cardiology

Article Title: Enhanced IL-17 signalling following myocardial ischaemia/reperfusion injury

doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2011.08.849

Figure Lengend Snippet: IL-17 mediated upregulation of Cxcl1 and IL-6 in cardiac myocytes is MAPK dependent. (A) NRVMs were treated with 10 ng/ml IL-17 for the indicated times and cell lysates were analysed by Western blot using the indicated antibodies. (B) NRVMs were pre-treated for 30 min with the indicated inhibitors followed by IL-17 stimulation for 6 h. The expression of Cxcl1 and IL-6 was measured by qPCR. Statistical analysis was carried out using a student's t -test. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, **p < 0.001.

Article Snippet: In a different set of experiments rats were treated with 200 μg of anti-IL-17A polyclonal antibody intraperitoneally (R & D Systems, AF-421-NA) or PBS 2 h before undergoing in vivo ischemia/reperfusion injury.

Techniques: Western Blot, Expressing

Journal: International Journal of Cardiology

Article Title: Enhanced IL-17 signalling following myocardial ischaemia/reperfusion injury

doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2011.08.849

Figure Lengend Snippet: IL-17 receptor and IL-17F are transcriptionally upregulated in cardiac myocytes. (A) NRVM were subjected to 4 h in vitro ischaemia and up to 24 h reperfusion in normal media after which the levels of IL-17 receptor and IL-17F were assessed by qPCR. (B) H9c2 cells were subjected to in vitro I/R for the indicated times and the levels of IL-17F and Cxcl1 were measured by qPCR. (C) NRVMs were treated with 200 μM H 2 O 2 for 6 h and the expression of the indicated genes was measured by qPCR. (D) NRMVs were transduced with STAT3C adenovirus at MOI = 100. After 48 h, increased expression of STAT3 was confirmed by Western blot and IL-17F expression was measured by qPCR. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, student's t -test, n = 3 per group, repeated in duplicate.

Article Snippet: In a different set of experiments rats were treated with 200 μg of anti-IL-17A polyclonal antibody intraperitoneally (R & D Systems, AF-421-NA) or PBS 2 h before undergoing in vivo ischemia/reperfusion injury.

Techniques: In Vitro, Expressing, Transduction, Western Blot

Journal: International Journal of Cardiology

Article Title: Enhanced IL-17 signalling following myocardial ischaemia/reperfusion injury

doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2011.08.849

Figure Lengend Snippet: Blocking IL-17 signalling with a specific anti-IL-17 neutralizing antibody reduced creatine phosphokinase and apoptotic cell death in the myocardium following in vivo I/R injury. Plasma concentration of CPK (A) and apoptosis assessed by the TUNEL assay (B) in sham-operated (control) or rats exposed to in vivo I/R injury (I/R) or I/R plus treatment with IL-17 neutralizing antibody (IL-17 Bo Ab). Immunofluorescence data (left panel) (Data are mean of ± 6 rats **P < 0.001). Anti-IL-17 neutralizing antibody also reduced the increase in cleaved/active caspase-3 expression following in vivo I/R injury (C). Western blot analysis was performed on tissue lysates prepared as in Fig. 3 A above and immunoblotted with a specific antibody against the cleaved and active form of caspase-3 and GAPDH.

Article Snippet: In a different set of experiments rats were treated with 200 μg of anti-IL-17A polyclonal antibody intraperitoneally (R & D Systems, AF-421-NA) or PBS 2 h before undergoing in vivo ischemia/reperfusion injury.

Techniques: Blocking Assay, In Vivo, Clinical Proteomics, Concentration Assay, TUNEL Assay, Control, Immunofluorescence, Expressing, Western Blot