Journal: Brain : a journal of neurology

Article Title: Connexin43 mimetic peptide reduces vascular leak and retinal ganglion cell death following retinal ischaemia.

doi: 10.1093/brain/awr338

Figure Lengend Snippet: Figure 3 Three hours of hypoxia and 6 h of reperfusion lead to significant endothelial cell death in vitro in rat brain microvascular endothelial cells (RBMVEC; A). Non-specific gap junction blocker carbenoxolone, non-specific hemichannel blocker LaCl3, and connexin43 (Cx43) mimetic peptide protected endothelial cells against hypoxic injury, with the number of viable cells significantly higher than no treatment, while scrambled peptide did not have any protective effects. The number of viable cells was expressed as percentage of the control without hypoxia. Hypoxia and reperfusion also lead to significant propidium iodide dye uptake into primary rat brain microvascular endothelial cells indicating open hemichannels (B). Carbenoxolone, LaCl3 and connexin43 mimetic peptide significantly prevented dye uptake compared to no treatment, indicating hemichannel closure, while scrambled peptide did not have any effect. Stars denote statistical significance when compared to the control group or compared between groups in brackets; P 5 0.05.

Article Snippet: Rat brain microvascular endothelial cells (R840K-05a, Cell Applications) were plated into 24-well plates (1 105 cells/well) in rat brain microvascular endothelial cell growth media (R819K-500, Cell Applications) and allowed to settle for 16 h. Medium was then removed and replaced with Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle’s Medium/F12 containing 0.5% foetal bovine serum and 1% glutamine.

Techniques: In Vitro, Control

Journal: Pharmacological research

Article Title: Modulation of cellular bioenergetics by CO-releasing molecules and NO-donors inhibits the interaction of cancer cells with human lung microvascular endothelial cells.

doi: 10.1016/j.phrs.2018.09.005

Figure Lengend Snippet: Fig. 4. Effect of CORM-401 and PAPA NONOate on MDA-MB-231-luc2-tdTomato cell transendothelial migration and adhesion to lung microvascular endothelial cells.

Article Snippet: Human lung microvascular endothelial cell line (hLMVEC) was purchased from the European Cell Culture Collection (Cell Applications, San Diego, CA, USA), human breast adenocarcinoma MDA-MB-231-luc2-tdTomato cell line stably expressing the firefly luciferase gene and tdTomato fluorescent protein was kindly provided by Prof. Joanna Wietrzyk (Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences). hLMVEC cells were maintained in Microvascular Endothelial Cell Growth Medium (Cell Applications), MDA-MB-231-luc2-tdTomato cells were cultured in RPMI1640 GlutaMAX Medium (Gibco) with 10% FBS (Gibco), AAS (Sigma-Aldrich) containing 20 units of penicillin, 20 mg streptomycin and 0.05 mg amphotericin B.

Techniques: Migration