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: Cancers

Article Title: A Double-Negative Feedback Interaction between miR-21 and PPAR-α in Clear Renal Cell Carcinoma

doi: 10.3390/cancers14030795

Figure Lengend Snippet: miR-21 and PPAR-α expressions in HK-2 and renal cancer cell lines before confluence (BC) and two days after confluence (C + 2). ( A ) Using RT-qPCR, miR-21 expression was determined in the 786-O, ACHN, RCC10, and RCC4 renal cancer cells as compared to normal HK-2 renal epithelial cells. RNU48 was used as an internal control. The values are means ± SEM and represent at least three separate experiments (* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, and *** p < 0.001). ( B ) Western blotting was performed on whole cell extracts. Antibodies against PPAR-α and β-actin were used.

Article Snippet: The HK-2 human proximal tubule epithelial cell line, ACHN, and 786-O human renal cancer cell lines were purchased from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC, Manassas, VA, USA).

Techniques: Quantitative RT-PCR, Expressing, Control, Western Blot

Journal: Methods in cell biology

Article Title: Analysis of primary cilia in renal tissue and cells

doi: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2019.04.008

Figure Lengend Snippet: Immortalized and primary renal epithelial cells.

Article Snippet: The balance between cilia assembly and disassembly regulates cilia length ( Mirvis, Stearns, & James Nelson, 2018 ; Spalluto, Wilson, & Hearn, 2013 ). table ft1 table-wrap mode="anchored" t5 caption a7 Cell line Description Source References M-1 Murine cortical collecting duct epithelial cells ATCC Stoos et al. (1991) IMCD-3 Murine inner medullary collecting duct epithelial cells ATCC Rauchman et al. (1993) LLC-PK1 Porcine proximal tubule epithelial cells ATCC Nielsen et al. (1998) MDCK Madin-Darby canine kidney epithelial cells ATCC Gaush et al. (1966) NHK/ADPKD Primary cortical epithelial cells from normal human kidney (NHK) or Autosomal Dominant PKD (ADPKD) KUMC Graham et al. (1977) and Reif et al. (2011) Open in a separate window Immortalized and primary renal epithelial cells. table ft1 table-wrap mode="anchored" t5 caption a7 Antibody Company Cilia structure References Acetylated-α-tubulin Sigma-Aldrich Axoneme Ishikawa et al. (2012) , Seixas et al. (2015) , Silva et al. (2018) , and Yu, Sharma, Skowronek, and Erdmann (2016) γ-tubulin Sigma-Aldrich Centrioles Breslow et al. (2013) Pericentrin Covance Centrioles Ishikawa et al. (2012) ARL13B Proteintech Ciliary membrane Seixas et al. (2015) INPP5E Proteintech Ciliary membrane Plotnikova et al. (2015) IFT52 Proteintech Axoneme Silva et al. (2018) IFT81 Proteintech Axoneme Silva et al. (2018) IFT88 Proteintech Axoneme Silva et al. (2018) IFT140 Proteintech Axoneme Silva et al. (2018) BBS2 Proteintech Axoneme Silva et al. (2018) BBS5 Proteintech Axoneme Silva et al. (2018) Open in a separate window Markers of primary cilia.

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