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- Castiglioni, Laura, et al.
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Fenofibrate attenuates cardiac and renal alterations in young salt-loaded spontaneously hypertensive stroke-prone rats through mitochondrial protection
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Hypertension. - : LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS. - 0263-6352 .- 1473-5598. ; 36:5, s. 1129-1146
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objectives:The simultaneous presence of cardiac and renal diseases is a pathological condition that leads to increased morbidity and mortality. Several lines of evidence have suggested that lipid dysmetabolism and mitochondrial dysfunction are pathways involved in the pathological processes affecting the heart and kidney. In the salt-loaded spontaneously hypertensive stroke-prone rat (SHRSP), a model of cardiac hypertrophy and nephropathy that shows mitochondrial alterations in the myocardium, we evaluated the cardiorenal effects of fenofibrate, a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPAR) agonist that acts by modulating mitochondrial and peroxisomal fatty acid oxidation.Methods:Male SHRSPs aged 6-7 weeks were divided in three groups: standard diet (n=6), Japanese diet with vehicle (n=6), and Japanese diet with fenofibrate 150mg/kg/day (n=6) for 5 weeks. Cardiac and renal functions were assessed in vivo by MRI, ultrasonography, and biochemical assays. Mitochondria were investigated by transmission electron microscopy, succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) activity, and gene expression analysis.Results:Fenofibrate attenuated cardiac hypertrophy, as evidenced by histological and MRI analyses, and protected the kidneys, preventing morphological alterations, changes in arterial blood flow velocity, and increases in 24-h proteinuria. Cardiorenal inflammation, oxidative stress, and cellular senescence were also inhibited by fenofibrate. In salt-loaded SHRSPs, we observed severe morphological mitochondrial alterations, reduced SDH activity, and down-regulation of genes regulating mitochondrial fatty-acid oxidation (i.e. PPAR, SIRT3, and Acadm). These changes were counteracted by fenofibrate. In vitro, a direct protective effect of fenofibrate on mitochondrial membrane potential was observed in albumin-stimulated NRK-52E renal tubular epithelial cells.Conclusion:The results suggest that the cardiorenal protective effects of fenofibrate in young male salt-loaded SHRSPs are explained by its capacity to preserve mitochondrial function.
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- Ferrari, A., et al.
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Attenuation of diet-induced obesity and induction of white fat browning with a chemical inhibitor of histone deacetylases
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Journal of Obesity. - : NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP. - 0307-0565 .- 1476-5497. ; 41:2, s. 289-298
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: In the last decade, a strict link between epigenetics and metabolism has been demonstrated. Histone deacetylases (HDACs) have emerged as key epigenetic regulators involved in metabolic homeostasis in normal and pathologic conditions. Here we investigated the effect of the class I HDAC inhibitor MS-275 in a model of obesity induced by a high-fat diet (HFD). METHODS: C57BL6/J male mice were fed HFD for 17 weeks and then randomized in two groups, treated intraperitoneally with vehicle dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) or with the class I selective HDAC inhibitor MS-275 every other day for 22 days. Glucose tolerance test and measurement of body temperature during cold exposure were performed. Adipose tissues and liver were phenotypically characterized through histological analysis. Gene and protein expression analysis of brown and white adipose tissues (WATs) were performed. RESULTS: MS-275 treated mice showed 10% reduction of body weight, lower adipocyte size and improved glucose tolerance. Inhibition of class I HDAC determined reduction of adipocyte size and of fat mass, paralleled by higher expression of adipose functionality markers and by increased rate of lipolysis and fatty acid beta-oxidation. MS-275 also promoted thermogenic capacity, related to `browning' of visceral and subcutaneous WAT, showing increased expression of uncoupling protein 1. In brown adipose tissue, we observed limited effects on gene expression and only reduction of brown adipocyte size. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides evidence that class I HDAC inhibition stimulated functionality and oxidative potential of adipose tissue, improving glucose tolerance and ameliorating the metabolic profile in diet-induced obese mice.
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- Laghezza, Antonio, et al.
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Identification of the First PPAR alpha/gamma Dual Agonist Able To Bind to Canonical and Alternative Sites of PPAR gamma and To Inhibit Its Cdk5-Mediated Phosphorylation
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. - : AMER CHEMICAL SOC. - 0022-2623 .- 1520-4804. ; 61:18, s. 8282-8298
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A new series of derivatives of the PPAR alpha/gamma dual agonist 1 allowed us to identify the ligand (S)-6 as a potent partial agonist of both PPAR alpha and gamma subtypes. X-ray studies in PPAR gamma revealed two different binding modes of (S)-6 to the canonical site. However, (S)-6 was also able to bind an alternative site as demonstrated by transactivation assay in the presence of a canonical PPAR gamma antagonist and supported from docking experiments. This compound did not activate the PPAR gamma-dependent program of adipocyte differentiation inducing a very less severe lipid accumulation compared to rosiglitazone but increased the insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Finally, (S)-6 inhibited the Cdk5-mediated phosphorylation of PPAR gamma at serine 273 that is currently considered the mechanism by which some PPAR gamma partial agonists exert antidiabetic effects similar to thiazolidinediones, without showing their typical side effects. This is the first PPAR alpha/gamma dual agonist reported to show this inhibitory effect representing the potential lead of a new class of drugs for treatment of dyslipidemic type 2 diabetes.
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- Maffei, Antonio, 1982-, et al.
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An ontological framework to support the creation and use of phenomenograpical knowledge
- 2019
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Ingår i: EDUNINE 2019 - 3rd IEEE World Engineering Education Conference. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. - 9781728116662
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The design of effective teaching and learning activities should create an experience able to elicit the intended learning outcomes of the focal educational unit. For this purpose, it is fundamental to account for the different ways students can experience the specific content taught. One of the few methods to investigate this issue is phenomenology, a powerful yet not extensively applied tool. The main reason lies in the lack of a structured approach to document phenomenological studies. This work proposes an ontological framework able to capture the main operational concepts and semantic of this body of knowledge. This framework can be used as basis to make explicit the domain assumption enabling the sharing of common understanding of the structure of information among people or software agents. This, in turn, opens the possibility to analyze, reuse and maintain phenomenological knowledge.
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- Malm, Magdalena, 1983-, et al.
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Evolution from adherent to suspension: systems biology of HEK293 cell line development
- 2020
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Ingår i: Scientific Reports. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2045-2322 .- 2045-2322. ; 10:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The need for new safe and efficacious therapies has led to an increased focus on biologics produced in mammalian cells. The human cell line HEK293 has bio-synthetic potential for human-like production attributes and is currently used for manufacturing of several therapeutic proteins and viral vectors. Despite the increased popularity of this strain we still have limited knowledge on the genetic composition of its derivatives. Here we present a genomic, transcriptomic and metabolic gene analysis of six of the most widely used HEK293 cell lines. Changes in gene copy and expression between industrial progeny cell lines and the original HEK293 were associated with cellular component organization, cell motility and cell adhesion. Changes in gene expression between adherent and suspension derivatives highlighted switching in cholesterol biosynthesis and expression of five key genes (RARG, ID1, ZIC1, LOX and DHRS3), a pattern validated in 63 human adherent or suspension cell lines of other origin.
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