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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2002 Aug;283(2):H707-14.
Ventricular expression of natriuretic peptides in Npr1(-/-) mice with cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis.
Ellmers LJ, Knowles JW, Kim HS, Smithies O, Maeda N, Cameron VA.
Cardioendocrine Research Group, Department of Medicine, Christchurch Hospital and School of Medicine, PO Box 4345, Christchurch, New Zealand. leigh.ellmehmeds.ac.nz
Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) are cardiac hormones that regulate blood pressure and volume, and exert their biological actions via the natriuretic peptide receptor-A gene (Npr1). Mice lacking Npr1 (Npr(-/-)) have marked cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis disproportionate to their increased blood pressure. This study examined the relationships between ANP and BNP gene expression, immunoreactivity and fibrosis in cardiac tissue, circulating ANP levels, and ANP and BNP mRNA during embryogenesis in Npr1(-/-) mice. Disruption of the Npr1 signaling pathway resulted in augmented ANP and BNP gene and ANP protein expression in the cardiac ventricles, most pronounced for ANP mRNA in females [414 +/- 57 in Npr1(-/-) ng/mg and 124 +/- 25 ng/mg in wild-type (WT) by Taqman assay, P < 0.001]. This increased expression was highly correlated to the degree of cardiac hypertrophy and was localized to the left ventricle (LV) inner free wall and to areas of ventricular fibrosis. In contrast, plasma ANP was significantly greater than WT in male but not female Npr1(-/-) mice. Increased ANP and BNP gene expression was observed in Npr1(-/-) embryos from 16 days of gestation. Our study suggests that cardiac ventricular expression of ANP and BNP is more closely associated with local hypertrophy and fibrosis than either systemic blood pressure or circulating ANP levels.
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Cancer Res. 2002 Jul 15;62(14):4115-22.
Centrosome amplification and overexpression of aurora A are early events in rat mammary carcinogenesis.
Goepfert TM, Adigun YE, Zhong L, Gay J, Medina D, Brinkley WR.
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. goepfercm.tmc.edu
The cells of many solid tumors have been found to contain supernumerary centrosomes, a condition known as centrosome amplification. Centrosome amplification, accompanied by the overexpression of an associated kinase, Aurora A (AurA), has been implicated in mechanisms leading to mitotic spindle aberrations, aneuploidy, and genomic instability. Using a well-established rat mammary model favorable for experimental carcinogenesis, we analyzed centrosome amplification as a cellular marker for early stages of transformation and its regulation by the kinase ratAurA. Parity or treatment with estrogen and progesterone conferred resistance to tumorigenesis, as well as to overexpression of ratAurA and to centrosome amplification. ratAurA, cloned from a rat mammary gland cDNA library, is a bona fide Ser/Thr kinase, and sequence comparison demonstrated high homology to members of the entire AurA kinase family. Using immunocytochemical localization with confocal microscopy, we found ratAurA to be localized at the centrosome in normal and neoplastic tissues of the rat mammary gland. Normal ductal epithelium and stromal cells displayed an expected complement of one to two centrosomes/cell, whereas comparable cells in methylnitrosourea-treated animals displayed significantly elevated centrosome numbers. In tumors, 46% of cells showed more than two centrosomes/cell, and ratAurA expression levels coincided with higher centrosome numbers. Both centrosome numbers and ratAurA expression were permanently elevated. Centrosome amplification was found to occur at a very early, premalignant stage prior to detectable lesions after treatment with methylnitrosourea, a condition that was not detected in mammary glands of rats made refractory to the carcinogen via pregnancy or estrogen and progesterone treatment. Our results indicate that hormones influence kinase expression, and progesterone had the major effect on ratAurA expression levels. Cumulatively, these results suggest that ratAurA overexpression and centrosome amplification were linked to tumor development and progression and may serve as early markers in tumorigenesis.
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J Exp Biol. 2002 Aug;205(Pt 16):2535-43.
Behavioural and neuroendocrine effects of environmental background colour and social interaction in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus).
Hoglund E, Balm PH, Winberg S.
Evolutionary Biology Centre, Department of Limnology, Uppsala University, Norbyvagen 20, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden.
In salmonid fish, a darker skin colour has been suggested to signal social subordination. Substratum colour is another factor affecting skin pigmentation in fish; in the present experiment, juvenile Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) were acclimated and allowed to interact in pairs for 5 days on a pale or dark background colour. Skin darkness was quantified prior to and following social interaction. Furthermore, agonistic behaviour and skin darkness were quantified, together with plasma levels of cortisol, adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) and alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH), and brain levels of monoamines and monoamine metabolites. The results show that fish interacting on a white background were more aggressive than those interacting on a black background. Social subordination resulted in skin darkening in fish kept on a white background, but not in fish kept on a black background. Furthermore, subordinate fish on a white background showed an elevation of brain norepinephric activity, an effect not seen in subordinate fish on a black background. Subordinate fish on both white and black backgrounds showed a similar activation of the brain serotonergic system and the hypothalamic-pituitary-interrenal axis. These results support the suggestion that skin darkening in subordinates acts as a social signal announcing social submission.
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Mol Reprod Dev. 2003 Feb;64(2):166-71.
Changes of messenger RNAs encoding vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptors during the development and maintenance of caprine corpora lutea.
Kawate N, Tsuji M, Tamada H, Inaba T, Sawada T.
Laboratory of Theriogenology, Graduate School of Agriculture and Biological Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan. nkawatet.osakafu-u.ac.jp
The present study was conducted to examine changes of mRNAs encoding vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and its receptors (KDR/Flk-1 and Flt-1), and CD34, which is known to be a specific marker for endothelial cells, during the development and maintenance of the caprine corpora lutea (CL). Effects of a potent GnRH antagonist (GA), which was previously shown to suppress release of luteinizing hormone (LH), on expressions of those mRNAs during the CL development were also investigated. Goats were divided into control (n = 12) and GA-treated groups (n = 6). The goats were treated with saline or GA (50 microg/kg, sc) on days 0 (day of ovulation), 4, and 8 (control only), and CL collected on a subset of goats (n = 3 for each day) on days 0 (no saline), 4, 8, or 14 (control only). Ribonuclease protection assay was performed to quantitate the mRNAs in the CL using specific cRNA probes generated by RT-PCR and in vitro transcription. Level of CD34 mRNA significantly increased from day 0 to 8 (CL development) in the control group (P < 0.05). Long and short forms were detected in the caprine CL by RT-PCR for VEGF mRNA and analyses of their sequences showed that they correspond to mRNAs encoding VEGF(165) and VEGF(121), respectively. Level of VEGF(165) mRNA significantly increased from day 4 to 8 and day 8 to 14 (CL maintenance) in the control group (P < 0.05) while VEGF(121) mRNA did not change during the whole period. Level of KDR/Flk-1 mRNA significantly increased from day 0 to 8 (P < 0.05) while Flt-1 mRNA significantly increased from day 8 to 14 (P < 0.005) in the control group. In the GA-treated group, levels of all of the mRNAs did not alter remarkably as compared with those in the control group. These results suggest that rise of KDR/Flk-1 and VEGF(165) mRNAs during the caprine CL development may be associated with enhanced angiogenesis and that increment of VEGF(165) and Flt-1 mRNAs during the CL maintenance may play nonangiogenic roles. The present study also indicates that the changes of VEGF(165) and KDR/Flk-1 mRNAs during the CL development are probably not regulated by LH. 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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J Gen Virol. 2002 Aug;83(Pt 8):1841-50.
Respiratory syncytial virus assembly occurs in GM1-rich regions of the host-cell membrane and alters the cellular distribution of tyrosine phosphorylated caveolin-1.
Brown G, Rixon HW, Sugrue RJ.
MRC Virology Unit, Institute of Virology, Church Street, Glasgow G11 5JR, UK.
We have previously shown that respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) assembly occurs within regions of the host-cell surface membrane that are enriched in the protein caveolin-1 (cav-1). In this report, we have employed immunofluorescence microscopy to further examine the RSV assembly process. Our results show that RSV matures at regions of the cell surface that, in addition to cav-1, are enriched in the lipid-raft ganglioside GM1. Furthermore, a comparison of mock-infected and RSV-infected cells by confocal microscopy revealed a significant change in the cellular distribution of phosphocaveolin-1 (pcav-1). In mock-infected cells, pcav-1 was located at regions of the cell that interact with the extracellular matrix, termed focal adhesions (FA). In contrast, RSV-infected cells showed both a decrease in the levels of pcav-1 associated with FA and the appearance of pcav-1-containing cytoplasmic vesicles, the latter being absent in mock-infected cells. These cytoplasmic vesicles were clearly visible between 9 and 18 h post-infection and coincided with the formation of RSV filaments, although we did not observe a direct association of pcav-1 with mature virus. In addition, we noted a strong colocalization between pcav-1 and growth hormone receptor binding protein-7 (Grb7), within these cytoplasmic vesicles, which was not observed in mock-infected cells. Collectively, these findings show that the RSV assembly process occurs within specialized lipid-raft structures on the host-cell plasma membrane, induces the cellular redistribution of pcav-1 and results in the formation of cytoplasmic vesicles that contain both pcav-1 and Grb7.
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