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When cardiolipin and Gad-1 were both present, there were subtle changes on membrane dynamics at other timescales.Magnesium ion (Mg+2) plays an important role in various biological processes. All the commercial indicators available share a common drawback, i.e., they have a higher affinity towards calcium ions (Ca+2) than Mg+2. In this study, we reported a new robust green fluorescent indicator, Mag-520, for detection of Mg+2 in live cells. Our results showed that Mag-520 has 10 fold higher affinity towards Mg+2 than Ca+2, while mag-fluo-4 has less than 0.5 fold affinity to Mg+2 than Ca+2 under the same conditions using flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy. The results demonstrated that Mag-520 provides a better tool to measure Mg+2 with less interference from Ca+2.The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of cryopreservation on the morphology of zebrafish sperm (Danio rerio). Sperm from 30 males were collected and divided in two treatments fresh and cryopreserved semen. The following were measured sperm morphology, motility and membrane integrity. Cryopreservation reduced motility, the number of normal cells and the membrane integrity, as well as increased the percentage of sperm abnormalities. The most frequent types of morphological changes found in cryopreserved semen were macrocephaly, loose head, degenerated head, proximal gout, curled tail and short tail. This study opens the way for further investigations on morphological changes and for a new classification of these changes in fish semen due to cryopreservation.Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disease with high prevalence and adverse impacts on the quality of life of patients and caregivers. Up to one-third of individuals with epilepsy do not respond to current pharmacotherapy, underscoring the importance of identifying new molecules for epilepsy control. Thalidomide, the first synthetized phthalimide, is a neuroactive molecule with anti-seizure drug properties. The phthalimide group has been studied in some N-phthaloyl amino acids due to its pharmacological properties. Here we examine enantiomers of phthaloyl aspartate (R and S) and phthaloyl glutamate (R and S) for anti-seizure effects using zebrafish as a model. The zebrafish model is rapidly growing in use as a preclinical screening tool for drug discovery in epilepsy. Pentylenetetrazol (PTZ) exposure was used to produce convulsive behavior in 7- and 10-days post-fertilization (dpf) zebrafish larvae; these ages correspond to before and after the blood-brain-barrier (BBB) is fully developed. Larvae were pre-treated for 60 min with control, valproic acid sodium salt (SVP) 3 mM, or one of two concentrations of N-phthaloyl-R-glutamic acid (R-TGLU; 100, 316 μM) prior to PTZ addition. R-TGLU modified the locomotor phenotype and protected against PTZ in 7 and 10 dpf larvae at 316 μM, suggesting it crossed the BBB. We next tested the per se and anticonvulsant effect of the glutamate and aspartate phthalimides were tested at 237.1 and 316 μM concentration in 10dpf zebrafish. The four tested molecules produced an anticonvulsant effect at 237.1 μM concentration, however the behavioral changes that they induce suggest that they might act by different mechanisms.Myopathy is a muscle disease in which muscle fibers do not function properly, and eventually cause severe diseases, such as muscular dystrophy. The properly regeneration of skeletal muscle plays a pivotal role to maintain the muscle function after muscle injury. The aim of this study is to determine whether andrographolide plays an effect role on regulating skeletal muscle regeneration. Mouse satellite cells, C2C12 cells and Cardiotoxin (CTX) intramuscular injection induced acute skeletal muscle injury model were used to evaluate whether andrographolide is essential for skeletal muscle regeneration. The underling mechanism detected using immunohistochemistry stain, western blot, real time PCR. RO4987655 molecular weight Andrographolide promotes mouse skeletal muscle regeneration. In cardiotoxin induced skeletal muscle injury model, andrographolide treatment enhanced myotube generation and promoted myotube fusion. Andrographolide treatment dramatically increased expression of myotube differentiation related genes, including Desmin, MyoD, MyoG, Myomaker, Tnni2, Dmd, Myoz1 and Myoz3. For the mechanism studies, we observed that andrographolide treatment significantly promoted histone modification, such as H3K4Me2, H3K4Me3 and H3K36Me2, both in vivo and in vitro. Treatment with DZNep, a Lysine methyltransferase EZH2 inhibitor, significantly attenuated andrographolide-induced expression of Myf5, Myomaker, Skeletal muscle α-actin, MyoD and MyoG. Taken together, our data in this study demonstrate andrographolide epigenetically drives differentiation and fusion of myotube, eventually promotes skeletal muscle regeneration. This should be a therapeutic treatment for skeletal muscle regeneration after muscle damage.

Uterine leiomyosarcoma is a rare and aggressive gynecologic malignancy originating in the myometrium of the uterine corpus that tends to recur even after complete surgical excision. Current therapeutic agents have only modest effects on uterine leiomyosarcoma. Although antibodies and antibody-drug conjugates have been recognized as useful targeted therapies for other cancers, no study has yet evaluated the effects of this approach on uterine leiomyosarcoma.

This study aimed to examine the activity of tumoral CD70 in uterine leiomyosarcoma and assess the antitumor activity of CD70-antibody-drug conjugate treatment in uterine leiomyosarcoma.

Target membrane proteins were screened by profiling and comparing membrane protein expression in 3 uterine leiomyosarcoma cell lines (SK-UT-1, SK-LMS-1, and SKN) and normal uterine myometrium cells using the isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation labeling method. Western blotting, fluorescence-activated cell sorting analyses, and immunohistochemistry wernd no antitumor effects on CD70-negative uterine leiomyosarcoma cells. CD70-antibody-drug conjugate significantly inhibited tumor growth in the SK-LMS-1 xenograft mouse model (tumor volume, 129.8 vs 285.5 mm

 ; relative reduction, 54.5%; P<.001) and patient-derived xenograft mouse model (tumor volume, 128.1 vs 837.7 mm

 ; relative reduction, 84.7%; P<.001).

Uterine leiomyosarcoma tumors highly express CD70 and targeted therapy with CD70-antibody-drug conjugate may have a potential therapeutic implication in the treatment of uterine leiomyosarcoma.

Uterine leiomyosarcoma tumors highly express CD70 and targeted therapy with CD70-antibody-drug conjugate may have a potential therapeutic implication in the treatment of uterine leiomyosarcoma.