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Moreover, PRMT1 might be a key enzyme affected when S-adenosyl methionine levels are reduced in metabolic disorders. DNA demethylation and suppression of de novo DNA methylation are activities that maintain an unmethylated state. However, the strength of these two activities at the same locus has not been estimated separately. Furthermore, the association between these two activities and the unmethylated state remains unclear. Octamer-binding transcription factor-binding sequences (OBSs) and CCCTC-binding factor-binding sequences (CBSs) within the mouse H19-imprinted control region (ICR) are involved in the induction of DNA demethylation and maintenance of the unmethylated state in mouse undifferentiated embryonic cell lines. To reveal the association between the two cis-elements and the two unmethylated state maintenance activities in maintaining the unmethylated state of the ICR, we evaluated the altered DNA methylation levels at sites that were initially methylated or unmethylated using a stable transfection-based assay, and estimated the strength of the two unmethylated state maintenance activities separately via a Poisnce. Extracts from Marsdenia tenacissima, involving tenacissoside H, I and G, have been used as remedies of cancer, inflammation and asthma. Low temperature serves as one of the main factors constrain the planting expansion and quality of M. tenacissima, but its functional mechanism has been known scarcely for the lack of genomic information and transcriptional profile. Here we investigated the transcriptomic responses of M. tenacissima under cold stress to gain insight into the molecular mechanism of low temperature sensitivity. Total RNAs were collected from samples obtained at 4-time points (after 0, 3, 6 and 48 h cold treatments with 4 °C, respectively), then used for library construction and sequenced on the Illumina Hiseq™ 4000 platform. Passing quality assessments, 500794 transcripts, and 206137 unigenes were de novo assembly out in Trinity v2.4.0, holding contig N50 of 2566 bp and unigene mean length of 754 bp. 44.20% of assembled unigenes were annotated to the well-known public protein database on a basisors and tenacissoside biosynthesis-related genes indicated that 3β-HSD significant positively correlated with bHLH51, and 4-MSO with NF-YB, GRAS3, Trihelix, FAR1, MYB60, MYBS1, bZIP43. Further promoter clone found MYB-binding site in the promoter of 4-MSO. In view of the reported cold tolerance of MYB60, it is recommended as a potential candidate suitable for future molecular design of exaptation cultivation with high bioactive constituents. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine the effects of physical exercise on the angio-adaptive response in adipose tissue following weight loss in a mouse model of diet-induced obesity. We hypothesized that physical exercise stimulates angiogenesis through the regulation of Vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGF-A) pro-/Thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1) anti-angiogenic signal under the control of the Murine double-minute 2/Forkhead box Os (Mdm2/FoxOs) axis, as reported in skeletal muscle. METHODS We studied the effects of 7 weeks-voluntary exercise (Ex) in C57Bl/6 control or diet-induced obese (HFS) mice on vascularization of white adipose tissue (AT). RESULTS Diet-induced obese sedentary (HFSsed) mice presented a powerful angiostatic control in all adipose tissues, under FoxOs protein regulation, leading to capillary rarefaction. Exercise increased expression of Mdm2, repressing the angiostatic control in favor of adipose vascular regrowth in normal chow (NCex) and HFSex mice. DS3201 This phenomenon was associated with adipocytes microenvironment improvement, such as decreased adipocytes hypertrophy and adipose tissue inflammation. In addition, adipose angiogenesis stimulation by exercise through Mdm2 pro-angiogenic action, improved visceral adipose insulin sensitivity, activated browning process within subcutaneous adipose tissue (ScWAT) and decreased ectopic fat deposition (muscle, heart and liver) in obese HFSex mice. The overall result of this approach of therapy by physical exercise is an improvement of all systemic cardiometabolic parameters. CONCLUSIONS These data demonstrated the therapeutic efficacy of physical exercise against obesity-associated pathologies, and also offer new prospects for molecular therapies targeting the adipose angio-adaptation in obese humans. BACKGROUND The histopathological study of brain tissue is a conventional method in neuroscience. However, procedures specifically developed to recover intact hypothalamic-pituitary brain specimens, are not available. NEW METHOD We describe a detailed protocol for obtaining intact rat brain with pituitary-hypothalamus continuity through an intact infundibulum. The brain is collected via a ventral approach through removing the skull base. Membranous structures surrounding the hypothalamus-pituitary system can be preserved, including vasculature. RESULTS We report a retaining sphenoid and dura technique to obtain intact hypothalamic-pituitary brain preparations, and we confirm the practicability of this method. By combination of this technique with histological analysis or 3D brain tissue clearing and imaging methods, the functional morphology structure of the hypothalamus-pituitary can be further explored. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHOD The current procedure is limited in showing the connection between the hypothalamus and the pituitary. Our procedure effectively protects the integrity of the fragile infundibulum and thus prevents the pituitary from separating from the hypothalamus. CONCLUSIONS We present a convenient and practical approach to obtain intact hypothalamus-pituitary brain specimens for subsequent histopathological evaluation. BACKGROUND Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) may be an advantageous source of neuronal cells to repair damage due to neurological disorders or trauma. Additionally, they are promising candidates to develop models to study underlying mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases. While successful neural differentiation of iPSCs has been reported in mice, protocols detailing the generation of neural cells from rat iPSCs are relatively limited, and their optimization by manipulating cell culture methods has remained unexplored. NEW METHOD Here, we describe and compare the effects of four distinct, commonly used substrates on the neuronal differentiation of rat iPSC (riPSC) derived-neural progenitor cells. Our approach is to use substrate coating as a method to enrich differentiated riPSCs for neuronal subtypes with the desired morphology and maturity. We use a combination of electrophysiology, immunofluorescence staining, and Sholl analysis to characterize the cells generated on each substrate over a nine-day time course.