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BAFF promotes regulatory T-cell apoptosis and blocks cytokine production by activating B cells in primary biliary cirrhosis
Provedor de dados: Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
Autores: Zhang,Bo; Hu,Mintao; Zhang,Peng; Cao,Hong; Wang,Yongzhen; Wang,Zheng; Su,Tingting.
Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a chronic and slowly progressive cholestatic liver disease of autoimmune etiology. A number of questions regarding its etiology are unclear. CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) play a critical role in self-tolerance and, for unknown reasons, their relative number is reduced in PBC patients. B-cell-activating factor (BAFF) is a key survival factor during B-cell maturation and its concentration is increased in peripheral blood of PBC patients. It has been reported that activated B cells inhibit Treg cell proliferation and there are no BAFF receptors on Tregs. Therefore, we speculated that excessive BAFF may result in Treg reduction via B cells. To prove our hypothesis, we isolated Tregs and B cells from PBC and healthy...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Primary biliary cirrhosis; Regulatory T cells; BAFF; B cells; Bezafibrate.
Ano: 2013
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2013000500433

Model selection for quantitative trait loci mapping in a full-sib family
Provedor de dados: Genetics and Molecular Biology
Autores: Tong,Chunfa; Zhang,Bo; Li,Huogen; Shi,Jisen.
Statistical methods for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTLs) in full-sib forest trees, in which the number of alleles and linkage phase can vary from locus to locus, are still not well established. Previous studies assumed that the QTL segregation pattern was fixed throughout the genome in a full-sib family, despite the fact that this pattern can vary among regions of the genome. In this paper, we propose a method for selecting the appropriate model for QTL mapping based on the segregation of different types of markers and QTLs in a full-sib family. The QTL segregation patterns were classified into three types: test cross (1:1 segregation), F2 cross (1:2:1 segregation) and full cross (1:1:1:1 segregation). Akaike's information criterion (AIC), the...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Full-sib family; Interval mapping; Model selection; Quantitative trait locus.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572012000400013

Protective effects of lycopene on oxidative stress, proliferation and autophagy in iron supplementation rats
Provedor de dados: Biological Research
Autores: Liu,Chongbin; Wang,Rui; Zhang,Bo; Hu,Chen; Zhang,Hong.
Lycopene is common in diet and known for its antioxidant activities. However, the impact of lycopene on iron metabolism is poorly investigated. In this study, we hypothesize that lycopene can prevent iron-mediated oxidative stress, proliferation and autophagy in liver and use a rat model of nutritional iron supplementation to confirm its intervention in these defence mechanisms. We found that iron supplementation induced cell proliferation predominantly in non parenchymal cells compared with hepatocytes, but not apoptosis. In addition, iron was accumulated within the hepatic lysosomes where it triggered autophagy as evidenced by the formation of autophagic vesicles detected by LC3-B staining. Iron supplementation also induced morphologic alterations of the...
Tipo: Journal article
Palavras-chave: Autophagy; Iron supplementation; Lycopene; Oxidative stress; Proliferation.
Ano: 2013
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602013000200011