A growing number of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as vital metabolic regulators. However, most human lncRNAs are nonconserved and highly tissue specific, vastly limiting our ability to identify lncRNA regulators (hLMRs). In this study, we established a pipeline putative hLMRs that metabolically sensitive, disease relevant, population applicable. We first progressively processed mul...

Inosine 5′-monophoaphate (IMP) is a food additive that promotes serious lipohyperplasia in the liver of C57/KsJ-db/db (db/db) mice. Thus, IMP taken orally by healthy mice might also damage their health. To date, how affects health after being animals still unclear. Therefore, we investigated C57BL/6J affected intake. Our data revealed administered 255 μM daily via oral gavage for 4 months cause...

Prenatal diagnosis was successfully accomplished by determining sphingomyelinase activity in the cultured amniotic fluid cells in a case of high risk pregnancy for Niemann-Pick disease (NPD), type A. No detectable activity of sphingomyelinase was found in the cultured amniotic fluid cells obtained at the 17th week of gestation. Patient's pregnancy was terminated and the aborted fetus was proved...

In addition to the well-defined contribution of the liver, adipose tissue has been recognized as an important source of angiotensinogen (AGT). The purpose of this study was to define the angiotensin II (ANG II) receptors involved in regulation of adipose AGT and the relationship of this control to systemic AGT and/or angiotensin peptide concentrations. In LDL receptor-deficient (LDLR(-/-)) male...

Objective(s): The present study was aimed to evaluate the effect of methanolic fruit extract of Momordica cymbalaria (MeMC) against high-fat diet-induced obesity and diabetes in C57BL/7 mice.Materials and Methods: In the present study, six weeks old male C57BL/6 mice were divided into four groups. G-1 and G-2 served as lean control and HFD control, G-3 and G-4 received MeMC 25 and 50 mg/kg, BW ...

Obesity induces various metabolic diseases such as dyslipidemia, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and type 2 diabetes. Fat expansion in adipose tissue induces adipose tissue dysfunction and inflammation, insulin resistance, and other metabolic syndromes. α-Mangostin (α-MG) has been previously studied for its anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant activities. In this study, we ...

Objective: Chronic ethanol consumption has significant negative effects on liver tissue. Mechanisms of ethanol toxicity include oxidative stress and inflammation. The antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of the lemon verbena have been proven in studies. The aim of this study was to evaluate the protective effect of hydro alcoholic extract of Aloysia citriodora (AC) on ethanol-induced he...

Feline mammary tumor is a relatively commonly diagnosed neoplasm in the cat. Development of new veterinary cancer therapies limited by shortage vivo models that reproduce microenvironment and metastatic progression. Four feline orthotopic patient-derived xenograft model (PDX) successfully established NOD-SCID gamma (NSG) mice. The overall success rate PDX establishment was 36% (4/11). Histologi...

In mouse, tissue-specific developmental de novo methylation of the proto-oncogene cfos, which is abundantly expressed during embryonic stages, occurs perinatally (between the day of birth to 20 dpp) and is maintained in the adult. In liver, where c-fos is only active up to the day of birth, the gene has more sites methylated than in brain, where it is expressed until about day 5 post-partum. We...

St. John's wort oil is one of the herbal product which used for therapeutic purposes. To investigate effects Wort on irritated gastrointestinal mucosa and liver. The study based experimental animal trials. 21 healthy swiss albino mice were randomly divided into three groups: control group, group-2, group-3. methotrexate (20 mg/kg) was given intraperitoneally as a single dose 1st day to group-2 ...