Heat shock proteins (HSPs) play a key role in anti-stress and immune processes are associated with autoimmune diseases. In order to explore the immunological of HSPs from Schizothorax prenanti (S. prenanti), SpHSP60 was cloned for first time this study, gene expressions SpHSP27, SpHSP60, SpHSP70 SpHSP90 hepatopancreas, head kidney, hindgut spleen were analyzed by quantitative real-time PCR (qPC...

Background: Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) has a key role in angiogene-sis and in transplantation. The level of VEGF is related to the differences in the DNA sequence of its promoter region. Objectives: In this study, the association between the combination of VEGF –1154 G and –2578 C alleles and VEGF production by LPS-stimulated PBMCs was investigated. In addition; the relationship ...

introduction: gap junctions are intercellular membrane channels that provide direct cytoplasmic continuity between adjacent cells. this communication can be affected by changes in expression of gap junctional subunits called connexins (cx). changes in the expression and function of connexins are associated with number of brain neurodegenerative diseases. neuroinflammation is a hallmark of vario...

Background and Objective: It has been found that human periodontal ligament (hPDL) cells express cannabinoid receptor CB2. However, the functional importance of CB2 in hPDL cells exposed to bacterial endotoxins is not known. Here we investigate if the inflammation promoter lipopolysaccharide (LPS) affects CB2 expression and if activation of CB2 regulates LPS-induced pro-inflammatory cytokine pr...

Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is one of the most important virulence and antigenic components of Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis. LPS diversity in B. pseudomallei has been described as typical, atypical or rough, based upon banding patterns on SDS-PAGE. Here, we studied the genetic and molecular basis of these phenotypic differences. Bioinformatics was used to determine...

BACKGROUND Bovine leptospirosis is a widespread zoonotic disease, leading to serious economic losses in animal production and causing potential hazards to human health. Leptospiral lipopolysaccharide (L-LPS) plays an important role in leptospirosis pathogenicity. OBJECTIVES With respect to L-LPS endotoxin-like activity, we examined bovine immune response to L-LPS and the inhibitory ability of...

LPS stimulates a vigorous inflammatory response from circulating leukocytes that varies greatly from individual to individual. The goal of this study was to use an unbiased approach to identify differences in gene expression that may account for the high degree of interindividual variability in inflammatory responses to LPS in the normal human population. We measured LPS-induced cytokine produc...

Background: A mouse model of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced inflammation was used to investigate the effect of pharmacological inhibition of nuclear enzyme PARP-1 on oocyte maturation, apoptotic and necrotic death, as well as DNA integrity of follicular cells. Also, the relative expression of cumulus genes (HAS2, COX2, and GREM1) associated with oocyte developmental competence was assessed. M...

Abstract Background and Aims Receptor-interacting protein kinase 3 (RIPK3) is traditionally involved in necroptosis, a regulated necrosis pathway which has been observed diseases associated to cell death inflammation. However, RIPK3 also inflammatory responses independent of necroptosis. In previous studies we demonstrated that deficiency does not prevent renal injury but protects from inflamma...