Cytoskeleton changes of airway smooth muscle cells in juvenile rats with airway remodeling in asthma and the RhoA/ROCK signaling pathway mechanism

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العنوان: Cytoskeleton changes of airway smooth muscle cells in juvenile rats with airway remodeling in asthma and the RhoA/ROCK signaling pathway mechanism
المؤلفون: Mingshan Li, B Wei, Jie Jiang, Yun-Xiao Shang, Han Zhang
المصدر: Genetics and Molecular Research. 13:559-569
بيانات النشر: Genetics and Molecular Research, 2014.
سنة النشر: 2014
مصطلحات موضوعية: medicine.medical_specialty, RHOA, Myocytes, Smooth Muscle, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Western blot, Internal medicine, Genetics, medicine, Animals, Myocyte, Cytoskeleton, Molecular Biology, Cells, Cultured, rho-Associated Kinases, Messenger RNA, biology, medicine.diagnostic_test, Age Factors, General Medicine, Asthma, Rats, Trachea, Actin Cytoskeleton, Ovalbumin, Endocrinology, Immunology, biology.protein, Airway Remodeling, Signal transduction, rhoA GTP-Binding Protein, Airway, Signal Transduction
الوصف: This article aimed to investigate changes in the cytoskeleton of airway smooth muscle cells (ASMCs) in juvenile rats with airway remodeling in asthma. We further investigated the involvement of the RhoA/ROCK signaling pathway mechanism. Rat models of airway remodeling in asthma were established by antigen sensitization with ovalbumin for 2, 4, 6, and 8 weeks. The control group was treated with normal saline instead of ovalbumin. In the intervention group, after 8 weeks of culture, ASMCs were treated with the ROCK-specific inhibitor Y-27632. Immunofluorescence, real-time polymerase chain reaction, and Western blot analyses were used to observe changes in the cytoskeleton (F-actin and α-tubulin) of ASMCs and expressions of RhoA and ROCK. The asthmatic groups had significantly higher average gray values of F-actin in ASMCs compared to the control group (P < 0.01), and these values for the intervention group were significantly lower than those of the 8-week asthmatic group (P < 0.05). Expression levels of the α-tubulin protein in the asthmatic groups were all significantly higher than those of the control group (P < 0.01), and the levels in the intervention group were significantly reduced (P < 0.05). Expressions of RhoA and ROCK mRNA and proteins in all asthmatic groups were significantly higher than those of the control group (P < 0.01). Together, these results demonstrate substantial changes of the ASMC cytoskeleton and abnormal expressions of RhoA and ROCK mRNA and proteins in juvenile rats with airway remodeling in asthma.
تدمد: 1676-5680
DOI: 10.4238/2014.january.22.2
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::62e78f8500d5eb2c121fd005bf729085
https://doi.org/10.4238/2014.january.22.2
Rights: OPEN
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi.dedup.....62e78f8500d5eb2c121fd005bf729085
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
الوصف
تدمد:16765680
DOI:10.4238/2014.january.22.2