Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) Treatment Ameliorates Cognitive Impairment by Attenuating Arc Expression in Type 2 Diabetic Rats.

BACKGROUND Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) has been reported to exert some beneficial effects on the central nervous system (CNS). However, the effect of GLP-1 on cognitive impairment associated with type 2 diabetes is not well known. This study investigated the effect of GLP-1 on ameliorating memory deficits in type 2 diabetic rats.

[Glucagon-like peptide 1 improves learning and memory abilities of rats with type 2 diabetes].

Objective: To investigate the effect of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) on cognitive dysfunction in diabetic rats.

Methods: Male SD rats were randomly divided into normal control group, diabetes mellitus (DM) group, and GLP-1 treatment group. Rat models of type 2 diabetes were established by high-sugar and high-fat feeding and streptozotocin (STZ) injection, and 25 days after the onset of diabetes, GLP-1 was infused in GLP-1 treatment group at the rate of 30 pmol·kg·min via a subcutaneous osmotic pump for 7 days.

[Experimental study of anti-VEGF hairpin ribozyme gene inhibiting expression of VEGF and proliferation of ovarian cancer cells].

Background & Objective: Growth of solid tumor metastases are critically dependent on angiogenesis. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), also known as vascular permeability factor, has been identified as one of the most potent inducers of tumor associated angiogenesis, studies have shown that VEGF plays an important role in angiogenesis which is associated with epithelial ovarian cancer. Until now, many strategies for gene therapy have been developed.

Inducible Expression of bcl-2 Antisense RNA Promotes Apoptosis of Human Gastric Cancer Cell Line.

A lot of molecular biological techniques was used to observe the effect of bcl-2 antisence RNA on human gastric cancer cell line SGC7901 and to detect the inducibility and promotion of MT-II promoter. The results showed that MT-II promoter could be activated by the induction with 160 &mgr;mol/L Zn(2+) and the expression of Bcl-2 plays an important role in apoptosis of SGC7901 cells.

Upregulation of bax Gene Expression Promotes Paclitaxel-induced Apoptosis in Esophageal Carcinoma Cells.

An inducible mammalian expression vector of bax gene was constructed and the control ability of metallothionein II promoter in esophageal carcinoma cell line was systematically identified with luciferase report gene. After the transfection of it into human esophageal carcinoma cell line Eca109, Bax protein expression was analyzed by immunolcytochemical method. Paclitaxel-induced apoptosis was determined by TUNEL assay, DNA ladder assay and flow cytometry.