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Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked disease caused by mutations in gene translating in lack of functional dystrophin and resulting in susceptibility of myofibers to rupture during contraction. Inflammation and fibrosis are critical hallmarks of DMD muscles, which undergo progressive degeneration leading to loss of independent ambulation in childhood and death by early adulthood. We reported that intraperitoneal injection of microencapsulated Sertoli cells (SeC) in dystrophic mice translates into recovery of muscle morphology and performance thanks to anti-inflammatory effects and induction of the dystrophin paralogue, utrophin at the muscle level, opening new avenues in the treatment of DMD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Cancer Prev
March 2021
Tumor Microenvironment Global Core Research Center, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
Heregulin-β1, a ligand of ErbB-2 and ErbB-3/4 receptors, has been reported to potentiate oncogenicity and metastatic potential of breast cancer cells. In the present work, treatment of human mammary cancer (MCF-7) cells with heregulin-β1 resulted in enhanced cell migration and expression of manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) and its mRNA transcript. Silencing of MnSOD abrogated clonogenicity and migrative ability of MCF-7 cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Mol Sci
October 2020
Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada.
Sustained HER2/HER3 signaling due to the overproduction of the HER3 ligand heregulin (HRG) is proposed as a key contributor to endocrine resistance in estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer. The molecular mechanisms linking HER2 transactivation by HRG-bound HER3 to the acquisition of a hormone-independent phenotype in ER+ breast cancer is, however, largely unknown. Here, we explored the possibility that autocrine HRG signaling drives cytokine-related endocrine resistance in ER+ breast cancer cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMol Cell Proteomics
April 2017
From the ‡Women's Cancer, Institute for Women's Health, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
Most breast cancers arise from luminal epithelial cells, and 25-30% of these tumors overexpress the ErbB2/HER2 receptor that correlates with disease progression and poor prognosis. The mechanisms of ErbB2 signaling and the effects of its overexpression are not fully understood. Herein, stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC), expression profiling, and phosphopeptide enrichment of a relevant, non-transformed, and immortalized human mammary luminal epithelial cell model were used to profile ErbB2-dependent differences in protein expression and phosphorylation events triggered via EGF receptor (EGF treatment) and ErbB3 (HRG1β treatment) in the context of ErbB2 overexpression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInvest Ophthalmol Vis Sci
February 2017
Area of Cell Therapy, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop a culture method for expansion of corneal endothelial cells (CEC) based on the combined activation of PI3K/Akt and Smad2.
Methods: Morphology, proliferation, and migration of cultured rabbit and nonhuman primate CEC were examined in the presence of the PI3K/Akt activators IGF-1 and heregulin beta in combination with the Smad2 activator activin A. Phenotypic characterization of CEC was performed at the RNA and protein levels.
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