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Objective:To study anti-tumor effect of Dunhuang medical prescription Dabupi Decoction on gastric cancer-bearing mice and effect of Dabupi Decoction combined with oxaliplatin on inflammatory immunity of gastric cancer-bearing mice based on IL-17/NF-κB signaling pathway.Methods:Mouse model of MFC gastric cancer subcutaneously bearing tumor was established and ran-domly divided into model group,oxaliplatin group,high,medium and low doses of Dabupi Decoction combined with oxaliplatin groups[21.58,10.79,5.40 g/(kg·d)],with 10 mice in each group,male and female cage rearing.Administration began after 8 days of inoculation and continued for 14 days;next day after the last administration,eyeball blood was taken,mice were killed,tumor tissues were taken and weighed,and tumor inhibition rate was calculated.ELISA was used to detect contents of IL-17 and IL-6 in mice serum,immunohistochemistry(IHC),RT-qPCR and Western blot were used to detect IL-17,IL-6,NF-κB and p-NF-κB mRNA and protein expressions in mice tumor tissues,respectively.Results:Tumor inhibition rates of oxaliplatin group,high,medium and low doses of Dabupi decoction combined with oxaliplatin groups were 33.02%,52.92%,46.33%and 39.52%,respectively,and tumor quality of each treatment group was significantly lower than that of model group(P<0.01).High,medium and low doses of Dabupi Decoction combined with oxaliplatin groups were higher than that of oxaliplatin group.Compared with model group,contents of IL-17 and IL-6 in serum and expressions of IL-17,IL-6,NF-κB p65 and pNF-κB p65 mRNA and protein in tumor tissues in each treatment group were significantly reduced(P<0.01,P<0.05).Compared with oxaliplatin group,levels of IL-17 and IL-6 in serum and expres-sions of IL-17,IL-6,NF-κB p65 and pNF-κB p65 mRNA and protein in tumor tissues in high and medium doses of Dabupi Decoction combined with oxaliplatin groups were significantly reduced(P<0.01,P<0.05).Conclusion:Dunhuang medical prescription Dabupi Decoction has a certain anti-tumor effect on MFC gastric cancer-bearing mice,which can regulate inflammatory immunity and inhibit occurrence and development of gastric cancer by inhibiting IL-17/NF-κB signaling pathway.
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Objective To investigate the expression levels of BDNF, trkB and ChAT mRNA and proteins in the brain of adult tree shrews ( Tupaia belangeri ) .Methods Quantitative real-time PCR was employed to detect the expression levels of BDNF, trkB and ChAT mRNA in the hippocampus, basal ganglia and frontal cortex of adult tree shrews.The expression levels of BDNF, trkB and ChAT proteins andβ-actin was used as internal standard.Results The expression level of BDNF mRNA was highest in the hippocampus of adult tree shrew, and there were significant differences between that in the hippocampus, and basal ganglia and frontal cortex (P0.05) in the expressions of trkB protein among the hippocampus, basal ganglia and frontal cortex of the adult tree shrews.There were no significant differences in expressions of ChAT mRNA and protein among the hippocampus, basal ganglia and frontal cortex in adult tree shrews ( P>0.05 ) . Conclusions The expression levels of ChAT mRNA were consistent with that of ChAT protein in the hippocampus, basal ganglia and frontal cortex of adult tree shrews, while the expression levels of BDNF and trkB mRNA were not consistent with their proteins, which might indicate that the transcriptional regulation pattern might be more complex.Tree shrew is a valuable animal model in the study of mechanism of BDNF/trkB gene expression.