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BACKGROUND: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a potentially devastating form of acute inflammatory lung injury as well as a major cause of acute respiratory failure. Although researchers have made significant progresses in elucidating the pathophysiology of this complex syndrome over the years, the absence of a universal detail disease mechanism up until now has led to a series of practical problems for a definitive treatment. This study aimed to predict some genes or pathways associated with sepsis-related ARDS based on a public microarray dataset and to further explore the molecular mechanism of ARDS. RESULTS: A total of 122 up-regulated DEGs and 91 down-regulated differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were obtained. The up- and down-regulated DEGs were mainly involved in functions like mitotic cell cycle and pathway like cell cycle. Protein-protein interaction network of ARDS analysis revealed 20 hub genes including cyclin B1 (CCNB1), cyclin B2 (CCNB2) and topoisomerase II alpha (TOP2A). A total of seven transcription factors including forkhead box protein M1 (FOXM1) and 30 target genes were revealed in the transcription factor-target gene regulation network. Furthermore, co-cited genes including CCNB2-CCNB1 were revealed in literature mining for the relations ARDS related genes. CONCLUSIONS: Pathways like mitotic cell cycle were closed related with the development of ARDS. Genes including CCNB1, CCNB2 and TOP2A, as well as transcription factors like FOXM1 might be used as the novel gene therapy targets for sepsis related ARDS
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Humans , Respiration Disorders/genetics , Sepsis/complications , Sepsis/genetics , Genetic Association Studies , Transcriptome , Transcription Factors , Down-Regulation , Cell Cycle/genetics , Up-Regulation , Gene Targeting , Gene Expression Profiling , Databases, Genetic , Protein Interaction MapsABSTRACT
Summary: The changes of proto-oncogene c-fos and c-jun mRNA expression in angiotensin Ⅱ (Ang Ⅱ)-induced hypertrophy and effects of sodium tanshinone Ⅱ A sulfonate (STS) in the primary culture of neonatal rat cardiomyocytes were investigated. Twelve neonatal clean grade Wistar rats were selected. The cardiomyocytes were isolated, cultured and divided according to different treatments in the medium. The cardiomyocyte size was determined by phase contrast microscope, and the rate of protein synthesis was measured by [3H]-Leucine incorporation. The c-fos and c-jun mRNA expression in cardiomyocytes was detected by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). It was found after cardiomyocytes were treated with Ang Ⅱ for 30 min, the c-fos and c-jun mRNA expression in cardiomyocytes was increased significantly (P<0.01). After treatment with Ang Ⅱ for 24 h, the rate of protein synthesis in Ang Ⅱ group was significantly increased as compared with control group (P<0.01). After treatment with Ang Ⅱ for 7 days, the size of cardiomyocytes in Ang Ⅱ group was increased obviously as compared with control group (P<0.05). After pretreatment with STS or Valsartan before Ang Ⅱ treatment, both of them could inhibit the above effects of Ang Ⅱ (P<0.05 or P<0.01). It was suggested that STS could ameliorate Ang Ⅱ-induced cardiomyocyte hypertrophy by inhibiting c-fos and c-jun mRNA expression and reducing protein synthesis rate of cardiomyocytes.
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Summary: The effects of tanshinone Ⅱ A (TSN) on transforming growth factor β1 (TGFβ1) signal transduction in renal interstitial fibroblasts of rats were studied in order to investigate its mechanism in prevention of renal interstitial fibrosis. Rat renal fibroblasts of the line NRK/49F were cultured in vitro, stimulated with 5 ng/mL TGFβ1 and pretreated with 10-6, 10-5, 10-4 mol/L TSN respectively.The mRNA levels of fibronectin (FN) were examined by RT-PCR. The protein expression of FN and Smads was detected by Western blot. TGFβ1 induced the expression of FN mRNA and Smads in a time-dependent manner in a certain range. Compared with pre-stimulation, the FN mRNA and protein levels were increased by 1.1 times and 1.5 times respectively (P<0,01, P<0.01), and the protein expression of phosphorylated Smad2/3 (p-Smad2/3) increased by 7 times at the end of TGFβ1 stimulation (P<0.01). TSN pretreatment may down-regulate the FN and p-Smad2/3 expression in a dose-dependent manner. 10-6 mol/L TSN pretreatment had no effect on the FN and p-Smad2/3 expression (both P0.05). After pretreatment with 105 and 10-4 mol/L TSN, the FN mRNA levels were decreased by 28.1% and 43.8% respectively (P<0.05, P<0.01), the FN protein levels were decreased by 40% and 44% respectively (P<0.05, P<0.05), and the p-Smad2/3 protein expression were decreased by 40% and 65% respectively (P<0.05, P<0.01). The inhibitory effect of TSN on renal interstitial fibrosis may be related to its blocking effect on TGFβl-Smads signal pathway in renal interstitial fibroblasts.
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<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To investigate the high risk factors related to acute respiratory distress syndrome(ARDS) following serious thoracoabdominal injuries.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>The clinical data of 282 patients with serious thoracoabdominal injuries were retrospectively studied. Univariate and Cox multivariate regression analysis were used to determine the risk factors related to ARDS following serious thoracoabdominal injuries.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The incidence of ARDS was 31.9% (90/282) in patients with serious thoracoabdominal injuries. The mortality caused by ARDS was 37.8% (34/90). The univariate analysis and multivariate analysis demonstrated that the clinical conditions such as elder age, shock, dyspnea, abnormal arterial blood gas, hemopneumothorax, pulmonary contusion, flail chest, coexisting pulmonary diseases, multiple abdominal injury and high ISS score were the independent high risk factors related to ARDS.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>There are many high risk factors related to ARDS following severe thoracoabdominal injuries, which should be detected early and treated timely to decrease the incidence and mortality of A RDS.</p>