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AIM: To observe the effect of soluble glycoprotein 130(sgp130)on expression of p-STAT3 and vascular endothelial growth factor(VEGF)-A in retina of mice with diabetes mellitus(DM), and explore the possibility of sgp130 in interfering with inflammatory damage of diabetic retinopathy(DR).METHODS: A total of 45 mice were randomly divided into normal group, DM group and sgp130 group. DM models were made in DM group and sgp130 group with streptozotocin. No special intervention was given to normal group and DM group, but sgp130 group was given intravitreal injection of 1.5mg/mL sgp130 2μL at the 1 and 5wk. After 10wk, all the mice were sacrificed to assess the protein expression of interleukin 6(IL-6), p-STAT3 and VEGF-A in the retina.RESULTS: The expressions of IL-6, p-STAT3 and VEGF-A in retina of DM group were higher than those of normal group at 10wk(all P<0.01). The expression of p-STAT3 and VEGF-A in sgp130 group were lower than those in DM group(all P<0.01).CONCLUSION: The sgp130 can selectively antagonize the trans signal transduction pathway of IL-6, down-regulate the expression of downstream inflammatory factors VEGF-A, and it may be used in the intervention of retinal inflammatory damage related with IL-6 in DM.
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Objective:To investigate the change of interleukin-6(IL-6), soluble interleukin-6 receptor(sIL-6R) and soluble glycoprotein 130(sgp130) levels in patients with lung injury caused by paraquat poisoning and its clinical significance.Methods:Fifty patients with paraquat poisoning and lung injury admitted to Ba′nan District People′s Hospital of Chongqing from December 2017 to December 2019 were selected as the observation group, and 30 healthy patients were selected as the control group. The serum levels of IL-6, sIL-6R and sgp130 in two groups was detected with double-antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and compared. Pearson correlation analysis was performed on the relationship between serum IL-6, sIL-6R and sgp130 and the acute physiological and chronic health status assessment(APACHE)- Ⅱ score of patients with lung injury caused by paraquat poisoning. The receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve was used to analyze the diagnostic value of serum IL-6, sIL-6R and sgp130 on paraquat poisoning-induced lung injury.Results:The serum levels of IL-6, sIL-6R, and sgp130 in the observation group were significantly higher than those in the control group: (108.62 ± 11.39) ng/L vs. (57.41 ± 7.63) ng/L, (73.28 ± 6.94) ng/L vs. (45.13 ± 6.57) ng/L, (435.64 ± 36.52) mg/L vs. (281.71 ± 68.35) mg/L, and the differences were statistically significant ( P<0.05). The results of correlation analysis showed that the serum levels of IL-6, sIL-6R, and sgp130 in the observation group were significantly positively correlated with the APACHE-Ⅱ score ( r = 0.824, 0.937, 1.215, P<0.05). ROC curve analysis results showed that when serum IL-6, sIL-6R and sgp130 had the best diagnostic cut-off values of 83.96 ng/L, 68.51 ng/L and 367.42 mg/L respectively for the lung injury caused by paraquat poisoning, the sensitivity was 84.80%, 78.20% and 87.10%, and the specificity was 70.30%, 85.50% and 81.00%. Conclusions:The expression levels of IL-6, sIL-6R and sgp130 in serum are closely related to the severity of lung injury caused by paraquat poisoning, and IL-6, sIL-6R and sgp130 have good diagnostic value in lung injury caused by paraquat poisoning.