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Genomics & Informatics ; : 231-235, 2014.
Artigo em Inglês | WPRIM | ID: wpr-61838

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Elevated serum uric acid levels are associated with a variety of adverse health outcomes, including gout, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular diseases. Several genome-wide association studies on uric acid levels have implicated the ATP-binding cassette, subfamily G, member 2 (ABCG2) gene as being possibly causal. We investigated an association between the single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs2725220 in the ABCG2 gene and uric acid levels in the Korean population. A total of 991 subjects in Seoul City were used for a replication study with ABCG2 SNP rs2725220. The rs2725220 SNP in the ABCG2 gene was associated with mean uric acid levels (effect per allele 0.25 mg/dL, p or =7.0 mg/dL) than subjects with the GG genotype. When analyzed by gender, the association with ABCG2 was stronger in men than in women. The association with ABCG2 was much stronger in male subjects with body mass index (BMI) > or = 26.4 (odds ratio, 5.09; 95% confidence interval, 2.41 to 10.8) than in male subjects with BMI < 26.4. This study clearly demonstrates that genetic variations in ABCG2 influence uric acid levels in Korean adults.


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Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Alelos , Índice de Massa Corporal , Doenças Cardiovasculares , Diabetes Mellitus , Variação Genética , Estudo de Associação Genômica Ampla , Genótipo , Gota , Hipertensão , Hiperuricemia , Polimorfismo Genético , Seul , Ácido Úrico
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Experimental & Molecular Medicine ; : 371-377, 2005.
Artigo em Inglês | WPRIM | ID: wpr-177634

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When treated with protopine and alkalized extracts of the tuber of Corydalis ternata for one year, significant decrease in glutamate level and increase in glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) activity was observed in rat brains. The expression of GDH between the two groups remained unchanged as determined by Western and Northern blot analysis, suggesting a post-translational regulation of GDH activity in alkalized extracts treated rat brains. The stimulatory effects of alkalized extracts and protopine on the GDH activity was further examined in vitro with two types of human GDH isozymes, hGDH1 (house-keeping GDH) and hGDH2 (nerve-specific GDH). Alkalized extracts and protopine activated the human GDH isozymes up to 4.8-fold. hGDH2 (nervespecific GDH) was more sensitively affected by 1 mM ADP than hGDH1 (house-keeping GDH) on the activation by alkalized extracts. Studies with cassette mutagenesis at ADP-binding site showed that hGDH2 was more sensitively regulated by ADP than hGDH1 on the activation by Corydalis ternata. Our results suggest that prolonged exposure to Corydalis ternata may be one of the ways to regulate glutamate concentration in brain through the activation of GDH.


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Animais , Ratos , Alcaloides de Berberina/farmacologia , Encéfalo/efeitos dos fármacos , Corydalis/química , Ativação Enzimática/efeitos dos fármacos , Glutamato Desidrogenase/genética , Ácido Glutâmico/metabolismo , Isoenzimas/genética , Extratos Vegetais/farmacologia , RNA Mensageiro/análise
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