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Objective To investigate the effect of vanillin via olfactory pathway on repetitive stereotyped behavior in autistic rats and its possible mechanism.Methods The model of autism was established by the single intraperitoneal injection of 600 mg/kg sodium valproate on day 12.5 of pregnant rats.Twenty-four autism animals were adopted according to the eye opening time,body mass and behavioral test.They were randomly divided into control group and vanillin group with 12 in each group,while the saline group rats as normal control group and the blank group rats as normal blank group.The repetitive stereotyped behavioral were examined in four groups of rats and the concentration of 5-HT in the amygdala was determined by immunohistochemical stainning.Results Compared with the control group,the repetitive stereotyped behaviors of vanillin group decreased (stereotype time (113.31 ± 18.45) s vs (250.52± 13.25) s,P＜0.01) and the expression of 5-HT in amygdala increased (5-HT positive neuron number(3.42± 1.32) vs (1.32± 1.04),P＜0.05).Conclusions Vanillin via olfactory pathway can improve repetitive stereotyped behaviors of autism rats,which is associated with increased the expression of 5-HT in amygdala.
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Objective To study NonO protein expression changes in murine erythroleukemia ( MEL ) cell differentiation induced by sodium butyrate .Methods Benzidine staining was used to test sodium butyrate-induced erythroid differentiation of MEL cells .We detected NonO protein expression changes in MEL cell differentiation induced by sodium butyrate and NonO protein localization in MEL cells by Western blotting and immunocytochemistry .Furthermore , we applied PCR technique to detect NonO RNA expression in differentiation process .Results We found that NonO protein was upregulated at gene and protein levels in the erythroid differentiation process of MEL cells induced by sodium butyrate and located in cytoplasm and nucleus in MEL cells .Conclusion These results show that NonO protein is closely related with MEL cell differentiation induced by sodium butyrate , which may provide important clues for further study of the mechanism of leukemia .