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Dev Biol ; 426(1): 115-125, 2017 06 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28461238

ABSTRACT

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression that play critical roles in animal development and physiology, though functions for most miRNAs remain unknown. Worms with reduced miRNA biogenesis due to loss of Drosha or Pasha/DGCR8 activity are sterile and fail to ovulate, indicating that miRNAs are required for the process of oocyte maturation and ovulation. Starting with this penetrant sterile phenotype and using new strains created to perform tissue specific RNAi, we characterized the roles of the C. elegans Pasha, pash-1, and two miRNA-specific Argonautes, alg-1 and alg-2, in somatic gonad cells and in germ cells in the regulation of ovulation. Conditional loss of pash-1 activity resulted in a reduced rate of ovulation and in basal and ovulatory sheath contractions. Similarly, knockdown of miRNA-specific Argonautes in the cells of the somatic gonad by tissue-specific RNAi results in a reduction of the ovulation rate and in basal and ovulatory sheath contractions. Reduced miRNA pathway gene activity resulted in a range of defects, including oocytes that were pinched upon entry of the oocyte into the distal end of the spermatheca in about 42% of the ovulation events observed following alg-1 RNAi. This phenotype was not observed on worms exposed to control RNAi. In contrast, knockdown of alg-1 and alg-2 in germ cells results in few defects in oocyte maturation and ovulation. These data identify specific steps in the process of ovulation that require miRNA pathway gene activity in the somatic gonad cells.


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Argonaute Proteins/genetics , Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins/genetics , Caenorhabditis elegans/genetics , Germ Cells/cytology , Gonads/cytology , MicroRNAs/genetics , Ovulation/genetics , RNA-Binding Proteins/genetics , Animals , Cell Differentiation/genetics , MicroRNAs/metabolism , Ovulation/metabolism , RNA Interference , RNA, Small Interfering/genetics , Ribonuclease III/genetics
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Sucre; s.n; 13011989. 86 p. tab, graf.
Thesis in Spanish | LILACS-Express | LIBOCS, LIBOSP | ID: biblio-1335483

ABSTRACT

Cuando el organismo humano pierde parte o la integridad de su superficie epitelial, la continuidad de sus tegidos se ve sometido a todo tipo de agresiones, la amenza microbiologica se traduce en una agresión, siendo el factor mas importante que da lugar a los procesos infecciosos. Los microorganismos cotaminantes no son elementosestaticos ni de facil delimitación, por el contrario estan dotados de una capacidad de adaptación y movilidad que reaccionan con nuevas y diferentes formas generacionales para la misma especie (mutación), de ahi que la amenaza de contaminación e infección de los pacientes quemados se encuentra en permanente evolución. El proposito del presente trabajo es corroborar en el tratamiento del quemado agudo y el quemado croníco aislando e identificando el germen que provoca las infecciones masivas, y que posteriormente se ha comprobado que son causa de las deformaciones y secuelas deformantes. De acuerdo a las estadisticas que hemos podido encontrar en el paciente quemado, es un paciente caro en un tratamiento desde el punto de vista: hospital, medico, paramedico y farmacos principalmente por la permanencia intrahospitalaria que osila entre 6 meses y un año. Las mas de las veces el tratamiento antibioterapico no es el adecuado utilizandose medicamentos que no solucionan el problema infeccioso.

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