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Involvement of Orai1 in tunicamycin-induced endothelial dysfunction

  • Yang, Hui;Xue, Yumei;Kuang, Sujuan;Zhang, Mengzhen;Chen, Jinghui;Liu, Lin;Shan, Zhixin;Lin, Qiuxiong;Li, Xiaohong;Yang, Min;Zhou, Hui;Rao, Fang;Deng, Chunyu
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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    • 제23권2호
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    • pp.95-102
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    • 2019
  • Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is mediated by disturbance of $Ca^{2+}$ homeostasis. The store-operated calcium (SOC) channel is the primary $Ca^{2+}$ channel in non-excitable cells, but its participation in agent-induced ER stress is not clear. In this study, the effects of tunicamycin on $Ca^{2+}$ influx in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) were observed with the fluorescent probe Fluo-4 AM. The effect of tunicamycin on the expression of the unfolded protein response (UPR)-related proteins BiP and CHOP was assayed by western blotting with or without inhibition of Orai1. Tunicamycin induced endothelial dysfunction by activating ER stress. Orai1 expression and the influx of extracellular $Ca^{2+}$ in HUVECs were both upregulated during ER stress. The SOC channel inhibitor SKF96365 reversed tunicamycin-induced endothelial cell dysfunction by inhibiting ER stress. Regulation of tunicamycin-induced ER stress by Orai1 indicates that modification of Orai1 activity may have therapeutic value for conditions with ER stress-induced endothelial dysfunction.

THE ALTERATION OF OXIDATIVE DAMAGE AND ACTMTIES OF METABOLIZING ENZYMES IN RATS TREATED WITH PEROXISOME PROLIFERATORS

  • Sea, Kyung-Won;Kim, Kyu-Bong;Kim, Yun-Jung;Suh, Soo-Kyung;Kim, Jong--Min;Park, Chang-Won;Kim, Jong-Won;Kim, Kwang-Jin;Choi, Ju-Young;Kim, Joo-Il;Lee, Kyung-Tae;Lee, Sun-Hee
    • 한국독성학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국독성학회 2001년도 International Symposium on Dietary and Medicinal Antimutgens and Anticarcinogens
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    • pp.116-117
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    • 2001
  • The phthalates have been shown to produce hepatic peroxisome proliferation and certain peroxisome proliferators (PPs) are also known to increase the incidence of liver tumors in rodents. In this study we investigated the correlation between oxidative injury, changes in peroxisomal and microsomal enzymes and tumor formation in PP-treated rats.(omitted)

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NMDA Receptor-dependent Inhibition of Synaptic Transmission by Acute Ethanol Treatment in Rat Corticostriatal Slices

  • Choi, Se-Joon;Kim, Ki-Jung;Choi, Hyeong-Seok;Kim, Seong-Yun;Yim, Dong-Seok;Cho, Young-Jin;Hahn, Sang-June;Sung, Ki-Wug
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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    • 제10권6호
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    • pp.303-307
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    • 2006
  • The effects of ethanol on corticostriatal synaptic transmission were examined, using extracellular recording and analysis of population spike amplitudes in rat brain slices, to study how acute ethanol intoxication impairs striatal function. Ethanol caused a decrease in population spike amplitudes in a dose dependent manner ($50{\sim}200mM$). Pretreatment with picrotoxin, a ${\gamma}-amino$ butyric acid $(GABA)_{A}$ receptor antagonist, increased the population spikes but ethanol (100 mM) was still effective in decreasing the population spikes under this condition. In the presence of $_{(DL)}-2-amino-5-phosphonovaleric$ acid (APV), N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, the inhibitory action of ethanol on population spikes was not shown. These results suggest that ethanol inhibits the glutamatergic corticostriatal synaptic transmission through blockade of NMDA receptors.