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Glutamine and Alanyl-Glutamine increase RhoA expression and reduce clostridium ...
Santos, Ana Angélica Queiroz Assunção; Braga Neto, Manuel Bonfim; Oliveira, Marcelo Róseo de; Freire, Rosemayre Souza; Barros, Eduardo BedêClostridium difficile is a major cause of antibiotic-associated colitis and is associated with signicant morbidity and mortality. Glutamine (Gln) is a major fuel for the intestinal cell population. Alanyl-glutamine (Ala-Gln) is a dipeptide that is highly soluble and well tolerated. IEC-6 cells were used in the in vitro experiments. Cell morphology was evaluated by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning elec...
5-Fluorouracil induces enteric neuron death and glial activation during intesti...
Costa, Deiziane V. S.; Bon-Frauches, Ana C.; Silva, Angeline M. H. P.; Lima-Júnior, Roberto C. P.; Martins, Conceição S.5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) is an anticancer agent whose main side effects include intestinal mucositis associated with intestinal motility alterations maybe due to an effect on the enteric nervous system (ENS), but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. In this report, we used an animal model to investigate the participation of the S100B/RAGE/NFκB pathway in intestinal mucositis and enteric neurotoxicity caused b...
Apolipoprotein E plays a key role against cryptosporidial infection in transgen...
Azevedo, Orleâncio G. R.; Bolick, David T.; Roche, James K.; Pinkerton, Relana F.; Lima, Aldo A. M.; Vitek, Michael P.; Warren, Cirle A.Apolipoliprotein E (apoE), a critical targeting protein in lipid homeostasis, has been found to have immunoinflammatory effects on murine models of infection and malnutrition. The effects of apoE in undernourished and Cryptosporidium parvuminfected mice have not been investigated. In order to study the role of apoE in a model of C. parvum infection, we used the following C57BL6J mouse genetic strains: APOE-defi...