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Blockade of Eosinophil-Induced Bronchial Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition with a Geranyl Acetophenone in a Coculture Model

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Title
Blockade of Eosinophil-Induced Bronchial Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition with a Geranyl Acetophenone in a Coculture Model
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, November 2017
DOI 10.3389/fphar.2017.00837
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Yu Z. Lee, Hui M. Yap, Khozirah Shaari, Chau L. Tham, Mohd R. Sulaiman, Daud A. Israf

Abstract

Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is currently recognized as the main cellular event that contributes to airway remodeling. Eosinophils can induce EMT in airway epithelial cells via increased transforming growth factor (TGF)-β production. We assessed the effect of synthetic 2,4,6-trihydroxy-3-geranyl acetophenone (tHGA) upon eosinophil-induced EMT in a cellular model. The human eosinophil cell line EoL-1 was used to induce EMT in BEAS-2B human bronchial epithelial cells. The induction of EMT was dose-dependently suppressed following tHGA treatment in which the epithelial morphology and E-cadherin expression were not altered. Protein and mRNA expression of vimentin, collagen I and fibronectin in eosinophil-induced epithelial cells were also significantly suppressed by tHGA treatment. Following pathway analysis, we showed that tHGA suppressed eosinophil-induced activator protein-1-mediated TGF-β production by targeting c-Jun N-terminal kinase and phosphoinositide 3-kinase signaling pathways. These findings corroborated previous findings on the ability of tHGA to inhibit experimental murine airway remodeling.

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Unknown 16 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 5 31%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 13%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 6%
Professor 1 6%
Student > Postgraduate 1 6%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 6 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 25%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 6%
Other 1 6%
Unknown 7 44%
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