Vascular cell adaptive response to hypoxic stress includes enhanced production of sphingomyelin metabolites that regulate cell growth. Here, we examined the vascular smooth muscle (VSM) cell adaptive response to hypoxia (2 and 5% O(2)) and demonstrated that acute (=16h) hypoxic stress
Ceramide functions as an important second messenger in apoptosis signaling pathways. In this report, we show that treatment of NT-2 neuronal precursor cells with hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R) resulted in ceramide up-regulation. This elevation in ceramide was primarily due to the actions of acid
The lipid compositions of different breast tumor microenvironments are largely unknown due to limitations in lipid imaging techniques. Imaging lipid distributions would enhance our understanding of processes occurring inside growing tumors, such as cancer cell proliferation, invasion, and
Glucose and glutamine are essential energy metabolites for brain tumor growth and survival under both normoxic and hypoxic conditions. Both metabolites can contribute their carbons to lipid biosynthesis. We used uniformly labeled [(14)C]-U-D-glucose and [(14)C]-U-L-glutamine to examine the profile
OBJECTIVE
To observe the changes of erythrocyte deformability in rats acclimatized to hypoxia and its molemechanism.
METHODS
Male rats were randomly divided into three groups (n = 10): normal control group, acute hypoxia group and hypoxia acclimatization group. Animals were exposed to hypoxia for 0,
Changes in the composition and contents of phospholipids and free fatty acids were observed and compared in three groups: (A) unpreconditoned normal controls, (B) exposure to 1 run of hypoxia and (C) exposure to 4 runs of hypoxia. In group B, the content of phosphatidyl ethanolamine (PE),
The development of autolysis in grey brain matter of albino rats was accompanied by desintegration of aminophospholipids with parallel increase of glycerophosphates (GLP) and phosphatidic acids (PA) on early stages of incubation and lysophospholipids (LPL) on later stages. Acute hypobaric hypoxic
Neonatal rat oligodendrocyte (OLG) cultures exposed to 6 h of gradual, progressive hypoxia in a GasPak (BBL, Becton Dickinson) apparatus were not injured or metabolically impaired, but instead showed a specific inhibition of de novo synthesis (measured by [3H]palmitic acid labeling) of the major
Recently, extracellular vesicles (EVs), such as exosomes, have been proposed to play an influential role in the cell-to-cell spread of neurodegenerative diseases, including the intercellular transmission of α-synuclein (α-syn). However, the regulation of EV biogenesis and its relation to Parkinson's
Oxygen-requiring enzymes, such as Δ4-desaturase (dihydroceramide desaturase), sphingolipid Δ4-desaturase/C-4-hydroxylase, and fatty acid 2-hydroxylase are involved in ceramide synthesis. We prepared free ceramides, sphingomyelins and glycosphingolipids (GSLs) from cancer cells cultivated under
Adaptation to continuous normobaric hypoxia (CNH) protects the heart against acute ischemia/reperfusion injury. Recently, we have demonstrated the infarct size-limiting effect of CNH also in hearts of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and in conplastic SHR-mtBN strain characterized by
The hyper-activation of glutamate receptors is a key event in the degenerative processes triggered by ischemia in the brain. Several types of these receptors reside in cholesterol-sphingomyelin rich domains of post-synaptic plasma membranes and have been described to be sensitive to cholesterol
By a modified microthin-layer chromatography in the total lipid spectrum of the cardiac muscle of white rats exposed to acute oxygen deficiency in an altitude chamber was investigated. It was found that the content of total lipids, phospholipids, free cholesterol, free fatty acids and triglycerides
Owing to lagging or insufficient neo-angiogenesis, hypoxia is a feature of most solid tumors. Hypoxic tumor regions contribute to resistance against antiproliferative chemotherapeutics, radiotherapy and immunotherapy. Targeting cells in hypoxic tumor areas is therefore an important strategy for
In this work, a new sphingomyelin-cholesterol liposomal formulation (CPD100Li) for the delivery of a hypoxia activated prodrug of vinblastine, mon-N-oxide (CPD100), is developed. The optimized liposomal formulation uses an ionophore (A23187) mediated pH-gradient method. Optimized CPD100Li is
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