By combining native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH)-diaphorase staining, a simple method for detecting NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase in tissue sample...By combining native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH)-diaphorase staining, a simple method for detecting NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase in tissue samples was established. When rat liver microsomal fractions were examined by this method, several bands with different mobility were visualized. Western blot analysis indicated that the band which appeared in the most anodal position among them represented NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase. SDS-PAGE/Western blot analysis revealed that the molecular weight of the protein forming the band was around 80 kDa, which was identical to that of rat NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase. The intensity level of NADPH-diaphorase staining assigned to this enzyme estimated by this method increased four times in microsomal fractions prepared from rat fed ethanol chronically compared to that from controls. When a dilution series of a rat liver microsomal fraction was examined by this method and SDS-PAGE/Western blot analysis, their staining intensities representing this enzyme were significantly correlated with each other. Using the naive PAGE/NADPH-diaphorase staining method, NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase is detected in rat liver microsomes. This method is beneficial because compared with the conventional SDS-PAGE/Western blot analysis, the quantification of NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase in tissue samples is allowed to be more easily done.展开更多
Chronic alcohol abuse damages nearly every organ in the body. The harmful effects of ethanol on thebrain, the liver and the pancreas are well documented. Although chronic alcohol consumption causes serious impairments...Chronic alcohol abuse damages nearly every organ in the body. The harmful effects of ethanol on thebrain, the liver and the pancreas are well documented. Although chronic alcohol consumption causes serious impairments also in the gastrointestinal tract like altered motility, mucosal damage, impaired absorption of nu-trients and inflammation, the effects of chronically consumed ethanol on the enteric nervous system are less detailed. While the nitrergic myenteric neurons play an essential role in the regulation of gastrointestinal peristalsis, it was hypothesised, that these neurons are the first targets of consumed ethanol or its metabolites generated in the different gastrointestinal segments. To reinforce this hypothesis the effects of ethanol on the gastrointestinal tract was investigated in different rodent models with quantitative immunohistochemistry, in vivo and in vitro motility measurements, western blot analysis, evaluation of nitric oxide synthase enzyme activity and bio-imaging of nitric oxide synthesis. These results suggest that chronic alcohol consumption did not result significant neural loss, but primarily impaired the nitrergic pathways in gut region-dependent way leading to disturbed gastrointestinal motility. The gut segment-specific differences in the effects of chronic alcohol consumption highlight the significance the ethanol-induced neuronal microenvironment involving oxidative stress and intestinal microbiota.展开更多
文摘By combining native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH)-diaphorase staining, a simple method for detecting NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase in tissue samples was established. When rat liver microsomal fractions were examined by this method, several bands with different mobility were visualized. Western blot analysis indicated that the band which appeared in the most anodal position among them represented NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase. SDS-PAGE/Western blot analysis revealed that the molecular weight of the protein forming the band was around 80 kDa, which was identical to that of rat NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase. The intensity level of NADPH-diaphorase staining assigned to this enzyme estimated by this method increased four times in microsomal fractions prepared from rat fed ethanol chronically compared to that from controls. When a dilution series of a rat liver microsomal fraction was examined by this method and SDS-PAGE/Western blot analysis, their staining intensities representing this enzyme were significantly correlated with each other. Using the naive PAGE/NADPH-diaphorase staining method, NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase is detected in rat liver microsomes. This method is beneficial because compared with the conventional SDS-PAGE/Western blot analysis, the quantification of NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase in tissue samples is allowed to be more easily done.
基金Supported by The János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences(Mária Bagyánszki)by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund,OTKA grant PD 108309(Nikolett Bódi)
文摘Chronic alcohol abuse damages nearly every organ in the body. The harmful effects of ethanol on thebrain, the liver and the pancreas are well documented. Although chronic alcohol consumption causes serious impairments also in the gastrointestinal tract like altered motility, mucosal damage, impaired absorption of nu-trients and inflammation, the effects of chronically consumed ethanol on the enteric nervous system are less detailed. While the nitrergic myenteric neurons play an essential role in the regulation of gastrointestinal peristalsis, it was hypothesised, that these neurons are the first targets of consumed ethanol or its metabolites generated in the different gastrointestinal segments. To reinforce this hypothesis the effects of ethanol on the gastrointestinal tract was investigated in different rodent models with quantitative immunohistochemistry, in vivo and in vitro motility measurements, western blot analysis, evaluation of nitric oxide synthase enzyme activity and bio-imaging of nitric oxide synthesis. These results suggest that chronic alcohol consumption did not result significant neural loss, but primarily impaired the nitrergic pathways in gut region-dependent way leading to disturbed gastrointestinal motility. The gut segment-specific differences in the effects of chronic alcohol consumption highlight the significance the ethanol-induced neuronal microenvironment involving oxidative stress and intestinal microbiota.
