scholarly journals Comparison of cytotoxicity evaluation of chlorogenic acid extract between Real-time cell analysis and CCK-8 method

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-61
Author(s):  
Ping Xu

Critical cytotoxicity evaluation of pharmaceuticals is necessary for the clinical practice of chemotherapy. To quantitatively evaluate cell viability, currently there are two main types of sensitive methods including real-time cell analysis (RTCA) and CCK-8 assay, in which RTCA records electrochemical signal changes around an incubated cell, whereas CCK-8 is based on the colorimetric method. Despite the different detection principles adopted for the cytotoxicity assessment, the comparison of the two methods in terms of the application scope is lacking. In order to compare and determine the best experimental method for the study of the toxicity of chlorogenic acid extract from taraxacum officinale on dairy cow mammary epithelial cells. The real time cell analysis (RTCA) and CCK-8 method were used to analyze the cytotoxicity of chlorogenic acid extract to BMEC and calculate its IC50. The results of the real time cell analysis method and the CCK-8 method showed that different concentrations of chlorogenic acid extract reduced the viability of dairy cow mammary epithelial cells, and the decrease was most obvious at 400 ug/mL. The IC50 of the two analysis methods were 326.8 and 320.4 ug/mL, respectively. In contrast, the CCK-8 method had limitations in fixed-point determination. However, the real time cell analysis method can monitor the dynamic biological response process of cell growth and proliferation in real time. Therefore, the real time cell analysis method can observe cell growth more intuitively and accurately, compensate for the shortcomings of the CCK-8 method, and it is a new experimental method for studying cytotoxicity.

2019 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-187
Author(s):  
Bin Li ◽  
Zhuzha Basang ◽  
Lijun Hu ◽  
Liu Liu ◽  
Nan Jiang

AbstractThis research paper addresses the hypothesis that Septin6 is a key regulatory factor influencing amino acid (AA)-mediated cell growth and casein synthesis in dairy cow mammary epithelial cells (DCMECs). DCMECs were treated with absence of AA (AA−), restricted concentrations of AA (AAr) or normal concentrations of AA (AA+) for 24 h. Cell growth, expression of CSN2 and Septin6 were increased in response to AA supply. Overexpressing or inhibiting Septin6 demonstrated that cell growth, expression of CSN2, mTOR, p-mTOR, S6K1 and p-S6K1 were up-regulated by Septin6. Furthermore, overexpressing or inhibiting mTOR demonstrated that the increase in cell growth and expression of CSN2 in response to Septin6 overexpression were inhibited by mTOR inhibition, and vice versa. Our hypothesis was supported; we were able to show that Septin6 is an important positive factor for cell growth and casein synthesis, it up-regulates AA-mediated cell growth and casein synthesis through activating mTORC1 pathway in DCMECs.


2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. 524-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan Jiang ◽  
Yu Wang ◽  
Zhiqiang Yu ◽  
Lijun Hu ◽  
Chaonan Liu ◽  
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2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Jianfa Wang ◽  
Shuai Lian ◽  
Jun Song ◽  
Hai Wang ◽  
Xu Zhang ◽  
...  

Abstract Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) could induce milk fat depression via regulating the body and blood fat metabolism. However, it is not completely clear how LPS might regulate triglyceride synthesis in dairy cow mammary epithelial cells (DCMECs). DCMECs were isolated and purified from dairy cow mammary tissue and treated with LPS. The level of triglyceride synthesis, the expression and activity of the liver X receptor α (LXRα), enzymes related to de novo fatty acid synthesis, and the expression of the fatty acid transporters were investigated. We found that LPS decreased the level of triglyceride synthesis via a down-regulation of the transcription, translation, and nuclear translocation level of the LXRα. The results also indicated that the transcription level of the LXRα target genes, sterol regulatory element binding protein 1 (SREBP1), fatty acid synthetase (FAS), acetyl-CoA carboxylase-1 (ACC1), were significantly down-regulated in DCMECs after LPS treatment. Our data may provide new insight into the mechanisms of milk fat depression caused by LPS.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gulbir Singh ◽  
Vivek Bhatnagar ◽  
Rajeev Gupta ◽  
Gautam Kumar

Purpose of Study: The purpose of the study is to carry out the comparison of traditional learning and e-learning with reference to university education. Methodology: A comparative analysis method that has been selected to fulfill the purpose of the study. The research data has been collected by various sources internet, previous research studies published in the Journal, universities which offer different technical and nontechnical programs .and further analyzed by in-depth understanding approach. Result: The outcome of this study will show the effect of e-learning in the current era. As we have compared e-learning with traditional learning and the result shows us that e-learning has filled the gap between the universities and the real-life industries' demands. Main finding: The result of this study showed that e-learning is the need of the present era in order to fulfill the gap between the universities and the real-life industries' demands. Additionally, e-learning based courses will have more impact and provide more skill and exposure to students as compared to traditional learning mode. Implications/Applications: This article can help the different universities and students to introduce more e-learning courses in their curriculum and they can fill the real-time industries' demands. Novelty/originality of the study: Our research can ensure that e-learning has a huge impact on our students and can help to increase the skills and exposure of them according to the current demands.


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