جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « تیموکوئینون » در نشریات گروه « زیست شناسی »

In order to investigate the effect of consuming diets supplemented with different levels of vitamin E, sesamin and thymoquinone on cellular immune system challenges, intestinal morphology, intestinal microbial population and MUC2 gene expression in laying Japanese quails, 210 female Japanese quails aged 85-35 days with 7 experimental treatments including the control group and those consuming vitamin E, thymoquinone and sesamin at levels of 100 and 200 ml.gram/kg of standard feed was used with 5 repetitions and 6 pieces of laying quail in each repetition. At the end of the period (85 days), after killing two quails from each repetition, the relative weight of thymus, spleen and bursa of fabricius and the liver enzymes activity indices such as albumin, alkaline phosphatase (ALP), alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate transaminase (AST) were investigated. Dinitrochlorobenzene sensitization challenge test and response to the injection of mitogen phytohemagglutinin into the left wing web were studied. Sampling was done to evaluate the morphology of the intestinal tissue and the microbial flora population of the small intestine. To investigate the expression of MUC2 gene, samples from jejunum were collected and RT-PCR method was performed. The results showed that the consumption of supplemented diets caused a significant increase in the bursa.f relative weight (p ≤ 0.05) and a non-significant improvement of the liver enzyemes activity (p ≥ 0.05). The significant increase of beneficial microbial flora (Lactobacillus) and decrease of the colony population of (Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica) bacteria in the intestine along with the increase in the surface of the villi and the density of the number of goblet cells indicated the beneficial effects of the active compounds used in improving the health status of quails (p ≤ 0.05). Consuming supplemented diets with levels of vitamin E, sesamin and thymoquinone caused an increase in MUC2 mRNA expression in the intestine. The results showed the benefits of vitamin E, sesamin and thymoquinone consumption on cell mediated mediated immunity, intestinal morphology, intestinal microbial flora and MUC2 mRNA expression in laying Japanese quails.

Nowadays, much attention is paid to the effects of natural factors on physiological and pathological processes in human body. In this regard, lack of oxygen or hypoxia is one of the crucial biological factors involved in various physiological processes such as wound healing and pathological processes such as cancer. Moreover, it is very important to find natural compounds affecting the characteristics and functions of cells. Thymoquinone (TQ) is a natural compound derived from certain plants such as Nigella Sativa. It has many biopharmacological effects, including anti-bacterial, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic, anti-aging, anti-cancer, etc. Given the biopharmacological properties of TQ and the importance of hypoxia as an important factor affecting physiological and pathological processes, this study was designed to investigate the effect of TQ under cobalt (II) chloride-mediated hypoxia on breast cancer and wound healing by evaluating the expression of SOX2, CDK4, c-MET, and DNMT1 genes in a breast cancer cell line (MCF7) and a normal fibroblastic cell line (HDF) that treated with these compounds.

In the present study, after the cultivation of MCF7 and HDF cell lines, each of the cells were divided into two groups. The treatment group was treated simultaneously with 500 ng/ml of TQ and 100 μM of cobalt (II) chloride for 24 h and the control group was only treated with cobalt (II) chloride. After incubation time, total RNA extraction, DNase I treatment, and cDNA synthesis were carried out and finally, the expression of target genes was examined by real-time PCR assay. In this study, relative threshold method was used to determine the amount of gene expression changes, and SPSS software and Student's t-test statistical method were used to find the significance of gene expression changes in the treated groups compared to the controls.

The results showed that simultaneous treatment of MCF7 cells with TQ and cobalt (II) chloride significantly (P < 0.05) reduced the expression of CDK4, c-MET, and DNMT1 genes at about 4.35-, 1.89-, and 2.08-fold, respectively, compared to the control group. However, the treatment of MCF7 cells caused a limited increase in the expression of SOX2 at about 1.14-fold, which was not significant according to the significance level of ≥ 1.5. Moreover, simultaneous treatment of HDF cells with TQ and cobalt (II) chloride significantly increased c-MET gene expression by about 1.86-fold. In addition, the treatment of HDF cells caused a slight increase in the expression of CDK4 at about 1.26-fold, which was not significant according to the significance level of ≥ 1.5. Also, the expression of SOX2 and DNMT1 genes has decreased at about 1.28- and 1.32-fold in the treatment group compared to the control group, which were as not significant according to the significance level of  ≥ 1.5.

Overall, it can be concluded that TQ under cobalt (II) chloride-mediated hypoxia may inhibit breast cancer by inhibiting the expression of genes involved in proliferation and migration. In addition, due to the important role of fibroblasts in the wound healing process, TQ may help wound healing under hypoxic conditions by increasing the migration potential of fibroblast cells.

Thymoquinone (TQ) is an active compound of some medicinal plants. Although different biological and pharmaceutical activities of TQ are well known, its effect on stem cells has not been clarified yet. Therefore, this study was aimed to investigate the effect of TQ on the expression of iNos and Cox-1 genes, which are involved in immunomodulatory potential of mouse mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), at transcript level. MSCs were isolated from young NMRI mice and their potency was confirmed using the differentiation assay into osteoblasts and adipocytes. The results of MTT assay indicated that the median inhibition concentration (IC50) values of TQ on the MSCs were 8 μg/ml at 24h and 4 μg/ml at 48 and 72h after treatment. In addition, more than 90% of TQ-treated MSCs were alive after treatment with concentrations ≤2 μg/ml of TQ for 24h. The results of gene expression analysis by real-time PCR showed that iNos and Cox-1 down-regulated 0.655 and 0.615 fold (38.5 and 34.5%), respectively, in the TQ-treated MSCs compared to the untreated MSCs (P < 0.05). In conclusion, this study demonstrates that TQ influences immunomodulatory potential of MSCs. Furthermore, this study provides a good perspective for further efforts in the field and for the use of this compound to affect MSCs capabilities in cell therapy.