“Sulforaphane and Other Nutrigenomic Nrf2 Activators: Can the Clinician’s Expectation Be Matched by the Reality?”

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        There are numerous potential therapeutic targets in the complement cascade, and inhibiting the cascade at different points may be beneficial to treat different conditions depending on the disease biology. Inhibition of C5 cleavage effectively blocks generation of C5a and MAC regardless of the specific pathway involved in complement activation. This approach of inhibiting C5 cleavage is most relevant to diseases with significant MAC deposition resulting in tissue injury, as is the case for gMG and PNH. In other conditions, the tissue injury is related to activation of a specific pathway of complement, such as kidney diseases like C3 glomerulopathies, in which tissue injury may be mediated by deposition of complement component 3 following uncontrolled activation of the alternative pathway. In this case, selective inhibition of the alternative pathway by targeting a key enzyme in the alternative pathway, Factor D, may block C3 deposition while preserving the capacity of the classical and lectin pathways of complement to continue to fight infection. The classical pathway is activated when an antibody binds to the surface of a pathogen and recruits a complex of C1q, C1r, and C1s, and we believe that inhibition of C1 may be efficacious for treatment of certain autoimmune and CNS diseases.

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive and often life-threatening disease characterized by elevation of pulmonary arterial pressure and pulmonary vascular resistance and vascular remodeling involving the dysregulation of various components of the vessel wall1,2,3. The smooth muscle layer of the vessel wall plays a prominent role in the pathogenesis of PAH with extension of smooth muscle into smaller, non-muscular pulmonary arteries within the respiratory acinus, a common feature of all forms of PAH-associated remodeling1. Pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells (PASMC) proliferate and migrate with medial wall thickening, resulting in decreased luminal diameter and ultimately obstruction of resistance pulmonary arteries1,4. Chronic hypoxia is a well-known stimulus for abnormal proliferation and migration of vascular smooth muscle cells and vascular remodeling in patients with PAH5,6,7. Although the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in these proliferative and migratory responses are still not completely understood, there is very strong evidence that hypoxia-inducible transcription factors (HIF) are critically involved8,9.

(A) Representative F480-stained sections of UUO kidneys from P311+/+ (n = 6) and P311−/− (n = 6) mice. Black arrowhead indicates the F480-positive cells. Bottom panel: negative controls for the immunohistochemical staining of F480 on the obstructed kidneys from both P311+/+ and P311−/− mice. (B) The graph represents the total number of F480-positive sections from five contiguous high-powered fields per kidney section. (A) and (B) are representative of at least three similar experiments. Scale bar: 100 μm. Data are presented as the mean ± SD. *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01.

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(a) ADPR levels were determined after treatment of NK cells with 30 μg PME for 40 s. Rp-8-Br-cAMPS (100 μM) or Rp-8-pCPT-cGMPS (20 μM) was preincubated for 30 min. 100 μM N6-benzoyl-cAMP (PKA activator, 40 s) was used for ADPR measurement. Data are mean ± SEM of three independent experiments. *P < 0.001 vs basal; #P < 0.05. (b) cAMP levels were determined after treatment of NK cells with 30 μg PME. Data are mean ± SEM of three independent experiments. (c) Inhibition of tumor cell-induced sustained Ca2+ increase by a PKA inhibitor, Rp-8-Br-cAMPS, and an adenylate cyclase inhibitor, SQ 22536. Rp-8-Br-cAMPS (100 μM) or SQ 22536 (250 μM) was preincubated for 30 min. (d) SOCE induced by bafilomycin A1. Bafilomycin A1 (1 μM)-induced SOCE was inhibited with 50 μM SK96365 but not by 20 μM ACA. SK96365 or ACA was pre-incubated for 30 min. Data shown in c and d are mean ± SEM of three independent experiments. n = 10.

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As CH markers, the expressions of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and β-myosin heavy chain (MYH-7) were determined in each group. As shown in Fig. 2d–f, the expressions of CH markers varied in different groups in a fashion similar to that in HW/BW, whole heart section area and cardiomyocyte size, suggesting that combination of two or more ingredients was superior to any single ingredient alone in treatment of CH.