Journal: World Journal of Stem Cells
Article Title: Human amniotic fluid stem cell therapy can help regain bladder function in type 2 diabetic rats
doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v14.i5.330
Figure Lengend Snippet: Relative mRNA expression. In diabetes (DM) rats, the M3 mRNA expression was increased at 4 wk compared with 12 wk and the M2 / M3 mRNA expression at 4 wk was increased compared with normal diet (ND)/high-fat diet (HFD) control groups. The M3 mRNA recovered at 4 wk after insulin treatment. The DM rats had significantly decreased mRNA expression of nerve growth factor ( NGF ) at 4 and 12 wk and substance P at 4 wk compared with ND/HFD controls. Insulin treatment can recover the mRNA expression of NGF and substance P , and hAFSCs treatment can recover the mRNA expression of NGF at 4 wk after DM induction. n = 6. Statistics: Median with first and third quartile (Q1, Q3) for continuous variables. Two-way analysis of variance was used for initial analysis. Kruskal-Wallis test with post hoc Bonferroni test for intergroup analysis. Mann-Whitney U test for the comparison between 4 wk and 12 wk. P values are shown in each comparison. A: M2-muscarinic receptor; B: M3-muscarinic receptor; C: Nerve growth factor; D: Calcitonin gene-related peptide; E: Substance P in the bladder of rats of different groups. ND: Normal diet; DM: Diabetes mellitus; hAFSCs: Human amniotic fluid stem cells; HFD: High-fat diet.
Article Snippet: After blocking with Dako REAL peroxidase blocking solution (S2023, DAKO Corp, Carpinteria, CA, United States) for 20 min, the sections were washed and incubated for 18-20 h at 4 °C with a rabbit polyclonal antibody against NGF (1:700, OriGene Technologies, Inc., Rockville, MD, United States), M2 (1:700, Millipore, Temecula, CA, United States), M3 (1:200, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA, United States), MafA (1:200, Abcam, Cambridge, MA, United States), or PDX-1 (1:100, Abcam), a goat polyclonal antibody against CGRP (1:200, Abcam), or a mouse monoclonal antibody against substance P (1:75, Abcam) or insulin (1:1200, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., Waltham, MA, United States).
Techniques: Expressing, MANN-WHITNEY