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ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2013

Microarray Analysis of mRNA and MicroRNA Expression Profile Reveals the Role of β -Sitosterol-D-glucoside in the Proliferation of Neural Stem Cell.

Li-Hua Jiang, Nian-Yun Yang, Xiao-Lin Yuan, Yi-Jie Zou, Ze-Qun Jiang, Feng-Ming Zhao, Jian-Ping Chen, Ming-Yan Wang, Da-Xiang Lu

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Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Li-Hua JiangMedical College of Jinan University, 601 Huangpu Road West, Guangzhou 510632, China.
Nian-Yun YangDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210038, China.
Xiao-Lin YuanBasic Medical College of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210038, China.
Yi-Jie ZouJiangsu Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210029, China.
Ze-Qun JiangBasic Medical College of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210038, China.
Feng-Ming ZhaoBasic Medical College of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210038, China.
Jian-Ping ChenBasic Medical College of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210038, China.
Ming-Yan WangBasic Medical College of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210038, China.
Da-Xiang LuMedical College of Jinan University, 601 Huangpu Road West, Guangzhou 510632, China.
Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine · CNJinan University · CNJiangsu Province Hospital · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neural stem cells (NSCs) are self-regenerating cells, but their regenerative capacity is limited. The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of β -sitosterol-D-glucoside (BSSG) on the proliferation of hippocampal NSCs and to determine the corresponding molecular mechanism. Results of CCK-8 assay showed that BSSG significantly increased NSC proliferation and the effectiveness of BSSG was similar to that of basic fibroblast growth factor and epidermal growth factor. mRNA expression profiling showed that 960 genes were differentially expressed after NSCs were treated with BSSG. Among the 960 genes, IGF1 is considered as a key regulatory gene that functionally promotes NSC proliferation. MicroRNA (miRNA) expression profiling indicated that 30 and 84 miRNAs were upregulated and downregulated, respectively. miRNA-mRNA relevance analysis revealed that numerous mRNAs including IGF1 mRNA were negatively regulated by miRNAs with decreased expression, thereby increasing the corresponding mRNA expression. The increased expression of IGF1 protein was validated by ELISA. Picropodophyllin (PPP, an inhibitor of IGF-1R) inhibition test confirmed that the proliferation-enhancing effect depended on IGF1. This study provided information about BSSG as an efficient and inexpensive growth factor alternative, of which the effect is closely involved in IGF1.

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