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Combination Therapy with a JNK Inhibitor and Hepatocyte Growth Factor for Restoration of Erectile Function in a Rat Model of Cavernosal Nerve Injury: Comparison with a JNK Inhibitor Alone or Hepatocyte Growth Factor Alone

We determined if combined administration of JNK-inhibitors and HGF (hepatocyte-growth-factor) would restore erectile-function through both antiapoptotic and regenerative effects in a rat model of cavernous-nerve-crush-injury (CNCI), and compared the results with administration of JNK-inhibitor alone...

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Autores principales: Lee, Junghoon, Kim, Soo Woong, Cho, Min Chul
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8657660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34884500
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms222312698
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Cho, Min Chul
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description We determined if combined administration of JNK-inhibitors and HGF (hepatocyte-growth-factor) would restore erectile-function through both antiapoptotic and regenerative effects in a rat model of cavernous-nerve-crush-injury (CNCI), and compared the results with administration of JNK-inhibitor alone or HGF alone. We randomized 70 rats into 5 groups: sham-surgery-group (S), CNCI (I) group, a group treated with once-daily intraperitoneal-administration of 10.0-mg/kg of JNK-inhibitors (J), a twice-weekly intracavernosal-administration of 4.2-μg HGF group (H), and a combined-treatment with 10.0-mg/kg JNK-inhibitors and 4.2-μg HGF group (J+H). We investigated erectile-responses to electrostimulation, histological-staining, caspase-3-activity-assay, and immunoblotting at two-weeks postoperatively. The three treatment groups showed improvements in erectile-responses (ICP/MAP and AUC/MAP ratios) compared to Group-I. The erectile-responses in Group-J+H were greater than those in Group-J or Group-H. The erectile-responses in Group-J+H were generally normalized. Caspase-3-activity and cJun-phosphorylation in Group-J and Group-J+H improved compared to Group-I, whereas caspase-3-activity in Group-H partially improved. Protein-expression of PECAM-1, eNOS-phosphorylation, and smooth-muscle content in Group-J+H were normalized, although those in Group-J or Group-H were partially restored. Combination therapy with JNK-inhibitors and HGF can generally normalize erectile-function through anti-apoptosis and preservation of endothelium or SM in rat CNCI model. The combined treatment appears to be superior to the respective agent alone in terms of therapeutic effects.
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spelling pubmed-86576602021-12-10 Combination Therapy with a JNK Inhibitor and Hepatocyte Growth Factor for Restoration of Erectile Function in a Rat Model of Cavernosal Nerve Injury: Comparison with a JNK Inhibitor Alone or Hepatocyte Growth Factor Alone Lee, Junghoon Kim, Soo Woong Cho, Min Chul Int J Mol Sci Article We determined if combined administration of JNK-inhibitors and HGF (hepatocyte-growth-factor) would restore erectile-function through both antiapoptotic and regenerative effects in a rat model of cavernous-nerve-crush-injury (CNCI), and compared the results with administration of JNK-inhibitor alone or HGF alone. We randomized 70 rats into 5 groups: sham-surgery-group (S), CNCI (I) group, a group treated with once-daily intraperitoneal-administration of 10.0-mg/kg of JNK-inhibitors (J), a twice-weekly intracavernosal-administration of 4.2-μg HGF group (H), and a combined-treatment with 10.0-mg/kg JNK-inhibitors and 4.2-μg HGF group (J+H). We investigated erectile-responses to electrostimulation, histological-staining, caspase-3-activity-assay, and immunoblotting at two-weeks postoperatively. The three treatment groups showed improvements in erectile-responses (ICP/MAP and AUC/MAP ratios) compared to Group-I. The erectile-responses in Group-J+H were greater than those in Group-J or Group-H. The erectile-responses in Group-J+H were generally normalized. Caspase-3-activity and cJun-phosphorylation in Group-J and Group-J+H improved compared to Group-I, whereas caspase-3-activity in Group-H partially improved. Protein-expression of PECAM-1, eNOS-phosphorylation, and smooth-muscle content in Group-J+H were normalized, although those in Group-J or Group-H were partially restored. Combination therapy with JNK-inhibitors and HGF can generally normalize erectile-function through anti-apoptosis and preservation of endothelium or SM in rat CNCI model. The combined treatment appears to be superior to the respective agent alone in terms of therapeutic effects. MDPI 2021-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8657660/ /pubmed/34884500 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms222312698 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Lee, Junghoon
Kim, Soo Woong
Cho, Min Chul
Combination Therapy with a JNK Inhibitor and Hepatocyte Growth Factor for Restoration of Erectile Function in a Rat Model of Cavernosal Nerve Injury: Comparison with a JNK Inhibitor Alone or Hepatocyte Growth Factor Alone
title Combination Therapy with a JNK Inhibitor and Hepatocyte Growth Factor for Restoration of Erectile Function in a Rat Model of Cavernosal Nerve Injury: Comparison with a JNK Inhibitor Alone or Hepatocyte Growth Factor Alone
title_full Combination Therapy with a JNK Inhibitor and Hepatocyte Growth Factor for Restoration of Erectile Function in a Rat Model of Cavernosal Nerve Injury: Comparison with a JNK Inhibitor Alone or Hepatocyte Growth Factor Alone
title_fullStr Combination Therapy with a JNK Inhibitor and Hepatocyte Growth Factor for Restoration of Erectile Function in a Rat Model of Cavernosal Nerve Injury: Comparison with a JNK Inhibitor Alone or Hepatocyte Growth Factor Alone
title_full_unstemmed Combination Therapy with a JNK Inhibitor and Hepatocyte Growth Factor for Restoration of Erectile Function in a Rat Model of Cavernosal Nerve Injury: Comparison with a JNK Inhibitor Alone or Hepatocyte Growth Factor Alone
title_short Combination Therapy with a JNK Inhibitor and Hepatocyte Growth Factor for Restoration of Erectile Function in a Rat Model of Cavernosal Nerve Injury: Comparison with a JNK Inhibitor Alone or Hepatocyte Growth Factor Alone
title_sort combination therapy with a jnk inhibitor and hepatocyte growth factor for restoration of erectile function in a rat model of cavernosal nerve injury: comparison with a jnk inhibitor alone or hepatocyte growth factor alone
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8657660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34884500
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms222312698
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