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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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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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author | Lee, Junghoon Kim, Soo Woong 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/). |
spellingShingle | Article 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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