Title |
Free Fatty Acid Palmitate Impairs the Vitality and Function of Cultured Human Bladder Smooth Muscle Cells
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, July 2012
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0041026 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Andreas Oberbach, Nadine Schlichting, Marco Heinrich, Holger Till, Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg, Jochen Neuhaus |
Abstract |
Incidence of urinary tract infections is elevated in patients with diabetes mellitus. Those patients show increased levels of the saturated free fatty acid palmitate. As recently shown metabolic alterations induced by palmitate include production and secretion of the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukine-6 (IL-6) in cultured human bladder smooth muscle cells (hBSMC). Here we studied the influence of palmitate on vital cell properties, for example, regulation of cell proliferation, mitochondrial enzyme activity and antioxidant capacity in hBSMC, and analyzed the involvement of major cytokine signaling pathways. |
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