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sub:Head {
this: np:hasAssertion sub:assertion;
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np:hasPublicationInfo sub:pubinfo;
a np:Nanopublication .
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sub:assertion {
sub:_1 occursIn: species:9606;
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rdf:predicate belv:increases;
rdf:subject go:0010224;
a rdf:Statement .
sub:assertion rdfs:label "bp(GOBP:\"response to UV-B\") -> bp(MESHPP:Apoptosis)" .
}
sub:provenance {
beldoc: dce:description "Approximately 61,000 statements.";
dce:rights "Copyright (c) 2011-2012, Selventa. All rights reserved.";
dce:title "BEL Framework Large Corpus Document";
pav:authoredBy sub:_3;
pav:version "20131211" .
sub:_2 prov:value "Ultraviolet radiation is a potent inducer of apoptosis, whereas autocrine nerve growth factor protects human keratinocytes from programmed cell death. To evaluate the role of nerve growth factor in the mechanisms of ultraviolet B-induced apoptosis, cultured human keratinocytes were ultraviolet B irradiated following pretreatment with K252, a specific inhibitor of the tyrosine kinase high-affinity nerve growth factor receptor. Here we report that the addition of K252 significantly enhanced keratinocyte apoptosis. We then transfected normal human keratinocytes with pNUT-hNGF. Nerve growth factor overexpressing keratinocytes secreted the highest amounts of nerve growth factor in culture supernatants, were more viable, and had a higher rate of proliferation than mock-transfected cells. Whereas ultraviolet B radiation downregulated nerve growth factor mRNA and protein as well as the tyrosine kinase high-affinity nerve growth factor receptor in normal keratinocytes, it failed to do so in nerve growth factor-transfected cells. Moreover, nerve growth factor overexpressing keratinocytes were partially resistant to apoptosis induced by increasing doses of ultraviolet B at 24 and 48 h. These results indicate that downregulation of nerve growth factor function plays an important part in the mechanisms of ultraviolet B-induced apoptosis in human keratinocytes. In addition, ultraviolet B caused a decrease in BCL-2 and BCL-xL expression in mock-transfected keratinocytes, but not in nerve growth factor overexpressing cells. Finally, nerve growth factor prevented the cleavage of the enzyme poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase induced in human keratinocytes by ultraviolet B. These results are consistent with a model whereby the autocrine nerve growth factor protects human keratinocytes from ultraviolet B-induced apoptosis by maintaining constant levels of BCL-2 and BCL-xL, which in turn might block caspase activation.";
prov:wasQuotedFrom pubmed:10594731 .
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sub:pubinfo {
this: dcterms:created "2014-07-03T14:31:33.296+02:00"^^xsd:dateTime;
pav:createdBy orcid:0000-0001-6818-334X, orcid:0000-0002-1267-0234 .
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