Combination therapy using evening primrose oil and electrical stimulation to improve nerve function following a crush injury of sciatic nerve in male rats

Peripheral nerve injuries with a poor prognosis are common.Evening primrose oil（EPO） has beneficial biological effects and immunomodulatory properties.Since electrical activity plays a major role in neural regeneration,the present study investigated the effects of electrical stimulation（ES）,combined with evening primrose oil（EPO）,on sciatic nerve function after a crush injury in rats.In anesthetized rats,the sciatic nerve was crushed using small haemostatic forceps followed by ES and/or EPO treatment for 4 weeks.Functional recovery of the sciatic nerve was assessed using the sciatic functional index.Histopathological changes of gastrocnemius muscle atrophy were investigated by light microscopy.Electrophysiological changes were assessed by the nerve conduction velocity of sciatic nerves.Immunohistochemistry was used to determine the remyelination of the sciatic nerve following the interventions.EPO ＋ ES,EPO,and ES obviously improved sciatic nerve function assessed by the sciatic functional index and nerve conduction velocity of the sciatic nerve at 28 days after operation.Expression of the peripheral nerve remyelination marker,protein zero（P0）,was increased in the treatment groups at 28 days after operation.Muscle atrophy severity was decreased significantly while the nerve conduction velocity was increased significantly in rats with sciatic nerve injury in the injury ＋ EPO ＋ ES group than in the EPO or ES group.Totally speaking,the combined use of EPO and ES may produce an improving effect on the function of sciatic nerves injured by a crush.The increased expression of P0 may have contributed to improving the functional effects of combination therapy with EPO and ES as well as the electrophysiological and histopathological features of the injured peripheral nerve.

Formulating etoposide in a nanoemulsion containing polyunsaturated fatty acids potentiates its anti-proliferation and anti-invasion activities against the ovarian cancer cells

Inorporation of etoposide(ETP)into nanoemulsion(NE)containing polyunsaturated faty adids(PUFAS)may potentially augment its antiproliferation efet on the cancer cll The current study aimed to examine the in vitro antitumor activity of a novel formulation(ETP-BC/EP-NE)produced by combining the anticancer drug(ETP)with NE(BCEP-NE)consisting of the blasck currant seed and organic ewening primrose oils.The produced formulas were physically charaterized using 2etasizer measurements.Thelr ceytotoxkc efect was testfied at concentrations ranges from 0.0001 to 5μM using CCK-8.Apoptotic and ant-invasion efects were evaluated using the assays of mitochondrtal membrane potental,annexin V-FITC double staining.DNA fragmentation,and collagen-based cell invasion.According to the zetasizer charaterization,the nano-suspensions of ETP-BC/EP-NE have z-average diameters of 87.63土3.30 nm with an average surface zeta potential of-0.605土0.003 mV.A reduction of 50%in the growth of SK-OV-3 cells was found at a distinetly lower concentration of ETP-BCEP-NE(IlCso=0.04土0.2μM)than that of ETP(ICsu=4.75土0.1μM).Resuts indicated that FTP-BCIEP-NE had a greater apoptotic ffect than FTP on SK-OV-3 cllsl which was attibuted to the larger amount of late apoptotic cells(41.9土1.05%)higher loss of mitochondrial membrane potential,and more intensive fragmented DNA The ETP-BC/EP-NE treatment suppressed the cllular invasion by 55%,whereas EIP impeded the ellular invasion by only 3%,Formulting ETP with PUFAs in NE had ameliorated the efcacy of ETP.