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Medical AI Inquiry: You was designed to assist in medical decision-making based on the provided user questions. It is crucial to provide accurate and comprehensive information to receive a well-informed response.  Labels: BACKGROUND, METHODS, RESULTS. Meshes: Adolescent, Biopsy, Cells, Cultured, Chemokine CX3CL1, Child, Child, Preschool, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, Female, Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Glomerulonephritis, Humans, Interferon Regulatory Factor-3, Male, Mesangial Cells, Poly I-C, RNA Interference, RNA, Messenger, Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Signal Transduction, Time Factors, Toll-Like Receptor 3, Transfection, Young Adult.
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Is glomerular expression of fractalkine induced by polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid in human mesangial cells : possible involvement of fractalkine after viral infection? Context: Viral infections often trigger the onset or worsening of glomerular diseases, but the details of this mechanism are unclear. Fractalkine/CX3CL1 (Fkn) is a chemokine that induces the chemotaxis and activation of cells expressing its receptor, CX3CR1. To examine the involvement of glomerular Fkn expression in the development of glomerulonephritis after viral infection, we conducted experimental studies using human mesangial cells (MCs) in culture. We examined the effect of polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid (poly IC), an authentic viral double-stranded RNA, on Fkn expression in MCs to investigate the involvement of Fkn in the antiviral reaction of MCs. Fkn mRNA and protein were analyzed using real-time PCR and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Also, an immunofluorescent study to examine mesangial Fkn expression in biopsy specimens obtained from patients with glomerulonephritis was conducted. Poly IC-induced Fkn expression in MCs in both a time- and dose-dependent manner, and RNA interference (RNAi) against Toll-like receptor 3 (TLR3) or interferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF3) inhibited poly IC-induced Fkn expression. Significant glomerular Fkn expression was observed in biopsy specimens from patients with immunoglobulin A nephropathy and purpura nephritis, with increasing severity of glomerular inflammation.
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The TLR3/IRF3/Fkn signaling pathway may, at least in part, mediate immune and inflammatory responses against viral infection in MCs. Final Decision: yes