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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2018

The Effect of Tomatine on Gene Expression and Cell Monolayer Integrity in Caco-2.

Mattia P Arena, Coen Govers, Concetta Lotti, Luigi Ricciardi, Harry J Wichers, Jurriaan J Mes

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Mattia P ArenaDepartment of the Sciences of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Foggia, Via Napoli 25, 71122 Foggia, Italy. mattiapia.arena@unifg.it.ORCID 0000-0002-0627-6214
Coen GoversWageningen Food & Biobased Research, Wageningen University and Research, Bornse Weilanden 9, P.O. Box 17, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands. coen.govers@wur.nl.
Concetta LottiDepartment of the Sciences of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Foggia, Via Napoli 25, 71122 Foggia, Italy. concetta.lotti@unifg.it.
Luigi RicciardiDepartment of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences, Plant Genetics and Breeding Unit; Via Amendola 165/A, 70125 Bari, Italy. luigi.ricciardi@uniba.it.
Harry J WichersWageningen Food & Biobased Research, Wageningen University and Research, Bornse Weilanden 9, P.O. Box 17, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands. harry.wichers@wur.nl.
Jurriaan J MesWageningen Food & Biobased Research, Wageningen University and Research, Bornse Weilanden 9, P.O. Box 17, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands. jurriaan.mes@wur.nl.
Wageningen University & Research · NLUniversity of Foggia · ITInstitute of Sciences of Food Production · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

More understanding of the risk-benefit effect of the glycoalkaloid tomatine is required to be able to estimate the role it might play in our diet. In this work, we focused on effects towards intestinal epithelial cells based on a Caco-2 model in order to analyze the influence on the cell monolayer integrity and on the expression levels of genes involved in cholesterol/sterol biosynthesis (LDLR), lipid metabolism (NR2F2), glucose and amino acid uptake (SGLT1, PAT1), cell cycle (PCNA, CDKN1A), apoptosis (CASP-3, BMF, KLF6), tight junctions (CLDN4, OCLN2) and cytokine-mediated signaling (IL-8, IL1β, TSLP, TNF-α). Furthermore, since the bioactivity of the compound might vary in the presence of a food matrix and following digestion, the influence of both pure tomatine and in vitro digested tomatine with and without tomato fruit matrix was studied. The obtained results suggested that concentrations <20 µg/mL of tomatine, either undigested or in vitro digested, do not compromise the viability of Caco-2 cells and stimulate cytokine expression. This effect of tomatine, in vitro digested tomatine or in vitro digested tomatine with tomato matrix differs slightly, probably due to variations of bioactivity or bioavailability of the tomatine. The results lead to the hypothesis that tomatine acts as hormetic compound that can induce beneficial or risk toxic effects whether used in low or high dose.

Indexed as

Caco-2 CellsCell CycleCell ProliferationCell SurvivalEpithelial CellsGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationGene Regulatory NetworksHumansIntestinesLipid MetabolismModels, BiologicalMolecular StructureReceptors, LDLTight JunctionsTomatineLDLR protein, humanReceptors, LDLTomatinegene expressionglycoalkaloidgutimmune systemqPCRtomatine

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PMID29533987
PMCPMC6017573
OpenAlexW2790630404

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