Project description:Skin aging is one of the hallmarks of the aging process that causes physiological and morpho-logical changes. Recently, several nutritional studies were conducted to delay or suppress the aging process. This study investigated whether nutritional supplementation of the eggshell membrane (ESM) has a beneficial effect on maintaining skin health and improving the skin ag-ing process using neonatal normal human epidermal keratinocytes (NHEK-Neo). 1 mg/mL of enzymatically hydrolyzed ESM (eESM) upregulated the expression of keratinocyte differentiation markers, including keratin 1, filaggrin and involucrin, and changed the keratinocyte morphology.
Project description:Skin aging is one of the hallmarks of the aging process that causes physiological and morpho-logical changes. Recently, several nutritional studies were conducted to delay or suppress the aging process. This study investigated whether nutritional supplementation of the eggshell membrane (ESM) has a beneficial effect on maintaining skin health and improving the skin aging process in interleukin-10 knockout (IL-10 KO) mice. Oral supplementation of 8% powdered-ESM (pESM) upregulated the expression of growth factors, including transforming growth factor β1, platelet-derived growth factor-β and connective tissue growth factor, and suppressed skin thinning.
Project description:The egg production cycle of broiler breeder hens is comparatively shorter than laying hens, and as they age, their egg production and eggshell quality decline. The eggshell formation occurs in the shell glands, which are influenced by several factors, including aging. The objectives of the study were to 1) identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and biological pathways in the shell glands (young vs aged) and 2) determine the age-associated changes in eggshell quality. The shell glands tissues were collected from broiler breeder hens at peak-lay (35 weeks of age; termed as “young”) and late-lay phases (50 weeks of age; termed as “aged”) (n=30/group) at 10-15 hours post-ovulation (unclassified egg present in the shell glands). To delineate the genes and biological pathways associated with eggshell biomineralization, total RNAs extracted from the shell glands of young and aged hens (n=6/group) were analyzed using RNA sequencing and validated using real-time PCR. The ultrastructure quality of eggshells (n=10 eggs/group) was analyzed using a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), and the elemental composition of eggshells was measured using SEM-Energy Dispersive Spectrometry, and their variability was confirmed by t-test in RStudio. Eggshell strength, thickness, palisade layer, and mammillary width were significantly higher in the young, while mammillary knobs were wider in aged hens (p<0.05). The sulfur and potassium levels in eggshells were higher in young hens than aged ones. Although the young group had a higher calcium concentration in the eggshells, the difference was statistically insignificant (p>0.05). RNA-Seq data identified highly upregulated genes specific to eggshell biomineralization, such as SPP1 (binds to hydroxyapatite), OTOP2 (maintains high conc. of cytosolic Ca2+), PKD2 (helps in releasing Ca2+), SLC22A15 (transports organic ions), and STAB2 (binds to gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria). The DEGs showed significant enrichment for biological pathways (SLC6A6, KCNK7, UCP3, SCNN1A, PKD2, OTOP2) associated with the transport of monoatomic and inorganic cations across the cell membrane, molecular functions related to the transport of potassium ions and the activity of monoatomic cation channels (KCNK7, PKD2, OTOP2), and the cellular components involved in the luminal side of the endoplasmic reticulum membrane (CALR, PKD2). These findings suggest that the aging process downregulates the transcriptomes of the shell glands, negatively impacting the transportation of ions required for eggshell formation, resulting in poor eggshell quality.
Project description:Development of epidermis includes a complicated program of keratinocyte differentiation. Here we study a new membrane LIM-domain containing Zn-finger protein ZNF185 which is expressed in upper layers of human skin and is up-regulated during keratinocyte differentiation in vitro. Interestingly, depletion of ZNF185 causes delay of keratinocyte differentiation with decreased levels of FLG, LOR, LCEs expression.
Project description:Skin aging is one of the hallmarks of the aging process that causes physiological and morphological changes. Recently, several nutritional studies were conducted to delay or suppress the aging process. This study investigated whether nutritional supplementation of the eggshell membrane (ESM) has a beneficial effect on maintaining skin health and improving the skin aging process in vitro using neonatal normal human epidermal keratinocytes (NHEK-Neo) and in vivo using interleukin-10 knockout (IL-10 KO) mice. In NHEK-Neo cells, 1 mg/mL of enzymatically hydrolyzed ESM (eESM) upregulated the expression of keratinocyte differentiation markers, including keratin 1, filaggrin and involucrin, and changed the keratinocyte morphology. In IL-10 KO mice, oral supplementation of 8% powdered-ESM (pESM) upregulated the expression of growth factors, including transforming growth factor β1, platelet-derived growth factor-β and connective tissue growth factor, and suppressed skin thinning. Furthermore, voltage-gated calcium channel, transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V members were upregulated by eESM treatment in NHEK-Neo cells and pESM supplementation in IL-10 KO mice. Collectively, these data suggest that ESM has an important role in improving skin health and aging, possibly via upregulating calcium signaling.