Background: Leukemia inhibitor factor (LIF) is a very important pleiotropic cytokine which belongs to interleukin-6 (IL-6) family. LIF exerts multiple effects on different types of cells and tissues with numerous regulatory effects in vivo and in vitro. It is a lymphoid factor, which performs a number of activities including cholinergic neuron differentia‌tion, contro...

BACKGROUND/AIM Tubal pregnancy is a major cause of maternal death in the first trimester and exploration of its underlying molecular mechanism is of great importance. This study aimed to explore the association of tubal pregnancy with leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and leukemia inhibitory factor receptor (LIFR) expression in oviduct tissues. MATERIALS AND METHODS Immunohistochemistry was pe...

Conditioning injury to adult mammalian sensory neurons enhances their regeneration potential. Here we show that leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) is a fundamental component of the conditioning response. Conditioning injury in vivo significantly increases the intrinsic growth capacity of sensory neurons in vitro from LIF+/+ mice. This conditioning effect is significantly blunted in sensory neuron...

background: leukemia inhibitory factor (lif) is a neurortophic cytokine which plays an important role in the neural cell survival. expression of lif and its receptor, lifr, in different brain regions has been demonstrated. based on evidences lif plays an important role in the modulation of neurogenesis and glial responses to injury. up-regulation of lif after central nervous system (cns) damage...

Genome-wide expression patterns of mRNA were compared between mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs), embryonic stem cells (ESCs), and various types of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). iPSCs were established and maintained using modified Oct4 with or without exogenous leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and used to identify mRNAs that were potentially involved in the LIF-independence. The data ...

The mRNA for leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), a neuroimmune signaling molecule, is elevated during skin inflammation produced by intraplantar injection of complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA). Moreover, although LIF knock-out mice display normal sensitivity to cutaneous mechanical and thermal stimulation compared with wild-type mice, the degree of CFA-induced inflammation in mice lacking LIF is en...

Axonal damage to adult peripheral neurons causes changes in neuronal gene expression. For example, axotomized sympathetic, sensory, and motor neurons begin to express galanin mRNA and protein, and recent evidence suggests that galanin plays a role in peripheral nerve regeneration. Previous studies in sympathetic and sensory neurons have established that galanin expression is triggered by two co...

Introduction Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) is a polyfunctional cytokine with numerous regulatory effects in vivo and in vitro. In murine stem cell cultures it is the essential media supplement for the maintenance of pluripotency of embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells. To explore if the glycosylation and/or other post-translational modifications are affecting this activity, we produc...

Susceptibility of the human trophoblast to apoptosis is changing throughout pregnancy. Invasiveness and differentiation of the trophoblastic cells may be severely modulated by hypoxia, well-known apoptosis inducer. From the other hand, local antiapoptotic activities of Leukemia Inhibitory Factor (LIF) and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) may affect the course of hypoxia-induced program...

Interactions between astrocytes and endothelial cells (ECs) are crucial for retinal vascular formation. Astrocytes induce migration and proliferation of ECs via their production of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and, conversely, ECs induce maturation of astrocytes possibly by the secretion of leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF). Together with the maturation of astrocytes, this finalizes...