Immune Homeostasis of Human Gastric Mucosa in Helicobacter pylori Infection.

We present the results of electron microscopic, microbiological, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic studies of gastric biopsy specimens taken for diagnostic purposes according by clinical indications during examination of patients with gastrointestinal pathology. Immune homeostasis of the gastric mucosa against the background of infection with various pathogen strains of Helicobacter pylori was studied in patients of different age groups with peptic ulcer, gastritis, metaplasia, and cancer. Some peculiarities of Helicobacter pylori contamination in the gastric mucosa were demonstrated. Immune homeostasis of the gastric mucosa in different pathologies was analyzed depending on the Helicobacter pylori genotype.

Mechanisms of carcinogenesis in human skin against the background of papillomavirus infection.

The cells in the skin tumor developing under conditions of persisting papillomavirus infection are morphologically identical to blast cells in a blood smear from a leukemia patient. The cells filling the lesion focus are morphologically and immunohistochemically related to blood stem cells. A mechanism of epithelial layer modification under conditions of papillomavirus infection leading to carcinogenesis is proposed. The dynamics of structural changes in the skin is characterized by disturbed interactions between the epithelium and adjacent connective tissue, destruction of the basal membrane, disorders in the cambial keratinocyte differentiation, and absence of the spinous and granular layers. We conclude that detection of blast leukocytes in the human skin lesion can be explained by disorders in the cell-cell interactions in the epithelium-mesenchymal tissue system. High proliferative activity followed by death of cambial keratinocytes, migration of effector antigen-presenting CD68 cells to the adjacent connective tissue are the factors inducing migration of blast leukocytic forms to the focus. Not only keratinocyte restitution capacity, but also epithelium-dependent differentiation of young leukocytes disappeared. Undifferentiated cells are migrated from the blood to the epithelium alteration zone, but not in the reverse direction. The insufficiency or the absence of blood blast cell differentiation of the in the focus of epidermal injury and adjacent tissue triggers carcinogenesis. The authors suggest their model of carcinogenesis. The conclusions offer a new concept of cancer pathogenesis and suggest a new strategy in the search for methods for early diagnosis of carcinogenesis.

Distribution of antigen-presenting cells CD68 in papillomavirus infection in the skin.

We analyzed local reactions of immune homeostasis in the human skin, in particular, effector immune cells CD68 responsible for antigen presentation, during human papillomavirus infection. Under conditions of long-term papillomavirus infection, CD68 markers were identifi ed only in the connective tissue of the skin (derma) and were completely absent in the epidermis, where they were found during physiological and reparative regeneration after thermal injury. We concluded that hypertrophy of the epidermis and connective tissue of the dermal papillary layer in human papillomavirus infection is related to the absence of CD68 immune cells in the epithelial plate and their accumulation in the connective tissue adjacent to the basement membrane of the epidermis. The possibility of epithelium contamination with the virus depends on local immune homeostasis. Therefore, induction of proper CD68 distribution in appropriate structures can contribute to normalization of epithelial-connective tissue interactions.

Reaction of dermal structures to subcutaneous injection of gold nanoparticles to CBA mice.

The reactions of dermal structures to subcutaneous injections of gold nanoparticles were studied in CBA mice. Routes of the nanoparticles migration after injection and the mechanisms of their effects on the adjacent tissues were studied. Injected nanoparticles were phagocytosed by macrophages; some of them migrated to lymphoid follicles of the lymph node, while others migrated into blood vessels, where the particles were released from the macrophage cytoplasm into circulating blood. The endothelium was destroyed as a result of the toxic activity of macrophages loaded with nanoparticles. Two mechanisms of angiogenesis inhibition and death of blood vessels in tissues after injection of nanoparticles were distinguished. One mechanism consisted in deactivation of macrophages producing vascular endothelium growth factor inducing the formation of endothelium in the growing blood vessels, but not in direct inhibition of this factor. The other mechanism was realized through direct death of the endothelium in migration of macrophages through the vascular wall.

Role of the neuroglia of human ocular transparent structures in the visual perception concepts.

Physically transparent cornea, lens, and vitreous body are not transparent from histophysiological viewpoint and hence, cannot directly transmit light to the retina. The lens forms from two primordia in the course of the eye development: ectodermal (for capsular epithelium) and neuroglia (for lenticular stroma). These data suggest that the neuroglia migrating from the internal leaflet of the ocular goblet is a source of stromal fibroblasts of the corneal proper substance and also presents the fibroblast differons in the human ocular vitreous body and in the lenticular posterior pole. The common source in the development of the stroma of the transparent structures of the eye is explained and confirmed by the fact that the cornea, lens, vitreous body, and the retinal and brain neuroglia contain special proteins common for all these structures, crystallins. The structural relationship and origin of fibroblasts of the transparent ocular media underlie the identical functions of crystallin production; the physical and chemical characteristics of crystallins prevent the diffusion of light and cumulate it in one direction. In addition, our data on the neuroglial origin of the lenticular stroma suggest that the lenticular cells can act as Muller's glia, regulating the transformed energy flow. Hence, the fibers and stromal cells of the cornea, lens, vitreous body, and retinal glia can serve as components of the universal conduction system perceiving light, transforming it into another type of energy (presumably into electromagnetic waves or some motor pulse), and only then sending it to the photosensor cells. As a result, we have one-way light conduction due to stromal cells of transparent eye structures and inability of the retina to identify these cells. We therefore conclude that the cells located in front of the retina are invisible for the photoreceptors, because they conduct stimulation being not transparent in the physical sense, but just physiologically. We see only what this unique conduction system allows us to see.

Effects of multiwalled carbon nanotubes received orally during 6 days on the gastrointestinal tract.

The effects of multiwalled carbon nanotubes on epitheliocytes of different compartments of the gastrointestinal tract and urothelium of different compartments of the renal nephron were studied in CBA mice. The nanotubes affected mouse gastrointestinal mucosa and renal urothelium. The cell reaction in the macula densa of the renal distal tubules and the immune system reaction to oral nanotubes were detected. A possible effect of nanotubes administered orally on the renal filtration function was hypothesized.

[Atherogenic dyslipidemia in adolescents: its relation to ischemic heart disease in their fathers and the possibility of its prognosis]. / Aterogennye dislipidemii u podrostkov: svia'z s nalichiem ishemi- cheskoi bolezni serdtsa u ottsov, vozmozhnos't prognozirovaniia.

Comparison of a group of adolescents aged 11-16 years whose fathers had angiographically documented coronary atherosclerosis in youth with those matched by sex and age whose parents were clinically healthy yielded the following discriminant function (DF) involving lipid and apoprotein indices of the plasma lipid system: DF = [apo B] X 0.03-[HDL cholesterol] X 0.04-0.81. DF greater than or equal to 0 discriminates from the controls 32% of the offsprings from the fathers with a history, DF less than 0 correctly classifies 98% of adolescents from the controls. The adolescents who have DF greater than or equal to 0 amounted to about 19% in representative samples of Moscow adolescents. Moreover, DF with 80% probability makes it possible to predict the time course of serum lipid levels in adolescents within 2 years.