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The Standard for Exchange of Nonclinical Data (SEND), adopted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is a set of regulations for digitalization and standardization of nonclinical study data; thus, related organizations have begun implementing processes in support of SEND. The Global Editorial and Steering Committee (GESC), which provides oversight of the International Harmonization of Nomenclature and Diagnostic Criteria (INHAND), has prepared the SEND Controlled Terminology (CT) for toxicologic pathology. SEND provides electronic data standards created by the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), and CDISC also collaborates in the implementation of SEND. Furthermore, the Pharmaceutical Users Software Exchange (PhUSE), which includes members of the US FDA, has conducted various activities to promote realistic and effective methods to implement SEND. As we reported in 2015, there is a significant variation in the efficiency and quality of SEND data implementation across pharmaceutical companies and contractors (CROs) globally. To address this problem, the Global SEND Alliance (G-SEND) was established in August 2018 to facilitate the coordination and standardization of SEND datasets across CROs in Asia. This paper reports the first method for organizationally and jointly creating consistent SEND datasets between CROs using G-SEND.
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OBJECTIVES: Previous studies have shown that water exchange is superior to air insufflation in attenuating insertion pain during colonoscopy. We conducted a randomized controlled trial with head-to-head comparison of these methods to assess their effectiveness in colonoscopy without sedation. METHODS: A total of 447 outpatients were randomized to either water exchange (WE) or the standard air (CO2) insufflation (AI). The primary outcome was the improvement of patient intraprocedural pain (pain score), evaluated using a questionnaire (scores 1 to 5). RESULTS: After exclusion of 44 patients from further analysis, 403 patients were analyzed. There was no difference in clinical background between the WE and AI groups. Patients in the WE group reported less intraprocedural pain than those in the AI group (2.17 ± 1.06 vs. 2.42 ± 1.03; unpaired t test, p = 0.021). We divided the cases into two groups, more or less painful colonoscopy, based on age, body mass index, use of anti-peristaltic drugs or not, and physician's experience. In less painful colonoscopy, the WE method could reduce pain effectively but its effect was limited in the more painful group. CONCLUSION: WE is superior to AI for attenuating insertion pain during colonoscopy without sedation, but its efficacy is limited in more painful endoscopy.
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Ar , Anestesia , Colonoscopia , Insuflação/métodos , Água , Idoso , Determinação de Ponto Final , Feminino , Humanos , Modelos Logísticos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Medição da Dor , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Mosapride citrate-a prokinetic agent-improves hemoglobin A1c levels in diabetic patients; however, the underlying mechanism is unclear. We aimed to clarify this mechanism. METHODS: Preprandial and postprandial (90 min after a meal) blood was obtained from 12 healthy men, and serum insulin and plasma active glucagon-like peptide-1 concentrations were measured. Measurements were also taken after the administration of 5 mg of mosapride citrate three times per day after every meal for 14 days. In addition, C57BL/6 mice were permitted free access to water containing 0.04 % domperidone (D group) or 0.02 % mosapride citrate (M group) for 2 weeks (four mice per group). T1r2 (taste receptor, type 1, member 2), T1r3, and Gnat3 (guanine nucleotide-binding protein, alpha transducing 3) mRNA expression levels of the stomach, duodenum, and proximal and mid-jejunum were evaluated. RESULTS: In human subjects, postprandial plasma active glucagon-like peptide-1 and serum insulin concentrations after administration of mosapride citrate were significantly higher than those pre-administration (4.8 ± 2.2 pmol/L, 45.6 ± 41.6 µIU/mL, and 3.7 ± 1.2 pmol/L, 34.1 ± 28.4 µIU/mL, respectively). The mouse expression levels of T1r2 and Gnat3 in the proximal jejunum and mid-jejunum in the M group (4.1 ± 1.8-fold, 3.1 ± 1.6-fold, and 4.6 ± 0.8-fold, 3.1 ± 0.9-fold increases, respectively), were significantly higher than those of the control group. CONCLUSIONS: The administration of mosapride citrate for 2 weeks enhanced postprandial plasma active glucagon-like peptide-1 and serum insulin concentration and increased the expression of sweet taste receptors in the upper intestine.
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Benzamidas/administração & dosagem , Fármacos Gastrointestinais/administração & dosagem , Peptídeo 1 Semelhante ao Glucagon/sangue , Insulina/sangue , Morfolinas/administração & dosagem , Período Pós-Prandial , Receptores Acoplados a Proteínas G/efeitos dos fármacos , Paladar , Adulto , Animais , Esquema de Medicação , Humanos , Mucosa Intestinal/efeitos dos fármacos , Mucosa Intestinal/metabolismo , Jejuno/efeitos dos fármacos , Jejuno/metabolismo , Masculino , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Receptores Acoplados a Proteínas G/genética , Receptores Acoplados a Proteínas G/metabolismo , Fatores de Tempo , Transducina/genética , Transducina/metabolismo , Regulação para CimaRESUMO
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Gastric ulcer healing is a complex process involving cell proliferation and tissue remodeling. Sonic hedgehog (Shh) activates the Shh signaling pathway, which plays a key role in processes such as tissue repair. Shh and interleukin 1ß (IL1ß) have been reported to influence the proliferation of gastric mucosa. We evaluated the relationships between the speed of gastric ulcer healing and the levels of expression of Shh and IL1ß. METHODS: The study included 45 patients (mean age 71.9 ± 9.0 years; M/F, 30/15) who underwent endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for gastric cancer, followed by standard dose of oral proton-pump inhibitor for 4 weeks. Subsequently, the size of ESD-induced artificial ulcers were measured to determine the speed of gastric ulcer healing, and regenerating mucosa around the ulcers and appropriately matched controls were collected from patients by endoscopic biopsy. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) array analysis of genes in the Shh signaling pathway was performed, and quantitative reverse transcription (RT)-PCR was used to measure IL1ß mRNA. RESULTS: The levels of Shh and IL1ß mRNA were 3.0 ± 2.7-fold and 2.5 ± 2.5-fold higher, respectively, in regenerating mucosa of artificial ulcers than in appropriately matched controls, with the two being positively correlated (r = 0.9, P < 0.001). Shh (r = 0.8, P < 0.001) and IL1ß (r = 0.7, P < 0.005) expression was each positively correlated with the speed of gastric ulcer healing, but multivariate analysis showed that Shh expression was the only significant parameter (P = 0.045). CONCLUSIONS: Expression of Shh was correlated with the speed of gastric ulcer healing, promoting the regeneration of gastric mucosa.
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Mucosa Gástrica/fisiologia , Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento/genética , Proteínas Hedgehog/fisiologia , Regeneração/genética , Transdução de Sinais , Úlcera Gástrica/fisiopatologia , Cicatrização/genética , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Feminino , Proteínas Hedgehog/genética , Humanos , Interleucina-1beta/genética , Interleucina-1beta/fisiologia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Análise Multivariada , RNA Mensageiro/análise , Fatores de Tempo , Cicatrização/fisiologiaRESUMO
OBJECTIVES: Emergence of image-enhanced endoscopy has enabled an early detection of pharyngeal carcinoma. Pharyngeal observation during esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) is sometimes difficult because of excessive reflexes and is a great burden to the patients and impacts on their cardiopulmonary function. In this study, the authors aimed to evaluate the utility of transnasal EGD (TN-EGD) in comparison with sedated and unsedated transoral EGD (TO-EGD) in pharyngeal observation using a continuous monitoring device. METHODS: A total of 70 patients receiving diagnostic EGD (unsedated TN-EGD, sedated TO-EGD, and unsedated TO-EGD) were enrolled in this study and were evaluated by the following three criteria: (1) numbers of patients with excessive gag and/or cough reflex, (2) vital signs before and during the pharyngeal observation, and (3) response to the request for vocalization or breath-holding. RESULTS: Unsedated TN-EGD, sedated TO-EGD, and unsedated TO-EGD were performed in 30, 20, and 20 patients, respectively. The rate of gag reflex was significantly lower in TN-EGD than in both types of TO-EGD (0% vs. 30%, chi-square test, p < 0.005). The changes in average values of both arterial oxygen saturation (SpO2) and pulse rate (PR) in TN-EGD were smaller than those in sedated TO-EGD (-0.23% vs. -1.23% in SpO2 and 1.57 vs. 8.11 bpm in PR, p < 0.01, respectively). Unsedated TN-EGD patients could respond to the instructions of utterance and breath-holding during the observation (p < 0.05, p < 0.001, respectively). CONCLUSION: Unsedated TN-EGD is safe and feasible for pharyngeal observation during normal EGD examination.
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Sedação Consciente , Endoscopia/métodos , Hipnóticos e Sedativos , Midazolam , Faringe , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Suspensão da Respiração , Endoscopia do Sistema Digestório/métodos , Feminino , Engasgo , Humanos , Modelos Logísticos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Monitorização Fisiológica , Neoplasias Faríngeas/diagnóstico , Faringe/patologia , Faringe/fisiologia , Estudos Prospectivos , Comportamento Verbal , Sinais VitaisRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: Transnasal endoscopy may be used to observe the head and neck part readily without excessive reflexes. We aimed to evaluate the utility and stability of transnasal esophagogastroduodenoscopy (TN-EGD) in comparison with transoral EGD (TO-EGD) for observation of the pharynx. STUDY DESIGN: Prospective study METHODS: A total of 497 patients received unsedated TN-EGD with a 5.5 mm diameter endoscope or unsedated TO-EGD with endoscopes of 6.5 mm, 7.9 mm and 9.2 mm diameter. The rate of completion of pharyngeal observation and numbers of gag reflexes and cough reflexes were recorded. RESULTS: TN-EGD was performed in 175 patients and TO-EGD was performed in 322 patients. Pharyngeal observation was completed in 173 patients (98.9%) in the TN-EGD group and 235 patients (73.2%) in the TO-EGD group, a significant difference (p<0.001). The TN-EGD group had a low rate of occurrence of gag reflex (0.57%), in contrast, 28.3% of the TO-EGD group had a gag reflex, a significant difference (p<0.01). Multivariable analyses revealed that the use of TN-EGD was the only predictive factor for completion of pharyngeal observation (p<0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: TN-EGD is ideally suited to observation of the pharynx by unsedated EGD.
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Endoscopia do Sistema Digestório/métodos , Endoscopia/métodos , Faringe/patologia , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Análise Multivariada , Estudos ProspectivosRESUMO
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The mechanisms of cancer cell growth and metastasis are still not entirely understood, especially from the viewpoint of chemical reactions in tumours. Glycolytic metabolism is markedly accelerated in cancer cells, causing the accumulation of glucose (a reducing sugar) and methionine (an amino acid), which can non-enzymatically react and form carcinogenic substances. There is speculation that this reaction produces gaseous sulfur-containing compounds in tumour tissue. The aims of this study were to clarify the products in tumour and to investigate their effect on tumour proliferation. METHODS: Products formed in the reaction between glucose and methionine or its metabolites were analysed in vitro using gas chromatography. Flatus samples from patients with colon cancer and exhaled air samples from patients with lung cancer were analysed using near-edge x-ray fine adsorption structure spectroscopy and compared with those from healthy individuals. The tumour proliferation rates of mice into which HT29 human colon cancer cells had been implanted were compared with those of mice in which the cancer cells were surrounded by sodium hyaluronate gel to prevent diffusion of gaseous material into the healthy cells. RESULTS: Gaseous sulfur-containing compounds such as methanethiol and hydrogen sulfide were produced when glucose was allowed to react with methionine or its metabolites homocysteine or cysteine. Near-edge x-ray fine adsorption structure spectroscopy showed that the concentrations of sulfur-containing compounds in the samples of flatus from patients with colon cancer and in the samples of exhaled air from patients with lung cancer were significantly higher than in those from healthy individuals. Animal experiments showed that preventing the diffusion of sulfur-containing compounds had a pronounced antitumour effect. CONCLUSIONS: Gaseous sulfur-containing compounds are the main products in tumours and preventing the diffusion of these compounds reduces the tumour proliferation rate, which suggests the possibility of a new approach to cancer treatment.
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Antineoplásicos/uso terapêutico , Neoplasias do Colo/metabolismo , Gases/metabolismo , Compostos de Enxofre/metabolismo , Animais , Antineoplásicos/farmacologia , Testes Respiratórios/métodos , Proliferação de Células , Cromatografia Gasosa , Neoplasias do Colo/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias do Colo/patologia , Difusão/efeitos dos fármacos , Avaliação Pré-Clínica de Medicamentos/métodos , Feminino , Flatulência/metabolismo , Glucose/metabolismo , Humanos , Ácido Hialurônico/farmacologia , Ácido Hialurônico/uso terapêutico , Sulfeto de Hidrogênio/metabolismo , Neoplasias Pulmonares/metabolismo , Reação de Maillard , Metionina/metabolismo , Camundongos , Camundongos Nus , Transplante de Neoplasias , Compostos de Sulfidrila/metabolismo , Transplante Heterólogo , Espectroscopia por Absorção de Raios X/métodosRESUMO
To test the feasibility of using bacterial artificial chromosomes (BAC) containing kinases for pathological diagnosis using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), 10 BAC probes containing a gene amplified in 5% or more of a pilot cohort were selected from a previous survey using arbitrarily selected BAC clones harboring 100 kinases. In this report, we describe the prevalence and association with the clinicopathological profile of these selected 10 BAC probes in 365 gastric cancer tissues. FISH analyses using these 10 BAC probes containing loci encoding EGFR, ERBB2(HER2), EPHB3, PIK3CA, MET, PTK7, ACK1, STK15, SRC, and HCK showed detectable amplifications in paraffin-embedded tissue in 2.83% to 13.6% of the gastric cancer tissues. Considerable numbers of the cases showed the co-amplification of two or more of the probes that were tested. BAC probes located within a genome neighborhood, such as PIK3CA, EPHB3, and ACK1 at 3q26-29 or HCK, SRC, and STK15 at 20q11-13.1, were often co-amplified in the same cases, but non-random co-amplifications of genes at distant genomic loci were also observed. These findings provide basic information regarding the creation of a strategy for personalizing gastric cancer therapy, especially when using multiple kinase inhibitors.
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Adenocarcinoma/genética , Amplificação de Genes/genética , Hibridização in Situ Fluorescente/métodos , Proteínas Quinases/genética , Neoplasias Gástricas/genética , Adenocarcinoma/secundário , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Antineoplásicos/uso terapêutico , Bancos de Espécimes Biológicos , Cromossomos Artificiais Bacterianos , Estudos de Coortes , Estudos de Viabilidade , Feminino , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Medicina de Precisão , Inibidores de Proteínas Quinases/uso terapêutico , Neoplasias Gástricas/patologia , Análise Serial de TecidosRESUMO
To understand the characteristics of tsAM5D cells immortalized with the temperature-sensitive simian virus 40 large T-antigen, we first examined the responsiveness of the cells to ligands of the glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) family. tsAM5D cells proliferated at the permissive temperature of 33 degrees C in response to either GDNF or neurturin, but not persephin or artemin. At the nonpermissive temperature of 39 degrees C, GDNF or neurturin caused tsAM5D cells to differentiate into neuron-like cells; however, the differentiated cells died in a time-dependent manner. Interestingly, ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) did not affect the GDNF-mediated cell proliferation at 33 degrees C but promoted the survival and differentiation of GDNF-treated cells at 39 degrees C. In the presence of GDNF plus CNTF, the morphological change induced by the temperature shift was associated with up-regulated expression of various neuronal marker genes, indicating that the cells had undergone neuronal differentiation. In addition, tsAM5D cells caused to differentiate by GDNF plus CNTF at 39 degrees C became dependent solely on nerve growth factor (NGF) for their survival and neurite outgrowth. Moreover, upon treatment with GDNF plus CNTF, the dopaminergic phenotype was suppressed by the temperature shift. Thus, we demonstrated that tsAM5D cells had the capacity to differentiate terminally into neuron-like cells in response to GDNF plus CNTF when the oncogene was inactivated by the temperature shift. This cell line provides a useful model system for studying the role of a variety of signaling molecules for GDNF/CNTF-induced neuronal differentiation.
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Antígenos Transformantes de Poliomavirus/fisiologia , Diferenciação Celular/fisiologia , Células Cromafins/citologia , Fator Neurotrófico Ciliar/fisiologia , Fator Neurotrófico Derivado de Linhagem de Célula Glial/fisiologia , Neurônios/citologia , Glândulas Suprarrenais/citologia , Glândulas Suprarrenais/fisiologia , Animais , Morte Celular/fisiologia , Linhagem Celular Transformada , Células Cultivadas , Células Cromafins/fisiologia , Humanos , Fator de Crescimento Neural/fisiologia , Neurônios/fisiologia , Ratos , Temperatura , Fatores de TempoRESUMO
We recently established adrenal medullary cell line tsAM5D, which was immortalized by use of a temperature-sensitive mutant of the oncogene simian virus 40 large T-antigen. In the present study, when co-treated with glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF), tsAM5D cells proliferated at the permissive temperature (33 degrees C) for the T-antigen expression and differentiated into neuron-like cells at the nonpermissive temperature (39 degrees C). Interestingly, in GDNF/CNTF-treated cultures, the addition of pan-specific transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta-neutralizing antibody did not affect the cell proliferation at 33 degrees C, but significantly reduced the survival of neuronally differentiated cells at 39 degrees C. Using real-time RT-PCR for analysis of GDNF/CNTF-treated cells, we found that the expression of mRNAs for TGF-beta1, TGF-beta2, and TGF-beta3 was up-regulated by the temperature shift. These results suggest that autocrine TGF-beta signaling is necessary for the survival of GDNF/CNTF-differentiated tsAM5D cells upon the temperature shift.
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Medula Suprarrenal/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Medula Suprarrenal/metabolismo , Comunicação Autócrina/fisiologia , Células Cromafins/metabolismo , Neurônios/metabolismo , Fator de Crescimento Transformador beta/genética , Medula Suprarrenal/citologia , Animais , Antígenos Transformantes de Poliomavirus/genética , Antígenos Transformantes de Poliomavirus/metabolismo , Comunicação Autócrina/efeitos dos fármacos , Diferenciação Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Diferenciação Celular/fisiologia , Linhagem Celular Transformada , Células Cromafins/citologia , Células Cromafins/efeitos dos fármacos , Fator Neurotrófico Ciliar/metabolismo , Fator Neurotrófico Ciliar/farmacologia , Fator Neurotrófico Derivado de Linhagem de Célula Glial/metabolismo , Fator Neurotrófico Derivado de Linhagem de Célula Glial/farmacologia , Camundongos , Neurônios/citologia , Neurônios/efeitos dos fármacos , Isoformas de Proteínas/genética , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Temperatura , Fator de Crescimento Transformador beta1/genética , Fator de Crescimento Transformador beta2/genética , Fator de Crescimento Transformador beta3/genética , Regulação para Cima/genéticaRESUMO
To identify potential anti-tumour agents, we screened five furanone-coumarins isolated from Murraya siamensis Craib (Rutaceae) for their ability to inhibit the growth of human leukaemia HL-60 cells. Among the furanone-coumarins tested, murrayacoumarin B (compound 2) showed significant cytotoxicity against HL-60 cells. Fluorescence microscopy with Hoechst 33342 staining revealed that the percentage of apoptotic cells with fragmented nuclei and condensed chromatin increased in a time-dependent manner after treatment with murrayacoumarin B. Interestingly, this furanone-coumarin induced the loss of the mitochondrial membrane potential. In addition, treatment with murrayacoumarin B stimulated the activities of caspase-9 and caspase-3, and caspase-9 and caspase-3 inhibitors suppressed the apoptosis induced by murrayacoumarin B. These results suggest that murrayacoumarin B induced apoptosis in HL-60 cells through activation of the caspase9/caspase-3 pathway triggered by mitochondrial dysfunction.
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Antineoplásicos Fitogênicos/farmacologia , Apoptose/efeitos dos fármacos , Cumarínicos/farmacologia , Murraya/química , 4-Butirolactona/isolamento & purificação , 4-Butirolactona/farmacologia , Antineoplásicos Fitogênicos/isolamento & purificação , Caspase 3/efeitos dos fármacos , Caspase 3/metabolismo , Caspase 9/efeitos dos fármacos , Caspase 9/metabolismo , Núcleo Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Núcleo Celular/metabolismo , Cromatina/efeitos dos fármacos , Cromatina/metabolismo , Cumarínicos/isolamento & purificação , Células HL-60 , Humanos , Potencial da Membrana Mitocondrial/efeitos dos fármacos , Microscopia de Fluorescência , Fatores de TempoRESUMO
Arterio enteric fistulas (AEFs) are rare. We herein report a case of a primary arterio enteric fistula of the rectum associated with Takayasu arteritis. A 77-year-old woman presented with acute massive hematochezia and was taken to our hospital. Colonoscopy revealed pulsatile extrinsic rectal wall compression with an exposed blood vessel. Transvaginal ultrasonography and Doppler ultrasound revealed a localized vascular growth laying on the dorsal surface of the uterus that showed an arterial blood-flow signal. We diagnosed the patient to have a pelvic aneurism that had formed a fistula within the rectal wall. We eliminated the aneurysm by ligating the drainage and feeder arteries. Following surgery, the patient did not experience any relapses of hematochezia.
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Fístula Retal/complicações , Arterite de Takayasu/complicações , Fístula Vascular/complicações , Idoso , Feminino , Humanos , Fístula Retal/diagnóstico , Fístula Retal/cirurgia , Fístula Vascular/diagnóstico , Fístula Vascular/cirurgiaRESUMO
AIM: To investigate whether flexible spectral color enhancement (FICE) improves diagnostic yields of capsule endoscopy (CE) for obscure gastro-intestinal bleeding (OGIB). METHODS: The study subjects consisted of 81 patients. Using FICE, there were three different sets with different wavelengths. Using randomly selected sets of FICE, images of CE were evaluated again by two individuals who were not shown the conventional CE reports and findings. The difference between FICE and conventional imaging was examined. RESULTS: The overall diagnostic yields in FICE sets 1, 2, 3 and conventional imaging (48.1%) were 51.9%, 40.7%, 51.9% and 48.1%, respectively, which showed no statistical difference compared to conventional imaging. The total numbers of detected lesions per examination in FICE imaging and conventional imaging were 2.5 ± 2.1 and 1.8 ± 1.7, respectively, which showed a significant difference (P = 0.01). CONCLUSION: The diagnostic yield for OGIB is not improved by FICE. However, FICE can detect significantly more small bowel lesions compared to conventional imaging.
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Polyethylene glycol 400 (PEG 400) is widely used with a variety of pharmaceutical formulations, and is often added to dosing formulations in preclinical toxicity studies. The aim of the present study was to characterize the effects of PEG 400 on the rat gastrointestinal tract. Three dosage levels (5, 50 or 100 v/v%) of PEG 400 were administered at a volume of 5 ml/kg/day by gavage for 15 days to the rats (5 males and 5 females in each group). At the end of the treatment, the whole lengths of gastrointestinal tracts were examined pathologically. Although there were no gross abnormalities at necropsy, the histopathological examination revealed several changes localized to the stomach mucosa, but not in the intestine. The changes consisted of infiltration of eosinophils and globule leukocytes, increased in the height of the entire mucosal layer, elongation of the surface mucous epithelial and mucous neck cell layers with increased intracellular mucous in the glandular stomach, and the spongiosis (intercellular edema) of the squamous epithelium in the forestomach. These changes near the limiting ridge tended to increase in severity and extent in a dose-dependent manner. These results suggest that repeated oral administration of concentrated PEG 400 can easily induce the mucosal changes in the stomach of the rats.
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Mucosa Gástrica/efeitos dos fármacos , Polietilenoglicóis/farmacologia , Animais , Feminino , Mucosa Gástrica/patologia , Intestinos/anatomia & histologia , Intestinos/efeitos dos fármacos , Masculino , Ratos , Estômago/efeitos dos fármacos , Estômago/patologiaRESUMO
Micafungin (FK463) is a widely used treatment for life-threatening, deep-seated fungal infections. It is an echinocandin-like lipopeptide derived from the chemical modification of deacylated FR901379, a type of lipopeptide antibiotic produced by Coleophoma empetri F-11899. The palmitoyl moiety of FR901379 is deacylated by FR901379 acylase produced by Streptomyces sp. no. 6907. In this study, our goal was to generate an improved strain of Streptomyces sp. no. 6907 capable of hyperproducing the FR901379-acylase enzyme. To accomplish this goal, modified strains of Streptomyces sp. no. 6907 were generated using UV-irradiation mutagenesis, and strain selection was performed using an agar-plate screening method to efficiently select an acylase-hyperproducing strain. Three marker indices were shown to correlate with elevated acylase production: decreased candidacidal activity of FR901379, decreased proteolytic activity on skim milk, and phenotypic characteristics. Cloning and subsequent sequencing of the acylase gene from the hyperproducing mutant revealed no mutations in either the acylase structural gene or the 5'-flanking region required for gene expression. The growth medium was also modified to maximize acylase production. We successfully increased acylase activity approximately 65-fold, compared with the original growth conditions (wild strain cultured in the original unmodified medium). To minimize formation of excess foam during the fermentation process, we optimized the parameters of agitation speed, as calculated from the discharge flow rate. Using our improved strain and the optimized medium and growth conditions, we have developed an improved and highly reproducible method for stable large-scale production of FR901379-acylase.
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Amidoidrolases/biossíntese , Fermentação , Peptídeos Cíclicos/metabolismo , Streptomyces/enzimologia , Amidoidrolases/metabolismo , Antifúngicos/química , Antifúngicos/metabolismo , Meios de Cultura/química , Equinocandinas/química , Equinocandinas/metabolismo , Lipopeptídeos/química , Lipopeptídeos/metabolismo , Micafungina , Peptídeos Cíclicos/química , Streptomyces/classificaçãoRESUMO
Lung cancer is a highly environmental disease, but cancer researchers have long been interested in investigating genetic susceptibility to lung cancer. This paper is a historical review and provides updated perspectives on lung cancer susceptibility research. The recent introduction of easier genotyping methods and the availability of an almost complete human genome database facilitated the association study to thousands of cases and controls for millions of genetic markers. Discoveries in the field of behavior genetics, that is, the genetic aspects of smoking behavior and nicotine addiction, unexpectedly indicated that polymorphisms in the human central nervous system play an important role in eventually leading to lung cancer. These findings were achieved by using comprehensive approaches, such as a genome, transcriptome, or proteome approach, and the studies were often conducted without a hypothesis. Another-omics approach, the "adductome" or "exposome" approach to how life style information can be integrated into the framework of genetic association studies, has recently emerged. These new paradigms will influence the area of lung cancer risk evaluation in genome cohort studies.
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Epigênese Genética/genética , Predisposição Genética para Doença/genética , Estudo de Associação Genômica Ampla/tendências , Exposição por Inalação/efeitos adversos , Neoplasias Pulmonares/genética , Polimorfismo Genético , Fumar/efeitos adversos , Sistema Enzimático do Citocromo P-450/genética , Estudos de Associação Genética/métodos , Estudo de Associação Genômica Ampla/métodos , Glutationa Transferase/genética , Humanos , Neoplasias Pulmonares/induzido quimicamente , Oncogenes/genéticaRESUMO
A simple and rapid screen was performed for microorganisms producing cyclic lipopeptide acylase, an enzyme that deacylates the acyl side chain of FR901379 to yield a cyclic peptide, FR179642, which is an important intermediate in producing micafungin. Among approximately 3800 newly isolated strains from soil samples, 5 microorganisms expressing high acylase activity were selected and classified, 3 as Streptomyces spp. and 2 as filamentous fungi. This is the first time that these strains have been identified as cyclic lipopeptide acylase producers. Both fungi and streptomycetes showed differing optimum pH and temperature profiles for acylase activity.
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Amidoidrolases/metabolismo , Fungos/enzimologia , Bactérias Gram-Positivas/enzimologia , Peptídeos Cíclicos/metabolismo , Antifúngicos , Técnicas Bacteriológicas , Equinocandinas , Proteínas Fúngicas , Concentração de Íons de Hidrogênio , Estrutura Molecular , Microbiologia do Solo , Especificidade por Substrato , TemperaturaRESUMO
EPHA7 is a member of the EPHA family of receptor kinases, among which several members are known to be involved in human lung carcinogenesis. We report here a novel spliced variant, the so-called secreted form of EPHA7, recently reported in malignant lymphoma, in human lung cancer cell lines and primary lung cancer. In contrast to the EPHA7 down-regulation in colorectal cancer by promoter hypermethylation, EPHA7 is expressed at a substantial level in most human lung cancers and the secreted form of EPHA7 mRNA was found in a fraction of primary lung cancer tissues, lung cancer cell lines, and immortalized bronchogenic epithelial cell lines. Interestingly, the secreted form of EPHA7 message was predominantly detected in non-adeno type lung carcinoma. The mechanistic role of the secreted form of EPHA7 in human lung carcinogenesis is not clear, but the presence of this form could distinctly exclude adenocarcinoma of the lung from the other categories, i.e., squamous cell carcinoma, small cell carcinoma and large cell carcinoma, which have strong association with smoking. This is the first study to detect the secreted form of EPHA7 in human epithelial tissues. EPHA7 warrants further investigation to determine its possible involvement in smoking related lung carcinogenesis.
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Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Neoplasias Pulmonares/metabolismo , Receptor EphA7/biossíntese , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Metilação de DNA , Feminino , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas , Fumar/efeitos adversosRESUMO
Ever since its discovery two decades ago, the erythropoietin-producing hepatoma (EPH)-EPHRIN system has been shown to play multifaceted roles in human gastroenterological cancer as well as neurodevelopment. Over-expression, amplification and point mutations have been found in many human cancers and many investigators have shown correlations between these up-regulations and tumor angiogenesis. Thus, the genes in this family are considered to be potential targets of cancer therapy. On the other hand, the down-regulation of some members as a result of epigenetic changes has also been reported in some cancers. Furthermore, the correlation between altered expressions and clinical prognosis seems to be inconclusive. A huge amount of protein-protein interaction studies on the EPH-EPHRIN system have provided a basic scheme for signal transductions, especially bi-directional signaling involving EPH-ERPHRIN molecules at the cell membrane. This information also provides a manipulative strategy for harnessing the actions of these molecules. In this review, we summarize the known alterations of EPH-EPHRIN genes in human tumors of the esophagus, stomach, colorectum, liver and pancreas and present the perspective that the EPH-EPHRIN system could be a potential target of cancer therapy.