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Sci Signal ; 15(756): eabn4948, 2022 10 18.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36256708

RESUMO

The tumor microbiome is increasingly implicated in cancer progression and resistance to chemotherapy. In pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), high intratumoral loads of Fusobacterium nucleatum correlate with shorter survival in patients. Here, we investigated the potential mechanisms underlying this association. We found that F. nucleatum infection induced both normal pancreatic epithelial cells and PDAC cells to secrete increased amounts of the cytokines GM-CSF, CXCL1, IL-8, and MIP-3α. These cytokines increased proliferation, migration, and invasive cell motility in both infected and noninfected PDAC cells but not in noncancerous pancreatic epithelial cells, suggesting autocrine and paracrine signaling to PDAC cells. This phenomenon occurred in response to Fusobacterium infection regardless of the strain and in the absence of immune and other stromal cells. Blocking GM-CSF signaling markedly limited proliferative gains after infection. Thus, F. nucleatum infection in the pancreas elicits cytokine secretion from both normal and cancerous cells that promotes phenotypes in PDAC cells associated with tumor progression. The findings support the importance of exploring host-microbe interactions in pancreatic cancer to guide future therapeutic interventions.


Assuntos
Carcinoma Ductal Pancreático , Neoplasias Pancreáticas , Humanos , Fusobacterium nucleatum , Fator Estimulador de Colônias de Granulócitos e Macrófagos , Comunicação Parácrina , Interleucina-8 , Neoplasias Pancreáticas/patologia , Carcinoma Ductal Pancreático/patologia , Proliferação de Células/fisiologia , Pâncreas , Neoplasias Pancreáticas
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J Interv Card Electrophysiol ; 63(3): 531-544, 2022 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34424446

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: The ideal treatment of inappropriate sinus tachycardia (IST) and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) still needs to be defined. Medical treatments yield suboptimal results. Endocardial catheter ablation of the sinus node (SN) may risk phrenic nerve damage and open-heart surgery may be accompanied by unjustified invasive risks. METHODS: We describe our first multicenter experience of 255 consecutive patients (235 females, 25.94 ± 3.84 years) having undergone a novel SN sparing hybrid thoracoscopic ablation for drug-resistant IST (n = 204, 80%) or POTS (n = 51, 20%). As previously described, the SN was identified with 3D mapping. Surgery was performed through three 5-mm ports from the right side. A minimally invasive approach with a bipolar radiofrequency clamp was used to ablate targeted areas while sparing the SN region. The targeted areas included isolation of the superior and the inferior caval veins, and a crista terminalis line was made. All lines were interconnected. RESULTS: Normal sinus rhythm (SR) was restored in all patients at the end of the procedure. All patients discontinued medication during the follow-up. After a blanking period of 6 months, all patients presented stable SR. At a mean of 4.07 ± 1.8 years, normal SN reduction and chronotropic response to exercise were present. In the 51 patients initially diagnosed with POTS, no syncope occurred. During follow-up, pericarditis was the most common complication (121 patients: 47%), with complete resolution in all cases. Pneumothorax was observed in 5 patients (1.9%), only 3 (1.1%) required surgical drainage. Five patients (1.9%) required a dual-chamber pacemaker due to sinus arrest > 5 s. CONCLUSIONS: Preliminary results of this multicenter experience with a novel SN sparing hybrid ablation of IST/POTS, using surgical thoracoscopic video-assisted epicardial ablation combined with simultaneous endocardial 3D mapping may prove to be an efficient and safe therapeutic option in patients with symptomatic drug-resistant IST and POTS. Importantly, in our study, all patients had a complete resolution of the symptoms and restored normal SN activity.


Assuntos
Ablação por Cateter , Síndrome da Taquicardia Postural Ortostática , Ablação por Cateter/métodos , Endocárdio/cirurgia , Feminino , Humanos , Síndrome da Taquicardia Postural Ortostática/diagnóstico , Nó Sinoatrial/cirurgia , Taquicardia Sinusal/diagnóstico
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Am J Trop Med Hyg ; 82(6): 1121-6, 2010 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20519611

RESUMO

Our current knowledge of the clinical characteristics of enteric fever is drawn mainly from population-based studies in disease-endemic countries, and there are limited data published on cases in returning travelers. We report the clinical characteristics of enteric fever in 92 travelers returning to London, United Kingdom. Salmonella typhi and S. paratyphi resulted in an almost indistinguishable clinical picture. Rose spots and relative bradycardia were found only in a few patients. A total of 91% of the patients had a normal leukocyte count, which was associated with a markedly increased level of alanine aminotransferase in 82%. A total of 57% of the S. typhi isolates had decreased susceptibility to ciprofloxacin and resistance to nalidixic acid; these isolates were from southern Asia. Thirty percent were multidrug resistant; all were from southern Asia and Nigeria. None of the paratyphoid isolates were multidrug resistant but rates of decreased susceptibility to fluoroquinolones were higher than in S. typhi (74%).


Assuntos
Viagem , Febre Tifoide/epidemiologia , Adulto , Ásia/epidemiologia , Feminino , Humanos , Londres/epidemiologia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Nigéria/epidemiologia , Febre Tifoide/microbiologia
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BMC Res Notes ; 1: 70, 2008 Aug 28.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18755023

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: PCR inhibition by nucleic acid extracts is a well known yet poorly described phenomenon. Inhibition assessment generally depends on the assumption that inhibitors affect all PCR reactions to the same extent; i.e. that the reaction of interest and the control reaction are equally susceptible to inhibition. To test this assumption we performed inhibition assessment on DNA extracts from human urine samples, fresh urine and EDTA using different PCR reactions. RESULTS: When copurified inhibitors were assessed using two different PCR reactions one reaction appeared to be inhibited whilst the other was not. Further experiments using various concentrations of unextracted urine to inhibit six different PCR reactions revealed that susceptibility to inhibition was highly variable between reactions. Similar results were obtained using EDTA as the PCR inhibitor. We could find no obvious explanation why one reaction should be more susceptible to inhibition than another, although a possible association with amplicon GC content was noted. CONCLUSION: These findings have serious implications for all PCR-based gene expression studies, including the relatively new PCR array method, and for both qualitative and quantitative PCR-based molecular diagnostic assays, suggesting that careful consideration should be given to inhibition compatibility when conducting PCR analyses. We have demonstrated unequivocally that it is not safe to assume that different PCR reactions are equally susceptible to inhibition by substances co-purified in nucleic acid extracts.

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Int J STD AIDS ; 19(7): 491-2, 2008 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18574127

RESUMO

An HIV-infected man receiving antiretroviral therapy-who also had lupus-like vasculitis and membranous glomerulonephritis (treated with prednisolone and azathioprine), beta-thalassaemia minor trait and post-radiotherapy functional asplenia (mimicking sickle cell disease-induced hyposplenism)-developed focal soft issue and bone infection caused by Salmonella enteritidis at the site of previous mycobacterial infection.


Assuntos
Infecções por HIV/complicações , Síndromes de Imunodeficiência/complicações , Osteomielite/microbiologia , Infecções por Salmonella/microbiologia , Salmonella enteritidis , Infecções dos Tecidos Moles/microbiologia , Infecções Oportunistas Relacionadas com a AIDS/microbiologia , Adulto , Biópsia , Humanos , Masculino
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Pediatr Res ; 63(2): 143-8, 2008 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18091346

RESUMO

We studied expression of vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) and its main receptor, VEGFR-2, in the small intestine from five groups of fetal sheep (each n = 5): 1) preterm controls, 2) term controls, 3) preterm animals where the fetus was infused with cortisol, or 4) saline, and 5) term animals where adrenalectomy had been performed preterm. The main transcript expressed in fetal small intestine was VEGF-A165. Comparing term with preterm animals, there were significantly higher levels of expression of VEGF-A protein (p = 0.005). Levels of VEGF-A protein expression were lower in term adrenalectomized animals (p = 0.01) and were higher in preterm animals infused with cortisol (p = 0.01), compared with their respective control groups. Immunohistochemistry demonstrated strongest expression of VEGF-A protein in the epithelial cells and lamina propria of the villi. Intestinal expression of mRNA encoding the VEGFR-2 receptor did not significantly vary with gestational age. In situ hybridization localized VEGFR-2 to the lamina propria of the villous core and receptor autoradiography using 125I VEGF-A demonstrated binding in the same site. These data show that intestinal VEGF-A is up-regulated with advancing gestation in a glucocorticoid-dependent manner--novel findings consistent with a role for VEGF-A stimulated angiogenesis in preparing the fetal gut for birth.


Assuntos
Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento , Intestinos/embriologia , Fator A de Crescimento do Endotélio Vascular/metabolismo , Receptor 2 de Fatores de Crescimento do Endotélio Vascular/metabolismo , Animais , Glucocorticoides/metabolismo , Hidrocortisona/metabolismo , Imuno-Histoquímica/métodos , Hibridização In Situ , Modelos Biológicos , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Ovinos , Carneiro Doméstico , Regulação para Cima
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Pac Symp Biocomput ; : 559-71, 2006.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17094269

RESUMO

We propose a computational strategy for discovering gene networks affected by a chemical compound. Two kinds of DNA microarray data are assumed to be used: One dataset is short time-course data that measure responses of genes following an experimental treatment. The other dataset is obtained by several hundred single gene knock-downs. These two datasets provide three kinds of information; (i) A gene network is estimated from time-course data by the dynamic Bayesian network model, (ii) Relationships between the knocked-down genes and their regulatees are estimated directly from knock-down microarrays and (iii) A gene network can be estimated by gene knock-down data alone using the Bayesian network model. We propose a method that combines these three kinds of information to provide an accurate gene network that most strongly relates to the mode-of-action of the chemical compound in cells. This information plays an essential role in pharmacogenomics. We illustrate this method with an actual example where human endothelial cell gene networks were generated from a novel time course of gene expression following treatment with the drug fenofibrate, and from 270 novel gene knock-downs. Finally, we succeeded in inferring the gene network related to PPAR-alpha, which is a known target of fenofibrate.


Assuntos
Perfilação da Expressão Gênica/estatística & dados numéricos , Análise de Sequência com Séries de Oligonucleotídeos/estatística & dados numéricos , RNA/genética , Teorema de Bayes , Biologia Computacional , Células Endoteliais/efeitos dos fármacos , Células Endoteliais/metabolismo , Fenofibrato/farmacologia , Expressão Gênica/efeitos dos fármacos , Humanos , Modelos Genéticos , PPAR alfa/genética , Farmacogenética , RNA Interferente Pequeno/genética
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Infect Immun ; 73(9): 6147-50, 2005 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16113337

RESUMO

Melanins are implicated in the pathogenesis of several important human diseases. This study confirmed the presence of melanin particles in Candida albicans in vitro and during infection. Dark particles were isolated from the digestion of C. albicans cultures and from infected tissue, as established by electron microscopy and immunofluorescence techniques.


Assuntos
Candida albicans/metabolismo , Candidíase/metabolismo , Melaninas/biossíntese , Animais , Candida albicans/patogenicidade , Candida albicans/ultraestrutura , Candidíase/microbiologia , Ensaio de Imunoadsorção Enzimática , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos BALB C , Microscopia Eletrônica de Varredura , Virulência
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FASEB J ; 18(1): 188-90, 2004 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-14630703

RESUMO

The protein-based changes that underlie the cell biology of apoptosis have been extensively studied. In contrast, mRNA- and polysaccharide-based changes have received relatively little attention. We have combined transcriptome and glycome analyses to show that apoptotic endothelial cell cultures undergo programmed changes to RNA transcript abundance and cell surface polysaccharide profiles. Although a few of the transcriptome changes were protective, most appeared to prepare cells for apoptosis by decreasing the reception and transduction of pro-survival signals, increasing pro-death signals, increasing abundance of apoptotic machinery, inhibiting cellular proliferation, recruiting phagocytes to regions of cell death, and promoting phagocytosis. Additional transcriptomal changes appeared to alter the synthesis and modification of cell surface glycosaminoglycans. The resultant reduced abundance of sulphated cell surface glycosaminoglycans may further promote cell death by inhibiting the presentation of extracellular matrix-tethered survival factors to their receptors on dying cells. We propose that the transcriptome and glycome regulation presented here synergize with previously described protein-based changes to guide the apoptotic program.


Assuntos
Apoptose , Endotélio Vascular/metabolismo , Regulação da Expressão Gênica , Sobrevivência Celular , Células Cultivadas , Endotélio Vascular/citologia , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Proteoglicanas de Heparan Sulfato/metabolismo , Humanos , Imuno-Histoquímica , Análise de Sequência com Séries de Oligonucleotídeos , Fagocitose , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase , Biossíntese de Proteínas , Proteínas/genética , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Transcrição Gênica
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