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Neural Regen Res ; 19(8): 1671-1677, 2024 Aug 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38103230

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The glucagon-like peptide 1 is a pleiotropic hormone that has potent insulinotropic effects and is key in treating metabolic diseases such as diabetes and obesity. Glucagon-like peptide 1 exerts its effects by activating a membrane receptor identified in many tissues, including different brain regions. Glucagon-like peptide 1 activates several signaling pathways related to neuroprotection, like the support of cell growth/survival, enhancement promotion of synapse formation, autophagy, and inhibition of the secretion of proinflammatory cytokines, microglial activation, and apoptosis during neural morphogenesis. The glial cells, including astrocytes and microglia, maintain metabolic homeostasis and defense against pathogens in the central nervous system. After brain insult, microglia are the first cells to respond, followed by reactive astrocytosis. These activated cells produce proinflammatory mediators like cytokines or chemokines to react to the insult. Furthermore, under these circumstances, microglia can become chronically inflammatory by losing their homeostatic molecular signature and, consequently, their functions during many diseases. Several processes promote the development of neurological disorders and influence their pathological evolution: like the formation of protein aggregates, the accumulation of abnormally modified cellular constituents, the formation and release by injured neurons or synapses of molecules that can dampen neural function, and, of critical importance, the dysregulation of inflammatory control mechanisms. The glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist emerges as a critical tool in treating brain-related inflammatory pathologies, restoring brain cell homeostasis under inflammatory conditions, modulating microglia activity, and decreasing the inflammatory response. This review summarizes recent advances linked to the anti-inflammatory properties of glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor activation in the brain related to multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, vascular dementia, or chronic migraine.

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J Neuroradiol ; 2023 Oct 06.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37805126

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INTRODUCTION: Functional magnetic resonance imaging is a powerful tool that has provided many insights into cognitive sciences. Yet, as its analysis is mostly based on the knowledge of an a priori canonical hemodynamic response function (HRF), its reliability in patients' applications has been questioned. There have been reports of neurovascular uncoupling in patients with glioma, but no specific description of the Hemodynamic Response Function (HRF) in glioma has been reported so far. The aim of this work is to describe the HRF in patients with glioma. METHODS: Forty patients were included. MR images were acquired on a 1.5T scanner. Activated clusters were identified using a fuzzy general linear model; HRFs were adjusted with a double-gamma function. Analyses were undertaken considering the tumor grade, age, sex, tumor location, and activated location. RESULTS: Differences are found in the occipital, limbic, insular, and sub-lobar areas, but not in the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes. The presence of a glioma slows the time-to-peak and onset times by 5.2 and 3.8 % respectively; high-grade gliomas present 8.1 % smaller HRF widths than low-grade gliomas. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: There is significant HRF variation due to the presence of glioma, but the magnitudes of the observed differences are small. Most processing pipelines should be robust enough for this magnitude of variation and little if any impact should be visible on functional maps. The differences that have been observed in the literature between functional mapping obtained with magnetic resonance vs. that obtained with direct electrostimulation during awake surgery are more probably due to the intrinsic difference in the mapping process: fMRI mapping detects all recruited areas while intra-surgical mapping indicates only the areas indispensable for the realization of a certain task. Surgical mapping might not be the gold standard to use when trying to validate the fMRI mapping process.

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Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37806639

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BACKGROUND: Delirium is the most prevalent neuropsychiatric syndrome experienced by patients admitted to inpatient clinical units, occurring in at least 20% of medically hospitalized patients and up to 85% of those admitted to critical care units. Although current guidelines recommend the implementation of universal prevention strategies, the use of management strategies largely depends on constant surveillance and screening. This allows for the timely diagnosis and correction of its underlying causes and implementation of management strategies. OBJECTIVE: It was to adapt and analyze the Spanish adaptation of the Stanford Proxy Test for Delirium (S-PTDsv) instrument for its use among Spanish-speaking populations. The S-PTD is an instrument consisting of 13 observational items to be completed by a clinician observer, usually the patient's nurse. The completion of the questionnaire takes about 1 minute and does not require the active participation of the person evaluated, which has important clinical advantages compared to other available instruments (e.g., the Confusion Assessment Method). METHODS: The psychometric properties of the S-PTDsv were evaluated in a population of 123 patients using a quantitative, cross-sectional design. All subjects were over 18 years of age and hospitalized in various inpatient medico-surgical and intensive care unit services, either at the Barcelona Clinical Hospital (Barcelona, Spain) or the UC-Christus Health Network Clinical Hospital (Santiago, Chile, S.A.). The ultimate diagnosis of delirium was made by a member of the Psychiatry Consult Service by means of an independent neuropsychiatric evaluation based on the fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) criteria, published in 2013, which is the latest version of the diagnostic manual. All study tests were performed by study personnel who were blinded to each other's test results within an hour of each other. RESULTS: In the ROC (curve that considers sensitivity points [Y axis] and specificity [X axis]) analysis, the S-PTDsv demonstrated excellent classification qualities when compared with the DSM-5 as the classification gold standard. Using a cutoff point of ≥3, the S-PTDsv had a sensitivity of 94% and a specificity of 97%. The area under the curve indicator was equal to 0.95, suggesting the S-PTDsv has an excellent overall performance in accurately identifying cases of delirium. Accordingly, the S-PTDsv's positive predictive value = 0.93, and the negative predictive value = 0.97. The internal reliability measured with Cronbach's alpha was 0.96. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed a 1-dimensional structure with high loadings (>0.72), demonstrating that all items similarly contribute to the total diagnostic dimension, suggesting adequate construct validity. This provided evidence of convergent validity. CONCLUSIONS: The performance of the S-PTDsv, as compared to a blinded neuropsychiatric assessment based on DSM-5, indicates that it is an effective instrument for the detection of delirium, in the Spanish-speaking populations. These results are comparable and consistent with previously published studies in the English language version.

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Front Immunol ; 14: 1137069, 2023.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37346047

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Molecular characterization of antibody immunity and human antibody discovery is mainly carried out using peripheral memory B cells, and occasionally plasmablasts, that express B cell receptors (BCRs) on their cell surface. Despite the importance of plasma cells (PCs) as the dominant source of circulating antibodies in serum, PCs are rarely utilized because they do not express surface BCRs and cannot be analyzed using antigen-based fluorescence-activated cell sorting. Here, we studied the antibodies encoded by the entire mature B cell populations, including PCs, and compared the antibody repertoires of bone marrow and spleen compartments elicited by immunization in a human immunoglobulin transgenic mouse strain. To circumvent prior technical limitations for analysis of plasma cells, we applied single-cell antibody heavy and light chain gene capture from the entire mature B cell repertoires followed by yeast display functional analysis using a cytokine as a model immunogen. We performed affinity-based sorting of antibody yeast display libraries and large-scale next-generation sequencing analyses to follow antibody lineage performance, with experimental validation of 76 monoclonal antibodies against the cytokine antigen that identified three antibodies with exquisite double-digit picomolar binding affinity. We observed that spleen B cell populations generated higher affinity antibodies compared to bone marrow PCs and that antigen-specific splenic B cells had higher average levels of somatic hypermutation. A degree of clonal overlap was also observed between bone marrow and spleen antibody repertoires, indicating common origins of certain clones across lymphoid compartments. These data demonstrate a new capacity to functionally analyze antigen-specific B cell populations of different lymphoid organs, including PCs, for high-affinity antibody discovery and detailed fundamental studies of antibody immunity.


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Médula Ósea , Células Plasmáticas , Ratones , Animales , Humanos , Ratones Transgénicos , Bazo , Saccharomyces cerevisiae , Anticuerpos Monoclonales , Receptores de Antígenos de Linfocitos B/genética , Formación de Anticuerpos , Citocinas
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Sci Rep ; 13(1): 8011, 2023 05 17.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37198258

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Adoptive immune therapies based on the transfer of antigen-specific T cells have been used successfully to treat various cancers and viral infections, but improved techniques are needed to identify optimally protective human T cell receptors (TCRs). Here we present a high-throughput approach to the identification of natively paired human TCRα and TCRß (TCRα:ß) genes encoding heterodimeric TCRs that recognize specific peptide antigens bound to major histocompatibility complex molecules (pMHCs). We first captured and cloned TCRα:ß genes from individual cells, ensuring fidelity using a suppression PCR. We then screened TCRα:ß libraries expressed in an immortalized cell line using peptide-pulsed antigen-presenting cells and sequenced activated clones to identify the cognate TCRs. Our results validated an experimental pipeline that allows large-scale repertoire datasets to be annotated with functional specificity information, facilitating the discovery of therapeutically relevant TCRs.


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Receptores de Antígenos de Linfocitos T , Linfocitos T , Humanos , Receptores de Antígenos de Linfocitos T alfa-beta/genética , Clonación Molecular , Antígenos , Péptidos/genética
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Methods Mol Biol ; 2653: 333-361, 2023.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36995636

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Cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is one of the most important staple food crops worldwide. Its tetraploid and highly heterozygous nature poses a great challenge to its basic research and trait improvement through traditional mutagenesis and/or crossbreeding. The establishment of the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) as a gene editing tool has allowed the alteration of specific gene sequences and their concomitant gene function, providing powerful technology for potato gene functional analysis and improvement of elite cultivars. This technology relies on a short RNA molecule called single guide RNA (sgRNA) that directs the Cas9 nuclease to induce a site-specific double-stranded break (DSB). Further, repair of the DSB by the error-prone non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) mechanism leads to the introduction of targeted mutations, which can be used to produce the loss of function of specific gene(s). In this chapter, we describe experimental procedures to apply the CRISPR/Cas9 technology for potato genome editing. First, we provide strategies for target selection and sgRNA design and describe a Golden Gate-based cloning system to obtain a sgRNA/Cas9-encoding binary vector. We also describe an optimized protocol for ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex assembly. The binary vector can be used for both Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and transient expression in potato protoplasts, while the RNP complexes are intended to obtain edited potato lines through protoplast transfection and plant regeneration. Finally, we describe procedures to identify the gene-edited potato lines. The methods described here are suitable for potato gene functional analysis and breeding.


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Sistemas CRISPR-Cas , Solanum tuberosum , Sistemas CRISPR-Cas/genética , Solanum tuberosum/genética , Fitomejoramiento , Edición Génica/métodos , Genómica
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Blood Adv ; 7(1): 73-86, 2023 01 10.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35895513

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Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are immature myeloid cells that originate in the bone marrow (BM) and have immunoregulatory functions. MDSCs have been implicated in the pathogenesis of several autoimmune diseases but have not been investigated in immune aplastic anemia (AA). We examined the roles of granulocytic-MDSCs (G-MDSCs) in murine models of human AA and BM failure (BMF). As both prophylaxis and therapy, BM-derived G-MDSCs improved pancytopenia and BM cellularity and suppressed BM T-cell infiltration in major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-matched C.B10 BMF mice. These effects were not obtained in the MHC-mismatched CByB6F1 AA model, likely because of MHC disparity between G-MDSCs and donor T cells. Single-cell RNA sequencing demonstrated that G-MDSCs downregulated cell cycle-related genes in BM-infiltrated T cells, consistent with suppression of T-cell proliferation by G-MDSCs through reactive oxygen species pathways. Clearance of G-MDSCs in the MHC-mismatched CByB6F1 model using anti-Ly6G antibody facilitated T cell-mediated BM destruction, suggesting an intrinsic immunosuppressive property of G-MDSCs. However, the same anti-Ly6G antibody in the MHC-matched C.B10 AA model mildly mitigated BMF, associated with expansion of an intermediate Ly6G population. Our results demonstrate that G-MDSC eradication and therapeutic efficacy are immune context-dependent.


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Anemia Aplásica , Células Supresoras de Origen Mieloide , Pancitopenia , Humanos , Animales , Ratones , Granulocitos , Células Mieloides , Trastornos de Fallo de la Médula Ósea/metabolismo , Anemia Aplásica/terapia
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Neurosurg Focus ; 53(6): E2, 2022 12.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36455268

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OBJECTIVE: Noninvasive brain mapping with functional MRI (fMRI) and mapping with direct electrical stimulation (DES) are important tools in glioma surgery, but the evidence is inconclusive regarding the sensitivity and specificity of fMRI. The Human Connectome Project (HCP) proposed a new cortical parcellation that has not been thoroughly tested in a clinical setting. The main goal of this study was to evaluate the correlation of fMRI and DES mapping with HCP areas in a clinical setting, and to evaluate the performance of fMRI mapping in motor and language tasks in patients with glioma, using DES as the gold standard. METHODS: Forty patients with supratentorial gliomas were examined using preoperative fMRI and underwent awake craniotomy with DES. Functional activation maps were visualized on a 3D representation of the cortex, classified according to HCP areas, and compared with surgical mapping. RESULTS: Functional MRI was successful in identifying language and motor HCP areas in most cases, including novel areas such as 55b and the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF). Functional MRI had a sensitivity and specificity of 100% and 71%, respectively, for motor function in HCP area 4. Sensitivity and specificity were different according to the area and fMRI protocol; i.e., semantic protocols performed better in Brodmann area (BA) 55b/peri-sylvian language areas with 100% sensitivity and 20% specificity, and word production protocols in BAs 44 and 45 with 70% sensitivity and 80% specificity. Some compensation patterns could be observed, such as motor activation of the postcentral gyrus in precentral gliomas. CONCLUSIONS: HCP areas can be detected in clinical scenarios of glioma surgery. These areas appear relatively stable across patients, but compensation patterns seem to differ, allowing occasional resection of activating areas. Newly described areas such as 55b and SLF can act as critical areas in language networks. Surgical planning should account for these parcellations.


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Conectoma , Glioma , Humanos , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Glioma/diagnóstico por imagen , Glioma/cirugía , Red Nerviosa , Estimulación Eléctrica
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Front Immunol ; 13: 977064, 2022.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36119018

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Variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have emerged continuously, challenging the effectiveness of vaccines, diagnostics, and treatments. Moreover, the possibility of the appearance of a new betacoronavirus with high transmissibility and high fatality is reason for concern. In this study, we used a natively paired yeast display technology, combined with next-generation sequencing (NGS) and massive bioinformatic analysis to perform a comprehensive study of subdomain specificity of natural human antibodies from two convalescent donors. Using this screening technology, we mapped the cross-reactive responses of antibodies generated by the two donors against SARS-CoV-2 variants and other betacoronaviruses. We tested the neutralization potency of a set of the cross-reactive antibodies generated in this study and observed that most of the antibodies produced by these patients were non-neutralizing. We performed a comparison of the specific and non-specific antibodies by somatic hypermutation in a repertoire-scale for the two individuals and observed that the degree of somatic hypermutation was unique for each patient. The data from this study provide functional insights into cross-reactive antibodies that can assist in the development of strategies against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants and divergent betacoronaviruses.


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COVID-19 , SARS-CoV-2 , Anticuerpos Antivirales , Humanos , Glicoproteínas de Membrana , Pruebas de Neutralización , SARS-CoV-2/genética , Glicoproteína de la Espiga del Coronavirus/genética , Proteínas del Envoltorio Viral
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Rev Med Chil ; 150(3): 361-367, 2022 Mar.
Artículo en Español | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36156721

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BACKGROUND: Neuropsychiatric symptoms can be part of the clinical spectrum of COVID-19 infections. AIM: To devise an evidence based clinical algorithm as a guide for clinicians, to identify and treat underlying clinical syndromes of psychomotor agitation, such as delirium, catatonia or substance withdrawal in patients who are hospitalized and infected with SARS-CoV-2. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A review of the literature about the pharmacological management of neuropsychiatric manifestations of COVID-19 at the general hospital, to develop a clinical protocol based on a consensus from an interdisciplinary expert panel at a Clinical Hospital. RESULTS: A consensual clinical algorithm for the management of delirium, catatonia, and substance withdrawal, manifested as psychomotor agitation in patients hospitalized with COVID-19, was developed as a clinical proposal for physicians at different levels of complexity in health services. CONCLUSIONS: Cooperation among different clinical units in the general hospital facilitated the implementation of a clinical algorithm for clinicians for the management of psychomotor agitation in COVID-19 patients.


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COVID-19 , Catatonia , Delirio , Síndrome de Abstinencia a Sustancias , COVID-19/complicaciones , Catatonia/tratamiento farmacológico , Catatonia/etiología , Delirio/tratamiento farmacológico , Delirio/etiología , Hospitales Generales , Humanos , Agitación Psicomotora/tratamiento farmacológico , Agitación Psicomotora/etiología , SARS-CoV-2 , Síndrome de Abstinencia a Sustancias/tratamiento farmacológico
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Int J Mol Sci ; 23(17)2022 Aug 24.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36076972

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The glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a pleiotropic hormone well known for its incretin effect in the glucose-dependent stimulation of insulin secretion. However, GLP-1 is also produced in the brain and displays a critical role in neuroprotection and inflammation by activating the GLP-1 receptor signaling pathways. Several studies in vivo and in vitro using preclinical models of neurodegenerative diseases show that GLP-1R activation has anti-inflammatory properties. This review explores the molecular mechanistic action of GLP-1 RAS in relation to inflammation in the brain. These findings update our knowledge of the potential benefits of GLP-1RAS actions in reducing the inflammatory response. These molecules emerge as a potential therapeutic tool in treating neurodegenerative diseases and neuroinflammatory pathologies.


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Encéfalo/metabolismo , Receptor del Péptido 1 Similar al Glucagón , Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas/metabolismo , Péptido 1 Similar al Glucagón/metabolismo , Receptor del Péptido 1 Similar al Glucagón/metabolismo , Humanos , Inflamación/tratamiento farmacológico , Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas/tratamiento farmacológico
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Urol Oncol ; 40(11): 492.e1-492.e6, 2022 11.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35945111

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INTRODUCTION: Low certainty exists on how bladder cancer (BCa) after pelvic radiotherapy (RT) differs from BCa in radiation-naive patients from a histopathological and clinical perspective. This study aims to compare histopathological features of bladder tumors between patients with previous RT for prostate cancer (PCa) and radiation-naive patients using single-institutional data and to estimate relapse-free survival (eRFS) and cystectomy-free survival (eCFS) in both groups. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Comparative study in adult men diagnosed with BCa in Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina, between January 2015 and December 2020. Included patients were categorized as previously irradiated for PCa or radiation-naive. PRIMARY OUTCOME: differences in prevalence of aggressiveness features of bladder tumors (variant histology; high-grade tumors; muscle-invasive disease; criteria compliance for high or very-high risk of progression) between irradiated and radiation-naive patients at diagnosis of BCa. SECONDARY OUTCOMES: differences in eRFS and eCFS between groups. RESULTS: In total, 34 and 291 patients were included in the Irradiated and Radiation-naive groups, respectively. Mean age at the time of diagnosis of BCa was 72.7 years (CI 95% 71.6-73.8). Median follow-up of the overall cohort was 25 months (IQR 11-45.5). Concerning primary outcomes, no statistical differences were found except for a higher prevalence of low-grade tumors between irradiated patients and high-grade tumors between radiation-naive patients (P 0.018). Regarding secondary outcomes, prior RT did not increase neither eRFS nor eCFS in both univariate and multivariate analysis. CONCLUSIONS: BCa after RT for PCa has similar histological features and cystectomy free-survival compared to BCa in a radiation-naive population. For patients with non-muscle invasive BCa arising after prostate RT, the risk of recurrences appears to be similar to non-irradiated patients.


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Neoplasias de la Próstata , Neoplasias de la Vejiga Urinaria , Masculino , Adulto , Humanos , Anciano , Neoplasias de la Vejiga Urinaria/patología , Recurrencia Local de Neoplasia , Cistectomía , Neoplasias de la Próstata/patología , Análisis Multivariante
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Metabolites ; 12(5)2022 May 03.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35629915

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The impaired hepatic lipids and carbohydrates metabolism result in various metabolic disorders, including obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, hyperlipidemia and metabolic syndrome. The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) has been identified in the liver and it is now recognized as an important modulator of body metabolic processes. This review is intended to provide an update of the impact of the renin-angiotensin system on lipid and carbohydrate metabolism, regarding gender difference and prenatal undernutrition, specifically focused on the role of the liver. The discovery of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) has renewed interest in the potential therapeutic role of RAS modulation. RAS is over activated in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and hepatocellular carcinoma. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) has been shown to modulate RAS. The GLP-I analogue liraglutide antagonizes hepatocellular steatosis and exhibits liver protection. Liraglutide has a negative effect on the ACE/AngII/AT1R axis and a positive impact on the ACE2/Ang(1-7)/Mas axis. Activation of the ACE2/Ang(1-7)/Mas counter-regulatory axis is able to prevent liver injuries. Angiotensin(1-7) and ACE2 shows more favorable effects on lipid homeostasis in males but there is a need to do more investigation in female models. Prenatal undernutrition exerts long-term effects in the liver of offspring and is associated with a number of metabolic and endocrine alterations. These findings provide a novel therapeutic regimen to prevent and treat many chronic diseases by accelerating the effect of the ACE2/Ang1-7/Mas axis and inhibiting the ACE/AngII/AT1R axis.

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Methods Mol Biol ; 2453: 423-437, 2022.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35622337

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New approaches in high-throughput analysis of immune receptor repertoires are enabling major advances in immunology and for the discovery of precision immunotherapeutics. Commensurate with growth of the field, there has been an increased need for the establishment of techniques for quality control of immune receptor data. Our laboratory has standardized the use of multiple quality control techniques in immunoglobulin (IG) and T-cell receptor (TR) sequencing experiments to ensure quality control throughout diverse experimental conditions. These quality control methods can also validate the development of new technological approaches and accelerate the training of laboratory personnel. This chapter describes multiple quality control techniques, including split-replicate cell preparations that enable repeat analyses and bioinformatic methods to quantify and ensure high sample quality. We hope that these quality control approaches can accelerate the technical adoption and validated use of unpaired and natively paired immune receptor data.


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Secuenciación de Nucleótidos de Alto Rendimiento , Proyectos de Investigación , Biología Computacional/métodos , Secuenciación de Nucleótidos de Alto Rendimiento/métodos , Inmunoglobulinas/genética , Receptores de Antígenos de Linfocitos T/genética
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Rev. méd. Chile ; 150(3)mar. 2022.
Artículo en Español | LILACS-Express | LILACS | ID: biblio-1409809

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Background: Neuropsychiatric symptoms can be part of the clinical spectrum of COVID-19 infections. Aim: To devise an evidence based clinical algorithm as a guide for clinicians, to identify and treat underlying clinical syndromes of psychomotor agitation, such as delirium, catatonia or substance withdrawal in patients who are hospitalized and infected with SARS-CoV-2. Material and Methods: A review of the literature about the pharmacological management of neuropsychiatric manifestations of COVID-19 at the general hospital, to develop a clinical protocol based on a consensus from an interdisciplinary expert panel at a Clinical Hospital. Results: A consensual clinical algorithm for the management of delirium, catatonia, and substance withdrawal, manifested as psychomotor agitation in patients hospitalized with COVID-19, was developed as a clinical proposal for physicians at different levels of complexity in health services. Conclusions: Cooperation among different clinical units in the general hospital facilitated the implementation of a clinical algorithm for clinicians for the management of psychomotor agitation in COVID-19 patients.

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Vitam Horm ; 118: 457-478, 2022.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35180937

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The glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a pleiotropic hormone very well known for its incretin effect in the glucose-dependent stimulation of insulin secretion. However, GLP-1 is also produced in the brain, and it displays critical roles in neuroprotection by activating the GLP-1 receptor signaling pathways. GLP-1 enhances learning and memory in the hippocampus, promotes neurogenesis, decreases inflammation and apoptosis, modulates reward behavior, and reduces food intake. Its pharmacokinetics have been improved to enhance the peptide's half-life, enhancing exposure and time of action. The GLP-1 agonists are successfully in clinical use for the treatment of type-2 diabetes, obesity, and clinical evaluation for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.


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Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2 , Péptido 1 Similar al Glucagón , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/tratamiento farmacológico , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/metabolismo , Péptido 1 Similar al Glucagón/análogos & derivados , Péptido 1 Similar al Glucagón/farmacología , Receptor del Péptido 1 Similar al Glucagón/agonistas , Receptor del Péptido 1 Similar al Glucagón/metabolismo , Hipocampo/metabolismo , Humanos , Incretinas/farmacología , Fragmentos de Péptidos/metabolismo
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Protein Eng Des Sel ; 352022 02 17.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35174859

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Functional analyses of the T cell receptor (TCR) landscape can reveal critical information about protection from disease and molecular responses to vaccines. However, it has proven difficult to combine advanced next-generation sequencing technologies with methods to decode the peptide-major histocompatibility complex (pMHC) specificity of individual TCRs. We developed a new high-throughput approach to enable repertoire-scale functional evaluations of natively paired TCRs. In particular, we leveraged the immortalized nature of physically linked TCRα:ß amplicon libraries to analyze binding against multiple recombinant pMHCs on a repertoire scale, and to exemplify the utility of this approach, we also performed affinity-based functional mapping in conjunction with quantitative next-generation sequencing to track antigen-specific TCRs. These data successfully validated a new immortalization and screening platform to facilitate detailed molecular analyses of disease-relevant antigen interactions with human TCRs.


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Receptores de Antígenos de Linfocitos T alfa-beta , Receptores de Antígenos de Linfocitos T , Antígenos , Humanos , Péptidos/química , Receptores de Antígenos de Linfocitos T/química , Receptores de Antígenos de Linfocitos T alfa-beta/genética
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Exp Hematol ; 105: 22-31, 2022 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34763024

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Exposure of young C57BL/6 (B6) mice to two courses of busulfan (BSF) injections or two rounds of sublethal total-body irradiation (TBI) induced significant damage to the function of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs). Fifteen weeks after treatment, BSF- and TBI-treated mice had reduced white blood cells without significant change in red blood cells or platelets, indicating that BSF and TBI hematotoxicity was chronic, with leukocytes being the major targets. Hematopoietic damage induced by BSF or TBI persisted long term. Residual adverse effects were reflected by significantly decreased CD45R B cells and reduced recovery of total bone marrow cells, especially HSPCs carrying markers for KSL (Kit+Sca-1+Lin-) cells, multipotent progenitor (MPP) cells (KSLCD34+CD135+), myeloid progenitor (MP) cells (Kit+Sca-1-Lin-), and common lymphoid progenitor (CLP) cells 62 wk posttreatment. Transplantation of bone marrow (BM) cells from BSF and TBI donors at 49 weeks after treatment into lethally irradiated hosts resulted in decreased engraftment of CD45R B cells in blood and reduced reconstitution of BM HSPCs including KSL cells, short-term hematopoietic stem cells (KSLCD34+CD135-), MPP cells, and MP cell subsets. TBI donor had better reconstitution of CLP cells in recipients posttransplantation than did BSF donor, suggesting an impact of TBI and BSF on B cells at different development stages. In summary, BSF and TBI exposure produced long-lasting adverse effects on hematopoiesis with pronounced effects on mature B cells, immature ST-HSCs, and hematopoietic progenitor cells. Our results may have implications for therapy of human diseases.


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Busulfano/farmacología , Células Madre Hematopoyéticas/efectos de los fármacos , Células Madre Hematopoyéticas/efectos de la radiación , Agonistas Mieloablativos/farmacología , Animales , Células de la Médula Ósea , Trasplante de Médula Ósea , Femenino , Hematopoyesis/efectos de los fármacos , Hematopoyesis/efectos de la radiación , Ratones , Ratones Endogámicos C57BL , Irradiación Corporal Total
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