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The photocatalytic properties of anodic oxides on a newly developed TiNbSn and commonly used Ti6Al4V alloys as biomaterials were investigated. The alloys were anodized in an electrolyte of sodium tartrate acid with H2O2 at a high voltage and the mechanism of the photocatalytic and antiviral activities was studied. The anodized TiNbSn and Ti6Al4V exhibited highly crystallized rutile TiO2 and poorly crystallized anatase TiO2, respectively. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis revealed the presence of oxides of the alloying elements in addition to TiO2. The anodized TiNbSn exhibited higher activities than Ti6Al4V, and electron spin resonance spectra indicated that the number of hydroxyl radicals (â OH) generated from the anodized TiNbSn was higher than that from the anodized Ti6Al4V. The results can be explained by two possible mechanisms: the higher crystallinity of TiO2 on TiNbSn than that on the Ti6Al4V reduces the number of charge recombination sites and generates abundant â OH; charge separation in the anodic oxide on TiNbSn due to the electronic band structure between TiO2 and the oxides of alloying elements enhances photo activities. The excellent photoinduced characteristics of the anodized TiNbSn are expected to contribute to the safe and reliable implant treatment.
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OBJECTIVES: To identify potential molecular drivers associated with prognosis and response to treatment in advanced oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (OPSCC). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thirty-three OPSCC biopsies from untreated Brazilian patients were evaluated for human papilloma virus genotyping, genome wide copy number alterations and gene expression profiling. Data were integrated using CONEXIC algorithm. Validation with TCGA dataset and confirmation by RT-qPCR of candidate genes were performed. RESULTS: High-risk HPV positive cases, detected in 55% of advanced OPSCC, were associated with better outcome. Losses of 8p11.23-p11.22, 14q11.1-q11.2 and 15q11.2, and gains of 11q13.2 and 11q13.2-q13.3 were detected as recurrent alterations. Gains of 3q26.31 and 11q13.2 and losses of 9p21.3 were exclusively detected in HPV-negative tumors. Two clusters of expression profiles were observed, being one composed mostly by HPV positive cases (83%). HPV-positive enriched cluster showed predominantly immune response-related pathways. Integrative analysis identified 10 modulators mapped in 11q13, which were frequently cancer-related. These 10 genes showed copy number gains, overexpression and an association with worse survival, further validated by TCGA database analyses. Overexpression of four genes (ORAOV1, CPT1A, SHANK2 and PPFIA1) evaluated by RT-qPCR confirmed their association with poor survival. Multivariate analysis showed that PPFIA1 overexpression and HPV status are independent prognostic markers. Moreover, SHANK2 overexpression was significantly associated with incomplete response to treatment. CONCLUSION: The integrative genomic and transcriptomic data revealed potential driver genes mapped in 11q13 associated with worse prognosis and response to treatment, giving fundamentals for the identification of novel therapeutic targets in OPSCC.
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Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/genética , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/terapia , Cromossomos Humanos Par 11 , Oncogenes , Neoplasias Orofaríngeas/genética , Neoplasias Orofaríngeas/terapia , Resultado do Tratamento , Proteínas Adaptadoras de Transdução de Sinal/genética , Alphapapillomavirus/isolamento & purificação , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/virologia , Mapeamento Cromossômico , Feminino , Genômica , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Proteínas do Tecido Nervoso/genética , Neoplasias Orofaríngeas/virologia , Prognóstico , TranscriptomaRESUMO
Transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs) are efficient tools for targeted genome editing and have been utilized in a number of insects. Here, we demonstrate the gene disruption (knockout) caused by TALENs targeting a transgene, 3xP3-driven enhanced green fluorescence protein (EGFP), that is integrated in the genome of two species, the sawfly Athalia rosae (Hymenoptera) and the ladybird beetle Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera). Messenger RNAs of TALENs targeting the sequences adjacent to the chromophore region were microinjected into the eggs/embryos of each species. In At. rosae, when microinjection was performed at the posterior end of eggs, 15% of G(0) individuals showed a somatic mosaic phenotype for eye EGFP fluorescence. Three-quarters of the somatic mosaics produced EGFP-negative G(1) progeny. When eggs were injected at the anterior end, 63% of the G(0) individuals showed somatic mosaicism, and 17% of them produced EGFP-negative G(1) progeny. In H. axyridis, 25% of posterior-injected and 8% of anterior-injected G(0) individuals produced EGFP-negative G(1) progeny. In both species, the EGFP-negative progeny retained the EGFP gene, and various deletions were detected in the target sequences, indicating that gene disruption was successfully induced. Finally, for both species, 18-21% of G(0) founders produced gene knockout progeny sufficient for establishing knockout strains.
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Besouros/genética , Técnicas de Inativação de Genes , Himenópteros/genética , Animais , Feminino , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde , Masculino , TransgenesRESUMO
The membrane-anchored serine protease, matriptase, is consistently dysregulated in a range of human carcinomas, and high matriptase activity correlates with poor prognosis. Furthermore, matriptase is unique among tumor-associated proteases in that epithelial stem cell expression of the protease suffices to induce malignant transformation. Here, we use genetic epistasis analysis to identify proteinase-activated receptor (PAR)-2-dependent inflammatory signaling as an essential component of matriptase-mediated oncogenesis. In cell-based assays, matriptase was a potent activator of PAR-2, and PAR-2 activation by matriptase caused robust induction of nuclear factor (NF)κB through Gαi. Importantly, genetic elimination of PAR-2 from mice completely prevented matriptase-induced pre-malignant progression, including inflammatory cytokine production, inflammatory cell recruitment, epidermal hyperplasia and dermal fibrosis. Selective ablation of PAR-2 from bone marrow-derived cells did not prevent matriptase-driven pre-malignant progression, indicating that matriptase activates keratinocyte stem cell PAR-2 to elicit its pro-inflammatory and pro-tumorigenic effects. When combined with previous studies, our data suggest that dual induction of PAR-2-NFκB inflammatory signaling and PI3K-Akt-mTor survival/proliferative signaling underlies the transforming potential of matriptase and may contribute to pro-tumorigenic signaling in human epithelial carcinogenesis.
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Transformação Celular Neoplásica/metabolismo , Células Epiteliais/metabolismo , Receptor PAR-2/metabolismo , Serina Endopeptidases/metabolismo , Proteínas ras/metabolismo , Animais , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/genética , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/metabolismo , Linhagem Celular , Transformação Celular Neoplásica/genética , Células Cultivadas , Citocinas/genética , Citocinas/metabolismo , Progressão da Doença , Células Epiteliais/patologia , Subunidades alfa Gi-Go de Proteínas de Ligação ao GTP/genética , Subunidades alfa Gi-Go de Proteínas de Ligação ao GTP/metabolismo , Células HEK293 , Humanos , Imuno-Histoquímica , Queratinócitos/metabolismo , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Camundongos Knockout , NF-kappa B/genética , NF-kappa B/metabolismo , Lesões Pré-Cancerosas/genética , Lesões Pré-Cancerosas/metabolismo , Lesões Pré-Cancerosas/patologia , Receptor PAR-2/genética , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa , Serina Endopeptidases/genética , Neoplasias Cutâneas/genética , Neoplasias Cutâneas/metabolismo , Proteínas ras/genéticaRESUMO
Helicobacter pylori infection is the major risk factor for gastric adenocarcinoma. The link with gastric adenocarcinoma is partly due to the H. pylori CagA oncoprotein. CagA is responsible for a particular cell phenotype in vitro, the 'hummingbird' phenotype, that corresponds to an elongation of the cells, mimicking an epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). EMT participates in the carcinogenesis process, and is involved in the generation of cancer stem cells (CSCs). However, its involvement in gastric carcinogenesis has yet not been studied. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the role of H. pylori in EMT and in the emergence of gastric CSCs. For this purpose, gastric epithelial cells were cocultured with a cagA-positive H. pylori strain or its isogenic-deleted mutants or were transfected with CagA expression vectors. Study of the expression of epithelial and mesenchymal markers showed that H. pylori, via CagA, is responsible for an EMT phenotype associated with an increase in mesenchymal markers as well as CD44 expression, a known gastric CSC marker. Moreover, infection led to an increased ability to migrate, to invade and to form tumorspheres. Cell sorting experiments showed that only the CD44(high) cells induced by H. pylori infection displayed the mesenchymal phenotype and CSC properties in vitro, and had higher tumorigenic properties than CD44(low) cells in xenografted mice. Immunohistochemistry analyses on human and mouse gastric mucosa tissue samples confirmed a high expression of CD44 and mesenchymal markers in H. pylori-infected cases, and in gastric dysplasia and carcinoma. All of these data suggest that H. pylori, via CagA, unveils CSC-like properties by induction of EMT-like changes in gastric epithelial cells.
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Helicobacter pylori/fisiologia , Células-Tronco Neoplásicas/citologia , Neoplasias Gástricas/microbiologia , Neoplasias Gástricas/fisiopatologia , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Animais , Antígenos de Bactérias/fisiologia , Proteínas de Bactérias/fisiologia , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Movimento Celular , Técnicas de Cocultura , Transição Epitelial-Mesenquimal , Feminino , Humanos , Receptores de Hialuronatos/metabolismo , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Mutação , Transplante de Neoplasias , Fenótipo , EstômagoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Current treatment with biologics has produced dramatic therapeutic effects in patients with psoriasis, although these agents occasionally decrease in efficacy. One of the main factors responsible for this attenuation is attributed to the development of antidrug antibodies (ADAs). OBJECTIVES: To analyse the relationship between serum drug concentrations, the presence of ADAs and treatment efficacy of adalimumab and infliximab, and to determine the optimal use of these biologics. METHODS: This was a 1-year prospective study in the dermatology departments of Kobe University Hospital and collaborating hospitals. All patients starting a regimen of adalimumab and infliximab for psoriasis were included. We measured the serum concentration of the drugs and titres of antibodies to adalimumab and infliximab, as well as the Psoriasis Area and Severity Index scores at weeks 0, 4, 12, 24 and 48 during the first year of treatment. RESULTS: We observed a 50% positive rate of ADAs to adalimumab, and a 41% positive rate of ADAs to infliximab. The titres of ADAs showed a wide range from low to high titres. In the high-titre groups, the patients exhibited a decreased clinical response, and demonstrated a negative correlation between titre and clinical response. However, an equivalent therapeutic effect was observed between the low-titre group and the group with no antibodies detected for adalimumab. For infliximab, the patients with ADAs showed decreased clinical response. An apparent negative correlation between antibody production and reduced clinical response was observed. CONCLUSIONS: Two biologics, adalimumab and infliximab, showed different therapeutic behaviour. The measurement of ADAs and drug concentrations has important implications for treatment with biologics.
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Anticorpos Monoclonais Humanizados/uso terapêutico , Anticorpos Monoclonais/uso terapêutico , Anticorpos Neutralizantes/fisiologia , Fármacos Dermatológicos/uso terapêutico , Psoríase/tratamento farmacológico , Adalimumab , Anticorpos Monoclonais/sangue , Anticorpos Monoclonais/imunologia , Anticorpos Monoclonais Humanizados/sangue , Anticorpos Monoclonais Humanizados/imunologia , Formação de Anticorpos/efeitos dos fármacos , Fatores Biológicos/uso terapêutico , Fármacos Dermatológicos/sangue , Fármacos Dermatológicos/imunologia , Feminino , Humanos , Infliximab , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estudos Prospectivos , Psoríase/imunologia , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
Quantitative analysis of cellular responses to drugs is of major interest in pharmaceutical research. Microarray technologies have been widely used for monitoring genome-wide expression changes. However, this approach has several limitations in terms of coverage of targeted RNAs, sensitivity, and quantitativeness, which are crucial for accurate monitoring of cellular responses. In this article, we report an application of genome-wide and quantitative profiling of cellular responses to drugs. We monitored promoter activities in MCF-7 cells by Cap Analysis of Gene Expression using a single-molecule sequencer. We identified a distinct set of promoters affected even by subtle inhibition of the Ras-ERK and phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase-Akt signal-transduction pathways. Furthermore, we succeeded in explaining the majority of promoter responses to inhibition of the upstream epidermal growth factor receptor kinase quantitatively based on the promoter profiles upon inhibition of the two individual downstream signaling pathways. Our results demonstrate unexplored utility of highly quantitative promoter activity profiling in drug research.CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology (2013) 2, e77; doi:10.1038/psp.2013.53; published online 25 September 2013.
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Shp2 is a positive regulator for Erk activation downstream of receptor tyrosine kinases for growth factors. It has been controversial how Shp2 induces Erk activation. We here demonstrate that EphA2 is responsible for Shp2-mediated Erk activation by phosphorylating Tyr542 and Tyr580 of Shp2 in the cells stimulated with growth factors. In NMuMG mammary epithelial cells stimulated with hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), HGF-dependent Erk phosphorylation was prolonged only in the presence of EphA2. This Erk activation paralleled the phosphorylation of Tyr542/580 of Shp2 and the association of Grb2 with Shp2, suggesting the positive signal involving Grb2 signal to activate Ras-Erk pathway. Immunohistochemical studies of mammary cancer specimens revealed that the cancer progression was associated with both Tyr580 phosphorylation of Shp2 and increased expression of EphA2, which were also correlated with increased Erk phosphorylation. Overexpression of either Shp2Thr468Met (a phosphatase-defective mutant found in Lentigines, Electrocardiographic abnormalities, Ocular hypertelorism, Pulmonary stenosis, Abnormal genitalia, Retardation of growth and sensorineural Deafness (LEOPARD) syndrome) or Shp2Asn308Asp (a phosphatase-active mutant found in Noonan syndrome) with EphA2 exhibited comparable activation of Erk and stronger activation than wild-type Shp2, suggesting the phosphatase-independent Erk activation. Expression of Shp2Thr468Met with Tyr542/580Phe mutations resulted in the suppression of Erk activation. Phosphatase-active and -inactive, and wild-type Shp2s bound equally to Grb2, suggesting that phosphorylation of Tyr542/580 of Shp2 was essential but not sufficient for Shp2-mediated Erk activation. We found that Gab1 (Grb2-associated binder 1) was involved in the mutant Shp2-mediated Erk activation. Zebrafish injected with Shp2Thr468Met mRNA showed cardiac edema, whereas those depleted of EphA2b showed less phenotype, suggesting that EphA2 might partly account for the phenotype of LEOPARD syndrome. Collectively, tyrosine phosphorylation of Shp2 by EphA2 contributes to the phosphatase-independent Shp2-mediated activation of Erk and might be involved in Shp2-associated diseases.
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MAP Quinases Reguladas por Sinal Extracelular/metabolismo , Proteína Adaptadora GRB2/metabolismo , Proteína Tirosina Fosfatase não Receptora Tipo 11/metabolismo , Receptor EphA2/metabolismo , Animais , Edema Cardíaco , Ativação Enzimática , Fator de Crescimento de Hepatócito , Humanos , Síndrome LEOPARD/genética , Síndrome LEOPARD/metabolismo , Síndrome de Noonan/genética , Síndrome de Noonan/metabolismo , Fosforilação , Transdução de Sinais/genética , Peixe-ZebraRESUMO
Voit and Almeida have proposed the decoupling approach as a method for inferring the S-system models of genetic networks. The decoupling approach defines the inference of a genetic network as a problem requiring the solutions of sets of algebraic equations. The computation can be accomplished in a very short time, as the approach estimates S-system parameters without solving any of the differential equations. Yet the defined algebraic equations are non-linear, which sometimes prevents us from finding reasonable S-system parameters. In this study, we propose a new technique to overcome this drawback of the decoupling approach. This technique transforms the problem of solving each set of algebraic equations into a one-dimensional function optimization problem. The computation can still be accomplished in a relatively short time, as the problem is transformed by solving a linear programming problem. We confirm the effectiveness of the proposed approach through numerical experiments.
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Redes Reguladoras de Genes , Modelos Genéticos , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica/métodos , Análise Numérica Assistida por ComputadorRESUMO
Loss of cell polarity and tissue architecture is a hallmark of carcinomas that arise from epithelial cells. Recent studies on Drosophila tumor suppressors have provided evidence that epithelial polarity and cell proliferation are functionally coupled, suggesting a function for polarity defects in the development of carcinomas. This notion is supported by the findings that mammalian orthologs of these Drosophila tumor suppressors are targeted by a number of viral oncoproteins. Chronic infection with Helicobacter pylori is causally associated with gastric carcinoma. H. pylori virulence factor CagA (cytotoxin-associated gene A), which is delivered into gastric epithelial cells through a bacterial type IV secretion system, has an important function in cell transformation through interacting with and deregulating SHP-2 phosphatase, a bona fide oncoprotein that is associated with human malignancies. Recent studies have further revealed that CagA specifically binds and inhibits PAR1/MARK polarity-regulating kinase, thereby causing junctional and polarity defects in epithelial cells. Thus, the bacterial oncoprotein simultaneously targets the polarity-regulating system and growth-regulatory system. These findings indicate that loss of cell polarity underlies the abnormal proliferation of epithelial cells that directs carcinogenesis.
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Antígenos de Bactérias/fisiologia , Proteínas de Bactérias/fisiologia , Polaridade Celular/fisiologia , Transformação Celular Neoplásica/patologia , Células Epiteliais/patologia , Células Epiteliais/fisiologia , Helicobacter pylori/fisiologia , Animais , Antígenos de Bactérias/metabolismo , Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Carcinoma/etiologia , Carcinoma/metabolismo , Polaridade Celular/genética , Mucosa Gástrica/metabolismo , Infecções por Helicobacter/patologia , Helicobacter pylori/metabolismo , Helicobacter pylori/patogenicidade , Humanos , Modelos Biológicos , Transporte Proteico , Transdução de Sinais/fisiologia , Estômago/patologia , Neoplasias Gástricas/etiologia , Neoplasias Gástricas/metabolismo , Fatores de Virulência/fisiologiaRESUMO
SHP-2 protein tyrosine phosphatase plays an important role in activation of the RAS-dependent signaling. Gain-of-function mutations in the PTPN11 gene, which encodes SHP-2, have been found in the leukemia-prone developmental disorder Noonan syndrome as well as sporadic childhood leukemias, indicating that SHP-2 is a bona fide human oncoprotein. However, the role of SHP-2 mutations in non-hematological malignancies remains obscure. Here, we screened for PTPN11 mutations in primary solid tumors and identified a 1520C>A mutation that causes threonine-507 to lysine (T507K) substitution in the phosphatase domain of SHP-2 in a case of hepatocellular carcinoma. T507K SHP-2 exhibited altered substrate specificity with slightly elevated basal phosphatase activity. Upon expression in NIH3T3 cells, T507K SHP-2 induced transformed foci, which was not observed with wild type, Noonan-specific or leukemia-specific SHP-2. Furthermore, NIH3T3 cells transformed by T507K SHP-2 showed anchorage-independent growth and developed tumors in nude mice. These results indicate that quantitative and/or qualitative alteration in phosphatase activity determines the transforming potential as well as target cell/tissue spectrum of individual SHP-2 mutants as oncoproteins. Although rare in solid tumors, the identified T507K SHP-2 represents a distinct class of SHP-2 mutants with oncogenic RAS-like transforming activity, which could contribute to the development of solid tumors.
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Transformação Celular Neoplásica , Neoplasias Hepáticas/genética , Neoplasias Hepáticas/metabolismo , Mutação , Proteína Tirosina Fosfatase não Receptora Tipo 11/genética , Proteína Tirosina Fosfatase não Receptora Tipo 11/metabolismo , Proteínas ras/metabolismo , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Animais , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/patologia , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Nus , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Células NIH 3T3RESUMO
The mud shrimp, Upogebia major is a gonochoristic species with distinct sexual dimorphism; however, the male has the "ovarian part of testis" in the gonad and mature-looking eggs appear in a similar reproductive cycle to the female. Vitellogenesis of U. major was investigated focusing on the characterization of vitellogenin (Vg) gene expression and Vg processing. Vg cDNA cloned by PCR-based methods was 7,799 bp-long, encoding 2,568 amino acids in a single open reading frame. The deduced amino acid sequence shared common characteristics conserved in other shrimp Vgs. The Vg gene was expressed in the hepatopancreas of females and males, the ovary, and the ovarian part of testis. Vitellins (Vns) were detected in the gonads of both females and males as three prominent polypeptides with apparent molecular masses of 82 kDa, 100 kDa, and 115 kDa. N-terminal amino acid sequences determined for the three polypeptides were present in the deduced amino acid sequence, demonstrating that they derived from a single long Vg polypeptide. Immunoblot analysis using polyclonal antibodies raised against two Vns (82 kDa and 100 kDa) confirmed Vg processing in the hepatopancreas, in the hemolymph and possibly in the oocytes, similarly in both sexes.
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Decápodes/genética , Decápodes/metabolismo , Regulação da Expressão Gênica , Processamento de Proteína Pós-Traducional , Caracteres Sexuais , Vitelogênese/genética , Vitelogeninas/genética , Vitelogeninas/metabolismo , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Clonagem Molecular , DNA Complementar/genética , Decápodes/anatomia & histologia , Decápodes/citologia , Feminino , Hemolinfa/metabolismo , Hepatopâncreas/metabolismo , Masculino , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Oócitos/metabolismo , Vitelogeninas/químicaRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of purple sweet potato (PSP) beverage rich in acylated anthocyanins on serum hepatic biomarkers in healthy Japanese men. DESIGN: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel study. SETTING: Kumamoto in Japan. SUBJECTS: Healthy adult men (30-60 years) with borderline hepatitis who had one or more of serum gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), aspertate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels over normal ranges, and who were negative for hepatitis virus were openly recruited by an advertisement. Of the 48 persons enrolled, 38 (mean age 43.0 years (30-54 years)) completed the study. METHODS: The subjects were randomly assigned to the PSP group and the placebo group. During the 8-week intervention, the subjects in the PSP group consumed two bottles of the PSP beverage with acylated anthocyanins (200.3 mg anthocyanins per 125 ml per bottle) per day, and the subjects in the placebo group, two bottles of a placebo beverage (1.7 mg anthocyanins per 125 ml per bottle). All of the data measured were analyzed by two-way repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) with groups and times. The data of the hepatic markers were analyzed using the Dunnett multiple comparison among the time points and t-test between groups at the same time point. Two-sided P<0.05 were defined as the level of significance. RESULTS: Serum GGT, AST and ALT levels showed interactions (P<0.05) between the beverage groups and time; the others were not affected. The PSP beverage group showed lower hepatic marker levels than the placebo group during the ingestion period, particularly the GGT level (-14.1 IU/l, 95% Confidence intervel (CI) -25.4 to -2.7, P=0.017 at 2 weeks; -16.8 IU/l, 95% CI -36.2 to 2.5, P=0.081 at 4 weeks; -26.7 IU/l, 95% CI -47.6 to -5.7, P=0.014 at 6 weeks and -27.9 IU/l, 95% CI -49.9 to -5.9; P=0.014 at 8 weeks). No correlation between alcohol consumption and each hepatic biomarker level before and after the ingestion was observed. CONCLUSION: The intake of the PSP beverage significantly decreased the serum levels of hepatic biomarkers, particularly the GGT level, in healthy men with borderline hepatitis.
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Antocianinas/uso terapêutico , Ipomoea batatas/química , Testes de Função Hepática , Fígado/efeitos dos fármacos , Fígado/enzimologia , Adulto , Alanina Transaminase/metabolismo , Aspartato Aminotransferases/metabolismo , Bebidas , Biomarcadores/sangue , Método Duplo-Cego , Hepatite/sangue , Hepatite/tratamento farmacológico , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , gama-Glutamiltransferase/metabolismoRESUMO
In the treatment of acute type A aortic dissection, it is important to cope effectively with cerebral ischemia due to preoperative acute occlusion of arch branches and intraoperative cerebral malperfusion under extracorporeal circulation. The validity of our surgical strategy for such cases was evaluated. Our surgical strategies are as follow; for cases with preoperative cerebral infarction and disturbance of consciousness total aortic arch replacement is performed after the improvement of brain edema, and for cases of transient cerebral ischemia, emergency operation is performed. In the emergency operation, selective cerebral perfusion through the carotid artery of the diseased side is initiated as soon as possible. In conclusion, our surgical strategy for acute type A aortic dissection with cerebral ischemia due to acute occlusion of aortic arch branches is acceptable. There was no significant difference between the cerebral ischemia group and the control group concerning hospital mortality, cerebral complication and the 5-year survival rate.
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Aorta Torácica , Aneurisma Aórtico/cirurgia , Doenças da Aorta/complicações , Dissecção Aórtica/cirurgia , Arteriopatias Oclusivas/complicações , Isquemia Encefálica/etiologia , Idoso , Isquemia Encefálica/mortalidade , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Cardiovasculares , Infarto Cerebral/etiologia , Infarto Cerebral/mortalidade , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Taxa de SobrevidaRESUMO
Infection with Helicobacter pylori cagA-positive strains is associated with gastric adenocarcinoma. Intestinal metaplasia is a precancerous lesion of the stomach characterized by transdifferentiation of the gastric mucosa to an intestinal phenotype. The H. pylori cagA gene product, CagA, is delivered into gastric epithelial cells, where it undergoes tyrosine phosphorylation by Src family kinases. Tyrosine-phosphorylated CagA specifically binds to and activates SHP-2 phosphatase, thereby inducing cell-morphological transformation. We report here that CagA physically interacts with E-cadherin independently of CagA tyrosine phosphorylation. The CagA/E-cadherin interaction impairs the complex formation between E-cadherin and beta-catenin, causing cytoplasmic and nuclear accumulation of beta-catenin. CagA-deregulated beta-catenin then transactivates beta-catenin-dependent genes such as cdx1, which encodes intestinal specific CDX1 transcription factor. In addition to beta-catenin signal, CagA also transactivates p21(WAF1/Cip1), again, in a phosphorylation-independent manner. Consequently, CagA induces aberrant expression of an intestinal-differentiation marker, goblet-cell mucin MUC2, in gastric epithelial cells that have been arrested in G1 by p21(WAF1/Cip1). These results indicate that perturbation of the E-cadherin/beta-catenin complex by H. pylori CagA plays an important role in the development of intestinal metaplasia, a premalignant transdifferentiation of gastric epithelial cells from which intestinal-type gastric adenocarcinoma arises.
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Antígenos de Bactérias/metabolismo , Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Caderinas/metabolismo , Transformação Celular Neoplásica/metabolismo , Mucosa Gástrica/metabolismo , Lesões Pré-Cancerosas/metabolismo , Neoplasias Gástricas/etiologia , beta Catenina/metabolismo , Adenocarcinoma/etiologia , Adenocarcinoma/metabolismo , Adenocarcinoma/patologia , Antígenos de Bactérias/análise , Proteínas de Bactérias/análise , Caderinas/análise , Linhagem Celular , Núcleo Celular/química , Núcleo Celular/metabolismo , Transformação Celular Neoplásica/genética , Transformação Celular Neoplásica/patologia , Inibidor de Quinase Dependente de Ciclina p21/genética , Inibidor de Quinase Dependente de Ciclina p21/metabolismo , Citoplasma/química , Citoplasma/metabolismo , Mucosa Gástrica/patologia , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Proteínas de Homeodomínio/genética , Proteínas de Homeodomínio/metabolismo , Humanos , Mucosa Intestinal/metabolismo , Mucosa Intestinal/patologia , Mucina-2 , Mucinas/metabolismo , Fosforilação , Lesões Pré-Cancerosas/genética , Lesões Pré-Cancerosas/patologia , Neoplasias Gástricas/metabolismo , Neoplasias Gástricas/patologia , Ativação Transcricional , Tirosina/metabolismo , beta Catenina/análiseRESUMO
Viral infection induces various responses in vascular endothelial cells. Polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid (poly IC) is a synthetic double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), and treatment of cells with poly IC mimics the viral infection to the cells. Retinoic acid-inducible gene-I (RIG-I) is a protein belonging to the DExH-box family and designated as a putative RNA helicase. RIG-I is considered to play a role in antiviral responses through the regulation of gene expressions. In the present study, the authors treated human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) with poly IC and found that poly IC induced the expression of RIG-I. The poly IC-induced RIG-I expression was inhibited by the preincubation of the cells with 2-aminopurine, an inhibitor of dsRNA-dependent protein kinase (PKR). Immunohistochemical examination revealed high levels of RIG-I immunoreactivity in vascular endothelial cells in the thalamus from rats inoculated with hantavirus. Induction of RIG-I by poly IC may be involved in the antiviral responses in endothelial cells.
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Células Endoteliais/fisiologia , Indutores de Interferon/farmacologia , Poli I-C/farmacologia , RNA de Cadeia Dupla/farmacologia , Receptores do Ácido Retinoico/biossíntese , Veias Umbilicais/fisiologia , Animais , Animais Recém-Nascidos , Células Cultivadas , Células Endoteliais/citologia , Regulação da Expressão Gênica/efeitos dos fármacos , Orthohantavírus , Infecções por Hantavirus/metabolismo , Infecções por Hantavirus/patologia , Infecções por Hantavirus/virologia , Humanos , RNA Helicases/biossíntese , RNA Helicases/genética , RNA Mensageiro/biossíntese , RNA Mensageiro/genética , Ratos , Ratos Wistar , Receptores do Ácido Retinoico/genética , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa/métodos , Tálamo/metabolismo , Tálamo/patologia , Tálamo/virologia , Veias Umbilicais/citologia , eIF-2 Quinase/metabolismoRESUMO
Germline transformation using a piggyBac-derived vector is feasible in the sawfly, Athalia rosae. A previously generated transgenic line carrying green fluorescence protein (GFP) genes as reporters was successfully maintained and preserved without consecutive rearing. Sperm taken from males that were frozen directly in liquid nitrogen and stored at -80 degrees C for a year were microinjected into mature unfertilized eggs dissected from female ovaries. A fraction of the sperm-injected eggs was fertilized and developed into diploid females, and all of them expressed GFP. Haploid male progeny from these females segregated into GFP-positive and GFP-negative individuals in a ratio of 1:1 indicating heterozygosity of the parental females. The GFP genes were stably inherited staying at the location where they were originally integrated.
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Criopreservação , Himenópteros/fisiologia , Organismos Geneticamente Modificados/fisiologia , Preservação do Sêmen , Animais , Feminino , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde , Himenópteros/genética , Inseminação Artificial , Masculino , Reprodução/fisiologiaRESUMO
Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) induces expression of multiple genes in endothelial cells. Retinoic acid-inducible gene-I (RIG-I) encodes a protein belonging to the DExH-box family, but details of its physiological function are not clear. RIG-I is induced in leukemia cells by retinoic acid and in endothelial cells by lipopolysaccharide. In the present study, the authors found that IFN-gamma also induces the expression of RIG-I in human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Induction of RIG-I mRNA by IFN-gamma was not altered by the treatment with cycloheximide or interleukin-4. Fluorescent immunostaining and Western blot analysis revealed cytoplasmic distribution of RIG-I. The in situ endothelium in a normal lung tissue was also found to express RIG-I protein. Although the physiological function of RIG-I is still unknown, induction of RIG-I by IFN-gamma may play an important role in inflammatory or immunological reactions in endothelial cells.
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Endotélio Vascular/metabolismo , Interferon gama/farmacologia , RNA Helicases/metabolismo , Linhagem Celular , Cicloeximida/farmacologia , Citoplasma/metabolismo , Proteína DEAD-box 58 , RNA Helicases DEAD-box , Endotélio Vascular/efeitos dos fármacos , Imunofluorescência , Regulação da Expressão Gênica/efeitos dos fármacos , Humanos , Mediadores da Inflamação/metabolismo , Interferon gama/efeitos dos fármacos , Interferon gama/metabolismo , Interleucina-4/metabolismo , Interleucina-4/farmacologia , Pulmão/irrigação sanguínea , Pulmão/citologia , Pulmão/metabolismo , Inibidores da Síntese de Proteínas/farmacologia , RNA Helicases/efeitos dos fármacos , RNA Helicases/genética , RNA Mensageiro/efeitos dos fármacos , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Receptores ImunológicosRESUMO
Cellular transformation occurs only in cells that express both ErbB1 and ErbB4 receptors, but not in cells expressing only one or the other of these receptors. However, when both receptors are coexpressed and ligand-stimulated, they interact with virtually the same adaptor/effector proteins as when expressed singly. To reveal the underlying regulatory mechanism of the kinase/phosphatase network in ErbB homo- and heterodimer receptor signaling, extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) and Akt activities were evaluated in the presence of several enzyme inhibitors in ligand-induced cells expressing ErbB1 (E1), ErbB4 (E4), and ErbB1/ErbB4 (E1/4) receptor. The PP2A inhibitor okadaic acid showed receptor-specific inhibitory profiles for ERK and Akt activities. Moreover, B-Raf isolated only from E1/4 cells could induce in vitro phosphorylation for MEK; this B-Raf kinase activity was abolished by pretreatment of the cells with okadaic acid. Our study further showed that the E1/4 cell-specific B-Raf activity was stimulated by PLC gamma and subsequent Rap1 activation. The present study suggests that B-Raf kinase, which was specifically activated in the cells coexpressing ErbB1 and ErbB4 receptors, elevates total ERK activity within the cell and, therefore, can induce cellular transformation.