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Endogenous glucocorticoids are essential for mobilizing energy resources, restraining inflammatory responses and coordinating behavior to an immune challenge. Impaired glucocorticoid receptor (GR) function has been associated with impaired metabolic processes, enhanced inflammation and exaggerated sickness and depressive-like behaviors. To discern the molecular mechanisms underlying GR regulation of physiologic and behavioral responses to a systemic immune challenge, GR(dim) mice, in which absent GR dimerization leads to impaired GR-DNA-binding-dependent mechanisms but intact GR protein-protein interactions, were administered low-dose lipopolysaccharide (LPS). GR(dim)-LPS mice exhibited elevated and prolonged levels of plasma corticosterone (CORT), interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-10 (but not plasma tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα)), enhanced early expression of brain TNFα, IL-1ß and IL-6 mRNA levels, and impaired later central TNFα mRNA expression. Exaggerated sickness behavior (lethargy, piloerection, ptosis) in the GR(dim)-LPS mice was associated with increased early brain proinflammatory cytokine expression and late plasma CORT levels, but decreased late brain TNFα expression. GR(dim)-LPS mice also exhibited sustained locomotor impairment in the open field, body weight loss and metabolic alterations measured by indirect calorimetry, as well as impaired thermoregulation. Taken together, these data indicate that GR dimerization-dependent DNA-binding mechanisms differentially regulate systemic and central cytokine expression in a cytokine- and time-specific manner, and are essential for the proper regulation and recovery of multiple physiologic responses to low-dose endotoxin. Moreover, these results support the concept that GR protein-protein interactions are not sufficient for glucocorticoids to exert their full anti-inflammatory effects and suggest that glucocorticoid responses limited to GR monomer-mediated transcriptional effects could predispose individuals to prolonged behavioral and metabolic sequelae of an enhanced inflammatory state.
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Dimerização , Comportamento de Doença/efeitos dos fármacos , Inflamação/induzido quimicamente , Lipopolissacarídeos/toxicidade , Receptores de Glucocorticoides/metabolismo , Animais , Temperatura Corporal/efeitos dos fármacos , Peso Corporal/efeitos dos fármacos , Encéfalo/efeitos dos fármacos , Encéfalo/metabolismo , Dióxido de Carbono , Corticosterona/sangue , Citocinas/sangue , Regulação da Expressão Gênica/efeitos dos fármacos , Masculino , Camundongos , Atividade Motora/efeitos dos fármacos , Consumo de Oxigênio/efeitos dos fármacos , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Telemetria , Fatores de TempoRESUMO
Kenny-Caffey Syndrome (KCS) is a genetic syndrome characterized by growth retardation with short stature, cortical thickening and medullary stenosis of long bones, and hypoparathyroidism with hypocalcemia. KCS and the related but more severe condition osteocraniostenosis are determined by monoallelic variants in the FAM111A gene. Here we describe the KCS phenotype resulting from the monoallelic FAM111A variant p.Y511H in a 31-year-old woman and in her 56-year-old mother, who is one of the oldest affected individuals known so far. To our knowledge, it is also one of the few molecularly confirmed cases of a mother-to-child transmission of KCS.
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Hiperostose Cortical Congênita , Fenótipo , Humanos , Feminino , Adulto , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Hiperostose Cortical Congênita/genética , Hiperostose Cortical Congênita/patologia , Mães , Nanismo , Hipocalcemia , Receptores ViraisRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: Based on the reported association between cytokines with depression and suicide, and evidence of increased markers of inflammation in the brain of suicide victims, the present study examined the expression of cytokines in the orbitofrontal cortex of suicide victims. METHOD: In a postmortem sample obtained from the Brodman area 11 of suicides (n = 34) and controls (n = 17), real-time RT-PCR was used to compare the expression of mRNA species for tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), interleukin (IL)-1 beta, 4, 5, 6, and 13. RESULTS: Increased expression of IL-4 was found in women suicide victims and IL-13 in men suicide victims. Elevated but not significant cytokine expression was also observed for TNF-alpha in women suicide victims. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, these results provide the first evidence of the presence of mRNA transcripts of type 2 T-helper cytokines in the human orbitofrontal cortex and their increased expression in the brain of suicides.
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Citocinas/genética , Transtorno Depressivo/imunologia , Lobo Frontal/imunologia , Suicídio/psicologia , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Causas de Morte , Transtorno Depressivo/mortalidade , Transtorno Depressivo/patologia , Feminino , Lobo Frontal/patologia , Alemanha , Humanos , Interleucina-13/genética , Interleucina-1beta/genética , Interleucina-4/genética , Interleucina-5/genética , Interleucina-6/genética , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , RNA Mensageiro/genética , Valores de Referência , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa , Fatores Sexuais , Suicídio/estatística & dados numéricos , Fator de Necrose Tumoral alfa/genéticaRESUMO
Germline mutations in STK11, which encodes the tumor suppressor liver kinase B1 (LKB1), promote Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS), a cancer predisposition syndrome characterized by the development of gastrointestinal (GI) polyps. Here, we report that heterozygous deletion of Stk11 in T cells (LThet mice) is sufficient to promote GI polyposis. Polyps from LThet mice, Stk11+/- mice, and human PJS patients display hallmarks of chronic inflammation, marked by inflammatory immune-cell infiltration, signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) activation, and increased expression of inflammatory factors associated with cancer progression [interleukin 6 (IL-6), IL-11, and CXCL2]. Targeting either T cells, IL-6, or STAT3 signaling reduced polyp growth in Stk11+/- animals. Our results identify LKB1-mediated inflammation as a tissue-extrinsic regulator of intestinal polyposis in PJS, suggesting possible therapeutic approaches by targeting deregulated inflammation in this disease.
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Pólipos Adenomatosos/genética , Síndrome de Peutz-Jeghers/genética , Proteínas Serina-Treonina Quinases/genética , Neoplasias Gástricas/genética , Linfócitos T/imunologia , Proteínas Quinases Ativadas por AMP , Pólipos Adenomatosos/imunologia , Pólipos Adenomatosos/patologia , Animais , Quimiocina CXCL2/genética , Deleção de Genes , Expressão Gênica , Humanos , Inflamação/genética , Inflamação/imunologia , Inflamação/patologia , Interleucina-11/genética , Interleucina-6/genética , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Camundongos Mutantes , Síndrome de Peutz-Jeghers/imunologia , Síndrome de Peutz-Jeghers/patologia , Fator de Transcrição STAT3/metabolismo , Transdução de Sinais , Neoplasias Gástricas/imunologia , Neoplasias Gástricas/patologiaRESUMO
The cDNA sequence encoding the murine E2 subunit (dihydrolipoyl transacylase) of the branched-chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase (BCKAD) complex was determined. In the region encoding the mature E2 subunit protein, both the nucleotide composition and predicted amino acid sequence are highly conserved between murine, human, and bovine species. In contrast, the 5' sequence encoding the amino-terminal preprotein sequence and 3' untranslated region are less well conserved. The 3'-noncoding region contains sequences highly homologous to the rodent B1 repeat elements, which are related to human Alu repeat sequences. This finding is similar to the presence of three Alu repeat sequences in the 3'-noncoding region of human E2 cDNA.
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Aciltransferases/genética , Aciltransferases/química , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Bovinos , Clonagem Molecular , Sequência Conservada , DNA Complementar , Humanos , Fígado/metabolismo , Camundongos , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Conformação Proteica , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Sequências Repetitivas de Ácido Nucleico , Homologia de Sequência do Ácido Nucleico , Especificidade da EspécieRESUMO
PURPOSE: Echocardiography is advocated by some as a useful diagnostic test for patients with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE), but its diagnostic accuracy is unknown. The present study was undertaken to determine prospectively the sensitivity and specificity of transthoracic echocardiography in the diagnosis of PE. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: We examined 110 consecutive patients with suspected PE. The study protocol included assessment of clinical probability, echocardiography, and perfusion lung scanning. Pulmonary angiography was performed in all patients with abnormal scans. As echocardiographic criteria to diagnose acute PE, we used the presence of any two of the following: right ventricular (RV) hypokinesis, RV end-diastolic diameter >27 mm (without RV wall hypertrophy), or tricuspid regurgitation velocity >2.7 m/sec. Clinical estimates of PE served as pretest probabilities in calculating, after echocardiography, the posttest probabilities of PE. RESULTS: Pulmonary angiography confirmed PE in 43 (39%) of 110 patients. Echocardiographic diagnostic criteria for PE yielded a sensitivity of 56% and a specificity of 90%. For pretest probabilities of 10%, 50%, and 90%, the posttest probabilities of PE conditioned by a positive echocardiogram were 38%, 85%, and 98%, respectively. The posttest probabilities of PE conditioned by a negative echocardiogram were 5%, 33%, and 81%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: In unselected patients with suspected PE, transthoracic echocardiography fails to identify some 50% of patients with angiographically proven PE. Although echocardiographic findings of RV strain, paired with a high clinical likelihood, support a diagnosis of PE, the transthoracic echocardiography has to have a better sensitivity to be used as a screening test to rule out PE.
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Embolia Pulmonar/diagnóstico por imagem , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Ecocardiografia Doppler , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Probabilidade , Estudos Prospectivos , Padrões de Referência , Fatores de Risco , Sensibilidade e EspecificidadeRESUMO
Increasing evidence suggests that Angiotensin II, classically known from its many effects regulating salt and water homeostasis, is also involved in brain development and cognitive functions through activation of AT1 Angiotensin II receptors. The recently cloned gerbil AT1 receptor is expressed in brain areas controlling hydro-mineral homeostasis, and particularly highly expressed in limbic areas such as the hippocampal formation. We quantified the gerbil AT1 receptor messenger RNA expression and receptor binding by quantitative in situ hybridization and receptor autoradiography, respectively, in the hippocampal formation and cerebral cortex of gerbils during postnatal development. The receptor messenger RNA and binding were present from birth and showed a gradual and sustained increase through postnatal maturation in the CA1 and CA2 regions of the hippocampus and in the dentate gyrus. Conversely, in the CA3 region, no binding was detected while receptor messenger RNA peaked at 15 days after birth and disappeared in the adult. The highest receptor messenger RNA expression and binding were found in the septomedial portions of the CA1 region and at septal levels of the CA2 region. We detected the highest receptor messenger RNA expression at postnatal day one in the frontolateral pole of the cerebral hemispheres. In these areas, and in the frontoparietal and insular cortex, receptor messenger RNA dramatically decreased during postnatal life. Similarly, we found receptor messenger RNA expression in the cingulate, retrosplenial, perirhinal and infralimbic cortex with higher values during the first two weeks of development and decreased expression in the adult. However, receptor binding in the cerebral cortex, did not decrease during postnatal life. The differential profile of receptor messenger RNA expression and binding in the gerbil cortex and hippocampus during postnatal maturation suggest a role for AT1 receptors in the development and function of the corticohippocampal system.
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Envelhecimento/metabolismo , Animais Recém-Nascidos/metabolismo , Córtex Cerebral/metabolismo , Gerbillinae/metabolismo , Hipocampo/metabolismo , Receptores de Angiotensina/metabolismo , Animais , Animais Recém-Nascidos/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Autorradiografia , Hibridização In Situ , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Receptor Tipo 1 de Angiotensina , Receptor Tipo 2 de Angiotensina , Receptores de Angiotensina/genéticaRESUMO
Oestrogen receptor (ER) regulation of gene transcription in neurosecretory and pituitary cells has been proposed as an important mechanism for increased hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis responses in females of several mammalian species, including humans. Inbred female Fischer (F344/N) and Lewis (LEW/N) rats have similar oestrogen levels, although Fischer rats exhibit hyper- and Lewis rats hypo-HPA axis responses. The blunted HPA axis response of Lewis rats has been associated with their blunted hypothalamic corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) expression. To determine if the female CRH expression deficiency in Lewis rats is associated with defective ER expression and regulation, hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) transcript levels of CRH and ER were determined under basal conditions and after immune challenge. Microdissected PVN were obtained from control and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) treated Lewis and Fischer rats and CRH, ERalpha and beta mRNA levels were determined by semiquantitative reverse-transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. In addition, ERalpha and beta protein levels were determined by semiquantitative Western blots. ERalpha and beta mRNA and protein levels in the PVN of control Fischer rats were significantly higher than in control Lewis rats. ERalpha and beta mRNA and protein levels in Fischer rats were reduced by LPS administration at the time of maximal CRH mRNA levels but did not change in Lewis rats, an effect independent of oestrogen levels. These data indicate that defective neuroendocrine HPA axis responses are associated with defective ER expression and regulation in Lewis PVN despite oestrogen concentrations.
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Lipopolissacarídeos/farmacologia , Núcleo Hipotalâmico Paraventricular/efeitos dos fármacos , Núcleo Hipotalâmico Paraventricular/metabolismo , Ratos Endogâmicos F344/metabolismo , Ratos Endogâmicos Lew/metabolismo , Receptores de Estrogênio/metabolismo , Animais , Corticosterona/sangue , Hormônio Liberador da Corticotropina/genética , Estradiol/sangue , Receptor alfa de Estrogênio , Receptor beta de Estrogênio , Feminino , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Ratos , Receptores de Estrogênio/genéticaRESUMO
Acute sodium depletion by peritoneal dialysis (PD) induces c-fos expression in the subfornical organ (SFO) and organum vasculosum laminae terminalis (OVLT), in conscious rats. Fos immunoreactive (Fos-ir) neurons detected by immunohistochemistry first appeared in these nuclei 60 min after PD, increased gradually in the next 4 h and remained high for 27 h following PD. Fos-ir cells were distributed throughout the body of SFO, being the core of the posterior sections preferentially activated, whereas Fos-ir neurons occurred around the periphery of OVLT (annular disposition). When rats were allowed to drink sodium salt (1.8% NaCl) 24 h after PD, there was a marked reversion of the c-fos expression in the OVLT and a comparatively smaller effect in the SFO. Intracerebroventricular infusion of hypertonic CSF (170 mM NaCl) from 30 min before and during 4 h after PD, significantly inhibited the c-fos expression in both nuclei. These results demonstrate that an acute body sodium deficit induces c-fos activity in SFO and OVLT neurons, indicating the special role of these structures in sodium balance regulation. They also show that the sodium-depletion-induced production of Fos in neurons of the lamina terminalis can be modulated by central or systemic reposition of sodium.
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Ventrículos Cerebrais/química , Hipotálamo/química , Proteínas do Tecido Nervoso/análise , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas c-fos/análise , Sódio/metabolismo , Órgão Subfornical/química , Análise de Variância , Animais , Estudos de Avaliação como Assunto , Imuno-Histoquímica , Masculino , RatosRESUMO
Physiological evidence indicates that the zona incerta (ZI) may be an important region for convergence of signals mediating drinking. It is known that the ZI receives neural influences from brain osmoreceptive zones. Also there are wide-spread projections from the ZI to the neocortex. In the present experiments, lidocaine (1 microliter, 20 ng/microliters) was injected into the rostral aspect of the ZI. The animals were previously stimulated for water drinking by: a) overnight water deprivation; b) 2 M NaCl IP; c) AII (50 ng) in the anteroventral wall of the third ventricle (AV3V). In every case, lidocaine administration significantly enhanced the volume of water drank. The results support the idea that ZI exerts an inhibitory influence upon the expression of drinking behavior.
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Ingestão de Líquidos/efeitos dos fármacos , Lidocaína/administração & dosagem , Formação Reticular/fisiologia , Angiotensina II/farmacologia , Animais , Encéfalo/fisiologia , Desidratação/fisiopatologia , Ingestão de Líquidos/fisiologia , Injeções , Injeções Intravenosas , Lidocaína/farmacologia , Masculino , Mesencéfalo , Osmose , Ratos , Saciação , Privação de ÁguaRESUMO
The zona incerta, located in the ventral thalamus, is a site of convergence of signals related to drinking. In the present experiments, agonists and antagonists of dopamine receptors were injected into the ZI of animals deprived of water overnight. Injection of 53 nM dopamine or the D2 dopamine receptor agonist PPHT caused a reduction of water and food intake, while the injection of the D1 receptor agonist SKF38393 had no effect. The current results suggest that dopamine injected into the ZI exerts inhibitory influences on drinking behavior mediated by D2 type receptor.
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Ingestão de Líquidos/fisiologia , Receptores Dopaminérgicos/fisiologia , Núcleos Talâmicos/fisiologia , Sede/fisiologia , Animais , Mapeamento Encefálico , Dopamina/fisiologia , Masculino , Inibição Neural/fisiologia , Ratos , Receptores de Dopamina D2/fisiologia , Privação de Água/fisiologiaRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: To assess the value of parameters derived from arterial blood gas tests in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. METHOD: We measured alveolar-arterial partial pressure of oxygen [P(A-a)O2] gradient, PaO2 and arterial partial pressure of carbon diaxide (PaCO2) in 773 consecutive patients with suspected pulmonary embolism who were enrolled in the Prospective Investigative Study of Acute Pulmonary Embolism. DIAGNOSIS: The study design required pulmonary angiography in all patients with abnormal perfusion scans. RESULTS: Of 773 scans, 270 were classified as normal/near-normal and 503 as abnormal. Pulmonary embolism was diagnosed by pulmonary angiography in 312 of 503 patients with abnormal scans. Of 312 patients with pulmonary embolism, 12, 14 and 35% had normal P(A-a)O2, PaO2 and PaCO2, respectively. Of 191 patients with abnormal scans and negative angiograms, 11, 13 and 55% had normal P(A-a)O2, PaO2 and PaCO2, respectively. The proportions of patients with normal/near-normal scans who had normal P(A-a)O2, PaO2 and PaCO2 were 20, 25 and 37%, respectively. No differences were observed in the mean values of arterial blood gas data between patients with pulmonary embolism and those who had abnormal scans and negative angiograms. Among the 773 patients with suspected pulmonary embolism, 364 (47%) had prior cardiopulmonary disease. Pulmonary embolism was diagnosed in 151 (41%) of 364 patients with prior cardiopulmonary disease, and in 161 (39%) of 409 patients without prior cardiopulmonary disease. Among patients with pulmonary embolism, there was no difference in arterial blood gas data between patients with and those without prior CPD. CONCLUSION: These data indicate that arterial blood gas tests are of limited value in the diagnostic work-up of pulmonary embolism if they are not interpreted in conjunction with clinical and other laboratory tests.
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Pulmonary embolism (PE) remains a challenging diagnostic problem because it mimics other cardiopulmonary disorders. Pulmonary angiography is still the reference standard for diagnosing PE but it is costly, invasive and not readily available. Non-invasive diagnostic strategies have therefore been developed to forego pulmonary angiography in patients suspected of having PE. Ventilation/perfusion lung scanning is, at present, the most widely used non-invasive diagnostic test for PE. A high probability ventilation/perfusion scan (segmental or greater perfusion defects with normal ventilation) warrants the institution of anticoagulant therapy especially when paired with high clinical suspicion of PE. Yet, only a minority of patients with confirmed PE have high probability ventilation/perfusion scans. Ventilation/perfusion abnormalities other than those of the high probability scan should be regarded as non-diagnostic. Under these circumstances, documentation of deep vein thrombosis by non-invasive leg testing warrants anticoagulation without the need for angiography. However, a single negative venous study result does not permit to rule out PE in patients with non-diagnostic ventilation/perfusion scans. Results of a recent prospective study indicate that accurate diagnosis or exclusion of PE is possible with perfusion lung scanning alone (without ventilation imaging). Combining perfusion lung scanning with clinical assessment helps to restrict the need for angiography to a minority of patients with suspected PE.
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Embolia Pulmonar/diagnóstico por imagem , Ensaios Clínicos como Assunto , Humanos , Perfusão , Valor Preditivo dos Testes , Circulação Pulmonar , Ventilação Pulmonar , CintilografiaRESUMO
The Authors report 120 cases of protruded lumbar disc operated on by microsurgical technique over the last 3 years. The operating technique is summarized and the indications for this type of surgery are discussed. Both immediate and long-term results are reported. Five patients were re-operated on because of recurrence in the same interspace. As the follow-up revealed there were favourable results, regarding especially the disappearance of pain and resumption of working activity. Microsurgical Lumbar Discectomy (MLD) represents an improvement and a valid alternative to standard technique: it enables to remove the disc with a very limited local damage which means a shorter period of convalescence and a better aesthetic result.
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Deslocamento do Disco Intervertebral/cirurgia , Vértebras Lombares/cirurgia , Microcirurgia/métodos , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Microcirurgia/instrumentação , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Síndromes de Compressão Nervosa/cirurgia , Raízes Nervosas Espinhais/cirurgiaRESUMO
The authors tried to assess neurotic traits of 19 consecutive patients having micro-lumbar discectomy and to verify the relation between psychic distress and surgical outcome. All subjects had unequivocal clinical and myelographic evidence of lumbar disc herniation. Neurotic distress was measured by Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire (M.H.Q.) and was related to M.H.Q. scores of a control group. Subjective ratings of treatment effectiveness and residual pain, assessed by interview at one month after surgery, were related to psychometric data. Results of statistical analysis provided evidence that although M.H.Q. scores of patients group were different from controls' M.H.Q. scores with regard to the tendency to somatize, psychological disturbances played no role in determining outcome after discectomy. Authors suggest that whenever a reliable diagnosis of herniated disc together with correct operative approach are performed, neurotic mechanisms do not usually affect surgical outcome.
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Deslocamento do Disco Intervertebral/psicologia , Dor Pós-Operatória/psicologia , Estresse Psicológico/psicologia , Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Deslocamento do Disco Intervertebral/cirurgia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Testes PsicológicosRESUMO
A rare case of neurosyphilis presenting with dementia paralytica and radiological appearance of cerebral gumma is reported. In accordance with previous comparable reports Authors noticed that diagnosis of this disease actually is still based on serological tests and clinical examination. CT, NMR and Cerebral angiography were not able to provide diagnostic findings, although NMR confirmed its ability to detect lesions not discovered by CT scan. Also findings from stereotactic biopsy only revealed an old not active infection.
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Demência/etiologia , Neurossífilis/complicações , Paresia/etiologia , Idoso , Angiografia Cerebral , Humanos , Espectroscopia de Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Neurossífilis/diagnóstico , Neurossífilis/terapia , Tomografia por Raios XRESUMO
In 37 patients brainstem auditory evoked potentials were recorded within 48 hours from a mild head injury. About half of the patients had at least one abnormal neurophysiological parameter pointing to dysfunction of brainstem structure.
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Concussão Encefálica/diagnóstico , Tronco Encefálico/fisiopatologia , Potenciais Evocados Auditivos , Estimulação Acústica , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Concussão Encefálica/fisiopatologia , Criança , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Tempo de Reação/fisiologiaRESUMO
Six red blood cell (RBC) antigen systems, coupled with human lymphocyte antigen (HLA) phenotyping, were used to establish paternity on 28 mother/child/alleged-father trios. Samples were subsequently examined using the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) fingerprinting test with the multilocus Jeffreys DNA probes 33.6 and 33.15. In 27 of 28 paternity cases, the DNA fingerprinting test results supported and enhanced the results of RBC and HLA typing by resolving disputed paternity cases conclusively. One discrepancy between conventional serological methods and DNA analysis is discussed.
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Tipagem e Reações Cruzadas Sanguíneas , Impressões Digitais de DNA , Paternidade , Antígenos HLA/análise , Humanos , Masculino , Fenótipo , Sistema do Grupo Sanguíneo Rh-Hr/genética , Sistema do Grupo Sanguíneo Rh-Hr/imunologiaRESUMO
A study involving comparison of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) finger-printing test with traditional methods used for paternity testing is presented. Samples from 191 cases were tested for a series of blood group and polymorphic protein markers. DNA "fingerprints" were then obtained for all samples using the multilocus probes 33.6 and 33.15. The results of DNA fingerprinting correlated well with those of traditional methods and proved to be informative in cases where traditional methods yielded inconclusive or insufficient results.