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Mikkelsen A, Boye B, Diseth TH, Malt U, Mørkrid L, IJsselstijn H, Emblem R. Traumatic stress, mental health, and quality of life in adolescents with esophageal atresia. J Pediatr Surg 2022; 57:1423-1431. [PMID: 33223226 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2020.10.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2020] [Revised: 10/15/2020] [Accepted: 10/28/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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INTRODUCTION We aimed to investigate QoL in EA patients in relation to comparison groups and to clinical factors including experienced traumatic stress. MATERIAL AND METHODS Adolescents with EA in Norway born between 1996 and 2002 were included. Clinical assessment and patient's characteristics were collected. Quality of life (PedsQL), traumatic stress (IES-13) and mental health (SDQ-20) were compared to groups of healthy controls, children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and kidney transplanted children (TX). RESULTS 68 EA adolescents participated. Total scores for PedsQL were not different from the healthy group and ALL patients, but significantly better than the TX patients. The subscale for physical performance was significantly lower than in healthy adolescents, and nine (17%) patients had scores ≤70 indicating reduced health status. Five EA adolescents (12%) had mental health scores suggesting a psychiatric disorder, and six (9%) reported high traumatic stress scores with a significant correlation to days on ventilator in the neonatal period. The strongest predictors for quality of life among EA adolescents were self-reported mental health, posttraumatic stress and GERD symptoms. CONCLUSION Scores for Quality of life in the EA group are good except for subscale for physical performance. Symptoms of posttraumatic stress, mental strain and gastroesophageal reflux are predictors of reduced QoL.
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- A Mikkelsen
- University of Oslo (UiO), Norway; Department of Pediatric Surgery, Oslo University Hospital (OUS), Postboks 4950 Nydalen, Oslo 0424, Norway.
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- Department of acute psychiatry, psychosomatic and c-l psychiatry-adult, Oslo University Hospital (OUS), Norway; University of Oslo (UiO), Norway
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Hospitals, Division of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Oslo University Hospital (OUS), Oslo, Norway; University of Oslo (UiO), Norway
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- University of Oslo (UiO), Norway
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- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children`s Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- University of Oslo (UiO), Norway; Department of Pediatric Surgery, Oslo University Hospital (OUS), Postboks 4950 Nydalen, Oslo 0424, Norway
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Andersson S, Hestad K, Johannessen D, Okkenhaug I, Gramstad A, Andreassen O, Lanneskog A, Sørensen B, Bøen E, Boldingh M, Aamodt A, Boye B. Subjective cognitive complaints and neuropsychological performance at six months post COVID-19. J Psychosom Res 2022. [PMCID: PMC9133832 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2022.110814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Bøen E, Hummelen B, Boye B, Elvsåshagen T, Malt UF. Borderline patients have difficulties describing feelings; bipolar II patients describe difficult feelings. An alexithymia study. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2020; 142:203-214. [PMID: 32594515 DOI: 10.1111/acps.13204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Apparent similarities between borderline personality disorder (BPD) and bipolar II disorder (BIP-II) contribute to clinical difficulties in distinguishing between the disorders. Here, we aimed to explore how subjective Difficulties with the Identification and Description of Feelings (DIDF), a major constituent of the alexithymia construct and assessed as a part of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS), are related to relationship problems and health complaints in these groups. METHODS Twenty-two patients with BPD; 22 patients with BIP-II; and 23 healthy controls (HC) completed TAS. Health complaints, including symptoms associated with mood swings, were assessed with the Giessener Subjective Complaints List (Giessener Beschwerdebogen-GBB), and relationship problems with the Health of the Nation Outcome scale, Relationship item (HoNOSR). Bivariate correlations were run. RESULTS Both patient groups had high DIDF and GBB scores. In BPD only, there was a significant positive correlation between DIDF and HoNOSR. In BIP-II only, there was a significant positive correlation between DIDF and GBB total score. In BIP-II, DIDF correlated highly with those GBB subscales assessing symptoms typically occurring during bipolar mood swings (cardiovascular and gastrointestinal symptoms, exhaustion). CONCLUSION Our results suggest that in BPD, high DIDF scores represent genuine problems with identifying and describing emotions which are expected to correlate with relationship problems. In BIP-II, high DIDF scores could potentially represent difficulties with understanding the unpredictable symptoms of bipolar mood swings. The findings suggest that difficulties with identifying and describing feelings in patients should be carefully explored to increase the validity of the diagnostic evaluation.
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- Psychosomatic and CL Psychiatry, Clinic for Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Research and Development, Clinic for Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Psychosomatic and CL Psychiatry, Clinic for Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Behavioural Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.,Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Bøen E, Westlye LT, Elvsåshagen T, Hummelen B, Hol PK, Boye B, Andersson S, Karterud S, Malt UF. Regional cortical thinning may be a biological marker for borderline personality disorder. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2014; 130:193-204. [PMID: 24571788 DOI: 10.1111/acps.12234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/12/2013] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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OBJECTIVE We investigated cerebral cortical thickness and its relation to measurements of difficulties with identifying and describing emotions in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). METHOD Eighteen SCID-II-diagnosed female patients with BPD and 21 healthy female controls underwent magnetic resonance imaging and completed the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS). First, regional cortical thickness across the cerebral surface was compared between patients and healthy controls. Then, analyses of the association between cortical thickness and TAS subscales were performed in patients. RESULTS Compared with controls, patients exhibited clusters of significantly reduced cortical thickness in the left medial and lateral prefrontal cortex, left temporoparietal junction, bilateral temporal poles, and bilateral paracentral lobules. Significant negative associations were observed between cortical thickness and the 'Difficulties Describing Feelings' TAS subscale (DDF) scores in patients. The anatomical distribution of these associations was highly overlapping with the group differences in cortical thickness. CONCLUSION The pattern of regions exhibiting cortical thinning in patients resembles a network of cortical structures repeatedly shown to be involved in social cognition. The results of the DDF analyses suggest that the thinning may partly be related to interpersonal dysfunction in patients with BPD. The pattern of thinning may represent a potential biological marker for BPD.
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- E Bøen
- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; Norwegian Research Network on Mood Disorders (NORMOOD), Oslo, Norway; Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Giomo M, Buso A, Fier P, Sandonà G, Boye B, Farnia G. A small-scale pilot plant using an oxygen-reducing gas-diffusion electrode for hydrogen peroxide electrosynthesis. Electrochim Acta 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2008.06.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to improve our understanding of guilt proneness as predictor of acute and long-term stress responses in relatives of acutely admitted patients. METHOD Forty-nine relatives in close contact with 36 patients suffering from schizophrenia DSM-III-R, completed Hostility Guilt (HG) and Guilt Conscience (GC) scales (Revised Mosher Guilt Inventory), and Levenson's Locus of Control Scale (LOC) at the patient's admission to hospital, and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) at the patient's admission and at 9 months after discharge. RESULTS Acute distress (GHQ) was positively related to HG, but not when controlling for LOC. GC was positively associated with acute and long-term distress, GHQ-depression and coping-failure, and long-term GHQ-anxiety. When controlling for LOC, GC was still positively related to long-term distress. HG, GC and LOC explained 32% variance of GHQ at 9 months. CONCLUSION GC seems to be an important predictor of long-term distress in relatives.
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- B Boye
- Blakstad Hospital, Asker, Norway, Aker Hospital, Psychiatric Clinic, Oslo, Norway.
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Boye B, Bentsen H, Ulstein I, Notland TH, Lersbryggen A, Lingjaerde O, Malt UF. Relatives' distress and patients' symptoms and behaviours: a prospective study of patients with schizophrenia and their relatives. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2001; 104:42-50. [PMID: 11437749 DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0447.2001.00190.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between relatives' distress and patients' symptoms and behaviours. METHOD Fifty relatives in close contact with 36 patients with schizophrenia DSM-III-R filled in the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and the Perceived Family Burden Scale (PFBS) at the patient's hospital admission, 4.5 and 9 months post-discharge. The patients were assessed by means of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). RESULTS The PFBS anxiety-depression cluster was at all three assessments positively correlated with relative's distress (GHQ), not with PANSS anxiety and depression measurements. In multiple regression analysis PFBS, but not PANSS, was related to relatives' distress. CONCLUSION Relatives' distress was related to their reports of problematic patient behaviours, especially anxiety-depressive behaviour, not to symptoms as measured by clinical interviews. High distress is related to high expressed emotion, suggesting that relatives' report of patient's behaviour should be addressed to improve patient's outcome.
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- B Boye
- Blakstad Hospital, p-box 143, N-1371 Asker, Norway
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Boye B. [The National Board of Health and Welfare recommends an inefficient method]. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 2000; 120:2066. [PMID: 11008551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023] Open
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Boye B, Bentsen H, Notland TH, Munkvold OG, Lersbryggen AB, Oskarsson KH, Uren G, Ulstein I, Bjørge H, Lingjaerde O, Malt UF. What predicts the course of expressed emotion in relatives of patients with schizophrenia or related psychoses? Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 1999; 34:35-43. [PMID: 10073119 DOI: 10.1007/s001270050109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The expressed emotion (EE) index may not be as stable as it was once believed to be. The aim of this study was to identify variables associated with spontaneous change from low to high and from high to low levels of EE and EE subscales--critical comments (CC), hostility (H), emotional overinvolvement (EOI). Using a longitudinal, prospective study design, of 59 relatives having at least weekly face-to-face contact with 40 patients with an acute episode or relapse into schizophrenia (DSM-III-R) were interviewed by means of the Camberwell Family Interview (CFI) at admission and at 4 1/2 months after discharge. The results showed that high-high or unstable levels of CC, H or EE were associated with the patient not working or studying prior to admission. Relatives with low-high and high-high EOI patterns had more weekly face-to-face contact with the patient prior to admission than relatives with a low-low EOI pattern. Patients whose relatives had low-high CC and EE patterns were less ill at admission than patients whose relatives had low-low patterns. Higher perceived family burden was associated with, at admission, an unstable pattern of CC, and at follow-up, high-high EOI or EE patterns rather than low-low patterns. Our study suggests that it is possible to identify which relatives will have a stable and which a changing EE level, allowing for more focused intervention.
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- B Boye
- Blakstad Hospital, Asker, Norway
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Bentsen H, Notland TH, Munkvold OG, Boye B, Ulstein I, Bjørge H, Uren G, Lersbryggen AB, Oskarsson KH, Berg-Larsen R, Lingjaerde O, Malt UF. Guilt proneness and expressed emotion in relatives of patients with schizophrenia or related psychoses. Br J Med Psychol 1998; 71 ( Pt 2):125-38. [PMID: 9617467 DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1998.tb01374.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Knowledge of what predicts relatives' expressed emotion (EE) may contribute to improved family work in schizophrenia. In the present study we examined guilt proneness as a determinant of EE components. METHOD In a Norwegian sample of 46 recently hospitalized patients (schizophrenia or schizophreniform disorder) and 69 relatives, relatives' expressed emotion was assessed by means of the Camberwell Family Interview, and guilt proneness by means of the Revised Mosher Guilt Inventory. (RMGI). RESULTS Confirmatory multiple regression analyses showed that hostility-guilt (RMGI) was negatively related to high levels of criticism and hostility and, for men, positively related to emotional overinvolvement. There was a strong positive relationship between relatives' guilty conscience (RMGI) and emotional overinvolvement if the patient had a diagnosis of schizophrenia. CONCLUSIONS Our analyses indicate that relatives' guilt proneness may be a determinant of their criticism, hostility and emotional overinvolvement towards a schizophrenic family member. This personality trait should be taken into account in family work which aims at modifying relatives' expressed emotion.
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- H Bentsen
- Blakstad Hospital, Akershus County, Gaustad Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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Bentsen H, Munkvold OG, Notland TH, Boye B, Oskarsson KH, Uren G, Lersbryggen AB, Bjørge H, Berg-Larsen R, Lingjaerde O, Malt UF. Relatives' emotional warmth towards patients with schizophrenia or related psychoses: demographic and clinical predictors. Acta Psychiatr Scand 1998; 97:86-92. [PMID: 9504709 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1998.tb09968.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Despite the importance of relatives' emotional warmth for outcome in schizophrenia, no studies to date have addressed demographic and clinical predictors of warmth. We examined a Norwegian sample of 47 recently hospitalized patients (with schizophrenia or schizophreniform disorder) and 72 key relatives. Relatives' emotional warmth was assessed by means of the Camberwell Family Interview. Regression analyses showed that no substance abuse (especially amphetamines), better premorbid adjustment (12-15 years), a chronic social security status, and the relative not being a parent were the strongest predictors of emotional warmth. Emotional warmth was not related to patients' symptoms.
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- H Bentsen
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Norway
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Bentsen H, Notland TH, Boye B, Munkvold OG, Bjørge H, Lersbryggen AB, Uren G, Oskarsson KH, Berg-Larsen R, Lingjaerde O, Malt UF. Criticism and hostility in relatives of patients with schizophrenia or related psychoses: demographic and clinical predictors. Acta Psychiatr Scand 1998; 97:76-85. [PMID: 9504708 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1998.tb09967.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Relatives' criticism and hostility are important risk factors for relapse in schizophrenia. In order to explain these attitudes, we examined a Norwegian sample of 47 recently hospitalized patients (with schizophrenia or related psychoses) and 72 relatives. Relatives' expressed emotion was assessed by means of the Camberwell Family Interview. Demographic and clinical data were used as predictor variables in confirmatory regression analyses. The most robust predictors of high levels of criticism were, on the part of the patient, lack of paid employment, more than 3 previous hospital admissions, more troublesome behaviours reported by relatives, especially anxiety/depression, and better cognitive functioning at admission. Robust predictors of hostility were lack of employment and more than 3 previous hospitalizations. Interventions to reduce criticism should include employing patients and working with relatives' unrealistic expectations.
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- H Bentsen
- Gaustad Psychiatric Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Norway
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Bentsen H, Munkvold OG, Notland TH, Boye B, Lersbryggen AB, Oskarsson KH, Uren G, Ulstein I, Bjørge H, Berg-Larsen R, Lingjaerde O, Malt UF. Relatives' locus of control and expressed emotion in schizophrenia and related psychoses. Br J Clin Psychol 1997; 36:555-67. [PMID: 9403146 DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1997.tb01260.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Knowledge of what predicts relatives' expressed emotion (EE) may contribute to improved family work in schizophrenia. In the present study we examined locus of control (LOC) beliefs as determinants of EE components. DESIGN This study is observational, prospective and partly cross-sectional, partly longitudinal (stability of LOC). METHODS In a Norwegian sample of 47 recently hospitalized patients (schizophrenia or schizophreniform disorder) and 70 relatives, the relatives' EE was assessed by the Camberwell Family Interview and LOC by Levenson's Internality, Powerful Others and Chance scales. RESULTS Confirmatory multiple regression analyses showed that Chance LOC was positively related to emotional overinvolvement (p < .005). Powerful Others LOC, especially 'wish to ingratiate' items, were positively linked to criticism and, among workers/lower grade employees only, to emotional overinvolvement. Internal LOC was not linked to any EE scale. CONCLUSIONS This study indicates that LOC beliefs may be determinants of emotional overinvolvement and criticism, and should be taken into account in family work that aims at modifying relatives' EE.
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- H Bentsen
- Department Group of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Norway
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Spitkovsky D, Schulze A, Boye B, Jansen-Dürr P. Down-regulation of cyclin A gene expression upon genotoxic stress correlates with reduced binding of free E2F to the promoter. Cell Growth Differ 1997; 8:699-710. [PMID: 9186003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Treatment of mammalian cells by DNA-damaging agents leads to various cellular responses. At sufficiently high dosage, cisplatin blocks cell proliferation and finally kills cells; this effect is the basis for its widespread use as an anticancer drug. Cisplatin-treated cells arrest in the G1 phase of the cell cycle, most likely due to a signal generated by the stabilization of p53 and the subsequent induction of p21WAF-1/Cip1. We show here that cisplatin-treated mammalian cells accumulate normal levels of cyclin D1 and cyclin E but fail to produce cyclin A. The block to cyclin A gene expression occurs at the level of transcription and is mediated by an E2F binding site in the cyclin A promoter. It is shown here that, upon cisplatin treatment, transcriptionally active free E2F becomes limiting, coincident with the accumulation of hypophosphorylated species of the retinoblastoma protein family. Immunoprecipitation experiments suggest that the loss of free E2F results, at least in part, from the sequestration of E2F-4/DP-1 heterodimers by p107. A role for the kinase inhibitor p21WAF-1/Cip1 in repression of the cyclin A promoter is supported by our finding that ectopic expression of p21WAF-1/Cip1 is sufficient to inhibit transcription from the cyclin A gene, dependent on the E2F site. The data establish the E2F site in the human cyclin A promoter as a key target for the signaling pathway leading to G1 arrest in response to DNA damage by cisplatin and potentially other genotoxic agents.
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- Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Forschungsschwerpunkt Angewandte Tumorvirologie, Heidelberg, Germany
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Bentsen H, Boye B, Munkvold OG, Notland TH, Lersbryggen AB, Oskarsson KH, Ulstein I, Uren G, Bjørge H, Berg-Larsen R, Lingjaerde O, Malt UF. Emotional overinvolvement in parents of patients with schizophrenia or related psychosis: demographic and clinical predictors. Br J Psychiatry 1996; 169:622-30. [PMID: 8932893 DOI: 10.1192/bjp.169.5.622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Parental emotional overinvolvement (EOI) may entail a worse outcome in schizophrenia. In the present study we examined demographic and clinical predictors of EOI. METHOD The predictors were examined in a Norwegian sample of 41 recently admitted patients (schizophrenia or schizophreniform disorder) and 66 parents. Parents' expressed emotion was assessed by the Camberwell Family Interview. RESULTS Regression analyses showed that higher EOI was significantly related, on the part of the parent, to being a mother, single, spending more time with the patient; and, on the part of the patient, to no substance misuse, more anxiety-depression, and less uncritical and aggressive behaviour. EOI was not linked to previous hospital admissions. CONCLUSION Our analyses indicate that characteristics of the parent and of the parent-patient dyad seem to be the most important determinants of EOI. EOI is probably not linked to psychotic relapse, but rather to affective disturbances in the patient.
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- Department Group of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Norway
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Bentsen H, Boye B, Munkvold OG, Uren G, Lersbryggen AB, Oskarsson KH, Berg-Larsen R, Lingjaerde O, Malt UF. Inter-rater reliability of expressed emotion ratings based on the Camberwell Family Interview. Psychol Med 1996; 26:821-828. [PMID: 8817717 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291700037843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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High expressed emotion in relatives has been shown to predict a poorer outcome in a range of disorders and cultures. However, variation in predictive power is considerable, and this could partly be due to low inter-rater reliability. Sixty-nine relatives of 47 acutely admitted schizophrenic patients were interviewed using the Camberwell Family Interview. Audiotapes were assessed by pairs of raters drawn from a group of seven approved raters. Inter-rater reliability was good for criticism, hostility, emotional over-involvement (as a six level scale) and expressed emotion index (EOI cut-off score 2-3); and it was fair, but unsatisfactory, for emotional over-involvement (binary scales), warmth, positive remarks and expressed emotion (EOI cut-off score 3-4). These findings suggest that the warmth scale and the dichotomized versions of the EOI scale should be used with caution. The influence of warmth on the outcome in schizophrenia may have been underestimated because of low reliability.
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Patients with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infectious mononucleosis (IM) usually develop heterophilic antibodies and some autoantibodies. Antibodies to rubella, measles, adeno-, entero-, herpes simplex, cytomegalo- and varicella-zoster viruses were titrated in sera from IM patients and matched healthy controls using the complement fixation test (CFT) and the haemagglutination inhibition test. Except for herpes simplex virus and cytomegalovirus, the IM sera had significantly higher arithmetical and geometrical mean antibody titres and showed in most cases higher antibody prevalences in the CFT. The titre rise was most pronounced for rubella and measles antibodies, between 2- and 3-fold. There were no cases of very high titres occasionally seen in IM. The IM sera had higher total IgG serum levels than the controls, 17.27 g/l and 11.8 g/l, respectively (P < 0.001). The present data show that in addition to previously reported high levels of some autoantibodies and of heterophilic antibodies, there is a more general increase in IgG antibodies to commonly occurring viruses. This increase is most likely due to the polyclonal activation of B-lymphocytes following the binding of EBV to the complement receptor CR2 (CD21). When due consideration is given to the possible occasional occurrence of a false positive rubella IgM test, the raised antibody-titres will most likely not interfere with routine diagnostics.
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Gade Institute, Bergen, Norway
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Bartsch D, Boye B, Baust C, zur Hausen H, Schwarz E. Retinoic acid-mediated repression of human papillomavirus 18 transcription and different ligand regulation of the retinoic acid receptor beta gene in non-tumorigenic and tumorigenic HeLa hybrid cells. EMBO J 1992; 11:2283-91. [PMID: 1318198 PMCID: PMC556695 DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1992.tb05287.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV18) belongs to the group of genital papillomaviruses involved in the development of cervical carcinomas. Since retinoic acid (RA) is a key regulator of epithelial cell differentiation and a growth inhibitor in vitro of HPV18-positive HeLa cervical carcinoma cells, we have used HeLa and HeLa hybrid cells in order to analyse the effects of RA on expression of the HPV18 E6 and E7 oncogenes and of the cellular RA receptor genes RAR-beta and -gamma. We show here that RA down-regulates HPV18 mRNA levels apparently due to transcriptional repression. Transient cotransfection assays indicated that RARs negatively regulate the HPV18 upstream regulatory region and that the central enhancer can confer RA-dependent repression on a heterologous promoter. RA treatment resulted in induction of RAR-beta mRNA levels in non-tumorigenic HeLa hybrid cells, but not in tumorigenic hybrid segregants nor in HeLa cells. No alterations of the RAR-beta gene or of the HeLa RAR-beta promoter could be revealed by Southern and DNA sequence analysis, respectively. As determined by transient transfection assays, however, the RAR-beta control region was activated by RA more strongly in non-tumorigenic hybrid cells than in HeLa cells, thus indicating differences in trans-acting regulatory factors. Our data suggest that the RARs are potential negative regulators of HPV18 E6 and E7 gene expression, and that dysregulation of the RAR-beta gene either causatively contributes to or is an indicator of tumorigenicity in HeLa and HeLa hybrid cells.
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- D Bartsch
- Angewandte Tumorvirologie, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, FRG
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Dumeige F, Lunel F, Boye B, Aleya ML, Pailler JL, Rignault D. [Esophageal cysts (apropos of 2 surgical cases]. Med Chir Dig 1982; 11:57-58. [PMID: 7087575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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