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Chennapragada L, Osterberg T, Strouse M, Sullivan SR, Silver C, LaMarca M, Boucher C, Fonseca E, Goodman M. A PRISMA Scoping Review to Explore Interventions to Prevent Firearm-Related Injury and Suicide in Older Adults. Clin Gerontol 2024:1-17. [PMID: 38626064 DOI: 10.1080/07317115.2024.2339366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 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] [Indexed: 04/18/2024]
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OBJECTIVES This scoping review aims to examine existing research into firearm safety interventions designed to prevent firearm injury and suicide in older adults. METHODS Select databases were searched in 5/2023. Included articles involved an/a 1. aim to develop or investigate firearm safety interventions, 2. focus on adults 50 years and older, and 3. primary analysis. RESULTS The search yielded 10 articles which primarily focused on firearm safety counseling with older adults with suicide risk or emerging impairment. The review found that older adults may be open to receiving firearm safety counseling but that providers feel ill-equipped to have these conversations and to reliably identify suicide risk. Two studies presented promising data on the impact and acceptability of training providers in a firearm safety intervention. The review also identified the importance of building trust between older patients and providers to have helpful discussions regarding firearms, and highlighted specific approaches that facilitate openness to participate in these exchanges. CONCLUSIONS Further research into adapting interventions to meet the clinical needs of older adults and treatment efficacy trials is necessary. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS Training healthcare providers to conduct firearm safety interventions with older adults may be an acceptable and impactful avenue to prevent suicide.
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- Lakshmi Chennapragada
- VISN 2 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA
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- VISN 2 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA
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- VISN 2 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Psychology, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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- VISN 2 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA
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- Executive Division, National Center for PTSD Department of Veterans Affairs, White River Junction, Vermont, USA
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- VISN 2 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA
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- VISN 2 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA
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- VISN 2 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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Garfield SF, Wheeler C, Etkind M, Ogunleye D, Williams M, Boucher C, Taylor A, Norton J, Lloyd J, Grimes T, Kelly D, Franklin BD. Providing pharmacy support to housebound patients: learning from the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 2022. [PMCID: PMC9383631 DOI: 10.1093/ijpp/riac019.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Introduction Housebound patients may face challenges to their medicines management due to reduced household mobility and potential lack of access to healthcare services. Previous literature has explored the medication-related needs of housebound patients from pharmacists’ perspectives (1-2). However little work has focussed on the patient/family perspective. In this study, we used data obtained from those staying at home as much as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic to fill this gap. Aim To explore home medicine practices and safety for people who were housebound during the COVID19 pandemic and to create guidance, from the patient/family perspective, for enabling pharmacists to facilitate safe medicine practices for this population. Methods Interviews were carried out with people who were taking at least one long term medication and met the criteria for ‘shielding’ and/or were over 70 years of age during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK and/or their family carers. Respondents were recruited through patient and public involvement representatives, the research team’s networks, and support groups. Potential participants were approached via personal contact and social media. Interviews were conducted by telephone or video conferencing and participants asked about their medicines management while staying at home. Inductive thematic analysis was carried out. Patient and public involvement representatives were involved in the data analysis alongside the researchers. Results Fifty people were interviewed (16 males, 34 females; mean age 68 years, range 26–93 years). Interview data suggested diversity of experiences of medicines management while staying at home. Some respondents reported no or little change, others an initial crisis followed by re-stabilisation, and others that the pandemic was a tipping point, exacerbating underlying challenges and having negative effects on their health and wellbeing. Medicine safety issues reported included omitted doses and less-effective formulations being used. Participants also described experiencing high levels of anxiety related to obtaining medicines, monitoring medicines and feeling at risk of contracting COVID-19 while accessing medicine-related healthcare services. Key factors identified as facilitating a smooth transition included patients’ own agency, support from family, friends and community, good communication with pharmacy staff, continuity of pharmacy services and synchronisation of medicines supply so that a maximum of one collection/delivery was required each month. Conclusion The study findings that we have presented relate to the UK only; this may limit the generalisability of our findings to other countries. Findings from Ireland are in the process of being analysed and will provide a basis of comparison. In addition, more females took part than males, despite efforts to address this. However, our findings suggest pharmacy staff can support medicines management for people who are housebound by synchronisation of medicines supply, delivering medicines where possible, developing/raising awareness of alternative means of communication, providing continuity of pharmacy services and signposting any community support available. References (1) Kayyali R, Funnell G, Harrap N, Patel A. Can community pharmacy successfully bridge the gap in care for housebound patients? Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy 2019;15:425-439. (2) Latif A, Mandane B, Anderson E, Barraclough C, Travis S. Optimizing medicine use for people who are homebound: an evaluation of a pilot domiciliary Medicine Use Review (dMUR) service in England. Integr Pharm Res Pract 2018;7:33-40.
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- S F Garfield
- UCL School of Pharmacy, UCL, London, UK
- Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
- NIHR Imperial Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, Imperial College, London, UK
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- Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
- NIHR Imperial Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, Imperial College, London, UK
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- Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
- NIHR Imperial Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, Imperial College, London, UK
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- Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
- NIHR Imperial Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, Imperial College, London, UK
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- Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
- NIHR Imperial Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, Imperial College, London, UK
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- Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
- NIHR Imperial Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, Imperial College, London, UK
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- The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
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- Health Research Institute, University of Limerick
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- UCL School of Pharmacy, UCL, London, UK
- Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
- NIHR Imperial Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, Imperial College, London, UK
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Popping S, Boucher C, Verjans G, Rijnders B, van de Vijver D. A19 The origin of acute HCV in HIV-infected men who have sex with men in the Netherlands. Virus Evol 2019. [PMCID: PMC6735939 DOI: 10.1093/ve/vez002.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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In recent years, several outbreaks of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections have been observed among HIV-infected men who have sex with men (MSM) in Europe. In the Netherlands, high incidence rates of 10/1,000 person-years are reported. In this analysis, we describe whether acute HCV is linked to specific transmission networks. A total of 50 Dutch HIV-infected MSM, diagnosed with acute HCV genotype 1a between 2013 and 2014, were included. Target enrichment for viral nucleic acid separation and deep sequencing were used to recover whole HCV genomes. Phylogenetic trees were constructed by use of the maximum likelihood method. Pairwise distance matrices were generated by use of the Kimura-2 parameter distance estimation method. The consistency of the phylogenetic clustering was tested by bootstrap analysis with 1,000 replicates. A cluster was defined as having a genetic distance of at most 1.5 per cent and bootstrap values of 100 per cent. The most recent common ancestor was estimated with a coalescent-based model with a Bayesian statistical framework. Four transmission clusters were identified that included a total of 38 patients (76% of the total). The clusters were indicative of recent outbreaks, as highlighted by small genetic distances and a most recent common ancestor after the year 2000, when the first cases of HCV infection in HIV-infected MSM were reported. The HCV epidemic among HIV-infected MSM is a young epidemic, with most of the acute infections linked within the four major transmission networks. Prevention strategies identifying and targeting these transmission networks can potentially curb the epidemic.
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- S Popping
- Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Eramsus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Garfield S, Bell H, Nathan C, Randall S, Husson F, Boucher C, Taylor A, Lloyd J, Backhouse A, Ritchie L, Franklin BD. A quality improvement project to increase self-administration of medicines in an acute hospital. Int J Qual Health Care 2018; 30:396-407. [PMID: 29590365 PMCID: PMC6005068 DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzy035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2017] [Accepted: 02/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Quality problem or issue A patient survey found significantly fewer patients reported they had self-administered their medicines while in hospital (20% of 100 patients) than reported that they would like to (44% of 100). We aimed to make self-administration more easily available to patients who wanted it. Initial assessment We conducted a failure, modes and effects analysis, collected baseline data on four wards and carried out observations. Choice of solution Our initial assessment suggested that the main areas we should focus on were raising patient awareness of self-administration, changing the patient assessment process and creating a storage solution for medicines being self-administered. We developed new patient information leaflets and posters and a doctor’s assessment form using Plan–Do–Study–Act cycles. We developed initial designs for a storage solution. Implementation We piloted the new materials on three wards; the fourth withdrew due to staff shortages. Evaluation Following collection of baseline data, we continued to collect weekly data. We found that the proportion of patients who wished to self-administer who reported that they were able to do so, significantly increased from 41% (of 155 patients) to 66% (of 118 patients) during the study, despite a period when the hospital was over capacity. Lessons learned Raising and maintaining healthcare professionals’ awareness of self-administration can greatly increase the proportion of patients who wish to self-administer who actually do so. Healthcare professionals prefer multi-disciplinary input into the assessment process.
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- S Garfield
- Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Fulham Palace Rd, Hammersmith, London, UK.,Department of Practice and Policy, UCL School of Pharmacy, 29-39 Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury, London, UK
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- Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Fulham Palace Rd, Hammersmith, London, UK
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- Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Fulham Palace Rd, Hammersmith, London, UK
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- Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Fulham Palace Rd, Hammersmith, London, UK
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- Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Fulham Palace Rd, Hammersmith, London, UK
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- Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Fulham Palace Rd, Hammersmith, London, UK
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- Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Fulham Palace Rd, Hammersmith, London, UK
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- Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Fulham Palace Rd, Hammersmith, London, UK
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- Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Fulham Palace Rd, Hammersmith, London, UK
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- Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Fulham Palace Rd, Hammersmith, London, UK
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- Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Fulham Palace Rd, Hammersmith, London, UK.,Department of Practice and Policy, UCL School of Pharmacy, 29-39 Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury, London, UK
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Boucher C, Anderson E. Supportive Services Coordinating Care of Head and Neck Cancer Patients. J Acad Nutr Diet 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jand.2018.06.230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Boucher C, Varela D, Dadian M, Granjon H. fissuration à chaud et progrès récents en soudabilité des alliages de nickel, type Inconel 718 et Waspaloy. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.1051/metal/197673120817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Osborn DPS, Boucher C, Wilson P, Gattone V, Beales PL, Drummond I, Sandford R. A novel 9 kDa phosphoprotein is a component of the primary cilium and interacts with polycystin-1. Cilia 2012. [PMCID: PMC3555802 DOI: 10.1186/2046-2530-1-s1-p74] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Girard C, Liu S, Adams D, Lacroix C, Sinéus M, Boucher C, Papadopoulos V, Rupprecht R, Schumacher M, Groyer G. Axonal regeneration and neuroinflammation: roles for the translocator protein 18 kDa. J Neuroendocrinol 2012; 24:71-81. [PMID: 21951109 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2011.02215.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [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: 12/20/2022]
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After a traumatic injury of the nervous system or in the course of a neurodegenerative disease, the speed of axonal regeneration and the control of the inflammatory response are fundamental parameters of functional recovery. Spontaneous regeneration takes place in the peripheral nervous system, although the process is slow and often incomplete. There is currently no efficient treatment for enhancing axonal regeneration, including elongation speed and functional reinnervation. Ligands of the translocator protein 18 kDa (TSPO) are currently under investigation as therapeutic means for promoting neuroprotection, accelerating axonal regeneration and modulating inflammation. The mechanisms of action of TSPO ligands involve the regulation of mitochondrial activity and the stimulation of steroid biosynthesis. In the peripheral nervous system, TSPO expression is strongly up-regulated after injury, primarily in Schwann cells and macrophages, but also in neurones. Its levels return to low control values when nerve regeneration is completed, strongly supporting an important role in regenerative processes. We have demonstrated a role for the benzoxazine etifoxine in promoting axonal regeneration in the lesioned rat sciatic nerve, either after freeze-injury or complete transection. Etifoxine is already clinically approved for the treatment of anxiety disorders (Stresam(®) , Biocodex, Gentilly, France). Daily treatment with etifoxine resulted in a two-fold acceleration in axonal regeneration, as well as in a marked improvement of both the speed and quality of functional recovery. The neuroregenerative effects of etifoxine are likely to be mediated by TSPO, and they may involve an increased synthesis of pregnenolone and its metabolites, such as progesterone. After freeze-injury of the sciatic nerve, administration of etifoxine also strongly reduced the number of activated macrophages and decreased the production of the inflammatory cytokines tumour necrosis factor-α and interleukin-1β. Thus, this drug offers promise for the treatment of peripheral nerve injuries and axonal neuropathies. It may also be used as a lead compound in the development of new TSPO-based neuroprotective approaches.
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- C Girard
- UMR788 Inserm and University Paris-Sud 11, Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
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Boucher C, Dumas G. [Medical translations and practical compilations: a necessary coincidence?]. Early Sci Med 2012; 17:273-308. [PMID: 23035400 DOI: 10.1163/157338212x645094] [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] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Fourteenth- and fifteenth-century medicine is characterised by a trickle-down effect which led to an increasing dissemination of knowledge in the vernacular. In this context, translations and compilations appear to be two similar endeavours aiming to provide access to contents pertaining to the particulars of medical practice. Nowhere is this phenomenon seen more clearly than in vernacular manuscripts on surgery. Our study proposes to compare for the first time two corpora of manuscripts of surgical compilations, in Middle French and Middle English respectively, in order to discuss form and matter in this type of book production.
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- Caroline Boucher
- Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Umeå University, 90187 Umeå, Sweden.
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Chopier J, Chabbert-Buffet N, Rouzier R, Antoine M, Fajac A, Gligorov J, Boucher C, Soubrier F, Uzan S. Femmes à haut risque de cancer mammaire : vers des unités et réseaux de surveillance. Imagerie de la Femme 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.femme.2011.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Guidot A, Elbaz M, Carrère S, Siri MI, Pianzzola MJ, Prior P, Boucher C. Specific genes from the potato brown rot strains of Ralstonia solanacearum and their potential use for strain detection. Phytopathology 2009; 99:1105-12. [PMID: 19671014 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-99-9-1105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Ralstonia solanacearum is the agent of bacterial wilt infecting >200 different plant species covering >50 botanical families. The genus R. solanacearum can be classified into four phylotypes and each phylotype can be further subdivided into sequevars. The potato brown rot strains of R. solanacearum from phylotype IIB, sequevar 1 (IIB1), historically known as race 3, biovar 2 strains, are responsible for important economic losses to the potato industry and threaten ornamental crop production worldwide. Sensitive and specific detection methods are required to control this pathogen. This article provides a list of 70 genes and 15 intergenes specific to the potato brown rot strains of R. solanacearum from phylotype IIB1. This list was identified by comparative genomic hybridization on microarray and subsequent polymerase chain reaction validation with 14 IIB1 strains against 45 non-IIB1 strains that covered the known genetic diversity in R. solanacearum. The microarray used consisted of the previously described microarray representative of the phylotype I strain GMI1000, to which were added 660 70-mer oligonucleotides representative of new genomic islands detected in the phylotype IIB1 strain IPO1609. The brown rot strain-specific genes thus identified were organized in nine clusters covering 2 to 29 genes within the IPO1609 genome and 6 genes isolated along the genome. Of these specific genes, 29 were parts of mobile genetic elements. Considering the known instability of the R. solanacearum genome, we believe that multiple probes are required to consistently detect all IIB1 strains and we recommend the use of probes which are not part of genetic mobile elements.
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- A Guidot
- CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, Saint Pierre, La Réunion, F-97410, France
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Le Meur N, Holder-Espinasse M, Jaillard S, Goldenberg A, Joriot S, Amati-Bonneau P, Guichet A, Barth M, Charollais A, Journel H, Auvin S, Boucher C, Kerckaert JP, David V, Manouvrier-Hanu S, Saugier-Veber P, Frébourg T, Dubourg C, Andrieux J, Bonneau D. MEF2C haploinsufficiency caused by either microdeletion of the 5q14.3 region or mutation is responsible for severe mental retardation with stereotypic movements, epilepsy and/or cerebral malformations. J Med Genet 2009; 47:22-9. [PMID: 19592390 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.2009.069732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 203] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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BACKGROUND Over the last few years, array-comparative genomic hybridisation (CGH) has considerably improved our ability to detect cryptic unbalanced rearrangements in patients with syndromic mental retardation. METHOD Molecular karyotyping of six patients with syndromic mental retardation was carried out using whole-genome oligonucleotide array-CGH. RESULTS 5q14.3 microdeletions ranging from 216 kb to 8.8 Mb were detected in five unrelated patients with the following phenotypic similarities: severe mental retardation with absent speech, hypotonia and stereotypic movements. Facial dysmorphic features, epilepsy and/or cerebral malformations were also present in most of these patients. The minimal common deleted region of these 5q14 microdeletions encompassed only MEF2C, the gene for a protein known to act in brain as a neurogenesis effector, which regulates excitatory synapse number. In a patient with a similar phenotype, an MEF2C nonsense mutation was subsequently identified. CONCLUSION Taken together, these results strongly suggest that haploinsufficiency of MEF2C is responsible for severe mental retardation with stereotypic movements, seizures and/or cerebral malformations.
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- N Le Meur
- Service de Génétique, CHU de Rouen, France.
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Around 25% of people infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) are able to clear the infection spontaneously, while the majority become chronically infected, with a subsequent risk for the individual patient of progressive inflammatory liver disease, cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma and liver-related death (Figure 1). Much is known about the epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and management of chronic HCV infection. In comparison, knowledge about acute HCV infection is patchy. In this article, we will highlight concerns relating to acute HCV infection and suggest that public health bodies responsible for managing the HCV epidemic should redirect at least some of their resources to dealing with these issues.
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- W L Irving
- Executive Committee, Viral Hepatitis Study Group, European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Basel, Switzerland.
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Gilvin PJ, Baker ST, Daniels TJ, Eakins JD, McClure DR, Bartlett DT, Boucher C. Type testing of a new TLD for the UK Health Protection Agency. Radiat Prot Dosimetry 2008; 128:36-42. [PMID: 17513291 DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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The UK Health Protection Agency is currently commissioning a new personal dosimetry system based on the use of Harshaw two-element thermoluminescent dosemeter cards using LiF:Mg,Cu,P. Results of extensive type testing carried out with reference to IEC 61066, "Thermoluminescence Dosimetry Systems for Personal and Environmental Monitoring", have been presented.
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- P J Gilvin
- Radiation Protection Division, Health Protection Agency, Chilton, Didcot, OXON, UK.
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Altamimi Z, Collilieux X, Legrand J, Garayt B, Boucher C. ITRF2005: A new release of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame based on time series of station positions and Earth Orientation Parameters. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1029/2007jb004949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 644] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Pomar C, Dubeau F, Létourneau-Montminy MP, Boucher C, Julien PO. Reducing phosphorus concentration in pig diets by adding an environmental objective to the traditional feed formulation algorithm. Livest Sci 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2006.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Said T, Dutot M, Martin C, Beaudeux JL, Boucher C, Enee E, Baudouin C, Warnet JM, Rat P. Cytoprotective effect against UV-induced DNA damage and oxidative stress: Role of new biological UV filter. Eur J Pharm Sci 2007; 30:203-10. [PMID: 17188472 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejps.2006.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2006] [Revised: 10/18/2006] [Accepted: 11/01/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The majority of chemical solar filters are cytotoxic, particularly on sensitive ocular cells (corneal and conjunctival cells). Consequently, a non-cytotoxic UV filter would be interesting in dermatology, but more especially in ophthalmology. In fact, light damage to the eye can be avoided thanks to a very efficient ocular antioxidant system; indeed, the chromophores absorb light and dissipate its energy. After middle age, a decrease in the production of antioxidants and antioxidative enzymes appears with accumulation of endogenous molecules that are phototoxic. UV radiations can induce reactive oxygen species formation, leading to various ocular diseases. Because most UV filters are cytotoxic for the eye, we investigated the anti-UV properties of Calophyllum inophyllum oil in order to propose it as a potential vehicle, free of toxicity, with a natural UV filter action in ophthalmic formulation. Calophyllum inophyllum oil, even at low concentration (1/10,000, v/v), exhibited significant UV absorption properties (maximum at 300nm) and was associated with an important sun protection factor (18-22). Oil concentrations up to 1% were not cytotoxic on human conjunctival epithelial cells, and Calophyllum inophyllum oil appeared to act as a cytoprotective agent against oxidative stress and DNA damage (85% of the DNA damage induced by UV radiations were inhibited with 1% Calophyllum oil) and did not induce in vivo ocular irritation (Draize test on New Zealand rabbits). Calophyllum inophyllum oil thus exhibited antioxidant and cytoprotective properties, and therefore might serve, for the first time, as a natural UV filter in ophthalmic preparations.
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- T Said
- Laboratoire de Toxicologie, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Université René Descartes-Paris5, Paris, France
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Magnaval JF, Boucher C, Morassin B, Raoul F, Duranton C, Jacquiet P, Giraudoux P, Vuitton DA, Piarroux R. Epidemiology of alveolar echinococcosis in southern Cantal, Auvergne region, France. J Helminthol 2007; 78:237-42. [PMID: 15469627 DOI: 10.1079/joh2004242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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: 11/11/2022]
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AbstractAlveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a helminth zoonosis which is encountered only in the northern hemisphere. In central France, the Auvergne region represents the most western and southern extension of this helminthiasis. In 1999, a human case of AE was diagnosed in the southern part of the Cantal department, where AE was supposed absent, and an epidemiological survey was subsequently carried out. The transmission of the zoonosis in the sylvatic and peridomestic definitive hosts was studied, as well as that in the rodent and human intermediate hosts. Eleven red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) were shot, and 50 fox faecal deposits were collected. Twelve farm dogs had their faeces taken by rectal touch, and four were checked after arecoline purgation. Optical detection ofEchinococcus multilocularisworms was achieved on fox intestines after scraping, and also on dog stools after arecoline therapy. Coproantigen ELISA assay was performed for the 11 scraping products, for the 50 fox faeces, and for the 12 dog faecal samples. No adult AE agent was observed by microscopy, and the ELISA assay yielded positive results in one of 11 fox intestines, one of 50 fox faeces, and 2 of 12 dog faecal samples. Twenty-five small mammals were trapped, of which 19 wereArvicola terrestriswater voles. One rodent liver exhibited a hepatic lesion consistent with AE. An epidemiological questionnaire was completed in 85 human volunteers, who were also serologically tested for AE. Only one (the case's husband) exhibited a Western-blotting pattern indicative of a low-grade AE infection. The results of this preliminary study suggested a slow AE extension to the south of Cantal department from the northern focus.
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- J-F Magnaval
- Service de Parasitologie, CHU Rangueil, Toulouse, France.
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Sirois S, Tsoukas CM, Chou KC, Wei D, Boucher C, Hatzakis GE. Selection of molecular descriptors with artificial intelligence for the understanding of HIV-1 protease peptidomimetic inhibitors-activity. Med Chem 2006; 1:173-84. [PMID: 16787312 DOI: 10.2174/1573406053175238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship (QSAR) techniques are used routinely by computational chemists in drug discovery and development to analyze datasets of compounds. Quantitative numerical methods like Partial Least Squares (PLS) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) have been used on QSAR to establish correlations between molecular properties and bioactivity. However, ANN may be advantageous over PLS because it considers the interrelations of the modeled variables. This study focused on the HIV-1 Protease (HIV-1 Pr) inhibitors belonging to the peptidomimetic class of compounds. The main objective was to select molecular descriptors with the best predictive value for antiviral potency (Ki). PLS and ANN were used to predict Ki activity of HIV-1 Pr inhibitors and the results were compared. To address the issue of dimensionality reduction, Genetic Algorithms (GA) were used for variable selection and their performance was compared against that of ANN. Finally, the structure of the optimum ANN achieving the highest Pearson's-R coefficient was determined. On the basis of Pearson's-R, PLS and ANN were compared to determine which exhibits maximum performance. Training and validation of models was performed on 15 random split sets of the master dataset consisted of 231 compounds. For each compound 192 molecular descriptors were considered. The molecular structure and constant of inhibition (Ki) were selected from the NIAID database. Study findings suggested that non-covalent interactions such as hydrophobicity, shape and hydrogen bonding describe well the antiviral activity of the HIV-1 Pr compounds. The significance of lipophilicity and relationship to HIV-1 associated hyperlipidemia and lipodystrophy syndrome warrant further investigation.
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- S Sirois
- Immune Deficiency Treatment Centre (IDTC), Montreal General Hospital, Quebec, H3G 1A4, Canada.
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Glineur R, Boucher C, Balon-Périn A. [Interceptive treatments (ages 6-10) of transverse deformities: posterior crossbite]. Orthod Fr 2006; 77:249-52. [PMID: 16866123 DOI: 10.1051/orthodfr/200677249] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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By means of a review of the literature, the authors argue the case for early treatment of posterior cross bites. They outline the particularities and advantages of various therapeutic techniques including grinding down the interfering cusps of deciduous canines and palatal expansion in the mixed dentition.
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- R Glineur
- Cliniques Universitaires Erasme, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgique.
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De Rossi A, Walker AS, Forni DD, Klein N, Gibb DM, Aboulker JP, Babiker A, Compagnucci A, Darbyshire J, Debré M, Gersten M, Giaquinto C, Gibb DM, Jones A, Aboulker JP, Babiker A, Blanche S, Bohlin AB, Butler K, Castelli-Gattinara G, Clayden P, Darbyshire J, Debré M, de Groot R, Faye A, Giaquinto C, Gibb DM, Griscelli C, Grosch-Wörner I, Levy J, Lyall H, Mellado Pena M, Nadal D, Peckham C, Ramos Amador JT, Rosado L, Rudin C, Scherpbier H, Sharland M, Tovo PA, Valerius N, Wintergerst U, Boucher C, Clerici M, de Rossi A, Klein N, Loveday C, Muñoz-Fernandez M, Pillay D, Rouzioux C, Babiker A, Darbyshire J, Gibb DM, Harper L, Johnson D, Kelleher P, McGee L, Poland A, Walker AS, Aboulker JP, Carrière I, Compagnucci A, Debré M, Eliette V, Leonardo S, Moulinier C, Saidi Y, Galli L, Foot A, Kershaw H, Caul O, Tarnow-Mordi W, Petrie J, McIntyre P, Appleyard K, Gibb DM, Novelli V, Klein N, McGee L, Ewen S, Johnson M, Gibb DM, Cooper E, Fisher T, Barrie R, Norman J, King D, Larsson-Sciard EL. Relationship between Changes in Thymic Emigrants and Cell-Associated HIV-1 Dna in HIV-1-Infected Children Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy. Antivir Ther 2005. [DOI: 10.1177/135965350501000104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Objectives and methods To investigate the relationship between cell-associated HIV-1 dynamics and recent thymic T-cell emigrants, HIV-1 DNA and T-cell receptor rearrangement excision circles (TREC, a marker of recent thymic emigrants) were measured in peripheral blood mononuclear cells in 181 samples from 33 HIV-1-infected children followed for 96 weeks after antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation. Results At baseline, HIV-1 DNA was higher in children with higher TREC ( P=0.02) and was not related to age, CD4 or HIV-1 RNA in multivariate analyses ( P>0.3). Overall, TREC increased and HIV-1 DNA decreased significantly after ART initiation, with faster HIV-1 DNA declines in children with higher baseline TREC ( P=0.009). The greatest decreases in HIV-1 DNA occurred in children with the smallest increases in TREC levels during ART ( P=0.002). However, this inverse relationship between changes in HIV-1 DNA and TREC tended to vary according to the phase of HIV-1 RNA decline ( P=0.13); for the same increase in TREC, HIV-1 DNA decline was much smaller during persistent or transient viraemia compared with stable HIV-1 RNA suppression. Conclusions Overall, these findings indicate that TREC levels predict HIV-1 DNA response to ART and suggest that immune repopulation by thymic emigrants adversely affects HIV-1 DNA decline in the absence of persistent viral suppression, possibly by providing a cellular source for viral infection and replication.
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- Department of Oncology and Surgical Sciences, AIDS Reference Centre, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Oncology and Surgical Sciences, AIDS Reference Centre, Padova, Italy
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- PHL Regional Virus Laboratory, Bristol
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- PHL Regional Virus Laboratory, Bristol
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- Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee
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- Newham General Hospital, London
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- Newham General Hospital, London
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- Newham General Hospital, London
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- Newham General Hospital, London
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- St Bartholemew's Hospital, London
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- St Bartholemew's Hospital, London
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- St Bartholemew's Hospital, London
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- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
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- University College London Medical School
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Vandamme AM, Sönnerborg A, Ait-Khaled M, Albert J, Asjo B, Bacheler L, Banhegyi D, Boucher C, Brun-Vézinet F, Camacho R, Clevenbergh P, Clumeck N, Dedes N, De Luca A, Doerr HW, Faudon JL, Gatti G, Gerstoft J, Hall WW, Hatzakis A, Hellmann N, Horban A, Lundgren JD, Kempf D, Miller M, Miller V, Myers TW, Nielsen C, Opravil M, Palmisano L, Perno CF, Phillips A, Pillay D, Pumarola T, Ruiz L, Salminen M, Schapiro J, Schmidt B, Schmit JC, Schuurman R, Shulse E, Soriano V, Staszewski S, Vella S, Youle M, Ziermann R, Perrin L. Updated European recommendations for the clinical use of HIV drug resistance testing. Antivir Ther 2004; 9:829-48. [PMID: 15651743] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/01/2023]
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In most European countries, HIV drug resistance testing has become a routine clinical tool. However, its practical implementation in a clinical context is demanding. The European HIV Drug Resistance Panel was established to make recommendations to clinicians and virologists on this topic and to propose quality control measures. The panel recommends resistance testing for the following indications: i) drug-naive patients with acute or recent infection; ii) therapy failure, including suboptimal treatment response, when treatment change is considered; iii) pregnant HIV-1-infected women and paediatric patients with detectable viral load when treatment initiation or change is considered; and iv) genotype source patient when post-exposure prophylaxis is considered. In addition, for drug-naive patients with chronic infection in whom treatment is to be started, the panel suggests that resistance testing should be strongly considered and recommends testing the earliest sample for drug resistance if suspicion of resistance is high or prevalence of resistance in this population exceeds 10%. The panel does not favour genotyping over phenotype, however it is anticipated that genotyping will be used more often because of its greater accessibility, lower cost and faster turnaround time. For the interpretation of resistance data, clinically validated systems should be used to the greatest extent possible. It is mandatory that laboratories performing HIV resistance tests take regular part in quality assurance programs. Similarly, it is necessary that HIV clinicians and virologists take part in continuous education and meet regularly to discuss problematic clinical cases. Indeed, resistance test results should be used in the context of all other clinically relevant information for predicting therapy response. The panel also encourages the timely collection of epidemiological information to estimate the impact of transmission of resistant HIV and the prevalence of HIV-1 non-B subtypes in the different European countries.
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- A M Vandamme
- Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
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Vandamme AM, Sönnerborg A, Ait-Khaled M, Albert J, Asjo B, Bacheler L, Banhegyi D, Boucher C, Brun-Vézinet F, Camacho R, Clevenbergh P, Clumeck N, Dedes N, Luca AD, Doerr HW, Faudon JL, Gatti G, Gerstoft J, Hall WW, Hatzakis A, Hellmann N, Horban A, Lundgren JD, Kempf D, Miller M, Miller V, Myers TW, Nielsen C, Opravil M, Palmisano L, Perno CF, Phillips A, Pillay D, Pumarola T, Ruiz L, Salminen M, Schapiro J, Schmidt B, Schmit JC, Schuurman R, Shulse E, Soriano V, Staszewski S, Vella S, Youle M, Ziermann R, Perrin L. Updated European Recommendations for the Clinical Use of HIV Drug Resistance Testing. Antivir Ther 2004. [DOI: 10.1177/135965350400900619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In most European countries, HIV drug resistance testing has become a routine clinical tool. However, its practical implementation in a clinical context is demanding. The European HIV Drug Resistance Panel was established to make recommendations to clinicians and virologists on this topic and to propose quality control measures. The panel recommends resistance testing for the following indications: i) drug-naive patients with acute or recent infection; ii) therapy failure, including suboptimal treatment response, when treatment change is considered; iii) pregnant HIV-1-infected women and paediatric patients with detectable viral load when treatment initiation or change is considered; and iv) genotype source patient when post-exposure prophylaxis is considered. In addition, for drug-naive patients with chronic infection in whom treatment is to be started, the panel suggests that resistance testing should be strongly considered and recommends testing the earliest sample for drug resistance if suspicion of resistance is high or prevalence of resistance in this population exceeds 10%. The panel does not favour genotyping over phenotype, however it is anticipated that genotyping will be used more often because of its greater accessibility, lower cost and faster turnaround time. For the interpretation of resistance data, clinically validated systems should be used to the greatest extent possible. It is mandatory that laboratories performing HIV resistance tests take regular part in quality assurance programs. Similarly, it is necessary that HIV clinicians and virologists take part in continuous education and meet regularly to discuss problematic clinical cases. Indeed, resistance test results should be used in the context of all other clinically relevant information for predicting therapy response. The panel also encourages the timely collection of epidemiological information to estimate the impact of transmission of resistant HIV and the prevalence of HIV-1 non-B subtypes in the different European countries.
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- A-M Vandamme
- Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Virology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- GlaxoSmithKline, HIV Medicines Development Centre Europe, Greenford, UK
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- Dept of Virology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Diease Control and Microbiology and Tumourbiology Center, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
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- Centre for Research in Virology, Gade Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- 5th Department of Medicine, Saint Laszlo Hospital, Budapest, Hungary
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- University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Virology, Hôpital Bichat Claude Bernard, Paris, France
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- Hospital Egas Moniz, Serviço de Imuno-Hemoterapia, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Service de Médecine Interne A, Hôpital Lariboisiere, Paris, France
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, CHU Saint-Pierre, Brussels, Belgium
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- Istituto di Clinica delle Malattie Infettive, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
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- Institute for Medical Virology, University Clinic Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Genova, Italy
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- Rigshospitalet Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- University College Dublin, Department Medical Microbiology, Dublin, Ireland
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- National Retrovirus Reference Centre, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece
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- ViroLogic, Inc., South San Francisco, Calif., USA
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- Hospital of Infectious Diseases, AIDS Diagnosis and Therapy Centre, Warsaw, Poland
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- Copenhagen HIV Programme (CHIP) - Section 044, Hvidovre University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark
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- Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Ill., USA
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- Gilead Sciences, Foster City, Calif., USA
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- Forum for Collaborative HIV Research, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
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- Roche Molecular Systems, Alameda, Calif., USA
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- Department of Virology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen S, Denmark
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- Department of Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- University of Rome Tor Vergata and INMI L. Spallanzani, Rome, Italy
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- Royal Free Centre for HIV Medicine and Department of Primary Care & Population Sciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK
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- Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, London, UK
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- Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Retrovirology Lab, IRSICAIXA Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, German National Reference Centre for Retroviruses, Erlangen, Germany
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- National Service of Infectious Diseases, Retrovirology Laboratory Luxembourg, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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- University Medical Centre Utrecht, Department of Virology, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Celera Diagnostics, Alameda, Calif., USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK
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- Bayer HealthCare – Diagnostics, Medical and Scientific Affairs, Berkeley, Calif., USA
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- Laboratoire de Virologie, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
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Altamimi Z, Sillard P, Boucher C. ITRF2000: From Theory to Implementation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-10735-5_21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2023]
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Boucher C, Gobeil S, Samejima K, Earnshaw WC, Poirier GG. Identification and analysis of caspase substrates: proteolytic cleavage of poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase and DNA fragmentation factor 45. Methods Cell Biol 2002; 66:289-306. [PMID: 11396007 DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(01)66013-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2023]
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- C Boucher
- Health and Environment Unit, Laval University Medical Research Center, CHUQ and Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec, Canada G1V 4G2
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Belbahri L, Boucher C, Candresse T, Nicole M, Ricci P, Keller H. A local accumulation of the Ralstonia solanacearum PopA protein in transgenic tobacco renders a compatible plant-pathogen interaction incompatible. Plant J 2001; 28:419-30. [PMID: 11737779 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.2001.01155.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Plants activate disease resistance responses when they recognize pathogen-derived molecules (elicitors). Frequently, recognition results in a hypersensitive response (HR), which is characterized by local host cell death at the infection site. Here we describe a genetic engineering approach to generate an HR in plants, whether or not an invading micro-organism produces a recognized elicitor. To that aim we created transgenic tobacco plants in which the pathogen-inducible promoter of the hsr203J gene from tobacco controls the expression of the popA elicitor gene from Ralstonia solanacearum. Because PopA itself also induces the hsr203J promoter, transgenic plants rapidly accumulate the bacterial elicitor in the pathogen infection sites. The elicitor becomes converted in plant tissues into its fully active derivatives PopA1-PopA3, showing that the previously observed processing events are not dependent on the bacterial type III secretion system. The outcome of induced PopA accumulation is a localized HR and a high degree of resistance of the transgenic plants to an oomycete pathogen. The system is functional in hybrids between different tobacco varieties, and we show that the engineered resistance, but not the associated cell death, is dependent on the salicylic acid signalling cascade. Although the approach is powerful in generating oomycete resistance, the induced HR might affect plant health. Its application thus requires a careful selection of individual transgenic lines and trials with various pathogens.
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- L Belbahri
- INRA, Unité Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes et Santé Végétale, BP 2078, 06606 Antibes, France
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What are the molecular determinants that make a bacterium a plant pathogen? In the last 10-20 years, important progress has been made in answering this question. In the early 20th century soon after the discovery of infectious diseases, the first studies of pathogenicity were undertaken. These early studies relied mostly on biochemistry and led to the discovery of several major pathogenicity determinants, such as toxins and hydrolytic enzymes which govern the production of major disease symptoms. From these pioneering studies, a simplistic view of pathogenicity arose. It was thought that only a few functions were sufficient to transform a bacterium into a pathogen. This view rapidly changed when modern techniques of molecular genetics were applied to analyse pathogenicity. Modern analyses of pathogenicity determinants took advantage of the relatively simple organization of the haploid genome of pathogenic bacteria. By creating non-pathogenic mutants, a large number of genes governing bacterium-host interactions were identified. These genes are required either for host colonization or for the production of symptoms. Even though the role of motility and chemotaxis in these processes is still unclear, it is clear that a strong attachment of Agrobacterium to plant cells is a prerequisite for efficient plant transformation and disease. Other important pathogenicity factors identified with a molecular genetic approach include hydrolytic enzymes such as pectinases and cellulases which not only provide nutrients to the bacteria but also facilitate pathogen invasion into host tissues. The precise role of exopolysaccharide in pathogenicity is still under discussion, however it is has been established that it is crucial for the induction of wilt symptoms caused by Ralstonia solanacearum. Trafficking of effector proteins from the invading bacterium into the host cell emerged recently as a new central concept. In plant pathogenic bacteria, protein translocation takes place through the so-called 'type II secretion machinery' encoded by hrp genes in the bacterium. These genes are present in representatives of all the major groups of Gram negative plant pathogenic bacteria except Agrobacterium. Most of these genes have counterparts in pathogens of mammals (including those of human) and they also play a central role in pathogenicity. Additionally, recent evidence suggests that a 'type IV secretion machinery' injects bacterial proteins into host cells. This machinery, originally found to be involved in the transfer of t-DNA from Agrobacterium into plant cells, was recently shown to translocate pathogenicity proteins in pathogens of mammals such as Helicobacter pylori and Brucella. Discovery of the trafficking of proteins from the pathogen into host cells revolutionized our conception of pathogenicity. First, it rather unexpectedly established the conservation of basic pathogenicity strategies in plant and animal pathogens. Second, this discovery changes our ideas about the overall strategy (or mechanism) of pathogenicity, although we still think the end result is exploitation of host cell nutritive components. Rather than killing the host cell from outside, we envision a more subtle approach in which pathogens inject effector proteins into the host cell to effect a change in host cell biology advantageous to the pathogen. Identification of the effector proteins, of their function and of the corresponding molecular targets in the host is a new challenge which will contribute to the conception of new strategies to control diseases.
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- C Boucher
- Laboratoire de biologie moléculaire des interactions plantes-micro-organismes, Inra-CNRS, BP 27, 31326 Castanet Tolosan, France.
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Nocquet JM, Calais E, Altamimi Z, Sillard P, Boucher C. Intraplate deformation in western Europe deduced from an analysis of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame 1997 (ITRF97) velocity field. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1029/2000jb900410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Jeeninga RE, Keulen W, Boucher C, Sanders RW, Berkhout B. Evolution of AZT resistance in HIV-1: the 41-70 intermediate that is not observed in vivo has a replication defect. Virology 2001; 283:294-305. [PMID: 11336554 DOI: 10.1006/viro.2001.0888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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: 11/22/2022]
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The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is notorious for its ability to evolve drug-resistance in patients treated with potent antivirals. Resistance to inhibitors of the viral reverse transcriptase (RT) enzyme is frequently mediated by a single amino acid substitution within RT. Resistance against the nucleoside analogue AZT is remarkable in that multiple amino acid changes accumulate over time to yield virus variants with high-level drug resistance. We now report that in addition to drug-resistance properties, the relative replication capacity of the virus variants affects the evolution of AZT resistance. Some of the typical AZT-resistance mutations have a negative impact on virus replication, and the 41-70 double mutant was found to represent a particularly poor virus. Furthermore, introduction of additional AZT-resistance mutations (41-70-215) leads to nearly complete restoration of virus replication. These results may explain the absence of the 41-70 double mutant in clinical samples and indicate that the evolution of AZT resistance is also influenced by virus replication parameters. Prolonged passage of the replication-impaired 41-70 virus in the absence of AZT yielded several fast-replicating variants. These revertants have compensatory changes in the RT polymerase, some of which have been observed previously in AZT-treated patients. Because we could select for these changes without drug pressure, these changes are likely to improve the RT enzyme function and the HIV-1 replication capacity.
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- R E Jeeninga
- Department of Human Retrovirology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Boucher C, Girard M, Drolet P, Grenier Y, Bergeron L, Le Truong HH. Intrathecal fentanyl does not modify the duration of spinal procaine block. Can J Anaesth 2001; 48:466-9. [PMID: 11394515 DOI: 10.1007/bf03028310] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To document the clinical characteristics of spinal procaine with or without the addition of fentanyl in light of the failure rate observed previously with procaine 10%. METHODS In a randomized, prospective, double-blind study, 52 patients received spinal anesthesia with 100 mg procaine and either saline 0.9% (0.4 ml) (CONTROL group) or 20 microg fentanyl (0.4 ml) (FENTANYL group). Sensory anesthesia to needle prick was evaluated each minute for ten minutes, every three minutes for 33 minutes and every five minutes until regression to T10. Motor block was assessed with the Bromage scale. Patients were questioned by telephone for pain suggesting transient radicular irritation (TRI) 48 hr later. RESULTS Mean time to reach highest sensory level, maximum number of segments blocked and mean time for regression of the sensory level to T10 showed no difference. Time to recuperate to full flexion of knees and feet (Bromage 4) showed no difference. Nine patients had nausea (five in CONTROL group and four in FENTANYL group) and nine had pruritus (three in CONTROL group and six in FENTANYL group). No patient reported pain suggesting TRI. CONCLUSION Spinal procaine is appropriate for short-duration surgery. Fentanyl does not change the characteristics of the block or the incidence of side effects associated with spinal procaine.
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- C Boucher
- Département d'anesthésie-réanimation, Hĵpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont and Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada
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PURPOSE To compare spinal procaine to spinal lidocaine with regard to their main clinical characteristics and incidence of transient radicular irritation (TRI). METHODS In this randomized, double-blind, prospective study, patients (two groups, n=30 each) received either 100 mg of lidocaine 5% in 7.5% glucose (Group L) or 100 mg of procaine 10% diluted with 1 ml cerebrospinal fluid (Group P). After spinal anesthesia, segmental level of sensory block was assessed by pinprick. Blood pressure and the height of the block were noted each minute for the first ten minutes, then every three minutes for the next 35 min and finally every five minutes until regression of the block to L4. Motor blockade was evaluated using the Bromage scale. To evaluate the presence of TRI, each patient was questioned 48 hr after surgery. RESULTS Time to highest sensory level and to maximum number of segments blocked showed no difference between groups. Mean time for sensory regression to T10 and for regression of the motor block were shorter in Group P. Eighty minutes following injection, sensory levels were lower in Group P. Five patients had inadequate surgical anesthesia in Group P and only one in Group L. No patient in Group P had TRI (95% CI 10-12%) while eight (27%) in Group L did (95% CI 12-46%). CONCLUSIONS Procaine 10% was associated with a clinical failure rate of 14.2%. This characteristic must be balanced against an absence of TRI, which occurs more frequently with the use of lidocaine 5%.
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- H H Le Truong
- Département d'anesthésie-réanimation, Hĵpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont and Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Aissaoui R, Boucher C, Bourbonnais D, Lacoste M, Dansereau J. Effect of seat cushion on dynamic stability in sitting during a reaching task in wheelchair users with paraplegia. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2001; 82:274-81. [PMID: 11239326 DOI: 10.1053/apmr.2001.19473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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: 11/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To examine the effects of seat cushions on dynamic stability in sitting during a controlled reaching task by wheelchair users with paraplegia. DESIGN A randomized, controlled test. SETTING Rehabilitation center. PARTICIPANTS Nine wheelchair users with paraplegia. INTERVENTIONS Three types of cushions--an air flotation, a generic contoured, and a flat polyurethane foam--were tested during a controlled reaching task in ipsilateral and contralateral directions, at 45 degrees from the sagittal plane in the anterolateral direction. Center of pressure (COP) coordinates were monitored by using a pressure measurement system as well as a force platform under seat. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Trajectory of COP, maximal distance covered by COP, maximal velocity of COP; and the index of asymmetry between right and left maximal pressure under ischial tuberosities. RESULTS The generic contoured cushion allowed the COP to cover significantly (p <.02) a larger distance (81 +/- 28mm) when compared with the air flotation (63 +/- 25mm) or the flat foam (61 +/- 29mm) cushions. The COP velocity was significant (p <.05) for the generic contoured cushion (.14 +/-.05m/s) versus the air flotation (.10 +/-.04m/s) or the flat-foam (.10 +/-.03m/s) cushions. The index of asymmetry was higher for the generic contoured and the flat foam cushions. During reaching, maximal pressure under ipsilateral ischial tuberosity was significantly higher for the flat foam (275 +/- 70mmHg) and the generic contoured (235 +/- 81mmHg) cushions, when compared with the air flotation cushion (143 +/- 51mmHg). CONCLUSION Seat cushions can significantly affect sitting balance during reaching tasks. This study provided an objective method to assess the dynamic stability of wheelchair users when they perform activities of daily living requiring reaching. These findings have implications for wheelchair seating recommendations, especially seat cushion selection.
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- Département de Génie Mécanique, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
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Treatment of HIV infected patients with antiretroviral drugs often results in the emergence of virus variants with reduced sensitivity to these drugs. However, the viral load often remains partially suppressed below pretherapy levels, which might be explained by a reduced fitness of the drug resistant viral population. This review describes the effects of antiretroviral resistance development on the fitness of the viral population and its clinical implications.
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- Eijkman-Winkler Institute, Department of Virology, University Medical Center, Heidelberglaan, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Para MF, Glidden DV, Coombs RW, Collier AC, Condra JH, Craig C, Bassett R, Leavitt R, Snyder S, McAuliffe V, Boucher C. Baseline human immunodeficiency virus type 1 phenotype, genotype, and RNA response after switching from long-term hard-capsule saquinavir to indinavir or soft-gel-capsule saquinavir in AIDS clinical trials group protocol 333. J Infect Dis 2000; 182:733-43. [PMID: 10950766 DOI: 10.1086/315769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2000] [Revised: 05/15/2000] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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AIDS Clinical Trials Group protocol 333 was an open-label trial of a switch from saquinavir (SQV) hard capsules (SQVhc) to indinavir (IDV) or saquinavir soft-gel capsules (SQVsgc) after >48 weeks of prior treatment with SQVhc. Eighty-nine subjects received IDV or SQVsgc or continued to receive SQVhc and continued unchanged treatment with non-protease-inhibitor antivirals for 8 weeks. Subjects receiving SQVhc then switched treatment to IDV. Baseline drug susceptibility and protease gene sequencing were done; 12 codons related to IDV and SQV resistance were analyzed. After 112 weeks (median) of SQVhc, the fall in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 RNA level from baseline was significantly greater with IDV and was inversely correlated with the number of protease substitutions. The number of substitutions also correlated with baseline CD4 cell count, HIV-1 RNA level, SQV experience, and drug susceptibility. Substitution at codon 10, which occurred only in isolates with >/=2 substitutions, was associated with blunted RNA response. IDV IC(50) correlated with HIV-1 RNA response after the switch to IDV but added little predictive power once the genotype was considered.
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- Ohio State University ACTU, University Hospitals Clinic, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Aldon D, Brito B, Boucher C, Genin S. A bacterial sensor of plant cell contact controls the transcriptional induction of Ralstonia solanacearum pathogenicity genes. EMBO J 2000; 19:2304-14. [PMID: 10811621 PMCID: PMC384368 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.10.2304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The hrp genes of the plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum are key pathogenicity determinants; they encode a type III protein secretion machinery involved in the secretion of mediators of the bacterium-plant interaction. These hrp genes are under the genetic control of the hrpB regulatory gene, expression of which is induced when bacteria are co-cultivated with plant cell suspensions. In this study, we used hrp-gfp transcriptional fusions to demonstrate that the expression of the hrpB and type III secretion genes is specifically induced in response to the bacterium-plant cell contact. This contact-dependent induction of hrpB gene expression requires the outer membrane protein PrhA, but not a functional type III secretion apparatus. Genetic evidence indicates that PrhA constitutes the first example of a bacterial receptor for a non-diffusible signal present in the plant cell wall and which triggers the transcriptional activation of bacterial virulence genes.
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- D Aldon
- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire des Relations Plantes-Microorganismes, INRA-CNRS, BP27, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan Cedex, France
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Van Gijsegem F, Vasse J, Camus JC, Marenda M, Boucher C. Ralstonia solanacearum produces hrp-dependent pili that are required for PopA secretion but not for attachment of bacteria to plant cells. Mol Microbiol 2000; 36:249-60. [PMID: 10792714 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01851.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [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: 01/26/2023]
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As in many other Gram-negative plant pathogenic bacteria, the Ralstonia solanacearum hrp genes are involved in the production of a type III secretion apparatus that allows the translocation of PopA protein to the external medium. Here, we show that hrp genes are also involved in the biogenesis of pili that are mainly composed of the HrpY protein. These pili are produced at one pole of the bacterium and are also released into the external medium where they can form very long straight bundles. An hrpY mutant is defective in pilus production, impaired in interactions with plants and in secretion of the PopA protein but not in attachment to plant cells.
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- F Van Gijsegem
- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire des Relations Plantes-Microorganismes, INRA-CNRS, chemin de Borde Rouge, BP27 31326 Castanet Tolosan Cedex, France.
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Guéneron M, Timmers AC, Boucher C, Arlat M. Two novel proteins, PopB, which has functional nuclear localization signals, and PopC, which has a large leucine-rich repeat domain, are secreted through the hrp-secretion apparatus of Ralstonia solanacearum. Mol Microbiol 2000; 36:261-77. [PMID: 10792715 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01870.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [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: 11/20/2022]
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The Ralstonia solanacearum hrp gene cluster codes for components of a type III secretion pathway necessary for the secretion of PopA1, a hypersensitive response-like elicitor protein. In the present study, we show that several other Hrp-secreted proteins can be detected by growing wild-type bacteria in minimal medium in the presence of Congo red. Two of these proteins, PopB and PopC, are encoded by genes located downstream of popA and constitute an operon with popA. popABC mutants retain the wild-type ability to cause disease in hosts and to elicit the hypersensitive response on non-hosts. Expression of the popABC operon is controlled by the hrpB regulatory gene and is induced upon co-culture with Arabidopsis cell suspensions. This plant cell-specific induction depends on PrhA, a putative receptor for plant specific signal(s). The transcription of the popABC operon is not modified by the addition of Congo red to the growth medium and the intracellular pools of PopB and PopC are very similar in the absence or presence of Congo red. Preliminary data suggest that Congo red stabilizes secreted proteins in the extracellular medium. PopB is a 173-amino-acid-basic protein that contains a functional bipartite nuclear localization signal. PopC is a 1024-amino-acid protein that carries 22 tandem leucine-rich repeats (LRR). The LRR domain of this protein forms a consensus that perfectly matches the predicted eukaryotic cytoplasmic LRR consensus. We propose that PopB and PopC may be translocated into plant cells via the Hrp pathway.
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire des Relations Plantes-Microorganismes, INRA-CNRS, BP27, 31326 Castanet tolosan Cedex, France
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Vasse J, Genin S, Frey P, Boucher C, Brito B. The hrpB and hrpG regulatory genes of Ralstonia solanacearum are required for different stages of the tomato root infection process. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 2000; 13:259-67. [PMID: 10707351 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi.2000.13.3.259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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hrp genes, encoding type III secretion machinery, have been shown to be key determinants for pathogenicity in the vascular phytopathogenic bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum GMI1000. Here, we show phenotypes of R. solanacearum mutant strains disrupted in the prhJ, hrpG, or hrpB regulatory genes with respect to root infection and vascular colonization in tomato plants. Tests of bacterial colonization and enumeration in tomato plants, together with microscopic observations of tomato root sections, revealed that these strains display different phenotypes in planta. The phenotype of a prhJ mutant resembles that of the wild-type strain. An hrpB mutant shows reduced infection, colonization, and multiplication ability in planta, and induces a defense reaction similar to a vascular hypersensitive response at one protoxylem pole of invaded plants. In contrast, the hrpG mutant exhibited a wild-type level of infection at secondary root axils, but the ability of the infecting bacteria to penetrate into the vascular cylinder was significantly impaired. This indicates that bacterial multiplication at root infection sites and transit through the endodermis constitute critical stages in the infection process, in which hrpB and hrpG genes are involved. Moreover, our results suggest that the hrpG gene might control, in addition to hrp genes, other functions required for vascular colonization.
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- J Vasse
- Laboratoire de Biologie Moleculaire des Relations Plantes-Microorganismes, INRA-CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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Bergeron L, Girard M, Drolet P, Grenier Y, Le Truong HH, Boucher C. Spinal procaine with and without epinephrine and its relation to transient radicular irritation. Can J Anaesth 1999; 46:846-9. [PMID: 10490152 DOI: 10.1007/bf03012973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [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: 10/20/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To document the clinical characteristics of procaine with or without the addition of epinephrine. METHODS In this randomized, prospective, double blind study, 62 patients received spinal anesthesia with 100 mg procaine and either 0.3 mg epinephrine (EPI group) or 0.3 ml NaCl 0.9% (SALINE group). Sensory anesthesia to needle prick was evaluated q 1 min for 10 min, q 3 min for 33 min and q 5 min until regression to L4. Motor block was assessed with the Bromage scale. Patients were questioned, by telephone, for transient radicular irritation (TRI) 48 hr later. RESULTS Time to reach highest sensory level and number of segments blocked showed no difference. Mean time for regression of the sensory level to T10 was longer in EPI (83 +/- 23 vs 66 +/- 20 min, P < 0.01). Time to recuperate to full flexion of knees and feet (Bromage 4) was longer in EPI (126 +/- 37 vs 100 +/- 30 min, P < 0.01). Patients in EPI received more ephedrine. Eighteen patients had nausea (15 EPI/3 SALINE, P < 0.0015). One patient had TRI, incidence: 1.67%, 95% CI (< 1%-9%). CONCLUSION Spinal procaine is appropriate for surgery of short duration. Epinephrine prolongs sensory and motor blocks by 25%. However, it is associated with a high incidence of nausea.
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- L Bergeron
- Département d'anesthésie-réanimation, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont and Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Affar EB, Duriez PJ, Shah RG, Winstall E, Germain M, Boucher C, Bourassa S, Kirkland JB, Poirier GG. Immunological determination and size characterization of poly(ADP-ribose) synthesized in vitro and in vivo. Biochim Biophys Acta 1999; 1428:137-46. [PMID: 10434031 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-4165(99)00054-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase is a DNA break detecting enzyme playing a role in the surveillance of genome integrity. Poly(ADP-ribose) is synthesized rapidly and transiently from beta-NAD in response to DNA damaging agents. In order to study the physiological significance of poly(ADP-ribose) metabolism, we have developed immunological methods which enable us to study endogenous poly(ADP-ribose) without interfering with cell metabolism and integrity. For this purpose, we produced a highly specific polyclonal anti-poly(ADP-ribose) antibody which immunoreacts with polymers and oligomers. In addition to the immunodot blot method recently described by us (Affar et al., Anal. Biochem. 259 (1998) 280-283), other applications were investigated in cells: (i) detection of poly(ADP-ribose) by ELISA; (ii) characterization of poly(ADP-ribose) size using high resolution gel electrophoresis of polymers, followed by its transfer onto a positively charged membrane and detection with anti-poly(ADP-ribose) antibody; (iii) immunocytochemistry and flow cytometry analyses allowing poly(ADP-ribose) study at the level of individual cells.
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- E B Affar
- Poly(ADP-ribose) Metabolism Group, Health and Environment Unit, Laval University Medical Research Center, CHUQ, 2705, Boul. Laurier, Ste-Foy, Quebec G1V 4G2, Canada
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Schuurman R, Demeter L, Reichelderfer P, Tijnagel J, de Groot T, Boucher C. Worldwide evaluation of DNA sequencing approaches for identification of drug resistance mutations in the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase. J Clin Microbiol 1999; 37:2291-6. [PMID: 10364600 PMCID: PMC85140 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.7.2291-2296.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/1998] [Accepted: 04/15/1999] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A panel (ENVA-1) of well-defined blinded samples containing wild-type and mutant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) reverse transcriptase was analyzed by automated DNA sequencing in 23 laboratories worldwide. Drug resistance mutations at codons 41, 215, and 184 were present in the panel samples at different ratios to the wild type. The presence of mutant genotypes was determined qualitatively and quantitatively. All laboratories reported the presence of sequence heterogeneities at codons 41, 215, and 184 in one or more of the panel samples, though not all reported the correct codon genotypes. Two laboratories reported a mutant genotype in samples containing only the wild type, whereas two and three laboratories failed to detect the mutant genotypes at codons 41 and 215, respectively, in a completely mutant DNA population. Mutations present at relative concentrations of 25% of the total DNA population were successfully identified by 13 of 23, 10 of 23, and 16 of 23 labs for codons 41, 215, and 184Val, respectively. For more than 80% of those laboratories that qualitatively detected the presence of a mutation correctly, the estimated wild type/mutant ratio was less than 25% different from the input ratio in those samples containing 25 to 50% or 75% mutant input. This first multicenter study on the quality of DNA sequencing approaches for identifying HIV-1 drug resistance mutations revealed large interlaboratory differences in the quality of the results. The application of these procedures in their current state would in several cases lead to inaccurate or even incorrect diagnostic results. Therefore, proper quality control and standardization are urgently needed.
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- Department of Virology, University Hospital Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Boucher C, Dorion D, Fisch C. Retropharyngeal abscesses: a clinical and radiologic correlation. J Otolaryngol 1999; 28:134-7. [PMID: 10410343] [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: 02/13/2023]
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OBJECTIVE This study evaluates the efficacy at our centre of the lateral neck x-ray and the computed tomography (CT) scan in differentiating retropharyngeal cellulitis from abscess in retropharyngeal space inflammatory process. METHOD We reviewed the medical records of 37 patients with the diagnosis of retropharyngeal abscess or cellulitis hospitalized at the Centre Universitaire de Santé de l'Estrie in Sherbrooke between 1986 and 1997. Patients with a positive drainage at surgery were considered as retropharyngeal abscess and the rest as cellulitis. We measured the sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values for the lateral neck x-ray and CT scan. Demographic and clinical data were also extracted for each patient. RESULTS Twenty-five patients were classified as retropharyngeal cellulitis and only six patients as retropharyngeal abscess, although 13 patients went to the operating room for drainage. Results for the sensitivity and specificity were 80% and 100% for the lateral neck x-ray and 100% and 45% for the CT scan. Positive and negative predictive values for lateral neck x-ray were 100% and 94%, respectively. Forty percent and 100% were the values calculated for the CT scan. Clinical data were consistent with what has been reported in the literature. CONCLUSION CT scan is helpful in the management of retropharyngeal abscess but has limits in differentiating cellulitis and abscess. Lateral neck x-ray was found to be very specific when the air sign was present.
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- C Boucher
- Division of Otolaryngology, University of Sherbrooke, Fleurimont, Quebec
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Brito B, Marenda M, Barberis P, Boucher C, Genin S. prhJ and hrpG, two new components of the plant signal-dependent regulatory cascade controlled by PrhA in Ralstonia solanacearum. Mol Microbiol 1999; 31:237-51. [PMID: 9987125 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01165.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [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: 11/20/2022]
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hrp gene expression in the phytopathogenic bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum GMI1000 is induced through the HrpB regulator in minimal medium and upon co-culture with plant cell suspensions. The putative outer membrane protein PrhA is specifically involved in hrp gene activation in the presence of plant cells and has been proposed to be a receptor of a plant-dependent signal transduction pathway. Here, we report on the identification of two regulatory genes, hrpG and prhJ, located at the right-hand end of the hrp gene cluster, that are required for full pathogenicity. HrpG belongs to the OmpR subclass of two-component response regulators and is homologous to HrpG, the activator of hrp genes in Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria. PrhJ is a novel hrp regulatory protein, sharing homology with the LuxR/UhpA family of transcriptional activators. As for HrpG of X. c. pv. vesicatoria, HrpG is required for hrp gene expression in minimal medium, but, in addition, we show that it also controls hrpB gene activation upon co-culture with Arabidopsis thaliana and tomato cell suspensions. In contrast, PrhJ is specifically involved in hrp gene expression in the presence of plant cells. hrpG and prhJ gene transcription is plant cell inducible through the PrhA-dependent pathway. From these results, we propose a regulatory cascade in which plant cell signal(s) sensed by PrhA are transduced to the prhJ gene, whose predicted product controls hrpG gene expression. HrpG then activates the hrpB regulatory gene, and, subsequently, the remaining hrp transcriptional units in all known inducing conditions.
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- B Brito
- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire des Relations Plantes-Microorganismes, INRA-CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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Ruiz L, Nijhuis M, Boucher C, Puig T, Bonjoch A, Martínez-Picado J, Marfil S, de Jong D, Burger D, Arnó A, Balagué M, Clotet B. Efficacy of adding indinavir to previous reverse transcriptase nucleoside analogues in relation to genotypic and phenotypic resistance development in advanced HIV-1-infected patients. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Hum Retrovirol 1998; 19:19-28. [PMID: 9732064 DOI: 10.1097/00042560-199809010-00003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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We assessed the efficacy of adding indinavir in patients with advanced HIV-1 infection, who were previously exposed to different reverse transcriptase (RT) nucleoside analogues. Twenty-five patients with an initial median CD4 cell count of 20 cells/mm3 (range, 0-80 cells/mm3) were treated with indinavir (800 mg three times per day) for 24 weeks. The median initial viral load was 5.4 log (range, 3.6-6.7 log). Of these patients, 56% (14 of 25) had an initial decrease in viral load of >1 log and sustained response of >0.5 log of HIV-1 RNA from baseline. Twelve of these 14 responder patients (85%) showed a sustained RNA response undetectable by NASBA assay, and no genotypic changes in protease were detected at week 24. In those with a temporary or absent response to indinavir, either resistant viruses or lack of compliance was observed. In compliant patients (15 of 16), relatively small increases in 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) to indinavir and only two to three amino acid changes were sufficient to produce treatment failure. Phenotypic drug-resistant assays at 24 weeks revealed cross-resistance to ritonavir in all the patient isolates and to saquinavir in one third of the isolates. We observed an initial and persistent response to the addition of indinavir in patients with advanced disease and prolonged antiretroviral treatment. Therapy failure, as defined by increases in viral RNA, was associated with either lack of compliance or the development of low level indinavir-resistant virus. Clinical studies need to be designed to determine to what extent these viruses may respond to other protease inhibitors.
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- Retrovirology Laboratory, Foundation irsiCaixa, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
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Kempf DJ, Rode RA, Xu Y, Sun E, Heath-Chiozzi ME, Valdes J, Japour AJ, Danner S, Boucher C, Molla A, Leonard JM. The duration of viral suppression during protease inhibitor therapy for HIV-1 infection is predicted by plasma HIV-1 RNA at the nadir. AIDS 1998; 12:F9-14. [PMID: 9543434 DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199805000-00001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 169] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [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: 02/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To determine markers that are associated with the durability of virologic response to therapy with HIV protease inhibitors in HIV-infected individuals. DESIGN This study encompassed two retrospective analyses of the duration of virologic response to protease inhibitor therapy. The first analysis included 29 patients receiving either monotherapy or combination therapy with the protease inhibitor ritonavir whose plasma HIV RNA levels rebounded from the point of greatest decline with mutations associated with resistance to ritonavir. The second analysis included a cohort of 102 patients who initially responded to randomized treatment with either monotherapy with ritonavir or combination therapy with ritonavir and zidovudine. METHODS Durability of response was defined as the time from the initiation of therapy to the point at which plasma HIV RNA displayed a sustained increase of at least 0.6 log10 copies/ml from the nadir value. In the first analysis, durability of response was analyzed with respect to baseline HIV RNA, HIV RNA at the nadir, and the drop in HIV RNA from baseline to the nadir. In the second analysis, time to rebound was examined using Kaplan-Meier analysis, stratifying by either baseline HIV RNA or HIV RNA at the nadir. RESULTS In both analyses, the durability of response was not highly associated with either baseline RNA or the magnitude of RNA decline from baseline. Instead, a strong relationship was observed between the durability of response and the nadir plasma HIV-1 RNA value (P < 0.01). The nadir in viral load was generally reached after 12 weeks of randomized therapy. CONCLUSIONS Viral RNA determinations at intermediate timepoints may be prognostic of impending virologic failure of protease inhibitor therapy. Therapeutic strategies that allow intensification of initial antiretroviral regimens in the subset of patients with incomplete virological response before the emergence of high level resistance should be investigated.
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- D J Kempf
- Department of Infectious Diseases Research, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois 60064-3500, USA
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Marenda M, Brito B, Callard D, Genin S, Barberis P, Boucher C, Arlat M. PrhA controls a novel regulatory pathway required for the specific induction of Ralstonia solanacearum hrp genes in the presence of plant cells. Mol Microbiol 1998; 27:437-53. [PMID: 9484898 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00692.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [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: 02/06/2023]
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The Ralstonia solanacearum hrp gene cluster is organized in five transcriptional units. Expression of transcriptional units 2, 3 and 4 is induced in minimal medium and depends on the hrp regulatory gene hrpB, which belongs to unit 1. This regulatory gene also controls the expression of genes, such as popA, located to the left of the hrp cluster. Here, we show that, upon co-culture with Arabidopsis thaliana and tomato cell suspensions, the expression of the hrp transcriptional units 1, 2, 3 and 4 is induced 10- to 20-fold more than in minimal medium. This induction is not triggered by diffusible signals but requires the presence of plant cells. Moreover, we show that this specific plant cell induction of hrp genes is controlled by a gene, called prhA (plant regulator of hrp genes), located next to popA. This gene codes for a putative protein of 770 amino acids, which shows similarities with TonB-dependent outer membrane siderophore receptors. Expression of prhA and hrp genes is not regulated by iron status, and we postulate that iron is not the signal sensed by PrhA. In prhA mutants, the induction of hrpB and other hrp genes is abolished in co-culture with Arabidopsis cells, partially reduced in co-culture with tomato cells and not modified in minimal medium. prhA mutants are hypo-aggressive on Arabidopsis (accessions Col-0 and Col-5) but remain fully pathogenic on tomato plants, suggesting that the co-culture assays mimic the in planta conditions. A model suggesting that PrhA is a receptor for plant specific signals at the top of a novel hrp regulatory pathway is discussed.
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- M Marenda
- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire des Relations Plantes-Microorganismes, INRA-CNRS, Castanet-tolosan, France
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Pieterse PJ, Boucher C. Is Burning a Standing Population of Invasive Legumes a Viable Control Method? Effects of a Wildfire on anAcacia mearnsiiPopulation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1080/10295925.1997.9631163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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