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Freese DL, Vandenbroucke A, Innes D, Lau FWY, Hsu DFC, Reynolds PD, Levin CS. Thermal regulation of tightly packed solid-state photodetectors in a 1 mm(3) resolution clinical PET system. Med Phys 2015; 42:305-13. [PMID: 25563270 DOI: 10.1118/1.4903889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Silicon photodetectors are of significant interest for use in positron emission tomography (PET) systems due to their compact size, insensitivity to magnetic fields, and high quantum efficiency. However, one of their main disadvantages is fluctuations in temperature cause strong shifts in gain of the devices. PET system designs with high photodetector density suffer both increased thermal density and constrained options for thermally regulating the devices. This paper proposes a method of thermally regulating densely packed silicon photodetectors in the context of a 1 mm(3) resolution, high-sensitivity PET camera dedicated to breast imaging. METHODS The PET camera under construction consists of 2304 units, each containing two 8 × 8 arrays of 1 mm(3) LYSO crystals coupled to two position sensitive avalanche photodiodes (PSAPD). A subsection of the proposed camera with 512 PSAPDs has been constructed. The proposed thermal regulation design uses water-cooled heat sinks, thermoelectric elements, and thermistors to measure and regulate the temperature of the PSAPDs in a novel manner. Active cooling elements, placed at the edge of the detector stack due to limited access, are controlled based on collective leakage current and temperature measurements in order to keep all the PSAPDs at a consistent temperature. This thermal regulation design is characterized for the temperature profile across the camera and for the time required for cooling changes to propagate across the camera. These properties guide the implementation of a software-based, cascaded proportional-integral-derivative control loop that controls the current through the Peltier elements by monitoring thermistor temperature and leakage current. The stability of leakage current, temperature within the system using this control loop is tested over a period of 14 h. The energy resolution is then measured over a period of 8.66 h. Finally, the consistency of PSAPD gain between independent operations of the camera over 10 days is tested. RESULTS The PET camera maintains a temperature of 18.00 ± 0.05 °C over the course of 12 h while the ambient temperature varied 0.61 °C, from 22.83 to 23.44 °C. The 511 keV photopeak energy resolution over a period of 8.66 h is measured to be 11.3% FWHM with a maximum photopeak fluctuation of 4 keV. Between measurements of PSAPD gain separated by at least 2 day, the maximum photopeak shift was 6 keV. CONCLUSIONS The proposed thermal regulation scheme for tightly packed silicon photodetectors provides for stable operation of the constructed subsection of a PET camera over long durations of time. The energy resolution of the system is not degraded despite shifts in ambient temperature and photodetector heat generation. The thermal regulation scheme also provides a consistent operating environment between separate runs of the camera over different days. Inter-run consistency allows for reuse of system calibration parameters from study to study, reducing the time required to calibrate the system and hence to obtain a reconstructed image.
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- D L Freese
- Departments of Electrical Engineering, Radiology, Physics, and BioEngineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5128
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- Departments of Electrical Engineering, Radiology, Physics, and BioEngineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5128
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- Departments of Electrical Engineering, Radiology, Physics, and BioEngineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5128
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- Departments of Electrical Engineering, Radiology, Physics, and BioEngineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5128
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- Departments of Electrical Engineering, Radiology, Physics, and BioEngineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5128
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- Departments of Electrical Engineering, Radiology, Physics, and BioEngineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5128
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- Departments of Electrical Engineering, Radiology, Physics, and BioEngineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5128
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Gill G, Butt P, Reade MC, Crozier J, Williams A, Thomas T, Flint B, Matthews G, Duff N, Brown G, Chambers A, Courtenay B, Innes D, Malley BO. HOSPEX in the antipodes. J ROY ARMY MED CORPS 2014; 161:336-40. [PMID: 25512440 DOI: 10.1136/jramc-2014-000378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2014] [Accepted: 11/09/2014] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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The Australian Army recently adopted the British concept of hospital exercise (HOSPEX) as a means of evaluating the capabilities of its deployable NATO Role 2E hospital, the 2nd General Health Battalion. The Australian approach to HOSPEX differs from the original UK model. This article describes the reasons why the Australian Army needed to adopt the HOSPEX concept, how it was adapted to suit local circumstances and how the concept may evolve to meet the needs of the wider Australian Defence Force and our allies.
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- Gerard Gill
- 3rd Health Support Battalion, Keswick Barracks, Keswick, South Australia, Australia
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- 3rd Health Support Battalion, Keswick Barracks, Keswick, South Australia, Australia
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- 3rd Health Support Battalion, Keswick Barracks, Keswick, South Australia, Australia Joint Health Command, Australian Defence Force, Herston, Queensland, Australia
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- Joint Health Command, Australian Defence Force, Herston, Queensland, Australia
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- Directorate Army Health, Russell Offices Canberra ACT 2600, Russell, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- 3rd Health Support Battalion, Keswick Barracks, Keswick, South Australia, Australia
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- 2nd General Health Battalion, Gallipoli Barracks, Enoggera, Queensland, Australia
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- 3rd Health Support Battalion, Keswick Barracks, Keswick, South Australia, Australia
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- 2nd General Health Battalion, Gallipoli Barracks, Enoggera, Queensland, Australia
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- 3rd Health Support Battalion, Keswick Barracks, Keswick, South Australia, Australia
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- 3rd Health Support Battalion, Keswick Barracks, Keswick, South Australia, Australia
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- HQ 5th Brigade, Holsworthy Barracks, Holsworthy, New South Wales, Australia
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- 3rd Health Support Battalion, Keswick Barracks, Keswick, South Australia, Australia
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- 3rd Health Support Battalion, Keswick Barracks, Keswick, South Australia, Australia
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Peter H, Tian H, Curdt W, Schmit D, Innes D, De Pontieu B, Lemen J, Title A, Boerner P, Hurlburt N, Tarbell TD, Wuelser JP, Martínez-Sykora J, Kleint L, Golub L, McKillop S, Reeves KK, Saar S, Testa P, Kankelborg C, Jaeggli S, Carlsson M, Hansteen V. Hot explosions in the cool atmosphere of the Sun. Science 2014; 346:1255726. [PMID: 25324397 DOI: 10.1126/science.1255726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 203] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The solar atmosphere was traditionally represented with a simple one-dimensional model. Over the past few decades, this paradigm shifted for the chromosphere and corona that constitute the outer atmosphere, which is now considered a dynamic structured envelope. Recent observations by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) reveal that it is difficult to determine what is up and down, even in the cool 6000-kelvin photosphere just above the solar surface: This region hosts pockets of hot plasma transiently heated to almost 100,000 kelvin. The energy to heat and accelerate the plasma requires a considerable fraction of the energy from flares, the largest solar disruptions. These IRIS observations not only confirm that the photosphere is more complex than conventionally thought, but also provide insight into the energy conversion in the process of magnetic reconnection.
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- H Peter
- Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
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- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL), 3251 Hanover Street, Building 252, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Post Office Box 1029, Blindern, NO-0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL), 3251 Hanover Street, Building 252, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
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- Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL), 3251 Hanover Street, Building 252, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
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- Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL), 3251 Hanover Street, Building 252, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
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- Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL), 3251 Hanover Street, Building 252, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
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- Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL), 3251 Hanover Street, Building 252, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
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- Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL), 3251 Hanover Street, Building 252, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
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- Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL), 3251 Hanover Street, Building 252, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, 596 1st Street West, Sonoma, CA 95476, USA
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- Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL), 3251 Hanover Street, Building 252, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, 596 1st Street West, Sonoma, CA 95476, USA. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94305, USA
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- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, Post Office Box 173840, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA
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- Department of Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, Post Office Box 173840, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA
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- Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Post Office Box 1029, Blindern, NO-0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Post Office Box 1029, Blindern, NO-0315 Oslo, Norway
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Schlager T, LeGallo R, Innes D, Hendley J, Peters C. B Cell Infiltration and Lymphonodular Hyperplasia in Bladder Submucosa of Patients With Persistent Bacteriuria and Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections. J Urol 2011; 186:2359-64. [DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2011.07.114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2011] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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- T.A. Schlager
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Department of Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Department of Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Department of Urology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Karan M, Evans DS, Reilly D, Schulte K, Wright C, Innes D, Holton TA, Nikles DG, Dickinson GR. Rapid microsatellite marker development for African mahogany (Khaya senegalensis, Meliaceae) using next-generation sequencing and assessment of its intra-specific genetic diversity. Mol Ecol Resour 2011; 12:344-53. [PMID: 22018142 DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2011.03080.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Khaya senegalensis (African mahogany or dry-zone mahogany) is a high-value hardwood timber species with great potential for forest plantations in northern Australia. The species is distributed across the sub-Saharan belt from Senegal to Sudan and Uganda. Because of heavy exploitation and constraints on natural regeneration and sustainable planting, it is now classified as a vulnerable species. Here, we describe the development of microsatellite markers for K. senegalensis using next-generation sequencing to assess its intra-specific diversity across its natural range, which is a key for successful breeding programs and effective conservation management of the species. Next-generation sequencing yielded 93,943 sequences with an average read length of 234 bp. The assembled sequences contained 1030 simple sequence repeats, with primers designed for 522 microsatellite loci. Twenty-one microsatellite loci were tested with 11 showing reliable amplification and polymorphism in K. senegalensis. The 11 novel microsatellites, together with one previously published, were used to assess 73 accessions belonging to the Australian K. senegalensis domestication program, sampled from across the natural range of the species. STRUCTURE analysis shows two major clusters, one comprising mainly accessions from west Africa (Senegal to Benin) and the second based in the far eastern limits of the range in Sudan and Uganda. Higher levels of genetic diversity were found in material from western Africa. This suggests that new seed collections from this region may yield more diverse genotypes than those originating from Sudan and Uganda in eastern Africa.
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- M Karan
- Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, Centre for Tropical Agriculture, Mareeba, Qld 4880, Australia
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Innes D, Beacham IR, Burns DM. The role of the intracellular inhibitor of periplasmic UDP-sugar hydrolase (5'-nucleotidase) in Escherichia coli: cytoplasmic localisation of 5'-nucleotidase is conditionally lethal. J Basic Microbiol 2002; 41:329-37. [PMID: 11802543 DOI: 10.1002/1521-4028(200112)41:6<329::aid-jobm329>3.0.co;2-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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E. coli UshA, a bifunctional enzyme with UDP-sugar hydrolase and 5'-nucleotidase activities, is secreted to the periplasm but has a specific protein inhibitor located in the cytoplasm. It has been previously suggested that some 5'-nucleotidase, or a folded domain of this enzyme, may be active in the cytoplasm prior to export. If true, the intracellular inhibitor may have a role in protecting the cell from the likely deleterious effects of any intracellular UshA activity. Using deletion mutagenesis to remove the UshA signal peptide, we have shown that the resulting UshA derivative is an active cytoplasmic 5'-nucleotidase, and causes conditional lethality. Our results support the hypothesis that the physiological role of the UshA inhibitor is to protect the intracellular nucleotide pool from any cytoplasmic 5'-nucleotidase activity.
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- D Innes
- School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Griffith University, Nathan, Brisbane, Qld. 4111, Australia
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Schroder W, Burger M, Edwards C, Douglas M, Innes D, Beacham IR, Burns DM. The Escherichia coli orthologue of the Salmonella ushB gene (ushB(c)) produces neither UDP-sugar hydrolase activity nor detectable protein, but has an identical sequence to that of Escherichia coli cdh. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2001; 203:63-8. [PMID: 11557141 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2001.tb10821.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Salmonella ushB, which encodes a membrane-bound UDP-sugar hydrolase, has an Escherichia coli orthologue (ushB(c)) which does not detectably produce this activity. In this report, we show that ushB(c) does not produce any detectable protein either, despite being transcribed normally. Remarkably, ushB(c) is shown to have 100% sequence identity with E. coli cdh, previously characterised as encoding an active CDP-diglyceride hydrolase, an apparent contradiction with implications regarding enzyme evolution. We suggest that a useful gene designation is cdh (ushB(c)) rather than either ushB(c) or cdh, alone.
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- W Schroder
- School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Griffith University, Nathan, Brisbane, Queensland 4111, Australia
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Innes D, Short J. University of Virginia School of Medicine. Acad Med 2000; 75:S390-S394. [PMID: 10995718 DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200009001-00115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Innes D. Surgeons should have to demonstrate competence as pilots do. BMJ 2000; 320:1145-6. [PMID: 10775236 PMCID: PMC1127265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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Howie SE, Fernandes ML, Heslop I, Hewson TJ, Cotton GJ, Moore MJ, Innes D, Ramage R, Harrison DJ. A functional, discontinuous HIV-1 gp120 C3/C4 domain-derived, branched, synthetic peptide that binds to CD4 and inhibits MIP-1alpha chemokine binding. FASEB J 1999; 13:503-11. [PMID: 10064617 DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.13.3.503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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This paper describes a branched synthetic peptide [3.7] that incorporates sequence discontinuous residues of HIV-1 gp120 constant regions. The approach was to bring together residues of gp120 known to interact with human cell membranes such that the peptide could fold to mimic the native molecule. The peptide incorporates elements of both the conserved CD4 and CCR5 binding sites. The 3.7 peptide, which cannot be produced by conventional genetic engineering methods, is recognized by antiserum raised to native gp120. The peptide also binds to CD4 and competitively inhibits binding of QS4120 an antibody directed against the CDR2 region of CD4. When preincubated with the CD4+ve MM6 macrophage cell line, which expresses mRNA for the CCR3 and CCR5 chemokine receptors, both 3.7 and gp120 inhibit binding of the chemokine MIP-1alpha. The peptide also inhibits infection of primary macrophages by M-tropic HIV-1. Thus, 3.7 is a prototype candidate peptide for a vaccine against HIV-1 and represents a novel approach to the rational design of peptides that can mimic complex sequence discontinuous ligand binding sites of clinically relevant proteins.
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- S E Howie
- Department of Pathology, Centre for Protein Technology, University of Edinburgh, UK.
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Perrot-Sinal TS, Innes D, Kavaliers M, Ossenkopp KP. Plasma testosterone levels are related to various aspects of locomotor activity in wild-caught male meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus). Physiol Behav 1998; 64:31-6. [PMID: 9661979 DOI: 10.1016/s0031-9384(98)00015-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The relationship between plasma testosterone levels and locomotor activity in wild-caught sexually mature male meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) was assessed in the laboratory. Several aspects of locomotor activity were monitored for 1 h on two consecutive days using the automated Digiscan activity monitoring system. Plasma testosterone levels were determined immediately following the second day of activity monitoring. Significant Pearson correlations were obtained between plasma testosterone levels and total distance traveled [r(10) = 0.55, p < 0.05] and amount of time spent in movement [r(10) - 0.55, p < 0.05] on the second day. The wild voles showed a reduction in activity levels from the first to the second day of activity monitoring, which is indicative of habituation to a novel environment. This study provides direct evidence for a significant correlation between laboratory measures of behavioral activity and plasma testosterone levels in a wild-caught rodent. These findings indicate that previous assessments of hormone-behavior relationships in laboratory-bred rodents are consistent with the relationship between hormones and behavior in wild rodents.
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- T S Perrot-Sinal
- Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
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Cassidy M, Innes D, Cruse P, Rayner B. A 52-year-old man with a pyrexia of unknown origin and multiple cavities in the right kidney. S Afr Med J 1997; 87:168-71. [PMID: 9107223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Livingstone WJ, Moore M, Innes D, Bell JE, Simmonds P. Frequent infection of peripheral blood CD8-positive T-lymphocytes with HIV-1. Edinburgh Heterosexual Transmission Study Group. Lancet 1996; 348:649-54. [PMID: 8782755 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(96)02091-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND Although lymphocytes expressing the CD4 surface receptor for HIV-1 have been identified as the principal target of the virus, the extent to which infection of other cell types of the immune system contributes to immunodeficiency is unknown. We investigated the cell types in peripheral blood infected with HIV and the relation of viral load in different subsets to disease progression. METHODS The study group consisted of 16 HIV-infected individuals, eight of whom had clinically defined AIDS with CD4 cell counts less than 200/microL blood. The main component subsets of peripheral blood mononuclear cells were purified by magnetic bead separation, and included CD4 and CD8 lymphocytes, B lymphocytes, monocytes, and dendritic cells. HIV proviral sequences within these separate populations were quantified by limiting-dilution nested polymerase chain reaction. FINDINGS HIV-1 proviral sequences were detected in T-helper cells, cytotoxic T cells, dendritic cells, and monocytes. CD4 T lymphocytes constituted the main reservoir of HIV in all but one of the symptom-free individuals studied (those with CD4 count > 200/microL). However, in all the individuals with CD4 counts of less than 200/microL, most infected cells within the peripheral blood mononuclear cell fraction were either dendritic cells or CD8 lymphocytes. Infection of CD8 cells accounted for between 66% and 97% of total proviral load in five of the eight AIDS patients. A strong inverse relation between total CD8 count and the frequency of CD8 T-lymphocyte infection was found. INTERPRETATION This study provides evidence for widespread infection of lymphocytes of the CD8 phenotype, indicating that HIV-1 has a broader tropism for different cell types in vivo than described for cultured virus. Infection of CD8 cells may contribute to the decline of this subset upon disease progression in HIV-infected individuals. Infection of CD8 cells may or may not occur by a non-CD4-dependent mechanism of virus entry.
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- W J Livingstone
- Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Edinburgh, UK
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Rodríguez JA, Barandika O, Innes D, Múgica van Herckenrode C. p53 functional status in HPV-positive human primary cervical carcinoma. Int J Dev Biol 1996; Suppl 1:303S. [PMID: 9087808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- J A Rodríguez
- Department of Cell Biology and Morphological Sciences, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Leioa, Vizcaya
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Atrial synchronous pacing with short, nonphysiological atrioventricular (AV) intervals has been reported to increase cardiac output in selected patients with severe dilated heart failure. The aim of this study was to determine the acute effect of atrial synchronous pacing with short AV intervals in a consecutive series of patients with dilated heart failure. Twelve patients with a mean ejection fraction of 21% +/- standard error 2.5% were studied. Pacing catheters were placed in the high right atrium and right ventricular apex and a balloon flotation catheter in the pulmonary artery for measurement of cardiac output. Simultaneous transthoracic echocardiography was performed for measurement of left ventricular filling time and mitral regurgitation. In a randomized crossover design, measurements were made during VDD pacing at programmed AV intervals of 100 and 60 msec and during a control period in sinus rhythm. Left ventricular filling time increased at AV intervals of 100 and 60 msec (mean difference 37 +/- 9 and 34 +/- 11 msec, respectively, both P < 0.01 compared to control). Despite increases in ventricular filling time, stroke, and cardiac index declined with short atrioventricular intervals (at an AV interval of 60 msec, stroke index fell by 2.1 +/- 0.5 mL/m2, P < 0.05 and cardiac index by 125 +/- 45 mL/m2; P = NS). Heart rate was unchanged at both AV intervals (78 +/- 4.9 at control, 78 +/- 5.2 at 100 msec and 79 +/- 4.9 beats/min at 60 msec; P = NS).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- D Innes
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia
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Spatial learning in photoperiodically induced breeding (reproductive) and non-breeding (non-reproductive) adult male and female deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) was examined in a Morris water-maze task. Sexually mature, adult male and female deer mice that were derived from either a mainland population (P. m. artemisiae) or an island population (P. m. angustus) were required to learn the spatial position of a hidden, submerged platform in a water maze. Deer mice were tested either during the breeding season (summer; long day photoperiod) or during the non-breeding season (winter; short day photoperiod) with a total of six blocks of four trials conducted in a single day. Retention was tested with two probe trials which occurred one and three days after acquisition. During the breeding season male spatial task acquisition was superior to female spatial task acquisition for both populations. In contrast, during the non-breeding season there were no significant sex differences in spatial acquisition for either population. This change in sexually dimorphic spatial learning was due to female spatial-performance decreasing from non-breeding season to the breeding season and male spatial-performance increasing over the same period. Both populations displayed similar seasonal variations in sexually dimorphic water-maze task performance. There were, however, overall population differences in water-maze task performance that were related to the ecology of the mice, with the insular mice displaying shorter latencies to reach the hidden platform than did the mainland deer mice.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- L A Galea
- Social Science Centre, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
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A 428-base pair region of the gag gene of a molecular clone of the SL3-3 murine leukemia virus (MuLV) was replaced with allelic sequences that contain the NB-tropic determinants of the Moloney MuLV. SL3-3NB, the ecotropic virus derived from this modified clone, rapidly induced T-cell lymphoblastic lymphomas in the Fv-1n mouse strains CWD and NIH Swiss and the Fv-1b strain, B10.Br. By Southern blot assay, each of the CWD tumors and all but one of the B10.Br tumors that were tested contained recombinant proviruses. The envelope genes of the B10.Br recombinant viruses retained the SL3-3NB 5' p15E (TM) gene sequences (type I env), whereas the CWD recombinants did not (type II env). The production of type I env recombinants by B10.Br mice is a characteristic that is shared with other mouse strains that express the H-2k haplotype. The results indicate that the inserted Moloney virus gag sequences conferred NB-tropism to SL3-3NB and did not interfere with the expression of SL3-3 pathogenic determinants or the formation of recombinant viruses.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Southern
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- Genes, env
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/isolation & purification
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/pathogenicity
- Leukemia, Experimental/microbiology
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/microbiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Moloney murine leukemia virus/genetics
- Oligodeoxyribonucleotides
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Proviruses/isolation & purification
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Restriction Mapping
- Species Specificity
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Affiliation(s)
- C Y Thomas
- Department of Internal Medicine, Microbiology, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville 22908
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There is evidence suggesting that the endogenous mammalian octapeptide FLFQPQRFamide (F8Fa or neuropeptide FF, NPFF) has modulatory effects on opioid-mediated analgesia in rodents. There is also substantial evidence for sex differences in opioid analgesia, whereby male rats and mice display greater levels of opioid-mediated analgesia than females. In the present study, determinations were made of the effects of NPFF and IgG from antiserum against NPFF on morphine- and restraint stress-induced opioid analgesia in male and female deer mice. Intracerebroventricular (ICV) administrations of NPFF (0.10-10 micrograms) reduced in a dose-dependent manner morphine- and stress-induced analgesia in both male and female mice, with NPFF having markedly greater antagonistic effects in the male than female mice. Additionally, ICV administrations of NPFF-IgG increased the levels of morphine- and stress-induced analgesia and significantly reduced basal nociceptive sensitivity in male mice, whereas, in female mice, NPFF-IgG had no significant effects on either opioid-mediated analgesia or nociceptive sensitivity. These results indicate that there are sex differences in the modulatory effects of NPFF on opioid-mediated analgesia.
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Affiliation(s)
- M Kavaliers
- Division of Oral Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
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Thomas CY, Buxton VK, Roberts JS, Boykin BJ, Innes D. Phenotypic heterogeneity of spontaneous lymphomas of CWD mice. Blood 1989; 73:240-7. [PMID: 2562923] [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] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Animals of the inbred mouse strain, CWD, express endogenous murine leukemia viruses early in life and have a high incidence of spontaneous neoplasms. We found that approximately one half of these animals died of malignant lymphoma by the age of 16 months. Splenic enlargement was seen in all mice, but thymic involvement was unusual. One half of the CWD tumors were diffuse lymphoblastic or immunoblastic lymphomas while the remainder were large cell, small cell, or mixed cell lymphomas. Analysis of DNAs from 12 tumors for immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor gene rearrangements revealed that all six of the lymphoblastic and immunoblastic lymphomas were of T-cell origin, as was one tumor of small cleaved cells. Four of the others were clonal B-cell lymphomas and one was of uncertain lineage. Assays of a limited number of tumors for the expression of the Thy 1.2 and IgM molecules confirmed the diversity in the cellular phenotype. The results indicate that CWD mice develop primarily splenic lymphomas with an unusual degree of heterogeneity in the tumor cell phenotypes as compared with the thymic lymphomas found in other high leukemia strains. The CWD strain is a useful new model for studies of retroviral leukemogenesis and the relationship between the histopathology and immunophenotype of malignant lymphomas.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, Surface/analysis
- Disease Models, Animal
- Female
- Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte
- Gene Rearrangement, T-Lymphocyte
- Immunoglobulin M/analysis
- Leukemia, Lymphoid/etiology
- Leukemia, Lymphoid/genetics
- Leukemia, Lymphoid/pathology
- Lymphoma/etiology
- Lymphoma/genetics
- Lymphoma/pathology
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/etiology
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/genetics
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/pathology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred Strains/genetics
- Phenotype
- Thy-1 Antigens
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Affiliation(s)
- C Y Thomas
- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville 22908
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Song ZX, Thomas C, Innes D, Waheed A, Shadduck RK, Quesenberry PJ. Characterization of two clones isolated from the TC-1 murine marrow stromal cell line: growth factor and retrovirus production and physical support of hemopoiesis. Int J Cell Cloning 1988; 6:125-45. [PMID: 3373034 DOI: 10.1002/stem.5530060206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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We previously reported the isolation of an adherent murine marrow cell line termed TC-1, and the initial characterization of two subclones derived from this line. In this study we report a further characterization of two subclones from the non-cloned TC-1 cell line. One subclone, TC-1-C-3, consisted of large, slow-growing syncytial polypoid cells that grew to relatively low saturation densities, did not form colonies in soft agar and showed desmosome-like junctions. The other subclone, TC-1-C-11, consisted of smaller, rapidly growing fibroblast-like diploid cells which showed anchorage-independent growth in soft agar. Both these subclones produced growth factors which stimulated giant macrophage colonies in soft agar culture in vitro, but only the TC-1-C-3 subclone produced a retrovirus, whose source was most likely the endogenous ecotropic Emv-2 provirus present in chromosomal DNA in C57BL mice. This retrovirus from the TC-1-C-3 subclone did not appear capable of transforming TC-1-C-11 cells. Together, these data suggest that TC-1-C-3 cells have a special capacity for supporting hemopoiesis. The question of whether the mechanism of this support relates to an intrinsic property of the cell or is possibly related to retrovirus production remains unanswered.
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- Z X Song
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville 22908
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We compared restraint stress-induced opioid, analgesic and locomotory responses of 4 different populations of male and female deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus artemisiae and P. m. nebrascensis from mainlands, and P. m. angustus and P. m. triangularis from small islands. All of the deer mice displayed immobilization-induced analgesia which was blocked by the prototypical mu-opiate antagonist, naloxone (1.0 mg/kg). In all of the populations males displayed significantly greater levels of analgesia than females. In addition, the levels of opioid-induced analgesia were significantly greater in the insular than in the mainland male and female deer mice. Restraint also induced significant increases in the locomotor activity of the mainland deer mice, while significantly decreasing the activity of the insular animals. Males displayed significantly greater stress-induced changes in locomotor activity than did females. The stress-induced increases in activity were blocked by the delta-opiate antagonist, ICI 154, 129 (10 mg/kg), while the decreases in activity were inhibited by naloxone. These results demonstrate that there are marked sex and population differences in the stress-induced, opioid-mediated responses of deer mice. These 'pharmaco-ecological' findings also suggest that the island-mainland population differences in behavioral responses and ecological characteristics may, in part, be related to differences in the activity of mu-, delta- and possibly other opioid systems.
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- M Kavaliers
- Division of Oral Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
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