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Tian M, Wei JS, Shivaprasad N, Highfill SL, Gryder BE, Milewski D, Brown GT, Moses L, Song H, Wu JT, Azorsa P, Kumar J, Schneider D, Chou HC, Song YK, Rahmy A, Masih KE, Kim YY, Belyea B, Linardic CM, Dropulic B, Sullivan PM, Sorensen PH, Dimitrov DS, Maris JM, Mackall CL, Orentas RJ, Cheuk AT, Khan J. Preclinical development of a chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy targeting FGFR4 in rhabdomyosarcoma. Cell Rep Med 2023; 4:101212. [PMID: 37774704 PMCID: PMC10591056 DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2023.101212] [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] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2022] [Revised: 06/12/2023] [Accepted: 09/06/2023] [Indexed: 10/01/2023]
Abstract
Pediatric patients with relapsed or refractory rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) have dismal cure rates, and effective therapy is urgently needed. The oncogenic receptor tyrosine kinase fibroblast growth factor receptor 4 (FGFR4) is highly expressed in RMS and lowly expressed in healthy tissues. Here, we describe a second-generation FGFR4-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), based on an anti-human FGFR4-specific murine monoclonal antibody 3A11, as an adoptive T cell treatment for RMS. The 3A11 CAR T cells induced robust cytokine production and cytotoxicity against RMS cell lines in vitro. In contrast, a panel of healthy human primary cells failed to activate 3A11 CAR T cells, confirming the selectivity of 3A11 CAR T cells against tumors with high FGFR4 expression. Finally, we demonstrate that 3A11 CAR T cells are persistent in vivo and can effectively eliminate RMS tumors in two metastatic and two orthotopic models. Therefore, our study credentials CAR T cell therapy targeting FGFR4 to treat patients with RMS.
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- Meijie Tian
- Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Center for Cellular Engineering, Department of Transfusion Medicine, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Artificial Intelligence Resource, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Center for Cellular Engineering, Department of Transfusion Medicine, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Center for Cellular Engineering, Department of Transfusion Medicine, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Lentigen Corporation, Miltenyi Bioindustry, 1201 Clopper Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, USA
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- Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
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- Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Caring Cross, 708 Quince Orchard Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, USA
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- Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, 1100 Olive Way, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Department of Molecular Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1L3, Canada
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- University of Pittsburgh Department of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, 1100 Olive Way, Seattle, WA 98101, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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- Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Patkar S, Mannheimer J, Harmon S, Mazcko C, Choyke P, Brown GT, Turkbey B, LeBlanc A, Beck J. Large Scale Comparative Deconvolution Analysis of the Canine and Human Osteosarcoma Tumor Microenvironment Uncovers Conserved Clinically Relevant Subtypes. bioRxiv 2023:2023.09.27.559797. [PMID: 37808704 PMCID: PMC10557692 DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.27.559797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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Osteosarcoma is a relatively rare but aggressive cancer of the bones with a shortage of effective biomarkers. Although less common in humans, Osteosarcomas are fairly common in adult pet dogs and have been shown to share many similarities with their human analogs. In this work, we analyze bulk transcriptomic data of 213 primary and 100 metastatic Osteosarcoma samples from 210 pet dogs enrolled in nation-wide clinical trials to uncover three Tumor Microenvironment (TME)-based subtypes: Immune Enriched (IE), Immune Enriched Dense Extra-Cellular Matrix-like (IE-ECM) and Immune Desert (ID) with distinct cell type compositions, oncogenic pathway activity and chromosomal instability. Furthermore, leveraging bulk transcriptomic data of canine primary tumors and their matched metastases from different sites, we characterize how the Osteosarcoma TME evolves from primary to metastatic disease in a standard of care clinical setting and assess its overall impact on clinical outcomes of canines. Most importantly, we find that TME-based subtypes of canine Osteosarcomas are conserved in humans and predictive of progression free survival outcomes of human patients, independently of known prognostic biomarkers such as presence of metastatic disease at diagnosis and percent necrosis following chemotherapy. In summary, these results demonstrate the power of using canines to model the human Osteosarcoma TME and discover novel biomarkers for clinical translation.
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- Sushant Patkar
- Artificial Intelligence Resource, Molecular Imaging Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Comparative Oncology Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Artificial Intelligence Resource, Molecular Imaging Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Comparative Oncology Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Artificial Intelligence Resource, Molecular Imaging Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Artificial Intelligence Resource, Molecular Imaging Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Artificial Intelligence Resource, Molecular Imaging Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Comparative Oncology Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Comparative Oncology Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Cheuk ATC, Tian M, Shivaprasad N, Highfill S, Milewski D, Brown GT, Azorsa P, Schneider D, Gryder B, Wei JS, Song YK, Chou HC, Wu J, Chung JY, Belyea B, Linardic C, Hewitt SM, Dropulic B, Orentas R, Khan J. Abstract LB213: Potent antitumor activity of a FGFR4 CAR-T in rhabdomyosarcoma. Cancer Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2022-lb213] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is an aggressive soft tissue sarcoma originating from skeletal muscle in children and adolescent young adults. Despite multi-modal aggressive therapies, relapsed, refractory or metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma remains a lethal disease with no significant improvement in outcome over decades of clinical trials. Therefore novel therapies are needed. FGFR4 is a developmentally regulated cell surface receptor tyrosine kinase that is overexpressed in RMS when compared with normal tissues, and mutationally activated in about 7.5% of RMS. Recently we showed that PAX3-FOXO1 establishes a super-enhancer in the FGFR4 genomic locus driving its high expression in fusion positive RMS. CAR T-cell therapy is effective in treating refractory and relapsed B-cell leukemia and lymphoma, with three CARs targeting CD19 approved by the FDA. Multiple CART trials are currently underway for solid tumors. Since FGFR4 is a cell surface protein, we hypothesized that FGFR4 will provide a rational target for immunotherapy in RMS. We confirmed by immunohistochemistry staining, western analysis, and Meso Scale Discovery that FGFR4 protein is highly differentially expressed in RMS samples. We developed a murine anti-FGFR4 antibody, 3A11, by immunizing mouse with FGFR4-IG fusion protein. 3A11 showed high affinity and specificity of binding to FGFR4. We then developed a second-generation CAR using the VL and VH domain of 3A11 antibody and found that the scFvFc retained its specificity and high affinity at nanomolar range. Human T cells transduced with 3A11 CAR construct were found to be highly potent at inducing IFN-γ, TNF-α, IL-2 and cytotoxicity when the FGFR4-CART was co-cultured with RMS cells, but not with RMS cells with FGFR4 knocked out or FGFR4 negative cells. 3A11 CART incubated with human primary cells obtained from liver, kidney, heart, and pancreas, did not elicit a cytokine response, indicating a low potential for “on-target off-tumor” toxicity. In vivo testing also found that 3A11 CART eliminated RMS cells in both murine xenograft metastatic and localized subcutaneous models. Therefore we have developed a CART targeting FGFR4 that shows high potency for treating RMS. A phase 1 FGFR4-CART clinical trial is planned for children and adolescent young adults with relapsed/refractory rhabdomyosarcoma.
Citation Format: Adam Tai Chi Cheuk, Meijie Tian, Nityashree Shivaprasad, Steven Highfill, David Milewski, G Tom Brown, Peter Azorsa, Dina Schneider, Berkley Gryder, Jun S Wei, Young Kwok Song, Hsien-Chao Chou, Jerry Wu, Joon-Yong Chung, Brian Belyea, Corinne Linardic, Stephen M Hewitt, Boro Dropulic, Rimas Orentas, Javed Khan. Potent antitumor activity of a FGFR4 CAR-T in rhabdomyosarcoma [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022; 2022 Apr 8-13. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(12_Suppl):Abstract nr LB213.
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- 2National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- 1National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
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- 1National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
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- 4Child Health Research Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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- 5Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
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- 7Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA
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- 1National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
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Gatti-Mays ME, Manion M, Bowen LN, Brown GT, Danner RL, Khan O, Nath A, Battiwalla M, Barrett AJ, Ito S. Toxoplasmosis encephalitis with immune-reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in an allogeneic stem cell transplant patient: a case report. Bone Marrow Transplant 2016; 51:1622-1624. [PMID: 27643867 DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2016.230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- M E Gatti-Mays
- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infection Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Critical Care Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Occupational therapy is a female dominated profession: only 3% of all clinicians are men. The purpose of this investigation was to identify variables that affect the job satisfaction of male occupational therapists. Specifically, the study examined five job satisfaction factors (work, pay, coworkers, supervision, and promotional opportunities), work environment traits, community role strain, colleague role strain, patient role strain, role ambiguity, role conflict, role overload, and specific demographic characteristics of male occupational therapists. A mailed survey questionnaire was sent to all male clinicians who were members of the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (n = 199) during the 1990-1991 membership year. Eighty-three percent of the sample responded (n = 164). Of these, 74% said they expect to leave the occupational therapy profession within 10 years. Most male occupational therapists reside in Ontario, are 33 years old, work with an adult client case load in a general hospital setting, and spend half their time in direct client care. Respondents indicated that, as a group, they are very dissatisfied with their work, pay, promotional opportunities, supervision, and coworkers. Male occupational therapists rated their work environments as above average in terms of physical comfort, but below average for control. As a group, male occupational therapists experience an average level of community, colleague, and patient role strain. Similarly, they experience an average degree of role conflict and role overload, but reported a low level of role ambiguity. Significant predictors of respondents' global job satisfaction were examined by multiple regression analysis. Five factors were determined to be significant predictors of global job satisfaction: community role strain, number of hours of overtime worked on a weekly basis, involvement, year of graduation from professional training, and colleague role strain. Recommendations for occupational therapy personnel and future research are made based on these results.
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- G T Brown
- School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K1H 8L6, Canada
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Adams R, Brown GT, Davidson M, Fisher E, Mathisen J, Thomson G, Webster NR. Efficacy of dexmedetomidine compared with midazolam for sedation in adult intensive care patients: a systematic review. Br J Anaesth 2013; 111:703-10. [PMID: 23748199 DOI: 10.1093/bja/aet194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Patients in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) often require sedatives which commonly include midazolam and the more recently developed α2-receptor agonist, dexmedetomidine. It was our aim to compare the sedative and clinical effectiveness of dexmedetomidine vs midazolam in adults admitted to ICU, using an objective appraisal of randomized control trials. Medline, Embase, SCOPUS, Web of Knowledge, Cinhal, the United States National Library of Medicine, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews were searched using keywords: 'dexmedetomidine', 'midazolam', and 'intensive care'. These were limited to human studies and adults (>18 yr old). Six randomized controlled trials were found and were critically appraised using a standardized appraisal method. Two papers described the time spent by each intervention group within a specified target sedation range and both found no statistically significant difference between midazolam and dexmedetomidine (P=0.18 and P=0.15). A third paper found no statistically significant difference in the length of time that patients were sedated within a target zone (P=0.445). Two additional pilot studies did not report P values as they were insufficiently statistically powered. A final paper found that, of the eight occasions measured, patients on dexmedetomidine were more often within the target sedation range than patients on midazolam. The sedative benefits of dexmedetomidine vs midazolam remain inconclusive. While some secondary outcomes showed clinical effectiveness of dexmedetomidine, more research is needed to validate the findings of these studies.
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- R Adams
- University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK
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Brown GT, Barnett SJ, Blackmore GW, Courtney SJ, Houghton DC. X-Ray Diffraction and Sims Studies of Mbe Grown Doping Superlattices in Silicon. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1557/proc-102-289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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ABSTRACTSi-Si(B) doping superlattices (pipi structures) were grown by MBE and studied using double crystal x-ray diffraction and SIMS. Detailed analysis of the complex x-ray rocking curves required comparison of experimental data with theoretically simulated data. It is demonstrated that this technique is sensitive to irregularities in the dopant composition, dopant distribution and superlattice period. The B concentration profile is shown to spread well into the intrinsic layers and the extent and magnitude of the dopant distribution has been quantified. A comparison of this data with SIMS showed good agreement for the distribution of B and reasonable agreement for the peak values of B concentration.
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Brown GT, Delisle R, Gagnon N, Sauvé AE. Juvenile fibromyalgia syndrome: proposed management using a cognitive-behavioral approach. Phys Occup Ther Pediatr 2001; 21:19-36. [PMID: 11715801] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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In recent years, fibromyalgia has become an increasingly recognized chronic syndrome. Although it occurs more frequently in adults, it is also seen among school-age children and adolescents. In such cases, it is known as juvenile fibromyalgia syndrome (JFS). The widespread pain and other possible symptoms associated with JFS can have a negative impact on the occupational performance and developmental tasks of children and adolescents. As experts in the areas of occupational performance, daily functional skills, and child development, occupational therapists have a potential role to play in the assessment and management of children and adolescents with JFS. To date, however, no occupational therapy management approach for clients with JFS has been documented in the professional literature. In this paper, we outline the clinical features of JFS, pertinent assessment areas, and potential management strategies using a cognitive-behavioral approach.
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- G T Brown
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8L1
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It is common for researchers to request at the end of their published studies, the urgency for further studies to be completed. Unfortunately there are very few published studies that have replicated original studies. The purpose of this article is to provide a framework for understanding issues related to replication research that will assist occupational therapy researchers, clinicians, managers, students and educators to realize the importance of implementing and publishing replication research to establish evidence-based practice. Various areas related to replication research are explored. In addition, a computerized literature search using the search term 'replication' was completed. Only four articles published between 1982-1998 were discovered. This article concludes with recommendations to ensure replication studies are included in the occupational therapy literature and utilized in clinical practice.
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- J G Klein
- University of Alberta, Department of Occupational Therapy, Edmonton.
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The embryonic period of development is characterized by marked variability in the rate of embryonic growth and development. Differences in uterine blood flow may explain this variability. We investigated the relationship between uterine artery blood flow volume (VOL), uterine artery pulsatility index (UA-PI), uterine artery resistance index (UA-RI), spiral artery pulsatility index (SA-PI), spiral artery resistance index (SA-RI), chorionic sac diameter (CSD), and crown-rump length (CRL) during 321 first trimester vaginal colour Doppler ultrasound examinations of 94 delivered or continuing pregnancies. After correcting for the confounding effect of gestational age, subject, and serum hormone levels by Analysis of Covariance, CRL was related to UA-PI (P = 0.025) and UA-RI (P < 0.001), but not to VOL, SA-PI, or SA-RI. No relationship was found between CSD and any uterine blood flow variables. Serum oestradiol levels were related to CSD and CRL (P < 0.001). No relationship was found to progesterone, maternal age, parity, or previous abortion. We conclude that differences in uterine blood flow and serum oestradiol explain some of the variability in the rate of embryo growth during the first 12 gestational weeks.
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- R P Dickey
- Fertility Institute of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana 70128, USA
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Uterine artery blood flow measurements made solely in the recumbent position may miss physiological changes that occur while patients are upright. We evaluated the effect of standing on the minute blood flow volume of the ascending uterine artery, the pulsatility index (PI), resistance index (RI) and waveforms and on the PI and RI of the myometrial spiral arteries and waveforms at 3-8 and at 9-14 min standing in 74 non-pregnant women. At 9-14 min, the uterine artery blood flow volume had decreased by an average of 34% and the RI had significantly increased in 70% of subjects. Decreased uterine artery blood flow volume was associated with increased distal resistance and with decreased vessel diameter, possibly due to stretching or kinking of the uterine arteries. Changes in the spiral artery PI paralleled changes in the uterine artery PI at 9-14 min, but were less pronounced. Spiral artery PI and RI were not related to the uterine artery blood flow volume while women were recumbent, although they were significantly related while women were standing. The effects of age, uterine mobility and uterine position on uterine artery or spiral artery blood flow were apparent only while women were standing. We conclude that standing as well as recumbent studies are necessary when uterine and myometrial blood flow are evaluated, and that uterine flow volume per minute should be measured whenever possible.
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- R P Dickey
- Fertility Institute of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana 70128, USA
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Burnout is inherent in many health care professions. This research investigation was conducted to determine if burnout existed at significant levels and if a relationship between burnout, work environment factors and demographic characteristics existed among a group of psychiatric occupational therapy personnel. The study design was a descriptive survey format utilizing mailed questionnaires. Eighty-nine respondents completed the Maslach Burnout Inventory, the Work Environment Scale and a demographic questionnaire. A series of regression analyses were performed. The results indicated that the following were significant predictors of burnout: work involvement, a large percentage of clients on one's caseload diagnosed with schizophrenia, work pressure, age, income level, the length of time working in psychiatric occupational therapy, caseload size and the amount of overtime performed on a weekly basis. Implications for psychiatric occupational therapy practice are discussed and recommendations for future research are made.
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- G T Brown
- Kingston Psychiatric Hospital, Ontario
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Various occupational groups are often viewed as having a set of distinctive personality characteristics. The purpose of this study was to examine the personality traits of five subject groups: occupational therapy students in first, second, third and fourth years (N = 60) at the School of Rehabilitation Therapy at Queen's University, and practicing occupational therapy clinicians from the Kingston area (N = 22). The Personality Research Form-E (PRF-E) was used to collect the data. As a combined group, students and clinicians were not distinguishable from the general population in terms of personality. For students notable correlation scores (p. 01) between the year of study and the obtained PRF-E scores were observed on two scales: endurance (r = -0.31) and nurturance (r = -0.41). Analysis of variance indicated statistically significant differences (p .01 and p .05) between fourth year students and clinicians on certain personality variables. Fourth year students scored higher on the abasement, affiliation, change, nurturance, play and social recognition scales. Clinicians obtained higher scores for endurance and harm avoidance.
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A natural outbreak of Salmonella saint-paul infection in two Institute herds was monitored clinically, bacteriologically and immunologically. This paper describes the findings in calves. Morbidity and mortality became apparent 30 days after S. saint-paul was first isolated on routine sampling of neonatal calf faeces. All heifer calves were treated with a tetracycline or ampicillin preparation when they showed clinical signs of disease, while the effects of intradermal vaccination with heat-killed S. saint-paul were assessed in a proportion of the bull calves. Antibiotic treatment reduced mortality and the number of persistent excretors; vaccination did not affect mortality but, if given during the first week of life, reduced the duration of faecal excretion. Calves which were untreated and unvaccinated, or vaccinated when older than 16 days, excreted S. saint-paul for periods of up to 18 months. Of six 'recovered' calves, which had been negative on faecal culture for 5-8 weeks, four yielded S. saint-paul at necropsy. Agglutinating antibody titres were highest in those unvaccinated calves which were persistent excretors.
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An outbreak of salmonellosis due to Salmonella saint-paul in two dairy herds was first detected during routine examination of calves soon after calving; infection reached 100% amongst calves and up to 60% amongst milking cows. Excretion by cows continued for over 12 months and by calves for up to 18 months. The most important factor in controlling the spread of infection was reduction of environmental contamination by removal of carriers, prompt antibiotic treatment of sick calves and reduction in stocking densities.
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Aitken MM, Jones PW, Brown GT. Protection of cattle against experimentally induced salmonellosis by intradermal injection of heat-killed Salmonella dublin. Res Vet Sci 1982; 32:368-73. [PMID: 7100654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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A single intradermal dose (7.5 mg) of heat-killed Salmonella dublin protected two out of three cattle against intravenous challenge with live S dublin. A second dose of 8 mg increased the protection rate to six out of seven. Four of the survivors had transient diarrhoea and S dublin was recovered from the carcases of four killed at four to 21 weeks after infection. Protected animals had elevated serum antibody titres and their serum passively protected rats against intraperitoneal challenge. The resistance of vaccinated cattle, presumably immunological in character, was not associated with leucocyte migration inhibition by salmonella antigen, depression of serum iron levels or haematological changes.
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Salmonella mbandaka was isolated from cattle on three dairy farms. The duration of infection was less than four weeks and none of the animals became clinically ill. The animals had all consumed a diet containing a vegetable fat supplement contaminated with S. mbandaka and this was shown to be the source of the infections. It is significant that a feed containing purely vegetable components was incriminated.
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Aitken MM, Jones PW, Hall GA, Hughes DL, Brown GT. Responses of fluke-infected and fluke-free cattle to experimental reinfection with Salmonella dublin. Res Vet Sci 1981; 31:120-6. [PMID: 7313311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Cattle, aged nine to 18 months, were given sublethal doses of Salmonella dublin either intravenously, orally on two occasions, or by contact for 19 to 22 weeks with a persistent excretor. When challenged by intravenous injection of 10(9) S dublin at 10 to 22 weeks after their first exposure to S dublin 22 out of 36 animals survived. All similarly challenged cattle, which had not been previously exposed to S dublin, died. Infection with Fasciola hepatica did not alter the ability of cattle to survive reinfection with S dublin but the bacteria persisted in the tissues and were excreted in the faeces of fluke-infected animals for longer than in fluke-free animals. The ability to survive reinfection and to eliminate S dublin from the tissues was apparently unrelated to agglutinating antibody titres or delayed hypersensitivity.
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Hall GA, Hughes DL, Jones PW, Aitken MM, Parsons KR, Brown GT. Experimental oral Salmonella dublin infection in cattle: effects of concurrent infection with Fasciola hepatica. J Comp Pathol 1981; 91:227-33. [PMID: 7345105 DOI: 10.1016/0021-9975(81)90027-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Brown GT, Jones PW. Crossed immunoelectrophoresis and crossed-line immunoelectrophoresis of Salmonella dublin antigens. J Gen Microbiol 1980; 116:315-22. [PMID: 7373280 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-116-2-315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Crossed immunoelectrophoresis and crossed-line immunoelectrophoresis were used to detect 62 antigens in extracts of sonicated Salmonella dublin against an homologous anti-serum. Comparison with six extracts of closely related bacteria showed that all but two of these antigens cross-reacted with at least one other extract.
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Rutter JM, Jones GW, Brown GT, Burrows MR, Luther PD. Antibacterial activity in colostrum and milk associated with protection of piglets against enteric disease caused by K88-positive Escherichia coli. Infect Immun 1976; 13:667-76. [PMID: 773820 PMCID: PMC420662 DOI: 10.1128/iai.13.3.667-676.1976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Piglets suckled by dams that had been vaccinated with K88 antigen were significantly more resistant to deaths caused by neonatal diarrhea after challenge with a large dose of a K88-positive enteropathogenic strain of Escherichia coli than piglets suckled by control dams. The factors most likely to be involved in protection of the piglets were investigated by comparing the antibacterial activities of serum and mammary secretions from the two groups of dams. Vaccination stimulated the production of K88 antibodies, which were associated with anti-adhesive activity directed against the adhesive properties of the K88 antigen, and of O8 antibodies; the latter antibodies were attributed to traces of O8 antigen in the vaccine. Neutralizing activity against heat-labile enterotoxin was present in several dams before vaccination but was not stimulated by bacteriostatic activities were similar in serum and mammary secretions from both groups of dams and appeared to play no significant role in the protective after parturition were atrributed to exposure of the dams to the challenge strain excreted by the piglets. It was concluded that neutralization of the adhesive properties of K88 antigen by K88 antibodies in colostrum and in milk contributed significantly to the protection of piglets from vaccinated dams. However, the contribution of antibacterial activities associated with the greater levels of O8 antibodies in colstrum from the vaccinated group cannot be entirely excluded.
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Brown GT. On listening. J Indiana State Med Assoc 1974; 67:919-21. [PMID: 4414904] [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: 01/10/2023]
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