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Latif F, Sayer G, Lotan D, Mendoza J, Regan M, Tsapepas D, Ramakrishnan A, DeFilippis E, Yuzefpolskaya M, Colombo P, Kennel P, Raikhelkar J, Clerkin K, Fried J, Lin E, Lee S, Naka Y, Takeda K, Uriel N. The Effect of Temperature Control Versus Icebox Preservation on Post Heart Transplant Outcome. J Heart Lung Transplant 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2023.02.498] [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: 04/05/2023] Open
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Mendoza J, Punsalan G, Wong W. 113 A Novel Video Laryngoscope Device (IVOS Boss G4) for Minimizing Aspiration Events. Ann Emerg Med 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2022.08.137] [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: 11/17/2022]
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Xu Z, Walker S, Wise MC, Chokkalingam N, Purwar M, Moore A, Tello-Ruiz E, Wu Y, Majumdar S, Konrath KM, Kulkarni A, Tursi NJ, Zaidi FI, Reuschel EL, Patel I, Obeirne A, Du J, Schultheis K, Gites L, Smith T, Mendoza J, Broderick KE, Humeau L, Pallesen J, Weiner DB, Kulp DW. Induction of tier-2 neutralizing antibodies in mice with a DNA-encoded HIV envelope native like trimer. Nat Commun 2022; 13:695. [PMID: 35121758 PMCID: PMC8816947 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28363-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2021] [Accepted: 01/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
Abstract
HIV Envelope (Env) is the main vaccine target for induction of neutralizing antibodies. Stabilizing Env into native-like trimer (NLT) conformations is required for recombinant protein immunogens to induce autologous neutralizing antibodies(nAbs) against difficult to neutralize HIV strains (tier-2) in rabbits and non-human primates. Immunizations of mice with NLTs have generally failed to induce tier-2 nAbs. Here, we show that DNA-encoded NLTs fold properly in vivo and induce autologous tier-2 nAbs in mice. DNA-encoded NLTs also uniquely induce both CD4 + and CD8 + T-cell responses as compared to corresponding protein immunizations. Murine neutralizing antibodies are identified with an advanced sequencing technology. The structure of an Env-Ab (C05) complex, as determined by cryo-EM, identifies a previously undescribed neutralizing Env C3/V5 epitope. Beyond potential functional immunity gains, DNA vaccines permit in vivo folding of structured antigens and provide significant cost and speed advantages for enabling rapid evaluation of new HIV vaccines.
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- Ziyang Xu
- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
- Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Plymouth Meeting, PA, 19462, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
- Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
- Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA
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- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Plymouth Meeting, PA, 19462, USA
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- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Plymouth Meeting, PA, 19462, USA
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- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Plymouth Meeting, PA, 19462, USA
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- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Plymouth Meeting, PA, 19462, USA
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- Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
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Barocas A, Farfan J, Groenendijk J, Mendoza J, Silva J, Mujica O, Ochoa JA, Macdonald DW, Swaisgood RR. Disturbance‐specific behavioral responses of giant otters exposed to ecotourism and extractive activities. Anim Conserv 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/acv.12713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- A. Barocas
- Recovery Ecology San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Escondido CA USA
- Wildlife Conservation Research Unit Department of Zoology The Recanati‐Kaplan Centre University of Oxford Abingdon UK
- San Diego Zoo Global‐Peru Cusco Peru
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- Frankfurt Zoological Society – Perú Cusco Peru
- Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco Cusco Peru
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- National Service of Protected Natural Areas (SERNANP) Cusco Peru
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- Frankfurt Zoological Society – Perú Cusco Peru
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- Frankfurt Zoological Society – Perú Cusco Peru
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- Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco Cusco Peru
- Museo de Biodiversidad del Perú Cusco Peru
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- Wildlife Conservation Research Unit Department of Zoology The Recanati‐Kaplan Centre University of Oxford Abingdon UK
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- Recovery Ecology San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Escondido CA USA
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Patel A, Reuschel EL, Xu Z, Zaidi FI, Kim KY, Scott DP, Mendoza J, Ramos S, Stoltz R, Feldmann F, Okumura A, Meade-White K, Haddock E, Thomas T, Rosenke R, Lovaglio J, Hanley PW, Saturday G, Muthumani K, Feldmann H, Humeau LM, Broderick KE, Weiner DB. Intradermal delivery of a synthetic DNA vaccine protects macaques from Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. JCI Insight 2021; 6:146082. [PMID: 33886507 PMCID: PMC8262283 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.146082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2020] [Accepted: 04/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Emerging coronaviruses from zoonotic reservoirs, including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), have been associated with human-to-human transmission and significant morbidity and mortality. Here, we study both intradermal and intramuscular 2-dose delivery regimens of an advanced synthetic DNA vaccine candidate encoding a full-length MERS-CoV spike (S) protein, which induced potent binding and neutralizing antibodies as well as cellular immune responses in rhesus macaques. In a MERS-CoV challenge, all immunized rhesus macaques exhibited reduced clinical symptoms, lowered viral lung load, and decreased severity of pathological signs of disease compared with controls. Intradermal vaccination was dose sparing and more effective in this model at protecting animals from disease. The data support the further study of this vaccine for preventing MERS-CoV infection and transmission, including investigation of such vaccines and simplified delivery routes against emerging coronaviruses.
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- Ami Patel
- Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Veterinary Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Hamilton, Montana, USA
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- Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc., Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc., Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Veterinary Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Hamilton, Montana, USA
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- Laboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Hamilton, Montana, USA
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- Laboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Hamilton, Montana, USA
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- Laboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Hamilton, Montana, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Veterinary Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Hamilton, Montana, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Veterinary Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Hamilton, Montana, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Veterinary Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Hamilton, Montana, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Veterinary Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Hamilton, Montana, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Veterinary Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Hamilton, Montana, USA
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- Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Laboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Hamilton, Montana, USA
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- Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Mendoza J, Carlson G, Nath P, Quinn J. P100 A REVIEW OF ADHERENCE WITH SUBCUTANEOUS IMMUNOTHERAPY (SCIT) IN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM WITHOUT OUT-OF-POCKET PATIENT EXPENSES. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2020.08.080] [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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Wise MC, Xu Z, Tello-Ruiz E, Beck C, Trautz A, Patel A, Elliott ST, Chokkalingam N, Kim S, Kerkau MG, Muthumani K, Jiang J, Fisher PD, Ramos SJ, Smith TR, Mendoza J, Broderick KE, Montefiori DC, Ferrari G, Kulp DW, Humeau LM, Weiner DB. In vivo delivery of synthetic DNA-encoded antibodies induces broad HIV-1-neutralizing activity. J Clin Invest 2020; 130:827-837. [PMID: 31697648 DOI: 10.1172/jci132779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [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: 08/19/2019] [Accepted: 10/24/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Interventions to prevent HIV-1 infection and alternative tools in HIV cure therapy remain pressing goals. Recently, numerous broadly neutralizing HIV-1 monoclonal antibodies (bNAbs) have been developed that possess the characteristics necessary for potential prophylactic or therapeutic approaches. However, formulation complexities, especially for multiantibody deliveries, long infusion times, and production issues could limit the use of these bNAbs when deployed, globally affecting their potential application. Here, we describe an approach utilizing synthetic DNA-encoded monoclonal antibodies (dmAbs) for direct in vivo production of prespecified neutralizing activity. We designed 16 different bNAbs as dmAb cassettes and studied their activity in small and large animals. Sera from animals administered dmAbs neutralized multiple HIV-1 isolates with activity similar to that of their parental recombinant mAbs. Delivery of multiple dmAbs to a single animal led to increased neutralization breadth. Two dmAbs, PGDM1400 and PGT121, were advanced into nonhuman primates for study. High peak-circulating levels (between 6 and 34 μg/ml) of these dmAbs were measured, and the sera of all animals displayed broad neutralizing activity. The dmAb approach provides an important local delivery platform for the in vivo generation of HIV-1 bNAbs and for other infectious disease antibodies.
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- Megan C Wise
- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.,Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Mendoza J. ‘Hypertension multiple’: Patients’ experiential knowledge concept of symptoms and care required, and its implications for public health. Eur J Public Health 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.018] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Patients' conceptualisations of their disease do not always correspond to the biomedical definitions. Patients make sense of conditions by drawing on embodied experiences, beliefs circulating in their environments and information gathered from a variety of sources. Discrepancy between biomedical and patients' conceptualisations is problematic as it can affect treatment adherence, access to care, patient-provider communication and quality of patient experience. This is particularly the case for hypertension, an ‘invisible disease' that gives rise to various lay conceptions and practices. We examine how the disease is made ‘real' for Filipino hypertensive patients and the role their embodied experiences play in apprehending the chronicity of hypertension and in shaping care-related practices.
Drawing from interview and focus group data from hypertensive patients in low-income communities in the Philippines, and on Annemarie Mol's notion of ‘multiplicity', the ‘symptom' plays a key role in the ways in which participants self-manage ‘hypertension'. Hypertension is a ‘multiple' condition that is understood and enacted differently by people who rely on their own experiential knowledge and ‘symptoms' to define its nature and act accordingly to maintain health. Their ‘symptoms' may or may not correspond with the biomedical view of hypertension, leading to a non-chronic view of hypertension that informs the decision (not) to take maintenance medications regularly.
These findings have consequences for health communications and primary care. Failing to account for this ‘multiplicity' can also negatively impact experiences of care if patients feel that their embodied experiences are dismissed as less legitimate than biomedical indicators of the disease. Clinicians and public health officials must emphasize educational efforts that aim to address divergent views of noncommunicable diseases while respecting, listening to, and accounting for patients' experiential knowledge.
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- J Mendoza
- College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines
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Rosenthal VD, Bat-Erdene I, Gupta D, Belkebir S, Rajhans P, Zand F, Myatra SN, Afeef M, Tanzi VL, Muralidharan S, Gurskis V, Al-Abdely HM, El-Kholy A, AlKhawaja SAA, Sen S, Mehta Y, Rai V, Hung NV, Sayed AF, Guerrero-Toapanta FM, Elahi N, Morfin-Otero MDR, Somabutr S, De-Carvalho BM, Magdarao MS, Velinova VA, Quesada-Mora AM, Anguseva T, Ikram A, Aguilar-de-Moros D, Duszynska W, Mejia N, Horhat FG, Belskiy V, Mioljevic V, Di-Silvestre G, Furova K, Gamar-Elanbya MO, Gupta U, Abidi K, Raka L, Guo X, Luque-Torres MT, Jayatilleke K, Ben-Jaballah N, Gikas A, Sandoval-Castillo HR, Trotter A, Valderrama-Beltrán SL, Leblebicioglu H, Riera F, López M, Maurizi D, Desse J, Pérez I, Silva G, Chaparro G, Golschmid D, Cabrera R, Montanini A, Bianchi A, Vimercati J, Rodríguez-del-Valle M, Domínguez C, Saul P, Chediack V, Piastrelini M, Cardena L, Ramasco L, Olivieri M, Gallardo P, Juarez P, Brito M, Botta P, Alvarez G, Benchetrit G, Caridi M, Stagnaro J, Bourlot I, García M, Arregui N, Saeed N, Abdul-Aziz S, ALSayegh S, Humood M, Mohamed-Ali K, Swar S, Magray T, Aguiar-Portela T, Sugette-de-Aguiar T, Serpa-Maia F, Fernandes-Alves-de-Lima L, Teixeira-Josino L, Sampaio-Bezerra M, Furtado-Maia R, Romário-Mendes A, Alves-De-Oliveira A, Vasconcelos-Carneiro A, Anjos-Lima JD, Pinto-Coelho K, Maciel-Canuto M, Rocha-Batista M, Moreira T, Rodrigues-Amarilo N, Lima-de-Barros T, Guimarães KA, Batista C, Santos C, de-Lima-Silva F, Santos-Mota E, Karla L, Ferreira-de-Souza M, Luzia N, de-Oliveira S, Takeda C, Azevedo-Ferreira-Lima D, Faheina J, Coelho-Oliveira L, do-Nascimento S, Machado-Silva V, Bento-Ferreira, Olszewski J, Tenorio M, Silva-Lemos A, Ramos-Feijó C, Cardoso D, Correa-Barbosa M, Assunção-Ponte G, Faheina J, da-Silva-Escudero D, Servolo-Medeiros E, Andrade-Oliveira-Reis M, Kostadinov E, Dicheva V, Petrov M, Guo C, Yu H, Liu T, Song G, Wang C, Cañas-Giraldo L, Marin-Tobar D, Trujillo-Ramirez E, Andrea-Rios P, Álvarez-Moreno C, Linares C, González-Rubio P, Ariza-Ayala B, Gamba-Moreno L, Gualtero-Trujill S, Segura-Sarmiento S, Rodriguez-Pena J, Ortega R, Olarte N, Pardo-Lopez Y, Luis Marino Otela-Baicue A, Vargas-Garcia A, Roncancio E, Gomez-Nieto K, Espinosa-Valencia M, Barahona-Guzman N, Avila-Acosta C, Raigoza-Martinez W, Villamil-Gomez W, Chapeta-Parada E, Mindiola-Rochel A, Corchuelo-Martinez A, Martinez A, Lagares-Guzman A, Rodriguez-Ferrer M, Yepes-Gomez D, Muñoz-Gutierrez G, Arguello-Ruiz A, Zuniga-Chavarria M, Maroto-Vargas L, Valverde-Hernández M, Solano-Chinchilla A, Calvo-Hernandez I, Chavarria-Ugalde O, Tolari G, Rojas-Fermin R, Diaz-Rodriguez C, Huascar S, Ortiz M, Bovera M, Alquinga N, Santacruz G, Jara E, Delgado V, Salgado-Yepez E, Valencia F, Pelaez C, Gonzalez-Flores H, Coello-Gordon E, Picoita F, Arboleda M, Garcia M, Velez J, Valle M, Unigarro L, Figueroa V, Marin K, Caballero-Narvaez H, Bayani V, Ahmed S, Alansary A, Hassan A, Abdel-Halim M, El-Fattah M, Abdelaziz-Yousef R, Hala A, Abdelhady K, Ahmed-Fouad H, Mounir-Agha H, Hamza H, Salah Z, Abdel-Aziz D, Ibrahim S, Helal A, AbdelMassih A, Mahmoud AR, Elawady B, El-sherif R, Fattah-Radwan Y, Abdel-Mawla T, Kamal-Elden N, Kartsonaki M, Rivera D, Mandal S, Mukherjee S, Navaneet P, Padmini B, Sorabjee J, Sakle A, Potdar M, Mane D, Sale H, Abdul-Gaffar M, Kazi M, Chabukswar S, Anju M, Gaikwad D, Harshe A, Blessymole S, Nair P, Khanna D, Chacko F, Rajalakshmi A, Mubarak A, Kharbanda M, Kumar S, Mathur P, Saranya S, Abubakar F, Sampat S, Raut V, Biswas S, Kelkar R, Divatia J, Chakravarthy M, Gokul B, Sukanya R, Pushparaj L, Thejasvini A, Rangaswamy S, Saini N, Bhattacharya C, Das S, Sanyal S, Chaudhury B, Rodrigues C, Khanna G, Dwivedy A, Binu S, Shetty S, Eappen J, Valsa T, Sriram A, Todi S, Bhattacharyya M, Bhakta A, Ramachandran B, Krupanandan R, Sahoo P, Mohanty N, Sahu S, Misra S, Ray B, Pattnaik S, Pillai H, Warrier A, Ranganathan L, Mani A, Rajagopal S, Abraham B, Venkatraman R, Ramakrishnan N, Devaprasad D, Siva K, Divekar D, Satish Kavathekar M, Suryawanshi M, Poojary A, Sheeba J, Patil P, Kukreja S, Varma K, Narayanan S, Sohanlal T, Agarwal A, Agarwal M, Nadimpalli G, Bhamare S, Thorat S, Sarda O, Nadimpalli P, Nirkhiwale S, Gehlot G, Bhattacharya S, Pandya N, Raphel A, Zala D, Mishra S, Patel M, Aggarwal D, Jawadwal B, Pawar N, Kardekar S, Manked A, Tamboli A, Manked A, Khety Z, Singhal T, Shah S, Kothari V, Naik R, Narain R, Sengupta S, Karmakar A, Mishra S, Pati B, Kantroo V, Kansal S, Modi N, Chawla R, Chawla A, Roy I, Mukherjee S, Bej M, Mukherjee P, Baidya S, Durell A, Vadi S, Saseedharan S, Anant P, Edwin J, Sen N, Sandhu K, Pandya N, Sharma S, Sengupta S, Palaniswamy V, Sharma P, Selvaraj M, Saurabh L, Agarwal M, Punia D, Soni D, Misra R, Harsvardhan R, Azim A, Kambam C, Garg A, Ekta S, Lakhe M, Sharma C, Singh G, Kaur A, Singhal S, Chhabra K, Ramakrishnan G, Kamboj H, Pillai S, Rani P, Singla D, Sanaei A, Maghsudi B, Sabetian G, Masjedi M, Shafiee E, Nikandish R, Paydar S, Khalili H, Moradi A, Sadeghi P, Bolandparvaz S, Mubarak S, Makhlouf M, Awwad M, Ayyad O, Shaweesh A, Khader M, Alghazawi A, Hussien N, Alruzzieh M, Mohamed Y, ALazhary M, Abdul Aziz O, Alazmi M, Mendoza J, De Vera P, Rillorta A, de Guzman M, Girvan M, Torres M, Alzahrani N, Alfaraj S, Gopal U, Manuel M, Alshehri R, Lessing L, Alzoman H, Abdrahiem J, Adballah H, Thankachan J, Gomaa H, Asad T, AL-Alawi M, Al-Abdullah N, Demaisip N, Laungayan-Cortez E, Cabato A, Gonzales J, Al Raey M, Al-Darani S, Aziz M, Al-Manea B, Samy E, AlDalaton M, Alaliany M, Alabdely H, Helali N, Sindayen G, Malificio A, Al-Dossari H, Kelany A, Algethami A, Mohamed D, Yanne L, Tan A, Babu S, Abduljabbar S, Al-Zaydani M, Ahmed H, Al Jarie A, Al-Qathani A, Al-Alkami H, AlDalaton M, Alih S, Alaliany M, Gasmin-Aromin R, Balon-Ubalde E, Diab H, Kader N, Hassan-Assiry I, Kelany A, Albeladi E, Aboushoushah S, Qushmaq N, Fernandez J, Hussain W, Rajavel R, Bukhari S, Rushdi H, Turkistani A, Mushtaq J, Bohlega E, Simon S, Damlig E, Elsherbini S, Abraham S, Kaid E, Al-Attas A, Hawsawi G, Hussein B, Esam B, Caminade Y, Santos A, Abdulwahab M, Aldossary A, Al-Suliman S, AlTalib A, Albaghly N, HaqlreMia M, Kaid E, Altowerqi R, Ghalilah K, Alradady M, Al-Qatri A, Chaouali M, Shyrine E, Philipose J, Raees M, AbdulKhalik N, Madco M, Acostan C, Safwat R, Halwani M, Abdul-Aal N, Thomas A, Abdulatif S, Ali-Karrar M, Al-Gosn N, Al-Hindi A, Jaha R, AlQahtani S, Ayugat E, Al-Hussain M, Aldossary A, Al-Suliman S, Al-Talib A, Albaghly N, Haqlre-Mia M, Briones S, Krishnan R, Tabassum K, Alharbi L, Madani A, Al-Hindi A, Al-Gethamy M, Alamri D, Spahija G, Gashi A, Kurian A, George S, Mohamed A, Ramapurath R, Varghese S, Abdo N, Foda-Salama M, Al-Mousa H, Omar A, Salama M, Toleb M, Khamis S, Kanj S, Zahreddine N, Kanafani Z, Kardas T, Ahmadieh R, Hammoud Z, Zeid I, Al-Souheil A, Ayash H, Mahfouz T, Kondratas T, Grinkeviciute D, Kevalas R, Dagys A, Mitrev Z, Bogoevska-Miteva Z, Jankovska K, Guroska S, Petrovska M, Popovska K, Ng C, Hoon Y, Hasan YM, Othman-Jailani M, Hadi-Jamaluddin M, Othman A, Zainol H, Wan-Yusoff W, Gan C, Lum L, Ling C, Aziz F, Zhazali R, Abud-Wahab M, Cheng T, Elghuwael I, Wan-Mat W, Abd-Rahman R, Perez-Gomez H, Kasten-Monges M, Esparza-Ahumada S, Rodriguez-Noriega E, Gonzalez-Diaz E, Mayoral-Pardo D, Cerero-Gudino A, Altuzar-Figueroa M, Perez-Cruz J, Escobar-Vazquez M, Aragon D, Coronado-Magana H, Mijangos-Mendez J, Corona-Jimenez F, Aguirre-Avalos G, Lopez-Mateos A, Martinez-Marroquin M, Montell-Garcia M, Martinez-Martinez A, Leon-Sanchez E, Gomez-Flores G, Ramirez M, Gomez M, Lozano M, Mercado V, Zamudio-Lugo I, Gomez-Gonzalez C, Miranda-Novales M, Villegas-Mota I, Reyes-Garcia C, Ramirez-Morales M, Sanchez-Rivas M, Cureno-Diaz M, Matias-Tellez B, Gonzalez-Martinez J, Juarez-Vargas R, Pastor-Salinas O, Gutierrez-Munoz V, Conde-Mercado J, Bruno-Carrasco G, Manrique M, Monroy-Colin V, Cruz-Rivera Z, Rodriguez-Pacheco J, Cruz N, Hernandez-Chena B, Guido-Ramirez O, Arteaga-Troncoso G, Guerra-Infante F, Lopez-Hurtado M, Caleco JD, Leyva-Medellin E, Salamanca-Meneses A, Cosio-Moran C, Ruiz-Rendon R, Aguilar-Angel L, Sanchez-Vargas M, Mares-Morales R, Fernandez-Alvarez L, Castillo-Cruz B, Gonzalez-Ma M, Zavala-Ramír M, Rivera-Reyna L, del-Moral-Rossete L, Lopez-Rubio C, Valadez-de-Alba M, Bat-Erdene A, Chuluunchimeg K, Baatar O, Batkhuu B, Ariyasuren Z, Bayasgalan G, Baigalmaa S, Uyanga T, Suvderdene P, Enkhtsetseg D, Suvd-Erdene D, Chimedtseye E, Bilguun G, Tuvshinbayar M, Dorj M, Khajidmaa T, Batjargal G, Naranpurev M, Bat-Erdene A, Bolormaa T, Battsetseg T, Batsuren C, Batsaikhan N, Tsolmon B, Saranbaatar A, Natsagnyam P, Nyamdawa O, Madani N, Abouqal R, Zeggwagh A, Berechid K, Dendane T, Koirala A, Giri R, Sainju S, Acharya S, Paul N, Parveen A, Raza A, Nizamuddin S, Sultan F, Imran X, Sajjad R, Khan M, Sana F, Tayyab N, Ahmed A, Zaman G, Khan I, Khurram F, Hussain A, Zahra F, Imtiaz A, Daud N, Sarwar M, Roop Z, Yusuf S, Hanif F, Shumaila X, Zeb J, Ali S, Demas S, Ariff S, Riaz A, Hussain A, Kanaan A, Jeetawi R, Castaño E, Moreno-Castillo L, García-Mayorca E, Prudencio-Leon W, Vivas-Pardo A, Changano-Rodriguez M, Castillo-Bravo L, Aibar-Yaranga K, Marquez-Mondalgo V, Mueras-Quevedo J, Meza-Borja C, Flor J, Fernandez-Camacho Y, Banda-Flores C, Pichilingue-Chagray J, Castaneda-Sabogal A, Caoili J, Mariano M, Maglente R, Santos S, de-Guzman G, Mendoza M, Javellana O, Tajanlangit A, Tapang A, Sg-Buenaflor M, Labro E, Carma R, Dy A, Fortin J, Navoa-Ng J, Cesar J, Bonifacio B, Llames M, Gata H, Tamayo A, Calupit H, Catcho V, Bergosa L, Abuy M, Barteczko-Grajek B, Rojek S, Szczesny A, Domanska M, Lipinska G, Jaroslaw J, Wieczoreka A, Szczykutowicza A, Gawor M, Piwoda M, Rydz-Lutrzykowska J, Grudzinska M, Kolat-Brodecka P, Smiechowicz K, Tamowicz B, Mikstacki A, Grams A, Sobczynski P, Nowicka M, Kretov V, Shalapuda V, Molkov A, Puzanov S, Utkin I, Tchekulaev A, Tulupova V, Vasiljevic S, Nikolic L, Ristic G, Eremija J, Kojovic J, Lekic D, Simic A, Hlinkova S, Lesnakova A, Kadankunnel S, Abdo-Ali M, Pimathai R, Wanitanukool S, Supa N, Prasan P, Luxsuwong M, Khuenkaew Y, Lamngamsupha J, Siriyakorn N, Prasanthai V, Apisarnthanarak A, Borgi A, Bouziri A, Cabadak H, Tuncer G, Bulut C, Hatipoglu C, Sebnem F, Demiroz A, Kaya A, Ersoz G, Kuyucu N, Karacorlu S, Oncul O, Gorenek L, Erdem H, Yildizdas D, Horoz O, Guclu E, Kaya G, Karabay O, Altindis M, Oztoprak N, Sahip Y, Uzun C, Erben N, Usluer G, Ozgunes I, Ozcelik M, Ceyda B, Oral M, Unal N, Cigdem Y, Bayar M, Bermede O, Saygili S, Yesiler I, Memikoglu O, Tekin R, Oncul A, Gunduz A, Ozdemir D, Geyik M, Erdogan S, Aygun C, Dilek A, Esen S, Turgut H, Sungurtekin H, Ugurcan D, Yarar V, Bilir Y, Bayram N, Devrim I, Agin H, Ceylan G, Yasar N, Oruc Y, Ramazanoglu A, Turhan O, Cengiz M, Yalcin A, Dursun O, Gunasan P, Kaya S, Senol G, Kocagoz A, Al-Rahma H, Annamma P, El-Houfi A, Vidal H, Perez F, D-Empaire G, Ruiz Y, Hernandez D, Aponte D, Salinas E, Vidal H, Navarrete N, Vargas R, Sanchez E, Ngo Quy C, Thu T, Nguyet L, Hang P, Hang T, Hanh T, Anh D. International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) report, data summary of 45 countries for 2012-2017: Device-associated module. Am J Infect Control 2020; 48:423-432. [PMID: 31676155 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2019.08.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2019] [Revised: 08/20/2019] [Accepted: 08/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND We report the results of International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) surveillance study from January 2012 to December 2017 in 523 intensive care units (ICUs) in 45 countries from Latin America, Europe, Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, and Western Pacific. METHODS During the 6-year study period, prospective data from 532,483 ICU patients hospitalized in 242 hospitals, for an aggregate of 2,197,304 patient days, were collected through the INICC Surveillance Online System (ISOS). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-National Healthcare Safety Network (CDC-NHSN) definitions for device-associated health care-associated infection (DA-HAI) were applied. RESULTS Although device use in INICC ICUs was similar to that reported from CDC-NHSN ICUs, DA-HAI rates were higher in the INICC ICUs: in the medical-surgical ICUs, the pooled central line-associated bloodstream infection rate was higher (5.05 vs 0.8 per 1,000 central line-days); the ventilator-associated pneumonia rate was also higher (14.1 vs 0.9 per 1,000 ventilator-days,), as well as the rate of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (5.1 vs 1.7 per 1,000 catheter-days). From blood cultures samples, frequencies of resistance, such as of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to piperacillin-tazobactam (33.0% vs 18.3%), were also higher. CONCLUSIONS Despite a significant trend toward the reduction in INICC ICUs, DA-HAI rates are still much higher compared with CDC-NHSN's ICUs representing the developed world. It is INICC's main goal to provide basic and cost-effective resources, through the INICC Surveillance Online System to tackle the burden of DA-HAIs effectively.
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Mendoza Y, Mendoza J, Kitley C. Abstract No. 526 Computed tomography–guided lung biopsies and complications with and without the use of autologous blood patch in a military facility. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2019.12.587] [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: 11/30/2022] Open
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Pazmiño-Palomino A, Mendoza J, Brito-Vera GA. First Record of Invasive Tawny Crazy Ant Nylanderia fulva (Mayr) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Continental Ecuador and Notes on Its Ecology in Sugarcane Crops. Neotrop Entomol 2020; 49:147-150. [PMID: 31414400 DOI: 10.1007/s13744-019-00709-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2019] [Accepted: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We report the first known record of the tawny crazy ant Nylanderia fulva (Mayr) in continental Ecuador. In addition, we describe the mutualistic association between ants and white aphids Melanaphis sacchari (Zehntner) in a sugarcane crop. Finally, we highlight the necessity to carry out studies of this nature due to an increasing number of invasive ant species in Ecuador and their potential damage to agricultural and natural ecosystems.
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- A Pazmiño-Palomino
- Sección Invertebrados, División Entomología, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Rumipamba 341 y Av. de los Shyris, Quito, Ecuador.
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- Centro de Investigación de la Caña de Azúcar del Ecuador, El Triunfo, Ecuador
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- Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Depto de Ecología, Pontificia Univ Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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Mendoza J, Infante A, Nath P, Quinn J, Freeman T, Amornruk N. M262 A NOVEL ACTIVATION INDUCED CYTIDINE DEAMINASE MUTATION IN AN ADULT WITH HYPER-IGM SYNDROME. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2019.08.367] [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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Bowles J, Caminati M, Cha S, Mendoza J. A framework for automated conflict detection and resolution in medical guidelines. Sci Comput Program 2019; 182:42-63. [PMID: 32029957 PMCID: PMC6993806 DOI: 10.1016/j.scico.2019.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2018] [Revised: 06/09/2019] [Accepted: 07/01/2019] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Common chronic conditions are routinely treated following standardised procedures known as clinical guidelines. For patients suffering from two or more chronic conditions, known as multimorbidity, several guidelines have to be applied simultaneously, which may lead to severe adverse effects when the combined recommendations and prescribed medications are inconsistent or incomplete. This paper presents an automated formal framework to detect, highlight and resolve conflicts in the treatments used for patients with multimorbidities focusing on medications. The presented extended framework has a front-end which takes guidelines captured in a standard modelling language and returns the visualisation of the detected conflicts as well as suggested alternative treatments. Internally, the guidelines are transformed into formal models capturing the possible unfoldings of the guidelines. The back-end takes the formal models associated with multiple guidelines and checks their correctness with a theorem prover, and inherent inconsistencies with a constraint solver. Key to our approach is the use of an optimising constraint solver which enables us to search for the best solution that resolves/minimises conflicts according to medication efficacy and the degree of severity in case of harmful combinations, also taking into account their temporal overlapping. The approach is illustrated throughout with a real medical example.
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- J. Bowles
- School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, Jack Cole Building, St Andrews KY16 9SX, United Kingdom
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- School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, Jack Cole Building, St Andrews KY16 9SX, United Kingdom
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- Automation and Information Systems, Technical University of Munich, Germany
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- School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, Jack Cole Building, St Andrews KY16 9SX, United Kingdom
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Pineda C, Rodríguez LC, Mendoza J, Sandoval H, Gutiérrez J. Popeye's sign. Clin Rheumatol 2019; 38:2949-2950. [PMID: 31273635 DOI: 10.1007/s10067-019-04652-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2019] [Revised: 06/14/2019] [Accepted: 06/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- C Pineda
- Division of Musculoskeletal and Rheumatic Disorders, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra, Calzada Mexico-Xochimilco 289, Colonia Arenal de Guadalupe, Alcaldía Tlalpan, CP 143898, Mexico City, Mexico.
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- Division of Musculoskeletal and Rheumatic Disorders, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra, Calzada Mexico-Xochimilco 289, Colonia Arenal de Guadalupe, Alcaldía Tlalpan, CP 143898, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Division of Musculoskeletal and Rheumatic Disorders, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra, Calzada Mexico-Xochimilco 289, Colonia Arenal de Guadalupe, Alcaldía Tlalpan, CP 143898, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Sociomedical Research Unit, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Division of Musculoskeletal and Rheumatic Disorders, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra, Calzada Mexico-Xochimilco 289, Colonia Arenal de Guadalupe, Alcaldía Tlalpan, CP 143898, Mexico City, Mexico
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Mendoza J, Tovar G, Galvis M, Mendoza M, Lozano C. Infected walled-off pancreatic necrosis managed with percutaneous-endoscopic transabdominal drainage: A case report. Rev Gastroenterol Mex (Engl Ed) 2019; 85:94-97. [PMID: 31208675 DOI: 10.1016/j.rgmx.2019.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2018] [Revised: 12/29/2018] [Accepted: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- J Mendoza
- Departamento de Cirugía Gastrointestinal, Clínica Foscal y Clínica Foscal Internacional, Floridablanca, Santander, Colombia
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- Departamento de Gastroenterología Clínica, Clínica Foscal y Clínica Foscal Internacional, Floridablanca, Santander, Colombia
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- Departamento de Radiología, Clínica Foscal y Clínica Foscal Internacional, Floridablanca, Santander, Colombia
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- Departamento Clínico, Clínica Foscal y Clínica Foscal Internacional, Floridablanca, Santander, Colombia
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- Clínica Foscal, Universidad de Cartagena, Floridablanca, Santander, Colombia.
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Esquivel RN, Patel A, Kudchodkar SB, Park DH, Stettler K, Beltramello M, Allen JW, Mendoza J, Ramos S, Choi H, Borole P, Asija K, Bah M, Shaheen S, Chen J, Yan J, Durham AC, Smith TR, Broderick K, Guibinga G, Muthumani K, Corti D, Humeau L, Weiner DB. In Vivo Delivery of a DNA-Encoded Monoclonal Antibody Protects Non-human Primates against Zika Virus. Mol Ther 2019; 27:974-985. [PMID: 30962164 PMCID: PMC6520333 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2019.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2018] [Revised: 03/01/2019] [Accepted: 03/11/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Zika virus (ZIKV) infection is endemic to several world regions, and many others are at high risk for seasonal outbreaks. Synthetic DNA-encoded monoclonal antibody (DMAb) is an approach that enables in vivo delivery of highly potent mAbs to control infections. We engineered DMAb-ZK190, encoding the mAb ZK190 neutralizing antibody, which targets the ZIKV E protein DIII domain. In vivo-delivered DMAb-ZK190 achieved expression levels persisting >10 weeks in mice and >3 weeks in non-human primate (NHPs), which is protective against ZIKV infectious challenge. This study is the first demonstration of infectious disease control in NHPs following in vivo delivery of a nucleic acid-encoded antibody, supporting the importance of this new platform.
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- Rianne N. Esquivel
- Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Humabs BioMed: a subsidiary of Vir Biotechnology, Bellinzona, Switzerland
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- Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Plymouth Meeting, PA, USA
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- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Plymouth Meeting, PA, USA
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- Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Humabs BioMed: a subsidiary of Vir Biotechnology, Bellinzona, Switzerland
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- Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology, Philadelphia, PA, USA,Corresponding author: David B. Weiner, Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology, 3601 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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Luckyanova MN, Mendoza J, Lu H, Song B, Huang S, Zhou J, Li M, Dong Y, Zhou H, Garlow J, Wu L, Kirby BJ, Grutter AJ, Puretzky AA, Zhu Y, Dresselhaus MS, Gossard A, Chen G. Phonon localization in heat conduction. Sci Adv 2018; 4:eaat9460. [PMID: 30588489 PMCID: PMC6303120 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat9460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2018] [Accepted: 11/20/2018] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Nondiffusive phonon thermal transport, extensively observed in nanostructures, has largely been attributed to classical size effects, ignoring the wave nature of phonons. We report localization behavior in phonon heat conduction due to multiple scattering and interference events of broadband phonons, by measuring the thermal conductivities of GaAs/AlAs superlattices with ErAs nanodots randomly distributed at the interfaces. With an increasing number of superlattice periods, the measured thermal conductivities near room temperature increased and eventually saturated, indicating a transition from ballistic to diffusive transport. In contrast, at cryogenic temperatures the thermal conductivities first increased but then decreased, signaling phonon wave localization, as supported by atomistic Greenșs function simulations. The discovery of phonon localization suggests a new path forward for engineering phonon thermal transport.
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- M. N. Luckyanova
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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- Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
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- Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Martinez FE, Ryden L, Leaver R, Mendoza J, Havill K. Fungal coronary embolus while on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Anaesth Intensive Care 2017; 45:634-635. [PMID: 28911297] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Elliott STC, Kallewaard NL, Benjamin E, Wachter-Rosati L, McAuliffe JM, Patel A, Smith TRF, Schultheis K, Park DH, Flingai S, Wise MC, Mendoza J, Ramos S, Broderick KE, Yan J, Humeau LM, Sardesai NY, Muthumani K, Zhu Q, Weiner DB. DMAb inoculation of synthetic cross reactive antibodies protects against lethal influenza A and B infections. NPJ Vaccines 2017; 2:18. [PMID: 29263874 PMCID: PMC5627301 DOI: 10.1038/s41541-017-0020-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [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: 02/09/2017] [Revised: 05/17/2017] [Accepted: 05/24/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Influenza virus remains a significant public health threat despite innovative vaccines and antiviral drugs. A major limitation to current vaccinations and therapies against influenza virus is pathogenic diversity generated by shift and drift. A simple, cost-effective passive immunization strategy via in vivo production of cross-protective antibody molecules may augment existing vaccines and antiviral drugs in seasonal and pandemic outbreaks. We engineered synthetic plasmid DNA to encode two novel and broadly cross-protective monoclonal antibodies targeting influenza A and B. We utilized enhanced in vivo delivery of these plasmid DNA-encoded monoclonal antibody (DMAb) constructs and show that this strategy induces robust levels of functional antibodies directed against influenza A and B viruses in mouse sera. Mice receiving a single inoculation with anti-influenza A DMAb survive lethal Group 1 H1 and Group 2 H3 influenza A challenges, while inoculation with anti-influenza B DMAb yields protection against lethal Victoria and Yamagata lineage influenza B morbidity and mortality. Furthermore, these two DMAbs can be delivered coordinately resulting in exceptionally broad protection against both influenza A and B. We demonstrate this protection is similar to that achieved by conventional protein antibody delivery. DMAbs warrant further investigation as a novel immune therapy platform with distinct advantages for sustained immunoprophylaxis against influenza. A novel innoculation technique involving the injection of antibody-producing plasmid DNA has shown to be effective against influenza in mice. The flu is responsible for up to half a million deaths each year and up to five million cases of severe disease, while also posing a substantial pandemic threat, even with our current repertoire of vaccines. A team of researchers led by Sarah Elliott and David Weiner of The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia, developed potent plasmid-based constructs that, once injected, entered hosts’ cells and utilized cellular machinery to encode antibodies protective against a range of influenza A and B subtypes. DNA inoculation conferred acute protection from disease, with treated individuals also being immune to subsequent exposure. This approach warrants further investigation as an alternative technology for practical delivery of monoclonal antibody therapeutics.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, MD USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, MD USA
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- Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Plymouth Meeting, PA USA
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- Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, MD USA
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- Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology, Philadelphia, PA USA
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The aim was to transfer alpaca and llama embryos obtained by IVF into recipient llamas and evaluate pregnancy and birth rates. Gametes were collected from samples of ovaries and testes collected from a local abattoir. Cumulus-oocyte complexes (COC) were recovered by aspiration of ovarian follicles using a 5-mL syringe, where oocytes with at least 3 layers of cumulus cells and a homogenous cytoplasm were matured in TCM-199 supplemented with 10% FCS, FSH (0.1 IU), and oestradiol 17β for 30 and 36 h with 5% CO2 in air, for alpaca and llama, respectively. After the maturation time, COC were placed in FERT-TALP solution 30 min before in vitro insemination with epididymal sperm of alpaca and llama as appropriate, the sperm were selected by swim-up method with centrifuging twice in 2 mL of SPERM-TALP supplemented with 6 mg mL−1 of fatty-free BSA, in an incubator with 5% CO2 in air set at 39°C for 45 min, oocytes were co-incubated with sperm concentration of 3 × 106 mL−1 for 18 to 20 h at 39°C with 5% CO2 in air. The IVF was carried out the day of ovulation induction of recipients. A group of 15 morphologically intact Day-8 blastocysts derived from in vitro culture with SOF serum were transferred nonsurgically into the uterine horn ipsilateral to the corpus luteum of 15 synchronized recipient llamas with an intravaginal device (controlled internal drug release) for 8 days. Then, 6 days after controlled internal drug release removal, ovulation was induced in recipients with the application of 1 mL of GnRH with previous ultrasound confirmation of the presence of a dominant follicle greater than 7 mm in diameter. Nine alpaca blastocysts and 6 llama blastocysts were transferred. The pregnancy rate was assessed by ultrasound at 45 days after transfer. The results obtained were as follows: for pregnancy rate, 33.3% (3/9) and 50% (3/6) for alpaca and llama embryos, respectively; for birth rate, 0.0% (0/9) and 16.7% (1/6) for alpaca and llama embryos, respectively. An alpaca fetus and 2 llama fetuses were aborted between 7 and 10 months of pregnancy, and only a llama gestation ended successfully, producing the first birth of the world of a llama bred by IVF in South American camelids, demonstrating that it is possible to obtain viable offspring in these species using this biotechnology.
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Mendoza J, Gaytan L, Mellado M, Angel O, Chavarria I. 1710 Nutrient content of crop residues selected by grazing goats. J Anim Sci 2016. [DOI: 10.2527/jam2016-1710] [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: 11/13/2022] Open
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Mendoza J, Sanio C, Chaudhri N. Inactivating the infralimbic but not prelimbic medial prefrontal cortex facilitates the extinction of appetitive Pavlovian conditioning in Long-Evans rats. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2014; 118:198-208. [PMID: 25543024 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2014.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [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: 08/22/2014] [Revised: 12/03/2014] [Accepted: 12/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The infralimbic medial prefrontal cortex (IL) has been posited as a common node in distinct neural circuits that mediate the extinction of appetitive and aversive conditioning. However, appetitive extinction is typically assessed using instrumental conditioning procedures, whereas the extinction of aversive conditioning is customarily studied using Pavlovian assays. The role of the IL in the extinction of appetitive Pavlovian conditioning remains underexplored. We investigated the involvement of the IL and prelimbic medial prefrontal cortex (PrL) in appetitive extinction in Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning assays in male, Long-Evans rats. Following acquisition, a gamma-aminobutyric acid agonist solution (0.03 nmol muscimol; 0.3 nmol baclofen; 0.3 μl/side) was bilaterally microinfused into the IL or PrL to pharmacologically inactivate each region before the first extinction session. Compared to saline, PrL inactivation did not affect the acquisition of extinction or the recall of extinction memory 24-h later. IL inactivation caused a more rapid extinction of Pavlovian conditioning, but had no effect on the extinction of instrumental conditioning or extinction recall. IL inactivation during a Pavlovian conditioning session in which conditioned stimulus (CS) trials were paired with sucrose did not affect CS-elicited behaviour, but increased responding during intervals that did not contain the CS. The same manipulation did not impact lever pressing for sucrose. These findings suggest that the IL may normally maintain Pavlovian conditioned responding when an anticipated appetitive CS is unexpectedly withheld, and that this region has distinct roles in the expression of Pavlovian conditioning when an appetitive unconditioned stimulus is either presented or omitted.
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- J Mendoza
- Center for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology/FRQS Groupe de recherche en neurobiologie comportementale, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Center for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology/FRQS Groupe de recherche en neurobiologie comportementale, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Center for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology/FRQS Groupe de recherche en neurobiologie comportementale, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
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Almost every physiological or behavioral process in mammals follows rhythmic patterns, which depend mainly on a master circadian clock located in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). The dopaminergic (DAergic) system in the brain is principally implicated in motor functions, motivation and drug intake. Interestingly, DA-related parameters and behaviors linked to the motivational and arousal states, show daily rhythms that could be regulated by the SCN or by extra-SCN circadian oscillator(s) modulating DAergic systems. Here we examine what is currently understood about the anatomical and functional central multi-oscillatory circadian system, highlighting how the main SCN clock communicates timing information with other brain clocks to regulate the DAergic system and conversely, how DAergic cues may have feedback effects on the SCN. These studies give new insights into the role of the brain circadian system in DA-related neurologic pathologies, such as Parkinson's disease, attention deficit/hyperactive disorder and drug addiction.
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- J Mendoza
- Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neurosciences, CNRS UPR-3212, University of Strasbourg, 5 rue Blaise Pascal, 67084 Strasbourg cedex, France.
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- Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neurosciences, CNRS UPR-3212, University of Strasbourg, 5 rue Blaise Pascal, 67084 Strasbourg cedex, France
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Helgesen KO, Bravo S, Sevatdal S, Mendoza J, Horsberg TE. Deltamethrin resistance in the sea louse Caligus rogercresseyi (Boxhall and Bravo) in Chile: bioassay results and usage data for antiparasitic agents with references to Norwegian conditions. J Fish Dis 2014; 37:877-890. [PMID: 24697556 DOI: 10.1111/jfd.12223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2013] [Revised: 11/29/2013] [Accepted: 11/29/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The sea louse Caligus rogercresseyi is a major threat to Chilean salmonid farming. Pyrethroids have been used for anticaligus treatments since 2007, but have shown reduced effect, most likely due to resistance development. Pyrethroid resistance is also a known problem in Lepeophtheirus salmonis in the Northern Hemisphere. This study describes the development of deltamethrin resistance in C. rogercresseyi based on bioassays and usage data for pyrethroids in Chilean aquaculture. These results were compared to bioassays from L. salmonis from Norway and to Norwegian usage data. Available deltamethrin bioassay results from 2007 and 2008, as well as bioassays from Norway, were collected and remodelled. Bioassays were performed on field-collected sea lice in region X in Chile in 2012 and 2013. Bioassays from 2007 were performed prior to the introduction of pyrethroids to the Chilean market. Both the results from 2008 and 2012 showed an increased resistance. Increased pyrethroid resistance was also indicated by the increased use of pyrethroids in Chilean aquaculture compared with the production of salmonids. A similar trend was seen in the Norwegian usage data. The bioassay results from Chile from 2012 and 2013 also indicated a difference in the susceptibility to deltamethrin between male and female caligus.
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- K O Helgesen
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Oslo, Norway
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Wong CL, Mendoza J, Henson SJ, Qi Y, Lou W, L'Abbé MR. Consumer attitudes and understanding of cholesterol-lowering claims on food: randomize mock-package experiments with plant sterol and oat fibre claims. Eur J Clin Nutr 2014; 68:946-52. [DOI: 10.1038/ejcn.2014.107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2013] [Revised: 02/18/2014] [Accepted: 04/08/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Garcipérez de Vargas FJ, Mendoza J, Ortiz C, Sánchez-Calderón P. [Gitelman's syndrome: a wolf in sheep's clothing]. Rev Clin Esp 2014; 214:229-30. [PMID: 24564992 DOI: 10.1016/j.rce.2014.01.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2013] [Accepted: 01/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital San Pedro de Alcántara, Cáceres, España
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- Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital San Pedro de Alcántara, Cáceres, España
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- Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital San Pedro de Alcántara, Cáceres, España
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Ruiz J, Landeo L, Mendoza J, Artica M, Correa J, Silva M, Miragaya M, Ratto M. Vitrification of in vitro mature alpaca oocyte: Effect of ethylene glycol concentration and time of exposure in the equilibration and vitrification solutions. Anim Reprod Sci 2013; 143:72-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2013.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2013] [Revised: 10/15/2013] [Accepted: 10/20/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Mullins L, Nichols J, Mendoza J, Teresia O, Eaves A. Food Insecurity and Use of Food Assistance Programs in a Houston Area Pediatric Clinic. J Acad Nutr Diet 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jand.2013.06.253] [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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Garcipérez de Vargas FJ, Gómez-Barrado JJ, Sánchez-Calderón P, Lezcano-Gort LE, Ortiz C, Mendoza J. [Complete atrioventricular block secondary to radiotherapy]. Med Intensiva 2012; 37:211-2. [PMID: 22749002 DOI: 10.1016/j.medin.2012.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2012] [Accepted: 05/21/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Quispe Ricalde M, Soto M, Perez E, Miranda L, Aguilar E, Luna R, Mendoza J, Apaza Y, Quispe M, Santana Morales M, Afonso Lehmann R, Martinez Carretero E, Valladares B, Pacheco R. Identification of the leishmaniasis causative agents and the reservoirs involved in Ivochote (Peru). Int J Infect Dis 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2012.05.663] [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: 11/30/2022] Open
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Garcipérez de Vargas FJ, Gómez-Barrado JJ, Ortiz C, Mendoza J, Sánchez-Calderón P, Marcos G. [Refractory heart failure in a patient treated with bevacizumab]. Med Intensiva 2012; 36:589-90. [PMID: 22386269 DOI: 10.1016/j.medin.2012.01.009] [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] [Received: 01/16/2012] [Revised: 01/19/2012] [Accepted: 01/20/2012] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Sánchez-Yebra W, Ávila-Carrillo JA, Giménez-Sánchez F, Reyes-Bertos A, Sánchez-Forte M, Morales-Torres M, Rojas A, Mendoza J. Viral agents causing lower respiratory tract infections in hospitalized children: evaluation of the Speed-Oligo® RSV assay for the detection of respiratory syncytial virus. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2011; 31:243-50. [PMID: 21647616 PMCID: PMC7088155 DOI: 10.1007/s10096-011-1300-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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: 05/01/2011] [Accepted: 05/15/2011] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the viral agent which is more frequently involved in lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) in infants under 1 year of age in developed countries. A new oligochromatographic assay, Speed-Oligo® RSV, was designed and optimized for the specific detection and identification of RSV subtypes A and B. The test was evaluated in 289 clinical samples from 169 hospitalized children using an immunochromatography (IC) test, virus isolation by culture, and an in-house real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Other viruses causing LRTIs were investigated by cell culture or PCR-based tests. Sixty-two patients were infected by RSV (36.7%). In addition, adenovirus, influenza B, parainfluenza 2, and human metapneumovirus were detected in rates ranging from 5 to 8%. A proportion of 10.1% of the patients had mixed infections. The sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values were, respectively, 94.9, 99.4, 98.9, and 97.4% for Speed-Oligo® RSV, 92.9, 96.3, 92.9, and 96.3% for RT-PCR/RSV, and 58.4, 98.1, 93.3, and 82.6% for IC. Our rates of viral detection and co-infection were similar to those of previously reported series. Finally, we find that Speed-Oligo® RSV is a rapid and easy-to-perform technique for the detection of RSV and the identification of subtypes A and B.
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- W Sánchez-Yebra
- Department of Microbiology, CH Torrecárdenas, 04009, Almería, Spain.
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Mendoza J, Lopez-Lopez C, Revel FG, Jeanneau K, Delerue F, Prinssen E, Challet E, Moreau JL, Grundschober C. Dimorphic effects of leptin on the circadian and hypocretinergic systems of mice. J Neuroendocrinol 2011; 23:28-38. [PMID: 20874776 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2010.02072.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The hormone leptin controls food intake and body weight through its receptor in the hypothalamus, and may modulate physiological functions such as reproduction, sleep or circadian timing. In the present study, the effects of leptin on the resetting of the circadian clock, the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) and on the activity of the hypocretinergic system were examined in vivo, with comparative analysis between male and female mice. A single leptin injection (5 mg/kg) at both the onset and offset of the activity period did not alter locomotion of mice housed under a 12 : 12 h light/dark cycle and did not shift the circadian behavioral rhythm of mice housed in constant darkness. By contrast, leptin potentiated the phase-shifting effect of a 30-min light-pulse on behavioural rhythms during the late subjective night, although only in females. This was accompanied by a higher induction of the clock genes Per1 and Per2 in the SCN. A 2-week chronic exposure to a physiological dose of leptin (100 μg/kg per day) decreased locomotor activity, expression of hypocretin receptor 1 and 2, as well as the number of hypocretin-immunoreactive neurones only in female mice, whereas the number of c-fos-positive hypocretinergic neurones was reduced in both genders. These results highlight a dimorphic effect of leptin on the hypocretinergic system and on the response of the circadian clock to light. Leptin may thus modulate the sleep/wake cycle and circadian system beside its well-established action on food intake and regulation of body weight.
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- J Mendoza
- Department of Neurobiology of Rhythms, Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neurosciences, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR3212 University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
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Trapero-Marugán M, Mendoza J, Moreno Monteagudo JA, Chaparro M, García-Buey L, González-Moreno L, Borque MJ, Moreno-Otero R. Current antiviral combination therapy for chronic hepatitis C patients who failed to interferon alfa-based treatment. J Clin Pharm Ther 2010; 36:695-703. [PMID: 21175705 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2710.2010.01231.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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WHAT IS KNOWN AND OBJECTIVE Interferon-alfa-based therapy is effective in the treatment of Hepatitis C. However, some patients fail to respond and others relapse, after initially responding. Our objective was to assess the efficacy, safety and predictive factors for sustained virological response (SVR) to peginterferon plus ribavirin in chronic hepatitis C patients who failed to interferon-alfa (IFNα)-based therapy. METHODS Seventy-five consecutive patients who failed to IFNα-based therapy were retreated with peginterferon plus ribavirin. Of these patients, 85% were infected by genotype 1. The primary endpoint was SVR. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Of 75 non-responder (n = 54) or relapser patients (n = 21), 50 were previously treated with IFNα-monotherapy and 25 with IFNα plus ribavirin. Global SVR rate was 41.3%: for patients re-treated with IFNα the response was 48% whilst for those retreated with IFNα plus ribavirin, it was 28%. For previous non-responders the SVR rate was 37% and for relapsers it was 52.4%. WHAT IS NEW AND CONCLUSION Retreatment with peginterferon plus ribavirin is an effective option for some chronic hepatitis C non-responder or relapser patients. Higher SVR rate was achieved in relapsers and in those patients who received IFNα monotherapy previously.
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- M Trapero-Marugán
- Gastroenterology and Hepatology Service, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Autonomous University of Madrid, and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), Madrid, Spain.
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Mendoza J, Trapero-Marugán M, González-Moreno L, Jones EA, Gómez-Domínguez E, Moreno-Otero R. Hepatic fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C assessed by transient elastography: implications for determining the efficacy of antiviral therapy. Rev Esp Enferm Dig 2010; 102:426-34. [PMID: 20617863 DOI: 10.4321/s1130-01082010000700005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND The efficacy of combination therapy with peginterferon plus ribavirin to eradicate viral infection in patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC) is well established; moreover, it is able to arrest or even reverse liver fibrosis. AIMS To analyze the measurements of hepatic stiffness as an index of liver fibrosis using transient elastography (TE) in patients who underwent a sustained virological response (SVR) during long-term follow-up; comparing the changes in the severity of fibrosis with non-responders patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS After hepatic fibrosis was studied in three patients with CHC who underwent a SVR during long-term follow up, a prospective study was initiated in 24 patients with CHC who received combination therapy to compare the evolution of fibrosis in those with SVR and those who were non-responders. The genotype of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and the degree of viremia were determined. METAVIR scoring system was used for liver fibrosis. Hepatic stiffness was measured by TE. RESULTS Of the initial three patients pre-treatment liver biopsies revealed active disease and fibrosis (stage 3) in two and mild fibrosis (stage 1) in one. After several years of follow up serum AST/ALT levels were normal and HCV RNA was undetectable in each case; in contrast to the baseline histological assessments of fibrosis, values for hepatic stiffness (3.4-6.9 KPa) were compatible with an absence of any appreciable hepatic fibrosis. In the prospective study, 8 patients underwent a SVR and 16 were non-responders. TE indicated that the severity of hepatic fibrosis in the SVR group improved in 7 (88%) patients, whereas in the non-responder it improved in only 4 (25%) (p < 0.05). The difference between development of severe fibrosis (F > or = 3) in responders and non-responders was not significant (p = 0.23), possibly due to the small sample size. CONCLUSIONS Regression of hepatic fibrosis appears to be common in patients with CHC who undergo a SVR. TE is a simple non-invasive technique that enables multiple assessments of the severity of hepatic fibrosis to be made efficiently during long-term follow-up of patients with CHC who receive combination antiviral therapy.
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- J Mendoza
- Service of Digestive Diseases and CIBERehd, University Hospital La Princesa, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain
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Michelli E, Tellez L, Mendoza J, Jurgensen C, Botello W, Correnti M, Cavazza M, Vielma S. Amplification of early genes of Human Papilloma Virus targeting nine virus genotypes. Mérida, Venezuela. Int J Infect Dis 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2010.02.671] [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: 11/16/2022] Open
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Jurgensen C, Vielma S, Michelli E, Tellez L, Mendoza J, Muñoz M, Correnti M, Cavazza M. Viral load and genome integration detection: Two molecular markers for HPV persistent infection. Int J Infect Dis 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2010.02.674] [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: 10/19/2022] Open
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Mendoza J, Albrecht U, Challet E. Behavioural food anticipation in clock genes deficient mice: confirming old phenotypes, describing new phenotypes. Genes Brain Behav 2010; 9:467-77. [PMID: 20180860 DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183x.2010.00576.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Animals fed daily at the same time exhibit circadian food-anticipatory activity (FAA), which has been suggested to be driven by one or several food-entrainable oscillators (FEOs). FAA is altered in mice lacking some circadian genes essential for timekeeping in the main suprachiasmatic clock (SCN). Here, we confirmed that single mutations of clock genes Per1(-/-) and Per2(Brdm1) alter FAA expression in constant darkness (DD) or under a light-dark cycle (LD). Furthermore, we found that Per1(-/-);Per2(Brdm1) and Per2(Brdm1);Cry1(-/-) double mutant animals did not display a stable and significant FAA either in DD or LD. Interestingly, rescued behavioural rhythms in Per2(Brdm1);Cry2(-/-) mice in DD were totally entrained to feeding time and re-synchronized after phase-shifts of mealtime, indicating a higher SCN sensitivity to feeding cues. However, under an LD cycle and restricted feeding at midday, FAA in double Per2(Brdm1);Cry2(-/-) mutant mice was absent. These results indicate that shutting down one or two clock genes results in altered circadian meal anticipation. Moreover, we show that in a genetically rescued SCN clock (Per2(Brdm1);Cry2(-/-)), food is a powerful zeitgeber to entrain behavioural rhythms, leading the SCN to be more sensitive to feeding cues than in wild-type littermates.
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- J Mendoza
- Institut de Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives, Département de Neurobiologie des Rythmes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR3212 associée à l'Université de Strasbourg, France.
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Phillips M, Haines M, Peck E, Lee H, Phillips B, Wein B, Bekenstein J, O'Grady J, Schoenberg M, Ogrocki P, Maddux B, Whitney C, Gould D, Riley D, Maciunas R, Espe-Pfeifer P, Arguello J, Taber S, Duff K, Fields A, Newby R, Weissgerber K, Epping A, Panepinto J, Scott P, Reesman J, Zabel A, Wodka E, Ferenc L, Comi A, Cohen N, Bigelow S, McCrea Jones L, Sandoval R, Vilar-Lopez R, Puente N, Hidalgo-Ruzante N, Bure A, Ojeda C, Puente A, Zolten A, Mallory L, Heyanka D, Golden C, McCue R, Heyanka D, Mackelprang J, Reuther B, Golden C, Odland A, Scarisbrick D, Heyanka D, Martin P, Golden C, Mazur-Mosiewicz A, Holcomb M, Dean R, Schneider J, Morgan D, Scott J, Leber W, Adams R, Marceaux J, Triebel K, Griffith H, Gifford K, Potter E, Webbe F, Barker W, Loewenstein D, Duara R, Gifford K, Mahaney T, Srinivasan V, Cummings T, Frankl M, Bayan R, Webbe F, Mulligan K, Duncan N, Greenaway M, Sakamoto M, Spiers M, Libon D, Pimontel M, Gavett B, Jefferson A, Nair A, Green R, Stern R, Mahaney T, Frankl M, Cummings T, Mulligan K, Webbe F, Lou K, Gavett B, Jefferson A, Nair A, Green R, Morere D, Gifford K, Ferro J, Ezrine G, Kiefel J, Hinton V, Greco S, Corradino G, Pantone J, MacLeod R, Stern R, Hart J, Lavach J, Pick L, Szymanski C, Ilardi D, Marcus D, Burns T, Mahle W, Jenkins P, Davis A, McDermott A, Pierson E, Freeman Floyd E, McIntosh D, Dixon F, Davis A, Boseck J, Berry K, Whited A, Gelder B, Davis A, Dodd J, Berry K, Boseck J, Koehn E, Gelder B, Riccio C, Kahn D, Perez E, Reynolds C, Scott M, Nguyen-Driver M, Ruchinskas R, Lennen D, Steiner R, Sikora D, Freeman K, Carboni J, Fong G, Fong G, Carboni J, Whigham K, O'Toole K, Schneider B, Burns T, Olivier T, Nemeth D, Whittington L, Moreau A, Webb N, Weimer M, Gontier J, Labrana J, Rioseco F, Lichtenberg P, Puente A, Puente A, Bure A, Buddin H, Teichner G, Golden C, Pacheco E, Chong J, Gold S, Mittenberg W, Miller A, Bruce J, Hancock L, Peterson S, Jacobson J, Guse E, Tyrer J, Lasater J, Fritz J, Lynch S, Yarger L, Bryant K, Zychowski L, Nippoldt-Baca L, Lehman C, Arffa S, Marceaux J, Dilks L, Arthur A, Myers B, Levy J, Blancett S, Martincin K, Thrasher A, Koushik N, McArthur S, Baird A, Foster P, Drago V, Yung R, Crucian G, Heilman K, Castellon S, Livers E, Oppenheim A, Carter C, Ganz P, San Miguel-Montes L, Escabi-Quiles Y, Allen D, Gavett B, Stern R, Nowinski C, Cantu R, Martukovich R, McKee A, Davis A, Roberds E, Lutz J, Williams R, Gupta A, Schoenberg M, Werz M, Maciunas R, Koubeissi M, Poreh A, Luders H, Barwick F, Arnett P, Morse C, Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Luna L, Rao S, McClendon J, Rotelle P, Waber D, Holland A, Boyer K, Faraone S, Whitney J, Guild D, Biederman J, Baerwald J, Ryan G, Baerwald J, Ryan G, Guerrero J, Carmona J, Parsons T, Rizzo A, Lance B, Courtney C, Baerwald J, Ryan G, Perna R, Jackson A, Luton L, O'Toole K, Harrison D, Alosco M, Emerson K, Hill B, Bauer L, Tremont G, Zychowski L, Yarger L, Kegel N, Arffa S, Crockett D, Hunt S, Parks R, Vernon-Wilkinsion R, Hietpas-Wilson T, Zartman A, Gordon S, Krueger K, VanBuren K, Yates A, Hilsabeck R, Campbell J, Riner B, Crowe S, Noggle C, Thompson J, Barisa M, Maulucci A, Noggle C, Thompson J, Barisa M, Maulucci A, Noggle C, Latham K, Thompson J, Barisa M, Maulucci A, Sumowski J, Chiaravalloti N, Lengenfelder J, DeLuca J, Iturriaga L, Henry G, Heilbronner R, Carmona J, Mittenberg W, Enders C, Stevens A, Dux M, Henry G, Heilbronner R, Mittenberg W, Enders C, Myers A, Arffa S, Holland A, Nippoldt-Baca L, Yarger L, Acocella-Stollerman J, Lee E, Peck E, Lee H, Khawaja S, Phillips B, Crockett A, Greve K, Comer C, Ord J, Etherton J, Bianchini K, Curtis K, Harrison A, Edwards M, Harrison A, Edwards M, Cottingham M, Goldberg H, Harrison D, Victor T, Perry L, Pazienza S, Boone K, Bowers T, Triebel K, Denney R, Halfaker D, Tussey C, Barber A, Martin P, Denney R, Deal W, Bailey C, Denney R, Marcopulos B, Schaefer L, Rabin L, Kakkanatt T, Popalzai A, Chantasi K, Heyanka D, Magyar Y, Cruz R, Weiss L, Schatz P, Gibney B, Lietner D, Koushik N, Brooks B, Iverson G, Horton A, Odland A, Reynolds C, Horton A, Reynolds C, Davis A, Finch W, Skierkiewicz A, Rothlisberg B, McIntosh D, Davis A, Finch W, Golden C, Chang M, McIntosh D, Rothlisberg B, Paulson S, Davis A, Starling J, Whited A, Chang M, Roberds E, Dodd J, Martin P, Goldstein G, DeFilippis N, Carlozzi N, Tulsky D, Kurkowski R, Browne K, Wortman K, Gershon R, Heyanka D, Odland A, Golden C, Rodriguez M, Myers A, West S, Golden C, Holster J, Bolanos J, Corsun-Ascher C, Golden C, Robbins J, Restrepo L, Prinzi L, Garcia J, Golden C, Holster J, Bolanos J, Garcia J, Golden C, Osgood J, Trice A, Ernst W, Mahaney T, Gifford K, Oelschlager J, Gurrea J, Tourgeman I, Odland A, Golden C, Tourgeman I, Gurrea J, Stack M, Boddy R, Demsky Y, Golden C, Judd T, Jurecska D, Holmes J, Aguerrevere L, Greve K, Capps D, Izquierdo R, Feldman C, Boddy R, Scarisbrick D, Rice J, Tourgeman I, Golden C, Scarisbrick D, Boddy R, Corsun-Ascher C, Heyanka D, Golden C, Woon F, Hedges D, Odland A, Heyanka D, Martin P, Golden C, Yamout K, Heinrichs R, Baade L, Soetaert D, Perle J, Odland A, Martin P, Golden C, Armstrong C, Bello D, Randall C, Allen D, McLaren T, Konopacki K, Peery S, Miranda F, Saleh M, Moise F, Mendoza J, Mak E, Gomez R, Mihaila E, Parrella M, White L, Harvey P, Marshall D, Gomez R, Keller J, Rogers E, Misa J, Che A, Tennakoon L, Schatzberg A, Sutton G, Allen D, Strauss G, Bello D, Armstrong C, Randall C, Duke L, Ross S, Randall C, Bello D, Armstrong C, Sutton G, Ringdahl E, Thaler N, McMurray J, Sanders L, Isaac H, Allen D, Rumble S, Klonoff P, Wilken J, Sullivan C, Fratto T, Sullivan A, McKenzie T, Ensley M, Saunders C, Quig M, Kane R, Simsarian J, Restrepo L, Rodriguez M, Robbins J, Morrow J, Golden C, Yung R, Sullivan W, Stringer K, Ferguson B, Drago V, Foster P, Lanting S, Brooks B, Iverson G, Horton A, Reynolds C, Scarisbrick D, Odland A, Perle J, Golden C, West S, Collins K, Frisch D, Golden C, Guerrero J, Baerwald J, Yung R, Sullivan W, Stringer K, Ferguson B, Drago V, Foster P, Mackelprang J, Heyanka D, Lennertz L, Morin I, Marker C, Collins M, Dodd J, Goldstein G, DeFilippis N, Holcomb M, Kimball T, Luther E, Belsher B, Botelho V, Reed R, Hernandez B, Noda A, Yesavage J, Kinoshita L, Kakos L, Gunstad J, Hughes J, Spitznagel M, Potter V, Stanek K, Szabo A, Waechter D, Josephson R, Rosneck J, Schofield H, Getz G, Magnuson S, Bryant K, Miller A, Martincin K, Pastel D, Poreh A, Davis J, Ramos C, Sherer C, Bertram D, Wall J, Bryant K, Poreh A, Magnuson S, Miller A, Martincin K, Pastel D, Gow C, Francis J, Olson L, Sautter S, Ord J, Capps D, Greve K, Bianchini K, Stettler T, Daniel M, Kleman V, Etchells M, Rabinowitz A, Barwick F, Arnett P, Proto D, Barker A, Gouvier W, Jones K, Williams J, Lockwood C, Mansoor Y, Homer-Smith E, Moses J, Stolberg P, Jones W, Krach S, Loe S, Mortimer J, Avirett E, Maricle D, Miller D, Avirett E, Mortimer J, Maricle D, Miller D, Avirett E, Mortimer J, Miller D, Maricle D, McGill C, Moneta L, Gioia G, Isquith P, Lazarus G, Puente A, Ahern D, Faust D, Bridges A, Ahern D, Faust D, Bridges A, Hobson V, Hall J, Harvey M, Spering C, Cullum M, Lacritz L, Massman P, Waring S, O'Bryant S, Frisch D, Morrow J, West S, Golden C, West S, Dougherty M, Rice J, Golden C, Morrow J, Frisch D, Pearlson J, Golden C, Thorgusen S, Watson J, Miller A, Kesner R, Levy J, Lambert A, Fazeli P, Marceaux J, Vance D, Marceaux J, Fazeli P, Vance D, Frankl M, Cummings T, Mahaney T, Webbe F, Spering C, Cooper J, Hobson V, O'Bryant S, Bolanos J, Holster J, Metoyer K, Garcia J, Golden C, Brown C, O'Toole K, Brown C, O'Toole K, Granader Y, Keller S, Bender H, Rathi S, Nass R, MacAllister W, Maehr A, Kiefel J, Bigras C, Slick D, Dewey L, Tao R, Motes M, Emslie G, Rypma B, Kahn D, Riccio C, Reynolds C, Eberle N, Mucci G, Chase A, Boyle M, Gallaway M, Bowyer S, Lajiness-O'Neill R, Gifford K, Mahaney T, Cohen R, Gorman P, Levin Allen S, O'Hara E, LeGoff D, Chute D, Barakat L, Laboy G, San Miguel-Montes L, Rios-Motta M, Pita-Garcia I, Van Horn H, Cuevas M, Ross P, Kinjo C, Basanez T, Patel S, Dinishak D, Zhou W, Ortega M, Zareie R, Lane B, Rosen A, Myers A, Domboski K, Ireland S, Mittenberg W, Mazur-Mosiewicz A, Holcomb M, Dean R, Myerson C, Katzen H, Mittel A, McClendon M, Guevara A, Nahab F, Gallo B, Levin B, Fay T, Brooks B, Sherman E, Szabo A, Gunstad J, Spitznagel M, McCaffery J, McGeary J, Paul R, Sweet L, Cohen R, Hancock L, Bruce J, Peterson S, Jacobson J, Tyrer J, Guse E, Lasater J, Fritz J, Lynch S, O'Rourke J, Queller S, Whitlock K, Beglinger L, Stout J, Duff K, Paulsen J, Kim M, Jang J, Chung J, Zukerman J, Miller S, Waterman G, Sadek J, Singer E, Heaton R, van Gorp W, Castellon S, Hinkin C, Yamout K, Baade L, Panos S, Becker B, Kim M, Foley J, Jang J, Chung J, Castellon S, Hinkin C, Kim M, Jang J, Foley J, Chung J, Miller S, Castellon S, Marcotte T, Hinkin C, Merrick E, Kazakov D, Duke L, Field R, Allen D, Mayfield J, Barney S, Thaler N, Allen D, Donohue B, Mayfield J, Mauro C, Shope C, Riber L, Dhami S, Citrome L, Tremeau F, Heyanka D, Corsun-Ascher C, Englebert N, Golden C, Block C, Sautter S, Stolberg P, Terranova J, Jones W, Allen D, Mayfield J, Ramanathan D, Medaglia J, Chiou K, Wardecker B, Slocomb J, Vesek J, Wang J, Hills E, Good D, Hillary F, Kimpton T, Kirshenbaum A, Madathil R, Trontel H, Hall S, Chiou K, Slocomb J, Ramanathan D, Medaglia J, Wardecker B, Vesek J, Wang J, Hills E, Good D, Hillary F, Salinas C, Tiedemann S, Webbe F, Williams C, Wood R, Ringdahl E, Thaler N, Hodges T, Mayfield J, Allen D, Kazakov D, Haderlie M, Terranova J, Martinez A, Allen D, Mayfield J, Medaglia J, Ramanathan D, Chiou K, Wardecker B, Franklin R, Genova H, Deluca J, Hillary F, Pastrana F, Wurst L, Zeiner H, Garcia A, Bender H, Rice J, West S, Dougherty M, Boddy R, Golden C, Tyrer J, Bruce J, Hancock L, Guse E, Jacobson J, Lynch S, Yung R, Sullivan W, Stringer K, Ferguson B, Drago V, Foster P, Scarisbrick D, Heyanka D, Frisch D, Golden C, Prinzi L, Morrow J, Robbins J, Golden C, Fallows R, Amin K, Virden T, Borgaro S, Hubel K, Miles G, Gomez R, Nazarian S, Mucci G, Moreno-Torres M, San Miguel-Montes L, Otero-Zeno T, Rios M, Douglas K, McGhee R, Sakamoto M, Spiers M, Vanderslice-Barr J, Elbin R, Covassin T, Kontos A, Larson E, Stiller-Ostrowski J, McLain M, Serina N, John S, Rautiola M, Waldstein S, Che A, Gomez R, Keller J, Tennakoon L, Marshall D, Rogers E, Misa J, Schatzberg A, Stiles M, Ericson R, Earleywine M, Ericson R, Earleywine M, Tourgeman I, Boddy R, Gurrea J, Buddin H, Golden C, Holcomb M, Mazur-Mosiewicz A, Dean R, Miele A, Lynch J, McCaffrey R, Miele A, Vanderslice-Barr J, Lynch J, McCaffrey R, Wershba R, Stevenson M, Thomas M, Sturgeon J, Youngjohn J, Morgan D, Bello D, Hollimon M, Schneider J, Edgington C, Scott J, Adams R, Morgan D, Bello D, Hollimon M, Schneider J, Edgington C, Scott J, Adams R, Heinrichs R, Baade L, Soetaert D, Barisa M, Noggle C, Thompson J, Barisa M, Noggle C, Thompson J, Barisa M, Noggle C, Thompson J, Pimental P, Riedl K, Kimsey M, Sartori A, Griffith H, Okonkwo O, Marson D, Bertisch H, Schaefer L, McKenzie S, Mittelman M, Hibbard M, Sherr R, Diller L, McTaggart A, Williams R, Troster A, Clark J, Owens T, O'Jile J, Schmitt A, Livingston R, Smernoff E, Galusha J, Piazza J, Gutierrez M, Yeager C, Hyer L, Vaughn E, LaPorte D, Schoenberg M, Werz M, Pedigo T, Lavach J, Hart J, Vyas S, Dorta N, Granader Y, Roberts E, Hill B, Musso M, Pella R, Barker A, Proto D, Gouvier W, Gibson K, Bowers T, Bowers T, Gibson K, Hinkle S, Barisa M, Noggle C, Thompson J, Thompson J, Noggle C, Barisa M, Maulucci A, Thompson J, Noggle C, Barisa M, Maulucci A, Thompson J, Noggle C, Barisa M, Maulucci A, Benitez A, Gunstad J, Spitznagel M, Szabo A, Rogers E, Gomez R, Keller J, Marshall D, Tennakoon L, Che A, Misa J, Schatzber A, Strauss G, Ringdahl E, Barney S, Jetha S, Duke L, Ross S, Watrous B, Allen D, Maucieri L, Noggle C, Barisa M, Thompson J, Maulucci A, Noggle C, Barisa M, Thompson J, Maulucci A, Noggle C, Barisa M, Thompson J, Maulucci A, Noggle C, Thompson J, Barisa M, Maulucci A, Noggle C, Thompson J, Barisa M, Maulucci A, Getz G, Dandridge A, Klein R, La Point S, Holcomb M, Mazur-Mosiewicz A, Dean R, Bailey C, Samples H, Broshek D, Barth J, Freeman J, Schatz P, Neidzwski K, Moser R, Reesman J, Suli-Moci E, Wells C, Moneta L, Dean P, Gioia G, Belsher B, Hutson L, Greenberg L, Sullivan C, Hull A, Poole J, Schatz P, Pardini J, Lovell M, Strauser E, Parish R, Carr W, Paggi M, Anderson-Barnes V, Kelly M, Hutson L, Loughlin J, Sullivan C, Kelley E, Poole J, Hutson L, Loughlin J, Sullivan C, Belsher B, Hull A, Greenberg L, Poole J, Carr W, Parish R, Paggi M, Anderson-Barnes V, Ahlers S, Roebuck Spencer T, O'Neill D, Carter J, Bleiberg J, Lange R, Brubacher J, Iverson G, Madler B, Heran M, MacKay A, Andolfatto G, Krol A, Mrazik M, Lebby P, Johnson W, Sweatt J, Turitz M, Greenawald K, Lesser S, Ormonde A, Lavach J, Hart J, Demakis G, Rimland C, Lengenfelder J, Sumowski J, Smith A, Chiaravalloti N, DeLuca J, Pierson E, Koehn E, Lajiness-O'Neill R, Hyer L, Yeager C, Manatan K, Sherman S, Atkinson M, Massey-Connolly S, Gugnani M, Stack R, Carson A, Mirza N, Johnson E, Lovell M, Perna R, Jackson A, Roy S, Zebeigly A, Larochette A, Bowie C, Harrison A, Nippoldt-Baca L, Bleil J, Arffa S, Thompson J, Noggle C, Mark B, Maulucci A, Umaki T, Denney R, Greenberg L, Hull A, Belsher B, Lee H, Sullivan C, Poole J, Abrigo E, Hurewitz F, Kounios J, Noggle C, Barisa M, Thompson J, Maulucci A, Greve K, Aguerrevere L, Bianchini K, Etherton J, Heinly M, Kontos A, Covassin T, Elbin R, Larson E, Stearne D, Johnson D, Gilliland K, Vincent A, Chafetz M, Herkov M, Morais H, Schwait A, Mangiameli L, Greenhill T. Grand Rounds. Arch Clin Neuropsychol 2009. [DOI: 10.1093/arclin/acp045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Gómez-Dominguez E, Mendoza J, García-Buey L, Trapero M, Gisbert JP, Jones EA, Moreno-Otero R. Transient elastography to assess hepatic fibrosis in primary biliary cirrhosis. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2008; 27:441-7. [PMID: 18081731 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2007.03585.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND Liver stiffness measurements may have potential for detecting and monitoring hepatic fibrosis in chronic liver disease. AIM To study the detection, quantification and progression of hepatic fibrosis in primary biliary cirrhosis by liver stiffness measurements. METHODS Liver stiffness measurements were generated in 80 patients with primary biliary cirrhosis by applying transient elastography; however, as there were 55 with liver biopsy, histological stage (METAVIR) and liver stiffness measurements were compared only in these 55 patients. The efficiency of liver stiffness measurements in predicting stage of fibrosis was determined from the area under receiver operating characteristics curve analysis. RESULTS Of the 80 patients included, 91, 4% were women and their mean age was 56 +/- 12 (s.d.) years. A significant correlation was found (P < 0.05) between histological fibrosis stage (METAVIR) and liver stiffness measurements. The values obtained from area under receiver operating characteristic curve analysis of liver stiffness measurement data were 0.89 for F > 2 and 0.96 for F = 4. Liver stiffness measurements were 9.0 +/- 5.3 and 7.9 +/- 6.0 kPa for patients followed up more than 5 years and less than 5 years, respectively (P > 0.05). CONCLUSIONS In patients with primary biliary cirrhosis, median values of liver stiffness measurements correlated with histological severity of hepatic fibrosis. Liver stiffness measurements appear to be promising for liver fibrosis detection and quantification, as well as monitoring its progression, in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis. The progression rate of hepatic fibrosis in our primary biliary cirrhosis patients appears to be slow.
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- E Gómez-Dominguez
- Service of Gastroenterology, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Fuchs V, Barbosa V, Mendoza J, Vargas A, Amancio O, Hernández-Cuéllar A, Arana-Rivera E. [Effect of an intensive nutritional treatment in nutritional status of head and neck cancer patients in stages III and IV]. NUTR HOSP 2008; 23:134-140. [PMID: 18449449] [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] [Received: 05/07/2007] [Accepted: 07/27/2007] [Indexed: 05/26/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE Malnutrition and accelerated weight loss are frequent secondary diagnosis in patients with cancer. Head and neck cancer (H & N Cancer) affects nutritional status because of the tumor type and localization. The aim of the study was to assess the effect of an intensive nutritional treatment (INT) on nutritional status of H & N cancer patients, stages III and IV and to compare that with a historical control whose nutritional treatment was conventional (CT). METHODS All patients were nutritionally assessed before oncological treatment started (anthropometrical, biochemical, and dietetically). A nutritional feeding plan according to their nutritional personal need was calculated. In case it was impossible to cover all the nutritional requirements orally, a feeding tube was placed. Nutritional follow up was performed each 21 days, during their oncological treatment in four occasions. The results obtained were compared with those obtained from the patients who received the CT that consisted only in nutritional counseling by the attending physician; the statistical test used was Mann Whitney U test. RESULTS The INT was associated with maintenance of the nutritional status along their oncological treatment. The statistical significant parameters were: weight 55 to 47 kg in the CT group vs 59 a 58 kg in the INT group (p < 0.0001), and hemoglobin: from 13 to 11 g/dl in the CT group vs 14 to 13 g/dl in the INT group (p < 0.002) as the most important ones. In the rest of the data we can observe a clear tendency of increasing the nutrition parameters in patients the INT group, while in the CT group, they showed a persistent decrease. CONCLUSION We concluded that patients who received the INT as part of their oncological treatment deteriorated less their nutritional status than those who received a CT.
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- V Fuchs
- Servicio de Oncología, Hospital General de México, México.
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Narváez M, Freites L, Guevara M, Mendoza J, Guderley H, Lodeiros C, Salazar G. Food availability and reproduction affects lipid and fatty acid composition of the brown mussel, Perna perna, raised in suspension culture. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2008; 149:293-302. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2007.09.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2007] [Revised: 09/25/2007] [Accepted: 09/27/2007] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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In rodents, entrainment and/or resetting by feeding of the central circadian clock, the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), is more efficient when food cues arise from a timed calorie restriction. Because timed calorie restriction is associated with a single meal each day at the same time, its resetting properties on the SCN possibly depend on a combination of meal time-giving cues and hypocaloric conditions per se. To exclude any effect of daily meal timing in resetting by calorie restriction, the present study employed a model of ultradian feeding schedules, divided into six meals with different durations of food access (6 x 8-min versus 6 x 12-min meal schedule) every 4 h over the 24-h cycle. The effects of such an ultradian calorie restriction were evaluated on the rhythms of wheel-running activity (WRA) and body temperature (Tb) in rats. The results indicate that daily/circadian rhythms of WRA and Tb were shifted by a hypocaloric feeding distributed in six ultradian short meals (i.e. 6 x 8-min meal schedule), showing both phase advances and delays. The magnitude of phase shifts was positively correlated with body weight loss and level of day-time behavioural activity. By contrast, rats fed daily with six ultradian meals long enough (i.e. 6 x 12-min meal schedule) to prevent body weight loss, showed only small, if any, phase shifts in WRA and Tb rhythms. The results obtained reveal the potency of calorie restriction to reset the SCN clock without synchronisation to daily meal timing, highlighting functional links between metabolism, calorie restriction and the circadian timing system.
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- J Mendoza
- Institut de Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives, Département de Neurobiologie des Rythmes, UMR7168/LC2, CNRS et Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg Cedex, France
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Mendoza J, Lana R, Diaz-Rubio M, de la Concha E, Urcelay E. Pharmacogenetics of Therapy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.2174/157016007781669213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Rast MP, Mendoza J, Clyne J. Compressible thermal starting plume. J Vis (Tokyo) 2007. [DOI: 10.1007/bf03181684] [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: 10/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Sodium-phosphate enemas are widely used to treat constipation, and are rarely associated with side effects. AIM A systematic review of the literature was conducted to identify the most common adverse effects of sodium-phosphate enemas and associated risk factors. METHODS A systematic search was conducted in Internet (MEDLINE), and the Cochrane Library, from January 1957 to March 2007. RESULTS A total of 761 references were identified initially, and 39 relevant papers were finally selected. The most common therapeutic indications included constipation (63%). Sixty-eight per cent of the patients having adverse effects had associated conditions, the most common being gastrointestinal motility disorders, cardiological diseases and renal failure. Virtually, all side effects were due to water and electrolyte disturbances. Most patients were under 18 years of age (66%) or older than 65 years (25%). A total of 12 deaths were found. CONCLUSION The main side effects caused by sodium phosphate enemas are water and electrolyte disturbances. The main risk factors are extreme age and associated comorbidity.
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- J Mendoza
- Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain
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Gaona A, Aguillon P, Mendoza J, Lopez L, Gonzalez E. Images reproducibility of an electrical impedance tomography (EIT) prototype. Analysis of the EIT sensibility in rats in pathological in vivo conditions. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2007; 2004:2296-8. [PMID: 17272187 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2004.1403667] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The development of a 16 electrode-electrical impedance tomography (EIT) prototype to be applied in neurological fields such as epilepsy in rats has been previously reported. Approaching residual problems in order to improve its performance, this work reports results about changes made in the system hardware as follows: 1) replacing the current source demultiplexing circuit that could impact on a better spatial localization, and 2) a new current source design that increases the current amplitude up to 5 mA/sub rms/. System was evaluated by means of: a) image reproducibility starting from 4 test elements in homogeneous conditions; and b) spatial localization evaluation in conductivity perturbation conditions; this feature is evaluated too in preliminary acute in vivo experiments where an epileptic seizure is induced, and an impedance increase is expected. Results show a 95% of proper images for a) analysis. Spatial localization reports improvement up to 20% transversely and 5.5% longitudinally with regard to previous results. In vivo results are lack of interpretation due poor changes obtained in images. In order to conclude or not a reliable correlation between the perturbation measured and the seizure activity, a new definition of grey scale or other changes could be proposed.
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- A Gaona
- Laboratorio de Bioingeniería, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria, México City, México
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In mammals, daily rhythms in behaviour and physiology are driven by a circadian timing system comprised, in a hierarchical way, of a master pacemaker in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) of the hypothalamus and of peripheral oscillators in most body cells. At the molecular level, in both the SCN and peripheral oscillators, the circadian clock mechanism is built from interconnected feedback loops in gene expression that operate in a cell-autonomous and self-sustained fashion. The SCN clock is mainly entrained by light/dark cycles. By contrast, peripheral oscillators can be strongly affected by daily feeding cycles, which have little effect on the phase of the SCN. However, when feeding schedules are coupled with a caloric restriction, behavioural and physiological circadian rhythms and gene expression in the SCN are shifted and/or entrained to meal-time. Moreover, the reward and motivational value of food can also be a potent synchroniser for the SCN clock. This suggests that energy metabolism and motivational properties of food can influence the clock mechanism of the SCN. Food-related cues may entrain clock genes of the SCN with a direct effect, or be mediated indirectly by another neural or peripheral site. In addition, there may be one or more oscillator sites that would play an integral role as a food-entrained oscillator (FEO), responsible for anticipation of meal-time. The site housing, or the network underlying, this putative FEO is still unknown. The aim of this review is to summarise our current knowledge of the central and peripheral circadian clocks and how they can be entrained by feeding at the physiological and molecular levels.
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- J Mendoza
- Institut des Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives, Département de Neurobiologie des Rythmes UMR7168, CNRS et Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.
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Angeles-Castellanos M, Mendoza J, Escobar C. Restricted feeding schedules phase shift daily rhythms of c-Fos and protein Per1 immunoreactivity in corticolimbic regions in rats. Neuroscience 2007; 144:344-55. [PMID: 17045749 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.08.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [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: 04/06/2006] [Revised: 08/22/2006] [Accepted: 08/29/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Entrainment by daily restricted feeding schedules (RFS) produces food anticipatory activity (FAA) which involves motivational processes which may be regulated by corticolimbic structures and the nucleus accumbens. The present study aimed first to determine whether corticolimbic structures participate in the expression of FAA, therefore c-Fos immunoreactivity (Fos-IR) was employed as marker of neuronal activity. The second goal was to characterize diurnal rhythms of the clock protein protein Per1 (PER1) in corticolimbic structures and to determine the influence of RFS on the diurnal temporal pattern. Rats were maintained under RFS with food access for 2 h daily, a control group was fed ad libitum. Food entrainment produced a pattern of increased Fos-IR during FAA and after mealtime in the two sub-regions of the nucleus accumbens (ACC), in the basolateral and central amygdala, in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST), in the lateral septum (LS), in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), and in the paraventricular thalamic nucleus (PVT). No increased Fos-IR was observed in the hippocampus. Under ad libitum conditions all structures studied showed daily oscillations of PER1, excluding both amygdalar nuclei and the PFC. RFS shifted and set the daily peaks at zeitgeber time (ZT) 12 for both sub-regions in the accumbens, the hippocampus, lateral septum and PFC. RFS enhanced the amplitude at ZT12 of the BNST and shifted the peak of the PVT to ZT6. No changes were observed in the amygdalar nuclei. Present data indicate that cellular activation of corticolimbic structures is associated with behavioral events related to food anticipatory activity and that mealtime is a relevant signal that shifts daily oscillations of PER1 in corticolimbic structures. Data suggest a relevant role of corticolimbic structures as oscillators for FAA.
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- M Angeles-Castellanos
- Departamento de Anatomía, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México DF 04510, Mexico
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Gómez-Domínguez E, Mendoza J, Rubio S, Moreno-Monteagudo JA, García-Buey L, Moreno-Otero R. Transient elastography: a valid alternative to biopsy in patients with chronic liver disease. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2006; 24:513-8. [PMID: 16886917 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2006.02999.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND Transient elastography is a novel and non-invasive technique for the evaluation of fibrosis in chronic liver disease. Few studies that exist value the efficacy of transient elastography, mainly in hepatitis C virus-infected patients. AIM To evaluate the effectiveness, objectivity, reproducibility and safety of this technique. METHODS We included 103 consecutive patients who underwent a liver biopsy in the last 48 months with a wide spectrum of chronic liver diseases. Median stiffness value (expressed as kilopascals - kPa) was kept as representative of the liver elastic modulus. All biopsy specimens were analysed by the same pathologist according to the METAVIR scoring system. RESULTS Median value of stiffness in patients with mild or moderate fibrosis (FI and FII), and severe fibrosis or cirrhosis (FIII and FIV) was of 7, 4 +/- 5 and 16, 4 +/- 10 kPa, respectively, with a significant difference between them (P < 0.05). The areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves showed the optimal liver stiffness cut-off values for each group. CONCLUSIONS We found a positive correlation between the liver stiffness found by transient elastography and fibrosis stage on biopsy in all patients, independently of the liver disease aetiology. Transient elastography is an easy, quick to perform and safe non-invasive procedure, reliable for assessing liver fibrosis.
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- E Gómez-Domínguez
- Gastroenterology and Hepatology Service, Hospital Universitário de la Princesa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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