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Rasmussen KK, dos Santos Q, MacPherson CR, Zucco AG, Gjærde LK, Ilett EE, Lodding I, Helleberg M, Lundgren JD, Nielsen SD, Brix S, Sengeløv H, Murray DD. Metabolic Profiling Early Post-Allogeneic Haematopoietic Cell Transplantation in the Context of CMV Infection. Metabolites 2023; 13:968. [PMID: 37755248 PMCID: PMC10536708 DOI: 10.3390/metabo13090968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2022] [Revised: 08/08/2023] [Accepted: 08/15/2023] [Indexed: 09/28/2023] Open
Abstract
Immune dysfunction resulting from allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (aHSCT) predisposes one to an elevated risk of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. Changes in metabolism have been associated with adverse outcomes, and in this study, we explored the associations between metabolic profiles and post-transplantation CMV infection using plasma samples collected 7-33 days after aHSCT. We included 68 aHSCT recipients from Rigshospitalet, Denmark, 50% of whom experienced CMV infection between days 34-100 post-transplantation. First, we investigated whether 12 metabolites selected based on the literature were associated with an increased risk of post-transplantation CMV infection. Second, we conducted an exploratory network-based analysis of the complete metabolic and lipidomic profiles in relation to clinical phenotypes and biological pathways. Lower levels of trimethylamine N-oxide were associated with subsequent CMV infection (multivariable logistic regression: OR = 0.63; 95% CI = [0.41; 0.87]; p = 0.01). Explorative analysis revealed 12 clusters of metabolites or lipids, among which one was predictive of CMV infection, and the others were associated with conditioning regimens, age upon aHSCT, CMV serostatus, and/or sex. Our results provide evidence for an association between the metabolome and CMV infection post-aHSCT that is independent of known risk factors.
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- Kirstine K. Rasmussen
- Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections (CHIP), Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections (CHIP), Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections (CHIP), Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections (CHIP), Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Department of Hematology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections (CHIP), Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR), Copenhagen University, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections (CHIP), Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections (CHIP), Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections (CHIP), Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- DTU Bioengineering, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Department of Hematology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections (CHIP), Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Wolthers BO, Frandsen TL, Abrahamsson J, Albertsen BK, Helt LR, Heyman M, Jónsson ÓG, Kõrgvee LT, Lund B, Raja RA, Rasmussen KK, Taskinen M, Tulstrup M, Vaitkevičienė GE, Yadav R, Gupta R, Schmiegelow K. Asparaginase-associated pancreatitis: a study on phenotype and genotype in the NOPHO ALL2008 protocol. Leukemia 2016; 31:325-332. [PMID: 27451978 DOI: 10.1038/leu.2016.203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2016] [Revised: 06/12/2016] [Accepted: 06/15/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Asparaginase (ASP)-associated pancreatitis (AAP) occurs during acute lymphoblastic leukemia treatment. Among 1285 children (1.0-17.9 years) diagnosed during July 2008-December 2014 and treated according to the Nordic/Baltic ALL2008 protocol, 86 (cumulative incidence=6.8%) developed AAP. Seventy-three cases were severe (diagnostic AAP criteria persisting >72 h) and 13 mild. Cases were older than controls (median: 6.5 vs 4.5 years; P=0.001). Pseudocysts developed in 28%. Of the 20 re-exposed to ASP, 9 (45%) developed a second AAP. After a median follow-up of 2.3 years, 8% needed permanent insulin therapy, and 7% had recurrent abdominal pain. Germline DNA on 62 cases and 638 controls was genotyped on Omni2.5exome-8-v1.2 BeadChip arrays. Overall, the ULK2 variant rs281366 showed the strongest association with AAP (P=5.8 × 10-7; odds ratio (OR)=6.7). Cases with the rs281366 variant were younger (4.3 vs 8 years; P=0.015) and had lower risk of AAP-related complications (15% vs 43%; P=0.13) compared with cases without this variant. Among 45 cases and 517 controls <10 years, the strongest associations with AAP were found for RGS6 variant rs17179470 (P=9.8 × 10-9; OR=7.3). Rs281366 is located in the ULK2 gene involved in autophagy, and RGS6 regulates G-protein signaling regulating cell dynamics. More than 50% of AAP cases <10 years carried one or both risk alleles.
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- B O Wolthers
- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Queen Silvia's Children's Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Paediatrics, Aarhus University Hospital Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Pediatrics, Astrid Lindgrens Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Children's Hospital, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavík, Iceland
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- Department of Paediatrics, St Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.,Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's and Women's Health, Medical Faculty, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Helsinki University Central Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Clinic of Children's Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Grabowski D, Rasmussen KK. Adolescents' health identities: a qualitative and theoretical study of health education courses. Soc Sci Med 2014; 120:67-75. [PMID: 25226448 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [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: 04/09/2013] [Revised: 09/02/2014] [Accepted: 09/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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In this paper we highlight the role of health identity in health education for adolescents. In school-based approaches to health education, it is often difficult to present health information and health communication in ways that make sense and appeal to adolescents. The concept of health identity has the potential of providing an analytical framework as well as practical recommendations for these issues and problem areas. The paper reports on an empirical study of elements of health identity in the context of health courses for adolescents--using interview data, observation studies and a theoretical construction focussing on self-observation, horizons of significance, expectational structures and social imaginaries. We present our findings in four main themes: 1) Adolescents' health identities are observed and developed when things matter, 2) Adolescents' health identities are observed and developed in relational contexts, 3) Adolescents' health identities are developed on the basis of observations of past, present and future health and 4) Adolescents' health identities are clearly defined. The paper provides health practitioners with important knowledge about why and how health-educational approaches should focus on health identity in order to provide conditions that create a significant health educating effect for all adolescents--not just for those who are already healthy.
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- D Grabowski
- Steno Health Promotion Center, Niels Steensens Vej 8, 2820 Gentofte, Denmark.
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- Steno Health Promotion Center, Niels Steensens Vej 8, 2820 Gentofte, Denmark
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Wesołowska-Andersen A, Borst L, Dalgaard MD, Yadav R, Rasmussen KK, Wehner PS, Rasmussen M, Ørntoft TF, Nordentoft I, Koehler R, Bartram CR, Schrappe M, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Gautier L, Marquart H, Madsen HO, Brunak S, Stanulla M, Gupta R, Schmiegelow K. Genomic profiling of thousands of candidate polymorphisms predicts risk of relapse in 778 Danish and German childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients. Leukemia 2014; 29:297-303. [PMID: 24990611 PMCID: PMC4320289 DOI: 10.1038/leu.2014.205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [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: 04/16/2014] [Revised: 06/14/2014] [Accepted: 06/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia survival approaches 90%. New strategies are needed to identify the 10-15% who evade cure. We applied targeted, sequencing-based genotyping of 25 000 to 34 000 preselected potentially clinically relevant single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to identify host genome profiles associated with relapse risk in 352 patients from the Nordic ALL92/2000 protocols and 426 patients from the German Berlin-Frankfurt-Munster (BFM) ALL2000 protocol. Patients were enrolled between 1992 and 2008 (median follow-up: 7.6 years). Eleven cross-validated SNPs were significantly associated with risk of relapse across protocols. SNP and biologic pathway level analyses associated relapse risk with leukemia aggressiveness, glucocorticosteroid pharmacology/response and drug transport/metabolism pathways. Classification and regression tree analysis identified three distinct risk groups defined by end of induction residual leukemia, white blood cell count and variants in myeloperoxidase (MPO), estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1), lamin B1 (LMNB1) and matrix metalloproteinase-7 (MMP7) genes, ATP-binding cassette transporters and glucocorticosteroid transcription regulation pathways. Relapse rates ranged from 4% (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.6-6.3%) for the best group (72% of patients) to 76% (95% CI: 41-90%) for the worst group (5% of patients, P<0.001). Validation of these findings and similar approaches to identify SNPs associated with toxicities may allow future individualized relapse and toxicity risk-based treatments adaptation.
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- A Wesołowska-Andersen
- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, The Juliane Marie Centre, The University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, The Juliane Marie Centre, The University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, HC Andersen Children's Hospital, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, The University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Århus University Hospital, Århus, Denmark
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Århus University Hospital, Århus, Denmark
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of General Pediatrics, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Diagnostic Centre, The University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- 1] Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, The Juliane Marie Centre, The University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark [2] Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Christoffersen PS, Rasmussen KK, Hermansen K. Cardiovascular effects of doxorubicin (Adriamycin) and 4-demethoxydaunorubicin (Idarubicin) in the conscious rat. Pharmacol Toxicol 1988; 62:54-6. [PMID: 3162769 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0773.1988.tb01844.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The morphogenesis and morphology of the distally positioned cartilage of the os penis, the processus cartilagineus, are described in rats aged from 1 to 100 days. Based on observations of metachromacy of the process stained with toluidine blue it was found that a processus cartilagineus only exists in the period between 35 and 50 days of age. Before 35 days, the structure consists of connective tissue proper, and after 50 days the cartilage starts to calcify partially. The present paper also initiates studies of experimentally caused alterations of the normal development of the processus cartilagineus by subjecting 35-day-old rats to castration, with subsequent sacrifice at 100 days. Castration at that age causes a complete interruption of normal development of the processus cartilagineus as the structure in 100-day-old castrated rats has distinct morphological characteristics in common with those of 35-day-old normal rats. The present paper, thus, confirms that normal development of the processus cartilagineus seems to be male-hormone-dependent.
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Rasmussen KK. [Elderly patients in general practice, with special reference to their functional state and social situation]. Ugeskr Laeger 1965; 127:547-9. [PMID: 5890655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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