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Falcon Lacerda Y, Bagano GO, Correia VCA, Lopes FOA, Souza TMB, Fonseca LL, Suerdieck JG, De Sa NC, Sodre GS, Lino LMC, Kertzman LQ, Garcia G, Alexandre FKB, Noya Rabelo MM, Correia LCL. P3665Low accuracy of the grace score for anatomic stratification of patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary syndromes. Eur Heart J 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehy563.p3665] [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] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
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- Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Brazil
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- Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Brazil
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- Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Brazil
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- Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Brazil
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- Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Brazil
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- Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Brazil
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- Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Brazil
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- Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Brazil
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- Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Brazil
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- Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Brazil
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- Sao Rafael Hospital, Salvador, Brazil
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Galinski MR, Lapp SA, Peterson MS, Ay F, Joyner CJ, LE Roch KG, Fonseca LL, Voit EO. Plasmodium knowlesi: a superb in vivo nonhuman primate model of antigenic variation in malaria. Parasitology 2018; 145:85-100. [PMID: 28712361 PMCID: PMC5798396 DOI: 10.1017/s0031182017001135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [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: 04/07/2017] [Revised: 06/03/2017] [Accepted: 06/06/2017] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Antigenic variation in malaria was discovered in Plasmodium knowlesi studies involving longitudinal infections of rhesus macaques (M. mulatta). The variant proteins, known as the P. knowlesi Schizont Infected Cell Agglutination (SICA) antigens and the P. falciparum Erythrocyte Membrane Protein 1 (PfEMP1) antigens, expressed by the SICAvar and var multigene families, respectively, have been studied for over 30 years. Expression of the SICA antigens in P. knowlesi requires a splenic component, and specific antibodies are necessary for variant antigen switch events in vivo. Outstanding questions revolve around the role of the spleen and the mechanisms by which the expression of these variant antigen families are regulated. Importantly, the longitudinal dynamics and molecular mechanisms that govern variant antigen expression can be studied with P. knowlesi infection of its mammalian and vector hosts. Synchronous infections can be initiated with established clones and studied at multi-omic levels, with the benefit of computational tools from systems biology that permit the integration of datasets and the design of explanatory, predictive mathematical models. Here we provide an historical account of this topic, while highlighting the potential for maximizing the use of P. knowlesi - macaque model systems and summarizing exciting new progress in this area of research.
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- M R Galinski
- Emory Vaccine Center,Yerkes National Primate Research Center,Emory University,Atlanta,GA,USA
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- Emory Vaccine Center,Yerkes National Primate Research Center,Emory University,Atlanta,GA,USA
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- Emory Vaccine Center,Yerkes National Primate Research Center,Emory University,Atlanta,GA,USA
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- La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology,La Jolla,CA 92037,USA
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- Emory Vaccine Center,Yerkes National Primate Research Center,Emory University,Atlanta,GA,USA
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- Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience,Center for Disease and Vector Research,Institute for Integrative Genome Biology,University of California Riverside,CA 92521,USA
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- The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University,Atlanta,Georgia,30332-2000,USA
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- The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University,Atlanta,Georgia,30332-2000,USA
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Parameter estimation is the main bottleneck of metabolic pathway modelling. It may be addressed from the bottom up, using information on metabolites, enzymes and modulators, or from the top down, using metabolic time series data, which have become more prevalent in recent years. The authors propose here that it is useful to combine the two strategies and to complement time-series analysis with kinetic information. In particular, the authors investigate how the recent method of dynamic flux estimation (DFE) may be supplemented with other types of estimation. Using the glycolytic pathway in Lactococcus lactis as an illustration example, the authors demonstrate some strategies of such supplementation.
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- E O Voit
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Integrative BioSystems Institute and The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Atlanta, USA.
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Fonseca LL, Alves PM, Carrondo MJ, Santos H. Effect of ethanol on the metabolism of primary astrocytes studied by (13)C- and (31)P-NMR spectroscopy. J Neurosci Res 2001; 66:803-11. [PMID: 11746405 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.10039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Nuclear magnetic resonance was used as the primary technique to investigate the effect of ethanol (40, 80, and 160 mM) on the levels of high-energy phosphates, glycolytic flux, anaplerotic and oxidative fluxes to the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, the contribution of the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP), and the uptake and release of amino acids on primary cultures of rat astrocytes. On line (31)P-NMR spectroscopy showed that long-term exposure to ethanol caused a drop in the levels of ATP and phosphocreatine. The ratio between the fluxes through the pyruvate dehydrogenase and pyruvate carboxylase reactions also decreased, whereas the glycolytic flux and the ratio between formation of lactate and glucose consumption increased when cells were exposed to acute doses of ethanol. Flux through the pentose phosphate pathway was not affected. The uptake of cysteine and the release of glutamine were stimulated by ethanol, whereas the release of methionine was inhibited. Moreover, the fractional enrichment in serine was enhanced. The changes in the amino acid metabolism are interpreted as a response to oxidative stress induced by ethanol.
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- L L Fonseca
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Rua de Quinta Grande, 6, 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal
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Alves PM, Fonseca LL, Peixoto CC, Almeida AC, Carrondo MJ, Santos H. NMR studies on energy metabolism of immobilized primary neurons and astrocytes during hypoxia, ischemia and hypoglycemia. NMR Biomed 2000; 13:438-448. [PMID: 11252029 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Changes in high-energy phosphate metabolites (ATP and phosphocreatine) were monitored, in real time, by 31P-nuclear magnetic resonance in primary cell cultures of neurons and astrocytes during periods of hypoxia, ischemia and hypoglycemia, and also during the recovery periods following the re-establishment of standard conditions. Cells were immobilized in basement membrane gel threads and perfused with oxygen-depleted medium (oxygen concentration below 30 microM), to create hypoxic conditions, or with aerobic medium (oxygen concentration approximately 460 microM) containing different concentrations of glucose (hypoglycemia). Ischemic conditions were imposed by stopping perfusion for different periods of time (15 min to 2 h). The experimental set-up enabled the acquisition of 31P-spectra with high signal-to-noise ratio within 10-20 min for both cell types. The effect of hypoxia on glucose metabolism was assessed by 13C-NMR using [1-13C]glucose as substrate. The levels of ATP and PCr in astrocytes were unaffected during hypoxia (up to 2 h), but decreased notably under ischemia. In neurons, hypoxic periods caused a sharp drop of the ATP and PCr levels, and considerable damage to the capacity of neurons to replenish the ATP and PCr pools upon returning to normoxic conditions. However, neurons were remarkably less sensitive to ischemic conditions, the ATP and PCr pools being restored quickly, even after 2 h under challenging conditions. The data show that neurons were more resistant to ischemia than astrocytes, and suggest that the capacity to sustain the pools of ATP and PCr was part of the neuronal protective strategy.
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- P M Alves
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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Costa RP, Gollob KJ, Fonseca LL, Rocha MO, Chaves AC, Medrano-Mercado N, Araújo-Jorge TC, Antas PR, Colley DG, Correa-Oliveira R, Gazzinelli G, Carvalho-Parra J, Dutra WO. T-cell repertoire analysis in acute and chronic human Chagas' disease: differential frequencies of Vbeta5 expressing T cells. Scand J Immunol 2000; 51:511-9. [PMID: 10792844 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3083.2000.00706.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Here, we analysed the use of Vbeta-TCR regions by CD4+ and CD8+ T cells from acute and chronic chagasic patients using flow cytometry. We determined the Vbeta expression in cells freshly isolated from patients, as well as after in vitro stimulation with antigens derived from epimastigote (EPI) or trypomastigote (TRYPO) forms of Trypanosoma cruzi. Analysis of Vbeta-TCR expression of T cells freshly isolated from patients showed a decrease in Vbeta5 expression in the CD4+ T-cell population from acutely infected individuals, whereas CD4+Vbeta5+ T cells were found to be increased in chronic patients with the cardiac, but not indeterminate, clinical form. After culturing peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from chronic patients with EPI or TRYPO, we found that both antigenic preparations led to a preferential expansion of CD4+Vbeta5+ T cells. EPI stimulation also led to the expansion of CD8+Vbeta5+ T cells, whereas TRYPO led to the expansion of this cell population only if PBMC were from cardiac and not indeterminate patients. We observed that TRYPO stimulation led to an increase in the frequency of CD4+Vbeta17+ T cells in cultures of PBMC from indeterminate patients, whereas an increase in the frequency of CD8+Vbeta17+ T cells was found upon TRYPO stimulation of PBMC from cardiac patients. Despite this increase in the frequency of Vbeta17+ T-cell populations upon TRYPO stimulation, the same antigenic preparation led to a much higher expansion of Vbeta5+ T cells. These results show a differential expression of Vbeta5-TCR in cells freshly isolated from chagasic patients in different stages of the disease and that parasite-specific antigens stimulate a portion of the T-cell repertoire with preferential usage of Vbeta5-TCR.
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- R P Costa
- Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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