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Winsnes A, Ivarsson ML, Falk P, Gunnarsson U, Strigård K. Correction to: Similar collagen distribution in full-thickness skin grafts in intraperitoneal and onlay positions, an experimental mice-study. Hernia 2023; 27:209. [PMID: 36460869 PMCID: PMC9931836 DOI: 10.1007/s10029-022-02728-1] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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- A. Winsnes
- Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Surgery, Umeå University, Daniel Naezéns väg, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Surgery, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Surgery, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Surgery, Umeå University, Daniel Naezéns väg, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Surgery, Umeå University, Daniel Naezéns väg, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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Winsnes A, Ivarsson ML, Falk P, Gunnarsson U, Strigård K. Similar collagen distribution in full-thickness skin grafts in intraperitoneal and onlay positions, an experimental mice-study. Hernia 2022; 26:1695-1705. [PMID: 36048398 DOI: 10.1007/s10029-022-02664-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2022] [Accepted: 08/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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PURPOSE Autologous full-thickness skin grafting (FTSG) has the potential to become an option in abdominal wall repair. An understanding of tissue remodelling in the extracellular matrix (ECM) is crucial as this interplay determines such parameters as tissue strength and flexibility. This cross-sectional preclinical laboratory study in mice provides information on the distribution of collagen types and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in the ECM of FTSGs in the intraperitoneal and onlay positions compared with internal controls. The aim was to evaluate morphologic changes after tissue remodelling and repair in FTSGs applied in the two positions and to detect any adverse host response. METHODS ECM components were evaluated as follows: qualitative examination of collagen bundle thickness using Picrosirius Red staining (collagen types I, III and IV); and evaluation of collagen types IV and V, as well as MMPs 1, 8 and 9 using immunohistochemical staining. Full-thickness grafts transplanted between female twin mice were examined as this best mimics autologous transplantation. RESULTS At 8 weeks, FTSGs in the intraperitoneal position did not show any noticeable differences in morphologic appearance to those in the onlay position. Both intraperitoneal and onlay FTSGs showed increases in the amount of thick collagen bundles compared to internal controls. No correlation was seen between distribution of MMPs 1, 8 or 9 and distribution of collagen types I, III, IV or V. CONCLUSION This preclinical study shows that FTSGs in both intraperitoneal and onlay positions are possible application site options and, by extension, promising application site options for abdominal wall reinforcement in hernia surgery. Clinical studies in humans are required to confirm these findings.
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- A Winsnes
- Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Surgery, Umeå University, Daniel Naezéns väg, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Surgery, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Surgery, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Surgery, Umeå University, Daniel Naezéns väg, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Surgery, Umeå University, Daniel Naezéns väg, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden.
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Ruiz-Jasbon F, Ticehurst K, Ahonen J, Norrby J, Falk P, Ivarsson ML. Results at 3-year follow-up of totally extraperitoneal (TEP) hernia surgery with long-term resorbable mesh. Hernia 2020; 24:669-676. [PMID: 31925599 PMCID: PMC7210225 DOI: 10.1007/s10029-019-02116-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Accepted: 12/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Synthetic non-resorbable mesh is almost standard in hernia surgery. However, several studies have showed negative effects of permanent implants such as chronic inflammation and complications involving different organs bordering the mesh. Such complications can raise the risk of chronic post-operative pain (CPP). Recently promising results regarding CPP have been published in patients with Lateral Inguinal Hernia (LIH) using a slowly resorbable mesh in Lichtenstein technique. For this reason the aim of the present study was to find the effect of a slowly resorbable implant on the long-term rate of hernia recurrence and chronic post-operative pain in patients with LIH repaired with TEP procedure. METHODS Prospective pilot study of TEP repair using TIGR® Matrix Surgical Mesh in 35 primary LIH. At 3-year follow-up the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and the Inguinal Pain Questionnaire were employed to assess pain. Recurrence was determined by ultrasound and clinical examination. RESULTS All patients completed the pain questionnaires but one patient did not attend the planned clinical examination for the 3-year follow-up. No patients had CPP, as defined in the World Guidelines for Groin Hernia Management. Almost all patients had lower VAS score in any activity 3 years following surgery in comparison to the preoperative period. Three patients (8.8%) suffered symptomatic recurrence during the 3-year follow-up. CONCLUSION TEP repair in patients with LIH using a synthetic long-term resorbable mesh was found to be encouraging respecting chronic post-operative pain at 3-year follow-up but at the cost of an increased risk of recurrence.
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- F Ruiz-Jasbon
- Department of Surgery, Halland's Hospital, Kungsbacka, Sweden. .,Department of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Science, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden.
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- Department of Surgery, Halland's Hospital, Kungsbacka, Sweden
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- Department of Surgery, Halland's Hospital, Kungsbacka, Sweden
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- Department of Surgery, Halland's Hospital, Kungsbacka, Sweden.,Department of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Science, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Science, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Science, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden
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Falk P, Severin M, Guren MG, Österlund P, Hofsli E, Giwercman A, Eberhard J, Sorbye H. Sex hormones and sperm parameters after adjuvant oxaliplatin-based treatment for colorectal cancer. Ann Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdz246.033] [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: 11/12/2022] Open
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Strigård K, Clay L, Stark B, Gunnarsson U, Falk P. Giant ventral hernia-relationship between abdominal wall muscle strength and hernia area. BMC Surg 2016; 16:50. [PMID: 27484911 PMCID: PMC4970278 DOI: 10.1186/s12893-016-0166-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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: 01/14/2016] [Accepted: 07/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background Symptoms arising from giant ventral hernia have been considered to be related to weakening of the abdominal muscles. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the area of the abdominal wall defect and abdominal wall muscle strength measured by the validated BioDex system together with a back/abdominal unit. Methods Fifty-two patients with giant ventral hernia (>10 cm wide) underwent CT scan, clinical measurement of hernia size and BioDex measurement of muscle strength prior to surgery. The areas of the hernia derived from CT scan and from clinical measurement were compared with BioDex forces in the modalities extension, flexion and isometric contraction. The Spearman rank test was used to calculate correlations between area, BMI, gender, age, and muscle strength. Result The hernia area calculated from clinical measurements correlated to abdominal muscle strength measured with the Biodex for all modalities (p-values 0.015–0.036), whereas no correlation was seen with the area calculated by CT scan. No relationship was seen between BMI, gender, age and the area of the hernia. Discussion The inverse correlation between BioDex abdominal muscle strength and clinically assessed hernia area, seen in all modalities, was so robust that it seems safe to conclude that the area of the hernia is an important determinant of the degree of loss of abdominal muscle strength. Results using hernia area calculated from the CT scan showed no such correlation and this would seem to concur with the results from a previous study by our group on patients with abdominal rectus diastasis. In that study, defect size assessed clinically, but not that measured by CT scan, was in agreement with the size of the diastasis measured intra-operatively. The point at which the area of a hernia begins to correlate with loss of abdominal wall muscle strength remains unknown since this study only included giant ventral hernias.
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- K Strigård
- Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, S-901 87, Sweden.
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- Department of Surgery, CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, S-171 64, Sweden, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, S-171 64, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet and Department of plastic and reconstructive surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, S-171 64, Sweden
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- Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, S-901 87, Sweden
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- Fibrinolysis Laboratory/Tissue Centre, Deptartment of Surgery, Institute of Clinical sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, at University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Ostra, Göteborg, S-416 85, Sweden
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- P. Falk
- Fibrinolysis Laboratory/ Tissue Centre, Dept of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Fibrinolysis Laboratory/ Tissue Centre, Dept of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Dept of Research and Development, Hallands Hospital, Sweden
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Solberg A, Holmdahl L, Falk P, Wolving M, Palmgren I, Ivarsson ML. Local and systemic expressions of MMP-9, TIMP-1 and PAI-1 in patients undergoing surgery for clinically suspected appendicitis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 48:99-105. [PMID: 22516898 DOI: 10.1159/000337031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2011] [Accepted: 01/10/2012] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND/AIMS To examine, compare and correlate the expressions of matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9), tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase 1 (TIMP-1) and plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1) in appendiceal tissue and pre- and postoperative blood samples in patients undergoing surgery for clinically suspected appendicitis. METHODS Fifty-seven patients with complete tissue and blood samples were included and divided into groups of noninflamed appendix/lymphadenitis (n = 7), phlegmonous appendicitis (n = 30), gangrenous appendicitis (n = 11) and perforated appendicitis (n = 9). The protein expressions were assessed with ELISAs. The local expressions of MMP-9, TIMP-1 and PAI-1 were correlated with the systemic expressions at the time of surgery while the systemic individual differences between surgery and recovery were compared. RESULTS There was a positive correlation between tissue and plasma PAI-1 (p < 0.05). The individual differences for plasma MMP-9 and PAI-1 were statistically nonsignificant, while they were higher for TIMP-1 in patients with perforated appendicitis compared with phlegmonous (p < 0.0001) and gangrenous appendicitis (p < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS Plasma PAI-1 reflected the levels in appendiceal tissue at the time of surgery. Systemic TIMP-1 could have the potential of distinguishing perforated from nonperforated appendicitis.
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- A Solberg
- Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Östra, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Larson G, Falk P, Hynsjö L, Midtvedt AC, Midtvedt T. Faecal Excretion of Glycosphingolipids of Breast-fed and Formula-fed Infants. Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease 2009. [DOI: 10.3109/08910609009140253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- G. Larson
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Göteborg, Sahlgren's Hospital, S-413 45, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Göteborg, Sahlgren's Hospital, S-413 45, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Göteborg, Sahlgren's Hospital, S-413 45, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Microbial Ecology, Karolinska Institute, S-104 01, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Göteborg, Sahlgren's Hospital, S-413 45, Göteborg, Sweden
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Falk K, BjÖrquist P, Falk P, Hedgren M, Ivarsson M, Lanne B, Panfilov O, Holmdahl L. Antifibrinolytic proCPU is present in the peritoneal cavity during surgery. Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation 2009. [DOI: 10.1080/00365510310001726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Rosenthal J, Bolotin E, Shakhnovits M, Pawlowska A, Falk P, Qian D, Oliver C, Sato J, Miser J, Forman S. High-dose therapy with hematopoietic stem cell rescue in patients with poor prognosis Ewing family tumors. Bone Marrow Transplant 2008; 42:311-8. [PMID: 18587438 DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2008.169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The purpose of the study was to evaluate the feasibility and safety of two cycles of high-dose chemotherapy (HDT) followed by autologous hematopoietic SCT (HSCT) in patients with poor prognosis Ewing family of tumors (EFT). Twenty patients with primary metastatic bulky disease or recurrent EFT were enrolled to a treatment protocol with two cycles of HDT and HSCT. Patients tolerated well the first (n=20) and second (n=13) cycles, with limited and predictable toxicities. Only one (5%) TRM occurred during the second cycle. Myeloid engraftment occurred at the median of 11 days after both cycles. At 3 years, the overall and EFS were 45% (confidence interval; CI 0.22, 0.69) and 47% (CI 0.25, 0.70), respectively, for the entire group and 58% (CI 0.30, 0.86) for patients who completed two cycles. Dose intensification with two cycles of HDT and HSCT is feasible and safe, with low and acceptable treatment-related morbidity and mortality. Adding a second course of therapy does not impair engraftment. However, only 65% of the patients were able to proceed to the second cycle. Further studies are required to define the optimal mode of delivery of HDT and HSCT in treatment of advanced EFT.
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- J Rosenthal
- Department of Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010-3000, USA.
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Rosenthal J, Pawlowska A, Bolotin E, Falk P, Oliver C, Forman S. 329: Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Severe Aplastic Anemia (SAA) using a Non-Myeloablative Conditioning Regimen (NMCR). Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2007.12.339] [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: 10/22/2022]
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Sun J, Palmer J, Dagis A, Oki A, Gaidulis L, Parker P, Nademanee A, Rosenthal J, Falk P, Miller M, Forman S, Senitzer D. 131: Both KIR and Its Ligand Play a Role in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplants (HCT). Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2007.12.140] [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]
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Bolotin E, Rosenthal J, Pawlowska A, Falk P, Wang S, Hitt D, Friday J, Forman S. 317: Impact of Prophylactic Red Blood Cell Exchange for Prevention of Severe Immune Hemolysis in Pediatric Minor ABO-Mismatched Allogeneic Peripheral Blood Progenitor Cell Transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2007.12.327] [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]
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Rosenthal J, Bolotin E, Pawlowska A, Falk P, Oliver C, Forman S. 100: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation with autologous cord blood units in two patients with severe aplastic anemia. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2006.12.104] [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: 11/25/2022]
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Rosenthal J, Bolotin E, Pawlowska A, Falk P, Hitt D, Forman S. 267: Reduced risk of relapse in pediatric patients after double unit cord blood transplantation? A single institution experience. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2006.12.272] [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: 11/27/2022]
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Bergström M, Falk P, Holmdahl L. Effect of acidosis on expression of mesothelial cell plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1. Surg Endosc 2006; 20:1448-52. [PMID: 16736314 DOI: 10.1007/s00464-005-0283-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 04/19/2005] [Accepted: 02/15/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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BACKGROUND Abdominal mesothelial cells are exposed to carbon dioxide during laparoscopy. Previous data indicate that carbon dioxide increases release and expression of plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1) and induces acidification. METHODS To assess the impact resulting from a range of pH, human mesothelial cells were exposed to culturing media balanced to pH levels of 6.0 to 8.0 for 90 min. Samples from cell media were withdrawn at several time points. Concentrations of PAI-1 and PAI-1 activity were measured using enzyme-linked immunoassay techniques. To focus on the effect of clinically relevant pH, cells were subjected to pH 6.4 and 7.4. Samples were withdrawn for PAI-1 assessments and for PAI-1 mRNA analyses. RESULTS During exposure to various levels of pH, PAI-1 secretion and activity were variable. However, 5 h after exposure, greater concentration and activity of PAI-1 were observed in acidified cultures. More PAI-1 mRNA was isolated after exposure of cells to a pH of 6.4, apparently indicating transcriptional regulation. CONCLUSIONS Mesothelial cells seem to respond to acidification by an increased release and production of PAI-1 in vitro.
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- M Bergström
- Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg University, S-41685, Göteborg, Sweden
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Fung HC, Stein A, Slovak ML, O'donnell MR, Snyder DS, Cohen S, Smith D, Krishnan A, Spielberger R, Bhatia R, Bhatia S, Falk P, Molina A, Nademanee A, Parker P, Rodriguez R, Rosenthal J, Sweetman R, Kogut N, Sahebi F, Popplewell L, Vora N, Somlo G, Margolin K, Chow W, Smith E, Forman SJ. A long-term follow-up report on allogeneic stem cell transplantation for patients with primary refractory acute myelogenous leukemia: impact of cytogenetic characteristics on transplantation outcome. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2004; 9:766-71. [PMID: 14677116 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2003.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The prognosis of patients with primary refractory acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is poor. Our initial report suggested that some patients could achieve durable remission after allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT). Herein, we update our initial experience and report further analysis of this group of patients to determine whether there are pre-SCT prognostic factors predictive of posttransplantation relapse and survival. We reviewed the records of 68 patients who consecutively underwent transplantation at the City of Hope Cancer Center with allogeneic SCT for primary refractory AML between July 1978 and August 2000. Potential factors associated with overall survival and disease-free survival were examined. With a median follow-up of 3 years, the 3-year cumulative probabilities of disease-free survival (DFS), overall survival (OS), and relapse rate for all 68 patients were 31% (95% confidence interval [CI], 20%-42%), 30% (95% CI, 18%-41%), and 51% (95% CI, 38%-65%), respectively. In multivariate analysis, the only variables associated with shortened OS and DFS included the use of an unrelated donor as the stem cell source (relative risk, 2.23 [OS] and 2.05 [DFS]; P =.0005 and.0014, respectively) and unfavorable cytogenetics before SCT (relative risk: 1.68 [OS] and 1.58 [DFS]; P =.0107 and.0038, respectively). Allogeneic SCT can cure approximately one third of patients with primary refractory AML. Cytogenetic characteristics before SCT correlate with transplantation outcome and posttransplantation relapse.
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- H C Fung
- Division of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California 91010, USA.
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Falk K, Björquist P, Falk P, Hedgren M, Ivarsson ML, Lanne B, Panfilov O, Holmdahl L. Antifibrinolytic proCPU is present in the peritoneal cavity during surgery. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 2004; 63:287-96. [PMID: 12940637] [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] [Indexed: 03/04/2023]
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The fibrinolytic capacity of the peritoneum plays a pivotal role in peritoneal wound healing. During surgery the balance between fibrin deposition and degradation is tilted towards deposition, leading to the formation of adhesions. In blood, carboxypeptidase U (CPU) stabilizes clots by retarding fibrinolysis. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the more stable zymogen, proCPU, is also present in the peritoneal cavity and, if so, to examine its origin. Levels of proCPU were measured in plasma and serosal peritoneal fluid collected during surgery. Peritoneal biopsies were stained for proCPU. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis was performed to study the protein composition of the serosal fluid compared to plasma and Western blotting to identify differences in glycosylation of proCPU, indicating possible different cellular origin. Cultured human mesothelial cells were examined for proCPU production under normal conditions and conditions mimicking surgery. We found comparable and correlating levels of proCPU in serosal fluid and plasma. ProCPU was also found where fibrin covered the injured peritoneal surface. A protein composition very similar in serosal fluid and plasma was shown by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, and the proCPU pattern did not indicate a different origin. No proCPU production was found in cultured mesothelial cells. This is the first study to report on the presence of proCPU in the peritoneal cavity, which seems to be the result of plasma oozing out during the inflammatory reaction to the surgical trauma. This is likely to be important for the balance between fibrin deposition and degradation and thereby in the formation of postoperative adhesions.
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- K Falk
- Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Ostra, Göteborg University, Sweden.
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Nademanee A, Fung H, Molina A, Krishnan A, Rodriguez R, Popplewell L, Spielberger R, O’Donnell M, Snyder D, Parker P, Stein A, Kogut N, Falk P, Sahebi F, Zain J, Saville W, Raubitschek A, Forman S. The city of hope experience with novel transplant regimens that incorporate standard and escalated dose 90YTTRIUM ibritumomab tiuxetan (90Y-Zevalin®) radioimmunotherapy (RIT) for autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) in patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL): targeted intensification without increased toxicity and elimination of total body irradiation (TBI). Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2003.12.117] [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: 10/26/2022]
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Bergström M, Falk P, Holmdahl L. CO2 promotes plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 expression in human mesothelial cells. Surg Endosc 2003; 17:1818-22. [PMID: 12802648 DOI: 10.1007/s00464-002-9113-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [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: 06/03/2002] [Accepted: 10/24/2002] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND Previous observations have indicated that CO2 insufflation increases peritoneal plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1) expression. METHODS Primarily cultured human peritoneal mesothelial cells were exposed to either flowing or pressurized CO2 for 90 min. Unexposed cultures served as controls. Samples of cell culture media were taken at 0, 5, and 24 h after exposure to measure media pH, PAI-1, and tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) protein release. Simultaneous samples were taken to measure PAI-1 and t-PA mRNA expression. RESULTS Mesothelial cells exposed to flowing CO2 released more PAI-1 than those exposed to pressurized CO2 ( p < 0.001) and controls ( p < 0.001). Cells exposed to flowing CO2 had an increased PAI-1 mRNA expression at 5 h. CONCLUSIONS CO2 increased mesothelial cell PAI-1 expression involving a transcriptional mechanism. These findings might provide a mechanism for adhesion formation and cancer progression following laparoscopic surgery.
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- M Bergström
- Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Ostra, Göteborg University, SE-41685 Göteborg, Sweden.
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Fung HC, Cohen S, Rodriguez R, Smith D, Krishnan A, Somlo G, Sahebi F, Senitzer D, O'Donnell MR, Stein A, Snyder DS, Spielberger R, Bhatia R, Falk P, Molina A, Nademanee A, Parker P, Kogut N, Popplewell L, Vora N, Margolin K, Forman SJ. Reduced-intensity allogeneic stem cell transplantation for patients whose prior autologous stem cell transplantation for hematologic malignancy failed. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2003; 9:649-56. [PMID: 14569561 DOI: 10.1016/s1083-8791(03)00241-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (autoSCT) is an effective treatment for patients with various hematologic malignancies. Despite the significant improvement in the overall outcome, disease progression after transplantation remains the major cause of treatment failure. With longer follow-up, therapy-related myelodysplasia/acute myelogenous leukemia is becoming an important cause of treatment failure. The prognosis for these 2 groups of patients is very poor. Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloSCT) is a potential curative treatment for these patients. However, the outcome with conventional myeloablative alloSCT after failed autoSCT is typically poor because of high transplant-related mortality. In an attempt to reduce the treatment-related toxicity, we studied a reduced-intensity conditioning regimen followed by alloSCT for patients with progressive disease or therapy-related myelodysplasia/acute myelogenous leukemia after autoSCT. This report describes the outcomes of 28 patients with hematologic malignancies who received a reduced-intensity alloSCT after having treatment failure with a conventional autoSCT. Fourteen patients received a hematopoietic stem cell transplant from a related donor and 14 from an unrelated donor. The conditioning regimen consisted of low-dose (2 Gy) total body irradiation with or without fludarabine in 4 patients and the combination of melphalan (140 mg/m(2)) and fludarabine in 24. Cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil were used for posttransplantation immunosuppressive therapy, as well as graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis, in all patients. All patients engrafted and had >90% donor chimerism on day 100 after SCT. Currently, 13 patients (46%) are alive and disease free, 7 patients (25%) developed disease progression after alloSCT, and 8 (32%) died of nonrelapse causes. Day 100 mortality and nonrelapse mortality were 25% and 21%, respectively. With a median follow-up of 24 months for surviving patients, the 2-year probabilities of overall survival, event-free survival, and relapse rates were 56.5%, 41%, and 41.9%, respectively. Six patients (21%) developed grade III to IV acute GVHD. Among 21 evaluable patients, 15 (67%) developed chronic GVHD. We conclude that (1) reduced-intensity alloSCT is feasible and has an acceptable toxicity profile in patients who have previously received autoSCT and that (2) although follow-up was short, a durable remission may be achieved in some patients who would otherwise be expected to have a poor outcome.
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- H C Fung
- Division of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Kaiser Permanente-City of Hope BMT Program, City of Hope Cancer Center, 1500 E. Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010, USA.
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Helicobacter pylori is one of the most common pathogenic bacterial infections, colonizing an estimated half of all humans. In a subset of individuals, the infection leads to serious gastroduodenal disease such as peptic ulcers and gastric adenocarcinoma. The factors contributing to skewing this, in most cases benign, relationship into disease development are largely unknown. However, factors emanating from the bacterium, host and the environment have been shown to affect the risk for disease, although no factor can be singled out to be most important. The known factors are associated with affecting the risk of disease, and are not absolute. Virulence of H. pylori is affected by the existence and regulation of certain genes present in the bacterial population in a stomach. The effects of H. pylori on gastric cancer development have been challenged and the risk associated with infection with virulent (i.e. Cag PAI positive) H. pylori has likely been underestimated.
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- B Björkholm
- Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, 171 82 Solna, Sweden.
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Reijnen MMPJ, Holmdahl L, Falk P, van Goor H. Rebound phenomenon in tissue plasminogen activator activity of parietal peritoneum after anastomosing colon in rats with bacterial peritonitis. Br J Surg 2002. [DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.2000.01544-11.x] [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: 11/20/2022]
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Background
This study aimed to measure the fibrinolytic response, which plays a role in adhesion and abscess formation, of the parietal peritoneum to surgery in the presence and absence of bacterial peritonitis.
Methods
In 48 male Wistar rats bacterial peritonitis was induced using caecal ligation and puncture (CLP). Some 24 h after CLP (day 0), 12 rats were killed and biopsies were taken from the parietal peritoneum. The remaining 36 rats were reoperated whereby the ligated caecum was resected followed by resection of a 1-cm segment of the descending colon and end-to-end anastomosis. Thirty additional rats underwent resection of a 1-cm segment and anastomosis of the descending colon without any previous procedure. One-third of the rats were killed on days 1, 3 and 7 after anastomosing the colon, and biopsies were taken from the parietal peritoneum. From ten untreated rats, biopsies were taken for measurement of baseline levels. All biopsies were homogenized and tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) activity was measured using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
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Some 24 h after inducing peritonitis (day 0), tPA activity was significantly (P < 0·0001) decreased compared with baseline levels. One day after anastomosis in rats with peritonitis, tPA activity was in the same range as baseline values, while tPA activity was significantly increased on days 3 and 7 after anastomosis, in comparison to baseline levels (P = 0·0002). There was no significant difference in tPA activity compared with baseline levels 1, 3 and 7 days after anastomosing colon in normal rats.
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In rats with bacterial peritonitis, tPA activity in the parietal peritoneum was depressed after 24 h; 24–48 h after inducing peritonitis, tPA activity increased, reaching supranormal levels at days 3–7. Surgery alone does not influence tPA activity of the parietal peritoneum.
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- M M P J Reijnen
- Department of Surgery, University Hospital Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Östra, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Östra, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Surgery, University Hospital Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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The gut flora is a vast interior ecosystem whose nature is only beginning to be unravelled, due to the emergence of sophisticated molecular tools. Techniques such as 16S ribosomal RNA analysis, polymerase chain reaction amplification and the use of DNA microarrays now facilitate rapid identification and characterization of species resistant to conventional culture and possibly unknown species. Life-long cross-talk between the host and the gut flora determines whether health is maintained or disease intervenes. An understanding of these bacteria-bacteria and bacteria-host immune and epithelial cell interactions is likely to lead to a greater insight into disease pathogenesis. Studies of single organism-epithelial interactions have revealed the large range of metabolic processes that gut bacteria may influence. In inflammatory bowel diseases, bacteria drive the inflammatory process, and genetic predisposition to disease identified to date, such as the recently described NOD2/CARD15 gene variants, may relate to altered bacterial recognition. Extra-intestinal disorders, such as atopy and arthritis, may also have an altered gut milieu as their basis. Clinical evidence is emerging that the modification of this internal environment, using either antibiotics or probiotic bacteria, is beneficial in preventing and treating disease. This natural and apparently safe approach holds great appeal.
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- A L Hart
- St. Mark's Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, UK
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Tjärnström J, Holmdahl L, Falk P, Falkenberg M, Arnell P, Risberg B. Effects of hyperbaric oxygen on expression of fibrinolytic factors of human endothelium in a simulated ischaemia/reperfusion situation. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 2002; 61:539-45. [PMID: 11763412 DOI: 10.1080/003655101753218300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [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: 10/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Treatment with hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) is controversial when treating disorders other than decompression sickness. Still, HBO2 is a treatment modality that has gained recognition in certain situations of ischaemia reperfusion. However, not much is known about its effect on the endothelial cells. Based on earlier studies, the hypothesis was that HBO2 treatment stimulates the release of fibrinolytic factors. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of HBO2 treatment on cultured endothelial cells in a simulated ischaemia-reperfusion model. METHODS To mimic the clinical situation during ischaemia reperfusion, endothelial cells were subjected to anoxia for 8 h, followed by reperfusion with either HBO2 or normobaric air for 1.5 h, and compared with an untreated control that was not exposed to anoxia. Components investigated were the fibrinolytic stimulator tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA), urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) and the antagonist. plasminogen activator inhibitor type one (PAI-1). RESULTS Immediately after 8 h of total anoxia and reoxygenation with HBO2 (for 1.5 h), the mean (SEM) concentrations of t-PA, PAI-1 and uPA were significantly increased compared to the other groups. The difference between the normobaric and control groups, measured at 1.5 h, 6 h and 24 h post-anoxia, persisted throughout the experiment. CONCLUSION In this ischaemia-reperfusion model. HBO2 stimulates the release of fibrinolytic factors. These observations might be relevant in trauma care in preventing thromboses and/or microembolization following ischaemia-reperfusion.
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- J Tjärnström
- Departments of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital Göteborg, Sweden.
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- P Falk
- Molecular Biology, Astra Zeneca R&D Mölndal, Sweden.
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Reijnen MMPJ, Holmdahl L, Kooistra T, Falk P, Hendriks T, van Goor H. Time course of peritoneal tissue plasminogen activator after experimental colonic surgery: effect of hyaluronan-based antiadhesive agents and bacterial peritonitis. Br J Surg 2002; 89:103-9. [PMID: 11851673 DOI: 10.1046/j.0007-1323.2001.01966.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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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BACKGROUND This study assessed the peritoneal fibrinolytic response during the first week after colonic surgery in rats with and without bacterial peritonitis, and possible modulation of the response by two hyaluronan-based antiadhesive agents. METHODS A colonic anastomosis was constructed in 90 male Wistar rats. Peritonitis was induced in another 108 rats and a colonic anastomosis was constructed after 24 h. Rats in both groups were randomized into an untreated group or one of two groups treated with hyaluronan-based agents. One-third of each group was killed at each of days 1, 3 and 7 after operation, and tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) antigen and activity were measured in peritoneal biopsies. RESULTS One day after colonic surgery in normal rats, tPA antigen concentration was significantly (P < 0.005) increased, whereas tPA activity levels were normal. By day 3 after operation tPA antigen had returned to baseline values while tPA activity was significantly increased (P < 0.05). One day after inducing peritonitis tPA antigen was significantly increased (P < 0.001), while tPA activity was significantly reduced (P < 0.05). Three and seven days after colonic surgery in rats with peritonitis tPA activity was increased (P < 0.001) while tPA antigen had returned to baseline values. Neither of the hyaluronan-based agents affected peritoneal tPA antigen levels or activity after colonic surgery. CONCLUSION Both abdominal surgery and infection caused an early increase in peritoneal tPA antigen levels, followed by an increase in tPA activity. Peritonitis severely depressed early tPA activity. Application of hyaluronan-based agents did not affect the peritoneal fibrinolytic response to surgery and/or infection.
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- M M P J Reijnen
- Department of Surgery, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Björkholm B, Lundin A, Sillén A, Guillemin K, Salama N, Rubio C, Gordon JI, Falk P, Engstrand L. Comparison of genetic divergence and fitness between two subclones of Helicobacter pylori. Infect Immun 2001; 69:7832-8. [PMID: 11705965 PMCID: PMC98879 DOI: 10.1128/iai.69.12.7832-7838.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Helicobacter pylori has a very plastic genome, reflecting its high rate of recombination and point mutation. This plasticity promotes divergence of the population by the development of subclones and presumably enhances adaptation to host niches. We have investigated the genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of two such subclones isolated from one patient as well as the genetic evolution of these isolates during experimental infection. Whole-genome genotyping of the isolates using DNA microarrays revealed that they were more similar to each other than to a panel of other genotyped strains recovered from different hosts. Nonetheless, they still showed significant differences. For example, one isolate (67:21) contained the entire Cag pathogenicity island (PAI), whereas the other (67:20) had excised the PAI. Phenotypic studies disclosed that both isolates expressed adhesins that recognized human histo-blood group Lewis(b) glycan receptors produced by gastric pit and surface mucus cells. In addition, both isolates were able to colonize, to equivalent density and with similar efficiency, germ-free transgenic mice genetically engineered to synthesize Lewis(b) glycans in their pit cells (12 to 14 mice/isolate). Remarkably, the Cag PAI-negative isolate was unable to colonize conventionally raised Lewis(b) transgenic mice harboring a normal gastric microflora, whereas the Cag PAI-positive isolate colonized 74% of the animals (39 to 40 mice/isolate). The genomic evolution of both isolates during the infection of conventionally raised and germ-free mice was monitored over the course of 3 months. The Cag PAI-positive isolate was also surveyed after a 10 month colonization of conventionally raised transgenic animals (n = 9 mice). Microarray analysis of the Cag PAI and sequence analysis of the cagA, recA, and 16S rRNA genes disclosed no changes in recovered isolates. Together, these results reveal that the H. pylori population infecting one individual can undergo significant divergence, creating stable subclones with substantial genotypic and phenotypic differences.
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- B Björkholm
- Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, 171 82 Solna, Karolinska Institute, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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Holmdahl L, Kotseos K, Bergström M, Falk P, Ivarsson ML, Chegini N. Overproduction of transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) is associated with adhesion formation and peritoneal fibrinolytic impairment. Surgery 2001; 129:626-32. [PMID: 11331455 DOI: 10.1067/msy.2001.113039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [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: 01/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND Reduction in peritoneal fibrinolytic capacity and increased transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) production are associated with adhesion development. This study investigated the expression of TGF-beta1 in peritoneal tissue, and possible correlation with components of the fibrinolytic system locally in peritoneal tissue. MATERIALS AND METHODS Peritoneal samples were taken from 22 patients at relaparotomy. Samples of adhesions were collected from 10 patients. The patients were categorized into different groups depending on the quantity and the quality of adhesions. TGF-beta1 and components of the fibrinolytic system in tissue extracts were assayed using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. RESULTS The concentration of active TGF-beta1 in peritoneal samples from patients with extensive adhesions was double (P <.01) that of healthy subjects, but the total levels of TGF-beta1 were similar (P =.63). In adhesion tissue, both active (P <.003) and total (P <.008) TGF-beta1 concentrations were more than twice as high as unaffected peritoneum. There was a significant correlation between the concentration of plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 in peritoneal samples with active TGF-beta1 (P <.03, r = 0.693) and adhesion tissue with total TGF-beta1 (P =.001, r = 0.872). The other components of the fibrinolytic system did not correlate significantly with TGF-beta1. CONCLUSIONS These data indicate that an overexpression of TGF-beta1 is associated with adhesion formation, possibly through a mechanism involving local regulation of plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1.
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- L Holmdahl
- Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Ostra, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
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Reijnen MM, van Goor H, Falk P, Hedgren M, Holmdahl L. Sodium hyaluronate increases the fibrinolytic response of human peritoneal mesothelial cells exposed to tumor necrosis factor alpha. Arch Surg 2001; 136:291-6. [PMID: 11231848 DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.136.3.291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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HYPOTHESIS Sodium hyaluronate interferes with the fibrin degrading capacity of human peritoneal mesothelial cells exposed to tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha. DESIGN Controlled laboratory experiment. INTERVENTION Human peritoneal mesothelial cells were harvested from 5 patients undergoing laparotomy and cultured in vitro. Cells were treated with TNF-alpha, a cytokine typically involved in peritoneal inflammation, and sodium hyaluronate was added in a final concentration of 0.1%, 0.2%, or 0.4%. Controls received medium only. After 24 hours' incubation, tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA), urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA), and plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1) were measured in the medium and cell lysates using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay techniques. Specific gene transcripts in cells treated with 0.4% sodium hyaluronate and controls were determined using a quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Concentrations of tPA, uPA, and PAI-1, and their specific gene transcripts. RESULTS Sodium hyaluronate significantly increased tPA concentration in cell lysates without affecting its gene expression as determined after 24 hours (P =.02). The uPA concentration was significantly decreased by sodium hyaluronate in the medium but not in cell lysates (P<.0001). The uPA messenger RNA expression was 1000-fold increased compared with control. Sodium hyaluronate significantly decreased PAI-1 concentration in the medium and reduced its gene expression 500-fold (P =.04), while PAI-1 concentration in cell lysates did not change. CONCLUSION Sodium hyaluronate affected the fibrinolytic response of TNF-alpha-stimulated human peritoneal mesothelial cells, most notably by decreasing PAI-1 transcription and release. This observation indicates that sodium hyaluronate counteracts the fibrinolytic decline induced by TNF-alpha and suggests a biological mechanism of action for sodium hyaluronate intra-abdominally.
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- M M Reijnen
- Department of Surgery, University Hospital Nijmegen, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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BACKGROUND Postoperative adhesion formation has been associated with a reduced capacity to degrade fibrin within the peritoneal cavity. Peritoneal fibrinolytic capacity has been shown to decrease during the course of a surgical operation. The aim of this study was to investigate whether tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA), a key fibrinolytic enzyme, is released into the peritoneal cavity during operation. METHODS Fluid released from the serosal surface of the small bowel was collected in a plastic bag from 16 patients undergoing surgery. Intraoperative blood samples were also taken from seven patients. Concentrations of the fibrinolytic components tPA and urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA), tPA activity and plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1) concentration were measured by enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay. RESULTS Intraoperative tPA concentrations were significantly raised in the peritoneal fluid collected compared with peripheral blood levels (P = 0.008). This resulted in a significantly higher tPA activity in the fluid compared with blood (P = 0.001). However, neither uPA (P = 0.29) nor PAI-1 (P = 0.84) concentrations differed significantly in fluid compared with blood. CONCLUSION These data suggest that tPA is rapidly released by the visceral peritoneum during abdominal surgery. The different concentrations in peripheral blood and peritoneum suggest that tPA is released from the peritoneum by an active process, and does not solely derive from leakage of plasma.
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- M L Ivarsson
- Colorectal Unit, Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Ostra, Göteborg University, S-41685 Göteborg, Sweden.
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After they were first identified in the mid-1980s, vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) spread rapidly and became a major problem in many institutions both in Europe and the United States. Since VRE have intrinsic resistance to most of the commonly used antibiotics and the ability to acquire resistance to most of the current available antibiotics, either by mutation or by receipt of foreign genetic material, they have a selective advantage over other microorganisms in the intestinal flora and pose a major therapeutic challenge. The possibility of transfer of vancomycin resistance genes to other gram-positive organisms raises significant concerns about the emergence of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. We review VRE, including their history, mechanisms of resistance, epidemiology, control measures, and treatment.
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- Y Cetinkaya
- Department of Healthcare Epidemiology and Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas 77555-0835, USA
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Inflammation and tissue trauma during the surgical procedure reduce the peritoneal fibrinolytic capacity. These conditions promote adhesion formation, and are associated with increased expression of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-beta1). The objective of the present study was to investigate whether TGF-beta1 regulates the expression of fibrinolytic components in peritoneal mesothelial cells. Human peritoneal mesothelial cells (HPMC) were cultured and treated with various concentrations of human recombinant TGF-beta1 (0.1, 1.0 and 10 ng/mL) for 24 h. Levels of tissue- and urokinase plasminogen activator (t-PA and uPA), plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1) and type-2 (PAI-2) mRNA and protein were assessed by quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (Q-RT-PCR) and ELISA, respectively. HPMC expressed these components at the gene and protein level. TGF-beta1 downregulated, dose-dependently t-PA mRNA and protein to about 50% of control values (p = 0.0010), and doubled PAI-1 protein production (p = 0.0008) compared to untreated controls. Although uPA gene expression increased in cells exposed to TGF-beta1, the corresponding protein concentration in conditioned media did not. PAI-2 was not affected, either at the gene or protein level. In conclusion, the results indicate that fibrinolytic capacity of mesothelial cells is reduced by TGF-beta1, suggesting that peritoneal adhesion formation induced by TGF-beta1 may be mediated, in part, through reduction in fibrin degradation capacity at an early stage of peritoneal tissue repair.
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- P Falk
- Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Ostra, Göteborg University, Sweden
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Björkholm B, Zhukhovitsky V, Löfman C, Hultén K, Enroth H, Block M, Rigo R, Falk P, Engstrand L. Helicobacter pylori entry into human gastric epithelial cells: A potential determinant of virulence, persistence, and treatment failures. Helicobacter 2000; 5:148-54. [PMID: 10971679 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-5378.2000.00023.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [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: 12/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Intracellular location of Helicobacter pylori in human gastric epithelial cells has been observed in biopsies. Whether this reflects an ability to invade host cells and establish an intracellular niche remains to be determined. METHODS The interactions between a clinical isolate of H. pylori and primary cell cultures from human gastric epithelium or the human epithelial cell line HEp-2 were monitored using time-lapse photography. This technique allows studies of the dynamics of host-microbial interactions. RESULTS H. pylori cells readily approached and established close contacts with epithelial cells followed by uptake of the bacteria into the cellular cytoplasm. Entry into epithelial cells was achieved through an active process of bacterial motility and penetration of the cell membranes. In conventional invasion assays using HEp-2 cells, an increased internalization in a strain producing the vacuolating cytotoxin was observed, compared to the isogenic VacA knockout mutant. CONCLUSION Invasion of gastric epithelium represents a hitherto unappreciated trait of H. pylori that could contribute to the bacterium's ability to establish persistent infection that evades the mucosal immune defense and sometimes also antimicrobial therapy. A small number of bacterial cells with a transient intracellular habitat could serve as a seeder population, providing a backup for a constantly challenged and fluctuating luminal population.
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- B Björkholm
- Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
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Reijnen MM, Falk P, van Goor H, Holmdahl L. The antiadhesive agent sodium hyaluronate increases the proliferation rate of human peritoneal mesothelial cells. Fertil Steril 2000; 74:146-51. [PMID: 10899512 DOI: 10.1016/s0015-0282(00)00571-9] [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: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Evaluating the influence of sodium hyaluronate on the proliferation rate of attached and nonattached human peritoneal mesothelial cells to elucidate whether this is a possible mechanism of action in peritoneal tissue repair. DESIGN Controlled laboratory experiment. SETTING A university hospital. PATIENT(S) Five patients undergoing colorectal surgery for noninfectious reasons. INTERVENTION(S) Human peritoneal mesothelial cells were harvested from patients undergoing a laparotomy for noninfectious reasons. Cells, both nonattached and attached, were incubated for 4 and 24 hours with different concentrations of sodium hyaluronate. Thereafter, the cell proliferation rate was measured by XTT (2,3-bis-(2-methoxy-4-nitro-5-sulfophenyl)-2H-tetrazolium-5-car boxanilide) colorimetric assay. To mimic peritoneal injury, the cells were exposed to tumor necrosis factor alpha and/or lipopolysaccharide and were incubated immediately or after 24 hours of exposure to 0% or 0.2% sodium hyaluronate. Afterward, the cell proliferation rate was measured. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S) Proliferation rate measured by XTT assay. RESULT(S) Sodium hyaluronate significantly increased the proliferation rate of mesothelial cells, both in a nonattached (P<.005) and attached (P<.001) state. Exposure of the mesothelial cells to tumor necrosis factor alpha and/or lipopolysaccharide diminished the cells' proliferation rate. However, incubation of these exposed cells with 0.2% sodium hyaluronate significantly increased the proliferation rate, regardless of whether the sodium hyaluronate was added immediately (P<.001) or after 24 hours (P<.001). CONCLUSION(S) Sodium hyaluronate increases the proliferation rate of human peritoneal mesothelial cells, both attached and nonattached, under normal conditions and after stimulation with tumor necrosis factor alpha and/or lipopolysaccharide.
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- M M Reijnen
- Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Ostra, Göteborg, Sweden.
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Costa K, Bacher G, Allmaier G, Dominguez-Bello MG, Engstrand L, Falk P, de Pedro MA, García-del Portillo F. The morphological transition of Helicobacter pylori cells from spiral to coccoid is preceded by a substantial modification of the cell wall. J Bacteriol 1999; 181:3710-5. [PMID: 10368145 PMCID: PMC93848 DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.12.3710-3715.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [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] Open
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The peptidoglycan (murein) of Helicobacter pylori has been investigated by high-performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometric techniques. Murein from H. pylori corresponded to the A1gamma chemotype, but the muropeptide elution patterns were substantially different from the one for Escherichia coli in that the former produced high proportions of muropeptides with a pentapeptide side chain (about 60 mol%), with Gly residues as the C-terminal amino acid (5 to 10 mol%), and with (1-->6)anhydro-N-acetylmuramic acid (13 to 18 mol%). H. pylori murein also lacks murein-bound lipoprotein, trimeric muropeptides, and (L-D) cross-linked muropeptides. Cessation of growth and transition to coccoid shape triggered an increase in N-acetylglucosaminyl-N-acetylmuramyl-L-Ala-D-Glu (approximately 20 mol%), apparently at the expense of monomeric muropeptides with tri- and tetrapeptide side chains. Muropeptides with (1-->6)anhydro-muramic acid and with Gly were also more abundant in resting cells.
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- Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa", CSIC-UAM, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Rydholm HE, Falk P, Eriksson E, Risberg B. Thrombin signal transduction of the fibrinolytic system in human adult venous endothelium in vitro. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 1998; 58:347-52. [PMID: 9741823 DOI: 10.1080/00365519850186535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Thrombin can regulate the-fibrinolytic system by increasing the endothelial production of both tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) and plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1). The thrombin receptor transducts signals through the GTP-binding protein system, the classical pathway being the Galpha q-protein. The purpose of the present study was to examine the roles of Galpha i-protein and tyrosine kinases in the thrombin signal transduction of t-PA and PAI-1 production from human adult vein endothelial cells (HAVEC). t-PA and PAI-1 antigen were analysed in conditioned medium from cultured HAVEC after 16 h incubation. Data are expressed as percentages of basal release (100%), means +/- 95% confidence intervals. Thrombin increased t-PA and PAI-1 production (234 +/- 42% and 211 +/- 42%, respectively). Pertussis toxin (PTX) (inhibiting Galpha i-pathway) reduced basal PAI-1 (66 +/- 8%), but had only a weak influence on basal t-PA production. Pertussis toxin and genistein (inhibiting tyrosine kinase) significantly reduced the thrombin induction of both t-PA and PAI-1 (PTX: 142 +/- 23% and 146 +/- 19%, respectively, genistein: 156 +/- 42% and 76 +/- 24%, respectively). The present study demonstrated that thrombin can increase the production of t-PA and PAI-1 by transducting signals through the Galpha i and tyrosine kinase pathway, in addition to the Galpha q/protein kinase C pathway as has been found previously.
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- H E Rydholm
- Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital Ostra, Göteborg University, Sweden
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Ivarsson ML, Holmdahl L, Falk P, Mölne J, Risberg B. Characterization and fibrinolytic properties of mesothelial cells isolated from peritoneal lavage. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 1998; 58:195-203. [PMID: 9670343 DOI: 10.1080/00365519850186580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Human peritoneal mesothelial cells were harvested from patients undergoing open or laparoscopic surgery for non-septic conditions using three different approaches: (1) from a peritoneal biopsy, (2) from peritoneal fluid, and (3) from lavage fluid collected from peritoneal cavity. When these different methods were compared, cells derived from peritoneal fluid or lavage were more likely to result in established cultures than those obtained from biopsies. The cells displayed morphological, immunohistochemical and ultrastructural characteristics of mesothelial cells. The cultured mesothelial cells produced tissue type plasminogen activator (t-PA), urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA), and plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 and type-2 (PAI-1 and PAI-2) during unstimulated conditions. Treatment with the proinflammatory mediators LPS and TNF-alpha resulted in an overall decreased fibrinolytic capacity with a decrease in the release of t-PA and an increase in plasminogen activator inhibitors PAI-1 and PAI-2. TNF-alpha had a more profound effect than LPS, especially on the release of t-PA. This may be an important mechanism by which inflammatory mediators disrupt the fibrin degradation. In conclusion, peritoneal lavage is a convenient and reproducible source of mesothelial cells for culture.
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- M L Ivarsson
- Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden
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Morecki S, Nabet C, Falk P, Fridkis-Hareli M, Pecht I, Mond JJ, Slavin S. The effect of linomide, an immunoregulator in experimental autoimmune diseases, on humoral antibody responses in mice. Autoimmunity 1997; 25:223-32. [PMID: 9344330 DOI: 10.3109/08916939708994731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Linomide (quinoline-3-carboxamide), a well tolerated, orally administered compound was recently shown to be effective in the prevention and treatment of several autoimmune diseases in experimental animal models. We have investigated its effect on specific humoral immune responses directed to T-cell-dependent soluble or particulate antigens and to a T cell-independent antigen in several mouse strains. Linomide administered after antigen priming did not affect primary and secondary antibody responses directed to T-cell particulate antigens (SRBC) or soluble antigens given with or without complete Freund's Adjuvant (CFA). Linomide treatment given prior to antigen priming did not affect the antibody response to a soluble antigen (TNP-KLH) given with an adjuvant. In contrast, dose-dependent down regulation of primary antibody responses was observed when T cell-dependent (BSA-dextran) or T-cell-independent (TNP-Ficoll) antigens were administered in an immunogenic form without adjuvant after starting Linomide treatment. The primary anti-SRBC antibody response was also suppressed by high dose Linomide given prior to immunization although normal secondary responses were retained. It is worth noting that no immunosuppressive effects on antibody responses were found at low dose ranges which effectively reversed T cell dependent autoimmune manifestation.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibody Formation/drug effects
- Antigen Presentation/drug effects
- Antigens, T-Independent/immunology
- Autoantibodies/biosynthesis
- Autoantibodies/immunology
- Autoantigens/immunology
- Autoimmune Diseases/drug therapy
- Autoimmune Diseases/genetics
- Autoimmune Diseases/immunology
- Dextrans/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/drug therapy
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/genetics
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/immunology
- Drug Administration Schedule
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/drug therapy
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/genetics
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/immunology
- Female
- Ficoll/analogs & derivatives
- Ficoll/immunology
- Freund's Adjuvant
- Haptens
- Hemocyanins/immunology
- Hydroxyquinolines/pharmacology
- Hydroxyquinolines/therapeutic use
- Immunization
- Immunologic Factors/pharmacology
- Immunologic Factors/therapeutic use
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred DBA
- Mice, Inbred NOD
- Myelin Basic Protein/immunology
- Peptide Fragments/immunology
- Serum Albumin, Bovine/immunology
- Solubility
- Trinitrobenzenes/immunology
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- S Morecki
- Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
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Helicobacter pylori establishes a chronic infection in the stomach of humans. The infection is associated with a low grade inflammatory response in the epithelium that can develop into chronic active gastritis, peptic ulcer disease or neoplasia. Antibiotics have dramatically decreased the rate of recurrence of peptic ulcers. However, antibiotic resistance is already evident, casting doubts on the future efficacy of these strategies. The link between childhood infection and severe health problems, including increased risk for gastric tumours motivate efforts to develop vaccines. Characterization of the molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis will pave the way for novel strategies for treatment and prevention of H. pylori infection.
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- P Falk
- Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Peters C, Balthazor M, Shapiro EG, King RJ, Kollman C, Hegland JD, Henslee-Downey J, Trigg ME, Cowan MJ, Sanders J, Bunin N, Weinstein H, Lenarsky C, Falk P, Harris R, Bowen T, Williams TE, Grayson GH, Warkentin P, Sender L, Cool VA, Crittenden M, Packman S, Kaplan P, Lockman LA, Anderson J, Krivit W, Dusenbery K, Wagner J. Outcome of unrelated donor bone marrow transplantation in 40 children with Hurler syndrome. Blood 1996; 87:4894-902. [PMID: 8639864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Long-term survival and improved neuropsychological function have occurred in selected children with Hurler syndrome (MPS I H) after successful engraftment with genotypically matched sibling bone marrow transplantation (BMT). However, because few children have HLA-identical siblings, the feasibility of unrelated donor (URD) BMT as a vehicle for adoptive enzyme therapy was evaluated in this retrospective study. Forty consecutive children (median, 1.7 years; range, 0.9 to 3.2 years) with MPS I H received high-dose chemotherapy with or without radiation followed by BMT between January 27, 1989 and May 13, 1994. Twenty-five of the 40 patients initially engrafted. An estimated 49% of patients are alive at 2 years, 63% alloengrafted and 37% autoengrafted. The probability of grade II to IV acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) was 30%, and the probability of extensive chronic GVHD was 18%. Eleven patients received a second URD BMT because of graft rejection or failure. Of the 20 survivors, 13 children have complete donor engraftment, two children have mixed chimeric grafts, and five children have autologous marrow recovery. The BM cell dose was correlated with both donor engraftment and survival. Thirteen of 27 evaluable patients were engrafted at 1 year following URD BMT. Neither T-lymphocyte depletion (TLD) of the bone marrow nor irradiation appeared to influence the likelihood of engraftment. Ten of 16 patients alive at 1 year who received a BM cell dose greater than or equal to 3.5 x 10(8) cells/kg engrafted, and 62% are estimated to be alive at 3 years. In contrast, only 3 of 11 patients receiving less than 3.5 x 10(8) cells/kg engrafted, and 24% are estimated to be alive at 3 years (P = .05). The mental developmental index (MDI) was assessed before BMT. Both baseline and post-BMT neuropsychological data were available for 11 engrafted survivors. Eight children with a baseline MDI greater than 70 have undergone URD BMT (median age, 1.5 years; range, 1.0 to 2.4 years). Of these, two children have had BMT too recently for developmental follow-up. Of the remaining six, none has shown any decline in age equivalent scores. Four children are acquiring skills at a pace equal to or slightly below their same age peers; two children have shown a plateau in learning or extreme slowing in their learning process. For children with a baseline MDI less than 70 (median age, 2.5 years; range, 0.9 to 2.9 years), post-BMT follow-up indicated that two children have shown deterioration in their developmental skills. The remaining three children are maintaining their skills and are adding to them at a highly variable rate. We conclude that MPS I H patients with a baseline MDI greater than 70 who are engrafted survivors following URD BMT can achieve a favorable long-term outcome and improved cognitive function. Future protocols must address the high risk of graft rejection or failure and the impact of GVHD in this patient population.
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- C Peters
- Department of Pediatrics University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA
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Strömqvist M, Falk P, Bergström S, Hansson L, Lönnerdal B, Normark S, Hernell O. Human milk kappa-casein and inhibition of Helicobacter pylori adhesion to human gastric mucosa. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 1995; 21:288-96. [PMID: 8523212 DOI: 10.1097/00005176-199510000-00006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [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: 01/31/2023]
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Readily digested caseins, which account for almost half of the protein content in human milk, are important as nutritional protein for breast-fed infants. It has also been advocated that part of the antimicrobial activity of human milk resides in the caseins, most likely the glycosyated K-casein. Top explore this possibility, we purified K-casein from human milk to homogeneity by a two-step size-exclusion chromatography procedure. Purified human K-casein, in contrast to K-casein purified from bovine milk, effectively inhibited the cell lineage-specific adhesion of fluoroisothiocyanate-labeled Helicobacter pylori to human gastric surface mucous cells. The inhibitory activity was abolished by metaperiodate oxidation and considerably reduced by preincubation with alpha-L-fucosidase but not with alpha-N-acetylneuraminidase or endo-beta-galactosidase. These results strongly support the view that fucose containing carbohydrate moieties of human K-casein are important for inhibition of H. pylori adhesion and, thus, infection. They also suggest that breastfeeding may protect from infection by H. pylori during early life and that species-specific glycosylation patterns, as illustrated by human bovine K-casein, partly determine both the narrow host spectrum of this human gastric pathogen and the capacity to resist infection.
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Falk P, Lorenz RG, Sharon N, Gordon JI. Moluccella laevis lectin, a marker for cellular differentiation programs in mouse gut epithelium. Am J Physiol 1995; 268:G553-67. [PMID: 7537454 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.1995.268.4.g553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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We have assembled a system for testing the hypothesis that changes in glycoconjugate production represent markers for defining developmental, spatial, and environmental influences on the proliferation and differentiation programs of various mouse gut epithelial cell lineages. Multilabel immunohistochemical methods were used to survey the interactions of purified lectins with 1) normal fetal, neonatal, and adult FVB/N mouse gut, 2) gastric and intestinal isografts harvested at various developmental stages, and 3) transgenic mouse models of intestinal epithelial cell hyperplasia, dysplasia, and/or neoplasia. As a demonstration of the system's utility, we used the recently purified, alpha-N-acetyl-D-galactosamine-specific, Moluccella laevis lectin (MLL). In the adult FVB/N mouse stomach, MLL only recognizes glycoconjugates produced by a population of nonproliferating neck and prezymogenic cells that occupy a pivotal point in the complex, migration-associated differentiation program of the zymogenic cell lineage. In the developing FVB/N stomach, MLL binds to members of the zymogenic and pit lineages even before morphogenesis of gastric units is completed. Expression of MLL epitopes in pit cells is restricted to the period before the gastric epithelium has completed its morphoregulatory program. Analysis of gastric isografts indicates that these lineage- and developmental stage-specific patterns of glycoconjugate accumulation are not influenced by normal luminal contents. In the adult FVB/N intestine, MLL binding can be used to operationally define variations in the differentiation programs of 1) members of the enteroendocrine and goblet cell lineages during their migration along the crypt-to-villus axis and 2) cells comprising the follicle-associated epithelium overlying Peyer's patches. Accumulation of MLL epitopes in villus-associated enterocytes does not appear to be affected when these cells are induced to reenter the cell cycle by simian virus 40 large T antigen (SV40 TAg). MLL reactivity is not diminished when enterocytes begin to dedifferentiate as a result of production of SV40 TAg, human K-rasVal12, and a dominant negative human p53 mutant. The lack of change in MLL binding properties may reflect the brief residence time of enterocytes on the villus. These results indicate that glycoconjugate production represents a very useful tool for studying gut epithelial cell biology. Preliminary studies suggest that this is also true in the human gut.
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- P Falk
- Department of Molecular Biology, Washington University, USA
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- P Falk
- Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110
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Giannasca PJ, Giannasca KT, Falk P, Gordon JI, Neutra MR. Regional differences in glycoconjugates of intestinal M cells in mice: potential targets for mucosal vaccines. Am J Physiol 1994; 267:G1108-21. [PMID: 7810658 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.1994.267.6.g1108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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We have used a panel of lectins and antibodies to describe the composition of complex carbohydrates associated with M cells in various regions of the intestinal tract of adult BALB/c mice. The fucose-specific lectin Ulex europaeus agglutinin type I (UEA I) is a marker of M cells in the small intestine and recognized M cells at an early stage of differentiation. Subpopulations of M cells in a single follicle-associated epithelium (FAE) could be distinguished by different fucose-specific probes. Certain lectins revealed that M cells have basal processes that extend into the underlying lymphoid tissue. Colonic and rectal M cells display glycosylation patterns distinct from M cells of Peyer's patches and are characterized by terminal galactose. UEA I selectively adhered to Peyer's patch M cells in mucosal explants and in ligated intestinal loops in vivo. The lectin was taken up into endocytic vesicles and transported to the intra-epithelial pocket and other domains of the basolateral membrane. Thus M cell-specific glycoconjugates could serve as "receptors" for targeting of lectin-antigen conjugates to the mucosal immune system.
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- P J Giannasca
- Gastrointestinal Cell Biology Laboratory, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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Pyelonephritic isolates of Escherichia coli commonly express P-pili, which mediate bacterial attachment to glycolipids on epithelial cell surfaces. Three classes of P-pili have been defined, based on varying specificity for galabiose-containing glycolipids. Variation in adhesive capacity is correlated with a shift in preferred host, suggesting that host tropism depends largely on detailed specificity for the globoseries glycolipids. In this study we examined the importance of the PapG adhesin in determining receptor specificity. Translational fusions were constructed between the amino-terminus of the PapG adhesin from each of the three pilus classes and a reporter protein. The binding specificity of the purified fusion proteins in vitro was identical to that seen with whole bacteria. Adherence of intact bacteria to cultured kidney cells was markedly reduced by a monoclonal antibody specific for the Class III adhesin (previously denoted PrsG), confirming the importance of the amino-terminus of PapG in mediating attachment to a receptor when presented on the eukaryotic cell surface. These results suggest that the detailed receptor specificity resides solely within the amino-terminus of the PapG adhesin and is independent of the complex pilus architecture.
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- D B Haslam
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, Missouri 63110
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Bry L, Falk P, Huttner K, Ouellette A, Midtvedt T, Gordon JI. Paneth cell differentiation in the developing intestine of normal and transgenic mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:10335-9. [PMID: 7937951 PMCID: PMC45014 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.22.10335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 196] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Paneth cells represent one of the four major epithelial lineages in the mouse small intestine. It is the only lineage that migrates downward from the stem-cell zone located in the lower portion of the crypt of Lieberkühn to the crypt base. Mature Paneth cells release growth factors, digestive enzymes, and antimicrobial peptides from their apical secretory granules. Some of these factors may affect the crypt stem cell, its transit-cell descendants, differentiating villus-associated epithelial lineages, and/or the gut microflora. We used single and multilabel immunocytochemical methods to study Paneth cell differentiation during and after completion of gut morphogenesis in normal, gnotobiotic, and transgenic mice as well as in intestinal isografts. This lineage emerges coincident with cytodifferentiation of the fetal small intestinal endoderm, formation of crypts from an intervillus epithelium, and establishment of a stem-cell hierarchy. The initial differentiation program involves sequential expression of cryptdins, a phospholipase A2 (enhancing factor), and lysozyme. A dramatic increase in Paneth cell number per crypt occurs during postnatal days 14-28, when crypts proliferate by fission. Accumulation of fucosylated and sialylated glycoconjugates during this period represents the final evolution of the lineage's differentiation program. Establishment of this lineage is not dependent upon instructive interactions from the microflora. Transgenic mice containing nucleotides -6500 to +34 of the Paneth cell-specific mouse cryptdin 2 gene linked to the human growth hormone gene beginning at its nucleotide +3 inappropriately express human growth hormone in a large population of proliferating and nonproliferating cells in the intervillus epithelium up to postnatal day 5. Transgene expression subsequently becomes restricted to the Paneth cell lineage in the developing crypt. Cryptdin 2 nucleotides -6500 to +34 should be a useful marker of crypt morphogenesis and a valuable tool for conducting gain-of-function or loss-of-function experiments in Paneth cells.
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- L Bry
- Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110
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