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Kato S, Li B, Adashek JJ, Cha SW, Bianchi-Frias D, Qian D, Kim L, so TW, Mitchell M, Kamei N, Hoiness R, Hoo J, Gray PN, Iyama T, Kashiwagi M, Lu HM, Kurzrock R. Serial changes in liquid biopsy-derived variant allele frequency predict immune checkpoint inhibitor responsiveness in the pan-cancer setting. Oncoimmunology 2022; 11:2052410. [PMID: 35371621 PMCID: PMC8966985 DOI: 10.1080/2162402x.2022.2052410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Major immunotherapy challenges include a limited number of predictive biomarkers and the unusual imaging features post-therapy, such as pseudo-progression, which denote immune infiltrate-mediated tumor enlargement. Such phenomena confound clinical decision-making, since the cancer may eventually regress, and the patient should stay on treatment. We prospectively evaluated serial, blood-derived cell-free DNA (cfDNA) (baseline and 2–3 weeks post-immune checkpoint inhibitors [ICIs]) for variant allele frequency (VAF) and blood tumor mutation burden (bTMB) changes (next-generation sequencing) (N = 84 evaluable patients, diverse cancers). Low vs. high cfDNA-derived average adjusted ΔVAF (calculated by a machine-learning model) was an independent predictor of higher clinical benefit rate (stable disease ≥6 months/complete/partial response) (69.2% vs. 22.5%), and longer median progression-free (10.1 vs. 2.25 months) and overall survival (not reached vs. 6.1 months) (all P < .001, multivariate). bTMB changes did not correlate with outcomes. Therefore, early dynamic changes in cfDNA-derived VAF were a powerful predictor of pan-cancer immunotherapy outcomes. Liquid biopsy to predict immunotherapy response.
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- Shumei Kato
- Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy and Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Ambry Genetics, Aliso Viejo, CA, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Florida, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy and Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy and Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy and Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Bio Advanced Technology Division, Corporate R&D Headquarters, Konica Minolta, Inc, Tokyo, Japan
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- Ambry Genetics, Aliso Viejo, CA, USA
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- Bio Advanced Technology Division, Corporate R&D Headquarters, Konica Minolta, Inc, Tokyo, Japan
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- Bio Advanced Technology Division, Corporate R&D Headquarters, Konica Minolta, Inc, Tokyo, Japan
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- Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy and Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Li S, Cha SW, Heffner K, Hizal DB, Bowen MA, Chaerkady R, Cole RN, Tejwani V, Kaushik P, Henry M, Meleady P, Sharfstein ST, Betenbaugh MJ, Bafna V, Lewis NE. Proteogenomic Annotation of Chinese Hamsters Reveals Extensive Novel Translation Events and Endogenous Retroviral Elements. J Proteome Res 2019; 18:2433-2445. [PMID: 31020842 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.8b00935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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A high-quality genome annotation greatly facilitates successful cell line engineering. Standard draft genome annotation pipelines are based largely on de novo gene prediction, homology, and RNA-Seq data. However, draft annotations can suffer from incorrect predictions of translated sequence, inaccurate splice isoforms, and missing genes. Here, we generated a draft annotation for the newly assembled Chinese hamster genome and used RNA-Seq, proteomics, and Ribo-Seq to experimentally annotate the genome. We identified 3529 new proteins compared to the hamster RefSeq protein annotation and 2256 novel translational events (e.g., alternative splices, mutations, and novel splices). Finally, we used this pipeline to identify the source of translated retroviruses contaminating recombinant products from Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell lines, including 119 type-C retroviruses, thus enabling future efforts to eliminate retroviruses to reduce the costs incurred with retroviral particle clearance. In summary, the improved annotation provides a more accurate resource for CHO cell line engineering, by facilitating the interpretation of omics data, defining of cellular pathways, and engineering of complex phenotypes.
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- Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering , AstraZeneca , Gaithersburg , Maryland , United States
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- Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering , AstraZeneca , Gaithersburg , Maryland , United States
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- Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering , AstraZeneca , Gaithersburg , Maryland , United States
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- Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering , SUNY Polytechnic Institute , Albany , New York 12203 , United States
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- National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology , Dublin City University , Dublin 9, Ireland
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- National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology , Dublin City University , Dublin 9, Ireland
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- National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology , Dublin City University , Dublin 9, Ireland
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- Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering , SUNY Polytechnic Institute , Albany , New York 12203 , United States
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Immunotherapy is becoming increasingly important in the fight against cancers, using and manipulating the body's immune response to treat tumors. Understanding the immune repertoire-the collection of immunological proteins-of treated and untreated cells is possible at the genomic, but technically difficult at the protein level. Standard protein databases do not include the highly divergent sequences of somatic rearranged immunoglobulin genes, and may lead to miss identifications in a mass spectrometry search. We introduce a novel proteogenomic approach, AbScan, to identify these highly variable antibody peptides, by developing a customized antibody database construction method using RNA-seq reads aligned to immunoglobulin (Ig) genes.AbScan starts by filtering transcript (RNA-seq) reads that match the template for Ig genes. The retained reads are used to construct a repertoire graph using the "split" de Bruijn graph: a graph structure that improves on the standard de Bruijn graph to capture the high diversity of Ig genes in a compact manner. AbScan corrects for sequencing errors, and converts the graph to a format suitable for searching with MS/MS search tools. We used AbScan to create an antibody database from 90 RNA-seq colorectal tumor samples. Next, we used proteogenomic analysis to search MS/MS spectra of matched colorectal samples from the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) against the AbScan generated database. AbScan identified 1,940 distinct antibody peptides. Correlating with previously identified Single Amino-Acid Variants (SAAVs) in the tumor samples, we identified 163 pairs (antibody peptide, SAAV) with significant cooccurrence pattern in the 90 samples. The presence of coexpressed antibody and mutated peptides was correlated with survival time of the individuals. Our results suggest that AbScan (https://github.com/csw407/AbScan.git) is an effective tool for a proteomic exploration of the immune response in cancers.
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- Seong Won Cha
- From the ‡Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- ¶Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037
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- ¶Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037
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- ¶Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037
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Woo S, Cha SW, Bonissone S, Na S, Tabb DL, Pevzner PA, Bafna V. Advanced Proteogenomic Analysis Reveals Multiple Peptide Mutations and Complex Immunoglobulin Peptides in Colon Cancer. J Proteome Res 2015; 14:3555-67. [PMID: 26139413 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b00264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Aiming toward an improved understanding of the regulation of proteins in cancer, recent studies from the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) have focused on analyzing cancer tissue using proteomic technologies and workflows. Although many proteogenomics approaches for the study of cancer samples have been proposed, serious methodological challenges remain, especially in the identification of multiple mutational variants or structural variations such as fusion gene events. In addition, although immune system genes play an important role in cancer, identification of IgG peptides remains challenging in proteomic data sets. Here, we describe an integrative proteogenomic method that extends the limit of proteogenomic searches to identify multiple variant peptides as well as immunoglobulin gene variations/rearrangements using customized mining of RNA-seq data. Our results also provide the first extensive characterization of tumor immune response and demonstrate the potential of this method to improve the molecular characterization of tumor subtypes.
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University , Nashville, Tennessee 37203, United States
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Kim IY, Cha SW, Ahn JH, Kim YW. Factors affecting the restaging accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging after preoperative chemoradiation in patients with rectal cancer. Eur J Surg Oncol 2015; 41:493-8. [PMID: 25648465 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejso.2014.12.008] [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] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2014] [Accepted: 12/26/2014] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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PURPOSES We evaluated patient or tumor factors associated with the preoperative restaging accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for determining T and N stages as well as circumferential resection margin (CRM) involvement after chemoradiation (CRT) in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer. METHODS Seventy-seven patients with rectal cancer that were treated with preoperative CRT (50.4 Gy) followed by radical resection were included. Post-CRT MRI was performed approximately 4 weeks after preoperative CRT. RESULTS The median tumor distance from the anal verge was 6 cm, 48 (62%) of which were anterior and 29 (38%) posterior. The median tumor diameter was 3 cm. A stage-by-stage comparison showed that correct staging occurred in 62%, 43%, and 86% of patients for T staging, N staging, and CRM prediction, respectively. Shorter distance to the anal verge (<5 cm), smaller tumor diameter (<1 cm), and anterior tumor location were associated with incorrect T staging. There were no significant variables in terms of N staging accuracy. Shorter tumor distance and anterior tumor location were associated with incorrect CRM prediction. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that specific tumor factors such as small, distal, or anterior rectal tumors are closely associated with the accuracy of MRI after preoperative CRT.
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- I Y Kim
- Department of Surgery, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Surgery, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Republic of Korea.
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Woo S, Cha SW, Na S, Guest C, Liu T, Smith RD, Rodland KD, Payne S, Bafna V. Proteogenomic strategies for identification of aberrant cancer peptides using large-scale next-generation sequencing data. Proteomics 2014; 14:2719-30. [PMID: 25263569 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201400206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2014] [Revised: 08/14/2014] [Accepted: 09/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Cancer is driven by the acquisition of somatic DNA lesions. Distinguishing the early driver mutations from subsequent passenger mutations is key to molecular subtyping of cancers, understanding cancer progression, and the discovery of novel biomarkers. The advances of genomics technologies (whole-genome exome, and transcript sequencing, collectively referred to as NGS (next-generation sequencing)) have fueled recent studies on somatic mutation discovery. However, the vision is challenged by the complexity, redundancy, and errors in genomic data, and the difficulty of investigating the proteome translated portion of aberrant genes using only genomic approaches. Combination of proteomic and genomic technologies are increasingly being employed. Various strategies have been employed to allow the usage of large-scale NGS data for conventional MS/MS searches. This paper provides a discussion of applying different strategies relating to large database search, and FDR (false discovery rate) -based error control, and their implication to cancer proteogenomics. Moreover, it extends and develops the idea of a unified genomic variant database that can be searched by any MS sample. A total of 879 BAM files downloaded from TCGA repository were used to create a 4.34 GB unified FASTA database that contained 2787062 novel splice junctions, 38,464 deletions, 1,105 insertions, and 182,302 substitutions. Proteomic data from a single ovarian carcinoma sample (439,858 spectra) was searched against the database. By applying the most conservative FDR measure, we have identified 524 novel peptides and 65,578 known peptides at 1% FDR threshold. The novel peptides include interesting examples of doubly mutated peptides, frame-shifts, and nonsample-recruited mutations, which emphasize the strength of our approach.
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- Sunghee Woo
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
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Woo S, Cha SW, Merrihew G, He Y, Castellana N, Guest C, MacCoss M, Bafna V. Proteogenomic database construction driven from large scale RNA-seq data. J Proteome Res 2014; 13:21-8. [PMID: 23802565 PMCID: PMC4034692 DOI: 10.1021/pr400294c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [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: 12/28/2022]
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The advent of inexpensive RNA-seq technologies and other deep sequencing technologies for RNA has the promise to radically improve genomic annotation, providing information on transcribed regions and splicing events in a variety of cellular conditions. Using MS-based proteogenomics, many of these events can be confirmed directly at the protein level. However, the integration of large amounts of redundant RNA-seq data and mass spectrometry data poses a challenging problem. Our paper addresses this by construction of a compact database that contains all useful information expressed in RNA-seq reads. Applying our method to cumulative C. elegans data reduced 496.2 GB of aligned RNA-seq SAM files to 410 MB of splice graph database written in FASTA format. This corresponds to 1000× compression of data size, without loss of sensitivity. We performed a proteogenomics study using the custom data set, using a completely automated pipeline, and identified a total of 4044 novel events, including 215 novel genes, 808 novel exons, 12 alternative splicings, 618 gene-boundary corrections, 245 exon-boundary changes, 938 frame shifts, 1166 reverse strands, and 42 translated UTRs. Our results highlight the usefulness of transcript + proteomic integration for improved genome annotations.
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- Sunghee Woo
- Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering, University of California, San Diego
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- Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering, University of California, San Diego
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- University of Washington, Department of Genome Sciences, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, University of California, San Diego
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- Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering, University of California, San Diego
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- University of Washington, Department of Genome Sciences, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, University of California, San Diego
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Shim CS, Cheon YK, Cha SW, Bhandari S, Moon JH, Cho YD, Kim YS, Lee LS, Lee MS, Kim BS. Prospective study of the effectiveness of percutaneous transhepatic photodynamic therapy for advanced bile duct cancer and the role of intraductal ultrasonography in response assessment. Endoscopy 2005; 37:425-33. [PMID: 15844020 DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-861294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [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: 02/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS We evaluated the therapeutic effects of percutaneous transhepatic photodynamic therapy (PDT) in patients with advanced bile duct cancer. The utility of intraductal ultrasonography (IDUS) for the assessment of responses and for regular follow up after PDT was also examined. METHODS Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) was initiated before PDT. Following dilation and maturation of the PTBD tract, percutaneous PDT was performed. Intraluminal photoactivation was carried out using percutaneous cholangioscopy 2 days after intravenous application of a hematoporphyrin derivative. All patients were additionally provided with percutaneous bile duct drainage catheters after PDT. IDUS was conducted monthly to measure the thickness of the tumor mass before and after PDT. RESULTS 24 patients with advanced cholangiocarcinomas (Bismuth IIIa, n = 4; IIIb, n = 10; IV, n = 10) were treated with PDT. At 3 months after PDT, the mean thickness of the tumor mass had decreased from 8.7 +/- 3.7 mm to 5.8 +/- 2.0 mm (P < 0.01). At 4 months after PDT, the thickness of the mass had increased to 7.0 +/- 3.7 mm. Quality of life indices improved dramatically and remained stable 1 month after PDT; the Karnofsky index increased from 39.1 +/- 11.36 to 58.2 +/- 22.72 points (P = 0.003). The 30-day mortality rate was 0 %, and the median survival time was 558 +/- 178.8 days (current range 62 - 810 days). CONCLUSIONS PDT using percutaneous cholangioscopy is safe and effective for advanced hilar cholangiocarcinoma, and seems to prolong survival. IDUS is useful for evaluating changes in the thickness of the tumor mass after PDT.
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- C S Shim
- Institute for Digestive Research and Digestive Disease Center, Soon Chun Hyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
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Jung IS, Shim CS, Cheon YK, Bhandari S, Cha SW, Moon JH, Cho YD, Kim JH, Kim YS, Lee MS, Kim BS. Invasive intraductal papillary mucinous tumor of the pancreas with simultaneous invasion of the stomach and duodenum. Endoscopy 2004; 36:186-9. [PMID: 14765321 DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-814190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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An 81-year-old woman was admitted with epigastric pain and weight loss. She had been diagnosed with an intraductal papillary mucosal tumor (IPMT) 7 years previously, but had refused surgery for religious reasons. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed a nodular, elevated lesion that was discharging mucin into the duodenal bulb and posterior wall of the upper body of the stomach. Endoscopic ultrasonography, abdominal computed tomography, and endoscopic retrograde cholangiography were carried out, and a highly invasive IPMT with simultaneous invasion of the stomach and duodenum was diagnosed.
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- I S Jung
- Institute for Digestive Research, Soon Chun Hyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Tan KH, Chua CK, Leong KF, Cheah CM, Cheang P, Abu Bakar MS, Cha SW. Scaffold development using selective laser sintering of polyetheretherketone-hydroxyapatite biocomposite blends. Biomaterials 2003; 24:3115-23. [PMID: 12895584 DOI: 10.1016/s0142-9612(03)00131-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 249] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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In tissue engineering (TE), temporary three-dimensional scaffolds are essential to guide cell proliferation and to maintain native phenotypes in regenerating biologic tissues or organs. To create the scaffolds, rapid prototyping (RP) techniques are emerging as fabrication techniques of choice as they are capable of overcoming many of the limitations encountered with conventional manual-based fabrication processes. In this research, RP fabrication of solvent free porous polymeric and composite scaffolds was investigated. Biomaterials such as polyetheretherketone (PEEK) and hydroxyapatite (HA) were experimentally processed on a commercial selective laser sintering (SLS) RP system. The SLS technique is highly advantageous as it provides good user control over the microstructures of created scaffolds by adjusting the SLS process parameters. Different weight percentage (wt%) compositions of physically mixed PEEK/HA powder blends were sintered to assess their suitability for SLS processing. Microstructural assessments of the scaffolds were conducted using electron microscopy. The results ascertained the potential of SLS-fabricated TE scaffolds.
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- K H Tan
- School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore
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Kim JC, Shin HC, Cha SW, Koh WS, Chung MK, Han SS. Evaluation of developmental toxicity in rats exposed to the environmental estrogen bisphenol A during pregnancy. Life Sci 2001; 69:2611-25. [PMID: 11712665 DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3205(01)01341-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Bisphenol A (BPA) is an essential component of epoxy resins used in the lacquer lining of metal food cans, as a component of polycarbonates, and in dental sealants. The present study was conducted in an attempt to evaluate the adverse effects of the environmental estrogen BPA on initiation and maintenance of pregnancy and embryofetal development after maternal exposure during the entire period of pregnancy in Sprague-Dawley rats. The test chemical was administered by gavage to mated females from days 1 to 20 of gestation (sperm in varginal lavage = day 0) at dose levels of 0, 100, 300, and 1000 mg/kg. All females were subjected to caesarean section on day 21 of gestation and their fetuses were examined for external, visceral and skeletal abnormalities. In the 1000 mg/kg group, significant toxic effects including abnormal clinical signs, decreased maternal body weight and body weight gain, and reduced food consumption were observed in pregnant rats. An increase in pregnancy failure was also found in the successfully mated females. In addition, increased number of embryonal deaths, increased postimplantation loss, reduced litter size and fetal body weight, and decreased number of fetal ossification centers of several skeletal districts were seen. On the contrary, no significant changes induced by BPA were detected in the number of corpora lutea and implantation sites and by fetal morphological examinations. In the 300 mg/kg group, suppressed maternal body weight and body weight gain, decreased food intake and reduced body weight of male fetuses were seen. There were no adverse signs of either maternal toxicity or developmental toxicity in the 100 mg/kg group. It was concluded that BPA administration during the entire period of pregnancy in rats produced pregnancy failure, pre- and postimplantation loss, fetal developmental delay and severe maternal toxicity, but no embryo-fetal dysmorphogenesis at an oral exposure level of 1000 mg/kg.
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- J C Kim
- Toxicology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Yuseong, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
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Shim HJ, Lee EJ, Kim JH, Kim SH, Kwon JW, Kim WB, Cha SW, Lee MG. Subacute toxicities and toxicokinetics of a new erectogenic, DA-8159, after single and 4-week repeated oral administration in dogs. Biopharm Drug Dispos 2001; 22:109-17. [PMID: 11745913 DOI: 10.1002/bdd.263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [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] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The subacute toxicities and toxicokinetics of a new erectogenic, DA-8159, were evaluated after single (at the 1st day) and 4-week (at the 28th day) oral administration of the drug, in doses of 0 (to serve as a control), 12.5, 50 and 200 mg/kg/day, to male and female dogs (n=3 for male and female dogs for each dose). DA-8159 had an effect on the immune-related organs (or tissues), circulatory systems, liver, adrenal glands, ovaries and pancreas. The toxic dose was 200 mg/kg and no observed adverse effect level was less than 50 mg/kg for male and female dogs. There were no significant gender differences in the pharmacokinetic parameters of DA-8159 for each dose after both single and 4-week oral administration. The pharmacokinetic parameters of DA-8159 were dose-independent after single oral administration; the time to reach a peak plasma concentration (T(max)) and the dose-normalized area under the plasma concentration-time curve from time zero to 24 h in plasma (AUC(0-24 h)) were not significantly different among three doses. However, accumulation of DA-8159 after 4-week oral administration was considerable at toxic dose, 200 mg/kg/day. For example, after 4-week administration, the dose-normalized AUC(0-24 h) value at 200 mg/kg/day (4.71 and 15.3 microg h/ml) was significantly greater than that at 12.5 mg/kg/day. After 4-week oral administration, the dose-normalized C(max) and AUC(0-24 h) at 200 mg/kg/day were significantly higher and greater, respectively, than those after a single oral administration.
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- H J Shim
- College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Cha SW, Lee HJ, Cho MH, Lee MH, Koh WS, Han S, Kim J, Lee E, Nam D, Jeong TC. Role of corticosterone in ethyl carbamate-induced immunosuppression in female BALB/c mice. Toxicol Lett 2001; 119:173-81. [PMID: 11246170 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4274(00)00306-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [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: 10/17/2022]
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We have recently demonstrated that the antibody response to the T-cell-dependent antigen, sheep red blood cells (SRBCs), was suppressed by ethyl carbamate in female BALB/c mice. At the same doses, ethyl carbamate decreased in the numbers of splenic macrophages, B cells, total T cells, CD4(+) T cells and CD8(+) T cells. In addition, the serum level of corticosterone was increased dose-dependently. To investigate the possible role of corticosterone in ethyl carbamate-induced immunosuppression, the antibody response to SRBCs and the subpopulation changes of splenocytes and thymocytes were determined in naive, sham-operated and adrenalectomized (ADX) female BALB/c mice. When the mice were treated intraperitoneally with 400 mg/kg ethyl carbamate, the antibody response was significantly suppressed by ethyl carbamate in naive and sham-operated mice in accompanying the decrease in spleen and thymus weights and/or the increase in the level of serum corticosterone. Meanwhile, the antibody response was not suppressed by ethyl carbamate in the ADX mice. The splenic numbers of total cells, macrophages, B and T cells, and CD4(+) cells were decreased by ethyl carbamate in naive and sham-operated mice. Meanwhile, each cell number was comparable with control in the ADX mice. The flow cytometric analyses on thymocytes did not show obvious differences as seen in the spleen. Finally, when the ADX mice were treated intraperitoneally with 25 mg/kg corticosterone, the antibody response was significantly suppressed. Taken together, our present results suggested that corticosterone might be, at least partially, responsible for ethyl carbamate-induced immunosuppression in female BALB/c mice.
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- S W Cha
- Toxicology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, P.O. Box 107, Yusung, 305-606, Taejon, South Korea
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Ethyl carbamate, a potent carcinogen, has been characterized to be metabolized by cytochrome P450 (P450) and esterase. It has recently been demonstrated that P450 may activate ethyl carbamate to immunotoxic metabolites. To investigate the role of esterase in ethyl carbamate-induced immunosuppression, mice were pretreated intraperitoneally with an esterase inhibitor, diazinon, at 20 mg/kg 30 min prior to the administration of ethyl carbamate intraperitoneally at 100 and 400 mg/kg for 7 consecutive days. Pretreatment with diazinon completely blocked the serum esterase activity. Histopathologically splenic and thymic atrophy was observed when mice were treated with ethyl carbamate, which was potentiated by the pretreatment with diazinon. In spleen, lymphocytes in the periarteriolar lymphoid sheath and the marginal zone appeared to be depleted in the white pulps. In thymus, ethyl carbamate caused a marked depletion of cells in cortex. The antibody response to sheep red blood cells (SRBCs) was more suppressed by ethyl carbamate in diazinon-pretreated groups than in corn oil-pretreated groups. These results suggest that the metabolism of ethyl carbamate by esterase may be an inactivation pathway in ethyl carbamate-induced immunosuppression. In addition, ethyl N-hydroxycarbamate, a P450 metabolite, suppressed the lymphoproliferative response induced by lipopolysaccharide and concanavalin A in splenocyte cultures. These results indicate that the metabolism of ethyl carbamate by P450 may be an activation pathway in immunosuppression by ethyl carbamate.
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- S W Cha
- Toxicology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Taejon, South Korea
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Kim KH, Bae JH, Cha SW, Han SS, Park KH, Jeong TC. Role of metabolic activation by cytochrome P450 in thioacetamide-induced suppression of antibody response in male BALB/c mice. Toxicol Lett 2000; 114:225-35. [PMID: 10713488 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4274(00)00168-5] [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: 11/23/2022]
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Effects of thioacetamide on antibody response to sheep red blood cells were investigated in male BALB/c mice. When mice were treated intraperitoneally with thioacetamide once, the antibody response was significantly suppressed at 200 mg/kg with hepatotoxicity. When mice were treated intraperitoneally with thioacetamide for 7 consecutive days, the antibody response was suppressed at 50 mg/kg without hepatotoxicity. To determine the possible role of metabolic activation by cytochrome P450 in thioacetamide-induced suppression of antibody response, mice were pretreated with phenobarbital intraperitoneally for 3 days, followed by intraperitoneal administration of 100 mg/kg of thioacetamide for 3 days. The elevated activities of serum aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase by thioacetamide were potentiated by phenobarbital pretreatment. The suppression of antibody response by thioacetamide was potentiated by phenobarbital. In liver microsomes, the activities of P450 2B-specific enzymes were induced by phenobarbital. Our present results suggest that thioacetamide may require metabolic activation by P450 to its immunosuppressive form(s).
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- K H Kim
- Toxicology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, P.O. Box 107, Yusung, Taejon, South Korea
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- M J Kim
- Research Institute of Radiological Science, Seoul, Republic of Korea (South)
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Lee NS, Cha SW, Hong SJ, Shin WY, Lee GT, Jeon JW, Won JH, Baick SH, Hong DS, Park HS. A case of lymphomatoid papulosis occurred simultaneously with Ki-1-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma. Korean J Intern Med 1997; 12:84-8. [PMID: 9159045 PMCID: PMC4531975 DOI: 10.3904/kjim.1997.12.1.84] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Lymphomatoid papulosis (LyP) is a chronic self-healing skin eruption that is clinically benign but histologically mimics a malignant lymphoma. However, lymphomatoid papulosis with anaplastic large cell lymphoma responds poorly to medical treatments, including chemotherapies. We experienced a 60-year-old male patient with lymphomatoid papulosis occurred simultaneously with relapsed Ki-1-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma who was treated with salvage chemotherapy but, unfortunately, failed to be rescued. We report it with a review of the literature.
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- N S Lee
- Department of Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Kim HC, Cha SW, Song SW, Ha CS, Han SS, Roh JK, Lee YS, Furukawa F, Nishikawa A, Takahashi M. Enhancing effects of captafol on the development of GST-P-positive liver cell foci in a medium-term bioassay, and protection by L-cysteine of the enhancement in rats. Cancer Lett 1997; 111:15-20. [PMID: 9022123 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3835(96)04483-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [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: 02/03/2023]
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The modifying effects of captafol and protective effects of L-cysteine on the development of glutathione S-transferase placental form-positive (GST-P +) foci of the liver and expression of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) in the kidney were investigated in a medium-term bioassay using D-galactosamine (DGA) in rats. Male 6-week-old F344 rats were initially given a single i.p. injection (200 mg/kg) of diethylnitrosamine (DEN) and after 2 weeks on basal diet, received two i.p. injections of DGA (300 mg/kg) at the ends of weeks 2 and 5, and were fed a diet supplemented with test chemicals for weeks 3-8. Animals in group 1 were given 1500 ppm captafol in the diet, while group 2 received 1500 ppm captafol in diet as well as 1500 ppm L-cysteine in drinking water, animals in control group being given basal diet alone. Positive results regarding increased numbers and areas of GST-P + liver cell foci were obtained in rats treated with captafol alone. On the other hand, significant reduction by L-cysteine in the areas of GST-P + liver cell foci initiated by DEN and promoted by captafol was observed. In addition, the PCNA-labelling indices of renal tubule cells were elevated in rats treated with captafol alone and significantly reduced in rats treated simultaneously with L-cysteine. The protocol used in the present study therefore allowed the in vivo determination of promoting effects of captafol and inhibitory influence of L-cysteine by analyzing GST-P + foci in the livers as marker lesions, within a relatively short period of 8 weeks. Thus, this bioassay protocol could have applicability as a new in vivo assay system for the screening of hepatic carcinogenic or anti-carcinogenic agents.
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- H C Kim
- Toxicology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Jangdong, Yusong-ku, Daejon, South Korea
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Kim HC, Cha SW, Ha CS, Roh JK, Lee YS, Furukawa F, Nishikawa A, Takahashi M. Reappraisal of eight representative carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic compounds in a new medium-term rat liver bioassay using D-galactosamine. Cancer Lett 1996; 104:85-90. [PMID: 8640751 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3835(96)04236-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [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: 02/01/2023]
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The carcinogenic potential of eight different compounds was assayed in a new medium-term carcinogenicity bioassay using D-galactosamine (DGA) as a non-surgical method to induce regeneration in place of partial hepatectomy (PH). Male rats were initially given a single i.p. injection (200 mg/kg) of diethylnitrosamine (DEN) and after 2 weeks on basal diet, received two i.p. injections of DGA (300 mg/kg) at the end of weeks 2 and 5. They were treated with one of the test compounds aflatoxin B1, benzo[a]pyrene, diethylstilbestrol, urethane, sodium saccharin, bucetin, D-mannitol and sodium chloride in the diet or basal diet alone for weeks 3-8. Carcinogenic potential was assessed by comparing the numbers and areas per cm2 of glutathione S-transferase placental form-positive (GST-P+) foci in the livers of treated animals with those of the control animals given DEN/DGA alone. Positive estimations of carcinogenicity were obtained for the hepatocarcinogens aflatoxin B1, diethylstilbestrol or urethane, and for the non-liver carcinogen benzo[a]pyrene. Negative values were shown in rats treated with the non-carcinogens, D-mannitol and sodium chloride. The two other non-liver carcinogens sodium saccharin and bucetin, also did not exert positive effects in the system. The present data are consistent with findings in previous medium-term bioassays using PH. Our results thus confirm that the present bioassay protocol with repeated administration of DGA instead of PH may offer a new and sensitive non-invasive method to screen large numbers of environmental carcinogens.
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- H C Kim
- Toxicology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejon, South Korea
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Jeong TC, Kim HJ, Cha SW, Park JI, Shin HC, Kim DH, Han SS, Roh JK. Effects of ethyl carbamate and its metabolites on the antibody response in splenocyte cultures from female Balb/C mice. Immunopharmacol Immunotoxicol 1996; 18:91-103. [PMID: 8683041 DOI: 10.3109/08923979609007112] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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To investigate a possible role by cytochrome P450 (P450) in ethyl carbamate-induced immunosuppression, an attempt to assess the ability of ethyl carbamate, its metabolites produced by P450 (i.e., ethyl N-hydroxycarbamate and vinyl carbamate), and methyl carbamate to suppress the polyclonal antibody response induced by bacterial lipopolysaccharide was made in splenocyte cultures isolated from female Balb/C mice. The results showed that vinyl carbamate and ethyl N-hydroxycarbamate were more immunosuppressive compared to ethyl carbamate. A structurally related analogue, methyl carbamate, did not suppress the antibody response. These results indicate that metabolism of ethyl carbamate by P450 may produce more immunosuppressive metabolites as in ethyl carbamate-induced carcinogenicity. A pre-incubation study with phenobarbital-induced liver microsomes in the presence of NADPH-generating system showed that the antibody response was suppressed by ethyl carbamate when splenocytes were pre-incubated with ethyl carbamate and microsomes simultaneously. Moreover, the suppression was completely recovered by the addition of a P450 inhibitor, aminoacetonitrile, in the pre-incubation. Taken together, the present results indicate that metabolism of ethyl carbamate by P450 enzyme(s) may be an important pathway to cause immunosuppression.
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- T C Jeong
- Toxicology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Taejon
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Cha SW, Tan CK. Projection of forelimb nerve afferents to external cuneate nucleus of the rat as revealed by intraneural injection of a neurotoxic lectin, Ricinus communis agglutinin. Histol Histopathol 1996; 11:117-23. [PMID: 8720455] [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: 02/01/2023]
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This study seeks to extend the observations of previous studies of projection of primary afferent fibres from the forelimb nerves and muscles to the external cuneate nucleus (ECN) of mammals using a neurotoxic lectin, Ricinus communis agglutinin (RCA) to achieve chemical ganglionectomy of the dorsal root ganglia. Following intraneural injection of RCA into the three main forelimb nerves, namely the radial, ulnar and median nerves, terminal degeneration of the primary afferent fibres in the ECN was studied under the light microscope by means of the Fink-Heimer method. The results show that the primary afferent fibres from these three nerves project to the medial part of the ECN. The field of terminal degeneration take a crescentic form. The projection from the median nerve was most dorsally located whereas that from the radial nerve was the most ventral with extensive overlaps between them. Of the three nerves, the projection from the radial nerve was the most dense. Rostrocaudally, the three nerves also show extensive overlaps. The rostrocaudal extent of maximum terminal degeneration was greatest for the radial nerve and least for the median nerve. Analysis of variance showed that these differences were statistically significant. This suggests that the radial nerve has the most extensive projection to the ECN and the median nerve the least.
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- S W Cha
- Department of Anatomy, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore
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Jeong TC, Cha SW, Park JI, Ha CS, Han SS, Roh JK. Role of metabolism in ethyl carbamate-induced suppression of antibody response to sheep erythrocytes in female Balb/C mice. Int J Immunopharmacol 1995; 17:1035-44. [PMID: 8964653 DOI: 10.1016/0192-0561(95)00092-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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A possible role of metabolism by cytochrome P450 (P450) in ethyl carbamate-induced suppression of the antibody response to a T-cell-dependent antigen, sheep erythrocytes (SRBCs), was investigated in female Balb/C mice. When mice were treated with ethyl carbamate intraperitoneally for 14 consecutive days at 25, 50, 100, 200 and 400 mg/kg, the antibody response was significantly suppressed from 200 mg/kg. These doses also caused a decrease in thymus weight. An acute dosing of ethyl carbamate at 1 g/kg also caused not only a significant suppression of the antibody response, but also a decrease in thymus weight. The antibody response was most likely to be the IgM antibody response, which was demonstrated in a haemagglutination study. When mice were pretreated with phenobarbital (80 mg/kg) for 3 days to induce P450 enzymes, followed by administration of ethyl carbamate intraperitoneally for 7 consecutive days, the antibody response was more suppressed than in saline-pretreated controls. Moreover, a study using aminoacetonitrile, a P450 inhibitor, showed that the antibody response suppressed by ethyl carbamate was completely recovered by the inhibitor. The present results suggest that metabolism of ethyl carbamate by P450 may be the critical pathway to produce metabolites capable of suppressing the antibody response.
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- T C Jeong
- Toxicology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Taejon, Korea
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