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Horenstein AL, Morandi F, Bracci C, Pistoia V, Malavasi F. Functional insights into nucleotide-metabolizing ectoenzymes expressed by bone marrow-resident cells in patients with multiple myeloma. Immunol Lett 2018; 205:40-50. [PMID: 30447309 DOI: 10.1016/j.imlet.2018.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2018] [Accepted: 11/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Human myeloma cells grow in a hypoxic acidic niche in the bone marrow. Cross talk among cellular components of this closed niche generates extracellular adenosine, which promotes tumor cell survival. This is achieved through the binding of adenosine to purinergic receptors into complexes that function as an autocrine/paracrine signal factor with immune regulatory activities that i) down-regulate the functions of most immune effector cells and ii) enhance the activity of cells that suppress anti-tumor immune responses, thus facilitating the escape of malignant myeloma cells from immune surveillance. Here we review recent findings confirming that the dominant phenotype for survival of tumor cells is that where the malignant cells have been metabolically reprogrammed for the generation of lactic acidosis in the bone marrow niche. Adenosine triphosphate and nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide extruded from tumor cells, along with cyclic adenosine monophosphate, are the main intracellular energetic/messenger molecules that serve as leading substrates in the extracellular space for membrane-bound ectonucleotidases metabolizing purine nucleotides to signaling adenosine. Within this mechanistic framework, the adenosinergic substrate conversion can vary significantly according to the metabolic environment. Indeed, the neoplastic expansion of plasma cells exploits both enzymatic networks and hypoxic acidic conditions for migrating and homing to a protected niche and for evading the immune response. The expression of multiple specific adenosine receptors in the niche completes the profile of a complex regulatory framework whose signals modify multiple myeloma and host immune responses.
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- A L Horenstein
- Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Italy; CeRMS, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.
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- Stem Cell Laboratory and Cell Therapy Center, Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy
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- Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Italy; CeRMS, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Immunology Area, Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Italy; CeRMS, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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Morandi F, Marimpietri D, Horenstein AL, Bolzoni M, Toscani D, Costa F, Castella B, Faini AC, Massaia M, Pistoia V, Giuliani N, Malavasi F. Microvesicles released from multiple myeloma cells are equipped with ectoenzymes belonging to canonical and non-canonical adenosinergic pathways and produce adenosine from ATP and NAD . Oncoimmunology 2018; 7:e1458809. [PMID: 30221054 DOI: 10.1080/2162402x.2018.1458809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [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: 01/17/2018] [Revised: 03/12/2018] [Accepted: 03/26/2018] [Indexed: 10/17/2022] Open
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Multiple myeloma (MM) derives from malignant transformation of plasma cells (PC), which accumulate in the bone marrow (BM), where microenvironment supports tumor growth and inhibits anti-tumor immune responses. Adenosine (ADO), an immunosuppressive molecule, is produced within MM patients' BM by adenosinergic ectoenzymes, starting from ATP (CD39/CD73) or NAD+ [CD38/CD203a(PC-1)/CD73]. These ectoenzymes form a discontinuous network expressed by different BM cells. We investigated the expression and function of ectoenzymes on microvesicles (MVs) isolated from BM plasma samples of patients with MM, using asymptomatic forms of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) and smoldering MM (SMM) as controls. The percentage of MVs expressing ectoenzymes at high levels was higher when derived from MM patients than controls. BM CD138+ PC from MM patients expressed high levels of all ectoenzymes. Paired MVs samples confirmed a higher percentage of MVs with high ectoenzymes expression in MM patients than controls. Pooled MVs from MM patients or controls were tested for ADO production. The catabolism of ATP, NAD+, ADPR and AMP to ADO was higher in MVs from MM patients than in those from controls. In conclusion, our results confirmed the hypothesis that MVs in MM niche are main contributor of ADO production. The ability of MVs to reach biological fluids strongly support the view that MVs may assume diagnostic and pathogenetic roles.
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- F Morandi
- Stem Cell Laboratory and Cell Therapy Center, Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy
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- Stem Cell Laboratory and Cell Therapy Center, Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy
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- Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.,CeRMS, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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- CeRMS, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.,SC Ematologia AO S. Croce Carle, Cuneo, Italy
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- Immunology Area, Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.,CeRMS, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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Cocco C, Ferretti E, Airoldi I, Pistoia V. Cytokines as anti-angiogenic agents in haematological malignancies. Curr Cancer Drug Targets 2012; 11:997-1004. [PMID: 21933108 DOI: 10.2174/156800911798073096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2011] [Revised: 09/09/2011] [Accepted: 09/09/2011] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The role of angiogenesis in haematological malignancies has been recently recognized. In these tumors, angiogenesis has been investigated predominantly in the bone marrow (BM) compartment where it appears to be regulated by multiple interactions between malignant cells and different cell populations present in the tumor microenvironment. Thus, angiogenesis represents a therapeutic target that opens new perspectives for the treatment of haematological malignancies. Cytokines are small proteins that mediate intercellular communications, thus regulating important cellular functions, such as immune responses and angiogenesis. Some cytokines show anti-angiogenic properties through different mechanisms; these cytokines can interfere directly with biological functions of endothelial cells and/or target tumor cells inhibiting their capability to stimulate formation of new microvessels that are essential for tumor growth and dissemination. In this review we will summarize the current knowledge about the role of cytokines as anti-angiogenic agents in cancer, focusing our attention on the anti-angiogenic activity of IL-12 family members in haematological malignancies.
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- C Cocco
- A.I.R.C. Laboratory of Immunology and Tumors, G. Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy
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Parodi S, Muselli M, Carlini B, Fontana V, Haupt R, Pistoia V, Corrias MV. Restricted ROC curves are useful tools to evaluate the performance of tumour markers. Stat Methods Med Res 2012; 25:294-314. [PMID: 22735161 DOI: 10.1177/0962280212452199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [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: 12/21/2022]
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In Clinical Epidemiology, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis is a standard approach for the evaluation of the performance of diagnostic tests for binary classification based on a tumour marker distribution. The area under a ROC curve is a popular indicator of test accuracy, but its use has been questioned when the curve is asymmetric. This situation often happens when the marker concentrations overlap in the two groups under study in the range of low specificity, corresponding to a subset of values useless for classification purposes (non-informative values). The partial area under the curve at a high specificity threshold has been proposed as an alternative, but a method to identify an optimal cut-off that separates informative from non-informative values is not yet available. In this study, a new statistical approach is proposed to perform this task. Furthermore, a statistical test associated with the area under a ROC curve corresponding to informative values only (restricted ROC curve) is provided and its properties are explored by extensive simulations. Finally, the proposed method is applied to a real data set containing peripheral blood levels of six tumour markers proposed for the diagnosis of neuroblastoma. A new approach to combine couples of markers for classification purposes is also illustrated.
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- S Parodi
- Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, IRCCS AOU San Martino-IST, Genoa, Italy
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- Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, Genoa, Italy
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- Laboratory of Oncology, G. Gaslini Children's Hospital, Genoa, Italy
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- Unit of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Trials, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, IRCCS AOU San Martino-IST, Genoa, Italy
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics Section, G. Gaslini Children's Hospital, Genoa, Italy
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- Laboratory of Oncology, G. Gaslini Children's Hospital, Genoa, Italy
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- Laboratory of Oncology, G. Gaslini Children's Hospital, Genoa, Italy
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Ferretti E, Montagna D, Di Carlo E, Cocco C, Ribatti D, Ognio E, Sorrentino C, Lisini D, Bertaina A, Locatelli F, Pistoia V, Airoldi I. Absence of IL-12Rβ2 in CD33(+)CD38(+) pediatric acute myeloid leukemia cells favours progression in NOD/SCID/IL2RγC-deficient mice. Leukemia 2011; 26:225-35. [PMID: 21844875 DOI: 10.1038/leu.2011.213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Childhood acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a hematological malignancy in which tumor burden is continuously replenished by leukemic-initiating cells (ICs), which proliferate slowly and are refractory to chemotherapeutic agents. We investigated whether interleukin (IL)-12, an immuno-modulatory cytokine with anti-tumor activity, may target AML blasts (CD45(+)CD33(+)) and populations known to contain leukemia ICs (that is, CD34(+)CD38(-), CD33(+)CD38(+) and CD44(+)CD38(-) cells). We demonstrate for the first time that: i) AML blasts and their CD34(+)CD38(-), CD33(+)CD38(+), CD44(+)CD38(-) subsets express the heterodimeric IL-12 receptor (IL-12R), ii) AML cells injected subcutaneously into NOD/SCID/Il2rg(-/-) (NSG) mice developed a localized tumor mass containing leukemic ICs and blasts that were virtually eliminated by IL-12 treatment, iii) AML cells injected intravenously into NSG mice engrafted within the first month in the spleen, but not in bone marrow or peripheral blood. At this time, IL-12 dramatically dampened AML CD45(+)CD33(+), CD34(+)CD38(-), CD33(+)CD38(+) and CD44(+)CD38(-) populations, only sparing residual CD33(+)CD38(+) cells that did not express IL-12Rβ2. From 30 to 60 days after the initial inoculum, these IL-12-unresponsive cells expanded and metastasized in both control and IL-12-treated NSG mice. Our data indicate that the absence of IL-12Rβ2 in pediatric AML cells favours leukemia progression in NOD/SCID/IL2Rγc-deficient mice.
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- E Ferretti
- Laboratory of Oncology, G. Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy
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Prigione I, Morandi F, Tosca MA, Silvestri M, Pistoia V, Ciprandi G, Rossi GA. Interferon-gamma and IL-10 may protect from allergic polysensitization in children: preliminary evidence. Allergy 2010; 65:740-2. [PMID: 19958312 DOI: 10.1111/j.1398-9995.2009.02285.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND A functional defect of T regulatory cells (Treg) has been proposed as pathogenic mechanism of allergic reaction. Polysensitization is a common feature of allergic patients. AIM OF THE STUDY It was to investigate the possible role of Treg-Th1 cytokines, in the development of new sensitizations in childhood. METHODS Forty monosensitized (MS) children with allergic rhinitis were evaluated and followed-up for 2 years. New sensitizations were investigated. IL-10 and IFN-gamma were evaluated in in vitro experiments. RESULTS Children remaining MS showed significant higher production of both IL-10 and IFN-gamma. CONCLUSION This preliminary study provided evidence that IL-10 and IFN-gamma production could be defective in allergic children prone to develop polysensitization.
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- I Prigione
- Laboratory of Oncology, DIMI, University of Genoa-Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria San Martino, Viale Benedetto XV 6, Genoa, Italy
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De Grandis E, Parodi S, Conte M, Angelini P, Battaglia F, Gandolfo C, Pessagno A, Pistoia V, Mitchell WG, Pike M, Haupt R, Veneselli E. Long-term follow-up of neuroblastoma-associated opsoclonus-myoclonus-ataxia syndrome. Neuropediatrics 2009; 40:103-11. [PMID: 20020394 DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1237723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to describe the long-term neurological, neuropsychological and neuroradiological sequelae and to determine prognostic factors for neurological outcome in children with neuroblastoma-associated opsoclonus-myoclonus-ataxia (OMA) syndrome. METHODS Data on medical history were collected for the study patients. Examinations with grading of neurological signs, neuropsychological tests and brain magnetic resonance imaging with spectroscopy were performed during a follow-up clinic. RESULTS Fourteen subjects entered the study. All had localized neuroblastoma and they were evaluated after a median of 7.8 years. Patients with a chronic/multiphasic neurological course received steroids combined with intravenous immunoglobulins in the majority of cases. 71% presented neurological sequelae and 62% had a full-scale IQ below the normal range. All patients showed at least some deficit in the neuropsychological functions assessed (language, visual-motor integration, memory, attention and motor ability). Long-term deficits were more frequently detected in patients with an interval of more than 2 months between OMA onset and its diagnosis, even if in most comparisons statistical significance was not reached. Cerebellar atrophy, observed in 36% of patients, was not associated with the neurological outcome. CONCLUSIONS Persisting disability is present in most children with neuroblastoma-associated OMA. However, our results support the role of an early diagnosis of OMA in reducing sequelae and encourage the use of new immunosuppressive therapies.
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- E De Grandis
- Department of Child Neuropsychiatry, G. Gaslini Institute, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
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Ferlito F, Corcione A, Traggiai E, Gregorio A, Martini A, Pistoia V, Gattorno M. Characterization of B cells in synovial fluid and tissue from patients with JIA. Pediatr Rheumatol Online J 2008. [PMCID: PMC3334014 DOI: 10.1186/1546-0096-6-s1-p21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Marmont AM, Gualandi F, Occhini D, Morandi F, Ferretti E, Pezzolo A, Strada P, Ravetti JL, Pistoia V, Falanga A, Bacigalupo A. Catastrophic relapse of Evans syndrome five years after allogeneic BMT notwithstanding full donor chimerism. Terminal hemolytic-uremic syndrome. Autoimmunity 2007; 39:505-11. [PMID: 17060030 DOI: 10.1080/08916930600847598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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A patient with severe Evans syndrome received an allo-BMT from his HLA-identical sister on November, 2000. Full marrow and blood donor chimerism were achieved only after 5 donor lymphocyte infusions (DLI), and coincided with complete clinical remission and disappearence of auto-antibodies. Five years later, hemolytic anemia recurred with rapid increase of serum bilirubin to over 50 mg%: he responded to combined therapy, but died on day +17 from admission of an acute hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). All circulating blood cells, including erythrocytes, were 100% donor. Ex vivo cultured and expanded T and B cells from the peripheral blood were also 100% donor. The supernatants from B cell cultures, containing either IgM or IgG, did not react with a panel of erythrocytes. Thus in this typical autoimmune disease with a predominant B cell pathogenesis the donor immune system resulted "innocent of autoimmunity". The persistence of long-lived recipient autoreactive plasma-cell lines in survival niches, still producing autoantibodies, may be hypothesized for this and similar cases. The postulated graft-versus-autoimmunity (GVA) effect was apparently not sufficient to eradicate autoimmunity in this patient.
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- A M Marmont
- Division of Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation Center, Istituto G. Gaslini, Genova, Italy.
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Bocelli-Tyndall C, Bracci L, Spagnoli G, Braccini A, Bouchenaki M, Ceredig R, Pistoia V, Martin I, Tyndall A. Bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells (BM-MSCs) from healthy donors and auto-immune disease patients reduce the proliferation of autologous- and allogeneic-stimulated lymphocytes in vitro. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2006; 46:403-8. [PMID: 16920750 DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kel267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [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: 01/09/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVES To investigate the ability of bone marrow (BM)-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (BM-MSCs) in suppressing the proliferation of stimulated lymphocytes across a range of conditions including autologous BM-MSCs derived from autoimmune disease (AD) patients. METHODS In vitro cultures of BM-MSCs from healthy donors and AD patients were established and characterized by their differentiation potential into adipocytes and osteoblasts, and their fibroblast-colony-forming unit (CFU-F) ability and phenotype by flow cytometry. BM-MSCs (irradiated and non-irradiated) from healthy and AD patients were tested for their ability to suppress the in vitro proliferation of autologous and allogeneic peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) (from healthy donors and patients suffering from various ADs) stimulated with anti-CD3epsilon antibody alone or in combination with anti-CD28 antibody. The anti-proliferative effect of the BM-MSCs from healthy donors was tested also on transformed B-cell lines as a model of non-antigen-stimulated lymphocytes. RESULTS BM-MSCs from healthy donors and AD patients reduced the proliferation of autologous and allogeneic PBMCs by up to 90% in a cell dose-dependent fashion. The immunosuppression was independent of the proliferation of the BM-MSCs and was also effective on already proliferating cells. It was independent also of the clinical activity of AD. An MSC dose-dependent pattern of suppression of proliferation was observed also with transformed B-cell lines, similar to that observed with proliferating PBMC. CONCLUSIONS The BM-MSCs exhibit extensive anti-proliferative properties against lymphocytes under different conditions. This property might offer a form of immunomodulatory cellular therapy for AD patients if further confirmed in animal models.
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- C Bocelli-Tyndall
- Department of Rheumatology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
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Ribatti D, Nico B, Pezzolo A, Vacca A, Meazza R, Cinti R, Carlini B, Parodi F, Pistoia V, Corrias MV. Angiogenesis in a human neuroblastoma xenograft model: mechanisms and inhibition by tumour-derived interferon-gamma. Br J Cancer 2006; 94:1845-52. [PMID: 16721359 PMCID: PMC2361332 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Tumour progression in neuroblastoma (NB) patients correlates with high vascular index. We have previously shown that the ACN NB cell line is tumorigenic and angiogenic in immunodeficient mice, and that interferon-γ (IFN-γ) gene transfer dampens ACN tumorigenicity. As IFN-γ represses lymphocyte-induced tumour angiogenesis in various murine models and inhibits proliferation and migration of human endothelial cells, we have investigated the antiangiogenic activity of tumour-derived IFN-γ and the underlying mechanism(s). In addition, we characterised the tumour vasculature of the ACN xenografts, using the chick embryo chorioallantoic membrane assay. We show that the ACN/IFN-γ xenografts had a lower microvessel density and less in vivo angiogenic potential than the vector-transfected ACN/neo. The vascular channels of both xenografts were formed by a mixed endothelial cell population of murine and human origin, as assessed by the FICTION (fluorescence immunophenotyping and interphase cytogenetics) technique. With respect to ACN/neo, the ACN/IFN-γ xenografts showed more terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labelling-positive human and murine endothelial cells, suggesting that inhibition of angiogenesis by IFN-γ was dependent on the induction of apoptosis, likely mediated by nitric oxide. Once the dual origin of tumour vasculature is confirmed in NB patients, the xenograft model described here will prove useful in testing the efficacy of different antiangiogenic compounds.
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- D Ribatti
- Department of Human Anatomy and Histology, University of Bari Medical School, Italy.
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Chemokines are low molecular weight cytokines specialized in leukocyte recruitment. Recent studies have shown that tumor cells of hematopoietic and non hematopoietic origin express different chemokine receptors that may be involved in neoplastic cell growth, metastasis and angiogenesis. Human lymphoproliferative disorders arise from the malignant transformation of normal lymphoid cells frozen at discrete maturational stages. Studies performed with acute or chronic lymphoproliferative disorders have shown that CXCR4, the unique receptor for CXCL12, is up-regulated in many B and T cells malignancies and may be involved in metastatic localization of the neoplastic elements. Additional chemokine receptors are expressed in the individual lymphoproliferative disorders, but some of these are often non functional. Here we shall review the state of the art on chemokine receptor expression and function in human lymphoproliferative disorders, stressing the potential value of chemokines receptors as novel therapeutic targets. In this respect, small antagonistic peptides are being produced by pharmaceutical companies and hold great promise for clinical application.
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- V Pistoia
- Laboratory of Oncology, G. Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy.
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Airoldi I, Meazza R, Croce M, Di Carlo E, Piazza T, Cocco C, D'Antuono T, Pistoia V, Ferrini S, Corrias MV. Low-dose interferon-gamma-producing human neuroblastoma cells show reduced proliferation and delayed tumorigenicity. Br J Cancer 2004; 90:2210-8. [PMID: 15150552 PMCID: PMC2409504 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6601842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Interferon-γ (IFN-γ) directs T helper-1 cell differentiation and mediates antitumour effects in preclinical models. However, high-dose IFN-γ is toxic in vivo, and IFN-γ-transfected neuroblastoma (NB) cells secreting high amounts of the cytokine may be lost due to cell apoptosis or differentiation. Two human NB cell lines (ACN and SK-N-BE2(c)) differing as to genetic and phenotypic features were transfected with the human IFN-γ gene and selected on the grounds of the low concentrations of IFN-γ produced. In both IFN-γ-transfected cell lines, autocrine and paracrine activation of IFN-γ-mediated pathways occurred, leading to markedly reduced proliferation rate, to increased expression of surface HLA and CD40 molecules and of functional TNF binding sites. ACN/IFN-γ cells showed a significantly delayed tumorigenicity in nude mice as compared to parental cells. ACN/IFN-γ tumours were smaller, with extensive necrotic area as a result of a damaged and defective microvascular network. In addition, a significant reduction in the proliferation index was observed. This is the first demonstration that IFN-γ inhibits in vivo proliferation of NB cell by acting on the tumour cell itself. This effect adds to the immunoregulatory and antiangiogenic activities operated by IFN-γ in syngeneic tumour-bearing hosts.
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- I Airoldi
- Laboratory of Oncology, Gaslini Institute, Largo Gaslini 5, 16148 Genoa, Italy
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- Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Immunology, Gaslini Institute, Largo Gaslini 5, 16148 Genoa, Italy
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- Laboratory of Immunopharmacology, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Largo Benzi 12, 16132 Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Oncology and Neurosciences, G. D'Annunzio University, 66100 Chieti, Italy
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- Laboratory of Immunopharmacology, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Largo Benzi 12, 16132 Genoa, Italy
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- Laboratory of Oncology, Gaslini Institute, Largo Gaslini 5, 16148 Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Oncology and Neurosciences, G. D'Annunzio University, 66100 Chieti, Italy
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- Laboratory of Oncology, Gaslini Institute, Largo Gaslini 5, 16148 Genoa, Italy
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- Laboratory of Immunopharmacology, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Largo Benzi 12, 16132 Genoa, Italy
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- Laboratory of Oncology, Gaslini Institute, Largo Gaslini 5, 16148 Genoa, Italy
- Laboratorio Oncologia, Istituto G. Gaslini, L.go Gaslini, 5, 16148 Genova, Italy. E-mail:
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Airoldi I, Lualdi S, Bruno S, Raffaghello L, Occhino M, Gambini C, Pistoia V, Corrias MV. Expression of costimulatory molecules in human neuroblastoma. Evidence that CD40+ neuroblastoma cells undergo apoptosis following interaction with CD40L. Br J Cancer 2003; 88:1527-36. [PMID: 12771917 PMCID: PMC2377102 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Tumour cells display low to absent expression of costimulatory molecules. Here, we have investigated the expression of costimulatory molecules (CD40, CD80, CD86, PD-1L, B7H2, OX40L and 4-1BBL) in human neuroblastoma (NB) cells, since virtually no information is available on this issue. Both established NB cell lines and primary tumours were tested by RT-PCR and flow cytometry. Neuroblastoma cell lines expressed the transcripts of all costimulatory molecule genes, but not the corresponding proteins. Culture of NB cell lines with human recombinant (r)IFN-gamma induced surface expression of CD40 in half of them. Primary NB cells showed CD40, CD80, CD86, OX40L, 4-1BBL, but not PD-1L and B7H2, mRNA expression. Surface CD40 was consistently detected on primary NB cells by flow cytometry. Interferon-gamma gene-transfected NB cells expressed constitutively surface CD40 and were induced into apoptosis by incubation with rCD40L through a caspase-8-dependent mechanism. CD40 may represent a novel therapeutic target in NB.
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- I Airoldi
- Laboratory of Oncology, G Gaslini Institute, Largo G Gaslini, 5, 16148 Genova, Italy
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- Laboratory of Oncology, G Gaslini Institute, Largo G Gaslini, 5, 16148 Genova, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Section of Human Anatomy, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
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- Laboratory of Oncology, G Gaslini Institute, Largo G Gaslini, 5, 16148 Genova, Italy
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- Laboratory of Oncology, G Gaslini Institute, Largo G Gaslini, 5, 16148 Genova, Italy
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- Service of Pathology, G Gaslini Institute, 16148 Genova, Italy
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- Laboratory of Oncology, G Gaslini Institute, Largo G Gaslini, 5, 16148 Genova, Italy
- Laboratory of Oncology, G Gaslini Institute, Largo G Gaslini, 5, 16148 Genova, Italy. E-mail:
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- Laboratory of Oncology, G Gaslini Institute, Largo G Gaslini, 5, 16148 Genova, Italy
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Picco P, Porfirio B, Gattorno M, Buoncompagni A, Falcini F, Cusano R, Bordo D, Pistoia V, Ravazzolo R, Seri M. MICA gene polymorphisms in an Italian paediatric series of juvenile Behçet disease. Int J Mol Med 2002; 10:575-8. [PMID: 12373294] [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: 02/26/2023] Open
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The objective of this study was to investigate MICA (major histocompatibility complex MHC class I chain-related genes) polymorphisms in an Italian series of patients with juvenile Behcet disease (jBD) and to compare these genetic findings with the high prevalence of inflammatory mucosal disease, which occurs in Western populations. Ten families which included at least 1 affected patient were studied. We genotyped 18 patients (13 children and 5 adults) affected with the complete or incomplete form of jBD comparing the results to those found in a population of 20 apparently healthy individuals. The MICA transmembrane polymorphism was analysed by PCR and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. HLA typing was assessed by SSP-PCR technique. Statistical analysis was performed using chi2 based methods. In our series the prevalence of gastrointestinal disease was high (41%). Seven of 10 patients were HLA-B51 positive. MICA A6 allele was present in 70% of probands as compared to 25% of an ethnically matched control population. On the other hand, MICA A5.1 was present in 20% of probands as compared to 60% in controls. Out of 5 A6 homozygotes, 2 probands and 2 affected relatives developed a severe gut inflammatory disease. The study of MICA gene polymorphisms disclosed an independent association with genetic risk for jBD. The combination of MICA A6 and HLA-B51 is the strongest genetic marker for this disease. Homozygous A6 patients seem to develop more severe mucosal gut involvement. This finding sheds light on the role of a receptor for MICA, named NKG2D, presented by natural killer cells, and CD8+, alphabetaT cells and gammadeltaT cells, usually localised in gut mucosa.
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- P Picco
- Department of Paediatrics, G Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy.
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Gattorno M, Prigione I, Vignola S, Falcini F, Chiesa S, Morandi F, Picco P, Buoncompagni A, Martini A, Pistoia V. Levels of soluble CD27 in sera and synovial fluid and its expression on memory T cells in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritides. Clin Exp Rheumatol 2002; 20:863-6. [PMID: 12508783] [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: 02/28/2023]
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OBJECTIVE CD27 is a member of tumour necrosis factor receptor family. Its expression is predominantly confined to mature lymphocytes and is strongly enhanced after cell activation. Shedding of the CD27 from the surface of activated cells is related to their effector phase. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the levels of soluble CD27 in sera and synovial fluids, together with its expression on circulating and synovial fluid (SF) memory T cells, in children with JIA. METHODS Sera from 40 patients with active JIA were studied for soluble CD27. Paired SF samples were available in 20 patients. Sera from 12 age-matched patients affected with various acute infectious diseases and 12 age-matched healthy subjects were used as controls. In 8 JIA patients freshly isolated circulating and SF lymphocytes were stained for CD27 in CD4+CD45 RO+ T cell subpopulation and analyzed by cytometry. RESULTS Soluble CD27 serum levels were significantly higher in patients with polyarticular JIA and acute systemic infectious diseases than in patients with active oligoarticular or healthy controls. Both polyarticular and oligoarticular JIA patients showed increased levels of soluble CD27 in SF when compared with paired serum samples (p = 0.01). In all the patients tested a significant enrichment of CD27- T cells was seen in the SF (median 39.5%, range 18-56%) when compared to paired CD4+CD45RO+ peripheral lymphocytes (median 19.5%, range 5-43%; p = 0.01). CONCLUSIONS A clear enrichment of CD4+ memory SF T cells with a CD27-phenotype is observed when compared to correspondent circulating T lymphocytes. This issue is conceivably related to re-activation and recruitment of memory T cells to the site of inflammation, and to the subsequent expansion of a subpopulation of "effector" memory T cells.
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- M Gattorno
- 2nd Department of Pediatrics, G. Gaslini Scientific Institute for Children and University of Genoa, Largo G. Gaslini 5, 16147, Genoa, Italy.
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Cutrona G, Tasso P, Dono M, Roncella S, Ulivi M, Carpaneto EM, Fontana V, Comis M, Morabito F, Spinelli M, Frascella E, Boffa LC, Basso G, Pistoia V, Ferrarini M. CD10 is a marker for cycling cells with propensity to apoptosis in childhood ALL. Br J Cancer 2002; 86:1776-85. [PMID: 12087466 PMCID: PMC2375395 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 03/07/2002] [Accepted: 03/27/2002] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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CD10 constitutes a favourable prognostic marker for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Since correlations between CD10, cell cycle and apoptotic abilities were demonstrated in various cell types, we investigated whether differences existed in the cycling/apoptotic abilities of CD10-positive and CD10-negative B acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells. Twenty-eight cases of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (mean age of 6.8 years) were subdivided into two groups according to high (17 cases, 93.2+/-4.5%, MRFI 211+/-82 CD10-positive cells) or low (11 cases, 11.5+/-6.2%, MRFI 10+/-7 CD10-negative cells) expression of CD10. CD10-positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells were cycling cells with elevated c-myc levels and propensity to apoptosis, whereas CD10-negative acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells had lower cycling capacities and c-myc levels, and were resistant to apoptosis in vitro. A close correlation between all these properties was demonstrated by the observations that the few CD10-positive cells found in the CD10-negative acute lymphoblastic leukaemia group displayed elevated c-myc and cycling capacities and were apoptosis prone. Moreover, exposure of CD10-positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia B cells to a peptide nucleic acid anti-gene specific for the second exon of c-myc caused inhibition of c-myc expression and reduced cell cycling and apoptotic abilities as well as decreased CD10 expression.
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- G Cutrona
- Servizi di Immunologia Clinica, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, IST, Genoa, Italy, and Dipartimento di Oncologia, Biologia e Genetica, Università di Genova, Genoa, Italy.
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Picco P, Gattorno M, Sormani MP, Vignola S, Buoncompagni A, Battilana N, Pistoia V, Ravazzolo R. Involvement of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in children with oligoarticular-onset idiopathic arthritis. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2002; 966:369-72. [PMID: 12114294 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04237.x] [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: 11/27/2022]
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Adult patients with rheumatic arthritis and other rheumatic disorders show inappropriate cortisol secretion and peculiar CRH promoter gene polymorphisms. So far, no data are available about this topic in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). We have studied a series of 13 prepubertal patients (10 female, 3 male) affected with oligoarticular JIA (o-JIA) without clinical and biological signs of disease activity (ESR and IL-6). ACTH plasma concentrations were significantly increased at 8 a.m. in o-JIA patients, whereas no differences were found in cortisol plasma concentrations. The ACTH/cortisol ratio was significantly increased in o-JIA patients with respect to the normal population both at 8 a.m. and at noon. DHEAS and testosterone plasma concentration did not statistically differ in the two populations. The genetic study was aimed at defining the prevalence of polymorphisms A1 and A2 in o-JIA patients, but we failed to find allelic or genotypic differences. Our study suggests the presence of a partial resistance to ACTH with a dysregulated pattern of secretion also in inactive o-JIA patients. These preliminary data need further confirmation in larger pediatric studies.
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- P Picco
- Department of Pediatric Rheumatology, G. Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy.
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Dufour C, Corcione A, Svahn J, Haupt R, Battilana N, Pistoia V. Interferon gamma and tumour necrosis factor alpha are overexpressed in bone marrow T lymphocytes from paediatric patients with aplastic anaemia. Br J Haematol 2001; 115:1023-31. [PMID: 11843845 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2001.03212.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [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]
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Twelve paediatric patients with aplastic anaemia and two groups of normal control subjects underwent flow cytometric analysis for intracytoplasmic expression of gamma interferon (gamma-IFN) and tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) in bone marrow and peripheral blood CD4+ and CD8+ cells. The same cytokines were tested, by immunoassay, in culture supernatants from unstimulated bone marrow mononuclear cells (MNCs). Marrow CD4+ and CD8+ cells expressing gamma-IFN and TNF-alpha were significantly increased in the patients in comparison with normal control subjects (P from < 0.05 to < 0.0001 in the different cellular subsets). Patients' marrow CD4+ and CD8+ cells containing gamma-IFN and TNF-alpha were significantly increased when compared with the same cell fractions from paired peripheral blood samples (P from < 0.05 to < 0.0001 in the various cellular subsets). In the supernatant of marrow MNCs, gamma-IFN and TNF-alpha were detected in four out of eight and five out of eight cases, respectively, whereas neither cytokine was traceable in the control subjects. Patients' peripheral blood CD4+ and CD8+ cells containing gamma-IFN and TNF-alpha were not significantly increased in comparison with those from normal control subjects. Whereas patients with favourable and unfavourable outcomes had no significantly different proportions of marrow gamma-IFN+/CD4+ and gamma-IFN+/CD8+ cells, the percentages of marrow CD4+ and CD8+ cells containing TNF-alpha were significantly lower in subjects with favourable than in those with unfavourable outcome. Overall, these findings show that, in aplastic patients, T cells overexpressing gamma-IFN and TNF-alpha concentrate in the bone marrow and that intracytoplasmic expression of TNF-alpha in marrow CD4+ and CD8+ cells is associated with an unfavourable clinical course.
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- C Dufour
- Department of Paediatric Haematology/Oncology, Scientific Directorate, G. Gaslini Children's Hospital, Largo G. Gaslini 5, 16147 Genoa, Italy.
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Barbano G, Cappa F, Prigione I, Pistoia V, Cohen A, Chiesa S, Gusmano R, Perfumo F. Plasma levels of soluble CD30 are increased in children with chronic renal failure and with primary growth deficiency and decrease during treatment with recombination human growth hormone. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2001; 16:1807-13. [PMID: 11522862 DOI: 10.1093/ndt/16.9.1807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [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: 11/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Previous studies have suggested that in vivo Th2 lymphocyte activation is related to increased soluble CD30 (sCD30) plasma levels. As various hormones (dehydroepiandrosterone, glucocorticoids, progesterone) can regulate the Th1/Th2 balance, and because growth hormone (GH) enhances lymphocyte function, we measured sCD30 plasma levels, before and after treatment with recombinant human GH (rhGH), in children with growth failure due to chronic renal failure (CRF) or to isolated GH deficiency in order to evaluate the potential effects of rhGH treatment on Th1/Th2 balance. METHODS sCD30 plasma levels were determined by ELISA assay in 30 children with CRF (mean age 10.7+/-3.7 years), in five children with isolated GH deficiency (mean age 11.4+/-2.6 years), and in 10 normal controls (mean age 10.1+/-3.5 years). RESULTS sCD30 levels were higher in the 30 children with CRF than in the 10 controls (179.8+/-79.4 vs 11.3+/-10.9 U/ml, P<0.001) exhibiting an inverse correlation with glomerular filtration rate (GFR) (r=-0.7860, P<0.001). In 11 children with CRF, after 19.9+/-16.7 months of rhGH treatment, a decrease of sCD30 plasma level (170+/-50 vs 134+/-49 U/ml, P<0.01) was observed. The five children with primary GH deficiency had higher sCD30 plasma level than controls (mean 147+/-105 vs 11+/-10 U/ml, P<0.004) and sCD30 plasma levels decreased to 95.2+/-109.6 U/ml after rhGH treatment. CONCLUSIONS The finding that rhGH treatment decreased sCD30 plasma levels in children with CRF, and that children with primary GH deficiency had higher sCD30 plasma levels than controls, suggest that GH may regulate CD30 expression and possibly the balance of Th1/Th2. Whether the uraemia-induced increase in sCD30 is due to decreased renal excretion, to overproduction or both, remains to be determined.
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- G Barbano
- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Giannina Gaslini Institute, Children's Hospital, Largo G. Gaslini 5, I-16148 Genoa, Italy
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Biasotti S, Sementa AR, Zupo S, Nemelka O, Pistoia V, Garaventa A. A novel pediatric case of cutaneous pre-B lymphoblastic lymphoma. Haematologica 2001; 86:997-8. [PMID: 11532634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023] Open
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Airoldi I, Guglielmino R, Ghiotto F, Corcione A, Facchetti P, Truini M, Pistoia V. Cytokine gene expression in neoplastic B cells from human mantle cell, follicular, and marginal zone lymphomas and in their postulated normal counterparts. Cancer Res 2001; 61:1285-90. [PMID: 11245421] [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: 02/19/2023]
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Cytokines may promote tumor growth by paracrine and/or autocrine pathways. Little information is available because malignant cells differ from their normal counterparts for the cytokine repertoire they express. Here we have investigated by reverse transcription-PCR the expression of 22 cytokine genes in neoplastic B lymphocytes from six patients with mantle cell lymphoma, 10 with follicular lymphoma, and 5 with marginal zone lymphoma and in their normal counterparts, i.e., naive, germinal center, and memory B cells, purified from tonsils. The overall profiles of cytokine gene expression in neoplastic B cells and in the corresponding normal B-cell subsets were similar, but some "holes" in the repertoire of malignant versus normal B lymphocytes were detected. Different "hole" combinations were identified consistently in mantle cell lymphoma, follicular lymphoma, and marginal zone lymphoma, thus representing molecular fingerprints of each individual lymphoma entity.
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- I Airoldi
- Laboratory of Oncology, G. Gaslini Institut, Genova, Italy
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Corrias MV, Occhino M, Croce M, De Ambrosis A, Pistillo MP, Bocca P, Pistoia V, Ferrini S. Lack of HLA-class I antigens in human neuroblastoma cells: analysis of its relationship to TAP and tapasin expression. Tissue Antigens 2001; 57:110-7. [PMID: 11260505 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.2001.057002110.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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We studied the constitutive and the interferon (IFN)-gamma-induced expression of HLA class I antigen heavy chain, beta2-microglobulin (beta2m), TAP-1, TAP-2 and tapasin in a panel of eleven neuroblastoma cell lines. Surface expression of HLA class I antigens was low in eight out of eight neuroblastoma cell lines bearing MYC-N amplification and/or 1p deletion, while two out of three neuroblastoma cell lines lacking these genetic alterations showed normal expression. IFN-gamma treatment restored HLA class I antigen surface expression in all neuroblastoma cell lines. Eight out of 11 neuroblastoma cell lines did not express TAP-1 mRNA and three of them also lacked TAP-2 mRNA. beta2 m mRNA was barely detectable or absent in five neuroblastoma cell lines, while tapasin mRNA was always expressed. IFN-gamma upregulated the expression of HLA class I heavy chain, beta2 m, TAP-1, TAP-2 and tapasin, as detected at mRNA or protein level. Post-transcriptional events were involved in altered TAP-1 and beta2 m expression in one peculiar neuroblastoma cell line. These data indicate that multiple mechanisms play a role in the HLA class I antigen-deficient phenotype of human neuroblastoma.
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MESH Headings
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 2
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 3
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/analysis
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/genetics
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/immunology
- Antigens, Surface/genetics
- Antigens, Surface/immunology
- Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology
- Antiporters/analysis
- Antiporters/genetics
- Antiporters/immunology
- Blotting, Western
- Brain Neoplasms/immunology
- Extracellular Matrix Proteins/analysis
- Extracellular Matrix Proteins/genetics
- Extracellular Matrix Proteins/immunology
- Gene Deletion
- Gene Expression/drug effects
- Gene Expression/immunology
- Genes, myc
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/analysis
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/genetics
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/immunology
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/analysis
- Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/genetics
- Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/immunology
- Immunoglobulins/analysis
- Immunoglobulins/genetics
- Immunoglobulins/immunology
- Interferon-gamma/pharmacology
- Membrane Transport Proteins
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/analysis
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/immunology
- Neuroblastoma/immunology
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
- beta 2-Microglobulin/analysis
- beta 2-Microglobulin/genetics
- beta 2-Microglobulin/immunology
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- M V Corrias
- Laboratorio di Oncologia, Istituto Scientifico G. Gaslini, Genoa, Italy
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Airoldi I, Gri G, Marshall JD, Corcione A, Facchetti P, Guglielmino R, Trinchieri G, Pistoia V. Expression and function of IL-12 and IL-18 receptors on human tonsillar B cells. J Immunol 2000; 165:6880-8. [PMID: 11120812 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.165.12.6880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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IL-12 activates murine and human B cells, but little information is available as to the expression and function of IL-12R on human B lymphocytes. Here we show that the latter cells, freshly isolated from human tonsils, expressed the transcripts of both beta1 and beta2 chains of IL-12R and that beta2 chain mRNA was selectively increased (4- to 5-fold) by incubation with Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I bacteria or IL-12. B cell stimulation with IL-12 induced de novo expression of the transcripts of the two chains of IL-18R, i.e., IL-1 receptor-related protein and accessory protein-like. Functional studies showed that both IL-12 and IL-18 signaled to B cells through the NF-kappaB pathway. In the case of IL-12, no involvement of STAT transcription factors, and in particular of STAT-4, was detected. c-rel and p50 were identified as the members of NF-kappaB family involved in IL-12-mediated signal transduction to B cells. IL-12 and IL-18 synergized in the induction of IFN-gamma production by tonsillar B cells, but not in the stimulation of B cell differentiation, although either cytokine promoted IgM secretion in culture supernatants. Finally, naive but not germinal center or memory, tonsillar B cells were identified as the exclusive IL-12 targets in terms of induction of NF-kappaB activation and of IFN-gamma production.
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- I Airoldi
- Laboratory of Oncology, G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy.
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Airoldi I, Saverino D, Favre A, Ghiotto F, Tacchetti C, Facchetti P, Piatti G, Li Pira G, Fenoglio D, Duse M, Ciccone E, Manca F, Plebani A, Grossi CE, Pistoia V. Cytokine gene expression and T-cell proliferative responses in lymph node mononuclear cells from children with early stage human immunodeficiency virus infection. Haematologica 2000; 85:1237-47. [PMID: 11114129] [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: 02/18/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The immunologic events taking place in secondary lymphoid tissue from children with early stage human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection are poorly understood. The aim of this study was to investigate cytokine gene expression and proliferative responses in lymph node (LN) biopsies from five children with early stage HIV infection, in the context of LN morphology and viral load. DESIGN AND METHODS The design of the study was approved by the local Ethical Committee. Cytokine gene expression was studied in LN biopsies and in paired peripheral blood (PB) samples from HIV-infected children by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. T-cell proliferation was assessed by 3H-thymidine incorporation. Viral burden in germinal centers was assessed by video densitometric analysis following immunohistochemical staining for HIV p24. RESULTS Interleukin (IL)-2, IL-4 and IL-5 mRNA were not detected in any LN or PB sample from HIV-infected children. Interferon (IFN)-gamma mRNA was found only in CD8+ cells. IL-12 p35, IL-10, transforming growth factor-(TGF)-beta1, regulated on activation normal T-cell expressed and secreted (RANTES), macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1alpha, MIP-1beta and IL-16 transcripts were detected in all samples. Proliferation of LN and PB mononuclear cells to polyclonal mitogens and soluble (recall and HIV-related) antigens was impaired as compared with the responses in a group of age-matched healthy controls. INTERPRETATION AND CONCLUSIONS Changes in cytokine gene expression and T-cell proliferative responses are already detectable in lymph nodes from HIV-infected children at an early stage of disease.
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- I Airoldi
- Laboratory of Oncology, G. Gaslini Institute, largo G. Gaslini 5, 16148 Genova, Italy.
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Fais F, Fronza G, Roncella S, Inga A, Campomenosi P, Cutrona G, Pezzolo A, Fedeli F, Abbondandolo A, Chiorazzi N, Pistoia V, Ferrarini M. Analysis of stepwise genetic changes in an AIDS-related Burkitt's lymphoma. Int J Cancer 2000; 88:744-50. [PMID: 11072243 DOI: 10.1002/1097-0215(20001201)88:5<744::aid-ijc10>3.0.co;2-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 12/30/2022]
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In this study, immunoglobulin variable (Ig V) region genes, c-myc re-arrangement and sequence and p53 status were analyzed in clones derived from a Burkitt's lymphoma cell line (LAM) in which it was previously demonstrated that Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection occurred late during lymphomagenesis. Such evidence was based on the finding that 2 groups of cellular clones, characterized by the same c-myc re-arrangement but different EBV-fused termini, were obtained from the LAM cell line. The Ig V gene sequences were identical for the 2 groups of clones with different EBV-fused termini. The Ig variable heavy (V(H)) gene sequence displayed a substantial accumulation of point mutations (but no intra-clonal diversification), whereas the productive Ig V lambda (V(lambda)) gene sequence was virtually unmutated. Studies on the Ig V kappa (V(kappa)) locus suggested a receptor revision event (with a switch from kappa to lambda chain production) prior to EBV infection. Likewise, it was determined that the mutations observed in both p53 alleles and in the re-arranged c-myc gene occurred before EBV infection. Based on these findings, we present a model for the various steps of lymphomagenesis. It is proposed that stimulation by an antigen or a superantigen initially favored the clonal expansion and accumulation of other cytogenetic changes, including those involved in receptor editing. These events occurred prior to or during the germinal center (GC) phase of B-cell maturation. Thereafter, possibly upon exit of the cells from the GC, EBV infection occurred, further promoting lymphomagenesis.
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- F Fais
- Clinical Immunology Division, National Cancer Institute, Genoa, Italy.
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Gattorno M, Vignola S, Barbano G, Sormani MP, Sabatini F, Buoncompagni A, Picco P, Pistoia V. Tumor necrosis factor induced adhesion molecule serum concentrations in Henoch-Schönlein purpura and pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus. J Rheumatol 2000; 27:2251-5. [PMID: 10990243] [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: 02/17/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Animal models of immune complex mediated tissue injury have shown that tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and TNF induced adhesion molecules play an important role in the pathogenesis of tissue damage mediated by IgG, but not in that mediated by IgA, immune complexes. We compared possible differences in the behavior of 2 TNF induced adhesion molecules (VCAM-1 and ICAM-1) in Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP), which is characterized by the formation of IgA immune complexes, versus systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), which is mostly associated with the vascular deposition of IgG immune complexes. METHODS Serum concentrations of soluble (s)VCAM-1 and ICAM-1 were determined by ELISA methods in 20 patients with pediatric SLE showing variably active disease, 20 active patients with active HSP, and 19 healthy controls. TNF-alpha as well as p55 and p75 soluble receptors (sTNF-R) were simultaneously tested by enzyme amplified sensitivity immunoassay in 22 patients (12 SLE, 10 HSP). RESULTS Serum sVCAM-1 concentration was significantly higher in patients with SLE (mean +/- SD, 608 +/- 76 ng/ml), than in patients with HSP (501.9 +/- 63.3 ng/ml) and controls (446.8 +/- 139.2 ng/ml) (p < 0.001). In SLE patients, sVCAM-1 correlated positively with ESR (r = 0.45, p = 0.02) and negatively with C4 serum levels (r = -0.57, p = 0.004), platelets (r = -0.38, p = 0.03), and lymphocyte count (r = -0.42, p = 0.03). No differences in sICAM-1 serum concentrations were detected among SLE, HSP, or control groups. Soluble VCAM, but not sICAM-1, showed a positive correlation with TNF-alpha (r = 0.71, p = 0.01), p55 (r = 0.63, p = 0.02), and p75 (r = 0.7, p = 0.01) sTNF-R serum concentrations in SLE, but not in patients with HSP. CONCLUSION Our study provides additional evidence of a possible differential involvement of TNF and TNF induced adhesion molecules in the pathogenesis of tissue damage between pediatric SLE and HSP.
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- M Gattorno
- 2nd Division of Pediatrics, The G. Gaslini Scientific Institute for Children, Genoa, Italy
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Silvestri M, Oddera S, Scarso L, Pistoia V, Tasso P, Rossi GA. Inhibitory activity of fenoterol on Dermatophagoides-, Parietaria-, tetanus-toxoid-, and Candida albicans-stimulated blood mononuclear cells: differences in beta2-adrenoreceptor stimulation but not in cell apoptosis. J Asthma 2000; 37:281-90. [PMID: 10831153 DOI: 10.3109/02770900009055451] [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: 11/13/2022]
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beta2-adrenoreceptor agonists have the ability to downregulate in vitro the proliferative response of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (BMCs). This activity could be related to a variety of beta2-adrenoreceptor-mediated functions, including induction of cell apoptosis in activated T-cells. To test this hypothesis, BMCs from atopic subjects, sensitized to house dust mites (Dermatophagoides [Der p]) and/or to Parietaria were incubated with fenoterol (10(-8)-10(-5) M) in the presence of (a) purified allergen extracts (Der p [5 microg/mL] or Parietaria [5 microg/mL]) or (b) antigens (tetanus toxoid [1 microg/mL] or Candida albicans [5 x 10(5) bodies/mL]). The BMC proliferation was assessed by [3H] thymidine incorporation and cell apoptosis was assessed by evaluating DNA fragmentation by a fluorescence technique, using propidium iodide. In cultures stimulated with Der p or with Parietaria, fenoterol induced a dose-dependent inhibition of BMC proliferation, significant also at the lowest concentration tested (10(-8) M) (p < 0.05, each comparison). In contrast, the inhibitory activity of the drug on tetanus-toxoid-stimulated BMCs was significant only at the highest dose tested (10(-5)M) (p < 0.05), whereas no effect was seen when BMCs were stimulated with C. albicans extract (p > 0.05). The different inhibitory efficacy of fenoterol appeared to be related to the degree of activation of beta2-adrenoreceptors on the different BMC populations that responded to the different stimuli. Indeed, in the presence of fenoterol (10(-6) and 10(-5)M), a significant increase in cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) levels was seen in Der p- or Parietaria-stimulated cells (p < 0.05; each comparison), but not in cell cultures stimulated with tetanus toxoid or with C. albicans extracts (p > 0.05; each comparison). Finally, the percentage of cells with fragmented DNA was lower in cultures stimulated with Der p or Parietaria than in those stimulated with tetanus toxoid or C. albicans, and the presence of fenoterol did not modify cell apoptosis (p > 0.05; each comparison). Thus, the different inhibitory activity of fenoterol on BMCs activated by allergens (Der p or Parietaria) or by antigens (tetanus toxoid or C. albicans) seems to be related to differences in beta2-adrenoreceptor expression and/or function in the different antigen-specific T-cell subsets, but it is not influenced by changes in cell apoptosis.
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- M Silvestri
- Divisione di Pneumologia, Istituto G. Gaslini, Genova, Italy
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Corcione A, Ottonello L, Tortolina G, Facchetti P, Airoldi I, Guglielmino R, Dadati P, Truini M, Sozzani S, Dallegri F, Pistoia V. Stromal cell-derived factor-1 as a chemoattractant for follicular center lymphoma B cells. J Natl Cancer Inst 2000; 92:628-35. [PMID: 10772680 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/92.8.628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [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: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Follicular center lymphoma displays widespread lymph node involvement at diagnosis. The chemoattractants that control the locomotion of follicular center lymphoma B cells have not been established. Stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1) is a CXC-class chemokine that enhances the migration of normal human B cells and is expressed in peripheral lymphoid tissues. Here we have investigated 1) whether SDF-1 stimulates the in vitro locomotion of follicular center lymphoma B cells and of their presumed normal counterparts (i. e., germinal center B cells) and 2) whether the same cells express SDF-1 transcripts. METHODS B cells were purified by immunomagnetic bead manipulation. Messenger RNA was detected by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. Migration was assessed by the filter and collagen invasion assays. All P values were two sided. RESULTS Follicular center lymphoma B lymphocytes showed a statistically significant migratory response to 300 ng/mL SDF-1, both in the filter and in the collagen assays (P =.002 for each). Such response was mediated by the SDF-1 receptor, CXCR4. CD40 monoclonal antibody (MAb) and tonsillar germinal center B cells treated with CD40 MAb and recombinant interleukin 4, but not freshly isolated, migrated statistically significantly faster in the presence than in the absence of SDF-1 (P =.002 in both filter and collagen assays). Freshly isolated follicular center lymphoma and germinal center B cells expressed SDF-1 transcripts. CONCLUSIONS This study shows that SDF-1 substantially enhances the migration of follicular center lymphoma B cells but not the migration of freshly purified germinal center B cells. This difference may be related to the extended survival of follicular center lymphoma versus germinal center B cells. SDF-1 produced in follicular center lymphoma lymph nodes may play a role in the local dissemination of tumor cells.
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- A Corcione
- Laboratory of Oncology, G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy.
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Barbano G, Cappa F, Prigione I, Tedesco F, Pausa M, Gugliemino R, Pistoia V, Gusmano R, Perfumo F. Peritoneal mesothelial cells produce complement factors and express CD59 that inhibits C5b-9-mediated cell lysis. Adv Perit Dial 2000; 15:253-7. [PMID: 10682113] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2023]
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The CD59 membrane protein confers protection from C5b-9-mediated cell lysis. Because evidence exists for complement (C) activation and generation of C5b-9 in the peritoneal cavity during chronic peritoneal dialysis (CPD), we investigated, on mesothelial cell (MC) lines, the expression of CD59 and the production of C components. Four MC lines were obtained from children on CPD, and two from non uremic children. CD59 expression on MCs was investigated with anti-CD59 monoclonal antibody (mAb) and polyclonal goat immunoglobulin G (IgG). MC lines were positive for staining with anti-CD59 mAb. Western blotting analysis of MC membrane demonstrated a band with the same molecular weight as CD59. Incubation of MC with anti-CD59 mAb abrogated the protective effect of CD59 (100% cytotoxicity). C3, C4, and C6 were detected in the supernatants of MC; in non uremic MC supernatants, C5, C7, C8, and C9 were also detectable, and C4 concentration was tenfold higher. CD59 expression confers to MCs protection from C5b-9-mediated lysis. MCs produce C factors. These findings suggest that production of complement components and expression of CD59 on MCs could play a role both in peritoneal cavity infection (decreased complement production) and in peritoneal membrane damage (decreased CD59 expression and reduced remesothelialization owing to MC lysis).
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- G Barbano
- Nephrology Department, G. Gaslini Children's Hospital, Genoa, Italy
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Prigione I, Facchetti P, Lecordier L, Deslée D, Chiesa S, Cesbron-Delauw MF, Pistoia V. T cell clones raised from chronically infected healthy humans by stimulation with Toxoplasma gondii excretory-secretory antigens cross-react with live tachyzoites: characterization of the fine antigenic specificity of the clones and implications for vaccine development. J Immunol 2000; 164:3741-8. [PMID: 10725733 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.7.3741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Excreted-secreted Ags (ESA) of Toxoplasma gondii (Tg) play an important role in the stimulation of the host immune system in both acute and chronic infections. To identify the parasite Ag(s) involved in the maintenance of T cell-mediated long term immunity, 40 ESA-specific T cell clones were derived from three chronically infected healthy subjects. All the clones were CD4+ and recognized both ESA and live tachyzoites in a HLA-DR-restricted manner. Conversely, CD4+ tachyzoite-specific T cell clones from the same subjects proliferated in response to ESA, pointing to shared immunodominant Ags between ESA and Tg tachyzoites. By T cell blot analysis using SDS-PAGE-fractionated parasite extracts, the following patterns of reactivity were detected. Of 25 clones, 6 recognized Tg fractions in the 24- to 28-kDa range and proliferated to purified GRA2, 5 reacted with Tg fractions in the 30- to 33-kDa range; and 4 of them proved to be specific for rSAg1. Although surface Ag (SAg1) is not a member of ESA, small amounts of this protein were present in ESA preparation by Western blot. Of 25 clones, 8 responded to Tg fractions in the 50- to 60-kDa range but not to the 55-kDa recombinant rhoptries-2 parasite Ag, and 6 did not react with any Tg fraction but proliferated in response to either ESA or total parasite extracts. In conclusion, CD4+ T cells specific for either ESA (GRA2) or SAg1 may be involved in the maintenance of long term immunity to Tg in healthy chronically infected individuals.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, Protozoan/genetics
- Antigens, Protozoan/immunology
- Antigens, Protozoan/isolation & purification
- Cell Communication/immunology
- Chemical Fractionation
- Chronic Disease
- Clone Cells/immunology
- Clone Cells/metabolism
- Clone Cells/parasitology
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/chemistry
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Humans
- Interferon-gamma/biosynthesis
- Interleukin-4/biosynthesis
- Lymphocyte Activation/immunology
- Protozoan Proteins/genetics
- Protozoan Proteins/immunology
- Protozoan Proteins/isolation & purification
- Protozoan Proteins/metabolism
- Protozoan Vaccines/chemical synthesis
- Protozoan Vaccines/genetics
- Protozoan Vaccines/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- T-Lymphocytes/parasitology
- Toxoplasma/growth & development
- Toxoplasma/immunology
- Toxoplasmosis/immunology
- Toxoplasmosis/parasitology
- Vaccines, Attenuated/chemical synthesis
- Vaccines, Attenuated/genetics
- Vaccines, Attenuated/immunology
- Vaccines, Synthetic/immunology
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- I Prigione
- Laboratorio di Oncologia, Istituto G. Gaslini, Genoa, Italy
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Pasino M, Lanza T, Marotta F, Scarso L, De Biasio P, Amato S, Corcione A, Pistoia V, Mori PG. Flow cytometric and functional characterization of AC133+ cells from human umbilical cord blood. Br J Haematol 2000; 108:793-800. [PMID: 10792285 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2000.01949.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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: 11/20/2022]
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AC133+ cells may represent an alternative source of transplantable haemopoietic progenitor cells to CD34+ cells. Here, we have addressed the characterization of umbilical cord blood (UCB) AC133+ cells and compared their immunophenotypic and functional features with those of UCB CD34+ cells. UCB AC133+ and CD34+ cell fractions were purified by magnetic cell sorting, analysed by flow cytometry, tested for their content in blast cell colony-forming units (CFU-Bl), erythroid and granulocyte-macrophage colony-forming units before and after expansion in the presence of various haemopoietic growth factor combinations. Median AC133+ cell yield was 62.3%, and median AC133+ population purity was 97.9%. AC133+ cells were found to contain significantly more CFU-Bl than CD34+ cells; furthermore, the replating efficiency, i.e. the number of CFU-Bl capable of generating secondary colonies, was higher in the former than in the latter cells. Both AC133+ and CD34+ cells displayed an increased ability to give rise to committed progenitors after 7-day expansion in liquid cultures. These data suggest that the AC133+ cell subset is a heterogeneous pool of immature and more differentiated cells that can be maintained and expanded in well-defined culture conditions. In comparison with CD34+ cells, UCB AC133+ cells appear to contain a higher number of early haemopoietic progenitors.
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- M Pasino
- Division of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Blood Transfusion Bank, Division of Obstetrics, and Laboratory of Oncology, G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy
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Roncella S, Cutrona G, Truini M, Airoldi I, Pezzolo A, Valetto A, Di Martino D, Dadati P, De Rossi A, Ulivi M, Fontana I, Nocera A, Valente U, Ferrarini M, Pistoia V. Late Epstein-Barr virus infection of a hepatosplenic gamma delta T-cell lymphoma arising in a kidney transplant recipient. Haematologica 2000; 85:256-62. [PMID: 10702813] [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: 02/15/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE gd T-cell lymphomas are only exceptionally observed in transplanted patients. Aim of this study was the detailed characterization of one such case. DESIGN AND METHODS The patient developed spontaneous splenic rupture six years after kidney transplantation. The splenic red pulp was infiltrated by medium-sized and large lymphoid cells with two or more nucleoli. At autopsy, similar lymphoid cells infiltrated the hepatic sinusoids. Histologic, immunologic and molecular studies were carried out. RESULTS By immunohistochemistry, the atypical lymphoid cells were found to express CD3, CD45 and CD43, indicating their T-lineage origin. Approximately 99% of spleen mononuclear cells (MNC) were CD3(+), gammadelta TcR+, CD4-, CD8-, alphabeta TcR-. A clonal gammadelta TcR rearrangement (Vgamma1-Jgamma1.3/2.3-Cgamma2; Vdelta1-Ddelta2-Jdelta1) was detected. The final diagnosis was peripheral T-cell lymphoma, hepato-splenic gammadelta-type. EBV infection of spleen MNC was documented by molecular studies. However, in situ hybridization for EBER-1 (EBV-RNA) showed that only a minority of malignant lymphoid cells (5-7%) were EBV-infected. INTERPRETATION AND CONCLUSIONS It is concluded that EBV infection was as a late event involving an already transformed gd T-cell clone.
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- S Roncella
- Servizio di Immunologia Clinica, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genova, Italy
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Facchetti P, Tacchetti C, Prigione I, Airoldi I, Favre A, Grossi CE, Pistoia V. Ultrastructural and functional studies of the interaction between IL-12 and IL-2 for the generation of lymphokine-activated killer cells. Exp Cell Res 1999; 253:440-53. [PMID: 10585267 DOI: 10.1006/excr.1999.4697] [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: 11/22/2022]
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IL-12 promotes generation of LAK activity in short-term-cultured NK cells, but information on the structure and function of IL-12-induced LAK cells is not yet available. The latter issues have been here investigated with emphasis on interactions between IL-12 and IL-2. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (MNC) exposed to IL-12 for 5-7 days displayed a decrease in the amount and density of the matrix of large granular lymphocyte (LGL)-associated granules. In cells cultured with IL-12 and IL-2 for 5-7 days, empty vacuoles were predominant and the electron-dense matrix was scanty. In MNC incubated with IL-2 for 5-7 days, most granules were loaded with electron-dense matrix. IL-12 and IL-2 displayed an additive effect on LAK cell cytotoxicity until approximately 48 h in culture which was followed by a sharp decline. Immunocytochemical and biochemical studies demonstrated that MNC cultured for 5-7 days with IL-12 and IL-2 displayed downregulated perforin expression and upregulated granzyme B expression. Fas ligand expression was virtually undetectable in MNC cultured for 5-7 days with or without cytokines. It appears that perforin downregulation plays a major role in the reduced cytotoxicity of MNC cultured with IL-12 and IL-2 for 5-7 days.
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- P Facchetti
- Laboratory of Oncology, G. Gaslini Institute, Largo G. Gaslini, 5, Genova, 16148, Italy
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Picco P, Gattorno M, Buoncompagni A, Vignola S, Maggiani M, Rossi G, Pistoia V, Borrone C. Interactions between prolactin and the proinflammatory cytokine network in juvenile chronic arthritis. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1999; 876:262-5. [PMID: 10415619 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb07648.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- P Picco
- 2nd Pediatric Division, G. Gaslini Scientific Institute, Genoa, Italy
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Ottonello L, Corcione A, Tortolina G, Airoldi I, Albesiano E, Favre A, D'Agostino R, Malavasi F, Pistoia V, Dallegri F. rC5a directs the in vitro migration of human memory and naive tonsillar B lymphocytes: implications for B cell trafficking in secondary lymphoid tissues. J Immunol 1999; 162:6510-7. [PMID: 10352266] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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Human C5a is a potent chemoattractant for granulocytes, monocytes, and dendritic cells. In mice C5a has been shown to be chemotactic for germinal center (GC) B cells. To date, no information is available on the effects of C5a on human B cell locomotion. Here we demonstrate that rC5a increases polarization and migration of human tonsillar B cells. The locomotory response was due to both chemokinetic and chemotactic activities of rC5a. Moreover, memory and, at a lesser extent, naive B cell fractions from purified tonsillar populations displayed rC5a-enhanced migratory properties, whereas GC cells did not. Flow cytometry revealed C5aR (CD88) on approximately 40% memory and 10% naive cells, respectively, whereas GC cells were negative. Immunohistochemistry showed that a few CD88+ cells were of the B cell lineage and localized in tonsillar subepithelial areas, where the majority of memory B cells settle. Pretreatment of memory B cells with the CD88 mAb abolished their migratory responsiveness to rC5a. Finally, the C5 gene was found to be expressed in naive, GC, and memory B lymphocytes at both the mRNA and the protein level. This study delineates a novel role for C5a as a regulator of the trafficking of human memory and naive B lymphocytes and supports the hypothesis that the B cells themselves may serve as source of C5 in secondary lymphoid tissues.
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- L Ottonello
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Italy.
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Dufour C, Dallorso S, Casarino L, Corcione A, Pistoia V, Bacigalupo A, Morreale G, Dini G. Late graft failure 8 years after first bone marrow transplantation for severe acquired aplastic anemia. Bone Marrow Transplant 1999; 23:743-5. [PMID: 10218856 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1701652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [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: 11/08/2022]
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A 14-year-old patient with acquired very severe aplastic anemia (VSAA) underwent bone marrow transplantation (BMT) from his HLA-identical brother. Preparative therapy was cyclophosphamide (CY) 200 mg/kg over 4 days. GVHD prophylaxis was with cyclosporin A (CsA) for a year. After an 8 year follow-up during which the patient was well with normal blood counts, graft failure occurred. At this time marrow chimerism studies demonstrated that 85% of hemopoiesis was of recipient origin. The patient was re-engrafted from the same donor after conditioning with CY 200 mg/kg over 4 days plus rabbit antithymocyte globulin (ATG) 3.5 mg/kg/day for 3 days. After 140 days follow-up he has a normal blood count. The possible causes of the graft failure are discussed. This case demonstrates that, although rarely, very late graft failure may occur after BMT for AA and highlights the need for long-term monitoring even in apparently successfully transplanted patients.
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- C Dufour
- Department of Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, Istituto G Gaslini, Genoa, Italy
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Picco P, Gattorno M, Vignola S, Barabino A, Marazzi MG, Bondi E, Pistoia V, Buoncompagni A. Clinical and biological characteristics of immunopathological disease-related erythema nodosum in children. Scand J Rheumatol 1999; 28:27-32. [PMID: 10092161] [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: 02/11/2023]
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We report a series of 22 children with idiopathic, drug unrelated erythema nodosum (EN) admitted to our Department. In 5 of them an history of streptococcal pharyngitis was referred; the remaining patients came to us with a diagnosis of "EN of unknown origin". Acute phase reactants, immunoglobulins, stool alpha1 antitrypsin, ANA, anti dsDNA antibodies and ANCA assay, chest roentgenogram, tuberculin test, and ophthalmologic assessment were performed in all patients. Etiologic diagnosis was made in 16 patients: Streptococcal pharyngitis (5 cases), chronic inflammatory bowel disease, IBD (3 cases), Behçet syndrome (2 cases), Yersinia enteritis (2 cases), infectious mononucleosis, atypical mycobacterial infection, immunodeficiency related infection, and SLE-like syndrome due to C4 deficiency (1 case each). We found oral/scrotal aphthae in 3 cases, gastrointestinal symptoms in 5 cases, arthritis in 3 cases. Acute phase reactants were positive in 16 patients without correlation to the underlying disease. Conversely, the increased alpha1 antitrypsin stool excretion and IgA serum concentration seemed to represent helpful indicators of IBD and Behçet syndrome, respectively. Proinflammatory cytokine pattern showed increased IL6 serum concentrations both in infectious and in non infectious disease-related EN, whereas a minor involvement of TNF was found in these patients.
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- P Picco
- 2nd Division of Pediatrics, G Gaslini Scientific Institute, Genoa, Italy
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Picco P, Gattorno M, Buoncompagni A, Vignola S, Pistoia V, Crovato F. A case of paediatric discoid lupus erythematosus evolving into SLE. Clin Exp Rheumatol 1998; 16:620. [PMID: 9779315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate serum interleukin (IL) 12 concentration in patients with juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA), according to disease subtype, activity, and duration. IL12 has been demonstrated to prime the selective expansion of T helper (Th) cells with a Th1-type pattern of cytokine production. METHODS Sixty eight serum samples from 50 JCA patients (12 systemic, 12 polyarticular, 26 pauciarticular), 20 serum samples from age matched healthy controls were tested with two different immunoassays specific for total IL12 (p40 and p70 heterodimer) and for IL12 (p70) heterodimer, respectively. The following disease activity parameters were evaluated: (a) presence of arthritis at least in one joint, (b) physician global estimate of disease activity, (c) disability index according to the Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ), (d) C reactive protein (CRP). RESULTS Total IL12 (p40 and p70 heterodimer) was significantly higher in JCA active patients than in those on clinical remission and in healthy controls (p < 0.001). Conversely, detectable concentrations of IL12 (p70) heterodimer were found in three active JCA patients only. Moreover, total IL12 (p40 and p70 heterodimer) showed a significant negative correlation both with time from disease diagnosis (r = -0.29, p = 0.04) and, for the pauciarticular subgroup, with disease activity duration (r = -0.71, p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS This study shows that the p40 moiety of IL12 is increased in serum samples from active JCA patients, especially in the earliest phases of the disease, whereas biological active IL12 (p70) heterodimer is virtually undetectable.
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- M Gattorno
- 2nd Division of Paediatrics, G Gaslini Scientific Institute for Children, Genoa, Italy
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Corrias MV, Scuderi F, Pasino M, Biglino P, Bocca P, Marotta F, Figini E, Pistoia V, Mori PG. Growth factors increase retroviral transduction but decrease clonogenic potential of umbilical cord blood CD34+ cells. Haematologica 1998; 83:580-6. [PMID: 9718861] [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: 02/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The feasibility of gene marking or gene therapy protocols making use of purified CD34+ cells greatly depends on the efficiency of their stable transduction. The great potential of umbilical cord blood as a source of CD34+ cells combined with the availability of advanced cell purification procedures prompted us to evaluate whether incubation with growth factors might influence the type of cells effectively transduced by retroviral vectors. DESIGN AND METHODS Isolated, at least 95% pure, CD34+ cells were infected with the LXSN murine retrovirus carrying the neomycin-resistance gene. Different schedules of CD34+ cell infection were performed with or without incubation for different times in the presence of Interleukin-3 (IL-3), Interleukin-6 (IL-6) and stem cell factor (SCF). Efficiency of transduction was evaluated by clonogenic assays, semiquantitative PCR and RT-PCR analyses performed either immediately or after 7 day expansion of CD34+ cells in liquid culture in the presence of erythropoietin (EPO), IL-3 and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF). RESULTS The results obtained indicated that the amount of transduced cells increased with the lenght of incubation with growth factors, either before or during infections. However, different types of cells were transduced depending on the duration of stimulation and infection. Thus, following one week culture of CD34+ cells in the presence of EPO, IL-3 and GM-CSF the clonogenic potential was affected dyshomogeneously. Precisely, with a single 3-hour infection performed after 12 hours of stimulation with growth factors, the clonogenic potential of the transduced cells greatly increased after one week in culture. In contrast, with a 48 hour infection, the transduced cells completely lost their clonogenic potential after one week in culture. INTERPRETATION AND CONCLUSIONS These results demonstrate that a reasonably high transduction efficiency of purified CD34+ cells can be achieved with short schedules of incubation/infection in the absence of stroma or extracellular matrix.
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- M V Corrias
- Laboratory of Oncology, G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy.
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Gattorno M, Picco P, Barbano G, Stalla F, Sormani MP, Buoncompagni A, Gusmano R, Borrone C, Pistoia V. Differences in tumor necrosis factor-alpha soluble receptor serum concentrations between patients with Henoch-Schönlein purpura and pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus: pathogenetic implications. J Rheumatol 1998; 25:361-5. [PMID: 9489835] [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: 02/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Animal models of immune complex mediated tissue injury have shown different patterns of proinflammatory cytokine production according to the subtype of immunoglobulin involved. The IgA immune complex model differs from the IgG model by the lack of involvement of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) in the pathogenesis of tissue damage. We investigated in age matched patients the possible difference in TNF involvement in a predominantly IgA mediated disease, Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP), in comparison with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), in which vascular injury is mostly associated with local deposition of IgG immune complexes. METHODS Serum concentrations of TNF-alpha and its soluble receptors (sTNF-R) p55 and p75 were studied in 20 patients with pediatric SLE at various degrees of disease activity, in 16 patients with highly active HSP, and in 15 healthy controls by enzyme amplified sensitivity immunoassay. SLE disease activity was evaluated using 2 scores, the European Consensus Group Study for SLE Disease Activity Criteria and the SLE Disease Activity Index. RESULTS Serum concentrations of TNF-alpha fell within the normal range in patients with both SLE and HSP irrespective of disease activity. Conversely, patients with SLE displayed increased serum levels of sTNF-R that correlated positively with the degree of disease activity (r = 0.60, p < 0.001; r = 0.71, p < 0.001, for p55 and p75, respectively). In contrast, no difference in the serum levels of sTNF-R was found between patients with highly active HSP and controls. CONCLUSION Our study provides the first circumstantial evidence that pediatric SLE and HSP are characterized by differential involvement of TNF in the pathogenesis of tissue damage.
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- M Gattorno
- 2nd Division of Pediatrics, Blood Transfusional Center, G. Gaslini Scientific Institute for Children, Genoa, Italy
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Picco P, Gattorno M, Buoncompagni A, Facchetti P, Rossi G, Pistoia V. Prolactin and interleukin 6 in prepubertal girls with juvenile chronic arthritis. J Rheumatol Suppl 1998; 25:347-51. [PMID: 9489833] [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: 02/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate prolactin (PRL) serum levels in prepubertal girls affected with 2 different subtypes of pauciarticular onset juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA) and with previous acute postinfectious arthritis in remission (AA), and to correlate the relationship of PRL versus interleukin 6 (IL-6) serum levels. METHODS Eleven girls with antinuclear antibody (ANA) positive early onset pauciarticular JCA, 8 with ANA negative late onset pauciarticular JCA of various forms (considered to have spondyloarthropathy, SpA), and 7 who had had AA were evaluated for serum concentrations of PRL, IL-6, and thyroid hormones and presence of uveitis. All were prepubertal and without clinical or biological signs of disease activity. RESULTS Mean serum concentrations of PRL were significantly increased in ANA positive (8.9 +/- 4.0 ng/ml) patients and in patients with SpA (7.8 +/- 2.4 ng/ml) compared to those of AA patients (4.4 +/- 0.3 ng/ml) (p = 0.01 and p = 0.025, respectively) and to controls. Both ANA positive and SpA patients showed increased mean serum concentrations of IL-6 in comparison with AA patients and controls. Significant correlation between PRL and IL-6 concentrations (r = 0.604, p = 0.002) was observed from the whole series. CONCLUSION We found a direct correlation between serum levels of PRL and IL-6 in both ANA positive JCA patients and in ANA negative SpA patients; thus, hyperprolactinemia correlates better with the chronic course of the disease than with ANA positivity.
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- P Picco
- 2nd Division of Pediatrics, Giannina Gaslini Scientific Institute, Genoa, Italy
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Toraldo R, Canino G, Tolone C, D'Avanzo M, Porfirio B, Hoehn H, Schroeder-Kurth T, Pistoia V. Variable response to the diepoxybutane test in two dizygotic twins with Fanconi's anemia and flow cytometry for diagnosis confirmation. Pediatr Hematol Oncol 1998; 15:45-54. [PMID: 9509505 DOI: 10.3109/08880019809009507] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Fanconi's anemia (FA) is a rare, genetically heterogeneous, autosomal recessive disorder characterized by bone marrow failure, congenital abnormalities, chromosome instability, and increased susceptibility to neoplasia. Congenital abnormalities vary in location and in severity and not all patients are affected. Although the primary defect of FA is unknown, hypersensitivity to the clastogenic effect of agents that introduce cross-links in the DNA, such as diepoxybutane (DEB), is a marker of the FA phenotype in patients suffering from aplastic anemia without the physical characteristics of the syndrome and, conversely, in cases with abnormalities in the preanemic phase. We report the case of two dizygotic twins suffering from FA with discordant hematologic data. The DEB test repeated several times in various laboratories yielded conflicting results, whereas cell cycle studies by flow cytometry revealed a pattern typical of FA patients. Moreover, the flow cytometric pattern was correlated with the clinical severity of the disease.
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- R Toraldo
- Department of Pediatrics, Second University of Naples, Italy
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Corrias MV, Basso S, Meazza R, Musiani P, Santi L, Bocca P, Occhino M, Ferrini S, Pistoia V. Characterization and tumorigenicity of human neuroblastoma cells transfected with the IL-2 gene. Cancer Gene Ther 1998; 5:38-44. [PMID: 9476965] [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: 02/06/2023]
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Immunization of cancer patients with cytokine-engineered tumor cells is being currently tested in several trials. To test the feasibility of this approach in neuroblastoma (NB) patients we investigated the functional consequences of interleukin-2 (IL-2) gene transfer into NB cell lines. Two human NB cell lines were transfected with the plasmid expression vector RSV.5neo containing the human IL-2 cDNA, and their tumorigenicity was evaluated in a nude mice xenograft model after characterization of the growth patterns and phenotypic features in vitro. The combination of IL-2 gene transfection and the xenograft model in nude mice was chosen on the basis of the low or absent expression of HLA class I antigen in human NB tumors. Our aim was to evaluate the effectiveness of an immunization protocol that could elicit a nonspecific antitumor response. The IL-2 stable transfectants were morphologically identical to parental or vector-transfected cells but completely lost tumorigenicity and inhibited, through a bystander effect, the growth of parental cells injected simultaneously at the same site. Histologic and immunohistochemical analysis of the nodules showed extensive necrosis with severe endothelial damage. The infiltrating cells were mainly macrophages, while natural killer (NK) cells were scarce. However, depletion of NK cells by anti-CD122 monoclonal antibody indicated that the rejection process required NK cell activity. The relevance of these data for the development of therapeutic approaches using cytokine-engineered NB cell lines is discussed.
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- M V Corrias
- Laboratory of Oncology, G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy
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Plebani A, Stringa M, Prigione I, Facchetti P, Ghiotto F, Airoldi I, Giacchino R, Cristina E, Porta F, Grossi CE, Pistoia V, Priglione I. Engrafted maternal T cells in human severe combined immunodeficiency: evidence for a TH2 phenotype and a potential role of apoptosis on the restriction of T-cell receptor variable beta repertoire. J Allergy Clin Immunol 1998; 101:131-4. [PMID: 9449515 DOI: 10.1016/s0091-6749(98)70207-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- A Plebani
- Department of Pediatrics, Scientific Institute G. Gaslini, Genova, Italy
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Corcione A, Ottonello L, Tortolina G, Tasso P, Ghiotto F, Airoldi I, Taborelli G, Malavasi F, Dallegri F, Pistoia V. Recombinant tumor necrosis factor enhances the locomotion of memory and naive B lymphocytes from human tonsils through the selective engagement of the type II receptor. Blood 1997; 90:4493-501. [PMID: 9373260] [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: 02/05/2023] Open
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Recent studies performed in mice knocked out for the tumor necrosis factor (TNF ), the lymphotoxin-alpha, or the type I TNF receptor (R), genes have shown that these animals display gross defects in germinal center (GC) formation, suggesting that members of the TNF and TNFR superfamilies are involved in the control of B-cell migration. Based on these premises, we have here investigated the effects of human recombinant (r) TNF on the polarization and locomotion of tonsillar B cells. rTNF increased the spontaneous polarization and locomotion of unfractionated tonsillar B lymphocytes in a dose-dependent manner by inducing a true chemotactic response. Memory (IgD-, CD38(-)) and naive (IgD+, CD38(-)), but not GC (IgD-, CD38(+)) B cells purified from total tonsillar B lymphocytes, showed a significantly higher locomotion in the presence than in the absence of rTNF. Accordingly, type I and II TNF receptors (TNFRs) were detected by flow cytometry on the surface of memory and naive, but not GC, B lymphocytes. Blocking experiments with monoclonal antibodies to type I or II TNFR showed that rTNF enhanced the spontaneous chemotaxis of memory and naive B cells through the selective engagement of type II TNFR. Finally, the TNF gene was found to be expressed in memory, naive and GC B lymphocytes; the cytokine was released in culture supernatants from the three B-cell subsets after stimulation. These data may support the hypothesis that human TNF is involved in the paracrine and perhaps autocrine control of B-cell migration in secondary lymphoid tissues.
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- A Corcione
- Laboratory of Oncology and Division of Otolaryngology, Institute G. Gaslini, Genova, Italy
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Corcione A, Tasso P, Pistoia V. The granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)/G-CSF receptor (G-CSFR) system in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Leuk Lymphoma 1997; 27:239-46. [PMID: 9402323 DOI: 10.3109/10428199709059680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- A Corcione
- Laboratory of Oncology, Scientific Institute G. Gaslini, Genova, Italy
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Pezzolo A, Santi F, Pistoia V, De Biasio P. [Prenatal diagnosis of triploidy and trisomy 21 through fetal erythroblasts isolated from maternal blood]. Minerva Med 1997; 88:393-9. [PMID: 9417534] [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: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND A long-sought goal of medical genetics has been the development of prenatal diagnostic procedures that do not endanger the conceptus. The safety of noninvasive methods for prenatal diagnosis would be especially attractive because they could be extended to all pregnant women, regardless of their ages or histories. Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis for the entire population might be possible recovering fetal cells from maternal blood. For this purpose, we have studied fetal erythroblasts. MATERIALS AND METHODS To evaluate the potential of the method for clinical use, we studied maternal blood samples from 11 women referred to us for prenatal diagnosis between 15 and 20 weeks of gestation. For simple and effective enrichment of fetal nucleated erythrocytes from peripheral maternal blood, we combined a triple density gradient and magnetic-activated cell sorting (MACS) of anti-CD71 transferrin receptor antibody labeled cells. The isolated cells were analysed by using dual-colour interphase fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) with X-, Y-, 18- and 21-specific DNA probes. RESULTS Chromosomal abnormalities detected on enriched fetal cells include trisomy 21 and triploidy. CONCLUSIONS Based on the current results it is suggested that the technique described here is a simple, fast, efficient and reliable method for non invasive prenatal diagnosis.
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- A Pezzolo
- Laboratorio di Oncologia, Istituto G. Gaslini, Genova
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