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Grosser MR, Sites SK, Murata MM, Lopez Y, Chamusco KC, Love Harriage K, Grosser JW, Graham JH, Gmitter FG, Chase CD. Plant mitochondrial introns as genetic markers - conservation and variation. Front Plant Sci 2023; 14:1116851. [PMID: 37021319 PMCID: PMC10067590 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1116851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2022] [Accepted: 03/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Plant genomes are comprised of nuclear, plastid and mitochondrial components characterized by different patterns of inheritance and evolution. Genetic markers from the three genomes provide complementary tools for investigations of inheritance, genetic relationships and phenotypic contributions. Plant mitochondrial genomes are challenging for universal marker development because they are highly variable in terms of size, gene order and intergenic sequences and highly conserved with respect to protein-coding sequences. PCR amplification of introns with primers that anneal to conserved, flanking exons is effective for the development of polymorphic nuclear genome markers. The potential for plant mitochondrial intron polymorphisms to distinguish between congeneric species or intraspecific varieties has not been systematically investigated and is possibly constrained by requirements for intron secondary structure and interactions with co-evolved organelle intron splicing factors. To explore the potential for broadly applicable plant mitochondrial intron markers, PCR primer sets based upon conserved sequences flanking 11 introns common to seven angiosperm species were tested across a range of plant orders. PCR-amplified introns were screened for indel polymorphisms among a group of cross-compatible Citrus species and relatives; two Raphanus sativus mitotypes; representatives of the two Phaseolus vulgaris gene pools; and congeneric pairs of Cynodon, Cenchrus, Solanum, and Vaccinium species. All introns were successfully amplified from each plant entry. Length polymorphisms distinguishable by gel electrophoresis were common among genera but infrequent within genera. Sequencing of three introns amplified from 16 entries identified additional short indel polymorphisms and nucleotide substitutions that separated Citrus, Cynodon, Cenchrus and Vaccinium congeners, but failed to distinguish Solanum congeners or representatives of the Phaseolus vulgaris major gene pools. The ability of primer sets to amplify a wider range of plant species' introns and the presence of intron polymorphisms that distinguish congeners was confirmed by in silico analysis. While mitochondrial intron variation is limited in comparison to nuclear introns, these exon-based primer sets provide robust tools for the amplification of mitochondrial introns across a wide range of plant species wherein useful polymorphisms can be identified.
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- Melinda R. Grosser
- Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL, United States
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- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL, United States
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- Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL, United States
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- Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL, United States
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- Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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Roig T, Gonzalez B, Lopez Y, Rivas C, Arderiu A, Pulido A, Crespo E, Velayos P, Diaz V, Altabella M, Bares D, Barcelo E, Domingo M, Lupon J, Bayes-Genis A. How to screen frailty in outpatients with heart failure: multimodality assessment vs. the Vulnerable Elderly Survey 13 (VES-13) scale. Eur Heart J 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehac544.2735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Background
During two decades we have been screening fragility in outpatients with heart failure (HF) with a multimodality assessment using several geriatric scales, showing that frailty or fragility is frequent in HF patients, even in young patients, and we demonstrated that this identified fragility played an important prognostic role. Frailty is a medical syndrome with multiple causes and contributors that increases outpatients' vulnerability so a minimal stress can cause functional impairment, with a major risk of dependency, even death. Frailty can be reversible or attenuated by interventions. Nowadays several specific scales for fragility or frailty detection are widely available. One of them, the Vulnerable Elderly Survey 13 (VES-13) has scarcely been used in HF.
Purpose
To assess the prevalence of fragility in an outpatient HF Clinic at first visit using both the VES-13 scale and a multimodality assessment that includes Barthel index, OARS scale, Pfeiffer test, and abbreviated Yesavage Geriatric Depression Scale of 4 items (GDS), and compare the two approaches
Methods
Nurses fulfilled the scales with the patients at their first visit. An scoring ≥3 in the VES-13 scale and the presence of one of the predefined criteria in the multimodality assessment (Barthel <90; OARS score <10 in women and <6 in men; Pfeiffer Test score >3±1, depending on educational level; one positive depression response in abbreviated GDS; and age >85 years or nobody to turn to for help) were considered to have fragility for the purpose of the study.
Results
From March 2021 to December 2021, 136 patients were evaluated with the two fragility screening modalities (mean age 68.8±10.8 years, 64% men, 46% from ischaemic aetiology, 65.4%/27.9% in NYHA class II/III, LVEF 39.5% ± 13.4). VES-13 identified 51 (37.5%) patients with fragility, while the multimodality assessment detected 45 (33.6%) patients. Barthel index and depressive symptoms in the GDS were the most altered items (19 and 20 patients respectively) in the multimodality assessment. Concordance between VES-13 and multimodality assessment was 83.8%, but Cohen's Kappa was 0.65, not reaching the suitable level of 0.70.
Conclusions
VES-13 was capable of identifying a higher number of patients with fragility at first visit in the routine screening performed in an outpatient HF clinic, than the multimodality assessment used in the last decades. Follow-up of patients and further analysis will allow evaluating which of these two approaches adds more value for outcomes prediction.
Funding Acknowledgement
Type of funding sources: None.
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- T Roig
- Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital , Badalona , Spain
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- Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital , Badalona , Spain
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- Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital , Badalona , Spain
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- Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital , Badalona , Spain
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- Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital , Badalona , Spain
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- Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital , Badalona , Spain
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- Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital , Badalona , Spain
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- Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital , Badalona , Spain
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- Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital , Badalona , Spain
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- Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital , Badalona , Spain
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- Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital , Badalona , Spain
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- Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital , Badalona , Spain
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- Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital , Badalona , Spain
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- Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital , Badalona , Spain
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Murad Leite Andrade MH, Acharya JP, Benevenuto J, de Bem Oliveira I, Lopez Y, Munoz P, Resende MFR, Rios EF. Genomic prediction for canopy height and dry matter yield in alfalfa using family bulks. Plant Genome 2022; 15:e20235. [PMID: 35818699 DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2022] [Accepted: 04/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Genomic selection (GS) has proven to be an effective method to increase genetic gain rates and accelerate breeding cycles in many crop species. However, its implementation requires large investments to phenotype of the training population and for routine genotyping. Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is one of the major cultivated forage legumes, showing high-quality nutritional value. Alfalfa breeding is usually carried out by phenotypic recurrent selection and is commonly done at the family level. The application of GS in alfalfa could be simplified and less costly by genotyping and phenotyping families in bulks. For this study, an alfalfa reference population composed of 142 full-sib and 35 half-sib families was bulk-genotyped using target enrichment sequencing and phenotyped for dry matter yield (DMY) and canopy height (CH) in Florida, USA. Genotyping of the family bulks with 17,707 targeted probes resulted in 114,945 single-nucleotide polymorphisms. The markers revealed a population structure that matched the mating design, and the linkage disequilibrium slowly decayed in this breeding population. After exploring multiple prediction scenarios, a strategy was proposed including data from multiple harvests and accounting for the G×E in the training population, which led to a higher predictive ability of up to 38 and 24% for DMY and CH, respectively. Although this study focused on the implementation of GS in alfalfa families, the bulk methodology and the prediction schemes used herein could guide future studies in alfalfa and other crops bred in bulks.
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- Agronomy Dep., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Horticultural Sciences Dep., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Agronomy Dep., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Horticultural Sciences Dep., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Horticultural Sciences Dep., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Agronomy Dep., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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Biswas A, Andrade MHML, Acharya JP, de Souza CL, Lopez Y, de Assis G, Shirbhate S, Singh A, Munoz P, Rios EF. Phenomics-Assisted Selection for Herbage Accumulation in Alfalfa ( Medicago sativa L.). Front Plant Sci 2021; 12:756768. [PMID: 34950163 PMCID: PMC8689394 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.756768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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The application of remote sensing in plant breeding is becoming a routine method for fast and non-destructive high-throughput phenotyping (HTP) using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with sensors. Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is a perennial forage legume grown in more than 30 million hectares worldwide. Breeding alfalfa for herbage accumulation (HA) requires frequent and multiple phenotyping efforts, which is laborious and costly. The objective of this study was to assess the efficiency of UAV-based imagery and spatial analysis in the selection of alfalfa for HA. The alfalfa breeding population was composed of 145 full-sib and 34 half-sib families, and the experimental design was a row-column with augmented representation of controls. The experiment was established in November 2017, and HA was harvested four times between August 2018 and January 2019. A UAV equipped with a multispectral camera was used for HTP before each harvest. Four vegetation indices (VIs) were calculated from the UAV-based images: NDVI, NDRE, GNDVI, and GRVI. All VIs showed a high correlation with HA, and VIs predicted HA with moderate accuracy. HA and NDVI were used for further analyses to calculate the genetic parameters using linear mixed models. The spatial analysis had a significant effect in both dimensions (rows and columns) for HA and NDVI, resulting in improvements in the estimation of genetic parameters. Univariate models for NDVI and HA, and bivariate models, were fit to predict family performance for scenarios with various levels of HA data (simulated in silico by assigning missing values to full dataset). The bivariate models provided higher correlation among predicted values, higher coincidence for selection, and higher genetic gain even for scenarios with only 30% of HA data. Hence, HTP is a reliable and efficient method to aid alfalfa phenotyping to improve HA. Additionally, the use of spatial analysis can also improve the accuracy of selection in breeding trials.
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- Anju Biswas
- Department of Agronomy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Agronomy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Agronomy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Horticultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Agronomy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- *Correspondence: Esteban F. Rios,
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Luo Z, Cui R, Chavarro C, Tseng YC, Zhou H, Peng Z, Chu Y, Yang X, Lopez Y, Tillman B, Dufault N, Brenneman T, Isleib TG, Holbrook C, Ozias-Akins P, Wang J. Mapping quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and estimating the epistasis controlling stem rot resistance in cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea). Theor Appl Genet 2020; 133:1201-1212. [PMID: 31974667 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-020-03542-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2019] [Accepted: 01/10/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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A total of 33 additive stem rot QTLs were identified in peanut genome with nine of them consistently detected in multiple years or locations. And 12 pairs of epistatic QTLs were firstly reported for peanut stem rot disease. Stem rot in peanut (Arachis hypogaea) is caused by the Sclerotium rolfsii and can result in great economic loss during production. In this study, a recombinant inbred line population from the cross between NC 3033 (stem rot resistant) and Tifrunner (stem rot susceptible) that consists of 156 lines was genotyped by using 58 K peanut single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array and phenotyped for stem rot resistance at multiple locations and in multiple years. A linkage map consisting of 1451 SNPs and 73 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers was constructed. A total of 33 additive quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for stem rot resistance were detected, and six of them with phenotypic variance explained of over 10% (qSR.A01-2, qSR.A01-5, qSR.A05/B05-1, qSR.A05/B05-2, qSR.A07/B07-1 and qSR.B05-1) can be consistently detected in multiple years or locations. Besides, 12 pairs of QTLs with epistatic (additive × additive) interaction were identified. An additive QTL qSR.A01-2 also with an epistatic effect interacted with a novel locus qSR.B07_1-1 to affect the percentage of asymptomatic plants in a row. A total of 193 candidate genes within 38 stem rot QTLs intervals were annotated with functions of biotic stress resistance such as chitinase, ethylene-responsive transcription factors and pathogenesis-related proteins. The identified stem rot resistance QTLs, candidate genes, along with the associated SNP markers in this study, will benefit peanut molecular breeding programs for improving stem rot resistance.
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- Ziliang Luo
- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA, USA
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- Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Department of Agronomy, National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan
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- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Horticulture, Institute for Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, University of Georgia Tifton Campus, Tifton, GA, USA
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- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- North Florida Research and Education Center, Marianna, FL, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA, USA
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- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Crop Genetics and Breeding Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Tifton, GA, USA
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- Department of Horticulture, Institute for Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, University of Georgia Tifton Campus, Tifton, GA, USA
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- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
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Zhao Z, Tseng YC, Peng Z, Lopez Y, Chen CY, Tillman BL, Dang P, Wang J. Refining a major QTL controlling spotted wilt disease resistance in cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) and evaluating its contribution to the resistance variations in peanut germplasm. BMC Genet 2018; 19:17. [PMID: 29571286 PMCID: PMC5865372 DOI: 10.1186/s12863-018-0601-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2017] [Accepted: 03/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Spotted wilt, caused by tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), has been one of major diseases in cultivated peanut grown in the southeastern United States (US) since 1990. Previously a major quantitative trait locus (QTL) controlling spotted wilt disease resistance was mapped to an interval of 2.55 cM genetic distance corresponding to a physical distance of 14.4 Mb on chromosome A01 of peanut by using a segregating F2 population. The current study focuses on refining this major QTL region and evaluating its contributions in the US peanut mini-core germplasm. RESULTS Two simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers associated with the major QTL were used to genotype F5 individuals, and 25 heterozygous individuals were selected and developed into an F6 segregating population. Based on visual evaluation in the field, a total of 194 susceptible F6 individuals were selected and planted into F7 generation for phenotyping. Nine SSR markers were used to genotype the 194 F6 individuals, and QTL analysis revealed that a confidence interval of 15.2 Mb region had the QTL with 22.8% phenotypic variation explained (PVE). This QTL interval was further genotyped using the Amplicon-seq method. A total of 81 non-redundant single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and eight InDel markers were detected. No recombinant was detected among the F6 individuals. Two InDel markers were integrated into the linkage group and helped to refine the confidence interval of this QTL into a 0.8 Mb region. To test the QTL contributes to the resistance variance in US peanut mini-core germplasm, two flanking SSR markers were used to genotype 107 mini-core germplasm accessions. No statistically significant association was observed between the genotype at the QTL region and spotted wilt resistance in the mini-core germplasm, which indicated that the resistance allelic region at this QTL didn't contribute to the resistance variance in the US peanut mini-core germplasm, thus was a unique resistance source. CONCLUSION A major QTL related to spotted wilt disease resistance in peanut was refined to a 0.8 Mb region on A01 chromosome, which didn't relate to spotted wilt disease resistance in the US peanut mini-core germplasm and might be a unique genetic source.
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- Zifan Zhao
- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA
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- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA.,North Florida Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Marianna, FL, 32446, USA
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- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA
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- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA
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- Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA
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- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA.,North Florida Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Marianna, FL, 32446, USA
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- USDA-ARS National Peanut Research Laboratory, Dawson, GA, 39842, USA
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- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA. .,Center for Genomics and Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Ministry of Education; Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China.
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Barrero CA, Perez-Leal O, Aksoy M, Moncada C, Ji R, Lopez Y, Mallilankaraman K, Madesh M, Criner GJ, Kelsen SG, Merali S. Histone 3.3 participates in a self-sustaining cascade of apoptosis that contributes to the progression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2013; 188:673-83. [PMID: 23924319 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201302-0342oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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RATIONALE Shifts in the gene expression of nuclear protein in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a progressive disease that is characterized by extensive lung inflammation and apoptosis, are common; however, the extent of the elevation of the core histones, which are the major components of nuclear proteins and their consequences in COPD, has not been characterized, which is important because extracellular histones are cytotoxic to endothelial and airway epithelial cells. OBJECTIVES To investigate the role of extracellular histones in COPD disease progression. METHODS We analyzed the nuclear lung proteomes of ex-smokers with and without the disease. Further studies on the consequences of H3.3 were also performed. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS A striking finding was a COPD-specific eightfold increase of hyperacetylated histone H3.3. The hyperacetylation renders H3.3 resistant to proteasomal degradation despite ubiquitination; when combined with the reduction in proteasome activity that is known for COPD, this resistance helps account for the increased levels of H3.3. Using anti-H3 antibodies, we found H3.3 in the airway lumen, alveolar fluid, and plasma of COPD samples. H3.3 was cytotoxic to lung structural cells via a mechanism that involves the perturbation of Ca(2+) homeostasis and mitochondrial toxicity. We used the primary human airway epithelial cells and found that the antibodies to either the C or N terminus of H3 could partially reverse H3.3 toxicity. CONCLUSIONS Our data indicate that there is an uncontrolled positive feedback loop in which the damaged cells release acetylated H3.3, which causes more damage, adds H3.3 release, and contributes toward the disease progression.
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Kotredes K, Lopez Y, Gamero A. PS2-34 Evaluation of IFN-λ responsiveness on renal cell carcinoma. Cytokine 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cyto.2010.07.239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Guarnizo-Zuccardi P, Lopez Y, Giraldo M, Garcia N, Rodriguez L, Ramirez L, Uribe O, Garcia L, Vasquez G. Cytokine gene polymorphisms in Colombian patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 70:376-82. [PMID: 17711410 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2007.00917.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients exhibit alterations in cytokine production that may be relevant to SLE pathogenesis. There is evidence that cytokine gene polymorphisms control cytokine production; thus, these polymorphisms may be associated with SLE or its clinical manifestations. To establish the association of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), transforming growth factor (TGF) beta1, interleukin (IL)-10, and IL-6 gene polymorphisms in Colombian SLE patients and their clinical manifestations, 120 SLE patients and 102 healthy controls were studied. Single nucleotide polymorphisms were studied by sequence-specific primers polymerase chain reaction (SSP-PCR) at: TNFalpha-308 (G/A), TGFbeta1 codon 10 (C/T) and codon 25 (G/C), IL-10 -1082 (G/A), -819 (C/T) and -592 (C/A), and IL-6 + 174 (G/C). Human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DRbeta1 was typed by SSP-PCR. SLE patients had increased frequency of allele C at TGFbeta1 codon 25 (P = 0.0001, odds ratio (OR): 4.25, 95% confidence interval (CI): 2.17-8.35) and allele A at TNFalpha-308 (P = 0.0004 OR: 3.9, 95% CI: 1.65-5.80) compared with healthy controls. There was higher frequency of GC genotype at TGFbeta1 codon 25 in SLE patients (P < 0.0001). Extended genotypic analysis showed that SLE patients have decreased frequency of TNFalphaLow/TGFbeta1High (0.50) compared with healthy controls (0.80) (P < 0.0001). No association was found between these polymorphisms and SLE clinical manifestations except for Sm and Ro autoantibodies that were associated with TNFalpha allele A. There is an association between TNFalpha-308A/TGFbeta1 codon 25C with SLE susceptibility in Colombian population. This association may result in a highly inflammatory response with a decrease regulatory function mediated by TNFalpha and TGFbeta1, respectively. The TNFalpha-308A/TGFbeta1 25C genotype may be one component of genetic susceptibility to SLE in Colombian population.
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- P Guarnizo-Zuccardi
- Grupo de Immunología Celular e Inmunogenética, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
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Rodriguez LE, Vera R, Valbuena J, Curtidor H, Garcia J, Puentes A, Ocampo M, Lopez R, Rosas J, Lopez Y, Patarroyo MA, Patarroyo ME. Characterisation of Plasmodium falciparum RESA-like protein peptides that bind specifically to erythrocytes and inhibit invasion. Biol Chem 2007; 388:15-24. [PMID: 17214545 DOI: 10.1515/bc.2007.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The Plasmodium falciparum ring-erythrocyte surface antigen (RESA)-like putative protein was identified and characterised. PCR and RT-PCR assays revealed that the gene encoding this protein was both present and being transcribed in P. falciparum strain FCB-2 16 h after erythrocyte invasion. Indirect immunofluorescence studies detected this protein in infected erythrocyte (IE) cytosol in dense fluorescent granules similar to Maurer's clefts at 16-20 h (parasites in ring and trophozoite stages) and very strongly on IE membranes at 22 h, suggesting that it is synthesised during early ring stages (16 h) and transported to the infected red blood cell (RBC) membrane surface during the trophozoite stage (22 h). Western blotting showed that antisera produced against polymerised synthetic peptides of this protein recognised a 72-kDa band in P. falciparum schizont lysate. P. falciparum RESA-like peptides used in normal RBC binding assays revealed that peptides 30326 ((101)NAEKI LGFDD KNILE ALDLFY(120)), 30334 ((281)RVTWK KLRTK MIKAL KKSLTY(300)) and 30342 ((431)SSPQR LKFTA GGGFC GKLRNY(450)) bind with high activity and saturability, presenting nM affinity constants. These peptides contain alpha-helical structural elements, as determined by circular dichroism, and inhibit P. falciparum in vitro invasion of normal RBCs by up to 91%, suggesting that some RESA-like protein regions are involved in intra-erythrocyte stage P. falciparum invasion.
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- Luis Eduardo Rodriguez
- Fundación Instituto de Inmunologia de Colombia and Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Carrera 50 No. 26-00, Bogotá, Colombia
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Patarroyo MA, Perez-Leal O, Lopez Y, Cortes J, Rojas-Caraballo J, Gomez A, Moncada C, Rosas J, Patarroyo ME. Identification and characterisation of the Plasmodium vivax rhoptry-associated protein 2. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2005; 337:853-9. [PMID: 16214111 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.09.120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [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] [Received: 08/31/2005] [Accepted: 09/20/2005] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Plasmodium vivax is currently the most widespread of the four parasite species causing malaria in humans around the world. It causes more than 75 million clinical episodes per year, mainly on the Asian and American continents. Identifying new antigens to be further tested as anti-P. vivax vaccine candidates has been greatly hampered by the difficulty of maintaining this parasite cultured in vitro. Taking into account that one of the most promising vaccine candidates against Plasmodium falciparum is the rhoptry-associated protein 2, we have identified the P. falciparum rhoptry-associated protein 2 homologue in P. vivax in the present study. This protein has 400 residues, having an N-terminal 21 amino-acid stretch compatible with a signal peptide and, as occurs with its falciparum homologue, it lacks repeat sequences. The protein is expressed in asexual stage P. vivax parasites and polyclonal sera raised against this protein recognised a 46 kDa band in parasite lysate in a Western blot assay.
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- Manuel A Patarroyo
- Molecular Biology Department, Fundacion Instituto de Inmunologia de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia.
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Perez-Leal O, Sierra AY, Barrero CA, Moncada C, Martinez P, Cortes J, Lopez Y, Salazar LM, Hoebeke J, Patarroyo MA. Identifying and characterising the Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 10 Plasmodium vivax homologue. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2005; 331:1178-84. [PMID: 15883000 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.04.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Plasmodium vivax malaria is one of the most prevalent parasitic diseases in Asia and Latin-America. The difficulty of maintaining this parasite culture in vitro has hampered identifying and characterising proteins implied in merozoite invasion of red blood cells. We have been able to identify an open reading frame in P. vivax encoding the Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 10 homologous protein using the partial sequences from this parasite's genome reported during 2004. This new protein contains 479 amino-acids, two epidermal growth factor-like domains, hydrophobic regions at the N- and C-termini, being compatible with a signal peptide and a glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor site, respectively. The protein is expressed during the parasite's asexual stage and is recognised by polyclonal sera in parasite lysate using Western blot. P. vivax-infected patients' sera highly recognised recombinant protein by ELISA.
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- Oscar Perez-Leal
- Molecular Biology Department, Fundacion Instituto de Inmunologia de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
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Perez-Leal O, Sierra AY, Barrero CA, Moncada C, Martinez P, Cortes J, Lopez Y, Torres E, Salazar LM, Patarroyo MA. Plasmodium vivax merozoite surface protein 8 cloning, expression, and characterisation. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2005; 324:1393-9. [PMID: 15504368 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.09.202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2004] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Plasmodium vivax, one of the four parasite species causing malaria in humans, is the most widespread throughout the world, leading to nearly 80 million cases per year, mainly in Latin-America and Asia. An open reading frame encoding the Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 8 P. vivax homologue has been identified in the present study by screening the current data obtained from this parasite's partially sequenced genome. This new protein contains 487 amino-acids, two epidermal growth factor like domains, hydrophobic regions at the N- and C-termini compatible with a signal peptide, and a glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor site, respectively. This gene's transcription and its encoded protein expression have been assessed, as well as its recognition by P. vivax-infected patients' sera. Based on this recognition, and a previous study showing that mice immunised with the Plasmodium yoelii homologous protein were protected, we consider the PvMSP8 a good candidate to be included in a multi-stage multi-antigen P. vivax vaccine.
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- Oscar Perez-Leal
- Molecular Biology Department, Fundacion Instituto de Inmunologia de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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Alba MP, Salazar LM, Vargas LE, Trujillo M, Lopez Y, Patarroyo ME. Modifying RESA protein peptide 6671 to fit into HLA-DRbeta1* pockets induces protection against malaria. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2004; 315:1154-64. [PMID: 14985134 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [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] [Received: 01/29/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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6671 is a non-immunogenic, conserved high activity red blood cell binding peptide located between residues 141 and 160 of the Plasmodium falciparum RESA protein. This peptide's critical red blood cell (RBC) binding residues have been replaced by amino acids having similar mass but different charge to change their immunologic properties. Three analogues (two of them immunogenic and protective and one immunogenic) were studied by purified HLA-DRbeta1* binding and NMR to correlate their structure with their immunological properties. Native peptide 6671 had a very flexible beta-sheet structure, whilst its immunogenic, protective, and non-protective peptide analogues presented an alpha-helical structure having different locations and lengths. These changes in peptide structure facilitated their fitting into HLA-DRbeta1* molecules. This paper shows for the first time how modifications performed on RESA protein non-immunogenic, non-protectogenic peptides impose a configuration allowing them to fit perfectly into the MHC II-TCR complex, in turn leading to appropriate activation of the immune system.
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- Martha Patricia Alba
- Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia (FIDIC), Carrera 50 No. 26-00, Bogotá, Colombia
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Kamoun A, Etienne JC, Lopez Y, Chouillard E, Ghiles E, Fingerhut A. [Preoperative diagnosis of a strangulated obturator hernia using helical computed tomography]. J Chir (Paris) 2003; 140:251-3. [PMID: 13679778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/23/2023]
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Pattee HE, Isleib TG, Gorbet DW, Moore KM, Lopez Y, Baring MR, Simpson CE. Sensory Quality Traits of the Runner-Type Peanut Cultivar Georgia Green and its Value as a Parent Compared with Florunnner1. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003. [DOI: 10.3146/pnut.30.2.0003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Georgia Green has become the dominant runner market-type peanut cultivar in the United States because of its high yield and superior disease resistance to tomato spotted wilt virus. However, the roasted peanut flavor quality of Georgia Green has not been formally reported, and questions regarding its flavor quality have been expressed by the peanut industry. The objective of this study was to compare the roasted peanut flavor qualities of Georgia Green to those of the long-time industry standard Florunner. This study also provided an opportunity to further expand investigations into the parent selection effects on progeny roasted peanut flavor quality. A total of 192 samples of cultivars Florunner, Georgia Green, and Georgia Greens parents, Southern Runner and Sunbelt Runner, were collected from 1986 to 2000 from the Southeast, Southwest, and Virginia-Carolina peanut production regions. A descriptive sensory panel evaluated flavor attributes of a roasted sound mature kernel (SMK) sample from each plot. The sensory attributes of the four genotypes were compared directly, and the data were included in a Best Linear Unbiased Prediction (BLUP) model of breeding value of 112 peanut cultivars and breeding lines. Georgia Green was not significantly different from the industry standard cultivar Florunner in the sensory attributes roasted peanut [4.5 vs. 4.1 flavor intensity units (fiu), ns], bitter (3.2 vs. 3.3 fiu, ns), and astringent (3.3 vs. 3.4 fiu, ns). It was significantly sweeter than Florunner (3.3 vs 3.0 fiu, P < 0.05). The BLUPs of breeding value for roasted peanut and sweet attributes of Georgia Green were among the highest of any peanut lines included in the analysis. Based on this finding, widespread use of Georgia Green as a parent should contribute to flavor improvement in peanut breeding programs.
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- H. E. Pattee
- Research Chemist, U.S. Dept. of Agric., Agric. Res. Serv., Dept. of Botany, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC 27695–7625
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- Prof., Dept. of Crop Science, North Carolina State Univ., Box 7629, Raleigh, NC 27695–7629
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- Prof., Univ. of Florida, NFREC, Marianna, FL 32344
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- Director of Research, AgraTech Seeds Inc, Ashburn, GA 31714
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- Research Assoc, Soil and Crop Sci. Dept., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX 77843–2474
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- Research Assoc, Soil and Crop Sci. Dept., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX 77843–2474
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- Prof., Texas Agric. Exp. Station, Stephenville, TX 76401
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Pattee HE, Isleib TG, Gorbet DW, Moore KM, Lopez Y, Baring MR, Simpson CE. Effect of the high-oleic trait on roasted peanut flavor in backcross-derived breeding lines. J Agric Food Chem 2002; 50:7362-7365. [PMID: 12452659 DOI: 10.1021/jf025854c] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The high-oleic trait of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) has been suggested to have a positive impact on the roasted peanut sensory attribute. A series of lines derived by backcrossing the high-oleic trait into several existing cultivars were compared with their parent cultivars at locations in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas. Breeders grew their high-oleic lines and parents in three-replicate tests at one or two locations. The Florida high-oleic line F435-2-3-B-2-1-b4-B-B-3-b3-b3-1-B was grown at each location. The test included normal- and high-oleic variants of F435, GK 7, NC 7, NC 9, Sunrunner, Tamrun 96, and Tamspan 90. Sound-mature kernel samples were roasted, ground into paste, and evaluated by a sensory panel using a 14-point flavor intensity unit (fiu) scale. Background genotype had an effect (P < 0.01) on the heritable sensory attributes roasted peanut, sweet, and bitter. Oleate level had a positive effect on roasted peanut intensity, increasing it by 0.3 fiu averaged across all seven background genotypes. However, the magnitude of improvement varied across background genotypes. The high-oleic trait had no effect or increased the intensity of the roasted peanut attribute in each background genotype. The increase was greatest in Tamrun 96 (+0.6 fiu, P < 0.05) and Spanish genotypes Tamspan 90 (+0.4 fiu, P < 0.05) and F435 (+0.4 fiu, P < 0.10). A change of 0.5 fiu or more should be perceptible to consumers. Interaction between oleate level and background genotype was detected for sweet (P < 0.10) and bitter (P < 0.01) attributes. The trait had an increasing effect on the bitter attribute only in the background genotype of Tamspan 90 (+0.7 fiu, P < 0.01). There was a nonsignificant increase in bitterness in the other Spanish background genotype, F435. Changes in bitterness in runner- and Virginia-type backgrounds were close to zero. Incorporation of the high-oleic trait into peanut cultivars is likely to improve the intensity of the roasted peanut attribute, but it may also increase the bitter attribute in Spanish genotypes.
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- Harold E Pattee
- Market Quality and Handling Research, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and North Carolina Agricultural Research Service, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7625, USA.
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Purmova J, Salazar LM, Espejo F, Torres MH, Cubillos M, Torres E, Lopez Y, Rodríguez R, Patarroyo ME. NMR structure of Plasmodium falciparum malaria peptide correlates with protective immunity. Biochim Biophys Acta 2002; 1571:27-33. [PMID: 12031287 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-4165(02)00203-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Apical membrane antigen-1 is an integral Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite membrane protein. High activity binding peptides (HABPs) to human red blood cells (RBCs) have been identified in this protein. One of them (peptide 4313), for which critical binding residues have already been defined, is conserved and nonimmunogenic. Its critical binding residues were changed for amino acids having similar mass but different charge to change such immunological properties; these changes generated peptide analogues. Some of these peptide analogues became immunogenic and protective in Aotus monkeys.Three-dimensional models of peptide 4313 and three analogues having different immune characteristics, were calculated from nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments with distance geometry and restrained molecular dynamic methods. All peptides contained a beta-turn structure spanning amino acids 7 to 10, except randomly structured 4313. When analysing dihedral angle phi and psi values, distorted type III or III' turns were identified in the protective and/or immunogenic peptides, whilst classical type III turns were found for the nonimmunogenic nonprotective peptides. This data shows that some structural modifications may lead to induction of immunogenicity and/or protection, suggesting a new way to develop multicomponent, subunit-based malarial vaccines.
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- Jindra Purmova
- Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia (FIDIC), Bogotá, Colombia
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Beaulieu S, Lopez Y, Eugène C. [HBs antigenemia and vaccination against hepatitis B virus: attention to chronology of markers]. Presse Med 2000; 29:1762-3. [PMID: 11098272] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023] Open
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Moreno F, Guedea F, Lopez Y, Ferrer F, Gutierrez C, Petriz L, Pera J. External beam irradiation plus (192)Ir implant after breast-preserving surgery in women with early breast cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2000; 48:757-65. [PMID: 11020573 DOI: 10.1016/s0360-3016(00)00676-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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PURPOSE To provide more information for the clinician and to analyze the impact of the boost with brachytherapy on the local disease-free survival (LDFS), disease-free survival (DFS), specific overall survival (OS), and cosmesis, a retrospective study of external radiation therapy and (192)Ir implantation in early breast cancer at Institut Català d'Oncologia has been undertaken. PATIENTS AND METHODS From 1986 to 1996, 530 patients were selected for this study with a median follow-up period of 39.5 months (range, 10-115 months). External radiation therapy (combined with brachytherapy) was administered postoperatively to the breast in all patients. Mean given dose was 48.7 Gy (range, 42-52 Gy) with external radiation therapy to the breast, and 16.8 Gy (range, 10-27 Gy) was the mean dose with brachytherapy. Variables have been tested for cosmesis. Univariate and multivariate analysis have also been carried out. RESULTS Mean age of the patients was 54 years (range, 28-81 years). Stages were distributed as follows: 350 patients (66%) in Stage I, 173 in Stage II (32.8%), and 7 in Stage III (1.1%). Pathologic distribution was 445 patients with infiltrating ductal carcinoma (84%), 20 patients with infiltrating lobular carcinoma (4%), and 65 patients (12%) of a miscellaneous group. OS for the entire group was 89.4% and 85.9% at 5 and 7 years respectively. Probability of DFS was 81.7% and 70.1% at 5 and 7 years. The LDFS was 94.9% and 91.7% at 5 and 7 years. The MFS probability was 85.5% and 76.9% at 5 and 7 years, respectively. Univariate analysis demonstrated that age (older than 52 years), premenopausal status, moderate and high histologic grades (Grades II-III), and presence of intraductal comedocarcinoma were prognostic factors for local relapse. Multivariate analysis for local disease-free survival demonstrated that only perineural or muscular infiltration remain as prognostic factors. Tumor dose bed of 70 Gy or higher had a negative impact in breast subcutaneous fibrosis, whereas dose rate lower than 65 cGy/h was better for skin color at 2 years. CONCLUSION We conclude that patients with early-stage breast cancer undergoing external radiotherapy and LDR brachytherapy can be effectively managed. Overall survival, long-term local control, and cosmetic control are excellent.
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- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Analysis of Variance
- Brachytherapy/methods
- Breast Neoplasms/pathology
- Breast Neoplasms/radiotherapy
- Breast Neoplasms/surgery
- Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/pathology
- Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/radiotherapy
- Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/surgery
- Carcinoma, Lobular/pathology
- Carcinoma, Lobular/radiotherapy
- Carcinoma, Lobular/surgery
- Combined Modality Therapy
- Disease-Free Survival
- Female
- Follow-Up Studies
- Humans
- Iridium Radioisotopes/therapeutic use
- Mastectomy, Segmental
- Middle Aged
- Neoplasm Staging
- Radiotherapy Dosage
- Retrospective Studies
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- F Moreno
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Institut Català d'Oncologia, Barcelona, Spain
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Lopez Y. [The temporomandibular joint: recentering...some debate!]. Orthod Fr 2000; 71:21-6. [PMID: 10838860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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In comparison with hip pathology, the authors emphasize the importance of the biomechanical factor in the stomatognathic systems physiology and pathology. They denounce a syllogism which is set as a reference for the justification of orthodontics and dentistry.
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Etienne JC, Ghiles E, Comandella M, Fingerhut A, Mohlo M, Lopez Y. [The wandering spleen caught in the net. Apropos of a case]. Ann Chir 1998; 52:666. [PMID: 9805807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND Ligation injury of the L5/L6 nerve roots in rats produces behavioral signs representative of clinical conditions of neuropathic pain, including tactile allodynia and thermal and mechanical hyperalgesia. In this model, intrathecal morphine shows no antiallodynic activity, as well as decreased antinociceptive potency and efficacy. This study was designed to explore the antinociceptive activity of intrathecal clonidine alone or in combination with intrathecal morphine (1:3 fixed ratio) in nerve-injured rats. The aims, with this study, were to use nerve-injured animals to determine: (1) whether the antinociceptive potency and efficacy of intrathecal clonidine was altered, and (2) whether the combination of intrathecal morphine and clonidine would act synergistically to produce antinociception. METHODS Unilateral nerve injury was produced by ligation of the L5 and L6 spinal roots of male Sprague-Dawley rats. Sham-operated rats underwent a similar surgical procedure but without nerve ligation. Morphine and clonidine were given intrathecally through implanted catheters alone or in a 1:3 fixed ratio. Nociceptive responses were measured by recording tail withdrawal latency from a 55 degrees C water bath, and data were calculated as % maximal possible effect (%MPE). RESULTS Morphine produced a dose-dependent antinociceptive effect in both sham-operated and nerve-injured rats. The doses calculated to produce a 50 %MPE (i.e., A50) (+/-95% confidence intervals [CI]) were 15 +/- 4.9 micrograms and 30 +/- 18 micrograms, respectively. Though morphine was able to produce a maximal response (100%) in sham-operated rats, the maximal response achieved in nerve-injured animals was only 69 +/- 21.9 %MPE. Clonidine produced a dose-dependent effect, with an A50 (+/-95% CI) of 120 +/- 24 micrograms in sham-operated rats. In nerve-ligated rats, clonidine produced a maximal effect that reached a plateau of 55 +/- 10.9 %MPE and 49 +/- 10.2 %MPE at 100 and 200 micrograms, respectively, preventing the calculation of an A50. In sham-operated rats, a morphine-clonidine mixture produced maximal efficacy, with an A50 (+/-95% CI) of 15 +/- 9.2 micrograms (total dose), significantly less than the theoretical additive A50 of 44 +/- 10 micrograms. In L5/L6 nerve-ligated rats, the morphine-clonidine combination produced maximal efficacy, with an A50 (+/-95% CI) of 11 +/- 5.4 micrograms (total dose), which was significantly less than the theoretical additive A50 of 118 +/- 73 micrograms, indicating a synergistic antinociceptive interaction. The intrathecal injection of [D-Ala2, NMePhe4, Gly-ol]enkephalin (DAMGO) produced A50 values of 0.23 microgram (range, 0.09-0.6) and 0.97 microgram (range, 0.34-2.7) in sham-operated and ligated rats, respectively. Phentolamine (4 mg/kg, intraperitoneally) produced no antinociceptive effect alone and attenuated, rather than enhanced, the effect of morphine in both groups of rats. CONCLUSIONS These data show that: (1) clonidine, like morphine, loses antinociceptive potency and efficacy after nerve ligation injury, and (2) strongly suggest that a spinal combination of morphine and clonidine synergize under conditions of nerve injury to elicit a significant antinociceptive action when either drug alone may be lacking in efficacy. It is unlikely that the synergy of morphine with clonidine is due to an attenuation of spinal sympathetic outflow by clonidine, because the sympatholytic agent phentolamine produced an opposing effect on morphine antinociception. The data suggest that combinations of morphine and clonidine may prove useful in controlling pain in patients with neuropathic conditions.
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- M H Ossipov
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson 85724, USA
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Rao RK, Lopez Y, Riviere PJ, Pascaud X, Junien JL, Porreca F. Nitric oxide modulates neuropeptide Y regulation of ion transport in mouse ileum. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 1996; 278:193-8. [PMID: 8764351] [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: 02/02/2023] Open
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The possible involvement of nitric oxide in the regulation of intestinal ion transport induced by neuropeptide Y (NPY) was investigated by evaluating the effects of NG-methyl-L-arginine (L-NMA), L-arginine and S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP) on NPY activity in mouse ileum mounted in Ussing chambers in vitro. Serosal NPY (10 nM) produced a sustained decrease in basal transmural short circuit current (Isc) and potential difference without altering the tissue conductance. Pretreatment of tissues with L-arginine (3 mM), but not D-arginine (10 mM), blocked the NPY-mediated changes in Isc. This L-arginine effect on NPY activity was reversed by L-NMA (3 mM), and not by NG-methyl-D-arginine (10 mM). The L-arginine effect on NPY activity was concentration-related with an A50 (95% CL) value of 1.6 (0.9-2.3) mM. In contrast to L-arginine, L-NMA (1 mM) pretreatment of tissues produced an enhancement of NPY activity, resulting in a 3.8-fold leftward displacement of the NPY concentration-response curve; NG-methyl-D-arginine was without effect. The effect of L-NMA on NPY activity was concentration-related with an A50 (95% CL) value of 45.3 (23.2-68.8) microM. Serosal application of SNAP, a nitric oxide donor, produced a concentration-related decrease in basal Isc and potential difference without altering tissue conductance with an A50 (95% CL) value of 22.5 (11.1-40.5) microM. Pretreatment of tissue with SNAP (100 microM) reduced the NPY activity with rightward displacement of NPY concentration-response curve. Pretreatment of tissues with L-arginine also blocked the reduction of Isc by [D-Pen2, D-Pen5]enkephalin (10-30 nM), H2N-Tyr-D-Ala-Phe-Glu-Val-Val-Gly-NH2 (10-30 nM) and somatostatin (0.3-1.0 microM), but had no effect on norepinephrine (0.1-0.3 microM)-induced decrease in mouse ileal Isc. These results show that [fgc]l-arginine and SNAP block NPY-mediated changes in ion transport, suggesting that nitric oxide may play a role in the regulation of NPY-mediated ion transport in the mouse ileum.
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- R K Rao
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
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Rao RK, Lopez Y, Lai J, Riviere PJ, Junien JL, Porreca F. Attenuation of gastrin-induced gastric acid secretion by antisense oligonucleotide to the CCKB/gastrin receptor. Neuroreport 1995; 6:2373-7. [PMID: 8747156 DOI: 10.1097/00001756-199511270-00023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The effects of treatment with CCK receptor antagonists or administration of an antisense oligonucleotide to the gastrin receptor, on gastrin-I and cholecystokinin-8-induced acid secretion in mouse stomach were evaluated. Administration of gastrin-I (1 microM) or cholecystokinin-8 (30 nM) stimulated acid output at the rates of 2.6 +/- 0.27 and 1.0 +/- 0.21 microEq h-1, respectively. Gastrin-I-induced acid output was significantly blocked by pretreatment of stomachs with 3R[+]-N-[2,3-dihydro-1-methyl-2-oxo-5- phenyl-1H-1,4-benzodiazepin-3-yl]-N[3-methylphenyl[urea (L-365,260; 1 microM), but not by devazepide (L-364,718; 1 microM). Cholecystokinin-8-induced acid output, on the other hand, was sensitive to both L-365,260 (100 nM) and L-364,718 (100 nM). Administration of antisense, but not mismatch, oligonucleotide significantly reduced gastrin-induced acid output, while antisense oligonucleotide treatment had no effect on cholecystokinin-8-induced acid output. These results of antagonist and antisense oligonucleotide studies suggest that gastrin-I and cholecystokinin-8 may involve different receptor subtypes in stimulating gastric acid secretion in mice, and that antisense oligonucleotide administration may serve an useful tool in characterizing CCK/gastrin receptor subtypes.
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- R K Rao
- Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29407, USA
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Ossipov MH, Lopez Y, Nichols ML, Bian D, Porreca F. Inhibition by spinal morphine of the tail-flick response is attenuated in rats with nerve ligation injury. Neurosci Lett 1995; 199:83-6. [PMID: 8584249 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(95)12026-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [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: 01/31/2023]
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Nerve ligation injury in rats produces increased sensitivity and exaggerated responses to nociceptive stimuli (hyperalgesia) as well as nociceptive responses to normally innocuous stimuli (allodynia) analogous to clinical conditions of neuropathic pain. However, the effect of nerve injury on acute nociception has not been extensively studied. Nerve ligation injury was produced by unilateral ligation of the L5 and L6 spinal roots of the sciatic nerve of male Sprague-Dawley rats. Intrathecal (i.th.) catheters were inserted for spinal drug administration. Response to acute nociception was measured by determining the latency to a rapid flick of the tail (TF) after immersion into a 55 degrees C water bath before (control) and after i.th. morphine administration. No change in baseline response to the nociceptive stimulus was observed in either sham-operated or nerve-injured rats. In sham-operated rats, morphine produced dose-dependent antinociception with a 97 +/- 2.3% maximal possible effect (MPE) at a 60 microgram dose; in these controls A50 (95% CL) was 22 micrograms (17-30 micrograms). Morphine administered to rats with nerve injury also produced dose-dependent increase in TF latency, but an MPE of only 60 +/- 17% was obtained at 100 micrograms; higher doses elicited signs of behavioral toxicity. While it was not possible to produce a proper dose-response curve with i.th. morphine in animals with nerve injury, an estimation of the A50 showed approximately a four-fold loss of potency compared to sham-operated controls. Antinociception was readily reversed by naloxone (5 mg/kg, i.p.) in both groups. These data indicate that nerve ligation injury reduces the potency and efficacy of i.th. morphine. While the reasons for this loss of morphine activity in nerve injured animals are unknown, it is possible to speculate that (a) degeneration of primary afferents subsequent to nerve ligation injury might result in a loss of presynaptic opioid (mu?) receptors in the dorsal horn, thereby reducing the antinociceptive activity of morphine at the spinal level; (b) changes in the efficiency of post-receptor transduction may occur following nerve injury which can reduce opioid efficacy; (c) changes in levels of spinal neurotransmitters (e.g., cholecystokinin) may act to diminish opioid action; or (d) sustained afferent input from the site of the injury may be important in limiting the activity of opioids.
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- M H Ossipov
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson 85724, USA
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Ossipov MH, Lopez Y, Nichols ML, Bian D, Porreca F. The loss of antinociceptive efficacy of spinal morphine in rats with nerve ligation injury is prevented by reducing spinal afferent drive. Neurosci Lett 1995; 199:87-90. [PMID: 8584250 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(95)12022-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Nerve ligation injury in rats may represent a useful model of some clinical neuropathic pains. Activation of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors may maintain central sensitivity and contribute to neuropathic pain. Here, nerve injury was produced by unilateral ligation of the L5 and L6 spinal roots of the sciatic nerve of rats. Catheters were inserted for intrathecal (i.th.) or local delivery of drugs at the site of nerve ligation. Acute nociception was measured by the 55 degrees C water tail flick test in sham-operated and nerve-injured rats, and allodynia was determined by measuring response to von Frey filaments. In sham-operated rats, morphine (30 micrograms, i.th.) produced a 60 +/- 14.4% MPE (maximal possible effect). MK-801 pretreatment did not alter tail-flick latency or morphine antinociception in sham-operated rats. In nerve-injured rats, morphine (30 micrograms, i.th.) produced a significantly lower antinociceptive effect than in controls (34 +/- 6.3% MPE). While MK-801 alone did not alter tail-flick latency in nerve-injured rats, it significantly enhanced the antinociceptive effect of morphine to 84 +/- 16.0% MPE. Bupivacaine (0.2 ml, 0.75% w/v) at the site of injury also significantly increased the efficacy of morphine (100 +/- 0% MPE) without affecting tail flick latency alone. Bupivacaine administered at the site of injury also produced a significant antiallodynic effect of 94 +/- 7.4% MPE. The reduction in antinociceptive efficacy of i.th. morphine in nerve injured rats may be due, in part, to an ongoing spontaneous activity initiated by ectopic foci at the site of injury, and possible NMDA receptor-mediated activity of spinal neurons.
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- M H Ossipov
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson 85724, USA
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Russell IJ, Orr MD, Littman B, Vipraio GA, Alboukrek D, Michalek JE, Lopez Y, MacKillip F. Elevated cerebrospinal fluid levels of substance P in patients with the fibromyalgia syndrome. Arthritis Rheum 1994; 37:1593-601. [PMID: 7526868 DOI: 10.1002/art.1780371106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 460] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To measure, and seek clinical correlates with, levels of substance P (SP) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) patients. METHODS CSF from 32 FMS patients and 30 normal control subjects was tested for SP by radioimmunoassay. Clinical measures included tender point examination and standardized questionnaires. RESULTS CSF SP levels were 3-fold higher in FMS patients than in normal controls (P < 0.001), but they correlated only weakly with tenderness found on examination. CONCLUSION SP is significantly elevated in FMS CSF, but other abnormalities must exist in FMS to more fully explain the symptoms.
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- I J Russell
- Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio 78284-7874
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The role of endogenous opiates and cholecystokinin (CCK) in the control of postprandial pyloric myoelectric activity was investigated in conscious dogs with chronically implanted intraparietal electrodes at the gastroduodenal junction. Meals consisted of either 20 g/kg of canned food (standard meal) or the same food supplemented with 0.5 mL/kg of arachis oil (fat meal). During the 6 hours after standard and fat meals, the number of pyloric spike bursts, 2-4 seconds in duration, was 61.8 +/- 15.8 and 49.9 +/- 12.7/15 minutes, respectively. Administered 15 minutes before a fat meal, naloxone (50 micrograms/kg IV) decreased the number of spike bursts by 31.4%, whereas methyl-levallorphan, a peripheral opiate antagonist, increased postprandial spike activity by 22.2% when administered IV (0.5 mg/kg) and decreased it when administered intracerobroventricularly at a dose of 10 micrograms/kg. These two antagonists administered in the same conditions before a standard meal had no effect on the postprandial spike activity. A 1-hour infusion of cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8), 500 ng.kg-1.h-1 IV and 50 ng.kg-1.h-1 intracerebroventricularly, performed 1 hour after a standard meal induced a 19.6% and 15.8% decrease in the number of pyloric spike bursts, respectively. Both naloxone IV (50 micrograms/kg) and methyl-levallorphan intracerebroventricularly (10 micrograms/kg) administered before the infusion of CCK-8 reinforced this pyloric inhibition, which was antagonized by methyl-levallorphan IV (0.5 mg/kg). The CCK antagonist asperlicin, 200 micrograms/kg IV and 20 micrograms/kg intracerebroventricularly, administered before a fat meal increased pyloric spike bursts by 22.0% and 31.5%, respectively. These results indicate that after a fat meal, endogenous opiates exert a peripheral inhibitory and central stimulatory control of pyloric motility; they suggest the involvement of both peripheral and central release of CCK.
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- Y Lopez
- Department of Pharmacology, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Toulouse, France
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Lopez Y, Fioramonti J, Bueno L. Action of endogenous prostaglandins on postprandial pyloric motility: a possible modulation by fats. Prostaglandins 1991; 42:313-20. [PMID: 1796147 DOI: 10.1016/0090-6980(91)90080-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The involvement of endogenous prostaglandins (PGs) and the effect of exogenous PGs on the myoelectrical activity of the pylorus were examined for 6 hours after a meal in dogs chronically fitted with intraparietal electrodes on the gastroduodenal junction. The animals received either a standard meal or a fat meal which consisted of canned food added or not (standard meal) with arachis oil. The cyclooxygenase inhibitors, indomethacin (1 mg/kg) and piroxicam (0.2 mg/kg) given prior a fat meal significantly increased the frequency of pyloric spike bursts but did not modify the pyloric motility associated with a standard meal. Synthetic derivatives of PGE1 (misoprostol, 5-10 micrograms/kg) or PGE2 (enprostil 0.5-1 micrograms/kg) reduced the frequency of pyloric contractions after a fat but not a standard meal. It is suggested that both endogenous and exogenous prostaglandins may modulate postprandial pyloric motility when fats are present in sufficient amount into the meal.
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- Y Lopez
- Department of Pharmacology, INRA, Toulouse, France
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Bellon JM, Fingerhut A, Oberlin P, Lopez Y, Ronat R. [Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis manifested by pneumoperitoneum]. Ann Gastroenterol Hepatol (Paris) 1986; 22:15-7. [PMID: 3963737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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We report the case of a female patient, suffering from chronic respiratory insufficiency and treated with steroids, in whom the discovery of pneumoperitoneum led to exploratory laparotomy. The plain abdominal X-rays demonstrated gas in the walls of the stomach as well as in the peritoneal cavity. Intraoperative exploration revealed the existence of pneumatosis cystoides of the stomach and small intestine. This observation is a reminder that not all cases of pneumoperitoneum are surgical, and notably this is the case for cystic intestinal pneumatosis.
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Bruet A, Fingerhut A, Lopez Y, Bergue A, Taugourdeau P, Mathe C, Hillion D, Fendler JP. Ileal varices revealed by recurrent hematuria in a patient with portal hypertension and Mekong Schistosomiasis. Am J Gastroenterol 1983; 78:346-50. [PMID: 6859013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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This present report describes a unique case of a patient with ileal varices revealed by recurrent bleeding from vesical varicosities. Ileal varices were associated with portal hypertension secondary to portal thrombosis. An unusual ileovesical shunt was demonstrated by the venous phase of the superior mesenteric arteriogram. This shunt was favored by adhesions between an abnormal ileal loop, which was infiltrated with ova of schistosoma mekongi, and the superior vesical wall. The patient was treated successively by lysis of adhesions and ileal resection. No portacaval shunt was performed.
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Fendler JP, Felsenheld C, Lopez Y, Hillion D, Bruet A. [Place of the scanner in the diagnosis of renal tumors]. Nouv Presse Med 1982; 11:3727-8. [PMID: 7170176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Fingerhut A, Pelletier JM, Pourcher J, Lopez Y, Ronat R. [Inflammatory pseudo-tumors of appendiceal origin. Study of twelve cases (author's transl)]. J Chir (Paris) 1980; 117:381-9. [PMID: 7419634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The authors relate their experience concerning twelve cases of inflammatory pseudo-tumors of appendiceal origin treated during the last five years. Their personal acquisitions are confronted with the literature and they propose a protocole of clinical, roentgenological and intra-operatory diagnosis thus permitting rational and adapted management.
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