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Stevenson E, Chang J, Hurt M. What do career motivated young women understand about elective oocyte cryopreservation and where do they receive their information? Fertil Steril 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2017.07.306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Makkonen J, Jussila J, Koistinen L, Paaver T, Hurt M, Kokko H. Fusarium avenaceum causes burn spot disease syndrome in noble crayfish (Astacus astacus). J Invertebr Pathol 2013; 113:184-90. [PMID: 23557716 DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2013.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2012] [Revised: 03/19/2013] [Accepted: 03/23/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Burn spot disease has been causing epidemics both in the Estonian mainland and in Saaremaa Island in the threatened noble crayfish (Astacus astacus) stocks. To study the cause of the disease, we isolated several Fusarium spp. from Estonian noble crayfish (A. astacus) populations suffering from burn spot disease syndrome. We first identified fungi directly from melanised cuticle by their ITS sequences. Then we isolated Fusarium spp. from melanised spots of crayfish showing burn spot disease symptoms, such as melanisation and shell erosion, from two different crayfish populations and watercourses in Estonia. The isolates were then identified based on ITS and EF1α-gene sequences. Isolates of Fusarium spp. taken from two separate Estonian noble crayfish populations were used in infection studies. Koch postulates confirmed that the studied agent was causing burn spot disease symptoms including shell erosion in the noble crayfish, which were significantly more severe after molts. After the infection period, an identical Fusarium spp. was re-isolated from carapace lesions and was thus shown to be the disease agent causing burn spot disease syndrome and shell erosion in noble crayfish. Based on GenBank database searches, the isolates causing burn spot disease symptoms were identified as Fusarium avenaceum in mainland Estonia and F. solani in Saaremaa crayfish.
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- J Makkonen
- Department of Biology, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
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Satter EK, Walters MC, Hurt M, Bolton JG, Dever T. A brief overview of the most common histiocytic disorders. GIORN ITAL DERMAT V 2010; 145:717-731. [PMID: 21139549] [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: 05/30/2023]
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Histiocytosis refers to a diverse collection of disorders unified by a proliferation and accumulation of histiocytes into a variety of organs. The following review article will discuss and briefly describe the clinical and histological findings of some of the more common histiocytic disorders. The article is divided into sections according to the current classification system and prevalence of the condition.
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- E K Satter
- Departments of Dermatology and Pathology, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
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Kõiv K, Gross R, Paaver T, Hurt M, Kuehn R. Isolation and characterization of 11 novel microsatellite DNA markers in the noble crayfish, Astacus astacus. Anim Genet 2008; 40:124. [PMID: 18786153 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2008.01781.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- K Kõiv
- Department of Aquaculture, Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 48, 51006 Tartu, Estonia.
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Niederkorn JY, Alizadeh H, Leher H, Apte S, El Agha S, Ling L, Hurt M, Howard K, Cavanagh HD, McCulley JP. Role of tear anti-acanthamoeba IgA in Acanthamoeba keratitis. Adv Exp Med Biol 2003; 506:845-50. [PMID: 12614001 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0717-8_119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/01/2023]
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Alizadeh H, Apte S, El-Agha MS, Li L, Hurt M, Howard K, Cavanagh HD, McCulley JP, Niederkorn JY. Tear IgA and serum IgG antibodies against Acanthamoeba in patients with Acanthamoeba keratitis. Cornea 2001; 20:622-7. [PMID: 11473164 DOI: 10.1097/00003226-200108000-00013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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PURPOSE Exposure to Acanthamoebaspecies appears to be ubiquitous, as 50% to 100% of healthy human subjects display anti-Acanthamoebaantibodies. However, the presence of specific anti-Acanthamoebaantibodies in the serum and tears of patients has not been investigated. The prevalence of serum immunoglobulin G (IgG) and tear IgA against three species of Acanthamoebawas assessed in healthy subjects and patients with Acanthamoebakeratitis. METHODS The level of specific serum IgG and tear IgA against A. castellanii, A. astronyxis, and A. culbertsoniin the sera of 23 patients and 25 healthy subjects was tested by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. Total serum IgM, IgG, and IgA concentrations were measured by nephelometry. Acanthamoebakeratitis was diagnosed clinically and confirmed by in vivo confocal microscopy. In some patients, corneal biopsies were also performed and trophozoites were cultured on lawns of Escherichia colion non-nutrient agar. RESULTS All healthy subjects and patients with Acanthamoebakeratitis had detectable serum IgG antibodies against all Acanthamoebaantigens. However, patients with Acanthamoebakeratitis had significantly higher anti-AcanthamoebaIgG antibody titers than healthy subjects. In contrast, Acanthamoeba-specific tear IgA was significantly lower in patients with Acanthamoebakeratitis in comparison with healthy subjects. Total serum immunoglobulins did not differ significantly between healthy subjects and patients with Acanthamoebakeratitis. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that a low level of anti-AcanthamoebaIgA antibody in the tears appears to be associated with Acanthamoebakeratitis.
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- H Alizadeh
- Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA.
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Ficzycz A, Eskiw C, Meyer D, Marley KE, Hurt M, Ovsenek N. Expression, activity, and subcellular localization of the Yin Yang 1 transcription factor in Xenopus oocytes and embryos. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:22819-25. [PMID: 11294833 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m011188200] [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: 11/06/2022] Open
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Yin Yang 1 (YY1) is a multifunctional transcription factor that acts as an activator, repressor, or initiator of transcription of numerous cellular and viral genes. Previous studies in tissue culture model systems suggest YY1 plays a role in development and differentiation in multiple cell types, but the biological role of YY1 in vertebrate oocytes and embryos is not well understood. Here we analyzed expression, activity, and subcellular localization profiles of YY1 during Xenopus laevis development. Abundant levels of YY1 mRNA and protein were detected in early stage oocytes and in all subsequent stages of oocyte and embryonic development through to swimming larval stages. The DNA binding activity of YY1 was detected only in early oocytes (stages I and II) and in embryos after the midblastula transition (MBT), which suggested that its potential to modulate gene expression may be specifically repressed in the intervening period of development. Experiments to determine transcriptional activity showed that addition of YY1 recognition sites upstream of the thymidine kinase promoter had no stimulatory or repressive effect on basal transcription in oocytes and post-MBT embryos. Although the apparent transcriptional inactivity of YY1 in oocytes could be explained by the absence of DNA binding activity at this stage of development, the lack of transcriptional activity in post-MBT embryos was not expected given the ability of YY1 to bind its recognition elements. Subsequent Western blot and immunocytochemical analyses showed that YY1 is localized in the cytoplasm in oocytes and in cells of developing embryos well past the MBT. These findings suggest a novel mode of YY1 regulation during early development in which the potential transcriptional function of the maternally expressed factor is repressed by cytoplasmic localization.
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- A Ficzycz
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E5, Canada
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Hurt M, Apte S, Leher H, Howard K, Niederkorn J, Alizadeh H. Exacerbation of Acanthamoeba keratitis in animals treated with anti-macrophage inflammatory protein 2 or antineutrophil antibodies. Infect Immun 2001; 69:2988-95. [PMID: 11292716 PMCID: PMC98252 DOI: 10.1128/iai.69.5.2988-2995.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [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: 11/20/2022] Open
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Neutrophils are thought to be involved in many infectious diseases and have been found in high numbers in the corneas of patients with Acanthamoeba keratitis. Using a Chinese hamster model of keratitis, conjunctival neutrophil migration was manipulated to determine the importance of neutrophils in this disease. Inhibition of neutrophil recruitment was achieved by subconjunctival injection with an antibody against macrophage inflammatory protein 2 (MIP-2), a powerful chemotactic factor for neutrophils which is secreted by the cornea. In other experiments, neutrophils were depleted by intraperitoneal injection of anti-Chinese hamster neutrophil antibody. The inhibition of neutrophils to the cornea resulted in an earlier onset and more severe infection compared to controls. Anti-MIP-2 antibody treatment produced an almost 35% reduction of myeloperoxidase activity in the cornea 6 days postinfection, while levels of endogenous MIP-2 secretion increased significantly. Recruitment of neutrophils into the cornea via intrastromal injections of recombinant MIP-2 generated an initially intense inflammation that resulted in the rapid resolution of the corneal infection. The profound exacerbation of Acanthamoeba keratitis seen when neutrophil migration was inhibited, combined with the rapid clearing of the disease in the presence of increased neutrophils, strongly suggests that neutrophils play an important role in combating Acanthamoeba infections in the cornea.
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- M Hurt
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA
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Mack KD, Wci R, Hcrndicr B, Shiramizu B, Hurt M, Abbey N, Cascon R, Elbaggari A, McGrath MS. HIV insertional cis-activation of the protooncogene c-fes in AIDS associated lymphomagenesis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1097/00042560-199704010-00155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Hurt M, Herndier B, Ng V, McGrath MS. Inter-VH-gene-family shared idiotype on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-associated lymphomas. Blood 1994; 84:986-7. [PMID: 8043881] [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: 01/28/2023] Open
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We have presented three cases of metastatic tumor to the orbit. The first case illustrated metastatic tumor that originated from a cutaneous basosquamous cell carcinoma. This lesion, first reported by MacCormac as being morphologically intermediate between basal and squamous cell carcinoma, has become a topic of some controversy. Conley reported these tumors to represent 1% of basal cell carcinomas. Several authors have reported a higher incidence of recurrence with these lesions, as compared with the ordinary basal cell tumors. Recurrence of basal cell carcinomas are reported as approximately 10%, but are four times greater in the basosquamous cell tumors. The incidence of metastasis with the basosquamous cell tumors has been reported in between 37% and 51% of cases. The second case represented involvement of the orbit by direct extension of a facial squamous cell carcinoma. As illustrated by this case, these tumors can be very aggressive and should be treated with respect. The third case showed the metastatic potential of the nephroblastoma with metastatic tumor that involved the eye, orbit, and maxilla. Diagnostic techniques available in evaluation of these tumors include CT scan, magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, ultrasound, open biopsy, and fine-needle aspiration. Li et al., in an article that compared MR imaging, CT scan, and ultrasound concluded that MR imaging, with the use of the 0.15 T resistive magnet, offered no distinct advantage over the combination of CT and ultrasound in evaluation of patients with orbital tumors.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- R A Otto
- Department of Otolaryngology, University of Missouri Health Science Center, Columbia 65212
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Bartsch G, Heilbronner R, Hurt M, Rohr HP. Renaissance of an animal model for human benign prostatic hyperplasia using mice subject to long-term treatment with estrogen. World J Urol 1986. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00326404] [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: 11/28/2022] Open
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Balint J, Menninger K, Hurt M. Job opportunities for master's prepared nurses. Nurs Outlook 1983; 31:109-14. [PMID: 6550794] [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: 04/05/2023]
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Grotberg EH, Hurt M. Federal efforts toward enhancing comparability in research results on childhood and adolescence. J Youth Adolesc 1975; 4:89-91. [PMID: 24414540 DOI: 10.1007/bf01537434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- E H Grotberg
- Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Child Development, Washington, D.C
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