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Clement M, Forbester JL, Marsden M, Sabberwal P, Sommerville MS, Wellington D, Dimonte S, Clare S, Harcourt K, Yin Z, Nobre L, Antrobus R, Jin B, Chen M, Makvandi-Nejad S, Lindborg JA, Strittmatter SM, Weekes MP, Stanton RJ, Dong T, Humphreys IR. IFITM3 restricts virus-induced inflammatory cytokine production by limiting Nogo-B mediated TLR responses. Nat Commun 2022; 13:5294. [PMID: 36075894 PMCID: PMC9454482 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32587-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2021] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Interferon-induced transmembrane protein 3 (IFITM3) is a restriction factor that limits viral pathogenesis and exerts poorly understood immunoregulatory functions. Here, using human and mouse models, we demonstrate that IFITM3 promotes MyD88-dependent, TLR-mediated IL-6 production following exposure to cytomegalovirus (CMV). IFITM3 also restricts IL-6 production in response to influenza and SARS-CoV-2. In dendritic cells, IFITM3 binds to the reticulon 4 isoform Nogo-B and promotes its proteasomal degradation. We reveal that Nogo-B mediates TLR-dependent pro-inflammatory cytokine production and promotes viral pathogenesis in vivo, and in the case of TLR2 responses, this process involves alteration of TLR2 cellular localization. Nogo-B deletion abrogates inflammatory cytokine responses and associated disease in virus-infected IFITM3-deficient mice. Thus, we uncover Nogo-B as a driver of viral pathogenesis and highlight an immunoregulatory pathway in which IFITM3 fine-tunes the responsiveness of myeloid cells to viral stimulation.
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- M Clement
- Division of Infection and Immunity/Systems Immunity University Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF14 4XN, UK
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- Division of Infection and Immunity/Systems Immunity University Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF14 4XN, UK
- MRC Human Immunology Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, OX3 9DS, UK
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- Division of Infection and Immunity/Systems Immunity University Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF14 4XN, UK
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- Division of Infection and Immunity/Systems Immunity University Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF14 4XN, UK
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- Division of Infection and Immunity/Systems Immunity University Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF14 4XN, UK
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- MRC Human Immunology Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, OX3 9DS, UK
- Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) Oxford Institute (COI), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Division of Infection and Immunity/Systems Immunity University Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF14 4XN, UK
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- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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- MRC Human Immunology Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, OX3 9DS, UK
- Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) Oxford Institute (COI), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0XY, UK
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- Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0XY, UK
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- Fourth Military Medical University, Xian, China
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- Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06536, USA
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- MRC Human Immunology Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, OX3 9DS, UK
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- Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0XY, UK
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- Division of Infection and Immunity/Systems Immunity University Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF14 4XN, UK
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- MRC Human Immunology Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, OX3 9DS, UK
- Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) Oxford Institute (COI), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Division of Infection and Immunity/Systems Immunity University Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF14 4XN, UK.
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BACKGROUND Acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) is a rare disease associated with severe neurological sequelae and death. Clinical features on admission may be subtle and thus delay recognition. Previous studies have shown association between early administration of antibiotics and favourable outcomes. AIM To examine the presenting clinical features of patients aged >15 years with ABM admitted to a University teaching hospital. To audit investigations and treatment including lumbar puncture (LP), computed tomography (CT) and antibiotics against British Infection Association guidelines. DESIGN Retrospective observational audit. METHODS Hospital records were reviewed for presenting clinical features and timing of CT scan, LP and antibiotics. RESULTS Records of 39 patients with ABM were reviewed. The classical triad of fever, neck stiffness and altered mental state was present on admission in only 21% of cases. LP was contraindicated in 69% of cases. Immediate LP was carried out in only 17% of those who had no contraindication. Antibiotics were administered after a median of 79 min (interquartile range 24-213 min); 65% were given within 3 h after arrival. Eighty-five percent of patients had antibiotics in accordance with local guidelines. CONCLUSION In patients with ABM, the classical clinical features are uncommon on arrival to hospital and frequently evolve following admission. The majority of patients have contraindications to immediate LP. Efforts should be made to facilitate immediate LP performed in the Emergency Department when there are no contraindications. Earlier administration of antibiotics in cases of suspected ABM and close review following admission is recommended.
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- A J Stockdale
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Box 25, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK.
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Weekes MP, Reddi BAJ, Wharton S, Gazis A. Hyponatraemia associated with cardiac tamponade and chronic fluid excess. BMJ Case Rep 2010; 2010:2010/jul09_1/bcr0720092113. [PMID: 22752560 DOI: 10.1136/bcr.07.2009.2113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [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: 11/03/2022] Open
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We describe a complex case of hyponatraemia with two aetiologies. A 49-year-old man who drank 6 litres of dilute alcohol per day presented confused and oedematous with a serum sodium of 95 mmol/litre. Urine sodium was <10 mmol/litre and urine osmolality 440 mOsmol/kg. Chest x-ray demonstrated a globular heart. ECG showed saddle-shaped ST elevation. ECHO demonstrated a large pericardial effusion causing marked tamponade. Following pericardiocentesis there was a marked diuresis; serum sodium returned to normal after 2 weeks. A full recovery ensued. Cardiac tamponade is associated with antidiuresis via release of antidiuretic hormone (ADH). Tamponade is also associated with antinatriuresis. Antidiuresis and antinatriuresis usually balance in cardiac tamponade; excessive fluid intake may have caused an imbalance in this case.
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- M P Weekes
- Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Cambridge Clinical School, UK.
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Weekes MP, Wills MR, Mynard K, Hicks R, Sissons JG, Carmichael AJ. Large clonal expansions of human virus-specific memory cytotoxic T lymphocytes within the CD57+ CD28- CD8+ T-cell population. Immunology 1999; 98:443-9. [PMID: 10583606 PMCID: PMC2326947 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1999.00901.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [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: 12/20/2022] Open
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The proportion of human peripheral blood CD8+ T cells that are CD57+ CD28- is low at birth but increases with age and in individuals infected with human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). These CD57+ CD28- CD8+ T cells contain large oligoclonal T-cell expansions whose antigen specificity is unknown. We identified clonal expansions of virus-specific memory cytotoxic T-lymphocyte precursors (CTLp) in both healthy carriers of HCMV and in asymptomatic HIV-infected subjects. In each subject, from the T-cell receptor (TCR) beta-chain hypervariable sequence of each immunodominant CTL clone, we designed complementary oligonucleotide probes to quantify the size and phenotypic segregation of individual virus-specific CTL clones in highly purified populations of peripheral blood CD8+ T cells. We found large clonal expansions of virus-specific CTL clonotypes in CD57+ CD28- CD8+ T cells. Using limiting dilution analysis, we found functional peptide-specific CTLp at high frequency in CD57+ CD28- cells. Thus, memory CTL specific for persistent viruses account for many oligoclonal expansions within CD57+ CD28- CD8+ T cells.
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- M P Weekes
- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge Clinical School, UK
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Wills MR, Carmichael AJ, Weekes MP, Mynard K, Okecha G, Hicks R, Sissons JG. Human virus-specific CD8+ CTL clones revert from CD45ROhigh to CD45RAhigh in vivo: CD45RAhighCD8+ T cells comprise both naive and memory cells. J Immunol 1999; 162:7080-7. [PMID: 10358151] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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It has been generally believed that human CD8+ memory cells are principally found within the CD45ROhigh population. There are high frequencies of CD8+ memory CTL specific for the human CMV tegument phosphoprotein pp65 in PBMC of long-term virus carriers; the large population of memory CTL specific for a given pp65 peptide contains individual CTL clones that have greatly expanded. In this study, we found high frequencies of pp65 peptide-specific memory CTL precursors in the CD45ROhighCD45RA- population, but also appreciable frequencies in the CD45RAhigh subpopulation. Because the majority of CD8+ T cells in PBMC are CD45RAhigh, more of the total pp65-specific memory CTL pool is within the CD45RAhigh than in the CD45ROhigh compartment. Using clonotypic oligonucleotide probes to quantify the size of individual pp65-specific CTL clones in vivo, we found the CD45RAhigh population contributed 6- to 10-fold more than the CD45ROhigh population to the total virus-specific clone size in CD8+ cells. During primary CMV infection, an individual virus-specific CTL clone was initially CD45ROhigh, but after resolution of infection this clone was detected in both the CD45ROhigh and the CD45RAhigh populations. We conclude that CD45RA+ human CD8+ T cells do not solely comprise naive cells, but contain a very significant proportion of memory cells, which can revert from the CD45ROhigh to CD45RAhigh phenotype in vivo.
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- M R Wills
- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge Clinical School, United Kingdom.
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Weekes MP, Carmichael AJ, Wills MR, Mynard K, Sissons JG. Human CD28-CD8+ T cells contain greatly expanded functional virus-specific memory CTL clones. J Immunol 1999; 162:7569-77. [PMID: 10358214] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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At birth, almost all human peripheral blood CD8+ T cells express the costimulatory molecule CD28. With increasing age, the proportion of CD8+ T cells that lack CD28 increases. Because the Ag specificity of CD28-CD8+ T cells has not previously been defined, we studied the contribution of CD28-CD8+ T cells to the memory CD8+ CTL response against two human persistent viruses, human CMV (HCMV) and HIV. From PBMC of healthy virus carriers we generated multiple independent CTL clones specific for defined viral peptides and sequenced their TCR beta-chains. We designed clonotypic oligonucleotides complementary to each beta-chain hypervariable sequence and quantified the size of individual immunodominant CTL clones in PBMC. Some individual CTL clones were very large, comprising up to 3.1% of all CD8+ T cells in PBMC, and were generally maintained at a stable level for months. Individual virus-specific CTL clones were consistently more abundant in purified CD28- cells than in the CD8+ population as a whole. Because CD28-CD8+ cells as a population have been reported to proliferate poorly in response to mitogen, we studied the function of these virus-specific CD28- CTL clones by quantifying the frequency of peptide-specific CTL precursors using limiting dilution analysis. CD28-CD8+ T cells contained high frequencies of functional memory CTL precursors specific for peptides of HCMV or HIV, generally higher than in the CD8+ T cell population as a whole. We conclude that in asymptomatic HCMV and HIV infection, human CD28-CD8+ T cells contain high frequencies of functional virus-specific memory CTL clones.
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- M P Weekes
- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge Clinical School, United Kingdom
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Weekes MP, Wills MR, Mynard K, Carmichael AJ, Sissons JG. The memory cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response to human cytomegalovirus infection contains individual peptide-specific CTL clones that have undergone extensive expansion in vivo. J Virol 1999; 73:2099-108. [PMID: 9971792 PMCID: PMC104454 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.3.2099-2108.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV)-specific CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) appear to play an important role in the control of virus replication and in protection against HCMV-related disease. We have previously reported high frequencies of memory CTL precursors (CTLp) specific to the HCMV tegument protein pp65 in the peripheral blood of healthy virus carriers. In some individuals, the CTL response to this protein is focused on only a single epitope, whereas in other virus carriers CTL recognized multiple epitopes which we identified by using synthetic peptides. We have analyzed the clonal composition of the memory CTL response to four of these pp65 epitopes by sequencing the T-cell receptors (TCR) of multiple independently derived epitope-specific CTL clones, which were derived by formal single-cell cloning or from clonal CTL microcultures. In all cases, we have observed a high degree of clonal focusing: the majority of CTL clones specific to a defined pp65 peptide from any one virus carrier use only one or two different TCRs at the level of the nucleotide sequence. Among virus carriers who have the same major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I allele, we observed that CTL from different donors that recognize the same peptide-MHC complex often used the same Vbeta segment, although other TCR gene segments and CDR3 length were not in general conserved. We have also examined the clonal composition of CTL specific to pp65 peptides in asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus-infected individuals. We have observed a similarly focused peptide-specific CTL response. Thus, the large population of circulating HCMV peptide-specific memory CTLp in virus carriers in fact contains individual CTL clones that have undergone extensive clonal expansion in vivo.
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- M P Weekes
- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge Clinical School, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, United Kingdom
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Wills MR, Carmichael AJ, Mynard K, Jin X, Weekes MP, Plachter B, Sissons JG. The human cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response to cytomegalovirus is dominated by structural protein pp65: frequency, specificity, and T-cell receptor usage of pp65-specific CTL. J Virol 1996; 70:7569-79. [PMID: 8892876 PMCID: PMC190825 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.11.7569-7579.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 547] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) appear to play an important role in the control of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) in the normal virus carrier: previous studies have identified peripheral blood CD8+ CTL specific for the HCMV major immediate-early gene product (IE1) and more recently, by bulk culture and cloning techniques, have identified CTL specific for a structural gene product, the lower matrix protein pp65. In order to determine the relative contributions of CTL which recognize the HCMV proteins IE1, pp65, and glycoprotein B (gB) to the total HCMV-specific CTL response, we have used a limiting-dilution analysis system to quantify HCMV-specific CTL precursors with different specificities, allowing the antigenic specificity of multiple short-term CTL clones to be assessed, in a group of six healthy seropositive donors. All donors showed high frequencies of HCMV-specific major histocompatibility complex-restricted CTL precursors. There was a very high frequency of CTL specific for pp65 (lower matrix protein); IE1-specific CTL were also detectable at lower frequencies in three of five donors, while CTL directed to gB were undetectable. A pp65 gene deletion mutant of HCMV was then used to estimate the contribution of pp65-specific CTL to the total HCMV-specific CTL response; this showed that between 70 and 90% of all CTL recognizing HCMV-infected cells were pp65 specific. Analysis of the peptide specificity of pp65-specific CTL showed that some donors have a highly focused response recognizing a single peptide; the T-cell receptor Vbeta gene usage in these two donors was shown to be remarkably restricted, with over half of the responding CD8+ T cells utilizing a single Vbeta gene rearrangement. Other subjects recognized multiple pp65 peptides: nine new pp65 CTL peptide epitopes were defined, and for five of these the HLA-presenting allele has been identified. All four of the HLA A2 donors tested in this study recognized the same peptide. This apparent domination of the CTL response to HCMV during persistent infection by a single structural protein, irrespective of major histocompatibility complex haplotype, is not clearly described for other persistent virus infections, and the mechanism requires further investigation.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
- Antibodies, Viral/immunology
- Antigen Presentation
- Antigens, Viral/immunology
- Cell Line
- Cytomegalovirus/immunology
- Cytomegalovirus Infections/blood
- Cytomegalovirus Infections/immunology
- HLA Antigens/genetics
- HLA Antigens/immunology
- HLA-A2 Antigen/immunology
- Humans
- Immediate-Early Proteins/immunology
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear/cytology
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear/immunology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phosphoproteins/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/cytology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- Time Factors
- Viral Envelope Proteins/immunology
- Viral Matrix Proteins/immunology
- Viral Proteins
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Affiliation(s)
- M R Wills
- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge Clinical School, United Kingdom.
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Fox SB, Leek RD, Weekes MP, Whitehouse RM, Gatter KC, Harris AL. Quantitation and prognostic value of breast cancer angiogenesis: comparison of microvessel density, Chalkley count, and computer image analysis. J Pathol 1995; 177:275-83. [PMID: 8551390 DOI: 10.1002/path.1711770310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 326] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [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: 01/31/2023]
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In some studies of breast cancer, quantitation of immunohistochemically highlighted microvessel 'hot spots' has been shown to be a powerful prognostic tool. However, the antibody used, the number and size of the 'hot spots' assessed, and the stratification of patients into high and low vascular groups vary between studies. Furthermore, little is known about the relationship between microvessel density and other vascular parameters. These uncertainties and the laborious nature of the technique make it unsuitable for diagnostic practice. Both manual and computerized image analysis techniques were used in this study to examine the relationship between microvessel density and the vascular parameters in different sized microscopic fields in a pilot series of 30 invasive breast carcinomas. Automated pixel analysis of immunohistochemical staining, Chalkley point counting, and observer subjective vascular grading were also assessed as more rapid methods of measuring tumour vascularity. A Chalkley count was also performed on a further 211 invasive breast carcinomas. Significant correlations were observed between manual microvessel density and luminal perimeter (r = 0.6, P = 0.0004), luminal area (r = 0.56, P = 0.002), and microvessel number (r = 0.57, P = 0.0009) by computerized analysis. There were also significant correlations between the microscopic hot spots of 0.155 mm2 and 0.848 mm2 for microvessel number (r = 0.81, P < 0.00005), luminal perimeter (r = 0.78, P < 0.00005), and luminal area (r = 0.65, P = 0.0001). In addition, a significant correlation was observed between microvessel density and both subjective vascular grade (P = 0.002) and Chalkley count (P = 0.0001). A significant reduction in overall survival was observed between patients stratified by Chalkley count in both a univariate (P = 0.02) and a multivariate (P = 0.05) analysis in the 211 invasive breast carcinomas. These findings show that Chalkley counting is a rapid method of quantifying tumour angiogenesis and gives independent prognostic information which might be useful in diagnostic practice.
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- S B Fox
- Department of Cellular Science, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, U.K
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