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Nakai Y, Ohashi Y, Kakinoki Y, Tanaka A, Washio Y, Nasako Y, Masamoto T, Sakamoto H, Ohmoto Y. Allergen-induced mRNA expression of IL-5, but not of IL-4 and IFN-gamma, in peripheral blood mononuclear cells is a key feature of clinical manifestation of seasonal allergic rhinitis. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2000; 126:992-6. [PMID: 10922233 DOI: 10.1001/archotol.126.8.992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To investigate the allergen-induced messenger RNA (mRNA) expression of interleukin (IL) 4, IL-5 and interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from individuals sensitized by Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) pollens, and to elucidate the clinical role of IL-4, IL-5, and IFN-gamma in the allergen sensitization and clinical manifestation of allergic disorders. DESIGN This study included 30 patients sensitized to the pollen and 14 nonatopic healthy volunteers. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (1.0 x 10(6) cells/mL) of each individual were cultured at 37 degrees C for 24 hours in the presence of 10 microg/mL of Cry j 1, a major allergen of the pollens. Total cellular RNA was extracted from the peripheral blood mononuclear cells, and IL-4, IL-5, and IFN-gamma mRNA expression was determined with a reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS From the results of a survey of symptom diary cards and interviews regarding nasal symptoms during the pollen season in 1998, we found that 20 patients (symptomatic group), but not 10 patients (asymptomatic group), had typical symptoms of seasonal allergic rhinitis. Interleukin 4 mRNA was not expressed in the nonatopic subjects but was expressed in 9 asymptomatic patients and in 17 symptomatic patients. Interleukin 5 mRNA was exclusively expressed in the symptomatic patients. Interferon gamma mRNA expression did not differ significantly among the nonatopic subjects, asymptomatic patients, and symptomatic patients. CONCLUSIONS This study has clearly highlighted an interesting and new concept that IL-4 is implicated in allergen sensitization but not in clinical manifestation, and that IL-5 may not be a feature of atopy in itself but seems to be a hallmark of clinical manifestation of ongoing atopic diseases.
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- Y Nakai
- Department of Otolaryngology, Osaka City University Medical School, 1-4-3 Asahimachi, Abeno, Osaka 545-8585, Japan
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Kakinoki Y, Ohashi Y, Nakai Y, Washio Y, Nasako Y, Tanaka A, Nakai Y. Allergen induced mRNA expression of interleukin-5, but not of interleukin-4 and interferon-gamma, in peripheral blood mononuclear cells obtained before the pollen season predicts the clinical efficacy of immunotherapy for seasonal allergic rhinitis. Scand J Immunol 2000; 51:202-8. [PMID: 10652165 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3083.2000.00660.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The primary aim of this study was to investigate whether the allergen-induced synthesis of cytokines by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) obtained immediately before the pollen season could predict the clinical efficacy of immunotherapy during the following pollen season. PBMCs (1.0 x 106 cells/ml) were obtained from 17 nonatopic subjects and from 60 patients receiving immunotherapy for seasonal allergic rhinitis (caused by Japanese cedar pollens) immediately before the pollen season of 1998, and were cultured for 24 h in the presence of 10 mg/ml of Cry j 1, a major allergen of Japanese cedar pollens, at 37 degrees C in a fully humidified 5% CO2 atmosphere. Total cellular RNA was extracted from the PBMCs, and the allergen-induced interleukin (IL)-4, IL-5 and interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) mRNA expression was determined using a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. According to the nasal symptoms during the pollen season of 1998, the 60 patients on immunotherapy were divided into 36 good responders (who had no nasal symptoms and no requirement for rescue medications) and 24 poor responders who needed rescue medications to control nasal symptoms. Neither IL-4 mRNA nor IL-5 mRNA was expressed in any of the 17 nonatopic individuals. By contrast, IL-4 mRNA was expressed in 26 good responders and in 22 poor responders, and IL-5 mRNA was expressed in eight good responders (22.2%) and in 23 poor responders (95.8%). IFN-gamma mRNA was expressed in four nonatopic subjects, in nine good responders and in seven poor responders. The expression of IFN-gamma did not differ significantly among the nonatopic subjects, the good responders and the poor responders. The mRNA expression of IL-5 (P < 0.0001), but not of IL-4 (P = 0.0999) and IFN-gamma (P = 0. 7713), differed significantly between the good and poor responders. Therefore, our study has highlighted that positive expression of IL-5 mRNA in PBMCs sampled immediately before the pollen season could be predictive of a poor clinical outcome of immunotherapy during the following pollen season and that the down-regulation of IL-5 mRNA expression in PBMCs could be an important mechanism of pollen immunotherapy related to the clinical efficacy.
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- Y Kakinoki
- Department of Otolaryngology, Osaka City University Medical School, 1-4-3 Asahimachi, Abeno, Osaka 545-8585, Japan
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Moriwaki Y, Yamamoto T, Nasako Y, Ohata H, Takahashi S, Tsutsumi Z, Yamakita J, Higashino K. 'Pseudohypouricosuria' in alcaptonuria: homogentisic acid interference in the measurement of urinary uric acid with the uricase-peroxidase reaction. Ann Clin Biochem 1999; 36 ( Pt 4):501-3. [PMID: 10456213 DOI: 10.1177/000456329903600414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Urinary excretion of uric acid was found to be extremely low in a 58-year-old female patient with alcaptonuria. This was due to interference with the uricase-peroxidase method used, because analysis using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) showed a normal urinary concentration of uric acid. In vitro experiments demonstrated that a high concentration of homogentisic acid in the patient's urine inhibited the peroxidase reaction, possibly due to inhibition of the colour development of 3-methyl-N-ethyl-N-(beta-hydroxyethyl)aniline (MEHA) and 4-aminoantipyrine, via the peroxidase reaction. A homogentisic acid concentration equivalent to that in plasma did not affect the uricase-peroxidase reaction. This result suggests that any assay based on a peroxidase method is affected by a high urinary concentration of homogentisic acid in patients with alcaptonuria.
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- Y Moriwaki
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan.
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Ohashi Y, Nakai Y, Tanaka A, Kakinoki Y, Washio Y, Ohno Y, Yamada K, Nasako Y. Risk factors for adverse systemic reactions occurring during immunotherapy with standardized Dermatophagoides farinae extracts. Acta Otolaryngol Suppl 1999; 538:113-7. [PMID: 9879410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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The most serious problem in practical immunotherapy is the risk of occasional, potentially life-threatening adverse systemic reactions. Elucidation of the incidence of, and possible risk factors for, systemic reactions would have a profound effect on the decision about how to manage allergic rhinitis. The aim of this retrospective study was to document the incidence and risk factors of adverse systemic reactions during immunotherapy using standardized Dermatophagoides farinae (D. farinae) extracts for perennial allergic rhinitis. This study included 386 patients (22,722 injections) with perennial allergic rhinitis who had received immunotherapy with standardized D. farinae extracts in our clinics for the past 5 years. The incidence of systemic reactions was 6.22% per patient and 0.12% per injection. The time of onset of systemic reactions ranged from 3 to 30 min (mean 11.3 min) after injections. Our study has demonstrated that asthma, atopic dermatitis and a high level of IgE in serum, but not a high level of specific IgE in serum, are important high risk factors that may induce severe adverse systemic reactions in patients who receive immunotherapy for perennial allergic rhinitis. The incidence of systemic reactions in those who had a high level of IgE (higher than 1000 U/ml) and asthma and/or atopic dermatitis was 66.67% (12/18) per patient. Conversely, the incidence of systemic reactions in those who had none of the risk factors was 1.64% per patient. Thus, the rate of systemic reactions is thought to be reduced by 75% if patients with high risk factors are strictly excluded from immunotherapy for allergic rhinitis.
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- Y Ohashi
- Department of Otolaryngology, Osaka City University Medical School, Japan
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Kakinoki Y, Ohashi Y, Kato A, Tanaka A, Washio Y, Yamada K, Masamoto T, Nasako Y, Nakai Y, Nakai Y. Seasonal increase in specific IgE in serum induced by natural Japanese cedar pollen exposure in asymptomatic and symptomatic sensitized individuals. Acta Otolaryngol Suppl 1999; 538:152-5. [PMID: 9879415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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The aim of this study was to determine whether there is a difference in the specific IgE response to pollen exposure between asymptomatic and symptomatic subjects who were already sensitized to Japanese cedar pollen. Sixty-four subjects with detectable serum levels of cedar pollen-specific IgE, which were apparent even before the pollen season in 1997, were enrolled in the study. Thirty-five had typical symptoms of seasonal allergic rhinitis during the pollen season in 1997 (symptomatic group) and the remainder had no seasonal aggravation during the pollen season in 1997 (asymptomatic group). Serum samples were collected twice from each subject, before and during the pollen season in 1997, to determine specific IgE by the lumiward immunoassay system. In both groups, the serum levels of specific IgE during the pollen season were significantly higher than those before the pollen season, and the rates of seasonal increase in specific IgE did not differ significantly between the groups. In conclusion, the specific IgE response during the pollen season is not a hallmark of clinical allergy and does not discriminate between symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals sensitive to the pollen.
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- Y Kakinoki
- Department of Otolaryngology, Osaka City University Medical School, Japan
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Sakamoto H, Nakai Y, Ohashi Y, Matsuda M, Sakashita T, Nasako Y, Kitayama H, Kawabe J, Okamura T, Ochi H. Monitoring of response to radiotherapy with fluorine-18 deoxyglucose PET of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas. Acta Otolaryngol Suppl 1999; 538:254-60. [PMID: 9879431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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We examined the usefulness of positron emission tomography (PET) using fluorine-18 deoxyglucose (FDG) in determining the therapeutic effects of irradiation and chemotherapy on head and neck malignant tumors. Twenty-two patients with head and neck lesions who underwent histological examinations were studied. Squamous cell carcinoma was histologically diagnosed in all cases. Sixteen of them underwent radiotherapy with approximately 40 Gy in combination with carboplatin therapy. The remaining 6 patients underwent radiotherapy alone. After these treatments, 11 underwent surgery. For PET study, each patient was injected with intravenous FDG 185-370 MBq. We evaluated the degree of FDG accumulation using scanned images taken 40-55 min after the injection. We measured the standardized uptake value (SUV), a semiquantative evaluation, ROI activity divided by the dosage per weight of each patient. FDG-PET, CT and MRI were performed twice for each patient, before and after treatment. FDG uptake, but not the tumor size in CT or MRI, was significantly reduced in each patient after the treatment. Therefore, our findings have clearly demonstrated that FDG-PET provides for more valuable therapeutic outcomes than conventional imaging such as CT and MRI. FDG-PET should thus provide a new dimension in the management of head and neck malignant tumors.
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- H Sakamoto
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Osaka City University Medical School, Japan.
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Tsutsumi Z, Yamamoto T, Takahashi S, Moriwaki Y, Yamakita J, Nasako Y, Higashino K. Atherogenic risk factors in patients with gout. Adv Exp Med Biol 1998; 431:69-72. [PMID: 9598033 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5381-6_13] [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] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Z Tsutsumi
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan
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Ohashi Y, Nakai Y, Tanaka A, Kakinoki Y, Washio Y, Yamada K, Sakamoto H, Nasako Y, Hayashi M, Nakai Y. A comparative study of the clinical efficacy of immunotherapy and conventional pharmacological treatment for patients with perennial allergic rhinitis. Acta Otolaryngol Suppl 1998; 538:102-12. [PMID: 9879409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/11/2023]
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This study was designed to compare the clinical outcome of prolonged immunotherapy for perennial allergic rhinitis with that of pharmacological treatment. Patients with perennial allergic rhinitis due to Dermatophagoides farinae (D. farinae) were divided into two groups; a pharmacotherapy group and an immunotherapy group. The pharmacotherapy group was treated with conventional pharmacological treatment using antihistamine tablets and topical steroid sprays and the immunotherapy group was treated with D. farinae extracts for 5 successive years. None of symptom scores at enrollment differed significantly between the groups. At 6 months and 1 year after the start of treatment the rate of decrease in each score was significantly greater in the pharmacotherapy group than in the immunotherapy group. The rate of decrease in sneezing scores, but not in the other scores, at 2 years after the start of treatment was also greater in the pharmacotherapy group than in the immunotherapy group. However, at 3 years the rate of decrease in any of the scores did not differ significantly between groups. The differences between the groups became clear-cut again after 5 years of treatment, when the rate of decrease in all of the scores was significantly greater in the immunotherapy group than in the pharmacotherapy group. Therefore, short-term treatment with pharmacological agents is probably superior to immunotherapy but, in the long-term, immunotherapy is apparently superior to pharmacological treatment with respect to clinical efficacy. In addition, prolonged immunotherapy provided long-term clinical efficacy and might provide a long-standing cure even after discontinuation of the therapy. In a questionnaire interview, approximately half of patients were very satisfied with prolonged immunotherapy and three-quarters were fairly satisfied or more. Additionally, the magnitude of improvement in nasal stuffiness contributed significantly and exclusively to the patient evaluation of immunotherapy. We propose that prolonged immunotherapy is never inferior to anti-allergenic pharmacological treatment and that it is possible to achieve long-term clinical efficacy or long-standing cure even after the discontinuation of immunotherapy, and that patients with perennial allergic rhinitis will be very satisfied with this prolonged therapeutic technique if nasal stuffiness is considerably alleviated.
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- Y Ohashi
- Department of Otolaryngology, Osaka City University Medical School, Japan
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Yamamoto T, Moriwaki Y, Takahashi S, Tsutsumi Z, Yamakita J, Nasako Y, Hiroishi K, Higashino K. Determination of human plasma xanthine oxidase activity by high-performance liquid chromatography. J Chromatogr B Biomed Appl 1996; 681:395-400. [PMID: 8811453 DOI: 10.1016/0378-4347(96)00071-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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An assay for human plasma xanthine oxidase activity was developed with pterin as the substrate and the separation of product (isoxanthopterin) by high-performance liquid chromatography with a fluorescence detector. The reaction mixture consists of 60 microliters of plasma and 240 microliters of 0.2 M Tris-HCl buffer (pH 9.0) containing 113 microM pterin. With this assay, the activity of plasma xanthine oxidase could be easily determined despite its low activity. As a result, it could be demonstrated that the intravenous administration of heparin or the oral administration of ethanol did not increase plasma xanthine oxidase activity in normal subjects, and also that plasma xanthine oxidase activity was higher in patients with hepatitis C virus infection than in healthy subjects or patients with gout. In addition, a single patient with von Gierke's disease showed a marked increase in the plasma activity of this enzyme, relative to that apparent in normal subjects.
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- T Yamamoto
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan
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Moriwaki Y, Yamamoto T, Takahashi S, Hiroishi K, Yamakita J, Nasako Y, Naito Y, Higashino K. Uric acid transport in fanconi syndrome with marked renal hypouricemia: analysis using pyrazinamide and benzbromarone. Nephron Clin Pract 1996; 74:452-3. [PMID: 8893184 DOI: 10.1159/000189363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Yamamoto T, Moriwaki Y, Takahashi S, Nasako Y, Yamakita J, Hiroishi K, Higashino K. Determination of plasma purine nucleoside phosphorylase activity by high-performance liquid chromatography. Anal Biochem 1995; 227:135-9. [PMID: 7668372 DOI: 10.1006/abio.1995.1262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A high-performance liquid chromatographic method was developed for the determination of plasma purine nucleoside phosphorylase activity. In this method, the reaction mixture consisted of 15 microliters of plasma and 285 microliters of 50 mM phosphate buffer (pH 7.4) containing 3.8 mM inosine and 0.15 mM 2-(3-cyano-4-isobutoxyphenyl)-4-methyl-5-thiazolecarboxylic acid (strong xanthine oxidase inhibitor). After the reaction, the hypoxanthine produced was monitored to express plasma purine nucleoside phosphorylase activity. By this method, the activity of purine nucleoside phosphorylase was easily determined even with a small-volume plasma sample and despite its low activity in plasma. In addition, plasma purine nucleoside phosphorylase activity can be accurately determined even if the plasma is turbid. As a result, we were able to measure plasma purine nucleoside phosphorylase activity in patients with gout or asthma and healthy subjects, whereby it was demonstrated that plasma purine nucleoside phosphorylase activity was higher in patients with asthma than in either healthy subjects or patients with gout.
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- T Yamamoto
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan
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Moriwaki Y, Yamamoto T, Takahashi S, Nasako Y, Hada T, Higashino K. Renal clearances of purine bases and oxypurinol during glucose infusion. Adv Exp Med Biol 1995; 370:39-42. [PMID: 7660935 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-2584-4_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- Y Moriwaki
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan
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Tsutsumi Z, Takahashi S, Yamamoto T, Moriwaki Y, Nasako Y, Hiroishi K, Hada T, Higashino K. Study on lipoprotein lipase and hepatic triglyceride lipase activities in patients with gout. Adv Exp Med Biol 1995; 370:83-6. [PMID: 7661032 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-2584-4_21] [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] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- Z Tsutsumi
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan
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Nasako Y, Yamamoto T, Moriwaki Y, Takahashi S, Tsutsumi Z, Hada T, Higashino K. In vitro and in vivo study on the conversion of allopurinol and pyrazinamide. Adv Exp Med Biol 1995; 370:43-6. [PMID: 7660944 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-2584-4_11] [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] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- Y Nasako
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan
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Yamamoto T, Moriwaki Y, Agbedana OE, Takahashi S, Nasako Y, Yokoyama Y, Higashino K. Extracellular concentrations of oxypurines in xanthine oxidase-deficient hepatoma-derived cell line HuH-7. Adv Exp Med Biol 1995; 370:753-6. [PMID: 7661014 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-2584-4_157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- T Yamamoto
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan
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Yamamoto T, Moriwaki Y, Suda M, Nasako Y, Takahashi S, Hiroishi K, Nakano T, Hada T, Higashino K. Effect of BOF-4272 on the oxidation of allopurinol and pyrazinamide in vivo. Is xanthine dehydrogenase or aldehyde oxidase more important in oxidizing both allopurinol and pyrazinamide? Biochem Pharmacol 1993; 46:2277-84. [PMID: 8274161 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(93)90618-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Allopurinol or pyrazinamide was administered to rats treated with BOF-4272 (a potent xanthine oxidase inhibitor) to investigate to what degree xanthine dehydrogenase participates in the oxidation of these agents. BOF-4272 markedly decreased the plasma concentration and the urinary excretion of both oxypurinol and 5-hydroxypyrazinamide. It also decreased the sum of the urinary excretion of allopurinol and oxypurinol and that of pyrazinamide and its metabolites, although it did not affect the sum of the plasma concentrations of allopurinol and oxypurinol at 105 min after administration of allopurinol or the plasma concentration of pyrazinamide during the period after the administration of pyrazinamide. These results suggested that BOF-4272 almost completely inhibited the oxidation of allopurinol and pyrazinamide and had some effect on the excretion and/or the tissue incorporation of these two compounds. Since the in vitro study demonstrated that BOF-4272 did not inhibit the activity of aldehyde oxidase, which oxidized both allopurinol to oxypurinol and pyrazinamide to 5-hydroxypyrazinamide, the results suggested that xanthine dehydrogenase was the more important enzyme in converting allopurinol to oxypurinol and pyrazinamide to 5-hydroxypyrazinamide.
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- T Yamamoto
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan
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Yamamoto T, Moriwaki Y, Takahashi S, Nasako Y, Higashino K. Effect of DL-sodium lactate infusion on excretion of purine bases and oxypurinol. Int J Clin Pharmacol Ther Toxicol 1993; 31:588-92. [PMID: 8314359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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To investigate whether or not DL-sodium lactate inhibits the renal excretion of purine bases and oxypurinol, we administered physiological saline containing 0.2 mol DL-sodium lactate to 7 normal subjects intravenously. DL-sodium lactate infusion decreased the urinary excretion and the fractional clearance of uric acid, xanthine and oxypurinol, but the fractional clearance of hypoxanthine was not affected. These results suggested that the implications of DL-sodium lactate-induced hyperuricemia must be considered in patients with gout on its long term and high dose administration, and that the implications of DL-sodium lactate-induced prolongation of half-life of oxypurinol must be considered in hyperuricemic patients treated with allopurinol. However, since the high dose and long term administration of DL-sodium lactate is clinically rare, the effect of DL-sodium lactate infusion on the urinary excretion of uric acid, xanthine and oxypurinol may not be clinically important.
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- T Yamamoto
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan
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Yamamoto T, Moriwaki Y, Takahashi S, Nasako Y, Hiroishi K, Higashino K. Determination of erythrocyte aldehyde dehydrogenase activity by high-performance liquid chromatography. Anal Biochem 1993; 215:129-33. [PMID: 8297004 DOI: 10.1006/abio.1993.1564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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An ion-paired high-performance liquid chromatographic method was developed for the determination of erythrocyte aldehyde dehydrogenase activity. This method does not require pretreatment to remove hemoglobin from the hemolysate before enzyme reaction is initiated. In addition, the advantage with this high-performance liquid chromatographic method is that erythrocyte aldehyde dehydrogenase activity can be measured using whole blood without either separation or washing of erythrocytes. Therefore, it can be easily used in the determination of erythrocyte aldehyde dehydrogenase activity, which is an indication of excess alcohol consumption.
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- T Yamamoto
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan
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Moriwaki Y, Yamamoto T, Nasako Y, Takahashi S, Suda M, Hiroishi K, Hada T, Higashino K. In vitro oxidation of pyrazinamide and allopurinol by rat liver aldehyde oxidase. Biochem Pharmacol 1993; 46:975-81. [PMID: 8216357 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(93)90661-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [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: 01/29/2023]
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Aldehyde oxidase was purified about 120-fold from rat liver cytosol by sequential column chromatography using diethylaminoethyl (DEAE) cellulose, Benzamidine-Sepharose 6B and gel filtration. The purified enzyme was shown as a single band with M(r) of 2.7 x 10(5) on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and M(r) of 1.35 x 10(5) on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Using this purified enzyme, in vitro conversion of allopurinol, pyrazinamide and pyrazinoic acid was investigated. Allopurinol and pyrazinamide were oxidized to oxypurinol and 5-hydroxy-pyrazinamide, respectively, while pyrazinoic acid, the microsomal deamidation product of pyrazinamide, was not oxidized to 5-hydroxypyrazinoic acid. The apparent Km value of the enzyme for pyrazinamide was 160 microM and that for allopurinol was 1.1 mM. On PAGE, allopurinol- or pyrazinamide-stained band was coincident with Coomassie Brilliant Blue R 250-stained band, respectively. These results suggest that aldehyde oxidase may play a role in the oxidation of allopurinol to oxypurinol and that of pyrazinamide to 5-hydroxypyrazinamide with xanthine dehydrogenase which can oxidize both allopurinol and pyrazinamide in vivo. The aldehyde oxidase may also play a major role in the oxidation of allopurinol and pyrazinamide in the subgroup of xanthinuria patients (xanthine oxidase deficiency) who can oxidize both allopurinol and pyrazinamide.
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- Y Moriwaki
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan
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Moriwaki Y, Yamamoto T, Suda M, Nasako Y, Takahashi S, Agbedana OE, Hada T, Higashino K. Purification and immunohistochemical tissue localization of human xanthine oxidase. Biochim Biophys Acta 1993; 1164:327-30. [PMID: 8343533 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(93)90266-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Xanthine oxidase was purified 1600-fold from human liver cytosol. The purified enzyme was shown as a single band of 300 kDa on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and 150 kDa on SDS-PAGE. Using this purified enzyme, polyclonal antibody against xanthine oxidase was raised in a rabbit. On Ouchterlony's double immunodiffusion method, the raised antibody and the human liver cytosol made a precipitation line stained by activity stain and protein stain, respectively. With the raised anti-xanthine oxidase sera, the immunohistochemical localization of xanthine oxidase in human tissues was examined. Immunostaining of frozen hepatic tissue section showed that the cytoplasm of hepatocytes and endothelial lining cells were stained. In a number of other tissues, the xanthine oxidase antigen was detected only in the endothelial lining cells from heart, kidney, brain, aorta, lung and mesentery, except for the duodenal mucosa cells. A possible role for xanthine oxidase in the endothelial cells from various human tissues in the pathogenesis of reperfusion injury was suggested.
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- Y Moriwaki
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan
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Yamamoto T, Moriwaki Y, Suda M, Agbedana EO, Takahashi S, Nasako Y, Higashino K, Nakamo T, Hiroishi K. Xylitol-induced increase in purine degradation: a role of erythrocytes. Int J Clin Pharmacol Ther Toxicol 1993; 31:35-39. [PMID: 8444515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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We administered xylitol intravenously to normal subjects to investigate the mechanism of xylitol-induced increase in the purine degradation in humans. Xylitol increased the plasma concentrations of hypoxanthine, xanthine and uric acid but decreased the blood concentration of pyruvic acid. The erythrocyte concentrations of IMP, AMP, ADP, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate and fructose 1,6-diphosphate as well as the urinary excretion of hypoxanthine and xanthine were increased, while the erythrocyte concentration of ATP was decreased. In addition, the in vitro incubation studies using erythrocytes demonstrated that both xylitol-induced purine degradation and xylitol-induced inhibition of the conversion of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate to 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate were protected by pyruvic acid. These results indicate that xylitol-induced impairment of glycolysis in erythrocytes contributes to the observed xylitol-induced increase in the purine degradation in the body.
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- T Yamamoto
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan
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Yamamoto T, Moriwaki Y, Takahashi S, Nasako Y, Higashino K. Effect of lactate infusion on renal transport of purine bases and oxypurinol. Nephron Clin Pract 1993; 65:73-6. [PMID: 8413795 DOI: 10.1159/000187444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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To investigate whether or not lactic acid inhibits the renal transport of oxypurines and oxypurinol, we administered physiological saline containing 0.2 mol sodium lactate to 5 normal subjects intravenously. Lactate infusion decreased the fractional clearance of uric acid, but the fractional clearances of hypoxanthine, xanthine and oxypurinol were not affected. These results suggest that uric acid and lactic acid share the renal transport system of organic acids but hypoxanthine, xanthine and oxypurinol do not. It is further suggested that allopurinol treatment is reasonable in subjects with hyperuricemia accompanied by hyperlactatemia since only the urinary excretion of uric acid and not oxypurines (hypoxanthine and xanthine) was inhibited by lactate infusion.
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- T Yamamoto
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan
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Fujisawa T, Nasako Y, Igarashi T, Nishikawa M. [Influence of the adrenal cortex on adrenomedullary hormones]. Saishin Igaku 1970; 25:2109-17. [PMID: 4921494] [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: 01/13/2023]
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Nishikawa M, Ito S, Sano K, Nishioeda Y, Nasako Y. A case of familial cystathioninuria with goiter and some anomalies. Endocrinol Jpn 1970; 17:57-63. [PMID: 5468424 DOI: 10.1507/endocrj1954.17.57] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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