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Homnick J, Ibbott G, Springer A, Aguirre J. TH-D-352-05: Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) Dosimeters Can Be Used for Remote Dosimetry Services. Med Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1118/1.2962948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Followill D, Molineu A, Lowenstein J, Alvarez P, Aguirre J, Ibbott G. SU-GG-T-213: Quality Audits of the Calibration for TG-51 Non-Compliant Beams by the Radiological Physics Center. Med Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1118/1.2961965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [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: 11/07/2022] Open
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Maia-Lopes S, Castelo-Branco M, Silva E, Villaverde C, Aguirre J, Trujillo-Tiebas MJ, Ayuso C. Gene symbol: BEST1. Disease: Best macular dystrophy. Hum Genet 2008; 123:111. [PMID: 18386360] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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- Susana Maia-Lopes
- IBILI, Faculty of Medicine, Univ Coimbra, IBILI, Az. Sta. Comba, s/n, 3000-354 Coimbra, Portugal.
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Maia-Lopes S, Castelo-Branco M, Silva E, Aguirre J, Riveiro-Alvarez R, Trujillo-Tiebas MJ, Ayuso C. Gene symbol: ABCA4. Disease: Macular dystrophy. Hum Genet 2008; 123:111. [PMID: 18386365] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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- Susana Maia-Lopes
- IBILI, Vision Psychophysiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, IBILI, Az. Sta. Comba, s/n, 3000-354Coimbra, Portugal.
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Maia-Lopes S, Castelo-Branco M, Silva E, Villaverde C, Aguirre J, Trujillo-Tiebas MJ, Ayuso C. Gene symbol: BEST1. Disease: Best macular dystrophy. Hum Genet 2008; 123:110-111. [PMID: 18386356] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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- Susana Maia-Lopes
- IBILI, Faculty of Medicine, Univ Coimbra, IBILI, Az. Sta. Comba, s/n, 3000-354 Coimbra, Portugal.
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Maia-Lopes S, Castelo-Branco M, Silva E, Aguirre J, Riveiro-Alvarez R, Trujillo-Tiebas MJ, Ayuso C. Gene symbol: ABCA4. Disease: Macular dystrophy. Hum Genet 2008; 123:112. [PMID: 18386369] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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- Susana Maia-Lopes
- IBILI, Vision Psychophysiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, IBILI, Az. Sta. Comba, s/n, 3000-354Coimbra, Portugal.
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Maia-Lopes S, Castelo-Branco M, Silva E, Aguirre J, Riveiro-Alvarez R, Trujillo-Tiebas MJ, Ayuso C. Gene symbol: BEST1. Disease: Best macular dystrophy. Hum Genet 2008; 123:112. [PMID: 18386373] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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- Susana Maia-Lopes
- IBILI, Vision Psychophysiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, IBILI, Az. Sta. Comba, s/n, 3000-354Coimbra, Portugal.
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Maia-Lopes S, Castelo-Branco M, Silva E, Villaverde C, Aguirre J, Trujillo-Tiebas MJ, Ayuso C. Gene symbol: BEST1. Disease: Best macular dystrophy. Hum Genet 2008; 123:110. [PMID: 18386350] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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- Susana Maia-Lopes
- IBILI, Faculty of Medicine, Univ Coimbra, IBILI, Az. Sta. Comba, s/n, 3000-354 Coimbra, Portugal.
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Chiosis G, Rodina A, Kim J, Aguirre J, Moulick K, Lopes EC, Wu N, She Y. 419 POSTER Defining Hsp90 as inhibitor of apoptosis in small cell lung cancer. EJC Suppl 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6349(06)70424-4] [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: 12/01/2022] Open
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Riveiro-Alvarez R, Aguirre J, Trujillo MJ, Cantalapiedra D, Vallespin E, Villaverde C, Valverde D, Ayuso C. Gene symbol: ABCA4. Disease: Stargardt disease 1. Accession #Hm0538. Hum Genet 2006; 118:778. [PMID: 17297693] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Muscari F, Suc B, Aguirre J, Di Mauro GL, Bloom E, Duffas JP, Blanc P, Fourtanier G. Orthotopic Liver Transplantation With Vena Cava Preservation in Cirrhotic Patients: Is Systematic Temporary Portacaval Anastomosis a Justified Procedure? Transplant Proc 2005; 37:2159-62. [PMID: 15964366 DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2005.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2003] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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INTRODUCTION We evaluated the peri- and postoperative effects of the lack of a temporary portocaval anastomosis (TPCA) during orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) in 84 patients with cirrhosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS From December 1996 to December 2002, 156 liver transplant recipients included (54%; 60 men and 24 women) of mean age 52 +/- 9 years with portal hypertension. In whom peri- and postoperative data were analyzed. RESULTS The median fall in mean arterial pressure upon vascular clamping and unclampings was 20 mm Hg (range 15 to 75), while the median duration of portal vein clamping was 77 minutes. The median amount of blood autotransfusion was 1100 mL (range 0 to 5400). The median number of red blood cell and fresh-frozen plasma units transfused were 5 and 6.5, respectively. The median intraoperative urinary output was 72 mL/h (range 11 to 221). Three patients (3.5%) presented a perioperative complication, but no perioperative death was observed. Six patients experienced an early postoperative complication (<10 days): five hemodynamic complications and one transient renal failure, which did not require hemodialysis. One patient (1%) died at 12 hours after OLT from acute pulmonary edema. CONCLUSION This study shows that systematic TPCA during OLT with preservation of the native retrohepatic vena cava in cirrhotic patients does not appear to be justified. In contrast, peri- and postoperative hemodynamic parameters as well as blood component requirements were comparable to those of the literature reporting OLT with straightforward TPCA.
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- F Muscari
- Hopitaux de Toulouse, Tolouse, France
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Marcheix B, Dambrin C, Cron C, Sledzianowski JF, Aguirre J, Suc B, Cerene A, Rousseau H. Embolisation transhépatique percutanée d’un pseudoanévrisme post-traumatique de l’artère hépatique. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 129:603-6. [PMID: 15581823 DOI: 10.1016/j.anchir.2004.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [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: 11/25/2022]
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Pseudoaneurysm of the hepatic artery is a rare complication of blunt abdominal trauma. We report a case of post-traumatic pseudoaneurysm diagnosed several months after the initial traumatism in a 18-year-old man who presented recurrent abdominal pain. This pseudoaneurysm was successfully treated by association of both classical endovascular treatment and transhepatic percutaneous embolization.
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- B Marcheix
- Service de chirurgie cardiovasculaire, CHU Rangueil, 1, avenue Jean-Poulhes, 31403 Toulouse, cedex, France
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Aguirre J. Aspectos jurídicos. Connotaciones especiales de los pacientes en estado vegetativo persistente según su causa desencadenante. Med Intensiva 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/s0210-5691(04)70042-x] [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: 10/27/2022]
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Aguirre J, Vallejo JC, Sanjuán MA. Wada basins and chaotic invariant sets in the Hénon-Heiles system. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2001; 64:066208. [PMID: 11736269 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.64.066208] [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] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The Hénon-Heiles Hamiltonian is investigated in the context of chaotic scattering, in the range of energies where escaping from the scattering region is possible. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the different nature of the orbits, and the the invariant sets, such as the stable and unstable manifolds and the chaotic saddle. Furthermore, a discussion on the average decay time associated to the typical chaotic transients, which are present in this problem, is presented. The main goal of this paper is to show, by using various computational methods, that the corresponding exit basins of this open Hamiltonian are not only fractal, but they also verify the more restrictive property of Wada. We argue that this property is verified by typical open Hamiltonian systems with three or more escapes.
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- J Aguirre
- Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Group, Departamento de Ciencias Experimentales e Ingeniería Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Tulipán s/n, 28933 Móstoles, Madrid, Spain
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Sánchez-Castillo CP, Lara JJ, Villa AR, Aguirre J, Escobar M, Gutiérrez H, Chávez A, James WP. Unusually high prevalence rates of obesity in four Mexican rural communities. Eur J Clin Nutr 2001; 55:833-40. [PMID: 11593344 DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1601238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2000] [Revised: 03/15/2001] [Accepted: 03/19/2001] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To establish the nutritional status of previously studied rural populations. DESIGN AND SUBJECTS A total of 139 households with 245 males and 301 females from four relatively isolated Mexican rural communities were randomly selected to be surveyed in 1996. RESULTS Underweight was not a problem in either children or adults. In children <5 y only three (4.2%) were stunted but the age- and sex-specific distributions of body mass index (BMI) in children showed 17% of boys and 19% of girls exceeded the proposed International Obesity Task Force limits for classifying the overweight. Triceps skinfold values were similar to NHANESI values for white USA children. Of the adult men 42% were overweight (BMI 25.0-29.9) and 9% obese; 40% of adult women were overweight and a further 33% obese. Adjusting BMI values with corrected total heights by relating them to measured knee height reduced the BMI of women >50 y by 2.0 units; the male data were essentially unchanged. The prevalence of abdominal obesity in women, based on waist measurements and WHO cut-off points was high with 25% of women having elevated values despite a normal BMI; 43% of the overweight women had substantial increases in waist measurements, indicative of high risk, as did 91% of obese women. The men's waist measurements were greater in relation to both BMI and body fat but the prevalence of values in excess of the suggested sex-specific WHO limits was less than half that of women. CONCLUSIONS The high prevalence of overweight and obesity is now evident in poor and relatively isolated rural communities of Mexico. SPONSORSHIP The Chronic Disease Office, from the Ministry of Health in Mexico partially financed this study.
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- C P Sánchez-Castillo
- Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Dirección de Nutrición, Departamento de Fisiología de la Nutrición, México.
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Martínez de Pancorbo M, López M, Cuevas N, Anzola M, Aguirre J, Videgain J, Aguirregaviria J, Castro A. Detection of p53 gene alterations in saliva and brush cytological specimens from oral carcinoma risk patients. Eur J Cancer 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s0959-8049(01)81381-2] [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: 11/25/2022]
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Detoxification of hydrogen peroxide is a fundamental aspect of the cellular antioxidant responses in which catalases play a major role. Two differentially regulated catalase genes, catA and catB, have been studied in Aspergillus nidulans. Here we have characterized a third catalase gene, designated catC, which predicts a 475-amino-acid polypeptide containing a peroxisome-targeting signal. With a molecular mass of 54 kDa, CatC shows high similarity to other small-subunit monofunctional catalases and is most closely related to catalases from other fungi, Archaea, and animals. In contrast, the CatA (approximately 84 kDa) and CatB (approximately 79 kDa) enzymes belong to a family of large-subunit catalases, constituting a unique fungal and bacterial group. The catC gene displayed a relatively constant pattern of expression, not being induced by oxidative or other types of stress. Targeted disruption of catC eliminated a constitutive catalase activity not detected previously in zymogram gels. However, a catalase activity detected in catA catB mutant strains during late stationary phase was still present in catC and catABC null mutants, thus demonstrating the presence of a fourth catalase, here named catalase D (CatD). Neither catC nor catABC triple mutants showed any developmental defect, and both mutants grew as well as wild-type strains in H(2)O(2)-generating substrates, such as fatty acids, and/or purines as the sole carbon and nitrogen sources, respectively. CatD activity was induced during late stationary phase by glucose starvation, high temperature, and, to a lesser extent, H(2)O(2) treatment. The existence of at least four differentially regulated catalases indicates a large and regulated capability for H(2)O(2) detoxification in filamentous fungi.
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- L Kawasaki
- Departamento de Genética Molecular, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510 México, D. F., Mexico
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Aguirre J, Buttery L, O'Shaughnessy M, Afzal F, Fernandez de Marticorena I, Hukkanen M, Huang P, MacIntyre I, Polak J. Endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene-deficient mice demonstrate marked retardation in postnatal bone formation, reduced bone volume, and defects in osteoblast maturation and activity. Am J Pathol 2001; 158:247-57. [PMID: 11141498 PMCID: PMC1850250 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9440(10)63963-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/19/2000] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Nitric oxide (NO) has been implicated in the local regulation of bone metabolism. However, the contribution made by specific NO synthase (NOS) enzymes is unclear. Here we show that endothelial NOS gene knockout mice (eNOS-/-) have marked abnormalities in bone formation. Histomorphometric analysis of eNOS-/- femurs showed bone volume and bone formation rate was reduced by up to 45% (P: < 0.01) and 52% (P: < 0.01), respectively. These abnormalities were prevalent in young (6 to 9 weeks old) adults but by 12 to 18 weeks bone phenotype was restored toward wild-type. Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry analysis confirmed the age-related bone abnormalities revealing significant reductions in femoral (P: < 0.05) and spinal bone mineral densities (P: < 0.01) at 8 weeks that were normalized at 12 weeks. Reduction in bone formation and volume was not related to increased osteoclast numbers or activity but rather to dysfunctional osteoblasts. Osteoblast numbers and mineralizing activity were reduced in eNOS-/- mice. In vitro, osteoblasts from calvarial explants showed retarded proliferation and differentiation (alkaline phosphatase activity and mineral deposition) that could be restored by exogenous administration of a NO donor. These cells were also unresponsive to 17ss-estradiol and had an attenuated chemotactic response to transforming growth factor-beta. In conclusion, eNOS is involved in the postnatal regulation of bone mass and lack of eNOS gene results in reduced bone formation and volume and this is related to impaired osteoblast function.
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- J Aguirre
- Department of Histochemistry, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Campus, London, United Kingdom
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Vázquez P, Pizzio L, Cáceres C, Blanco M, Thomas H, Alesso E, Finkielsztein L, Lantaño B, Moltrasio G, Aguirre J. Silica-supported heteropolyacids as catalysts in alcohol dehydration reactions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2000. [DOI: 10.1016/s1381-1169(00)00346-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [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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Aguirre J, Gallardo R, Pareja JA, Pérez-Miranda M. Cluster of MMPI personality profiles in chronic tension-type headache and predictable response to Fluoxetine. Cephalalgia 2000; 20:51-6. [PMID: 10817447 DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-2982.2000.00010.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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A study was made of the personality profiles of a sample of 51 patients with chronic tension-type headache (CTH) employing the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Two clusters were obtained by applying multivariate classification techniques: cluster 1 (with elevations on scales Hy, D and Hs only) and cluster 2 (exhibiting elevations on most scales except Pd, Mf and Si). Fifty subjects without chronic pain or known psychiatric disorders, and extracted from the same social setting as the patients, completed the MMPI as a control group. Fluoxetine treatment was started in the CTH group, with follow-up over a 1-year period. Chi-squared analysis correlating the clusters obtained to different pain-related variables and epidemiological parameters revealed a significant association to sex only. There were no differences in therapeutic response between the two clusters. However, the patients belonging to the less perturbed cluster who exhibited profiles analogous to those of the control population showed significant improvement with respect to the global sample and their own cluster.
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- J Aguirre
- Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Badajoz, Spain.
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Noventa-Jordão MA, Couto RM, Goldman MHS, Aguirre J, Iyer S, Caplan A, Terenzi HF, Goldman GH. Catalase activity is necessary for heat-shock recovery in Aspergillus nidulans germlings. Microbiology (Reading) 1999; 145 ( Pt 11):3229-3234. [PMID: 10589732 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-145-11-3229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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To understand the molecular mechanisms induced by stress that contribute to the development of tolerance in eukaryotic cells, the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans has been chosen as a model system. Here, the response of A. nidulans germlings to heat shock is reported. The heat treatment dramatically increased the concentration of trehalose and induced the accumulation of mannitol and mRNA from the catalase gene catA. Both mannitol and catalase function to protect cells from different reactive oxygen species. Treatment with hydrogen peroxide increased A. nidulans germling viability after heat shock whilst mutants deficient in catalase were more sensitive to a 50 degrees C heat exposure. It is concluded that the defence against the lethal effects of heat exposure can be correlated with the activity of the defence system against oxidative stress.
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- Maria Antônia Noventa-Jordão
- Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo and Universidade de Franca, Av. do Café S/N, CEP 14040-903, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil1
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- Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo and Universidade de Franca, Av. do Café S/N, CEP 14040-903, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil1
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- Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil2
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- Instituto de Fisiologia Celular-UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico3
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- Department of Microbiology, Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA4
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- Department of Microbiology, Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA4
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- Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil2
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- Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo and Universidade de Franca, Av. do Café S/N, CEP 14040-903, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil1
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Redondo L, Polo MA, Rodríguez F, Aguirre J, Sánchez A, Chinchón I, Bautista J. [The bent spine syndrome: a focal axial myopathy of late onset]. Neurologia 1999; 14:408-11. [PMID: 10609465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023] Open
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The bent spine is a rare syndrome appearing at an advanced age which shows a posture of anterior flexion of the trunk, which is reducible and is often hereditary. It is caused by a paresia of the extensor musculature of the trunk by a focal axial myopathy of late onset. We herein describe the case of a 72-year-old woman with a progressive bent spine initiated at the age of 55. Family questioning showed vertical transmission of the process. On exploration paresis of the paravertebral musculature and to a lesser extent of both girdles was observed. Serum CK levels were normal. Vertebral CT showed atrophy with fatty substitution of the paravertebral musculature. EMG of the scapular and paravertebral muscles demonstrated a myopathic pattern. Deltoid muscle biopsy found atrophy of type II fibers and isolated broken red fibers. This case corroborates the myopathic nature of this syndrome. A review of the nosology of the syndrome is also presented.
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- L Redondo
- Servicio de Neurología, Hospital Comarcal de Llerena, Badajoz.
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Two differentially regulated catalase genes have been identified in the fungus Aspergillus nidulans. The catA gene belongs to a class whose transcripts are specifically induced during asexual sporulation (conidiation) and encodes a catalase accumulated in conidia. Using a developmental mutant affected in the brlA gene, which is unable to form conidia but capable of producing sexual spores (ascospores), we demonstrated that the catA mRNA accumulated during induction of conidiation but did not produce CatA protein. In contrast, high levels of catalase A activity were detected in the ascospores produced by this mutant, indicating that the catA gene is posttranscriptionally regulated. The same type of regulation was observed for a catA::lacZ translational gene fusion, suggesting that the catA message 5' untranslated region could be involved in translational control during development. In a wild-type strain, beta-galactosidase activity driven from the catA::lacZ gene fusion was low in hyphae and increased 50-fold during conidiation and 620-fold in isolated conidia. Consistent with this finding spatial expression of the reporter gene was restricted to metulae, phialides, and conidia. Conidium-associated expression was maintained in a stuA mutant, in which the conidiophore cell pattern is severely deranged. catA mRNA accumulation was also observed when vegetative mycelia was subject to oxidative, osmotic, and nitrogen or carbon starvation stress. Nevertheless, catalase A activity was restricted to the conidia produced under nutrient starvation. Our results provide support for a model in which translation of the catA message, accumulated during conidiation or in response to different types of stress, is linked to the morphogenetic processes involved in asexual and sexual spore formation. Our findings also indicate that brlA-independent mechanisms regulate the expression of genes encoding spore-specific products.
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- R E Navarro
- Departamento de Genética Molecular, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510 México, D.F
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Berumen J, Miranda EI, Zafra G, Casas L, Segura E, Ordoñes RM, Aguirre J, Martínez M, Rosas A, Ibarra V, Pedraza L, Saad A, Marroquín A, Gutiérrez M, Martínez A, Gariglio P. [Molecular epidemiology of high-incidence cancers in Mexico]. GAC MED MEX 1998; 133 Suppl 1:35-41. [PMID: 9580106] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Biomarkers, Tumor/analysis
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- DNA Probes, HPV
- DNA, Viral/analysis
- Female
- Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl/analysis
- Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl/genetics
- Genes, abl
- Homeodomain Proteins/analysis
- Homeodomain Proteins/genetics
- Humans
- Incidence
- Leukemia/epidemiology
- Leukemia/genetics
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/epidemiology
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/genetics
- Male
- Mexico/epidemiology
- Middle Aged
- Neoplasm Proteins/analysis
- Neoplasm Proteins/genetics
- Oncogene Proteins, Fusion/analysis
- Oncogene Proteins, Fusion/genetics
- Papillomaviridae/genetics
- Papillomaviridae/isolation & purification
- Papillomavirus Infections/epidemiology
- Papillomavirus Infections/virology
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Precursor B-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/epidemiology
- Precursor B-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/genetics
- Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/epidemiology
- Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/genetics
- Translocation, Genetic
- Tumor Virus Infections/epidemiology
- Tumor Virus Infections/virology
- Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/epidemiology
- Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/genetics
- Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/virology
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- J Berumen
- Escuela Militar de Graduados de Sanidad, México, D.F
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Sánchez O, Navarro RE, Aguirre J. Increased transformation frequency and tagging of developmental genes in Aspergillus nidulans by restriction enzyme-mediated integration (REMI). Mol Gen Genet 1998; 258:89-94. [PMID: 9613576 DOI: 10.1007/s004380050710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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We have used a plasmid containing the argB gene to transform an Aspergillus nidulans argB-deleted strain in the presence of restriction enzymes and show a 20- to 60-fold increase in transformation frequency via restriction enzyme-mediated integration (REMI). This procedure was used to try to tag new genes involved in the asexual development of this fungus. More than 2000 transformants isolated following electroporation of conidia and approximately 3700 transformants recovered following protoplast fusion were screened for sporulation defects. Unexpectedly, developmental mutants were obtained only when the protoplast fusion approach was used. Southern blot analysis of these mutants, and of randomly selected transformants obtained by electroporation, was consistent with the occurrence of single plasmid integration events in 33 and 65% of the cases, respectively. The argB marker was shown to be tightly linked to the mutant phenotype in only 62% of the mutants analyzed by sexual crosses. Partial DNA sequencing of a tagged gene, whose mutation delays asexual sporulation and results in a fluffy phenotype, showed no homology to previously reported sequences. Our results indicate that REMI can be used in A. nidulans to increase the transformation frequency and illustrate the advantages and potential problems when using REMI to tag genes of interest in this and other fungi.
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- O Sánchez
- Departamento de Genética Molecular, Instituto de Fisiologìa Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, DF, México
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Martínez-Bourio R, Arzuaga M, Quintana JM, Aguilera L, Aguirre J, Sáez-Eguilaz JL, Arízaga A. Incidence of transient neurologic symptoms after hyperbaric subarachnoid anesthesia with 5% lidocaine and 5% prilocaine. Anesthesiology 1998; 88:624-8. [PMID: 9523804 DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199803000-00011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Hyperbaric 5% lidocaine has been associated with transient neurologic symptoms (TNSs) after spinal anesthesia. A prospective, masked, randomized study was conducted to compare the incidence of TNSs after spinal anesthesia with hyperbaric 5% lidocaine or 5% prilocaine to assess the utility of prilocaine as an alternative to lidocaine in patients having short surgical procedures. METHODS The number of patients to be enrolled (100 per group) was determined by power analysis (80%, P = 0.05) considering an incidence of TNSs after spinal anesthesia with lidocaine of at least 11% according to data reported in other studies. Two hundred patients scheduled for elective surgery expected to last <60 min were allocated at random to receive spinal anesthesia with hyperbaric 5% lidocaine or hyperbaric 5% prilocaine. Three to 5 days after spinal anesthesia, all patients were interviewed by an anesthesiologist who was blinded to the group assignment and details of the anesthetic and surgical technique using a standardized symptom checklist. Patients with symptoms underwent neurologic examination. RESULTS Both groups were comparable with regard to demographic data and details of the surgical and anesthetic procedures. The incidence of TNSs in both groups was low and differences were not found (4% in the lidocaine group and 1% in the prilocaine group). The mean age of patients with TNSs (58 yr) was higher than that of patients without TNSs (48 yr; P < 0.05). No relation with any of the other variables was found. CONCLUSIONS The low incidence of TNSs among lidocaine-anesthetized patients (4%) may account for the lack of significant differences between hyperbaric 5% lidocaine and 5% prilocaine and to the insufficient power of the study to exclude the possibility of a type II error.
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- R Martínez-Bourio
- Service of Anesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Hospital de Galdakao, Bizkaia, Spain
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Guzmán-de-Peña D, Aguirre J, Ruiz-Herrera J. Correlation between the regulation of sterigmatocystin biosynthesis and asexual and sexual sporulation in Emericella nidulans. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1998; 73:199-205. [PMID: 9717578 DOI: 10.1023/a:1000820221945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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We analyzed the regulation of sterigmatocystin biosynthesis in wild type and mutant strains of Emericella nidulans (= Aspergillus nidulans). A positive correlation between both asexual and sexual sporulation and synthesis of the mycotoxin was observed. Those conditions which favored sporulation stimulated sterigmatocystin formation, and vice versa. Both processes were stimulated by light in a veA+ genetic background. In contrast, they were inhibited by diaminobutanone, an inhibitor of ornithine decarboxylase. The effect of this inhibitor was partially reverted by putrescine addition. Partial supplementation of specific requirements to auxotrophic mutants allowed normal vegetative growth, but interfered with asexual sporulation and sterigmatocystin biosynthesis. Synthesis of the mycotoxin was neither affected in a brlA mutant or in developmental mutants blocked at later steps in sporulation. As in wild type strain, diaminobutanone inhibited sterigmatocystin biosynthesis and cleisthotecia formation in the brlA mutant, and its effect was reverted by addition of putrescine. The inhibitor also affected the transcription of brlA. Our results indicate that sporulation and the synthesis of sterigmatocystin are co-regulated at a step previous to the brlA execution point.
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- D Guzmán-de-Peña
- Departamentos de Genética y Biología Molecular (Unidad México, D.F., Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Irapuato, Gto, México.
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Mateos F, Zarauz R, Seco C, Rayward JR, del Barrio P, Aguirre J, Bajo JM. Assessment with transvaginal ultrasonography of endometrial thickness in women with postmenopausal bleeding. EUR J GYNAECOL ONCOL 1998; 18:504-7. [PMID: 9443022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the use of transvaginal ultrasonography in measuring endometrial thickness in postmenopausal women with bleeding, thus to determine the least invasive treatment. STUDY DESIGN We evaluated 168 women with postmenopausal bleeding by transvaginal ultrasonography and histological study of the endometrium. RESULTS No cancerous or precancerous lesions were found when endometrial thickness was under 10 mm. The mean endometrial thickness in women with cancerous and precancerous lesions was 10.75 +/- 1.63 mm, while in non-pathological lesions it was 1.36 +/- 1.18 mm. CONCLUSIONS To diagnose endometrial pathology, an endometrial thickness over 6 mm yields a sensitivity of 88.6%, a specificity of 90.6%, a positive predictive value of 92%, with 4.6% of false-positives and 4.6% of false-negatives (six small polyps and one irregular maturation). Although we are waiting for other prospective and multicentric studies, our present experience leads us to believe that Dilatation and Curettage (D&C) can be avoided in postmenopausal bleeding with endometrial thickness under or equal to 6 mm.
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- F Mateos
- Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, University Hospital of Getafe, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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Kawasaki L, Wysong D, Diamond R, Aguirre J. Two divergent catalase genes are differentially regulated during Aspergillus nidulans development and oxidative stress. J Bacteriol 1997; 179:3284-92. [PMID: 9150225 PMCID: PMC179108 DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.10.3284-3292.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [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: 02/04/2023] Open
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Catalases are ubiquitous hydrogen peroxide-detoxifying enzymes that are central to the cellular antioxidant response. Of two catalase activities detected in the fungus Aspergillus nidulans, the catA gene encodes the spore-specific catalase A (CatA). Here we characterize a second catalase gene, identified after probing a genomic library with catA, and demonstrate that it encodes catalase B. This gene, designated catB, predicts a 721-amino-acid polypeptide (CatB) showing 78% identity to an Aspergillus fumigatus catalase and 61% identity to Aspergillus niger CatR. Notably, similar levels of identity are found when comparing CatB to Escherichia coli catalase HPII (43%), A. nidulans CatA (40%), and the predicted peptide of a presumed catA homolog from A. fumigatus (38%). In contrast, the last two peptides share a 79% identity. The catalase B activity was barely detectable in asexual spores (conidia), disappeared after germination, and started to accumulate 10 h after spore inoculation, throughout growth and conidiation. The catB mRNA was absent from conidia, and its accumulation correlated with catalase activity, suggesting that catB expression is regulated at the transcription level. In contrast, the high CatA activity found in spores was lost gradually during germination and growth. In addition to its developmental regulation, CatB was induced by H2O2, heat shock, paraquat, or uric acid catabolism but not by osmotic stress. This pattern of regulation and the protective role against H2O2 offered by CatA and CatB, at different stages of the A. nidulans life cycle, suggest that catalase gene redundancy performs the function of satisfying catalase demand at the two different stages of metabolic and genetic regulation represented by growing hyphae versus spores. Alternative H2O2 detoxification pathways in A. nidulans were indicated by the fact that catA/catB double mutants were able to grow in substrates whose catabolism generates H2O2.
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- L Kawasaki
- Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, D.F
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Martinez-Conde R, Aguirre J, Lopez J, Cacicedo J. Mandibular Pasmocytoma. First manifestation of a multiple mieloma. Med Oral 1996; 1:58-60. [PMID: 11505232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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- R. Martinez-Conde
- Medicina Bucal. Departamento de Estomatología. Universidad del Pais Vasco. Spain
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Ibarra FR, Aguirre J, Nowicki S, Barontini M, Arrizurieta EE, Armando I. Demethylation of 3-O-methyldopa in the kidney: a possible source for dopamine in urine. Am J Physiol 1996; 270:F862-8. [PMID: 8928849 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.1996.270.5.f862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The possibility that demethylation of 3-O-methyldopa (OM-dopa) in the kidney could provide a source for dopamine in the urine was explored in male Wistar rats aged 60-90 days, using in vivo and in vitro approaches. The results showed that endogenous OM-dopa is filtered, reabsorbed and extensively metabolized in the kidney. Infusion of OM-dopa into anesthetized rats increased significantly urinary excretion of Na+, dopa, dopamine, and 3,4 dihydroxyphenylacetic acid. Whole kidney homogenates, slices from renal cortex, and microdissected proximal tubules produced significant amounts of both dopa and dopamine when incubated with OM-dopa. Renal cortex slices produced dose-dependent amounts of dopa and dopa-mine when incubated with 1-100 microM OM-dopa. Incubation of microdissected proximal tubule segments with 1 microM OM-dopa produced a fourfold (P < 0.025) increment in dopa and a twofold (P < 0.05) increment in dopamine (an effect similar to that observed with 1 microM L-dopa). One micromolar OM-dopa or 1 microM L-dopa decreased (P < 0.05) Na(+)-K(+)-adenosinetriphosphatase activity measured at maximal velocity condition in proximal tubules. In conclusion, these experiments show that in vitro the kidney is able to produce dopamine by demethylation of OM-dopa, while the results of the OM-dopa infusion suggest that this conversion may also occur in vivo.
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- F R Ibarra
- Instituto de Investigaciones Medicas A. Lanari, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Navarro RE, Stringer MA, Hansberg W, Timberlake WE, Aguirre J. catA, a new Aspergillus nidulans gene encoding a developmentally regulated catalase. Curr Genet 1996; 29:352-9. [PMID: 8598056] [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: 01/31/2023]
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Aspergillus nidulans asexual sporulation (conidiation) is a model system for studying gene regulation and development. The CAN5 cDNA is one of several clones isolated based on transcript induction during conidiation. Here we present the molecular characterization of its corresponding gene, demonstrating that it encodes a developmentally regulated catalase, designated catA. The catA 744-amino-acid-residue polypeptide shows significant identity to other catalases. Its similarity to prokaryotic catalases is greater than to other fungal catalases. catA mRNA is barely detectable in growing mycelia, highly induced during sporulation, and present in isolated spores. However, catA expression is not dependent on the developmental regulatory genes brlA, abaA and wetA. Direct catalase activity determination in native gels revealed the existence of two bands of activity. One of these bands represented the major activity during vegetative growth and was induced during sporulation. The second catalase activity appeared after the induction of sporulation and was the predominant activity in spores. Disruption of catA abolished the major spore catalase without eliminating the vegetative activity, indicating the existence of at least two catalase genes in A. nidulans. catA-disrupted mutants produced spores that were sensitive to H2O2, as compared to wild-type spores. The increase in the activity of the vegetative catalase and the appearance of a second catalase during asexual sporulation is consistent with the occurrence of an oxidative stress during development.
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- R E Navarro
- Departamento de Microbiología, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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Pérez-Miranda J, Aguirre J, Parrilla JL, Pérez Miranda M. [Felbamate: perspectives for new antiepileptic treatment]. Rev Neurol 1995; 23:1220-5. [PMID: 8556622] [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: 01/31/2023]
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The present work is a review of the new anti-epileptic drug felbamate. Felbamate is a dicarbonate with antiepileptic effects in partial attacks and in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. This new drug is especially interesting since its pharmacological action on test animals would indicate a wider anti-epileptic spectrum of activity than most other such drugs. We review the clinical pharmacology of felbamate, its development as a new antiepileptic and the new clinical control type trials carried out into epilepsy. We also give a summary of clinical trial experiments performed using felbamate in the treatment of partial refractory attack and of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Felbamate has turned out to be the first anti-epileptic with specific efficacy in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Felbamate was approved as an anti-epileptic by the United States Food And Drug Administration in July 1993 for clinical use with children suffering from Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and with adults having partial epileptic attacks. 1994 saw some cases of aplastic anaemia and liver failure associated with treatment using felbamate which called for a reevaluation of the benefit-risk factors of the drug. Its use in the European Union was restricted to Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, and rigorous liver function and haematological controls were set up in patients so treated. In the United States the FDA also allows treatment using felbamate of partial attacks not responding to any type of medicine.
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Blanco I, Aguirre J, Ortega LF, Anakabe A, Cárdenas E. [Clinical care in a recovery room. Triennial review]. Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1995; 42:306-11. [PMID: 8560049] [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: 01/31/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To evaluate clinical practice in our intensive care unit over a period of 3 consecutive years (January 1991-December 1993). PATIENTS AND METHODS Retrospective computer analysis of clinical data recorded for the 1157 patients admitted during the study period. RESULTS Seven hundred thirteen men and 443 women were admitted. Mean age was 58.8 years. Eighty-nine percent had undergone elective or emergency surgery, 7% were non surgical emergency admissions and 4% were transferred from other hospital wards. The mean stay was 3.8 days, though the mean stay for elective surgery patients was significantly shorter (p < 0.001). We assess the usefulness of the APACHE-II scale applied during the first 24 hours of admission, finding that mean scores were significantly lower (p < 0.001) for the 1089 survivors (10.2 +/- 4.7) than for the 68 patients who died (23.6 +/- 9.4). The score on the APACHE II scale was above 16 for 82% of those who died. Overall mortality for the unit was 5.9%, though the proportion was statistically higher (p < 0.001) in emergency patients. Complications developed in 299, though the number of complications was significantly lower (p < 0.001) for elective surgery patients. The patients who died required more use of invasive monitoring and mechanical ventilation (p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS Our review shows that mortality, lengthy of stay in the unit and number of complications were all greater among emergency admissions. The patients who died had higher mean APACHE-II scores and required more care. Computerized data collection and later analysis is a useful way to assess clinical practice and facilitate future studies.
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- I Blanco
- Servicio de Anestesiología-Reanimación, Hospital Galdakao, Vizcaya
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Armando I, Nowicki S, Aguirre J, Barontini M. A decreased tubular uptake of dopa results in defective renal dopamine production in aged rats. Am J Physiol 1995; 268:F1087-92. [PMID: 7611449 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.1995.268.6.f1087] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A major proportion of urinary dopamine derives from the renal decarboxylation of circulating dopa. This study evaluates the effects of aging on renal production of dopamine using 3- and 12-mo-old male Wistar rats. Urinary excretion of Na+, norepinephrine (NE), 3,4-dihydroxyphenylglycol, and dopa were similar in the two groups. Urinary dopamine and 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) were lower in older animals (dopamine, 20 +/- 6 vs. 47 +/- 7 nmol/24 h, P < 0.001; DOPAC, 142 +/- 36 vs. 304 +/- 56 nmol/24 h, P < 0.03). Urinary 3-O-methyldopa (OM-dopa) was higher in 12-mo-old rats (6.2 +/- 2.0 vs. 3.3 +/- 0.20 nmol/24 h, P < 0.03). Levels of dopa and NE in renal cortex from 12-mo-old rats were higher (P < 0.001) than in younger animals. Dopamine content in renal cortex from 3-mo-old rats was 295 +/- 64 pmol/g, whereas it was undetectable in 12-mo-old animals. Aromatic-L-amino-acid decarboxylase and monoamine oxidase activities were higher (P < 0.001) in renal cortex from 12-mo-old animals. Catechol-O-methyltransferase activity was similar in both groups. The uptake of dopa by the luminal membrane was explored using brush-border membrane vesicles. The Na(+)-gradient-driven (100 mM) uptake of dopa into vesicles from 3-mo-old animals showed at 10 s an overshoot threefold greater than the equilibrium uptake. The overshoot was blunted in 12-mo-old rats.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- I Armando
- Centro de Investigaciones Endocrinologicas, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquimica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Jiménez-Sáenz JM, Arazo P, Sanjuán F, Aguirre J. [Pharyngeal tuberculosis: unusual extrapulmonary involvement]. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin 1995; 13:378. [PMID: 7654840] [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: 01/26/2023]
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Interest in extracellular fungal lipases has increased mainly because of their industrial applications. However, no studies have been done on a genetically well characterized filamentous fungus like Aspergillus nidulans. Here we show that A. nidulans produces an extracellular lipase when grown in solid or liquid cultures containing lipids as carbon source. This lipase is glucose-repressed in a creA-independent fashion. Seven mutants isolated by their inability to utilize lipids as sole carbon source were also unable to utilize acetate as sole carbon source. Representative mutants from each of three complementation groups were tested for allelism with strains carrying well known mutations affecting acetate metabolism. They were found to contain acuD (Isocitrate lyase), acuF (PEP carboxykinase), and acuE (Malate synthase) alleles. Screening of lipid nonutilizing mutants for growth in acetate provides a method for the isolation of both lipase minus and new acetate metabolism mutants.
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- L Kawasaki
- Departamento de Alimentos y Biotecnología, Facultad de Química, UNAM, México, D.F
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Lanes R, Duran Z, Aguirre J, Espina L, Alvarez W, Villaroel O, Zdanowicz M. Short- and long-term effect of oral salbutamol on growth hormone secretion in prepubertal asthmatic children. Metabolism 1995; 44:149-51. [PMID: 7869909 DOI: 10.1016/0026-0495(95)90257-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Salbutamol, a beta 2-adrenergic agonist, is being extensively used in Venezuela as a brochodilator in the treatment of asthma in children. Previous reports have shown oral salbutamol either to inhibit or not to affect growth hormone (GH) secretion. We evaluated the effect of oral salbutamol (0.1 mg/kg every 6 hours for 3 months) on GH secretion in eight prepubertal short children with mild asthma. Levels of GH during sleep (samples taken every 30 minutes from 9 PM to 6 AM) and after GH-releasing hormone ([GHRH] 1 microgram/kg intravenously [IV]) were measured before, at 24 hours, and at 3 months of salbutamol treatment. Overnight integrated concentrations of GH and peak GH levels following GHRH diminished significantly after 24 hours of salbutamol therapy (from 4.5 +/- 1.3 to 3.4 +/- 0.8 micrograms/L and from 46.6 +/- 47.3 to 16.2 +/- 7.9 micrograms/L, respectively, P < .05). However, GH levels after 3 months of salbutamol were not different from basal levels (4.5 +/- 1.3 v 5.1 +/- 5.1 +/- 2.9 micrograms/L during the overnight studies and 46.6 +/- 47.3 v 37.8 +/- 30.4 micrograms/L after GHRH). Our data suggest an inhibition of both spontaneous and stimulated GH secretion following short-term oral salbutamol ingestion, but this suppressive effect is not maintained with its long-term use.
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- R Lanes
- Department of Endocrinology and Pediatrics, Hospital Central Dr. Carlos Arvelo, Caracas, Venezuela
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Skromne I, Sánchez O, Aguirre J. Starvation stress modulates the expression of the Aspergillus nidulans brlA regulatory gene. Microbiology (Reading) 1995; 141 ( Pt 1):21-8. [PMID: 7894714 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-141-1-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Expression of the Aspergillus nidulans brlA gene plays a fundamental role in the switch from vegetative growth to asexual reproduction. Using a media-shifting protocol to induce submerged sporulation and brlA-lacZ as an expression marker, it was shown that carbon and nitrogen starvation stress induced brlA transcription to different degrees. Glucose starvation induced briA rapidly to high levels and resulted in spore formation on reduced conidiophores, whereas nitrogen starvation induced brlA gradually to lower levels and sporulation occurred to a lesser extent but from more complex conidiophores. beta-Galactosidase activity paralleled brlA alpha and brlA beta mRNA. No clear qualitative differences between the two brlA transcripts were found in these starvation conditions, suggesting that the different patterns of sporulation could be explained by quantitative expression differences. Since brlA mRNA did not accumulate in the presence of a high glucose concentration, we investigated the role of other carbon sources on brlA expression. Non-repressing carbon sources such as glycerol, acetate and arabinose were as effective as glucose in preventing brlA mRNA accumulation, suggesting that the glucose effects on brlA expression could be explained as a response to nutrient starvation, rather than by carbon catabolite repression. Despite similar low levels of brlA transcripts being detected during growth in glucose or non-repressing carbon sources, conidiophores were formed only in medium containing glycerol, acetate or arabinose. When mycelia were not shifted to starvation conditions, sporulation was not observed in standard minimal medium even after glucose was exhausted, unless the medium was buffered.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- I Skromne
- Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, DF
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Gómez M, Aguirre J, Valverde-Grimaldi C, Berenguer A. [Sexual headache and cerebral hemorrhage]. Rev Neurol 1995; 23:184-5. [PMID: 8548621] [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: 01/31/2023]
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Mota R, Aguirre J, Gómez M, Durán C, Berenguer A. [Brachial paralysis as a presentation of giant cell arteritis]. Rev Neurol 1995; 23:185-6. [PMID: 8548623] [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: 01/31/2023]
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Toledo I, Aguirre J, Hansberg W. Enzyme inactivation related to a hyperoxidant state during conidiation of Neurospora crassa. Microbiology (Reading) 1994; 140 ( Pt 9):2391-7. [PMID: 7952190 DOI: 10.1099/13500872-140-9-2391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The conidiation process of Neurospora crassa is characterized by three morphogenetic steps: hyphal adhesion, aerial hyphal formation, and production of conidia. Previous data indicated the occurrence of a hyperoxidant state at the onset of all three morphogenetic steps. Because glutamine synthetase (GS) and the biosynthetic glutamate dehydrogenase [GDH(NADP)] enzymes are susceptible to inactivation by reactive oxygen species, we followed these enzyme activities during conidiation and under different physiological conditions and related them to the hyperoxidant states and morphogenesis. Loss of GS activity occurred prior to all three morphogenetic steps, coinciding with an increase in total protein oxidation. Oxidized GS polypeptides were detected during hyphal adhesion. Loss of GDH(NADP) activity also occurred during hyphal adhesion and before aerial hyphal formation; the enzyme polypeptide and activity decreased in the adhered hyphae to low values and no GDH(NADP) was detected in aerial hyphae. The catabolic GDH [GDH(NAD)] behaved in an opposite manner, increasing its activity during hyphal adhesion and aerial hyphae development. These results are discussed with regard to cell differentiation and the conidiation process in N. crassa.
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- I Toledo
- Centro de Investigación sobre Fijación de Nitrógeno, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Mor
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Klein S, Jasnis MA, Diament M, Davel L, Aguirre J, de Bonaparte YP. Immunomodulation by soluble factors from tumor cells cultured in vivo in diffusion chambers. Tumour Biol 1994; 15:160-5. [PMID: 7521057 DOI: 10.1159/000217887] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) response and lymphocyte-mediated angiogenesis were determined in mice bearing in vivo cultures of mammary tumor cells in diffusion chambers (DCs). Soluble tumor products which diffuse from the DCs were able to stimulate the immune system for both the DTH reaction and angiogenic activity by spleen cells.
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- S Klein
- Departamento de Investigaciones, Instituto de Oncologia A. H. Roffo, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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The Aspergillus nidulans brlA gene encodes a transcriptional regulator of central importance in controlling conidiophore development. I have determined the effects of mutations in other developmental regulatory genes on expression of a brlA-lacZ fusion gene. Deletion of brlA reduced beta-galactosidase levels by half and led to delocalization of enzyme accumulation. The medA26 and abaA2 developmental mutations led to overexpression of the fusion gene without altering spatial specificity. In contrast, the stuA1 mutation did not affect the timing or levels of brlA expression during induction, but instead resulted in spatial derangement of expression. These results and the phenotypes of the mutants suggest a model in which subsets of morphogenetic loci are controlled by differing levels and combinations of regulatory gene products, which are themselves determined by interactions among the regulatory genes.
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- J Aguirre
- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens 30602
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Iriarte M, Molinero E, Sagastagoitia JD, Arzubiaga J, Aguirre J, Salcedo A. Usefulness of exercise testing performed with vasodilators for predicting the severity of myocardial ischaemia during daily activities and treatment. Eur Heart J 1993; 14:380-7. [PMID: 8458358 DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/14.3.380] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Fifty patients (aged 53 +/- 7 years) with confirmed coronary disease performed two stress tests (baseline and following treatment with vasodilators) and were divided into two groups: (A) fixed ischaemic threshold (n = 27), and (B) variable ischaemic threshold (n = 23). All patients underwent 24-h baseline Holter monitoring and monitoring following treatment with nifedipine, placebo, propranolol and nifedipine + propranolol. In Group A, 92% of ischaemic episodes occurred at heart rates similar to those found during exercise testing. In Group B, the heart rate was lower in 66%. In Group A, positive stress testing before the first 3 min of exercise, or at < 140 beat,min-1 with ST segment depressions > or = 0.02 mV, correlated with higher Holter indexes. In Group A, propranolol reduced both the number of episodes and total ischaemia time. In Group B, the best effects were achieved with nifedipine and combined treatment. Our results further emphasize the contrasts between patients with angina and fixed and variable ischaemic thresholds and suggest that therapy tailored to the physiopathology may be most efficacious.
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- M Iriarte
- Institute of Cardiology, Hospital Civil de Basurto, Bilbao, Spain
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Aguilera L, Blanco I, Aguirre J, Larrazábal R, Arzuaga M, Jáuregui F. [Boerhaave syndrome: implications for the anesthesiologist]. Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1993; 40:42. [PMID: 8465082] [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: 01/30/2023]
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Silberstein C, Brandariz S, Arteman P, Aguirre J, Uranga J, del Castillo E. Glomerulopressin production by isolated rat liver after amino acid infusion. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 1991; 198:625-8. [PMID: 1909796 DOI: 10.3181/00379727-198-43299] [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: 12/29/2022]
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The infusion of certain amino acids, such as serine, alanine, and proline (SAP), has been shown to increase the glomerular filtration rate, whereas branched chain amino acids (BCAA) leucine, isoleucine, and valine fail to modify the glomerular filtration rate. It has been suggested that this effect of amino acids on the glomerular filtration rate is mediated by the action of the hormone glomerulopressin. The purpose of this work was to study the action of SAP and BCAA on glomerulopressin production. Livers isolated from rats were perfused with (i) Krebs-Ringer-Bicarbonate, (ii) SAP, or (iii) BCAA. Results indicate that glomerulopressin production is stimulated by SAP, but inhibited by BCAA.
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- C Silberstein
- Instituto de Biologia y Medicina Experimental, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Schütte H, Aguirre J, Ibáñez R, Alcoholado I, Samith S, Larraín F. [Extrahepatic portal hypertension. Azygos-portal disconnection]. Rev Chil Pediatr 1990; 61:271-4. [PMID: 2089496] [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: 12/30/2022]
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The partial or complete obstruction of portal vein and or one of its branches is the most frequent cause of portal hypertension in children. A patient with extrahepatic portal hypertension and progressive course is presented, with great development of esophagogastric varices and multiple episodes of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage. At the age of 9 years he was submitted to an azygos-portal disconnection by abdominal route, with manual transection of the esophagus, covered and protected by a gastric fundoplication. Postoperative endoscopic control demonstrated significant reduction in the size of esophageal varices and disappearance of gastric varices. Eleven months after surgery the patient was asymptomatic and a new endoscopic control showed no recurrence of varices.
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- H Schütte
- Departamento de Cirugía, Hospital Clínico, Universidad de Chile
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A general theory giving an explanation of microbial cell differentiation is presented. Based on experimental results, an unstable hyperoxidant state is postulated to trigger differentiation. Simple rules, involving the reduction of dioxygen and the isolation from dioxygen by diverse mechanisms, are proposed to govern transitions between the growth state and the differentiated states. With this view, common features of microbial differentiation processes, dimorphic growth, cell differentiation in dioxygen evolving phototrophs and in anaerobes are analyzed. The theory could have implications for understanding cell differentiation in higher organisms.
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- W Hansberg
- Centro de Investigación sobre Fijación de Nitrógeno, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos
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The glutamine synthetase and the NADP-specific glutamate dehydrogenase activities of Neurospora crassa were lost in a culture without carbon source only when in the presence of air. Glutamine synthetase was previously reported to be liable to in vitro and in vivo inactivation by activated oxygen species. Here we report that NADP-specific glutamate dehydrogenase was remarkably stable in the presence of activated oxygen species but was rendered susceptible to oxidative inactivation when chelated iron was bound to the enzyme and either ascorbate or H2O2 reacted on the bound iron. This reaction gave rise to further modifications of the enzyme monomers by activated oxygen species, to partial dissociation of the oligomeric structure, and to precipitation and fragmentation of the enzyme. The in vitro oxidation reaction was affected by pH, temperature, and binding to the enzyme of NADPH. Heterogeneity in total charge was observed in the purified and immunoprecipitated enzymes, and the relative amounts of enzyme monomers with different isoelectric points changes with time of the oxidizing reaction.
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- J Aguirre
- Centro de Investigación sobre Fijación de Nitrógeno, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelos
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