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Picornavirus May Be Linked to Parkinson’s Disease through Viral Antigen in Dopamine-Containing Neurons of Substantia Nigra. Microorganisms 2022; 10:microorganisms10030599. [PMID: 35336174 PMCID: PMC8953350 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10030599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2022] [Revised: 02/11/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease linked with the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the brain region called substantia nigra and caused by unknown pathogenic mechanisms. Two currently recognized prominent features of PD are an inflammatory response manifested by glial reaction and T-cell infiltration, as well as the presence of various toxic mediators derived from activated glial cells. PD or parkinsonism has been described after infection with several different viruses and it has therefore been hypothesized that a viral infection might play a role in the pathogenesis of the disease. We investigated formalin-fixed post-mortem brain tissue from 9 patients with Parkinson’s disease and 11 controls for the presence of Ljungan virus (LV) antigen using a polyclonal antibody against the capsid protein of this recently identified picornavirus with neurotropic properties, suspected of being both a human and an animal pathogen. Evidence of viral antigen was found in 7 out of 9 Parkinson’s disease cases and in only 1 out of 11 controls (p = 0.005). The picornavirus antigen was present in dopamine-containing neurons of the substantia nigra. We propose that LV or an LV-related virus initiates the pathological process underlying sporadic PD. LV-related picornavirus antigen has also been reported in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Potentially successful antiviral treatment in Alzheimer’s disease suggests a similar treatment for Parkinson's disease. Amantadine, originally developed as an antiviral drug against influenza infection, has also been used for symptomatic treatment of patients with PD for more than 50 years and is still commonly used by neurologists today. The fact that amantadine also has an antiviral effect on picornaviruses opens the question of this drug being re-evaluated as potential PD therapy in combination with other antiviral compounds directed against picornaviruses.
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Lundstig A, McDonald SL, Maziarz M, Weldon WC, Vaziri-Sani F, Lernmark Å, Nilsson AL. Neutralizing Ljungan virus antibodies in children with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes. J Gen Virol 2021; 102. [PMID: 34020728 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Ljungan virus (LV), a Parechovirus of the Picornavirus family, first isolated from a bank vole at the Ljungan river in Sweden, has been implicated in the risk for autoimmune type 1 diabetes. An assay for neutralizing Ljungan virus antibodies (NLVA) was developed using the original 87-012 LV isolate. The goal was to determine NLVA titres in incident 0-18 years old newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes patients (n=67) and school children controls (n=292) from Jämtland county in Sweden. NLVA were found in 41 of 67 (61 %) patients compared to 127 of 292 (44 %) controls (P=0.009). In the type 1 diabetes patients, NLVA titres were associated with autoantibodies to glutamic acid decarboxylase (GADA) (P=0.023), but not to autoantibodies against insulin (IAA) or islet antigen-2 (IA-2A). The NLVA assay should prove useful for further investigations to determine levels of LV antibodies in patients and future studies to determine a possible role of LV in autoimmune type 1 diabetes.
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- Annika Lundstig
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University/CRC, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
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- IHRC, Inc, under contract to Polio and Picornavirus Laboratory Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Viral Diseases, Atlanta GA, USA
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University/CRC, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
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- Polio and Picornavirus Laboratory Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden.,Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University/CRC, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University/CRC, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Paediatrics, Östersund Hospital, Östersund, Sweden.,Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University/CRC, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
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Extending the Enterovirus Lead: Could a Related Picornavirus be Responsible for Diabetes in Humans? Microorganisms 2020; 8:microorganisms8091382. [PMID: 32927606 PMCID: PMC7565261 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8091382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2020] [Revised: 09/08/2020] [Accepted: 09/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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We found an association between the abundance of rodents in the wild and onset of type 1 diabetes (T1D) in humans. A picornavirus named Ljungan virus (LV) was subsequently isolated from wild bank voles. Both picornavirus-like particles detected by electron microscopy and LV antigen visualized by immunohistochemistry was seen in islets of Langerhans in diabetic wild bank voles. LV antigen has also been found in islets of Langerhans in a patient with recent onset of T1D and in the commonly used Bio Breeding (BB) T1D rat model. We discuss the possibility of T1D and type 2 diabetes (T2D) as parts of a single disease entity. Antiviral compounds directed against picornavirus have been found to be an effective treatment of diabetes in BB rats. We propose using the same currently available antiviral compounds in clinical trials in humans. Antiviral treatment would have the potential to be both proof of concept for involvement of a picornavirus in diabetes pathogenesis and also present a first-generation therapy.
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Niklasson B, Klitz W, Juntti-Berggren L, Berggren PO, Lindquist L. Effectiveness of Antivirals in a Type 1 Diabetes Model and the Move Toward Human Trials. Viral Immunol 2020; 33:594-599. [PMID: 32758075 DOI: 10.1089/vim.2020.0039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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A Picornavirus (Ljungan virus [LV]) originally found in bank voles has been associated with type 1 diabetes (T1D) in its wild rodent reservoir, but also associated with T1D in a laboratory rat model for the disease, the diabetes prone (DP) Bio Breeding (BB) rat. Successful treatment of diabetes in this rat model, using experimental antiviral compounds directed against picornavirus, has been reported. In the present study we show significant clinical response in DP-BB rats using antiviral compounds available for human use (Pleconaril, Efavirenz, and Ribavirin). Presence of LV picornavirus antigen has been detected in islets of Langerhans from both human and the T1D rat model with clear morphological similarity. Based on these data it would be of interest to test antiviral treatment in patients with newly diagnosed T1D. Successful outcome will offer both proof of concept regarding the role of virus involvement in the disease and possibly a first generation treatment interrupting a persistent infection and stopping β-cell destruction.
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- Bo Niklasson
- Jordbro Primary Health Care Center, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- The Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- The Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Niklasson B, Lindquist L, Klitz W, Englund E. Picornavirus Identified in Alzheimer's Disease Brains: A Pathogenic Path? J Alzheimers Dis Rep 2020; 4:141-146. [PMID: 32587947 PMCID: PMC7306919 DOI: 10.3233/adr-200174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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We investigated formalin-fixed postmortem brain tissue from the hippocampus region of 18 AD cases and 11 age-matched controls using a polyclonal antibody against Ljungan virus (LV) capsid protein 1. Evidence of a LV antigen was found in all AD cases but in none of the control specimens (p < 0.0001). The antibodies reacted with neurons and astrocytes and also showed distinct positive reaction in the amyloid/neuritic plaques. The possible role of an incompletely characterized picornavirus as the etiologic agent in AD open up the possibility of treatment with antiviral therapy directed against picornaviruses. The positive result of such treatment in a small number of patients is presented separately back to back to this report.
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- Bo Niklasson
- Jordbro Primary Health Care Center, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medicine Huddinge, Division of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Netherlands Brain Bank, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Pathology, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
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Faresjö ÅO, Ludvigsson J. Pet exposure in the family during pregnancy and risk for type 1 diabetes-The prospective ABIS study. Pediatr Diabetes 2018; 19:1206-1210. [PMID: 30014568 DOI: 10.1111/pedi.12721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2018] [Revised: 06/21/2018] [Accepted: 07/02/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The autoimmune process later leading to type 1 diabetes (T1D) seems to start very early in life. Different viruses have been suspected to contribute to the development of T1D, some already during pregnancy. As viruses may be hosted by animals and from them transferred to humans we decided to investigate if exposure to pets during pregnancy is related to later development of T1D. METHODS ABIS (All Babies in Southeast Sweden)-is a prospective population-based cohort study of unselected children born in southeast Sweden between Oct first 1997 to Oct first 1999. Parents of 16 384 children answered a questionnaire within 3 days after birth including information about exposure to different pets. The ABIS registry has been connected to the National Registry of diagnosis and also the national Registry of Drug prescriptions so we know that 137 children have got T1D, and they were compared with the non-diabetic population. RESULTS During pregnancy, 45.5% of the mothers had pet animals at home. Most common were cats (25.0%) and dogs (18.7%). Neither exposure to dogs (OR = 1.27, P = 0.23) or cats (OR = 0.81, P = 0.31) were associated to later T1D risks. However, exposure to hamsters increased the T1D risk (OR 4.21, P = 0.0007). In a multiple regression this association remained (P = 0.005) when adjusted for other possible risk factors. CONCLUSIONS Exposure to hamster during pregnancy seems to increase the risk of T1D in the child. One possibility could be infection by virus hosted by the pet.
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- Åshild Olsen Faresjö
- Department of Medicine and Health, Community Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Crown Princess Victoria Children's Hospital, Region Östergötland, and Division of Pediatrics, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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Nasir IA, Emeribe AU, Shuwa HA, Zakari MM, Peters NO. Type 1 diabetes mellitus and enterovirus linkage: search for associated etiopathology. THE EGYPTIAN JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 2017. [DOI: 10.4103/ejim.ejim_25_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Niklasson B, Arbrandt G, Kawecki A, Juntti-Berggren L, Berggren PO, Al-Qahtani SM, Gustafsson AL, Bryzgalova G, Klitz W. Diabetes Prevention Through Antiviral Treatment in Biobreeding Rats. Viral Immunol 2016; 29:452-458. [PMID: 27505258 DOI: 10.1089/vim.2016.0063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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A picornavirus (Ljungan virus) has been associated with diabetes in its wild rodent reservoir and in diabetes-prone biobreeding (DP-BB) rats. We attempted to alter the development of diabetes in DP-BB rats using two anti-picornavirus compounds (pleconaril and APO-N039), singly or in combination. Antiviral therapy was initiated 2 weeks before expected onset of diabetes. Pleconaril or APO-N039 alone did not affect the debut of diabetes. However, animals receiving a combination of both compounds were protected for at least the entire period of treatment (4 weeks after expected time of diabetes onset). Immunohistochemistry demonstrated that the presence and distribution of virus antigen in the pancreatic islets coincided with the clinical status of the animal. Data indicate that a treatable picornavirus can be involved in the cellular assault resulting in diabetes and in these cases the disease mechanism appears to involve a virus present in the pancreatic beta cell mass itself.
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- Bo Niklasson
- 1 Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University , Uppsala, Sweden
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- 1 Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University , Uppsala, Sweden
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- 2 Department of Pathology, Karolinska University Hospital , Stockholm, Sweden
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- 3 Karolinska Institutet , The Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- 3 Karolinska Institutet , The Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- 3 Karolinska Institutet , The Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Stockholm, Sweden
- 4 Department of Pathology, College of Medicine and Najran University Hospital, Najran University , Najran, Saudi Arabia
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- 5 Department of Comparative Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital , Stockholm, Sweden
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- 3 Karolinska Institutet , The Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- 6 Department of Integrative Biology, University of California , Berkeley, Berkeley, California
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Mitake H, Fujii Y, Nagai M, Ito N, Okadera K, Okada K, Nakagawa K, Kishimoto M, Mizutani T, Okazaki K, Sakoda Y, Takada A, Sugiyama M. Isolation of a sp. nov. Ljungan virus from wild birds in Japan. J Gen Virol 2016; 97:1818-1822. [PMID: 27207304 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.000508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Ljungan virus (LV) has been isolated/detected from rodents in a limited area including European countries and the USA. In this study, we isolated an LV strain from faecal samples of wild birds that had been collected in Japan, and determined the nearly complete sequence of the genome. Sequence analyses showed that the isolate possesses an LV-like genomic organization: 5UTR-VP0-VP3-VP1-2A1-2A2-2B-2C-3A-3B-3C-3D-3UTR. Phylogenetic and similarity analyses based on the VP1 region indicated that the strain constitutes a novel genotype within LV. In addition, we identified species origin of the faeces as gull species by using the DNA barcoding technique. These data suggested that the novel LV strain infected a gull species, in which the virus had not been identified. Taken together, this study has provided the first evidence of the presence of a novel LV in Japan, highlighting the possibility of LV infection in birds.
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- Hiromichi Mitake
- The United Graduate School of Veterinary Sciences, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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- Laboratory of Zoonotic Diseases, Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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- Research and Education Center for Prevention of Global Infectious Disease of Animals, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 3-5-8 Saiwai-cho, Fuchu, Tokyo 183-8509, Japan
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- The United Graduate School of Veterinary Sciences, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, Gifu 501-1193, Japan.,Laboratory of Zoonotic Diseases, Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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- The United Graduate School of Veterinary Sciences, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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- The United Graduate School of Veterinary Sciences, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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- The United Graduate School of Veterinary Sciences, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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- Research and Education Center for Prevention of Global Infectious Disease of Animals, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 3-5-8 Saiwai-cho, Fuchu, Tokyo 183-8509, Japan
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- Research and Education Center for Prevention of Global Infectious Disease of Animals, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 3-5-8 Saiwai-cho, Fuchu, Tokyo 183-8509, Japan
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- Laboratory of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, 1757, Kanazawa, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaid 061-0293, Japan
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-18, Nishi-9, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan
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- Division of Global Epidemiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Kita-20, Nishi-10, Kita-ku, Sapporo 001-0020, Japan.,Global Station for Zoonosis Control, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Zoonotic Diseases, Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, Gifu 501-1193, Japan.,The United Graduate School of Veterinary Sciences, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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Berchtold LA, Prause M, Størling J, Mandrup-Poulsen T. Cytokines and Pancreatic β-Cell Apoptosis. Adv Clin Chem 2016; 75:99-158. [PMID: 27346618 DOI: 10.1016/bs.acc.2016.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The discovery 30 years ago that inflammatory cytokines cause a concentration, activity, and time-dependent bimodal response in pancreatic β-cell function and viability has been a game-changer in the fields of research directed at understanding inflammatory regulation of β-cell function and survival and the causes of β-cell failure and destruction in diabetes. Having until then been confined to the use of pathophysiologically irrelevant β-cell toxic chemicals as a model of β-cell death, researchers could now mimic endocrine and paracrine effects of the cytokine response in vitro by titrating concentrations in the low to the high picomolar-femtomolar range and vary exposure time for up to 14-16h to reproduce the acute regulatory effects of systemic inflammation on β-cell secretory responses, with a shift to inhibition at high picomolar concentrations or more than 16h of exposure to illustrate adverse effects of local, chronic islet inflammation. Since then, numerous studies have clarified how these bimodal responses depend on discrete signaling pathways. Most interest has been devoted to the proapoptotic response dependent upon mainly nuclear factor κ B and mitogen-activated protein kinase activation, leading to gene expressional changes, endoplasmic reticulum stress, and triggering of mitochondrial dysfunction. Preclinical studies have shown preventive effects of cytokine antagonism in animal models of diabetes, and clinical trials demonstrating proof of concept are emerging. The full clinical potential of anticytokine therapies has yet to be shown by testing the incremental effects of appropriate dosing, timing, and combinations of treatments. Due to the considerable translational importance of enhancing the precision, specificity, and safety of antiinflammatory treatments of diabetes, we review here the cellular, preclinical, and clinical evidence of which of the death pathways recently proposed in the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2012 Recommendations are activated by inflammatory cytokines in the pancreatic β-cell to guide the identification of antidiabetic targets. Although there are still scarce human data, the cellular and preclinical studies point to the caspase-dependent intrinsic apoptosis pathway as the prime effector of inflammatory β-cell apoptosis.
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- University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Diabetes Research Center, Beta Cell Biology Group, Copenhagen University Hospital Herlev, Herlev, Denmark
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Serological survey in the Finnish human population implies human-to-human transmission of Ljungan virus or antigenically related viruses. Epidemiol Infect 2015; 144:1278-85. [PMID: 26489898 DOI: 10.1017/s0950268815002551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Ljungan virus (LV) is a picornavirus related to human parechoviruses (HPeV). The virus has been found in bank voles (Myodes glareolus) and several other rodent species, and suggested to have zoonotic potential. Thus far, seroepidemiological data on LV infections in humans are scarce. In this study, we aimed to characterize the demographic and geographical distribution of LV-reactive antibodies in Finland, and to investigate its occurrence in patients suspected of having a rodent-borne disease, nephropathia epidemica (NE) caused by Puumala hantavirus (PUUV). Using an immunofluorescence assay (LV strain 145SLG), we screened human sera (n = 1378) and found LV-reactive antibodies in 36% of samples. The probability of possessing LV-reactive antibodies peaked at age of 14 years, suggesting that most infections occur in childhood. The prevalence of LV-reactive antibodies was significantly higher in the urbanized area surrounding Helsinki than in more rural Central Finland. These findings are uncharacteristic of a rodent-borne pathogen, and therefore we consider human-to-human transmission of one or several Ljungan-like viruses as a likely cause for most of the observed antibody responses.
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Pounder KC, Watts PC, Niklasson B, Kallio ERK, Marston DA, Fooks AR, Begon M, McElhinney LM. Genome characterisation of two Ljungan virus isolates from wild bank voles (Myodes glareolus) in Sweden. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2015; 36:156-164. [PMID: 26375731 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2015.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2015] [Revised: 09/08/2015] [Accepted: 09/12/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Ljungan virus (LV) (family Picornaviridae, genus Parechovirus) is a suspected zoonotic pathogen with associations to human disease in Sweden. LV is a single-stranded RNA virus with a positive sense genome. There are five published Ljungan virus strains, three isolated from Sweden and two from America, and are classified into four genotypes. A further two strains described here were isolated from wild bank voles (Myodes glareolus) caught in Västmanlands county, Sweden in 1994. These strains were sequenced using next generation pyrosequencing technology on the GS454flx platform. Genetic and phylogenetic analysis of the obtained genomes confirms isolates LV340 and LV342 as two new putative members of genotype 2 along with LV145SL, with 92% and 99% nucleotide identities respectively. Only two codon sites throughout the entire genome were identified as undergoing positive selection, both situated within the VP3 structural region, in or near to major antigenic sites. Whilst these two strains do not constitute new genotypes they provide evidence, though weakly supported, which suggests the evolution of Ljungan viruses to be relatively slow, a characteristic unlike other picornaviruses. Additional genomic sequences are urgently required for Ljungan virus strains, particularly from different locations or hosts, to fully understand the evolutionary and epidemiological properties of this potentially zoonotic virus.
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- Kieran C Pounder
- University of Liverpool, Institute of Integrative Biology, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK
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- University of Liverpool, Institute of Integrative Biology, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK; University of Oulu, Department of Ecology, FI-90014, Finland
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- Apodemus AB, Nobels väg 3, 17165 Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
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- University of Liverpool, Institute of Integrative Biology, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK; University of Jyvaskyla, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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- Wildlife Zoonoses and Vector-borne Diseases Research Group, Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB, UK
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- Wildlife Zoonoses and Vector-borne Diseases Research Group, Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB, UK; University of Liverpool Institute of Infection and Global Health, L69 7BE, UK; NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7BE, UK
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- University of Liverpool, Institute of Integrative Biology, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK; NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7BE, UK
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- Wildlife Zoonoses and Vector-borne Diseases Research Group, Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB, UK; University of Liverpool Institute of Infection and Global Health, L69 7BE, UK; NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7BE, UK.
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Jääskeläinen AJ, Kolehmainen P, Voutilainen L, Hauffe HC, Kallio-Kokko H, Lappalainen M, Tolf C, Lindberg AM, Henttonen H, Vaheri A, Tauriainen S, Vapalahti O. Evidence of Ljungan virus specific antibodies in humans and rodents, Finland. J Med Virol 2013; 85:2001-8. [PMID: 23852812 DOI: 10.1002/jmv.23681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/21/2013] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Ljungan virus (LV, genus Parechovirus, family Picornaviridae) is considered currently to be a rodent-borne virus. Despite suggested human disease associations, its zoonotic potential remains unclear. To date, LV antibody prevalence in both humans and rodents has not been studied. In this study, two different LV immunofluorescence assays (LV IFAs) were developed with LV genotypes 1 (LV strain 87-012G) and 2 (LV strain 145SLG), and cross-neutralization and -reaction studies were carried out with LV strain 145SLG. Finally, a panel of 37 Finnish sera was screened for anti-LV antibodies using two different LV IFAs (LV 145SLG and LV 87-012G) and a neutralization (NT) assay (LV 145SLG), and 50 samples from Myodes glareolus by LV IFA (LV 145SLG). The LV seroprevalence study showed 38% and 18% positivity in humans and M. glareolus, respectively. LV IFAs and NT assays were compared, and the results were in good agreement. The data are the first evidence of humans and rodents coming into contact with LV in Finland. Additional studies are required in order to acquire a better understanding of the prevalence, epidemiological patterns and possible disease association of LV infections.
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- Anne J Jääskeläinen
- HUSLAB, Department of Virology and Immunology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
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Coppieters KT, Boettler T, von Herrath M. Virus infections in type 1 diabetes. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med 2013; 2:a007682. [PMID: 22315719 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a007682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The precise etiology of type 1 diabetes (T1D) is still unknown, but viruses have long been suggested as a potential environmental trigger for the disease. However, despite decades of research, the body of evidence supporting a relationship between viral infections and initiation or acceleration of islet autoimmunity remains largely circumstantial. The most robust association with viruses and T1D involves enterovirus species, of which some strains have the ability to induce or accelerate disease in animal models. Several hypotheses have been formulated to mechanistically explain how viruses may affect islet autoimmunity and β-cell decay. The recent observation that certain viral infections, when encountered at the right time and infectious dose, can prevent autoimmune diabetes illustrates that potential relationships may be more complex than previously thought. Here, we provide a concise summary of data obtained in mouse models and humans, and identify future avenues toward a better characterization of the association between viruses and T1D.
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- Ken T Coppieters
- Center for Type 1 Diabetes Research, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Development and characterization of murine monoclonal antibodies to first and second Ljungan virus genotypes. J Virol Methods 2012; 184:27-33. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2012.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2011] [Revised: 04/29/2012] [Accepted: 05/03/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Niklasson B. Current views on ljungan virus and its relationship to human diabetes. J Med Virol 2011; 83:1673. [DOI: 10.1002/jmv.22062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Holmberg R, Klitz W, Blixt M, Berggren PO, Juntti-Berggren L, Niklasson B. Antiviral treatments reduce severity of diabetes in Ljungan virus-infected CD-1 mice and delay onset in diabetes-prone BB rats. Microbiol Immunol 2009; 53:567-72. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2009.00160.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Blixt M, Niklasson B, Sandler S. Suppression of bank vole pancreatic islet function by proinflammatory cytokines. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2009; 305:1-5. [PMID: 19433255 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2009.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2008] [Revised: 02/17/2009] [Accepted: 02/17/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bank voles kept in captivity may develop diabetes. We recently characterized beta-cell function of pancreatic islets from normal and glucose intolerant/diabetic bank voles. These animals had features of both human type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Cytokines may impair beta-cell function in both types of diabetes. Presently, we studied how pancreatic islets isolated from normal, i.e. glucose tolerant bank voles are affected by proinflammatory cytokines in vitro. Islets were exposed to hIL-1beta (25U/ml) alone or in combination with hTNF-alpha (1000U/ml)+mIFN-gamma (1000U/ml) for 48h, whereupon islet functions were assessed. Cytokines markedly reduced insulin gene expression and the (pro)insulin biosynthesis rate, which was accompanied by a profound depletion of the islet insulin content. The cytokines did not affect the culture medium insulin accumulation and the glucose oxidation rate, but caused a modest increase in medium nitrite, an indicator of nitric oxide (NO) generation. Cytokine-induced decrease in islet insulin content was not prevented by the preferential inducible NO synthase inhibitor aminoguanidine. These findings suggest that the reduction in islet insulin content is not attributed to enhanced exocytosis or related to altered glucose metabolism, but is rather due to a decline in insulin production. The suppressive effects of islet functions elicited by cytokines seem to be mediated by an NO-independent mechanism. In relation to previous studies on cytokine effects on islets from various species, the bank vole islets show a pattern which more resembles human islets than rat or murine islets.
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- Martin Blixt
- Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Gopinath S, Ortqvist E, Norgren S, Green A, Sanjeevi CB. Variations in incidence of type 1 diabetes in different municipalities of stockholm. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2009; 1150:200-7. [PMID: 19120295 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1447.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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This article reports a test of the hypothesis that municipalities within the County of Stockholm have varying incidence rates of type 1 diabetes (T1D), suggesting a strong etiologic environmental component to the disease. The study group included T1D patients in the age group from birth to 18 years who were diagnosed each year from 20 municipalities in Stockholm County during the 1990-2003. Specific incidence rates by age, sex, and socioeconomic characteristics (income level, proportion of taxpayers, proportion of foreigners, population density and green cover) were estimated annually together with age standardization. chi(2) analyses were used for the statistical assessment of variability in incidence. During the study period, 733 newly diagnosed T1D patients aged 0-18 years were recorded from the 20 municipalities under study. The overall age-standardized incidence in these 20 municipalities was 24.38 (22.65-26.21) per 100,000, with 45.35 (32.08-62.29) as highest and 13.41 (9.53-18.35) as lowest estimated incidence. For all socioeconomic variables statistically significant heterogeneity was demonstrated in the standardized incidence rate. High green index was positively associated with the incidence of T1D, as was low population density. For the three remaining socioeconomic variables no clear patterns of associations with incidence of T1D were seen. This study demonstrates a considerable and statistically significant variation between the lowest and highest values in the incidence and prevalence rates for T1D in municipalities of Stockholm County. Such variation seems unlikely to be explained by genetic differences since the population is homogeneous. Our study provides support for the hypothesis that environmental factors have a major influence on the pathogenesis of T1D.
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Tapia G, Cinek O, Witsø E, Kulich M, Rasmussen T, Grinde B, Rønningen KS. Longitudinal observation of parechovirus in stool samples from Norwegian infants. J Med Virol 2008; 80:1835-42. [PMID: 18712841 DOI: 10.1002/jmv.21283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Parechoviruses are assumed to be common infectious agents, but their epidemiologic and pathogenic properties are not well known. The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence and molecular epidemiology of Parechovirus in Norwegian infants, as well as to investigate whether the presence of virus correlated with symptoms of infection. A group of 102 infants was longitudinally followed: 51 infants with a high genetic risk for type 1 diabetes (aged 3-35 months), and 51 children without this genotype (aged 3-12). Stool samples were obtained each month, and symptoms of infection were recorded regularly on questionnaires. Human parechovirus was detected in 11.3% of 1,941 samples examined by real-time RT-PCR. There was a distinct seasonality, peaking from September to December. By 12 months of age, 43% of the infants had had at least one infection, while 86% of the infants had encountered the virus by the end of the second year. Based on the VP1 sequence, human parechovirus 1 was the most prevalent type (76%), followed by human parechovirus 3 (13%), human parechovirus 6 (9%), an unclassified human parechovirus (1%), and human parechovirus 2 (1%). Ljungan virus, a murine parechovirus, was examined with a separate real-time RT-PCR, but no virus was detected. There was no significant association between infections and the following symptoms: coughing, sneezing, fever, diarrhea or vomiting. In conclusion, human parechovirus infects frequently infants at an early age without causing disease.
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- German Tapia
- Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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Donath MY, Størling J, Berchtold LA, Billestrup N, Mandrup-Poulsen T. Cytokines and beta-cell biology: from concept to clinical translation. Endocr Rev 2008; 29:334-50. [PMID: 18048762 DOI: 10.1210/er.2007-0033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The tale of cytokines and the beta-cell is a long story, starting with in vitro discovery in 1984, evolving via descriptive and phenomenological studies to detailed mapping of the signalling pathways, gene- and protein expression patterns, molecular and biochemical effector mechanisms to in vivo studies in spontaneously diabetic and transgenic animal models. Only very recently have steps been taken to translate the accumulating compelling preclinical data into clinical trials. The aim of this chapter is to present an overview of early and recent key observations from our own groups as well as other laboratories that serve to illuminate the road from concept to clinical translation.
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- Marc Y Donath
- The Clinic for Endocrinology and Diabetes, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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