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Zhang R, Deng P, Dai A, Guo S, Wang Y, Wei P, Wu J. Design, Synthesis, and Biological Activity of Novel Ferulic Amide Ac5c Derivatives. ACS OMEGA 2021; 6:27561-27567. [PMID: 34693177 PMCID: PMC8529889 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c04644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2021] [Accepted: 09/16/2021] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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A total of 34 novel ferulic amide Ac5c derivatives were designed and synthesized and their antipest activities were investigated. The results showed that some compounds exhibited excellent in vitro antibacterial activity against Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) and X. oryzae pv. oryzicola (Xoc), such as compounds 4q and 5n demonstrated excellent in vitro activity against Xoo, with EC50 values of 4.0, and 1.9 μg/mL, respectively. Compounds 4c, 4h, 4m, 4p, 4q, and 5a had significant in vitro activities against Xoc, with EC50 values of 12.5, 13.9, 9.8 15.0, 9.2, and 19.8 μg/mL, respectively. Moreover, the antibacterial activity in vivo against rice bacterial leaf blight was also evaluated. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) showed that compound 5n significantly reduced the cell membrane of Xoo, and resulted in cell surface wilting, deformation, breakage, and increased porous attributes. In addition, some of the target compounds also showed moderate biological activity against fungi and acted as potential insecticides.
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MAT2A as Key Regulator and Therapeutic Target in MLLr Leukemogenesis. Cancers (Basel) 2020; 12:cancers12051342. [PMID: 32456310 PMCID: PMC7281730 DOI: 10.3390/cancers12051342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2020] [Revised: 05/15/2020] [Accepted: 05/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Epigenetic dysregulation plays a pivotal role in mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL) pathogenesis, therefore serving as a suitable therapeutic target. S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) is the universal methyl donor in human cells and is synthesized by methionine adenosyltransferase 2A (MAT2A), which is deregulated in different cancer types. Here, we used our human CRISPR/Cas9-MLL-rearranged (CRISPR/Cas9-MLLr) leukemia model, faithfully mimicking MLLr patients’ pathology with indefinite growth potential in vitro, to evaluate the unknown role of MAT2A. Comparable to publicly available patient data, we detected MAT2A to be significantly overexpressed in our CRISPR/Cas9-MLLr model compared to healthy controls. By using non-MLLr and MLLr cell lines and our model, we detected an MLLr-specific enhanced response to PF-9366, a new MAT2A inhibitor, and small interfering (si) RNA-mediated knockdown of MAT2A, by alteration of the proliferation, viability, differentiation, apoptosis, cell cycling, and histone methylation. Moreover, the combinational treatment of PF-9366 with chemotherapy or targeted therapies against the SAM-dependent methyltransferases, disruptor of telomeric silencing 1 like (DOT1L) and protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5), revealed even more pronounced effects. In summary, we uncovered MAT2A as a key regulator in MLL leukemogenesis and its inhibition led to significant anti-leukemic effects. Therefore, our study paves the avenue for clinical application of PF-9366 to improve the treatment of poor prognosis MLLr leukemia.
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Strekalova E, Malin D, Weisenhorn EMM, Russell JD, Hoelper D, Jain A, Coon JJ, Lewis PW, Cryns VL. S-adenosylmethionine biosynthesis is a targetable metabolic vulnerability of cancer stem cells. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2019; 175:39-50. [PMID: 30712196 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-019-05146-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2018] [Accepted: 01/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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PURPOSE Many transformed cells and embryonic stem cells are dependent on the biosynthesis of the universal methyl-donor S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) from methionine by the enzyme MAT2A to maintain their epigenome. We hypothesized that cancer stem cells (CSCs) rely on SAM biosynthesis and that the combination of methionine depletion and MAT2A inhibition would eradicate CSCs. METHODS Human triple (ER/PR/HER2)-negative breast carcinoma (TNBC) cell lines were cultured as CSC-enriched mammospheres in control or methionine-free media. MAT2A was inhibited with siRNAs or cycloleucine. The effects of methionine restriction and/or MAT2A inhibition on the formation of mammospheres, the expression of CSC markers (CD44hi/C24low), MAT2A and CSC transcriptional regulators, apoptosis induction and histone modifications were determined. A murine model of metastatic TNBC was utilized to evaluate the effects of dietary methionine restriction, MAT2A inhibition and the combination. RESULTS Methionine restriction inhibited mammosphere formation and reduced the CD44hi/C24low CSC population; these effects were partly rescued by SAM. Methionine depletion induced MAT2A expression (mRNA and protein) and sensitized CSCs to inhibition of MAT2A (siRNAs or cycloleucine). Cycloleucine enhanced the effects of methionine depletion on H3K4me3 demethylation and suppression of Sox9 expression. Dietary methionine restriction induced MAT2A expression in mammary tumors, and the combination of methionine restriction and cycloleucine was more effective than either alone at suppressing primary and lung metastatic tumor burden in a murine TNBC model. CONCLUSIONS Our findings point to SAM biosynthesis as a unique metabolic vulnerability of CSCs that can be targeted by combining methionine depletion with MAT2A inhibition to eradicate drug-resistant CSCs.
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- Elena Strekalova
- Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, WI, USA.,Genome Center of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA.,Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, WI, USA.,Genome Center of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.,Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA. .,Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, MFCB 4144, 1685 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI, 53705, USA.
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Fung T, Asiri YI, Wall R, Schwarz SKW, Puil E, MacLeod BA. Variations of isovaline structure related to activity in the formalin foot assay in mice. Amino Acids 2017; 49:1203-1213. [PMID: 28432424 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-017-2421-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2016] [Accepted: 04/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Current centrally acting analgesics such as opioids are associated with adverse effects that limit their use and threaten patient safety. Isovaline is a novel prototype analgesic that produces peripheral antinociception in several pain models with little or no effect on the central nervous system. The aim of this study was to establish a preliminary structure-activity relationship for isovaline derivatives by assaying efficacy in the formalin foot assay and central adverse effect profile in mice. Selected compounds were tested using the formalin foot assay to determine efficacy in reducing formalin-induced behaviors. Of the compounds tested, R-isovaline, S-isovaline, and 1-amino-1-cyclobutanecarboxylic acid reduced nocifensive behavior in phase II of the assay. These effects occurred without affecting performance on the rotarod, indicating that the reduction in nocifensive behaviors was not due to sedation or motor incoordination. Modifications to isovaline that increased its steric size without a cyclobutane ring formation produced compounds with no activity in the formalin foot assay. These findings indicate that the conformational stability of isovaline or the ability to form a cyclobutane ring is necessary for activity in the formalin foot assay.
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- Timothy Fung
- Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Hugill Anesthesia Research Centre, The University of British Columbia, 2176 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Hugill Anesthesia Research Centre, The University of British Columbia, 2176 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Hugill Anesthesia Research Centre, The University of British Columbia, 2176 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Hugill Anesthesia Research Centre, The University of British Columbia, 2176 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada.,Department of Anesthesia, Providence Health Care/St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1Y6, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Hugill Anesthesia Research Centre, The University of British Columbia, 2176 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Hugill Anesthesia Research Centre, The University of British Columbia, 2176 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada.
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Granados-Durán P, López-Ávalos MD, Cifuentes M, Pérez-Martín M, Fernández-Arjona MDM, Hughes TR, Johnson K, Morgan BP, Fernández-Llebrez P, Grondona JM. Microbial Neuraminidase Induces a Moderate and Transient Myelin Vacuolation Independent of Complement System Activation. Front Neurol 2017; 8:78. [PMID: 28326060 PMCID: PMC5339270 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2017.00078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2016] [Accepted: 02/20/2017] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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AIMS Some central nervous system pathogens express neuraminidase (NA) on their surfaces. In the rat brain, a single intracerebroventricular (ICV) injection of NA induces myelin vacuolation in axonal tracts. Here, we explore the nature, the time course, and the role of the complement system in this damage. METHODS The spatiotemporal analysis of myelin vacuolation was performed by optical and electron microscopy. Myelin basic protein-positive area and oligodendrocyte transcription factor (Olig2)-positive cells were quantified in the damaged bundles. Neuronal death in the affected axonal tracts was assessed by Fluoro-Jade B and anti-caspase-3 staining. To evaluate the role of the complement, membrane attack complex (MAC) deposition on damaged bundles was analyzed using anti-C5b9. Rats ICV injected with the anaphylatoxin C5a were studied for myelin damage. In addition, NA-induced vacuolation was studied in rats with different degrees of complement inhibition: normal rats treated with anti-C5-blocking antibody and C6-deficient rats. RESULTS The stria medullaris, the optic chiasm, and the fimbria were the most consistently damaged axonal tracts. Vacuolation peaked 7 days after NA injection and reverted by day 15. Olig2+ cell number in the damaged tracts was unaltered, and neurodegeneration associated with myelin alterations was not detected. MAC was absent on damaged axonal tracts, as revealed by C5b9 immunostaining. Rats ICV injected with the anaphylatoxin C5a displayed no myelin injury. When the complement system was experimentally or constitutively inhibited, NA-induced myelin vacuolation was similar to that observed in normal rats. CONCLUSION Microbial NA induces a moderate and transient myelin vacuolation that is not caused either by neuroinflammation or complement system activation.
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- Pablo Granados-Durán
- Laboratorio de Fisiología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Biología Celular, Genética y Fisiología, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), Universidad de Málaga , Málaga , Spain
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Biología Celular, Genética y Fisiología, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), Universidad de Málaga , Málaga , Spain
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Biología Celular, Genética y Fisiología, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain; Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas en Red de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina, CIBER BBN, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Biología Celular, Genética y Fisiología, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), Universidad de Málaga , Málaga , Spain
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Biología Celular, Genética y Fisiología, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), Universidad de Málaga , Málaga , Spain
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- Division of Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Cardiff University , Cardiff , UK
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- Division of Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Cardiff University , Cardiff , UK
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Biología Celular, Genética y Fisiología, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), Universidad de Málaga , Málaga , Spain
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Biología Celular, Genética y Fisiología, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), Universidad de Málaga , Málaga , Spain
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The diverse, structurally unrelated chemicals that cause toxic myelinopathies have been investigated and can be categorized into two types of primary demyelinators. Some demyelinating chemicals seem to leave intact the myeli-nating cells (oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system and Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system), while others damage the myelinating cells as well as the myelin. The significance between the two is that with the myelinating cells still in tact, repair of the myelin sheath can occur. However, if the myelinating cells are destroyed, repair and reversal of the neuropathy may not occur. Histologically, these chemicals produce an edema of the white matter of the brain, and in some cases the peripheral nervous system, that appears spongy by light microscopy. By electron microscopy, vacuoles can be seen in the myelin surrounding axons. These vacuoles are characterized as fluid-filled separations (splitting) of myelin lamellae at the intraperiod line. In some cases these vacuoles can degenerate further to full demyelination, affecting conduction through those axons. Regeneration of the myelin layers can occur, and in some cases occurs at the same time other axons are undergoing toxic demyelination. Several of these chemicals, however, have been shown to increase cerebrospinal fluid pressure in the brain, optic nerve, and spinal cord, and/or intraneuronal pressure in the perineurium surrounding the axons in the peripheral nervous system. This increased pressure has been correlated with decreased conduction capacity through the axon, ischemia to the neuronal tissue from decreased blood flow because of pressure against the blood vessels, and, if unrelieved, permanent axonal damage. Several of these chemicals havebeen shown to inhibit oxidative phosphorylation, while others uncouple oxidative phosphorylation. One chemical appears to inhibit an enzyme critical to cholesterol synthesis, thus destabilizing myelin. Another hypothesis for a mechanism of action may be in the ability of these compounds to alter membrane permeability.
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Duncan ID, Radcliff AB. Inherited and acquired disorders of myelin: The underlying myelin pathology. Exp Neurol 2016; 283:452-75. [PMID: 27068622 PMCID: PMC5010953 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2016.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2016] [Revised: 04/01/2016] [Accepted: 04/04/2016] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Remyelination is a major therapeutic goal in human myelin disorders, serving to restore function to demyelinated axons and providing neuroprotection. The target disorders that might be amenable to the promotion of this repair process are diverse and increasing in number. They range primarily from those of genetic, inflammatory to toxic origin. In order to apply remyelinating strategies to these disorders, it is essential to know whether the myelin damage results from a primary attack on myelin or the oligodendrocyte or both, and whether indeed these lead to myelin breakdown and demyelination. In some disorders, myelin sheath abnormalities are prominent but demyelination does not occur. This review explores the range of human and animal disorders where myelin pathology exists and focusses on defining the myelin changes in each and their cause, to help define whether they are targets for myelin repair therapy. We reviewed myelin disorders of the CNS in humans and animals. Myelin damage results from primary attack on the oligodendrocyte or myelin sheath. All major categories of disease can affect CNS myelin. Myelin vacuolation is common, yet does not always result in demyelination.
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- Ian D Duncan
- Department of Medical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States.
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- Department of Medical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
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Methyl group balance in brain and liver: Role of choline on increased S-adenosyl methionine (SAM) demand by chronic arsenic exposure. Toxicol Lett 2012; 215:110-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2012.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2012] [Revised: 10/05/2012] [Accepted: 10/08/2012] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Yamashita K, Yada H, Ariyoshi T. Neurotoxic effects of alpha-fluoro-beta-alanine (FBAL) and fluoroacetic acid (FA) on dogs. J Toxicol Sci 2004; 29:155-66. [PMID: 15206584 DOI: 10.2131/jts.29.155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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In order to clarify the mechanism of the neurotoxicity of 5-FU and/or its masked compounds, we studied the effects of alpha-fluoro-beta-alanine (FBAL) and fluoroacetic acid (FA) on the formation of vacuolar changes in the dog cerebrum, using the dosage of 3.0 mg/kg/day of FBAL-HCl (FBAL x HCl) and 0.03 mg/kg/day of FA-Na (FA x Na), respectively. These 2 compounds were selected because they are the metabolites of 5-FU claimed to be responsible for the neurotoxic effects of 5-FU and/or its masked compounds, and we wanted to confirm their effects. Tegafur-uracil mixture (UFT) was used as a positive control drug for the formation of vacuolar changes in the dog cerebrum. All compounds were orally administered daily for 3 months to beagle dogs. Each study group consisted of 3 males. Neurotoxic signs such as hyperesthesia and/or excitement, as well as convulsions, were observed in both FBAL x HCl and FA x Na groups; these toxic signs were also found in the UFT group. Slight loss of body weight gain and of food consumption was observed in the FBAL x HCl and UFT groups. Neuropathologically, vacuolar changes were detected in several areas of the dog cerebrum following administration of FBAL x HCl, FA x Na or UFT. In terms of morphology, the neuropathological effects of these 2 drugs were very similar to those induced by UFT. In conclusion, we clearly showed that FBAL is one of the main substances that cause neurotoxic signs and neuropathological changes in dogs intoxicated by 5-FU or its masked compounds. Moreover, FA might be considered to be a causative factor in addition to FBAL.
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- Kazumasa Yamashita
- Pharmacokinetics Research Laboratory, Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., 224-2 Ebisuno, Hiraishi, Kawauchi-cho, Tokushima 771-0194, Japan
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Horoupian DS, Hattab EM, Heit G. Astrocytic cytoplasmic inclusions within an epileptic focus in an otherwise neurologically intact patient. Hum Pathol 2003; 34:714-6. [PMID: 12874769 DOI: 10.1016/s0046-8177(03)00182-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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A 17-year-old woman with intractable seizures since infancy underwent resection of an epileptic focus in the left frontal cortex. The cytoplasm of many cortical astrocytes contained amorphous eosinophilic inclusions, which ultrastructurally were non-membrane bound and consisted of densely packed osmiophilic material. Similar inclusions have previously been observed, at autopsy, in patients with unspecified mental retardation and various brain malformations. The present report is unique in that the inclusions were detected in the resected specimen of an epileptic focus. The patient is neurologically intact except for the seizures that presently are totally controlled by the surgery. The pathogenesis of these inclusions is unclear. The fact they occurred in an epileptic focus raises the possibility that prolonged seizures or its underlying precipitating factors may cause conglutination of an indeterminate element of the protoplasmic astrocytes resulting in inclusion formation.
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- Dikran S Horoupian
- Department of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center, CA 94305, USA
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The physicochemical properties of water enable it to act as a solvent for electrolytes, and to influence the molecular configuration and hence the function--enzymatic in particular--of polypeptide chains in biological systems. The association of water with electrolytes determines the osmotic regulation of cell volume and allows the establishment of the transmembrane ion concentration gradients that underlie nerve excitation and impulse conduction. Fluid in the central nervous system is distributed in the intracellular and extracellular spaces (ICS, ECS) of the brain parenchyma, the cerebrospinal fluid, and the vascular compartment--the brain capillaries and small arteries and veins. Regulated exchange of fluid between these various compartments occurs at the blood-brain barrier (BBB), and at the ventricular ependyma and choroid plexus, and, on the brain surface, at the pia mater. The normal BBB is relatively permeable to water, but considerably less so to ions, including the principal electrolytes Brain fluid regulation takes place within the context of systemic fluid volume control, which depends on the mutual interaction of osmo-, volume-, and pressure-receptors in the hypothalamus, heart and kidney, hormones such as vasopressin, renin-angiotensin, aldosterone, atriopeptins, and digitalis-like immunoreactive substance, and their respective sites of action. Evidence for specific transport capabilities of the cerebral capillary endothelium, for example high Na+K(+)-ATPase activity and the presence at the abluminal surface of a Na(+)--H+ antiporter, suggests that cerebral microvessels play a more active part in brain volume regulation and ion homoeostasis than do capillaries in other vascular beds. The normal brain ECS amounts to 12-19% of brain volume, and is markedly reduced in anoxia, ischaemia, metabolic poisoning, spreading depression, and conventional procedures for histological fixation. The asymmetrical distributions of Na+ K+ and Ca2+ between ICS and ECS underlie the roles of these cations in nerve excitation and conduction, and in signal transduction. The relatively large volume of the CSF, and extensive diffusional exchange of many substances between brain ECS and CSF, augment the ion-homeostasing capacity of the ECS. The choroid plexus, in addition to secreting CSF principally by biochemical mechanisms (there is an additional small component from the extracellular fluid), actively transports some substances from the blood (e.g. nucleotides and ascorbic acid), and actively removes others from the CSF. In contrast with CSF secretion, CSF reabsorption is principally a biomechanical process, passively dependent on the CSF-dural sinus pressure gradient. Pathological increases in intracranial water content imply development of an intracranial mass lesion. The additional water may be distributed diffusely within the brain parenchyma as brain oedema, as a cyst, or as increase in ventricular volume due to hydrocephalus. Brain oedema is classified on the basis of pathophysiology into four categories, vasogenic, cytotoxic, osmotic and hydrostatic. The clinical conditions in which brain oedema presents the greatest problems are tumour, ischaemia, and head injury. Peritumoural oedema is predominantly vasogenic and related to BBB dysfunction. Ischaemic oedema is initially cytotoxic, with a shift of Na+ and CI- ions from ECS to ICS, followed by osmotically obliged water, this shift can be detected by diffusion-weighted MRI. Later in the evolution of an ischaemic lesion the oedema becomes vasogenic, with disruption of the BBB. Recent imaging studies in patients with head injury suggest that the development of traumatic brain oedema may follow a biphasic time course similar to that of ischaemic oedema. Hydrocephalus is associated in the great majority of cases with an obstruction to the circulation or drainage of CSF, or, occasionally, with overproduction of CSF by a choroid plexus papilloma. In either case, the consequence is a ris
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- K G Go
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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Weir DG, Scott JM. The biochemical basis of the neuropathy in cobalamin deficiency. BAILLIERE'S CLINICAL HAEMATOLOGY 1995; 8:479-97. [PMID: 8534958 DOI: 10.1016/s0950-3536(05)80217-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The pathogenesis of the neuropathy associated with vitamin B12 deficiency (subacute combined degeneration (SCD)) is now thought to be related to interference with the methylation reactions in the CNS. The methylation reactions are processed by S-adenosylmethionine (SAM), which is controlled by its product, S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH). The relationship of these two compounds is termed the methylation ratio. It has been demonstrated that if the ratio falls, the methylation reactions are inhibited leading to a state of CNS hypomethylation. The ratio can fall either due to a rise in SAH or a fall in SAM. It is suggested that for clinical signs to develop in animals who are susceptible to the lesion, both events are usually required. Inhibition of the vitamin B12-dependent enzyme, methionine synthase, leads to a rapid fall in the ratio in the CNS, since unlike other organs such as the liver, it does not have an alternative method of re-methylating homocysteine to maintain the endogenous synthesis of SAM. The supply of methyl groups necessary for the re-methylation reactions is controlled by a series of enzymes, which include methionine synthase. The inborn errors of metabolism that produce deficiency or impairment of these enzymes are described. Neurological syndromes associated with deficiency of these enzymes have close associations with SCD. The other clinical evidence and animal experiments that support this hypothesis are also described.
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- D G Weir
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Trinity College, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James' Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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O'Brien DP, Kroll RA, Johnson GC, Covert SJ, Nelson MJ. Myelinolysis after correction of hyponatremia in two dogs. J Vet Intern Med 1994; 8:40-8. [PMID: 8176662 DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-1676.1994.tb03194.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Two dogs developed delayed neurological deterioration after rapid correction of severe hyponatremia. Sequential magnetic resonance imaging showed the development of lesions in the thalamus. One dog was necropsied, and the lesions were characterized by myelinolysis with sparing of axons and neurons. The second dog gradually recovered with no detectable neurological deficits. The syndrome seems analogous to central pontine myelinolysis in human beings. Guidelines for correction of hyponatremia to prevent development of myelinolysis are given.
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- D P O'Brien
- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia
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Okeda R, Shibutani M, Matsuo T, Kuroiwa T. Subacute neurotoxicity of 5-fluorouracil and its derivative, carmofur, in cats. ACTA PATHOLOGICA JAPONICA 1988; 38:1255-66. [PMID: 3218507 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.1988.tb02277.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The subacute neurotoxicity of 5-fluorouracil (FU) and its derivative, carmofur (HCFU), in cats was morphologically examined; both these drugs were orally administered once daily for a maximum of three months. The dosis of FU and HCFU was 2 mg/kg/day and 10 mg/kg/day, respectively. Both FU and HCFU induced two sorts of changes in the brain, i.e., vacuolation and softening-like change. The former was distributed in the white matter of the cerebrum and cerebellum and in areas of the gray matter such as the tectum and tegmentum of the brain stem, while the latter was distributed exclusively in the gray matter of the tectum and tegmentum of the brain stem. The tectum, especially the inferior colliculus, was most frequently affected by both types of change. Ultrastructurally, vacuolation was found to be due to lamellar splitting or separation between the axon and innermost myelin layer. These findings were compared with those in dogs and as the etiopathogenesis vacuolation due to direct toxic effect of FU or its metabolites to myelin and softening-like change due to local circulatory disturbance caused by vacuolation were proposed.
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- R Okeda
- Department of Pathology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
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Harper PA, Healy PJ, Dennis JA. Ultrastructural findings in maple syrup urine disease in Poll Hereford calves. Acta Neuropathol 1986; 71:316-20. [PMID: 3799144 DOI: 10.1007/bf00688055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Ultrastructural findings in the nervous systems of two Poll Hereford calves affected with maple syrup urine disease or branched chain ketoacid decarboxylase deficiency are described. The calves were affected within 2 days of birth with a severe generalised central nervous system (CNS) disorder characterised by dullness and weakness, progressing to recumbency and opisthotonus. The urine had an odour of burnt sugar. Analysis of plasma and cerebrospinal fluid demonstrated significantly elevated levels of the branched chain amino acids leucine, isoleucine and valine. Status spongiosus affecting mainly the white matter was recorded at microscopic examination of the CNS, with ultrastructural examination confirming the presence of intramyelinic vacuole formation, suggesting myelin oedema.
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Okeda R, Karakama T, Kimura S, Toizumi S, Mitsushima T, Yokoyama Y. Neuropathologic study on chronic neurotoxicity of 5-fluorouracil and its masked compounds in dogs. Acta Neuropathol 1984; 63:334-43. [PMID: 6433643 DOI: 10.1007/bf00687342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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5-Fluorouracil (FU) and its masked compounds tegafur (FT) and carmofur (HCFU) were administered orally to Beagle dogs daily for 6 months, and their chronic neurotoxic effects were examined morphologically. In ten dogs that survived the 6-month treatment large vacuoles produced by splitting of the intraperiod line of myelin were observed in the fornix in the wall of the third ventricle. In severely affected dogs large vacuoles developed in the medial preoptic area, medial portion of the internal capsule, the area around the subthalamic nucleus and the mammillo-thalamic tract. Axons of myelinated fibers affected by vacuolation were generally well maintained, and destruction of myelin was not detected. Though proliferation of glia cells or abnormality of oligodendroglia was not detected, a lipid deposit covered by a single layer membrane was observed in the cell bodies and processes of astrocytes. No abnormality was detected by electron microscopy in the cerebrum, inferior colliculus, cerebellum, or pons. Of eight dogs that died during the treatment period, large vacuoles were observed in the fornix in the wall of the third ventricle of four dogs treated for more than 1 month, and large vacuoles were present in the inferior colliculus in two dogs of the FT group in the above four dogs. In the HCFU group, the interruption of treatment for 6 months resulted in alleviation or disappearance of the vacuolar lesions. The above findings suggest that the neurotoxicity of FU and its masked compounds FT and HCFU in long-term treatment produces changes morphologically identical with one another in respect to the site of their manifestation and nature of lesion, that their common degraded product alpha-fluoro-beta-alanine (FBAL) plays a crucial role in their neurotoxic actions, and that vacuolar lesions, to which myelin was more vulnerable than neurons, can develop where the toxic substance readily deposits and accumulates.
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