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Bernal-Tirapo J, Bayo Jiménez MT, Yuste-García P, Cordova I, Peñas A, García-Borda FJ, Quintela C, Prieto I, Sánchez-Ramos C, Ferrero-Herrero E, Monsalve M. Evaluation of Mitochondrial Function in Blood Samples Shows Distinct Patterns in Subjects with Thyroid Carcinoma from Those with Hyperplasia. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24076453. [PMID: 37047426 PMCID: PMC10094811 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24076453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2023] [Revised: 03/21/2023] [Accepted: 03/25/2023] [Indexed: 04/03/2023] Open
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Metabolic adaptations are a hallmark of cancer and may be exploited to develop novel diagnostic and therapeutic tools. Only about 50% of the patients who undergo thyroidectomy due to suspicion of thyroid cancer actually have the disease, highlighting the diagnostic limitations of current tools. We explored the possibility of using non-invasive blood tests to accurately diagnose thyroid cancer. We analyzed blood and thyroid tissue samples from two independent cohorts of patients undergoing thyroidectomy at the Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre (Madrid, Spain). As expected, histological comparisons of thyroid cancer and hyperplasia revealed higher proliferation and apoptotic rates and enhanced vascular alterations in the former. Notably, they also revealed increased levels of membrane-bound phosphorylated AKT, suggestive of enhanced glycolysis, and alterations in mitochondrial sub-cellular distribution. Both characteristics are common metabolic adaptations in primary tumors. These data together with reduced mtDNA copy number and elevated levels of the mitochondrial antioxidant PRX3 in cancer tissue samples suggest the presence of mitochondrial oxidative stress. In plasma, cancer patients showed higher levels of cfDNA and mtDNA. Of note, mtDNA plasma levels inversely correlated with those in the tissue, suggesting that higher death rates were linked to lower mtDNA copy number. In PBMCs, cancer patients showed higher levels of PGC-1α, a positive regulator of mitochondrial function, but this increase was not associated with a corresponding induction of its target genes, suggesting a reduced activity in cancer patients. We also observed a significant difference in the PRDX3/PFKFB3 correlation at the gene expression level, between carcinoma and hyperplasia patients, also indicative of increased systemic metabolic stress in cancer patients. The correlation of mtDNA levels in tissue and PBMCs further stressed the interconnection between systemic and tumor metabolism. Evaluation of the mitochondrial gene ND1 in plasma, PBMCs and tissue samples, suggested that it could be a good biomarker for systemic oxidative metabolism, with ND1/mtDNA ratio positively correlating in PBMCs and tissue samples. In contrast, ND4 evaluation would be informative of tumor development, with ND4/mtDNA ratio specifically altered in the tumor context. Taken together, our data suggest that metabolic dysregulation in thyroid cancer can be monitored accurately in blood samples and might be exploited for the accurate discrimination of cancer from hyperplasia.
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Fernández-Vizarra E, López-Calcerrada S, Sierra-Magro A, Pérez-Pérez R, Formosa LE, Hock DH, Illescas M, Peñas A, Brischigliaro M, Ding S, Fearnley IM, Tzoulis C, Pitceathly RDS, Arenas J, Martín MA, Stroud DA, Zeviani M, Ryan MT, Ugalde C. Two independent respiratory chains adapt OXPHOS performance to glycolytic switch. Cell Metab 2022; 34:1792-1808.e6. [PMID: 36198313 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2022.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2021] [Revised: 06/21/2022] [Accepted: 09/08/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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The structural and functional organization of the mitochondrial respiratory chain (MRC) remains intensely debated. Here, we show the co-existence of two separate MRC organizations in human cells and postmitotic tissues, C-MRC and S-MRC, defined by the preferential expression of three COX7A subunit isoforms, COX7A1/2 and SCAFI (COX7A2L). COX7A isoforms promote the functional reorganization of distinct co-existing MRC structures to prevent metabolic exhaustion and MRC deficiency. Notably, prevalence of each MRC organization is reversibly regulated by the activation state of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC). Under oxidative conditions, the C-MRC is bioenergetically more efficient, whereas the S-MRC preferentially maintains oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) upon metabolic rewiring toward glycolysis. We show a link between the metabolic signatures converging at the PDC and the structural and functional organization of the MRC, challenging the widespread notion of the MRC as a single functional unit and concluding that its structural heterogeneity warrants optimal adaptation to metabolic function.
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- Erika Fernández-Vizarra
- Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XY, UK; Veneto Institute of Molecular Medicine, 35129 Padova, Italy; Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy.
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- Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid 28041, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, 3800 Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Melbourne, 3052 Melbourne, Australia
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- Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid 28041, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid 28041, Spain
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- Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XY, UK
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- Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XY, UK
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- Neuro-SysMed Center of Excellence for Clinical Research in Neurological Diseases, Department of Neurology, Haukeland University Hospital and Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Pb 7804, 5020 Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid 28041, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), U723 Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid 28041, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), U723 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Melbourne, 3052 Melbourne, Australia
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- Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XY, UK; Veneto Institute of Molecular Medicine, 35129 Padova, Italy; Department of Neurosciences, University of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, 3800 Melbourne, Australia
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- Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid 28041, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), U723 Madrid, Spain.
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Illescas M, Peñas A, Arenas J, Martín MA, Ugalde C. Regulation of Mitochondrial Function by the Actin Cytoskeleton. Front Cell Dev Biol 2022; 9:795838. [PMID: 34993202 PMCID: PMC8725978 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.795838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The regulatory role of actin cytoskeleton on mitochondrial function is a growing research field, but the underlying molecular mechanisms remain poorly understood. Specific actin-binding proteins (ABPs), such as Gelsolin, have also been shown to participate in the pathophysiology of mitochondrial OXPHOS disorders through yet to be defined mechanisms. In this mini-review, we will summarize the experimental evidence supporting the fundamental roles of actin cytoskeleton and ABPs on mitochondrial trafficking, dynamics, biogenesis, metabolism and apoptosis, with a particular focus on Gelsolin involvement in mitochondrial disorders. The functional interplay between the actin cytoskeleton, ABPs and mitochondrial membranes for the regulation of cellular homeostasis thus emerges as a new exciting field for future research and therapeutic approaches.
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- María Illescas
- Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
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Lobo-Jarne T, Pérez-Pérez R, Fontanesi F, Timón-Gómez A, Wittig I, Peñas A, Serrano-Lorenzo P, García-Consuegra I, Arenas J, Martín MA, Barrientos A, Ugalde C. Multiple pathways coordinate assembly of human mitochondrial complex IV and stabilization of respiratory supercomplexes. EMBO J 2020; 39:e103912. [PMID: 32511785 DOI: 10.15252/embj.2019103912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2019] [Revised: 04/20/2020] [Accepted: 05/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Mitochondrial respiratory chain complexes I, III, and IV can associate into larger structures termed supercomplexes or respirasomes, thereby generating structural interdependences among the individual complexes yet to be understood. In patients, nonsense mutations in complex IV subunit genes cause severe encephalomyopathies randomly associated with pleiotropic complex I defects. Using complexome profiling and biochemical analyses, we have explored the structural rearrangements of the respiratory chain in human cell lines depleted of the catalytic complex IV subunit COX1 or COX2. In the absence of a functional complex IV holoenzyme, several supercomplex I+III2 species coexist, which differ in their content of COX subunits and COX7A2L/HIGD2A assembly factors. The incorporation of an atypical COX1-HIGD2A submodule attenuates supercomplex I+III2 turnover rate, indicating an unexpected molecular adaptation for supercomplexes stabilization that relies on the presence of COX1 independently of holo-complex IV formation. Our data set the basis for complex I structural dependence on complex IV, revealing the co-existence of alternative pathways for the biogenesis of "supercomplex-associated" versus individual complex IV, which could determine physiological adaptations under different stress and disease scenarios.
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- Teresa Lobo-Jarne
- Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre (i+12), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- SFB 815 Core Unit, Functional Proteomics, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre (i+12), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre (i+12), Madrid, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), U723, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre (i+12), Madrid, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), U723, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre (i+12), Madrid, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), U723, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.,Department of Neurology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre (i+12), Madrid, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), U723, Madrid, Spain
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Protasoni M, Pérez‐Pérez R, Lobo‐Jarne T, Harbour ME, Ding S, Peñas A, Diaz F, Moraes CT, Fearnley IM, Zeviani M, Ugalde C, Fernández‐Vizarra E. Respiratory supercomplexes act as a platform for complex III-mediated maturation of human mitochondrial complexes I and IV. EMBO J 2020; 39:e102817. [PMID: 31912925 PMCID: PMC6996572 DOI: 10.15252/embj.2019102817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2019] [Revised: 11/02/2019] [Accepted: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
Abstract
Mitochondrial respiratory chain (MRC) enzymes associate in supercomplexes (SCs) that are structurally interdependent. This may explain why defects in a single component often produce combined enzyme deficiencies in patients. A case in point is the alleged destabilization of complex I in the absence of complex III. To clarify the structural and functional relationships between complexes, we have used comprehensive proteomic, functional, and biogenetical approaches to analyze a MT-CYB-deficient human cell line. We show that the absence of complex III blocks complex I biogenesis by preventing the incorporation of the NADH module rather than decreasing its stability. In addition, complex IV subunits appeared sequestered within complex III subassemblies, leading to defective complex IV assembly as well. Therefore, we propose that complex III is central for MRC maturation and SC formation. Our results challenge the notion that SC biogenesis requires the pre-formation of fully assembled individual complexes. In contrast, they support a cooperative-assembly model in which the main role of complex III in SCs is to provide a structural and functional platform for the completion of overall MRC biogenesis.
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- Margherita Protasoni
- Medical Research Council‐Mitochondrial Biology UnitUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
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- Medical Research Council‐Mitochondrial Biology UnitUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
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- Medical Research Council‐Mitochondrial Biology UnitUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
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- Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre (i+12)MadridSpain
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- Department of NeurologyMiller School of MedicineUniversity of MiamiMiamiFLUSA
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- Department of NeurologyMiller School of MedicineUniversity of MiamiMiamiFLUSA
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- Medical Research Council‐Mitochondrial Biology UnitUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
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- Medical Research Council‐Mitochondrial Biology UnitUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
- Department of NeurosciencesUniversity of PadovaPadovaItaly
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- Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre (i+12)MadridSpain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), U723MadridSpain
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García-Bartolomé A, Peñas A, Marín-Buera L, Lobo-Jarne T, Pérez-Pérez R, Morán M, Arenas J, Martín MA, Ugalde C. Respiratory chain enzyme deficiency induces mitochondrial location of actin-binding gelsolin to modulate the oligomerization of VDAC complexes and cell survival. Hum Mol Genet 2017; 26:2493-2506. [PMID: 28431142 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddx144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2017] [Accepted: 04/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Despite considerable knowledge on the genetic basis of mitochondrial disorders, their pathophysiological consequences remain poorly understood. We previously used two-dimensional difference gel electrophoresis analyses to define a protein profile characteristic for respiratory chain complex III-deficiency that included a significant overexpression of cytosolic gelsolin (GSN), a cytoskeletal protein that regulates the severing and capping of the actin filaments. Biochemical and immunofluorescence assays confirmed a specific increase of GSN levels in the mitochondria from patients' fibroblasts and from transmitochondrial cybrids with complex III assembly defects. A similar effect was obtained in control cells upon treatment with antimycin A in a dose-dependent manner, showing that the enzymatic inhibition of complex III is sufficient to promote the mitochondrial localization of GSN. Mitochondrial subfractionation showed the localization of GSN to the mitochondrial outer membrane, where it interacts with the voltage-dependent anion channel protein 1 (VDAC1). In control cells, VDAC1 was present in five stable oligomeric complexes, which showed increased levels and a modified distribution pattern in the complex III-deficient cybrids. Downregulation of GSN expression induced cell death in both cell types, in parallel with the specific accumulation of VDAC1 dimers and the release of mitochondrial cytochrome c into the cytosol, indicating a role for GSN in the oligomerization of VDAC complexes and in the prevention of apoptosis. Our results demonstrate that respiratory chain complex III dysfunction induces the physiological upregulation and mitochondrial location of GSN, probably to promote cell survival responses through the modulation of the oligomeric state of the VDAC complexes.
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- Alberto García-Bartolomé
- Instituto de Investigación, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid 28041, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid U723, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid 28041, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid 28041, Spain.,Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Center for Biomembrane Research, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Instituto de Investigación, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid 28041, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid U723, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid 28041, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid U723, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid 28041, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid U723, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid 28041, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid U723, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid 28041, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid U723, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid 28041, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid U723, Spain
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Peñas A, García-González M, Cruz MJ, Valdesoiro L, Boot JD, Larramona H, Asensio O, Grau R, Costa J, Bosque M. Observational study of the safety of a cluster schedule for subcutaneous immunotherapy in a pediatric population. J Investig Allergol Clin Immunol 2013; 23:63-65. [PMID: 23653981] [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: 06/02/2023] Open
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- A Peñas
- Pediatric Allergology and Pneumology Unit, Hospital de Sabadell, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Perez-Alvarez F, Luque A, Peñas A. Bilateral disc drusen as an important differential diagnosis of pseudotumor cerebri. Brain Dev 2007; 29:387-8. [PMID: 17158012 DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2006.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2006] [Revised: 09/28/2006] [Accepted: 10/15/2006] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Perez-Alvarez F, Peñas A, Bergadà A, Mayol L. Obsessive-compulsive disorder and acute traumatic brain injury. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2006; 114:295; author reply 295-6. [PMID: 16968372 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2006.00880.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Peñas A, Gonzalo J. Multilingual information retrieval: state of the art. Int Artif 2004. [DOI: 10.4114/ia.v8i22.803] [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: 11/20/2022] Open
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Martínez-Frías ML, Bermejo E, Félix V, Jiménez N, Gómez-Ullate J, López JA, Aparicio P, Ayala A, Gairi JM, Galán E, Suárez ME, Peñas A, de Tapia JM, Nieto C, de la Serna E. [Brachmann-de-Lange syndrome in our population: clinical and epidemiological characteristics]. An Esp Pediatr 1998; 48:293-8. [PMID: 9608092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
INTRODUCTION We present the study of the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of Brachmann-de Lange syndrome in our population. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this study we present the analysis of 13 cases of Brachmann-de Lange syndrome identified among 24,696 infants with congenital defects registered by the Spanish Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (ECEMC) between April 1976 and June 1996. RESULTS The minimum estimation of the prevalence in our population is 0.97 per 100,000 live births. We have epidemiologically confirmed the presence of intrauterine growth retardation and have observed that parental ages tend to be relatively young. We have observed a wide range of clinical expression of this syndrome. One hundred percent of our cases have limb reduction defects, followed in frequency by craniofacial alterations (84.62%), abnormal hair distribution (76.92%) and genital defects (69.23%). Upper limbs are predominantly affected and one case of diaphragmatic hernia is worth mentioning. We underline the importance of the differential diagnosis with Fryns'syndrome. CONCLUSIONS The cases studied correspond to the most severe form of the syndrome, reason for which the prevalence is a minimal estimate. However, the mild forms of the syndrome are more frequent and it is important to consider that the face, especially the form of the eyebrow, could be a good guide for the diagnosis of mild forms of the syndrome.
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- M L Martínez-Frías
- ECEMC y Departamento de Farmacología, Facultad de Medicina Universidad Complutense, Madrid
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