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Francis ML, Palcsu L, Molnár M, Kertész T, Clarke CE, Miller JA, van Gend J. Calcareous termite mounds in South Africa are ancient carbon reservoirs. Sci Total Environ 2024; 926:171760. [PMID: 38537830 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2023] [Revised: 02/03/2024] [Accepted: 03/14/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024]
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Ecosystems that offer carbon sequestration by leaching bicarbonate to groundwater are valuable natural capital. One region that may offer this service is the west coast of South Africa. Over 20 % is covered by soil mounds ("heuweltjies") up to 40 m diameter, 2 m high, inhabited by the southern harvester termite Microhodotermes viator and enriched in soil organic and inorganic carbon and soluble minerals. We aimed to generate radiogenic and stable isotope data for soils and groundwater in a region where these data are absent, to 1) verify the atmosphere-soil-groundwater link, and 2) resolve the timing and pattern of calcite dissolution and water infiltration in the landscape. Results show that soil and groundwater sulfate have the same marine aerosol source. Episodic calcite dissolution in mound centers, which increased during periods of global cooling, has been set against background input of marine aerosols since before the Last Glacial according to radiocarbon (14C) ages. Our data push back soil organic carbon 14C ages of inhabited termite mounds to 13-19 ka (kiloannum, thousand years before present), nest carbonate 14C ages to 33 ka, and mound soil carbonate 14C ages to 34 ka, making these the oldest active termite features ever dated. These ages are consistent with soil organic carbon and carbonate 14C ages of regional, non-mound, coastal petrocalcic horizons formed by accumulation of carbonate leached from their overlying aeolian dune fields. Harvesting activities of termites inject younger organic material around nests >1 m deep, leading to continuous renewal of important soil carbon reservoirs at depth. Termite bioturbation increases the system's ability to dissolve carbonate. The central, bioturbated part of the mounds have greater infiltration depths and greater calcite dissolution, whereas surrounding soils experienced more surface runoff. Calcareous termite mounds offer a mechanism to sequester CO2 through dissolution and leaching of soil carbonate-bicarbonate to groundwater.
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- M L Francis
- Department of Soil Science, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, South Africa.
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- Isotope Climatology and Environmental Research Center, Institute for Nuclear Research, Bem ter 18/c, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Isotope Climatology and Environmental Research Center, Institute for Nuclear Research, Bem ter 18/c, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Isotope Climatology and Environmental Research Center, Institute for Nuclear Research, Bem ter 18/c, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Department of Soil Science, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, South Africa
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, South Africa
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, South Africa
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Cook SK, Parker SM, Woody NM, Vos DJ, Campbell SR, Lamarre E, Scharpf J, Geiger JL, Yilmaz E, Miller JA, Silver N, Ku J, Koyfman SA, Prendes B. Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinomas in Patients with a History of Oral Lichen Planus: Frequency and Outcomes. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 117:e573. [PMID: 37785747 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.1906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S) Oral lichen planus (OLP) is an inflammatory condition which affects the mucous membranes of the oral cavity. While previous studies have described the association between OLP and development of oral cavity cancer, there is currently a paucity of literature examining the impact of this disease on treatment response and prognosis. As such, we present a retrospective cohort study of Oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC) patients with a history of OLP to explore the course of their disease. MATERIALS/METHODS Using an IRB approved tertiary care registry of head and neck cancer patients, we identified patients with OCSCC who had a prior diagnosis of OLP. The number of new primary tumors, rates of local (LF), regional (RF) and distant failure (DF), as well as overall survival (OS) were assessed using Cox proportional hazards and Kaplan Meier analysis for actuarial survival estimates. RESULTS Fifty-four patients with OCSCC and OLP were identified with 109 individual OCSCC diagnoses. Patients had a median age of 67 years, were predominantly female (n = 42, 77.8%) and never smokers (n = 29, 53.7%) with a median follow up after diagnosis of OCSCC of 46.5 months. Nine patients (16.7%) had a history of immunosuppression of whom 6 (11.1%) had chronic steroid use for treatment of OLP. Within the cohort, 33 (61.1%) of OLP patients had a single OCSCC, 11 (20.4%) had 2, and 10 (18.5%) had >3 separate tumors develop. The most common oral cavity subsites were oral tongue (n = 42, 38.5%), followed by alveolar ridge (n = 14, 12.8%) and gingiva (n = 13, 11.9%). Papillary SCC subtype was identified in 10.1%. 92.7% of tumors (n = 101) were treated with primary surgery, with 23 (21.1%) receiving adjuvant RT and 10 of those patients receiving concurrent chemotherapy. Among resected patients, pathologic stages were predominantly T1-2 (84.1%) and N0 (50% vs N1 15.6% and N2a-3 34.4%). The mean RT dose was 62 Gy in 32 fractions. Locoregional failure occurred in 24.8% of cancers (n = 27), with local and regional failure occurring in 13.8% (n = 15) and 11% (n = 12) of lesions, respectively. Recurrence free survival at 3 and 5 years was 75% and 70.3%, respectively, with overall survival at 3 and 5 years of 71.1% and 67%, respectively. CONCLUSION Patients with OCSCC and a history of OLP are predominantly female and never smokers. The tumors that develop in such patients are often early stage but a proportion of patients appear to be at higher risk of developing multiple malignancies and surveillance of this patient population to identify new tumors is crucial.
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- S K Cook
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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- University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, Albuquerque, NM
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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Kocsis J, Billena C, Woody NM, Miller JA, Joshi NP, Koyfman SA, Campbell SR. Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) for Head and Neck Cancer Re-Irradiation: Should >180˚ Carotid Encasement or Dermal Involvement Remain an Exclusion Criteria? Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 117:e593-e594. [PMID: 37785793 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.1946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S) Patients with recurrent head and neck cancer (HNC) who present with carotid encasement (CE) >180˚ and skin involvement/abutment (SI/A) are often not considered for SBRT re-irradiation and are excluded from RTOG 3507. We reviewed our institutional experience of SBRT re-irradiation in such cases. MATERIALS/METHODS From an IRB approved registry, we identified previously irradiated HNC patients treated by SBRT with CE >180˚, SI/A, or use of bolus from 2013-2022. Toxicity as per CTCAEv4.0 and recurrence patterns were analyzed. The cumulative incidence of local progression was estimated with death as a competing risk. Survival analysis was performed with the Kaplan-Meier method. RESULTS Thirty-five patients were treated with SBRT to 37 sites with median follow up of 5.7 months (mo) (IQR 2.7-10.6). A total of 20 cases exhibited CE >180˚, 20 cases had SI/A, and 3 cases had both. The median time from prior radiation was 12.7 mo (range 1.9-144.1). Histology was squamous cell carcinoma in 89%. The site of SBRT was most commonly the neck (65%), 24% mucosa, 8% skull base, and 3% scalp. SBRT was delivered in 5 fractions every other day (62%) or 2 fractions per week (38%). 78% (N = 29) received ≥40 Gy while 22% (N = 8) received a lower dose. The cumulative incidence of local failure at 3 and 6 mo was 12.4% (95% CI 0.8-24.0) and 31.3% (95% CI 14.9-47.8), respectively. The median time of local and regional recurrence free survival was 7.0 and 4.9 mo. Median OS was 8.3 mo. Of the 20 cases with true SI, 40% (N = 8) completely resolved, 35% (N = 7) improved or had residual ulceration attributed to disease, and 25% (N = 5) had ulceration related to toxicity. There were no carotid bleeding events (CBE) related to SBRT, however 10% (N = 2) experienced fatal CBE related to progressive disease at 2.3 mo and 6.7 mo from SBRT. The rate of grade ≥2 treatment related skin toxicity was 19% (N = 7) and only occurred in those with pre-SBRT SI/A. These included a grade 2 neck wound and tracheostomy infection, a grade 3 infection, and two grade 3 soft tissue necrosis. One patient had cellulitis/meningitis related to scalp radiation, and one had an untreated SBRT wound as they transitioned to hospice. Dysphagia requiring PEG occurred in 5% (N = 2), one of which was related to CNX palsy. Six patients (17%) had post-SBRT nerve impairment including one each of grade 2 facial nerve paralysis, grade 2 brachial plexopathy, grade 3 CNVIII dysfunction, grade 3 CNX impairment, and two patients with grade 2 CNXII impairment. CONCLUSION SBRT for locally recurrent previously radiated HNC can provide effective local control in a patient population at high risk of morbidity and mortality from local disease progression. In patients who have >180˚ CE or SI/A, we observed non-trivial toxicity, but disease progression may have been more morbid. For appropriately counseled patients with limited treatment options, CE or SI/A may not be an absolute contraindication to SBRT re-irradiation.
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- J Kocsis
- Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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Miller JA, Liu Z, Pinsky B, Le QT, Li T, Cao S, Hildesheim A. Local Cost-Effectiveness of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Screening Strategies in Southern China: Secondary Analysis of the PRO-NPC-001 Cluster-Randomized Trial. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 117:S70. [PMID: 37784557 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S) Population-based screening for endemic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) detects most cases at an early stage. In a cluster-randomized trial conducted in Guangdong, a combination of Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) anti-VCA/EBNA1 IgA serology and endoscopy reduced NPC mortality. We conducted a secondary analysis of this trial in conjunction with local incidence and cost data, hypothesizing that screening would be cost-effective in this region. MATERIALS/METHODS We estimated population-level NPC mortality reduction, resource utilization, and cost-effectiveness of 12 unique screening strategies in six populations in Guangdong/Guangxi using a previously-validated time-inhomogeneous decision-analytic cohort model. These 12 strategies evaluated combinations of serology, nasopharyngeal swab PCR (NP PCR), endoscopy, and head/neck MRI. Incidence data, screening costs, and healthcare costs were obtained from local cancer registries, laboratories conducting ELISA/PCR, and the Guangdong provincial healthcare system. We evaluated variable screening ages, sexes, intervals, and durations to identify optimal screening approaches from the perspective of the healthcare system in southern China. An incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) willingness-to-pay threshold of 1.50 times the per-capita GDP was considered cost-effective in southern China. RESULTS For the base strategy screening 50-year-old men and women using only serology and endoscopy, the average cost per screened subject for a single round of screening over a five-year cycle was ¥175.69. The addition of MRI improved sensitivity (76% vs. 62%) and approximately doubled screening costs. Triage with NP PCR was cost-neutral when used in conjunction with MRI and reduced endoscopy/MRI utilization by 37% with a 3-4% reduction in screening sensitivity. Among 50-year-old men and women, screening was cost-effective in all populations provided that medium-risk subjects were not referred for endoscopy/MRI (ICER/GDP 0.62-0.83). The use of NP PCR without MRI (ICER/GDP 0.83) was dominated by the base strategy (ICER/GDP 0.62) due to higher costs and NPC mortality. After a single five-year screening cycle, screening reduced population NPC mortality by 14% with serology + endoscopy and 21% with serology + endoscopy + MRI. Introduction of MRI with or without NP PCR could be cost-effective in all populations. For MRI-based strategies, the most efficient use of resources was deferral of endoscopy unless MRI was abnormal (ICER/GDP 0.67). Overall, the best-performing strategies balanced NPC mortality, screening costs, and MRI utilization. CONCLUSION EBV serology-based screening for endemic NPC is likely to be cost-effective among adult men and women in Guangdong and Guangxi. Referring medium-risk subjects for endoscopy/MRI should be avoided, and NP PCR should be used to triage individuals for MRI rather than endoscopy. These data may aid the design of population-based screening programs in this region.
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- J A Miller
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
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- Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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- Department of Cancer Prevention, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Diagnosis and Therapy, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Buchberger DS, Dennert K, Campbell SR, Scharpf J, Siperstein A, Heiden K, Lamarre E, Prendes B, Geiger JL, Yilmaz E, Davis RW, Silver N, Ku J, Miller JA, Koyfman SA, Woody NM. Definitive Radiotherapy for the Treatment of Gross Disease in Unresected Differentiated Thyroid Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 117:e568-e569. [PMID: 37785736 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.1895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S) While surgery (with or without radioactive iodine (RAI)) is the mainstay of locoregional control in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), patients with unresectable disease present a clinical challenge. Uncontrolled disease in the neck can lead to substantial morbidity and mortality in DTC and obtaining locoregional control is vital to preserving quality of life and longevity. High dose definitive radiotherapy (RT) for gross disease in DTC is understudied. This study examines the efficacy of definitive RT in this setting. MATERIALS/METHODS From an IRB-approved registry of head and neck cancer cases treated at a tertiary care center over a period of 8 years (2014-2022), patients with incompletely resected or unresectable DTC including papillary, follicular, mixed, medullary, and poorly differentiated types were identified. All patients were treated to the neck and/or thyroid regions with visible gross disease to a definitive dose of radiation. The primary endpoint was local control within the radiated portal with a secondary endpoint of locoregional control within the neck. RESULTS A total of 31 patients were identified, of whom 74.2% were Caucasian. Fourteen were female (45.2%), and 17 (54.8%) were male. The median age was 68 years (range 26-90) and the median follow-up was 31 months. Histologically, 19 (61.3%) cases were papillary, 4 (12.9%) were follicular, 2 (6.5%) were mixed, 3 (9.7%) were medullary, and 3 (9.7%) were poorly differentiated. Among patients with non-medullary DTC 18 (69.2%) received prior RAI. Twelve patients were treated with radiation at initial diagnosis, while 19 patients were treated at the time of recurrence; two patients received concurrent chemotherapy. Twenty-eight patients (90.3%) were treated with IMRT and 3 (9.7%) were treated with SBRT. The median dose to the gross disease was 66 Gy (range 30-70.4) in 32 fractions (range 5-35). Overall, 5 patients (16.1%) experienced a locoregional failure after RT and all experienced failure in the RT portal. The actuarial infield control/locoregional control of radiation therapy at 3 and 5 years was 84.8% and 74.2%, respectively. Overall survival at 3 and 5 years was 68.5% and 47.4%, respectively. Among patients who had a locoregional failure after RT, 2 patients were salvaged with systemic therapy, 2 patients with surgery, and 1 patient with SBRT re-irradiation (40 Gy/5 fractions). The patient salvaged with SBRT remains without disease 8 months post-RT. CONCLUSION Definitive radiotherapy is a highly effective strategy to obtain durable control of unresected DTC. It should be standard for unresected disease and considered as a viable alternative for patients with borderline resectable disease for whom resection would be highly morbid.
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- D S Buchberger
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Hematology Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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Campbell SR, Fan CA, Dennert K, Cook SK, Xia P, Miller JA, Greskovich JF, Dorfmeyer A, Hymes C, Dylong M, Zickefoose LM, Murray EJ, Koyfman SA, Woody NM. Partial Tongue Sparing without Marginal Failures: The Dosimetric Advantages for Oral Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 117:e569. [PMID: 37785738 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.1897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S) Due to a lack of internal barriers, many radiation oncologists believe whole tongue (WT) irradiation is warranted in the adjuvant setting for oral tongue cancer. Our institutional practice is to include the resection bed and flap with a 5-10 mm margin, attempting to spare unaffected oral tongue. We hypothesize that partial tongue (PT) irradiation, when feasible, results in decreased dose to surrounding normal structures without an increased risk of local recurrence (LR). MATERIALS/METHODS Patients with a new diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma of the oral tongue treated with adjuvant IMRT between 2010 and 2021 were collected from an IRB approved database. PT was defined as <80% of residual tongue in the clinical target volume (CTV). Recurrence was deemed local if in the tongue or floor of mouth, and in field if within the CTV or marginal if outside of CTV. Mean dose to mandible, pharyngeal constrictors, and oral cavity were evaluated. Comparisons between groups were made using parametric one-way ANOVA. Multivariable linear regression was used to predict mean radiation dose. Local control and overall survival were estimated using Kaplan-Meier. RESULTS A total of 130 patients are included with median follow up 34.1 months (IQR 13.5-64.6). Radiation dose was 48-72 Gy in 24-36 fractions, most commonly 60-66 Gy in 30-33 fractions (84.6%). All were treated to oral cavity, and neck irradiation included bilateral 96 (72%), unilateral 31 (24%), and none 3 (4%). PT sparing was feasible in 91 (70%) and 39 (30%) required WT. Primary tumor stage in PT included 20 pT1, 50 pT2, 17 pT3, and 4 pT4, and WT included 3 pT1, 8 pT2, 15 pT3, and 13 pT4. 3-year local control for PT and WT was 96% and 87%, respectively. LR occurred in 14 patients overall (10.8%), 6.6% (6) of patients treated with PT and 20.5% (8) treated with WT (p = 0.072). Of the LR for PT, stage was 2 pT1, 3 pT2, and 1 pT3, and all occurred within the radiation field. Of the LR for WT, stage was 1 each of pT1 and pT2, 2 pT3, and 4 pT4. Overall survival was 57%, regional and distant recurrence was each 17.7%. Dosimetric analysis for PT vs WT is described in Table 1, demonstrating lower mean dose when the primary tumor CTV is limited to PT. Unilateral neck irradiation also resulted in a lower mandible [-8.5 Gy (-11.2 - -5.8)], pharyngeal constrictor [-14.3 Gy (-18.1 - -10.5)], and oral cavity [-9.0 Gy (-13.0 - -5.0)] dose (all p<0.001). CONCLUSION Limiting the primary tumor CTV to PT for adjuvant radiotherapy resulted in significant sparing of the mandible and pharyngeal constrictors, and a routinely lower oral cavity mean dose of ≥3.5 Gy. There was a low risk of LR when implementing PT, and all LR occurred in field. Given the increased sparing of normal structures, and low risk of LR outside of PT radiation field, sparing a portion of unaffected oral tongue should be considered.
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- S R Campbell
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
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- Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL
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- Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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- Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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Billena C, Angelov L, Balagamwala EH, Miller JA, Reddy CA, Koro S, Bommireddy A, Emch T, Suh JH, Murphy ES, Xia P, Magnelli A, Chao ST. Phase II Randomized Trial of Single- vs. Two-Fraction Spine Stereotactic Radiosurgery for the Treatment of Vertebral Metastases. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 117:e89. [PMID: 37786206 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S) As systemic therapies improve significantly, more patients with limited metastatic disease are undergoing spine stereotactic radiosurgery (sSRS). High dose (≥24 Gy) single fraction sSRS has been associated with a vertebral compression fracture (VCF) risk of up to 40%. Comparatively, lower dose (16-18 Gy) single fraction sSRS is associated with a fracture risk of 15-20%, with the risk increasing as the dose increases. To mitigate the risk of VCF, while optimizing higher dose delivery, some have advocated utilizing two-fraction sSRS regimen. Therefore, we designed a phase II randomized trial in which we hypothesized that single fraction sSRS is non-inferior to two-fraction sSRS with respect to VCF but offers patients greater convenience. MATERIALS/METHODS Inclusion criteria include age ≥18, Karnofsky performance score ≥70, vertebral metastasis from C3 to L5, maximum of three separate sites of metastases, limited paraspinal extension (<5 cm), and no rapid neurological decline. Patients must also be either Recursive Partitioning Analysis Class 1 (KPS >70 AND controlled systemic disease) or Class 2 (KPS >70, uncontrolled systemic disease OR KPS ≤70, age ≥54, no visceral metastases). Exclusion criteria include multiple primary cancers, primary neoplasm of the spine, prior surgery at the site of sSRS, spinal cord compression, bony retropulsion resulting in neurologic deficit, inability to undergo/contraindication to MRI, or diffuse multi-level metastatic spine disease. Our primary hypothesis is that single fraction sSRS (experimental arm - 16-18 Gy) is non-inferior to two fraction sSRS (standard arm - 24 Gy). Furthermore, we hypothesize that both treatment arms will have similar local control, pain control, quality of life and toxicity profiles. The primary endpoint of this trial is the development or progression of VCF at 6 months. Secondary endpoints include local control, pain control, quality of life and toxicity all of which will be assessed at 12 months. For the sample size calculation, we assumed a VCF risk of 17% in the experimental arm and a 7% risk in the standard arm. Based on these calculations, we aim to enroll 130 patients, 65 in each arm. This trial is currently enrolling patients actively, and approximately 30% of expected enrollment has been completed to date. This trial is registered on clinicaltrials.gov: NCT04218617. RESULTS Pending full accrual. CONCLUSION Pending full accrual.
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- C Billena
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Rose Ella Burkhardt Brain Tumor & Neuro-oncology Center, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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van Gend J, Francis ML, Watson AP, Palcsu L, Horváth A, Macey PH, le Roux P, Clarke CE, Miller JA. Saline groundwater in the Buffels River catchment, Namaqualand, South Africa: A new look at an old problem. Sci Total Environ 2021; 762:143140. [PMID: 33131834 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2020] [Revised: 08/28/2020] [Accepted: 10/12/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Namaqualand, South Africa, is a global biodiversity hotspot but local populations are affected by challenging economic conditions largely because of poor access to water. In this study groundwater types are characterised and sources of salts and salinisation processes are identified using hydrochemistry and δ18O, δ2H and 87Sr/86Sr data. Analysis of δ18O and δ2H data suggests that evaporation does not play a major role in salinisation of the groundwater. However, major ion chemistry and 87Sr/86Sr ratios indicate that salts present in the groundwater are linked to dry deposition of marine aerosols and ion-exchange reactions in soils in the alluvial aquifer systems. The hydrochemical variability of the groundwater in the basement aquifer system suggests that there are strong local controls linked to weathering processes in individual basement rock types. The region is also notable for the high density of heuweltjies, biophysical features associated with increased nutrient levels, associated with termite activity. Electromagnetic scanning as well as measurement of water-soluble soil electrical conductivity values on and off heuweltjies, show that heuweltjies are saline with salinity increasing with depth. The level of groundwater salinity correlates with the level of heuweltjie salinity. Precipitation records from the last 150 years provide support for the hypothesis that accumulated salts, and in particular, heuweltjie salts are flushed into the groundwater system during sporadic large volume precipitation events. Thus, heuweltjies and hence termite activity, could potentially represent a previously unrecognized contributor to groundwater salinisation across Namaqualand and in other parts of the world.
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- J van Gend
- Department of Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, South Africa
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- Department of Soil Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag, X1, Matieland, South Africa
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, South Africa
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- Isotope Climatology and Environmental Research Centre, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Isotope Climatology and Environmental Research Centre, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Council for Geoscience, PO Box 572, Bellville 7530, South Africa
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- Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Soil Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag, X1, Matieland, South Africa
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, South Africa.
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van Rooyen JD, Palcsu L, Visser A, Vennemann TW, Miller JA. Spatial and temporal variability of tritium in precipitation within South Africa and it's bearing on hydrological studies. J Environ Radioact 2021; 226:106354. [PMID: 33046265 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2020.106354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2020] [Revised: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 07/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Tritium, the radioactive isotope of hydrogen, has been used to understand groundwater recharge processes for decades. The current variation of tritium in the atmosphere is largely attributed to stratospheric production and fall out rates as well as global circulation phenomena controlling the hydrological cycle. Global controls on the variability in atmospheric tritium activity are poorly suited to explain local variation and tritium activities in precipitation are often assumed to be uniform over both local and regional catchments and watersheds. This assumption can result in both over and under estimation of modern recharge within an aquifer when using tritium as the recharge proxy. In order to minimize the inherent prediction residuals associated with tritium based recharge investigations, the variability of tritium in precipitation was modelled from 127 spatial precipitation samples taken over a two year period, combined with a 76 precipitation sample group-set taken over a one year period in a single location. Precipitation events were traced backward in time, from the point of collection, using HYSPLIT modelling to ascertain the origins of moisture content as well as the altitudes of moisture origin reached along the particle track. Tritium activities, collected over a one year period in Paarl, range from 0.45 to 4.16 TU and have a mean of 1.59 TU. Spatial storm events in the Western Cape in 2017 and 2018 had a range from 0 to 2.2 and 0.37 to 3.27 TU, respectively, with mean activities of 1.18 (n = 34) and 1.25 TU (n = 32). Both storm events had similar tritium variability (σ = 0.5 n = 35 and 0.48 n = 32). Regional precipitation events had the largest range of tritium activities (0.55-12.2 TU). Although not all tritium activities can be explained by interrogating the water mass origin, this study suggests that approximately 90% of events can be completely or partially attributed to the origin of the water mass. The variability of tritium, both spatially and temporally, was higher than expected, confirming that when uniform tritium inputs are used, the groundwater system would provide inaccurate modern recharge estimates. Higher spatial resolution of tritium variation in precipitation for a particular region will improve our ability to relate tritium activities in groundwater to local precipitation.
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- J D van Rooyen
- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7601, South Africa.
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- Isotope Climatology and Environmental Research Centre (ICER), Institute for Nuclear Research, H-4026, Debrecen, Bem tér 18/c, Hungary.
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division, 7000 East Ave, Livermore, CA, 94550, United States.
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- Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7601, South Africa.
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Daneshpajouhnejad P, Miller JA, Maleki Z. Diagnostic utility of high-risk human papillomavirus mRNA in situ hybridisation in squamous cell carcinoma of unknown primary in the head and neck and implementing American Society of Clinical Oncology guideline recommendations. Cytopathology 2020; 31:547-554. [PMID: 32735747 DOI: 10.1111/cyt.12896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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: 06/17/2020] [Revised: 07/16/2020] [Accepted: 07/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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INTRODUCTION The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)-endorsed College of American Pathologists guideline recommends high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) testing for metastatic squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of lymph nodes level II/III of unknown primary. Herein, the performance of HPV-RNA in situ hybridisation (ISH) in detection of HPV-related SCC is evaluated implementing the ASCO guideline recommendations. METHODS Eighty head and neck (HN) SCC fine needle aspirations, which utilized HPV-RNA ISH/P16, were evaluated at Johns Hopkins Hospital (2015-2018) to investigate their performance and concordance with histology. The results were compared to a prior study of 59 HNSCCs, which HPV-DNA ISH. RESULTS Of the 80 reviewed fine needle aspirations, 65 (50 male, 15 female) were included. The mean age was 63.2 ± 14.0 years. The most common site was neck lymph nodes (47, 72.3%). Fifty-five cases (84.6%) were accompanied by concurrent core biopsy, and 48 cases (59.4%) had surgical follow-ups. HPV-RNA ISH was positive in 44 (67.7%), and P16 was strongly positive in 46 (70.8%). The HPV-RNA ISH/ P16 concordance rate was 92.3% on cytology material. The cytology/surgical concordance rate for HPV-RNA ISH was 88.9% (16/18). There was a discordance between the results in five cases (7.7%; HPV-RNA ISH-/P16+). CONCLUSION HPV-RNA ISH is a robust and reliable method for detecting HPV-related HNSCC on cytology material showing concordance rate of 92.3% between HPV-RNA ISH and P16, which is a sensitive but non-specific marker. Compared to HPV-DNA ISH, HPV-RNA ISH reproducibly identifies HPV-related HNSCC with fewer discrepancies between cytology and histology. The findings of this study are in agreement with the ASCO recommendations.
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- Department of Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Allison DB, Smith AP, An D, Miller JA, Shafique K, Song S, Viswanathan K, Eykman E, Rao RA, Wiles A, Barkan GA, Nayar R, Fadda G, Powers CN, Rossi ED, Siddiqui MT, Ali SZ, Kholová I, Layfield LJ, Field A, Baloch Z, Maleki Z. Assessing the diagnostic accuracy for pleomorphic adenoma and Warthin tumor by employing the Milan System for Reporting Salivary Gland Cytopathology: An international, multi-institutional study. Cancer Cytopathol 2020; 129:43-52. [PMID: 32767837 DOI: 10.1002/cncy.22339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [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: 06/08/2020] [Revised: 06/26/2020] [Accepted: 07/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND The Milan System for Reporting Salivary Gland Cytopathology (MSRSGC) has established distinct diagnostic categories for reporting cytopathological findings, and each is associated with a defined risk of malignancy (ROM). However, the ROM is applied at the overall category level and is not specific for particular morphological entities within a category. Here, the diagnostic performance of the MSRSGC for pleomorphic adenoma (PA) and Warthin tumor (WT) is reported. METHODS The pathology archives of 11 institutions from 4 countries were retrospectively searched to identify all salivary gland fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsies with a differential or definitive diagnosis of PA or WT and all resection specimens with a diagnosis of PA or WT; only paired cases were included. All FNA diagnoses were retrospectively classified according to the MSRSGC. RESULTS A total of 1250 cases met the inclusion criteria, and they included 898 PA cases and 352 WT cases. The ROM in the benign neoplasm category was 3.0% and 1.3% for cases with a differential or definitive diagnosis of PA and WT, respectively. The ROM in the salivary gland neoplasm with uncertain malignant potential (SUMP) category was 2.7% and 18.8% for PA and WT, respectively (P = .0277). The diagnostic accuracy for PA and WT was 95.1% and 96.1%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS The diagnostic accuracy for PA and WT on FNA is high. Furthermore, these findings highlight the difference in the ROMs associated with 2 specific differential diagnoses in the SUMP category: basaloid neoplasms and oncocytoid neoplasms.
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- Derek B Allison
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Pathology, St. Vincent Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
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- Department of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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- Department of Pathology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois
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- Department of Pathology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Anatomic Pathology and Histology, Agostino Gemelli School of Medicine, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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- Department of Anatomic Pathology and Histology, Agostino Gemelli School of Medicine, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Pathology, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland.,Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Pathology, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri
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- Department of Pathology, St. Vincent Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
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Groeben H, Walz MK, Nottebaum BJ, Alesina PF, Greenwald A, Schumann R, Hollmann MW, Schwarte L, Behrends M, Rössel T, Groeben C, Schäfer M, Lowery A, Hirata N, Yamakage M, Miller JA, Cherry TJ, Nelson A, Solorzano CC, Gigliotti B, Wang TS, Wietasch JKG, Friederich P, Sheppard B, Graham PH, Weingarten TN, Sprung J. International multicentre review of perioperative management and outcome for catecholamine-producing tumours. Br J Surg 2020; 107:e170-e178. [PMID: 31903598 DOI: 10.1002/bjs.11378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2019] [Revised: 07/02/2019] [Accepted: 08/31/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Surgery for catecholamine-producing tumours can be complicated by intraoperative and postoperative haemodynamic instability. Several perioperative management strategies have emerged but none has been evaluated in randomized trials. To assess this issue, contemporary perioperative management and outcome data from 21 centres were collected. METHODS Twenty-one centres contributed outcome data from patients who had surgery for phaeochromocytoma and paraganglioma between 2000 and 2017. The data included the number of patients with and without α-receptor blockade, surgical and anaesthetic techniques, complications and perioperative mortality. RESULTS Across all centres, data were reported on 1860 patients with phaeochromocytoma or paraganglioma, of whom 343 underwent surgery without α-receptor blockade. The majority of operations (78·9 per cent) were performed using minimally invasive techniques, including 16·1 per cent adrenal cortex-sparing procedures. The cardiovascular complication rate was 5·0 per cent overall: 5·9 per cent (90 of 1517) in patients with preoperative α-receptor blockade and 0·9 per cent (3 of 343) among patients without α-receptor blockade. The mortality rate was 0·5 per cent overall (9 of 1860): 0·5 per cent (8 of 517) in pretreated and 0·3 per cent (1 of 343) in non-pretreated patients. CONCLUSION There is substantial variability in the perioperative management of catecholamine-producing tumours, yet the overall complication rate is low. Further studies are needed to better define the optimal management approach, and reappraisal of international perioperative guidelines appears desirable.
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- H Groeben
- Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, Essen, Germany
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- Department of Minimally and General Surgery, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, Essen, Germany
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- Department of Minimally and General Surgery, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Columbia University, New York
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- VU University Medical Centre Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Carl-Gustav Carus University Hospital Dresden, Dresden, Germany.,Department of Urology, Carl-Gustav Carus University Hospital Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Carl-Gustav Carus University Hospital Dresden, Dresden, Germany.,Department of Urology, Carl-Gustav Carus University Hospital Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Discipline of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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- Endocrine Surgery Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Endocrine Surgery Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
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- Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of General and Endocrine Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Surgical Oncology - Endocrine Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, Klinikum Bogenhausen, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
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- Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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Heotis JP, Mertz JL, Herrett RJ, Diaz JR, Van Hart DC, Olivard J, Colman WF, Hornish RE, Koster J, Lawrence W, Miller JA, Neff AW, Neuman JF, Zietlow DC. Specific Programmed Multiple Development–Thin Layer Chromatography of Furazolidone in Chicken, Turkey, Swine, and Bovine Tissues: Collaborative Study. J AOAC Int 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/jaoac/63.4.720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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A specific method for assay of furazolidone at 2 ppb has been developed using programmed multiple development-thin layer chromatography (PMD-TLC) and the conversion of the drug to a fluorescent species which is quantitated by fluorodensitometry on the TLC plate. The method requires only 5 g tissue, specifies an automatic spotter for PMD-TLC, and is capable of measuring <1 ng of drug when the fluorodensitometer is coupled with a computing integrator. This procedure requires an average of 2 man-hours per sample and can be completed in one day. Six laboratories collaboratively studied the method for assay of furazolidone at the 2, 3, and 6 ppb levels in chicken, turkey, swine, and bovine tissues. Tissues were fortified by each laboratory and then processed through extraction, solvent partition, programmed multiple development-thin layer chromatography, and fluorodensitometry. Results showed satisfactory recoveries and accuracy. A statistical comparison of the results demonstrated that 5 of the 6 laboratories obtained similar results. The higher responses from the sixth laboratory appeared to be due to an exceptional vacuum system and the use of silated flasks. The mean drug recovery response for the tissues spiked at 2 ppb from the 5 laboratories was 2.2324 ng ± 20.2% (SD), which at the 99.7% confidence level gives no overlap with control tissue data. The results can be expected to be repeatable within and among laboratories.
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Maleki Z, Miller JA, Arab SE, Fadda G, Bo P, Wise O, Rossi ED, Jhala N, Ashish C, Ali SZ, Wang H. “Suspicious” salivary gland FNA: Risk of malignancy and interinstitutional variability. Cancer Cytopathol 2017; 126:94-100. [DOI: 10.1002/cncy.21939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2017] [Revised: 09/05/2017] [Accepted: 09/07/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Zahra Maleki
- Department of Pathology; Johns Hopkins Hospital; Baltimore Maryland
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology; Temple University Hospital; Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Department of Anatomic Pathology and Histology, Agostino Gemelli School of Medicine; Catholic University of the Sacred Heart; Rome Italy
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- Department of Pathology; Fudan University Cancer Hospital; Shanghai People's Republic of China
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- Department of Cellular Pathology; Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; London United Kingdom
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- Department of Anatomic Pathology and Histology, Agostino Gemelli School of Medicine; Catholic University of the Sacred Heart; Rome Italy
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology; Temple University Hospital; Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Department of Cellular Pathology; Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; London United Kingdom
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- Department of Pathology; Johns Hopkins Hospital; Baltimore Maryland
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology; Temple University Hospital; Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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Miller JA, Allison DB, Maleki Z. Interpretation of HPV DNA in situ hybridization in HPV-related head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: an achievable task in cell block and small biopsy material. J Am Soc Cytopathol 2017; 6:89-95. [PMID: 31043263 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasc.2017.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 12/02/2016] [Revised: 02/21/2017] [Accepted: 02/27/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Human papilloma virus (HPV)-related head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is a distinct entity with a better prognosis than conventional disease. Therefore, an accurate and reproducible HPV test is needed. Herein, the analytical factors and interpretation of the HPV DNA in-situ hybridization (ISH) test are investigated. MATERIALS AND METHODS We evaluated 63 ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (FNA) HNSCC cases for a semi-quantitative assessment of the ease of interpretation, staining pattern, and highest magnification needed for HPV DNA ISH on cell block and core biopsy. RESULTS A total of 72 HPV DNA ISH tests were performed in 59 (93.6%) cases. Of these, 17 had more than one HPV DNA ISH assays and 4 (6.4%) had no HPV tests. At least one HPV stain was positive in 38 (62.2%) cases. Eleven (28.95%) ISH tests were rated as difficult or moderately difficult to interpret, and 27 (78.05%) were rated as easy or moderately easy. Twenty-four (63.2%) ISH tests demonstrated strong staining and 14 (36.8%) demonstrated weak staining. Twenty-seven (71.1%) stained diffusely, and 11 (29.0%) focally. Twenty-seven ISH tests required 400× or higher magnification for interpretation. Background debris and nonspecific staining were present in 25 (35.7%) and 15 (21.4%) HPV DNA ISH cases, respectively. p16/HPV ISH was discrepant in 4 (7.3%) cases (3 P16+/HPV-, and 1 p16-/HPV+). CONCLUSIONS HPV DNA ISH interpretation can be challenging because of focal or weak staining, which requires careful examination at high magnification. An alternate method is needed for DNA ISH-/p16+ cases.
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- James Adam Miller
- Division of Cytopathology, Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Cytopathology, Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Cytopathology, Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.
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Johnson KL, Trim MW, Francis DK, Whittington WR, Miller JA, Bennett CE, Horstemeyer MF. Moisture, anisotropy, stress state, and strain rate effects on bighorn sheep horn keratin mechanical properties. Acta Biomater 2017; 48:300-308. [PMID: 27793720 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2016.10.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2016] [Revised: 10/19/2016] [Accepted: 10/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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This paper investigates the effects of moisture, anisotropy, stress state, and strain rate on the mechanical properties of the bighorn sheep (Ovis Canadensis) horn keratin. The horns consist of fibrous keratin tubules extending along the length of the horn and are contained within an amorphous keratin matrix. Samples were tested in the rehydrated (35wt% water) and ambient dry (10wt% water) conditions along the longitudinal and radial directions under tension and compression. Increased moisture content was found to increase ductility and decrease strength, as well as alter the stress state dependent nature of the material. The horn keratin demonstrates a significant strain rate dependence in both tension and compression, and also showed increased energy absorption in the hydrated condition at high strain rates when compared to quasi-static data, with increases of 114% in tension and 192% in compression. Compressive failure occurred by lamellar buckling in the longitudinal orientation followed by shear delamination. Tensile failure in the longitudinal orientation occurred by lamellar delamination combined with tubule pullout and fracture. The structure-property relationships quantified here for bighorn sheep horn keratin can be used to help validate finite element simulations of ram's impacting each other as well as being useful for other analysis regarding horn keratin on other animals. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The horn of the bighorn sheep is an anisotropic composite composed of keratin that is highly sensitive to moisture content. Keratin is also found in many other animals in the form of hooves, claws, beaks, and feathers. Only one previous study contains high rate experimental data, which was performed in the dry condition and only in compression. Considering the bighorn sheep horns' protective role in high speed impacts along with the moisture and strain rate sensitivity, more high strain rate data is needed to fully characterize and model the material. This study provides high strain rate results demonstrating the effects of moisture, anisotropy, and stress state. As a result, the comprehensive data allows modeling efforts to be greatly improved.
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- K L Johnson
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA; Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS), 200 Research Blvd, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA.
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- US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory, 3909 Halls Ferry Rd, Vicksburg, MS 39180, USA
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- Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS), 200 Research Blvd, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
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- Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS), 200 Research Blvd, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
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- Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS), 200 Research Blvd, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
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- Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS), 200 Research Blvd, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA; Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA; Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS), 200 Research Blvd, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
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Pound JM, Lohmeyer KH, Davey RB, Miller JA, George JE. Efficacy of amitraz-impregnated collars on white-tailed deer (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) in reducing free-living populations of lone star ticks (Acari: Ixodidae). J Econ Entomol 2012; 105:2207-2212. [PMID: 23356088 DOI: 10.1603/ec12219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Over a 7 yr period, we monitored the effect of a commercially available, amitraz impregnated anti-tick collar in controlling free-living populations of lone star ticks, Amblyomma americanum (L.) when manually fitted around necks of white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann). Study animals in treatment and control groups were confined in 38.8 ha game-fenced and densely vegetated treatment plots in South Texas. Tick densities during years 1 and 7 served as untreated pre- and posttreatment comparisons and treatments occurred during years 2 through 5. Reductions in tick densities in the treatment plot were compared against tick densities in a control plot having similar vegetation and numbers of untreated deer. During years of treatment, indices of control pressure ranged from 18.2 to 82.6 for nymphs and 16.9-78.7 for adults, and efficacy, expressed as percentage control during the final year of treatment, was 77.2 and 85.0%, respectively, for nymphal and adult ticks. These data show that acaricidal collar treatments provide efficacies very similar to those achieved with the existing ivermectin-medicated bait and '4-Poster' topical treatment technologies to control ticks feeding on wild white-tailed deer.
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- J M Pound
- USDA-ARS Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory, 2700 Fredericksburg Road, Kerrville, TX 78028-9184, USA.
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Bialobok P, Cregan EF, Sydserff SG, Eisman MS, Miller JA, Cross AJ, Simmons R, Gendron P, McCarthy DJ, Palmer GC. Efficacy of AR-R15896AR in the rat monofilament model of transient middle cerebral artery occlusion. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2012; 8:388-97. [PMID: 17895192 DOI: 10.1016/s1052-3057(99)80046-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The monofilament technique of transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) was used in 3 separate studies to evaluate the efficacy of the low-affinity, use-dependent N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antagonist, AR-R15896AR. First, a dose-response curve was attempted. Wister Kyoto rats received 2 hours of MCAO. Five minutes later, a 30-minute intravenous infusion of AR-R15896AR was given, followed by subcutaneous implantation of Alzet minipumps that were calibrated to maintain specified plasma levels (approximately 682, 1885, or 2682 ng/mL) of AR-R15896 (free base) for 1 week. The highest plasma level attained significantly decreased the percentage of damage to the subcortex, cortex, and total brain. Second, the high-dose, 1-week treatment regimen was repeated to determine if neuroprotection would extend to 8 weeks after MCAO. Indeed, in separate groups of animals, significant reduction in the percentage of damage, which was generally confined to the cortex and subcortex, was observed at 1, 2, 4, and 8 weeks. Third, verification was achieved in another laboratory. Lister Hooded rats received 60 minutes of transient MCAO. At 70 minutes, an acute dose of AR-R15896AR (20.3 mg/kg) was injected intraperitoneally and the rats were killed 23 hours later. This treatment group also exhibited significant reduction in the volume of infarction in the subcortex, cortex, and total brain. The outcome of these investigations supports the ongoing Phase II clinical trials in patients with acute stroke.
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Ferris DG, Lawhead RA, Dickman ED, Holtzapple N, Miller JA, Grogan S, Bambot S, Agrawal A, Faupel ML. Multimodal hyperspectral imaging for the noninvasive diagnosis of cervical neoplasia. J Low Genit Tract Dis 2012; 5:65-72. [PMID: 17043578 DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-0976.2001.005002065.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To determine the ability of Multimodal Hyperspectral Imaging (MHI) to noninvasively detect, localize and diagnose cervical neoplasia. MATERIALS AND METHODS The cervical epithelium was interrogated by MHI using tissue fluorescence and reflectance measurements after the probe was placed on the ectocervix. A Papanicolaou smear was taken, and a colposcopic examination was performed and cervical histologic specimens were collected, when indicated. MHI and Pap smear sensitivity and specificity data were compared with colposcopic and histologic results. RESULTS Nineteen patients had CIN2 or higher, 30 had CIN1, 34 had benign cellular changes or metaplasia, and 28 were normal by both Pap smear and colposcopic examination. At equal specificity (70%) for both tests, the sensitivity of MHI was 97%, compared to 72% for the Pap smear. CONCLUSION MHI detected cervical cancer precursors at a rate greater than that obtained by a simultaneously collected Pap smear.
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- D G Ferris
- *The Departments of Family Medicine, the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta †Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta ‡Atlanta Medical Center, Atlanta §SpectRx, Inc., Norcross, Georgia
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Lang JE, Miller JA, Nokes BT, LeBeau LG, Delbridge M, Chow HHS. P3-11-03: A Phase I Trial of D-Limonene in Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer Patients: A Chemoprevention Study. Cancer Res 2011. [DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.sabcs11-p3-11-03] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background: D-limonene (DL) is a highly lipophilic monoterpene found naturally in citrus that has been demonstrated in preclinical studies to have anticancer properties. Early phase clinical trials support the investigation of DL in the chemoprevention of breast cancer. We sought to evaluate whether DL and its presumed active metabolite perillic acid (PA) would distribute extensively to the breast tissue and reach an effective drug concentration. We hypothesized that the mechanism of DL is related to the induction of apoptosis in cancer cells.
Materials and Methods: We enrolled 40 patients with newly diagnosed Stage 0–2 breast cancer to take 2 grams daily of oral DL for 2–6 weeks prior to planned surgical intervention. Blood was drawn pre/post intervention to assess for toxicity and plasma concentration of DL and PA. Adverse effects related or possibly related to the study drug were noted. A small piece of breast tissue adjacent to the tumor mass was used to measure drug concentration for each patient. DL and PA levels in breast tissue were analyzed by gas chromatography and liquid chromatography, respectively, in tandem with mass spectrometry. Analysis of variance testing was used to determine if DL or PA preferentially concentrated in the breast tissue compared to plasma. We tested for a possible modulation of the biomarkers estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor, HER2, Ki67 or grade pre/post treatment by comparing results from the core biopsy to the surgical pathology and applying pairwise Student's T tests. The caspase 3 and the annexin V assays were performed by plating 10,000 cells per well for the cell lines MCF7, MDA-231, BT474, and T47D and separately administering DL and PA acid in serial dilutions in their treatment concentration ranges in triplicate and read by microplate. Results: DL was found to preferentially concentrate in breast tissue versus plasma (tissue/plasma concentration ratio (TPCR) of 1297, p<0.001) while PA did not concentrate (TPCR of 1.4, p=0.9). 20 patients (50%) reported Grade 1 eructation, which was the most common adverse effect. A slight decrease in white count from a mean of 7.1 to 6.6 (p=0.03) and a slight increase in ALT from a mean of 22.5 to 26.9 (p=0.03) were noted. No other statistically significant changes in laboratory values related to serum complete blood count, renal, hepatic or other studies were noted. No change in tissue biomarkers were noted post-treatment. DL produced a dose dependent increase in the apoptotic markers cleaved caspase 3 and annexin V for the ER positive cell lines MCF7, BT474, and T47D, however, no such response was noted for the triple negative cell line MDA-231. A PA dose response trend was noted with the annexin V but not the caspase 3 assay for each cell line.
Discussion: D-limonene preferentially concentrates in the breast tissue and is a candidate chemopreventive agent based on its favorable side effect profile. PA does not readily concentrate in the breast when administered as oral DL. Our correlative studies establish that DL induces apoptosis in ER positive breast cancer cell lines; no definite relationship between PA and apoptosis was found. Further clinical trials of DL are necessary to establish its potential role as a chemopreventive agent in breast cancer.
Citation Information: Cancer Res 2011;71(24 Suppl):Abstract nr P3-11-03.
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- JE Lang
- 1Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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- 1Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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- 1Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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- 1Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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- 1Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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- 1Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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1. Respiratory infection of rabbits with Bacillus bovisepticus (snuffles) is favored by chilling the animals after they have been accustomed to heat. 2. The character of this disease, which occurs frequently in rabbits under natural conditions, makes the application of the experimental results to similar respiratory conditions in man less open to objection than in similar experiments with other infections. 3. The weight of experimental evidence, including our own, does not justify the elimination of exposure to cold as a possible though secondary factor in the incidence of acute respiratory disease. 4. From the limited data of our last two experiments it is suggested that any marked change of temperature predisposes rabbits to this infection, the severity of which varies with the amount of change, and that a change from low to high temperature has an even more marked effect than that from high to low.
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- J A Miller
- Bacteriological Laboratory of New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York
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Miller JA. The effects of temperature and water concentration on the otolith incorporation of barium and manganese in black rockfish Sebastes melanops. J Fish Biol 2009; 75:39-60. [PMID: 20738481 DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2009.02262.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Observations of multiple years of geographic variation in [Ba:Ca](otolith) and [Mn:Ca](otolith) in black rockfish Sebastes melanops prompted this study to examine the effects of temperature and water concentration on the otolith incorporation of Ba and Mn in this wholly marine species. The replicated experiment design consisted of two water temperatures (7.4 and 13.0 degrees C) and four water concentrations of Ba:Ca and Mn:Ca. A positive, linear relationship between [Ba:Ca](water) and [Ba:Ca](otolith) was observed at both temperatures. A positive temperature effect was also observed with mean partition coefficients for Ba (D(Ba)) greater in the 13 degrees C than in the 7.4 degrees C treatments (mean = 0.061 and 0.048, respectively). There was no relationship between [Mn:Ca](water) and [Mn:Ca](otolith) although a negative temperature effect was observed. Mean partition coefficients for Mn (D(Mn)) were lower in the 13 degrees C than in the 7.4 degrees C treatments (mean = 0.027 and 0.036, respectively). The data presented support the assumption of a positive, linear relationship between water and otolith Metal:Ca concentrations for Ba:Ca but not for Mn:Ca. Thus, although indicative of residence in distinct water masses, observed variation in [Metal:Ca](otolith) may not reflect variation in water concentration and can be affected by temperature. Caution should be applied in the interpretation of geographic variation of [Mn:Ca](otolith) until the mechanisms regulating its incorporation are more fully understood.
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- J A Miller
- Oregon State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Hatfield Marine Science Center, 2030 SE Marine Science Drive, Newport, Oregon 97365, USA.
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Lohmeyer KH, Miller JA, Pound JM, Oehler DD. Efficacy of eprinomectin and doramectin against Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae) on cattle. J Econ Entomol 2009; 102:809-814. [PMID: 19449665 DOI: 10.1603/029.102.0244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Steers were treated with doramectin or eprinomectin by daily oral capsule for 28 consecutive days. The level of doramectin in the serum of steers treated at 200 microg/kg/d reached a maximum of 104.0 +/- 22.1 ppb at day 21 and declined from 93.3 +/- 20.5 ppb on the final day of treatment to below detectable by day 56. Steers treated at 50 microg/kg/d reached a maximum level of doramectin in the serum of 24.7 +/- 1.2 ppb on day 21 and declined from 24.7 +/- 0.6 ppb on the final day of treatment to less than detectable on day 42. Both doramectin dosages provided 100% control of estimated larvae (EL) of Amblyomma americanum (L.) (Acari: Ixodidae) throughout the 28-d treatment period. Daily oral treatment with eprinomectin at a dosage of 200 microg/kg for 28 consecutive days produced a maximum concentration in the serum of 41.6 +/- 11.0 ppb at day 14. On the final day of eprinomectin treatment, the serum concentration was 38.3 +/- 5.9 ppb. Seven days later at day 35, eprinomectin was not detectable in the serum. For steers treated at 50 microg/kg/d for 28 consecutive days, the serum level of eprinomectin reached a maximum of 10.0 +/- 3.0 ppb on day 28 and was undetectable on day 35. Both eprinomectin dosages provided complete control of EL of A. americanum during the 28-d treatment period. Because eprinomectin is efficacious against A. americanum at lower serum levels in cattle and is eliminated from the serum at a more rapid rate than either doramectin or ivermectin, it provides advantages for use in applications such as the medicated bait for control of ticks on white-tailed deer and could have potential for use in the Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program.
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- K H Lohmeyer
- USDA-ARS, Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory, 2700 Fredericksburg Road, Kerrville, TX 78028, USA.
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Lohmeyer KH, Miller JA, Pound JM, Klavons JA. A sustained release gel formulation of doramectin for control of lone star ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) and horn flies (Diptera: Muscidae) on cattle. J Econ Entomol 2009; 102:804-808. [PMID: 19449664 DOI: 10.1603/029.102.0243] [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] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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A gel formulation formed by incorporating technical doramectin into a 10% hydroxypropyl methylcellulose aqueous solution was used to subcutaneously inject steers at varying dosages. Doramectin serum concentration of steers receiving 600 microg (AI)/kg body weight declined from 21.9 ppb at 0.5 wk to below detectable at 8 wk postinjection. The 1,200 microg (AI)/kg injection resulted in serum concentrations of 29.1 ppb at 0.5 wk and declined to 0.5 ppb at 8 wk postinjection. Both the 600 and 1,200 microg (AI)/kg injections provided 100% inhibition of index of fecundity (IF) in adult lone star ticks, Amblyomma americanum L. (Acari: Ixodidae) through week 8, after which inhibition declined to 79.4 and 45.3%, respectively, during the 12th week posttreatment. For steers treated at 600 microg (AI)/kg, mortality of adult horn flies, Hematobia irritans L. (Diptera: Muscidae), declined from 16.9% during week 2 to 3.1% during week 7 postinjection. The blood from steers treated at 1,200 microg (AI)/kg resulted in a similar decline in mortality of blood fed adult horn flies from 29.4% during week 1 to 4.0% during week 7. The 600 microg (AI)/kg treatment provided complete control of larval horn flies in the manure for 9 wk, whereas the 1,200 microg (AI)/kg injection gave complete control for 14 wk posttreatment. The doramectin gel formulation provided long-lasting delivery of doramectin to cattle and extended control of lone star ticks and larval horn flies. Such a simple and inexpensive formulation could be useful in tick eradication programs by reducing the frequency of gathering cattle.
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- K H Lohmeyer
- USDA-ARS, Knipling Bushland U.S. Livestock Insect Research Laboratory, 2700 Fredericksburg Road, Kerrville, TX 78028, USA.
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Carroll JF, Pound JM, Miller JA, Kramer M. Reduced interference by gray squirrels with 4-poster deer treatment bait stations by using timed-release bait. J Vector Ecol 2008; 33:325-332. [PMID: 19263853 DOI: 10.3376/1081-1710-33.2.325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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When white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus, feed on corn bait dispensed by 4-poster tick control devices, they rub against paint rollers impregnated with acaricide. Gray squirrels, Sciurus carolinensis, also feed on the corn bait in the feeding troughs of 4-posters, but in doing so, leave abundant corn fragments and meal that impede the flow of uneaten corn into the troughs. Large accumulations of fragments and meal adversely affect the operation of 4-posters and their use by deer. A battery-operated closure mechanism controlled by a photo sensor was developed to block the flow of corn into the troughs during the day when squirrels are active and deer infrequently visit 4-posters. The effectiveness of the diurnal corn restriction (DCR) concept and restriction mechanism was tested in a field trial at a tick-infested site in Maryland. DCR effectively eliminated accumulation of whole corn, partially eaten corn and corn meal in corn troughs associated with squirrel feeding. At the same time, deer usage of 4-posters was not diminished.
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- J F Carroll
- United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA
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Cherney DZI, Scholey JW, Cattran DC, Kang AK, Zimpelmann J, Kennedy C, Lai V, Burns KD, Miller JA. The effect of oral contraceptives on the nitric oxide system and renal function. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2007; 293:F1539-44. [PMID: 17715260 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00351.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We have demonstrated that oral contraceptive (OC) users exhibit elevated angiotensin II levels and angiotensin II type 1 receptor expression, indicative of renin-angiotensin system (RAS) activation, yet the renal and systemic consequences are minimal, suggesting that there is increased vasodilatory activity, counteracting the effect of RAS activation. We hypothesized that the nitric oxide (NO) system would be upregulated in OC users and that this would be reflected by a blunted hemodynamic response to l-arginine infusion. All subjects were studied after a 7-day controlled sodium and protein diet. Inulin and para-aminohippurate clearance techniques were used to assess renal function. l-Arginine was infused at 100, 250, and 500 mg/kg, each over 30 min. Skin endothelial NO synthase mRNA expression was assessed by real-time PCR. While OC nonusers exhibited significant increases in effective renal plasma flow (670.8 +/- 35.6 to 816.2 +/- 59.7 ml.min(-1).1.73 m(-2)) and glomerular filtration rate (133.4 +/- 4.3 to 151.0 +/- 5.7 ml.min(-1).1.73 m(-2), P = 0.04) and declines in renal vascular resistance (81.1 +/- 6.1 to 63.5 +/- 6.2 mmHg.ml(-1).min, P = 0.001) at the lower l-arginine infusion rates, the responses in OC users were blunted. While l-arginine reduced mean arterial pressure at the 250 and 500 mg/kg doses in OC nonusers, OC users only exhibited a decrease in mean arterial pressure at the highest infusion rate. In contrast, tissue endothelial NO synthase mRNA levels were higher in the OC users (P = 0.04). In summary, these findings suggest that the NO system is upregulated by OC use in young, healthy women. Increased activity of the NO pathway may modulate the hemodynamic effects of RAS activation in OC users.
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- D Z I Cherney
- Division of Nephrology, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto
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Lohmeyer KH, Miller JA. Pathogenicity of three formulations of entomopathogenic fungi for control of adult Haematobia irritans (Diptera: Muscidae). J Econ Entomol 2006; 99:1943-7. [PMID: 17195658 DOI: 10.1603/0022-0493-99.6.1943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Powder formulations of three species of entomopathogenic fungi were evaluated for their pathogenic effect upon adult horn flies, Hematobia irritans (L.) (Diptera: Muscidae). Flies were treated with conidia and blastospores of the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana (Bals.) Vuill. (strain GHA), Metarhizium anisopliae (Metschnikoff) Sorokin (strain ESCI), and Paecilomyces fimosoroseus (Wize) Brown & Smith (strain ARSEF 3581) in the laboratory. At 4 d postexposure, flies treated with B. bassiana had an average of 98.4% mortality versus 43.5% from treatment with M. anisopliae and 13.0% from treatment with P. fiimosoroseus. At 7 d postexposure, flies treated with B. bassiana had an average of 100.0% mortality compared with 73.0% from treatment with M. anisopliae and 33.3% from treatment with P.fumosoroseus. Mean lethal time (LT50) was 2.70, 4.98, and 7.97 d for B. bassiana, M. anisopliae, and P. fiumosoroseus, respectively. Entomopathogenic fungi such as B. bassiana and M. anisopliae may have the potential for controlling populations of horn flies. These studies indicate that B. bassiana and M. anisopliae were not only pathogenic to adult horn flies, but they caused mortality in a short time.
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- K H Lohmeyer
- USDA-ARS Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory, 2700 Fredericksburg Road, Kerrville, TX 78028, USA.
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Miller JA, Denning KS, George JS, Marshak DW, Kenyon GT. A high frequency resonance in the responses of retinal ganglion cells to rapidly modulated stimuli: a computer model. Vis Neurosci 2006; 23:779-94. [PMID: 17020633 PMCID: PMC3350093 DOI: 10.1017/s0952523806230104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2006] [Accepted: 05/09/2006] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Brisk Y-type ganglion cells in the cat retina exhibit a high frequency resonance (HFR) in their responses to large, rapidly modulated stimuli. We used a computer model to test whether negative feedback mediated by axon-bearing amacrine cells onto ganglion cells could account for the experimentally observed properties of HFRs. Temporal modulation transfer functions (tMTFs) recorded from model ganglion cells exhibited HFR peaks whose amplitude, width, and locations were qualitatively consistent with experimental data. Moreover, the wide spatial distribution of axon-mediated feedback accounted for the observed increase in HFR amplitude with stimulus size. Model phase plots were qualitatively similar to those recorded from Y ganglion cells, including an anomalous phase advance that in our model coincided with the amplification of low-order harmonics that overlapped the HFR peak. When axon-mediated feedback in the model was directed primarily to bipolar cells, whose synaptic output was graded, or else when the model was replaced with a simple cascade of linear filters, it was possible to produce large HFR peaks but the region of anomalous phase advance was always eliminated, suggesting the critical involvement of strongly non-linear feedback loops. To investigate whether HFRs might contribute to visual processing, we simulated high frequency ocular tremor by rapidly modulating a naturalistic image. Visual signals riding on top of the imposed jitter conveyed an enhanced representation of large objects. We conclude that by amplifying responses to ocular tremor, HFRs may selectively enhance the processing of large image features.
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- J A Miller
- Applied Modern Physics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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Epithelioid haemangiomas are benign, vascular tumours characterized by the proliferation of epithelioid endothelial cells with abundant eosinophilic hyaline cytoplasm. We report a case of epithelioid haemangioma in association with a deep arteriovenous malformation of the subclavian artery. The association of reactive vascular proliferations with arteriovenous malformations is uncommonly reported.
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- F C Antony
- Department of Dermatology, The Royal Marsden Hospital, Downs Road, Sutton, SM2 5PT, UK.
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Confocal scanning laser microscopy (CSLM) has been used to provide the first images of radon track populations in two external CR-39 plastic detectors. Measurements of variables including track area distribution and estimates of the angle of track inclination (dip) derived from surface CSLM sections are presented. CSLM depth slices, combined with three-dimensional (3D) visualization techniques, provide a new, non-destructive way of examining the 2D and 3D geometry of the etched tracks within solid-state nuclear track detectors that may prove useful in complementing existing optical microscopy methods.
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- N Petford
- Centre for Earth & Environmental Sciences Research and School of Computing, Kingston University, Surrey KT1 2EE, UK.
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Pruett JH, Steelman CD, Miller JA, Pound JM, George JE. Distribution of horn flies on individual cows as a percentage of the total horn fly population. Vet Parasitol 2003; 116:251-8. [PMID: 14559168 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2003.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Twenty-three mixed-breed herd cows were phenotyped for their ability to serve as a suitable host for Haematobia irritans, the horn fly. Based upon consistent observations within the lower quartile or upper quartile of individual fly counts, four cows were phenotyped as low carriers and five cows were phenotyped as high carriers of horn flies. The cows designated as low carriers consistently carried levels of flies below the economic threshold. However, during a period of fly population explosion, low carriers harbored flies well above the economic threshold. Although the number of flies counted on these low carrying cattle increased as the population increased, the relative percentage of the population that they carried changed very little. A hypothesis is proposed to explain this observation, and future studies are suggested.
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- J H Pruett
- Knipling-Bushland, US Livestock Insects Research Laboratory, 2700 Fredericksburg Rd, Kerrville, TX 78028, USA.
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Solberg VB, Miller JA, Hadfield T, Burge R, Schech JM, Pound JM. Control of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) with topical self-application of permethrin by white-tailed deer inhabiting NASA, Beltsville, Maryland. J Vector Ecol 2003; 28:117-134. [PMID: 12831136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We report the first successful area-wide reduction of Ixodes scapularis by using minimal amounts of permethrin self-applied by free-ranging white-tailed deer in as little as 3 y of nearly continuous treatment. The study to control all active stages of L. scapularis Say was initiated in April 1995, at the Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Beltsville, Maryland (treated location), and the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, Maryland (non-treated location). The locations had similar flora and fauna, and pre-treatment sampling (April to October 1995) of deer, plots, and mice for I. scapularis indicated nearly similar tick populations at both locations. After pre-treatment sampling, 4 deer '4-poster' stations were placed at NASA, while the control area received none. Ten percent permethrin, supplied to 4 roller covers on each station, was passively transferred to the head, neck, and ears of free-ranging deer feeding at the stations. This treatment resulted in elimination of adult I. scapularis on sampled deer (100% control) by the 2nd y of treatment and reductions of immature tick stages on mice. During the 3rd y of treatment, adult, nymphal, and larval questing ticks were reduced by 91-100% from sampled plots, and nymphal and larval ticks were reduced by 70-95% on sampled mice.
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- V B Solberg
- Department of Entomology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), 503 Robert Grant Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910-7500, USA
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The pharmacokinetic behaviour of ivermectin was investigated in adult llamas (Lama glama) by using high performance liquid chromatography with a lower limit of quantification of 2 ng/ml to measure its concentration in serum. Llamas were treated with one of three commercial formulations (injectable, pour-on or oral paste) at dosages recommended by the manufacturer, or with an experimental injectable sustained-release formulation. In five llamas given 1 per cent ivermectin subcutaneously at 200 microg/kg, the median peak serum concentration (Cmax) was 3 ng/ml and the area under the serum concentration-time curve (AUC) was 13.5 ng x day/ml. In six llamas treated topically with 0.5 per cent ivermedin pour-on at 500 microg/kg, Cmax was 2.5 ng/ml or less and the AUC was 7.75 ng x day/ml or less. In seven llamas with measurable concentrations of ivermedin, the median times to peak serum concentration (tmax) were six days after subcutaneous injection and seven days after treatment with the pour-on formulation. In six llamas, the serum concentration of ivermectin remained less than 2 ng/ml for 124 hours after treatment with a 1.87 per cent oral paste at 200 microg/kg. In five llamas treated subcutaneously with 25 per cent ivermectin sustained-release microspheres at 1500 microg/kg, the median Cmax was 5 ng/ml and the median AUC was 224 ng x day/ml.
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- J A Jarvinen
- Department of Veterinary Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames 50011, USA
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DeSain JD, Taatjes CA, Miller JA, Klippenstein SJ, Hahn DK. Infrared frequency-modulation probing of product formation in alkyl + O2 reactions. Part IV. Reactions of propyl and butyl radicals with O2. Faraday Discuss 2002:101-20; discussion 121-43. [PMID: 11877987 DOI: 10.1039/b102237g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The time-resolved production of HO2 in the Cl-initiated oxidation of iso- and n-butane is measured using continuous-wave (CW) infrared frequency modulation spectroscopy between 298 and 693 K. The yield of HO2 is determined relative to the Cl2/CH3OH/O2 system. As in studies of smaller alkanes, the branching fraction to HO2 + alkene in butyl + O2 displays a dramatic rise with increasing temperature between about 550 and 700 K (the "transition region") which is accompanied by a qualitative change in the time behavior of the HO2 production. At low temperatures the HO2 is formed promptly; a second, slower production of HO2 is responsible for the bulk of the increased yield in the transition temperature region. In contrast to reactions of smaller alkyl radicals with O2, the total HO2 yield in the butyl radical reactions appears to remain significantly below 1 up to 700 K, implying a significant role for OH-producing channels. The slower HO2 production in butane oxidation displays an apparent activation energy similar to that measured for smaller alkyl + O2 reactions, suggesting that the energetics of the HO2 elimination transition state are similar for a broad range of R + O2 systems. A combination of QCISD(T) based characterizations of the propyl and butyl + O2 potential energy surfaces and master equation based characterization of the propyl + O2 kinetics provide the framework for explanation of the experimentally observed HO2 production in Cl-initiated propane and butane oxidation. These calculations suggest that the HO2 elimination channel is similar in all reaction systems, and that hydroperoxyalkyl (QOOH) species produced by internal H-atom abstraction in RO2 can provide a path to OH formation. However, the QOOH formed by the energetically favorable 1,5 isomerization (via a six-membered ring transition state) generally experiences significant barriers (relative to the radical + O2 reactants) to the production of an oxetane + OH. In contrast, the barriers to forming OH + an oxirane or an oxolane, via 1,4 or 1,6 isomerizations, respectively, are generally below reactants.
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- J D DeSain
- Combustion Research Facility, Mail Stop 9055, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551-0969, USA
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Hahn DK, Klippenstein SJ, Miller JA. A theoretical analysis of the reaction between propargyl and molecular oxygen. Faraday Discuss 2002:79-100; discussion 121-43. [PMID: 11878008 DOI: 10.1039/b102240g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The temperature- and pressure-dependent kinetics of the reaction between propargyl and molecular oxygen have been studied with a combination of electronic structure theory, transition state theory, and the time-dependent master equation. The stationary points on the potential energy surface were located with B3LYP density functional theory. Approximate QCISD(T,Full)/6-311++G(3df,2pd) energies were obtained at these stationary points. At low temperatures the reaction is dominated by addition to the CH2 side of the propargyl radical followed by stabilization. However, addition to the CH side, which is followed by one of various possible internal rearrangements, becomes the dominant process at higher temperatures. These internal rearrangements involve a splitting of the O2 bond via the formation of 3-, 4- or 5-membered rings, with the apparent products being CH2CO + HCO. Rearrangement via the 3-membered ring is found to dominate the kinetics. Rearrangement from the CH2 addition product, via a 4-membered ring, would yield H2CO + HCCO, but the barrier to this rearrangement is too high to be kinetically significant. Other possible products require H transfers and, as a result, appear to be kinetically irrelevant. Modest variations in the energetics of a few key stationary points (most notably the entrance barrier heights) yield kinetic results that are in good agreement with the experimental results of Slagle and Gutman (I. R. Slagle and D. Gutman, Proc. Combust. Inst., 1986, 21, 875) and of Atkinson and Hudgens (D. B. Atkinson and J. W. Hudgens, J. Phys. Chem. A, 1999, 103, 4242).
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- D K Hahn
- Chemistry Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-7078, USA
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Fang DC, Harding LB, Klippenstein SJ, Miller JA. A direct transition state theory based analysis of the branching in NH2 + NO. Faraday Discuss 2002:207-22; discussion 255-74. [PMID: 11877992 DOI: 10.1039/b102235k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A combination of high-level quantum-chemical simulations and sophisticated transition state theory analyses is employed in a study of the temperature dependence of the N2H + OH-->HNNOH recombination reaction. The implications for the branching between N2H + OH and N2 + H2O in the NH2 + NO reaction are also explored. The transition state partition function for the N2H + OH recombination reaction is evaluated with a direct implementation of variable reaction coordinate (VRC) transition state theory (TST). The orientation dependent interaction energies are directly determined at the CAS + 1 + 2/cc-pvdz level. Corrections for basis set limitations are obtained via calculations along the cis and trans minimum energy paths employing an approximately aug-pvtz basis set. The calculated rate constant for the N2H + OH-->HNNOH recombination is found to decrease significantly with increasing temperature, in agreement with the predictions of our earlier theoretical study. Conventional transition state theory analyses, employing new coupled cluster estimates for the vibrational frequencies and energies at the saddlepoints along the NH2 + NO reaction pathway, are coupled with the VRC-TST analyses for the N2H + OH channels to provide estimates for the branching in the NH2 + NO reaction. Modest variations in the exothermicity of the reaction (1-2 kcal mol-1), and in a few of the saddlepoint energies (2-4 kcal mol-1), yield TST based predictions for the branching fraction that are in satisfactory agreement with related experimental results. The unmodified results are in reasonable agreement for higher temperatures, but predict too low a branching ratio near room temperature, as well as too steep an initial rise.
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- D C Fang
- Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
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Erythropoietin (Epo) is distinct amongst haematopoietic hormones, in that it is produced remote from the bone marrow. The tissue oxygen pressure required to trigger the Epo gene under physiological conditions is uniquely sited at a restricted area in the kidney termed the critmeter. Angiotensin II (Ang II) increases sodium reabsorption and hence oxygen consumption at any given bloodflow rate; therefore, it may affect the balance of renal oxygen supply vs. demand and hence Epo production. The purpose of this study was to determine whether Epo production is modulated by the renin-angiotensin system (RAS). Twenty normal subjects on a controlled sodium and protein diet had glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and renal plasma flow (RPF)assessed by standard methods of inulin and para-aminohippurate clearance, respectively, at baseline, hourly after the administration of losartan (25 mg) and after each 30 minute period of the infusion of Ang II at doses of 0.5, 1.5 and 2.5 ng/kg/minute. The baseline GFR was 115+/-4.0 ml/minute/1.73 m2, RPF 650+/-29 ml/minute/1.73 m2 and Epo 12.4+/-0.8 U/L. In spite of a marked increase in filtration fraction (FF) with Ang II, no changes in serum Epo levels were observed at two hours(11.7+/-1.3 U/L, p=n.s. compared with baseline). After the administration of losartan, there was a variable effect on FF, but a strong correlation of the change in serum Epo concentration and the change in FF(r=0.648, p=0.002), suggesting that the RAS may modulate Epo production.
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- S M Donnelly
- St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Miller JA, Davey RB, Oehler DD, Pound JM, George JE. The Ivomec SR Bolus for control of Boophilus annulatus (Acari: Ixodidae) on cattle in South Texas. J Econ Entomol 2001; 94:1622-1627. [PMID: 11777074 DOI: 10.1603/0022-0493-94.6.1622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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When Hereford heifers infested with Boophilus annulatus (Say) were treated with a single Ivomec SR Bolus, the concentration of ivermectin in the serum of the treated cattle reached a maximum of 8.8 +/- 0.9 ppb at 2 wk posttreatment. The single bolus treatment resulted in 84.4% control of standard engorging B. annulatus females on treated cattle over the 20-wk trial. Although fewer engorged ticks were collected from the sentinel heifers exposed in the treated pasture than those in the control pasture at weeks 4, 10, and 16 posttreatment, none of the differences was statistically significant. Each exposure of sentinel cattle found free-living ticks in both the treated and control pastures, indicating the infestation was not eliminated by the treatment. When the trial was repeated using two Ivomec SR Boluses/heifer, the concentration of ivermectin in the serum of the treated cattle reached a maximum level of 31.2 +/- 3.9 ppb at week 13 posttreatment. The use of two boluses/heifer resulted in 99.6% control of standard engorging B. annulatus females over the 20-wk trial. No ticks were found on sentinels placed in the treated pasture after week 9 posttreatment, an indication that the treatment had eliminated the free-living population in the treated pasture. From these studies, we conclude that a single Ivomec SR Bolus is incapable of sufficient control of B. annulatus to meet the rigid requirements of the Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program in South Texas. Although two boluses per animal did eliminate the ticks from treated heifers and the pasture they were in, the treatment would not be sufficiently efficacious for mature cattle (>400 kg) for it to be useful in the program.
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- J A Miller
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Knipling-Bushland U. S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory, Kerrville, TX 78028-9184, USA
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This clinical report describes the emotional and physical rehabilitation of a young man. The impact of the injuries sustained and repeated failure of traditional dental treatment methods had caused the patient to become quite withdrawn. A successful outcome followed surgical placement of multiple titanium plasma-sprayed cylindrical fixtures in severely damaged dental supporting tissues to serve as intermediary abutments for complex maxillary and mandibular fixed prostheses. The loss of crestal bone during the postprosthetic years is determined. The advantages only implant dentistry could bring are identified.
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- J A Miller
- Implant Dentistry Centre, St. John's, NF, Canada
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Horwitz ME, Barrett AJ, Brown MR, Carter CS, Childs R, Gallin JI, Holland SM, Linton GF, Miller JA, Leitman SF, Read EJ, Malech HL. Treatment of chronic granulomatous disease with nonmyeloablative conditioning and a T-cell-depleted hematopoietic allograft. N Engl J Med 2001; 344:881-8. [PMID: 11259721 DOI: 10.1056/nejm200103223441203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 222] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND The treatment of chronic granulomatous disease with conventional allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation carries a high risk of serious complications and death. We investigated the feasibility of stem-cell transplantation without ablation of the recipient's bone marrow. METHODS Ten patients, five children and five adults, with chronic granulomatous disease underwent peripheral-blood stem-cell transplantation from an HLA-identical sibling. We used a nonmyeloablative conditioning regimen consisting of cyclophosphamide, fludarabine, and antithymocyte globulin. The allograft was depleted of T cells to reduce the risk of severe graft-versus-host disease. Donor lymphocytes were administered at intervals of 30 days or more after the transplantation to facilitate engraftment. RESULTS After a median follow-up of 17 months (range, 8 to 26), the proportion of donor neutrophils in the circulation in 8 of the 10 patients was 33 to 100 percent, a level that can be expected to provide normal host defense; in 6 the proportion was 100 percent. In two patients, graft rejection occurred. Acute graft-versus-host disease (grade II, III, or IV) developed in three of the four adult patients with engraftment, one of whom subsequently had chronic graft-versus-host disease. None of the five children had grade II, III, or IV acute graft-versus-host disease. During the follow-up period, four serious infections occurred among the patients who had engraftment. Three of the 10 recipients died. Preexisting granulomatous lesions resolved in the patients in whom transplantation was successful. CONCLUSIONS Nonmyeloablative conditioning followed by a T-cell-depleted hematopoietic stem-cell allograft is a feasible option for patients with chronic granulomatous disease, recurrent life-threatening infections, and an HLA-identical family donor.
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- M E Horwitz
- Laboratory of Host Defenses, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Kang AK, Duncan JA, Cattran DC, Floras JS, Lai V, Scholey JW, Miller JA. Effect of oral contraceptives on the renin angiotensin system and renal function. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2001; 280:R807-13. [PMID: 11171661 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.2001.280.3.r807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We examined the effect of oral contraceptive (OC) usage on the renin angiotensin system (RAS) in two related experiments. In the first experiment, subjects were 34 healthy, normotensive, premenopausal women, 15 OC users and 19 OC nonusers, mean age 25 +/- 1 yr, ingesting a controlled sodium diet. We assessed arterial pressure, glomerular filtration rate, effective renal plasma flow, renal vascular resistance (RVR), and filtration fraction (FF) using inulin and p-aminohippurate clearance techniques, both at baseline and in response to the ANG II receptor blocker losartan. In the second experiment, in similar subjects, 10 OC users and 10 nonusers, we examined circulating RAS components [angiotensinogen, ANG II, aldosterone, plasma renin activity (PRA), and active renin] in response to incremental lower body negative pressure (LBNP), to determine whether renin secretion is suppressed by OC usage. OC users exhibited elevations in systolic blood pressure, RVR, and FF compared with nonusers, which were partially corrected by losartan. In the LBNP phase of the study, baseline measures of PRA, angiotensinogen, ANG II, and aldosterone were all increased in the OC group compared with the control group. Active renin levels did not differ between groups. Incremental LBNP resulted in increased circulating levels of RAS components in both groups. We conclude that the RAS is activated in women using OCs. There was no evidence that decreases in renin secretion result in normalization of the RAS as a whole.
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- A K Kang
- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A1
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Miller JA, Hinrichs CR. Sickle cell crisis in the adult: chest radiographic findings and comparison with pediatric sickle cell disease. J Natl Med Assoc 2001; 93:58-63. [PMID: 12653383 PMCID: PMC2640630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/01/2023]
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With the advent of improved therapy, an increasing proportion of individuals suffering from sickle cell disease (SCD) are surviving into adulthood. In contrast to children, little has been documented concerning the typical radiographic findings in adults presenting with sickle cell crises (SCC). We describe the chest radiographic (CXR) manifestations of adults with SCD presenting in SSC, correlated to hemoglobin (Hb) values, and compare them to those of the pediatric sickle cell population. The chest radiographs of 66 consecutive adults presenting to our emergency department complaining of symptoms consistent with acute SCC were retrospectively reviewed over a 12-month period. The radiographic findings were correlated with admission Hb values and compared with those of 50 children with known SCD presenting with SCC. Chi square analysis revealed no significant difference between the cardiovascular and bony findings in the adults and in those of the pediatric controls (p > 0.08-p > 1.0). However, one important difference in the two cohorts was that upper lobe infiltrates occurred exclusively in the pediatric group (p = 0.06). There was a statistically significant (p < 0.05) difference in cardiovascular and skeletal abnormalities between adults with Hb above and below the mean (8.2 g/dL). The radiographic features of adults presenting in acute SCCs are similar to those of children. Although the chest radiograph is often normal, in decreasing frequency, cardiovascular abnormalities, pneumonia sparing the upper lobes, and aseptic osteonecrosis of the shoulders and spine are not uncommon. There is a significant relationship, however, between cardiovascular abnormalities and Hb levels.
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- J A Miller
- Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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Duncan JA, Scholey JW, Miller JA. Angiotensin II type 1 receptor gene polymorphisms in humans: physiology and pathophysiology of the genotypes. Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens 2001; 10:111-6. [PMID: 11195043 DOI: 10.1097/00041552-200101000-00017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Many studies have attempted to relate genetic variants of components of the renin-angiotensin system to complex diseases such as essential hypertension, cardiovascular disease and progressive renal failure. The angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AT1R) gene is an important example of this approach. Many polymorphisms of the AT1R gene have been identified, but the A1166-->C polymorphism has been the most extensively studied. The physiological significance of this polymorphism is uncertain because of its location in the 3'-untranslated region of the gene. The present review summarizes association studies of the AT1R gene, focusing on clinical end-points and physiological responses.
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- J A Duncan
- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
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- S R Hermann
- Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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Pound JM, Miller JA, George JE. Efficacy of amitraz applied to white-tailed deer by the '4-poster' topical treatment device in controlling free-living lone star ticks (Acari: Ixodidae). J Med Entomol 2000; 37:878-884. [PMID: 11126544 DOI: 10.1603/0022-2585-37.6.878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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White-tailed deer treated themselves with a commercial pour-on acaricide formulation containing 2% amitraz as they fed from an ARS-patented '4-poster' topical treatment device. Whole kernel corn attracted deer to a single device placed in each of two deer-fenced pastures. In the treatment pasture, the rollers of the treatment device were charged with the acaricide, whereas the rollers of the device in the other pasture remained untreated. Deer were allowed to use the '4-posters' during periods of tick activity beginning in early to midspring and lasting through late summer to early fall for three consecutive years. Pretreatment sampling of adults and nymphs with dry-ice traps and larval masses with flip cloths showed no significant differences in population indices between the two pastures; however, after the third year of treatment, control of nymphal and adult ticks in the treated pasture was 91.9 and 93.7%, respectively, when compared with the untreated pasture. Control of larval masses increased from 68.4% in year 1 to 96.4% in year 2, but declined to 88.0% in year 3, probably because of the presence of feral hogs. This study demonstrated that application of amitraz to white-tailed deer through free-choice interaction with a '4-poster' device significantly reduced the abundance of free-living lone star ticks in a deer-fenced experimental pasture. Moreover, the yearly pattern of incremental increases in control and the final percentage control values for all three parasitic life stages in this topical application study were similar in magnitude to that observed in a previously conducted study in which the systemic acaricide ivermectin was used to reduce populations of free-living ticks by controlling ticks on deer.
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- J M Pound
- Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 2700 Fredericksburg Road, Kerrville, TX 78028-9184, USA
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PURPOSE To provide nurse practitioners (NPs) with an objective system for classification of urinary incontinence and protocols for treating the condition in the primary care setting. DATA SOURCE Clinical practice guidelines and the author's clinical experience. CONCLUSIONS By using tables of classifications of urinary incontinence, management strategies, and protocols, NPs can successfully manage mild urinary incontinence in primary care settings in a cost-effective manner. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE A thorough history and objective classification of the severity of incontinence provides the framework for treating urinary incontinence in a methodical and effective manner.
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- J A Miller
- Pacific Lutheran University, School of Nursing, Tacoma, WA 98447, USA
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Miller JA, Pugh AW, Ullah GM. 2,2'-Anhydro-4'-thionucleosides: precursors for 2'-azido- and 2'-chloro-4'-thionucleosides and for a novel thiolane to thietane rearrangement. Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids 2000; 19:1475-86. [PMID: 11092316 DOI: 10.1080/15257770008033855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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2,2'-Anhydro-4'-thio-beta- and alpha-nucleosides 9 and 10 have been prepared by an in situ 4-thio-1,2-glycal addition route. They undergo ring-opening by azide or chloride ion to give, after deprotection, the 2'-substituted-4'-thionucleosides 13 and 14, whereas reactions with cyanide or fluoride sources lead to the unsaturated nucleosides 17 or 18, depending upon conditions. An unexpected and clean rearrangement to the thietane 23 occurs on treatment of uracil derivative 20 with DAST.
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- J A Miller
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Wellcome Research Laboratories, Beckenham, Kent, UK.
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Recent studies suggest that there is an association between the A1166-->C polymorphism of the angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AGT1R), glycemic control, and the risk of diabetic nephropathy in subjects with type 1 diabetes. Because hypertension and renal hemodynamic function are also related to the risk of diabetic nephropathy and because hyperglycemia can activate the renin angiotensin system, we sought to determine if there is an association between the AGT1R polymorphism, baseline renal and peripheral hemodynamic function, and pressor response to high glucose in subjects with early uncomplicated type 1 diabetes. There were 39 diabetic subjects genotyped for the AGT1R polymorphism by polymerase chain reaction and segregated into 2 groups: those with and those without the C1166 allele (AA and AC/CC). The average age was 27 +/- 1 years, and the mean duration of diabetes was 3.5 +/- 0.6 years. HbA(1c) values were <10% in all subjects and were similar in the 2 groups (8.2 +/- 0.3 vs. 9.1 +/- 0.4%). After a 7-day controlled diet (150 mmol sodium, 1.5-2.0 g x kg(-1) x day(-1) protein), renal hemodynamic function was assessed by inulin and para-aminohippurate clearance during clamped euglycemic conditions (4-6 mmol/l). Mean values for glomerular filtration rates did not differ between groups during euglycemia. In contrast, mean values for renal plasma flow and renal blood flow were significantly greater in the AC/CC group compared with the AA group. Values for mean arterial pressure were similar in the 2 groups, whereas renal vascular resistance was significantly reduced in the AC/CC group. In 20 subjects (10 from each genotype subgroup), hemodynamic function was assessed on a second occasion during controlled clamped hyperglycemia (9-11 mmol/l) after a similar preparatory period. In response to high glucose, plasma renin activity increased in both genotype groups to the same extent, but a pressor response was noted only in subjects with the C1166 allele. Mean arterial pressure increased significantly in the AC/CC subgroup and remained unchanged in the AA subgroup. We conclude that there is an association between the AGT1R A1166-->C polymorphism and renal hemodynamic function in early type 1 diabetes. But more importantly, the pressor response to hyperglycemia is augmented in those diabetic patients with the C1166 allele and may represent a factor that predisposes them to renal injury during periods of inadequate glucose control.
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- J A Miller
- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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