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Buffle E, Stucki M, De Marchi SF, Obrist D. An in-vitro model of stiffened aortic valves to develop an iso-stiffness-lines graph for aortic stenosis classification. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/jeab289.231] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Funding Acknowledgements
Type of funding sources: Public Institution(s). Main funding source(s): Bern Center for Precision Medicine (BCPM)
Introduction
The echocardiographic diagnosis of aortic stenosis (AS) is established by assessing its maximal opening area (OA). The behavior of OA is dependent on transvalvular flow which can be low in case of low-flow, low-gradient AS. However, the complicated decision tree of the current guidelines for the assessment of AS does not consider flow but rather a stroke volume and does not take into account the size of the valve. This experiment was designed to create a graphical representation of the OA versus flow for various valve stiffness values to eventually build a model with iso-stiffness lines and simplify the assessment of aortic stenosis
Methods
We filmed a harvested porcine aortic valve mounted in a pulsatile flow loop during the ejection time with a high speed camera (2000Hz), measured for each time point OA and the instantaneous flow through the aortic valve at 10 different mean flow rates (ranging from 0.5 to 5.0 liters/min). We stiffened the valve by treating it with a protein cross-linking agent (formaldehyde) to yield a total of three stiffness grades (a, b, c) and repeated the procedure for each of those grades. We divided both OA and flow, by the area of left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) in order to account for different valve sizes. We plotted each OA against its corresponding flow after correcting for the intersignal delay. In order to analyze the cycle portion corresponding to the most steady flow, we only included the 5% highest instantaneous flow rates (for each of the 10 mean flow rates). We then measured the relative stiffness by measuring the relative pump work between stiffness grades, 1 being defined as the native stiffness grade. We predicted relative stiffness grade of each valve in a k-fold validation algorithm (each valve being sequentially taken as the test set and all the other remaining valves in the training set), taking a sigmoid function model. Finally we performed a linear regression of each measured and predicted stiffness grade of each valve to assess the accuracy of the model.
Results
We could analyze 11 valves and performed an 11-fold cross validation. We could predict the relative stiffness of each of the valve with a good slope value (slope = 0.898) and a modest accuracy (r = 0.639).
Conclusions
We could predict with modest accuracy the inherent stiffness of the valve only with valve size, flow and opening area, all information available with echocardiography. This will allow to create iso-stiffness line to better classify valve stenosis and compare any patient on one single graph at any flow or valve" size, potentially simplifying the grading system of aortic stenosis, especially for patient with low-flow, low-gradient AS. Abstract Figure. Combination of Flow and OA Abstract Figure. 3 stiffness stages and Cross-validation
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- E Buffle
- Bern University Hospital, Cardiology, Bern, Switzerland
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- ARTORG Center, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Bern, Switzerland
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- Bern University Hospital, Cardiology, Bern, Switzerland
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- ARTORG Center, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Bern, Switzerland
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Buffle E, Stucki M, Obrist D, De Marchi SF. An in-vitro model of stiffened aortic valves to develop an iso-stiffness-lines graph for severity evaluation aortic stenosis. Eur Heart J 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehab724.0121] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Abstract
Introduction
The echocardiographic diagnosis of aortic stenosis (AS) is established by assessing its maximal opening area (OA). The behavior of OA is dependent on transvalvular flow which can be low in case of low-flow, low-gradient AS. However, current guidelines for the assessment of AS do not consider flow but rather a stroke volume. This experiment was designed to create a graphical representation of the OA versus flow for various valve stiffness values to eventually build a model with iso-stiffness lines.
Methods
We filmed harvested porcine aortic valve mounted in a pulsatile flow loop during the ejection time with a high speed camera (2000Hz), measured for each time point OA and the instantaneous flow through the aortic valve at 10 different mean flow rates (ranging from 0.5 to 5.0 liters/min) and divided both, OA and flow, by the area of left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) in order to account for different valve sizes. We plotted each OA against its corresponding flow after correcting for the intersignal delay. Due to a time lag between flow onset and the valve opening caused by a ballooning of the valve, we only included the points corresponding to the 5% highest instantaneous flow rates (for each of the 10 mean flow rates). We stiffened the valve by treating it with a protein cross-linking agent (formaldehyde) to yield a total of three stiffness grades (a, b, c) and repeated the procedure for each of those grades.
Results
We generally observed an asymptotic appearance of the flow-OA relationship as well as a flattening of this relationship with increasing valve stiffening. This visually matches well simulated data generated with a sigmoid model.
Conclusions
We could obtain all flow/OA pairs at different stiffness grades. This will allow us to fit a sigmoid function capturing the flow-OA relationship for each stiffness grade and create iso-stiffness line that will allow classifying valve stenosis grade irrespective of the flow and the size of the valve in one single graph, potentially simplifying the grading system of aortic stenosis, especially for patient with low-flow, low-gradient AS.
Funding Acknowledgement
Type of funding sources: Public Institution(s). Main funding source(s): Bern Center for Precision Medicine (BCPM) Stiffness stage 1All stiffness stages combined
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- E Buffle
- Bern University Hospital, Cardiology, Bern, Switzerland
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- ARTORG Center, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Bern, Switzerland
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- ARTORG Center, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Bern, Switzerland
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- Bern University Hospital, Cardiology, Bern, Switzerland
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Fischer K, Riecker C, Overney S, Stucki M, Tanner H, Jung B, Von Tengg-Kobligk H, Eberle B, Guensch DP. Visualizing myocardial injury from elective cardioversion with CMR. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/jeaa356.310] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Funding Acknowledgements
Type of funding sources: Public grant(s) – EU funding. Main funding source(s): European Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiologists Research Grant
Background
Despite everyday use of electrical interventions in cardiovascular care, the extent and type of concomitant myocardial injury is not fully understood. Current literature disagrees about the question whether and how cardioversion or defibrillation damage the myocardium, especially when serologic markers are used. Such markers are not always cardiac-specific, nor diagnostic for type and region of myocardial injury. These limitations may be overcome by parametric T1 and T2 mapping. We aimed to investigate whether the acute and long-term impact of electrical cardioversion on myocardial structure and function is detectable using CMR imaging.
Methods
Patients scheduled for elective cardioversion were enrolled to undergo three CMR exams (3 Tesla): on the morning prior to cardioversion to assess pre-existing injury; two to five hours after cardioversion to assess the acute response; and six to ten weeks later to investigate chronic injury. The CMR exam studied left ventricular (LV) function, T2 mapping to measure edema, and extracellular volume (ECV) from T1 maps to measure diffuse fibrosis. Both the degree of injury and proportion (%) of myocardial area affected were analysed.
Results
Eight patients completed the study, requiring 1-2 shocks (totalling 120-300 J biphasic energy) to achieve sinus rhythm. LV ejection fraction increased after cardioversion from 47 ± 13% to 55 ± 15% (p = 0.020), and was 52 ± 16% at the third exam (p = 0.199). Even prior to intervention, some patients showed edema (baseline T2 > 40ms) afflicting 49 ± 23% of their LV myocardium. Area affected by edema expanded to 72 ± 18% after cardioversion (p = 0.002) and returned to 54 ± 24% by the third exam. T2 rose from baseline (40.4 ± 1.8ms) after cardioversion acutely to 44.1 ± 5.2ms (p = 0.028) and normalized until the late exam (40.8 ± 3.1ms). Myocardial area affected by diffuse fibrosis (ECV > 30%) was 28.3 ± 9.4% at baseline and 38.8 ± 18.9% late after cardioversion (p = 0.018). Pathologic T2 increases (indicative of edema) were not observed in all patients, but individuals with higher baseline ECV also experienced greater T2 increase after cardioversion (r = 0.840, p = 0.036).
Conclusion
Elective cardioversion improves LV systolic function, but also aggravates myocardial edema and possibly adds to diffuse fibrosis during several weeks thereafter. Such sequelae of cardioversion were observed mainly in patients with a greater burden of pre-existing myocardial injury. More data is needed to corroborate these preliminary findings and to study whether this type of myocardial injury predicts worse outcome. Moreover, changes in CMR markers caused by electrical interventions including defibrillation, may have the potential to confound diagnostic assessments of the underlying cardiac injury.
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- K Fischer
- Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Bern, Switzerland
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- Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Bern, Switzerland
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- Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Bern, Switzerland
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- Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Bern, Switzerland
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- Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, Department of Cardiology, Bern, Switzerland
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- Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, Department of Diagnostic, Interventional and Paediatric Radiology, Bern, Switzerland
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- Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, Department of Diagnostic, Interventional and Paediatric Radiology, Bern, Switzerland
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- Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Bern, Switzerland
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- Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Bern, Switzerland
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Kaiser HA, Hirschi T, Sleigh C, Reineke D, Hartwich V, Stucki M, Rummel C, Sleigh J, Hight D. Comorbidity-dependent changes in alpha and broadband electroencephalogram power during general anaesthesia for cardiac surgery. Br J Anaesth 2020; 125:456-465. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.06.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2019] [Revised: 05/12/2020] [Accepted: 06/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Fischer K, Riecker C, Overney S, Stucki M, Tanner H, Jung B, von Tengg-Kobligk H, Eberle B, Guensch D. VIsualizing myocardial injury from elective cardioversion. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2020. [DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2020.09.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Huelsenitz S, Fischer K, Yamaji K, Stucki M, Ueki Y, Jung B, Räber L, von Tengg-Kobligk H, Eberle B, Guensch D. Effects of normoxic versus hyperoxic hyperventilation followed by apnea on right ventricular strain in patients with multi-vessel coronary artery disease. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2020. [DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2020.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Kaiser HA, Hirschi T, Hartwich V, Stucki M, Rummel C, Reineke D, Hight D. Decreasing Frontal Electroencephalogram Alpha Power and Increasing Sensitivity to Volatile Anesthetics Over 3 Surgeries Within 7 Months: A Case Report. A A Pract 2019; 13:274-277. [DOI: 10.1213/xaa.0000000000001053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Rummel C, Basciani R, Nirkko A, Schroth G, Stucki M, Reineke D, Eberle B, Kaiser HA. Spatially extended versus frontal cerebral near-infrared spectroscopy during cardiac surgery: a case series identifying potential advantages. J Biomed Opt 2018; 23:1-11. [PMID: 29359545 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.23.1.016012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [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: 03/20/2017] [Accepted: 12/19/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Stroke due to hypoperfusion or emboli is a devastating adverse event of cardiac surgery, but early detection and treatment could protect patients from an unfavorable postoperative course. Hypoperfusion and emboli can be detected with transcranial Doppler of the middle cerebral artery (MCA). The measured blood flow velocity correlates with cerebral oxygenation determined clinically by near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) of the frontal cortex. We tested the potential advantage of a spatially extended NIRS in detecting critical events in three cardiac surgery patients with a whole-head fiber holder of the FOIRE-3000 continuous-wave NIRS system. Principle components analysis was performed to differentiate between global and localized hypoperfusion or ischemic territories of the middle and anterior cerebral arteries. In one patient, we detected a critical hypoperfusion of the right MCA, which was not apparent in the frontal channels but was accompanied by intra- and postoperative neurological correlates of ischemia. We conclude that spatially extended NIRS of temporal and parietal vascular territories could improve the detection of critically low cerebral perfusion. Even in severe hemispheric stroke, NIRS of the frontal lobe may remain normal because the anterior cerebral artery can be supplied by the contralateral side directly or via the anterior communicating artery.
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- Christian Rummel
- University of Bern, Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging, University Institute for Diagnostic an, Switzerland
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- University of Bern, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Therapy, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
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- University of Bern, Department of Neurology, Schlaf-Wach-Epilepsie-Zentrum, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
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- University of Bern, Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging, University Institute for Diagnostic an, Switzerland
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- University of Bern, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Therapy, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
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- University of Bern, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
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- University of Bern, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Therapy, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
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- University of Bern, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Therapy, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
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Erdös G, Dietrich W, Stucki M, Merz TM, Angelillo-Scherrer A, Nagler M, Carrel T, Eberle B. Early recovery of endogenous fibrinogen after cardiac surgery. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2017. [DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2017.02.152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Bell J, Yamamoto Y, Jenni H, Mclean L, Chiarella G, El-Essawi A, Glendza D, Antonitsis P, Boer C, Durandy Y, Erdoes G, Murkin J, Starinieri P, Starinieri P, Spriel A, Bauer A, McLean L, Medlam W, Bennett R, Bennett R, Turner E, Wallhead A, Winkler B, Erdös G, Eberle B, Carrel T, Medlam W, Bell J, Bennett R, Bennett R, Wallhead A, Turner E, Benvenuto D, Ciano M, Losito G, Mazzei V, Breitenbach I, Haupt B, Morjan M, Brower R, Harringer W, Dedieu F, Crispin V, Aunac S, Guennaoui T, Van Ruyssevelt P, Kostarellou G, Argiriadou H, Kleontas A, Deliopoulos A, Grosomanidis V, Anastasiadis K, Stolze A, Vonk A, Burtman D, Basciani R, Kröninger F, Gygax E, Jenni H, Reineke D, Stucki M, Hagenbuch N, Carrel T, Eberle B, Turkstra T, Mayer R, Robic B, Wen W, Yilmaz A, Robic B, Wen W, Yilmaz A, Nguyen-Vu M, Serrick C, Hausmann H, Eberle T, Troitzsch D, Johansen P, Nygaard H, Hasenkam J. 2nd International Symposium on Minimal Invasive Extracorporeal Technologies Athens, Greece, 9-11 June 2016001SAFETY IN THE EVOLVING MINIATURIZED EXTRACORPOREAL SYSTEM002THE CHALLENGE OF CLOSED CIRCUIT SYSTEM FOR ALL CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS CASES003THE USE OF A MINIMAL INVASIVE EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCUIT FOR REWARMING PATIENTS FROM ACCIDENTAL HYPOTHERMIA: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY004WHAT ARE THE LIMITATIONS OF MINIATURIZED ADULT CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS? OUR FINDINGS005AORTIC VALVE SURGERY AND CORONARY BYPASS SURGERY IN DIALYZED PATIENTS. MAY MINIMAL EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION BE HELPFUL IN GETTING BETTER RESULTS?006IMPACT OF MINIMAL EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION IN OCTOGENARIANS UNDERGOING CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING. HAVE WE BEEN LOOKING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION?007CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING ON BEATING HEART, ON CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS OR ON MINIMAL EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION008MINIMAL INVASIVE EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION IMPROVES QUALITY OF LIFE AFTER CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING009MINIMAL INVASIVE DETERMINATIONS OF OXYGEN DELIVERY (DO 2) AND CONSUMPTION (VO 2) IN CARDIAC SURGERY010CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF PERFUSION INDEX AND PULSE OXIMETRY DURING WARM PULSATILE PERFUSION IN PAEDIATRICS011CEREBRAL MICROEMBOLIZATION IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING SURGICAL AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT ON MINIMAL INVASIVE OR CONVENTIONAL EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION012ASSESSMENT OF AUTOMATED SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIALS FOR DETECTION OF INTRAOPERATIVE POSITIONAL NEUROPRAXIA IN CARDIAC SURGERY013MINIMAL INVASIVE EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION IN MINIMALLY INVASIVE AORTIC VALVE SURGERY014MINIMAL INVASIVE EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION IN ENDOSCOPIC MITRAL VALVE SURGERY015AIR HANDLING CAPABILITY OF A CONVENTIONAL CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS VERSUS MINIMIZED EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCUIT USING THE FUSION OXYGENATOR016DOES MINIMALLY INVASIVE EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION AND CELL SALVAGE REDUCE INFLAMMATION AFTER CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING SURGERY? Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivw269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Basciani R, Kröninger F, Gygax E, Jenni H, Reineke D, Stucki M, Hagenbuch N, Carrel T, Eberle B, Erdoes G. Cerebral Microembolization During Aortic Valve Replacement Using Minimally Invasive or Conventional Extracorporeal Circulation: A Randomized Trial. Artif Organs 2016; 40:E280-E291. [DOI: 10.1111/aor.12744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2016] [Revised: 02/22/2016] [Accepted: 02/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Reto Basciani
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Therapy; Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern; Bern Switzerland
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Therapy; Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern; Bern Switzerland
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery; Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern; Bern
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery; Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern; Bern
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery; Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern; Bern
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Therapy; Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern; Bern Switzerland
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery; Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern; Bern
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Therapy; Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern; Bern Switzerland
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Therapy; Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern; Bern Switzerland
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Erdoes G, Lippuner C, Kocsis I, Schiff M, Stucki M, Carrel T, Windecker S, Eberle B, Stueber F, Book M. Technical Approach Determines Inflammatory Response after Surgical and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0143089. [PMID: 26599610 PMCID: PMC4658107 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2015] [Accepted: 10/14/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
OBJECTIVE To investigate the periprocedural inflammatory response in patients with isolated aortic valve stenosis undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) or transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) with different technical approaches. MATERIAL AND METHODS Patients were prospectively allocated to one of the following treatments: SAVR using conventional extracorporeal circulation (CECC, n = 47) or minimized extracorporeal circulation (MECC, n = 15), or TAVI using either transapical (TA, n = 15) or transfemoral (TF, n = 24) access. Exclusion criteria included infection, pre-procedural immunosuppressive or antibiotic drug therapy and emergency indications. We investigated interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, IL-10, human leukocyte antigen (HLA-DR), white blood cell count, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) and soluble L-selectin (sCD62L) levels before the procedure and at 4, 24, and 48 h after aortic valve replacement. Data are presented for group interaction (p-values for inter-group comparison) as determined by the Greenhouse-Geisser correction. RESULTS SAVR on CECC was associated with the highest levels of IL-8 and hs-CRP (p<0.017, and 0.007, respectively). SAVR on MECC showed the highest descent in levels of HLA-DR and sCD62L (both p<0.001) in the perioperative period. TA-TAVI showed increased intraprocedural concentration and the highest peak of IL-6 (p = 0.017). Significantly smaller changes in the inflammatory markers were observed in TF-TAVI. CONCLUSION Surgical and interventional approaches to aortic valve replacement result in inflammatory modulation which differs according to the invasiveness of the procedure. As expected, extracorporeal circulation is associated with the most marked pro-inflammatory activation, whereas TF-TAVI emerges as the approach with the most attenuated inflammatory response. Factors such as the pre-treatment patient condition and the extent of myocardial injury also significantly affect inflammatory biomarker patterns. Accordingly, TA-TAVI is to be classified not as an interventional but a true surgical procedure, with inflammatory biomarker profiles comparable to those found after SAVR. Our study could not establish an obvious link between the extent of the periprocedural inflammatory response and clinical outcome parameters.
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- Gabor Erdoes
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Department of Clinical Research, Anesthesiology Group, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- 2nd Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Semmelweis University of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Department of Clinical Research, Anesthesiology Group, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Cardiology, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Department of Clinical Research, Anesthesiology Group, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Department of Clinical Research, Anesthesiology Group, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Waelti ER, Stucki M. Production of human monoclonal antibodies: potential therapeutic use in gut-derived infectious-toxic shock syndromes. Curr Stud Hematol Blood Transfus 2015:324-47. [PMID: 1315241 DOI: 10.1159/000429616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Bacterial/immunology
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/isolation & purification
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/therapeutic use
- Antigens, Bacterial/immunology
- B-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Cell Line
- DNA, Recombinant
- Endotoxins/adverse effects
- Endotoxins/immunology
- Gram-Negative Bacteria/immunology
- Herpesvirus 4, Human
- Humans
- Hybridomas/immunology
- Intestines/microbiology
- Mice
- Multiple Myeloma/pathology
- Protein Engineering
- Shock, Septic/prevention & control
- Shock, Septic/therapy
- Species Specificity
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- E R Waelti
- Institute of Pathology, University of Bern, Switzerland
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Stucki M, Schäfer W, Hostettler T, Käsermann F, Nowak T, Gröner A, Sebald A, Kempf C. Pathogen Safety of a New 20% Liquid Immunoglobulin Product. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2008.12.314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Stucki M, Boschetti N, Schäfer W, Hostettler T, Käsermann F, Nowak T, Gröner A, Kempf C. Investigations of prion and virus safety of a new liquid IVIG product. Biologicals 2008; 36:239-47. [PMID: 18337119 DOI: 10.1016/j.biologicals.2008.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2007] [Revised: 01/10/2008] [Accepted: 01/30/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Bartkova J, Horejsí Z, Sehested M, Nesland JM, Rajpert-De Meyts E, Skakkebaek NE, Stucki M, Jackson S, Lukas J, Bartek J. DNA damage response mediators MDC1 and 53BP1: constitutive activation and aberrant loss in breast and lung cancer, but not in testicular germ cell tumours. Oncogene 2007; 26:7414-22. [PMID: 17546051 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1210553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [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: 12/17/2022]
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MDC1 and 53BP1 are critical components of the DNA damage response (DDR) machinery that protects genome integrity and guards against cancer, yet the tissue expression patterns and involvement of these two DDR adaptors/mediators in human tumours remain largely unknown. Here we optimized immunohistochemical analyses of human 53BP1 and MDC1 proteins in situ and identified their virtually ubiquitous expression, both in proliferating and quiescent, differentiated tissues. Focus formation by 53BP1 and/or MDC1 in human spermatogenesis and subsets of breast and lung carcinomas indicated physiological and 'pathological' activation of the DDR, respectively. Furthermore, aberrant reduction or lack of either protein in significant proportions of carcinomas supported the candidacy of 53BP1 and MDC1 for tumour suppressors. Contrary to carcinomas, almost no activation or loss of MDC1 or 53BP1 were found among testicular germ-cell tumours (TGCTs), a tumour type with unique biology and exceptionally low incidence of p53 mutations. Such concomitant presence (in carcinomas) or absence (in TGCTs) of DDR activation and DDR aberrations supports the roles of MDC1 and 53BP1 within the ATM/ATR-regulated checkpoint network which, when activated, provides an early anti-cancer barrier the pressure of which selects for DDR defects such as p53 mutations or loss of 53BP1/MDC1 during cancer progression.
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- J Bartkova
- Institute of Cancer Biology and Centre for Genotoxic Stress Research, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Maga G, Villani G, Tillement V, Stucki M, Locatelli GA, Frouin I, Spadari S, Hübscher U. Okazaki fragment processing: modulation of the strand displacement activity of DNA polymerase delta by the concerted action of replication protein A, proliferating cell nuclear antigen, and flap endonuclease-1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2001; 98:14298-303. [PMID: 11724925 PMCID: PMC64676 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.251193198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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DNA polymerase (pol) delta is essential for both leading and lagging strand DNA synthesis during chromosomal replication in eukaryotes. Pol delta has been implicated in the Okazaki fragment maturation process for the extension of the newly synthesized fragment and for the displacement of the RNA/DNA segment of the preexisting downstream fragment generating an intermediate flap structure that is the target for the Dna2 and flap endonuclease-1 (Fen 1) endonucleases. Using a single-stranded minicircular template with an annealed RNA/DNA primer, we could measure strand displacement by pol delta coupled to DNA synthesis. Our results suggested that pol delta alone can displace up to 72 nucleotides while synthesizing through a double-stranded DNA region in a distributive manner. Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) reduced the template dissociation rate of pol delta, thus increasing the processivity of both synthesis and strand displacement, whereas replication protein A (RP-A) limited the size of the displaced fragment down to 20-30 nucleotides, by generating a "locked" flap DNA structure, which was a substrate for processing of the displaced fragment by Fen 1 into a ligatable product. Our data support a model for Okazaki fragment processing where the strand displacement activity of DNA polymerase delta is modulated by the concerted action of PCNA, RP-A and Fen 1.
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- G Maga
- Istituto di Genetica Biochimica ed Evoluzionistica-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, I-27100 Pavia, Italy.
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Hasan S, Stucki M, Hassa PO, Imhof R, Gehrig P, Hunziker P, Hübscher U, Hottiger MO. Regulation of human flap endonuclease-1 activity by acetylation through the transcriptional coactivator p300. Mol Cell 2001; 7:1221-31. [PMID: 11430825 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(01)00272-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [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: 10/18/2022]
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We describe a role for the transcriptional coactivator p300 in DNA metabolism. p300 formed a complex with flap endonuclease-1 (Fen1) and acetylated Fen1 in vitro. Furthermore, Fen1 acetylation was observed in vivo and was enhanced upon UV treatment of human cells. Remarkably, acetylation of the Fen1 C terminus by p300 significantly reduced Fen1's DNA binding and nuclease activity. Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) was able to stimulate both acetylated and unacetylated Fen1 activity to the same extent. Our results identify acetylation as a novel regulatory modification of Fen1 and implicate that p300 is not only a component of the chromatin remodeling machinery but might also play a critical role in regulating DNA metabolic events.
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- S Hasan
- Institute of Veterinary Biochemistry, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland
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Flap endonuclease 1 (Fen1) is a structure-specific metallonuclease with important functions in DNA replication and DNA repair. It interacts like many other proteins involved in DNA metabolic events with proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), and its enzymatic activity is stimulated by PCNA in vitro. The PCNA interaction site is located close to the C terminus of Fen1 and is flanked by a conserved basic region of 35-38 amino acids in eukaryotic species but not in archaea. We have constructed two deletion mutants of human Fen1 that lack either the PCNA interaction motif or a part of its adjacent C-terminal region and analyzed them in a variety of assays. Remarkably, deletion of the basic C-terminal region did not affect PCNA interaction but resulted in a protein with significantly reduced enzymatic activity. Electrophoretic mobility shift analysis revealed that this mutant displayed a severe defect in substrate binding. Our results suggest that the C terminus of eukaryotic Fen1 consists of two functionally distinct regions that together might form an important regulatory domain.
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- M Stucki
- Institut für Veterinärbiochemie, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
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Stucki M, Stagljar I, Jónsson ZO, Hübscher U. A coordinated interplay: proteins with multiple functions in DNA replication, DNA repair, cell cycle/checkpoint control, and transcription. Prog Nucleic Acid Res Mol Biol 2000; 65:261-98. [PMID: 11008490 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(00)65007-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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In eukaryotic cells, DNA transactions such as replication, repair, and transcription require a large set of proteins. In all of these events, complexes of more than 30 polypetides appear to function in highly organized and structurally well-defined machines. We have learned in the past few years that the three essential macromolecular events, replication, repair, and transcription, have common functional entities and are coordinated by complex regulatory mechanisms. This can be documented for replication and repair, for replication and checkpoint control, and for replication and cell cycle control, as well as for replication and transcription. In this review we cover the three different protein classes: DNA polymerases, DNA polymerase accessory proteins, and selected transcription factors. The "common enzyme-different pathway strategy" is fascinating from several points of view: first, it might guarantee that these events are coordinated; second, it can be viewed from an evolutionary angle; and third, this strategy might provide cells with backup mechanisms for essential physiological tasks.
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- M Stucki
- Department of Veterinary Biochemistry, University of Zürich-Irchel, Switzerland
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Image guided freehand navigation of surgical instruments has been applied to the Bernese periacetabular osteotomy, a complex surgical technique for the treatment of dysplastic hips. This navigation system has been introduced into the operating room and has so far been used for 12 patients. Image data from computed tomography (CT) scans are presented in various ways to support the preoperative plan and to provide optimized control of surgical action. Special attention has been paid to the implementation of a sophisticated surgeon-machine interface. This paper describes the features of this novel surgical navigation system and its introduction into the clinical environment.
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- F Langlotz
- Maurice E. Müller Institute for Biomechanics, University of Bern, Switzerland.
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Araújo SJ, Tirode F, Coin F, Pospiech H, Syväoja JE, Stucki M, Hübscher U, Egly JM, Wood RD. Nucleotide excision repair of DNA with recombinant human proteins: definition of the minimal set of factors, active forms of TFIIH, and modulation by CAK. Genes Dev 2000. [PMID: 10673506 DOI: 10.1101/gad.14.3.349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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During human nucleotide excision repair, damage is recognized, two incisions are made flanking a DNA lesion, and residues are replaced by repair synthesis. A set of proteins required for repair of most lesions is RPA, XPA, TFIIH, XPC-hHR23B, XPG, and ERCC1-XPF, but additional components have not been excluded. The most complex and difficult to analyze factor is TFIIH, which has a 6-subunit core (XPB, XPD, p44, p34, p52, p62) and a 3-subunit kinase (CAK). TFIIH has roles both in basal transcription initiation and in DNA repair, and several inherited human disorders are associated with mutations in TFIIH subunits. To identify the forms of TFIIH that can function in repair, recombinant XPA, RPA, XPC-hHR23B, XPG, and ERCC1-XPF were combined with TFIIH fractions purified from HeLa cells. Repair activity coeluted with the peak of TFIIH and with transcription activity. TFIIH from cells with XPB or XPD mutations was defective in supporting repair, whereas TFIIH from spinal muscular atrophy cells with a deletion of one p44 gene was active. Recombinant TFIIH also functioned in repair, both a 6- and a 9-subunit form containing CAK. The CAK kinase inhibitor H-8 improved repair efficiency, indicating that CAK can negatively regulate NER by phosphorylation. The 15 recombinant polypeptides define the minimal set of proteins required for dual incision of DNA containing a cisplatin adduct. Complete repair was achieved by including highly purified human DNA polymerase delta or epsilon, PCNA, RFC, and DNA ligase I in reaction mixtures, reconstituting adduct repair for the first time with recombinant incision factors and human replication proteins.
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- S J Araújo
- Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, Hertfordshire EN6 3LD, UK
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Araújo SJ, Tirode F, Coin F, Pospiech H, Syväoja JE, Stucki M, Hübscher U, Egly JM, Wood RD. Nucleotide excision repair of DNA with recombinant human proteins: definition of the minimal set of factors, active forms of TFIIH, and modulation by CAK. Genes Dev 2000; 14:349-59. [PMID: 10673506 PMCID: PMC316364] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2023]
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During human nucleotide excision repair, damage is recognized, two incisions are made flanking a DNA lesion, and residues are replaced by repair synthesis. A set of proteins required for repair of most lesions is RPA, XPA, TFIIH, XPC-hHR23B, XPG, and ERCC1-XPF, but additional components have not been excluded. The most complex and difficult to analyze factor is TFIIH, which has a 6-subunit core (XPB, XPD, p44, p34, p52, p62) and a 3-subunit kinase (CAK). TFIIH has roles both in basal transcription initiation and in DNA repair, and several inherited human disorders are associated with mutations in TFIIH subunits. To identify the forms of TFIIH that can function in repair, recombinant XPA, RPA, XPC-hHR23B, XPG, and ERCC1-XPF were combined with TFIIH fractions purified from HeLa cells. Repair activity coeluted with the peak of TFIIH and with transcription activity. TFIIH from cells with XPB or XPD mutations was defective in supporting repair, whereas TFIIH from spinal muscular atrophy cells with a deletion of one p44 gene was active. Recombinant TFIIH also functioned in repair, both a 6- and a 9-subunit form containing CAK. The CAK kinase inhibitor H-8 improved repair efficiency, indicating that CAK can negatively regulate NER by phosphorylation. The 15 recombinant polypeptides define the minimal set of proteins required for dual incision of DNA containing a cisplatin adduct. Complete repair was achieved by including highly purified human DNA polymerase delta or epsilon, PCNA, RFC, and DNA ligase I in reaction mixtures, reconstituting adduct repair for the first time with recombinant incision factors and human replication proteins.
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- S J Araújo
- Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, Hertfordshire EN6 3LD, UK
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An important not yet fully understood event in DNA replication is the DNA polymerase (pol) switch from pol alpha to pol delta. Indirect evidence suggested that the clamp loader replication factor C (RF-C) plays an important role, since a replication competent protein complex containing pol alpha, pol delta and RF-C could perform pol switching in the presence of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA). By using purified pol alpha/primase, pol delta, RF-C, PCNA and RP-A we show that: (i) RF-C can inhibit pol alpha in the presence of ATP prior to PCNA loading, (ii) RF-C decreases the affinity of pol alpha for the 3'OH primer ends, (iii) the inhibition of pol alpha by RF-C is released upon PCNA loading, (iv) ATP hydrolysis is required for PCNA loading and subsequent release of inhibition of pol alpha, (v) under these conditions a switching from pol alpha/primase to pol delta is evident. Thus, RF-C appears to be critical for the pol alpha to pol delta switching. Based on these results, a model is proposed in which RF-C induces the pol switching by sequestering the 3'-OH end from pol alpha and subsequently recruiting PCNA to DNA.
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- G Maga
- Istituto di Genetica Biochimica ed Evoluzionistica IGBE-CNR, Pavia, I-27100, Italy
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Schumacher SB, Stucki M, Hübscher U. The N-terminal region of DNA polymerase delta catalytic subunit is necessary for holoenzyme function. Nucleic Acids Res 2000; 28:620-5. [PMID: 10606663 PMCID: PMC102512 DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.2.620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Genetic and biochemical studies have shown that DNA polymerase delta (Poldelta) is the major replicative Pol in the eukaryotic cell. Its functional form is the holoenzyme composed of Poldelta, proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and replication factor C (RF-C). In this paper, we describe an N-terminal truncated form of DNA polymerase delta (DeltaN Poldelta) from calf thymus. The DeltaN Poldelta was stimulated as the full-length Poldelta by PCNA in a RF-C-independent Poldelta assay. However, when tested for holoenzyme function in a RF-C-dependent Poldelta assay in the presence of RF-C, ATP and replication protein A (RP-A), the DeltaN Poldelta behaved differently. First, the DeltaN Poldelta lacked holoenzyme functions to a great extent. Second, product size analysis and kinetic experiments showed that the holoenzyme containing DeltaN Poldelta was much less efficient and synthesized DNA at a much slower rate than the holoenzyme containing full-length Poldelta. The present study provides the first evidence that the N-terminal part of the large subunit of Poldelta is involved in holo-enzyme function.
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- S B Schumacher
- Institute of Veterinary Biochemistry, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
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Pascucci B, Stucki M, Jónsson ZO, Dogliotti E, Hübscher U. Long patch base excision repair with purified human proteins. DNA ligase I as patch size mediator for DNA polymerases delta and epsilon. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:33696-702. [PMID: 10559260 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.47.33696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [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: 11/06/2022] Open
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Among the different base excision repair pathways known, the long patch base excision repair of apurinic/apyrimidinic sites is an important mechanism that requires proliferating cell nuclear antigen. We have reconstituted this pathway using purified human proteins. Our data indicated that efficient repair is dependent on six components including AP endonuclease, replication factor C, proliferating cell nuclear antigen, DNA polymerases delta or epsilon, flap endonuclease 1, and DNA ligase I. Fine mapping of the nucleotide replacement events showed that repair patches extended up to a maximum of 10 nucleotides 3' to the lesion. However, almost 70% of the repair synthesis was confined to 2-4-nucleotide patches and DNA ligase I appeared to be responsible for limiting the repair patch length. Moreover, both proliferating cell nuclear antigen and flap endonuclease 1 are required for the production and ligation of long patch repair intermediates suggesting an important role of this complex in both excision and resynthesis steps.
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- B Pascucci
- Laboratory of Comparative Toxicology, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
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Maga G, Jónsson ZO, Stucki M, Spadari S, Hübscher U. Dual mode of interaction of DNA polymerase epsilon with proliferating cell nuclear antigen in primer binding and DNA synthesis. J Mol Biol 1999; 285:259-67. [PMID: 9878404 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [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: 11/22/2022]
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Proliferating cell nuclear antigen can interact with DNA polymerase epsilon on linear DNA templates, even in the absence of other auxiliary factors (replication factor C, replication protein A), and thereby stimulate its primer recognition and DNA synthesis. Using four characterized mutants of proliferating cell nuclear antigen containing three or four alanine residue substitutions on the C-terminal side and the back side of the trimer, we have tested the kinetics of primer binding and nucleotide incorporation by DNA polymerase epsilon in different assays. In contrast with what has been found in interaction studies between DNA polymerase delta and proliferating cell nuclear antigen, our data suggested that stimulation of DNA polymerase epsilon primer binding involves interactions with both the C-terminal side and the back side of proliferating cell nuclear antigen. However, for stimulation of DNA polymerase epsilon DNA synthesis, exclusively the C-terminal side appears to be sufficient. The significance of this dual interaction is discussed with reference to the physiological roles of DNA polymerase epsilon and its interaction with the clamp proliferating cell nuclear antigen.
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- G Maga
- Institute of Biochemical and Evolutionary Genetics IGBE-CNR, National Research Council, via Abbiategrasso 207, Pavia, I-27100, Italy.
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Marx A, Amacker M, Stucki M, Hübscher U, Bickle TA, Giese B. 4'-Acylated thymidine 5'-triphosphates: a tool to increase selectivity towards HIV-1 reverse transcriptase. Nucleic Acids Res 1998; 26:4063-7. [PMID: 9705520 PMCID: PMC147810 DOI: 10.1093/nar/26.17.4063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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4'-Acylated thymidines represent a new class of DNA chain terminators, since they have been shown to act as post-incorporation chain-terminating nucleotides despite the presence of a free 3'-hydroxyl group. Here, we describe the action of the 4'-acetyl- (MeTTP) and 4'-propanoylthymidine 5'-triphosphate (EtTTP) on HIV-1 reverse transcriptase in RNA- and DNA-dependent DNA synthesis and on DNA synthesis catalyzed by the cellular DNA polymerases alpha, beta, delta and epsilon. MeTTP exhibits a high selectivity towards HIV-1 reverse transcriptase. By the use of the bulkier propanoyl group as the 4'-substituent of the nucleoside 5'-triphosphate, selectivity towards HIV-1 reverse transcriptase could be increased without affecting substrate efficiency. Thus, 4'-modifications may serve as a tool to increase selectivity towards HIV-1 reverse transcriptase.
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- A Marx
- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, St Johanns-Ring 19, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Two distinct pathways for completion of base excision repair (BER) have been discovered in eukaryotes: the DNA polymerase beta (Pol beta)-dependent short-patch pathway that involves the replacement of a single nucleotide and the long-patch pathway that entails the resynthesis of 2-6 nucleotides and requires PCNA. We have used cell extracts from Pol beta-deleted mouse fibroblasts to separate subfractions containing either Pol delta or Pol epsilon. These fractions were then tested for their ability to perform both short- and long-patch BER in an in vitro repair assay, using a circular DNA template, containing a single abasic site at a defined position. Remarkably, both Pol delta and Pol epsilon were able to replace a single nucleotide at the lesion site, but the repair reaction is delayed compared to single nucleotide replacement by Pol beta. Furthermore, our observations indicated, that either Pol delta and/or Pol epsilon participate in the long-patch BER. PCNA and RF-C, but not RP-A are required for this process. Our data show for the first time that Pol delta and/or Pol epsilon are directly involved in the long-patch BER of abasic sites and might function as back-up system for Pol beta in one-gap filling reactions.
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- M Stucki
- Institut für Veterinärbiochemie, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
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Stucki M, Schnorf J, Hustinx H, Gerber H, Lerch PG, Halabi A, Kleinbloesem CH, Morell A. Anti-D immunoglobulin in Rh(D) negative volunteers: clearance of Rh(D) positive red cells and kinetics of serum anti-D levels. Transfus Clin Biol 1998; 5:180-8. [PMID: 9691361 DOI: 10.1016/s1246-7820(98)80409-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Properties of a new anti-D immunoglobulin were assessed in Rh(D) negative healthy male adults. Six volunteers received intravenous, and five volunteers intramuscular injections of 200 micrograms anti-D, 48 hours after pre-treatment with 5 mL of Rh(D) positive erythrocytes. Immediately after intravenous administration of anti-D, a rapid decrease of the Rh(D) positive erythroyctes was noted. After intramuscular injection of anti-D, there was a lag phase of 6 hours until the erythrocytes decreased, and the elimination rate was slower. Twenty-four hours after injection of anti-D, the Rh(D) positive erythrocytes were at the detection limit or no longer detectable in all volunteers. After intravenous administration, anti-D serum levels decreased from 45 ng/mL at 2 hours to 29 ng/mL at 24 hours, whereas after intramuscular administration, anti-D became detectable at 4 hours and increased to 11 ng/mL at 24 hours. During subsequent months, anti-D serum levels decreased at similar rates in both groups. After six months, anti-D was not detectable in any of the volunteers. Thus, the new anti-D immunoglobulin induced elimination of the Rh(D) positive erythrocytes and suggested that Rh(D) immunization of the volunteers was prevented.
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- M Stucki
- ZLB Central Laboratory, Blood Transfusion Service Swiss Red Cross, Bern, Switzerland
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Stucki M, Moudry R, Kempf C, Omar A, Schlegel A, Lerch PG. Characterisation of a chromatographically produced anti-D immunoglobulin product. J Chromatogr B Biomed Sci Appl 1997; 700:241-8. [PMID: 9390735 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4347(97)00319-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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A chromatographic fractionation method has been developed for the production of a liquid-stable anti-D immunoglobulin product for intravenous and intramuscular use. An immunoglobulin fraction, highly enriched with anti-D immunoglobulins, was isolated by cation-exchange column chromatography and further polished, first by anion-exchange chromatography, followed by an aluminium hydroxide gel treatment. The process includes two specific steps for virus inactivation and removal, namely S/D treatment and nanofiltration. The overall anti-D process yield is about 56%. The final product is stabilised with human albumin and glycine and placed in ready-to-use syringes. The anti-D product was shown to be stable in liquid state for at least 30 months at 4 degrees C.
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- M Stucki
- ZLB Central Laboratory, Blood Transfusion Service SRC, Bern, Switzerland
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Caversaccio M, Lädrach K, Häusler R, Stucki M, Bächler R, Schroth G, Nolte L. Konzept eines rahmenlosen bildinteraktiven Navigations-systems für die Schädelbasis-, Nasen- und Nasennebenhöhlen-chirurgie. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1159/000312898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Bischoff SC, Zwahlen R, Stucki M, Müllner G, de Weck AL, Stadler BM, Dahinden CA. Basophil histamine release and leukotriene production in response to anti-IgE and anti-IgE receptor antibodies. Comparison of normal subjects and patients with urticaria, atopic dermatitis or bronchial asthma. Int Arch Allergy Immunol 1996; 110:261-71. [PMID: 8688673 DOI: 10.1159/000237297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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The IgE receptor-dependent in vitro mediator release in basophils is characterized by a large interindividual variability both in normal and atopic subjects. The mechanism and the clinical impact of this finding, however, is largely unclear. The aim of the present study was to examine the role of surface-bound IgE and of response-modifying cytokines such as interleukin 3 (IL-3) as possible factors determining basophil releasability in atopic patients and normal controls. Cells from 30 individuals (6 with urticaria, 7 with asthma, 7 with atopic dermatitis, and 30 healthy controls) were isolated and stimulated for mediator release by IL-3 and different triggering antibodies directed against IgE or IgE receptor. Our data suggest that serum IgE levels and basophil receptor occupancy with IgE are not involved in the mechanism of basophil releasability. Furthermore, IL-3-induced similar effects on mediator release in almost all individuals, rather excluding the possibility that releasability is regulated by cytokine priming of basophils. Interestingly, we found that patients with atopic disease have a reduced capacity of releasing mediators upon activation, the mechanism of which is unclear. In conclusion, our findings support the hypothesis that basophil releasability is dependent on cell-imminent mechanisms in basophils, which may be altered in selected atopic patients.
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- S C Bischoff
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical School Hannover, Germany
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Langlotz F, Stucki M, Nolte LP, Ganz R. A CAS-System for Enhancements in Hip Surgery. BIOMED ENG-BIOMED TE 1996. [DOI: 10.1515/bmte.1996.41.s1.392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Prematurely born children often show a tendency to adopt extensor motor patterns during the first years of life. These children and especially those children of very low birthweight are considered to be at high risk for abnormal development. Positioning in an ordinary manner or in a more flexed position imposed at random during the neonatal period until discharge from hospital did not have a statistically significant influence on the development of these children at 24 months after term. Analysis of the optimality score of the 100 randomly selected children, born consecutively at the University Women's Hospital, Bern, showed a significant influence of prenatal optimality and congenital malformations on their later outcome.
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- U Aebi
- Cerebral Palsy Centre, Inselspital, Switzerland
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Phospholipase A2 (PLA) is the major antigen of bee venom. Whereas individuals frequently stung by bees, such as bee keepers, show high levels of IgG4 anti-PLA antibodies in serum, most patients sensitive to bee venom possess increased IgE anti-PLA. We have established a culture system by which anti-PLA antibodies can be induced in vitro. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells were stimulated in a first step with PLA and/or pokeweed mitogen (PWM). After 3 days of culture the cells were washed and further incubated with fresh medium. Anti-PLA antibodies were estimated by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and anti-PLA antibody secreting cells were counted by means of an ELISA plaque assay. Cells from bee keepers, but not those from normal donors, produced anti-PLA IgG in vitro. The isotype pattern of anti-PLA antibodies produced in vitro was identical to that found in serum of the respective donor. Anti-PLA IgM antibody-secreting cells developed at low frequencies in both bee keepers and normal donors whereas PLA-specific IgE could not be detected. The formation of anti-PLA IgG was suppressed by high amounts of antigen, while the IgM response was not affected. We conclude that PWM-induced antibodies reflect the in vivo situation of the donors and that anti-PLA IgG and IgM are regulated by different pathways and mechanisms.
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- W Held
- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research, Davos
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Class II molecules of the major histocompatibility complex play an important role in mediating cellular interactions and are differentiation antigens on lymphobohematopoietic cells. We have previously characterized a human B-cell line (BALM-3) whose cells fail to express HLA class II molecules unless treated with phorbol acetate (TPA). Recently, we identified a spontaneous variant of BALM-3 whose cells express HLA class II molecules in the absence of TPA. Since normal B cells lose HLA class II molecules on terminal differentiation, these two BALM-3 cell populations may provide a model for a discrete phase of B-cell maturation. Alternatively, they may reflect two B-cell activation states characterized by quantitative differences in their expression of class II molecules. Expression of six of 22 additional surface molecules (HLA class I, CD23, p60, p124, p129, p141) increases by a factor of three or more as BALM-3 cells spontaneously acquire class II molecules while that of one of the 22 (p45) decreases by a comparable amount. Expression of the plasma cell-associated T10/CD38 antigen decreases by a factor of two. These additional surface molecules might also reflect lymphoid differentiation/activation antigens and/or participate in HLA class II-mediated cellular interactions and require further study. Use of TPA to induce the expression of HLA class II molecules produces similar changes in several but not all of these surface antigens.
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- J M Pesando
- Division of Medical Oncology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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Stucki M, Kaufmann-Hayoz R, Kaufmann F. Infants' recognition of a face revealed through motion: contribution of internal facial movement and head movement. J Exp Child Psychol 1987; 44:80-91. [PMID: 3612025 DOI: 10.1016/0022-0965(87)90023-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The experiment reported here explores 3-month-old infants' ability to recognize a human face from a specific motion pattern lacking static facial features. A woman's face was covered with black makeup and numerous white triangles. It was videotaped while the woman was pretending to interact with a baby. A soft rubber mask was prepared likewise and was videotaped while being moved and deformed by hand. In one condition, the face or mask showed facial movement only, while in a second condition there was internal movement plus head movement. The two stimuli were presented either in upright or in upside-down orientation. Results of 48 subjects indicate that the discrimination of face and mask was easier when the stimuli were presented upright. The absence of head movements did not influence the discriminability. These results suggest that 3-month-old infants organize the moving triangles on the face in the upright orientation into a coherent facelike structure.
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Frei H, Stucki M. [Increasing incidence of left-sided congenital hemiplegias: indication of an asymmetrical vulnerability in the maturing hemispheres?]. Helv Paediatr Acta 1986; 41:187-94. [PMID: 3489697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Between 1960 and 1983, 101 patients with congenital hemiplegia were seen at the Cerebral Palsy Center of Berne, Switzerland. During this period the numbers of right hemiplegias decreased simultaneously with the birth rate, while the left hemiplegias showed a significant increase. The known prevalence of right hemiplegias has thus disappeared in favor oft the left side (63% during the first 12.44% during the second 12 years). A continuously sinking perinatal mortality-rate during the observed time suggests an improved survival of children with lesions of the right hemisphere. This hypothesis implies a higher vulnerability of the maturing right hemisphere and could explain the earlier prevalence of right hemiplegias. Possible causes of a hemispheric asymmetry are discussed.
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3-month-old infants' perception of "camouflaged" forms that are only visible when moving was studied. Displays were used in which figure and ground had an identical random dot texture, and no edge indicated the form of the figure. The form was invisible when stationary. Discrimination of 2 different forms was tested (a) when the forms were visible only through motion, and (b) when the forms appeared as stationary white figures on black ground. The babies discriminated the forms in both conditions. Furthermore, when infants were habituated to one of the moving forms and subsequently presented with the same and a new static form, they looked longer at the new form. This indicates that they recognized the static form as either the same or different from the moving form seen before, although the optical sources of information were completely different. At 3 months, infants can therefore effectively use kinetic information to organize the visual input in higher-order structures.
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Zwahlen R, Aeschbacher M, Balcer T, Stucki M, Wyder-Walther M, Weiss M, Steck F. [Lentivirus infections in goats with carpitis and interstitial mastitis]. SCHWEIZ ARCH TIERH 1983; 125:281-99. [PMID: 6310737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Stucki M, Scherz R, Pflugshaupt R, Bütler R. 5.10. Isoelectrofocusing of erythrocyte galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (EC 2.7.7.12). Forensic Sci Int 1981. [DOI: 10.1016/0379-0738(81)90061-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Stucki M, Fey H. Visualization of immunosorption by scanning electron microscopy. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 1980; 1:263-76. [PMID: 15615060 DOI: 10.1016/0165-2427(80)90027-6] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Immunosorption has become a very important biochemical and serological tool and it is the purpose of this paper to visualize this process qualitatively using the scanning electron microscope. Different carriers (i.e. CNBr activated cellulose and Sepharose, glutaraldehyde treated acrylamide-agarose beads Magnogel, and polystyrene cover slips) were coated with different antibodies and incubated with their homologous antigens such as pneumococci, ferritin, polymeric Salmonella flagellin and mechanically detached flagella, as well as tetanus toxoid, E. coli bacteriophage T4 and Rota virus particles. As negative controls the sorbents were incubated with heterologous antigens.
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- M Stucki
- Veterinary Bacteriological Institute, 3001 Berne, Switzerland
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Stucki M, Hess MW, Cottier H, Hankes LV, Stoner RD. Rates of cellular and antibody incorporation of 3H-histidine in mice during secondary responses to tetanus toxoid. J Reticuloendothel Soc 1974; 15:453-65. [PMID: 4854033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Stucki M, Maurer W. [Excision of sacral dermoid: methods and results]. Helv Chir Acta 1972; 39:751-3. [PMID: 4652339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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