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Henrique-Silva F, Cervini M, Rios WM, Lusa AL, Lopes A, Gonçalves D, Fonseca D, Franzin F, Damalio J, Scaramuzzi K, Camilo R, Ferrarezi T, Liberato M, Mortari N, Matheucci E. Rapid identification of capybara (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris) using allele-specific PCR. BRAZ J BIOL 2007; 67:189-90. [PMID: 17505769 DOI: 10.1590/s1519-69842007000100027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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- F Henrique-Silva
- Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Universidade Federal de São Carlos - UFSCar, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
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Mazzaro C, Franzin F, Tulissi P, Pussini E, Crovatto M, Carniello GS, Efremov DG, Burrone O, Santini G, Pozzato G. Regression of monoclonal B-cell expansion in patients affected by mixed cryoglobulinemia responsive to alpha-interferon therapy. Cancer 1996. [PMID: 8640712 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19960615)77:12<2604::aid-cncr26>3.0.co;2-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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BACKGROUND Several authors have reported on the effectiveness of alpha-interferon (IFN-alpha) in the treatment of patients with mixed cryoglobulinemia. This prompted the authors to investigate the long term effects of this drug on clinical, hematologic, and virologic parameters in a group of 20 patients (13 women and 7 men) affected by mixed cryoglobulinemia. METHODS In all patients, bone marrow biopsy, phenotyping of marrow cells, and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) immunoglobulin gene rearrangement in peripheral blood lymphocytes were performed before therapy and at the end of the follow-up. A liver biopsy was obtained in patients with biochemical signs of chronic liver disease. The presence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA in serum was assessed by detection of anti-HCV antibodies, and by PCR amplification of the 5' untranslated region of HCV. The HCV genotype was also determined by PCR amplification of the core region of the virus with type-specific primers. The treatment schedule followed by all patients was 3 million units of recombinant IFN-alpha 2b 3 times weekly for 1 year. RESULTS In 6 patients, the marrow histology before therapy showed a massive (more than 50%) monomorphous infiltration by plasmacytoid lymphocytes, indicating the presence of low grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Anti-HCV antibodies were present in 19 (95%) subjects, and HCV-RNA was detectable in all patients. In addition, all patients affected by Type II mixed cryoglobulinemia showed a monoclonal B-cell expansion in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). With therapy, 5 patients (25%) achieved a complete response and 11 patients (55%) a partial response, whereas minor responses were observed in the remaining 4 patients (20%). One of the complete responders and all patients showing partial responses relapsed a few months after therapy withdrawal. At the end of the follow-up, four patients had obtained a complete remission. Bone marrow examination showed that B-lymphocytic monoclonal infiltrate disappeared in three patients. Moreover, these three patients had become negative for B-cell expansion in PBMC. Lack of response, or relapse, was associated with the presence of Type II HCV. CONCLUSIONS HCV may be the cause of mixed cryoglobulinemia. The disease is associated with a high prevalence of bone marrow B-cell lymphomas. IFN-alpha appears to be an effective agent for the treatment of mixed cryoglobulinemia. It also seems able to determine regression of the lymphoproliferative disorder. The HCV genotype appears to be the most important predictive factor for the response to antiviral therapy.
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- C Mazzaro
- First Department of Medicine, Pordenone General Hospital, Italy
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Mazzaro C, Franzin F, Tulissi P, Pussini E, Crovatto M, Carniello GS, Efremov DG, Burrone O, Santini G, Pozzato G. Regression of monoclonal B-cell expansion in patients affected by mixed cryoglobulinemia responsive to alpha-interferon therapy. Cancer 1996; 77:2604-13. [PMID: 8640712 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19960615)77:12<2604::aid-cncr26>3.0.co;2-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [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: 02/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Several authors have reported on the effectiveness of alpha-interferon (IFN-alpha) in the treatment of patients with mixed cryoglobulinemia. This prompted the authors to investigate the long term effects of this drug on clinical, hematologic, and virologic parameters in a group of 20 patients (13 women and 7 men) affected by mixed cryoglobulinemia. METHODS In all patients, bone marrow biopsy, phenotyping of marrow cells, and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) immunoglobulin gene rearrangement in peripheral blood lymphocytes were performed before therapy and at the end of the follow-up. A liver biopsy was obtained in patients with biochemical signs of chronic liver disease. The presence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA in serum was assessed by detection of anti-HCV antibodies, and by PCR amplification of the 5' untranslated region of HCV. The HCV genotype was also determined by PCR amplification of the core region of the virus with type-specific primers. The treatment schedule followed by all patients was 3 million units of recombinant IFN-alpha 2b 3 times weekly for 1 year. RESULTS In 6 patients, the marrow histology before therapy showed a massive (more than 50%) monomorphous infiltration by plasmacytoid lymphocytes, indicating the presence of low grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Anti-HCV antibodies were present in 19 (95%) subjects, and HCV-RNA was detectable in all patients. In addition, all patients affected by Type II mixed cryoglobulinemia showed a monoclonal B-cell expansion in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). With therapy, 5 patients (25%) achieved a complete response and 11 patients (55%) a partial response, whereas minor responses were observed in the remaining 4 patients (20%). One of the complete responders and all patients showing partial responses relapsed a few months after therapy withdrawal. At the end of the follow-up, four patients had obtained a complete remission. Bone marrow examination showed that B-lymphocytic monoclonal infiltrate disappeared in three patients. Moreover, these three patients had become negative for B-cell expansion in PBMC. Lack of response, or relapse, was associated with the presence of Type II HCV. CONCLUSIONS HCV may be the cause of mixed cryoglobulinemia. The disease is associated with a high prevalence of bone marrow B-cell lymphomas. IFN-alpha appears to be an effective agent for the treatment of mixed cryoglobulinemia. It also seems able to determine regression of the lymphoproliferative disorder. The HCV genotype appears to be the most important predictive factor for the response to antiviral therapy.
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- C Mazzaro
- First Department of Medicine, Pordenone General Hospital, Italy
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Clonal expansions of IgM-producing B cells were investigated in 38 patients with a chronic hepatitis C virus infection. Eight patients were affected with type II mixed cryoglobulinaemia (two of whom also had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and one had Waldenström's disease), one with type III mixed cryoglobulinaemia, one with Waldenström's disease, and 28 with chronic liver disease. To detect the clonal B-cell expansions we used a RT/PCR procedure in which the CDR3/FW4 regions of the IgM heavy chain mRNAs were amplified and resolved in sequencing polyacrylamide gels. Clonal Ig gene rearrangements were detected in all patients with type II mixed cryoglobulinaemia and also at a high frequency (24%) in the HCV-infected patients without cryoglobulinaemia. A polyclonal pattern was present in the patient with type III mixed cryoglobulinaemia and in the 15 normal individuals and 16 age-related patients with HCV-negative alcoholic liver disease which were investigated as controls. No association was found between the presence of a clonal B-cell expansion and age, sex, liver histology, or levels of serum aminotransferase. The serum levels of rheumatoid factor were increased in all patients with a clonal expansion, suggesting that the expanded B-cell clones belong to the rheumatoid factor producing B-cell subset.
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- F Franzin
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy
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Pozzato G, Moretti M, Franzin F, Crocè LS, Lacchin T, Benedetti G, Sablich R, Stebel M, Campanacci L. Ethanol metabolism and aging: the role of "first pass metabolism" and gastric alcohol dehydrogenase activity. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 1995; 50:B135-41. [PMID: 7743392 DOI: 10.1093/gerona/50a.3.b135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [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: 01/26/2023] Open
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To investigate the effect of age and gender on ethanol metabolism, first-pass metabolism (FPM) and gastric alcohol-dehydrogenase (ADH) activity were compared in 32 elderly and 30 young adult nonalcoholic subjects. The FPM was obtained from the difference between the area under the curve of ethanol blood concentration after intravenous or oral administration of ethanol 0.3 g/Kg b.w. The ADH activity was determined in samples of gastric mucosa obtained during diagnostic endoscopy. In the young adult group the FPM was higher in men than in women (3.3 +/- 2.3 vs 1.2 +/- 0.9 mmol/l/h, respectively, p < .01). In aged subjects FPM was found to be very low for men (1.1 +/- 0.8 mmol/l/h, p < .001); conversely, FPM was not significantly reduced in women (1.7 +/- 0.8 mmol/l/h, p = n.s.). The gastric ADH activity was significantly (p < .01) higher in young adult men than women, whereas in aged subjects the activities were low (p < .0001) in both sexes. Thus, gender-related FPM differences equalize in the elderly or are even reversed, most likely because of gastric mucosal atrophy, which occurs more in men than women.
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- G Pozzato
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Trieste School of Medicine, Italy
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Prodan M, Tulissi P, Perticarari S, Presani G, Franzin F, Pussini E, Pozzato G. Flow cytometric assay for the evaluation of phagocytosis and oxidative burst of polymorphonuclear leukocytes and monocytes in myelodysplastic disorders. Haematologica 1995; 80:212-8. [PMID: 7672714] [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: 01/26/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Myelodysplastic syndromes are clonal diseases characterized by pancytopenia of variable degree. Neutropenia is common and several morphologic and functional abnormalities of polymorphonuclear neutrophilic granulocytes (PMNs) and/or monocytes have been described. On the basis of these observations, the phagocytic and oxygen intermediates production of PMNs and monocytes was determined in a group of forty-seven patients affected by myelodysplastic syndromes of varying severity. METHODS A rapid, simple and reliable flow cytometric method was developed to evaluate, in a one-step procedure, the phagocytosis rate and the oxidative burst in PMNs and monocytes using a small amount of whole blood. RESULTS Phagocytosis of PMNs and monocytes was not significantly reduced in refractory anemia (RA), while in refractory anemia with excess of blasts (RAEB) and in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) a clear decrease (p < 0.05) of this function was found in both PMNs and monocytes. The production of oxygen intermediates by PMNs and monocytes was significantly (p < 0.01) reduced in RA as well as in RAEB and in CMML. CONCLUSIONS This study indicates the presence in myelodysplastic syndromes of a severe reduction in phagocytosis and oxygen intermediates production (two crucial functions to protect the host against pyogenic agents) in both PMNs and monocytes. This observation could explain the severe morbidity and mortality from infections in patients affected by these hematological malignancies.
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- M Prodan
- Istituto di Medicina Clinica, University of Trieste, Italy
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Pozzato G, Mazzaro C, Crovatto M, Modolo ML, Ceselli S, Mazzi G, Sulfaro S, Franzin F, Tulissi P, Moretti M. Low-grade malignant lymphoma, hepatitis C virus infection, and mixed cryoglobulinemia. Blood 1994; 84:3047-53. [PMID: 7949176] [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: 01/28/2023] Open
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Because a close relationship has been established between mixed cryoglobulinemia and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, the clinical, histologic, and virologic findings of 31 patients affected by mixed cryoglobulinemia have been determined. HCV infection was investigated by the presence of anti-HCV antibodies and by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of the 5' untranslated region (5'UTR), and the genotype of HCV was also determined according to Okamoto et al (J Gen Virol 73:673, 1992). A bone marrow (BM) biopsy was performed in all patients, and liver and kidney biopsies were performed when indicated. The prevalence of anti-HCV antibodies was high (83.9%); polymerase chain reaction amplification of the 5' untranslated region was positive in 26 subjects (83.9%), and Core region amplification in 26 of 27 subjects (96.2%). A high prevalence of genotype II was found (76.6%). Chronic liver disease was present in 15 (48%) patients. BM biopsy specimens showed the presence of low-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphomas in 12 cases (38.7%), whereas, in 11 patients (35.5%), the BM infiltration was not monoclonal (reactive). Mixed cryoglobulinemia is closely associated with HCV infection. Apparently, only 1 patient was not infected by the virus. Several HCV genotypes are involved in the pathogenesis of mixed cryoglobulinemia. The disease is associated with a high prevalence of low-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphomas.
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- G Pozzato
- First Department of Medicine, Pordenone General Hospital, Trieste, Italy
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Pozzato G, Kaneko S, Moretti M, Crocè LS, Franzin F, Unoura M, Bercich L, Tiribelli C, Crovatto M, Santini G. Different genotypes of hepatitis C virus are associated with different severity of chronic liver disease. J Med Virol 1994; 43:291-6. [PMID: 7931191 DOI: 10.1002/jmv.1890430318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [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: 01/27/2023]
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The presence of the "Japanese type" NS4 region was investigated in two series of patients (53 from Italy and 58 from Japan) with hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related chronic liver disease. The two populations were homogeneous as regard to age, male/female ratio, histological diagnosis, and serum aminotransferase activities. Genomic amplification was carried out by "nested" polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with a pair of primers synthesized according to the sequence of JK-1 isolated in Japan. The presence of viral replication was confirmed further by PCR amplification of the 5'NC region. The NS4 region of the Japanese strain was detected in 24 sera (45%) from Italy and in 44 (71%) from Japan. NS4-positive patients were significantly older and showed an ALT serum level significantly lower (P < 0.01) than NS4 negative cases in each group. Cirrhosis was significantly (P < 0.0007) more common in NS4-positive than in NS4-negative patients. The HCV genotype was subsequently obtained according to Okamoto. All the NS4-positive patients were infected by Type II, whereas in NS4-negative patients all four genotypes were present though Type II still constituted the majority. Cirrhosis was associated exclusively with Type II both in NS4-positive and -negative subjects. These data indicate that, although the positivity for NS4 "Japanese" region seems to be associated with a more aggressive liver disease, the most prevalent Type II predicts more specifically those who are likely to develop cirrhosis.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- G Pozzato
- Istituto di Patologia Medica, Università di Trieste, Italy
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Pozzato G, de Paoli P, Franzin F, Tulissi P, Moretti M, Basaglia G, Santini GF. Effects of alpha-interferon and steroids on CD23 expression and release in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Haematologica 1994; 79:205-12. [PMID: 7926968] [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: 01/27/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Since high CD23 expression and release have been reported in B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL), we investigated whether alpha-interferon or corticosteroids were able to modulate the expression and/or the release of this factor. METHODS CD23 expression was determined with FITC-labelled anti-CD23 monoclonal antibody, and sCD23 release with a sandwich enzyme immunoassay. Twenty-one patients affected by B-CLL (stage A or B) were studied before and after three different treatment regimens (alpha-interferon, corticosteroids, alpha-interferon+corticosteroids). RESULTS CD23 was highly expressed in the B-cells of all patients, and expression was not modified by any of the therapies, sCD23 release from leukemic cells was significantly greater (p < 0.00001) in untreated subjects than controls, and in vitro treatment with phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) led to a 10-fold increase (p < 0.0001) in sCD23 secretion. On the contrary, PMA did not increase sCD23 release in normal B cells. Treatment with corticosteroids (either alone or associated with alpha-interferon) reduced sCD23 secretion from leukemic cells, whereas alpha-interferon alone was not able to modify sCD23 release. CONCLUSIONS Our data support the hypothesis that CD23 plays a role in the maintenance and progression of B-CLL and that the pharmacological modulation of this receptor/lymphokine could be useful in the therapy of B-CLL.
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- G Pozzato
- Istituto di Patologia Medica, Cattedra di Medicina Interna II, Università di Trieste, Ospedale di Pordenone, Italy
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Pozzato G, Franzin F, Moretti M, Lachin T, Benedetti G, Sablich R, Marin M, Stebel M, Campanacci L. Effects of omeprazole on ethanol metabolism: an in vitro and in vivo rat and human study. Pharmacol Res 1994; 29:47-58. [PMID: 8202442 DOI: 10.1016/1043-6618(94)80097-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [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] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Since some H2-receptor antagonists, like cimetidine or ranitidine, affect ethanol metabolism by interference with gastric and/or hepatic alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) it was investigated whether omeprazole has a similar effect and its effects were compared with those of cimetidine, an inhibitor of gastric ADH. The first-pass metabolism (FPM), quantified by measuring the difference between areas under the curve (AUC) of ethanol blood concentrations after oral intake or intravenous administration of the same amount (0.3 g kg-1 b.w.) of ethanol (EtOH), was studied before and after 1 week of omeprazole (20 mg daily) or cimetidine (800 mg daily) administration in 10 normal male volunteers. ADH activity was determined in gastric mucosal samples, collected during endoscopy, before and after 1 month of omeprazole treatment. The effect of the drugs on gastric and hepatic ADHs was studied in vitro in both rat and man. No significant effect of omeprazole was found on AUCs of the blood EtOH concentrations. The ADH activity in antral mucosa before and after omeprazole therapy did not show significant differences. In vitro, omeprazole reduced the activity of the low Km gastric ADH with a Ki of 5.6 mM in rat and the hepatic ADH activity with a Ki of 2.4 mM in man, whereas the drug did not show any effect on hepatic ADH in rat and gastric ADH in man. On the contrary, cimetidine increased the AUCs of EtOH blood concentrations after both gastric and intravenous route and, in the in vitro assay, inhibited gastric and hepatic ADH in both man and rat. These results indicate that omeprazole does not affect EtOH metabolism in man and seems to be safer than cimetidine in subjects unable to reduce ethanol intake during the therapy for peptic ulcer or other hypersecretory conditions.
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- G Pozzato
- Institute of Patologia Medica, University School of Medicine, Trieste, Italy
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Santini GF, Crovatto M, Modolo ML, Martelli P, Silvia C, Mazzi G, Franzin F, Moretti M, Tulissi P, Pozzato G. Waldenström macroglobulinemia: a role of HCV infection? Blood 1993; 82:2932. [PMID: 8219244] [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: 01/29/2023] Open
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Pozzato G, Stebel M, Lunazzi G, Moretti M, Franzin F. Influence of acid-secretion blockers on gastric and hepatic alcohol dehydrogenase in rat. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 1992; 52:747-52. [PMID: 1455167 DOI: 10.3109/00365519209115521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [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: 12/27/2022]
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The effects of Cimetidine, Ranitidine, and Omeprazole on gastric and hepatic alcohol-dehydrogenase (ADH) activity was studied in rat. Two apparent values for Km were found for gastric ADH (220 mmol l-1 and 1043 mmol l-1 respectively) and one for hepatic ADH (0.54 mmol l-1). Cimetidine was shown to exert an uncompetitive inhibition of low Km gastric ADH with a Ki of 0.167 mmol l-1 and a competitive inhibition of high Km gastric ADH with a Ki 2.3 mmol l-1. Ranitidine was found to present non-competitive inhibition only on low Km gastric ADH with a Ki of 12 mmol l-1. Omeprazole affects only low Km gastric ADH with a Ki of 5.6 mmol l-1 and presents a linear-mixed type of inhibition. Hepatic ADH was shown to be competitively inhibited only by Cimetidine with a Ki of 6.0 mmol l-1 whereas no inhibition for either Ranitidine and Omeprazole was observed. These results confirm the inhibitory action of Cimetidine on both gastric and hepatic ADH; Ranitidine and Omeprazole show minor effects on ADHS activity and probably on first-pass metabolism.
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- G Pozzato
- Instituto di Patologia Medica, University School of Medicine, Trieste, Italy
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Pozzato G, Franzin F, Moretti M, Tulissi P, Pecorari P, Melato M, Zacchi T, Evangelisti P, Campanacci L. Low-dose "natural" alpha-interferon in B-cell derived chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Haematologica 1992; 77:413-7. [PMID: 1483591] [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: 12/27/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Alpha-interferon (alpha-IFN) was found to have a good antiproliferative effect in early stage chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), but recombinant alpha-IFN administration may induce serious side effects. Therefore low-dose "natural" IFN was evaluated in terms of efficacy and safety. METHODS Fifteen patients affected by stage A (according to Binet) B-CLL underwent the treatment: natural IFN 1 MU three times a week for 6 months. RESULTS Overall lymphocyte count decreased from 13,050 +/- 3,200 to 7,500 +/- 2,940 within 6 months. One patient did not respond to IFN therapy. No one complained of side effects. CONCLUSION Low dose "natural" alpha-IFN seems useful and well tolerated in CLL, but the potential curative role of IFN in CLL remains to be established.
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- G Pozzato
- Istituto di Patologia Medica, Facoltà di Medicina, Università di Trieste, Italy
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Pozzato G, Franzin F, Moretti M, Campanacci L. Danazol therapy in myelodysplastic syndromes. Haematologica 1992; 77:96. [PMID: 1398293] [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: 12/26/2022] Open
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Pozzato G, Moretti M, Franzin F, Crocè LS, Tiribelli C, Masayu T, Kaneko S, Unoura M, Kobayashi K. Severity of liver disease with different hepatitis C viral clones. Lancet 1991; 338:509. [PMID: 1678463 DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(91)90578-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Pozzato G, Franzin F, Luchesi A, Presani G, Perticarari S. Effects of interferon and 5-methylthioadenosine on HL60 cell line proliferation. Haematologica 1990; 75:484-5. [PMID: 2097270] [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: 12/30/2022] Open
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Pozzato G, Perticarari S, Presani G, Luchesi A, Franzin F. [Effects of interferon on immunoglobulin production in normal subjects and in patients with selective IgA deficiency. An "in vitro" study]. G Clin Med 1990; 71:427-32. [PMID: 1701745] [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: 12/28/2022]
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The ability of Interferon (IFN) alpha, beta and gamma to induce IgA production from IgA deficient patients lymphocytes was tested "in vitro". In affected patients IgG and IgM production was similar to the normal cases but no effect on IgA production was observed. In normal cases variable concentration of alpha- beta- and gamma-IFN resulted in different immunoglobulin production. In IgA selective deficiency a low number of SmIgA bearing cells and defective transformation in IgA-plasma cells was noted as possible primary defect.
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- G Pozzato
- Istituto di Patologia Medica dell'Università
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