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Wang C, Park J, Ouyang C, Longmate JA, Tajon M, Chao J, Lim D, Sandhu J, Yin HH, Pillai R, Gozo MC, Avalos C, Egelston CA, Lee PP, Fakih M. A Pilot Feasibility Study of Yttrium-90 Liver Radioembolization Followed by Durvalumab and Tremelimumab in Patients with Microsatellite Stable Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases. Oncologist 2019; 25:382-e776. [PMID: 31857446 DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.2019-0924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2019] [Accepted: 11/14/2019] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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LESSONS LEARNED Radioembolization with yttrium-90 resin microspheres can be combined safely with full doses of durvalumab and tremelimumab in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. Regional radioembolization with yttrium-90 resin microspheres did not result in any hepatic or extrahepatic responses to a combination of durvalumab and tremelimumab. The lack of immunomodulatory responses to yttrium-90 on biopsies before and after treatment rules out a potential role for this strategy in converting a "cold tumor" into an "inflamed," immune responsive tumor. BACKGROUND PD-1 inhibitors have been ineffective in microsatellite stable (MSS) metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC). Preclinical models suggest that radiation therapy may sensitize MSS CRC to PD-1 blockade. METHODS Patients with MSS metastatic CRC with liver-predominant disease who progressed following at least one prior line of treatment were treated with yttrium-90 (Y90) radioembolization to the liver (SIR-Spheres; Sirtex, Woburn, MA) followed 2-3 weeks later by the combination of durvalumab and tremelimumab. A Simon two-stage design was implemented, with a planned expansion to 18 patients if at least one response was noted in the first nine patients. RESULTS Nine patients enrolled in the first stage of the study, all with progressive disease (PD) during or after their first two cycles of treatment. Per preplanned design, the study was closed because of futility. No treatment-related grade 3 or greater toxicities were recorded. Correlative studies with tumor biopsies showed low levels of tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) infiltration in tumor cancer islands before and after Y90 radioembolization. CONCLUSION Y90 radioembolization can be added safely to durvalumab and tremelimumab but did not promote tumor-directed immune responses against liver-metastasized MSS CRC.
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- Chongkai Wang
- Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, USA
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- Center for Informatics, Department of Computational and Quantitative Medicine, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, USA
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- Clinical Trial Office, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, USA
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- Department of Pathology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, Calilfornia, USA
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- Department of Pathology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, Calilfornia, USA
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- Department of Immuno-Oncology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, USA
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- Department of Immuno-Oncology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, USA
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- Department of Immuno-Oncology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, USA
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- Department of Immuno-Oncology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, USA
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Dorff TB, Longmate JA, Pal SK, Stadler WM, Fishman MN, Vaishampayan UN, Rao A, Pinksi JK, Hu JS, Quinn DI, Lara PN. Bevacizumab alone or in combination with TRC105 for patients with refractory metastatic renal cell cancer. Cancer 2017; 123:4566-4573. [PMID: 28832978 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.30942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2017] [Revised: 06/19/2017] [Accepted: 07/11/2017] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND Targeting the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) pathway has improved outcomes in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC); however, resistance inevitably occurs. CD105 (endoglin) is an angiogenic pathway that is strongly upregulated after VEGF inhibition, potentially contributing to resistance. The authors tested whether TRC105, a monoclonal antibody against endoglin, impacted disease control in patients with previously treated RCC who were receiving bevacizumab. METHODS Eligible patients with metastatic RCC who had previously received 1 to 4 prior lines of therapy, including VEGF-targeted agents, were randomized 1:1 to receive bevacizumab 10 mg/kg intravenously every 2 weeks (arm A) or the same plus TRC105 10 mg/kg intravenously every 2 weeks (arm B). The primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS) at 12 and 24 weeks. Correlative studies included serum transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) and CD105 levels as well as tissue immunostaining for TGFβ receptors. RESULTS Fifty-nine patients were enrolled (28 on arm A and 31 on arm B), and 1 patient on each arm had a confirmed partial response. The median PFS for bevacizumab alone was 4.6 months compared with 2.8 for bevacizumab plus TRC105 (P = .09). Grade ≥ 3 toxicities occurred in 16 patients (57%) who received bevacizumab compared with 19 (61%) who received bevacizumab plus TRC105 (P = .9). Baseline serum TGFβ levels below the median (<10.6 ng/mL) were associated with longer median PFS (5.6 vs 2.1 months; P = .014). CONCLUSIONS TRC105 failed to improve PFS when added to bevacizumab. TGFβ warrants further study as a biomarker in RCC. Cancer 2017;123:4566-4573. © 2017 American Cancer Society.
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- Tanya B Dorff
- University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Biostatistics, City of Hope, Duarte, California
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- Department of Medical Oncology and Experimental Therapeutics, City of Hope, Duarte, California
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- Hematology/Oncology Section, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Genitourinary Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Center, Detroit, Michigan
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- University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
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- University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
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- University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Medical Oncology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
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- University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento, California
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A general method is described for estimation of the power and sample size of studies relating a dichotomous phenotype to multiple interacting loci and environmental covariates. Either a simple case-control design or more complex stratified sampling may be used. The method can be used to design individual studies, to evaluate the power of alternative test statistics for complex traits, and to examine general questions of study design through explicit scenarios. The method is used here to study how the power of association tests is affected by problems of allelic heterogeneity and to investigate the potential role for collective testing of sets of related candidate genes in the presence of locus heterogeneity. The results indicate that allele-discovery efforts are crucial and that omnibus tests or collective testing of alleles can be substantially more powerful than separate testing of individual allelic variants. Joint testing of multiple candidate loci can also dramatically improve power, despite model misspecification and inclusion of irrelevant loci, but requires an a priori hypothesis defining the set of loci to investigate.
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- J A Longmate
- Department of Biostatistics, City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA 91010, USA.
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Tetef ML, Margolin KA, Doroshow JH, Akman S, Leong LA, Morgan RJ, Raschko JW, Slatkin N, Somlo G, Longmate JA, Carroll MI, Newman EM. Pharmacokinetics and toxicity of high-dose intravenous methotrexate in the treatment of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 2000; 46:19-26. [PMID: 10912573 DOI: 10.1007/s002800000118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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PURPOSE To evaluate the pharmacokinetics and toxicity of high-dose intravenous (i.v.) methotrexate (MTX) with leucovorin in patients with meningeal carcinomatosis. METHODS Of 16 eligible patients entered on this study, 13 with meningeal carcinomatosis from breast cancer, lung cancer, or osteosarcoma were treated with MTX at loading doses of 200-1500 mg/m2, followed by a 23-h infusion of 800-6000 mg/m2. Three patients without meningeal disease were also treated and the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) MTX concentrations were compared in patients with and without central nervous system (CNS) disease. RESULTS Patients without CNS disease had lower CSF MTX concentrations relative to the plasma MTX levels than those with CNS disease, who all had CSF MTX concentrations above the target cytotoxic concentration (1 microM). The CSF MTX concentrations correlated better with the free and the total plasma MTX concentrations than with the doses. The mean half-life of CSF MTX was 8.7 +/- 3.4 h. The mean plasma clearance of MTX was not significantly different in patients with CNS disease (84 +/- 41 ml/min per m2) versus without CNS disease (59 +/- 38 ml/min per m2). All toxicities were grade 2 or less except grade 3 hematologic toxicity. No patient had an objective response in the CSF. CONCLUSION This trial demonstrates that potentially cytotoxic CSF MTX concentrations (> 1 microM) are delivered safely by i.v. infusion, a less invasive and better distributed CSF therapy compared with intrathecal MTX. Because of the excellent pharmacokinetics and toxicity, high-dose i.v. MTX should be evaluated at a loading dose of 700 mg/m2 and a 23-h infusion of 2800 mg/m2 with leucovorin in less heavily pretreated patients with carcinomatous meningitis.
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- M L Tetef
- Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010, USA
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Farshi R, Kistner D, Sarma JS, Longmate JA, Singh BN. Ventricular rate control in chronic atrial fibrillation during daily activity and programmed exercise: a crossover open-label study of five drug regimens. J Am Coll Cardiol 1999; 33:304-10. [PMID: 9973007 DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(98)00561-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 298] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [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: 10/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVES We compared the effects of five pharmacologic regimens on the circadian rhythm and exercise-induced changes of ventricular rate (VR) in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation (CAF). BACKGROUND Systematic comparison of standardized drug regimens on 24 h VR control in CAF have not been reported. METHODS In 12 patients (11 male, 69+/-6 yr) with CAF, the effects on VR by 5 standardized daily regimens: 1) 0.25 mg digoxin, 2) 240 mg diltiazem-CD, 3) 50 mg atenolol, 4) 0.25 mg digoxin + 240 mg diltiazem-CD, and 5) 0.25 mg digoxin + 50 mg atenolol; were studied after 2 week treatment assigned in random order. The VR data were analyzed by ANOVA with repeated measures. The circadian phase differences were evaluated by cosinor analysis. RESULTS The 24-h mean (+/-SD) values of VR (bpm) were - digoxin: 78.9 +/- 16.3, diltiazem: 80.0+/-15.5, atenolol: 75.9+/-11.7, digoxin + diltiazem: 67.3+/-14.1 and digoxin + atenolol: 65.0+/-9.4. Circadian patterns were significant in each treatment group (p < 0.001). The VR on digoxin + atenolol was significantly lower than that on digoxin (p < 0.0001), diltiazem (p < 0.0002) and atenolol (p < 0.001). The time of peak VR on Holter was significantly delayed with regimens 3 and 5 which included atenolol (p < 0.03). During exercise, digoxin and digoxin + atenolol treatments resulted in the highest and lowest mean VR respectively. The exercise Time-VR plots of all groups were nearly parallel (p = ns). The exercise duration was similar in all treatment groups (p = ns). CONCLUSIONS This study indicates that digoxin and diltiazem, as single agents at the doses tested, are least effective for controlling ventricular rate in atrial fibrillation during daily activity. Digoxin + atenolol produced the most effective rate control reflecting a synergistic effect on the AV node. The data provides a basis for testing the effects of chronic suppression of diurnal fluctuations of VR on left atrial and ventricular function in CAF.
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- R Farshi
- Division of Cardiology, West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, UCLA School of Medicine, California 90073, USA
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Morel L, Mohan C, Yu Y, Schiffenbauer J, Rudofsky UH, Tian N, Longmate JA, Wakeland EK. Multiplex inheritance of component phenotypes in a murine model of lupus. Mamm Genome 1999; 10:176-81. [PMID: 9922399 DOI: 10.1007/s003359900964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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We analyzed the linkage of GN and a wide spectrum of serological phenotypes associated with systemic lupus erythematosus in a (NZM2410 x C57BL/6)F2 cross. Some phenotypes, such as glomerulonephritis (GN) and anti-chromatin IgG antibody production, were more penetrant in females, but others, such as anti-dsDNA antibody production, did not show a gender bias. These results suggest that gender bias affects only a subset of SLE-component phenotypes, and that NZM2410 can be used to dissect the genetic basis of this phenomenon. Genome scanning linked six chromosomal intervals with the expression of one or more component phenotypes. These loci included two Sle loci previously identified in an (NZM2410 x B6)F1 x NZM2410 backcross, loci identified by others in the NZB/W model. Our analysis also suggested two new intervals on chromosomes (Chrs.) 10 and 11. Detailed analysis of the segregation of different phenotypes within these intervals suggests that they encompass more than one susceptibility locus. This clustering has been a common finding in several murine polygenic traits. Each of NZM2410 susceptibility loci can be aligned with a specific genetic pathways contributing to SLE pathogenesis on the basis of the spectrum of component phenotypes expressed.
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- L Morel
- Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610 USA
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Riera JR, Astengo-Osuna C, Longmate JA, Battifora H. The immunohistochemical diagnostic panel for epithelial mesothelioma: a reevaluation after heat-induced epitope retrieval. Am J Surg Pathol 1997; 21:1409-19. [PMID: 9414184 DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199712000-00003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [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: 02/05/2023]
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The immunohistochemical diagnosis between epithelial mesothelioma and adenocarcinoma is currently based on the use of a panel of antibodies to adenocarcinoma-associated antigens and a few antibodies to mesothelial-associated antigens. Since the introduction of epitope retrieval methods, the sensitivity of many antibodies has been enhanced. Thus, a reevaluation of the mesothelioma/adenocarcinoma diagnostic panel becomes necessary. We studied 268 paraffin-embedded formalin-fixed tumor samples that included 57 epithelial mesotheliomas and 211 adenocarcinomas of various origins, comparing an extensive antibody panel with and without heat-induced epitope retrieval (HIER). Marked increase in the sensitivity of several antibodies, with no loss of specificity, was found when HIER was used. After statistical analysis, the antibodies to the epithelial glycoproteins carcinoembryonic antigen, BerEp4, and Bg8 emerged as the best discriminators between adenocarcinoma and epithelial mesothelioma within the entire panel. The mesothelium-associated antibodies, HBME-1, calretinin, and thrombomodulin were less sensitive and less specific than the former, although they were found to be useful on certain cases. Antibodies to cytokeratins and vimentin, although of minor diagnostic value in this context, may be helpful to evaluate the quality of antigen preservation. This study confirms the value of immunohistochemistry to accurately distinguish mesothelioma from adenocarcinoma when an antibody panel approach is used. The addition of heat-induced epitope retrieval methods increases the effectiveness of the procedure and is recommended for most of the antibody panel members.
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- J R Riera
- Departamento de Patología, Hospital Valle de Nalón, Instituto Nacional de la Salud, Langreo, Asturias, España
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Evans DL, Leserman J, Perkins DO, Stern RA, Murphy C, Zheng B, Gettes D, Longmate JA, Silva SG, van der Horst CM, Hall CD, Folds JD, Golden RN, Petitto JM. Severe life stress as a predictor of early disease progression in HIV infection. Am J Psychiatry 1997; 154:630-4. [PMID: 9137117 DOI: 10.1176/ajp.154.5.630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Although there is evidence that stress is associated with alterations in immunity, the role of emotional factors in the onset and course of immune-based diseases such as cancer and AIDS has not been established. This prospective study was designed to test the hypothesis that stressful life events accelerate the course of HIV disease. METHOD Ninety-three HIV-positive homosexual men who were without clinical symptoms at the time of entry into the study were studied for up to 42 months. Subjects received comprehensive medical, neurological, neuropsychological, and psychiatric assessments every 6 months, including assessment of stressful life events during the preceding 6-month interval. Several statistical approaches were used to assess the relation between stress and disease progression. RESULTS The time of the first disease progression was analyzed with a proportional hazard survival method, which demonstrated that the more severe the life stress experienced, the greater the risk of early HIV disease progression. Specifically, for every one severe stress per 6-month study interval, the risk of early disease progression was doubled. Among a subset of 66 subjects who had been in the study for at least 24 months, logistic regression analyses showed that higher severe life stress increased the odds of developing HIV disease progression nearly fourfold. the degree of disease progression was also predicted by severe life stress when a proportional odds logistic regression model was used for analysis. CONCLUSIONS This report presents the first evidence from a prospective research study that severe life event stress is associated with an increased rate of early HIV disease progression.
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- D L Evans
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville 32610-0256, USA
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Wu J, Longmate JA, Adamus G, Hargrave PA, Wakeland EK. Interval mapping of quantitative trait loci controlling humoral immunity to exogenous antigens: evidence that non-MHC immune response genes may also influence susceptibility to autoimmunity. The Journal of Immunology 1996. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.157.6.2498] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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IgG Ab titers elicited to bovine rhodopsin in CFA differ 8- to 10-fold between H2s identical inbred strains A.SW/snJ (high responder) and SJL/snJ (low responder). This variation in IgG Ab titer resulted from a dramatic difference in the rise in Ab titer occurring during the maturation of the T-dependent humoral immune response. To determine the positions of non-MHC genes controlling this quantitative variation in T-dependent humoral immune responsiveness, 206 reciprocal (A.SW/snJ x SJL/snJ)F2 female progeny were immunized and assayed for anti-rhodopsin responsiveness. The genomes of these progeny were screened with 115 polymorphic simple sequence repeat markers covering >90% of the mouse genome. interval mapping analysis localized the positions of these non-MHC immune response genes to genomic intervals on chromosomes 1, 5, and 13. Interestingly, these three intervals coincide exactly with three intervals recently shown to contain genes contributing to susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus and/or the production of autoimmune anti-dsDNA Abs. These results suggest that some genes affecting levels of humoral immune responsiveness to exogenous Ag may also play a role in genetic susceptibility to humoral autoimmune diseases. Analyses of the modes of inheritance demonstrated that high responder alleles were inherited from both parental genomes, indicative of epistatic interactions among genes influencing humoral immune responsiveness.
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- J Wu
- Center for Mammalian Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610, USA
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- Center for Mammalian Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610, USA
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- Center for Mammalian Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610, USA
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- Center for Mammalian Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610, USA
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- Center for Mammalian Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610, USA
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Wu J, Longmate JA, Adamus G, Hargrave PA, Wakeland EK. Interval mapping of quantitative trait loci controlling humoral immunity to exogenous antigens: evidence that non-MHC immune response genes may also influence susceptibility to autoimmunity. J Immunol 1996; 157:2498-505. [PMID: 8805650] [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] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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IgG Ab titers elicited to bovine rhodopsin in CFA differ 8- to 10-fold between H2s identical inbred strains A.SW/snJ (high responder) and SJL/snJ (low responder). This variation in IgG Ab titer resulted from a dramatic difference in the rise in Ab titer occurring during the maturation of the T-dependent humoral immune response. To determine the positions of non-MHC genes controlling this quantitative variation in T-dependent humoral immune responsiveness, 206 reciprocal (A.SW/snJ x SJL/snJ)F2 female progeny were immunized and assayed for anti-rhodopsin responsiveness. The genomes of these progeny were screened with 115 polymorphic simple sequence repeat markers covering >90% of the mouse genome. interval mapping analysis localized the positions of these non-MHC immune response genes to genomic intervals on chromosomes 1, 5, and 13. Interestingly, these three intervals coincide exactly with three intervals recently shown to contain genes contributing to susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus and/or the production of autoimmune anti-dsDNA Abs. These results suggest that some genes affecting levels of humoral immune responsiveness to exogenous Ag may also play a role in genetic susceptibility to humoral autoimmune diseases. Analyses of the modes of inheritance demonstrated that high responder alleles were inherited from both parental genomes, indicative of epistatic interactions among genes influencing humoral immune responsiveness.
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- J Wu
- Center for Mammalian Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610, USA
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Susceptibility to glomerulonephritis (GN) and anti-dsDNA autoantibody production was analyzed in crosses with a newly developed systemic lupus erythematosus-susceptible inbred strain, NZM/Aeg2410. The mode of inheritance and the number and location of systemic lupus erythematosus-associated susceptibility loci were analyzed by interval mapping in a backcross with C57BL/6. Three chromosomal intervals containing strong recessive GN susceptibility alleles were identified on chromosomes 1, 4, and 7, each containing several potentially interesting candidate genes. Heterozygosity at H-2 was also found to correlate strongly with GN susceptibility, consistent with previous findings in the NZB/NZW parental strain model. Logistic regression analysis indicated that each of these susceptibility alleles independently accounted for a component of GN susceptibility, and that susceptibility was inherited as a threshold genetic liability in this model system.
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- L Morel
- Center for Mammalian Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610
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OBJECTIVE Our aims were to investigate how airborne sound was distributed within the abdominal cavity of sheep as function of frequency. STUDY DESIGN Airborne broad-band noise was measured with a hydrophone at 45 locations within the abdomen of five nonpregnant sheep post mortem and with a microphone extraabdominally. Sound pressure attenuation provided by the abdomen and its contents was determined for frequencies between 50 and 5000 Hz. An analysis of variance was applied to assess the effects of frequency, hydrophone location, and animal on intraabdominal distribution of sound pressures. RESULTS Below 250 Hz sound pressure was higher inside the animal than outside. Little attenuation (< 10 dB) was found for sounds > 3000 Hz. Attenuation was greatest in the center of the abdomen and least along the inner margin of the abdomen. Intraabdominal sound pressure level varied with frequency (p < 0.0001) and with position of the hydrophone in the cross-sectional plane (p < 0.005) but not in the sagittal plane (p = 0.51). There was no animal effect (p = 0.18). CONCLUSION During maternal exposure to airborne, broadband noise the fetus could be subjected to intense sound pressures at low frequencies regardless of position within the uterus and at high frequencies when positioned near the abdominal surface.
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- A J Peters
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville 32610
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OBJECTIVES This study was undertaken to determine the influences of increased maternal prepregnancy weight and increased gestational weight gain on pregnancy outcome. STUDY DESIGN This was a longitudinal retrospective study of 7407 term pregnancies delivered from 1987 through 1989. After excluding cases with multiple fetuses, stillbirths, fetal anomalies, no prenatal care, selected medical and surgical complications, and those with incomplete medical records, 3191 cases remained for analyses by determination of odds ratios for obstetric outcomes, by chi 2 tests for significant differences and by adjustment for risk factors with stepwise logistic regression. RESULTS Both increased maternal prepregnancy weight (body mass index) and increased maternal gestational weight gain were associated with increased risks of fetal macrosomia (p less than 0.0001), labor abnormalities (p less than 0.0001), postdatism (p = 0.002), meconium staining (p less than 0.001), and unscheduled cesarean sections (p less than 0.0001). They were also associated with decreased frequencies of low birth weight (p less than 0.001). The magnitude of the last was less than that of the other outcomes. CONCLUSIONS Increased maternal weight gain in pregnancy results in higher frequencies of fetal macrosomia, which in turn lead to increased rates of cesarean section and other major maternal and fetal complications. Because these costs of increased maternal weight gain appear to outweigh benefits, weight gain recommendations for pregnancy warrant careful review.
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- J W Johnson
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610
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Kessler LS, Honeyman JC, Kaude JV, Longmate JA. Intra- and interobserver variations in determining blood-flow indexes with Doppler sonography. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1991; 156:1326. [PMID: 2028904 DOI: 10.2214/ajr.156.6.2028904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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