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Diaz A, Astochado F, Moya-Salazar J, Rojas-Zumaran V, Ruiz MC, Vasquez AN, Alcarraz C. [Some reflections on the mental state of the second victims of COVID-19 in intensive care units]. J Healthc Qual Res 2022:S2603-6479(22)00067-7. [PMID: 36109329 PMCID: PMC9411135 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhqr.2022.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2022] [Revised: 07/14/2022] [Accepted: 08/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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- A Diaz
- Escuela de Medicina Humana, Universidad Norbert Wiener, Lima, Perú; Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins, EsSalud, Lima, Perú
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- Escuela de Medicina Humana, Universidad Norbert Wiener, Lima, Perú
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- Escuela de Medicina Humana, Universidad Norbert Wiener, Lima, Perú; Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Tecnológica del Perú, Lima, Perú.
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- Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Tecnológica del Perú, Lima, Perú; Departamento de Patología, Hospital Nacional Docente Madre Niño San Bartolomé, Lima, Perú
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- Escuela de Medicina Humana, Universidad Norbert Wiener, Lima, Perú
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- Escuela de Medicina Humana, Universidad Norbert Wiener, Lima, Perú
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- Escuela de Medicina Humana, Universidad Norbert Wiener, Lima, Perú; Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas, Lima, Perú
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Ruiz MC, Portero–Otín M, Pamplona R, Requena JR, Prat J, Lafarga MA, Borràs M, Bellmunt MJ. Chemical and Immunological Characterization of Oxidative Nonenzymatic Protein Modifications in Dialysis Fluids. Perit Dial Int 2020. [DOI: 10.1177/089686080302300103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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← BackgroundGlucose degradation products (GDP) in dialysis fluids may induce nonenzymatic protein modifications, the chemical nature and biological properties of which should be better defined.← AimsTo characterize nonenzymatic protein modifications present in glucose-based peritoneal dialysis fluids (PDF) and to evaluate the relationship between concentrations of GDP and the derived nonenzymatic modifications, and the potential of PDF for generating these modifications in vitro.← MethodsThe presence, distribution, and content of several nonenzymatic protein modifications in PDF were evaluated by immunological methods, by HPLC, and by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS). Peritoneal dialysis fluid-induced oxidative stress in cells was evaluated by flow cytometry. The potential of PDF for generating oxidative and glycoxidative modifications was examined by immunological and cross-linking analyses.← ResultsThe albumin present in PDF is modified by carboxymethyllysine (CML). GC/MS analyses of PDF proteins confirmed the presence of CML and demonstrated the occurrence of carboxyethyllysine, malondialdehyde lysine, and oxidation-derived semialdehydes. Furthermore, their concentrations in PDF proteins were significantly higher than those in plasma proteins (in all cases, p < 0.02). The concentration of pyrraline, a non-oxidative advanced glycation end-product, increased with dwell time up to 6 hours ( p < 0.03). The PDF induced cellular free-radical production, which was partially inhibited by the Maillard reaction inhibitor aminoguanidine ( p < 0.001). The potential to generate oxidative and glycoxidative modifications demonstrated an inverse relationship with dwell time ( p < 0.05). The PDF was able to induce collagen cross-linking in a close relationship with GDP concentration.← Conclusions( 1 ) PDF contains non-oxidative and several oxidative nonenzymatic protein modifications in higher concentrations than plasma. ( 2 ) Peritoneal dialysis fluid induces oxidative stress in vitro, which can be partially inhibited by aminoguanidine. ( 3 ) These properties are directly related to GDP concentration. ( 4 ) Peritoneal dialysis fluid is able to generate glycoxidative and oxidative damage to proteins in vitro in a dwell-time dependent fashion.
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- Maria Cristina Ruiz
- Metabolic Pathophysiology Research Group, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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- Metabolic Pathophysiology Research Group, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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- Metabolic Pathophysiology Research Group, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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- Metabolic Pathophysiology Research Group, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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- Metabolic Pathophysiology Research Group, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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- Nephrology Service, University Hospital “Arnau de Vilanova,” Lleida, Spain
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- Metabolic Pathophysiology Research Group, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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Cadavid-Vargas JF, Villa-Pérez C, Ruiz MC, León IE, Valencia-Uribe GC, Soria DB, Etcheverry SB, Di Virgilio AL. 6-Methoxyquinoline complexes as lung carcinoma agents: induction of oxidative damage on A549 monolayer and multicellular spheroid model. J Biol Inorg Chem 2019; 24:271-285. [PMID: 30701359 DOI: 10.1007/s00775-019-01644-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2018] [Accepted: 01/17/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The aim of this work was to study the antitumor effects and the mechanisms of toxic action of a series of 6-methoxyquinoline (6MQ) complexes in vitro. The Cu(II) and Zn(II) complexes (Cu6MQ and Zn6MQ) are formulated as M(6MQ)2Cl2; the Co(II) and Ag(I) compounds (Co6MQ and Ag6MQ) are ionic with formulae [Ag(6MQ)2]+NO3- and H(6MQ)+[Co(6MQ)Cl3]- (where H(6MQ)+ is the protonated ligand). We found that the copper complex, outperformed the Co(II), Zn(II) and Ag(I) complexes with a lower IC50 (57.9 µM) in A549 cells exposed for 24 h. Cu6MQ decreased cell proliferation and induced oxidative stress detected with H2DCFDA at 40 µM, which reduces GSH/GSSG ratio. This redox imbalance induced oxidative DNA damage revealed by the Micronucleus test and the Comet assay, which turned into a cell cycle arrest at G2/M phase and induced apoptosis. In multicellular spheroids, the IC50 values tripled the monolayer model (187.3 µM for 24 h). At this concentration, the proportion of live/dead cells diminished, and the spheroids could not proliferate or invade. Although Zn6MQ also decreased GSH/GSSG ratio from 200 µM and the cytotoxicity is related to oxidative stress, the induction of the hydrogen peroxide levels only doubled the control value. Zn6MQ induced S phase arrest, which relates with the increased micronucleus frequency and with the induction of necrosis. Finally, our results reveal a synergistic activity with a 1:1 ratio of both complexes in the monolayer and multicellular spheroids.
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- J F Cadavid-Vargas
- CEQUINOR (CONICET-UNLP), Bv. 120 N 1465, La Plata, Argentina.,Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 47 y 115, 1900, La Plata, Argentina
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- CEQUINOR (CONICET-UNLP), Bv. 120 N 1465, La Plata, Argentina
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- CEQUINOR (CONICET-UNLP), Bv. 120 N 1465, La Plata, Argentina.,Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 47 y 115, 1900, La Plata, Argentina
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- CEQUINOR (CONICET-UNLP), Bv. 120 N 1465, La Plata, Argentina
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- GIAFOT, Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Medellín, Medellín, Colombia
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- CEQUINOR (CONICET-UNLP), Bv. 120 N 1465, La Plata, Argentina
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- CEQUINOR (CONICET-UNLP), Bv. 120 N 1465, La Plata, Argentina.,Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 47 y 115, 1900, La Plata, Argentina
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- CEQUINOR (CONICET-UNLP), Bv. 120 N 1465, La Plata, Argentina. .,Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 47 y 115, 1900, La Plata, Argentina.
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Park JH, Ruiz MC, Shields D, Orr DJ. Socioeconomic deprivation does not affect prescribing of secondary prevention in patients with peripheral arterial disease. INT ANGIOL 2013; 32:593-598. [PMID: 24212293] [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: 06/02/2023]
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AIM Aim of the study was to assess the effect of socioeconomic deprivation on prescribing of cardiovascular secondary prevention medications in patients referred with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). METHODS A retrospective review of vascular clinic referrals was performed. All patients referred from primary care with suspected PAD over a two month period were included. The deprivation score, prescription of cardiovascular secondary prevention medications, smoking status and the presence of cardiovascular co-morbidities (coronary artery or cerebrovascular disease--CAD/CVD) were assessed. Comparison was made between socioeconomic groups using the Carstairs Deprivation (DepCat) Score and between patients with and without a history of currently existing cardiovascular co-morbidities. RESULTS The study included 391 patients. Almost two thirds of patients (253) were from the most deprived socioeconomic groups and were significantly younger at presentation (median age DepCat 7: 63 yrs, DepCat 1-2: 74.5 yrs, P<0.0001). The majority of patients with a prior history of CAD/CVD were prescribed secondary preventative medications at the time of referral with suspected PAD whereas those with no prior history of CAD/CVD, (212 patients, 54%) were significantly less likely to be prescribed antiplatelets (47% vs. 83%), statins (45% vs. 86%) or ACEi/ARBs (29% vs. 68%) (all P<0.05). Secondary prevention prescribing did not differ between socioeconomic groups. CONCLUSION Secondary prevention prescribing is inadequate in patients with suspected PAD regardless of socioeconomic group and is significantly lower in those without previously diagnosed CAD/CVD. There remains a lack of appreciation of the high cardiovascular risk associated with PAD.
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- J H Park
- Peripheral Vascular Unit, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, UK -
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Coz A, Andrés A, Soriano S, Viguri JR, Ruiz MC, Irabien JA. Influence of commercial and residual sorbents and silicates as additives on the stabilisation/solidification of organic and inorganic industrial waste. J Hazard Mater 2009; 164:755-761. [PMID: 18835094 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2008.08.079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2008] [Revised: 08/21/2008] [Accepted: 08/21/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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An environmental problem of the foundry activities is the management of industrial waste generated in different processes. The foundry sludge from gas wet cleaning treatment that contains organic and inorganic compounds and a high content of water is an interesting example. Due to their characteristics, they can be managed using different stabilisation/solidification (S/S) technologies prior to land disposal. The purpose of this work is to study S/S formulations in order to improve the control of the mobility of the pollutants and the ecotoxicity of the samples. Different mixtures of cement or lime as binders and additives (foundry sand, silica fume, sodium silicate, silicic acid, activated carbon and black carbon) have been used in order to reduce the mobility of the chemical and ecotoxicological regulated parameters and to compare the results for commercial and residual additives. The best results have been obtained with sorbents (activated carbon and black carbon) or sodium silicate. The results of the foundry sand ash as additive can conclude that it can be used as replacement in the cement products. However, silica fume in the samples with lime and siliceous resin sand as additives gives products that do not fulfil the regulated limits. Finally, some linear expressions between the chemical parameters and the quantity of material used in the samples have been obtained.
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- A Coz
- Dpto Ingeniería Química y Química Inorgánica, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Cantabria, Spain.
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The beneficial action of statins on the lipid profile, cardiovascular disease, and death is well known. Besides their lipid-lowering role, these drugs have pleiotropic action that derive from their prevention of the synthesis of isoprenoids, mediators in cell signaling. Thus, due to their antioxidant capacity, statins can decrease the production of reactive oxygen species by inhibiting NAD(P)H oxidase activity. Previous studies by our group have described increased oxidative stress status in renal transplantation that might benefit from HMG CoA reductase inhibitor therapy. The aim of this study was to assess the influence of statins on stress parameters and their relevance to renal function in kidney transplantation. In 58 transplanted patients a first blood sample was obtained, without statins followed by 21 patients treated with statins (group 1) and 37 patients without drug (group 0) for a 6-month study period. We collected clinical data as well biochemical results on lipid profile, creatinine and oxidative stress. Lipid profile reduction was significant among group 1 compared with group 0. An increased glutathione peroxidase (GPx) among observed in all patients was greater in the statin-treated group (P = .006). No differences in creatinine or Cockroft-Gault values were observed between before versus after drug administration. In conclusion, statin treatment in renal transplantation improves the lipid profile and may increase GPx-measured antioxidant capacity but appears to have no short-term effect on renal function.
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- M C Ruiz
- Department of Nephrology, "Virgen de las Nieves" University Hospital, Granada, Spain.
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Ruiz MC, Medina A, Moreno JM, Gómez I, Ruiz N, Bueno P, Asensio C, Osuna A. Relationship between oxidative stress parameters and atherosclerotic signs in the carotid artery of stable renal transplant patients. Transplant Proc 2006; 37:3796-8. [PMID: 16386542 DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2005.10.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [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: 11/18/2022]
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) may participate in atheroma plaque formation, which may be noninvasively diagnosed by Doppler ultrasound of carotid artery. We sought to determine the relationship between the presence of carotid artery lesions and oxidative parameters to identify factors that may influence these lesions in renal transplant patients. Fifty renal transplanted patients with stable renal function and without diabetes mellitus were studied for more than 1 year posttransplantation. Echo Doppler examination of the carotid artery was performed to assess the intimal media thickness (IMT), atheroma plaques, calcification, and stenosis. Data were collected on oxidative parameters: malondialdehyde (MDA), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), catalase, superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione reductase (GR), and lipid profile. The serum GPx level among patients without atheroma plaques, calcification, or stenosis was higher than in those with ultrasound signs. The LDL cholesterol fraction was lower in patients with no ultrasound signs of atherosclerotic lesions; total cholesterol values showed the same behavior. In conclusion, transplanted patients with atheromatous plaques, calcification, and carotid stenosis have a greater degree of hypercholesterolemia and lower antioxidant activity (lower GPx). Recipient age was the principal risk factor for the presence of increased IMT, atheroma plaque, calcification, and/or stenosis of carotid artery in renal transplant patients.
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- M C Ruiz
- Nephrology Service, Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital, Granada, Spain
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- M C Ruiz
- Centre de Salud Rambla de Ferran, Lleida 25007, Spain
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Ruiz MC, Ayala V, Portero-Otín M, Requena JR, Barja G, Pamplona R. Protein methionine content and MDA-lysine adducts are inversely related to maximum life span in the heart of mammals. Mech Ageing Dev 2005; 126:1106-14. [PMID: 15955547 DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2005.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2005] [Revised: 04/13/2005] [Accepted: 04/25/2005] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Aging affects all organisms and its basic mechanisms are expected to be conserved across species. Oxidation of proteins has been proposed to be one of the basic mechanisms linking oxygen radicals with the basic aging process. If oxidative damage to proteins is involved in aging, long-lived animals (which age slowly) should show lower levels of markers of this kind of damage than short-lived ones. However, this possibility has not been investigated yet. In this study, steady-state levels of markers of different kinds of protein damage--oxidation (glutamic and aminoadipic semialdehydes), mixed glyco- and lipoxidation (carboxymethyl- and carboxyethyllysine), lipoxidation (malondialdehydelysine) and amino acid composition--were measured in the heart of eight mammalian species ranging in maximum life span (MLSP) from 3.5 to 46 years. Oxidation markers were directly correlated with MLSP across species. Mixed glyco- and lipoxidation markers did not correlate with MLSP. However, the lipoxidation marker malondialdehydelysine was inversely correlated with MLSP (r2=0.85; P<0.001). The amino acid compositional analysis revealed that methionine is the only amino acid strongly correlated MLSP and that such correlation is negative (r2=0.93; P<0.001). This trait may contribute to lower steady-state levels of oxidized methionine residues in cellular proteins. These results reinforce the notion that high longevity in homeothermic vertebrates is achieved in part by constitutively decreasing the sensitivity of both tissue proteins and lipids to oxidative damage. This is obtained by modifying the constituent structural components of proteins and lipids, selecting those less sensitive to oxidative modifications.
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- Maria Cristina Ruiz
- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Lleida, Lleida 25198, Spain
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Soler-González J, Ruiz MC. Patients' written consent when photographed could suffice for journals. BMJ 2005; 330:1509. [PMID: 15976433 PMCID: PMC558499 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1509-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) trigger a biomolecular alteration that causes functional and structural changes. In renal transplantation, there is an increase in oxidative phenomena related to endothelial dysfunction, inflammation, and atherosclerosis, the main cause of cardiovascular complications and chronic allograft failure. The present study was designed to assess the oxidative state of transplant patients with stable renal function, in order to establish differences in oxidative, biochemical, and clinical parameters between patients treated with tacrolimus versus cyclosporine. We studied 67 stable kidney transplant patients treated with calcineurin inhibitors who were not receiving cholesterol-lowering therapy, and 14 healthy subjects. Data were collected on biochemical parameters: lipid profile (apoA, apoB, total cholesterol and fractions, and triglycerides); urea; and creatinine; oxidative parameters: malondialdehyde (MDA) as a lipid peroxidation marker, glutathione peroxidase (GPx), catalase, superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione reductase (GR), and antibodies against oxidized LDL; and clinical variables. Transplanted patients showed a higher oxidative status (MDA increase and GPx decrease) than healthy subjects. The oxidative status did not differ between the cyclosporine and tacrolimus cohorts. Some factors during the posttransplant period, such as delayed graft function, cytomegalovirus infection, and microalbuminuria, which may damage renal function, produce a decreased antioxidant capacity (lower GPx).
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- J M Moreno
- Nephrology Service, Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital, Granada, Spain
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Ruiz MC, Irabien A. Environmental behavior of cement-based stabilized foundry sludge products incorporating additives. J Hazard Mater 2004; 109:45-52. [PMID: 15177744 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2003.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2003] [Revised: 12/23/2003] [Accepted: 12/23/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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A series of experiments were conducted to stabilize the inorganic and organic pollutants in a foundry sludge from a cast iron activity using Portland cement as binder and three different types of additives, organophilic bentonite, lime and coal fly ash. Ecotoxicological and chemical behavior of stabilized mixes of foundry sludge were analyzed to assess the feasibility to immobilize both types of contaminants, all determined on the basis of compliance leaching tests. The incorporation of lime reduces the ecotoxicity of stabilized mixes and enhances stabilization of organic pollutants obtaining better results when a 50% of cement is replaced by lime. However, the alkalinity of lime increases slightly the leached zinc up to concentrations above the limit set under neutral conditions by the European regulations. The addition of organophilic bentonite and coal fly ash can immobilize the phenolic compounds but are inefficient to reduce the ecotoxicity and mobility of zinc of final products.
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- M C Ruiz
- Departamento de Transportes y Tecnología de Proyectos y Procesos, ETS Ingenieros Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Universidad de Cantabria, Avda. de los Castros s/n, 39005 Santander, Spain.
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Ruiz MC, Andrés A, Irabien A. Environmental assessment of cement/foundry sludge products. Environ Technol 2003; 24:589-596. [PMID: 12803251 DOI: 10.1080/09593330309385593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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This work deals with the environmental assessment of products based on cement and a waste from a cast iron activity. The waste is a foundry sludge from wastewater treatment previously characterized. This industrial waste shows a high water content (62.4%) and a hazardous behavior due to its metallic content mainly Zn (16.5%), together with a low fraction of organic pollutants, mainly phenolic compounds. The feasibility of immobilizing both typs of contaminants was studied using Portland cement as binder at different cement/waste ratios. The parameters of environmental control were the ecotoxicity and mobilization of zinc and phenolic compounds, all determined on the basis of compliance leaching tests. The acid neutralization capacity of the cement/waste products was measured in order to obtain information on their buffering capacity. Experimental results from chemical analysis of leachates led to a non ecotoxic character of cement/waste products Although the metallic ions were mobilized within the cement mattices, the organic matter did not allow the formation of monolithic forms and an efficient immobilization of phenolic compounds. Concerning the acid neutralization capacity, this parameter was shown to depend mainly on the quantity of cement, although a decrease in alkalinity was observed when the amount of water in the cement/waste products increased.
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- M C Ruiz
- Dpto. Transportes y Tecnología de Proyecto y Procesos, E.T.S. Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Universidad de Cantabria, Avda. Los Castros s/n, 39005 Santander, Cantabria, Spain
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Ruiz MC, Ruiz N, Castilla M, Asensio C, Bravo J, Osuna A. Effect of early versus delayed calcineurin inhibitor treatment on delayed graft function. Transplant Proc 2003; 35:692-4. [PMID: 12644096 DOI: 10.1016/s0041-1345(03)00049-6] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- M C Ruiz
- Nephrology Service, Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital, Granada, Spain
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Ruiz MC, Portero-Otín M, Pamplona R, Requena JR, Prat J, Lafarga MA, Borràs M, Bellmunt MJ. Chemical and immunological characterization of oxidative nonenzymatic protein modifications in dialysis fluids. Perit Dial Int 2003; 23:23-32. [PMID: 12691503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/01/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Glucose degradation products (GDP) in dialysis fluids may induce nonenzymatic protein modifications, the chemical nature and biological properties of which should be better defined. AIMS To characterize nonenzymatic protein modifications present in glucose-based peritoneal dialysis fluids (PDF) and to evaluate the relationship between concentrations of GDP and the derived nonenzymatic modifications, and the potential of PDF for generating these modifications in vitro. METHODS The presence, distribution, and content of several nonenzymatic protein modifications in PDF were evaluated by immunological methods, by HPLC, and by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS). Peritoneal dialysis fluid-induced oxidative stress in cells was evaluated by flow cytometry. The potential of PDF for generating oxidative and glycoxidative modifications was examined by immunological and cross-linking analyses. RESULTS The albumin present in PDF is modified by carboxymethyllysine (CML). GC/MS analyses of PDF proteins confirmed the presence of CML and demonstrated the occurrence of carboxyethyllysine, malondialdehyde lysine, and oxidation-derived semialdehydes. Furthermore, their concentrations in PDF proteins were significantly higher than those in plasma proteins (in all cases, p < 0.02). The concentration of pyrraline, a non-oxidative advanced glycation end-product, increased with dwell time up to 6 hours (p < 0.03). The PDF induced cellular free-radical production, which was partially inhibited by the Maillard reaction inhibitor aminoguanidine (p < 0.001). The potential to generate oxidative and glycoxidative modifications demonstrated an inverse relationship with dwell time (p < 0.05). The PDF was able to induce collagen cross-linking in a close relationship with GDP concentration. CONCLUSIONS (1) PDF contains non-oxidative and several oxidative nonenzymatic protein modifications in higher concentrations than plasma. (2) Peritoneal dialysis fluid induces oxidative stress in vitro, which can be partially inhibited by aminoguanidine. (3) These properties are directly related to GDP concentration. (4) Peritoneal dialysis fluid is able to generate glycoxidative and oxidative damage to proteins in vitro in a dwell-time dependent fashion.
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- Maria Cristina Ruiz
- Metabolic Pathophysiology Research Group, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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Portero-Otín M, Pamplona R, Bellmunt MJ, Ruiz MC, Prat J, Salvayre R, Nègre-Salvayre A. Advanced glycation end product precursors impair epidermal growth factor receptor signaling. Diabetes 2002; 51:1535-42. [PMID: 11978653 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.51.5.1535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) is considered a potential link between hyperglycemia and chronic diabetic complications, including disturbances in cell signaling. It was hypothesized that AGEs alter cell signaling by interfering with growth factor receptors. Therefore, we studied the effects of two AGE precursors, glyoxal (GO) and methylglyoxal (MGO), on the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling pathway in cultured cells. Both compounds prevented tyrosine autophosphorylation induced by epidermal growth factor (EGF) in a time- and dose-dependent manner as well as phospholipase Cgamma1 recruitment and subsequent activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinases. AGE precursors inhibit EGF-induced EGFR autophosphorylation and tyrosine kinase activity in cell membranes and in EGFR immunoprecipitates. In addition, AGE precursors strongly inhibited cellular phosphotyrosine phosphatase activities and residual EGFR dephosphorylation. AGE precursors induced the formation of EGFR cross-links, as shown by the cross-reactivity of modified EGFR with an anti-N(epsilon)(carboxymethyl)lysine antibody, suggesting that altered EGFR signaling was related to carbonyl-amine reactions on EGFR. Aminoguanidine, an inhibitor of AGE formation, partially prevented the EGFR dysfunction induced by GO and MGO. These data introduce a novel mechanism for impaired cellular homeostasis in situations that lead to increased production of these reactive aldehydes, such as diabetes.
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- Manuel Portero-Otín
- Metabolic Pathophysiology Research Group, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain.
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Pérez JF, Ruiz MC, Michelangeli F. Simultaneous measurement and imaging of intracellular Ca(2+) and H(+) transport in isolated rabbit gastric glands. J Physiol 2001; 537:735-45. [PMID: 11744751 PMCID: PMC2278991 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.2001.00735.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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1. Activation of H(+) secretion in the intracellular canaliculi of parietal cells occurs on an unknown time scale with ill-defined kinetics for the coupling of H(+) secretion and the elevation of intracellular calcium ([Ca(2+)](i)) stimulated by secretagogues. 2. We developed a method to determine H(+) secretion in isolated rabbit gastric glands with spatio-temporal resolution, using the fluorescent indicator Lysosensor Yellow-Blue (LYB). Glands accumulated the dye exclusively in the intracellular canaliculi of parietal cells and the gland lumen. Dye fluorescence in the acid spaces of the glands increased upon stimulation of acid secretion by carbachol, histamine and forskolin. Simultaneous fluorescence measurements of acid secretion and [Ca(2+)](i) at 1 s resolution were made by joint loading of LYB and Fluo-3. 3. Carbachol-stimulated H(+) secretion was detected in the gland lumen as early as 3 s after the onset of the [Ca(2+)](i) spike. H(+) accumulation appeared to be transient and paralleled the release component of the [Ca(2+)](i) spike. Short and repetitive stimulations with carbachol elicited repetitive responses in [Ca(2+)](i) and H(+) secretion. 4. Histamine or forskolin stimulated H(+) secretion with a delayed onset (around 2 min) and a sustained response. Acid secretion was temporally unrelated to the oscillatory Ca(2+) responses. 5. The striking difference in the kinetics of activation of H(+) secretion by cholinergic and cAMP-dependent secretagogues indicates that two distinct mechanisms are operating in the final stimulation of the pump, in spite of both eliciting a [Ca(2+)](i) response.
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- J F Pérez
- Centro de Biofísica y Bioquímica, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela
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Ruiz MC, Verde J, Andrés A, Viguri J, Irabien A. Environmental assessment of lubricants before and after wire drawing process. J Hazard Mater 2001; 85:181-191. [PMID: 11489523 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3894(01)00227-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Iron wire drawing processes involve the use of solid lubricants made of powdered raw materials, which lead to industrial wastes after being used. These wastes, based on stearates, have a negative effect on the environment. This study deals with the environmental assessment of some lubricants before and after the wire drawing process in a Spanish factory. The parameters evaluated for this study have been total organic carbon (TOC), mobility of zinc and lead, and ecotoxicity (EC(50)). Results show that wastes have more ecotoxicity than the original lubricants due to the content of metals that lubricants pick up from the wire, as pickling, patenting and galvanising take part in the manufacture. The capture of metallic particles leads to a reduction of TOC and an increase in ecotoxicity.
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- M C Ruiz
- Dpto. Ingeniería Química y Química Inorgánica, ETSII yT, Universidad de Cantabria, Avda. de los Castros s/n, 39005 Santander, Cantanbria, Spain.
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Portero-Otín M, Bellmunt MJ, Ruiz MC, Barja G, Pamplona R. Correlation of fatty acid unsaturation of the major liver mitochondrial phospholipid classes in mammals to their maximum life span potential. Lipids 2001; 36:491-8. [PMID: 11432462 DOI: 10.1007/s11745-001-0748-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [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: 10/23/2022]
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Free radical damage is considered a determinant factor in the rate of aging. Unsaturated fatty acids are the tissue macromolecules that are most sensitive to oxidative damage. Therefore, the presence of low proportions of fatty acid unsaturation is expected in the tissues of long-lived animals. Accordingly, the fatty acid compositions of the major liver mitochondrial phospholipid classes from eight mammals, ranging in maximum life span potential (MLSP) from 3.5 to 46 yr, show that the total number of double bonds is inversely correlated with MLSP in both phosphatidylcholine (PtdCho) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PtdEtn) (r = 0.757, P < 0.03, and r = 0.862, P < 0.006, respectively), but not in cardiolipin (P = 0.323). This is due not to a low content of unsaturated fatty acids in long-lived animals, but mainly to a redistribution between kinds of fatty acids on PtdCho and PtdEtn, shifting from arachidonic (r = 0.911, P < 0.002, and r = 0.681, P = 0.05, respectively), docosahexaenoic (r = 0.931 and r = 0.965, P < 0.0001, respectively) and palmitic (r = 0.944 and r = 0.974, P < 0.0001, respectively) acids to linoleic acid (r = 0.942, P < 0.0001, for PtdCho; and r = 0.957, P < 0.0001, for PtdEtn). For cardiolipin, only arachidonic acid showed a significantly inverse correlation with MLSP (r = 0.904, P < 0.002). This pattern strongly suggests the presence of a species-specific desaturation pathway and deacylation-reacylation cycle in determining the mitochondrial membrane composition, maintaining a low degree of fatty acid unsaturation in long-lived animals.
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- M Portero-Otín
- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lleida, Spain.
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Ca2+ plays a key role in many pathological processes, including viral infections. Rotavirus, the major etiological agent of viral gastroenteritis in children and young animals, provides a useful model to study a number of Ca2+ dependent virus-cell interactions. Rotavirus entry, activation of transcription, morphogenesis, cell lysis, particle release, and the distant action of viral proteins are Ca2+ dependent processes. In the extracellular medium, Ca2+ stabilizes the structure of the viral capsid. During entry into the cell the low cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentration induced the solubilization of the outer protein layer of the capsid and transcriptase activation. Viral protein synthesis modifies Ca2+ homeostasis which, in turn, favours viral morphogenesis and induces cell death. The generation of diarrhea is a multifactorial process involving Ca2+ dependent secretory processes of mediators and water and electrolytes, as well as the induction of cell death in the different cell types that compose the intestinal epithelium. The discovery of the non-structural viral protein NSP4 as a viral enterotoxin and the possible participation of the enteric nervous system in the pathogenesis of diarrhea represent significant advances in its understanding. Ca2+ also plays a role in the replication cycles and pathogenesis of other viral diseases such as poliovirus, Coxsackie virus, cytomegalovirus, vaccinia and measles virus and HIV.
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- M C Ruiz
- Laboratorio de Fisiología Gastrointestinal, Centro de Biofísica y Bioquímica, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC) Caracas, Venezuela
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Mora BR, Martínez-Tabche L, Sánchez-Hidalgo E, Hernández GC, Ruiz MC, Murrieta FF. Relationship between toxicokinetics of carbaryl and effect on acetylcholinesterase activity in Pomacea patula snail. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf 2000; 46:234-239. [PMID: 10831338 DOI: 10.1006/eesa.1999.1911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The 96-h LC(50) value of carbaryl was 14.6 microg/mL for the snail Pomacea patula. Organisms were exposed for 72 h to a low sublethal concentration (0.1 of LC(50)) using a semistatic contamination system; bioconcentration and elimination experiments were performed evaluating simultaneously acetylcholinesterase (ACHase) activity. The inhibition of the digestive gland ACHase reached 76% when the carbaryl concentration in tissue was 3.2 microg/g. The increased enzyme inhibition was observed concomitantly with the bioconcentration of carbaryl until 7 h. ACHase inhibition was linearly dependent on the uptake and bioconcentration of carbaryl (r(2)=0.87). The transfer of snails to carbaryl-free water after 72 h of exposure was followed by rapid monophasic elimination with a half-life of 1.0 h. However, ACHase activity levels never returned to control values. These results revealed that the bioconcentration might play a critical role in contributing to the toxicity of carbaryl.
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- B R Mora
- Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, México, D.F., Mexico.
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Portero-Otín M, Pamplona R, Ruiz MC, Cabiscol E, Prat J, Bellmunt MJ. Diabetes induces an impairment in the proteolytic activity against oxidized proteins and a heterogeneous effect in nonenzymatic protein modifications in the cytosol of rat liver and kidney. Diabetes 1999; 48:2215-20. [PMID: 10535457 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.48.11.2215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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It is assumed that increased oxidative stress contributes to the development of complications in diabetes. In this study, several markers of protein structural modifications directly induced by free radicals were investigated in the liver and kidney cytosolic fractions of rats with streptozotocin-induced diabetes. Sulfydryl residue and side-chain amino group analyses, as well as immunoblotting and chromatographic measurements of protein-bound carbonyl, suggest that protein oxidative modification is not increased by diabetes, with the exception of sulfydryl groups in renal cytosol. The levels of the glycation-derived carbonyl N epsilon-fructosyl-lysine are significantly increased by diabetes. Furthermore, unchanged proteolytic activity against in vivo-oxidized proteins, significant decreases both in activity against H2O2-modified proteins and in proteasome activity, measured by the degradation of a specific fluorogenic substrate, suggest that the unchanged oxidative protein modification in the diabetic state cannot be attributed to an increased cytosolic proteolytic activity in these tissues. These results provide evidence against a generalized increase in protein oxidative damage and demonstrate a diabetes-induced alteration in cytosolic proteolytic pathways, suggesting that proteasome activity may be impaired in these organs.
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- M Portero-Otín
- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Lleida, Spain.
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Some viruses induce changes in membrane permeability during infection. We have shown previously that the porcine strain of rotavirus, OSU, induced an increase in the permeability to Na+, K+, and Ca2+ during replication in MA104 cells. In this work, we have characterized the divalent cation entry pathway by measuring intracellular Ca2+ in fura-2-loaded MA104 and HT29 cells in suspension. The permeability to Ca2+ and other cations was evaluated by the change of the intracellular concentration following an extracellular cation pulse. Rotavirus infection induced an increase in permeability to Ca2+, Ba2+, Sr2+, Mn2+, and Co2+. The rate of cation entry decreased over time as the intracellular concentration increased during the first 20 s. This indicates that regulatory mechanisms, including channel inactivation, are triggered. La3+ did not enter the cell and blocked the entry of the divalent cations in a dose-dependent manner. Metoxyverapamil (D600), a blocker of L-type voltage-gated channels, partially inhibited the entry of Ca2+ in virus-infected MA104 and HT29 cells. The results suggest that rotavirus infection of cultured cells activates a cation channel rather than nonspecific permeation through the plasma membrane. This activation involves the synthesis of viral proteins through mechanisms yet unknown. The increase in intracellular Ca2+ induced by the activation of this channel may be related to the increase in cytoplasmic and endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ pools required for virus maturation and cell death.
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- J F Pérez
- Laboratorio de Fisiología Gastrointestinal, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas 1020A, Venezuela
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Pérez JF, Chemello ME, Liprandi F, Ruiz MC, Michelangeli F. Oncosis in MA104 cells is induced by rotavirus infection through an increase in intracellular Ca2+ concentration. Virology 1998; 252:17-27. [PMID: 9875312 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1998.9433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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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Rotavirus infection modifies the metabolism and ionic homeostasis of the host cell. First, there is an induction of viral synthesis with a parallel shutoff of cell protein production, followed by an increase of plasma membrane Ca2+ permeability, thereby inducing an increase of free cytoplasmic and sequestered Ca2+ concentrations. Cell death follows at a later stage. We studied the role of the increase in Ca2+ concentration in cell death. An elevation of extracellular Ca2+ concentration during infection induced an increase in [Ca2+]i and potentiated cell death. Buffering the increases in [Ca2+]i with BAPTA added at 6 h p.i. reduced the cytopathic effect without inhibiting viral protein synthesis and infectious particle production. Metoxyverapamil (D600), a Ca2+ channel inhibitor, added at 1 h p.i. reduced Ca2+ permeability, the increases in [Ca2+]i, and cell death produced by infection without modifying viral protein synthesis and infectious titer. Thapsigargin, the inhibitor of Ca(2+)-ATPase of endoplasmic reticulum, potentiated the increase of [Ca2+]i and accelerated the time course of cell death. Double staining with fluorescein diacetate and ethidium bromide or acridine orange and ethidium bromide showed that infected MA104 cells had lost plasma membrane integrity without DNA fragmentation or formation of apoptotic bodies. These results support the hypothesis that the increase in [Ca2+]i due to a product of viral protein synthesis triggers the chain of events that leads to cell death by oncosis.
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- J F Pérez
- Laboratorio de Fisiología Gastrointestinal, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela
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Balcells L, Martín R, Ruiz MC, Gómez N, Ramos J, Ariño J. The Pzh1 protein phosphatase and the Spm1 protein kinase are involved in the regulation of the plasma membrane H+-ATPase in fission yeast. FEBS Lett 1998; 435:241-4. [PMID: 9762918 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(98)01082-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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We have previously shown that the mutation of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe PPZ-like protein phosphatase encoded by the gene pzh1+ results in increased tolerance to sodium and in hypersensitivity to potassium ions. A similar phenotype has also been reported for deletants in the spm1/pmk1 gene, encoding a mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase. We have found that the sodium tolerance phenotype of pzh1 deletants is stronger than that of spm1 mutants, and both effects are additive. Therefore, most probably both gene products mediate different pathways on sodium tolerance. In our hands, mutation of the kinase does not alter the tolerance to potassium, but it yields cells more tolerant to magnesium ions. While in budding yeast the mutations are synthetically lethal, fission yeast cells lacking both the phosphatase and the kinase genes are viable. Interestingly, their ability to export H+ to the medium is greatly impaired (although not that of pzh1 or spm1 single mutants). We have observed that, although the amount of the H+-ATPase in the plasma membrane is not altered, the activity of the enzyme is lower than normal and cannot be induced by glucose. These observations suggest that the activity of the H+-ATPase in fission yeast might be regulated by phospho-dephosphorylation mechanisms that might involve the pzh1+ and spm1+ gene products.
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- L Balcells
- Dept. Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Veterinària, Ed. V, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
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Ruiz MC, Abad MJ, Charpilienne A, Cohen J, Michelangeli F. Cell lines susceptible to infection are permeabilized by cleaved and solubilized outer layer proteins of rotavirus. J Gen Virol 1997; 78 ( Pt 11):2883-93. [PMID: 9367375 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-78-11-2883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [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: 02/05/2023] Open
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It has previously been shown that trypsinized triple-layered particles of rotavirus induce destabilization of liposomes and membrane vesicles in the absence of Ca2+, a condition which leads to solubilization of the outer capsid proteins of the virus. In this work, we have studied the relationship between outer capsid solubilization and permeabilization of membrane vesicles, monitoring particle and vesicle size simultaneously by changes in light scattering. Permeabilization of intact cells induced by solubilized outer capsid proteins was monitored by following the rate of entry of ethidium bromide into the cells. Solubilized outer capsid proteins separated from double-layered particles induced vesicle permeabilization. Solubilization of the outer capsid preceded and was required for vesicle or cell permeabilization. Membrane damage induced by rotaviral outer proteins was not repaired upon addition of 1 mM Ca2+ to the medium. Rotavirus infection and cell permeabilization were correlated in six different cell lines tested. This phenomenon might be related to the mechanism of virus entry into the cell. We propose a new model for rotavirus internalization based on the permeabilizing ability of outer capsid proteins and the cycling of trapped calcium in the endosomal compartment.
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- M C Ruiz
- Laboratorio de Fisiología Gastrointestinal, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela.
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Liprandi F, Moros Z, Gerder M, Ludert JE, Pujol FH, Ruiz MC, Michelangeli F, Charpilienne A, Cohen J. Productive penetration of rotavirus in cultured cells induces coentry of the translation inhibitor alpha-sarcin. Virology 1997; 237:430-8. [PMID: 9356354 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1997.8803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [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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Internalization of rotavirus in MA104 cells was found to induce coentry of alpha-sarcin, a toxin that inhibits translation in cell-free systems and to which cells are normally impermeable. Entry of the toxin, measured by inhibition of protein synthesis at early times after infection, correlated with virus penetration leading to expression of infectivity, since toxin entry (1) was induced only by trypsin-treated triple-layered virions, to a degree dependent on the toxin and the virus concentration; (2) correlated with the degree of permissivity of different cell lines to rotavirus infection; (3) was inhibited to a similar extent as infectivity by treatment of cells with neuraminidase; and (4) was inhibited by pre- or postadsorption incubation of the virus with neutralizing monoclonal antibodies to VP7 and VP4 (VP8*). Neither the virus infectivity nor the toxin coentry was significantly affected by treatment of cells with bafilomycin A1, an inhibitor of the vacuolar proton ATPase, indicating that both events are independent of the endosomal acid pH. Virus-like particles (VLP), composed of rotavirus proteins 2/6/7/4, but not 2/6/7 or 2/6, were able to induce toxin entry as efficiently as virions. Use of genetically modified VLP in combination with the toxin coentry assay, which measures entry through a productive pathway, should allow identification of the regions of the outer capsid proteins essential for rotavirus penetration.
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- F Liprandi
- Laboratorio de Biología de Virus, Laboratorio de Fisiología Gastrointestinal, IVIC, Aptdo21827, Caracas, 1020-A, Venezuela.
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Charpilienne A, Abad MJ, Michelangeli F, Alvarado F, Vasseur M, Cohen J, Ruiz MC. Solubilized and cleaved VP7, the outer glycoprotein of rotavirus, induces permeabilization of cell membrane vesicles. J Gen Virol 1997; 78 ( Pt 6):1367-71. [PMID: 9191931 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-78-6-1367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [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: 02/04/2023] Open
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It has been previously shown that rotavirus triple-layered particles induce permeabilization of liposomes and membrane vesicles. These effects were mediated by one or both of the solubilized outer-capsid proteins, VP4 and VP7. Permeabilization was dependent on trypsin treatment of the viral particles, suggesting that VP4 was involved. To analyse the respective roles of the outer-capsid proteins in this permeabilization process, we have used membrane vesicles loaded with carboxyfluorescein and virus-like particles derived from insect cells co-expressing various sets of capsid proteins. Virus-like particles containing VP2, VP6 and VP7 (VLP2/6/7) are as efficient in permeabilizing vesicles as triple-layered particles. As with double-layered particles, virus-like particles made of VP2 and VP6 had no effect on vesicle permeabilization. Permeabilization of membrane vesicles required trypsinization of the VP7 solubilized from VLP2/6/7. These results show that solubilized and trypsinized VP7 is able to induce membrane permeabilization, independently of the presence of VP4.
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- A Charpilienne
- Laboratoire de Virologie et Immunologie Moléculaires INRA, C.R.J., Jouy-en-Josas, France
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Ruiz MC, Charpilienne A, Liprandi F, Gajardo R, Michelangeli F, Cohen J. The concentration of Ca2+ that solubilizes outer capsid proteins from rotavirus particles is dependent on the strain. J Virol 1996; 70:4877-83. [PMID: 8763990 PMCID: PMC190437 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.8.4877-4883.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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It has been previously shown that rotavirus maturation and stability of the outer capsid are calcium-dependent processes. More recently, it has been hypothesized that penetration of the cell membrane is also affected by conformational changes of the capsid induced by Ca2+. In this study, we determined quantitatively the critical concentration of calcium ion that leads to solubilization of the outer capsid proteins VP4 and VP7. Since this critical concentration is below or close to trace levels of Ca2+, we have used buffered solutions based on ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid (EGTA) and Ca-EGTA. This method allowed us to show a very high variability of the free [Ca2+] needed to stabilize, at room temperature, the outer capsid of several rotavirus strains. This concentration is about 600 nM for the two bovine strains tested (RF and UK), 100 nM for the porcine strain OSU, and only 10 to 20 nM for the simian strain SA11. Titration of viral infectivity after incubation in buffer of defined [Ca2+] confirmed that the loss of infectivity occurs at different [Ca2+] for these three strains. For the bovine strain, the cleavage of VP4 by trypsin has no significant effect on the [Ca2+] that solubilizes outer shell proteins. The outer layer (VP7) of virus-like particles (VLP) made of recombinant proteins VP2, VP6, and VP7 (VLP2/6/7) was also solubilized by lowering the [Ca2+]. The critical concentration of Ca2+ needed to solubilize VP7 from VLP2/6/7 made of protein from the bovine strain is close to the concentration needed for the corresponding virus. Genetic analysis of this phenotype in a set of reassortant viruses from two parental strains having the phenotypes of strains OSU (porcine) and UK (bovine) confirmed that this property of viral particles is probably associated with the gene coding for VP7. The analysis of VLP by reverse genetics might allow the identification of the region(s) essential for calcium binding.
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- M C Ruiz
- Laboratorio de Fisiologia Gastrointestinal, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas, Venezuela
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Pena MJ, Campos-Herrero MI, Ruiz MC, Rodríguez H, Lafarga B. [Microbiological study of vulvovaginitis in premenarcheal girls]. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin 1996; 14:311-3. [PMID: 8744372] [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: 02/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND A prospective microbiological study of the vaginal swab specimens from premenarcheal girls with clinical diagnosis of vulvovaginitis was done from the 1st of September 1991 to the 31st of August 1994. PATIENTS AND METHODS Vaginal secretions from premenarcheal girls with clinical findings were examined. Most important pathogenic agents were investigated and if there was an inflammatory reaction in the Gram stain and a heavy growth on culture, other potentially pathogenic agents were considered also. RESULTS In 70 (28.7%) of the 262 patients a potentially pathogenic microorganism was found: eight cases (3.0%) due to Streptococcus pyogenes, four cases (1.5%) due to Candida albicans. Only in one case Neisseria gonorrhoeae was isolated. Among the uncertain etiologic agents, Haemophilus influenzae was the most frequently isolated (7.6%). In 25 (12.6%) of the 198 patients Enterobius vermicularis ova were visualized. CONCLUSIONS Streptococcus pyogenes was the most frequently related organism with the vulvovaginitis syndrome among the traditionally established pathogens. The role of Haemophilus influenzae should be considered due to the high prevalence of isolation in this group of patients. We consider that differential diagnosis with Enterobius vermicularis infestation should be done in all cases.
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- M J Pena
- Unidad de Microbiología, Complejo Hospitalario Las Palmas Norte, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
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The calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium and iron content of a total of 22 different infant formulas marketed in Spain were measured by atomic spectrometry, and the mineral intake of infants fed exclusively with these formulas was estimated. The contents (mg/100kJ) are in the following ranges: Ca, 14-24; Mg, 1.1-2.8; Na, 5.6-9.8; K, 19-35; Fe, 0.02-0.50. These values coincide with those recommended by the Codex and European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (ESPGAN), and do not exceed the limits established by the European Union (EU). The mean values and ranges of estimated intakes for each formula type and period of infancy (0-1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4 and 4-5 months) expressed in mg element/kg body weight are tabulated. The mean Ca, Mg, Na, K and Fe daily intakes of infants (0-5 months) fed with infant formulas meet the recommended values (RDA), except for the iron intake when non-iron supplemented formulas were used.
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- M C Ruiz
- Nutrition and Food Chemistry, University of Valencia, Spain
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Michelangeli F, Liprandi F, Chemello ME, Ciarlet M, Ruiz MC. Selective depletion of stored calcium by thapsigargin blocks rotavirus maturation but not the cytopathic effect. J Virol 1995; 69:3838-47. [PMID: 7745732 PMCID: PMC189102 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.69.6.3838-3847.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [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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Rotavirus matures inside the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), a site of intracellular calcium storage. Total cell Ca2+ depletion has been shown to impair virus maturation, arresting this process at the membrane-enveloped intermediate form following its budding into the ER. On the other hand, rotavirus infection leads to an increase in the internal Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) and sequestered Ca2+ pools. We have used thapsigargin, an inhibitor of the Ca(2+)-ATPase of the ER, to release stored Ca2+ and to study its role in rotavirus morphogenesis and cytopathic effect. Thapsigargin (0.1 to 1 microM) released stored Ca2+ from MA-104 cells, as measured by chlorotetracycline fluorescence. The concentration of cytoplasmic Ca2+, measured with fura2, increased in infected cells whether treated or not with thapsigargin. Infectivity was decreased dose dependently by thapsigargin (3 log units at 0.25 to 1 microM). In infected cells treated with thapsigargin, glycosylation of VP7 and NS28 was inhibited. Electron microscopy of infected cells treated with thapsigargin showed normal synthesis of viroplasm. However, only membrane-enveloped, not double-shelled, particles could be observed within the ER. The conformation of VP7 in infected cells treated with thapsigargin appeared to be altered, as suggested by decreased immunofluorescence reactivity with monoclonal antibodies to highly conformation-dependent VP7 epitopes. The progression of cell death in infected cells, as measured by penetration of ethidium bromide, was not affected by thapsigargin. These results indicate that rotavirus maturation depends on a high sequestered [Ca2+], specifically in the ER. Cell death is the result of the accumulation of a viral product and is not related to the production of infective particles. This viral product(s) may be responsible for the increase in [Ca2+]i, which in turn leads to cell death.
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- F Michelangeli
- Laboratorio de Fisiología Gastrointestinal, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela
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Ruiz MC, Elcuaz R, Silguero D, Lafarga B. [Plesiomonas shigelloides enteritis: clinical and epidemiologic aspects]. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin 1995; 13:192-3. [PMID: 7734506] [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: 01/26/2023]
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Fernández Pinilla C, Martín P, Espinar J, Ruiz MC, Martell N, Fernández-Cruz A, Luque M. [Effect of suppression of apnea on arterial pressure and plasma catecholamines in normotensive patients with sleep apnea]. Med Clin (Barc) 1994; 103:165-8. [PMID: 7934277] [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]
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BACKGROUND The association of high blood pressure (HBP) and the sleep apnea syndrome (SPS) and the beneficial effect of SAS treatment on HBP are well known. The direct effect of the continuous nocturnal administration of positive air pressure (CPAP) on blood pressure is not, however, well known. The aim of this study was to evaluate the blood pressure (BP), plasma catecholamines (PC) and urinary derivatives of catecholamines (UDC) in 17 normotensive subjects (4 females; age 49 +/- 11 years) with SAS, prior to and after correction of apnea with CPAP. METHODS Twenty-four hour outpatient registry of blood pressure (OPRBP) and after nocturnal polysomnography were performed both basal and during CPAP administration for two nights. Urine was collected over these 24 hour period for measurement of UDC. At 7 hours a blood sample was collected for measurement of PC. RESULTS SAS was corrected by CPAP in all the patients with a reduction in mean BP (24 h: 87 +/- 6 vs 84 +/- 6 mmHg, p < 0.05, diurnal, 90 +/- 6 vs 87 +/- 6 mmHg, p < 0.05, nocturnal, 84 +/- 6 vs 82 +/- 7 mmHg, NS) and the percentage of diastolic BP > 90 mmHg (24 h: 10 +/- 7 mmHg vs 6.5 +/- 6 mmHg, p < 0.01, diurnal, 15 +/- 10 vs 10 +/- 10 mmHg, p < 0.05, nocturnal 5.2 vs 5 vs 3 +/- 4 mmHg, p < 0.05). The plasma catecholamines tended to reduce, although not significantly, without changes of urinary metabolites. CONCLUSIONS There is a significant decrease in blood pressure with the administration of continuous positive air pressure even in normotensive patients. An early correction of sleep apnea syndrome may reduce the high prevalence of hypertension associated with this syndrome.
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To gain information about the mechanism of epithelial cell infection by rotavirus, we studied the interaction of bovine rotavirus, RF strain, with isolated membrane vesicles from apical membrane of pig enterocytes. Vesicles were charged with high (quenching) concentrations of either carboxyfluorescein or calcein, and the rate of fluorophore release (dequenching) was monitored as a function of time after mixing with purified virus particles. Purified single-shelled particles and untrypsinized double-shelled ones had no effect. Trypsinized double-shelled virions induced carboxyfluorescein release according to sigmoid curves whose lag period and amplitude were a function of virus concentration and depended on both temperature and pH. The presence of 100 mM salts (Tris Cl, NaCl, or KCl) was required, since there was no reaction in isoosmotic salt-free sorbitol media. Other membrane vesicle preparations such as apical membranes of piglet enterocyte and rat placenta syncytiotrophoblasts, basolateral membranes of pig enterocytes, and the undifferentiated plasma membrane of cultured MA104 cells all gave qualitatively similar responses. Inhibition by a specific monoclonal antibody suggests that the active species causing carboxyfluorescein release is VP5*. Ca2+ (1 mM), but not Mg2+, inhibited the reaction. In situ solubilization of the outer capsid of trypsinized double-shelled particles changed release kinetics from sigmoidal to hyperbolic and was not inhibited by Ca2+. Our results indicate that membrane destabilization caused by trypsinized outer capsid proteins of rotavirus leads to fluorophore release. From the data presented here, a hypothetical model of the interaction of the various states of the viral particles with the membrane lipid phase is proposed. Membrane permeabilization induced by rotavirus may be related to the mechanism of entry of the virus into the host cell.
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- M C Ruiz
- Centre de Recherche sur l'Endocrinologie Moléculaire et le Développement, Centre Nationale de le Recherche Schientifique, Meudon, France
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Elcuaz R, Noguera FJ, Pena MJ, Cañas A, García P, Ruiz MC, Lafarga B. [Thermolabile and thermostable toxins in isolates of Escherichia coli from patients with diarrhea]. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin 1994; 12:107-8. [PMID: 8011704] [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: 01/28/2023]
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Elcuaz R, Ruiz MC, Alamo I, Noguera FJ, Lodas JC, Lafarga B. [Isolation of Flavimonas oryzihabitans from cultured blood from a patient with a Hickman catheter]. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin 1993; 11:516-7. [PMID: 8305567] [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]
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Ruiz MC, Acosta A, Abad MJ, Michelangeli F. Nonparallel secretion of pepsinogen and acid by gastric oxyntopeptic cells of the toad (Bufo marinus). Am J Physiol 1993; 265:G934-41. [PMID: 8238523 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.1993.265.5.g934] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Pepsinogen and HCl secretion in the amphibian stomach are performed by a single cell type, the oxyntopeptic cell. These functions were studied in gastric mucosae of toads (Bufo marinus) mounted in Ussing-type chambers. HCl and peptic activity of luminal fluid were measured by titration and proteolysis of albumin, respectively. Distribution of pepsinogen in the gastric mucosa was heterogeneous, activity being highest in the proximal part of the stomach. Zymogen granules in the oxyntopeptic cell were more abundant in the deeper cells of the glands and in the fundus. On stimulation, the granules were released into the lumen of the glands by exocytosis. Histamine, forskolin, or carbachol alone each induced an increase in HCl and pepsinogen secretion. Carbachol after maximal histamine or forskolin stimulation produced an extra increase in both secretions that was greater for pepsinogen response. Similarly, joint addition of carbachol and histamine was more potent than histamine alone for both parameters; however, the effect was greater on pepsinogen release. Pretreatment with cimetidine blocked HCl and pepsinogen responses to carbachol but did not affect responses to forskolin. Addition of omeprazole to forskolin-stimulated mucosae uncoupled the two secretions, inducing a total inhibition of HCl secretion with a slight reduction in pepsinogen secretion. Thus pepsinogen release, similar to HCl secretion, is sensitive to cAMP and Ca(2+)-dependent secretagogues. However, the action of Ca2+ would require the previous elevation of cAMP induced by the different secretagogues. In such a case, the increase in intracellular Ca2+ would result in a nonparallel activation of the two secretions.
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- M C Ruiz
- Laboratorio de Fisiologia Gastrointestinal, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas
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Luyten K, de Koning W, Tesseur I, Ruiz MC, Ramos J, Cobbaert P, Thevelein JM, Hohmann S. Disruption of the Kluyveromyces lactis GGS1 gene causes inability to grow on glucose and fructose and is suppressed by mutations that reduce sugar uptake. Eur J Biochem 1993; 217:701-13. [PMID: 8223613 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1993.tb18296.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae the GGS1 gene is essential for growth on glucose or other readily fermentable sugars. GGS1 is the same gene as TPS1 which was identified as encoding a subunit of the trehalose-6-phosphate synthase/phosphatase complex and it is allelic to the fdp1, byp1, glc6 and cif1 mutations. Its precise function in the regulation of sugar catabolism is unknown. We have cloned the GGS1 homologue from the distantly related yeast Kluyveromyces lactis. The KlGGS1 gene is 74% and 79% identical at the nucleotide and amino acid sequence level, respectively, to the S. cerevisiae counterpart. We also compared the sequence with the partly homologous products of the S. cerevisiae genes TPS2 and TSL1 which code for the larger subunits of the trehalose synthase complex and with a TSL1 homologue, TPS3, of unknown function. Multiple alignment of these sequences revealed several particularly well conserved elements. Disruption of GGS1 in K. lactis caused the same pleiotropic phenotype as in S. cerevisiae, i.e. inability to grow on glucose or fructose and strongly reduced trehalose content. We have also studied short-term glucose-induced regulatory effects related to cAMP and cAMP-dependent protein kinase, i.e. the cAMP signal, trehalase activation, trehalose mobilization and inactivation of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase. These effects occur very rapidly in S. cerevisiae and are absent in the Scggs1 mutant. In K. lactis all these effects were much slower and largely unaffected by the Klggs1 mutation. On the other hand, glucose strongly induced pyruvate decarboxylase and activated the potassium transport system in K. lactis and both effects were absent in the Klggs1 mutant. Addition of glucose to galactose-grown cells of the Klggs1 mutant caused, as in S. cerevisiae, intracellular accumulation of free glucose and of sugar phosphates and a rapid drop of the ATP and inorganic phosphate levels. Glucose transport kinetics were the same for the wild type and the Klggs1 mutant in both derepressed cells and in cells incubated with glucose. We have isolated phenotypic revertants of the Klggs1 mutant for growth on fructose. The suppressors that we characterized had, to different extents, diminished glucose uptake in derepressed cells but cells incubated in glucose showed very different characteristics. The suppressor mutations prevented deregulation of glycolysis in the Klggs1 mutant but not the accumulation of free glucose. The mutants with higher residual uptake activity showed partially restored induction of pyruvate decarboxylase and activation of potassium transport.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- K Luyten
- Laboratorium voor Moleculaire Celbiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Flanders, Belgium
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Ibáñez E, Ruiz MC, Corell R, Guasch J, Ferrándiz A, Ferriols R, García J. Home total parenteral nutrition in a "no-bowel" patient in Spain. Ann Pharmacother 1992; 26:1139-42. [PMID: 1421682 DOI: 10.1177/106002809202600917] [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] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To report a case of a patient with no functional bowel who was receiving home total parenteral nutrition in a country that has had a few professional experiences in this area of therapy. CASE SUMMARY A woman with a history of scattered colonic polyposis developed a mesenteric tumor that caused intestinal obstruction. Tumor withdrawal required the excision of 1.5 m of jejunum-ileum. Postoperative complications required further surgical intervention and subtotal intestinal resection. Duodenocolic anastomosis was not possible and a high output and permanent fistula remained. DISCUSSION The complications of home parenteral nutrition addressed in the literature are reviewed. The problems encountered in our patient have been resolved. CONCLUSIONS After three years of postoperative survival, we believe the quality of life of our patient has increased and the parenteral nutrition team members are much better prepared to manage patients with similar problems.
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- E Ibáñez
- Pharmacy Service, Hospital General, Castellón, Spain
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Ruiz MC, Michelangeli F, Ludert JE, Liprandi F, del Castillo JR, Chemello ME, Benaim G, Cohen E. Fluorimetric quantification of cell death in monolayer cultures and cell suspensions. J Biochem Biophys Methods 1991; 23:237-48. [PMID: 1779095 DOI: 10.1016/0165-022x(91)90016-p] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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A fluorimetric assay using ethidium bromide (EB) was employed to quantify cell death in monolayer cell cultures (MA-104 cells) in situ and isolated cell suspensions (isolated colonic cells and Leishmania). Fluorescence of EB stained cells was measured with a photometer coupled to an inverted microscope for cell monolayers or in a spectrofluorometer for cell suspensions. Dead cells stained with trypan blue were fluorescent with EB in all preparations studied, but the latter gave an unequivocal signal. Staining with EB and fluorescein diacetate was mutually exclusive. The relationship between the number of EB fluorescent cells and the intensity of fluorescence measured in the microphotometer was linear for a large range of cell numbers (1-14000) from different types of preparations. Applicability of the method for measuring living and dead cells in two different time scales (minutes and hours) is shown using MA-104 cell monolayers infected with rotavirus and Leishmania suspensions treated with amphotericin B. The method is fast, simple, sensitive and reliable, enabling quantification of living and dead cells in monolayers and suspensions.
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- M C Ruiz
- Laboratorio de Fisiología Gastrointestinal, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela
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Apitz-Castro R, Jain MK, Bartoli F, Ledezma E, Ruiz MC, Salas R. Evidence for direct coupling of primary agonist-receptor interaction to the exposure of functional IIb-IIIa complexes in human blood platelets. Results from studies with the antiplatelet compound ajoene. Biochim Biophys Acta 1991; 1094:269-80. [PMID: 1911878 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4889(91)90086-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [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: 12/29/2022]
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Ajoene, (E,Z)-4,5,9-trithiadodeca-1,6,11-triene 9-oxide, is a potent antiplatelet compound isolated from alcoholic extracts of garlic. In vitro, ajoene reversibly inhibits platelet aggregation as well as the release reaction induced by all known agonists. In this paper we show that ajoene has a unique locus of action, that is not shared by any other known antiplatelet compound. For example, ajoene inhibits agonist-induced exposure of fibrinogen receptors, as well as intracellular responses such as activation of protein kinase C and the increase in cytoplasmic free calcium induced by receptor-dependent agonists (collagen, ADP, PAF, low-dose thrombin). On the other hand, with agonists that can by-pass (at least partially) the receptor-transductor-effector sequence, such as high-dose thrombin, PMA, NaF, only the exposure of fibrinogen receptors is blocked by ajoene. Binding of fibrinogen to chymotrypsin-treated platelets is only slightly inhibited by ajoene. The results reported here also show that: (a) ajoene does not act as a calcium chelator, does not impair the initial agonist-receptor interaction and does not influence the basal levels of intracellular inhibitors of platelet activation such as cyclic GMP; (b) the locus of action of ajoene is a yet unknown molecular step that links, in the case of physiological agonists, specific agonist-receptor complexes to the sequence of the signal transduction system on the plasma membrane of platelets. In the case of non-physiological, receptor-independent agonists (PMA, NaF), we can only speculate on the hypothesis that they somehow mimic the effect of the agonist-receptor complexes on the signal transduction system; and (c) the exposure of fibrinogen receptors is not a direct consequence of other intracellular processes. These observations clearly show, for the first time, that the exposure of fibrinogen receptors is a membrane event proximally and obligatorily coupled to the occupancy of other membrane receptors by their agonists without any intervention by the cytoplasmic biochemical processes. Additional results support the involvement of G-proteins in these early events of platelet activation. Furthermore, a role of the beta tau subunits of G-proteins in the exposure of fibrinogen receptors is proposed.
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- R Apitz-Castro
- Laboratory of Trombosis Experimental, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas
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The effect of rotavirus infection on intracellular [Ca2+] was studied in a model system (MA-104 cells). In cells infected at high multiplicity with the OSU strain of rotavirus, production of infectious viruses was maximal at 6 hr postinfection. Cell death, as measured by incorporation of ethidium bromide, started at 6 hr and was complete at 15 hr postinfection. At 4 hr postinfection, intracellular [Ca2+], measured by quin2 fluorescence, was not modified, but Ca2+ permeability was increased. With progression of the infection, intracellular [Ca2+] and Ca2+ pools increased due to the failure of regulatory mechanisms to compensate increased Ca2+ entry. These effects were blocked by cycloheximide added up to 5 hr postinfection, but not by actinomycin D. Reduced extracellular [Ca2+] afforded protection of cell death induced by infection, under conditions at which production of infectious viruses was not affected. The cytopathic effect of rotavirus on host cells appears to be mediated by an increase in intracellular [Ca2+] induced by the synthesis of a viral product. The failure of ionic homeostasis of the enterocyte might be involved in the development of diarrhea.
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- F Michelangeli
- Laboratorio de Fisiología Gastrointestinal, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas
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del Castillo JR, Ludert JE, Sanchez A, Ruiz MC, Michelangeli F, Liprandi F. Rotavirus infection alters Na+ and K+ homeostasis in MA-104 cells. J Gen Virol 1991; 72 ( Pt 3):541-7. [PMID: 1848590 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-72-3-541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Infection of MA-104 cells with the OSU strain of rotavirus induced an increase in Na+ and a decrease in K+ intracellular concentrations, starting at 4 h post-infection. These changes were not related to an inhibition of the Na+/K+ pump since ouabain-sensitive 86Rb uptake was augmented in rotavirus-infected cells compared to control cells, whereas the [3H]ouabain binding and Na+/K+ ATPase activity in the cell homogenate were unaffected. Furosemide-sensitive 86Rb uptake (Na+/K+/2Cl- cotransport) was not modified by the infection. Passive 86Rb efflux and 22Na influx were augmented in infected cells suggesting an increase in the plasma membrane permeability. The increase in intracellular Na+ concentration might be responsible for the observed stimulation of the Na+/K+ pump. This effect was dependent upon the synthesis of viral proteins because it was abolished by addition of cycloheximide up to 4 h post-infection. Prevention of the increase in intracellular Na+ by the use of low Na(+)-containing media did not modify the pattern of protein synthesis. This suggests that changes in intracellular Na+ and K+ concentrations were not related to shutoff of cellular protein synthesis. Alterations of ion contents in the rotavirus-infected enterocytes might impair intestinal absorptive capacity before the appearance of histopathological lesions.
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- J R del Castillo
- Laboratorio de Fisiología Gastrointestinal, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela
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Cohen BE, Benaim G, Ruiz MC, Michelangeli F. Increased calcium permeability is not responsible for the rapid lethal effects of amphotericin B on Leishmania sp. FEBS Lett 1990; 259:286-8. [PMID: 2294016 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(90)80028-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [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: 12/31/2022]
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The mode of action of the polyene antibiotic amphotericin B (AmB), the drug of choice for the treatment of systemic fungal infections and visceral leishmaniasis, is still unclear. An increase in intracellular Ca2+ concentration [( Ca2+]i), toxic in many cases, has been postulated as a possible lethal mechanism for AmB. Cell permeabilization to ethidium bromide (EB) was used as a criterion of viability. Kinetics of the DNA-EB fluorescent complex formation was studied in ergosterol-containing Leishmania promastigotes. Intracellular Ca2+ concentration was measured using quin-2 fluorescence in parallel aliquots. It is shown in this work that AmB can act as an efficient Ca2+ ionophore. However, the rapid permeabilization effect induced by AmB on these cells was not dependent on an increase in [Ca2+]i. On the contrary, it was found that leishmanicidal effect of AmB was enhanced in the absence of external calcium. Furthermore, A23187 a Ca2+ ionophore did not provoke cell permeabilization to EB.
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- B E Cohen
- Centro de Biología Celular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
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Michelangeli F, Ruiz MC, Fernández E, Ciarrocchi A. Role of Ca2+ in H+ transport by rabbit gastric glands studied with A23187 and BAPTA, an incorporated Ca2+ chelator. Biochim Biophys Acta 1989; 983:82-90. [PMID: 2503036 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(89)90383-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The role of Ca2+ in stimulation of H+ gastric secretion by cAMP-dependent and -independent secretagogues was studied in isolated rabbit glands using Ca2+ ionophore, A23187, and an intracellular Ca2+ chelator (BAPTA, 1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid) incorporated as its acetoxymethyl ester (BAPTA-AM). Acetylcholine (ACh), tetragastrin (TG), histamine and forskolin induced a transitory increase of intracellular Ca2+ concentration, [Ca2+]i, measured in gastric glands loaded with Ca2+-sensitive dye fura-2, and provoked an acid secretory response evaluated with aminopyrine accumulation ratio (AP ratio). The Ca2+-ionophore A23187 also induced an increase in [Ca2+]i and in AP ratio. cAMP-dependent secretagogues were more potent stimulants of acid secretion than cAMP-independent secretagogues. cAMP analogue, 8-bromo-adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (8-BR-cAMP) induced an increase in AP ratio without modifying [Ca2+]i. BAPTA-AM (5-25 microM) induced a transient decrease of resting [Ca2+]i which returned to basal level due to extracellular Ca2+ entry. Increases in [Ca2+]i produced by ACh and TG were abolished by BAPTA and those produced by Ca2+ ionophore A23187 were partially buffered. BAPTA inhibited in a dose-dependent manner H+ secretion induced by cholinergic and gastrinergic stimulants in the presence of cimetidine. A23187 increased the AP ratio to values similar to those obtained with ACh or TG and was not inhibited by BAPTA. BAPTA partially inhibited (40%) the increase in AP ratio induced by forskolin and histamine inspite of the complete inhibition of the Ca2+ response. BAPTA did not inhibit the response to 8-BR-cAMP. BAPTA inhibition of forskolin stimulation was reversed by A23187 and the response was potentiated. These results indicate that ACh and TG response are completely dependent on an increase of [Ca2+]i. The response to cAMP-dependent agonists histamine and forskolin depend both on Ca2+ and cAMP. For forskolin stimulation the response may be the result of a potentiation between Ca2+ and cAMP.
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- F Michelangeli
- Centro de Biofisica y Bioquimica, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas, Venezuela
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González JA, Aparcero M, González VR, Ruiz MC. [Clinical significance of juxtapapillary duodenal diverticula]. G E N 1988; 42:91-4. [PMID: 3152679] [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: 01/04/2023]
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Michelangeli F, Ruiz MC, Rodríguez CL, Pelacca A. Somatostatin inhibition of secretagogue and forskolin-stimulated gastric acid secretion. Am J Physiol 1988; 254:G531-7. [PMID: 2895587 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.1988.254.4.g531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The action of somatostatin (SS) on acid secretion and histamine release was studied in isolated gastric mucosa of toads mounted in Ussing chambers. SS inhibited H+ secretion and histamine release stimulated by cholinergic and gastrinergic secretagogues. Exogenous histamine stimulation of H+ secretion was blocked noncompetitively by SS in a dose-dependent manner. In mucosae maximally stimulated by histamine or forskolin and cimetidine, acetylcholine (ACh) and tetragastrin (TG) induced a direct stimulation of the oxyntopeptic cell not inhibited by SS. Indomethacin, an inhibitor of prostaglandin synthesis, did not prevent SS inhibition of histamine stimulation. Pretreatment with SS abolished forskolin stimulation of H+ secretion. SS induced a small inhibition of the stimulatory effect of N6, 2'-O-dibutyryladenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate. These results suggest that SS inhibits acid secretion stimulated by secretagogues through different mechanisms: 1) inhibition of histamine release by ACh and TG, 2) inhibition of endogenous and exogenous histamine stimulation through a blockade of adenylate cyclase, and 3) an inhibitory effect subsequent to the synthesis of adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate. The direct activation of the oxyntopeptic cell by ACh and TG does not seem to be affected by somatostatin.
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- F Michelangeli
- Laboratorio de Fisiología Gastro-Intestinal, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela
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