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Debbabi H Ghosh S Kamath AB Alt J Demello DE Dunsmore S Behar SM 《American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology》2005,289(2):L274-L279
Type II alveolar epithelial cells (AEC) can produce various antimicrobial and proinflammatory effector molecules. This, together with their abundance and strategic location, suggests a role in host defense against pulmonary pathogens. We report that murine type II AEC, like their human counterparts, express class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC). Using a murine model of pulmonary tuberculosis, we find that type II AEC become activated and have increased cell surface expression of class II MHC, CD54, and CD95 following infection. Type II AEC use the class II MHC pathway to process and present mycobacterial antigens to immune CD4+ T cells isolated from mice infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Therefore, not only can type II AEC contribute to the pulmonary immunity by secreting chemokines that recruit inflammatory cells to the lung, but they can also serve as antigen-presenting cells. Although type II AEC are unlikely to prime na?ve T cells, their ability to present antigens to T cells demonstrates that they can participate in the effector phase of the immune response. This represents a novel role for type II AEC in the immunological response to pulmonary pathogens. 相似文献
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Sébastien Kicka Valentin Trofimov Christopher Harrison Hajer Ouertatani-Sakouhi John McKinney Leonardo Scapozza Hubert Hilbi Pierre Cosson Thierry Soldati 《PloS one》2014,9(1)
Tuberculosis is considered to be one of the world’s deadliest disease with 2 million deaths each year. The need for new antitubercular drugs is further exacerbated by the emergence of drug-resistance strains. Despite multiple recent efforts, the majority of the hits discovered by traditional target-based screening showed low efficiency in vivo. Therefore, there is heightened demand for whole-cell based approaches directly using host-pathogen systems. The phenotypic host-pathogen assay described here is based on the monitoring of GFP-expressing Mycobacterium marinum during infection of the amoeba Acanthamoeba castellanii. The assay showed straight-forward medium-throughput scalability, robustness and ease of manipulation, demonstrating its qualities as an efficient compound screening system. Validation with a series of known antitubercular compounds highlighted the advantages of the assay in comparison to previously published macrophage-Mycobacterium tuberculosis-based screening systems. Combination with secondary growth assays based on either GFP-expressing D. discoideum or M. marinum allowed us to further fine-tune compound characterization by distinguishing and quantifying growth inhibition, cytotoxic properties and antibiotic activities of the compounds. The simple and relatively low cost system described here is most suitable to detect anti-infective compounds, whether they present antibiotic activities or not, in which case they might exert anti-virulence or host defense boosting activities, both of which are largely overlooked by classical screening approaches. 相似文献
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Rym Berhouma Soumaya Kouidhi Myriam Ammar Hafawa Abid Hajer Ennafaa Amel Benammar-Elgaaied 《Biochemical genetics》2013,51(3-4):256-263
Our study aimed to analyze whether the expression of PPARγ mRNA in subcutaneous adipocyte tissue correlates with Pro12Ala PPARγ2 polymorphism in the obesity context. We found that mRNA expression of PPARγ in subcutaneous adipose tissue was greater in obese subjects (P < 0.05) than in the nonobese control group. Concurrently, genotyping of the Pro12Ala polymorphism showed that obese subjects possess a significantly higher frequency of the Pro/Pro genotype than nonobese controls (90.5 vs 79.5%; P = 0.03), suggesting that this genotype is involved in an increased risk of obesity in the Tunisian population. Taken together, our results demonstrate that the Pro12 allele is accompanied by an overexpression of PPARγ mRNA in subcutaneous adipocyte tissue, suggesting that the PPARγ Pro12Ala variant may contribute to the observed variability in PPARγ mRNA expression and consequently in body mass index and insulin sensitivity in the general population. 相似文献
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Hajer Khemaissia Raja Jelassi Catherine Souty‐Grosset Karima Nasri‐Ammar 《African Journal of Ecology》2013,51(2):348-357
In Tunisia, while wetlands are considered as remarkable habitats for their faunal and floral diversity, few studies on the species diversity of terrestrial isopods were performed. To fill this gap, the spatio‐temporal distribution of Oniscidea at Ghar El Melh lagoon (north‐east of Tunisia) was analysed. Sampling was carried out with 50 × 50 cm quadrats along a perpendicular transect to the shoreline. Nine species of terrestrial isopods belonging to seven genera were identified. Chaetophiloscia elongata Dollfus, 1884 was the most abundant species in all seasons except for summer; its relative abundance ranged from 38.9% to 77% in summer and autumn, respectively. Hill diversity indices ranged from 0.86 to 0.94 and equitability indices from 0.33 and 0.68. The statistical analysis showed a significant difference of isopod species and plant associations among seasons. 相似文献
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Madjid Atek Pierre Traissac Jalila El Ati Youcef Laid Hajer Aounallah-Skhiri Sabrina Eymard-Duvernay Nadia Mézimèche Souha Bougatef Chiraz Béji Leila Boutekdjiret Yves Martin-Prével Hassiba Lebcir Agnès Gartner Patrick Kolsteren Francis Delpeuch Habiba Ben Romdhane Bernard Maire 《PloS one》2013,8(10)
Introduction
The epidemiological transition has resulted in a major increase in the prevalence of obesity in North Africa. This study investigated differences in obesity and its association with area of residence, gender and socio-economic position among adults in Algeria and Tunisia, two countries with socio-economic and socio-cultural similarities.Methods
Cross-sectional studies used stratified, three-level, clustered samples of 35–70 year old adults in Algeria, (women n = 2741, men n = 2004) and Tunisia (women n = 2964, men n = 2379). Thinness was defined as Body Mass Index (BMI) = weight/height <18.5 kg/m2, obesity as BMI ≥30, and abdominal obesity as waist circumference/height ≥0.6. Associations with area of residence, gender, age, education, profession and household welfare were assessed.Results
Prevalence of thinness was very low except among men in Algeria (7.3% C.I.[5.9–8.7]). Prevalence of obesity among women was high in Algeria (30.1% C.I.[27.8–32.4]) and Tunisia (37.0% C.I.[34.4–39.6]). It was less so among men (9.1% C.I.[7.1–11.0] and 13.3% C.I.[11.2–15.4]).The results were similar for abdominal obesity. In both countries women were much more obesity-prone than men: the women versus men obesity Odds-Ratio was 4.3 C.I.[3.4–5.5] in Algeria and 3.8 C.I.[3.1–4.7] in Tunisia. Obesity was more prevalent in urban versus rural areas in Tunisia, but not in Algeria (e.g. for women, urban versus rural Odds-Ratio was 2.4 C.I.[1.9–3.1] in Tunisia and only 1.2 C.I.[1.0–5.5] in Algeria). Obesity increased with household welfare, but more markedly in Tunisia, especially among women. Nevertheless, in both countries, even in the lowest quintile of welfare, a fifth of the women were obese.Conclusion
The prevention of obesity, especially in women, is a public health issue in both countries, but there were differences in the patterning of obesity according to area of residence and socio-economic position. These specificities must be taken into account in the management of obesity inequalities. 相似文献27.
Hajer Regaieg Aurelio Ciancio Najet Horrigue Raouani Laura Rosso 《World journal of microbiology & biotechnology》2011,27(7):1615-1623
Three isolates of Verticillium leptobactrum proceeding from egg masses of root-knot nematodes (RKN) Meloidogyne spp. and soil samples collected in Tunisia were evaluated against second-stage juveniles (J2) and eggs of M. incognita, to determine the fungus biocontrol potential. In vitro tests showed that V. leptobactrum is an efficient nematode parasite. The fungus also colonized egg masses and parasitized hatching J2. In a greenhouse assay
with tomato plants parasitized by M. incognita and M. javanica, V. leptobactrum was compared with isolates of Pochonia chlamydosporia and Monacrosporium sp., introducing the propagules into nematode-free or naturally infested soils. The V. leptobactrum isolates were active in RKN biocontrol, improving plants growth with a significant increase of tomato roots length, lower
J2 numbers in soil or egg masses, as well as higher egg mortalities. In a second assay with M. javanica, treatments with three V. leptobactrum isolates reduced egg masses on roots as well as the density of J2 and the number of galls. To evaluate the fungus capability
to colonize egg masses a nested Real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay, based on a molecular beacon probe was used
to assess its presence. The probe was designed on a V. leptobactrum ITS region, previously sequenced. This method allowed detection of V. leptobactrum from egg masses, allowing quantitative DNA and fungal biomass estimations. 相似文献
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Cherni L Frigi S Ennafaa H Mtiraoui N Mahjoub T Benammar-Elgaaied A 《Human biology; an international record of research》2011,83(5):611-626
Several features make Alu insertions a powerful tool used in population genetic studies: the polymorphic nature of many Alu insertions, the stability of an Alu insertion event and, furthermore, the ancestral state of an Alu insertion is known to be the absence of the Alu element at a particular locus and the presence of an Alu insertion at the site that forward mutational change. This study analyses seven Alu insertion polymorphisms in a sample of 297 individuals from the autochthonous population of Tunisia (Thala, Smar, Zarzis, and Bou Salem) and Libya with the aim of studying their genetic structure with respect to the populations of North Africa, Western, Eastern and Central Europe. The comparative analyses carried out using the MDS and AMOVA methods reveal the existence of spatial heterogeneity, and identify four population groups. Study populations (Libya, Smar, Zarzis, and Bou Salem) are closest to North African populations whereas Thala is isolated and is closest to Western European populations. In conclusion, Results of the present study support the important role that migratory movements have played in the North African gene pool, at least since the Neolithic period. 相似文献
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Radhouani H Igrejas G Carvalho C Pinto L Gonçalves A Lopez M Sargo R Cardoso L Martinho A Rego V Rodrigues R Torres C Poeta P 《Journal of wildlife diseases》2011,47(3):769-773
Fourteen vanA-containing enterococcal isolates were detected in seven of 52 fecal samples (13.5%) from free-ranging red foxes in Portugal. Nine of the vanA-containing isolates were Enterococcus faecium and five were E. durans. Both sequence types, ST262 and ST273, were identified among E. faecium isolates. 相似文献
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Hajer Ben Saad Imen Nasri Awatef Elwej Najeh Krayem Raoudha Jarraya Choumous Kallel Najiba Zeghal Ibtissem Ben Amara 《Biological trace element research》2014,160(1):85-96
The present study was carried out to investigate potassium bromate toxicity in mice and the corrective effects of marine algae Alsidium corallinum. The red algae demonstrated its rich composition in phenols, triterpenes, flavonoids, alkaloids, tropolones, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, and zinc. To confirm its antioxidant potential, an in vivo study was performed on adult mice. The animals were divided into four groups: group I were used as controls, group II received potassium bromate (0.5 g/L) via drinking water, group III received potassium bromate (0.5 g/L) by the same route as group II and 7 % of A. corallinum ethanolic extract via their diet, and group IV received only 7 % of algae. The potassium bromate-treated group showed a significant decrease in erythrocyte, platelet, hemoglobin, and hematocrit values and a significant increase in total white blood cells, compared to those of controls. While, superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione, and vitamin C values were decreased by potassium bromate treatment, lipid peroxidation (as malondialdehyde) and erythrocyte osmotic fragility values were increased. Interestingly, potassium bromate treatment showed significant genotoxic effects, as demonstrated by DNA degradation. These changes were confirmed by blood smears histopathological observations which were marked by a necrosis and a decrease of erythrocytes number. A. corallinum extract appeared to be effective against hematotoxic and genotoxic changes induced by potassium bromate, as evidenced by the improvement of the parameters cited above. 相似文献