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V?Srinivasan GJM?Maestroni DP?Cardinali AI?Esquifino SR?Pandi?Perumal SC?MillerEmail author 《Immunity & ageing : I & A》2005,2(1):17
Aging is associated with a decline in immune function (immunosenescence), a situation known to correlate with increased incidence
of cancer, infectious and degenerative diseases. Innate, cellular and humoral immunity all exhibit increased deterioration
with age. A decrease in functional competence of individual natural killer (NK) cells is found with advancing age. Macrophages
and granulocytes show functional decline in aging as evidenced by their diminished phagocytic activity and impairment of superoxide
generation. There is also marked shift in cytokine profile as age advances, e.g., CD3+ and CD4+ cells decline in number whereas
CD8+ cells increase in elderly individuals. A decline in organ specific antibodies occurs causing reduced humoral responsiveness.
Circulating melatonin decreases with age and in recent years much interest has been focused on its immunomodulatory effect.
Melatonin stimulates the production of progenitor cells for granulocytes-macrophages. It also stimulates the production of
NK cells and CD4+ cells and inhibits CD8+ cells. The production and release of various cytokines from NK cells and T-helper
lymphocytes also are enhanced by melatonin. Melatonin presumably regulates immune function by acting on the immune-opioid
network, by affecting G protein-cAMP signal pathway and by regulating intracellular glutathione levels. Melatonin has the
potential therapeutic value to enhance immune function in aged individuals and in patients in an immunocompromised state. 相似文献
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Evolution of the WANCY region in amniote mitochondrial DNA 总被引:7,自引:1,他引:6
In most vertebrate mitochondrial genomes, the site for initiation of
light-strand replication, OL, is found within a cluster of five transfer
RNA (tRNA) genes (tRNA(Trp), tRNA(Ala), tRNA(Asn), tRNA(Cys), and
tRNA(Tyr)). This region and part of the adjacent cytochrome c oxydase
subunit I (COI) gene were sequenced for two crocodilian, two turtle, and
one snake species and for Sphenodon punctatus; part of the adjacent
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide dehydrogenase subunit 2 (ND2) gene was
also sequenced for the crocodilian and turtle species. All had the typical
vertebrate gene order. The turtles and the snake have a lengthy noncoding
sequence between the tRNA(Asn) and tRNA(Cys) genes that we assumed to be
homologous to the mammalian OL. The crocodilians and Sphenodon lack such a
sequence, a condition they share with birds. Most proposed phylogenies for
the amniotes require that OL at this position was lost at least twice
during their diversification or was evolved independently more than once.
Within the five tRNA genes, frequencies of substitutions are much higher in
loops than in stems. Many loops vary dramatically in size among the
species; in the most extreme case, the D-arm of the Sphenodon tRNA(Cys) is
a "D-arm replacement" loop of seven nucleotides. Frequency of transitions
in stems is relatively uniform across tRNAs, but frequency of transversions
varies greatly. Mismatches in stems are infrequent, and their relative
frequency in a specific tRNA is unrelated to the frequency of substitution
in the corresponding gene. Several features of mammalian mitochondrial
tRNAs are conserved in WANCY tRNAs throughout amniotes. The inferred
initiation codon for COI is GTG in crocodilians, turtles, and the snake, a
condition they share with fishes, certain amphibians, and birds. TTG
appears to be the initiation codon for COI in Sphenodon; if correct, this
would be a novel initiation codon for vertebrate mitochondrial DNA.
Phylogenetic analyses of the inferred amino acid sequences of ND2 and COI
support the sister-group relationship of birds and crocodilians and suggest
that mammals are an early derived lineage within the amniotes.
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Novel clinical in vivo roles for indigo carmine: high-magnification chromoscopic colonoscopy 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Since the adenoma-carcinoma sequence was first proposed by Morson in the 1970s, it has become widely accepted that detection and subsequent removal of polypoid adenomas from the colon reduces the incidence of colorectal cancer. These adenomas are relatively easy to detect by conventional colonoscopy; however, large population studies have shown that despite resection of polypoid adenomas, interval colorectal cancers still occurred. Recent advances in technology have given today's endoscopists access to high-resolution and high-magnification scopes, which has facilitated detection of flat and depressed colorectal lesions. Current data suggest that such morphologically distinct lesions may account for up to 30% of all colorectal adenomas. Furthermore, flat and depressed lesions of the large bowel may confer greater malignant potential compared to polypoid adenomas. The majority of flat lesions show only subtle changes by conventional colonoscopy, but the use of stains, such as indigocarmine, in addition to magnification colonoscopy can enhance their detection significantly. In this paper, we discuss the rationale for detecting flat colorectal lesions. We explore the use of high-magnification colonoscopy and chromoendoscopy, with particular reference to the application of indigocarmine, in this patient group. We also discuss the novel therapeutic techniques now available for these lesions. 相似文献
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S Chhabra R Narang LR Krishnan S Vasisht DP Agarwal LM Srivastava SC Manchanda N Das 《BMC genetics》2002,3(1):9-6
Background
A close association between Sst I polymorphism in the 3' untranslated region of the apolipoproteinC3 (APOC3 ) gene and levels of plasma triglycerides (TG) had been reported by different investigators. Hypertriglyceridemia(HTG) is a known risk factor for coronary artery disease (CAD) in the context of Asian Indians. We conducted a study on the relationship between APOC3 SstI polymorphism (S1S1, S1S2 and S2S2 genotypes) and plasma TG levels in a group of 139 male healthy volunteers from Northern India. 相似文献15.
Overexpression of human mitochondrial valyl tRNA synthetase can partially restore levels of cognate mt-tRNAVal carrying the pathogenic C25U mutation
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Rorbach J Yusoff AA Tuppen H Abg-Kamaludin DP Chrzanowska-Lightowlers ZM Taylor RW Turnbull DM McFarland R Lightowlers RN 《Nucleic acids research》2008,36(9):3065-3074
Phenotypic diversity associated with pathogenic mutations of the human mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) has often been explained by unequal segregation of the mutated and wild-type genomes (heteroplasmy). However, this simple hypothesis cannot explain the tissue specificity of disorders caused by homoplasmic mtDNA mutations. We have previously associated a homoplasmic point mutation (1624C>T) in MTTV with a profound metabolic disorder that resulted in the neonatal deaths of numerous siblings. Affected tissues harboured a marked biochemical defect in components of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, presumably due to the extremely low (<1%) steady-state levels of mt-tRNAVal. In primary myoblasts and transmitochondrial cybrids established from the proband (index case) and offspring, the marked respiratory deficiency was lost and steady-state levels of the mutated mt-tRNAVal were greater than in the biopsy material, but were still an order of magnitude lower than in control myoblasts. We present evidence that the generalized decrease in steady-state mt-tRNAVal observed in the homoplasmic 1624C>T-cell lines is caused by a rapid degradation of the deacylated form of the abnormal mt-tRNAVal. By both establishing the identity of the human mitochondrial valyl-tRNA synthetase then inducing its overexpression in transmitochondrial cell lines, we have been able to partially restore steady-state levels of the mutated mt-tRNAVal, consistent with an increased stability of the charged mt-tRNA. These data indicate that variations in the levels of VARS2L between tissue types and patients could underlie the difference in clinical presentation between individuals homoplasmic for the 1624C>T mutation. 相似文献
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The Mfolozi–Msunduzi estuarine system is subject to periodic dry and wet cycles, with subsequent changes in the abiotic and biotic characteristics of the system. The aim of the current study was to compare its mesozooplankton composition during relatively dry and wet periods. Mesozooplankton samples were collected between 2007 and 2010 in both the Mfolozi and the Msunduzi, covering a dry period between 2007 and 2008 and a period of relatively high freshwater inputs during 2009 and 2010. High flows during the wet period reduced the densities of most of the dominant estuarine mesozooplankton taxa in the Mfolozi Estuary, such as estuarine calanoids Pseudodiaptomus stuhlmanni (Poppe & Mrázek, 1895) and Acartiella natalensis (Connell & Grindley, 1974). The Msunduzi Estuary functioned as a reservoir from which recolonisation by estuarine taxa would quickly take place after the Mfolozi was scoured by floodwaters. Densities of dominant meroplankton taxa, such as zoeae of the crab Paratylodiplax blephariskios and Macrobrachium spp., were not noticeably different in the Mfolozi–Msunduzi system between the low- and high-flow periods. 相似文献
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Helen I Field Serena A Scollen Craig Luccarini Caroline Baynes Jonathan Morrison Alison M Dunning Douglas F Easton Paul DP Pharoah 《BMC bioinformatics》2009,10(1):180
Background
In moderate-throughput SNP genotyping there was a gap in the workflow, between choosing a set of SNPs and submitting their sequences to proprietary assay design software, which was not met by existing software. Retrieval and formatting of sequences flanking each SNP, prior to assay design, becomes rate-limiting for more than about ten SNPs, especially if annotated for repetitive regions and adjacent variations. We routinely process up to 50 SNPs at once. 相似文献19.
Luísa DP Rona Carlos J Carvalho-Pinto Camila J Mazzoni Alexandre A Peixoto 《BMC evolutionary biology》2010,10(1):91
Background
Anopheles cruzii is the primary human Plasmodium vector in southern and southeastern Brazil. The distribution of this mosquito follows the coast of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Previous studies indicated that An. cruzii is a complex of cryptic species. 相似文献20.