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In this study we describe the sociodemographic characteristics of people participating in a clinical trial on the safety and immunogenicity of a H5N1 influenza vaccine and we identify the main motivations for joining it. 相似文献
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Background
The Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) is a widely used paradigm to study cooperation in evolutionary biology, as well as in fields as diverse as moral philosophy, sociology, economics and politics. Players are typically assumed to have fixed payoffs for adopting certain strategies, which depend only on the strategy played by the opponent. However, fixed payoffs are not realistic in nature. Utility functions and the associated payoffs from pursuing certain strategies vary among members of a population with numerous factors. In biology such factors include size, age, social status and expected life span; in economics they include socio-economic status, personal preference and past experience; and in politics they include ideology, political interests and public support. Thus, no outcome is identical for any two different players. 相似文献13.
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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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Mandy Sowa Kai Grossmann Ilka Knütter Rico Hiemann Nadja R?ber Ursula Anderer Elena Csernok Dimitrios P. Bogdanos Maria Orietta Borghi Pier Luigi Meroni Peter Schierack Dirk Reinhold Karsten Conrad Dirk Roggenbuck 《PloS one》2014,9(9)
Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) are the serological hallmark of small vessel vasculitis, so called ANCA-associated vasculitis. The international consensus requires testing by indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) on human ethanol-fixed neutrophils (ethN) as screening followed by confirmation with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs). This study evaluates the combination of cell- and microbead-based digital IIF analysis of ANCA in one reaction environment by the novel multiplexing CytoBead technology for simultaneous screening and confirmatory ANCA testing. Sera of 592 individuals including 118 patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis, 133 with rheumatoid arthritis, 49 with infectious diseases, 77 with inflammatory bowel syndrome, 20 with autoimmune liver diseases, 70 with primary sclerosing cholangitis and 125 blood donors were tested for cytoplasmic ANCA (C-ANCA) and perinuclear ANCA (P-ANCA) by classical IIF and ANCA to proteinase 3 (PR3) and myeloperoxidase (MPO) by ELISA. These findings were compared to respective ANCA results determined by automated multiplex CytoBead technology using ethN and antigen-coated microbeads for microbead immunoassays. There was a good agreement for PR3- and MPO-ANCA and a very good one for P-ANCA and C-ANCA by classical and multiplex analysis (Cohen''s kappa [κ] = 0.775, 0.720, 0.876, 0.820, respectively). The differences between classical testing and CytoBead analysis were not significant for PR3-ANCA, P-ANCA, and C-ANCA (p<0.05, respectively). The prevalence of confirmed positive ANCA findings by classical testing (IIF and ELISA) compared with multiplex CytoBead analysis (IIF and microbead immunoassay positive) resulted in a very good agreement (κ = 0.831) with no significant difference of both methods (p = 0.735). Automated endpoint-ANCA titer detection in one dilution demonstrated a very good agreement with classical analysis requiring dilution of samples (κ = 0.985). Multiplexing by CytoBead technology can be employed for simultaneous screening and quantitative confirmation of ANCA. This novel technique provides fast and cost-effective ANCA analysis by automated digital IIF for the first time. 相似文献
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Smyk DS Rigopoulou EI Lleo A Abeles RD Mavropoulos A Billinis C Invernizzi P Bogdanos DP 《Immunity & ageing : I & A》2011,8(1):1-13
Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a cholestatic liver disease characterised by the autoimmune destruction of the small intrahepatic bile ducts. The disease has an unpredictable clinical course, but may progress to fibrosis and cirrhosis. Although medical treatment with urseodeoxycholic acid is largely successful, some patients may progress to liver failure requiring liver transplantation. PBC is characterised by the presence of disease specific anti-mitochondrial (AMA) antibodies, which are pathognomonic for PBC development. The disease demonstrates an overwhelming female preponderance and virtually all women with PBC present in middle age. The reasons for this are unknown; however several environmental and immunological factors may be involved. As the immune systems ages, it become less self tolerant, and mounts a weaker response to pathogens, possibly leading to cross reactivity or molecular mimicry. Some individuals display immunological changes which encourage the development of autoimmune disease. Risk factors implicated in PBC include recurrent urinary tract infection in females, as well as an increased prevalence of reproductive complications. These risk factors may work in concert with and possibly even accelerate, immune system ageing, contributing to PBC development. This review will examine the changes that occur in the immune system with ageing, paying particular attention to those changes which contribute to the development of autoimmune disease with increasing age. The review also discusses risk factors which may account for the increased female predominance of PBC, such as recurrent UTI and oestrogens. 相似文献
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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20.