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M. Artico E. Bronzetti V. Alicino B. Ionta S. Bosco C. Grande M. Bruno F. M. Tranquilli Leali G. Ionta L. Fumagalli 《European journal of histochemistry : EJH》2010,54(1)
Gallbladder carcinoma is the most common biliary tract tumor and the fifth most common gastrointestinal tract cancer. The prognosis of gallbladder carcinoma is poor and less than 5% of the patients are still alive five years postoperatively. Gallbladder specimens were obtained during surgical operations performed in eleven patients for resection of a gallbladder carcinoma, and during five autopsies (control cases selected among patients who died from for other causes, excluding those suffering from biliary or hepatic diseases). Immunohistochemical characterization and distribution of neurotrophins, with their respective receptors, were analyzed. The actual role played by these neurotrophic factors in the general regulation, vascular permeability, algic responsiveness, release of locally active substances and potential tumorigenesis in the gallbladder and biliary ducts compartment remains controversial. Our study revealed an increased immunohistochemical expression of NGF and TrKA in the epithelium and in the epithelial glands of the gallbladder carcinoma together with an evident immunoreactivity for BDNF in the same neoplastic areas. An evident immunoreactivity for NGF, TrKA and BDNF was observed in control specimens of gallbladder obtained during autopsies, whereas a weak or quite absent immunoreactivity was observed in the same specimens for NT4, TrKC and p75. On the contrary an appreciable immunoreactivity for p75 was observed in the specimens harvested from patients with gallbladder carcinoma. We also investigated the expression of some known tumor markers such as MIB-1 (anti Ki-67), CD34 and CA15-3, to identify a possible correlation between the expression of these molecular factors and the prognosis of gallbladder carcinoma. They resulted highly expressed in the stroma (CD34 and CA 15-3) and in the epithelium/epithelial glands (MIB-1) of the neoplastic areas and appeared to be almost absent in the control cases, suggesting that these markers, taken together, could be adopted as a panel of prognostic factors in the evaluation of the gallbladder carcinoma.Key words: neurotrophins, human biliary ducts, gallbladder, immunohistochemistry, cholangiocarcinoma. 相似文献
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J. Dubcovsky G. Tranquilli I. A. Khan L. A. Pflüger E. Suárez M. Rousset J. Dvorak 《TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik》2000,100(2):308-314
Telosomic stocks have been extensively used to map genes to chromosome arms and to determine gene-to-centromere genetic distances.
It has been suggested that if a chromosome arm is present as a telosome, recombination frequencies will be drastically reduced
in the centromeric region. However, previous studies have not considered the bias in recombination estimates due to selection
against aneuploid gametes produced by failure of pairing at the first meiotic division. Formulas are derived here for adjusting
recombination estimates for this bias. Adjusted recombination frequencies between markers located on both sides of the centromeres
are analyzed in three different pairs of wheat (Triticum aestivum) isogenic segregating populations involving bibrachial and telocentric chromosomes. Recombination frequencies estimated from
crosses involving telocentric chromosomes were not significantly different from recombination frequencies estimated from isogenic
crosses involving bibrachial chromosomes. The implications of the present findings for karyotype evolution, and specifically
for Robertsonian fissions and fusions, are discussed.
Received: 10 March 1999 / Accepted: 17 June 1999 相似文献
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Genetic and physical characterization of grain texture-related loci in diploid wheat 总被引:15,自引:0,他引:15
Tranquilli G Lijavetzky D Muzzi G Dubcovsky J 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1999,262(4-5):846-850
Endosperm texture, i.e. the hardness or softness of the grain, is an important quality criterion in cereals because it determines
many grain end-use properties. Grain softness is the dominant trait and is mainly controlled by the Ha locus on the short arm of chromosome 5D in hexaploid bread wheat. Genes for puroindoline a (Pina-D1), puroindoline b (Pinb-D1), and grain softness related protein (Gsp-D1) have been shown to be linked to the Ha locus in different mapping populations and have been associated with the expression of grain softness. The study of the linkage
relationships among these genes has been limited by the low level of polymorphism in the D genome of hexaploid Triticum aestivum. In the present study, a highly polymorphic Triticum monococcum mapping population was used to analyze linkage relationships among these three genes. Gsp-A
m
1 and Pina-A
m
1 were found to be completely linked and lie 0.14 cM distal to Pinb-A
m
1 in the distal region of the short arm of chromosome 5Am. The tight genetic linkage among these three genes was paralleled by their physical proximity within a single 105-kb clone
isolated from a T. monococcum bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library. A restriction map of this BAC clone showed that Pina-A
m
1 is located between Pinb-A
m
1 and Gsp-A
m
1. Partial sequences of the T. monococcum genes showed a high degree of similarity with their T. aestivum counterparts (≥ 94%). Marker-assisted selection strategies based on the tight linkage among Ha-related genes are discussed.
Received: 27 June 1999 / Accepted: 18 August 1999 相似文献
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Lorenzi T Turi A Crescimanno C Morroni M Castellucci M David G Tranquilli AL Marzioni D 《European journal of histochemistry : EJH》2010,54(4):e42
The syndecan family consists of four distinct membrane glycoproteins in mammals. Syndecans control cell proliferation, differentiation, adhesion and migration through participation in cell-cell interactions, anchorage of cells to the extracellular environment, and modulation of multiple growth factors. Therefore, syndecans may play a pivotal role in the regulation of cell behaviour depending on the cellular microenvironment. Here, we demonstrate that syndecan-1, syndecan-2 and syndecan-4 are expressed in fetal membrane tissue with different immunolocalizations. Syndecan-1 is expressed in the amniotic epithelium, localizing at basolateral cell surfaces. Syndecan-2 and syndecan-4, in contrast, are mostly localized in intracellular compartments, in the extravillous cytotrophoblastic cells and in some fibroblasts of the chorionic plate as well as in the amniotic epithelial cells. In the latter, syndecan-4 is mainly localized in the apical part of the cells. Our results strongly suggest a key role of syndecan-1, syndecan-2 and syndecan-4 in the determination of structural and functional characteristics of human amnion and chorionic plate. Since the solute exchanges between fetus and mother take place in fetal membranes, our data suggest that syndecans are important players in the placenta for the establishment of the fetal-maternal inter-communication. 相似文献
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Piergiorgio Stortoni Monia Cecati Stefano R Giannubilo Davide Sartini Angelo Turi Monica Emanuelli Andrea L Tranquilli 《Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E》2010,8(1):1
Background
Early pregnancy loss can be associated with trophoblast insufficiency and coagulation defects. Thrombomodulin is an endothelial-associated anticoagulant protein involved in the control of hemostasis and inflammation at the vascular beds and it's also a cofactor of the protein C anticoagulant pathway. 相似文献27.
Assaf Distelfeld Gabriela Tranquilli Chengxia Li Liuling Yan Jorge Dubcovsky 《Plant physiology》2009,149(1):245-257
Winter wheat (Triticum spp.) varieties require long exposures to low temperatures to flower, a process called vernalization. The VRN2 locus includes two completely linked zinc finger-CCT domain genes (ZCCT1 and ZCCT2) that act as flowering repressors down-regulated during vernalization. Deletions or mutations in these two genes result in the elimination of the vernalization requirement in diploid wheat (Triticum monococcum). However, natural allelic variation in these genes has not been described so far in polyploid wheat (tetraploid Triticum turgidum and hexaploid Triticum aestivum). A tetraploid wheat population segregating for both VRN-A2 and VRN-B2 loci facilitated the characterization of different alleles. Comparisons between functional and nonfunctional alleles revealed that both ZCCT1 and ZCCT2 genes are able to confer vernalization requirement and that different ZCCT genes are functional in different genomes. ZCCT1 and ZCCT2 proteins from nonfunctional vrn2 alleles have mutations at arginine amino acids at position 16, 35, or 39 of the CCT domain. These positions are conserved between CCT and HEME ACTIVATOR PROTEIN2 (HAP2) proteins, supporting a model in which the action of CCT domains is mediated by their interactions with HAP2/HAP3/HAP5 complexes. This study also revealed natural variation in gene copy number, including a duplication of the functional ZCCT-B2 gene and deletions or duplications of the complete VRN-B2 locus. Allelic variation at the VRN-B2 locus was associated with a partially dominant effect, which suggests that variation in the number of functional ZCCT genes can be used to expand allelic diversity for heading time in polyploid wheat and, hopefully, improve its adaptation to different environments. 相似文献
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Cocco E Sardu C Pieroni E Valentini M Murru R Costa G Tranquilli S Frau J Coghe G Carboni N Floris M Contu P Marrosu MG 《PloS one》2012,7(4):e33972
Introduction
Genetic predisposition to multiple sclerosis (MS) in Sardinia (Italy) has been associated with five DRB1*-DQB1* haplotypes of the human leukocyte antigen (HLA). Given the complexity of these associations, an in-depth re-analysis was performed with the specific aims of confirming the haplotype associations; establishing the independence of the associated haplotypes; and assessing patients'' genotypic risk of developing MS.Methods and Results
A transmission disequilibrium test (TDT) of the DRB1*-DQB1* haplotypes in 943 trio families, confirmed a higher than expected transmission rate (over-transmission) of the *13:03-*03:01 (OR = 2.9, P = 7.6×10−3), *04:05-*03:01 (OR = 2.4, P = 4.4×10−6) and *03:01-*02:01 (OR = 2.1, P = 1.0×10−15) haplotype. In contrast, the *16:01-*05:02 (OR = 0.5, P = 5.4×10−11) and the *15:02-*06:01 (OR = 0.3, P = 1.5×10−3) haplotypes exhibited a lower than expected transmission rate (under-transmission). The independence of the transmission of each positively and negatively associated haplotype was confirmed relative to all positively associated haplotypes, and to the negatively associated *16:01-*05:02 haplotype. In patients, carriage of two predisposing haplotypes, or of protective haplotypes, respectively increased or decreased the patient''s risk of developing MS. The risk of MS followed a multiplicative model of genotypes, which was, in order of decreasing ORs: *04:05-*0301/*03:01-*02:01 (OR = 4.5); *03:01-*02:01/*03:01-*02:01 (OR = 4.1); and the *16:01-*05:02/*16:01-*0502 (OR = 0.2) genotypes. Analysis of DRB1 and DQB1 protein chain residues showed that the Val/Gly residue at position 86 of the DRB1 chain was the only difference between the protective *16:01- *15:02 alleles and the predisposing *15:01 one. Similarly, the Ala/Val residue at position 38 of the DQB1 chain differentiated the positively associated *06:02 allele and the negatively associated *05:02, *06:01 alleles.Conclusions
These findings show that the association of specific, independent DRB1*-DQB1* haplotypes confers susceptibility or resistance to MS in the MS-prone Sardinian population. The data also supports a functional role for specific residues of the DRB1 and DQB1 proteins in predisposing patients to MS. 相似文献29.