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The field of psychoimmunology has rapidly expanded in recent years and various parameters of the immune system have been examined in relation to psychological factors. The secretory immune system is one of the more interesting aspects of the entire immune system because it protects mucosal membranes from invading organisms. Stress-produced changes in secretory immunoglobulin A (s-IgA) as measured by radial immunodiffusion assays have been reported in several studies. We present three reasons why total s-IgA protein, the measure derived from radial immunodiffusion assays, may not be a reasonable measure of immune system functioning, and we suggest an alternative method for examining secretory IgA that focuses on s-IgA antibody response to a novel antigen. 相似文献
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Daniel E. Gomez Jacqueline L. Hartzler Robert H. Corbitt Alexander M. Nason Unnur P. Thorgeirsson 《In vitro cellular & developmental biology. Animal》1993,29(6):451-455
Summary We describe a fast and reproducible method that can be used as a final step in obtaining pure populations of liver endothelial
cells. This method employs endothelial cell specific lectin covalently bound to magnetic polystyrene beads (Dynabeads). Evonymus
europaeus agglutinin (EEA)-coated Dynabeads were used to purify monkey liver endothelium from Percoll gradient separated nonparenchymal
cells. EEA-coated beads were also successfully used to purify monkey aortic endothelial cells. The endothelial cells grew
to confluence as a cobblestonelike monolayer, expressed Factor VIII related antigen, and incorporated acetylated-low density
lipoprotein. The magnetic beads seemed not to modify the normal properties of the isolated endothelium, thus facilitating
their use in experimental studies. This immunomagnetic separation technique may be applicable for purification of endothelial
cells from a wide variety of tissue sources. 相似文献
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David W. Cottam Robert H. Corbitt Daniel E. Gomez Robert C. Rees Unnur P. Thorgeirsson 《Journal of cellular biochemistry》1996,60(1):148-160
Polarized secretion of matrix metalloproteinases and plasminogen activators by monkey aortic endothelial cells was studied in vitro, using transwell inserts. The endothelial cells constitutively expressed matrix metalloproteinase-2, tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases 1 and 2, urokinase, and tissue plasminogen activator, all with basal preference. Matrix metalloproteinase-9 activity was induced by phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (apical), interleukin-1α (basal), and by conditioned medium from DX3 human melanoma cells (basal). The DX3 melanoma conditioned medium also stimulated basal secretion of matrix metalloproteinase-2, urokinase, tissue plasminogen activator, and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases. The rise in proteolytic activity in the basal direction was reflected by increased capacity to degrade subendothelial basement membrane type IV collagen, shown immunohistologically, using monkey kidney tissue sections and basement membrane deposited by endothelial cells into the transwell membrane. Thus, IL-1α and DX3 melanoma conditioned medium can stimulate endothelial cells in vitro to concentrate secretion of proteinases spatially onto the underlying basement membrane. We suggest that the stimulation of endothelial cell proteinase activity by tumor cells may facilitate tumor cell extravasation. © 1996 Wiley-Liss, Inc. 1 This article is a US Government work and, as such, is in the public domain in the United States of America. 相似文献
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Kiryluk K Li Y Sanna-Cherchi S Rohanizadegan M Suzuki H Eitner F Snyder HJ Choi M Hou P Scolari F Izzi C Gigante M Gesualdo L Savoldi S Amoroso A Cusi D Zamboli P Julian BA Novak J Wyatt RJ Mucha K Perola M Kristiansson K Viktorin A Magnusson PK Thorleifsson G Thorsteinsdottir U Stefansson K Boland A Metzger M Thibaudin L Wanner C Jager KJ Goto S Maixnerova D Karnib HH Nagy J Panzer U Xie J Chen N Tesar V Narita I Berthoux F Floege J Stengel B Zhang H Lifton RP Gharavi AG 《PLoS genetics》2012,8(6):e1002765
IgA nephropathy (IgAN), major cause of kidney failure worldwide, is common in Asians, moderately prevalent in Europeans, and rare in Africans. It is not known if these differences represent variation in genes, environment, or ascertainment. In a recent GWAS, we localized five IgAN susceptibility loci on Chr.6p21 (HLA-DQB1/DRB1, PSMB9/TAP1, and DPA1/DPB2 loci), Chr.1q32 (CFHR3/R1 locus), and Chr.22q12 (HORMAD2 locus). These IgAN loci are associated with risk of other immune-mediated disorders such as type I diabetes, multiple sclerosis, or inflammatory bowel disease. We tested association of these loci in eight new independent cohorts of Asian, European, and African-American ancestry (N = 4,789), followed by meta-analysis with risk-score modeling in 12 cohorts (N = 10,755) and geospatial analysis in 85 world populations. Four susceptibility loci robustly replicated and all five loci were genome-wide significant in the combined cohort (P = 5×10−32–3×10−10), with heterogeneity detected only at the PSMB9/TAP1 locus (I2 = 0.60). Conditional analyses identified two new independent risk alleles within the HLA-DQB1/DRB1 locus, defining multiple risk and protective haplotypes within this interval. We also detected a significant genetic interaction, whereby the odds ratio for the HORMAD2 protective allele was reversed in homozygotes for a CFHR3/R1 deletion (P = 2.5×10−4). A seven–SNP genetic risk score, which explained 4.7% of overall IgAN risk, increased sharply with Eastward and Northward distance from Africa (r = 0.30, P = 3×10−128). This model paralleled the known East–West gradient in disease risk. Moreover, the prediction of a South–North axis was confirmed by registry data showing that the prevalence of IgAN–attributable kidney failure is increased in Northern Europe, similar to multiple sclerosis and type I diabetes. Variation at IgAN susceptibility loci correlates with differences in disease prevalence among world populations. These findings inform genetic, biological, and epidemiological investigations of IgAN and permit cross-comparison with other complex traits that share genetic risk loci and geographic patterns with IgAN. 相似文献
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Daniel F. Gudbjartsson Hilma Holm Olafur S. Indridason Gudmar Thorleifsson Vidar Edvardsson Patrick Sulem Femmie de Vegt Frank C. H. d'Ancona Martin den Heijer Leifur Franzson Thorunn Rafnar Kristleifur Kristjansson Unnur S. Bjornsdottir Gudmundur I. Eyjolfsson Lambertus A. Kiemeney Augustine Kong Runolfur Palsson Unnur Thorsteinsdottir Kari Stefansson 《PLoS genetics》2010,6(7)
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a worldwide public health problem that is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. To search for sequence variants that associate with CKD, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) that included a total of 3,203 Icelandic cases and 38,782 controls. We observed an association between CKD and a variant with 80% population frequency, rs4293393-T, positioned next to the UMOD gene (GeneID: 7369) on chromosome 16p12 (OR = 1.25, P = 4.1×10−10). This gene encodes uromodulin (Tamm-Horsfall protein), the most abundant protein in mammalian urine. The variant also associates significantly with serum creatinine concentration (SCr) in Icelandic subjects (N = 24,635, P = 1.3×10−23) but not in a smaller set of healthy Dutch controls (N = 1,819, P = 0.39). Our findings validate the association between the UMOD variant and both CKD and SCr recently discovered in a large GWAS. In the Icelandic dataset, we demonstrate that the effect on SCr increases substantially with both age (P = 3.0×10−17) and number of comorbid diseases (P = 0.008). The association with CKD is also stronger in the older age groups. These results suggest that the UMOD variant may influence the adaptation of the kidney to age-related risk factors of kidney disease such as hypertension and diabetes. The variant also associates with serum urea (P = 1.0×10−6), uric acid (P = 0.0064), and suggestively with gout. In contrast to CKD, the UMOD variant confers protection against kidney stones when studied in 3,617 Icelandic and Dutch kidney stone cases and 43,201 controls (OR = 0.88, P = 5.7×10−5). 相似文献
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Helgason A Pálsson S Lalueza-Fox C Ghosh S Sigurdardóttir S Baker A Hrafnkelsson B Arnadóttir L Thorsteinsdóttir U Stefánsson K 《Journal of molecular evolution》2007,65(1):92-102
One of the key problems in the study of ancient DNA is that of authenticating sequences obtained from PCR amplifications of
highly degraded samples. Contamination of ancient samples and postmortem damage to endogenous DNA templates are the major
obstacles facing researchers in this task. In particular, the authentication of sequences obtained from ancient human remains
is thought by many to be rather challenging. We propose a novel approach, based on the c statistic, that can be employed to help identify the sequence motif of an endogenous template, based on a sample of sequences
that reflect the nucleotide composition of individual template molecules obtained from ancient tissues (such as cloned products
from a PCR amplification). The c statistic exploits as information the most common form of postmortem damage observed among clone sequences in ancient DNA
studies, namely, lesion-induced substitutions caused by cytosine deamination events. Analyses of simulated sets of templates
with miscoding lesions and real sets of clone sequences from the literature indicate that the c-based approach is highly effective in identifying endogenous sequence motifs, even when they are not present among the sampled
clones. The proposed approach is likely to be of general use to researchers working with DNA from ancient tissues, particularly
from human remains, where authentication of results has been most challenging.
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Gudrun Valdimarsdottir Marie-José Goumans Fumiko Itoh Susumu Itoh Carl-Henrik Heldin Peter ten Dijke 《BMC cell biology》2006,7(1):16-11
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In endothelial cells (EC), transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) can bind to and transduce signals through ALK1 and ALK5. The TGF-β/ALK5 and TGF-β/ALK1 pathways have opposite effects on EC behaviour. Besides differential receptor binding, the duration of TGF-β signaling is an important specificity determinant for signaling responses. TGF-β/ALK1-induced Smad1/5 phosphorylation in ECs occurs transiently. 相似文献9.
The Oncoprotein E2A-Pbx1a Collaborates with Hoxa9 To Acutely Transform Primary Bone Marrow Cells 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5 下载免费PDF全文
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir Jana Krosl Evert Kroon Andr Haman Trang Hoang Guy Sauvageau 《Molecular and cellular biology》1999,19(9):6355-6366
A recurrent translocation between chromosome 1 (Pbx1) and 19 (E2A) leading to the expression of the E2A-Pbx1 fusion oncoprotein occurs in approximately 5 to 10% of acute leukemias in humans. It has been proposed that some of the oncogenic potential of E2A-Pbx1 could be mediated through heterocomplex formation with Hox proteins, which are also involved in human and mouse leukemias. To directly test this possibility, mouse bone marrow cells were engineered by retroviral gene transfer to overexpress E2A-Pbx1a together with Hoxa9. The results obtained demonstrated a strong synergistic interaction between E2A-Pbx1a and Hoxa9 in inducing growth factor-independent proliferation of transduced bone marrow cells in vitro and leukemic growth in vivo in only 39 +/- 2 days. The leukemic blasts which coexpress E2A-Pbx1a and Hoxa9 showed little differentiation and produced cytokines such as interleukin-3, granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, and Steel. Together, these studies demonstrate that the Hoxa9 and E2A-Pbx1a gene products collaborate to produce a highly aggressive acute leukemic disease. 相似文献
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Unnur Valdimarsdóttir Christina M Hultman Bernard Harlow Sven Cnattingius P?r Sparén 《PLoS medicine》2009,6(2)