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Luiz Claudio Pereira Ribeiro Cassia Cristina Alves Gon?alves Carla Maria Sena Andrade Slater Silvia Maia Farias de Carvalho Marzia Puccioni-Sohler 《Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz》2013,108(6):730-734
Intrathecal synthesis of human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) antibodies
(Abs) represents conclusive evidence of a specific immune response in the
central nervous system of HTLV-1 associated myelopathy/tropical spastic
paraparesis (HAM/TSP) patients. Western blotting (WB) for HTLV Abs in serum is a
confirmatory test for HTLV-1 infection. The aim of this study was to standardise
the Western blot to demonstrate the intrathecal pattern of Abs against HTLV-1
proteins in HAM/TSP patients. Paired cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum samples
were selected from 20 patients with definite HAM/TSP, 19 HTLV-1 seronegative
patients and two HTLV-1 patients without definite HAM/TSP. The presence of
reactive bands of greater intensity in the CSF compared to serum (or bands in
only the CSF) indicated the intrathecal synthesis of anti-HTLV-1 Abs. All
definite HAM/TSP patients presented with an intrathecal synthesis of anti-HTLV-1
Abs; these Abs were not detected in the control patients. The most frequent
intrathecal targets of anti-HTLV-1 Abs were GD21, rgp46-I and p24 and, to a
lesser extent, p19, p26, p28, p32, p36, p53 gp21 and gp46. The intrathecal
immune response against env (GD21 and rgp46-I) and
gag (p24) proteins represents the most important humoral
pattern in HAM/TSP. This response may be used as a diagnostic marker,
considering the frequent association of intrathecal anti-HTLV-1 Ab synthesis
with HAM/TSP and the pathogenesis of this neurological disease. 相似文献
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OBJECTIVE: Periodontoid pseudotumours are lesions of presumed degenerative aetiology which typically occur in elderly patients with cervical myelopathy. The clinical and radiological differential diagnosis includes neoplastic and inflammatory lesions, and the exclusion of such lesions may be of value in the intra-operative management of the patient. This audit aimed to examine the value of intra-operative smear cytology in the management of this condition. METHODS: The intra-operative smear cytological features of four cases of periodontoid pseudotumour were reviewed. RESULTS: In each case the intra-operative cytological interpretation was in keeping with a non-neoplastic and non-inflammatory process. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that intra-operative smear cytology can provide information on the value in the intra-operative management of patients with this lesion. 相似文献
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Henri‐Obadja Kumada Jeffrey‐Tri Nguyen Taeko Kakizawa Koushi Hidaka Tooru Kimura Yoshio Hayashi Yoshiaki Kiso 《Journal of peptide science》2011,17(8):569-575
HTLV‐I is a debilitating and/or lethal retrovirus that causes HTLV‐I‐associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis, adult T‐cell leukemia and several inflammatory diseases. HTLV‐I protease is an aspartic retropepsin involved in HTLV‐I replication and its inhibition could treatHTLV‐I infection. A recombinant L40I mutant HTLV‐I protease was designed and obtained from Escherichia coli, self‐processingand purification by ion‐exchange chromatography. The protease was refolded by a one‐step dialysis and recovered activity. The cleavage efficiency of the [Ile40]HTLV‐I protease was at least 300 times higher for a fluorescent substratethan that of our previously reported recombinant His‐tagged non‐mutated HTLV‐I protease. In addition, we designed and synthesized a substrate containing a highly fluorescent Mca moiety in the fragment before the scissile bond, and a chromogenic p‐nitrophenylalanine moiety after the scissile bond that greatly amplified spectrometry detection and improved the HTLV‐I protease inhibition potency assay. The HTLV‐I protease inhibition assay with the [Ile40]HTLV‐I protease and fluorogenic substrate requires distinctively less protease, substrate, inhibitor and assay time than our previous methods. This means our new assay is more cost‐effective and more time‐efficient while being reproducible and less labor‐intensive. Copyright © 2011 European Peptide Society and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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Less than 5% of people infected with human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) develop HTLV-I-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP), a chronic progressive neurologic disease. A number of factors have been implicated in the development of HAM/TSP including heterogeneity of viral sequences, host-genetic background, viral-specific cellular immune responses and viral load. This study examined the presence of HTLV-Itax DNA in peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) from 2 chronic HAM/TSP patients and 2 asymptomatic HTLV-I carriers by using PCR-in situ hybridization (PCR-ISH) for the in situ presence of proviral HTLV-Itax DNA. By this technique, rare PBL from these HTLV-I-infected individuals contained HTLV-I DNA. PCR-ISH did not detect any difference in the number of infected cells between HAM/TSP patients and asymptomatic carriers. 相似文献
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Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1), the first human retrovirus discovered, is the etiological agent of adult-T-cell leukemia/lymphoma. The HTLV-1 encoded Tax protein is a potent oncoprotein that deregulates gene expression by constitutively activating nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB). Tax activation of NF-κB is critical for the immortalization and survival of HTLV-1-infected T cells. In this review, we summarize the present knowledge on mechanisms underlying Tax-mediated NF-κB activation, with an emphasis on post-translational modifications of Tax. 相似文献
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Tanabe F Yone K Kawabata N Sakakima H Matsuda F Ishidou Y Maeda S Abematsu M Komiya S Setoguchi T 《Autophagy》2011,7(12):1462-1471
Intracellular accumulation of altered proteins, including p62 and ubiquitinated proteins, is the basis of most neurodegenerative disorders. The relationship among the accumulation of altered proteins, autophagy, and spinal cord dysfunction by cervical spondylotic myelopathy has not been clarified. We examined the expression of p62 and autophagy markers in the chronically compressed spinal cord of tiptoe-walking Yoshimura mice. In addition, we examined the expression and roles of p62 and autophagy in hypoxic neuronal cells. Western blot analysis showed the accumulation of p62, ubiquitinated proteins, and microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 (LC3), an autophagic marker, in the compressed spinal cord. Immunohistochemical examinations showed that p62 accumulated in neurons, axons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes. Electron microscopy showed the expression of autophagy markers, including autolysosomes and autophagic vesicles, in the compressed spinal cord. These findings suggest the presence of p62 and autophagy in the degenerated compressed spinal cord. Hypoxic stress increased the expression of p62, ubiquitinated proteins, and LC3-II in neuronal cells. In addition, LC3 turnover assay and GFP-LC3 cleavage assay showed that hypoxic stress increased autophagy flux in neuronal cells. These findings suggest that hypoxic stress induces accumulation of p62 and autophagy in neuronal cells. The forced expression of p62 decreased the number of neuronal cells under hypoxic stress. These findings suggest that p62 accumulation under hypoxic stress promotes neuronal cell death. Treatment with 3-methyladenine, an autophagy inhibitor decreased the number of neuronal cells, whereas lithium chloride, an autophagy inducer increased the number of cells under hypoxic stress. These findings suggest that autophagy promotes neuronal cell survival under hypoxic stress. Our findings suggest that pharmacological inducers of autophagy may be useful for treating cervical spondylotic myelopathy patients. 相似文献
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《朊病毒》2013,7(3-4):162-169
ABSTRACTThe recently reevaluated high prevalence of healthy carriers (1/2,000 in UK) of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (v-CJD), whose blood might be infectious, suggests that the evolution of this prion disease might not be under full control as expected. After experimental transfusion of macaques and conventional mice with blood derived from v-CJD exposed (human and animal) individuals, we confirmed in these both models the transmissibility of v-CJD, but we also observed unexpected neurological syndromes transmissible by transfusion: despite their prion etiology confirmed through transmission experiments, these original cases would escape classical prion diagnosis, notably in the absence of detectable abnormal PrP with current techniques. It is noteworthy that macaques developed an original, yet undescribed myelopathic syndrome associating demyelination and pseudo-necrotic lesions of spinal cord, brainstem and optical tract without affecting encephalon, which is rather evocative of spinal cord disease than prion disease in human medicine. These observations strongly suggest that the spectrum of human prion diseases may extend the current field restricted to the phenotypes associated to protease-resistant PrP, and may notably include spinal cord diseases. 相似文献
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目的:研究扩散峰度成像(DKI)参数与脊髓型颈椎病(CSM)患者神经功能评分的相关性及临床意义。方法:选取2018年12月至2019年6月本院收治的CSM患者37例作为研究组及健康志愿者的30例作为对照组,采用GE3.0磁共振机分别对两组人员行磁共振成像(MRI)及DKI扫描,观察其影像学特征及DKI参数的变化情况,并分析DKI参数值与临床行为评分的相关性。结果:所有研究对象的MRI图像均符合诊断要求。志愿者颈髓形态完整、信号均匀;不同年龄组颈髓平均弥散各向异性分数(FA)值、平均弥散峰度(MK)值比较差异无统计学意义(P>0.05)。根据MRI的T2加权图像上椎管受压程度及脊髓信号改变,将实验组分为A、B、C组,对照组与各实验组的MK值、FA值比较差异有统计学意义(P<0.05)。实验组FA值与mJOA评分呈显著正相关(r=0.34),与NDI评分呈负相关(r=-0.38);MK值与mJOA评分呈正相关(r=0.67),与NDI评分呈负相关(r=-0.46)。结论:DKI序列对CSM诊断具有参考较高价值,其参数与临床行为评分关系密切,能够评估早期CSM患者的脊髓损伤情况,并为诊断和治疗提供参考。 相似文献