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J Clin Gastroenterol. 2003 Apr;36(4):367-8.
Hemoglobinuria with ribavirin treatment.
Massoud OI, Yousef WI, Mullen KD.
Department of Medicine, Metrohealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Chronic hepatitis C virus is a major worldwide cause of hepatitis, cirrhosis, end-stage liver disease, and hepatocellular carcinomas. Combination therapy of ribavirin with short- or long-acting interferon-alpha is now the standard treatment of chronic hepatitis C. This therapy is associated with a wide range of side effects. Although hemolysis is almost an invariable result of ribavirin, black urine due to hemoglobinuria has never been previously reported. We recently encountered two cases of black urine (hemoglobinuria) in patients treated with combination therapy. Based on reports of dark urine in many of our patients, we suggest that this phenomenon may be more common than is currently appreciated. It indicates a marked degree of hemolysis, which prompts immediate measurement of hemoglobin level.
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Infect Immun. 1999 Apr;67(4):1606-13.
Immunity to Chlamydia trachomatis mouse pneumonitis induced by vaccination with live organisms correlates with early granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and interleukin-12 production and with dendritic cell-like maturation.
Zhang D, Yang X, Lu H, Zhong G, Brunham RC.
Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
As is true for other intracellular pathogens, immunization with live Chlamydia trachomatis generally induces stronger protective immunity than does immunization with inactivated organism. To investigate the basis for such a difference, we studied immune responses in BALB/c mice immunized with viable or UV-killed C. trachomatis mouse pneumonitis (MoPn). Strong, acquired resistance to C. trachomatis infection was elicited by immunization with viable but not dead organisms. Immunization with viable organisms induced high levels of antigen-specific delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH), gamma interferon production, and immunoglobulin A (IgA) responses. Immunization with inactivated MoPn mainly induced interleukin-10 (IL-10) production and IgG1 antibody without IgA or DTH responses. Analysis of local early cytokine and cellular events at days 3, 5, and 7 after peritoneal cavity immunization showed that high levels of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and IL-12 were detected with viable but not inactivated organisms. Furthermore, enrichment of a dendritic cell (DC)-like population was detected in the peritoneal cavity only among mice immunized with viable organisms. The results suggest that early differences in inducing proinflammatory cytokines and activation and differentiation of DCs may be the key mechanism underlying the difference between viable and inactivated organisms in inducing active immunity to C. trachomatis infection.
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J Biol Chem. 1999 Mar 26;274(13):8455-9.
TWEAK induces angiogenesis and proliferation of endothelial cells.
Lynch CN, Wang YC, Lund JK, Chen YW, Leal JA, Wiley SR.
Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois 60064, USA.
TWEAK is a recently described member of the Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) ligand family whose transcripts are present in a wide variety of human tissues (Chicheportiche, Y., Bourdon, P. R., Xu, H., Hsu Y. M., Scott, H., Hession, C., Garcia, I., and Browning, J. L. (1997) J. Biol. Chem. 272, 32401-32410). TWEAK is a weak inducer of apoptosis in transformed cells when administered with interferon-gamma or cycloheximide (Chicheportiche, Y., Bourdon, P. R., Xu, H., Hsu Y. M., Scott, H., Hession, C., Garcia, I., and Browning, J. L. (1997) J. Biol. Chem. 272, 32401-32410; Masters, S. A., Sheridan, J. P., Pitti, R. M., Brush, A. G., and Ashkenazi, A. (1998) Curr. Biol. 8, 525-528) and also promotes IL-8 secretion in cultured cells. We report here that picomolar concentrations of recombinant soluble TWEAK induce proliferation in a variety of normal human endothelial cells and in aortic smooth muscle cells and reduce culture requirements for serum and growth factors. Blocking antibodies to Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) do not significantly inhibit TWEAK-induced proliferation, indicating that TWEAK does not function indirectly through up-regulation of VEGF. Pellets containing TWEAK induce a strong angiogenic response when implanted in rat corneas, suggesting a role for TWEAK in vasculature formation in vivo.
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J Virol. 1999 Apr;73(4):3491-6.
Ebola virus selectively inhibits responses to interferons, but not to interleukin-1beta, in endothelial cells.
Harcourt BH, Sanchez A, Offermann MK.
Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Department of Internal Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.
Ebola virus infection is highly lethal and leads to severe immunosuppression. In this study, we demonstrate that infection of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) with Ebola virus Zaire (EZ) suppressed basal expression of the major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC I) family of proteins and inhibited the induction of multiple genes by alpha interferon (IFN-alpha) and IFN-gamma, including those coding for MHC I proteins, 2'-5' oligoadenylate synthetase [2'-5'(A)N], and IFN regulatory factor 1 (IRF-1). Induction of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and ICAM-1 by IL-1beta was not suppressed by infection with EZ, suggesting that the inhibition of IFN signaling is specific. Gel shift analysis demonstrated that infection with EZ blocked the induction by IFNs of nuclear proteins that bind to IFN-stimulated response elements, gamma activation sequences, and IFN regulatory factor binding site (IRF-E). In contrast, infection with EZ did not block activation of the transcription factor NF-kappaB by IL-1beta. The events that lead to the blockage of IFN signaling may be critical for Ebola virus-induced immunosuppression and would play a role in the pathogenesis of Ebola virus infection.
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Transplantation. 1999 Feb 27;67(4):600-4.
Suppression of allograft rejection with anti-alphabeta T cell receptor antibody in rat corneal transplantation.
Yamagami S, Tsuru T, Ohkawa T, Endo H, Isobe M.
Department of Ophthalmology, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan.
BACKGROUND: Anti-alphabeta T cell receptor monoclonal antibody (R73) has been reported to be a potent immunosuppressant. The suppressive effects of this antibody on allograft rejection after corneal transplantation are unknown. METHODS: Orthotopic rat penetrating keratoplasty was performed using Lewis rats as recipients and Brown Norway and Fisher rats as donors. The treated groups received R73 intraperitoneally until day 12 after the transplantation. In grafted rats with or without R73 treatment, cytokine expression of the aqueous humor, corneal-infiltrating cells, draining lymph nodes, and splenocytes was determined. Delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) responses were compared. RESULTS: All allografts in the untreated controls of Fisher-to-Lewis or BN-to-Lewis rat combinations were rejected within 14 days. In contrast, indefinite survival rates of the postoperative R73-treated group increased to 86% in the Fisher-to-Lewis and 23% in the Brown Norway-to-Lewis combinations, respectively. Interferon-y, interleukin (IL)-2 (T helper [Th]1), and IL-10 (Th2), but not IL-4 (Th2), expression of the eye and DTH responses in the control group were suppressed in the R73-treated group. Both IL-2 and IL-10 expression after mixed lymphocyte culture in the R73-treated group were significantly lower than those of the naive and untreated control group. CONCLUSIONS: alphabeta T cell receptor-targeted therapy prevents allograft rejection in rat corneal transplantation as evidenced by suppression of DTH responses. The cytokine profile after R73 treatment was characterized by low interferon-gamma, IL-2, and IL-10, and high IL-4 expression.
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Loss of hair changes the appearance of a person, and the identity of the person in social context to a certain extent.
Hair growth is a complex biological process, which has not yet been completely understood. A multitude of therapeutic measures, including drugs, surgery, and suppelements have been made available, and used. However, due to the diversity of the problems underlying hair loss, there is no single solution for all hair loss cases. Most of chemical drugs and hair transplantation surgeries are not free from varying degrees of undesirable side effects on health.
Hair Million is an alternative solution to hair loss problems. Albeit only anecdotally, it has demonstrated efficacy in
the improvement for age-related hair thinning and hair loss for a significant fraction of people who take it
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