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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-2307
    Keywords: Heart ; Wound repair ; Collagen types ; Dog
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The reparative process following left ventriculotomy was investigated immunohistochemically using anti-type I, II, III, IV, V and VI collagen antibodies, and anti-fibronectin antibody. Wound healing began with proliferation of young fibroblasts positive for type I, III and V collagens at the wound margin; vascular granulation tissue then grew into the injured myocardium followed by deposition of fibrous components immunoreactive with type I and III. At 30 days after operation when almost the entire thickness of the myocardium at the wound was replaced by fibrosing granulation tissue, a small cluster of adipocytes appeared around capillaries at the wound margin. The granulation tissue was gradually replaced by the adipose tissue with establishment of a fibrous union at the subendocardium by 90 days. In addition to type I and III collagens, type VI collagen was detected in a fine fibrillary pattern along thick collagen fibre bundles in the fibrous tissue and around the adipocytes. Fibronectin was distributed diffusely in the granulation tissue and gradually decreased with increase of the fibrous components. These results indicate that the ventriculotomy was finally repaired in the form of a fibrous scar, particularly in the endocardium. There was marked infiltration of adipose tissue in the damaged myocardium. Presumably type VI collagen, as well as type I and type III collagens, plays an important role in wound union.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-2307
    Keywords: Ligamentum flavum ; Type VI collagen ; Hyalinization ; Spinal canal stenosis
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Thickened ligamenta flava obtained from 14 patients with spinal canal stenosis were examined with special reference to type VI collagen. The characteristic histological finding in the thickened area was rupture of normal elastic fibre meshwork with resultant fibrosis which usually appeared hyaline. Using an immunohistological method, collagen types VI, I and III were found to be present in the hyaline matrix. Ultrastructural study revealed many microfilamentous structures of type VI collagen admixed in loosely packed, banded collagen fibres. With differential salt precipitation of pepsin-extracted collagen the existence of type VI collagen was confirmed by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis and Western blotting analysis using anti-type VI collagen antibody. Quantification of type VI collagen in pepsin-extracted crude collagen samples by an inhibition enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay showed an increasing amount of type VI collagen in the thickened ligamenta flava compared to the normal ligaments. Thus, increase of type VI collagen is the main contribution to the thickening of the ligamentum flavum. This may represent an adaptational and reparative process associated with disruption of elastic fibres.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1432-1335
    Keywords: Integrin ; Squamous cell carcinoma ; Invasion assay ; RGDV
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract We studied invasion-related adhesion events in vitro using three squamous carcinoma cell lines (HSC-3, poorly differentiated type; OSC-19, well-differentiated type; and KB cells, undifferentiated type). An in vitro invasion assay through matrigel in the transwell chamber revealed that HSC-3 cells were most invasive, OSC-19 cells moderately invasive and KB cells least invasive. Inhibition assay of invasion using synthetic peptides RGD, RGDV, RGDS, RGDT, IKVAV and YIGSR, showed that invasion of the three cell lines was significantly inhibited by RGDV. There were other peptides that inhibited invasion significantly including IKVAV for HSC-3, and RGDS and YIGSR for OSC-19. HSC-3 cells and OSC-19 cells adhered to fibronectin, laminin, vitronectin, and type IV collagen, and KB cells did not adhere to laminin but did to fibronectin, vitronectin and collagen type IV. Pretreatment of cells with RGDV peptide in the attachment assay reduced the ability of these cells to bind to vitronectin and fibronectin more efficiently than pretreatment with RGDS. Anti-αv antibodies inhibited adhesion of HSC-3, OSC-19 and KB cells to vitronectin, but anti-β1 antibodies did not inhibit adhesion. Immunofluorescent microscopic examinations showed that all cell lines were positive for anti-β5 and anti-αv antibodies, and only HSC-3 cells were positive for anti-β3 antibody. α5β1 was not clearly demonstrated in any of the cell lines. RGDV was the most effective inhibitor of squamous cell carcinoma invasion among the synthetic oligopeptides used in this experiment, and it is suggested that it affects αvβ3-and/or αvβ5-mediated carcinoma cell invasion.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1573-6865
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary The ultrastructural localization ofras p21 product was studied immunocytochemically in thyroid follicular cells of normal rats using pre-embedded peroxidase-labelled antibody techniques and a monoclonal antibody, RAP-5, which had been raised against a synthetic peptide corresponding to amino acid positions 10–17 of theras p21 protein. Theras p21 product was detected in cisternae of rough endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus and the subapical portion of apical plasma membrane, in which it was most concentrated. This study indicated that the p21 product may be synthesized in the rough endoplasmic reticulum and finally localized at the subapical portion of the thyroid follicular cells, and also that the apical plasma membrane may be a major site for the reception of environmental stimuli.
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