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  • 1
    ISSN: 1440-1797
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: SUMMARY: The enzyme 11β hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (11βHSD2) converts glucocorticoids to their 11-keto metabolites, permitting binding of aldosterone to the non-selective mineralocorticoid receptor. Recent studies have suggested that 11βHSD deficiency may be implicated in essential hypertension and renal disease. Using an antibody against a peptide deduced from the cDNA sequence, the renal expression of 11βHSD2 was examined in patients with advanced stages of renal disease and associated hypertension, patients with primary hypertension resulting in renal damage, and patients with preserved or mildly damaged renal architecture without concomitant hypertension. Despite variable degrees of tubulointerstitial damage, 11βHSD2 was expressed in distal convoluted tubules and collecting ducts in all patient groups. Collapsed tubules retained strong immunoreactivity, but decreased staining was apparent in dilated tubules. There was weak staining of the thick ascending limb of Henle. Variable glomerular expression of 11βHSD2 was observed. Our results therefore suggest that absence of renal 11βHSD2 is not a prominent feature of hypertensive nephrosclerosis, or primary renal disease associated with hypertension.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1440-1797
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: The enzyme 11β hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (11βHSD2) converts glucocorticoids to their 11-keto metabolites, permitting binding of aldosterone to the non-selective mineralocorticoid receptor. Recent studies have suggested that 11βHSD deficiency may be implicated in essential hypertension and renal disease. Using an antibody against a peptide deduced from the cDNA sequence, the renal expression of 11βHSD2 was examined in patients with advanced stages of renal disease and associated hypertension, patients with primary hypertension resulting in renal damage, and patients with preserved or mildly damaged renal architecture without concomitant hypertension. Despite variable degrees of tubulointerstitial damage, 11βHSD2 was expressed in distal convoluted tubules and collecting ducts in all patient groups. Collapsed tubules retained strong immunoreactivity, but decreased staining was apparent in dilated tubules. There was weak staining of the thick ascending limb of Henle. Variable glomerular expression of 11βHSD2 was observed. Our results therefore suggest that absence of renal 11βHSD2 is not a prominent feature of hypertensive nephrosclerosis, or primary renal disease associated with hypertension.
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    Poet lore. 87:3 (1992:Fall) 11 
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1432-0851
    Keywords: Key words: Chemotherapy – CD4 – CD8 – Mitogen – Thymus – FACS
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract. In these studies, we examined the effect of a maximum-tolerated, split-dose chemotherapy protocol of cyclophosphamide, cisplatin, and 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea carmustine on neutrophil and lymphocyte subpopulations in the peripheral blood (PBL), thymus, bone marrow and spleen. It was found that this protocol of polychemotherapy, modeled after the induction protocol used with autologous bone marrow transplantation for breast cancer, suppressed both B and T cell populations and T cell function at times when the absolute neutrophil count had returned to normal or supernormal numbers. In the peripheral blood, 7 days following initiation of chemotherapy, there was a twofold increase in the percentage of granulocytes as compared to the level in control animals on the basis of a differential count. The polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) frequency in the bone marrow was increased on day 14 and statistically identical to that in control mice on all other days analyzed. In contrast to the bone marrow cells and PBL on day 7, the frequency of PMN in the spleen and thymus was depressed. B cells (B220+) were depressed in the PBL, spleen and bone marrow and took 18 – 32 days to return to their normal frequency, while the frequency of B cells in the thymus was increased owing to a loss of immature T cells. The percentage of CD3+ cells in the thymus, spleen and bone marrow was significantly increased and required 10 – 18 days to return to normal levels, while the absolute number of CD3+ cells in the blood varied around the normal value. The ratio of CD4+ to CD8+ cells in all the organs studied varied only slightly owing to a similar reconstitution of CD4+ and CD8+ cells. In contrast to the phenotypic recovery of the CD3+, CD4+ and CD8+ cells, the ability of the splenic lymphocytes to respond to concanavalin-A was depressed and remained depressed, despite the phenotypic reconstitution of the T cell subsets, on the basis of both percentage and absolute cell number. These results show a selective T and B cell depression following multi-drug, split-dose chemotherapy in tissue and blood leukocyte populations and a chronic depression in T cell function.
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1432-0851
    Keywords: Chemotherapy ; CD4 ; CD8 ; Mitogen ; Thymus ; FACS
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract In these studies, we examined the effect of a maximum-tolerated, split-dose chemotherapy protocol of cyclophosphamide, cisplatin, and 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea carmustine on neutrophil and lymphocyte subpopulations in the peripheral blood (PBL), thymus, bone marrow and spleen. It was found that this protocol of polychemotherapy, modeled after the induction protocol used with autologous bone marrow transplantation for breast cancer, suppressed both B and T cell populations and T cell function at times when the absolute neutrophil count had returned to normal or supernormal numbers. In the peripheral blood, 7 days following initiation of chemotherapy, there was a twofold increase in the percentage of granulocytes as compared to the level in control animals on the basis of a differential count. The polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) frequency in the bone marrow was increased on day 14 and statistically identical to that in control mice on all other days analyzed. In contrast to the bone marrow cells and PBL on day 7, the frequency of PMN in the spleen and thymus was depressed. B cells (B220+) were depressed in the PBL, spleen and bone marrow and took 18–32 days to return to their normal frequency, while the frequency of B cells in the thymus was increased owing to a loss of immature T cells. The percentage of CD3+ cells in the thymus, spleen and bone marrow was significantly increased and required 10–18 days to return to normal levels, while the absolute number of CD3+ cells in the blood varied around the normal value. The ratio of CD4+ to CD8+ cells in all the organs studied varied only slightly owing to a similar reconstitution of CD4+ and CD8+ cells. In contrast to the phenotypic recovery of the CD3+, CD4+ and CD8+ cells, the ability of the splenic lymphocytes to respond to concanavalin-A was depressed and remained depressed, despite the phenotypic reconstitution of the T cell subsets, on the basis of both percentage and absolute cell number. These results show a selective T and B cell depression following multi-drug, split-dose chemotherapy in tissue and blood leukocyte populations and a chronic depression in T cell function.
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  • 6
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    The @Anatomical Record 220 (1988), S. 305-312 
    ISSN: 0003-276X
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Here were describe a nodule of lymphoid tissue which was consistently located in the proximal colon of mice approximately 25% of the distance from the cecum to the rectum. Immunohistochemical characterization of this nodule demonstrated that the majority of lymphocytes were relatively immature 14.8+ (B220+), IgM+, Ia+ (specificity 20) B cells some of which were also Ly-1+. These nodules also possessed an occasional T cell (Thy-1+, Ly-1+, Lyt-2+) aggregate at the periphery. Rare, small areas did not stain for either T or B cell markers. These lymphoid nodules were associated with epithelial cells which stained positively with the ER-TR4 monoclonal antibody (which also recognizes thymic cortical epithelial cells) and also with ER-TR6, which has been reported to recognize thymic macrophages or dendritic cells. The overlying colonic epithelium stained intensely with the ER-TR4 monoclonal antibody. Proximal colonic lymphoid tissue was extremely sensitive to steroid treatment, losing approximately 80% of its mass within 24 hours in response to a single intraperitoneal injection of 2 mg hydrocortisone acetate. This response was similar to that of the thymus and to that reported for the bursa of Fabricius, but unlike that of other gastrointestinal lymphoid aggregates. These results indicated that proximal colonic lymphoid tissue contains a high frequency of relatively immature B cells and may be a primary site of their generation, possibly including some of the Ly-1+ phenotype. These observations correlate with new evidence suggesting that the allantois participates in the formation of the distal midgut, including its lymphoid components.
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  • 7
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    The @Anatomical Record 233 (1992), S. 569-576 
    ISSN: 0003-276X
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Proximal colonic lymphoid tissue (PCLT) is a lymphoid structure located in the proximal colon of the mouse and the rat. In the present investigation we studied the immunomorphology and cytology of PCLT in the rat. We also studied sites of lymphocyte proliferation using the BrdU-anti BrdU technique.Results demonstrated no evident phenotypical differences between the lymphocyte populations of PCLT and either jejunal or ileal Peyer's patches (PP). The majority of the lymphocytes within PCLT were B cells localized in follicles, which were separated from each other by interfollicular T cell areas. Germinal centers (GC), containing ED5+ follicular dendritic cells, are found within PCLT follicles. The T cell areas contained both MHC Class II+ interdigitating cells and high endothelial venules. Studies using BrdU-anti BrdU indicated that lymphocyte proliferation within PCLT taken place mainly in germinal centers.Together the data show that the organization, lymphoid constituents, and sites of lymphocyte production are very similar in PCLT and PP. We therefore conclude that PCLT in the rats is not a Bursa equivalent, but more likely a PP with some special characteristics. © 1992 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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