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  • 1
    ISSN: 1524-475X
    Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Thema: Medizin
    Notizen: The secretion of growth hormone, an important anabolic agent, declines with aging. We hypothesize that growth hormone levels (measured as insulin-like growth factor-1) correlate with postoperative tissue repair in otherwise healthy, elderly persons. The goal was to determine whether growth hormone supplementation can improve wound healing in this circumstance. We conducted a randomized controlled double-blind trial of 6 months of growth hormone replacement or placebo in 28 healthy older men (〉69 years of age) with low baseline plasma insulin-like growth factor-1. Growth hormone doses were adjusted to elevate insulin-like growth factor-1 to levels expected in younger adults. Wound healing was tested by implanting 10 cm expanded polytetrafluoroethylene porous tubes for 10 days, then measuring the content of collagen (as hydroxyproline), DNA, and total protein. Hydroxyproline content was 15% greater in the wounds of the growth hormone group (n = 13) compared with the placebo group (n = 15), (4.52 ± 0.94 versus 3.92 ± 0.78 µg/cm; p = 0.04). Therefore, healthy older men who took growth hormone had enhanced reparative collagen deposition during the wound healing process. This action may be clinically useful after selected surgery or trauma in the elderly.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 2
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science
    Wound repair and regeneration 3 (1995), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1524-475X
    Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Thema: Medizin
    Notizen: The object of this animal study was to examine and further develop the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene wound healing model. The goal was to increase its potential for assessing wound healing by increasing yield, reducing variability, establishing the elements of a standard technique, and further testing its ability to detect variations of healing which have clinical significance. Expanded polytetrafluoroethylene implants of various dimensions and fabrications and several implantation and sterilization techniques were compared in rats. Hydroxyproline, DNA, and protein deposition into the expanded polytetrafluoroethylene implants as parameters for wound healing were assessed. Additionally, a 4 cm skin incision for tensile strength assessment was created. Wound healing was assessed under normal and corticosteroid-impaired healing conditions. The highest yield of collagen was found in the stiffer fabrication of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene with the larger pore size and after the more traumatic implantation technique of incisional placement. Variability was unaffected by fabrication, implantation technique, indexing by various geometric dimensions of the implant, sterilization, or sampling techniques. Variability was the same in the individual animals as in groups of animals. The expanded polytetrafluoroethylene method also detects the influence of antiinflammatory corticosteroids and reflects the tensile strength of incisional wounds made in other sites in the same animal.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1524-475X
    Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Thema: Medizin
    Notizen: Macrophages respond to various stimuli to produce angiogenic factors but few mechanistic details are known. We examined the effects of hypoxia, lactate and nicotinamide on the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor by cultured macrophages. These agents were chosen because they down-regulate polyadenosine diphosphoribose levels. Following exposure, conditioned media were analyzed for vascular endothelial growth factor protein. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, polyadenosine diphosphoribose, and vascular endothelial growth factor mRNA were measured in the cellular fraction. Angiogenic capacity of the conditioned media was tested in rabbit corneas and Matrigel implants.All three agents, hypoxia, lactate and nicotinamide, elicited significantly increased levels of vascular endothelial growth factor mRNA and vascular endothelial growth factor in the conditioned media, and these levels were paralleled by their angiogenic activity. Polyadenosine diphosphoribose in the cellular fraction was correspondingly depressed. Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor antibody inhibited most of the angiogenic response whereas anti-basic fibroblast growth factor antibody had little effect. We propose that redox changes associated with the alteration of cellular nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and polyadenosine diphosphoribose are involved in lactate-mediated VEGF expression.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1524-475X
    Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Thema: Medizin
    Notizen: For many years, lactate has been known to accelerate collagen deposition in cultured fibroblasts and, without detailed explanation, has been presumed to stimulate angiogenesis. Similarly, hypoxia has been linked to angiogenic effects and collagen deposition from cultured cells. Paradoxically, however, wound angiogenesis and collagen deposition are increased by breathing oxygen and decreased by hypoxia. Lactate accumulates to 4–12 mM in wounds for several reasons, only one of which is the result of hypoxia. Oxygen in wounds is usually low but can be increased by breathing oxygen (without change in lactate). We have reported that lactate elicits vascular endothelial growth factor (VECF) from macrophages, as well as collagen, some heat shock proteins, and VECF from endothelial cells, and collagen from fibroblasts, even in the presence of normal amounts of oxygen. Hypoxia exerts many of these same effects in cultured cells. In this study, we elevated extracellular lactate in wounds by implanting purified solid-state, hydrolysable polyglycolide. A steady-state 2–3 mM additional elevation of lactate resulted. With it, there was a significant short-term elevation of interleukin-1β, a long-term elevation of VECF (2×) and transforming growth factor-β1 (2–3×), a 50% elevation in collagen deposition, and a large reduction of insulin-like growth factor-1 (− 90%). We propose that lactate induces a biochemical “perception” of hypoxia and instigates several signals that activate growth factor/cytokine signals while the continued presence of molecular oxygen allows endothelial cells and fibroblasts to reproduce and deposit collagen. The data are consistent with ADP-ribosylation effects and oxidant signaling. (WOUND REP REG 2003;11:504–509)
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1524-475X
    Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Thema: Medizin
    Notizen: Because various immune functions are impaired at temperatures only 1° to 3° C less than normal, we tested the hypothesis that mild hypothermia during anesthesia impairs resistance to dermal infections. Guinea pigs were anesthetized for 6 hours with 1% inspired halothane. Their core temperatures were maintained at either 39° C (normal for guinea pigs, n = 12) or 36° C (n = 12). Two hours after induction of anesthesia, three doses each of Staphylococcus aureus (108, 107, and 106 organisms) were injected intradermally at nine sites on each animal's back. Core temperatures were not controlled after recovery from the anesthetic, and animals in each group were maintained in the same environment. Four days after anesthesia, each injection site was excised to obtain a count of viable bacteria. Subcutaneous oxygen partial pressure values, averaged over time, were 53 ± 3 mm Hg (mean ± SEM) in the hypothermic group and 62 ± 4 mm Hg in the normothermic group (p = 0.06). Capillary perfusion, as assessed by laser Doppler flowmetry, was comparable in the two groups. One day after injection of 108 bacteria, the area of induration was 89 ± 11 mm2 in the hypothermic group but only 61 ± 6 mm2 in the normothermic group (p 〈 0.05). On postanesthetic day 4, the area of induration was 72 ± 6 and 59 ± 6 mm2 in the hypothermic and normothermic groups, respectively (p 〉 0.05). After inoculation with 108 bacteria, the fraction recovered was 1.0 ± 0.2 in the hypothermic groups and 0.6 ± 0.2 in the normothermic group (p 〈 0.05). After inoculation with 107 and 106 bacteria, the fraction recovered was less than 0.2, and no difference was found between the hypothermic and normothermic animals. Thus mild hypothermia during halothane-induced anesthesia slightly impairs resistance to dermal infection.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 6
    ISSN: 1573-2576
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Medizin
    Notizen: Abstract Gossypol is present in antiinflammatory poultices made from the medicinal treeThespesia populnea. Isolated human neutrophils exposed to 3–20μM gossypol for 15–90 min were assayed in vitro for superoxide production and surface expression of Mac-1 (CD11b/CD18). Gossypol increased superoxide production in a time- and concentration-dependent fashion consistent with a moderate, delayed respiratory burst. Surface Mac-1 expression was increased within 15 min by 3–5μ M gossypol, resulting in a 14-fold increase over controls and a threefold greater increase over that produced by PMA. Staurosporine failed to block gossypol induction of superoxide and Mac-1, while EDTA inhibited induction of Mac-1 only, implicating a calcium-dependent mechanism. Gossypol increased intracellular calcium to peak levels, but1 in a delayed fashion as compared to FMLP. These findings demonstrate that gossypol is a highly potent stimulant of Mac-1 expression and suggest at least two protein kinase C-independent pathways of neutrophil activation. The resultant exhaustion of neutrophils may account for the antiinflammatory properties of plants containing gossypol.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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