运动对铁吸收的影响及其作用途径

目的:综合分析运动对铁吸收的影响及其作用途径。资料来源:检索Pubmed1950-01/2006-04有关运动对铁吸收的影响及其作用途径的文献,检索词为“iron absorption,iron metabolism,exercise”。同时检索万方数据库1994-01/2006-03有关运动对铁吸收的影响及其作用途径的文献,检索词为“铁吸收,铁代谢,运动”。资料选择:初选后,有关铁吸收、运动对铁吸收影响及其调节机制的文献被选中。发表于2002年后的文献被优先选择,排除重复实验和Meta分析。资料提炼:检索到9000篇文献,大部分是关于铁吸收调节机制的文献,其中40篇有关运动和铁吸收及其调节机制,30篇作为代表性研究文献被引用。资料综合:运动可导致低铁状态,影响运动能力,这种低铁状态的形成及其调节与铁吸收相关。但是,对于运动如何影响铁吸收存在两种截然相反的观点,一种观点认为运动促进铁吸收;另一种观点认为运动降低铁吸收。最近的研究已经显示运动可能通过机体铁水平、一氧化氮、Hepcidin、促红细胞生成素、低氧以及基因突变(如HFE突变)调节铁吸收。结论:有关运动影响铁吸收的研究仍是初步的,在运动情况下如何调节铁吸收尚有待研究,这对于进一步分析运动诱导的低铁状态的本质以及运动员和运动健身人群是否需要以及如何补充铁具有重要意义。     

X型胶原蛋白与骨骼生长发育关系的研究进展

X型胶原是近年来发现的一种新型胶原,它只存在于生长发育期的即将骨化的软骨内,以液态均相的形式分布于细胞外基质,并启动软骨骨化。它具有特异性合成、局限性分布、一过性存在的特征。许多骨骼系统疾病与X型胶原的异常有着密切的关系。     

Apoptosis in peripheral lymphocytes in systemic lupus erythematosus: a review

There is increasing evidence to suggest that abnormalities in apoptosis may play a part in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). For example, there is now considerable evidence that bel-2 expression is enhanced in a proportion of peripheral T cells, but not in B cells, in SLE patients and correlates with overall disease activity regardless of the activity index employed. Further work is required to establish whether enhanced bel-2 expression by some T cells in SLE patients is related to their activation or intrinsically enhanced by genetic predisposition. Mutations in Fas result in a lymphoproliferative syndrome and may play a role in accelerating autoimmune disease. A report of three children with mutations in Fas has once again focused attention on this regulator of apoptosis. The relationships between inducers and inhibitors of apoptosis may differ in different cell types, and must be elucidated before the implications of observations made in lymphocytes from SLE patients can be fully understood.      

Haemophilus aphrophilus bleb infection after a mitomycin trabeculectomy

Background: Haemophilus aphrophilus is a rare cause of ocular infection. It has been reported once as a cause of late-onset endophthalmitis in a patient with an inadvertent bleb after cataract surgery. We present a case of Haemophilus aphrophilus bleb infection after a mitomycin trabeculectomy.
Methods: A 56-year-old woman presented with a bleb infection 10 weeks after a mitomycin C augmented trabeculectomy at a University tertiary referral practice of one of the authors (GET). The causative organism was Haemophilus aphrophilus , identified by the Toronto Public Health Laboratory, Ontario, Canada.
Results: The bleb infection resolved following topical, subconjunctival and intravenous antibiotic therapy. A formal bleb revision was required to repair a persistent bleb leak.
Conclusion: Patients who have had trabeculectomies augmented with mitomycin C may be predisposed to bleb infection with unusual organisms. Prompt diagnosis and treatment is necessary to control the infection. Increased awareness and communication with laboratory personnel may increase the isolation of this fastidious organism.     

Neuroprotective effects of virally delivered HSPs in experimental stroke.

Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are molecular chaperones with essential roles in modulating the proteolytic machinery and accelerating cell repair. Heat shock protein overexpression has been observed in vivo and in vitro under stresses including heat, nutrient deprivation and ischemia. Experiments in in vivo models of stroke indicate that transgenically overexpressed or virally delivered HSPs can enhance cell survival, but cannot always reduce lesion size. This study aims to assess the effects of virally delivered HSPs in a rat middle cerebral artery occlusion model of reversible focal cerebral ischemia using noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging. Attenuated herpes simplex virus carrying HSP27, HSP70, or a LacZ control was microinjected into the striatum 3 days before ischemia. Multislice T(2)-weighted images at 24 h after ischemia indicated that lesion volume was reduced by 44% in HSP27-treated animals compared with controls (P = 0.019). No significant differences were found between HSP70-treated and control animals (P = 0.88). Immunohistochemistry and Western blots revealed that HSP27 and HSP70 expression levels were equally high in injected hemispheres, but only the former had an effect on lesion size. This is the first evidence of the efficacy of gene therapy with any viral vector expressing HSP27 in an experimental model of stroke.     

High efficiency gene transfer to the central nervous system of rodents and primates using herpes virus vectors lacking functional ICP27 and ICP34.5.

The safe and efficient use of herpes simplex virus (HSV)-based vectors to deliver genes of potentially therapeutic benefit to the central nervous system will require their effective disablement by the inactivation of viral genes required for lytic growth. Here we report that viruses lacking functional genes for ICP27 (which is required for growth in all cell types) and ICP34.5 (which is required for growth in nondividing cell types) can deliver a marker gene to both the rodent and primate CNS with high efficiency whilst producing relatively minimal damage and having no effect on sodium currents in dorsal root ganglion neurons. Such viruses paradoxically deliver genes at much higher efficiency than the less disabled single mutant lacking ICP34.5 alone and also, as expected, produce less damage in vivo. Moreover, unlike the single mutant lacking ICP27 the double mutant viruses cannot revert to wild-type by acquistion of complimenting gene sequences during growth of virus stocks in vitro on dividing cells expressing ICP27 since artificial expression of ICP34.5 in these cells is not required. Such ICP27-; ICP34.5- viruses thus offer a platform for the development of vectors which are sufficiently safe for ultimate use in human gene therapy.     

Antibodies to heat-shock protein 27 are associated with improved survival in patients with breast cancer.

The overexpression of the heat-shock proteins hsp90, hsp70 and hsp27 in human mammary carcinomas has previously been shown to correlate with reduced overall survival. Moreover, antibodies to hsp90 were detectable in the serum of a large proportion of breast cancer patients but they were not found in normal controls. High antibody levels also correlated with reduced survival. Here, we show that antibodies to hsp27 were also detectable in the sera from breast cancer patients but not from normal controls, whereas antibodies to hsp70 were detectable in approximately one-third of both groups. The presence of antibodies to hsp27 was correlated with an improved rather than a reduced survival, particularly beyond the first 5 years. Hence, the overexpression of hsps in breast cancer cells does not provoke a generalized immune response to all the hsps. Moreover, the presence of antibodies to different hsps has distinct associations with survival. These effects are discussed in terms of the mechanisms that provoke an immune response to the hsps and the protective/non-protective effects of such a response.