Background/aim Theoretical considerations support the combination of cryosurgery and topical imiquimod to treat basal cell carcinomas (BCC). The aim of the present study was to test the feasibility and efficacy of 'cryosurgery during continued imiquimod application' ('immunocryosurgery') to treat 'high-risk-for-recurrence' BCCs. Methods Thirteen patients with 21 biopsy-proven tumours (4 of 21 relapses after prior surgery) were included. After 2–5 weeks (median, 3) of daily 5% imiquimod cream application, the tumours were treated by liquid N2 cryosurgery (spray, two cycles, 10–20 s) and imiquimod was continued for additional 2–12 weeks (median, 4). The outcome after at least 18 months of follow-up (18–24 months) is currently reported. Results Nineteen of 21 tumours responded promptly to immunocryosurgery; two tumours required additional treatment cycles to clear. Thus, the clinical clearance rate was 100%. Only 1 of 21(5%) tumour relapsed after at least 18 months of follow-up (cumulative efficacy: 95%). Conclusions 'Immunocryosurgery' is a promising non-surgical combination modality to treat 'high-risk-for-recurrence BCCs'. Initial evidence is suggestive of an at least additive effect of the two combined modalities. Further studies comparing immunocryosurgery directly with cryosurgery and imiquimod monotherapies will confirm the reported results. 相似文献
We studied blood pressure and natriuretic responses to acute salt loading,
and the effect of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents on these
responses, in five healthy normotensive women aged 65 to 71 years. Five
women aged 25 to 31 years acted as controls. Intravenous saline loading,
with and without prior ingestion of ibuprofen, was 15 ml/kg/h for 3 h.
Baseline blood pressures were higher in the elderly. Saline infusion
without ibuprofen raised systolic blood pressure (SBP) by about 25 mmHg in
the older group only. Ibuprofen increased baseline SBP in the elderly (129
+/- 6 vs. 116 +/- 5 mmHg, p < 0.05). Saline loading after ibuprofen
again raised blood pressure by about 25 mmHg in the elderly only. The
elderly group showed markedly increased sodium excretion during saline
loading, but this was reduced by ibuprofen. Ibuprofen had no effect on SBP
or sodium excretion in controls. Ageing appears to increase susceptibility
to salt retention and hypertension from non-steroidal anti-inflammatory
agents.
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To verify whether anti-Trypanosoma-cruzi-proteinase antibodies are able to play a role in the development of Chagas' disease, CBA/J and C57BL/6 mice were immunized with purified proteinase fractions: antibody production was studied and passive immunization experiments were carried out. No significant differences were observed in the titre, isotype composition and specificity of the antibodies produced by the mouse strains. Immune sera produced in one strain was able to protect mice of both strains, provided that the challenge did not exceed the number of parasites corresponding to 30-fold the LD50. The data presented suggest that anti-proteinase antibodies may play a role in immunoprotection. 相似文献
From the experiments described, it can be seen that there are different
research approaches that can be taken and these are summarized in Table 1.
Whereas much scientific research is principally hypothesis led, there
remains, nevertheless, an important place for exploratory research. High
resolution NMR can measure, directly and simultaneously, a wide range of
endogenous metabolites in biological fluids and has the unique capability
of providing structural information on the metabolites detected. It has
proved to be a powerful research tool with which to study inherited
metabolic diseases, renal disease, drug metabolism, and toxicity, and can
be used to monitor the effects of drug therapy. For instance, by using a
library of experimental toxins one can map the metabolic profile of
site-specific nephron injury. With this approach in man one could
eventually take an unknown disease such as Balkan nephropathy and predict
the initial site of tubular injury, the mode of injury and therefore the
kind of toxin capable of producing that injury. NMR spectroscopic
techniques are still advancing rapidly, with ever increasing sensitivity
and sophistication of NMR pulse sequences to enhance structural elucidation
in complex mixtures. Given the advances in directly coupled HPLC-NMR and
even HPLC-NMR-mass spectroscopy it is likely that these technologies in
conjunction with pattern recognition will make major contribution to our
understanding of renal processes and provide new diagnostic insights in the
21st century.
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To determine the utility of tissue section immunochemistry in the evaluation of bone marrow involved by lymphoid and plasma cell malignancies, snap-frozen, undecalcified bone marrow core and aspirate samples from 23 patients with these disorders were studied with a battery of monoclonal antibodies. With techniques that preserve architecture, difficult diagnostic cases characterized by core but not aspirate involvement, or the reverse, were resolved. By means of an extensive battery of monoclonal antibodies applied to serial sections, complex tumor cell phenotypes were established in all 23 cases. In addition to the identification of straightforward monoclonal surface immunoglobulin expression in small cleaved cell lymphomas (four cases), the battery approach added immunologic certainty in malignancies with unusual or difficult phenotypes: peripheral T-cell lymphomas with idiosyncratic antigen expression, and chronic lymphocytic leukemias and small cell lymphomas with faint surface immunoglobulin expression (four cases). For the chronic lymphocytic leukemias and the small cell lymphomas, the combined IgD+, B2+, B1+, Ia+, Leu-1+ phenotype taken as a whole had greater utility than any isolated marker. The acute lymphocytic leukemias and the myelomas studied demonstrate the wide range of B-cell antigens that must be detected to account for the variety of B-cell neoplasms encountered. Additionally, the previously undescribed phenotypic subset of CALLA+ myelomas, which is of prognostic relevance, was identified. Marrow frozen section immunotyping is a major asset in the evaluation of patients with lymphoma, leukemia, and myeloma when special care is accorded to tissue handling and to treatment of endogenous peroxidase/pseudoperoxidase and interstitial immunoglobulin. 相似文献
Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia with progressive macular degeneration
is caused by a CAG/glutamine repeat expansion in the SCA7 gene/protein.
Neuronal intranuclear inclusions were detected in the brain of an early
onset SCA7 case with the 1C2 antibody directed against an expanded
polyglutamine domain. Nuclear inclusions were most frequent in the inferior
olivary complex, a site of severe neuronal loss in SCA7. They were also
observed in other brain regions, including the cerebral cortex, not
considered to be affected in the disease. Using confocal microscopy we
showed that some inclusions were ubiquitinated, but to varying degrees,
ranging from <1% in the cerebral cortex to 60% in the inferior olive. In
addition, we also observed cytoplasmic staining using the 1C2 antibody,
particularly in the supramarginal gyrus, the hippocampus, the thalamus, the
lateral geniculate body and the pontine nuclei. These data confirm that the
presence of intranuclear inclusions in neurons is a common characteristic
of disorders caused by CAG/polyglutamine expansions, but unlike what has
been reported for Huntington's disease, SCA1 and SCA3/MJD, in SCA7 the
inclusions were not restricted to the sites of severe neuronal loss.
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T-cell homing within germinal centres (GCs) is required for humoral B-cell responses. However, the mechanisms implicated in the recruitment of T cells into the GC are not completely understood. Here we show, by immunohistology, and Northern and Western blots, that in vivo human GC B lymphocytes can express CxC and CC chemokines. Moreover, B-cell subset-specific experiments reveal that interleukin (IL)-8 and regulated on activation, normal, T-cell expressed, and secreted (RANTES) are predominantly expressed by GC centroblast and centrocytes, suggesting that chemokine expression is essential at stages in which B-lymphocytes engage in active antigen-dependent interactions with T lymphocytes. In keeping with this hypothesis, we show that the T cells recruited into the GC correlatively express the receptors for IL-8 and RANTES. We propose that chemokine expression is a key B-cell function that facilitates T-lymphocyte recruitment into the GCs and supports cognate B-cell : T-cell encounters. Moreover, our data are consistent with the impaired homing of T cells to secondary lymphoid organs in mice that are either deficient in CC and CxC chemokines or their receptors. 相似文献
Cross-reactions between bovine serum albumin and equine serum albumin were studied using heterologous soluble complexes and specifically purified cross-reacting antibody.
Experiments with soluble complexes showed that homologous antigen can displace heterologous antigen specifically bound to antibody but heterologous antigen cannot displace homologous antigen. On gel precipitation tests a specific precipitation resulted when heterologous soluble complex reacted with homologous antigen.
By using equine serum albumin conjugated to polyaminopolystyrene the cross-reacting antibodies from anti-bovine serum albumin imune sera could be isolated. These are divalent 7S, γ-globulin antibodies. A figure of cross-reaction was obtained when these purified antibodies were tested by double diffusion in agar with bovine and equine serum albumins.
The results obtained both with soluble complexes and with purified antibody support the view that cross-reacting antibody is more avid for the homologous than for the heterologous antigen.
Arginase activity was measured in serum and biopsy from healthy individuals and colorectal cancer patients. Arginase activity
in tumor samples (87±7.7 U/g tissue) was significantly higher than in controls (40.7±3.3 U/g tissue). However, serum arginase
activity did not show any significant change in both groups. Finally, the micromethod used to quantify arginase activity in
this study is superior to other methods because it has increased sensitivity, requires less sample, and is less time-consuming.
Arginase differences are significant, according to the t-test (P<0.05).
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To resolve the controversy over the immunologic nature of nodular mixed lymphoma (NM), we examined nine cases of NM for surface antigens using both tissue section and cell suspension methods. These were contrasted with 12 cases of nodular poorly differentiated lymphocytic lymphoma. We found two major B cell types of NM, those with monoclonal immunoglobulin (SIg+)-positive nodules with an SIg+B1+B2+Ia+T- phenotype (four cases) and those with nodules devoid of immunoglobulin with an SIg-B1+B2-Ia+T- phenotype (five cases). Our SIg+ NM cases appear similar to nodular poorly differentiated lymphocytic lymphoma (SIg+B1+B2+Ia+T-), except suspension assay indicates fewer SIg+ cells in NM. In our SIg- NM cases, the neoplastic nodules consistently expressed B1 and Ia-like antigens and lacked T cells, indicating a B cell neoplasm similar to many large cell lymphomas. By demonstrating a B cell antigen in SIg- nodules, we substantially resolve the controversial NM cases previously called "null" or T cell. The two distinct immunotypes indicate the complexity of B cell antigenic expression in NM and might also explain the variable response to therapy in NM described in previous studies. Finally, we describe NM cases with the simultaneous occurrence of several stages of B cell differentiation. This suggests that some NM cases are not frozen in a single stage of B cell development but may express a range of B cell antigens. NM, then, may be a paradigm of variable, simultaneous B cell maturation. 相似文献