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Aims: Heart failure (HF) leads to repeat hospitalisations and reduces the duration and quality of life. Pulmonary artery pressure (PAP)‐guided HF management using the CardioMEMS™ HF system was shown to be safe and reduce HF hospitalisation (HFH) rates in New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III patients. However, these findings have not been replicated in health systems outside the United States. Therefore, the CardioMEMS European Monitoring Study for Heart Failure (MEMS‐HF) evaluated the safety, feasibility, and performance of this device in Germany, The Netherlands, and Ireland.
Methods and results: A total of 234 NYHA class III patients (68 ± 11 years, 22% female, ≥1 HFH in the preceding year) from 31 centres were implanted with a CardioMEMS sensor and underwent PAP‐guided HF management. One‐year rates of freedom from device‐ or system‐related complications and from sensor failure (co‐primary outcomes) were 98.3% [95% confidence interval (CI) 95.8–100.0] and 99.6% (95% CI 97.6–100.0), respectively. Survival rate was 86.2%. For the 12 months post‐ vs. pre‐implant, HFHs decreased by 62% (0.60 vs. 1.55 events/patient‐year; hazard ratio 0.38, 95% CI 0.31–0.48; P < 0.0001). After 12 months, mean PAP decreased by 5.1 ± 7.4 mmHg, Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) overall/clinical summary scores increased from 47.0 ± 24.0/51.2 ± 24.8 to 60.5 ± 24.3/62.4 ± 24.1 (P < 0.0001), and the 9‐item Patient Health Questionnaire sum score improved from 8.7 ± 5.9 to 6.3 ± 5.1 (P < 0.0001).
Conclusion: Haemodynamic‐guided HF management proved feasible and safe in the health systems of Germany, The Netherlands, and Ireland. Physician‐directed treatment modifications based on remotely obtained PAP values were associated with fewer HFH, sustainable PAP decreases, marked KCCQ improvements, and remission of depressive symptoms.
Background and Objectives: Red blood cell (RBC) transfusions are needed by almost every acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) patient undergoing induction chemotherapy and constitute a cornerstone in supportive measures for cancer patients in general. Randomized controlled trials have shown non‐inferiority or even superiority of restrictive transfusion guidelines over liberal transfusion guidelines in specific clinical situations outside of medical oncology. In this study, we analysed whether more restrictive RBC transfusion reduces blood use without affecting hard outcomes.
Materials and Methods: A total of 352 AML patients diagnosed between 2007 and 2018 and undergoing intensive induction chemotherapy were included in this retrospective analysis. In the less restrictive transfusion group, patients received RBC transfusion for haemoglobin levels below 8 g/dl (2007–2014). In the restrictive transfusion group, patients received RBC transfusion for haemoglobin levels below 7 g/dl (2016–2018). Liberal transfusion triggers were never endorsed.
Results: A total of 268 (76·1%) and 84 (23·9%) AML patients fell into the less restrictive and restrictive transfusion groups, respectively. The less restrictive transfusion group had 1 g/dl higher mean haemoglobin levels, received their first RBC transfusions earlier and needed 1·5 more units of RBC during the hospital stay of induction chemotherapy. Febrile episodes, C‐reactive protein levels, admission to the intensive care unit, length of hospital stay as well as response and survival rates did not differ between the two cohorts.
Conclusion: From our retrospective analysis, we conclude that a more restrictive transfusion trigger does not affect important outcomes of AML patients. The opportunity to test possible effects of the more severe anaemia in the restrictive transfusion group on quality of life was missed.
Overconsumption of carbohydrates and lipids are well known to cause nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), while the role of nutritional protein intake is less clear. In Western diet, meat and other animal products are the main protein source, with varying concentrations of specific amino acids. Whether the amount or composition of protein intake is associated with a higher risk for disease severity has not yet been examined. In this study, we investigated associations of dietary components with histological disease activity by analyzing detailed 14‐day food records in a cohort of 61 patients with biopsy‐proven NAFLD. Furthermore, we used 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing to detect associations with different abundances of the gut microbiota with dietary patterns. Patients with definite nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NAFLD activity score of 5‐8 on liver biopsy) had a significantly higher daily relative intake of protein compared with patients with a NAFLD activity score of 0‐4 (18.0% vs. 15.8% of daily protein‐based calories, P = 0.018). After adjustment for several potentially confounding factors, a higher protein intake (≥17.3% of daily protein‐based calories) remained associated with definite nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, with an odds ratio of 5.09 (95% confidence interval 1.22‐21.25, P = 0.026). This association was driven primarily by serine, glycine, arginine, proline, phenylalanine, and methionine. A higher protein intake correlated with a lower Bacteroides abundance and an altered abundance of several other bacterial taxa. Conclusion: A high protein intake was independently associated with more active and severe histological disease activity in patients with NAFLD. Further studies are needed to investigate the potential harmful role of dietary amino acids on NAFLD, with special attention to meat as their major source.
Since type and duration of an appropriate adjuvant chemotherapy in early-stage ovarian cancer (OC) are still being debated, novel markers for a better stratification of these patients are of utmost importance for the design of an improved chemotherapeutical strategy. In contrast to numerous cancer studies on cellular proliferation based on the immunohistochemistry-driven evaluation of protein expression, we compared mRNA and protein expression of two independent markers of cellular proliferation, Ki-67 and Plk1, in a large cohort of 243 early-stage OC and their relationship with clinicopathological features and survival. Based on marker expression we demonstrate that early-stage OC patients (stages I/II, low-grade, serous) with high expression (Ki-67, Plk1) had a significantly shorter progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) compared to patients with low expression (Ki-67, Plk1). Remarkably, based on mRNA expression this significant difference got lost in advanced stages (III/IV): At least for PFS, high levels of Ki-67 and Plk1 correlate with moderately better survival compared to patients with low expressing tumors. Our data suggest that in addition to Ki-67, Plk1 is a novel marker for the stratification of early-stage OC patients to maximize therapeutic efforts. Both, Ki-67 and Plk1, seem to be better suited in early-stages (I/II) as therapeutical targets compared to advanced-stages (III/IV) OC.
A plethora of data has highlighted the role of epigenetics in the development of cancer. Initiation and progression of different cancer types are associated with a variety of changes of epigenetic mechanisms, including aberrant DNA methylation, histone modifications, and miRNA expression. At the same time, advances in the available epigenetic tools allow to investigate and reverse these epigenetic changes and form the basis for the development of anticancer drugs in human oncology. Although human and canine cancer shares several common features, only recently that studies emerged investigating the epigenetic landscape in canine cancer and applying epigenetic modulators to canine cancer. This review focuses on the existing studies involving epigenetic changes in different types of canine cancer and the use of small-molecule inhibitors in canine cancer cells.
Rationale: Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) is a severe, chronic inflammation of the airways leading to an obstruction of the bronchioles. So far, there are only a few studies looking at the long‐term development of pulmonary impairment in children with BOS.
Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the incidence and long‐term outcome of BOS in children who underwent allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).
Methods: Medical charts of 526 children undergoing HSCT in Frankfurt/Main, Germany between 2000 and 2017 were analyzed retrospectively and as a result, 14 patients with BOS were identified. A total of 271 lung functions (spirometry and body plethysmography), 26 lung clearance indices (LCI), and 46 chest high‐resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of these 14 patients with BOS were evaluated.
Results: Fourteen patients suffered from BOS after HSCT (2.7%), whereby three distinctive patterns of lung function impairment were observed: three out of 14 patients showed a progressive lung function decline; two died and one received a lung transplant. In five out of 14 patients with BOS persisted with a severe obstructive and secondarily restrictive pattern in lung function (forced vital capacity [FVC] < 60%, forced expiratory volume in 1 second [FEV1] < 50%, and FEV1/FVC < 0.7) and increased LCI (11.67‐20.9), six out of 14 patients recovered completely after moderate lung function impairment and signs of BOS on HRCT. Long‐term FVC in absolute numbers was increased indicating that the children still have lung growth.
Conclusion: Our results showed that the incidence of BOS in children is low. BOS was associated with high mortality and may lead to persistent obstructive lung disease; although, lung growth continued to exist.
Unresolved inflammation maintained by release of danger‐associated molecular patterns, particularly high‐mobility group box‐1 (HMGB1), is crucial for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) pathogenesis. To further characterize interactions between leucocytes and necrotic cancerous tissue, a cellular model of necroinflammation was studied in which murine Raw 264.7 macrophages or primary splenocytes were exposed to necrotic lysates (N‐lys) of murine hepatoma cells or primary hepatocytes. In comparison to those derived from primary hepatocytes, N‐lys from hepatoma cells were highly active—inducing in macrophages efficient expression of inflammatory cytokines like C‐X‐C motif ligand‐2 , tumor necrosis factor‐α, interleukin (IL)‐6 and IL‐23‐p19. This activity associated with higher levels of HMGB1 in hepatoma cells and was curbed by pharmacological blockage of the receptor for advanced glycation end product (RAGE)/HMGB1 axis or the mitogen‐activated protein kinases ERK1/2 pathway. Analysis of murine splenocytes furthermore demonstrated that N‐lys did not comprise of functionally relevant amounts of TLR4 agonists. Finally, N‐lys derived from hepatoma cells supported inflammatory splenic Th17 and Th1 polarization as detected by IL‐17, IL‐22 or interferon‐γ production. Altogether, a straightforward applicable model was established which allows for biochemical characterization of immunoregulation by HCC necrosis in cell culture. Data presented indicate a remarkably inflammatory capacity of necrotic hepatoma cells that, at least partly, depends on the RAGE/HMGB1 axis and may shape immunological properties of the HCC microenvironment.
Background and Aim: Several studies observed alterations in the gut microbiota in patients with non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). However, analyzed patient populations and methods strongly differ among these studies. The aim of this study was to prove the reproducibility of published results and to provide a detailed overview of all findings in our NAFLD cohort using next generation sequencing methods.
Methods: The individual taxonomic microbiota composition of fecal samples from 90 NAFLD patients and 21 healthy controls was analyzed using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Study participants were grouped according to their disease stage and compared regarding their gut microbiota composition. Studies were identified from PubMed listed publications, and the results were compared with the findings in our cohort.
Results: Results from 13 identified studies were compared with our data. A decreased abundance of the Bacteroidetes and Ruminococcaceae as well as an increased abundance of Lactobacillaceae and Veillonellaceae and Dorea were the most frequently reported changes among NAFLD patients in 4/13, 5/13, 4/13, 2/13, and 3/13 studies, respectively. Even though these alterations in the gut microbiota composition were also observed in our patient cohort, the majority of published differences could not be reproduced, neither in our own nor in other NAFLD cohort studies.
Conclusion: Despite repeatedly reproduced abundance patterns of specific bacteria, the heterogeneous study results did not reveal a consistent disease specific gut microbiota signature. Further prospective studies with homogenous patient cohorts and standardized methods are necessary to phenotype NAFLD by the gut microbiota.
Objective: Clostridial gas gangrene (GG) or clostridial myonecrosis is a very rare but life‐threatening necrotizing soft tissue infection (NSTI) caused by anaerobic, spore‐forming, and gas‐producing clostridium subspecies. It is the most rapidly spreading and lethal infection in humans, also affecting muscle tissue. The high mortality, of up to 100%, in clostridial GG is mediated by potent bacterial exotoxins. Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) is an important differential diagnosis, most often caused by group A streptococci, primarily not affecting musculature but the subcutaneous tissue and fascia. In the early stages of the infection, it is difficult to distinguish between GG and NF. Therefore, we compare both infection types, identify relevant differences in initial clinical presentation and later course, and present the results of our patients in a retrospective review.
Methods: Patients diagnosed with GG from 2008 to 2018 in our level one trauma center were identified. Their charts were reviewed retrospectively and data analyzed in terms of demographic information, microbiological and histological results, therapeutic course, outcome, and mortality rates. The laboratory risk indicator for NF (LRINEC) score was applied on the first blood work acquired. Results were compared to those of a second group diagnosed with NF.
Results: Five patients with GG and nine patients with NF were included in the present study. Patients with GG had a mortality rate of 80% compared to 0% in patients with NF. In eight patients with NF, affected limbs could be salvaged; one NF underwent amputation. LRINEC did not show significant differences between the groups; however, C‐reactive protein was significantly increased (P = 0.009) and hemoglobin (Hb) was significantly decreased (P = 0.02) in patients with GG. Interleukin‐6 and procalcitonin levels did not show significant difference. Patients with GG were older (70.2 vs 50 years). Of the isolated bacteria, 86% were sensitive to the initial calculated antibiotic treatment with ampicillin‐sulbactam or imipenem plus metronidazole plus clindamycin.
Conclusion: Both GG and NF need full‐scale surgical, antibiotic, and intensive care treatment, especially within the first days. Among patients with NSTI, those with clostridial GG have a significantly increased mortality risk due to early septic shock caused by clostridial toxins. In the initial stages, clinical differences are hardly detectable. Immediate surgical debridement is the key to successful therapy for NSTI and needs to be performed as early as possible. However, patients should be treated in a center with an experienced interdisciplinary intensive care team based on a predetermined treatment plan.
Objectives: To assess tolerability and efficacy of lacosamide in adults with cerebrovascular epilepsy etiology (CVEE).
Materials and methods: Exploratory post hoc analyses of a double‐blind, initial monotherapy trial of lacosamide vs carbamazepine‐controlled release (carbamazepine‐CR) (SP0993; NCT01243177); a double‐blind conversion to lacosamide monotherapy trial (SP0902; NCT00520741); and an observational study of adjunctive lacosamide added to one antiepileptic drug (SP0973 VITOBA; NCT01098162). Patients with CVEE were identified based on epilepsy etiology recorded at baseline.
Results: In the initial monotherapy trial, 61 patients had CVEE (lacosamide: 27; carbamazepine‐CR: 34). 20 (74.1%) patients on lacosamide (27 [79.4%] on carbamazepine‐CR) reported treatment‐emergent adverse events (TEAEs), most commonly (≥10%) headache, dizziness, and fatigue (carbamazepine‐CR: headache, dizziness). A numerically higher proportion of patients on lacosamide than carbamazepine‐CR completed 6 months (22 [81.5%]; 20 [58.8%]) and 12 months (18 [66.7%]; 17 [50.0%]) treatment without seizure at last evaluated dose. In the conversion to monotherapy trial, 26/30 (86.7%) patients with CVEE reported TEAEs, most commonly (≥4 patients) dizziness, convulsion, fatigue, headache, somnolence, and cognitive disorder. During lacosamide monotherapy, 17 (56.7%) patients were 50% responders and six (20.0%) were seizure‐free. In the observational study, 36/83 (43.4%) patients with CVEE reported TEAEs, most commonly (≥5%) fatigue and dizziness. Effectiveness was assessed for 75 patients. During the last 3 months, 60 (80%) were 50% responders and 42 (56.0%) were seizure‐free.
Conclusions: These exploratory post hoc analyses suggested lacosamide was generally well tolerated and effective in patients with CVEE, with data from the initial monotherapy trial suggesting numerically better efficacy than carbamazepine‐CR.
Objective: To explore and describe exposure to suicidality in healthcare providers (HCP) working with oncological patients. Special emphasis was put on five central aspects from the HCPs perspective: Exposure, Confidence, Expertise, Distress, and Education.
Methods: A 48‐item online questionnaire was developed and distributed to HCPs working with cancer patients. Three hundred fifty‐four answered questionnaires were analyzed.
Results: Overall 83.3% of HCPs reported to have encountered at least one suicidal patient in the last year. Feeling confident in talking about suicidality was reported by 72.1% of HCPs, with 71.2% of nurses reporting feeling insecure compared with only 5.1% of psychotherapists. Similarly, 22.3% of HCPs felt overwhelmed when confronted with a patient who substantiated his suicidality during consultation. A lack of personal knowledge concerning suicidality in general and in oncological patients in particular, was reported by 39.6% and 49.8%, respectively. In total, 88.1% of HCPs reported feeling distressed when confronted with suicidality, while 81.1% of participants wanted further education regarding suicidality in cancer patients despite that 73.2% had already received some sort of psycho‐oncology education.
Conclusions: Despite the well‐documented fact of elevated suicide rates in cancer patients, there remain deficits in knowledge, which induce feelings of insecurity and helplessness in HCPs. There is a demand for further education concerning the treatment of suicidal cancer patients. Therefore, special curricula addressing this topic should be devised. A general debate about suicidality in cancer patients could help raise awareness of this problem and generate means of prevention.
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is mainly precipitated by the destruction of insulin-producing β-cells in the pancreatic islets of Langerhans by autoaggressive T cells. The etiology of the disease is still not clear, but besides genetic predisposition the exposure to environmental triggers seems to play a major role. Virus infection of islets has been demonstrated in biopsies of T1D patients, but there is still no firm proof that such an infection indeed results in islet-specific autoimmunity. However, virus infection results in a local inflammation with expression of inflammatory factors, such as cytokines and chemokines that attract and activate immune cells, including potential autoreactive T cells. Many chemokines have been found to be elevated in the serum and expressed by islet cells of T1D patients. In mouse models, it has been demonstrated that β-cells express chemokines involved in the initial recruitment of immune cells to the islets. The bulk load of chemokines is however released by the infiltrating immune cells that also express multiple chemokine receptors. The result is a mutual attraction of antigen-presenting cells and effector immune cells in the local islet microenvironment. Although there is a considerable redundancy within the chemokine ligand-receptor network, a few chemokines, such as CXCL10, seem to play a key role in the T1D pathogenesis. Studies with neutralizing antibodies and investigations in chemokine-deficient mice demonstrated that interfering with certain chemokine ligand-receptor axes might also ameliorate human T1D. However, one important aspect of such a treatment is the time of administration. Blockade of the recruitment of immune cells to the site of autoimmune destruction might not be effective when the disease process is already ongoing. By that time, autoaggressive cells have already arrived in the islet microenvironment and a blockade of migration might even hold them in place leading to accelerated destruction. Thus, an anti-chemokine therapy makes most sense in situations where the cells have not yet migrated to the islets. Such situations include treatment of patients at risk already carrying islet-antigen autoantibodies but are not yet diabetic, islet transplantation recipients, and patients that have undergone a T cell reset as occurring after anti-CD3 antibody treatment.
Objective: Children with pre-school asthma suffer disproportionally more often from severe asthma exacerbations with emergency visits and hospital admissions compared to school children. Despite this high disease burden, there are only a few reports looking at this particular severe asthma cohort. Similarly, there is little real-life research on the distribution of asthma phenotypes and personalized treatment at discharge in this age group. Patients and Methods: Retrospective analysis of the electronic charts of all children aged 1–5 years with asthma hospitalizations (ICD J45) at the Frankfurt University between 2008 and 2017. An acute severe asthma exacerbation was defined as dyspnea, oxygen demand, and/or systemic steroid therapy. Age, gender, duration of hospitalization, asthma phenotype, treatment, and readmission rate were analyzed. Results: Of 572 patients, 205 met the definition of acute severe asthma. The phenotypic characterization showed 56.1% had allergic asthma, 15.2% eosinophilic asthma and 28.7% non-allergic asthma. Of these patients, 71.7% were discharged with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) or ICS + long-acting-beta-agonists (LABA), 15.1% with leukotriene antagonists (LTRA) and 7.3% salbutamol on demand. The rate of emergency presentations (emergency department and readmission) within 12 months after discharge was high (n = 42; 20.5%). No phenotype tailored treatment was detectable. Neither the number of eosinophils (>300/μl) nor the treatment at discharge had an effect on emergency visits and readmission rate. Conclusion: Despite protective therapy with ICS, ICS + LABA, or LTRA, the readmission rate was high. Thus, current care and treatment strategies should be reevaluated continuously, in order to better control asthma in pre-school children and prevent hospitalization.
Photochemical internalization (PCI) is a technology to induce a localized, intracellular enhancement of therapeutics that are processed through endosomal pathways, including gemcitabine in malignant cells. In addition to a direct phototoxic and tumoricidal effect, PCI specifically disrupts endosomal membranes and, thereby, the compartmentalization of certain cytotoxic compounds to enhance a drug’s intended intracellular target reach within the tissue treated.
Non-resectable extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (eCCA) is a common primary tumor and gemcitabine/cisplatin chemotherapy is widely considered standard of care for it. PCI is well suited as an endoscopic intervention, and clinical observations in three subjects participating in a phase I/IIa dose escalation safety trial are described. The trial included patients with perihilar, non-resectable CCA suitable for standard-of-care chemotherapy. Per protocol, a single endoscopic PCI procedure with gemcitabine was conducted at the initiation of standard gemcitabine/cisplatin therapy. Sixteen patients enrolled in the initial dose escalation phase of the trial, which later was extended to explore the safety of a second PCI procedure during chemotherapy.
While limited to a case series, the various clinical observations described here serve to illustrate the effects of localized, perihilar tumor targeting in appropriate patients by any safe methodology, including PCI. As previously indicated by clinical data using other localized treatment modalities, adding a directed, tumor-targeting treatment to systemic therapy to ameliorate the progressively expanding extrahepatic tumor burden can have important effects on the overall outcome of systemic treatment in many patients who have incurable eCCA.
A novel, broad-acting peptide inhibitor of double-stranded DNA virus gene expression and replication
(2020)
Viral infections are a global disease burden with only a limited number of antiviral agents available. Due to newly emerging viral pathogens and increasing occurrence of drug resistance, there is a continuous need for additional therapeutic options, preferably with extended target range. In the present study, we describe a novel antiviral peptide with broad activity against several double-stranded DNA viruses. The 22-mer peptide TAT-I24 potently neutralized viruses such as herpes simplex viruses, adenovirus type 5, cytomegalovirus, vaccinia virus, and simian virus 40 in cell culture models, while being less active against RNA viruses. The peptide TAT-I24 therefore represents a novel and promising drug candidate for use against double-stranded DNA viruses.
Particulate autogenous tooth roots are used for alveolar bone augmentation surgery; however, dental plaque may provoke an inflammatory response that may counteract the desired graft consolidation process. Traditional mechanical cleaning of extracted teeth may be of support to lower a possible inflammatory response of the autograft. To test this assumption, extracted porcine teeth were left either uncleaned or underwent mechanical cleaning with a toothbrush and toothpaste before being fragmented and subjected to acid lysis, termed as unclean acid dentine lysate (ucADL) and clean acid dentine lysate (cADL), respectively. The inflammatory responses of murine macrophage RAW 264.7 cells being exposed to the respective acid dentine lysates were evaluated at the level of inflammatory gene expression and IL6 immunoassays. We report here that acid lysates obtained from uncleaned teeth provoked a robust increase in IL1β, IL6, and COX2 in RAW 264.7 cells. The mechanical removal of dental plaque significantly reduced the inflammatory response. Consistently, Limulus tests revealed that tooth cleaning lowers the presence of endotoxins in dentine lysates. To further prove the involvement of endotoxins, a toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) inhibitor TAK242 was introduced. TAK242 abolished the inflammatory response provoked by acid lysates obtained from uncleaned teeth in RAW 264.7 cells. Moreover, nuclear translocation and phosphorylation of the TLR4 downstream NFκB-p65 were attenuated at the presence of cleaned versus uncleaned dentine lysates. Taken together, our data support the importance of dental plaque removal of teeth being extracted for alveolar bone augmentation surgery.
The Ebola virus (EBOV) can cause severe infections in humans, leading to a fatal outcome in a high percentage of cases. Neutralizing antibodies against the EBOV surface glycoprotein (GP) can prevent infections, demonstrating a straightforward way for an efficient vaccination strategy. Meanwhile, many different anti‐EBOV antibodies have been identified, whereas the exact binding epitopes are often unknown. Here, the analysis of serum samples from an EBOV vaccine trial with the recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus‐Zaire ebolavirus (rVSV‐ZEBOV) and an Ebola virus disease survivor, using high‐density peptide arrays, is presented. In this proof‐of‐principle study, distinct IgG and IgM antibodies binding to different epitopes of EBOV GP is detected: By mapping the whole GP as overlapping peptide fragments, new epitopes and confirmed epitopes from the literature are found. Furthermore, the highly selective binding epitope of a neutralizing monoclonal anti‐EBOV GP antibody could be validated. This shows that peptide arrays can be a valuable tool to study the humoral immune response to vaccines in patients and to support Ebola vaccine development.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is highly resistant to anticancer therapy and novel therapeutic strategies are needed. Chronotherapy may become a promising approach because it may improve the efficacy of antimitotic radiation and chemotherapy by considering timing of treatment. To date little is known about time‐of‐day dependent changes of proliferation and DNA damage in HCC. Using transgenic c‐myc/transforming growth factor (TGFα) mice as HCC animal model, we immunohistochemically demonstrated Ki67 as marker for proliferation and γ‐H2AX as marker for DNA damage in HCC and surrounding healthy liver (HL). Core clock genes (Per1, Per2, Cry1, Cry2, Bmal 1, Rev‐erbα and Clock) were examined by qPCR. Data were obtained from samples collected ex vivo at four different time points and from organotypic slice cultures (OSC). Significant differences were found between HCC and HL. In HCC, the number of Ki67 immunoreactive cells showed two peaks (ex vivo: ZT06 middle of day and ZT18 middle of night; OSC: CT04 and CT16). In ex vivo samples, the number of γ‐H2AX positive cells in HCC peaked at ZT18 (middle of the night), while in OSC their number remained high during subjective day and night. In both HCC and HL, clock gene expression showed a time‐of‐day dependent expression ex vivo but no changes in OSC. The expression of Per2 and Cry1 was significantly lower in HCC than in HL. Our data support the concept of chronotherapy of HCC. OSC may become useful to test novel cancer therapies.
Background: To volumetrically assess the bone microstructure following vertical alveolar ridge augmentation using differently conditioned autogenous tooth roots (TR) and second‐stage implant placement.
Materials and methods: The upper premolars were bilaterally extracted in n = 4 beagle dogs and randomly assigned to either autoclavation (TR‐A) or no additional treatment (TR‐C). Subsequently, TR were used as block grafts for vertical alveolar ridge augmentation in both lower quadrants. At 12 weeks, titanium implants were inserted and left to heal 3 weeks. Microcomputed tomography was used to quantify bone volume per tissue volume (BV/TV), trabecular thickness (Tb.Th), and trabecular spacing (Tb.Sp) at vestibular (v) and oral (o) aspects along the implant and in the augmented upper half of the implant, respectively.
Results: Median BV/TV [TR‐C: 51.33% (v) and 70.42% (o) vs TR‐A: 44.05% (v) and 64.46% (o)], Tb.th [TR‐C: 0.22 mm (v) and 0.27 mm (o) vs TR‐A: 0.23 mm (v) and 0.29 mm (o)] and Tb.Sp [TR‐C: 0.26 mm (v) and 0.13 mm (o) vs TR‐A: 0.29 μm (v) and 0.15 mm (o)] values were comparable in both groups.
Conclusion: Both TR‐C and TR‐A grafts were associated with a comparable bone microstructure within the grafted area.
Sphingosine‐1‐phosphate lyase 1 (S1P lyase or SGPL1) is an essential sphingosine‐1‐phosphate‐degrading enzyme. Its manipulation favors onset and progression of colorectal cancer and others in vivo. Thus, SGPL1 is an important modulator of cancer initiation. However, in established cancer, the impact of retrospective SGPL1 modulation is elusive. Herein, we analyzed how SGPL1 siRNA affects malignancy of the human colorectal cancer cells DLD‐1 and found that in parallel to the reduction of SGPL1 expression levels, migration, invasion, and differentiation status changed. Diminished SGPL1 expression was accompanied with reduced cell migration and cell invasion in scratch assays and transwell assays, whereas metabolic activity and proliferation was not altered. Decreased migration was attended by increased cell–cell‐adhesion through upregulation of E‐cadherin and formation of cadherin‐actin complexes. Spreading cell islets showed lower vimentin abundance in border cells. Furthermore, SGPL1 siRNA treatment induced expression of epithelial cell differentiation markers, such as intestinal alkaline phosphatase and cytokeratin 20. Hence, interference with SGPL1 expression augmented a partial redifferentiation of colorectal cancer cells toward normal colon epithelial cells. Our investigation showed that SGPL1 siRNA influenced tumorigenic activity of established colorectal cancer cells. We therefore suggest SGPL1 as a target for lowering malignant potential of already existing cancer.
Hypersensitivity reactions to non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) – a retrospective study
(2020)
Background: The aim of this study was to verify the validity of clinical history and oral provocation challenges of patients with NSAID hypersensitivity and to identify safe alternatives. The COX‐2 inhibitor etoricoxib, in particular, was studied.
Patients and methods: In all, 104 patients with confirmed diagnoses of NSAID hypersensitivity treated at the Department of Dermatology, Frankfurt University Hospital, Germany between 2004 and 2012 were retrospectively studied.
Results: The medical history and hypersensitivity symptoms during oral provocation testing (OPT) largely coincided and were mostly mild to moderate. Acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) was the most frequent trigger both anamnestically (27.9 %) and during OPT (47.8 %). Etoricoxib caused the fewest reactions during OPT (4.2 %). Acetaminophen led to reactions in only 6.7 % of the cases studied although it was named more often in clinical histories (14 %).
Conclusions: OPT should be the aim whenever possible as most symptoms are mild to moderate. To distinguish between selective and cross‐hypersensitivity reactions, ASA should be part of the test protocol. Furthermore, the findings of this study indicate that etoricoxib and acetaminophen are safe treatment alternatives in case of NSAID hypersensitivity. However, these drugs should not be administered without prior OPT in an inpatient setting, as severe symptoms can occur.
Background: The present study aimed to assess the three‐dimensional changes following soft tissue augmentation using free gingival grafts (FGG) at implant sites over a 3‐month follow‐up period.
Methods: This study included 12 patients exhibiting deficient keratinized tissue (KT) width (i.e., <2 mm) at the vestibular aspect of 19 implants who underwent soft tissue augmentation using FGG at second stage surgery following implant placement. Twelve implants were considered for the statistical analysis (n = 12). The region of interest (ROI) was intraorally scanned before surgery (S0), immediately post‐surgery (S1), 30 (S2) and 90 (S3) days after augmentation. Digital scanned files were used for quantification of FGG surface area (SA) and converted to standard tessellation language (STL) format for superimposition and evaluation of thickness changes between the corresponding time points. FGG shrinkage (%) in terms of SA and thickness was calculated between the assessed time points.
Results: Mean FGG SA amounted to 91 (95% CI: 63 to 119), 76.2 (95% CI: 45 to 106), and 61.3 (95% CI: 41 to 81) mm2 at S1, S2, and S3, respectively. Mean FGG SA shrinkage rate was 16.3% (95% CI: 3 to 29) from S1 to S2 and 33% (95% CI: 19 to 46) from S1 to S3. Mean thickness gain from baseline (S0) to S1, S2, and S3 was 1.31 (95% CI: 1.2 to 1.4), 0.82 (95% CI: 0.5 to 1.12), and 0.37 (0.21 to 0.5) mm, respectively. FGG thickness shrinkage was of 38% (95% CI: 17.6 to 58) from S1 to S2 and 71.8% (95% CI: 60 to 84) from S1 to S3. Dimensional changes from S1 to S3 were statistically significant, P <0.017. Soft tissue healing was uneventful in all patients.
Conclusions: The present three‐dimensional assessment suggests that FGG undergo significant dimensional changes in SA and thickness over a 3‐month healing period.
Purpose: Surgery of KOOS IV vestibular schwannoma remains challenging regarding the balance of extent of tumor resection (EoR) and functional outcome. Our aim was to evaluate the outcome of surgical resection and define a cut-off value for safe resection with low risk for tumor regrowth of KOOS IV vestibular schwannoma.
Methods: All patients presenting at the authors’ institution between 2000 and 2019 with surgically treated KOOS IV vestibular schwannoma were included. Outcome measures included EoR, facial/hearing nerve function, surgical complications and progression of residual tumor during the median follow-up period of 28 months.
Results: In 58 patients, mean tumor volume was 17.1 ± 9.2 cm3, and mean EoR of 81.6 ± 16.8% could be achieved. Fifty-one patients were available for the follow-up analysis. Growth of residual tumor was observed in 11 patients (21.6%) followed by adjuvant treatment with stereotactic radiosurgery or repeat surgery in 15 patients (29.4%). Overall serviceable hearing preservation was achieved in 38 patients (74.5%) and good facial outcome at discharge was observed in 66.7% of patients, significantly increasing to 82.4% at follow-up. Independent predictors for residual tumor growth was EoR ≤ 87% (OR11.1) with a higher EoR being associated with a very low number of residual tumor progression amounting to 7.1% at follow-up (p=0.008).
Conclusions: Subtotal tumor resection is a good therapeutic concept in patients with KOOS IV vestibular schwannoma resulting in a high rate of good hearing and facial nerve function and a very low rate of subsequent tumor progression. The goal of surgery should be to achieve more than 87% of tumor resection to keep residual tumor progression low.
Respiratory chain signalling is essential for adaptive remodelling following cardiac ischaemia
(2020)
Cardiac ischaemia‐reperfusion (I/R) injury has been attributed to stress signals arising from an impaired mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC), which include redox imbalance, metabolic stalling and excessive production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). The alternative oxidase (AOX) is a respiratory enzyme, absent in mammals, that accepts electrons from a reduced quinone pool to reduce oxygen to water, thereby restoring electron flux when impaired and, in the process, blunting ROS production. Hence, AOX represents a natural rescue mechanism from respiratory stress. This study aimed to determine how respiratory restoration through xenotopically expressed AOX affects the re‐perfused post‐ischaemic mouse heart. As expected, AOX supports ETC function and attenuates the ROS load in post‐anoxic heart mitochondria. However, post‐ischaemic cardiac remodelling over 3 and 9 weeks was not improved. AOX blunted transcript levels of factors known to be up‐regulated upon I/R such as the atrial natriuretic peptide (Anp) whilst expression of pro‐fibrotic and pro‐apoptotic transcripts were increased. Ex vivo analysis revealed contractile failure at nine but not 3 weeks after ischaemia whilst label‐free quantitative proteomics identified an increase in proteins promoting adverse extracellular matrix remodelling. Together, this indicates an essential role for ETC‐derived signals during cardiac adaptive remodelling and identified ROS as a possible effector.
Aims: Preventing hospitalization by detecting early evidence of heart failure (HF) decompensation in an outpatient setting can improve patient's quality of life and reduce costs of care. The purpose of this study was to assess the value of cardiac acoustic biomarkers (CABs), a combination of cardiohaemic vibrations synchronized with ECG signals, and heart rate (HR) for detecting HF decompensation during first 3 months after hospital discharge for HF.
Methods and results: Patients with an ejection fraction ≤35% (HFrEF) and hospitalized for decompensated HF were enrolled in a prospective observational study. All subjects wore a wearable cardioverter‐defibrillator (ZOLL LifeVest®, Pittsburgh, PA, USA) that is capable of recording CABs and HR. The primary endpoint of the study was the first HF event, defined as HF readmission or HF emergency room visit. From June 2017 through August 2019, 671 patients with HFrEF were enrolled. Eighty‐one patients (12.1%) had a total of 112 HF events. The algorithm detected HF events with a median of 32 days (interquartile range = 11‐45) in advance of the first HF event. The algorithm had a sensitivity of 69%, specificity of 60%, positive predictive value of 19%, and a negative predictive value of 94%. Of note, the baseline (first 7 days post‐enrolment) algorithm using CABs and HR was superior to New York Heart Association classification in detecting patients more likely to have HF decompensation (sensitivity and specificity of 61% and 68% vs. 46% and 55%, respectively).
Conclusions: This prospective international registry showed that an algorithm incorporating CABs and HR data detected HF events 30 days in advance of the event in patients with HFrEF during first 3 months after hospital discharge. Therefore, integrating CAB technology into clinical practice may prevent HF rehospitalizations.
Central cholinergic function and metabolic changes in streptozotocin‐induced rat brain injury
(2020)
As glucose hypometabolism in the brain is an early sign of Alzheimer´s dementia (AD), the diabetogenic drug streptozotocin (STZ) has been used to induce Alzheimer‐like pathology in rat brain by intracereboventricular injection (icv‐STZ). However, many details of the pathological mechanism of STZ in this AD model remain unclear. Here, we report metabolic and cholinergic effects of icv‐STZ using microdialysis in freely moving animals. We found that icv‐STZ at a dose of 3 mg/kg (2 × 1.5 mg/kg) causes overt toxicity reflected in body weight loss. Three weeks after STZ administration, histological examination revealed a high number of glial fibrillary acidic protein reactive cells in the hippocampus, accompanied by Fluoro‐Jade C‐positive cells in the CA1 region. Glucose and lactate levels in microdialysates were unchanged, but mitochondrial respiration measured ex vivo was reduced by 9%–15%. High‐affinity choline uptake, choline acetyltransferase, and acetylcholine esterase (AChE) activities in the hippocampus were reduced by 16%, 28%, and 30%, respectively. Importantly, extracellular acetylcholine (ACh) levels in the hippocampus were unchanged and responded to behavioral and pharmacological challenges. In comparison, extracellular ACh levels and cholinergic parameters in the striatum were unchanged or slightly increased. We conclude that the icv‐STZ model poorly reflects central cholinergic dysfunction, an important characteristic of dementia. The icv‐STZ model may be more aptly described as an animal model of hippocampal gliosis.
The digital and information age has fundamentally transformed the way in which students learn and the study material they have at their disposal, especially in higher education. Students need to possess a number of higher-order cognitive and metacognitive skills, including effective information processing and critical reasoning to be able to navigate the Internet and use online sources, even those found outside of academically curated domains and in the depths of the Internet, and to solve (domain-specific) problems. Linking qualitative and quantitative research and connecting the humanities to empirical educational science studies, this article investigates the role of narratives and their impact on university students’ information seeking and their critical online reasoning (COR). This study focuses on the link between students’ online navigation skills, information seeking behavior and critical reasoning with regard to the specific domains: economics and medicine. For the empirical analysis in this article, we draw on a study that assesses the COR skills of undergraduate students of economics and medicine at two German universities. To measure COR skills, we used five tasks from the computer-based assessment “Critical Online Reasoning Assessment” (CORA), which assesses students’ skills in critically evaluating online sources and reasoning using evidence on contentious issues. The conceptual framework of this study is based on an existing methodology – narrative economics and medicine – and discusses its instructional potential and how it can be used to develop a new tool of “wise interventions” to enhance students’ COR in higher education. Based on qualitative content analyses of the students’ written responses, i.e., short essays, three distinct patterns of information seeking behavior among students have been identified. These three patterns – “Unambiguous Fact-Checking,” “Perspective-Taking Without Fact-Checking,” and “Web Credibility-Evaluating” – differ substantially in their potential connection to underlying narratives of information used by students to solve the CORA tasks. This analysis suggests that training university students in narrative analysis can strongly contribute to enhancing their critical online reasoning.
In der vorliegenden Untersuchung wurde das bovine, Hydroxylapatit-basierte, Knochenersatzmaterial Hypro-Oss® zunächst ex vivo überprüft, anschließend subkutan in den interskapulären Bereich von 12 weiblichen Wistar-Ratten (Testgruppe) eingebracht; bei 12 weiteren Tieren erfolgte eine Sham-Operation ohne Einbringung von Biomaterial (Kontrollgruppe). Anschließend wurde die Gewebereaktion über 30 Tage beobachtet und die Explantate jeweils nach Tag 3, 15 und 30 histologisch und histomorphometrisch untersucht.
Die histologische Analyse zeigte innerhalb des Beobachtungszeitraums von 30 Tagen eine störungsfreie Eingliederung der Hypro-Oss®-Granula in das umliegende Gewebe. Bereits 3 Tage nach Einbringung des Biomaterials waren mononukleäre Zellen erkennbar, die bis Tag 30 weiter zunahmen. Ab diesem Zeitpunkt zeigten sich auch TRAP-positive, CD-68-negative Multinukleäre Zellen, die das Ergebnis einer Fusion von Makrophagen sind und eine Fremdkörperreaktion indizierten. Nach 30 Tagen zeigten sich die Granula histologisch stabil integriert ohne Anzeichen einer immunologischen Abstoßungsreaktion.
Die CD-68-Expression der aufgefundenen Makrophagen und mehrkernigen Riesenzellen bildete ein Kriterium zur Unterscheidung der MNGCs von Osteoklasten, die ebenfalls mehrkernig sind, aber dieses Cluster of Differentiation nicht tragen. Dies charakterisiert die vorgefundenen MNGCs als Fremdkörper-Riesenzellen, da sie ebenso wie die pathologischen Riesenzellen vom Typ Langerhans CD-68 exprimieren.
Dieses Bild bestätigte sich für die Hypro-Oss®-Gruppe in der histomorphometrischen Betrachtung über eine kontinuierliche Zunahme von überwiegend CD-68-positiven Makrophagen bis zum Tag 30, während sie für die Kontrollgruppe über die gesamte Zeit rückläufig waren. Die Multinukleären Zellen erreichten dagegen bereits an Tag 15 ihren Höhepunkt, während in der Kontrollgruppe über den gesamten Beobachtungszeitraum erwartungsgemäß keine MNGCs gefunden wurden.
Der hoch signifikante Anstieg der MNGC-Zahl der Testgruppe bis Tag 15 korreliert positiv mit den Vaskularisationsdaten, was darauf hindeutet, dass die Multinukleären Zellen durch die Einbringung des Biomaterials induziert wurden und über die Sekretion des Signalmoleküls VEGF einen wesentlichen Faktor für die Blutgefäßbildung bilden.
Eine Auffälligkeit hat sich jedoch in Bezug auf das Alleinstellungsmerkmal von Hypro-Oss® gezeigt, welches bei der Aufreinigung nicht erhitzt wird. Diverse Studien haben einen Zusammenhang der Höhe der Sintertemperatur mit der Bildung von MNGCs nachgewiesen, wonach für Hypro-Oss® eine geringe Induzierung von MNGCs zu erwarten gewesen wäre als für vergleichbare, höher erhitzte bovine Knochenersatzmaterialien. Dagegen zeigten die Vaskularisationsdaten unserer Untersuchung für Hypro-Oss® im Vergleich zu 2 anderen bovinen Knochenersatzmaterialien (Bio-Oss® und BEGO OSS®) jedoch signifikant höhere Werte für die Blutgefäßbildung als dies aus der Korrelation von Sintertemperatur mit der Anzahl Multinukleärer Riesenzellen zu erwarten gewesen wäre.
Aufgrund der relativ kurzen Dauer der Beobachtung lassen sich keine belastbaren Ergebnisse in Bezug auf den zu erwartenden Materialabbau und die ossäre Integration von Hypro-Oss® feststellen, welche einer längerfristigen Analyse bedürften als es in dieser Untersuchung möglich war. Es gibt aber klinische Erfahrungsberichte23 hinsichtlich Handling, Heilungsverlauf und Materialintegration von Hypro-Oss® bei Sinusbodenelevation und Guided Bone Regeneration, die auch in der Langfristbetrachtung positive Ergebnisse zeigten. Offen bleibt, ob nicht eine physiologische Wundheilung nur mittels Makrophagen einer pathologischen Wundheilung unter Mitwirkung Multinukleärer Riesenzellen überlegen ist: zumindest robustere Knochenersatzmaterialien wie z.B. das hier untersuchte Hypro-Oss® scheinen dabei weniger sensibel auf Multinukleäre Riesenzellen zu reagieren.
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a neoplastic disorder of blood cells of the lymphoid lineage, is the most frequent childhood cancer. In spite of increasing survival rates, the outcome for adults, infants or relapsed patients is still less favorable, highlighting the need for novel treatment options. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are important signaling molecules that are involved in a variety of cellular pathways. As high ROS levels lead to oxidative stress and irreversible oxidation of cellular macromolecules, the production and elimination of ROS is tightly controlled. Therefore, cells express several antioxidant molecules and enzymes, including glutathione, catalase and the thioredoxin (Trx) system, to balance ROS levels. As cancer cells were found to have increased ROS levels that could contribute to tumor progression and metastasis, they rely strongly on these antioxidant systems to prevent oxidative damage, making cancer cells especially vulnerable to ROS-inducing treatments. ROS and oxidative stress have been shown to induce programmed cell death via different pathways, however the exact mechanisms that couples oxidative signaling and cell death is not completely understood.
As a disturbance of the cellular redox homeostasis was reported during leukemia development and progression, we wanted to determine the potential of Trx inhibitors for ALL therapy. Additionally, we aimed to further understand the role of ROS and subsequent protein oxidation in the induction and execution of programmed cell death.
First, we demonstrated that the Trx1 inhibitor PX-12 induced cell death in three ALL cell lines. Further analysis of the events leading to PX-12-induced cell death in FADD-deficient (FD) Jurkat cells revealed an increase in ROS levels and oxidation-mediated dimer formation of peroxiredoxin 3 (PRDX3). Interestingly cell death was inhibited by the thiol-containing antioxidant N-acetylcysteine (NAC), but not by non-thiol-containing ROS scavengers. PX-12 treatment further induced cleavage of caspase-9 and -3 and activation of the pro-apoptotic BCL-2 protein BAK, leading us to the conclusion that mitochondria-dependent apoptosis was induced. Interestingly, we could demonstrate an important role for the BH3-only protein NOXA in the mediation of PX-12-induced apoptosis as knock-down of NOXA prevented cell death induction and BAK activation. Our findings give novel insights into the mechanism of PX-12-induced cell death in ALL cell lines and underscores the potential of PX-12 for the treatment of ALL.
To further understand the processes leading to cell death upon inhibition of the Trx system, we analyzed global protein oxidation in Jurkat FD cells upon treatment with the Trx reductase inhibitor Auranofin. In line with previous results, Auranofin induced intrinsic apoptosis that was dependent on BAK and accompanied by increased ROS levels. Using a BIAM Switch Assay followed by mass spectrometry, we demonstrated that Auranofin treatment induced oxidation of over 200 proteins. We identified several proteins whose oxidation upon Auranofin treatment was expected, like Trx1, Trx2 and several peroxiredoxins. Additionally, we verified oxidation of APAF1-interacting protein (APIP) and protein arginine N-methyltransferase (PRMT1) that are both implicated in the regulation of apoptosis. With this analysis we were able to demonstrate that Auranofin treatment leads to changes in global protein oxidation. Whether oxidation of the determined proteins changes their functionality and contributes to apoptosis induction remains to be elucidated.
As we identified BAK as an important player in PX-12- and Auranofin-induced cell death in the previous parts of this study, we wanted to further understand its involvement in ROS-mediated cell death. First analyses in wild-type (WT) and BAK-/- murine embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) revealed that BAK was essential for Auranofin-induced cell death and that this cell death was caspase-independent in MEFs. Interestingly, BAK oxidation was induced upon treatment with Auranofin, but not upon stimulation with the apoptosis-inducing compound Etoposide. Expression of mutated BAK, with either one or both oxidation-sensitive cysteines mutated to oxidation-insensitive serines, revealed that mutating already one cysteine protected cells from Auranofin , but not Etoposide-induced cell death. Of note, mutation of the BAK BH3 domain rescued MEFs from both, Auranofin- and Etoposide-mediated cell death. The presence of cysteine residues also altered BAK interactions as observed by a mass spectrometric analysis of Auranofin-treated MEFs expressing either WT or cysteine-less BAK. We identified interactions of WT BAK with proteins involved in mitochondrial fission and vesicle transport upon Auranofin treatment. Of note, interaction with proteins involved in apoptosis, like BAX or BCL-XL, was not changed between WT and cysteine-less BAK. Our results demonstrate a critical role for BAK oxidation in Auranofin-induced cell death. Furthermore, we identified novel oxidation-dependent BAK interaction partners.
To conclude, this study highlights the potential of ROS-inducing treatments for ALL therapy and provides novel insights into the redox regulation of programmed cell death.
Aufgrund der starken Heterogenität und Komplexität der akuten myeloischen Leukämie ist diese bis heute nicht zufriedenstellend zu behandeln. Die bestmögliche Therapie wird mittlerweile zunehmend auf die Erkrankung des Einzelnen angepasst. Vermehrt gewinnen Tyrosinkinase-Inhibitoren in der Therapie an Bedeutung. Diese Inhibitoren hemmen Proteine auf zellulärer Ebene.
Bei etwa 30% der AML-Patienten lassen sich Mutationen des FLT3-Gens nachweisen. Das Gen kodiert für die fms like tyrosine kinase 3, eine Rezeptor-Tyrosinkinase an der Zelloberfläche von unreifen Blutzellen des Knochenmarks. Durch Mutationen des FLT3 Gens erhalten diese Zellen einen Proliferationsvorteil gegenüber den physiologischen Blutzellen.
Am häufigsten kommt es zu in frame-Insertionen des FLT3-Gens, vor allem im Bereich der juxtamembranen Domäne: sogenannte interne Tandemduplikationen (ITD). Weiterhin kommen zu einem geringeren Teil Punktmutationen einzelner Codons, zum Beispiel im Bereich des activation loops oder im Bereich des gatekeepers vor. Durch das Auftreten der Punktmutationen, die entweder bereits zum Zeitpunkt der Diagnose vorliegen oder erst während einer Therapie mit einem Tyrosinkinase-Inhibitor entstehen können, verändert sich das Bindungsverhalten vieler solcher gegen FLT3 gerichteten Inhibitoren. Durch Letzteres kann ein mögliches Therapieversagen beispielsweise während der Behandlung mit AC220 (Quizartinib) erklärt werden (Smith et al.).
In der vorliegenden Dissertationsschrift sind Unterschiede der Signalwege zwischen FLT3-ITD und FLT3-ITD mit der zusätzlichen gatekeeper-Punktmutation F691L herausgearbeitet. Dafür wurden die beiden FLT3-Mutationen in den Vektor pMy-IRES-GFP eingebracht und retroviral in Ba/F3-Zellen transduziert. Nach Überprüfung der Expression von FLT3 ITD und dem Wachstumsverhalten unter Zugabe von AC220 (Quizartinib), wurden verschiedene Signalkaskaden von FLT3 mittels Western Blot untersucht. Hierbei zeigten sich sowohl Unterschiede für die Expression von phosphoryliertem ERK als auch von phosphoryliertem STAT5.
Durch verschieden starke Expressionen der FLT3130kDa- und FLT3160kDA-Varianten wurde eine unterschiedliche Lokalisation von FLT3-ITD in Zellen mit und ohne die Mutation F691L postuliert. Allerdings ließ sich diese experimentell mittels Immunfluoreszenz nicht belegen, da die Methode für die verwendeten Suspensionszellen nicht ausreichend geeignet war.
In den durchgeführten Versuchen zum Wachstumsverhalten der Zellen bei der Verwendung von Kinaseinhibitoren konnte bei der Verwendung des SYK-Inhibitors R406 eine dosisabhängige Proliferationshemmung der FLT3-ITD-mutierten Ba/F3- und 32D-Zellen beobachtet werden. Die Hemmung von FLT3 durch R406 wurde in der Literatur bereits beschrieben (Braselmann et al.).
Die abschließenden Experimente der Massenspektrometrie mit SILAC Markierung lassen mit der Detektion von mehreren hundert signifikant regulierten phosphorylierten Proteinen in den beiden FLT3-ITD-exprimierenden Populationen auf die Aktivierung unterschiedlicher Signalwege schließen. Durch das Vergleichen einzelner Teilexperimente ergaben sich Proteine, deren Phosphorylierung mehrfach in die gleiche Richtung reguliert war. Für Zellen, die zusätzlich zur ITD-Mutation die Mutation F691L besaßen, konnten insgesamt sieben hoch-regulierte, phosphorylierte Proteine ermittelt werden, bei denen ein zellulärer Effekt durch die Phosphorylierung der entsprechenden Aminosäurereste in der Literatur beschrieben ist.
Das im Western Blot nachgewiesene, in Zellen mit der Mutation F691L stärker phosphorylierte STAT5 ist aller Voraussicht nach Ursache der nachgewiesenen verstärkten Phosphorylierung von RPS6 im Experiment der globalen Phosphorylierung. Die PIM-Kinasen als Substrate einer STAT5-induzierten Transkription phosphorylieren RPS6 an Serin 235. Dies führt seinerseits zu einer verstärkten Translation von mRNA weiterer Gene. Die genauen Zusammenhänge der hier ermittelten Unterschiede müssen jedoch weiter untersucht werden.
In Zukunft könnte zudem die Untersuchung der beiden Proteine SHP 1 oder HSP90 weitere Aufschlüsse über die unterschiedlichen Signalwege geben. Für beide Proteine wurden Phosphorylierungen detektiert, die in den untersuchten Zellen mit FLT3-ITD bzw. der zusätzlichen Punktmutation F691L unterschiedlich reguliert sind.
Hintergrund. Die Achtung der individuellen Autonomie ist eines von vier medizinethischen Prinzipien, das im Kontext von Medizin und Forschung insbesondere in Bezug auf die informierte Einwilligung einer Person thematisiert wird. Menschen mit Demenz können aufgrund innerer oder äußerer Faktoren in ihrer Einwilligungsfähigkeit beeinträchtigt sein, was zu einer Einschränkung ihres Rechts auf Selbstbestimmung führen kann. Im diesbezüglichen Spannungsfeld zwischen Fürsorge und Autonomie soll Entscheidungsassistenz zur Ermöglichung selbstbestimmter Entscheidungen beitragen.
Zielrichtung der Arbeit. Ziel der vorliegenden Dissertation ist die Definition, Implementierung und Evaluation von Entscheidungsassistenzmaßnahmen für Menschen mit Demenz, um deren Autonomie in Entscheidungsprozessen zu unterstützen. Drei Teilprojekte umfassen die Ermittlung des internationalen Forschungsstands zu Entscheidungsassistenz bei Demenz, die Definition und Pilotierung von Unterstützungstools in der Praxis und die Analyse des individuellen Erlebens der vereinfachten Aufklärungsgespräche durch Menschen mit Demenz.
Methode. Im ersten Teilprojekt wurde eine am PRISMA-Standard orientierte systematische Literaturrecherche in Medline und PsycINFO durchgeführt. Die extrahierten relevanten Informationen wurden inhaltlich systematisiert. Aufbauend auf diesen Ergebnissen wurden im zweiten Teilprojekt konkrete Unterstützungstools definiert und in reale Aufklärungsgespräche (Lumbalpunktion) implementiert. Die Tools wurden in der Pilotierung in der Praxis sowie in einem iterativen Diskussionsprozess mit Experten weiterentwickelt. Im dritten Teilprojekt wurde das individuelle Erleben der Teilnehmer der vereinfachten Aufklärungsgespräche mittels problemzentrierter Interviews untersucht und die Daten einer qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse unterzogen.
Ergebnisse. Die Datenbankrecherche ergab initial 2348 Treffer. Nach Screenings der Titel, Abstracts und Volltexte konnten 11 Artikel eingeschlossen werden. Vier der eingeschlossenen Studien sind Interventionsstudien, die übrigen sieben qualitative Interviewstudien. Die identifizierten Unterstützungsmaßnahmen wurden zunächst den beiden Kategorien Interventionen und Strategien und anschließend unter Zuhilfenahme des Konzepts des Contextual Consents fünf komplexitätssteigernden Dimensionen einer Entscheidungssituation zugeordnet (individuelle, soziale, medizinische, informationelle und Folgendimension). Darauf aufbauend wurden im zweiten Teilprojekt acht Entscheidungsassistenzmaßnahmen abgeleitet: (1) Gesprächsstruktur, (2) Elaborierte klare Sprache, (3) Ambiente / Raumgestaltung, (4) Stichwortlisten, (5) Prioritätenkarten, (6) Visualisierung, (7) Vereinfachte schriftliche Einverständniserklärung sowie (8) Personenzentrierte Haltung des Entscheidungsassistenten (1-7: Tools, 8: Grundeinstellung). Die Tools zielen überwiegend auf eine Komplexitätsreduktion in der informationellen Dimension unter Berücksichtigung der fähigkeitsbezogenen und der bedürfnisbezogenen individuellen Dimension ab. Durch Anpassungen der Informationsdarbietung oder der kommunikativen Interaktion im Gespräch dienen sie mehrheitlich der Förderung des (Informations-) Verständnisses. Die Analyse der qualitativen Daten im dritten Teilprojekt zeigt, dass die Erfahrung der vereinfachten Aufklärungsgespräche durch drei übergreifende Themen gekennzeichnet ist. Die Kategorie Formalität versus Informationsgewinn illustriert die individuelle Bedeutung des Aufklärungsgesprächs für die Teilnehmer und deren Bewertung des Prozesses der informierten Einwilligung. Die Kategorie Wahrnehmung der Unterstützung skizziert die Bewertungen der angewandten Unterstützungstools durch die Teilnehmer. Die Kategorie Der Wahrheit ins Auge sehen müssen stellt dar, dass die erlebte Situation des vereinfachten Aufklärungsgesprächs wesentlich durch die Verdachtsdiagnose Demenz bestimmt ist, die im Rahmen aller Aufklärungsgespräche besprochen wurde.
Fazit. Bislang gibt es wenig empirische Forschung zu Entscheidungsassistenz für Menschen mit Demenz und Unterstützungsmaßnahmen werden überwiegend unsystematisch entwickelt und angewendet. Die Wirksamkeit einzelner Unterstützungsmaßnahmen kann aufgrund fehlender Interventionsstudien selten beurteilt werden. Unterstützungsmaßnahmen zielen überwiegend auf eine Komplexitätsreduktion in der Informationsdarbietung und im kommunikativen Interaktionsprozess ab, wobei sie kognitive Beeinträchtigungen und Interaktions-/ Entscheidungsbedürfnisse von Menschen mit Demenz berücksichtigen. Die definierten Tools können als erste konkret handhabbare Werkzeuge verstanden werden, die das strukturierte Leisten von Entscheidungsassistenz für Menschen mit Demenz erleichtern sollen. Sie sind übertragbar auf verschiedene Entscheidungssituationen. Eine Bewertung der Wirksamkeit der definierten Tools sollte in weiteren Entscheidungssituationen und mit größeren Stichproben weiteruntersucht werden. Die Ergebnisse der Evaluation liefern jedoch erste Hinweise darauf, dass einige Teilnehmer sich von einzelnen Tools unterstützt gefühlt haben und die anvisierte Komplexitätsreduktion in der informationellen Dimension in einigen Fällen erfolgreich war. Eine wesentliche Komplexitätssteigerung in der untersuchten Entscheidungssituation entstand durch die negative Emotionen auslösende Vermittlung einer potentiellen Demenzdiagnose (Folgendimension). Dieses Ergebnis impliziert, dass die definierte „verständnisfördernde Toolbox“ um Unterstützungsmaßnahmen zur emotionalen Entlastung von Menschen mit Demenz erweitert werden muss, da davon ausgegangen werden kann, dass vielfältige Entscheidungssituationen für Menschen mit Demenz emotional hoch belastend sind.
Hintergrund
Obwohl Feedback ein wichtiges und gut untersuchtes Element der medizinischen Ausbildung darstellt, wird es trotz eines großen Bedarfs der Studierenden sowohl im Unterricht als auch in Prüfungssituationen nur selten angewendet. Die Frankfurter Medizinstudierenden beklagen besonders, dass sie zu ihren Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) als Abschlussprüfung im Fach Chirurgie bisher kein detailliertes Feedback erhalten. Auch die Prüfenden beklagen häufig, dass sie die Studierenden weder für herausragende Leistungen loben noch über auftretende Fehler informieren können.
Ziel dieser Arbeit ist deshalb die Erstellung und Implementierung eines strukturierten schriftlichen Feedbacks in eine bestehende OSCE-Prüfung im Fach Chirurgie, das an den Bedürfnissen sowohl der Studierenden als auch der Prüfenden orientiert ist.
Material und Methoden
Das Studiendesign war prospektiv. Im ersten Schritt wurde eine Befragung erfahrener OSCE-Prüfender durchgeführt, um zu erheben, welches Feedback sie gerne an Studierende weitergeben würden. Basierend hierauf wurde ein erster Feedbackbogen erstellt. Dieser umfasste neben vorformulierten Aussagen auch die Möglichkeit Freitextkommentare zu geben und wurde von den Prüfenden für jeden Studierenden in der Wechselzeit zwischen den OSCE-Stationen ausgefüllt. Die Feedbackbögen wurden anschließend eingescannt und per E- Mail an die Studierenden geschickt. Im Anschluss hieran erfolgte eine webbasierte Befragung der Studierenden und der OSCE-Prüfenden, sowie eine tiefergehende Befragung der Studierenden in Form von Fokusgruppen- Interviews.
Basierend auf den Ergebnissen der Umfragen und der Fokusgruppen wurden die Feedbackbögen nochmals grundlegend überarbeitet und im folgenden OSCE erneut angewendet. Die Zufriedenheit der Prüfenden und Studierenden wurde analog zur ersten Befragung erhoben.
Ergebnisse
Insgesamt nahmen 351 Studierende und 51 Prüfende in beiden OSCEs an der Studie teil. In der abschließenden Online-Evaluation gaben 87,5% der Studierenden und 91,6% der Prüfenden an, dass sie zustimmen oder eher zustimmen, dass das schriftliche Feedback in zukünftigen OSCE-Prüfungen weiterhin angewendet werden soll. Mehr als 50% der Studierenden gaben jedoch an, dass das Feedback noch nicht konkret genug sei.
Mehr als ein Viertel der Prüfenden gab an, dass das Ausfüllen der Feedbackbögen zeitlich herausfordernd sei. In allen Fokusgruppen wurde das schriftliche Feedback durch die Studierenden befürwortet.
Schlussfolgerung
Die Implementierung eines strukturierten schriftlichen Feedbacks in einen OSCE ist problemlos möglich. Das schriftliche Feedback wird sowohl von den Prüfenden als auch von den Studierenden als nützlich empfunden.
Inflammation is a highly regulated biological response of the immune system that is triggered by assaulting pathogens or endogenous alarmins. It is now well established that some soluble extracellular matrix constituents, such as small leucine-rich proteoglycans (SLRPs), can act as danger signals and trigger aseptic inflammation by interacting with innate immune receptors. SLRP inflammatory signaling cascade goes far beyond its canonical function. By choosing specific innate immune receptors, coreceptors, and adaptor molecules, SLRPs promote a switch between pro- and anti-inflammatory signaling, thereby determining disease resolution or chronification. Moreover, by orchestrating signaling through various receptors, SLRPs fine-tune inflammation and, despite their structural homology, regulate inflammatory processes in a molecule-specific manner. Hence, the overarching theme of this review is to highlight the molecular and functional specificity of biglycan-, decorin-, lumican-, and fibromodulin-mediated signaling in inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
The transcription factor ∆Np63 is a master regulator of epithelial cell identity and essential for the survival of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of lung, head and neck, oesophagus, cervix and skin. Here, we report that the deubiquitylase USP28 stabilizes ∆Np63 and maintains elevated ∆NP63 levels in SCC by counteracting its proteasome‐mediated degradation. Impaired USP28 activity, either genetically or pharmacologically, abrogates the transcriptional identity and suppresses growth and survival of human SCC cells. CRISPR/Cas9‐engineered in vivo mouse models establish that endogenous USP28 is strictly required for both induction and maintenance of lung SCC. Our data strongly suggest that targeting ∆Np63 abundance via inhibition of USP28 is a promising strategy for the treatment of SCC tumours.
Sphingosine‐1‐phosphate (S1P) regulates pathophysiological processes, including liver regeneration, vascular tone control, and immune response. In patients with liver cirrhosis, acute deterioration of liver function is associated with high mortality rates. The present study investigated whether serum S1P concentrations are associated with disease severity in patients with chronic liver disease from compensated cirrhosis (CC), acute decompensation (AD), or acute‐on‐chronic liver failure (ACLF). From August 2013 to October 2017, patients who were admitted to the University Hospital Frankfurt with CC, AD, or ACLF were enrolled in our cirrhosis cohort study. Tandem mass spectrometry was performed on serum samples of 127 patients to assess S1P concentration. Our study comprised 19 patients with CC, 55 with AD, and 51 with ACLF, aged 29 to 76 years. We observed a significant decrease of S1P according to advanced liver injury from CC and AD up to ACLF (P < 0.001). S1P levels further decreased with progression to ACLF grade 3 (P < 0.05), and S1P highly inversely correlated with the Model for End‐Stage Liver Disease score (r = −0.508; P < 0.001). In multivariate analysis, S1P remained an independent predictor of 7‐day mortality with high diagnostic accuracy (area under the curve, 0.874; P < 0.001). Conclusion: In patients with chronic liver disease, serum S1P levels dramatically decreased with advanced stages of liver disease and were predictive of early mortality. Because S1P is a potent regulator of endothelial integrity and immune response, low S1P levels may significantly influence progressive multiorgan failure. Our data justify further elucidation of the diagnostic and therapeutic role of S1P in ACLF.
Analyse der Genauigkeit des neurochirurgischen Operationsroboters Robotic Surgery Assistant (ROSA)
(2020)
In der vorliegenden Arbeit sollte untersucht werden, ob der Roboter ROSA bei der Durchführung von intrakraniellen Biopsien oder Elektrodenimplantationen eine Alternative zur klassischen, rahmenbasierten Stereotaxie darstellt. Dazu sollte die mechanische und die Anwendungsgenauigkeit des Systems ermittelt werden. Zur Bestimmung der mechanischen Genauigkeit wurde eine experimentelle Phantomstudie durchgeführt. Hier wurden durch den Roboter wiederholt zehn Trajektorien an einem Stereotaxiephantom angefahren. Der Abstand der robotischen Nadel zum Zielpunkt im Phantom wurde anhand von Röntgenbildern bestimmt. Die Wiederholung des Versuchsaufbaus unter Variation der Planungsbildgebung erlaubte den Vergleich verschiedener Schichtdicken sowie zwischen low-dose und normal-dose Verfahren. Die Anwendungsgenauigkeit sollte durch die Analyse operativer Ergebnisse der ROSA erfasst werden. Dazu wurde anhand von postoperativen Bildern die Genauigkeit anhand des Abstands zwischen geplanter und tatsächlicher Lage von Stereoelektroenzephalographie-Elektroden ermittelt. Es wurden verschiedene Referenzierungstechniken, die der Orientierung des Roboters dienen und bei denen eine präoperative Planungsbildgebung (CT oder MRT) mit einem Abbild des OP-Gebietes (durch Oberflächenerkennung oder durch einen Stereotaxierahmen) referenziert wird, verglichen, nämlich CT-Laser; CT-Leksell-Rahmen und MRT-Laser. Die Ergebnisse wurden einer statistischen Analyse unterzogen. Dabei zeigte sich, dass der ROSA-Roboter eine sehr hohe mechanische Genauigkeit im Submillimeterbereich erreicht. Genauigkeitseinbußen bei einer größeren Schichtdicke der zur Planung verwendeten Computertomographie sind messbar, aber gering. Ein signifikanter Einfluss bei der Verwendung eines low-dose-Protokolls konnte nicht festgestellt werden. Dennoch zeigte sich, dass der entscheidende Teil der Ungenauigkeiten in der klinischen Anwendung entsteht und dabei insbesondere durch die Referenzierungstechnik bestimmt wird. Referenzierungen, die auf einer Computertomographie basierten, erwiesen sich als zufriedenstellend genau und als konkurrenzfähig zur konventionellen Methode. Der Unterschied zwischen dem rahmenbasierten und dem auf Oberflächenerkennung basierenden Verfahren war dabei so gering, dass letzteres sich angesichts seiner Vorteile in der Anwendung als besonders günstiges Verfahren hervortut. Im Gegensatz dazu stand das MRT-Laser-Verfahren, welches bei relativ hohen Abweichungen nur eingeschränkt anwendbar scheint und sich damit eher für Anwendungsbereiche mit geringeren Genauigkeitsanforderungen eignet, wie bspw. Biopsien. Weiterhin kann der Verlauf der Trajektorie an den höheren Sicherheitsabstand angepassten werden. Bei der Einordnung der ermittelten Genauigkeiten ist zu beachten, dass es viele weitere, von der Referenzierungs- und Bildgebungsmethode unabhängige Einflussfaktoren gibt. In dieser Arbeit war der Einfluss der erfassten externen Paramter zwar limitiert, bei anderen Autoren zeigte sich jedoch ein signifikanter Effekt. Dennoch deckt sich die Gesamtgenauigkeit mit den Ergebnissen anderer Arbeiten.
In Zusammenschau der Ergebnisse weist die vom ROSA-Assistenzsystem assistierte Stereotaxie eine verbesserte Prozessqualität auf, unter anderem durch die erhebliche Zeitersparnis, ggf. der Wegfall des Transports des narkotisierten Patienten, die Adaptionsmöglichkeiten der Prozessteilschritte an den Patienten, sowie eine hohe Nutzerfreundlichkeit. Entscheidend ist jedoch, dass es sich um ein sehr sicheres Verfahren handelt: Durch die hohe Genauigkeit wird das Operationsrisiko minimiert, gleichzeitig erlauben Laser-gestützte Registrierungsverfahren eine Reduktion der Strahlenexposition. Zur Konsolidierung der in dieser Arbeit gewonnenen Erkenntnisse sind weitere klinische Daten notwendig.
Astrozyten erfüllen verschiedene Funktionen im Zentralnervensystem, welche sich in die Bereiche Entwicklung, Durchblutung, Metabolismus, Strukturerhalt und Gliotransmission unterteilen lassen. Astrozyten sind an der synaptischen Informationsverarbeitung beteiligt und wirken an zahlreichen höheren Hirnfunktionen mit. Durch Regulation der synaptischen Transmission und Plastizität sind Astrozyten am Lernverhalten und Erinnerungsvermögen, sowie an der Verhaltensmodulation und Verarbeitung emotionaler Reize involviert. Im Zuge dieser zahlreichen Funktionen können Astrozyten auf externe Stimuli mit der gezielten Freisetzung von Gliotransmittern reagieren.
In kultivierten Astrozyten konnte Keil143 das TGN, bestehend aus Zisternen und Vesikeln, darstellen und mit anti-Rab6 identifizieren. Rab6 mit seinen Subtypen A und B gehört der Superfamilie der monomeren Ras-GTPasen an, die den intrazellulären Membran- und Vesikelverkehr regulieren. Rab6 spielt in HeLa-Zellen beim Transport vesikulärer Organellen vom TGN zur Zellmembran eine wichtige Rolle. Assoziationsanalysen von Rab6A mit vesikulären Glutamattransportern, Serinracemase und Markern der regulierten Exozytose in kultivierten Astrozyten143 deuten darauf hin, dass dieses Rab6A-Organellsystem die ultrastrukturelle Grundlage für die Freisetzung von Gliotransmittern wie D-Serin und Glutamat bildet.
Zur Untersuchung, ob Rab6A tatsächlich ein System der Glia-Neuron-Kommunikation im Gehirn darstellt, war es zunächst unabdingbar das Vorkommen von Rab6A in situ zu untersuchen. Die durchgeführten immunzytochemischen Färbungen an Hirnschnitten der Maus zeigen das gleichmäßige und ubiquitäre Vorkommen von Rab6A in allen untersuchten Hirnregionen. Durch verblindet durchgeführte Kolokalisationsanalysen von Rab6A mit den etablierten astrozytären Markern Glutaminsynthetase (GS), Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), Aldh1L1 und Sox9 konnte eine Lokalisation von Rab6A in allen Astrozyten gezeigt werden. Weitere Analysen schließen die Lokalisation von Rab6A in Mikroglia (Iba1), NG2-Zellen (NG2) und Oligodendrozyten (CNPase) aus. Die Astrozyten unterscheiden sich in Größe und subzellulärem Verteilungsmuster der Rab6A+ Strukturen, wonach eine Kategorisierung in vier Typen vorgenommen wurde. Anhand der Einteilung kann vermutet werden, dass größere Rab6A+ TGN-Zisternen bis weit in die Zellperipherie transportiert werden und kleine Rab6A+ Vesikel erst dort ausknospen und der Exozytose zugeführt werden. Zur Frage der möglichen astrozytären Subpopulationen konnte gezeigt werden, dass alle untersuchten Astrozyten GS+, Aldh1L1+, Sox9+ und Rab6A+ sind, jedoch nicht GFAP+.
Um die prinzipielle Übertragbarkeit der gewonnenen Befunde auf den Menschen zu überprüfen, wurde reseziertes Cortex-Gewebe von drei Patienten mit unterschiedlicher pathologischer Genese untersucht. Rab6A ist im massiven Ausmaß in humanen Astrozyten lokalisiert, was nahelegt, dass die zuvor an der Maus gewonnenen Ergebnisse auf den Menschen übertragbar sind.
Die mögliche funktionelle Bedeutung von astrozytärem Rab6A im Gehirn wurde an HFS-Schnitten untersucht. Die Untersuchung zeigt einen signifikanten Anstieg der Rab6A+ Intensität in der gesamten Molekularschicht der Fascia dentata der stimulierten im Vergleich zur unstimulierten Seite. Da die HFS ein etabliertes LTP-Modell darstellt, könnte es infolge dieser zu einer strukturellen, intrazellulären Veränderung der Astrozyten mit erhöhter Freisetzung von D-Serin oder Glutamat aus Rab6A+ Vesikeln kommen, was das Lernverhalten beeinflussen könnte. Die dargestellten Ergebnisse legen eine Auswirkung der HFS auf Rab6A nahe.
Zur Bestätigung der immunzytochemischen Untersuchungen wurde die mRNA-Expression von Rab6A in Astrozyten bereits publizierter Transkriptomanalysen untersucht. Die in den Publikationen verwendeten Genom-Chips treffen allenfalls indirekt eine Aussage zu Rab6A, da Rab6 allgemein und nur Rab6B spezifisch untersucht wurde, jedoch keine spezifische Rab6A Sonde erwähnt wird.
Zusammenfassend kann Rab6A als spezifisches und selektiv in Astrozyten vorkommendes Protein dargestellt und als neuer astrozytärer Marker etabliert werden, der auch Astrozyten des humanen Gewebes markiert. Durch die gewonnenen Befunde kann in nachfolgenden Studien die mögliche Bedeutung von Rab6A in neuropathologischen und neurophysiologischen Prozessen untersucht werden.
Different experimental multiple trauma models induce comparable inflammation and organ injury
(2020)
Multiple injuries appear to be a decisive factor for experimental polytrauma. Therefore, our aim was to compare the inflammatory response and organ damage of five different monotrauma with three multiple trauma models. For this, mice were randomly assigned to 10 groups: Healthy control (Ctrl), Sham, hemorrhagic shock (HS), thoracic trauma (TxT), osteotomy with external fixation (Fx), bilateral soft tissue trauma (bsTT) or laparotomy (Lap); polytrauma I (PT I, TxT + HS + Fx), PT II (TxT + HS + Fx + Lap) and one multi-trauma group (MT, TxT + HS + bsTT + Lap). The inflammatory response and organ damage were quantified at 6 h by analyses of IL-6, IL-1β, IL-10, CXCL1, SAA1, HMGB1 and organ injury. Systemic IL-6 increased in all mono and multiple trauma groups, while CXCL1 increased only in HS, PT I, PT II and MT vs. control. Local inflammatory response was most prominent in HS, PT I, PT II and MT in the liver. Infiltration of inflammatory cells into lung and liver was significant in all multiple trauma groups vs. controls. Hepatic and pulmonary injury was prominent in HS, PT I, PT II and MT groups. These experimental multiple trauma models closely mimic the early post-traumatic inflammatory response in human. Though, the choice of read-out parameters is very important for therapeutic immune modulatory approaches.
Introduction: From the beginning of the corona pandemic until August 19, 2020, more than 21,989,366 cases have been reported worldwide – 228,495 in Germany alone, including 12,648 children aged 0–14. In many countries, the proportion of infected children in the total population is comparatively low; in addition, children often have no or milder symptoms and are less likely to transmit the pathogen to adults than the other way round. Based on the registration data in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the symptoms of children in comparison with adults and the likely routes of transmission are presented below.
Materials and methods: The documentation of the mandatory reports includes personal data (name, date of birth, gender, place of residence), disease characteristics (date of report, date of onset of the disease, symptoms), possible contact persons (family, others) and i.a. possible activity or care in children’s community facilities. All reports were viewed, especially with regard to likely transmission routes.
Results: From March 1 to July 31, 2020, 1,977 infected people were reported, including 138 children between the ages of 0 and 14 years. Children had fewer and milder symptoms than adults. None of the children experienced severe respiratory symptoms or the need for ventilation. 62% of the children had no symptoms at all (19% adults), 5% of the children were hospitalized (24% adults), and none of the children died (3.8% adults).
After excluding a cluster of 34 children from refugee accommodations and 14 children from a parish, 78% of the remaining 90 children had been infected by an adult within the family, and only 4% were likely to have a reverse transmission route. In 5.5% of cases, transmission in a community facility was likely.
Discussion: The results of the registration data from Frankfurt am Main, Germany confirm the results published in other countries: Children are less likely to become infected, and if infected, their symptoms are less severe than in adults, and they are apparently not the main drivers of virus transmission. Therefore, scientific medical associations strongly recommend reopening schools.
Background: Eligibility criteria are a critical part of clinical trials, as they define the patient population under investigation. Besides certain patient characteristics, clinical trials often include biomarker testing for eligibility. However, patient-identification mostly relies on the trial site itself and is often a time-consuming procedure, which could result in missing out on potentially eligible patients. Pre-selection of those patients using a registry could facilitate the process of eligibility testing and increase the number of identified patients. One aim with the PRAEGNANT registry (NCT02338167) is to identify patients for therapies based on clinical and molecular data. Here, we report eligibility testing for the SHERBOC trial using the German PRAEGNANT registry.
Methods:Heregulin (HRG) has been reported to identify patients with better responses to therapy with the anti-HER3 monoclonal antibody seribantumab (MM-121). The SHERBOC trial investigated adding seribantumab (MM-121) to standard therapy in patients with advanced HER2-negative, hormone receptor–positive (HR-positive) breast cancer and HRG overexpression. The PRAEGNANT registry was used for identification and tumor testing, helping to link potential HRG positive patients to the trial. Patients enrolled in PRAEGNANT have invasive and metastatic or locally advanced, inoperable breast cancer. Patients eligible for SHERBOC were identified by using the registry. Study aims were to describe the HRG positivity rate, screening procedures, and patient characteristics associated with inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Results: Among 2769 unselected advanced breast cancer patients, 650 were HER2-negative, HR-positive and currently receiving first- or second-line treatment, thus potentially eligible for SHERBOC at the end of current treatment; 125 patients also met further clinical eligibility criteria (e.g. menopausal status, ECOG). In the first/second treatment lines, patients selected for SHERBOC based on further eligibility criteria had a more favorable prognosis than those not selected. HRG status was tested in 38 patients, 14 of whom (36.8%) proved to be HRG-positive.
Conclusion: Using a real-world breast cancer registry allowed identification of potentially eligible patients for SHERBOC focusing on patients with HER3 overexpressing, HR-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer. This approach may provide insights into differences between patients eligible or non-eligible for clinical trials.
Trial registration: Clinicaltrials, NCT02338167, Registered 14 January 2015 - retrospectively registered.
Background: Meta-analysis of observational studies concluded that soft drinks may increase the risk of depression, while high consumption of coffee and tea may reduce the risk. Objectives were to explore the associations between the consumption of soft drinks, coffee or tea and: (1) a history of major depressive disorder (MDD) and (2) the severity of depressive symptoms clusters (mood, cognitive and somatic/vegetative symptoms). Methods: Cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis based on baseline and 12-month-follow-up data collected from four countries participating in the European MooDFOOD prevention trial. In total, 941 overweight adults with subsyndromal depressive symptoms aged 18 to 75 years were analyzed. History of MDD, depressive symptoms and beverages intake were assessed. Results: Sugar-sweetened soft drinks were positively related to MDD history rates whereas soft drinks with non-nutritive sweeteners were inversely related for the high vs. low categories of intake. Longitudinal analysis showed no significant associations between beverages and mood, cognitive and somatic/vegetative clusters. Conclusion: Our findings point toward a relationship between soft drinks and past MDD diagnoses depending on how they are sweetened while we found no association with coffee and tea. No significant effects were found between any studied beverages and the depressive symptoms clusters in a sample of overweight adults.
Glia, the helper cells of the brain, are essential in maintaining neural resilience across time and varying challenges: By reacting to changes in neuronal health glia carefully balance repair or disposal of injured neurons. Malfunction of these interactions is implicated in many neurodegenerative diseases. We present a reductionist model that mimics repair-or-dispose decisions to generate a hypothesis for the cause of disease onset. The model assumes four tissue states: healthy and challenged tissue, primed tissue at risk of acute damage propagation, and chronic neurodegeneration. We discuss analogies to progression stages observed in the most common neurodegenerative conditions and to experimental observations of cellular signaling pathways of glia-neuron crosstalk. The model suggests that the onset of neurodegeneration can result as a compromise between two conflicting goals: short-term resilience to stressors versus long-term prevention of tissue damage.
The role of radiation therapy in the treatment of (colo)-rectal cancer has changed dramatically over the past decades. Introduced with the aim of reducing the high rates of local recurrences after conventional surgery, major developments in imaging, surgical technique, systemic therapy and radiation delivery have now created a much more complex environment leading to a more personalized approach. Functional aspects including reduction of acute or late treatment-related side effects, sphincter or even organ-preservation and the unsolved problem of still high distant failure rates have become more important while local recurrence rates can be kept low in the vast majority of patients. This review summarizes the actual role of radiation therapy in different subgroups of patients with rectal cancer, including the current standard approach in different subgroups as well as recent developments focusing on neoadjuvant treatment intensification and/or non-operative treatment approaches aiming at organ-preservation.
The novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) is caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and is characterized by an exaggerated inflammatory response that can lead to severe manifestations such as adult respiratory syndrome, sepsis, coagulopathy, and death in a proportion of patients. Among other factors and direct viral effects, the increase in the vasoconstrictor angiotensin II, the decrease in the vasodilator angiotensin, and the sepsis-induced release of cytokines can trigger a coagulopathy in COVID-19. A coagulopathy has been reported in up to 50% of patients with severe COVID-19 manifestations. An increase in d-dimer is the most significant change in coagulation parameters in severe COVID-19 patients, and progressively increasing values can be used as a prognostic parameter indicating a worse outcome. Limited data suggest a high incidence of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism in up to 40% of patients, despite the use of a standard dose of low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) in most cases. In addition, pulmonary microvascular thrombosis has been reported and may play a role in progressive lung failure. Prophylactic LMWH has been recommended by the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) and the American Society of Hematology (ASH), but the best effective dosage is uncertain. Adapted to the individual risk of thrombosis and the d-dimer value, higher doses can be considered, especially since bleeding events in COVID-19 are rare. Besides the anticoagulant effect of LMWH, nonanticoagulant properties such as the reduction in interleukin 6 release have been shown to improve the complex picture of coagulopathy in patients with COVID-19.
Signaling pathways, depending on the second messenger molecule cAMP, modulate hippocampal cell signaling via influencing transcription factors like cAMP-regulated element-binding protein (CREB) or early growth response 1 EGR1/Krox24/zif268/ZENK (EGR1). Here, we investigated two reporter cell lines derived from an immortalized hippocampal neuronal cell line stably expressing a CRE- or EGR1-luciferase reporter gene (HT22CREluc and HT22EGR1luc, respectively). The cells were subjected to phosphodiesterase inhibitors and other cAMP-modulating agents to investigate dose- and time-dependent phosphodiesterase (PDE)-mediated fine-tuning of cAMP-dependent transcriptional signaling. The non-isoform-specific cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitor isobutyl-methyl-xanthine (IBMX), as well as selective inhibitors of PDE3 (milrinone) and PDE4 (rolipram), were tested for their ability to elevate CRE- and EGR1-luciferase activity. Pharmacological parameters like onset of activity, maximum activity, and offset of activity were determined. In summary, phosphodiesterase inhibition appeared similarly potent in comparison to adenylate cyclase stimulation or direct activation of protein kinase A (PKA) via specific cAMP agonists and was at least partly mediated by PKA as shown by the selective PKA inhibitor <i>Rp</i>-8-Br-cAMPS. Moreover, transcriptional activation by PDE inhibition was also influenced by organic anion-exchanger action and interacted with fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptor-mediated pathways.
Comprehensive analysis of tumour sub-volumes for radiomic risk modelling in locally advanced HNSCC
(2020)
Simple Summary: Radiomic risk models are usually based on imaging features, which are extracted from the entire gross tumour volume (GTV entire ). This approach does not explicitly consider the complex biological structure of the tumours. Therefore, in this retrospective study, we investigated the prognostic value of radiomic analyses based on different tumour sub-volumes using computed tomography imaging of patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who were treated with primary radio-chemotherapy. The GTV entire was cropped by different margins to define the rim and corresponding core sub-volumes of the tumour. Furthermore, the best performing tumour rim sub-volume was extended into surrounding tissue with different margins. As a result, the models based on the 5 mm tumour rim and on the 3 mm extended rim sub-volume showed an improved performance compared to models based on the corresponding tumour core. This indicates that the consideration of tumour sub-volumes may help to improve radiomic risk models.
Abstract: Imaging features for radiomic analyses are commonly calculated from the entire gross tumour volume (GTVentire). However, tumours are biologically complex and the consideration of different tumour regions in radiomic models may lead to an improved outcome prediction. Therefore, we investigated the prognostic value of radiomic analyses based on different tumour sub-volumes using computed tomography imaging of patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. The GTVentire was cropped by different margins to define the rim and the corresponding core sub-volumes of the tumour. Subsequently, the best performing tumour rim sub-volume was extended into surrounding tissue with different margins. Radiomic risk models were developed and validated using a retrospective cohort consisting of 291 patients in one of the six Partner Sites of the German Cancer Consortium Radiation Oncology Group treated between 2005 and 2013. The validation concordance index (C-index) averaged over all applied learning algorithms and feature selection methods using the GTVentire achieved a moderate prognostic performance for loco-regional tumour control (C-index: 0.61 ± 0.04 (mean ± std)). The models based on the 5 mm tumour rim and on the 3 mm extended rim sub-volume showed higher median performances (C-index: 0.65 ± 0.02 and 0.64 ± 0.05, respectively), while models based on the corresponding tumour core volumes performed less (C-index: 0.59 ± 0.01). The difference in C-index between the 5 mm tumour rim and the corresponding core volume showed a statistical trend (p = 0.10). After additional prospective validation, the consideration of tumour sub-volumes may be a promising way to improve prognostic radiomic risk models.
Simple Summary: Therapeutic antibodies are an integral part of treatment regimens for metastasized colorectal cancer. In KRAS wildtype tumors both bevacizumab and cetuximab are active. While bevacizumab has previously been shown to induce tumor hypoxia, we here report that EGFR inhibition by cetuximab protects colon cancer cells from hypoxia-induced cell death. This effect appears to be responsible for the inferior efficacy of a treatment sequence of bevacizumab followed by cetuximab versus an inverse sequence that we observed in a colorectal cancer mouse model. It also offers a mechanistic explanation for effects observed in clinical trials such as underadditive or even detrimental effects when combining bevacizumab and cetuximab (CAIRO2 trial) and the superior efficacy of first line cetuximab (FIRE-3 trial) under chemotherapy backbones in colorectal cancer.
Abstract: Monoclonal antibodies like cetuximab, targeting the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), and bevacizumab, targeting the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), are an integral part of treatment regimens for metastasized colorectal cancer. However, inhibition of the EGFR has been shown to protect human glioma cells from cell death under hypoxic conditions. In colon carcinoma cells, the consequences of EGFR blockade in hypoxia (e.g., induced by bevacizumab) have not been evaluated yet. LIM1215 and SW948 colon carcinoma and LNT-229 glioblastoma cells were treated with cetuximab, PD153035, and erlotinib and analyzed for cell density and viability. The sequential administration of either cetuximab followed by bevacizumab (CET->BEV) or bevacizumab followed by cetuximab (BEV->CET) was investigated in a LIM1215 (KRAS wildtype) and SW948 (KRAS mutant) xenograft mouse model. In vitro, cetuximab protected from hypoxia. In the LIM1215 model, a survival benefit with cetuximab and bevacizumab monotherapy was observed, but only the sequence CET->BEV showed an additional benefit. This effect was confirmed in the SW948 model. Our observations support the hypothesis that bevacizumab modulates the tumor microenvironment (e.g., by inducing hypoxia) where cetuximab could trigger protective effects when administered later on. The sequence CET->BEV therefore seems to be superior as possible mutual adverse effects are bypassed.