Objectives-To review the autoimmune and rheumatic manifestations of patients with malignancy. Methods-A Medline search of all published papers using keywords related to malignancies, autoimmunity, rheumatic diseases, ...
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Objectives-To review the autoimmune and rheumatic manifestations of patients with malignancy. Methods-A Medline search of all published papers using keywords related to malignancies, autoimmunity, rheumatic diseases, and paraneoplastic syndromes. Results-Patients with malignant diseases may develop autoimmune phenomena ana rheumatic diseases as a result of (a) generation of autoantibodies against various autoantigens, including oncoproteins (P185, 1-myc, c-myc, c-myb), tumour suppression genes (P53), proliferation associated antigens (cyclin A, B1, D1, E;CENP-F;CDK, U3-RNP), onconeural antigens (Hu, Yo, Ri, Tr), cancer/testis antigens (IMAGE, GAGE, RAGE, SSX, ESO, SCP, CT7), and rheumatic disease associated antigens (RNP, Sm). The clinical significance of the various autoantibodies is not clear. Anti-oncoprotein and anti-tumour suppression gene antigens are detected before the diagnosis of the cancer or in the early stages of the malignant disease, suggesting a potential diagnostic or prognostic role. Anti-onconeural antibodies are pathogenic and are associated with specific clinical neurological syndromes (anti-Hu syndrome and others). (b) Paraneoplastic syndromes,a wide range of clinical syndromes, including classic autoimmune rheumatic diseases that develop among patients with cancer. (r) Rheumatism after chemotherapy, a clinical entity characterised by the development of musculoskeletal symptoms after combination chemotherapy for malignancy Conclusion-Autoimmune and rheumatic features are not rare among patients with malignancies. They are the result of various diverse mechanisms and occasionally they may be associated with serious clinical entities.
Here we report for the first time the ultrastructural localization of DNA replication sites in the nucleus of plant cells and the timing of replication through the pollen developmental programme by proliferating cell ...
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Here we report for the first time the ultrastructural localization of DNA replication sites in the nucleus of plant cells and the timing of replication through the pollen developmental programme by proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) immunogold labelling. Replication sites were identified by labelling with anti-PCNA antibodies in fibrils of the interchromatin region close to the condensed chromatin, defining a perichromatin sub-domain in the interchromatin space where DNA replication takes place. The same nuclear structures are decorated by anti-BrdU (5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine) immunogold after short pulses of BrdU labelling. Double immunogold labelling for PCNA and DNA show colocalization on these perichromatin structures. PCNA immunoelectron microscopy also allows correlation of replicative activity with the dynamics of chromatin condensation. DNA replication was also monitored at different phases during pollen development by PCNA immunoelectron microscopy, revealing two peaks of DNA synthesis, at the beginning (early tetrad), and the end (late vacuolate), of microspore interphase. High-resolution autoradiography after [H-3]thymidine incorporation also showed high replicative activity at the same two periods of microspore interphase. In the bicellular pollen grain, PCNA immunogold labelling revealed that DNA replication in the generative cell starts at an intermediate stage of pollen maturation, whereas the vegetative nucleus does not replicate and is arrested in G1. The use of anti-PCNA antibodies at the ultrastructural level is an easier, faster and more feasible method than the detection of in vivo-incorporated nucleotides, especially in plant systems with long cell cycles. PCNA immunogold labelling is, there fore, proposed as an efficient marker for mapping the sites and timing of replication at the electron microscopy level.
Alveolar type II cells arising in canine bronchial autografts following exposure to 3-methylcholanthrene (MCA) give rise to carcinomas of varying glandular and squamous growth patterns. To study the role of the tumor ...
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Alveolar type II cells arising in canine bronchial autografts following exposure to 3-methylcholanthrene (MCA) give rise to carcinomas of varying glandular and squamous growth patterns. To study the role of the tumor suppressor gene p53 in this process, sections from progressive lesions were immunostained for p53 protein;microdissected regions were screened for p53 mutations. Adjacent sections were examined for type II cell expression [cuboid cell shape, large roundish nucleus, cytoplasmic staining for surfactant protein A (SP-A)] and proliferating cell nuclear antigen expression. Evidence for an altered p53 function (nuclear staining, missense mutations) was found in most carcinomas of all histologic types and in all grades of bronchial dysplasia, but not in hyperplastic or normal bronchial epithelium. It was primarily associated with the hyperplastic type II cell populations present in the basal zone of the lesions. In addition, we found SP-A staining in hyperplastic (but not in normal) bronchial basal cells. These data suggest that MCA initiates type II cell differentiation through phenotypic selection (basal cells). Inactivation of the p53 gene promotes the clonal expansion of the type II cells into discernible populations of (squamous or glandular) alveolar tumor cells. This in vivo study is the first to show that p53 is involved in a specific pathway leading to bronchogenic carcinoma.
Objectives-To study the association of antibodies to proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) in patients with chronic hepatitis B (HBV) and C (HCV) virus infection. Methods-Sera from 243 patients with chronic HBV in...
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Objectives-To study the association of antibodies to proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) in patients with chronic hepatitis B (HBV) and C (HCV) virus infection. Methods-Sera from 243 patients with chronic HBV infection;379 patients with chronic HCV infection;80 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE);28 patients with rheumatoid arthritis;15 patients with Sjogren's syndrome;eight with polymyositis;eight with primary biliary cirrhosis;and 33 healthy control subjects were tested for the presentation of anti-PCNA antibodies by enzyme Linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and immunoblotting using recombinant PCNA as antigen. The distribution of immunoglobulin isotypes of anti-PCNA antibody was measured by ELISA assay. Results-By ELISA, anti-PCNA antibodies mere detected in 30 (12.3%) patients with chronic HBV infection, 71 (18.7%) patients with chronic HCV infection, and five (6.3%) patients with SLE. The inhibition of binding with these sera by purified PCNA was shown to exceed 71%. By immunoblotting, the frequency of anti-PCNA in patients with chronic HBV and HCV infection was 17 of 243 (7%) and 41 of 379 (11%), respectively. Absorption studies on indirect immunofluorescence showed the typical nuclear speckled staining pattern by anti-PCNA sera was abolished by preincubation of sera with PCNA. Anti-PCNA antibody was not: detected in sera from patients with autoimmune diseases except SLE. Anti-PCNA antibodies in patients with chronic HBV and HCV infection were predominantly IgG. Conclusion-These data suggest that anti-PCNA antibody are also present in patients with chronic HBV and HCV infection. Anti-PCNA antibody may not be specific for SLE.
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