Clinical Medicine (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Low vitamin B-12 status and risk of cognitive decline in older adults.
(2007)BACKGROUND: Elevated total homocysteine (tHcy) concentrations have been associated with cognitive impairment, but it is unclear whether low vitamin B-12 or folate status is responsible for cognitive decline. OBJECTIVE: We ... -
Homocysteine concentration, related B vitamins, and betaine in pregnant women recruited to the Seychelles Child Development Study.
(2008)BACKGROUND: Both folate and betaine are important predictors of total homocysteine (tHcy) during pregnancy. However, studies to date have only been undertaken in populations with Western dietary patterns. OBJECTIVE: We ... -
Folate-related gene polymorphisms as risk factors for cleft lip and cleft palate.
(John Wiley, 2008)BACKGROUND?Cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CLP) and cleft palate only (CPO) have an inherited component and, many studies suggest, a relationship with folate. Attempts to find folaterelated genes associated with ... -
Vascular biomarkers of cognitive performance in a community-based elderly population: the Dublin Healthy Ageing study.
(2008)BACKGROUND: population studies suggest that cardiovascular risk factors may be associated with cognitive impairment. Epidemiological studies evaluating individual markers of vascular disease as risk factors for cognitive ... -
Effect of a voluntary food fortification policy on folate, related B vitamin status, and homocysteine in healthy adults.
(2007)Background: Mandatory folic acid fortification of food is effective in reducing neural tube defects and may even reduce stroke-related mortality, but it remains controversial because of concerns about potential adverse ... -
Human peripheral and gastric lymphocyte responses to Helicobacter pylori NapA and AphC differ in infected and uninfected individuals
(2005)BACKGROUND: In this study, we identify the nature of the immunological response of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and lamina propria gastric lymphocytes (LPL) to two Helicobacter pylori antigens, the ... -
A common p73 polymorphism is associated with a reduced incidence of oesophageal carcinoma
(Nature, 2001)The incidence of oesophageal adenocarcinoma is rising; to date, no susceptibility genes have been identified. p73, a novel p53 homologue, maps to chromosome 1p36, a region commonly deleted in oesophageal cancers. p73 shares ... -
Coagulopathy After Cardiac Surgery May Be Influenced by a Functional Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor Polymorphism
(2007)BACKGROUND: Cytokine-mediated inflammation and coagulopathy may occur after cardiac surgery. In this study we investigated the temporal pattern of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) gene expression after cardiac ... -
A genome-wide association study for celiac disease identifies risk variants in the region harboring IL2 and IL21
(2007)We tested 310,605 single-nucleotide polymorphisms for association in 778 celiac disease cases and 1422 controls. Outside the HLA, the most significant finding (rs13119723, P=2.0 ? 10?7, empirical genome-wide significance ... -
Genetic Polymorphisms and the Risk of Infection Following Esophagectomy
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007)OBJECTIVE: To examine the association of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in inflammation-related genes in the development of infections following esophagectomy. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: Genetic polymorphisms for ... -
Conjugated linoleic acid suppresses NF-kappa B activation and IL-12 production in dendritic cells through ERK-mediated IL-10 induction
(The American Association of Immunologists, 2005)Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) have been shown to modulate immune responses and have therapeutic effects in inflammatory disorders. However, the influence of PUFA on dendritic cells (DC), key cells of the innate immune ... -
Characterization of signaling pathways activated by the interleukin 1 (IL-1) receptor homologue T1/ST2. A role for Jun N-terminal kinase in IL-4 induction
(American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2002)T1/ST2 is a member of the interleukin (IL)-1 receptor superfamily, possessing three immunoglobulin domains extracellularly and a Toll/IL1R (TIR) domain intracellularly. The ligand for T1/ST2 is not known. T1/ST2 is expressed ... -
Decoy receptors in the regulation of T Helper cell type 2 response
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Lymphomagenesis, hydronephrosis, and autoantibodies result from dysregulation of IL-9 and are differentially dependent on Th2 cytokines
(2009-09-17)Interleukin-9 is an immunoregulatory cytokine implicated in the development of asthma and allergy. To investigate the role of IL-9 in vivo, we have generated transgenic mice in which IL-9 is expressed from its own promoter. ... -
Schistosoma mansoni worms induce anergy of T cells via selective up-regulation of programmed death ligand 1 on macrophages
(The Journal of Immunology, 2004)Infectious pathogens can selectively stimulate activation or suppression of T cells to facilitate their survival within humans. In this study we demonstrate that the trematode parasite Schistosoma mansoni has evolved with ... -
SIGN-R1 contributes to protection against lethal pneumococcal infection in mice
(Rockefeller University Press, 2004)Rapid clearance of pathogens is essential for successful control of pyogenic bacterial infection. Previous experiments have shown that antibody to specific intracellular adhesion molecule-grabbing nonintegrin (SIGN)-R1 ... -
Helminth infection protects mice from anaphylaxis via IL-10 producing B cells
(The American Association of Immunologists, 2004)Modulation of the immune system by infection with helminth parasites, including schistosomes, is proposed to reduce the levels of allergic responses in infected individuals. In this study we investigated whether experimental ... -
Lethal, neonatal icthyosis with increased proteolytic processing of filaggrin in a mouse model of Netherton syndrome
(Oxford University Press, 2005)Netherton syndrome is an autosomal recessive multisystemic disorder characterized by congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma, hair shaft defects and atopy, caused by mutations within the human SPINK5 gene. To investigate the ... -
Identification of a functioning mitochondrial uncoupling protein 1 in thymus
(2005)We present evidence that rat and mouse thymi contain mitochondrial uncoupling protein (UCP 1). Reverse transcriptase-PCR detected RNA transcripts for UCP 1 in whole thymus and in thymocytes. Furthermore, using antibodies ... -
Helminth-modified pulmonary response protects mice from allergen-induced airway hyper-responsiveness.
(The American Association of Immunologists, 2006)It has been shown that the presence of certain helminth infections in humans, including schistosomes, may reduce the propensity to develop allergies in infected populations. Using a mouse model of schistosome worm vs worm ...
