简介:TheGJB2gene(connexin26)hasbeenshowntoberesponsibleforDFNB1andDFNA3.WescreenedtheGJB2genein488patientswithprelingualdeafness(Group1),124withpostlingualdeafness(Group2),and117normalhearingsubjects(Group3).Wefoundthat,inGroup1,65patients(13.32%)werehomozygotesorcompoundheterozygotesand51patients(10.45%)carriedasinglepathogenicmutation.The235delCmutationwasthemostfrequentmutation,accountingfor73.22%oftheknownpathogenicallelesinGroup1.NohomozygotesorcompoundheterozygotesweredetectedinGroup2orGroup3.Somepostlingualdeafpatients(2.42%)andnormalhearingsubjects(4.27%)were235delCcarriers.Ourpreliminarydataindicatethat235delC,themostfrequentmutationidentifiedinthisstudy,isamajorcauseforprelingualdeafness.
简介:几种细胞间的粘附分子是,这以前被报导仔细与长期的HBV感染有关。CD2和CD58的建筑群在提高T淋巴细胞的粘附到目标房间,并且支持T淋巴细胞的增生和激活起一个重要作用。在这研究,我们检测了在PBMC的表面上表示的CD2的水平,在PBMC和在有长期的HBV感染的病人的PBMC的CD2积极房间的百分比的CD2mRNA的表达式水平并且把他们与正常控制的表达式水平作比较。我们也与长期的HBV感染并且从正常控制从病人决定了浆液HBVDNA的水平。肝的功能的临床的特征也被测试。结果证明CD2的表示显著地与长期的HBV感染的严厉增加了,它建议CD2可能在长期的HBV感染贡献hepatocyte损坏。
简介:AIMTodeterminetheroleofcorticotropinreleasingfactorreceptor(CRF2)inepithelialpermeabilityandenterocytecelldifferentiation.METHODSForthispurpose,weusedratSpragueDawleyandvariouscoloncarcinomacelllines(SW620,HCT8R,HT-29andCaco-2celllines).ExpressionofCRF2proteinwasanalyzedbyfluorescentimmunolabelinginnormalratcolonandthenbywesternblotindissociatedcolonicepithelialcellsandinthelysatesofcoloncarcinomacelllinesorduringtheearlydifferentiationofHT-29cells(tenfirstdays).ToassesstheimpactofCRF2signalingoncoloniccelldifferentiation,HT-29andCaco-2cellswereexposedtoUrocortin3recombinantproteins(Ucn3,100nmol/L).Insomeexperiments,cellswerepre-exposedtotheastressin2b(A2b)aCRF2antagonistinordertoinhibittheactionofUcn3.Intestinalcelldifferentiationwasfirstanalyzedbyfunctionalassays:thetrans-cellularpermeabilityandthepara-cellularpermeabilityweredeterminedbyDextran-FITCintakeandmeasureofthetransepithelialelectricalresistancerespectively.Morphologicalmodificationsassociatedtoepithelialdysfunctionwereanalyzedbyconfocalmicroscopyafterfluorescentlabelingofactin(phaloidin-TRITC)andintercellularadhesionproteinssuchasE-cadherin,p120ctn,occludinandZO-1.Theestablishmentofmatureadherensjunctions(AJ)wasmonitoredbyfollowingthedistributionofAJproteinsinlipidraftfractions,afterseparationofcelllysatesonsucrosegradients.Finally,themRNAandtheproteinexpressionlevelsofcharacteristicmarkersofintestinalepithelialcell(IEC)differentiationsuchasthetranscriptionalfactorkrüppel-likefactor4(KLF4)orthedipeptidylpeptidaseIV(DPPIV)wereperformedbyRT-PCRandwesternblotrespectively.ThespecificactivitiesofDPPIVandalkalinephosphatase(AP)enzymesweredeterminedbyacolorimetricmethod.RESULTSCRF2proteinispreferentiallyexpressedinundifferentiatedepithelialcellsfromthecryptsofcolonandinhumancoloncarcinoma