... though it was of T- cell origin, which is only seen in a small minority of patients [12] The initial step in treating PTLD is reduction in immunosuppression, andthe response is usually seen in three ... management involved reducing the dose ofthe patient s immunosuppressive agents and starting chemotherapy Administration of azathioprine, prednisone and tacrolimus was stopped and low dose sirolimus ... lymphoma, with an unusual presentation of acute appendicitis andEBV positivity We report successful treatment with chemotherapy and stress the need for heightened awareness of this malignancy in patients...
... dominant inthe specimens observed In this study, subtype BR1-C was seen more in biopsies of NPC It can be speculated that a substrain ofEBVwith this subtype infects NPC more frequently and this subtype ... contributions YPJ carried out most ofthe studies and drafted the manuscript YW and YC participated parts ofthe studies and writing YZJ was responsible for the collection of specimens used in this study ... for the populations in Southern China Interestingly, a silent mutation A®G at 103654 was found in all the wild isolates, suggesting this interchange may be a specific marker oftheEBV strains in...
... populations, such as the high-risk NPC families, the nonendemic healthy controls and patients with other EBVassociated diseases Methods and Materials Study populations A total of 547 NPC patients and ... life-long persistent infection without serious consequences in most of populations, but a number of documents showed that EBV infection was involved in many diseases, including Hodgkin'sdisease (HD) ... levels of each EBV marker between any group ofthe patients and Cantonese controls EBV serological profiles in patients with other EBVassociated diseases We further analyzed these EBV antibodies in...
... done to minimise the necessity for two separate EBV standards, thus reducing costs and labour The EBNA-1 and BHRF-1 DNA targets were linked using randomised primers (Table 1) and inserted into the ... international calibration standard could be the first step towards standardisation [73] However, instrumentation, chemistries, gene targets and other test-related aspects remain diverse One solution ... quantification ofEBVand other viruses [27,74,75] Conclusion This is the first reported study that uses the SYBR Green I dye on the Rotor-gene 6000™ with a novel quantification standard containing two...
... AKATA cells This is contrarly to their transcription, although BARF1 quantity could not be quantified by actin standard marker due to their secreted protein statue We demonstrated in this study the ... during tumor development [21] Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions SF contributed to perform the experiment TO contributed to design, ... limited to epithelial cells, but also in B cells Figure latently infected AKATA and IB4 cells Transcriptional and translational expression of BARF1 in Transcriptional and translational expression...
... evaluate the role ofEBVin both tumor parts and nontumor parts of each patient Conclusion Epstein- Barrvirus is highly associated with Castleman disease More EBV- positive cells in germinal centers ... contributions CH Chen is the main author to design the study, write the article and submit the manuscript TT Hung helped analyze the results ofthe study HC Liu and TP Liu participated in reviewing the ... curative resection, strategy for anti-angiogenesis may have a potential role to control thedisease Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions...
... MSCs)/radioactivity in cultures without MSCs]) by increasing numbers of MSCs is shown Each result represents the mean of four cultures ± standard error ofthe mean (SEM) Results are representative oftwo independent ... cyclo-oxigenase-2 To investigate the immunosuppressive potential of MSCs in vitro, we tested their effect on the anti-CD3induced proliferation of CD4+ T cells T cells were stimulated in vitro with anti-CD3 ... harvested by incubation with trypsin/EDTA and counted MSCs were washed with PBS 2% FCS, stained withthe indicated antibodies for 30 minutes and washed twice with PBS 2% FCS For the biotin-conjugated...
... manuscript draft Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests GFK had full access to all ofthe data inthe study and takes responsibility for the integrity ofthe data ... the relatively short duration of study, and perhaps also the fact that notwithstanding the decline in status expected with a degenerative disease Page of like PD, at least some subjects may have ... assess the relationship between health utility scores and PD severity as measured using standard disease- specific tools In cross-sectional analyses, we identified ADL-related components of the...
... 0.6 0.8 the on-state (this amounts to stimulation by a factor of 9.7) Thus, the background inthe off-state was much lower with pEBTetD than with pEBTet However, in contrast to expression of membrane ... utilize continuous expression ofthe unmodified TetR The original tetracycline repressor simply binds to a tandem ofthe type tetracycline operator (tetO2) operator and thus blocks transcription ... expression into the target site Since the open reading frame for hygromycin resistance on the expression plasmid lacks a start codon, random integration into the genome does not yield resistant cells This...
... population All studied subjects were seropositive for EBVThe present study consisted oftwo parts Inthe cross-sectional first part ofthe study we investigated EBV- specific IFNγ-producing T cells ... Statistical analysis Results are given as the percentage of patients with positive EBV T- cell response, as well as the mean response ± standard deviation Statistical analyses involved use of StatView 5.0 ... differences between patients and control individuals inthe proportion of subjects with positive EBV- specific IFNγ-producing T cells in PBMCs, the mean number of SFCs or the SFC distribution Two studies...
... membranes of these joints showed mild synovial and lymphoid proliferation These findings were compatible withthe pathological findings of RA joints Discussion To the best of our knowledge, this is the ... Japan, and has a cysteine derivative possessing two SH-groups Its antirheumatic effects are thought to arise from its suppression ofthe formation of IgM in B cells, the formation of matrix metalloproteinase-3, ... population of lymphocytes was small and there was almost no staining for EBER inthe BM The spleen tissue also showed diffuse infiltration of myeloblasts, and rare EBER-positive lymphocytes In contrast,...
... suggested to indicate possible genetically determined defects inTcell responses to EBVin certain populations Our review of Western cases showed that four of those 14 patients developed a T ... clinicopathological features of fulminant T- LPD that arose inthe setting of acute primary EBV infection in our patient, characterized by a monoclonal proliferation of EBV- infected T cells Case presentation A ... not reported TCRa presented with clonal rearrangements in nine out of 10 patients andEBV genome was clonal in all but one case In contrast, among patients withTcell LPD after CAEBV infection...
... germinal centers in infectious mononucleosis causes the infection of bystander germinal center cells, pushing them into the latency III growth program and these constitute the majority ofthecell ... patient andthe intensity ofthe immunosuppressive regime used The highest rate of PTLD is seen inthe first year post- transplant124 The overall incidence of PTLD is - 2% The incidence ofthe ... immune response of immunosuppressed patients is not optimal so serology tests should be interpreted with caution The major role ofEBV serology inthe transplant setting is to determine the serological...
... (AP-1) and employing Janus kinases (JAKs) or and signal transducers and activators of transcription (STATs) (JAK/STAT) pathways and regulate their substrates[6] LMP1 also targets the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase ... WHO type, TNM stage, T stage, N stage, recurrence and metastasis) Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions JC carried out substantial ... the intensity of staining and percentage of tumor cells stained Staining intensity was scored as = negative, = weak, = moderate, = strong The percentage of tumor cells stained was scored as =...
... GAGTTGTCCTACATGCAAGTACATGTTTTTAATGTTGTCTGTCTTCTGTGCT GTTCCTGTAAGTTTGCTA GTAGCTGCCTGCATAGGAGCCTCGCTTCCGATTATTCCCTTCCCAATATTAT TCATCCAGACTTAGCCAC GCAACCACTGATACACTGGAAAGCACAACAGTTGGCACTTCTGTCTAGAAA ATAATAATTGCAAGTTGTA ... CCTGGCACCCAGCACAATGAAGATCAAGATCATTGCTCCTCCTGAGCGCAA GTACTCCGTGTGGATCGGCG CTCGGCTCACTGCAAGCTCTGCCTCCCAGGTTCACACCATTCTCCTGCCTC AGCCTCCCGAGTAGCTGGG CATGCAAGTTGGCAGTGGTTCTGGTACTAAAAATTGTGGTTGTTTTTTCTGT TTACGTAACCTGCTTAGT CTCAGATAGAAAAGGAGGGAGCTACTCTCAGGCTGCAAGCGGCAACAGTG ... lymphocyte transformation and oncogenesis As noted in studies of tumors andcell lines, expression of latent EBV genes contributes to cell transformation, and these studies have resulted inthe description...
... determine bivariate correlations Results EpsteinBarrvirus detection andEpsteinBarrvirus typing in mouthwash samples To detect EBV infection and to determine the type of infecting EBV, DNA ... SLE SLE Type (c) Type Type systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in mouthwash samples EpsteinBarrvirus (EBV) typing of normal individuals and patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in ... detected inthe blood sample was identical to that inthe mouthwash sample (data not shown) Discussion The present study was undertaken to examine the types ofEBV infecting SLE patients and their...
... ofthe cases diagnosed were at advanced stage ofthedisease [4] A unique feature of NPC is its strong associationwith Epstein- Barrvirus (EBV) EBV DNA is consistently detected in patients with ... reported in Southern China This was first described inthe CAO strain, the nude mouse passaged Chinese NPC EBV isolate The presence of Xho-I loss variant in our tissues samples is comparable to other ... variants with 30-bp deletion and/ or loss of XhoI restriction site as well as the co-existence of these variants in NPC tissues and plasma with population characteristics and histological type Methods...
... definition, has to be present inthe tumor cells in order to make a diagnosis of PEL [15] The co-infection of HHV-8 andEBVin this patient is interesting Both HHV-8 andEBV are g-herpes viruses and ... Discussion We have reported the case of a patient who presented with all the features of PEL that have been described elsewhere [14,15] This was the first AIDS defining illness in this patient ... discharged through the Infectious Disease Institute clinic to be initiated on HAART She was due to return for subsequent anti-cancer treatment but died two days after discharge from our hospital...
... well understood To further investigate associationof HDL and adiponectin with HBV replication rate and therefore introducing a possible strategy for treating patients with chronic hepatitis B, we ... according to the manufacturer s instructions The linear range of this assay was 102-109 copies/ml Statistical Analysis Results were expressed as mean ± standard deviation Relations between continuous ... differences were tested by Student s t- test To find nonlinear association between HBV DNA and HDL with adiponectin in scatter plots, Epanechnikov kernel smooting was used Analyses were done using STATA...
... closest TSS regardless whether the peak is residing upstream or downstream to the TSS Figure 3A shows the distribution of ChIP-seq peaks relative to the TSSs We then selected a subset of ChIP-seq ... considered a potential driving force for the Burkitt s translocations, and it is possible that these EBNA1 binding sites may link these sites to facilitate translocation Discussion EBNA1 can interact ... A: The amino terminus of Epstein- BarrVirus (EBV) nuclear antigen contains AT hooks that facilitate the replication and partitioning of latent EBV genomes by tethering them to cellular chromosomes...