Selective parasympathetic innervation of subcutaneous and intra-abdominal fat - functional implications
CONTACT:
Felix Kreier
Netherlands Institute for Brain Research
Meibergdreef 33, 1105 AZ
Amsterdam
THE NETHERLANDS
Phone: 31-20-566-5500
Fax: 31-20-696-1006
E-mail:f.kreier@nih.knaw.nl
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Insights into the molecular mechanisms of bradycardia-triggered arrhythmias in long QT-3 syndrome
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Robert S. Kass
Department of Pharmacology
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
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New York, NY 10032
USA
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Fax: 212-342-2703
E-mail: rsk20@columbia.edu
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Bacterial infectious disease control by vaccine development
CONTACT:
Roy Curtiss
Dept. Of Biology
Washington University
1 Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1137
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Phone: 1: 314-935-6819
Fax: 314-935-7246
E-mail: rcurtiss@biology.wustl.edu
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Beneficial effects of leptin on obesity, T cell hyporesponsiveness, and neuroendocrine/metabolic dysfunction of human congenital leptin deficiency
The leptin-deficient ob/ob mouse presents with a multitude of phenotypic abnormalities including severe obesity, infertility, immune system dysfunction and limited growth - all reversible following subcutaneous leptin administration. Much less is known about human leptin deficiency. I. Sadaf Farooqi and colleagues previously reported on 2 children with congenital leptin deficiency suffering from hyperphagia and severe obesity. These conditions were reduced following 1 year of subcutaneous recombinant human leptin therapy in the older subject. The authors now report (on pages 1093-1103) on the status of these two children, as well as a third, after up to 50 months of chronic r-metHuLeptin therapy. Treatment induced a decrease in caloric intake and fat mass (while lean mass increased in keeping with increased linear growth). Surprisingly, the basal metabolic rate in all subjects remained unchanged and allowed appropriately timed pubertal development. Reversal of severely impaired lymphocyte function suggests that leptin is a key molecule in both CD4+ T cell development and function and raises the possibility of leptin-replacement therapy for other immunodeficiencies.
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I. Sadaf Farooqi
University Department of Medicine and Department of Clinical Biochemistry
Addenbrooke's Hospital
Cambridge
UNITED KINGDOM
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Fax: 44-1223-762-657
E-mail:ifarooqi@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
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CCL25 mediates the localization of recently activated CD8ab+ lymphocytes to the small-intestinal mucosa
Given the continuous exposure of the intestine to foreign antigens, it is not surprising that large numbers of T lymphocytes are recruited from the blood to the intestine. In addition to lymphocytic expression of adhesion molecules that direct lymphocyte migration from the blood into intestinal tissues, evidence is mounting that chemokines and their receptors may also be involved. On pages 1113-1121 William Agace and colleagues demonstrate that expression of the chemokine receptor CCR9 is selectively maintained on CD8+ T cells activated in murine gut-associated lymphoid tissues and that neutralization of the CCR9 ligand CCL25 with a blocking antibody inhibits the accumulation of these cells in the small intestinal epithelial compartment. These results provide direct in vivo demonstration of a functional role for a chemokine/receptor pair in lymphocyte localization to the intestinal mucosa.
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William W. Agace
Immunology Section
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
Lund University
BMC I-13, S-22184
Lund
SWEDEN
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Fax: 46-46-2224218
E-mail: William.Agace@immuno.lu.se
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Intestinal Attraction: CCL25 functions in effector lymphocyte recruitment to
the small intestine
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Daniel J. Campbell
154B, 3801 Miranda Ave.
Palo Alto, California,94304
USA
Phone: 650-493-5000 Ext. 63132
Fax: 650-858-3986
E-mail: daniel@macampbell.com
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Neutrophil-independent mechanisms of caspase-1- and IL-18-mediated ischemic acute tubular necrosis in mice
Acute tubular necrosis is the predominant pathological process in animal models of ischemic acute renal failure (ARF) and in post-transplantation ARF in humans. Caspase proteases are involved in apoptotic as well as necrotic cell death, and several lines of evidence suggest that caspases play a role in ischemic ARF in mice. Charles Edelstein and colleagues have previously shown that mice lacking proinflammatory caspase-1 are protected from ischemic ARF and that this is (at least in part) due to lack of caspase activation of IL-18. The caspase-1 knockout mice also show less neutrophil infiltration. In a new set of experiments (pages 1083-1091), the researchers tested the potential of a new caspase inhibitor to protect against ischemic ARF and further examined the role of neutrophils in damage to the kidney. The experiments demonstrated efficacy of the drug in mice and revealed a novel mechanism of IL-18-mediated renal toxicity that acts independently of neutrophils.
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Charles L. Edelstein
Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Box C281, 4200 East 9th Ave.
Denver, Colorado 80262
USA
Phone: 303-315-8764
Fax: 303-315-4852
E-mail: Charles.edelstein@uchsc.edu
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mRNA expression profiles for Escherichia coli ingested by normal and phagocyte oxidase-deficient human neutrophils
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Henry Rosen
Box 356420
Department of Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 98195
USA
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Genome-wide responses of a pathogenic bacterium to its host
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Veterans Affairs
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E-mail: relman@stanford.edu
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Noncoding RNA danger motifs bridge innate and adaptive immunity and are potent adjuvants for vaccination
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Adrian Bot
Alliance Pharmaceutical, Corp.
Department of Immunology
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San Diego, CA 92121
USA
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Long QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, and conduction system disease are linked to a single sodium channel mutation
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Augustus Grant
Duke University Medical Center
Division of Cardiology
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Durham, NC 27710
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Defective cardiac ion channels: from mutations to clinical syndromes
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Colleen Clancy
Columbia University
Department of Pharmacology
New York, NY
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Amiloride-blockable acid-sensing ion channels are leading acid sensors expressed in human nociceptors
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Shinya Ugawa
Nagoya City University Medical School
Department of Anatomy II
1 Kawasumi, Mizuho-cho
Nagoya, 467-8601
JPN
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Fax 1: 8152-852-8887
E-mail: ugawa@med.nagoya-cu.ac.jp
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Role of matrix metalloproteinase-9 in angiogenesis caused by ocular infection with herpes simplex virus
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Barry T. Rouse
University of Tennessee
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Department of Microbiology
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E-mail: btr@utk.edu
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EphB6 crosslinking results in costimulation of T cells
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Jiangping Wu
CHUM, Notre-Dame Campus
Laboratory of Transplantation Immunology
Pavilion DeSeve, Research Center Rm Y-5616
1560 Sherbrooke St. East
Montreal, Quebec H2L 4M1,
CAN
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Fax 1: 514 412-7596
E-mail: jianping.wu@umontreal.ca
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Benzodiazepine-induced superoxide signals B cell apoptosis: mechanistic insight and potential therapeutic utility
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Gary Glick
Department Of Chemistry
University Of Michigan
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3817 Chem
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055
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E-mail: gglick@umich.edu
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Cholic acid mediates negative feedback regulation of bile acid synthesis in mice
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David Russell
UT Southwestern
Molecular Genetics
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USA
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Does loss of bile acid homeostasis make mice melancholy?
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David D. Moore
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
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Houston, Texas 77030
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Collagen deposition in HIV-1 infected lymphatic tissues and T cell homeostasis
CONTACT:
Timothy Schacker
University of Minnesota
MMC 250
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Minneapolis, MN 55455
USA
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E-mail: schacker@lenti.med.umn.edu
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Journal of Clinical Investigation