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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Fenotipagem das populações celulares e detecção in situ de citocinas em biópsias de pacientes com paracoccidioidomicose /

Alcântara, Tânia Machado de. January 2002 (has links)
Orientador: Julio Defaveri / Resumo: A paracoccidioidomicose (Pbmicose) é micose sistêmica na qual complexos eventos inflamatórios e imunológicos são desencadeados pela interação fungo-hospedeiro, resultando em duas características importantes da doença: freqüente instalação de distúrbios imunorregulatórios e reação inflamatória granulomatosa. Este trabalho teve por objetivo estudar em pacientes portadores da forma crônica multifocal da Pbmicose, na fase pré-tratamento, as características da resposta granulomatosa em lesões de pele e mucosa, considerando suas populações celulares e a presença in situ de citocinas de padrão Th1 e Th2. Estes achados foram correlacionados com a gravidade clínica, níveis de competência imunológica humoral e celular e níveis séricos dessas mesmas citocinas. Foram estudados 27 pacientes com gravidade clínica moderada (13 pacientes), moderada/grave (8 pacientes), grave (5 pacientes) e não avaliada (1 paciente). As biópsias foram realizadas por punch de lesões de pele ou mucosa. Os soros foram separados de sangue obtido por punção venosa, e o teste cutâneo realizado pela paracoccidioidina. Nas biópsias foram analisados o número e padrão de distribuição de neutrófilos, eosinófilos, células gigantes, plasmócitos, linfócitos T CD3+ e CD8+, linfócitos B e células NK (estes três últimos caracterizados pela imuno-histoquímica), contagem de fungos e a detecção imuno-histoquímica de IL-4, IFN- , IL-10, TNF- e TGF- . No soro dos pacientes foram realizadas dosagens de IL-2, IL-4, IL-10 e TGF- e de anticorpos específicos anti-Pb por ensaio imunoenzimático (ELISA)... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Paracoccidioidomycosis (Pbmycosis) is a systemic mycosis in which a complex inflammatory and immunological events are unchained by the interaction of the fungus (Pb) with the host tissues, resulting in two important characteristics of the disease: frequent immunoregulatory disturbances and a granulomatous inflammation. The aim of this work was to study in patients with the chronic multifocal form of Pbmycosis, before treatment, the characteristics of the granulomatous response in skin and mucosal lesions, considering the cellular populations and the presence in situ of Th1 and Th2 cytokines patterns. These results were correlated with the clinical severity, the levels of humoral and cellular immune competence and serum levels of those cytokines. Twenty seven patients were studied, distributed accordingly to clinical severity: moderate (13 patients), moderate/severe (8 patients), severe (5 patients), and not evaluated (1 patient). Punch biopsies were collected from skin or mucosal lesions, the serum obtained from venous blood samples to measured antibodies levels, and the skin test accomplished by the paracoccidioidin. In biopsies the following parameters were evaluated: the number and distribution pattern of neutrophils, eosinophils, giant cells, plasma cells, T CD3+ and CD8+ cells, B cells and NK cells (the last three characterized by immunohistochemistry), number of fungi, and detection of IL-4, IFN- , IL-10, TNF- and TGF- by immunohistochemistry. It was also measured the serum levels of IL-2, IL-4, IL-10 and TGF- and the level of specific antibodies anti-Pb by ELISA test. Specific granulomatous lesions, composed with epithelioid, well organized granuloma together with epithelioid loose, ill organized granuloma were observed in the same lesion of the dermis and submucosa. Neutrophils... (Complete abstract, click electronic address below) / Doutor

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