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  • About
  • 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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HIV enteropathy: crypt stem and transit cell hyperproliferation induces villous atrophy in HIV/Microsporidia-infected jejunal mucosa

Batman, Philip A., Kotler, D.P., Kapembwa, M.S., Booth, D., Orenstein, J.M., Scally, Andy J., Griffin, G., Potten, C.S. January 2007 (has links)
Objectives: The study aim was to analyse the kinetics of stem and transit cells in the crypts of jejunal mucosa infected with HIV and Microsporidia. Design: The size of villi, depth of crypts and proliferative activity of transit and stem cells in jejunal mucosa were measured using morphometric techniques. Methods: The surface area/volume ratio (S/V) of jejunal biopsies was estimated under light microscopy using a Weibel graticule. Crypt length was measured by counting enterocytes along the crypt side from the base to the villus junction, and the mean crypt length was calculated. The S/V and crypt lengths of the jejunal mucosa of 21 HIV and Microsporidia-infected test cases were compared with 14 control cases. The labelling index in relation to the crypt cell position of 10 of the test cases was analysed compared with 13 control cases. Results: Differences were found in the S/V and crypt length, and there was a negative correlation between S/V and crypt length in test and control cases combined. Cell labelling indices fell into low and high proliferation groups. There were significant differences in labelling indices between low proliferation test cases and controls, between high proliferation test cases and controls, and between high and low proliferation test cases. Conclusion: Villous atrophy induced by HIV and Microsporidia is attributed to crypt cell hyperplasia and the encroachment of crypt cells onto villi. These infections induce crypt hypertrophy by stimulating cell mitosis predominantly in transit cells but also in stem cells. Increased stem cell proliferation occurs only in high proliferation cases.
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The Kinetics of G2 and M Transitions Regulated by B Cyclins

Huang, Yehong 21 February 2014 (has links)
No description available.
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Réponse biologique de cellules animales à des contraintes hydrodynamiques : simulation numérique, expérimentation et modélisation en bioréacteurs de laboratoire / Biological response of animal cell to hydrodynamic stresses : numerical simulation, experimentation and modelling in bench-scale bioreactors

Barbouche, Naziha 13 November 2008 (has links)
La réponse globale de cellules animales à des contraintes hydrodynamiques lors de leur culture en suspension dans des réacteurs agités a été étudiée grâce à une approche intégrative couplant les outils du génie biochimique à ceux de la mécanique des fluides numérique. En premier lieu, la description de l’hydrodynamique moyenne et locale de deux systèmes de culture agités de laboratoire, spinner et bioréacteur, a été réalisée. Puis, l'étude des cinétiques macroscopiques de cellules CHO cultivées en suspension, en milieu sans sérum et sans protéine, a été réalisée avec différentes vitesses d’agitation, pour évaluer l'impact de l'agitation sur les vitesses de croissance et de mort cellulaires, ainsi que de consommation des substrats et de production des métabolites et de l'interféron-gamma recombinant. Des caractérisations supplémentaires des cellules (apoptose, protéines intracellulaires) et de l'interféron ont également été réalisées. Les effets de l'intensification de l'agitation ont été représentés avec plusieurs corrélations globales reliant : (i) en milieu contenant du pluronic, l'intégrale des cellules viables au nombre de Reynolds, et la proportion de cellules lysées à la valeur moyenne de l'énergie de dissipation, <[epsilon]? (ii) en milieu sans pluronic, les vitesses spécifiques de croissance et de mort cellulaires à <[epsilon]. De plus, l'analyse par CFD de la distribution spatio-temporelle des contraintes indique que la lyse cellulaire, observée dans le réacteur aux conditions extrêmes d'agitation, serait plutôt liée à des valeurs locales très élevées de [epsilon], ainsi qu’à la fréquence d'exposition des cellules dans ces zones énergétiques. Un modèle hydro-cinétique original, couplant l’hydrodynamique locale aux cinétiques cellulaires de croissance et de mort, et basé sur l’intermittence de la turbulence permet la prédiction de la lyse massive observée en réacteur sous certaines conditions. Pour confirmer le fait que les effets liés à l'intensification de l'agitation sont bien le résultat d'une augmentation des contraintes hydrodynamiques, et non d'une amélioration du transfert d'oxygène, ce dernier a été mesuré et modélisé par couplage avec une simulation numérique de type Volume Of Fluid , concluant en une absence de limitation d'oxygène. Enfin, la conception, le dimensionnement et la caractérisation hydrodynamique d'un réacteur innovant de type Couette-Taylor, sont proposées pour la mise en œuvre de cultures perfusées dans un environnement hydrodynamique mieux contrôlé / The global response of animal cells to hydrodynamic stress when cultivated in suspension in stirred tank reactors was studied. To do this, an integrative approach coupling biochemical engineering and fluid mechanics tools were used. First, the description of the global and local hydrodynamics of two bench-scale agitated reactors, a spinner flask and a bioreactor, was carried out. Then, macroscopic kinetics of CHO cells cultivated in a serum and protein-free medium were obtained at various agitation rates, in order to evaluate the impact of agitation on cellular growth and death, as well as substrates consumption and metabolites and recombining IFN-[gamma] production. IFN-[gamma] and cells physiological state were more precisely characterised by glycosylation, apoptosis state and intracellular proteins measurements. The effects of the agitation increase were represented by several global correlations that related: (i) in a medium containing Pluronic F68, the Integral of the Viable Cells Density to the Reynolds number, and the proportion of lysed cells with the average value of energy dissipation rate <[epsilon]? (ii) in a medium without pluronic, specific cell growth and death rates to <[epsilon]. Moreover, CFD analysis of the stress distribution indicated that the cellular lysis observed in the bioreactor at the highest agitation rate, would be related to very high local values of [epsilon], and to the exposure frequency of the cells in these energetic zones. An original hydro-kinetic model based on the intermittency of turbulence and coupling the local hydrodynamics with cell growth and death kinetics, allowed the prediction of the massive cell lysis observed in the bioreactor under some mixing conditions. To decouple shear stress effects from oxygen transfer improvement, the oxygen transfer coefficient was experimentally measured and modelled using a Volume Of Fluid numerical simulation. Our results indicated the absence of an oxygen limitation, which confirmed that this cell response resulted from the hydrodynamic stress increase alone. Lastly, an innovative continuous and perfused Couette-Taylor reactor, allowing a better-controlled hydrodynamic environment was designed and sized. Its hydrodynamic description was carried out using CFD calculations

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