Orientadores: Denise Pontes Cavalcanti, Luciana Cardoso Bonadia / Texto em português e inglês / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T19:05:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Kanazawa_ThatianeYoshie_M.pdf: 1904408 bytes, checksum: 8b54672e34f366d597d94eb97bfafa4d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Entre as osteocondrodisplasias (OCD) destacam-se as displasias esqueléticas do grupo 1 (FGFR3) devido à sua alta frequência. Nesse grupo, além das displasias com fenótipo característico e considerável correlação genótipo-fenótipo, como a acondroplasia (Ach) e a displasia tanatofórica (DT), está a hipocondroplasia (Hch), cujo fenótipo em geral é mais leve, apresenta grande variabilidade clínico-radiológica e heterogeneidade etiológica. O objetivo desse estudo foi sequenciar o gene FGFR3 numa coorte de pacientes com fenótipo típico ou sugestivo. A análise molecular foi feita por sequenciamento direto, começando pelos hot spots e, seguindo com o sequenciamento completo do gene quando os primeiros foram negativos. Foram incluídos 63 pacientes na casuística: 30 Ach, 7 Hch, 10 Hch?, 13 DT-I e 3 DT-II. Dentre os casos de Ach, todos apresentaram a mutação mais comumente associada à Ach (p.G380R), inclusive um paciente com fenótipo atípico e suspeita de mosaicismo somático, não comprovado, devido à assimetria corporal. Dentre os casos de Hch, todos os sete apresentaram a mutação mais comum para este fenótipo (p.N540K) inclusive dois pacientes com uma Hch grave com manifestações clínicas e radiológicas no período neonatal e dez pacientes, diagnosticados como uma Hch duvidosa (Hch?) por apresentarem baixa estatura com alguns sinais radiológicos, não foi encontrada mutação, sendo que em cinco casos, o sequenciamento não foi concluído. Três mutações diferentes, que ocorrem com maior frequência, foram identificadas entre os casos de DT-I, a p.R248C em sete pacientes, entre eles um paciente atípico por apresentar maior sobrevida, p.S249C em três e a p.Y373C em dois. Em todos os casos de DT-II, como esperado, foi encontrada a única mutação até então descrita para este fenótipo (p.K650E). Os resultados deste estudo permitiram a identificação de casos interessantes, ressaltaram a ótima correlação genótipo-fenótipo do grupo FGFR3 e reforçaram a importância da investigação molecular do gene FGFR3 nos casos com fenótipos duvidosos ou atípicos / Abstract: Among osteochondrodysplasias (OCD) stand out the skeletal dysplasias group 1 (FGFR3) due to its high frequency. In this group, besides the conditions with considerable characteristic phenotype and genotype-phenotype correlation, such as achondroplasia (Ach) and thanatophoric dysplasia (TD), there is hypochondroplasia (HCH), whose phenotype is generally milder, with a large clinical and radiological variability and etiological heterogeneity. The aim of this study was to sequence the FGFR3 gene in a cohort of patients with typical or suggestive phenotype. Molecular analysis was performed by direct sequencing, starting with the hot spots, and following with the complete sequencing of the gene when the first were negative. In this sample, 63 patients were included: 30 Ach, 7 Hch, 10 Hch?, 13 DT-I and 3 DT-II. Among the Ach cases, all exhibit the most common mutation associated with Ach (p.G380R), including one patient with an atypical phenotype, with suspicious of somatic mosaicism, not confirmed, due to body asymmetry. Among the Hch cases, all the seven patients showed the most common mutation for this phenotype (p.N540K) including two patients with severe Hch with clinical and radiological manifestations in the neonatal period and ten patients, diagnosed as a doubtful Hch (Hch?), because of their low stature with some radiological signs, no mutation was found, and in five cases, sequencing was not completed. Three different mutations, which occur more frequently, were identified among the DT-I cases, p.R248C in seven patients, including an atypical patient with a long-term survival, p.S249C in three and p.Y373C in two. In all DT-II cases, as expected, the only mutation described so far for this phenotype (p.K650E) was found. The results of this study allowed the identification of interesting cases, emphasized the great genotype-phenotype correlation of FGFR3 group and reinforced the importance of molecular investigation of the FGFR3 gene in cases with doubtful or atypical phenotypes / Mestrado / Ciencias Biomedicas / Mestra em Ciências Médicas

Neurogenesis occurs in exclusive regions in the adult nervous system, the subventricular zone and dentate gyrus in the brain, and olfactory epithelium (OE) in the periphery. Cell replacement after death or injury, occurs to varying degrees in neural tissue, and is thought to be dependent upon the biological responses of stem and/or progenitor cells. Despite the progress made to identify adult OE and central nervous system (CNS) progenitors and lineage trace their progeny, our spatial and temporal understanding of embryonic OE neuroglial progenitors has been stalled by the paucity of identifiable genes able to distinguish individual candidate progenitors. In the developing CNS, radial glia serve as both neural progenitors and scaffolding for migrating neuroblasts and are identified by the expression of a select group of antigens, including nestin. Here, I show that the embryonic OE contains a novel radial glial-like progenitor (RGLP) that is not detected in adult OE. RGLPs express the radial glial antigens nestin, GLAST and RC2, but not brain lipid binding protein (BLBP), which, distinct from CNS radial glia, is instead found in olfactory ensheathing cells, a result confirmed using lineage tracing with BLBP-cre mice. Nestin-cre-mediated lineage tracing with three different reporters reveals that only a subpopulation of nestin-expressing RGLPs activate the “CNS-specific” nestin regulatory elements, and produce spatially restricted neurons in the OE and vomeronasal organ. The dorsal-medial restriction of transgene-activating cells is also seen in the embryonic OE of Nestin-GFP transgenic mice, where GFP is found in a subpopulation of GFP+ Mash1+ neuronal progenitors, despite the fact that endogenous nestin expression is found in RGLPs throughout the OE. In vitro, embryonic OE progenitors produce three biologically distinct colony subtypes, that when generated from Nestin-cre/ZEG mice, produce GFP+ neurons, recapitulating their in vivo phenotype, and are enriched for the most neurogenic colony subtype. Neurogenesis in vitro is driven by the proliferation of nestin+ progenitors in response to FGF2. I thus provide evidence for a novel neurogenic precursor, the RGLP of the OE, that can be regulated by FGF2, and provide the first evidence for intrinsic differences in the origin and spatiotemporal potential of distinct progenitors during OE development. / Medicine, Faculty of / Medicine, Department of / Experimental Medicine, Division of / Graduate

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・論文博士 / 博士(医学) / 乙第13290号 / 論医博第2188号 / 新制||医||1039(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院医学研究科医学専攻 / (主査)教授 山下 潤, 教授 木村 剛, 教授 浅野 雅秀 / 学位規則第4条第2項該当 / Doctor of Medical Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・論文博士 / 博士(医学) / 乙第13380号 / 論医博第2214号 / 新制||医||1047(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院医学研究科外科系専攻 / (主査)教授 山下 潤, 教授 木村 剛, 教授 浅野 雅秀 / 学位規則第4条第2項該当 / Doctor of Medical Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

Aim: We aimed to clone angiopoietin-1 (Ang1) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) full-length DNAs of human origin and construct replication-deficient adenovirus encoding for either of these two genes which can be potentially served for clinical applications. Methods: VEGF165 and Ang1 full-length cDNAs of human origin were amplified by RT-PCR, verified by sequencing, cloned into a pShuttle-CMV vector, recombined with a E1 and E3 regions double-deleted adenovirus, packaged in 293A cells, and purified by ultracentrifugation. The titers of Ad-Ang1 and Ad-VEGF165 were determined by a tissue culture infectious dose50 method. Expression of Ang1 and VEGF165 proteins in H9C2 cardiac myoblasts was examined by Western blot. To examine the protective properties of Ad-Ang1 and Ad-VEGF165, DNA fragmentation induced by H2O2 was analyzed in H9C2 cells 24 hours after transfection. Ad-GFP served as a vehicle control. Results: Sequencing analysis indicated that there is one base difference at site 1206 (t) in Ang1 compared with that of GeneBank (c, U83508) although the coded amino acids are the same (Ileucine). VEGF165 cDNA sequence was same as that of GeneBank (AB021221). Western blot showed that protein levels of Ang1 and VEGF165 were increased 3.53 and 11.53 fold respectively 24 h after transfection as compared to control. Examination of DNA fragmentation suggested that Ang1 and/or VEGF165 significantly protected H9C2 cells from H2O2 induced apoptosis. Conclusions: The two constructed adenoviral vectors, Ad-Ang1 and Ad-VEGF165, functionally expressed target proteins. We demonstrated, for the first time, that the combined utilization of Ang1 and VEGF165 inhibited apoptosis, in addition to their angiogenesis properties.

Neural stem cells are capable of differentiating into three major neural cell types, but the underlying molecular mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we investigated the mechanism by which integrin β4 modulates mouse neural stem cell differentiation in vitro. Inhibition of endogenous integrin β4 by RNA interference inhibited the cell differentiation and the expression of fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 but not fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 or fibroblast growth factor receptor 3. Overexpression of integrin β4 in neural stem cells promoted neural stem cell differentiation. Furthermore, integrin β4-induced differentiation of neural stem cells was attenuated by SU5402, the inhibitor of fibroblast growth factor receptors. Finally, we investigated the role of integrin β4 in neural stem cell survival: knockdown of integrin β4 did not affect survival or apoptosis of neural stem cells. These data provide evidence that integrin β4 promotes differentiation of mouse neural stem cells in vitro possibly through fibroblast growth factor receptor 2.

At present, vascular endothelial cell (VEC) apoptosis induced by deprivation of fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) and serum has been well studied. But how to trigger VEC apoptosis in the presence of FGF-2 and serum is not well known. To address this question, in this study, the effects of safrole oxide on angiogenesis and VEC growth stimulated by FGF-2 were investigated. The results showed that safrole oxide inhibited angiogenesis and induced VEC apoptosis in the presence of FGF-2 and serum. To understand the possible mechanism of safrole oxide acting, we first examined the phosphorylation of Akt and the activity of nitric oxide synthase (NOS); secondly, we analyzed the expressions and distributions of Fas and P53; then we measured the activity of phosphatidylcholine specific phospholipase C (PC-PLC) in the VECs treated with and without safrole oxide. The results showed that this small molecule obviously suppressed Akt phosphorylation and the activity of NOS, and promoted the expressions of Fas and P53 markedly. Simultaneously, Fas protein clumped on cell membrane, instead of homogenously distributed. The activity of PC-PLC was not changed obviously. The data suggested that safrole oxide effectively inhibited angiogenesis and triggered VEC apoptosis in the presence of FGF-2 and serum, and it might perform its functions by suppressing Akt/NOS signal pathway, upregulating the expressions of Fas and P53 and modifying the distributing pattern of Fas in VEC. This finding provided a powerful chemical probe for promoting VEC apoptosis during angiogenesis stimulated by FGF-2.

Final publication is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/term.2060/abstract;jsessionid=F0849D98381EEF9E83401A02B9042F4D.f04t02 / 京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(医学) / 甲第19602号 / 医博第4109号 / 新制||医||1014(附属図書館) / 32638 / 京都大学大学院医学研究科医学専攻 / (主査)教授 別所 和久, 教授 伊佐 正, 教授 川口 義弥 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Medical Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・論文博士 / 博士(医学) / 乙第13051号 / 論医博第2117号 / 新制||医||1017(附属図書館) / 33141 / (主査)教授 別所 和久, 教授 椛島 健治, 教授 開 祐司 / 学位規則第4条第2項該当 / Doctor of Medical Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(医学) / 甲第20807号 / 医博第4307号 / 新制||医||1025(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院医学研究科医学専攻 / (主査)教授 椛島 健治, 教授 瀬原 淳子, 教授 上杉 志成 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Medical Science / Kyoto University / DFAM