4 results on '"L. Notarangelo"'
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2. Toll receptor-mediated regulation of NADPH oxidase in human dendritic cells.
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Vulcano M, Dusi S, Lissandrini D, Badolato R, Mazzi P, Riboldi E, Borroni E, Calleri A, Donini M, Plebani A, Notarangelo L, Musso T, and Sozzani S
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- Adolescent, Adult, Cell Differentiation immunology, Cell Line, Tumor, Cells, Cultured, Child, Child, Preschool, Dendritic Cells metabolism, Dendritic Cells pathology, Escherichia coli growth & development, Escherichia coli immunology, Female, Granulomatous Disease, Chronic immunology, Granulomatous Disease, Chronic microbiology, Granulomatous Disease, Chronic pathology, Humans, Intracellular Fluid immunology, Intracellular Fluid microbiology, Ligands, Lipopolysaccharides pharmacology, Membrane Glycoproteins metabolism, NADPH Oxidases physiology, Phagocytosis immunology, Receptors, Cell Surface metabolism, Respiratory Burst immunology, Toll-Like Receptors, Up-Regulation immunology, Dendritic Cells enzymology, Dendritic Cells immunology, Membrane Glycoproteins physiology, NADPH Oxidases metabolism, Receptors, Cell Surface physiology
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Activation of NADPH oxidase represents an essential mechanism of defense against pathogens. Dendritic cells (DC) are phagocytic cells specialized in Ag presentation rather than in bacteria killing. Human monocyte-derived DC were found to express the NADPH oxidase components and to release superoxide anions in response to phorbol esters and phagocytic agonists. The NADPH oxidase components p47phox and gp91phox were down-regulated during monocyte differentiation to DC, and maturation of DC with pathogen-derived molecules, known to activate TLRs, increased p47phox and gp91phox expression and enhanced superoxide anions release. Similar results were obtained with plasmacytoid DC following maturation with influenza virus. In contrast, activation of DC by immune stimuli (CD40 ligand) did not regulate NADPH oxidase components or respiratory burst. NADPH oxidase-derived oxygen radicals did not play any role in DC differentiation, maturation, cytokine production, and induction of T cell proliferation, as based on the normal function of DC generated from chronic granulomatous disease patients and the use of an oxygen radical scavenger. However, NADPH oxidase activation was required for DC killing of intracellular Escherichia coli. It is likely that the selective regulation of oxygen radicals production by pathogen-activated DC may function to limit pathogen dissemination during DC trafficking to secondary lymphoid tissues.
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- 2004
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3. Defective self-reactive antibody repertoire of serum IgM in patients with hyper-IgM syndrome.
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Lacroix-Desmazes S, Resnick I, Stahl D, Mouthon L, Espanol T, Levy J, Kaveri SV, Notarangelo L, Eibl M, Fischer A, Ochs H, and Kazatchkine MD
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- Adolescent, Autoantigens immunology, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Hypergammaglobulinemia blood, Immunoglobulin G blood, Kidney immunology, Liver immunology, Lung immunology, Male, Pseudomonas aeruginosa immunology, Staphylococcus epidermidis immunology, Stomach immunology, Syndrome, Antigen-Antibody Reactions, Autoantibodies blood, Hypergammaglobulinemia immunology, Immunoglobulin M blood
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We have analyzed the self-reactive repertoires of IgM and IgG Abs in the serum of 19 patients with hyper-IgM syndrome (HIM) by means of a quantitative immunoblotting technique that allows for a quantitative comparison of Ab repertoires in health and disease by multiparametric statistical analysis. Normal tissue extracts of liver, lung, stomach, and kidney were used as sources of self Ags. Extracts of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus epidermidis were used as sources of nonself Ags. We demonstrate a significant bias in repertoires of reactivities of IgM of patients with HIM with self Ags. Ab repertoires of IgM toward nonself Ags did not differ, however, between patients and controls. No difference was found between IgM repertoires of untreated patients and those of patients receiving substitutive treatment with i.v. IgG. IgG in the serum of HIM patients lacked reactivity with self Ags, although it exhibited a pattern of reactivity with nonself Ags that was similar to that of IgG of healthy controls. The data demonstrate that functional CD40-CD40 ligand interactions are essential for the selection of natural self-reactive B cell repertoires.
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- 1999
4. Cholangiopathy and tumors of the pancreas, liver, and biliary tree in boys with X-linked immunodeficiency with hyper-IgM.
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Hayward AR, Levy J, Facchetti F, Notarangelo L, Ochs HD, Etzioni A, Bonnefoy JY, Cosyns M, and Weinberg A
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- Adolescent, Adult, Biliary Tract Neoplasms pathology, Child, Cryptosporidiosis epidemiology, Cryptosporidiosis pathology, Cytomegalovirus Infections epidemiology, Cytomegalovirus Infections pathology, Humans, Hypergammaglobulinemia genetics, Hypergammaglobulinemia pathology, Immunoglobulin M analysis, Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes genetics, Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes pathology, Liver Neoplasms pathology, Male, Pancreatic Neoplasms pathology, Biliary Tract Diseases epidemiology, Biliary Tract Diseases pathology, Biliary Tract Neoplasms epidemiology, Hypergammaglobulinemia immunology, Immunoglobulin M immunology, Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes epidemiology, Liver Neoplasms epidemiology, Pancreatic Neoplasms epidemiology, X Chromosome genetics
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We report an association between X-linked immunodeficiency with hyper-IgM (XHIM) and carcinomas affecting the liver, pancreas, biliary tree, and associated neuroectodermal endocrine cells. The tumors were fatal in eight of nine cases and in most instances were preceded by chronic cholangiopathy and/or cirrhosis. An additional group of subjects with XHIM had chronic inflammation of the liver or bile ducts but no malignancy. Many patients with XHIM were infected with cryptosporidia. CD40 is normally expressed on regenerating or inflammed bile duct epithelium. A CD40+ hepatocellular carcinoma cell line, HepG2, susceptible to cryptosporidia and CMV infection became resistant when cell surface CD40 was cross-linked by a CD40 ligand fusion protein. Apoptosis was triggered in HepG2 cells if protein synthesis was blocked by cycloheximide or if the cells were infected by cryptosporidia. Ligation of CD40 on biliary epithelium may contribute to defense against infection by intracellular pathogens. We propose that the CD40 ligand mutations that cause XHIM deprive the biliary epithelium of one line of defense against intracellular pathogens and that malignant transformation in the biliary tree follows chronic infection or inflammation. The resulting tumors may then progress without check by an effective immune response. Patients with XHIM who have abnormal liver function tests should be considered at increased risk for cholangiopathy or malignancy.
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- 1997
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