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5. Spectrophotometric Quantification of Bilirubin in Hemorrhagic Spinal Fluid using an Innovative Algorithm

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Bhadri, Prashant R., Salgaonkar, Vasant A., Pyne-Geithman, Gail J., Caffery, James J., Shukla, Rakesh, Beyette, Fred R., and Clark, Joseph F.

Abstract

Annually, approximately 30,000 people suffer from aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) in the United States. In an estimated 5% of these patients, the hemorrhage is difficult to diagnose using conventional methods. Clinicians must rely upon a combination of clinical history, Computerized Tomography (CT) scan evidence and lumbar puncture results to diagnose and differentiate SAH from a traumatic spinal tap (blood in the spinal fluid due to the procedure). Here we describe an algorithm based development of an analytic methodology using visible spectroscopy to reliably quantify bilirubin in hemorrhagic spinal fluid. The analysis, which may be useful for diagnoses concerning hemorrhagic stroke, is based on the detection of bilirubin, and concomitant blood products produced within the Cerebral Spinal Fluid (CSF) following SAH. The algorithm quantifies bilirubin (0.3 to 10 mg/dL) from the resultant absorption spectrum. A model is developed from standard visible spectroscopic absorption curves of bilirubin and hemoglobin by applying traditional Beer's Law principles. The model is coupled to a modified partial least square analysis and control theory concept where the bilirubin is the “signal” and is masked by hemoglobin “noise.” This paper describes the computational methods, sensitivity and utility of a system to quantify bilirubin in CSF like solutions containing hemoglobin and bilirubin over 0.5 g/dL-10g/dL of hemoglobin concentrations.

Published
2007
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15. Cytosolic Multiple Inositol Polyphosphate Phosphatase in the Regulation of Cytoplasmic Free Ca[sup 2+] Concentration.

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Jia Yu, Leibiger, Barbara, Shao-Nian Yang, Caffery, James J., Shears, Stephen B., Leibiger, Ingo B., Barker, Christopher J., and Berggren, Per-Olof

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*PHOSPHATASES, *INOSITOL phosphates, *CALCIUM ions, *ENDOPLASMIC reticulum
Abstract

Multiple inositol polyphosphate phosphatase (MIPP) is an enzyme that, in vitro, has the interesting property of degrading higher inositol polyphosphates to the Ca[sup 2+] second messenger, inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (Ins(1,4,5)P[sub 3]), independently of inositol lipid breakdown. We hypothesized that a truncated cytosolic form of the largely endoplasmic reticulum-confined MIPP (cyt-MIPP) could represent an important new tool in the investigation of Ins(1,4,5) P[sub 3]dependent intracellular Ca[sup 2+] homeostasis. To optimize our ability to judge the impact of cyt-MIPP on intracellular Ca[sup 2+] concentration ([Ca[sup 2+]][sub i]) we chose a poorly responsive β-cell line (HIT M222.2) with an abnormally low [Ca[sup 2+]][sub i]. Our results show for the first time in an intact mammalian cell that cyt-MIPP expression leads to a significant enhancement of Ins(1,4,5)P[sub 3] concentration. This is achieved without a significant interference from other cyt-MIPP-derived inositol phosphates. Furthermore, the low basal [Ca[sup 2+]][sub i] of these cells was raised to normal levels (35 to 115 nM) when they expressed cyt-MIPP. Noteworthy is that the normal feeble glucose-induced Ca[sup 2+] response of HIT M2.2.2 cells was enhanced dramatically by mechanisms related to this increase in basal [Ca[sup 2+]][sub i]. These data support the use of cyt-MIPP as an important tool in investigating Ins(1,4,5)P[sub 3]dependent Ca[sup 2+] homeostasis and suggest a close link between Ins(1,4,5)P[sub 3] concentration and basal [Ca[sup 2+]][sub i], the latter being an important modulator of Ca[sup 2+] signaling in the pancreatic β-cell. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2003
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