{"title":"Doughnut Cells or Ring Neutrophil by Immunofluorescence","authors":"S. B. Nascimento, M. A. Pereira, H. Kang","doi":"10.35248/2155-9899.20.11.597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35248/2155-9899.20.11.597","url":null,"abstract":"CLINICAL IMAGE The presence of ring-shaped nuclei neutrophils or doughnut cells (Figure 1) is well known in rats and mousesgranulopoiesis, and it was later described in humans. Ring and/or hyposegmented neutrophils are already well-known findings in leukemia patients, [1] megaloblastic anemia and myeloproliferative diseases [2,3]. An occasional occurrence is also present in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) or chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL). Besides there are still reports on infectious mononucleosis, Chagas disease, [4] and lymphoproliferative disorders (multiple myeloma and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance) or even in healthy individuals. [5,6] Thus, this peculiar morphological presentation can be considered a nonspecific finding of several hematological diseases. Hence, we present not only the hematoxylin and eosin stain representation but a unique point of view (by immunofluorescence) of a ring-shaped nuclei neutrophil in a years old male patient with multiple myeloma suspicion.","PeriodicalId":15473,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical & cellular immunology","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86760091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alphonsus Ogbonna Ogbuabor, P. Achukwu, D. Ogbuabor, Sa Ufelle, Rapheal Chinweike Okolo
{"title":"The JAK-STAT Signaling Pathway: A Novel Therapeutic Target for Unexplained Recurrent Implantation Failures","authors":"Alphonsus Ogbonna Ogbuabor, P. Achukwu, D. Ogbuabor, Sa Ufelle, Rapheal Chinweike Okolo","doi":"10.35248/2155-9899.20.11.587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35248/2155-9899.20.11.587","url":null,"abstract":"Unexplained recurrent implantation failure has become a public health problem especially in the context of a high cost, demand for assisted reproductive therapy and multiple therapy failures. It is attributed to the failure of immunological tolerance between the transferred embryo and the endometrium during assisted reproductive therapy cycles. Cytokines are surrogate mediators of immunological tolerance mechanisms. Since the synergistic interaction between individual cytokines is dynamic, perturbations in the cytokine crosstalk during embryo implantation is considered a major etiology for unexplained recurrent implantation failures. Genome Wide Association Studies suggests that most cytokines initiate their actions through receptor interactions that activate the JAK-STAT signaling pathways. Aberrations in the JAK-STAT signaling pathways have as well been shown to cause perturbations in cytokine crosstalk that result in diseases. We therefore propose the JAK-STAT signaling pathway a potential therapeutic target for unexplained recurrent implantation failures. Currently, many studies have recorded potential therapies in IL-6/JAK/STAT 3 pathway to treat many diseases but limited attention has been paid to unexplained recurrent implantation failures.","PeriodicalId":15473,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical & cellular immunology","volume":"29 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84710496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abdelkareem A. Ahmed, M. Essa, A. Mollica, A. Stefanucci, G. Zengin, Hussain Ahmed, Ayman Sati Sati Mohamed
{"title":"Prenatal Corticosterone Exposure Alters Glucocorticoid Metabolic Enzyme Eene mRNA Associated with Increased Aggressive Behaviors and Tonic Immobility in Chicken","authors":"Abdelkareem A. Ahmed, M. Essa, A. Mollica, A. Stefanucci, G. Zengin, Hussain Ahmed, Ayman Sati Sati Mohamed","doi":"10.35248/2155-9899.20.11.604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35248/2155-9899.20.11.604","url":null,"abstract":"Exposure to excess Glucocorticoids (GCs) during embryonic development influences offspring physiology and behaviors and induces change in Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis genes expression and serotonergic system in mammals. Whether prenatal corticosterone (CORT) exposure induces similar effects in avian species remains unclear. In the present study, we injected low (0.2 μg) and high (1 μg) doses of CORT in ovo before incubation and detected changes in aggressive behavior, Tonic Immobility (TI), HPA axis and 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin) (5-HT) system gene expression on post hatch chickens of different ages. High dose of CORT significantly (P<0.05) suppressed growth rate, increased the frequency of aggressive behaviors, which was associated with elevated plasma CORT concentration. Likewise, in ovo injection of CORT significantly (P<0.05) increased Tonic Immobility (TI) duration both in chickens from low and high doses of CORT treatments compared to control. In addition, administration of CORT significantly (P<0.05) up-regulated mRNA expression of 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11β-HSD1) whereas it down-regulated 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (11β-HSD2) and mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) mRNA expression in the hypothalamus. No significant differences were seen in Glucocorticoid Receptor (GR) and 20-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (20-HSD) mRNA levels upon CORT treatment. Moreover, CORT exposure significantly (P<0.05) increased hypothalamic 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin) receptor 1A (5-HTR1A) mRNA expression, but not 5-HT receptor 1B (5-HTR1B). In ovo administration of CORT may programs the aggressive behaviors in the chicken through alterations of HPA axis and 5-HT system.","PeriodicalId":15473,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical & cellular immunology","volume":"74 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86655577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tuqa Alkhateeb, Isatou Bah, Ajinkya Kumbhare, Dima Youssef, Zhi Q Yao, Charles E McCall, Mohamed El Gazzar
{"title":"Long Non-Coding RNA Hotairm1 Promotes S100A9 Support of MDSC Expansion during Sepsis.","authors":"Tuqa Alkhateeb, Isatou Bah, Ajinkya Kumbhare, Dima Youssef, Zhi Q Yao, Charles E McCall, Mohamed El Gazzar","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) expand during mouse and human sepsis, but the mechanism responsible for this is unclear. We previously reported that nuclear transport of S100A9 protein programs Gr1<sup>+</sup>CD11b<sup>+</sup> myeloid precursors into MDSCs in septic mice. Here, we show that long non-coding RNA Hotairm1 converts MDSCs from an activator to a repressor state. Mechanistically, increased Hotairm1 expression in MDSCs in mice converted S100A9 from a secreted proinflammatory mediator to an immune repressor by binding to and shuttling it from cytosol to nucleus during late sepsis. High Hotairm1 levels were detected in exosomes shed from MDSCs from late septic mice. These exosomes inhibited lipopolysaccharide-stimulated secretion of S100A9 from early sepsis Gr1<sup>+</sup>CD11b<sup>+</sup> cells. Importantly, Hotairm1 knockdown in late sepsis Gr1<sup>+</sup>CD11b<sup>+</sup> MDSCs prevented S100A9 cytosol to nuclear transfer and decreased repression of proimmune T cells. Notably, ectopic expression of Hotairm1 in early sepsis Gr1<sup>+</sup>CD11b<sup>+</sup> cells shuttled S100A9 to the nucleus and promoted the MDSC repressor phenotype. In support of translating the mechanistic concept to human sepsis, we found that Hotairm1 binds S100A9 protein in CD33<sup>+</sup>CD11b<sup>+</sup>HLA-DR<sup>-</sup> MDSCs during established sepsis. Together, these data support that Hotairm1 is a plausible molecular target for treating late sepsis immune suppression in humans and its immune repressor mechanism may be cell autonomous.</p>","PeriodicalId":15473,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical & cellular immunology","volume":"11 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7744002/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38387154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bianca Sciescia, R. Tognon, N. Nunes, T. Malta, F. Frantz, F. Castro, M. Cacemiro
{"title":"Type I and II Interferon are Associated with High Expression of the Hippo Pathway Family Members","authors":"Bianca Sciescia, R. Tognon, N. Nunes, T. Malta, F. Frantz, F. Castro, M. Cacemiro","doi":"10.35248/2155-9899.20.11.585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35248/2155-9899.20.11.585","url":null,"abstract":"The Hippo pathway plays a regulatory role on inflammation and cell death and proliferation. Here we described a relationship between Hippo pathway components and inflammation in healthy subjects. The plasma levels of cytokines and chemokines were used to define their inflammatory profile and classify them as normal, high and low producers of cytokines. Leukocytes from healthy subjects with inflammatory profile expressed the highest levels of MSTS1/MST2, SAV1, LATS1/LATS2, MOB1A/MOB1B and YAP genes. The group that overexpressed Hippo pathway-related genes secreted more IFN-ϒ and IFN-α2.","PeriodicalId":15473,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical & cellular immunology","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89941382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Activation of the classical complement pathway and auto-immune diseases","authors":"pJamal Almitairip","doi":"10.4172/2155-9899-C4-058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2155-9899-C4-058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15473,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical & cellular immunology","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90849004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yun Liu, T. Ota, Xiaohuan Chen, Hallie Dolin, K. Pan, A. Takashima, Atsushi Hinohara, Z. Pan
{"title":"Gene Expression Analysis on Neutrophil-Dendritic Hybrid Cells in Synovial Fluid from Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Patient","authors":"Yun Liu, T. Ota, Xiaohuan Chen, Hallie Dolin, K. Pan, A. Takashima, Atsushi Hinohara, Z. Pan","doi":"10.4172/2155-9899.1000575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2155-9899.1000575","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15473,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical & cellular immunology","volume":"61 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76983787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease in patients with rheumatic disease, with focus on SLE: risk factors and underlying mechanisms","authors":"pJohan Frostegardp","doi":"10.4172/2155-9899-C6-062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2155-9899-C6-062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15473,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical & cellular immunology","volume":"353 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76457405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aaron Stubbs, Corinne Kowal, Ali Askari, Donald D Anthony, Maya Mattar
{"title":"Achieving Sustained Viral Remission in Patients with Chronic HCV Infection and Cryoglobulinemic Vasculitis Does Not Always Correlate with Normalization of the Serologic Markers.","authors":"Aaron Stubbs, Corinne Kowal, Ali Askari, Donald D Anthony, Maya Mattar","doi":"10.4172/2155-9899.1000562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2155-9899.1000562","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>We aim to describe the persistence of symptoms associated with HCV-associated cryoglobulinemic vasculitis following achievement of (SVR) with IFN- free direct acting antiviral (DAA) therapy. In particular, we describe the persistence of C4 hypocomplementemia and positive Rheumatoid Factor (RF).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We analyzed a case series of four patients enrolled from the Cleveland VA and known to have chronic HCV infection complicated by mixed cryoglobulinemia. The study included patients treated with interferon (IFN) based treatment and IFN free direct acting antiviral (DAA) therapy.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the four patients, patients 1 and 2 experienced decline of RF without resolution following DAA therapy. Patient 1 continues to have evidence of disease following treatment. Patient 3 did not have resolution of RF during IFN-based treatment and experienced stabilization of kidney function while on treatment. Patient 4, previously a non-responder to IFN based treatment, experienced significant decline in RF titers along with resolution of cryoglobulin-associated rash with DAA therapy. C4 remained low following treatment in patients 1 and 3. Of the four patients, only patient 1 had prolonged persistence of cryoglobulinemia, measured at 3%, 17 months following achievement of SVR.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We highlight the complexity of the viral-mediated immunologic mechanism that causes cryoglobulinemic vasculitis. Our cases also emphasize the need to consider cryoglobulinemic vasculitis as part of the differential diagnosis even with treated HCV infection. Recognizing these findings are important in our understanding of the pathophysiology of the disease and management in the era of IFN-free DAA therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":15473,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical & cellular immunology","volume":"9 5","pages":"562"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2155-9899.1000562","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37304164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Huo, Xiao‐Qiang Gao, Fan Fei, Fei Qin, Bin Huang, Baoliang Liu
{"title":"Transcriptomic Profiling of the Immune Response to Crowding Stress in Juvenile Turbot ( Scophthalmus maximus )","authors":"H. Huo, Xiao‐Qiang Gao, Fan Fei, Fei Qin, Bin Huang, Baoliang Liu","doi":"10.4172/2155-9899.1000559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2155-9899.1000559","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, juvenile turbot Scophthalmus maximus were vaccinated with attenuated Edwardsiella tarda and reared in two different densities, low density (LD, 5.25 ± 0.02 kg/m2) as control groups and high density (HD, 20.53 ± 0.05 kg/m2) as experimental groups, and only density as variable was considered. Five weeks after vaccination, the transcriptomes of spleen and head kidney from the turbot in the two density groups were analyzed with RNA-Seq technology. A total of 447 million reads were assembled into 41,136 genes with an average length of 1274 bp and N50 size of 2295 bp. A comparison of gene expression between HD and LD revealed 1155 differentially expressed genes (DEGs), including 246 significantly upregulated unigenes (fold-change>2) and 909 significantly downregulated unigenes (fold-change>2). Enrichment and pathway analysis of the immune-related DEGs showed the centrality of the Toll-like receptor signaling pathway, cytosolic DNA-sensing pathway and platelet activation in the host immune responses. The overexpressed inflammatory cytokines and downregulated signal-regulated cytokines are involved in these pathways. We inferred that overexpressed inflammatory cytokines indicate that cells suffer damage and downregulated signal pathway-related cytokines indicate the immune response is restrained in turbot under crowding stress. Our results increase understanding of the effect of crowding stress on immunosuppression and provide valuable information on healthful aquaculture strategies in juvenile turbot.","PeriodicalId":15473,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical & cellular immunology","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75072769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}