@article{GaiserGeissingerSchattenbergetal.2012,
  author    = {Gaiser, Timo and Geissinger, Eva and Schattenberg, Torsten and Scharf, Hanns-Peter and D{\"u}rken, Matthias and Dinter, Dietmar and Rosenwald, Andreas and Marx, Alexander},
  title     = {Case report: a unique pediatric case of a primary CD8 expressing ALK-1 positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma of skeletal muscle},
  series = {Diagnostic Pathology},
  volume    = {7},
  journal   = {Diagnostic Pathology},
  number    = {38},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-135381},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Primary involvement of skeletal muscle is a very rare event in ALK-1 positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). We describe a case of a 10-year old boy presenting with a three week history of pain and a palpable firm swelling at the dorsal aspect of the left thigh. Histological examination of the lesion revealed a tumoral and diffuse polymorphic infiltration of the muscle by large lymphoid cells. Tumor cells displayed eccentric, lobulated "horse shoe" or "kidney-shape" nuclei. The cells showed immunohistochemical positivity for CD30, ALK-1, CD2, CD3, CD7, CD8, and Perforin. Fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis revealed a characteristic rearrangement of the ALK-1 gene in 2p23 leading to the diagnosis of ALK-1 positive ALCL. Chemotherapy according to the ALCL-99-NHL-BFM protocol was initiated and resulted in a complete remission after two cycles. This case illustrates the unusual presentation of a pediatric ALCL in soft tissue with a good response to chemotherapy.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{RoeslerSegererMorbachetal.2012,
  author    = {Roesler, Joachim and Segerer, Florian and Morbach, Henner and Kleinert, Stefan and Thieme, Sebastian and R{\"o}sen-Wolff, Angela and Liese, Johannes G.},
  title     = {P67-phox (NCF2) Lacking Exons 11 and 12 Is Functionally Active and Leads to an Extremely Late Diagnosis of Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD)},
  series = {PLoS One},
  volume    = {7},
  journal   = {PLoS One},
  number    = {4},
  doi       = {10.1371/journal.pone.0034296},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-134948},
  pages     = {e34296},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Two brothers in their fifties presented with a medical history of suspected fungal allergy, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, alveolitis, and invasive aspergillosis and pulmonary fistula, respectively. Eventually, after a delay of 50 years, chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) was diagnosed in the index patient. We found a new splice mutation in the NCF2 (p67-phox) gene, c.1000+2T -> G, that led to several splice products one of which lacked exons 11 and 12. This deletion was in frame and allowed for remarkable residual NADPH oxidase activity as determined by transduction experiments using a retroviral vector. We conclude that p67-phox which lacks the 34 amino acids encoded by the two exons can still exert considerable functional activity. This activity can partially explain the long-term survival of the patients without adequate diagnosis and treatment, but could not prevent progressing lung damage.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{VandeKerkhofFeenstravanderHeijdenetal.2012,
  author    = {Van de Kerkhof, Noortje W. A. and Feenstra, Ilse and van der Heijden, Frank M. M. A. and de Leeuw, Nicole and Pfundt, Rolph and St{\"o}ber, Gerald and Egger, Jos I. M. and Verhoeven, Willem M. A.},
  title     = {Copy number variants in a sample of patients with psychotic disorders: is standard screening relevant for actual clinical practice?},
  series = {Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment},
  volume    = {8},
  journal   = {Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment},
  doi       = {10.2147/NDT.S32903},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-134769},
  pages     = {295-300},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {With the introduction of new genetic techniques such as genome-wide array comparative genomic hybridization, studies on the putative genetic etiology of schizophrenia have focused on the detection of copy number variants (CNVs), ie, microdeletions and/or microduplications, that are estimated to be present in up to 3\% of patients with schizophrenia. In this study, out of a sample of 100 patients with psychotic disorders, 80 were investigated by array for the presence of CNVs. The assessment of the severity of psychiatric symptoms was performed using standardized instruments and ICD-10 was applied for diagnostic classification. In three patients, a submicroscopic CNV was demonstrated, one with a loss in 1q21.1 and two with a gain in 1p13.3 and 7q11.2, respectively. The association between these or other CNVs and schizophrenia or schizophrenia-like psychoses and their clinical implications still remain equivocal. While the CNV affected genes may enhance the vulnerability for psychiatric disorders via effects on neuronal architecture, these insights have not resulted in major changes in clinical practice as yet. Therefore, genome-wide array analysis should presently be restricted to those patients in whom psychotic symptoms are paired with other signs, particularly dysmorphisms and intellectual impairment.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{VieiraJonesDanonetal.2012,
  author    = {Vieira, Jacqueline and Jones, Alex R. and Danon, Antoine and Sakuma, Michiyo and Hoang, Nathalie and Robles, David and Tait, Shirley and Heyes, Derren J. and Picot, Marie and Yoshii, Taishi and Helfrich-F{\"o}rster, Charlotte and Soubigou, Guillaume and Coppee, Jean-Yves and Klarsfeld, Andr{\´e} and Rouyer, Francois and Scrutton, Nigel S. and Ahmad, Margaret},
  title     = {Human Cryptochrome-1 Confers Light Independent Biological Activity in Transgenic Drosophila Correlated with Flavin Radical Stability},
  series = {PLoS One},
  volume    = {7},
  journal   = {PLoS One},
  number    = {3},
  doi       = {10.1371/journal.pone.0031867},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-134513},
  pages     = {e31867},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Cryptochromes are conserved flavoprotein receptors found throughout the biological kingdom with diversified roles in plant development and entrainment of the circadian clock in animals. Light perception is proposed to occur through flavin radical formation that correlates with biological activity in vivo in both plants and Drosophila. By contrast, mammalian (Type II) cryptochromes regulate the circadian clock independently of light, raising the fundamental question of whether mammalian cryptochromes have evolved entirely distinct signaling mechanisms. Here we show by developmental and transcriptome analysis that Homo sapiens cryptochrome - 1 (HsCRY1) confers biological activity in transgenic expressing Drosophila in darkness, that can in some cases be further stimulated by light. In contrast to all other cryptochromes, purified recombinant HsCRY1 protein was stably isolated in the anionic radical flavin state, containing only a small proportion of oxidized flavin which could be reduced by illumination. We conclude that animal Type I and Type II cryptochromes may both have signaling mechanisms involving formation of a flavin radical signaling state, and that light independent activity of Type II cryptochromes is a consequence of dark accumulation of this redox form in vivo rather than of a fundamental difference in signaling mechanism.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Cremer2012,
  author    = {Cremer, Nicole},
  title     = {Genexpression bei der Alzheimer Demenz und dem Morbus Parkinson},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-76748},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Die Alzheimer Demenz und der Morbus Parkinson als h{\"a}ufigste neurodegenerative Erkrankungen f{\"u}hren zu schwerer Behinderung, zu Pflegebed{\"u}rftigkeit und meist {\"u}ber Komplikationen zum Tod. Ihr langer Verlauf stellt f{\"u}r Betroffene, Angeh{\"o}rige sowie f{\"u}r das Gesundheitssystem eine enorme Belastung dar. Da die {\"A}tiologie der Alzheimer Demenz und des Morbus Parkinson sowie der meisten neurodegenerativen Krankheiten im Einzelnen nicht bekannt sind und ph{\"a}notypische {\"U}berschneidungen auftreten, sind die M{\"o}glichkeiten der eindeutigen Diagnosestellung h{\"a}ufig eingeschr{\"a}nkt oder erst postmortal m{\"o}glich. Um eine Therapie bei Auftreten der ersten klinischen Symptome zu beginnen oder eine Voraussage der Erkrankungen zu erm{\"o}glichen, ist eine sensitive und validierte Fr{\"u}hdiagnostik n{\"o}tig. Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit war deshalb, auf der Genebene potentielle pathogenetische Verbindungen, m{\"o}gliche diagnostische Markerproteine sowie Zusammenh{\"a}nge zum zeitlichen Verlauf beider Krankheiten zu identifizieren. Daf{\"u}r wurde mit der Real-Time Polymerasekettenreaktion die Expression von 44 Genen anhand von post mortem Gehirngewebe von Patienten mit Alzheimer Demenz, Morbus Parkionson im Vergleich zu Gesunden aus den vier Hirnregionen Hippocampus, Gyrus frontalis medialis, Gyrus temporalis medialis und Kleinhirn untersucht. Im Resultat zeigen die Gene mit einer statistisch signifikant ver{\"a}nderten Expression, z. B. Glutamattransporter, olfaktorische Rezeptoren oder vakuol{\"a}re Sortierungsproteine, bei beiden Erkrankungen geh{\"a}uft gleichsinnige {\"A}nderungen. Anhand dieser Ergebnisse ist eine kausale Verkn{\"u}pfung des ver{\"a}nderten Genmetabolismus mit der ablaufenden Neurodegeneration zu vermuten. Zus{\"a}tzlich wird die Hypothese gemeinsamer pathogenetischer Mechanismen beider Erkrankungen untermauert. Zusammenh{\"a}nge der Genexpression zum zeitlichen Verlauf der Erkrankungen werden nur vereinzelt belegt, bekr{\"a}ftigten dann aber die Annahme einer Assoziation zu den degenerativen Prozessen. Die Identifizierung eines spezifischen Biomarkers f{\"u}r eine der beiden Erkrankungen war ein Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit. Aufgrund seiner Expressions{\"a}nderung im Hippocampus bei Patienten mit Alzheimer Demenz k{\"o}nnte das BACE1-Gen (Beta site APP cleaving enzyme 1), das dort eine signifikante Expressionsabnahme zeigt, als solcher f{\"u}r dieses Patientenkollektiv diskutiert werden. Die h{\"a}ufig in dieser Arbeit im Hippocampus detektierten, signifikanten Expressions{\"a}nderungen, weisen zudem auf eine besondere Affektion dieser Hirnregion bei der Alzheimer Demenz als auch beim Morbus Parkinson hin. Des Weiteren werden in der vorliegenden Arbeit im Kleinhirn, einer Hirnregion, in der bei beiden Erkrankungen scheinbar kaum oder keine pathologischen Prozesse ablaufen, geh{\"a}uft und dann {\"a}hnliche {\"A}nderungen der Genexpression gemessen, die f{\"u}r eine Beteiligung des Kleinhirns bei beiden Krankheiten sprechen, deren Bedeutung bislang unklar ist.},
  subject      = {Alzheimer},
  language  = {de}
}