TY - THES A1 - Schmid, Jan Stefan T1 - Einfluss des Interleukin-6 -174 G->C Genpolymorphismus auf die Akutphase-Reaktion bei Patienten mit chronischer Niereninsuffizienz T1 - Influence of the interleukin-6 -174 G->C polymorphism on the acute phase reaction in a chronic renal insufficient, predialysis patient collective N2 - Chronisch nierenkranke Menschen weisen im Vergleich zur gesunden Allgemeinbevölkerung eine stark erhöhte Prävalenz für kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen auf. Die jährliche kardiovaskuläre Mortalität ist nach statistischer Korrektur des Mortalitätsrisikos für Alter, Geschlecht und Diabetes mellitus um 10 bis 20fach höher als in der gesunden Bevölkerung. Chronische Inflammationsprozesse spielen eine zentrale Rolle in der Atherogenese und stehen in enger Assoziation zum erhöhten kardiovaskulären Risiko sowie zur erhöhten kardiovaskulären Mortalität. Akutphaseproteinen - insbesondere dem C-reaktiven Protein - kommen als Marker chronischer Inflammationsprozesse in der Prädiktion kardiovaskulärer Ereignisse eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Bisherige Studien führen zum Ergebnis einer 35 – 40 %igen Heritabilität des CRP-Baselinespiegels und weisen Interleukin-6 als zentralen Regulator der CRP-Genexpression bzw. der Akutphase-Reaktion aus. Unter Berücksichtigung der genannten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse resultierte die Aufgabenstellung dieser Arbeit in der Untersuchung des Interleukin-6 –174 G->C Poly-morphismus hinsichtlich seines vorstellbaren Einflusses auf die Akutphase-Reaktion in einem chronisch nierenkranken, nicht dialysepflichtigen Patientenkollektiv (n = 224). Die Genotypisierung erfolgte durch Heteroduplexanalyse. In der Zusammenschau lassen die erzielten Resultate aus der Sicht eines kodominanten bzw. dominant-rezessiven Modells den Schluss zu, dass der Interleukin-6 –174 G->C Polymorphismus keinen signifikanten Einfluss auf die Modulation der Akutphase-Reaktion sowie auf ein erhöhtes kardiovaskuläres Risiko nimmt. Ein signifikanter Zusammenhang konnte allerdings zwischen bestehender koronarer Herzkrankheit bzw. peripherer arterieller Verschlusskrankheit und erhöhten CRP-, Fibrinogen-, Kreatinin-, Harnstoff-Spiegeln bzw. erniedrigter Kreatininclearance nachgewiesen werden. N2 - Patients with chronic renal failure exhibit a significantly increased prevalence for cardiovasculary diseases compared to the healthy general population. The annual cardiovasculary mortality, after statistical correction for mortality risk for age, gender and diabetes mellitus, is 10 to 20 times higher than in the healthy population. Chronic inflammatory processes play a central role in atherogenesis and are closely associated with cardiovascular risk as well as cardiovasculary mortality. Acute phase proteins – especially the C–reactive protein – are of particular importance as markers for chronic inflammatory processes in the prediction of cardiovasculary events. Previous studies observe a 35-40 % heritability of the CRP baseline level and indicate interleukin-6 as central regulator in the CRP gene expression as well as the acute phase reaction. The objective of this thesis is the investigation of the interleukin-6 -174 G->C polymorphism with respect to possible influence on the acute phase reaction in a chronic renal insufficient, predialysis patient collective (n = 224). The genotyping is carried out by heteroduplex analysis. In conclusion, the achieved results do not support a significant influence of the interleukin-6 -174 G->C polymorphism on the modulation of the acute phase reaction or cardiovasculary risk when considering a codominant or dominat-recessive model. Finally, a significant correlation between increased CRP, fibrinogen, creatinine, urea levels, and decreased creatinine clearance with existing coronary heart disease and peripheral arterial disease could be demonstrated. KW - Interleukin-6 KW - CRP KW - Niereninsuffizienz KW - Akutphase KW - Polymorphismus KW - Interleukin-6 KW - CRP KW - renal failure KW - acut phase KW - polymorphism Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-20721 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Quarta, Serena A1 - Vogl, Christian A1 - Constantin, Cristina E. A1 - Üçeyler, Nurcan A1 - Sommer, Claudia A1 - Kress, Michaela T1 - Genetic evidence for an essential role of neuronally expressed IL-6 signal transducer gp130 in the induction and maintenance of experimentally induced mechanical hypersensitivity \(in\) \(vivo\) and \(in\) \(vitro\) JF - Molecular Pain N2 - Tenderness and mechanical allodynia are key symptoms of malignant tumor, inflammation and neuropathy. The proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) is causally involved in all three pathologies. IL-6 not only regulates innate immunity and inflammation but also causes nociceptor sensitization and hyperalgesia. In general and in most cell types including immune cells and sensory neurons, IL-6 binds soluble mu receptor subunits which heteromerizes with membrane bound IL-6 signal transducer gp130. In the present study, we used a conditional knock-out strategy to investigate the importance of signal transducer gp130 expressed in C nociceptors for the generation and maintenance of mechanical hypersensitivity. Nociceptors were sensitized to mechanical stimuli by experimental tumor and this nociceptor sensitization was preserved at later stages of the pathology in control mice. However, in mice with a conditional deletion of gp130 in Nav1.8 expressing nociceptors mechanical hypersensitivity by experimental tumor, nerve injury or inflammation recovery was not preserved in the maintenance phase and nociceptors exhibited normal mechanical thresholds comparable to untreated mice. Together, the results argue for IL-6 signal transducer gp130 as an essential prerequisite in nociceptors for long-term mechanical hypersensitivity associated with cancer, inflammation and nerve injury. KW - Leukemia Inhibitory Factor KW - Mediated Inflammatory Hyperalgesia KW - Necrosis-factor-Alpha KW - Oncostatin-M-Receptor KW - Rat Sensory Neurons KW - Rheumatoid-Arthritis KW - Interleukin-6-Deficient mice KW - Peripheral Inflammation KW - Thermal Hyperalgesia KW - Heat Hyperalgesia KW - proinflammatory cytokine KW - Interleukin-6 KW - chronic pain KW - nociceptor sensitization KW - hyperalgesia KW - allodynia Y1 - 2011 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-140380 VL - 7,73 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sailer, Clara Odilia A1 - Wiedemann, Sophia Julia A1 - Strauss, Konrad A1 - Schnyder, Ingeborg A1 - Fenske, Wiebke Kristin A1 - Christ-Crain, Mirjam T1 - Markers of systemic inflammation in response to osmotic stimulus in healthy volunteers JF - Endocrine Connections N2 - Osmotic stimulus or stress results in vasopressin release. Animal and human in vitro studies have shown that inflammatory parameters, such as interle ukin-8 (IL-8) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), increase in parallel in the central nervous system and bronchial, corneal or intestinal epithelial cell lines in response to osmotic stimulus. Whether osmotic stimulus directly causes a systemic inflammatory response in humans is unknown. We therefore investigated the influence of osmotic stimulus on circulatory markers of systemic inflammation in healthy volunteers. In this prospective cohort study, 44 healthy volunteers underwent a standardized test protocol with an osmotic stimulus leading into the hyperosmotic/hypernatremic range (serum sodium >= 150 mmol/L) by hypertonic saline infusion. Copeptin - a marker indicating vasopressin activity - serum sodium and osmolality, plasma IL-8 and TNF-alpha were measured at baseline and directly after osmotic stimulus. Median (range) serum sodium increased from 141 mmol/L (136, 147) to 151 mmol/L (145, 154) (P < 0.01), serum osmolality increased from 295 mmol/L (281, 306) to 315 mmol/L (304, 325) (P < 0.01). Median (range) copeptin increased from 4.3 pg/L (1.1, 21.4) to 28.8 pg/L (19.9, 43.4) (P < 0.01). Median (range) IL-8 levels showed a trend to decrease from 0.79 pg/mL (0.37, 1.6) to 0.7 pg/mL (0.4, 1.9) (P < 0.09) and TNF-alpha levels decreased from 0.53 pg/mL (0.11, 1.1) to 0.45 pg/mL (0.1 2, 0.97) (P < 0.036). Contrary to data obtained in vitro, circulating proinflammatory cytokines tend to or decrease in human plasma after osmotic stimulus. In this study, osmotic stimulus does not increase circulating markers of systemic inflammation. KW - TNF-alpha KW - interleukin-8 KW - interleukin-6 KW - copeptin KW - hyperosmolality KW - Hyperosmotic Stress KW - Interleukin-6 KW - Expression KW - Protein KW - Neurons Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-227204 VL - 8 IS - 9 ER -