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Die Simulationstechnologie in der Medizin hat in den letzten Jahren große Fortschritte gemacht. In der Zwischenzeit gibt es auch für Herzkatheteruntersuchungen und -interventionen „Virtual reality“ Simulatoren, die ein realistisches Training von Kathetereingriffen erlauben. Nicht geklärt ist bislang, ob Simulationstraining das Stressniveau des Untersuchers reduzieren kann.
Im Rahmen dieser Studie wurde zur Beantwortung der genannten Fragestellung der Effekt von Virtual-Reality-Training auf das Stressniveau von Anfängern in der interventionellen Kardiologie untersucht. Hierzu wurde eine randomisiert-stratifizierte Studie bei 33 Anfängern in der interventionellen Kardiologie durchgeführt. Die Probanden wurden in eine Kontroll- und Simulationsgruppe aufgeteilt. Die Simulationsgruppe erhielt ein achtstündiges intensives Training an verschiedenen Simulatoren, während die Kontrollgruppe kein Simulationstraining, sondern lediglich eine theoretische Wissensvermittlung erhielt. Alle Teilnehmer mussten unter realitätsnahen Umständen im Herzkatheterlabor der Universitätsklinik Würzburg innerhalb von 30 Minuten eine PCI an einem pulsatilen Herzkreislaufmodell durchführen. Die Probanden dokumentierten vor und nach der Prä- und Postevaluation ihr aktuelles „Befinden“ anhand eines psychologi-schen Fragebogens PANAS. Ebenso wurden die Probanden hinsichtlich ihrer manuellen Fähigkeiten nach einem strukturierten Evaluationsbogen von einem interventionell tätigen Kardiologen bewertet
Die Ergebnisse zeigten initial für die Parameter „aktiv, interessiert, freudig erregt, stark, angeregt, stolz, begeistert, wach, entschlossen und aufmerksam“ des Fragebogens PANAS keinen gruppenspezifischen Unterschied. Nach einem achtstündigen Simulationstraining gab die Simulationsgruppe eine signifikante Reduktion des Stressniveaus im Vergleich zur Kontrollgruppe an.
Die aktuelle Studie zeigte, dass das Training an den Virtual Reality Simulatoren die herkömmliche Ausbildung in effektiver Weise ergänzen kann.
Weitere Studien mit einer größeren und zugleich homogeneren Stichprobengröße sind nötig, um die genannten Hypothesen zu bestätigen.
DHEA is a precursor for the male and female sex hormones testosterone and estradiol, which are mainly secreted from the testes and the ovary, respectively. In addition, epidemiological studies showed that low serum levels of DHEA and DHEAS correlate with the incidence of autoimmune disease, cancer and cardiovascular disease. In vitro, DHEA and DHEAS influenced glucose metabolism in a favourable manner. However, positive effects of DHEA substitution were only significant adrenal insufficiency in women.
Steroid sulphotransferase 2A1 (SULT2A1) is the responsible enzyme for sulphonation of DHEA to DHEAS which is thought to be the inactive form of DHEA. In this role, SULT2A1 acts as a central regulator of steroid synthesis because sulphonation of DHEA withdraws the substrate for further downstream conversion. Another essential cofactor for sulphonation is PAPS, which is produced by the enzyme PAPS synthase (PAPSS) from ATP and anorganic sulphate. PAPSS exists in the different isoforms PAPSS1 and PAPSS2 and splice variants PAPSS2a and PAPSS2b. Changes in PAPSS activity are thought to influence sulphonation of DHEA significantly. However, neither regulation of PAPSS nor its influence on SULT2A1 have been investigated in human cell lines or humans.
The main goal of this thesis was to analyze the enzyme expression of the DHEA/DHEA shuttle, i.e. mRNA and protein of SULT2A1, PAPSS1 and PAPSS2, in various human cell lines. Furthermore, I investigated which cell line could serve as a suitable model for further research regarding regulation of SULT2A1, PAPSS1 and PAPSS2.
Here, I could show that the enzymes of the DHEA/DHEAS shuttle were expressed in the human adrenal cell line NCI-h295R as both mRNA and protein. In enzyme assays, I was able to prove conversion of DHEA to DHEAS as well as to different other steroids. However, applying Trilostane, a potent inhibitor of CYP3B, effectively directed conversion of DHEA to DHEAS. Using these findings, future experiments can investigate for example the influence of certain cytokines or endocrine disruptors on expression and activity of PAPSS1/2 and on sulphonation of DHEA. In particular, the relatively equal expression of PAPSS1 and PAPSS2 will enable us to do knock down experiments with siRNA to elucidate how the activity of one enzyme changes when the other one fails.
Sulphonation of DHEA by SULT2A1 is thought to happen in the cytoplasm or more precisely in the Golgi apparatus. However, experiments in transfected cells have shown both a cytoplasmatic and a nuclear localisation when both enzymes were expressed at the same time. Immunocytochemistry revealed the same results in the adrenal cell line NCI-h295R, where both enzymes were expressed strongly in the nucleus. The physiological role is not clear and requires further research. Presumably, sulphate is activated in the nucleus. However, one could also speculate that a shift of PAPSS to the nucleus could generate a reservoir, which can be activated by re-localisation to the cytoplasm when more PAPS is needed.
Expression of SULT2A1 in some foetal tissues has been investigated earlier. Whilst in adult human cartilage PAPSS1 is predominant, in newly born hamsters PAPSS2 is more abundantly expressed. The expression of PAPSS isoforms in highly sulphonating tissue has not been investigated in humans, so far. This work demonstrated a differential expression of SULT2A1, PAPSS1 and PAPSS2 in adult and foetal liver, adrenal and foetal cartilage tissue. In adult and foetal adrenal expression was similar. However, foetal and adult liver differed in the expression of SULT2A1, which was expressed much more in adult tissue. Most importantly, in foetal cartilage there was only a low expression of SULT2A1 and PAPS seems to mostly provided by PAPSS1, which was considerably higher expressed in cartilage than in other tissues. In contrast, PAPSS2 was mainly expressed in adult and foetal adrenal.
Additionally, we reported a case of a female patient who had been investigated for hyperandrogenism. Two mutations in the PAPSS2 gene had led to massively reduced serum levels of DHEAS. One heterozygous mutation in the domain of the APS kinase of the PAPSS2 protein leads to substitution of one amino acid at position 48 (T48R). In vitro experiments showed a residual activity of 6% for this mutation. A second mutation in the ATP sulphurylase domain of PAPSS2 was found. The introduction of thymidine instead of cytidine leads to a stop codon, which is presumed to truncate the protein at position 329 (R329X). In vitro, no residual activity was seen for this mutation. The lack of PAPS reduces sulphonation of DHEA but also sulphonation of proteoglycanes, which leads to skeletal abnormalities. The abundance of DHEA enables massive downstream conversion to androgens leading to clinical features of hyperandrogenism. Regarding the bone abnormalities, it is interesting and surprising that activity of PAPSS1 compensated to a great extent in cartilage but was not able to keep up a more considerable sulphonation of DHEA. Possibly, the subcellular localisation might play a role in this scenario.
Atherosclerosis is an active and progressive condition where the vascular cell adhesion molecules as VCAM-1 play a vital role controlling the recruitment of immune cells within the early and advanced plaques. Therefore targeting of VCAM-1 molecules with specific contrast agent bears the possibility to monitor the VCAM-1 expression, visualize the plaque progression starting at the early alterations, and help to establish early prevention of atherosclerosis before the origin of the thrombus formation, of which late recognition leads to myocardial infarction. Furthermore noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers the benefit of combining the molecular and anatomic data and would thus enable specific detection of VCAM-1 targeted iron oxide contrast agent within inflammatory process of atherosclerosis. This thesis exactly presents the VCAM-1 concept as a suitable molecular approach and the potential of specific ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide (USPIO) conjugated to the VCAM-1 binding peptide over unspecific non-targeted USPIO particles for evaluation of atherosclerosis. This work firstly demonstrated that selection of VCAM-1 molecules offers a good and potential strategy for imaging of atherosclerosis, as these vascular cell adhesion molecules are highly expressed in the early phase of inflammation and also continuously up-regulated within the advanced plaques. Secondly, this thesis showed the proof of principle and capability of the newly designed USPIO contrast agent conjugated to the specific cyclic peptide for VCAM-1 recognition. The experimental studies including ultra-high field MRI enabled further ex vivo and in vivo detection of applied USPIO-VCAM-1 particles within the aortic root region of early and advanced atherosclerotic plaques of 12 and 30 week old apolipoprotein E deficient (ApoE-/-) mice. Using a combination of histology and electron microscopy, this study for the first time pointed to distribution of targeted USPIO-VCAM-1 particles within plaque cells expressing VCAM-1 not only in luminal regions but also in deeper medial smooth muscle cell areas. Hence functionalized USPIO particles targeting VCAM-1 molecules allow specific and sensitive detection of early and advanced plaques at the molecular level, giving the new possibilities for early recognition of atherosclerotic plaques before the appearance of advanced and prone to rupture lesions. In contrast to the functionalized USPIO-VCAM-1, utilized non-targeted USPIO particles did not succeed in early plaque 6 identification limiting visualization of atherosclerosis to advanced forms in atherosclerotic ApoE-/- mice.
Das Nebennierenrindenkarzinom ist eine hochmaligne Erkrankung und hat eine schlechte Prognose. Mitotane ist bis heute die einzige hierfür zugelassene Therapie. Um die molekularen Mechanismen der Mitotanetherapie besser zu verstehen, wurde die Nebennierenkarzinom-Zelllinie NCI-H295 mit unterschiedlichen Konzentrationen von Mitotane inkubiert und die Wirkung auf mehreren Ebenen untersucht. Dabei kam der Untersuchung der Steroidogenese und apoptotischer Vorgänge ein besonderer Fokus zu. In den Hormonanalysen via Immunoassay zeigte sich eine zeit- und konzentrationsabhängige Hemmung der adrenalen Steroidsekretion. So kam es unter 24-stündiger Inkubation mit 100µM Mitotane zu einer Reduktion der Cortisolsekretion um 89%. Diese Hormonsuppression geht einher mit einer Herabregulation von steroidogenen Enzymen in den durchgeführten Microarray-basierten Genexpressionsanalysen. So konnte gezeigt werden, dass vor allem Steroidbiosynthese-Enzyme der Zona fasciculata und reticularis betroffen sind. Als weitere wichtige Gene im Zusammenhang mit der Beeinflussung des Steroidhaushalts unter Mitotanetherapie konnten SQLE, LDLR, SCD, SREBF1 und ABCG1 identifiziert werden.
Gleichzeitig konnte durch Durchflusszytometrie und Zelltod-ELISA die proapoptotische Wirkung von Mitotane gezeigt werden (FACS: 100µM Mitotane, 24 Stunden; Zunahme der Apoptose um den Faktor 2,13). Dies bestätigte sich beispielsweise auch in der Überexpression des Apoptosegens BAX in der Real-Time-PCR. Weiterhin zeigte der RNA-Microarray eine starke Expressionszunahme bei Genen, die mit dem programmierten Zelltod zusammenhängen wie GDF15, DUSP4, TRIB3 und CHOP.
Ausgehend von den klinischen Effekten und bestätigt durch die oben genannten in vitro Ergebnisse bewirkt Mitotane auch molekular folgende Änderungen in Nebennierenrindenzellen: Hemmung der Steroidogenese und Induktion von Apotose. Es stellt sich damit die Frage, ob diese Mechanismen parallel und separat voneinander ablaufen oder ob es einen gemeinsamen Nenner gibt.
Interessanterweise ergab die Analyse der Genexpressionsdaten, dass viele der proapoptotischen Gene mit dem sogenannten ER-Stress zusammenhängen. Einerseits könnte Mitotane durch direkte Inhibition der Hormonsekretion wirken, andererseits könnte ER-Stress durch Mitotane-induzierte-Bildung toxischer Lipide, wie Cholesterol, ausgelöst werden. Um den genauen Wirkmechanismus endgültig zu klären, werden weitere Experimente benötigt.
Mitotane-induzierter ER-Stress liefert einen vollständig neuen Blickwinkel auf die molekulare Wirkweise von Mitotane auf Nebennierenrindenkarzinomzellen. Gerade da die Mediatoren des ER-Stresses gut definiert und ER-Stress spezifisch sind, könnten sie sinnvolle Ziele in der Therapie darstellen. Die Beobachtung, dass Mitotane ER-Stress hervorruft, könnte in Zukunft somit zur Entwicklung wirksamerer und spezifischerer Therapien des Nebennierenrindenkarzinoms führen und so die infauste Prognose dieser malignen Krankheit verbessern.
Multiple activities are ascribed to the cytokine tumor necrosis factor (TNF) in health and disease. In particular, TNF was shown to affect carcinogenesis in multiple ways. This cytokine acts via the activation of two cell surface receptors, TNFR1, which is associated with inflammation, and TNFR2, which was shown to cause anti-inflammatory signaling. We assessed the effects of TNF and its two receptors on the progression of pancreatic cancer by in vivo bioluminescence imaging in a syngeneic orthotopic tumor mouse model with Panc02 cells. Mice deficient for TNFR1 were unable to spontaneously reject Panc02 tumors and furthermore displayed enhanced tumor progression. In contrast, a fraction of wild type (37.5%), TNF deficient (12.5%), and TNFR2 deficient mice (22.2%) were able to fully reject the tumor within two weeks. Pancreatic tumors in TNFR1 deficient mice displayed increased vascular density, enhanced infiltration of CD4+ T cells and CD4+ forkhead box P3 (FoxP3)+ regulatory T cells (Treg) but reduced numbers of CD8+ T cells. These alterations were further accompanied by transcriptional upregulation of IL4. Thus, TNF and TNFR1 are required in pancreatic ductal carcinoma to ensure optimal CD8+ T cell-mediated immunosurveillance and tumor rejection. Exogenous systemic administration of human TNF, however, which only interacts with murine TNFR1, accelerated tumor progression. This suggests that TNFR1 has basically the capability in the Panc02 model to trigger pro-and anti-tumoral effects but the spatiotemporal availability of TNF seems to determine finally the overall outcome.
Adrenocortical tumors consist of benign adenomas and highly malignant carcinomas with a still incompletely understood pathogenesis. A total of 46 adrenocortical tumors (24 adenomas and 22 carcinomas) were investigated aiming to identify novel genes involved in adrenocortical tumorigenesis. High-resolution single nucleotide polymorphism arrays (Affymetrix) were used to detect copy number alterations (CNAs) and copy neutral losses of heterozygosity (cnLOH). Genomic clustering showed good separation between adenomas and carcinomas, with best partition including only chromosome 5, which was highly amplified in 17/22 malignant tumors. The malignant tumors had more relevant genomic aberrations than benign tumors, such as a higher median number of recurrent CNA (2631 vs 94), CNAs >100 Kb (62.5 vs 7) and CN losses (72.5 vs 5.5), and a higher percentage of samples with cnLOH (91% vs 29%). Within the carcinoma cohort, a precise genetic pattern (i.e. large gains at chr 5, 7, 12, and 19, and losses at chr 1, 2, 13, 17, and 22) was associated with a better prognosis (overall survival: 72.2 vs 35.4 months, P=0.063). Interestingly, >70% of gains frequent in beningn were also present in malignant tumors. Notch signaling was the most frequently involved pathway in both tumor entities. Finally, a CN gain at imprinted “IGF2” locus chr 11p15.5 appeared to be an early alteration in a multi-step tumor progression, followed by the loss of one or two alleles, associated with increased IGF2 expression, only in carcinomas. Our study serves as database for the identification of genes and pathways, such as Notch signaling, which could be involved in the pathogenesis of adrenocortical tumors. Using these data, we postulate an adenoma-carcinoma sequence for these tumors.
Dialysepatienten weisen eine hohe Anzahl kardiovaskulärer Ereignisse auf. Betrachtet man die häufigsten Todesursachen von Dialysepatienten, so fällt ein großer Teil in den kardiovaskulären Bereich. In dieser Arbeit wurde der Einfluss von Aldosteron und Cortisol auf kardiale und vaskuläre Ereignisse bei Dialysepatienten mit Diabetes mellitus untersucht. Dazu wurden Daten von 1255 Dialysepatienten mit Diabetes mellitus aus der Deutschen Diabetes Dialyse Studie analysiert.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit konnte gezeigt werden, dass mit erhöhten Aldosteronkonzentrationen ein signifikanter Anstieg des Risikos für plötzlichen Herztod (HR: 1.69; 95% CI: 1.06–2.69) einhergeht. Das Risiko an plötzlichem Herztod zu versterben war bei hohen Konzentrationen von Aldosteron und gleichzeitig vorliegenden hohen Konzentrationen von Cortisol noch deutlicher erhöht (HR: 2.86, 95% CI: 1.32–6.21). Ebenso war die Gesamtsterblichkeit signifikant erhöht bei Patienten, die hohe Aldosteron- und Cortisolkonzentrationen aufwiesen im Vergleich zu Patienten mit niedrigen Spiegeln beider Hormone (HR: 1.62, 95% CI: 1.01–2.62).
In dieser Arbeit konnte somit ein deutlicher Zusammenhang hoher Aldosteron- und Cortisolkonzentrationen mit plötzlichem Herztod und Gesamtsterblichkeit gezeigt werden.
Background
The aortic pulse-wave velocity (PWV) is an important indicator of cardiovascular risk. In recent studies MRI methods have been developed to measure this parameter noninvasively in mice. Present techniques require additional hardware for cardiac and respiratory gating. In this work a robust self-gated measurement of the local PWV in mice without the need of triggering probes is proposed.
Methods
The local PWV of 6-months-old wild-type C57BL/6J mice (n=6) was measured in the abdominal aorta with a retrospectively triggered radial Phase Contrast (PC) MR sequence using the flow-area (QA) method. A navigator signal was extracted from the CMR data of highly asymmetric radial projections with short repetition time (TR=3 ms) and post-processed with high-pass and low-pass filters for retrospective cardiac and respiratory gating. The self-gating signal was used for a reconstruction of high-resolution Cine frames of the aortic motion. To assess the local PWV the volume flow Q and the cross-sectional area A of the aorta were determined. The results were compared with the values measured with a triggered Cartesian and an undersampled triggered radial PC-Cine sequence.
Results
In all examined animals a self-gating signal could be extracted and used for retrospective breath-gating and PC-Cine reconstruction. With the non-triggered measurement PWV values of 2.3±0.2 m/s were determined. These values are in agreement with those measured with the triggered Cartesian (2.4±0.2 m/s) and the triggered radial (2.3±0.2 m/s) measurement. Due to the strong robustness of the radial trajectory against undersampling an acceleration of more than two relative to the prospectively triggered Cartesian sampling could be achieved with the retrospective method.
Conclusion
With the radial flow-encoding sequence the extraction of a self-gating signal is feasible. The retrospective method enables a robust and fast measurement of the local PWV without the need of additional trigger hardware.
A 74-year-old man was admitted to the cardiac catheterization laboratory with acute myocardial infarction. After successful angioplasty and stent implantation into the right coronary artery, he developed cardiogenic shock the following day. Echocardiography showed ventricular septal rupture. Cardiac magnet resonance imaging (MRI) was performed on the critically ill patient and provided detailed information on size and localization of the ruptured septum by the use of fast MRI sequences. Moreover, the MRI revealed that the ventricular septal rupture was within the myocardial infarction area, which was substantially larger than the rupture. As the patient’s condition worsened, he was intubated and had intra-aortic balloon pump implanted, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was initiated. During the following days, the patient’s situation improved, and surgical correction of the ventricular septal defect could successfully be performed. To the best of our knowledge, this case report is the first description of postinfarction ventricular septal rupture by the use of cardiac MRI in an intensive care patient with cardiogenic shock and subsequent successful surgical repair.
Background
Fabry disease is an inborn lysosomal storage disorder which is associated with small fiber neuropathy. We set out to investigate small fiber conduction in Fabry patients using pain-related evoked potentials (PREP).
Methods
In this case–control study we prospectively studied 76 consecutive Fabry patients for electrical small fiber conduction in correlation with small fiber function and morphology. Data were compared with healthy controls using non-parametric statistical tests. All patients underwent neurological examination and were investigated with pain and depression questionnaires. Small fiber function (quantitative sensory testing, QST), morphology (skin punch biopsy), and electrical conduction (PREP) were assessed and correlated. Patients were stratified for gender and disease severity as reflected by renal function.
Results
All Fabry patients (31 men, 45 women) had small fiber neuropathy. Men with Fabry disease showed impaired cold (p < 0.01) and warm perception (p < 0.05), while women did not differ from controls. Intraepidermal nerve fiber density (IENFD) was reduced at the lower leg (p < 0.001) and the back (p < 0.05) mainly of men with impaired renal function. When investigating A-delta fiber conduction with PREP, men but not women with Fabry disease had lower amplitudes upon stimulation at face (p < 0.01), hands (p < 0.05), and feet (p < 0.01) compared to controls. PREP amplitudes further decreased with advance in disease severity. PREP amplitudes and warm (p < 0.05) and cold detection thresholds (p < 0.01) at the feet correlated positively in male patients.
Conclusion
Small fiber conduction is impaired in men with Fabry disease and worsens with advanced disease severity. PREP are well-suited to measure A-delta fiber conduction.