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Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz ; 109(4): 414-419, 03/07/2014. graf
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-716305

ABSTRACT

While the influence of water in Helicobacter pylori culturability and membrane integrity has been extensively studied, there are little data concerning the effect of this environment on virulence properties. Therefore, we studied the culturability of water-exposed H. pylori and determined whether there was any relation with the bacterium’s ability to adhere, produce functional components of pathogenicity and induce inflammation and alterations in apoptosis in an experimental model of human gastric epithelial cells. H. pylori partially retained the ability to adhere to epithelial cells even after complete loss of culturability. However, the microorganism is no longer effective in eliciting in vitro host cell inflammation and apoptosis, possibly due to the non-functionality of the cag type IV secretion system. These H. pylori-induced host cell responses, which are lost along with culturability, are known to increase epithelial cell turnover and, consequently, could have a deleterious effect on the initial H. pylori colonisation process. The fact that adhesion is maintained by H. pylori to the detriment of other factors involved in later infection stages appears to point to a modulation of the physiology of the pathogen after water exposure and might provide the microorganism with the necessary means to, at least transiently, colonise the human stomach.


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Humans , Bacterial Adhesion/physiology , Epithelial Cells/microbiology , Helicobacter pylori/pathogenicity , Water , Antigens, Bacterial/physiology , Bacterial Secretion Systems , Bacterial Proteins/physiology , Gastric Mucosa/cytology , Host-Pathogen Interactions , Helicobacter pylori/growth & development , Virulence/physiology
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Rev. bras. hematol. hemoter ; 22(1): 33-39, jan.-abr. 2000.
Article in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-310391

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A viabilidade e a eficiência da implantaçäo de um programa comunitário relativo à deficiência de desidrogenase de 6-fosfato de glicose foram investigadas em uma populaçäo brasileira (Bragança Paulista, SP). A comunidade foi abordada a partir dos seus doadores de sangue, examinando-se 4.621 indivíduos do sexo masculino e diagnosticando-se 80 portadores da alteraçäo genética. O índice de positividade na amostra foi de 1,7 por cento, a taxa de aceitaçäo à orientaçäo genética oferecida em caráter opcional atingiu 61 por cento e a percentagem de assimilaçäo satisfatória dos deficientes de desidrogenase de 6-fosfato de glicose quanto às informaçöes fornecidas foi de 81 por cento. A análise molecular demonstrou a presença quase que exclusiva na comunidade da variante A ou Africana de desidrogenase de 6-fosfato de glicose, relativamente benigna do ponto de vista clínico. Com um baixo custo anual, foi possível diagnosticar e orientar de forma ética um número significativo de famílias com a deficiência de desidrogenase de 6-fosfato de glicose, além de iniciar a educaçäo da comunidade a respeito do problema.


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Humans , Male , Program Evaluation/methods , Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase
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