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Introducción: La presencia de hongos en las vías respiratorias puede provocar en personas susceptibles diversas manifestaciones alérgicas. Objetivo: Determinar si las especies fúngicas aisladas de la mucosa nasal de pacientes alérgicos respiratorios pueden ser definidas como alergenos sensibilizantes a través de las pruebas cutáneas. Métodos: Estudio observacional, prospectivo y de corte transversal, donde el universo estuvo constituido por todos los pacientes con diagnóstico de alergia respiratoria o inicio de asma bronquial variable descompensada, mayores de 2 años y menores de19,que se asistieron en las consultas de alergia en La Habana, desde enero 2016 a enero 2017. La muestra obtenida fue de 80 pacientes alérgicos respiratorios. Resultados: Del total de pacientes con clínica de asma, rinitis o ambas, se obtuvieron pruebas cutáneas por el test de Prick positivas a hongos en 52 de ellos (65 por ciento) con una polisensibilización en 24 para 46,1 por ciento. La reactividad cruzada de mayor relevancia se produjo con los alérgenos de Aspergillus, Penicillium y Alternaria. El cultivo resultó positivo en 54 muestras nasales (67 por ciento). El género de hongos predominante en los pacientes alérgicos fue el Aspergillus en 70,3 por ciento y dentro de este el Aspergillus fumigatus en 52,6 por ciento. Conclusiones: El estudio de la micobiota nasal es una prueba que debe interpretarse junto con las pruebas cutáneas para el diagnóstico de enfermedades alérgicas por hongos ambientales y tener en cuenta su importancia para el control epidemiológico en la exposición a hongos(AU)
Introduction: The presence of fungi in the respiratory tract can cause different allergic manifestations in sensitive persons. Objective: To determine if fungi species isolated from the nasal mucosa of respiratory allergic patients can be defined as allergen-sensitive by means of skin tests. Methods: Observational, prospective and cross-sectional study, where the overall sample consisted of all patients with a diagnosis of respiratory allergy or onset of decompensated variable bronchial asthma, over 2 years old and under 19 years old who attended to Allergy consultations in Havana, from January 2016 to January 2017. The sample obtained was 80 respiratory allergic patients. Results: Of the total number of patients with symptoms of clinical asthma, rhinitis or both, Prick´s skin tests were obtained by fungal positive test in 52 of them (65 percent) with a polysensitization in 24 (46.1 percent). The most relevant cross reactivity occurred with the allergens of Aspergillus, Penicillium and Alternaria. The culture was positive in 54 nasal samples (67 percent). The predominant fungal genus in allergic patients was Aspergillus in 70.3 percent and within this Aspergillus fumigatus in 52.6 percent. Conclusions: The study of nasal mycobiota is a test that should be interpreted together with skin tests for the diagnosis of allergic diseases due to environmental fungi and it must be taken into account its importance for epidemiological control in fungal exposure(AU)
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Humans , Male , Female , Infant , Child, Preschool , Child , Adolescent , Respiratory Tract Infections/immunology , Intravital Microscopy/methods , Mycobiome/immunology , Hypersensitivity/immunology , Nasal Mucosa/immunology , Epidemiology, Descriptive , Cross-Sectional Studies , Observational StudyABSTRACT
PURPOSE: To track the regeneration process of lateral gastrocnemius due to a muscle laceration in rats, and to treatment with plateletrich plasma (PRP). METHODS: Ultrasound (40 MHz) images were used for measuring pennation angle (PA), muscle thickness (MT) and mean pixel intensity, along with claudication scores, of treated (PRPG) and non-treated (NTG) groups of rats. RESULTS: NTG showed a PA increase for the non-injured leg (p<0.05) and a tendency of MT to increase, whereas for PRPG there were no differences. There was a progressive reduction of the claudication score for the PRPG group throughout the entire period, with an immediate difference after seven days (p<0.05), whereas the NTG had a significant reduction only at day 28 (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: It was observed a compensatory hypertrophic response due to the overload condition imposed to healthy leg for NTG that did not occur in PRPG, suggesting an accelerated repair process of the injured leg due to treatment, anticipating its use.
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Animals , Female , Regeneration/physiology , Muscle, Skeletal/physiology , Muscle, Skeletal/physiopathology , Lacerations/therapy , Platelet-Rich Plasma , Random Allocation , Follow-Up Studies , Rats, Wistar , Muscle, Skeletal/diagnostic imaging , Lacerations/diagnostic imaging , Models, Animal , Microscopy, Acoustic/methods , Intravital Microscopy/methods , Intermittent Claudication/therapyABSTRACT
Objective: In this systematic review the aim was to summarise the in vivo/in vitro evidence on the role of oxidative-nitrosative stress in pathogenesis of dengue. Methods: We searched electronic databases (PubMed, EMBASE, The COCHRANE library, ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciELO, LILACS via Virtual Health Library, Google Scholar) using the term: dengue, dengue virus, severe dengue, oxidative stress, nitrosative stress, antioxidants, oxidants, free radicals, oxidized lipid products, lipid peroxides, nitric oxide, and nitric oxide synthase. Articles were selected for review by title and abstract excluding letter, review, epidemiological studies, and duplicates studies. Selected articles were reviewed for used animal model or cell cultures, original purposes, strain of virus or type of antibody, main outcomes, methods, and oxidative-nitrosative stress markers values. Results: In total, 4330 non-duplicates articles were identified from computerized searches of reference databases, of which 32 were eligible for full text searching. The results of in vivo studies were obtained from monkey and knockout and/or wild-type mice. Human peripheral blood mononuclear cells were cell cultures most commonly used in identified in vitro studies, following by human endothelial cells cultures. DENV-2 strains were most used. Conclusions: In conclusion, a large body of in vivo and in vitro evidences showed that oxidative/nitrosative stress can be related to production of pathogenesis-related protein, increased susceptibility of mice to DENV infection, hemorrhage development in mice, proinflammatory cytokines and transcriptional factor expression, and DENV replication in various cell cultures(AU)
Objetivo: sistematizar las evidencias in vivo/in vitro de la participación del estrés oxidativo-nitrosativo en el curso de la infección por virus del dengue. Métodos: revisión sistemática de estudios observacionales en las bases de datos (PubMed, EMBASE, The COCHRANE library, ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciELO, LILACS via Virtual Health Library, Google Scholar) utilizando las siguientes palabras clave: dengue, dengue virus, severe dengue, oxidative stress, nitrosative stress, antioxidants, oxidants, free radicals, oxidized lipid products, lipid peroxides, nitric oxide y nitric oxide synthase. La selección inicial fue realizada a partir del título y resumen excluyéndose: cartas para editor, revisiones, estudios con diseños epidemiológicos y estudios duplicados. A cada artículo seleccionado, se le revisó el objetivo o propósito, cultivos celulares o modelos animales utilizados, cepas víricas o tipo de anticuerpos utilizados, métodos y valores de los marcadores de estrés oxidativo-nitrosativo. Resultados: de 4330 publicaciones encontradas, 32 estudios cumplieron con los criterios de inclusión. Se utilizaron primates no humanos y ratones knockout o tipo salvaje para la obtención de las evidencias in vivo. Los cultivos celulares más utilizados fueron de células mononucleares de sangre periférica y de células endoteliales humanas. Las cepas más utilizadas en los ensayos correspondieron al serotipo 2 del virus dengue. Conclusiones: existen evidencias in vivo/in vitro que muestran la posible asociación entre el estrés oxidativo-nitrosativo con: producción de proteínas relacionadas con la patogénesis del dengue, incremento en la susceptibilidad de ratones por la infección por dengue, desarrollo de hemorragias en modelo de ratón, expresión de citoquinas proinflamatorias y replicación viral en varios cultivos de células tanto humanas como de origen animal(AU)