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2. Age, gender and disease-related platelet and neutrophil activation ex vivo in whole blood samples from patients with Behçet’s disease.
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Macey, Marion, Hagi-Pavli, Eleni, Stewart, Joanne, Wallace, Graham R., Stanford, Miles, Shirlaw, Penelope, and Fortune, Farida
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BLOOD platelets , *NEUTROPHILS , *AGE distribution , *ANALYSIS of variance , *BEHCET'S disease , *BIOPHYSICS , *BLOOD testing , *FLOW cytometry , *INFLAMMATION , *RESEARCH methodology , *RESEARCH funding , *SEX distribution , *STATISTICS , *T-test (Statistics) , *DATA analysis , *EQUIPMENT & supplies , *SEVERITY of illness index , *CASE-control method , *SYMPTOMS , *PHYSIOLOGY - Abstract
Objectives. Behçet’s disease (BD) is more severe among young males and disease severity decreases with age. Therefore, the effect of disease activity, gender and age on platelet and neutrophil activation in whole blood taken from patients with BD was investigated.Methods. Using an anti-coagulant Tripotassium ethylenediaminetetra acetic acid (K3EDTA) plus citrate-theophylline-adenosine-dipyridamole (CTAD) (K3EDTA/CTAD) that preserves the degree of platelet activation that exists in vivo, we assessed neutrophil and platelet activation, microparticles, and monocyte and neutrophil–platelet aggregate formation in 43 BD patients using flow cytometry. This is the first description of platelet activation and microparticles in BD patients using this methodology.Results. Inactive [2.78 (0.56)%, P = 0.0009; 3.11 (0.78)%, P < 0.0001] and active [2.28 (0.84)%, P < 0.0001; 3.071 (0.67)%, P = 0.0031] BD patients had significantly higher percentages of CD62P-expressing platelets and CD62P+ platelet microparticles as compared with healthy controls (HCs) [0.84 (0.1)% and 1.23 (0.14)%], respectively. The percentages of CD62P+ platelets and CD62P+ platelet microparticles in female and male BD patients were also significantly higher than those expressed by female and male HCs. The percentages of CD62P+ microparticles were significantly increased in the 20–30-(P = 0.0301) and 31–50-(P < 0.0162) year age ranges, but not in the >50-year age group of BD patients.Conclusion. BD is a rare, chronic multi-systemic vasculitis and interaction of activated platelets with leucocytes has been linked to pathological disorders associated with vascular inflammation. Importantly, this study demonstrates that platelet microparticle activation is increased in BD. Also, this is the first report in which changes in platelet activation in BD are concordant with the observations that BD disease activity diminishes with age. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2011
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3. TIRAP Ser180Leu polymorphism is associated with Behçet's disease.
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Durrani, Omar, Banahan, Katherine, Sheedy, Frederick J., McBride, Laura, Ben-Chetrit, Eldad, Greiner, Kathryn, Vaughan, Robert W., Kondeatis, Elli, Hamburger, John, Fortune, Farida, Stanford, Miles R., Murray, Philip I., O'Neill, Luke A., and Wallace, Graham R.
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4. TIRAP Ser180Leu polymorphism is associated with Behçet's disease.
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Durrani, Omar, Banahan, Katherine, Sheedy, Frederick J., McBride, Laura, Ben-Chetrit, Eldad, Greiner, Kathryn, Vaughan, Robert W., Kondeatis, Elli, Hamburger, John, Fortune, Farida, Stanford, Miles R., Murray, Philip I., O'Neill, Luke A., and Wallace, Graham R.
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POLYMERASE chain reaction methodology , *ANALYSIS of variance , *AUTOIMMUNE diseases , *BEHCET'S disease , *BIOPSY , *CHI-squared test , *GENETIC polymorphisms , *IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY , *INFECTION , *INFLAMMATION , *MEDICAL cooperation , *POPULATION geography , *RESEARCH , *STATISTICS , *U-statistics , *DATA analysis , *EQUIPMENT & supplies , *CASE-control method , *DATA analysis software , *SYMPTOMS - Abstract
Objectives. The initiating cause of Behçet's disease (BD) is unknown, but an aberrant response to infection has been suggested. In this study, single nucleotide polymorphisms in Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and associated molecules that have a sentinel function at mucosal surfaces were analysed in patients with BD.Methods. TLR expression was determined by immunohistochemistry in buccal mucosal tissue from patients with BD, in tissue from patients with lichen planus (LP) or pyogenic granuloma (PG) as disease controls, or from healthy individuals. Using SSP-PCR we analysed SNP in CD14, TLR2, TLR4 and TIRAP (TIR domain-containing adaptor protein) in patients with BD from different geographical regions.Results. TLR expression was increased in buccal lesions from patients with BD compared with healthy controls; however, a similar increase was seen in lesion tissue from patients with LP or PG, suggesting that this was a generalized inflammatory response as opposed to a BD-specific response. SNP analysis showed no association between CD14, TLR2 or TLR4 polymorphisms. However, TIRAP 180Leu was significantly associated with BD in UK, but not Middle Eastern, patients.Conclusion. TLR expression showed no difference in tissue from patients with BD compared with either disease or healthy controls. Likewise, SNPs in TLR genes were no different from healthy controls. The association with the increased function variant of TIRAP suggests that encounter with a pathogen at mucosal sites will lead to increased cytokine production and tissue damage with persistence of mucosal lesions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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5. Low prevalence of NOD2 SNPs in Behcet's disease suggests protective association in Caucasians.
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Kappen, Jasper H., Wallace, Graham R., Stolk, Lisette, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Uitterlinden, Andre G., van Daele, Paul L.A., Laman, Jon D., Kuijpers, Robert W.A.M., Seerp Baarsma, Goitze, Stanford, Miles R., Fortune, Farida, Madanat, Wafa, Martin van Hagen, Petrus, and van Laar, Jan A.M.
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OLIGOMERIZATION , *GENETICS of Crohn's disease , *DNA analysis , *GENETIC polymorphisms , *CAUCASIAN race - Abstract
Objective. It has been shown previously that three nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain containing 2 (NOD2) variants (Arg702Trp, Gly908Arg and Lue1007fs) are associated with Crohn's disease (CD), a disorder clinically resembling Behçet's disease (BD). We studied the frequency of these variants in BD patients. Methods. DNA samples of 200 BD patients [59 Caucasians, 139 Middle Easterns (MEs) of Arab descent and 2 Asians] and 520 healthy controls (444 Caucasians and 76 MEs) were genotyped using a Taqman assay. Results. Both the Arg702Trp and Leu1007fs (frameshift) variants were significantly less frequently present among BD patients compared with healthy controls (0.5 vs 5.8%; P<1.10-5 and 0.0 vs 1.8%; P< 0.007, respectively). In the Caucasian subpopulation, Arg702Trp was significantly less frequent in the BD group as compared with the controls (P=0.04); whereas in the ME subpopulation, a trend was observed (P<0.06). Conclusions. Of the three CD-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms, one of the variant NOD2 alíeles, was found to be present significantly less in Caucasian BD patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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