scholarly journals Mujer con diagnóstico de novo de espectro de neuromielitis óptica con anticuerpos para AQP4 positivo. Un Reporte de Caso

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Neiby Johana Rivera Rojas ◽  
Andrea Catalina Nassar Tobón ◽  
Laura Angélica Caballero Amórtegui
Keyword(s):  
De Novo ◽  

Introducción: Presentamos el caso de una paciente de 55 años de edad, con antecedente de hipertensión arterial, quien presentó un cuadro de deterioro visual bilateral de 2 meses de evolución, con posterior presencia de un síndrome motor y sensitivo del hemicuerpo derecho asociado a compromiso de tórax y abdomen; las imágenes de resonancia magnética (RM) de cerebro, orbitas, columna cervical y torácica simple y con medio de contraste mostraron una neuritis óptica bilateral severa, asociado a mielopatía cervical longitudinalmente extensa de carácter inflamatorio, hallazgos sugestivos de un espectro de neuromielitis óptica (NMO), por lo que se llevó a toma de punción lumbar que mostró un líquido cefalorraquideo (LCR) con pleocitosis neutrofílica, AQP4 positiva, glucosa y proteínas normales. Recibió manejo con corticoides a altas dosis asociado a plasmaféresis con mejoría parcial de los síntomas; posteriormente se dio de alta, para inicio de manejo inmunomodulador con Rituximab, de forma ambulatoria.      Objetivo: Describir un caso y las características clínicas generadas en una paciente con neuromielitis óptica, su diagnóstico, tratamiento, evolución y pronóstico. Método: Se realizó una revisión de la historia clínica y extracción de datos previa firma de consentimiento informado, posteriormente se hizo una búsqueda de artículos de revisión   bibliográfica en PubMed, SCIELO, ProQuest, usando descriptores de Ciencias de la Salud (DeCs) y términos MeSH: reportes de caso, publicaciones y revisiones. Se usaron artículos comprendidos entre 2006 al 2018. Resultados: Se documentó la presentación clínica, el diagnóstico, evolución y tratamiento de acuerdo con el manejo dado. Discusión: Al enfrentarnos a un cuadro de una paciente con neuromielitis óptica, podemos encontrar diferentes espectros clínicos, evolución y respuestas al tratamiento.

Author(s):  
Aline Byrnes ◽  
Elsa E. Ramos ◽  
Minoru Suzuki ◽  
E.D. Mayfield

Renal hypertrophy was induced in 100 g male rats by the injection of 250 mg folic acid (FA) dissolved in 0.3 M NaHCO3/kg body weight (i.v.). Preliminary studies of the biochemical alterations in ribonucleic acid (RNA) metabolism of the renal tissue have been reported recently (1). They are: RNA content and concentration, orotic acid-c14 incorporation into RNA and acid soluble nucleotide pool, intracellular localization of the newly synthesized RNA, and the specific activity of enzymes of the de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis pathway. The present report describes the light and electron microscopic observations in these animals. For light microscopy, kidney slices were fixed in formalin, embedded, sectioned, and stained with H & E and PAS.


Author(s):  
M. Shlepr ◽  
R. L. Turner

Calcification in the echinoderms occurs within a limited-volume cavity enclosed by cytoplasmic extensions of the mineral depositing cells, the sclerocytes. The current model of this process maintains that the sheath formed from these cytoplasmic extensions is syncytial. Prior studies indicate that syncytium formation might be dependent on sclerocyte density and not required for calcification. This model further envisions that ossicles formed de novo nucleate and grow intracellularly until the ossicle effectively outgrows the vacuole. Continued ossicle growth occurs within the sheath but external to the cell membrane. The initial intracellular location has been confirmed only for elements of the echinoid tooth.The regenerating aboral disc integument of ophiophragmus filograneus was used to test the current echinoderm calcification model. This tissue is free of calcite fragments, thus avoiding questions of cellular engulfment, and ossicles are formed de novo. The tissue calcification pattern was followed by light microscopy in both living and fixed preparations.


2019 ◽  
Vol 476 (22) ◽  
pp. 3521-3532
Author(s):  
Eric Soubeyrand ◽  
Megan Kelly ◽  
Shea A. Keene ◽  
Ann C. Bernert ◽  
Scott Latimer ◽  
...  

Plants have evolved the ability to derive the benzenoid moiety of the respiratory cofactor and antioxidant, ubiquinone (coenzyme Q), either from the β-oxidative metabolism of p-coumarate or from the peroxidative cleavage of kaempferol. Here, isotopic feeding assays, gene co-expression analysis and reverse genetics identified Arabidopsis 4-COUMARATE-COA LIGASE 8 (4-CL8; At5g38120) as a contributor to the β-oxidation of p-coumarate for ubiquinone biosynthesis. The enzyme is part of the same clade (V) of acyl-activating enzymes than At4g19010, a p-coumarate CoA ligase known to play a central role in the conversion of p-coumarate into 4-hydroxybenzoate. A 4-cl8 T-DNA knockout displayed a 20% decrease in ubiquinone content compared with wild-type plants, while 4-CL8 overexpression boosted ubiquinone content up to 150% of the control level. Similarly, the isotopic enrichment of ubiquinone's ring was decreased by 28% in the 4-cl8 knockout as compared with wild-type controls when Phe-[Ring-13C6] was fed to the plants. This metabolic blockage could be bypassed via the exogenous supply of 4-hydroxybenzoate, the product of p-coumarate β-oxidation. Arabidopsis 4-CL8 displays a canonical peroxisomal targeting sequence type 1, and confocal microscopy experiments using fused fluorescent reporters demonstrated that this enzyme is imported into peroxisomes. Time course feeding assays using Phe-[Ring-13C6] in a series of Arabidopsis single and double knockouts blocked in the β-oxidative metabolism of p-coumarate (4-cl8; at4g19010; at4g19010 × 4-cl8), flavonol biosynthesis (flavanone-3-hydroxylase), or both (at4g19010 × flavanone-3-hydroxylase) indicated that continuous high light treatments (500 µE m−2 s−1; 24 h) markedly stimulated the de novo biosynthesis of ubiquinone independently of kaempferol catabolism.


2020 ◽  
Vol 158 (6) ◽  
pp. S-947
Author(s):  
Asad Ur Rahman ◽  
Ishtiaq Hussain ◽  
Badar Hasan ◽  
Kanwarpreet Tandon ◽  
Fernando Castro

2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 394-394
Author(s):  
Yoshihisa Matsukawa ◽  
Yoko Yoshikawa ◽  
Tomonori Komatsu ◽  
Yasushi Yoshino ◽  
Ryohei Hattori ◽  
...  

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 515-515
Author(s):  
Felipe G. Balbontin ◽  
Bryce Kiberd ◽  
Philip Belitsky ◽  
Dharm Singh ◽  
Albert Fraser ◽  
...  

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