64 research outputs found

    Tungau Debu Rumah Yang Ditemukan Di Kelurahan Perkamil Kecamatan Paal 2 Kota Manado

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    : In house dust are a lot of house dust mites that found in damp houses, cotton mattress, pillows, bolsters, and other home furnishings. Sources of dust containing house dust mites are most in the bedroom especially cotton mattress. Data from distric health centers Paal 2 found that there are many people who suffer from asthma and allergic diseases, coupled with the humid air in Manado City to allow the development of house dust mites in the area. The purpose of this research is to determine the species and density of house dust mites in urban Perkamil Paal 2 districts Manado city. This research method is descriptive survey to obtain data on the species and density of house dust mites by simple random sampling method. The results found 5 species of house dust mites are Dermatophagoides spp, Acarus spp, Glycyphagus destructor, Tarsonemus spp and Cheyletus spp in bedrooms and living room. House dust mite densities obtained an average of 2,33 in bedroom and 2,07 in living room. The conclusion is house dust mite Dermatophagoides spp most commonly found in bedrooms and living room

    Pengaruh Penerapan Atraumatic Care Terhadap Respon Kecemasan Anak Yang Mengalami Hospitalisasi Di RSU Pancaran Kasih Gmim Manado Dan Rsup Prof. Dr. R. D. Kandou Manado

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    : Hospitalization cause the child has traumatic and raises the symptoms such as regression response, worried about the separation, apathy, fear, and sleep disorders. The negative impact is related to the length ang large amount of the patients, various of the invasive procedures, and parental anxiety. Any action taken in solving the children problem must be based on the atraumatic care principles or therapeutic care. The objective of this research is to know the effect of atraumatic care application to the child\u27s anxiety response of the hospitalization. The research design is quasy-experimental design using pretest-posttest with control group. There are 34 childrens, 1-14 years old that become the samples of this research. The research uses non-probability sampling with consecutive sampling method used infusion consists of 17 intervention group with ice cube compress and giving toys and 17 childrens in control group without intervention. The results is the research is taken using paired t-test and unpaired t-test in intervention group (p = 0,000). The conclusion shows the existence of atraumatic care effect to the child\u27s anxiety response of the hospitalization. This research suggestions is the use of ice cube compress and giving toys during the infusion installation can decrease the children anxiety

    Role of Peripheral Immune Response in Microglia Activation and Regulation of Brain Chemokine and Proinflammatory Cytokine Responses Induced During VSV Encephalitis

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    We report herein that neuroinvasion by vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) activates microglia and induces a peripheral dendritic cell (DC)-dependent inflammatory response in the central nervous system (CNS). VSV neuroinvasion rapidly induces multiple brain chemokine and proinflammatory cytokine mRNAs that display bimodal kinetics. Peripheral DC ablation or T cell depletion suppresses the second wave of this response demonstrating that infiltrating T cells are primarily responsible for the bimodal characteristics of this response. The robust infiltrate associated with VSV encephalitis likely depends on sustained production of brain CCL19 and CCR7 expression on infiltrating inflammatory cells. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

    MIR376A is a regulator of starvation-induced autophagy

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    Background: Autophagy is a vesicular trafficking process responsible for the degradation of long-lived, misfolded or abnormal proteins, as well as damaged or surplus organelles. Abnormalities of the autophagic activity may result in the accumulation of protein aggregates, organelle dysfunction, and autophagy disorders were associated with various diseases. Hence, mechanisms of autophagy regulation are under exploration. Methods: Over-expression of hsa-miR-376a1 (shortly MIR376A) was performed to evaluate its effects on autophagy. Autophagy-related targets of the miRNA were predicted using Microcosm Targets and MIRanda bioinformatics tools and experimentally validated. Endogenous miRNA was blocked using antagomirs and the effects on target expression and autophagy were analyzed. Luciferase tests were performed to confirm that 3’ UTR sequences in target genes were functional. Differential expression of MIR376A and the related MIR376B was compared using TaqMan quantitative PCR. Results: Here, we demonstrated that, a microRNA (miRNA) from the DlkI/Gtl2 gene cluster, MIR376A, played an important role in autophagy regulation. We showed that, amino acid and serum starvation-induced autophagy was blocked by MIR376A overexpression in MCF-7 and Huh-7 cells. MIR376A shared the same seed sequence and had overlapping targets with MIR376B, and similarly blocked the expression of key autophagy proteins ATG4C and BECN1 (Beclin 1). Indeed, 3’ UTR sequences in the mRNA of these autophagy proteins were responsive to MIR376A in luciferase assays. Antagomir tests showed that, endogenous MIR376A was participating to the control of ATG4C and BECN1 transcript and protein levels. Moreover, blockage of endogenous MIR376A accelerated starvation-induced autophagic activity. Interestingly, MIR376A and MIR376B levels were increased with different kinetics in response to starvation stress and tissue-specific level differences were also observed, pointing out to an overlapping but miRNA-specific biological role. Conclusions: Our findings underline the importance of miRNAs encoded by the DlkI/Gtl2 gene cluster in stress-response control mechanisms, and introduce MIR376A as a new regulator of autophagy

    MicroRNA-34a is a potent tumor suppressor molecule in vivo in neuroblastoma

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    <p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Neuroblastoma is a paediatric cancer which originates from precursor cells of the sympathetic nervous system and accounts for 15% of childhood cancer mortalities. With regards to the role of miRNAs in neuroblastoma, miR-34a, mapping to a chromosome 1p36 region that is commonly deleted, has been found to act as a tumor suppressor through targeting of numerous genes associated with cell proliferation and apoptosis.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>A synthetic miR-34a (or negative control) precursor molecule was transfected into NB1691<sup>luc </sup>and SK-N-AS<sup>luc </sup>neuroblastoma cells. Quantitative PCR was used to verify increased miR-34a levels in NB1691<sup>luc </sup>and SK-N-AS<sup>luc </sup>cell lines prior to <it>in vitro </it>and <it>in vivo </it>analysis. <it>In vitro </it>analysis of the effects of miR-34a over expression on cell growth, cell cycle and phosphoprotein activation in signal transduction pathways was performed. Neuroblastoma cells over expressing miR-34a were injected retroperitoneally into immunocompromised CB17-SCID mice and tumor burden was assessed over a 21 day period by measuring bioluminescence (photons/sec/cm<sup>2</sup>).</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Over expression of miR-34a in both NB1691<sup>luc </sup>and SK-N-AS<sup>luc </sup>neuroblastoma cell lines led to a significant decrease in cell number relative to premiR-negative control treated cells over a 72 hour period. Flow cytometry results indicated that miR-34a induced cell cycle arrest and subsequent apoptosis activation. Phosphoprotein analysis highlighted key elements involved in signal transduction, whose activation was dysregulated as a result of miR-34a introduction into cells. As a potential mechanism of miR-34a action on phosphoprotein levels, we demonstrate that miR-34a over-expression results in a significant reduction of <it>MAP3K9 </it>mRNA and protein levels. Although <it>MAP3K9 </it>is a predicted target of miR-34a, direct targeting could not be validated with luciferase reporter assays. Despite this fact, any functional effects of reduced MAP3K9 expression as a result of miR-34a would be expected to be similar regardless of the mechanism involved. Most notably, <it>in vivo </it>studies showed that tumor growth was significantly repressed after exogenous miR-34a administration in retroperitoneal neuroblastoma tumors.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>We demonstrate for the first time that miR-34a significantly reduces tumor growth in an <it>in vivo </it>orthotopic murine model of neuroblastoma and identified novel effects that miR-34a has on phospho-activation of key proteins involved with apoptosis.</p

    Micro-RNAs as diagnostic or prognostic markers in human epithelial malignancies

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    Micro-RNAs (miRs) are important regulators of mRNA and protein expression; the ability of miR expression profilings to distinguish different cancer types and classify their sub-types has been well-described. They also represent a novel biological entity with potential value as tumour biomarkers, which can improve diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring of treatment response for human cancers. This endeavour has been greatly facilitated by the stability of miRs in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues, and their detection in circulation. This review will summarize some of the key dysregulated miRs described to date in human epithelial malignancies, and their potential value as molecular bio-markers in FFPE tissues and blood samples. There remain many challenges in this domain, however, with the evolution of different platforms, the complexities of normalizing miR profiling data, and the importance of evaluating sufficiently-powered training and validation cohorts. Nonetheless, well-conducted miR profiling studies should contribute important insights into the molecular aberrations driving human cancer development and progression

    MicroRNAs:New players in IBD

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    MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs, 18–23 nucleotides long, which act as post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression. miRNAs are strongly implicated in the pathogenesis of many common diseases, including IBDs. This review aims to outline the history, biogenesis and regulation of miRNAs. The role of miRNAs in the development and regulation of the innate and adaptive immune system is discussed, with a particular focus on mechanisms pertinent to IBD and the potential translational applications
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