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    PrĂ©lĂšvements d’organes sur donneurs dĂ©cĂ©dĂ©s aprĂšs arrĂȘt cardiaque

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    Points essentielsLes prĂ©lĂšvements sur personne dĂ©cĂ©dĂ©e aprĂšs arrĂȘt cardiaque sont autorisĂ©s en France depuis 2005 (dĂ©cret du 2 aoĂ»t 2005 : art R.1232-4-1,2 et 3 du code de la santĂ© publique). RĂ©cemment, Ă  l’échelle internationale, 4 types de situations pouvant conduire Ă  un prĂ©lĂšvement sur personne dĂ©cĂ©dĂ©e aprĂšs arrĂȘt cardiaque ont Ă©tĂ© identifiĂ©s dans une classification dite de « Maastricht » qui dĂ©crit les donneurs potentiels. En France, les prĂ©lĂšvements sur les donneurs de classe III (arrĂȘt des soins) sont exclus. L’émergence de cette nouvelle technique soulĂšve des rĂ©flexions notamment d’ordre Ă©thique, concernant la dĂ©finition mĂȘme de la mort, la place de cette pratique par rapport Ă  des techniques de rĂ©animation nouvelles, le vĂ©cu des familles et des Ă©quipes. Elle apporte tout de mĂȘme un Ă©lĂ©ment de solution Ă  la pĂ©nurie d’organes manifeste, avec des rĂ©sultats de suivis des greffĂ©s trĂšs encourageants selon les publications Ă©trangĂšres appliquant ces techniques. L’ensemble du dispositif est d’autre part rĂ©glementĂ© et sous la tutelle de l’Agence de la biomĂ©decine qui en assure le bon fonctionnement technique et le respect des rĂšgles Ă©thiques

    Prediction of domain organisation and secondary structure of thyroid peroxidase, a human autoantigen involved in destructive thyroiditis

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    AbstractOrgan specific autoimmune diseases are relatively common immunological disorders in man which include thyroid autoimmune disease, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and myasthenia gravis. The target autoantigens in some of these diseases have recently been characterised. In thyroid autoimmune disease this includes the key enzyme, thyroid peroxidase (TPO), which is involved in the generation of thyroid hormone. Structural knowledge about autoantigens such as thyroid peroxidase will allow a greater understanding of the interaction between autoantigens and the aberrant immune response, and facilitate the development of strategies for antigen-specific therapeutic manipulation. We report here a prediction of the secondary structure of thyroid peroxidase, together with the results of circular dichroic spectroscopy of a homologous purified enzyme. A combination of 3 secondary structure prediction programs has been used, following multiple sequence alignment, and TPO has been found to consist mainly of α-helical conformation, with little ÎČ-sheet present. This structure prediction, together with knowledge of the exon-intron boundaries allows a model for the domain organisation of the TPO molecule to be proposed
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