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- Plyusnin, A, et al.
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Puumala hantavirus genome in patients with nephropathia epidemica: correlation of PCR positivity with HLA haplotype and link to viral sequences in local rodents
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Ingår i: Journal of clinical microbiology. - : American Society for Microbiology. - 0095-1137 .- 1098-660X. ; 35:5, s. 1090-1096
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reverse transcription-PCR was used to analyze specimens from 20 Finnish nephropathia epidemica (NE) patients hospitalized during the period from October 1994 to January 1995. Blood and/or urine sediment specimens from seven patients were found to be positive for the genome sequences of Puumala hantavirus (PUU). PCR positivity of the specimens from the patients correlated well with the HLA-DRB1*0301 and HLA B8 alleles, which previously were shown to associate with severe courses of NE. Genetic analysis of the partial M-and/or S-segment sequences obtained from three severely ill NE patients revealed three PUU strains related to but distinct from previously reported strains from Finland. The M-segment sequence of PUU from bank voles trapped near the probable site of infection for one of the patients showed 98.2% identity to that of the PUU strain obtained from the patient, suggesting a link between wild-type PUU from the natural focus and the NE case. The S-segment sequences from the patient and the bank voles, however, showed substantially lower identity (95.8%). As this difference in diversity for M and S genes (1.8 and 4.2%) is atypical for PUU genetic drift, one possibility is that the strain acquired at the putative place of infection is a reassortant one.
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- Åkerman, Karl E. O., et al.
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Voltage gated calcium channels potentiate muscarinic receptor-mediated calcium responses in SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells
- 1997
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Ingår i: Life Sciences. - 0024-3205 .- 1879-0631. ; 60:13-14, s. 1189-
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Muscarinic receptor-mediated Ca2+ elevations were investigated using the fura-2 method and image analysis. Typical responses consisted of an initial fast and transient phase followed by a sustained phase. Removal of external Ca2+ did not affect the magnitude of the initial phase of the signal whereas the sustained phase was abolished. Hence they may mainly consist of a release from intracellular stores and an influx, respectively. Depolarization of the cells with 30 mM KCl in the presence of external Ca2+ caused a small elevation of [Ca2+]i. In these conditions a considerable potentiation of the fast phase of muscarinic Ca2+ response was seen. The potentiation was dependent on the extracellular Ca2+ as it was abolished in the presence of antagonists of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels or by removal of external Ca2+ prior to KCl. Removal of external Ca2+ after the KCl-induced increase in [Ca2+]i partially inhibited the potentiation. If Ca2+ was readded together with the muscarinic stimulation a maximum potentiation was seen. The results suggest that the muscarinic response is potentiated by a Ca2+-mediated priming of both a fast and transient receptor associated Ca2+ influx pathway and release from the intracellular stores.
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