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Prognostic and predictive biomarkers of the severity of bradykinin-mediated angioedema
No full textL’expression clinique de l’angioedème héréditaire C1-INH-AOH est hétérogène. L'identification de biomarqueurs et la disponibilité de tests biologiques pourraient rendre compte de cette observation. Ainsi, notre travail a retenu quatre points:I. L'expression des récepteurs de la bradykinine. Les récepteurs B1 et B2 sont des cibles thérapeutiques potentielles. Par les ligands fluorescents spécifiques pour B1 et B2, nous avons cherché à quantifier les récepteurs pour leur expression sur les lignées EA.hy926 et THP1, pour examiner l’expression sur les cellules endothéliales des patients en condition de repos ou en période symptomatique. L’expression spontanée des récepteurs n'a pu être quantifiée par faible expression ou faible affinité des ligands. Des recherches supplémentaires sont nécessaires pour développer un outil de diagnostic et procéder à des examens sur les échantillons humains.II. Activation du variant p.Lys330Glu du plasminogène. Le variant a été précédemment décrit comme pathogène pour l’angioedème héréditaire HAE-PLG. Examiné chez des porteurs hétérozygotes et homozygotes, le variant p.Lys330Glu se présente avec une modification de la glycosylation du plasminogène, avec une inversion du modèle de glycosylation chez le porteur homozygote et deux bandes d'intensité égale pour les porteurs hétérozygotes. Le variant p.Lys330Glu présente une sensibilité significativement élevée à l'activation par la streptokinase et l’urokinase, par mesure enzymatique à l’aide d’un chromogène spécifique à la plasmine. L'impact du variant p.Lys330Glu provoque une augmentation de la transformation du plasminogène en plasmine, avec une production de BK par activation du système kallicréine-kinine.III. Association de variants génétiques à la sévérité de l’angioedème C1-INH-AOH. La combinaison de variants sur des gènes codant pour des protéines impliquées dans le métabolisme et la fonction de la bradykinine peut modifier chez le porteur l'expression clinique de l’angioedème C1-INH-AOH. Par la technologie NGS, des variants rares (MAF≤1%) ont été recherchés dans 54 gènes pour être identifiés dans des combinaisons avec SERPING1. 18 polymorphismes fonctionnels ont été retenus (MAF≥1%) et s’associent à l'âge de l'apparition de la maladie, au score de sévérité et au besoin d’une prophylaxie, quel que soit le variant SERPING1 combiné ou chez les porteurs d'un faux-sens de SERPING1. Concernant les variants fonctionnels communs et indépendamment du variant SERPING1, les porteurs de l’allèle C de F12-rs1801020 présentent une sévérité de la maladie augmentée; la présence du SERPING1-rs28362944 multiplient par 2,5 la probabilité d’un besoin de prophylaxie; SERPING1-rs4926 a été associé à un retard de l'âge de l'apparition des symptômes; F13B-rs6003, SERPINA1-rs28929474 et PLAU-rs2227564 ont été associés à la sévérité de C1-INH-AOH. Pour les porteurs d'un variant faux-sens de SERPING1, les porteurs de l’allèle C de F12-rs1801020 présentent de la sévérité augmentée; la présence du SERPING1-rs28362944 multiplient par 4,2 la probabilité d’un besoin de prophylaxie; SERPINA1-rs17580 et SERPINE1-rs6092 ont été associés à l'âge de l'apparition des symptômes; l'hétérozygotie pour CPN1-rs61751507 est indépendamment associée à une diminution de 98% du besoin de prophylaxie; F2-rs1799963 a été associé à la sévérité de la maladie. Enfin, KLKB1-rs3733402 et KLK1-rs5515 ont été associés à l'âge de l'apparition des symptômes et à la sévérité. Ce premier examen des gènes devrait être poursuivi pour conclure sur la contribution à la maladie des variants rares détectés, leurs fonctions et leur validité clinique.IV. Partage des données au niveau mondial. Nous avons classé et soumis dans la base de données ClinVar 45 variantes de SERPING1 précédemment détectées chez des patients de C1-INH-AOH du Laboratoire d'immunologie et d'Histocompatibilité de l'UTH, accompagnées des preuves cliniques.The heterogeneous clinical manifestations and the unpredictable nature of C1-INH-HAE require the identification of biomarkers and the development of accompanying bioassays. To contribute to this purpose this thesis focused on four topics:I. The expression of bradykinin receptors. B1R and B2R are potential therapeutic targets. Molecular imaging agents enable the visualization and quantification of the receptors at a cellular level. Specific fluorescent ligands were prepared and used as imaging agents in order to examine the expression of the receptors on EA.hy926 and THP1 cell lines and subsequently, on the surface of patients’ endothelial cells in resting conditions or during an attack. The detection of naturally expressed receptors was not successful due to low expression or due to low affinity of the ligands. Further investigation is required to develop a diagnostic tool and proceed in human blood samples.II. Activation of PLG with p.Lys330Glu variant. The alteration of PLG glycosylation patterns was examined in heterozygous and homozygous carriers of PLG p.Lys330Glu variant, previously described as pathogenic for HAE-PLG. In the homozygous patient, a reversal of the glycosylation pattern was observed, while the heterozygous subjects presented the two glycoforms at the same level. A plasmin-specific chromogenic assay was developed in order to measure the PLG susceptibility to activation. Both homozygous and heterozygous carriers displayed a significantly high susceptibility to activation by streptokinase and urokinase. The qualitative in vivo impact of p.Lys330Glu on the protein may result in increased plasmin formation and excessive bradykinin production through kallikrein-kinin system activation.III. Association of genetic variants with the severity of C1-INH-HAE. The concomitant carriage of variants on genes encoding for proteins involved in bradykinin metabolism and function may modify the clinical expression of C1-INH-HAE. Using NGS technology the study aimed to detect and classify rare variants (MAF≤1%) in 54 genes other than SERPING1 and to associate the carriage of 18 selected functional SNPs (MAF≥1%) with C1-INH-HAE patients’ age at disease onset, disease severity based on CALS score and need for LTP, regardless the SERPING1 mutational status and separately in patients carrying a missense SERPING1 variant. In the first group of patients, the presence of the C allele of F12-rs1801020 was significantly associated with an increase at disease severity; the presence of SERPING1-rs28362944 increased 2.5-fold the probability of LTP need; SERPING1-rs4926 was associated with later disease onset; F13B-rs6003, SERPINA1-rs28929474 and PLAU-rs2227564 were significantly associated with the severity of the disease. In carriers of a missense SERPING1 mutation, the presence of the C allele of F12-rs1801020 was significantly associated with an increase at disease severity; the presence of SERPING1-rs28362944 increased 4.2-fold the probability of LTP need; SERPINA1-rs17580 and SERPINE1-rs6092 were significantly associated with earlier and later age at disease onset, respectively; CPN1-rs61751507 and F2-rs1799963 were significantly associated with decrease of need for LTP and disease severity, respectively; KLKB1-rs3733402 and KLK1-rs5515 were associated with both the age at disease onset and the disease severity. Further analyses should be done in order to conclude on the contribution of the detected rare variants to the disease, their functional effects and their clinical validity.IV. Global data sharing. In order for both researchers and physicians to assess the available genetic data, they need to be classified and shared in public, user-friendly, easily accessible databases. To this aim, we classified and submitted in ClinVar database 45 SERPING1 variants previously detected in C1-INH-HAE patients of the Laboratory of Immunology and Histocompatibility of the UTH, accompanied by the supporting clinical evidence
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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