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| Id: | 13741
| | Author: | Fiallo, Paolo; Clapasson, Andrea; Favre, Anna; Pesce, Carlo
| | Title: | Overexpression of vascular endothelial growth factor and its endothelial cell receptor KDR in type I leprosy reaction
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| | Source: | s.l; s.n; Feb. 2002. 6 p. ilus, tab.
| | Abstract: | The sites of expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and of KDR, its endothelial cell receptor, were investigated in leprosy reaction Type 1, or reversal reaction (RR), by immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization. In comparison with nonreactional leprosy, overexpression of both VEGF and KDR was seen in granuloma cells, especially epithelioid and foreign body-type giant cells, the epithelium and the vascular endothelium of RR specimens. In granuloma cells, hybridization for VEGF was stronger than immunostaining, a finding that may reflect the rapid turnover of VEGF in an immunologically dynamic situation such as RR. In the epidermis, double immunohistochemistry revealed VEGF overexpression in CDla-positive dendritic cells. The VEGF may not only be relevant for hyperpermeability and mononuclear cell differentiation (the key morphologic features in the acute, clinically evident phase of RR), but it could also be implicated in RR onset, when dendritic cells are activated in response to antigen stimulation. (AU).
| | Descriptors: | PRIMERS DO DNA
FATORES DE CRESCIMENTO ENDOTELIAL/metab
HANSENIASE DIMORFA/metab
HANSENIASE DIMORFA/patol
RECEPTORES DOS FATORES DE CRESCIMENTO/metab
RECEPTORES MITOGÊNICOS/metab
LINFOCINAS/metab
RECEPTORES PROTEINA TIROSINA QUINASES/metab
IMUNOHISTOQUIMICA
HIBRIDIZACAO IN SITU
- INCLUSAO EM PARAFINA
| | Limits: | HUMANO
SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T
RECEPTORES DE FATOR DE CRESCIMENTO DO ENDOTELIO VASCULAR
| | Electronic Medium: | http://www.ilsl.br
| | Location: | BR191.1; 09033/s |
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