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Meritxell Gironella

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Response to "Is the Reg3α (HIP/PAP) Protein Really an Obesogenic Factor?"

2015

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Inflammatory capacity of exosomes released in the early stages of acute pancreatitis predicts the severity of the disease

2021

As acute pancreatitis progresses to the severe form, a life-threatening systemic inflammation is triggered. Although the mechanisms involved in this process are not yet well understood, it has been proposed that circulating exosomes may be involved in the progression of inflammation from the pancreas to distant organs. Here, the inflammatory capacity and protein profile of plasma exosomes obtained during the first 24 h of hospitalization of patients diagnosed with acute pancreatitis were characterized and compared with the final severity of the disease. We found that the final severity of the disease strongly correlates with the inflammatory capacity of exosomes in the early stages of acute…

AdultMaleProteomicsInflammationSystemic inflammationExosomesS100A9Pathology and Forensic MedicineS100A8medicineHumansS100A8PancreasS100A9AgedAged 80 and overInflammationbusiness.industryMiddle Agedmedicine.diseaseMicrovesiclesAcute pancreatitisPancreatitisAcute DiseaseImmunologyDisease ProgressionPancreatitisAcute pancreatitisFemaleTumor necrosis factor alphamedicine.symptombusinessSignal TransductionJournal of Pathology
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Tumor protein 53-induced nuclear protein 1 expression is repressed by miR-155, and its restoration inhibits pancreatic tumor development.

2007

Pancreatic cancer is a disease with an extremely poor prognosis. Tumor protein 53-induced nuclear protein 1 ( TP53INP1 ) is a proapoptotic stress-induced p53 target gene. In this article, we show by immunohistochemical analysis that TP53INP1 expression is dramatically reduced in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) and this decrease occurs early during pancreatic cancer development. TP53INP1 reexpression in the pancreatic cancer-derived cell line MiaPaCa2 strongly reduced its capacity to form s.c., i.p., and intrapancreatic tumors in nude mice. This anti-tumoral capacity is, at least in part, due to the induction of caspase 3-mediated apoptosis. In addition, TP53INP1 −/− mouse embryonic…

Settore MED/06 - Oncologia MedicaTransplantation HeterologousGene ExpressionMice NudeMicePancreatic tumorPancreatic cancerCell Line TumormicroRNAGene expressionmedicineAnimalsHumansRNA NeoplasmNuclear proteinCaspaseHeat-Shock ProteinsMice KnockoutMultidisciplinarybiologyBase Sequenceapoptosis pancreatic cancer ponasterone A tumor suppressor micro RNANuclear ProteinsBiological Sciencesmedicine.diseaseTransplantationPancreatic NeoplasmsMicroRNAsCell Transformation NeoplasticApoptosisCancer researchbiology.proteinTumor Suppressor Protein p53Carrier ProteinsNeoplasm TransplantationCarcinoma Pancreatic DuctalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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PAP/HIP Protein Is an Obesogenic Factor

2013

In this article we report the obesogenic role of the acute phase protein PAP/HIP. We found that the transgenic TgPAP/HIP mice develop spontaneous obesity under standard nutritional conditions, with high levels of glucose, leptin, and LDL and low levels of triglycerides and HDL in blood. Accordingly, PAP/HIP-deficient mice are skinny under standard nutritional conditions. We also found that expression of PAP/HIP is induced in intestinal epithelial cells in response to gavage with olive oil and this induction is AG490 sensitive. We demonstrated that incubation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes with a low concentration as 1 ng/ml of recombinant PAP/HIP results in accelerated BrdU incorporation in vitro.…

medicine.medical_specialtyPhysiologybusiness.industryLeptinMEK inhibitorTransgeneClinical BiochemistryAcute-phase proteinAdipose tissueCell Biologymedicine.diseaseObesityIn vitroEndocrinologyInternal medicinemedicinePancreatitis-Associated ProteinsbusinessJournal of Cellular Physiology
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BTN3A is a prognosis marker and a promising target for Vγ9Vδ2 T cells based-immunotherapy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC)

2017

Vγ9Vδ2 T cells are anti-tumor immune effectors of growing interest in cancer including Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC), an especially aggressive cancer characterized by a hypoxic and nutrient-starved immunosuppressive microenvironment. Since Butyrophilin 3 A (BTN3A) isoforms are critical activating molecules of Vγ9Vδ2 T cells, we set out to study BTN3A expression under both basal and stress conditions in PDAC primary tumors, and in novel patient-derived xenograft and PDAC-derived cell lines. BTN3A2 was shown to be the most abundant isoform in PDAC and was stress-regulated. Vγ9Vδ2 T cells cytolytic functions against PDAC required BTN3A and this activity was strongly enhanced by the a…

0301 basic medicineOncologylcsh:Immunologic diseases. Allergymedicine.medical_specialtyPancreatic ductal adenocarcinomaendocrine system diseasesmedicine.medical_treatment[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]Immunologybtn3apancreatic ductal adenocarcinomalcsh:RC254-28203 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineImmune systemInternal medicinemedicineImmunology and AllergyComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUSbusiness.industrycd277Aggressive cancerCancerPrognosis MarkerImmunotherapymedicine.diseaselcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogensbutyrophilin 3 adigestive system diseases3. Good health[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]030104 developmental biologyOncology030220 oncology & carcinogenesisimmunotherapybusinesslcsh:RC581-607Research Article
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PAP/HIP protein is an obesogenic factor

2013

In this article we report the obesogenic role of the acute phase protein PAP/HIP. We found that the transgenic TgPAP/HIP mice develop spontaneous obesity under standard nutritional conditions, with high levels of glucose, leptin, and LDL and low levels of triglycerides and HDL in blood. Accordingly, PAP/HIP-deficient mice are skinny under standard nutritional conditions. We also found that expression of PAP/HIP is induced in intestinal epithelial cells in response to gavage with olive oil and this induction is AG490 sensitive. We demonstrated that incubation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes with a low concentration as 1ng/ml of recombinant PAP/HIP results in accelerated BrdU incorporation in vitro. …

Transgenic micePAP/HIPSevere obesity
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