PURPOSE: The incidence of acute myocardial infarctions (AMI) shows circadian variation typically peaking during morning hours with a decline at night. However, this variation does not occur in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). The night's decline of AMI may be partially explained by melatonin-related platelet inhibition. Whether this effect is absent in diabetic patients is unknown. The aim was to study the effect of melatonin on in-vitro platelet aggregation in healthy individuals and patients with type 2 DM. METHODS: Platelet aggregation was measured in blood samples from healthy individuals (n = 15) and type 2 DM patients (n = 15) using multiple electrode aggregometry. Adenosine diphosphate (ADP), arachidonic acid (ASPI) and thrombin (TRAP) were used as agonists. Aggregability for each subject was tested after adding melatonin in two concentrations. RESULTS: In healthy individuals, melatonin inhibited platelet aggregation in both higher (10-5 M) and lower concentrations (10-9 M) induced by ADP, ASPI, and TRAP (p < 0.001, p = 0.002, p = 0.029, respectively). In DM patients, melatonin did not affect platelet aggregation in both concentrations induced by ADP, ASPI, and TRAP. Melatonin decreased platelet aggregation induced by ADP, ASPI, and TRAP significantly more in healthy individuals compared to patients with DM. (p = 0.005, p = 0.045 and p = 0.048, respectively). CONCLUSION: Platelet aggregation was inhibited by melatonin in healthy individuals. In-vitro antiplatelet effect of melatonin in type 2 DM patients is significantly attenuated.
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- adenosindifosfát farmakologie MeSH
- agregace trombocytů fyziologie MeSH
- diabetes mellitus 2. typu * farmakoterapie MeSH
- infarkt myokardu * MeSH
- inhibitory agregace trombocytů farmakologie terapeutické užití MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- melatonin * farmakologie terapeutické užití MeSH
- trombocyty fyziologie MeSH
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- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
1. Selection strategies for broilers must balance rapid growth with the welfare and health of animals, strategies must deal with the trade-off with other vital functions.2. Divergent selection of Japanese quail for high (HG) and low (LG) relative body weight gain between 11 and 28 days of age has been conducted to accelerate linear phase growth without influencing the final adult body weight. Higher body growth rate is often connected with a weakened immune system. Therefore, the present study explored the immunological characterisation of quail from HG and LG lines, which differ substantially in their growth rate.3. The trial evaluated the maternal investment to immunologically active substances, cell-mediated immunity stimulated by phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) injection and the acute phase of the immune response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) administration in three different phases of early postnatal growth.4. Except for higher lysozyme activity in the LG group when compared to the HG line, the maternal investment did not differ between the two lines. Plasma antibody concentrations responded quickly to any change in growth rate in both lines. Overall, it seems that initial rapid growth of the LG line had long-lasting effects on immune responsiveness, even after the growth rate of the HG line escalated during the linear phase of growth.5. The study indicated that changes in the growth rate caused by the selection for growth in meat-type Japanese quail can influence the acute phase of the immune response and development of the immune system.
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- buněčná imunita MeSH
- bursa Fabricii anatomie a histologie patologie MeSH
- Coturnix růst a vývoj imunologie MeSH
- exprese genu MeSH
- fytohemaglutininy aplikace a dávkování MeSH
- hmotnostní přírůstek imunologie MeSH
- imunitní systém růst a vývoj imunologie MeSH
- imunoglobuliny analýza MeSH
- interleukin-6 genetika MeSH
- lipopolysacharidy aplikace a dávkování MeSH
- muramidasa analýza MeSH
- protilátky krev MeSH
- slezina anatomie a histologie patologie MeSH
- vejce analýza klasifikace MeSH
- velikost orgánu MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
Staphylococcus sciuri is a bacterial pathogen associated with infections in animals and humans, and represents a reservoir for the mecA gene encoding methicillin-resistance in staphylococci. No S. sciuri siphophages were known. Here the identification and characterization of two temperate S. sciuri phages from the Siphoviridae family designated ϕ575 and ϕ879 are presented. The phages have icosahedral heads and flexible noncontractile tails that end with a tail spike. The genomes of the phages are 42,160 and 41,448 bp long and encode 58 and 55 ORFs, respectively, arranged in functional modules. Their head-tail morphogenesis modules are similar to those of Staphylococcus aureus ϕ13-like serogroup F phages, suggesting their common evolutionary origin. The genome of phage ϕ575 harbours genes for staphylokinase and phospholipase that might enhance the virulence of the bacterial hosts. In addition both of the phages package a homologue of the mecA gene, which is a requirement for its lateral transfer. Phage ϕ879 transduces tetracycline and aminoglycoside pSTS7-like resistance plasmids from its host to other S. sciuri strains and to S. aureus. Furthermore, both of the phages efficiently adsorb to numerous staphylococcal species, indicating that they may contribute to interspecies horizontal gene transfer.
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- bakteriální geny * MeSH
- fosfolipasy metabolismus MeSH
- genom virový MeSH
- genomika metody MeSH
- hostitelská specificita MeSH
- metaloendopeptidasy metabolismus MeSH
- plazmidy genetika MeSH
- přenos genů horizontální MeSH
- přichycení viru MeSH
- stafylokokové bakteriofágy fyziologie ultrastruktura MeSH
- Staphylococcus virologie MeSH
- transdukce genetická * MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
