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A growing body of evidence supports the hypothesis that C-reactive protein (CRP) is a marker of inflammation in coronary artery disease. The purpose of the present study was to test the hypothesis that CRP correlates with macrophage accumulation during the initial stages of coronary vascular disease. Adult male pigs were fed a normal chow (NF) or a high-fat high-cholesterol (HF) diet for 20 wk. After 20 wk, blood was collected for analyses of interleukin-6 (IL-6), CRP, and lipids. After blood collection, the pigs were euthanized and the right coronary arteries (RCA) were harvested and fixed in neutral buffered formalin. Paraffin-embedded sections of RCA were stained immunohistochemically for CRP, scavenger receptor A (SRA), and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1). All cholesterol fractions were elevated in the HF vs. the NF group (P < 0.05). There was little or no positive staining for CRP, SRA, or MCP-1 in the RCA of NF pigs, but there was extensive staining in lipidladen macrophage foam cells in the HF pigs. Double staining revealed colocalization of CRP with SRA and CRP with MCP-1 in foam cells. Serum IL-6 was below the assay detection limit in all pigs. Serum CRP correlated directly with plasma total cholesterol (R = 0.727, P = 0.041) and accumulation of SRA-positive macrophages (R = 0.938, P < 0.001) in RCA of HF pigs. We conclude that serum CRP correlates with macrophage accumulation and coronary artery disease in hypercholesterolemic pigs.
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PMID:C-reactive protein correlates with macrophage accumulation in coronary arteries of hypercholesterolemic pigs. 1275 76

Nerve microvasculitis and ischemic injury appear to be the primary and important pathogenic alterations in lumbosacral radiculoplexus neuropathy of patients with (DLRPN) and without (LRPN) diabetes mellitus (DM). Here, we examine the involvement of inflammatory mediators in DLRPN and LRPN. Paraffin sections of sural nerves from 19 patients with DLRPN, 13 patients with LRPN, and 20 disease control patients were immunostained for intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB). The findings were correlated with histopathology. The pathologic and immunohistochemical alterations of DLRPN and LRPN nerves were indistinguishable. The nerves of both types of LRPN had a significantly greater number of ICAM-1 positive vessels than did the controls (P < 0.01). TNF-alpha expression was seen in Schwann cells and some macrophages of DLRPN and LRPN nerves, whereas IL-6 expression was minimal. There was greater NF-kappaB immunoreactivity in vessels and endoneurial cells of DLRPN and LRPN nerves than of the controls (P < 0.001). NF-kappaB expression correlated with the number of empty nerve strands (P < 0.01) and the frequency of axonal degeneration (P < 0.05), whereas TNF-alpha expression correlated inversely with the number of empty nerve strands of teased fibers (P < 0.05). Our findings suggest that up-regulation of inflammatory mediators target different cells at different disease stages and that these mediators may be sequentially involved in an immune-mediated inflammatory process that is shared by both DLRPN and LRPN. Up-regulated inflammatory mediators may be immunotherapeutic targets in these two conditions.
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PMID:Inflammatory mediators in diabetic and non-diabetic lumbosacral radiculoplexus neuropathy. 1806 75

Hypoxia, angiogenesis and inflammation leads to plaque progression and remodelling and may significantly contribute towards plaque rupture and subsequent cerebrovascular events. Our aim was to study, markers of hypoxia and inflammation previously identified by microarray analysis, in atherosclerotic carotid arteries with low to moderate stenosis. We hoped to describe different cellular populations expressing the studied markers. The location of selected inflammatory molecules obtained as vascular transplants from organ donors were analysed by immunohistochemistry with monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies. Paraffin-embedded sections were cut and probed with antibodies recognizing active B and T-lymphocytes (CD30), hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha, endoglin (CD105), Interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein. We observed a notable overexpression of HIF-1alpha in inflammatory and hypoxic areas of carotid arteries in all types of lesions from type II-V taken from the patients with carotid stenosis less than 50%. This suggests that HIF-1alpha may have a putative role in atherosclerosis progression and angiogenesis. Dynamic changes in the non-occluding plaques may explain some of the clinical events in patients with low to moderate carotid stenosis.
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PMID:Overexpression of hypoxia/inflammatory markers in atherosclerotic carotid plaques. 1850 74

The objective of the study was to evaluate the expression pattern of interleukin-6 (IL-6) to determine its utility in differentiating Castleman Disease subtypes and reactive lymphadenopathies. Paraffin-embedded tissue blocks from 20 cases referred for assessment of Castleman Disease (CD) and 4 cases of reactive hyperplasia were selected for immunohistochemical staining with an IL-6 antibody. Six pathologists evaluated the hematoxylin and eosin stained tissue sections and IL-6 expression pattern. Of 20 CD referral cases, the pathologic diagnosis was CD in 14 cases and included 6 hyaline-vascular (HV-CD), 6 plasma cell (PC-CD) and 2 "mixed type"-CD cases. The remaining 6 referral cases showed morphologic features consistent with reactive lymphadenopathy. Patients with non-CD, reactive lymphadenopathies had clinical and/or laboratory features of systemic lupus erythematosus, Hashimoto's disease, viral infection or chronic cellulitis. The pattern of IL-6 expression differed between CD subtypes and non-CD cases. In PC-CD, IL-6 expression was detected in plasma cells and vascular endothelial cells; whereas IL-6 immunoreactivity was detected primarily in vascular endothelial cells in HV-CD. Interfollicular plasma cells were prominent in PC-CD and reactive lymphadenopathies; however, IL-6 expression was significantly increased in PC-CD compared to reactive lymph nodes. Together with morphologic features, the expression pattern of IL-6 detected by immunohistochemistry is helpful to distinguish CD subtypes and reactive mimics.
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PMID:Diagnostic Utility of Interleukin-6 Expression by Immunohistochemistry in Differentiating Castleman Disease Subtypes and Reactive Lymphadenopathies. 2765 Jun 13