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Analyses of apoptosis and of the apoptosis regulatory proteins Bcl-2, Bax, Bcl-X, and Bad were done in 95 nontumorous and neoplastic pituitary tissues by terminal deoxynucleotide transferase-mediated dUTP nick-end labeling (TUNEL), immunohistochemistry, and Western blotting. The apoptotic index was relatively low in all groups but was at least fourfold higher in pituitary carcinomas compared with any other groups. Pituitaries from pregnant and postpartum women had a fivefold higher apoptotic index compared with matched controls from nonpregnant females. Preoperative treatment of adenomas with octreotide or dopamine agonists did not change the apoptotic index significantly. The lowest levels of Bcl-2, Bax, and Bcl-X expression were in pituitary carcinomas as detected by immunostaining. An immortalized human pituitary adenoma cell line, HP75, developed in our laboratory using a replication-defective recombinant human adenovirus with an early large T-antigen, had a much higher level of apoptosis than nontumorous and neoplastic pituitaries. Treatment with transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta1 and protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitors increased apoptosis in this cell line. Analysis of the Bcl-2 family of proteins after treatment with TGF-beta1 and PKC inhibitors showed a 20% to 30% decrease in Bcl-X in the treated groups compared with controls. These results, which represent the first study of apoptosis in pituitaries from pregnant and postpartum cases and in pituitary carcinomas, indicate that 1) the apoptotic rate is low in nontumorous and neoplastic pituitary tissues but is relatively higher in pituitary carcinomas, 2) there are alterations in the expression of the Bcl-2 family of proteins in pituitary neoplasms with a decrease in Bcl-2 expression in pituitary carcinomas that may contribute to pituitary tumor pathogenesis and/or proliferation, and 3) cultured pituitary tumor cells respond to TGF-beta1 and PKC inhibitors by undergoing apoptotic cell death.
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PMID:Apoptosis in nontumorous and neoplastic human pituitaries: expression of the Bcl-2 family of proteins. 1007 54

Perinatal brain damages are caused mainly by circulation insufficiency due to intrauterine or birth asphyxia. Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) and pontosubicular neuronal necrosis (PSN) are typical perinatal ischemic diseases. We investigated the expression of apoptosis in these diseases, using TdT-mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) method and immunohistochemistry with Bcl-2, Bcl-x, Bak and caspase 3 (CPP 32). In HIE, Purkinje cells showed overexpression of Bcl-2 and CPP 32, and some karyorrhectic cells were positive for TUNEL. In PSN, neurons of the pontine nuclei showed overexpression of Bcl-x and CPP 32, and most karyorrhectic neurons were positive for TUNEL. Immature neurons were susceptible to these changes. Apoptosis may play an important role in the pathomechanism of perinatal ischemic brain damages.
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PMID:[Perinatal ischemic brain damages and apoptosis]. 1019 36

The induction of apoptosis by contrast media (CM) and mannitol (M) was investigated in the hearts and kidneys of 12-mo-old male SHR rats. Ten groups of 3 SHR rats received a dose of 5 ml/kg of one of the following: Hypaque (H)-30, H-60, H-76, Omnipaque (O)-140, O-350, mannitol (M)-4%, M-9%, M-19%, M-27%, or saline (S). DNA fragmentation was detected using the terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated [TdT] dUTP nick-end labeling (TUNEL) method, and the morphology characteristics of apoptosis were confirmed in cardiac and renal cells. The immunoreactivities of Bcl-2, Bax, and p53 were assessed immunohistochemically in the kidneys. Apoptosis occurred in cardiac myocytes and renal tubular and glomerular cells as well as in vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells of the heart and kidneys. The high frequency of apoptosis correlated significantly with the increase in the osmolality of the H, O, and M. The increased Bax, the increased p53, and the decreased Bcl-2 immunoreactivities were detected in H- or O-treated, but not in M-treated, rats. These findings suggest that CM and M activate cardiac and renal apoptosis by different mechanisms and that the apoptotic process may be implicated in acute heart and renal damage.
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PMID:Contrast medium- and mannitol-induced apoptosis in heart and kidney of SHR rats. 1048 23

Apoptotic bodies are frequently found in oligodendrogliomas, particularly in the anaplastic subtype. A range of proteins, such as those of the Bcl family, are implicated in the control of apoptosis. The ratio of antagonists of apoptosis, such as Bcl-2, to agonists, such as Bax, is thought to determine the outcome for a particular cell. This study aimed to determine the expression of Bcl-2 and Bax proteins in a series of oligodendrogliomas and to relate the expression of these to measures of apoptosis. Immunohistochemistry was used to detect the expression of Bcl-2 and Bax in an archival series of 32 oligodendrogliomas. The results were scored semiquantitatively for the extent and intensity of tumour staining. Apoptosis indices were determined by counting apoptotic bodies on haematoxylin and eosin staining and the percentage of cells showing a positive reaction with the TdT-mediated dUTP-biotin nick end-labelling technique (TUNEL). Granular cytoplasmic staining for Bcl-2 was seen in tumour cells in 81% of cases. Cases with a strong intensity (but not extent) of staining showed a lower TUNEL index (P=0.038). Bcl-2 expression was identified in the walls of intratumoural blood vessels in 55% of cases and in peri-tumoural neurones (where present) in 87%. Bax expression was detected in tumour cells in 69% of cases but no relationship to TI was detected. Bax positivity was seen in blood vessels in 44% of cases and peri-tumoural neurones in 60%. Bcl-2 and Bax were concluded to be expressed in a high proportion of oligodendrogliomas, suggesting that they may exert a regulatory role in cell death in these tumours.
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PMID:Expression of Bcl-2 and Bax in oligodendrogliomas and their relationship to apoptosis. 1056 30

Glutamate has been shown to function as a toxic agent in neuronal and glial cells, as well as an excitatory neurotransmitter throughout the central nervous system. In the present study, we examined the effect of increasing glutamate concentration on the induction of apoptosis in the two human glioblastoma cell lines GB-4 and GB-12. Glutamate exposure caused cell death of GB-4 and GB-12 in a dose-dependent manner. The cells were found to die via apoptosis in response to glutamate based on the following criteria: propidium iodide (PI) staining, H-E staining, electron microscopic analysis, and the TdT-mediated dUTP-biotin nick end labeling (TUNEL) method. The glutamate-induced apoptosis appears to involve the modulation of Bcl-2 family gene products such as Bcl-2, Bcl-xL, and Bax-alpha. Both Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL were down-regulated by glutamate at 24 h and further at 48 h. The apoptosis-promoting product p21 Bax-alpha was also down-regulated in GB-12 but slightly up-regulated in GB-4, accompanied by generation of variant form of p18 Bax-alpha in both cell lines. These findings suggest that glutamate toxicity results in cellular death via an apoptotic mechanism which appears to involve the Bcl-2/Bax-alpha molecular complex.
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PMID:Participation of Bcl-2/Bax-alpha in glutamate-induced apoptosis of human glioblastoma cells. 1061 94

In the developing liver, the complete or partial persistence of the primitive double-layered cylinder of biliary-type cells that surrounds the branches of portal vein and its mesenchyme gives origin to portal tracts with an increased number of bile duct structures. The term "ductal plate malformation of the liver" was coined to label the insufficient remodeling of the primitive intrahepatic biliary system. Meckel syndrome is an autosomal recessive inherited disease characterized by occipital encephalocele, postaxial polydactyly, diffuse cystic renal dysplasia, and malformation of the ductal plate of the liver. We studied 52 fetuses with Meckel syndrome from five German centers (Berlin, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Mainz, and Marburg). Analysis of apoptosis and cell proliferation (Ki-67) was performed by terminal deoxynucleotide transferase-mediated dUTP nick-end labeling (TUNEL) and immunohistochemistry in the liver of 24 normal fetuses of different gestational ages (14-38 weeks of gestation) and in 14 fetuses with Meckel syndrome (17-38 weeks of gestation). The expression of two apoptosis-related proteins, Fas (a transmembrane cell surface protein involved in the apoptosis) and Bcl-2 (an anti-apoptotic protein), was studied by immunohistochemistry in the liver of 11 normal fetuses of different gestational ages (14-40 weeks of gestation) and in 40 fetuses with Meckel syndrome (16-38 weeks of gestation). In control fetuses, apoptosis rate and cell proliferation were high in the remodeling ductal plate and moderate in the ductal plate and in remodeled bile ducts. During gestation, expression of Fas and Bcl-2 decreased and increased, respectively. The malformed ductal plates in the fetal livers with Meckel syndrome showed a marked decrease in the apoptotic rate and Fas expression and an increase in proliferative activity and Bcl-2 expression in comparison with control fetuses. Furthermore, by linear regression analysis, we found that both proliferation activity and apoptosis rate in the ductal plate malformation of fetuses with Meckel syndrome were practically constant along the gestation. These results, which represent the first systematic study of apoptosis in ductal plate malformation of the liver, indicate that 1) animals harboring the gene defect of Meckel syndrome could be a good model for the study of the abnormal development of the primitive intrahepatic biliary system, 2) a decreased cell turnover occurs in the ductal plate malformation of fetuses with Meckel syndrome, and 3) the increase of Bcl-2 expression contributes to the pathogenesis of the lack of remodeling of ductal plate of the liver in Meckel syndrome.
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PMID:Contribution of apoptosis and apoptosis-related proteins to the malformation of the primitive intrahepatic biliary system in Meckel syndrome. 1079 71

The experiments were designed to study correlation between frequency of apoptosis of Reed-Sternberg/Hodgkin (R-S/H) cells, EBV infection of these cells, expression of the key proteins involved in regulation of apoptosis and cell cycle in R-S/H cells, the patients' pretreatment markers and the clinical outcome. One hundred and ten Hodgkin's disease (HD) patients were studies, of which 69 obtained complete remission (CR) after first-line treatment and 41 did not respond. The time of follow-up was from 18 to 242, median 69.7, months. Apoptosis was evaluated by TUNEL technique (TdT-mediated dUTP nick end labeling) and the presence of EBV-latent membrane protein 1 as well as expression of Bcl-2, tumor suppressor p53, p21WAF1, MDM-2, Rb1, PCNA, p27KIP1 and caspase-3, was detected immunocytochemically on paraffin-embedded lymph node specimens obtained at diagnosis. Positive TUNEL reaction was found in 43 patients with apoptotic index (AI) in this group varying between 10% and 60%. In the remaining 57 patients AI of R-S/H cells was below 10%. In 62 patients the cells surrounding R-S/H cells were also TUNEL-positive; their frequency was variable. The expression of LMP1 protein on R-S/H cells was found in 38 patients, without any correlation with the presence or frequency of apoptosis. No significant difference was seen between the AI and both clinical stage and histological type of the disease. However, the mean AI in non-responding patients was significantly higher than in CR group (p=0.015); the high frequency of apoptosis was also negatively correlated with the progression free survival time (p=0.031) and the overall survival (p=0.042). The expression of PCNA, p21WAF1, p53 protein and caspase-3 also showed positive correlation with frequency of apoptosis (p=0.011, p=0.036, and p=0.001, respectively). On the other hand, no statistically confirmed correlation was found between AI and expression of bcl-2, MDM-2, Rb1, and p27KIP1 on R-S/H cells. These data provide evidence that tumor cells in HD undergo spontaneous apoptosis regardless of EBV infection. High pretreatment AI correlates with poor response to the treatment, and may be considered as a potential negative prognostic factor in HD.
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PMID:Spontaneous apoptosis of Reed-Sternberg and Hodgkin cells; clinical and pathological implications in patients with Hodgkin's disease. 1093 5

Keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) induces rapid and transient hyperplasia of alveolar epithelial type II cells. We sought to determine components of the apoptotic process involved in the resolution of this hyperplasia and the fate of the apoptotic cells. Rats received intrabronchial instillation of 5 mg KGF/kg body weight or diluent. Lungs were fixed 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 days later. Apoptosis was identified by TdT-mediated dUTP nick-end labeling (TUNEL), double-labeling for TUNEL and the type II cell marker MNF116, and electron microscopy. Fas, FasL, Bax, Bcl-2, and pro- and active caspase-3 were studied by immunohistochemistry. Changes were quantified by stereology. Cell type specificity was investigated by immunofluorescence double staining. Type II cells exhibited Fas, FasL, Bcl-2, and procaspase-3 irrespective of treatment and time. Immunoelectron microscopy revealed Fas at the apical type II cell membrane. Bax staining was prominent in controls (45-95% of type II cell surface fraction), markedly decreased during hyperplasia at days 2 (20-40%) and 3 (0-10%), and reappeared at day 7 (25-45%) when apoptosis was prominent. Remnants of apoptotic type II cells were incorporated in membrane-bound vacuoles of type II cell neighbors as well as alveolar macrophages. The results indicate that type II cells can enter the Fas/FasL/caspase-3 pathway regulated by Bax and Bcl-2. High Bcl-2:Bax levels favor type II cell survival and a low rate of apoptosis during hyperplasia. Low Bcl-2:Bax levels favor type II cell apoptosis during resolution. Because of time-dependent changes that occur within a short time, the KGF-treated rat lung provides a useful in vivo model to investigate apoptosis in the context of tissue remodeling and repair.
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PMID:Alveolar epithelial type II cell apoptosis in vivo during resolution of keratinocyte growth factor-induced hyperplasia in the rat. 1095 22

The oncoproteins Bcl-2 and Bax, the tumor suppressor gene product p53, TUNEL (TdT [terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase] dUTP nick end-labeling) and the cell-cycle antigen Ki-67 were studied in 71 cases of mucoepidermoid carcinoma originating in the oral minor salivary glands. Grade I tumors had higher expression of Bcl-2 than Grade II and III tumors (chi2 test, 0.01<P<0.025) and the Bcl-2-positive group had a higher survival rate than the Bcl-2-negative group (generalized Wilcoxon, P = 0.00051). Patients with strong TUNEL positivity had a higher survival rate than those with either weak positivity or negativity (generalized Wilcoxon, P = 0.047). The expression of p53 and TUNEL had a positive correlation (P = 0.0315). Grade II and III tumors had a higher frequency of positive Ki-67 expression than Grade I tumors (chi2 test, 0.01<P<0.025) and patients with Ki-67-negative tumors had better survival than patients with Ki-67-positive tumors (generalized Wilcoxon, P = 0.000099). This study showed that Bcl-2 proteins, p53 protein, TUNEL and Ki-67 are potentially useful prognostic markers for survival in patients with mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the oral minor salivary glands.
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PMID:Apoptosis and apoptotic-related factors in mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the oral minor salivary glands. 1097 57

Recent studies have suggested that apoptosis is one of the pathogenetic mechanisms in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In this study, by using single and double immunohistochemical staining assays, Fas, Fas-L, p53, and Bcl-2 were measured simultaneously in RA and osteoarthritic (OA) and post-traumatic (PT) synovial tissues (ST) in order to understand the distribution of these apoptosis-related proteins. The TdT-mediated dUTP-biotin nick end labelling (TUNEL) method was performed to detect apoptotic cells. There was a significant increase of Fas, Fas-L, and p53 in RA ST, compared with OA or PT, but no significant difference of Bcl-2 expression was detected between patient groups. In RA ST, expression of Fas and p53 was detected in sub-lining layers and the majority of Fas- and p53-expressing cells were fibroblast-like synoviocytes. A positive correlation between Fas and p53 was demonstrated in RA ST. In RA ST, one-third of Fas-positive and 80% of p53-positive cells were also TUNEL-positive. These results indicate that apoptosis in RA is strongly associated with the expression of Fas and p53, but not Bcl-2.
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PMID:Apoptosis in rheumatoid arthritis--expression of Fas, Fas-L, p53, and Bcl-2 in rheumatoid synovial tissues. 1116 23


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