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    Paracoccidioides brasiliensis induces recruitment of alpha 3 and alpha 5 integrins into epithelial cell membrane rafts, leading to cytokine secretion
    (Elsevier science bv, 2016) Barros, Bianca Carla Silva Campitelli de [UNIFESP]; Maza, Paloma Korehisa [UNIFESP]; Alcantara, Cristiane [UNIFESP]; Suzuki, Erika [UNIFESP]
    Paracoccidioides brasiliensis is one of the etiological agents of paracoccidioidomycosis, a human systemic mycosis, highly prevalent in Latin America. In the present work, we demonstrate that P. brasiliensis yeasts promote IL-6 and IL-8 secretion by the human lung epithelial cell line A549 in an integrin-dependent manner. In fact, small interfering RNA directed to alpha 3 and alpha 5 integrins decreased IL-6 and IL-8 levels in P. brasiliensis-infected A549 cell cultures. This fungus also led to an increase in the expression of alpha 3 and alpha 5 integrins in this epithelial cell line. In addition, P. brasiliensis yeasts promoted alpha 3 and alpha 5 integrins clustering into A549 cell membrane rafts. Furthermore, epithelial cell membrane raft disruption with nystatin decreased IL-6 and IL-8 levels in P. brasiliensis-A549 cell cultures. Therefore, by increasing host alpha 3 and alpha 5 integrins levels and clustering these receptors into membrane rafts, P. brasiliensis yeasts may modulate host inflammation. (C) 2015 Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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    Relationship between thresholds to convulsions induced by a benzodiazepine inverse agonist and [H-3]-L-glutamate binding in the membranes of brain regions
    (Springer, 2013-04-01) Contó, Marcos Brandão [UNIFESP]; Barbosa de Carvalho, Jose Gilberto [UNIFESP]; Venditti, Marco Antonio Campana [UNIFESP]; Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
    Although some studies have investigated the influence of kindling model of epilepsy on the glutamatergic neurotransmission, the relation between glutamatergic receptors and seizure susceptibility remains unclear. the present study sought to determine if rats with high (HTR) and low (LTR) thresholds to clonic convulsions induced by the benzodiazepine inverse agonist DMCM differed in the [H-3]-l-glutamate binding to membranes from discrete brain regions. Compared to the HTR subgroup, the LTR subgroup presented a lower binding of [H-3]-l-glutamate in the hippocampus, frontal cortex and amygdala plus limbic cortex, suggesting that glutamatergic receptors in these brain regions may underlie the susceptibility to DMCM-induced convulsions.