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Endemic HTLV in Japan and South America with special reference to mongoloid dispersal from Asia to the Andes

Estudios Atacameños, 1998
Se ha estimado que existe 1,2 millones de portadores del virus humano de la leucemia T tipo I (HTLV I) en todo el Japón, donde la incidencia de leucemia a linfocitos T del adulto es la más alta del mundo.
Kazuo Tajima, Shunro Sonoda, Luis Cartier, Vladimir Zaninovic, Lautaro Núñez Atencio, Luis Hurtado Gómez, Sonia Guillén, José Dipierri, Toshiro Takezaki, Toshinobu Fujiyoshi, Satoshi Horai   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

SPG4 and Dementia: Expanding the Clinical Spectrum

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a group of disorders characterized by progressive spasticity and lower limb weakness, with mutations in SPG4/SPAST being the most common cause. Detailed studies and clinical and molecular comparisons across different populations are missing.
Emanuele Panza, Arun Meyyazhagan, Eliseo Picchi, Gustavo Ribas, Ingrid Faber, Ryosuke Miyamoto, Preethi Basavaraju, Paolo Eusebi, Haripriya Kuchi Bhotla, Mario Stasi, Fabrizio Gaudiello, Francesco Patti, Filippo Maria Santorelli, Marcondes Cavalcante França Jr, José Luiz Pedroso, Orlando Graziani Povoas Barsottini, Hélio Afonso Ghizoni Teive, Peter Henry St George‐Hyslop, Toshitaka Kawarai, Antonio Orlacchio   +19 more
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Interactions between inflammatory gene polymorphisms and HTLV-I infection for total death, incidence of cancer, and atherosclerosis-related diseases among the Japanese population

Journal of Epidemiology, 2017
Background: An increased risk of total death owing to human T-lymphotropic virus type-I (HTLV-I) infection has been reported. However, its etiology and protective factors are unclear.
Tara Sefanya Kairupan
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Glycoengineered Recombinant Alpha1‐Antitrypsin Results in Comparable In Vitro and In Vivo Activities to Human Plasma‐Derived Protein

Biotechnology and Bioengineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alpha‐1‐antitrypsin (A1AT) is a multifunctional, clinically important, high‐value therapeutic glycoprotein that can be used for the treatment of many diseases, such as A1AT deficiency, diabetes, graft‐versus‐host disease, cystic fibrosis, and various viral infections. Currently, the only U.S. food and drug administration‐approved treatment for
Frances Rocamora, Chen‐Lin Hsieh, Sanne Schoffelen, Johnny Arnsdorf, Eric A. Toth, Abdul S. Yunus, Thomas E. Cleveland IV, Sara Petersen Bjørn, Mina Ying Min Wu, Noel G. McElvaney, Bjørn Gunnar Rude Voldborg, Thomas R. Fuerst, Nathan E. Lewis   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Erectile insufficiency as first symptom of HTLV-I/II associated myelopathy: case report Insuficiência erétil como primeiro sintoma da mielopatia associada ao HTLV I/II: relato de caso

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 1998
A case of HTLV-I/II myelopathy in which the initial complaint was erectile insufficiency (EI) is reported. The only abnormalities found on the neurological exam were discrete weakness of the psoas and increased knee jerk reflexes.
JOSÉ TEOTONIO OLIVEIRA, ANNA BÁRBARA F. CARNEIRO-PROIETTI, MARIA VIRGÍNIA C. LIMA-MARTINS, MARINA LOBATO MARTINS, FERNANDO AUGUSTO PROIETTI   +4 more
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RNA‐centric world of retroviruses: unravelling the molecular strategies of genomic RNA packaging

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retroviruses constitute a unique group of RNA viruses that have profoundly influenced both evolutionary trajectories and biomedical research. Their ability to reverse transcribe and integrate into host genomes has shaped genomic architecture across species and contributed to our understanding of oncogenes, gene regulation, and RNA biology ...
Mohammad Abdullah Jehad, Suresha G. Prabhu, Lizna M. Ali, Vineeta N. Pillai, Farah Mustafa, Tahir A. Rizvi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Immune Response on HTLV-I in HTLV-I-Associated Myelopathy/Tropical Spastic Paraparesis (HAM/TSP) [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences, 2013
Human T lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) is a retrovirus which is associated with adult T cells leukaemia (ATL) and HTLV-I-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) in a minority of HTLV-I-infected individuals.
Houshang Rafatpanah, Reza Farid Hosseini2, Seyed Hassan Pourseyed   +2 more
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Heat Shock Enhances the Expression of the Human T Cell Leukemia Virus Type-I (HTLV-I) Trans-Activator (Tax) Antigen in Human HTLV-I Infected Primary and Cultured T Cells

Viruses, 2016
The environmental factors that lead to the reactivation of human T cell leukemia virus type-1 (HTLV-I) in latently infected T cells in vivo remain unknown.
Marie Kunihiro, Hideki Fujii, Takuya Miyagi, Yoshiaki Takahashi, Reiko Tanaka, Takuya Fukushima, Aftab A. Ansari, Yuetsu Tanaka   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Experiencing 50 Years of Synergistic Development in Structural Biology and Enzymology

Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society, EarlyView.
Picture of Sunney Chan with Academia Sinica (AS) President James C. Liao and three Vice Presidents: Shin‐Kun Peng (left one), Tang K. Tang (right one), and Mei‐Yin Chou (right 2), taken at the annual Chinese New Year's Banquet of AS, February 7, 2025. This was likely Sunney's last appearance in formal activities of AS.
Ming‐Daw Tsai
wiley   +1 more source

Pulmonary function testing in HTLV-I and HTLV-II infected humans: a cohort study

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2003
Background HTLV-I infection has been linked to lung pathology and HTLV-II has been associated with an increased incidence of pneumonia and acute bronchitis. However it is unknown whether HTLV-I or -II infection alters pulmonary function.
Garratty George, Smith James W, Ownby Helen E, Murphy Edward L, Hutching Sheila T, Wu Ying, Ameti Dannie I   +6 more
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