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Kobayashi, Mio ; Kakuda, Yuko ; Harada, Kenichi ; Sato, Yasunori ; Sasaki, Motoko ; Ikeda, Hiroko ; Terada, Mitsuhiro ; Mukai, Munenori ; Kaneko, Shuichi ; Nakanuma, Yasuni ; 小林, 水緒 ; 原田, 憲一 ; 佐藤, 保則 ; 佐々木, 素子 ; 池田, 博子 ; 金子, 周一 ; 中沼, 安二
出版情報: World Journal of Gastroenterology.  20  pp.3597-3608,  2014.  Baishideng Publishing Group Co
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2297/00061729
概要: 金沢大学医薬保健研究域医学系<br />AIM: To investigate histological and immunohistochemical differences in hepatitis between autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) and primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) with AIH features. METHODS: Liver needle biopsies of 41 PBC with AIH features and 43 AIH patients were examined. The activity of periportal and lobular inflammation was scored 0 (none or minimal activity) to 4 (severe), and the degree of hepatitic rosette formation and emperipolesis was semiquantatively scored 0-3. The infiltration of mononuclear cells positive for CD20, CD38, CD3, CD4, and CD8 and positive for immunoglobulins (IgG, IgM, and IgA) at the periportal areas (interface hepatitis) and in the hepatic lobules (lobular hepatitis) were semiquantitatively scored in immunostained liver sections (score 0-6). Serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST), immunoglobulins, and autoantibodies at the time of liver biopsy were correlated with the histological and immunohistochemical scores of individual lesions. RESULTS: Lobular hepatitis, hepatitic rosette formation, and emperipolesis were more extensive and frequent in AIH than in PBC. CD3+, CD4+, and CD8+ cell infiltration scores were higher in the hepatic lobules and at the interface in AIH but were also found in PBC. The degree of mononuclear cell infiltration correlated well with the degree of interface and lobular hepatitis in PBC, but to a lesser degree in AIH. CD20+ cells were mainly found in the portal tracts and, occasionally, at the interface in both diseases. Elevated AST correlated well with the hepatocyte necroinflammation and mononuclear cell infiltration, specifically CD38+ cells in PBC. No correlation existed between autoantibodies and inflammatory cell infiltration in PBC or AIH. While most AIH cases were IgG-predominant at the interface, PBC cases were divided into IgM-predominant, IgM/IgGequal, and IgG-predominant types, with the latter sharing several features with AIH. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that the hepatocellular injuries associated with interface and lobular hepatitis in AIH and PBC with interface hepatitis may not be identical. © 2014 Baishideng Publishing Group Co., Limited. All rights reserved. 続きを見る
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Sasaki, Motoko ; Ikeda, Hiroko ; Sawada, Seiko ; Sato, Yasunori ; Nakanuma, Yasuni
出版情報: Journal of Clinical Pathology.  60  pp.1102-1107,  2007-10-01.  BMJ Publishing Group
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2297/19776
概要: 金沢大学医薬保健研究域医学系<br />Background: Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is an autoimmune liver disease targeting the intrahepati c small bile ducts showing chronic non-suppurative destructive cholangitis (CNSDC). Recent studies suggest that naturally-occurring CD4+CD25high regulatory T cells (Tregs) expressing Forkhead box P3 (Foxp3) play an active role in immunological self-tolerance. Aims: To investigate whether Foxp3+Tregs are involved in the pathogenesis of PBC. Methods: Foxp3+Tregs was detected immunohistochemically in livers from patients with PBC (n = 27), chronic viral hepatitis (CVH) (n = 15), and normal subjects (n = 10). The distribution of Tregs in portal tracts was semi-quantitatively evaluated in each groups. Levels of Foxp3, IL-10, TGFβ, IFNγ and TNFα mRNA was evaluated in PBC (n= 15) and control livers (n = 21) using semi-quantitative reverse transcriptase-PCR. Results: In PBC and CVH livers, the amounts of infiltrating Foxp3+Tregs in portal tracts were in parallel with the degree of portal inflammation irrespective of disease. The infiltration of Foxp3+Tregs into portal tracts with CNSDC in PBC was foremost in comparison with inflamed portal tracts in CVH or those without CNSDC in PBC (p<0.05). Focally, Tregs infiltrated into the biliary epithelial layer at the site of CNSDC. The level of Foxp3, IL-10 and TGFβ mRNA expression was high in PBC compared with normal livers (p<0.05). IFNγ and TNFα mRNA was high in early PBC and CVH livers. Conclusion: Results of this evaluation of Foxp3+Tregs do not suggest that the reduced regulatory function accounts for the development of CNSDC in PBC. 続きを見る
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Sasaki, Motoko ; Ikeda, Hiroko ; Kataoka, Hiroaki ; Nakanuma, Yasuni
出版情報: Virchows Archiv.  449  pp.462-471,  2006-10-01.  Springer Verlag
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2297/3035
概要: 金沢大学大学院医学系研究科<br />The repair system of damaged biliary mucosa was not fully clarified so far in primary biliary cirrhos is (PBC). Given that related factors of the hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) such as HGF activator (HGFA) and HGFA inhibitor type 1 (HAI-1) participate in the repair of injured gastrointestinal mucosa, we investigated the involvement of the HGF/HGFA/HAI-1 system in PBC and control livers. The expression of HGFA, HAI-1, and c-Met was examined in PBC livers (n=24), diseased livers (control, n=30), and normal livers (n=15) by immunohistochemistry and semiquantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. We examined the expression of HGFA, HAI-1, and c-Met, and the effect of HGF administration on cell proliferation and wound healing, and HAI expression in cultured mouse biliary epithelial cells (BECs). HAI-1 expression was faint in control livers, whereas it was significantly augmented in damaged small bile ducts, bile ductules, and periportal hepatocytes in PBC (p<0.05). HGFA and c-Met were homogeneously expressed in BECs in PBC and control livers. HAI-1 expression was increased at the front of wound healing and the treatment with HGF-enhanced HAI-1 expression, cell proliferation, and wound healing in cultured BECs. HGF/HGFA/HAI-1 system may participate in biliary mucosal repair as reported in gastrointestinal mucosal repair. © Springer-Verlag 2006. 続きを見る
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Sasaki, Motoko ; Ikeda, Hiroko ; Nakanuma, Yasuni ; 佐々木, 素子 ; 中沼, 安二
出版情報: Acta Histochemica et Cytochemica.  38  pp.295-303,  2005-01-01.  日本組織細胞化学会
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2297/6777
概要: 金沢大学大学院医学系研究科がん細胞学<br />Mucin secreted by mucosal epithelial cells plays a role in the protection of the mucosal surface and also is involved in pathological processes. So far, MUC1-4, 5AC, 5B, 6-8, 11-13 and 15-17 genes coding the backbone mucin core protein have been identified in humans. Their diverse physiological distribution and pathological alterations have been reported. We have studied the expression profiles of MUC genes in the intrahepatic biliary system in developmental, normal and diseased livers using immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization. Fetal intrahepatic bile ducts and ductal plates frequently express MUC1, while intrahepatic large bile ducts after birth express mainly MUC3 mucin. In hepatolithiasis, MUC5AC (gastric foveolar epithelial type) and MUC6 (pyloric gland type) mucins are newly expressed in surface epithelial cells and proliferated peribiliary glands, respectively, and the expression of gel-forming mucin may play a role in lithogenesis. Most biliary epithelial dysplasias and cholangiocarcinomas associated with hepatolithiasis expressed MUC5AC, suggesting that intrahepatic bile ducts express the gastric foveolar phenotype during carcinogenesis. In addition, intestinal metaplasia, intraductal papillary tumor and mucinous carcinoma, characterized by MUC2 expression, are occasionally associated with hepatolithiasis in a CDX2 homeobox gene-dependent manner. These findings may suggest the presence of intestinal metaplasia-related carcinogenesis in the intrahepatic biliary system as in the stomach. 続きを見る
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Kakuda, Yuko ; Harada, Kenichi ; Sawada-Kitamura, Seiko ; Ikeda, Hiroko ; Sato, Yasunori ; Sasaki, Motoko ; Okafuji, Hirofumi ; Mizukoshi, Eishiro ; Terasaki, Shuichi ; Ohta, Hajime ; Kasashima, Satomi ; Kawashima, Atsuhiro ; Kaizaki, Yasuharu ; Kaneko, Shuichi ; Nakanuma, Yasuni
出版情報: Human Pathology.  44  pp.1107-1117,  2013-06-01.  Elsevier
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2297/33483
概要: Recently, our research team proposed a new histologic staging and grading system for primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) tha t takes into account necroinflammatory activity and histologic heterogeneity. The present study aimed to confirm the usefulness of the new evaluation system. A total of 152 liver biopsy specimens and clinical data (including outcomes in patients with PBC before treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid) were analyzed with respect to the new system. Staging was evaluated on the basis of 3 histologic components (fibrosis, bile duct loss, and deposition of orcein-positive granules), and grading was assessed on the basis of chronic cholangitis activity and hepatitis activity. Concurrently, the classical systems, that is, the Scheuer and Ludwig staging systems, were also assessed and compared with our new system. PBC cases showed different distributions in each stage of the 3 systems. The new staging and grading system reflected liver dysfunctions before specific treatment. This was on a par with the results obtained using the classical systems. Development of cirrhosis-related conditions correlated well with the new staging system compared with the 2 classical staging systems, and in particular, the amount of deposition of orcein-positive granules could reflect development of cirrhosis-related conditions (scores 0-1 versus scores 2-3 groups, P < .0001). In conclusion, the new PBC staging system was demonstrated to reflect clinicolaboratory features, and its progression was associated with the development of cirrhosis-related conditions. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 続きを見る
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Ikeda, Hiroko ; Katayanagi, Kazuyoshi ; Kurumaya, Hiroshi ; Harada, Kenichi ; Sato, Yasunori ; Sasaki, Motoko ; Nakanuma, Yasuni
出版情報: Gastroenterology Research, bimonthly.  4  pp.168-173,  2011-08-01.  Elmer Press
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2297/34940
概要: Hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) is defi ned by elevation more than 1.5×109/L of presence of a peripheral blood count, e vidence of organ involvement, and exclusion of secondary eosinophilia such as allergic, vasculitis, drugs, or parasite infection and also clonal eosinophilia. We present the HES case with hepatic involvement. The patient is 70-year-old male. He complained fever and back pain. Blood examination showed marked peripheral eosinophilia, elevation of transaminase and biliary enzymes. Multiple irregular mass lesions of the liver were pointed out by CT and MRI. The liver biopsy was done for differentiation from malignancy. In parenchyma, hepatic necrotic lesion was observed accompanying severe eosinophilic infi ltration with Charcot-Leyden’s crystals. There was granulomatous reaction. He was diagnosed as HES and got recovery due to steroid therapy. From the review of HES article, the hepatic histology is categorized into four types as below: 1) cholangitis type; 2) chronic active hepatitis type; 3) vasculopathic type, 4) hepatic necrosis type. Our case is classifi ed in hepatic necrosis type. This type seems to be important to distinguish malignant tumor and also visceral larva migrans by liver biopsy. 続きを見る
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Yamaguchi, Junpei ; Sasaki, Motoko ; Sato, Yasunori ; Itatsu, Keita ; Harada, Kenichi ; Zen, Yoh ; Ikeda, Hiroko ; Nimura, Yuji ; Nagino, Masato ; Nakanuma, Yasuni
出版情報: Cancer Science.  101  pp.355-362,  2010-02-01.  Japanese Cancer Association / Blackwell Publishing Ltd
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2297/45959
概要: 医薬保健研究域医学系<br />Polycomb group protein EZH2, frequently overexpressed in malignant tumors, is the catalytic subunit of p olycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2). PRC2 interacts with HDACs in transcriptional silencing and relates to tumor suppressor loss. We examined the expression of HDAC isoforms (HDAC 1 and 2) and EZH2, and evaluated the possible use of HDAC inhibitor suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA) and EZH2 repressor for gallbladder carcinoma. We used 48 surgically resected gallbladders and cultures of human gallbladder epithelial cells (HGECs), gallbladder carcinoma (TGBC2TKB), and cholangiocarcinoma (HuCCT-1 and TFK-1) cell lines for examination. Immunohistochemically, EZH2 was overexpressed in gallbladder carcinoma, especially poorly differentiated carcinoma, but not in normal epithelium. In contrast, HDAC1/2 were expressed in both carcinoma and normal epithelium in vivo. This pattern was verified in cultured cells; EZH2 was highly expressed only in TGBC2TKB, whereas HDAC1/2 were expressed in HGECs and TGBC2TKB. Interestingly, SAHA treatment caused significant cell number decline in three carcinoma cells, and this effect was synergized with EZH2 siRNA treatment; however, HGECs were resistant to SAHA. In TGBC2TKB cells, the expression of EZH2 and HDAC1/2 were decreased by SAHA treatment, and p16INK4a, E-cadherin, and p21were simultaneously activated; however, no such findings were obtained in HGECs, suggesting that the effect of SAHA depends on the EZH2-mediated tumor suppressor loss. In conclusion, this study suggests a possible mechanism by which carcinoma cells but not normal cells are sensitive to SAHA and indicates the efficacy of this new anticancer agent in combination with EZH2 repression in gallbladder carcinoma. © 2009 Japanese Cancer Association. 続きを見る