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Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Association of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor polymorphisms with chronic hepatitis C and responses to therapy in Brazil(2013) VASCONCELOS, Janaina Mota de; MÓIA, Lizomar de Jesus Maués Pereira; AMARAL, Ivanete do Socorro Abraçado; MIRANDA, Esther Castello Branco Mello; TAKESHITA, Louise Yukari; OLIVEIRA, Layanna Freitas de; MENDES, Lilian de Araújo Melo; SASTRE, Danuta; TAMEGÃO-LOPES, Bruna Pedroso; PEDROZA, Larysse Santa Rosa de Aquino; SANTOS, Sidney Emanuel Batista dos; SOARES, Manoel do Carmo Pereira; ARAÚJO, Marialva Tereza Ferreira de; BANDEIRA, Camila Lucas; SILVA, Adriana Maria Paixão de Sousa da; MEDEIROS, Zilene Lameira de; SENA, Leonardo dos Santos; DEMACHKI, Sâmia; SANTOS, Eduardo José Melo dosSoroprevalence for Hepatitis C virus is reported as 2.12% in Northern Brazil, with about 50% of the patients exhibiting a sustained virological response (SVR). Aiming to associate polymorphisms in Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptors (KIR) with chronic hepatitis C and therapy responses we investigated 125 chronic patients and 345 controls. Additionally, 48 ancestry markers were genotyped to control for population stratification. The frequency of the KIR2DL2 and KIR2DL2+HLA-CAsp80 gene and ligand was higher in chronic infected patients than in controls (p < 0.0009, OR = 3.4; p = 0.001, OR = 3.45). In fact, KIR2DL3 is a weaker inhibitor of NK activity than KIR2DL2, which could explain the association of KIR2DL2 with chronic infection. Moreover, KIR2DS2 and KIR2DS2+HLA-CAsp80 (p < 0.0001, OR = 2.51; p = 0.0084, OR = 2.62) and KIR2DS3 (p < 0.0001; OR = 2.57) were associated with chronic infection, independently from KIR2DL2. No differences in ancestry composition were observed between control and patients, even with respect to therapy response groups. The allelic profile KIR2DL2/KIR2DS2/KIR2DS3 was associated with the chronic hepatitis C (p < 0.0001; OR = 3). Furthermore, the patients also showed a higher mean number of activating genes and a lower frequency of the homozygous AA profile, which is likely secondary to the association with non-AA and/or activating genes. In addition, the KIR2DS5 allele was associated with SVR (p = 0.0261; OR = 0.184).The ancestry analysis of samples ruled out any effects of population substructuring and did not evidence interethnic differences in therapy response, as suggested in previous studies.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Perfil de MicroRNAs hepáticos pode regular apoptose, lesões vasculares e inflamação na dengue hemorrágica(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2016-06-30) OLIVEIRA, Layanna Freitas de; BURBANO, Rommel Mario Rodriguéz; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4362051219348099Dengue is the most prevalent arbovirosis in the world caused by Dengue virus (DENV) and is present in all continents, for more than three decades has been a constant public health concern and often fatal by dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). The pathogenesis of dengue is closely related to the host immune response, reaching exacerbated inflammation and transient autoimmunity. All tissues are affected, which liver is one of the most important in severe conditions, due its intense viral replication and its significant role in metabolism. The study of microRNAs (miRNA) as regulatory elements of metabolism and immune response during infection is crucial to understanding the regulatory mechanisms of gene expression on DENV infection, and can help in diagnostic development of anti-viral therapies. We sequenced the miRNoma in MySeq platform (Illumina) to identify the miRNAs profile expressed in FFPE liver tissue, ten DHF fatal cases were compared to five control cases. Eight miRNAs exhibited differential expression in DHF liver, miR-126-5p, a regulatory molecule of endothelial cells, and miR-133a-3p are upregulated in dengue and miR-122-5p, a liver-specific miRNA, miR- 146a-5p, interferon regulator, miR-10b-5p, miR-204-5p, miR-148a-5p and miR-423-5p were downregulated. Functional analysis of KEGG pathways and GO terms with predicted target genes of overexpressed miRNAs found regulatory pathways of apoptosis and immune response, involving MAPK gene, RAS, CDK and FAS; immune response pathways showed NF- kB, CC and CX families, IL and TLR. The same analysis with target genes of downregulated miRNAs also identified in most pathways of apoptosis and biosynthetic pathways of metabolism. In our knowledge, this is the first description of the liver miRNA profile in DHF, the results together show a feasible relationship of miR-126-5p, miR-122-5p and miR-146a-5p with liver pathogenesis of DHF, through endothelial repair and vascular permeability regulation, control of homeostasis and liver expression regulation of inflammatory cytokines.