LIZANDRE KEREN RAMOS DA SILVEIRA
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Instituto de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
LIM/17 - Laboratório de Investigação em Reumatologia, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
LIM/17 - Laboratório de Investigação em Reumatologia, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
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- Effects of different fluid management on lung and kidney during pressure-controlled and pressure-support ventilation in experimental acute lung injury(2022) CARVALHO, Eduardo Butturini de; FONSECA, Ana Carolina Fernandes; MAGALHAES, Raquel Ferreira; PINTO, Eliete Ferreira; SAMARY, Cynthia dos Santos; ANTUNES, Mariana Alves; BALDAVIRA, Camila Machado; SILVEIRA, Lizandre Keren Ramos da; TEODORO, Walcy Rosolia; ABREU, Marcelo Gama de; CAPELOZZI, Vera Luiza; FELIX, Nathane Santanna; PELOSI, Paolo; ROCCO, Patricia Rieken Macedo; SILVA, Pedro LemeOptimal fluid management is critical during mechanical ventilation to mitigate lung damage. Under normovolemia and protective ventilation, pulmonary tensile stress during pressure-support ventilation (PSV) results in comparable lung protection to compressive stress during pressure-controlled ventilation (PCV) in experimental acute lung injury (ALI). It is not yet known whether tensile stress can lead to comparable protection to compressive stress in ALI under a liberal fluid strategy (LF). A conservative fluid strategy (CF) was compared with LF during PSV and PCV on lungs and kidneys in an established model of ALI. Twenty-eight male Wistar rats received endotoxin intratracheally. After 24 h, they were treated with CF (minimum volume of Ringer's lactate to maintain normovolemia and mean arterial pressure >= 70 mmHg) or LF (similar to 4 times higher than CF) combined with PSV or PCV (VT = 6 ml/kg, PEEP = 3 cmH(2)O) for 1 h. Nonventilated animals (n = 4) were used for molecular biology analyses. CF-PSV compared with LF-PSV: (1) decreased the diffuse alveolar damage score (10 [7.8-12] vs. 25 [23-31.5], p = 0.006), mainly due to edema in axial and alveolar parenchyma; (2) increased birefringence for occludin and claudin-4 in lung tissue and expression of zonula-occludens-1 and metalloproteinase-9 in lung. LF compared with CF reduced neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin and interleukin-6 expression in the kidneys in PSV and PCV. In conclusion, CF compared with LF combined with PSV yielded less lung epithelial cell damage in the current model of ALI. However, LF compared with CF resulted in less kidney injury markers, regardless of the ventilatory strategy.
- In Situ Overexpression of Matricellular Mechanical Proteins Demands Functional Immune Signature and Mitigates Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Progression(2021) YAEGASHI, Lygia Bertalha; BALDAVIRA, Camila Machado; PRIETO, Tabatha Gutierrez; MACHADO-RUGOLO, Juliana; VELOSA, Ana Paula Pereira; SILVEIRA, Lizandre Keren Ramos da; ASSATO, Aline; AB'SABER, Alexandre Muxfeldt; FALZONI, Roberto; TAKAGAKI, Teresa; SILVA, Pedro Leme; TEODORO, Walcy Rosolia; CAPELOZZI, Vera LuizaNon-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) is a complex cancer biome composed of malignant cells embedded in a sophisticated tumor microenvironment (TME) combined with different initiating cell types, including immune cells and cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), and extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins. However, little is known about these tumors' immune-matricellular relationship as functional and mechanical barriers. This study investigated 120 patients with NSCLC to describe the immune-matricellular phenotypes of their TME and their relationship with malignant cells. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) was performed to characterize immune checkpoints (PD-L1, LAG-3, CTLA-4+, VISTA 1), T cells (CD3+), cytotoxic T cells (CD8(+), Granzyme B), macrophages (CD68+), regulatory T cells (FOXP3+, CD4+), natural killer cells (CD57+), and B lymphocytes (CD20+), whereas CAFs and collagen types I, III, and V were characterized by immunofluorescence (IF). We observed two distinct functional immune-cellular barriers-the first of which showed proximity between malignant cells and cytotoxic T cells, and the second of which showed distant proximity between non-cohesive nests of malignant cells and regulatory T cells. We also identified three tumor-associated matricellular barriers: the first, with a localized increase in CAFs and a low deposition of Col V, the second with increased CAFs, Col III and Col I fibers, and the third with a high amount of Col fibers and CAFs bundled and aligned perpendicularly to the tumor border. The Cox regression analysis was designed in two steps. First, we investigated the relationship between the immune-matricellular components and tumor pathological stage (I, II, and IIIA), and better survival rates were seen in patients whose tumors expressed collagen type III > 24.89 fibers/mm(2). Then, we included patients who had progressed to pathological stage IV and found an association between poor survival and tumor VISTA 1 expression > 52.86 cells/mm(2) and CD3+ <= 278.5 cells/mm(2). We thus concluded that differential patterns in the distribution of immune-matricellular phenotypes in the TME of NSCLC patients could be used in translational studies to predict new treatment strategies and improve patient outcome. These data raise the possibility that proteins with mechanical barrier function in NSCLC may be used by cancer cells to protect them from immune cell infiltration and immune-mediated destruction, which can otherwise be targeted effectively with immunotherapy or collagen therapy.
- Immunization with SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid protein triggers a pulmonary immune response in rats(2022) SILVA, E. K. V. B.; BOMFIM, C. G.; BARBOSA, A. P.; NODA, P.; NORONHA, I. L.; FERNANDES, B. H. V.; MACHADO, R. R. G.; DURIGON, E. L.; CATANOZI, S.; RODRIGUES, L. G.; PIERONI, F.; LIMA, S. G.; TEODORO, W. R.; QUEIROZ, Z. A. J.; SILVEIRA, L. K. R.; CHARLIE-SILVA, I.; CAPELOZZI, V. L.; GUZZO, C. R.; FANELLI, C.The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic have been affecting millions of people worldwide, since the beginning of 2020. COVID-19 can cause a wide range of clinical symptoms, which varies from asymptomatic presentation to severe respiratory insufficiency, exacerbation of immune response, disseminated microthrombosis and multiple organ failure, which may lead to dead. Due to the rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2, the development of vaccines to minimize COVID-19 severity in the world population is imperious. One of the employed techniques to produce vaccines against emerging viruses is the synthesis of recombinant proteins, which can be used as immunizing agents. Based on the exposed, the aim of the present study was to verify the systemic and immunological effects of IM administration of recombinant Nucleocapsid protein (NP), derived from SARS-CoV-2 and produced by this research group, in 2 different strains of rats (Rattus norvegicus); Wistar and Lewis. For this purpose, experimental animals received 4 injections of NP, once a week, and were submitted to biochemical and histological analysis. Our results showed that NP inoculations were safe for the animals, which presented no clinical symptoms of worrying side effects, nor laboratorial alterations in the main biochemical and histological parameters, suggesting the absence of toxicity induced by NP. Moreover, NP injections successfully triggered the production of specific anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies by both Wistar and Lewis rats, showing the sensitization to have been well sufficient for the immunization of these strains of rats. Additionally, we observed the local lung activation of the Bronchus-Associated Lymphoid Tissue (BALT) of rats in the NP groups, suggesting that NP elicits specific lung immune response. Although pre-clinical and clinical studies are still required, our data support the recombinant NP produced by this research group as a potential immunizing agent for massive vaccination, and may represent advantages upon other recombinant proteins, since it seems to induce specific pulmonary protection. © 2022 Silva et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.