Search PubMed⌕ Search

Biomedical subjects

A Rey

Publications and source records attributed to A Rey.

292 records · Page 17Linked to original sources
PubMedDate not supplied

[Treatment of primitive trigeminal neuralgia by differential thermocoagulation of Gasser's ganglion (author's transl)].

The authors report their experience in the Treatment of essential Trigeminal Neuralgia with controlled increments of radiofrequency heating from an electrode inserted in the Gasserian ganglion or the posterior rootlets. Assuming that the less myelinated small fibers (A delta and C) are more sensitive to the heat than the heavily myelinated A beta and A alpha fibers, graduate controlled thermo coagulation could produce a differential destruction of pain fibers. 30 patients were treated with this method since 10 months. In all cases, the patients experienced immediate relief. There was no mortality and no neurological morbidity outside the trigeminal nerve. The most serious undesired result has been the production of anesthesia or marked hypesthesia in 10% of our cases.

Electric Stimulation↗
PubMedDate not supplied

Expression of heat shock protein 70 and c-myc in cervical carcinoma.

Heat shock protein 70 (hsp70), is a molecular chaperone that binds to c-myc and regulates its accumulation and localisation. In an attempt to confirm this association and to find out its prognostic significance in cervical carcinoma, paraffin embedded sections from 15 chronic cervicitis, 31 squamous cell carcinomas (scc) and 7 adenocarcinomas of the uterine cervix were immunohistochemically (IHC) stained for hsp70 and c-myc. hsp70 was faintly expressed cytoplasmically in non neoplastic squamous and endocervical epithelium, while mainly nuclear staining with variable intensities was seen in all scc and in squamous intraepithelial lesions (SIL) overlying 8 tumors. Both cytoplasmic and nuclear staining was noted in adenocarcinoma. c-myc was moderately expressed in the cytoplasm of all non neoplastic endocervical glands, while very mild cytoplasmic staining was noted in squamous epithelium. In SIL and in scc the staining intensity increased and was mainly nuclear. For adenocarcinoma, nuclear and cytoplasmic staining with different intensities was noted. There were significant positive correlations between the IHC expression of hsp70 and c-myc (p = 0.0001). In conclusion, our results confirm the co-association of c-myc and hsp70. This co-association might be a mechanism of tumor escape by preventing hsp70 binding to one of its normal target, the MHC class I, and preventing its subsequent expression on the surface of the cancerous cells. Lastly, the nuclear expression of hsp70 might be considered as an indicator of malignant transformation.

Adenocarcinoma↗