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C Cellier

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PubMed1976

Apparent total alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency: report of a case.

A 29-year-old female, with chronic renal failure and chronic bilateral emphysema, was admitted with severe uremia and septicemia secondary to multiple abscesses in the right kidney. Her condition improved after right nephrectomy. Pulmonary function studies showed marked obstructive and restrictive lung disease consistent witht the diagnosis of primary emphysema. On biochemical and histological examination, the liver was found to be normal. Alpha1-antitrypsin could not be demonstrated in the patient's serum at normal pH by any of the known techniques, but protein molecules with alpha1-antitrypsin antigencity were found at pH 4.8; this suggests a pH-dependent structural difference in alpha1-antitrypsin protein. Starch gel electrophoresis gave a multibanding pattern not previously described. A new form of apparent total alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency is postulated.

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Mycobacterium paratuberculosis and Mycobacterium avium subsp. silvaticum DNA cannot be detected by PCR in Crohn's disease tissue.

BACKGROUND: The etiology of Crohn's disease remains unknown. A putative mycobacterial cause of the disease is still controversial. AIMS: To assess the mycobacterial hypothesis in Crohn's disease using a polymerase chain reaction technique. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Nested polymerase chain reaction with primers on the 16S-rRNA coding region (16S-rDNA) and with primers specific both to the insertion sequences (IS) 900, and IS 901/902 were used to amplify Mycobacterium paratuberculosis or Mycobacterium avium subsp. silvaticum DNA in frozen endoscopic intestinal biopsies or surgical resection specimens from patients with Crohn's disease (n = 47: 25 endoscopic biopsies and 22 surgical resection samples, +/- lymph nodes), ulcerative colitis (n = 27), and non inflammatory bowel diseases (n = 20: colonic tumors and diverticulitis). Positive as well as negative controls were used throughout the study. RESULTS: All strains of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis and Mycobacterium avium subsp. silvaticum tested were positive for both primer systems. Of the 94 biopsies tested, 5 (2 Crohn's disease, 1 ulcerative colitis and 2 controls) were positive with the 16S-rDNA primers but did not correspond to Mycobacterium paratuberculosis or Mycobacterium avium subsp. silvaticum. None of the specimens was positive with the IS primers. CONCLUSION: These results do not support the hypothesis that Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, or Mycobacterium avium subsp. silvaticum play a role in Crohn's disease.

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