TY - JOUR T1 - Altered germinal center reaction and abnormal B cell peripheral maturation in PI3KR1-mutated patients presenting with HIGM-like phenotype. JF - Clin Immunol Y1 - 2015 A1 - Lougaris, Vassilios A1 - Faletra, Flavio A1 - Lanzi, Gaetana A1 - Vozzi, Diego A1 - Marcuzzi, Annalisa A1 - Valencic, Erica A1 - Piscianz, Elisa A1 - Bianco, AnnaMonica A1 - Girardelli, Martina A1 - Baronio, Manuela A1 - Loganes, Claudia A1 - Fasth, Anders A1 - Salvini, Filippo A1 - Trizzino, Antonino A1 - Moratto, Daniele A1 - Facchetti, Fabio A1 - Giliani, Silvia A1 - Plebani, Alessandro A1 - Tommasini, Alberto KW - B-Lymphocytes KW - Child, Preschool KW - Female KW - Germinal Center KW - Humans KW - Hyper-IgM Immunodeficiency Syndrome KW - Infant KW - Male KW - Mutation KW - Phenotype KW - Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases KW - RNA Splice Sites KW - Sequence Analysis, DNA VL - 159 IS - 1 U1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25939554?dopt=Abstract ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Patients' Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to Model Drug Induced Adverse Events: A Role in Predicting Thiopurine Induced Pancreatitis? JF - Curr Drug Metab Y1 - 2015 A1 - Stocco, Gabriele A1 - Lanzi, Gaetana A1 - Yue, Fengming A1 - Giliani, Silvia A1 - Sasaki, Katsunori A1 - Tommasini, Alberto A1 - Pelin, Marco A1 - Martelossi, Stefano A1 - Ventura, Alessandro A1 - Decorti, Giuliana AB -

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) can be produced from adult cells by transfecting them with a definite set of pluripotency-associated genes. Under adequate growth conditions and stimulation iPSC can differentiate to almost every somatic lineage in the body. Patients' derived iPSC are an innovative model to study mechanisms of adverse drug reactions in individual patients and in cell types that cannot be easily obtained from human subjects. Proof-of concept studies with known toxicants have been performed for liver, cardiovascular and central nervous system cells: neurons obtained from iPSC have been used to elucidate the mechanism of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy by evaluating the effects of neurotoxic drugs such as vincristine. However, no study has been performed yet on pancreatic tissue and drug induced pancreatitis. Thiopurines (azathioprine and mercaptopurine) are immunosuppressive antimetabolite drugs, commonly used to treat Crohn's disease. About 5% of Crohn's disease patients treated with thiopurines develop pancreatitis, a severe idiosyncratic adverse event; these patients have to stop thiopurine administration and may require medical treatment, with significant personal and social costs. Molecular mechanism of thiopurine induced pancreatitis (TIP) is currently unknown and no fully validated biomarker is available to assist clinicians in preventing this adverse event. Hence, in this review we have reflected upon the probable research applications of exocrine pancreatic cells generated from patient specific iPS cells. Such pancreatic cells can provide excellent insights into the molecular mechanism of TIP. In particular three hypotheses on the mechanism of TIP could be explored: drug biotransformation, innate immunity and adaptative immunity.

VL - 17 IS - 1 U1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26526832?dopt=Abstract ER -