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Survivin and caspases serum protein levels and survivin variants mRNA expression in sepsis.

ABSTRACT: Sepsis is a dysregulated host response to infection related to devastating outcomes. Recently, interest has been shifted towards apoptotic and antiapoptotic pathobiology. Apoptosis is executed through the activation of caspases regulated by a number of antiapoptotic proteins, such as survivin. The survivin and caspases' responses to sepsis have not yet been elucidated. This is a multicenter prospective observational study concerning patients with sepsis (n?=?107) compared to patients with traumatic systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) (n?=?75) and to healthy controls (n?=?89). The expression of survivin was quantified through real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction for the different survivin splice variants (wild type-WT, ?Ex3, 2B, 3B) in peripheral blood leukocytes. The apoptotic or antiapoptotic tendency was specified by measuring survivin-WT, caspase-3, and -9 serum protein concentrations through enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The survivin-WT, -2B, -??x3 mRNA, survivin protein, and caspases showed an escalated increase in SIRS and sepsis, whereas survivin-3B was repressed in sepsis (p?

SUBMITTER: Miliaraki M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7806640 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Survivin and caspases serum protein levels and survivin variants mRNA expression in sepsis.

Miliaraki Marianna M Briassoulis Panagiotis P Ilia Stavroula S Polonifi Aikaterini A Mantzourani Marina M Briassouli Efrossini E Vardas Konstantinos K Nanas Serafim S Pistiki Aikaterini A Theodorakopoulou Maria M Tavladaki Theonymfi T Spanaki Anna Maria AM Kondili Eumorfia E Dimitriou Helen H Tsiodras Sotirios S Georgopoulos Dimitrios D Armaganidis Apostolos A Daikos George G Briassoulis George G

Scientific reports 20210113 1

Sepsis is a dysregulated host response to infection related to devastating outcomes. Recently, interest has been shifted towards apoptotic and antiapoptotic pathobiology. Apoptosis is executed through the activation of caspases regulated by a number of antiapoptotic proteins, such as survivin. The survivin and caspases' responses to sepsis have not yet been elucidated. This is a multicenter prospective observational study concerning patients with sepsis (n = 107) compared to patients with trauma ...[more]

PMID: 33441606

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Survivin and caspases serum protein levels and survivin variants mRNA expression in sepsis.

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Survivin and caspases serum protein levels and survivin variants mRNA expression in sepsis.

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