Papers by José Israel León Pedroza
Frontiers in Immunology
The contribution of the cellular immune response to the severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COV... more The contribution of the cellular immune response to the severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is still uncertain because most evidence comes from patients receiving multiple drugs able to change immune function. Herein, we conducted a prospective cohort study and obtained blood samples from 128 unvaccinated healthy volunteers to examine the in vitro response pattern of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells and monocyte subsets to polyclonal stimuli, including anti-CD3, anti-CD28, poly I:C, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) recombinant spike S1 protein, and lipopolysaccharide. Then, we started a six-month follow-up and registered 12 participants who got SARS-CoV-2 infection, from whom we retrospectively analyzed the basal immune response pattern of T cells and monocytes. Of the 12 participants infected, six participants developed mild COVID-19 with self-limiting symptoms such as fever, headache, and anosmia. Conversely, six other participants developed sever...
Increased TNF-α production in response to IL-6 in patients with systemic inflammation without infection
Clinical and Experimental Immunology
Acute systemic inflammation can lead to life-threatening organ dysfunction. In patients with seps... more Acute systemic inflammation can lead to life-threatening organ dysfunction. In patients with sepsis, systemic inflammation is triggered in response to infection, but in other patients, a systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) is triggered by non-infectious events. IL-6 is a major mediator of inflammation, including systemic inflammatory responses. In homeostatic conditions, when IL-6 engages its membrane-bound receptor on myeloid cells, it promotes pro-inflammatory cytokine production, phagocytosis, and cell migration. However, under non-physiologic conditions, such as SIRS and sepsis, leucocyte dysfunction could modify the response of these cells to IL-6. So, our aim was to evaluate the response to IL-6 of monocytes from patients diagnosed with SIRS or sepsis. We observed that monocytes from patients with SIRS, but not from patients with sepsis, produced significantly more TNF-α than monocytes from healthy volunteers, after stimulation with IL-6. Monocytes from SIRS patient...
Microorganisms, 2020
There is a deep need for mortality predictors that allow clinicians to quickly triage patients wi... more There is a deep need for mortality predictors that allow clinicians to quickly triage patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) into intensive care units at the time of hospital admission. Thus, we examined the efficacy of the lymphocyte-to-neutrophil ratio (LNR) and neutrophil-to-monocyte ratio (NMR) as predictors of in-hospital death at admission in patients with severe Covid-19. A total of 54 Mexican adult patients with Covid-19 that met hospitalization criteria were retrospectively enrolled, followed-up daily until hospital discharge or death, and then assigned to survival or non-survival groups. Clinical, demographic, and laboratory parameters were recorded at admission. A total of 20 patients with severe Covid-19 died, and 75% of them were men older than 62.90 ± 14.18 years on average. Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and coronary heart disease were more prevalent in non-survivors. As compared to survivors, LNR was significantly fourfold decreased while NMR was tw...
Diabetes, 2003
To examine the association of low-grade systemic inflammation with diabetes, as well as its heter... more To examine the association of low-grade systemic inflammation with diabetes, as well as its heterogeneity across subgroups, we designed a case-cohort study representing the ∼9-year experience of 10,275 Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study participants. Analytes were measured on stored plasma of 581 incident cases of diabetes and 572 noncases. Statistically significant hazard ratios of developing diabetes for those in the fourth (versus first) quartile of inflammation markers, adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, study center, parental history of diabetes, and hypertension, ranged from 1.9 to 2.8 for sialic acid, orosomucoid, interleukin-6, and C-reactive protein. After additional adjustment for BMI, waist-to-hip ratio, and fasting glucose and insulin, only the interleukin-6 association remained statistically significant (HR = 1.6, 1.01–2.7). Exclusion of GAD antibody-positive individuals changed associations minimally. An overall inflammation score based on these four markers plus...
Medical Science Educator
Medical education has overshadowed the importance for interpersonal abilities in modern medicine ... more Medical education has overshadowed the importance for interpersonal abilities in modern medicine practice. In this work, we report an innovative strategy to teach, practice, and evaluate communication and empathy abilities, based on medical theater. This approach was based on interdisciplinary effort between Medicine, Performing Arts, and Bioethics Faculty. Development and first pilot experience results are here reported. A multidisciplinary team was established with the objective to structure the methodology where simulated clinical consultations were performed: two interviews took place, each with one medical student as physician and one performing arts student as simulated patient. Thirty students and 7 Faculty members participated as spectators. Students received immediate feedback and they qualitatively evaluated the global experience. We conclude that medical theater methodology is a developmental strategy that could promote integral acquisition of communication competences.
Cirugía y Cirujanos
Resumen es: Las diferentes teorias sobre los mecanismos implicados en el desarrollo de enfermedad... more Resumen es: Las diferentes teorias sobre los mecanismos implicados en el desarrollo de enfermedades metabolicas y sus complicaciones confluyen en la presencia etiolo...
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Revista alergia Mexico, 2017
BACKGROUND Good's syndrome is an association of thymoma and immunodeficiency. The symptoms ar... more BACKGROUND Good's syndrome is an association of thymoma and immunodeficiency. The symptoms are recurrent sinopulmonary infections in addition to the compressive side of thymoma. A laboratory finding is notable for the absence or decrease of B lymphocytes, hypogammaglobulinemia, inversion ratio CD4/CD8 and abnormal proliferative response to mitogens. CASE REPORT Female, 49-year-old started five months earlier with lower limb edema, postprandial vomiting, dysphagia, chronic diarrhea and weight loss. A second endoscopy ruled gastric neoplasia. Chest radiography with mediastinal widening, Thoraco-abdominal CT with bilateral pleural effusion and a mass in the anterior mediastinum, histopathological report of the tumor: B1 thymoma. Laboratory findings: IgG 349 mg/dL, IgA 70.3 mg/dL, 37.1 IgM mg/dL, Ca125 631 UI/mL, leukocytes 7890 mm3, hemoglobin 13.2 g/dL, lymphocytes 2060 mm3, CD16+CD56+ 122 cells/µL, CD19 77 cells/µL, CD3 2052 cells/µL, CD4 977 cells/µL, CD8 998 cells/µL; ratio CD4...
Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease: A Health Challenge in Mexico
Archives of medical research, Jan 24, 2018
Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of risk factors that, taken alone or synergically, are ind... more Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of risk factors that, taken alone or synergically, are independent predictors of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD), which are both major public health problems that requires urgent containment actions. Current controversies regarding MetS are focused on ascertain the unifying explanation of molecular and pathophysiological mechanisms originating the syndrome, involving insulin resistance and low-grade chronic inflammation. This review aims to present the clinical relevance of MetS and its complications, as well as the hypotheses addressing its etiopathogenic relation with CVD. We conclude that health policies should emphasize basic research promotion, timely detection and early treatment of MetS, which will help to reduce the risk of CVD and their impact on public health and health-care related costs.
The different theories about the mechanisms involved in the development of metabolic disease and ... more The different theories about the mechanisms involved in the development of metabolic disease and its complications converge in the presence of an etiologic chronic proinflammatory state. Chronic inflammation is, at present, the central pathophysiological mechanism involved in the genesis of metabolic diseases. The multiple interactions between the immune system, adipose tissue, the vascular wall and the pancreas are the issues addressed in this review, focusing on specific intracellular and molecular aspects that may become new therapeutic targets. These lead to a proinflammatory, prothrombotic state as well as to proapoptotic endothelial damage that allows the development of atherosclerosis and, consequently, cardiovascular disease. The multiple immunopathological processes associated with the etiology and pathophysiology of different chronic diseases is still in the process of being fully elucidated, allowing the development of new therapeutic targets.
The different theories about the mechanisms involved in the development of metabolic disease and ... more The different theories about the mechanisms involved in the development of metabolic disease and its complications converge in the presence of an etiologic c...
Gaceta de M�xico, Jan 29, 2019
Objetivo: Examinar la relación de las concentraciones séricas de ácido úrico (AU) con parámetros ... more Objetivo: Examinar la relación de las concentraciones séricas de ácido úrico (AU) con parámetros de inflamación sistémica, de disfunción metabólica y antropométricos, y con pruebas de función hepática, en sujetos con obesidad mórbida. Métodos: Se examinaron los valores séricos de proteína C reactiva (PCR), factor de necrosis tumoral alfa (TNF-α) e interleucina 10 (IL-10) en 49 mujeres y hombres con obesidad mórbida, estudiando la relación de estos marcadores con los valores de AU, así como con pruebas de funcionamiento hepático y parámetros antropométricos y metabólicos. En todos los sujetos del estudio se midieron diferentes parámetros metabólicos, como glucosa sérica, hemoglobina glucosilada, colesterol total, triglicéridos, colesterol ligado a lipoproteínas de alta y baja densidad (C-HDL y C-LDL), y parámetros de función hepática. Resultados: Al comparar sujetos con obesidad mórbida sin hiperuricemia con sujetos con obesidad mórbida con hiperuricemia se observó un incremento en los valores de bilirrubina total y gamma glutamil transpeptidasa (GGT), sugiriendo que la hiperuricemia se asocia con una alteración en el metabolismo hepático. Los valores de AU se correlacionaron estadísticamente con el C-LDL, la bilirrubina total, la albúmina, la GGT y la PCR, denotando que la hiperuricemia se asocia con un estado dislipidémico, de daño hepático y de elevación de marcadores proinflamatorios de fase aguda. Además, en un análisis de regresión lineal múltiple se encontró que las variables que explican mejor el comportamiento del AU en la población de estudio son la GGT y la IL-10. Conclusión: Estos resultados sugieren que el AU se encuentra en interdependencia con los valores de PCR y de IL-10, y podría estar relacionado con un estado temprano de daño hepático.
Accurate diagnosis of sepsis using a neural network: Pilot study using routine clinical variables
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease: A Health Challenge in Mexico
Archives of medical research, Jan 24, 2018
Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of risk factors that, taken alone or synergically, are ind... more Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of risk factors that, taken alone or synergically, are independent predictors of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD), which are both major public health problems that requires urgent containment actions. Current controversies regarding MetS are focused on ascertain the unifying explanation of molecular and pathophysiological mechanisms originating the syndrome, involving insulin resistance and low-grade chronic inflammation. This review aims to present the clinical relevance of MetS and its complications, as well as the hypotheses addressing its etiopathogenic relation with CVD. We conclude that health policies should emphasize basic research promotion, timely detection and early treatment of MetS, which will help to reduce the risk of CVD and their impact on public health and health-care related costs.
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Revista alergia Mexico (Tecamachalco, Puebla, Mexico : 1993)
Good's syndrome is an association of thymoma and immunodeficiency. The symptoms are recurrent... more Good's syndrome is an association of thymoma and immunodeficiency. The symptoms are recurrent sinopulmonary infections in addition to the compressive side of thymoma. A laboratory finding is notable for the absence or decrease of B lymphocytes, hypogammaglobulinemia, inversion ratio CD4/CD8 and abnormal proliferative response to mitogens. Female, 49-year-old started five months earlier with lower limb edema, postprandial vomiting, dysphagia, chronic diarrhea and weight loss. A second endoscopy ruled gastric neoplasia. Chest radiography with mediastinal widening, Thoraco-abdominal CT with bilateral pleural effusion and a mass in the anterior mediastinum, histopathological report of the tumor: B1 thymoma. Laboratory findings: IgG 349 mg/dL, IgA 70.3 mg/dL, 37.1 IgM mg/dL, Ca125 631 UI/mL, leukocytes 7890 mm3, hemoglobin 13.2 g/dL, lymphocytes 2060 mm3, CD16+CD56+ 122 cells/µL, CD19 77 cells/µL, CD3 2052 cells/µL, CD4 977 cells/µL, CD8 998 cells/µL; ratio CD4/CD8 0.98, hepatitis C,...
Relationship of hyperuricemia with low density lipoprotein , liver function tests and markers of systemic inflammation in patients with morbid obesity
Gaceta medica de Mexico
To examine the relationship of uric acid levels with parameters of systemic inflammation, metabol... more To examine the relationship of uric acid levels with parameters of systemic inflammation, metabolic dysfunction as well as anthropometric parameters and liver function tests in subjects with morbid obesity. C-reactive protein (CRP), tumour necrosis factor-alpha, and interleukin 10 (IL-10) were analyzed in 49 women and men with morbid obesity, relating these markers with uric acid, hepatic function tests, anthropometric and metabolic parameters. Metabolic parameters as serum glucose level, glycosylated hemoglobin, total cholesterol, triglycerides, high density lipoprotein and low density lipoprotein (c-LDL) as well as hepatic function parameters were measured in all subjects. -Comparing subjects with morbid obesity without hyperuricemia versus subjects with morbid obesity and hyperuricemia, an increase of total bilirubin values and gamma glutamil trans peptidase (GGT) was observed, suggesting hyperuricemia as associated with alteration of hepatic metabolism. Serum uric acid levels we...
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