Open AccessExpression of Hsp72 in Lymphocytes in Patients with Febrile Convulsion
Author(s) -
Lin LungChang,
Chen HsiangWen,
Yang ReiCheng
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the kaohsiung journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.439
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 2410-8650
pISSN - 1607-551X
DOI - 10.1016/s1607-551x(09)70285-2
Subject(s) - convulsion , medicine , heat shock protein , shock (circulatory) , pathogenesis , hsp70 , phosphorylation , disease , pathophysiology , significant difference , immunology , psychiatry , epilepsy , gene , biochemistry , biology
The pathophysiology of febrile convulsion, the most common childhood neurologic disease, remains unclear. In this study, we investigated what role a heat shock protein plays in this disease. We enrolled eight boys and two girls with febrile convulsion and 10 age‐matched healthy controls. We did a biosynthetic evaluation of both groups by separating lymphocytes and measuring the expression of heat shock protein 72 before and after heat shock treatment. Before the treatment, both groups were found to have small amounts of constitutive heat shock protein 72. Afterwards, its expression increased in both groups, and no statistical difference was found between the increases in the two groups. In addition, there was no obvious difference in the susceptibility to produce heat shock proteins. However, the febrile convulsion group was found to have a significant decrease in phosphorylation of heat shock protein 72. These results suggest the possible involvement of post‐translational modification of heat shock proteins, most likely phosphorylation, in the pathogenesis of febrile convulsion.