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Antigen- and receptor-driven regulatory mechanisms. II. Induction of suppressor T cells with idiotype-coupled syngeneic spleen cells. | Anti-p-azobenzenearsonate (ABA) antibodies, coupled covalently to normal syngeneic spleen cells and then given intravenously to normal animals, were found to be potent tolerogens for delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to ABA. The ability of the antibody-coupled cells to induce tolerance was determined to be a result of the cross-reactive idiotype (CRI+) fraction of the antibodies, because anti-ABA antibodies lacking the CRI+ components when coupled to spleen cells were unable to cause any significant inhibition. Furthermore, genetic analysis revealed that the ability of CRI-coupled cells to inhibit ABA-specific DTH is linked to Igh-1 heavy chain allotype, in as much animals which possess heavy chain allotypes similar to that of A/J were sensitive to this inhibition. Adoptive transfer experiments provided evidence that CRI-coupled cells induce suppressor cells, and spleen cells or thymocytes from animals received CRI-coupled cells were able to transfer suppression to naive recipients. In addition, treatment with anti-Thy1.2 serum plus complement completely abrogated their ability to transfer suppression. Thus, this active suppression is a T-cell-dependent phenomenon. In investigating the specificity of these suppressor T cells, it was found that they functioned in an antigen-specific manner and were unable to suppress the development of DTH to an unrelated hapten 2,4-dinitro-1-fluorobenzene. | 91,657 | [
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Presence of plasma cells binding autologous antibody during an immune response. | Spleen and other lymphoid tissues of rabbits immunized with human serum albumin (HSA) and human lactoferrin (LF) were examined for the presence of cells forming anti-idiotype antibodies. To detect these cells, IgG, F(ab')2, or Fab' of specific antibodies were isolated, fluorochrome-tagged with tetramethylrhodamine isothiocyanate, and used as an idiotypic marker to detect splenic plasma cells that are producing anti-idiotypic antibody. By this procedure, we were able to demonstrate anti-idiotypic cells in surprisingly high numbers. For example, in six rabbits immunized with HSA for periods ranging from 36 to 542 d, the percentage of Ig-positive cells that stained with autologous idiotype ranged from 0.7 to 44; furthermore, cross-reactivity was observed among seven different anti-HSA preparations and two anti-LF antisera. The isotype of anti-idiotypic cells, determined by costaining with fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled goat Fc-specific anti-rabbit Ig, was shown to be predominantly IgG. These findings provide evidence of the presence of plasma cells producing antibody to autologous idiotype during a vigorous immune response. | 91,659 | [
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Subarachnoide hemorrhage due to S. mansoni. A rare etiology. | A case of schistosomiasis is described in a native of Rio de Janeiro, where, apart from infection of the intestines, a meningitic granulomatous reaction was provoked around eggs. Intracerebral and subsequently subarachnoid hemorrhage occurred. The mode of infection is disucssed. | 91,674 | [
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Reduction in sudden deaths by a multifactorial intervention programme after acute myocardial infarction. | 375 consecutive patients below 65 years who had an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) took part in a randomised rehabilitation and secondary prevention trial (part of a W.H.O.-coordinated project) designed to study the effects of a multifactorial intervention programme on morbidity, mortality, return to work, &c. After three years' follow-up the cumulative coronary mortality was significantly smaller in the intervention group than in the controls (18.6% versus 29.4%, p = 0.02). This difference was mainly due to a reduction of sudden deaths in the intervention group (5.8% versus 14.4%, p less than 0.01). The reduction was greatest during the first six months after AMI. 18.1% in the intervention group and 11.2% in the controls (p less than 0.10) presented with non-fatal reinfarctions. The number of patients with new Q-QS findings at the end of the three years was, however, almost the same in both groups. The results suggest that organised aftercare during the first six months after AMI with special emphasis on optimum medical control and health education contributes significantly to a reduction in the number of sudden deaths. | 91,836 | [
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New procedure for the production of influenza virus-specific double-stranded DNA's. | A novel technique is described for the production of pure, full-length influenza virus ds DNA's corresponding to each segment of the influenza virus genome, and suitable for molecular cloning and restriction endonuclease mapping. The method involves the synthesis of DNA complementary to both virion (negative strand) and messenger (positive strand) RNA, gel purification and annealing. By avoiding the use of SI nuclease, which often removes the terminal regions of DNA duplexes, the method allows transcription of the total sequence information of influenza virion and messenger RNA's into a ds DNA form. | 92,012 | [
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Characterization of the reverse transcriptase of a type C RNA virus produced by a human lymphoma cell line. | The reverse transcriptase (RNA-dependent DNA nucleotidyltransferase) of the type C RNA virus produced by the human lymphoma cell line SU-DHL-1 was purified by ion-exchange chromatography of SU-DHL-1 culture fluids and repetitive affinity chromatography on poly(rC).agarose, as were the polymerases of several other type C viruses. The DHL-1 enzyme used template-primers at levels expected of a viral reverse transcriptase, and sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoretic analysis of radioiodinated DHL-1 enzyme revealed a peak at a position corresponding to those of several other type C viral reverse transcriptases (namely, at 72,000-78,000 daltons). The purified enzyme was partially neutralized by antibodies specific for the reverse transcriptase of simian sarcoma virus. Two-dimensional analysis on thin-layer cellulose plates of tryptic hydrolysates of the radioiodinated enzymes of several viruses revealed that six peptides are common to the polymerases of simian sarcoma virus, gibbon ape leukemia virus, baboon endogenous virus, and the DHL-1 virus, and that two to four peptides are unique to each of these enzymes. The DHL-1 viral reverse transcriptase appears to be most closely related structurally to the enzymes of simian sarcoma virus, gibbon ape leukemia virus, and baboon endogenous virus. However, the DHL-1 viral enzyme differed from any one or combination of the other subhuman primate viral enzymes by virtue of its unique peptides. The implications of these findings with respect to the probable origin of the DHL-1 virus are discussed. | 92,023 | [
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Characterization of alkylamine-sensitive site in alpha 2-macroglobulin. | Methylamine reacts with the plasma protease inhibitor, alpha 2-macroglobulin, to form an irreversible, covalent modification. Quantitation of the reaction indicates 3.9 +/- (SD) 0.4 reactive sites per native tetrameric protein (Mr = 725,000) or one site per subunit. The reaction is selective and specific in that only 1 or 2 labeled peptides are observed on radioautography of peptide maps derived from [14C]methylamine-treated alpha 2-macroglobulin. A single chymotryptic peptide was isolated in 56% overall yield from the labeled protein. The peptide sequence by Edman degradation was found to be Gly-Cys-Gly-Glu-X-Asn-Met-(Val, Leu), in which X was the only radiolabeled phenylthiohydantoin derivative. Amino acid analysis and mass spectral analysis of the derivative suggests that X is gamma-glutamylmethylamide. Because glutamic acid and glutamine residues do not normally react with alkylamines, this work presents presumptive evidence for an alternative activated center in selected proteins. | 92,026 | [
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Arterial occlusion in the management of pain from metastatic renal carcinoma. | Arterial embolization was performed in nine patients with metastases from renal carcinoma who had severe pain resistant to conventional therapy. Patients with metastases in the ilium (four), the lumbosacral spine (one), and the base of the skull (one) experienced pain relief lasting from one to six months. The other three patients, who had metastases in the proximal femur, underwent preoperative embolization to facilitate tumor curettage and internal hip fixation. No significant complications were seen with this therapeutic approach. | 92,038 | [
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Visualization of polymercurimethane-labeled for bacteriophage in the scanning transmission electron microscope. | Each of the 2700 coat proteins of fd bacteriophage was labeled with tetrakis(acetoxymercuri)methane (TAMM) or aquoglycylmethionineplatinum(II). The TAMM-labeled specimens reveal striking bright spots in the scanning transmission electron microscope which arise from clustering. Measurements of mass show increases consistent with the addition of four mercury atoms or one platinum atom, respectively, to each coat protein. | 92,053 | [
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[Antibody response to hemagglutinin and neuraminidase induced by an influenza subunit vaccine (author's transl)]. | To study antigenicity, persistence of antibody (efficacy) and reactogenicity of a new bivalent influenza subunit vaccine, Sandovac, it was given in two different concentrations (1000 and 2000 IU) to 156 subjects from two epidemiologically destinct areas (119 students from Essen, average age 22 years, 37 residents from Kassel average age 56 years). Serum antibody response was measured by hemagglutination inhibition (HI) and neuraminidase inhibition (NI) tests before, one, two and six months after vaccination. The following results were obtained: 1. Four weeks post vaccination an excellent strain specific and crossreactive (H3 N2 variant-specific) antibody response was observed. Subtype specific (H0, H1 or H2) activity could not be detected. 2. Six months post vaccination a still notably higher antibody level as compared to the preimmunization status could be demonstrated. 3. A difference, however, existed between the immune responses of the Essen student population with an average age of 22 years, and of the Kassel resident population with an average age of 56 years. The immune response being significantly better in younger vaccinees. 4. High and low concentrated vaccines revealed neither objective nor subjective differences in reactogenicity and were very well tolerated. 5. In all immunological parameters tested the double concentrated vaccine (S 2000) proved to be slightly superior to the lower concentrated vaccine (S 1000) that is officially licensed in the German Federal Republic. | 92,113 | [
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Dermatological study of 47,XYY males. | Dermatological features of five 47,XYY males are presented. Port-wine stains were observed in 2 cases. As the incidence of port-wine stains among the general population is believed to be 0.5%, this result would seem to indicate that the association of 47,XYY males with port-wine stains is more than a coincidence, though the survey of previous studied failed to reveal any 47,XYY cases with port-wine stains. | 92,153 | [
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An evaluation of cellularity in various types of bone marrow specimens. | Comparisons of marrow cellularity determinations in needle biopsy sections, aspirated smears of marrow particles, and aspirated clot sections were made using the point-counting and standard visual methods of measurement. Good correlations of cellularity between biopsies and smears were obtained with the point-counting method. This occurred with either single- or multiple-observer measurements, and differed from the wide observer-to-observer variation obtained in the other comparisons. Although the optimal method for cellularity measurements is point counting by biopsy sections, the findings indicate that aspirated smears of marrow particles can be a suitable substitute for needle biopsy sections when point counting is used. This would be particularly useful in clinical settings necessitating frequent cellularity assessments. The results also show that the standard visual method of cellularity measurement is satisfactory when specimens are evaluated by one observer. The point-counting method of measurement, although the most accurate, is not as reproducible among observers as previously considered. | 92,191 | [
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Serous detachments of the retinal pigment epithelium in patients with senile macular disease. | Thirty-one patients had senile macular disease with serous detachments of the retinal pigment epithelium without evidence of choroidal neovascularization. Of these 31 patients the natural history of 24 eyes was compared with 21 eyes treated with photocoagulation. Eight patients with bilateral detachments had treatment applied to one eye. There was no conclusive evidence that photocoagulation alters the natural course of this condition. | 92,198 | [
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Ultrastructural localization and characterization of proteoglycans in the pulmonary alveolus. | The ultrastructural identification and characterization of lung proteoglycans was studied using the polycationic dye, ruthenium red. Treating lung parenchyma with the detergent Triton X-100 increased epithelial permeability and allowed the dye to penetrate alveolar walls and stain the alveolar basement membrane and lung collagen. Ruthenium red stained numerous 10- to 40-nm granules concentrated at the lamina surface of basement membrane and attached to the major doublet collagen band. The granules attached to collagen were digested by chondroitinase ABC and papain, indicating that they represent proteoglycan aggregates containing chondroitin or dermatan sulfate. Granules observed on the alveolar basement membrane were resistant to digestion by collagenase and by all glycosidases, suggesting that heparin or heparan sulfate is the predominant glycosaminoglycan in epithelial basement membrane. Ruthenium red in association with tannic acid also stained a fine network of 3- to 10-nm filaments in which collagen was enmeshed, forming the interfibrillar matrix. This network was resistant to collagenase and glycosidase digestion but was removed after papain digestion, suggesting that it was a protein or glycoprotein that did not contain glycosaminoglycans. These methods have allowed visualization of lung proteoglycans and have identified a structure that does not contain glycosaminoglycan that is intimately associated with collagen. This technique can now be applied to explore the potential role of proteoglycans in lung development and in restructuring the lung in various disease states. | 92,209 | [
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The O antigenic relationships of Kloeckera africana, Salmonella aberdeen and Escherichia coli O75. | The immune sera for Salmonella aberdeen (O11) and Escherichia coli (O75) agglutinated Kloeckera africana strain. The immune serum for K. africana agglutinated S. aberdeen (O11) and E. coli (O75) strains. Absorption and agglutination cross-tests demonstrated common antigenic factor(s) in the tested yeast and Salmonella O11 and E. coli O75 antigens. | 92,211 | [
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A prospective study of 18 infants of chronic HBsAg mothers. | 28 of 1002 pregnant Sicilian women (2.8%) were asymptomatic HBsAg chronic carriers. 18 children of these women were followed and at least 15 of them showed evidence of transplacental infection with HBsAg, resulting either from the presence of the antigen in cord blood, or from the development of the corresponding antibody in the serum within the first 2 months of life. Despite this, only 2 or 3 of the infants developed chronic antigenaemia from age 2--4 months. Only the infants whose mothers were HBeAb-negative, and who themselves remained HBsAb-negative during the first months of life, became HBsAg carriers. On the basis of these results, a strategy is suggested for selecting infants from areas with a high prevalence of HBsAg carriers so that they can be given passive immunisation with hyperimmune globulin. | 92,218 | [
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[Orthosympathetic stimulation after hypercapnia in the rat]. | Inhalation of a gas mixture : CO2, 25% -- O2, 37.5% -- N2, 37.5%, provokes regularly in the light anaesthetized rat, an increase of catecholaminemia of central origin, associated with systemic arterial hypertension. | 92,225 | [
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Resolution of block neutralization test curves into components of the foot-and-mouth disease virus system. | Classic neutralization studies by Fazekas de St. Groth and Webster (8) on mixtures of influenza viruses and mixtures of rabbit antisera are reinterpreted in terms of a percentage contaminant in the stock used for the dilution series. A very small amount of a different virus changes the shape of quantal assay curves considerably, but even a large amount of a different antiserum has negligible effect on the shape and merely shifts the curve along the serum dilution axis. These conclusions are the reverse of the authors, who only considered an absolute amount of another component in all dilution tubes. An artificial mixture of 2.7 percent O8 in O1 foot-and-mouth disease virus strains was tested against anti-O1 serum assaying in suckling mice. The small amount of O8 virus greatly altered the shape of the neutralization curve in the direction expected from the reanalysis of the influenza literature data. Results from artificial mixtures are used to explain what were hitherto anomalously broad neutralization curves for some other foot-and-mouth disease strains given by Booth et al. (1) Many of the virus stocks studied can now be postulated as a natural mixture of related virus strains. In fact, the O1 and O8 stocks used might also be of themselves mixtures. These virus strains also exhibit still a further test complication in that the virus-antibody reaction appeared to shift away from complexes on dilution immediately prior to assay. | 92,300 | [
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[Carbon monoxide: environmental and biological aspects]. | The problem of carbon monoxide as a pollutant is examined. Its physico-chemical features are considered along with the sources of pollution (natural and technological), the characteristics of the pollutant in the environment and, particularly, the effects of car and industrial emissions and of cigarette smoke on the human organism. | 92,299 | [
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Salvage operations for malignant obstruction of the oesophagus. | Two patients with locally advanced carcinoma of the oesophagus, who did not obtain palliation with radiotherapy, underwent salvage operations to restore their ability to swallow. One patient was subjected to pharyngolaryngo-oesophagectomy together with excision of the involved posterior tracheal wall. Reconstruction was by pharyngoglossogastrostomy, with a deltopectoral flap used to replace the tracheal defect. The second patient, who had cervical metastases and severe pulmonary complications, underwent a jejunal loop bypass operation. Both patients were able to eat normally before dying many months later from metastatic disease. Salvage operation should be considered for patients with primary tumours which appear to be slow-growing, even though locally advanced and free of widespread disease. Worthwhile palliation is obtained when the operation, either resection or bypass, has been successful. | 92,306 | [
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Feulgen-DNA content of the Purkinje neuron: "diploid" or "tetraploid"? | Microdensitometric measurements of the Feulgen-DNA content of the Purkinje cells and of the small granular cells (2c control) were carried out at lambda 550 nm and by the two wavelength method according to Fukuda et al., and were also corrected for the glare. We analysed sections of perfused cerebella and isolated cells of cerebellar cortex from adult rats. The Purkinje cells had a mean value of Feulgen-DNA content 30-45% higher than the 2c value, irrespective of the methods of preparation or measurement. | 92,311 | [
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Placenta-bound immunoglobulins. | Low pH eluates were prepared from trophoblasts derived from 8 term human placentas. A qualitative analysis for immunoglobulins revealed the presence of IgG, IgA, and IgM in these eluates. IgC-rich fractions were obtained by DEAE-cellulose chromatography of ammonium sulfate-concentrated eluates. These fractions were able to neutralize, in vitro, the catalytic activity of reverse transcriptases (RT) from several retroviruses. RT from baboon endogenous virus (BEV) seemed to be more susceptible to the neutralizing activity of some eluates. This was in contrast to RT from feline leukemia virus (FeLV) which were neutralized by eluates of leukocytes from chronic myelogenous leukemia. In contrast to previous and present results with purified IgG from leukemic leukocytes, the purified IgG from placenta eluates was incapable of RT neutralization. However, such purified IgG fractions inhibited mixed lymphocyte reactions. | 92,319 | [
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Effect of defaunation on the metabolism of rumen micro-organisms. | 1. Rumen contents of a fasted fistulated wether, obtained in a faunated, defaunated and refaunated period were incubated in vitro with a mixture of cellobiose and maltose, in the presence of ammonium bicarbonate and 32PO43-. Total synthesis of microbial N (Nt) was calculated from 32P incorporation and N:P determined in microbial matter. The N:P value was not affected by defaunation. Net synthesis of microbial N (Nn) was calculated from ammonia-N incorporation. An estimate of degradation of microbial N was calculated as Nt-Nn. Energetic efficiency of synthesis was calculated from the volatile fatty acids produced during incubation, as g N incorporated per kg organic matter fermented (g N/kg OMf). 2. Defaunation decreased the proportions of acetate, butyrate and methane and increased those of propionate in fermentation end-products. Fermentation rate when expressed per mg microbial N was not affected by defaunation. 3. Expressed per unit volume of rumen contents, Nn was increased by defaunation whereas Nt remained unchanged. Thus, a decrease in degradation can be calculated. Energetic efficiences of total and net synthesis were increased from 35 and 13 to 47 and 30 g N/kg OMf respectively. 4. Specific rates of both total and net synthesis of microbial N were significantly increased by defaunation whereas the specific rate of degradation was not affected. | 92,340 | [
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Studies on the activation of canine trypsinogens in vitro. | The activation of canine anionic and cationic trypsinogen by enterokinase, trypsin, thrombin, plasmin and extracts from canine granulocytes were studied in vitro. Enterokinase activates both trypsinogens about 1000 times faster than trypsin. The enterokinase-catalyzed activation is not inhibited by the main serum protease inhibitors, alpha-macroglobulin and alpha 1-antitrypsin. alpha-Macroglobulin cannot inhibit the activation of the trypsinogens by trypsin but this reaction is completely inhibited by alpha 1-antitrypsin. The results are discussed in relation to the pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis. | 92,342 | [
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Reduction by reserpine of the accumulation of retrogradely transported [125I]nerve growth factor in sympathetic neurons. | Experiments were carried out to determine if stimuli which augment preganglionic nerve activity to sympathetic neurons, and thereby cause trans-synaptic induction, increase the retrograde transport of nerve growth factor (NGF). It was found that nerve activity had no effect on retrograde transport of [125I]NGF. It was found, however, that reserpine decreased retrograde transport of [125I]NGF and this inhibition was characterized. Reserpine decreased the maximal accumulation of intravenously administered [125I]NGF in superior cervical ganglia (SCG) by about 60%. It also caused a distinct shift in the time course of accumulation so that maximal accumulation was seen 12 h after [125I]NGF injection rather than at 9 h as in control animals. Reserpine had no effect on retrograde transport in sensory neurons. Dose--response curves showed that maximal inhibition occurred with doses of reserpine of 2.5 mg/kg i.p. and that reserpine was not able to completely block transport at any dose. The maximal inhibition of retrograde transport was achieved within 30 min of reserpine administration and inhibitory activity was unchanged for 36 h. The ability of sympathetic neurons to transport [125I]NGF subsequently recovered and was normal 96 h after reserpine administration. The inhibitory effect of reserpine appears to be due to an action at or very near to the nerve terminal since it was effective at reducing NGF transport at very low doses (0.33 microgram) when co-administered directly into the eye with [125I]NGF. An action of reserpine at the nerve terminal was further suggested by the inability of reserpine to affect transport if the drug was given 4 h after [125I]NGF administration. Based upon these data, it is suggested that there may be two pools of retrogradely transported NGF and that only more rapidly turning over pool is reserpine-sensitive. This pool may represent the retrogradely moving synaptic vesicles or some derivative of the vesicles. | 92,350 | [
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Cutaneous manifestations of acute carbon monoxide poisoning. | A patient with acute carbon monoxide poisoning due to leakage of gas from the exhaust system in his automobile noted edema and blister formation over large areas of the skin of one half of his body. Rhabdomyolysis, acute but transient renal insufficiency, and hemolytic anemia developed subsequently. | 92,389 | [
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A reappraisal of palliative surgery for total anomalous pulmonary venous connection: description of a new operative technique. | The need for effective palliation of critically ill infants born with total anomalous pulmonary venous connection is reappraised. Careful study of autopsy specimens in patients with this cardiac malformation (patient ages ranging from newborn to 5 1/2 mth) revealed 4 favorable anatomic dispositions in 16 selected hearts: (1) a horizontal vein or a lobar vein larger than 3-mm size was present in every case; (2) these veins were of adequate length for a shunt anastomosis; (3) the heart could be rotated for easy access to the left atrium; and (4) one of the two separate connecting veins in the mixed type could be utilized. Based on morphologic observations and trial procedures on the autopsy specimens, a new palliative operation is proposed which can be performed under normothermia and without cardiopulmonary bypass. | 92,409 | [
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[Gamma globulin in secondary antibody deficiency syndrome]. | 12 patients with secondary antibody deficiency syndrome received a new gammaglobulin compound intravenously (lyoph. SRK Sandoz). The drug was given in a 3% NaCl-solution once to four times. At the end of the infusion of 6 g gammaglobulin and after one week, serum levels were significantly higher. Gammaglobulin intravenously was well tolerated in all cases. Severe infections during the period of treatment were not observed. | 92,444 | [
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Kunitz-type proteinase inhibitors derived by limited proteolysis of the inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor, II. Characterization of a second inhibitory inactive domain by amino acid sequence determination. | A short digestion with excess of trypsin releases an inhibitor with an apparent molecular weight of 14,000 from both the inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor and the ITI-related acid-stable inhibitor. The amino acid sequence of this inhibitor was determined. The inhibitor is composed of two covalently linked homologous Kunitz-type domains. One domain has antitryptic activity, as reported. This paper characterizes the second, inactive domain as also of the Kunitz type. | 92,448 | [
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Cytochemistry of human catalase. The demonstration of hepatic and renal peroxisomes by a high temperature procedure. | The cytochemical demonstration of marker enzymes for subcellular organelles permits light microscopic analysis of their structure and function in normal and diseased tissues. Currently available staining procedures for the peroxidatic activity of catalase in peroxisomes of plant and animal cells yield weak and inconsistent light microscopic staining when applied to human tissues. We have developed a simple and sensitive high temperature procedure that clearly and reproducibly stains these abundant, but poorly understood, organelles in biopsy specimens of human liver and kidney. This method utilizes formaldehyde fixation, a modified diaminobenzidine (DAB) medium, incubation at 45 degrees C and postosmication for both light and electron microscopy. | 92,501 | [
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Macrophage oxygen-dependent antimicrobial activity. I. Susceptibility of Toxoplasma gondii to oxygen intermediates. | A sensitive method for evaluating extracellular parasite viability was used to determine the in vitro susceptibility of virulent Toxoplasma gondii to selected oxygen intermediates. By acridine orange fluorescent staining criteria, toxoplasmas were resistant to up to either 10(-3) M reagent H2O2 or H2O2 generated by glucose-glucose oxidase. In keeping with a lack of sensitivity to H2O2, toxoplasmas contained endogenous catalase (5.7 x 10(-4) Baudhuin units/10(6) organisms). The addition of a peroxidase and halide, however, markedly accelerated killing and lowered the H2O2 requirement by 1,000-fold. In contrast, toxoplasmas were promptly killed after exposure to products generated by xanthine (1.5 x 10(-4) M) and xanthine oxidase (50 micrograms). The inhibition of this system's microbicidal activity by scavengers of O2- (superoxide dismutase) and H2O2 (catalase) indicated that although neither O2- nor H2O2 were toxoplasmacidal, their interaction was required for parasite killing. Quenching OH. and 1O2, presumed products of O2--H2O2 interaction, by mannitol, benzoate, diazabicyclooctane, and histidine, also inhibited toxoplasma killing by xanthine-xanthine oxidase. These findings suggested that O2- and H2O2 functioned in precursor roles and that OH. and 1O2 were toxoplasmacidal. The capacity of normal peritoneal macrophages to pinocytose an oxygen intermediate scavenger, soluble catalase, was also demonstrated. Appreciable extraphagosomal concentrations of catalase were achieved by exposing macrophages to 1 mg/ml of the enzyme for 3 h. Maintenance of high intracellular levels required constant exposure because interiorized catalase was rapidly degraded. | 92,521 | [
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Primidone metabolism in renal insufficiency and acute intoxication. | Primidone (PRIM) is metabolized into phenobarbital (PB) and phenylethylmalonamide (PEMA). During anticonvulsant therapy with PRIM under normal conditions PB represents by fat the largest portion of the total concentration of all three components (PRIM + PB + PEMA). In combined therapy with diphenylhydantoin (DPH), and during chronic PRIM overdosage, the relative concentration of PB is even higher. A case of renal insufficiency while on PRIM therapy and a case of acute PRIM intoxication are presented. In both cases PRIM and PEMA are elevated while PB is relatively low. The mechanisms involved in this phenomenon are discussed. Excluding young children with chronic PRIM overdosage, and the endogenous and exogenous intoxication described here, a relative PB concentration below 40% indicates a lack of patient compliance if a steady treatment schedule has been maintained for at least 3 weeks. | 92,538 | [
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Isotachophoresis in capillary tubes of CSF proteins -- especially gammaglobulins. | Isotachophoresis in polyacrylamide gel tubes (PAG-ITP) and in capillary tubes (Tachophor, LKB) have previously been found by the authors, to be very promising high-separation methods for CSF and serum proteins, especially regarding the diagnosis of MS. PAG-ITP methods for analytical and preparative use have been described by the authors elsewhere, while in this paper proper cationic systems for ITP in capillary tubes for studying gammaglobulins in microliter amounts of CSF and serum are described, i.e. the albumin injection-clog problem is avoided and the preparation time can be forced. By using microdialysis of the CSF samples for desalting, with a technique easy to perform and with high reproducibility, microliter amounts of native CSF can be performed in less than half an hour. The method seems to be even more applicable for clinical and scientific use if the capillary isotachophoretic apparatus is connected to a synchronized equipment (LKB Tachophrac) with a cellulosa acetate strip onto which the separated fractions are ejected for further analysis by immunological tests. The analytical systems used have been especially directed to gammaglobulins in CSF and serum regarding further studies on demyelinating and infectious disorders of the nervous system. | 92,549 | [
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Quantitative and qualitative changes in phospholipid in the intestine of the gerbil and the development of lipodystrophy. | Female gerbils fed a diet containing 20% coconut oil develop an intestinal lipodystrophy that is not seen in animals fed a diet containing 20% safflower oil or a diet of 20% coconut oil supplemented with 0.1% inositol. The coconut oil diets contained 1.5% safflower oil to prevent essential fatty acid deficiency. The level of inositol in the intestinal tissue of animals fed the coconut oil diet not supplemented with inositol has been shown to be decreased. Phospholipid analyses of the intestinal tissue were undertaken to determine if this decrease in total inositol was reflected in a decrease in phosphatidylinositol or resulted in an altered phospholipid pattern. No difference in the phosphatidylinositol level was seen between animals fed 20% coconut oil with and without inositol supplementation (microgram P/gut section), although animals fed coconut oil diets had lower levels of phosphatidylinositol than animals fed safflower oil diets. Fatty acid analyses of total phospholipid and phosphatidylinositol in gut tissue revealed that animals which deveoped the lesion had an ultered phosphatidylinositol fraction with a depressed level of arachidonic acid and an elevated level of oleic acid. This suggests that the development of the intestinal lipodystrophy may be correlated with qualitative rather than quantitative changes in phosphatidylinositol. | 92,556 | [
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Dicarboxylic acid analogs of gramicidin A: dimerization kinetics and single channel properties. | According to the model of Urry, the cation-permeable gramicidin channel is a dimeric helix formed by association of two peptide monomers linked at their amino ends. In this paper the channel properties of gramicidin analogs are described which have been obtained by chemical modification at the coupling site of the two half-channels. In these analogs the amino terminal -CHO group is replaced by -CO(CH2)nCCOH (n = 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). All analogs form conducting channels in black lipid membranes with the same general properties as found for gramicidin A. The observation that the channel-forming activity decreases with increasing pH is consistent with the notion that the half-channels are linked at the amino terminus. The channel lifetime of the different analogs varies between 2 msec and greater than of equal to 50 sec, the longest lifetime being found for the compound with n = 3. The single-channel conductance : formula : (see text) is always smaller than that of gramicidin A, but the reduction of : formula : (see text) depends on the nature of the permeable ion. Ion specificity was studied at 1 M electrolyte by measuring the conductance : formula : (see text) for different permeable ions (Na+, K+, Cs+). The conductance ration : formula : (see text) (Cs+)/ : formula : (see text) (Na+) was found to vary between 2 and 10.5 for the different analogs. | 92,570 | [
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Correlation between Epstein-Barr virus membrane antigen and three large cell surface glycoproteins. | A correlation between Epstein-Barr virus membrane antigen (MA) and three surface glycoproteins has been established on the basis of radio-immunoprecipitation and immunoabsorption experiments. For radio-immunoprecipitation, Epstein-Barr virus-infected cells were radiolabeled either with neuraminidase-galactose oxidase tritiated borohydride, a procedure highly specific for surface glycoproteins, or with a general tritiated amino acid mixture. Intact cells were incubated with MA(-) or MA(+) human sera, washed free of unbound immunoglobulins, and then lysed with Nonidet P-40. The antigen-antibody complexes were bound to protein A-Sepharose and after elution with sodium dodecyl sulfate were analyzed by acrylamide gel electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate. MA(+) sera specifically precipitated three glycoproteins with molecular weights of 236,000, 212,000, and 141,000 from B95-8 cells induced with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbal-13-acetate (TPA) and from Raji cells superinfected with P3HR-1 virus. These glycoproteins were not detected on Epstein-Barr virus-negative Ramos cells treated with TPA or on B95-8 cells treated simultaneously with TPA and phosphonoacetic acid. Soybean lectin-Sepharose bound all three glycoproteins, and lectin-Sepharose-bound glycoproteins from TPA-induced P95-8 cells absorbed MA-specific antibody from MA(+) human sera. The data strongly suggest that either all three glycoproteins have MA determinants or they are part of a complex in which one or more of the components constitute the reactive antigen. | 92,577 | [
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Emergence of trimethoprim-resistant enterobacteria in patients receiving long-term co-trimoxazole for the control of intractable urinary-tract infection. | In patients with previously intractable urinary-tract infection treated with low-dose co-trimoxazole for 6--58 (mean 32.7) months, the percentage of infected urines fell from 41.4 before treatment to 6.3 during treatment. Only 6 episodes of infection were due to trimethoprim-resistant bacteria. Results in a small group of patients in whom treatment was continued with trimethoprim alone were similar. Under the conditions of this study, long-term control of urinary-tract infection was not materially compromised by breakthrough infections due to trimethoprim-resistant organisms. | 92,620 | [
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Raised maternal serum-alpha-fetoprotein levels and spontaneous fetomaternal transfusion. | Study of blood smears showed that spontaneous fetomaternal transfusions were significantly more common among 42 pregnant women with raised serum-alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels than among 45 pregnant women with normal serum-AFP levels. Raised serum-AFP was associated with a spontaneous fetomaternal transfusion of greater than or equal to 0.1 ml in at least 21 of the 42 women in the study group. | 92,622 | [
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Cytomegalovirus strain differentiation by DNA restriction analysis. | The heterogeneity of CMV DNA obtained from standard strains and new isolates, including a vaccination strain (Towne 125), was investigated. The cleavage patterns produced by the restriction endonucleases Eco RI and Bam 1 revealed stable strain specificities of CMV. On the other hand, a remarkable homology of sequence-specific CMV DNA fragmentation was demonstrated. A CMV subtyping relevant to clinical questions seems to be improbable. | 92,777 | [
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Abnormal seminiferous tubule cells associated with choriocarcinoma: immunoperoxidase study. | A case is presented of widely metastatic choriocarinoma, associated with an intratubular proliferation of atypical germ cells in the testis and a minute adult cystic teratoma. Immunoperoxidase study of the intratubular germ cells did not confirm their trophoblastic origin. Intratubular proliferation of undifferentiated germ cells may be associated with choriocarcinoma. | 92,839 | [
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[Leucosis diagnosis in cattle using the Sudan black B staining method on granulocytes and monocytes]. | In the peripheral blood of healthy cattle and cattle suffering from leucosis a positive reaction with Sudan black B was found in neutrophilic and eosinophilic granulocytes: in healthy cattle at an intensity from ++ to ++++, and in cattle suffering from leucosis it was somewhat slighter (++ to +++). This finding can, to a certain extent, help in the distinguishing of reactive lymphocytosis from the leucosis of cattle. Compared with granulocytes the reaction of monocytes is markedly weaker: in healthy cattle at an intensity from 0 to (++), and in diseased cattle from 0 to (+++). In the bone marrow there is a significantly weaker reaction to Sudan black B in the group of large cells (neutrophilic and eosinophilic promyelocytes and myelocytes); in the group of healthy and diseases cattle the reaction is weaker than in neutrophilic and eosinophilic granulocytes of the peripheral blood. The reaction obtained with Sudan black B for lipids can be used as an aid for the distinguishing of cells of the myeloid, monocytic, and lymphoid order of peripheral blood and bone marrow in cattle leucosis. | 92,849 | [
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Metastatic neuroblastoma in bone marrow aspirate smears. | The authors observed rosette formation and partially fibrillar, blue-grey, extracellular material in Wright-Giemsa-stained bone marrow aspirate smears in five preparations from three cases of neuroblastoma metastatic to bone marrow. These features are little publicized in the literature and textbooks. These findings in neuroblastoma metastatic to bone marrow should prove helpful in differentiating that entity from acute leukemia and from other metastatic small-cell neoplasms in bone marrow. | 92,888 | [
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Esophagogastrectomy for carcinoma: current hospital mortality and morbidity rates. | Between January 1, 1970, and March 1, 1979, 153 patients with carcinoma of the esophagus or cardia were seen at the Lahey Clinic; 124 (81%) underwent surgical exploration and 102 (82.3%) were found amendable to resection. This report concerns the 82 patients operated on by the senior author, 72 of whom (87.8%) had surgical resection. A variety of resective techniques were used but currently esophagogastrectomy and esophagogastrostomy is preferred, a left thoracotomy being used for low lying lesions; upper thoracic and cervical lesions are approached through a combined abdominal and right thoracic approach or esophagectomy with cervical esophagogastrostomy and without thoracotomy is used. Two deaths occurred within 30 days of operation, a hospital mortality rate of 2.8%. Significant complications developed in 11 patients (15.3%). The average survival was 20.8 months, and satisfactory long-term relief of dysphagia was achieved in 91.2% of patients. An aggressive surgical approach to the management of patients with carcinoma of the esophagus or cardia is justified, for esophagogastrectomy and esophagogastrostomy is applicable to the majority of patients; can now be performed at low risk with a reasonable period of hospitalization; and provides satisfactory long-term palliation. | 92,917 | [
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Tuberculosis. Clinical aspects and diagnosis. | The presentation of tuberculosis is variable depending on the severity of the infection, the age of the patient, whether the infection is primary or secondary, and whether the manifestations are due to inhalation of organisms or hematogenous dissemination. A definitive diagnosis is made by culture of the organism; spontaneously expectorated sputum is the most suitable specimen for diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis. Diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis frequently requires tissue biopsy. The classic staining method for demonstrating tubercle bacilli is the Ziehl-Neelsen technique. Newer methods based on fluorescent dyes and phase-contract microscopy make rapid screening feasible, but false-positive identification is more frequent. Culture of tubercle bacilli is most successful when two media are used. The differential diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis includes bacterial pneumonia, especially anaerobic infection, and fungal infections including histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis, and blastomycosis. Lung carcinoma can mimic tuberculosis and the two diseases can coexist. Surgery is frequently necessary for a definitive diagnosis, expecially when the disease is seen as a noncalcified nodule. | 92,919 | [
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Regulation of the kidney xanthine dehydrogenase by glutaminase. | The steady-state concentrations of glutamine, glutamate and ammonia in the kidney cells might regulate the rate of renal xanthine dehydrogenase activity. Both glutamate and glutamine were found to be effective inhibitors of the renal xanthine dehydrogenase activity in vivo. The inhibition by glutamate depends essentially on the glutaminase inhibition. | 92,920 | [
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[Effect of S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine of dopamine catabolism]. | 1.--The administration of SAH to rats, at physiologically active dose on the sleep, does not change the urinary level of MD and NM. On the other hand, the excretion of DA and NA decreases. 2.--In the brain, SAH does not modify neither the concentration of NA and NM in hypothalamus and thalamus, nor the concentration of DA and MD in corpus striatum. 3.--After intracisternally injection of [14C]DA or [3H]NA, SAH increases the level of [14C]MD and [3H]NM. 4.--Contrary to the studies in vitro, where SAH is an inhibitor of COMT, on the rat it does not seem prevent the methylation of DA and NA. | 92,923 | [
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Biological parameters of the blood in the genetically obese Zucker rat. | A study of the various biological parameters of the blood in the genetically obese Zucker rat, the nonobese Zucker rat, and the Wistar rat has revealed great similarity between the two latter types of animals. On the other hand, in genetically obese Zucker rats as compared with the nonobese ones, (1) the blood mass per unit of weight was lower; (2) the level of nitrogenous degradation compounds was the same; (3) the lipase activity was lower; (4) the levels of substances for which liver plays a crucial role--all lipid and protein fractions, glucose, and the enzyme GPT--were higher; (5) the levels of Ca, Zn, Fe, Cu and Pi were high; (6) the blood and bone-marrow cells were unremarkable. | 92,925 | [
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Soluble proteins in the human atherosclerotic plaque. With spectral reference to immunoglobulins, C3-complement component, alpha 1-antitrypsin and alpha 2-macroglobulin. | A number of soluble proteins contained in human aortic intimal tissue was extracted into buffered saline (pH 7.4) and identified and quantitated by immunoelectrophoresis and immunodiffusion. The proteins included IgA, IgG, IgM, B1C (C3), alpha 1-antitrypsin, alpha 2-macroglobulin, fibrinogen, albumin, LDL, HDL, alpha 1-acid glycoprotein, beta 2-glycoprotein, transferrin and ceruloplasmin. The concentration of soluble proteins was significantly higher in the atherosclerotic intima than in the normal intima. The diseased intima also contained a small amount of tissue-bound IgG, IgA and B1C which was extractable with citrate buffer at pH 3.2. The vascular band IgG, and B1C were shown by enzymatic and immunohistochemical studies to be closely associated with the collagenous tissue of the plaque. The Ig contained in the atherosclerotic plaque may be derived in part from the biosynthesis of Ig by the artery, since the incorporation of 14C-labeled leucine into IgG by the atheromatous plaque was demonstrable by radioimmunoelectrophoresis. In contrast to the diseased artery, the normal artery did not synthesize IgG and did not contain vascular bound IgG or complement. However, the normal artery was capable of fixing IgG and B1C eluted from the diseased artery. The present studies suggested that the IgG contained and synthesized by the plaque might represent an immune response to an endogenous or exogenous antigen closely associated with plaque collagen. IgG and B1C either alone or in the form of an immune complex also may play an important role in phagocytosis in the plaque and thereby influence the course of atherosclerosis. The proteolytic inhibitors, alpha 1-antitrypsin and alpha 2-macroglobulin, found in relatively high concentrations in the plaque, could enhance fibrosis of the lesion because of thier known inhibitory effects on collagenase and elastase. | 92,993 | [
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The biologic basis for combined modality treatment of cancer. | Strategies related to cancer should be aimed at optimization of local and regional treatment. Delineation of subsets of patients with high risk for recurrence would have a significant impact, upon which such adjunctive systems of therapeutic management should be evaluated. In disseminated disease, or where the probability of dissemination is high, evaluation of any realistic potential combination of treatment for tumor control should be pursued. It is necessary to delineate optimal palliative therapy where tumor control is not possible, but also to test new drugs, immunotherapeutic tools and combination regimens in all such situations where the disseminated compartment of the disease is of high probability. Only under such circumstances will the most practical and important optimization of treatment programs be achieved. The development of the above basic attributes for each tumor type needs to be studied so that protocols can be developed with a clear understanding of the nature of the disease, condition to be studied, and the general therapeutic strategies to be followed. | 93,031 | [
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Activity staining for glutamate and alanine dehydrogenases in polyacrylamide gels of varying porosity. A study of bovine placental enzyme forms. | A procedure has been developed for characterizing the various molecular forms of placental and liver glutamate dehydrogenases through a combination of activity staining and varying gel pore size in electrophoresis. At a concentration of 2 mg/ml, the bovine liver GDH remained associated in a very high molecular weight form, while the placental enzyme was substantially dissociated to a molecular species of near 240,000 molecular weight and several charge isomeric species of near 160,000 molecular weight. The general approach outlined here provides a means of definitely correlating the electrophoretic behavior of various dehydrogenase isozymes with both glutamate and alanine dehydrogenase activities and molecular size and should be applicable, even in crude extracts to other dehydrogenase enzymes which exhibit multiple forms or states of association. | 93,046 | [
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HLA B27 and defects in the T-cell system in Whipple's disease. | The cellular immune system was tested in nine patients with Whipples' disease. Three patients had active disease, and six had been in remission for up to 10 years. Intradermal delayed hypersensitivity reactions to candidin, trichophytin, tuberculin and varidase, T-cell counts as determined by E-rosettes, allogeneic stimulation of lymphocytes in the mixed lymphocyte culture, and mitogenic activation of lymphocytes by concanavalin A, phytohaemagglutinin and by pokeweed mitogen, were tested in the patients and compared with control subjects. HLA typing was performed in all patients. The reaction to tuberculin and varidase, the T-cell counts and the activation of lymphocytes by concanavalin A were significantly reduced in patients with active disease and in patients during remission. The reaction to candidin and trichophytin was poor even in the controls. The mean results of the mixed lymphocyte culture, phytohaemagglutinin, and pokeweed mitogen activation tests were not significantly different from the controls. In patients with active disease the mixed lymphocyte culture reaction and the T-cell counts were less than in patients in remission. The results suggest a persistent defect of T-cells in patients with Whipple's disease, a defect that is more severe in patients with active disease. The finding of HLA B27 in four of thenine patients supports the hypothesis of primary rather than secondary impairment of the cellular immune system in Whipple's disease. | 93,049 | [
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The histochemistry of complex carbohydrates in the testes of patients of idiopathic male infertility. | In testis tissues from patients with idiopathic male infertility, complex carbohydrates have been studied by means of light microscopic histochemical methods, comparisons being made with the normal testes. In the infertile testes, histochemical reactions for acidic and neutral complex carbohydrates were in general weaker in intensity than in the normal testes. In the seminiferous tubules and interstitium of the infertile testes, a histochemical finding of primary importance was obtained with the demonstration of galactose deficiency in the complex carbohydrates involved. These glycoproteins contained only small numbers of sulfhydryl and disulfide groups. The possible histophysiological significance of these complex carbohydrates is discussed, with special reference to their histochemical properties determined in the present study. | 93,098 | [
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Immunocytochemical technique for detection of prolactin (PRL) and growth hormone (GH) in hyperplastic and neoplastic lesions of dog prostate and mammary gland. | An immunocytochemical technique was described to test for immunoreactive prolactin (PRL) and growth hormone (GH) in spontaneous and experimentally induced hyperplastic and neoplastic lesions of the prostate and mammary gland. The dog was used as an animal model. The specificity and validity of the immunocytochemical staining procedure and of the antisera to canine PRL and canine GH can be regarded as established for the demonstration of PRL- and GH-dependent staining respectively. In mammary and prostatic tissues, both endogenous PRL and GH as well as intracellular free binding sites (for exogenous PRL and GH) were detected immunocytochemically. The technique presented seems to be an important tool to localize putative target sites for pituitary hormones in hormone-dependent hyperplasia and neoplasia. | 93,102 | [
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Incubation of 3,4-benzo(s)pyrene with serum fractions: effect on tumor production. | The effect on tumor formation in Swiss mice of incubation of 3,4-Benzo(a)pyrene [B(a)P]either with saline or saline containing serum, gamma-globulin or albumin (form mouse or rabbit) was investigated. A high incidence of sarcomas (80--100%) was obtained in Swiss mice by B(A)P incubated in vitro with rabbit serum, rabbit gamma-globulin, mouse serum, mouse gamma-globulin, and saline. A lower incidence (60--65%) was obtained with B(a)P incubated with mouse serum, mouse albumin, and rabbit albumin. The data suggest that binding of B(a)P to protein, particularly to albumin, significantly decreases the biological activity of B(a)P. | 93,109 | [
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Influence of an oversulphated heparinoid upon hyaluronate metabolism of the human synovial cell in vivo. | Glycosaminoglycans appear to affect proteoglycan metabolism of fibroblasts, human synovial cells, and chondrocytes under in vitro conditions. The influence of an oversulphated heparinoid (Arteparon) on hyaluronate metabolism of the human synovial lining cell was studied by in vivo experiments on human volunteers. A higher production of better polymerized hyaluronic acid was observed after repeated intraarticular injections of this heparinoid into the knees of 2 osteoarthritic patients. After a single injection a statistically significant rise of synovial fluid hyaluronate concentration was observed over 4 days. A higher molecular weight of this molecule was suspected in view of a significant increase of the anomalous viscosity index 2 and 4 days after intraarticular administration. | 93,148 | [
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Dihydropteridine reductase deficiency diagnosis by assays on peripheral blood-cells. | Human peripheral lymphocytes, granulocytes, and platelets contain the enzyme dihydropteridine reductase. A simple procedure and assay for diagnosing dihydropteridine reductase on peripheral blood is described. In twelve controls the level of enzyme activity in a lymphocyte-platelet preparation was 29.5 +/- 4.8 (SD) nmol NADH oxidised/min/mg protein. Two heterozygotes for dihydropteridine reductase deficiency had activities of 6.4 and 10.3 nmol NADH oxidised/min/mg protein, respectively. | 93,181 | [
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Brief note. Induction of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in sheep with purified bovine basic protein and adjuvant. | A large animal model for the induction of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis to study the immunological disease parameters through closed-circuit extracorporeal thoracic duct filtration was successfully produced in two different strains of sheep. This study demonstrates the advantages of using a well-defined antigen to obtain both rapid onset of disease and a higher percentage of animals succumbing to the illness. | 93,263 | [
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[Thrombocytopenic purpura during heparinotherapy. Two cases (author's transl)]. | In two patients treated by heparin for thrombosis, thrombocytopenia under 10 000/cumm occured accompanied with bleeding cud recurrent thrombosis. The demonstration in the patients' serum of a factor inducing platelet aggregation and serotonin release in the presence of heparin suggests that the thrombocytopenia could be of immuno-allergic origin. In both cases, the discontinuation of heparin resulted in clinical and biological improvement. The rare cases of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia reported in the literature are discussed. | 93,273 | [
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Structural studies of of "active complex" of bleomycin: assignment of ligands to the ferrous ion in a ferrous-bleomycin-carbon monoxide complex. | Proton NMR studies at 360 MHz establish the binary Fe(II)-bleomycin complex to be paramagnetic with a spectrum covering 70 ppm. Addition of carbon monoxide generates a stable, diamagnetic Fe(II)-bleomycin-CO complex that is a putative structural analog of the "active" Fe(II)-bleomycin-O2 complex. The following six groups have been determined to be coordinated to the Fe(II) ion from analysis of the highly resolved 1H NMR spectra of this complex: CO, the primary and secondary amine nitrogens of the beta-aminoalanine moiety, the carbamoyl moiety on the 3-position of mannose, the pyrimidine N-1, and the imidazole N-1. The Fe(II)-bleomycin-CO complex binds to DNA, as shown by fluorescence quenching experiments, but Fe(II)-bleomycin-CO does not mediate thymine release. These results necessitate a major revision in the current model for metal coordination to bleomycin. | 93,279 | [
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Crossreactive mixed lymphocyte reaction determinants recognized by cloned alloreactive T cells. | We have isolated clones of alloreactive T cells by soft agar cloning of primed responder cells contained in serially restimulated, mixed lymphocyte cultures. These clones recognize unique mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR) stimulating determinants present on (C57B/6 X A/J)F1 (B6A) spleen cells. By assaying the reactivity patterns of these clones on a panel of stimulator cells, we have identified at least three separate "specificities" of alloreactive T cell clones. Several clones exhibiting one of these three reactivity patterns have been isolated on many occasions from different experiments. Using such clones of alloreactive T cells, we have identified and are attempting to define crossreactive MLR stimulating determinants exhibited by a panel of stimulator cells. Recognition by certain clones of a shared MLR determinant(s) on B6A and DBA/2 and of the lack of this determinant(s) on B6 stimulator cells questions current concepts concerning the nature of MLR stimulating determinants and T cell recognition of alloantigens. | 93,286 | [
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Induction of calcium flux across the rat mast cell membrane by bridging IgE receptors. | Rabbit antibody against IgE receptors or its F(ab')2 fragments induced an increase of 45Ca uptake into normal mast cells, and this process was accompanied by histamine release. Evidence was obtained that a substantial portion of 45Ca uptake was due to movement of calcium across the cell membrane. Neither 45Ca uptake nor histamine release was induced by Fab' monomer fragments of the antireceptor antibody. However, bridging of receptor-bound Fab' fragments by antirabbit IgG or bridging of receptor-bound IgE by anti-IgE induced an increase in 45Ca uptake. The results collectively indicate that crosslinking IgE receptors increases the membrane permeability of the mast cells toward calcium. | 93,285 | [
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Antigen-induced strain-specific autoantiidiotypic antibodies modulate the immune response to dextran B 512. | Sera from CBA and C57BL mice immunized against dextran B 512 eight or more days earlier contain mainly IgG antibodies that specifically suppress the development of plaque-forming cells against dextran in vitro. Suppression was not caused by antibodies against the alpha 1-6 epitope of dextran to any major extent. Sera from CBA mice (IgCH allotype j) suppressed plaque-forming cells from CBA mice, whereas sera from C57BL mice (allotype b) inhibited plaques from C57BL and CBA/Ig-1b mice. Sera from dextran-tolerant mice or from mice that are genetic unresponders to dextran did not suppress plaque-forming cells. Both thymus-independent and thymus-dependent forms of dextran induced the appearance of these autoantiidiotypic antibodies that can distinguish between anti-alpha 1-6 antibodies produced in mouse strains having different IgCH-locus-determined allotypes. | 93,287 | [
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HLA-D-restricted antigen activation of sensitized T lymphocytes: studies on the ability of HLA-D/DR-expressing B lymphocytes to substitute for macrophages in antigen activation. | The proliferative response of sensitized human T lymphocytes to purified protein derivative (PPD) and to trinitrophenyl (TNP)-conjugated autologous cells in vitro is restricted by self HLA-D/DR determinants. Here we report that the PPD-specific response is strictly related to the content of phagocytosing cells (macrophages, Mphi) in the cultures and that an optimal PPD response occurred at a T/Mphi ratio between 10:1 and 5:1. B-cell-enriched suspensions, which also express the HLA-D/DR determinants, were not able to replace the macrophages in this HLA-D/DR-restricted response. On the other hand, TNP-treated similarly prepared B cells were in most instances effective in inducing a secondary TNP-specific response of in vitro-sensitized T cells. | 93,307 | [
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HLA markers in six Lebanese religious subpopulations. | A total of 315 normal, unrelated individuals from six of the seven principal religious communities of Lebanon have been typed for 26 alleles of the A and B loci. The gene, haplotype frequencies and delta values have been calculated. The HLA gene frequencies for loci A and B reported in this study are shown to cross Moslim-Christian lines, but generate a distinguishably different profile for the Armenian immigrant subpopulation. This first-level homogeneity which is inconsistent with results earlier reported for ABO, rhesus and Gm systems, seems to disappear when linkage disequilibrium deltas are compared. | 93,316 | [
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[Soluble Babesia ovis antigen]. | Dissolved antigen of plasma and of erythrocytic cytoplasma was obtained from 4 splenectomized sheep experimentally infected by Babesia ovis. Blood was taken in the stage of acute parasitemia with 23--25% parasite erythrocytes. The antigen was isolated by precipitating the plasma and the erythrocytic cytoplasma three times with an ammonium sulfate solution saturated 50 and 75%. The fraction obtained following dialysis was concentrated after McErlean's method. The specificity and activity of the isolated soluble antigen were proven by RAGP against serums of 6 weaned lamb groups: I group -- with 4 cm3 plasma, II group -- with 8 cm3 plasma, III group -- with 2 cm3 erythrocytic cytoplasma, IV group -- with live vaccine, V group -- with normal plasma and VI group -- normal weaned lambs. The same groups were used to assess the immunogenic properties of the dissolved antigen. Following provocation with a virulent B. ovis strain the lambs of group II proved as resistant as these immunized with live vaccine. The result was confirmed under production conditions -- not one of the 360 lambs immunized with 5 and 10 cm3 plasma became infected, while of the 250 control lambs 30 were infected. The conclusion is drawn that plasma in the stage of acute parasitemia can be used for immunoprophylaxis, but more supplementary studies are needed. | 93,342 | [
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Electron spin resonance studies on phaeomelanins. | ESR spectra of synthetic melanins formed from dopa and from 5-S-cysteinyldopa and of melanins isolated from human melanomas were studied. Alkali-soluble melanin synthesized from cysteinyldopa showed a signal similar to that of insoluble melanin synthesized from dopa, but also a simple fine structure. Trichochromes C and F synthesized from 5-S-cysteinyldopa had a broader signal than dopamelanin, and in addition a hyperfine structure that could be explained by the presence of manganous ions. An insoluble eumelanin from a human melanoma with a sulphur content of 5% showed an ESR spectrum consisting of one line like dopamelanin. An alkali-soluble phaeomelanin from a human melanoma with a sulphur content of 10% showed a very broad signal with a hyperfine structure that could be explained by the presence of manganous ions. | 93,370 | [
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[Combinations of enzyme-histochemical methods for differentiating of fibers types and evaluating the skeletal musculature (author's transl)]. | This paper reports 2 combinations of enzyme-histochemical reactions (NADH tetrazolium oxidoreductase and myosin ATPase after alkaline preincubation, menadione-dependent glycerol-3-phosphate oxidoreductase and myosin ATPase after acid preincubation). One type of skeletal muscle fiber is stained golden-brown and the other blue. The differentiation of types of fibers is greatly improved by reliable classification. In addition, the same section can be used to determine the oxidative and glycolytic metabolic capacity, respectively. Finer differences in the structure of fibers may be recognized more easily and allowed of arrangement in a larger number of classes without dispensing with the old-established method of differentiating. It is possible for myopathological alterations to be made clearly visible. New and other combinations also offer promise of an advantageous extension of the method to other applications. | 93,384 | [
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Argentophil neuronal perikarya and neurofibrils induced by postmortem trauma and hypertonic perfusates. | Argentophil neuronal perikarya and perikaryal neurofibrils similar to those illustrated in Ramón y Cajal's classical studies have in the present investigation been found to be manifestations of the chromophil neuron. Conclusive evidence of such association was obtained by silver impregnation with the Bodian technique of sections previously stained with cresyl violet. Regardless of the fixative used, silver-impregnated neurofibrils were evident when (1) normal tissues were fixed by immersion or unsuccessfully fixed by perfusion, (2) normal tissues were exposed and touched after death but before perfusion with the fixative, or (3) flow of perfusates was compromised by the effect of an experimental procedure, as well as when (4) a hypertonic saline solution was used in the first perfusate. These cytologic peculiarities were still discernible after 24 h of postmortem autolysis following a delay in removal of the brain or in immersion of the exposed brain in the fixative. After immersion fixation, argentophilia and chromophilia occurred ubiquitously in the brain of the newborn guinea pig; however, argentophil neurofibrils were noted in the absence of chromophil neurons in the brain stem of the newborn rat, rabbit and cat. After fixation by perfusion, perikaryal neurofibrils were not impregnated in either newborn or old animals or in animals with facial nerve transection. Affinity for Congo red or birefringency, exhibited by neurons with marked neurofilbrillary changes in human senile brain atrophy, were absent in the present material. On the basis of the current light-microscopic observations, it is concluded that argentophilia of neuronal perikarya and perikaryal neurofibrils is another manifestation of the chromophil neuron induced by postmortem trauma and of the ocellate neuron elicited by perfusion with hypertonic saline. | 93,388 | [
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Tamoxifen treatment of advanced breast carcinoma. | Sixty postmenopausal patients with microscopically confirmed, progressive mammary carcinoma and local recurrence alone or in combination with distant metastases or with distant metastases only, not previously treated with cytostatics, were given tamoxifen (Nolvadex), 10 mg 3 times daily. The response rate in 37 evaluable patients was 48 per cent, with a median duration of the response of 26+ weeks. The effectiveness of the drug increased significantly with an increasing interval between primary treatment and the appearance of the first recurrence. No serious side effects occurred. | 93,402 | [
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Inactivation of the slow potassium outward current in crab muscle fibre. | The slow outward current (IK2) recorded in crab muscle fibre using the double sucrose gap method decreases when high and maintained depolarizations are applied. This decrease corresponds to a true inactivation of the potassium conductance rather than to a shift in the reversal potential of the charge carrying ion following local accumulation. | 93,440 | [
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[Intravenous perfusion of adrenaline and adaptation to muscular exercise in man]. | Eleven normal subjects underwent epinephrine perfusions (1.9; 6.1; 11.8 ng/min) during a short (20 min) and mild (50% VO2 max) exercise. VO2 was not modified by epinephrine perfusion, while heart rate ventrilation and plasmatic lactate were increased proportionally to epinephrine doses. | 93,447 | [
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A comparison of the homozygous states for G gamma and G gamma A gamma delta beta thalassaemia. | One Arabic and two Indian patients with thalassaemia intermedia produce only Hb F for the G gamma type. Haemoglobin synthesis studies and genetic analysis indicate that they are homozygous for G gamma delta beta thalassaemia. The findings in these patients and their heterozygous relatives are compared with those in an individual homozygous for G gamma A gamma delta beta thalassaemia. From this analysis, and from previously reported data on G gamma A gamma delta beta thalassaemia, the phenotypic expression of the two varieties of delta beta thalassaemia is defined. The relationship between the clinical expression and molecular pathology of these forms of delta beta thalassaemia is discussed. | 93,489 | [
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Localization of a gene: the nucleolar organizer. | Nucleolus differentiates around the nucleolus organizer regions of the chromosomes or NORs. In the interphasic nucleoli the fibrillar centers are now considered as the NORs. The purpose of this editorial is to review the experimental data which allowed such identification. Our current concepts regarding this point result from three lines of evidence: 1) specific localization during nucleologenesis, 2) in situ hybridization with labeled ribosomal RNA or DNA, and 3) specific staining with silver. | 93,494 | [
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Cyclocytidine in the treatment of refractory acute childhood leukemia: a Southwest Oncology Group Phase I-II study. | Thirty-seven children and adolescents with acute leukemia in relapse were treated with cyclocytidine in a cooperative group setting. Only one of the 27 evaluable patients achieved complete remission. A significant decrease (greater than or equal to 20%) in circulating and/or bone marrow leukemia cells occurred in an additional five patients. Drug toxicity was evaluated in 35 patients and included ten cases of jaw pain, two cases of hypotension, one case of fever, and one case of severe vomiting. | 93,513 | [
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Cross-reactions between serum proteins and water soluble liver tissue antigens of the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus Linn.) and man. | Cross-reactions between serum proteins and water soluble liver antigens of the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus Linn.) and man were studied by crossed immunoelectrophoresis (CIE). Armadillo serum tested with rabbit antiserum against human serum proteins gave twelve components in CIE. Nine of these cross-reacting proteins were identified and showed partial identity with the corresponding human proteins. The electrophoretic mobility of alpha 2-macroglobulin and Gc-globulin differed in the two species. An ultrasonicate of normal armadillo liver gave twenty-eight anodic and eight cathodic components in CIE. By absorption experiments with armadillo serum, twenty of the former and seven of the latter were shown to be liver tissue components. A combination of CIE and crossed-line immunoelectrophoresis (CLIE) revealed the presence of twelve anodic and six cathodic liver tissue components cross-reacting with man. A cathodic armadillo liver antigen called (CALA-17) showed partial identity with that of man both in tandem and fused rocket immunoelectrophoresis. The implications of the findings are discussed in relation to the use of armadillo-grown M. leprae for skin testing and other purposes in man. | 93,527 | [
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Effects of gibberellic acid and of tunicamycin on glycosyl-transferase activities and on alpha-amylase secretion in barley. | A crude membrane fraction was prepared from isolated aleurone layers, the secretory tissue of barley grains. The layers were pre-incubated in the presence or absence of the phytohormone gibberellic acid. The membranes catalyzed the transfer of [14C]mannose from GDP-[14C]mannose and of N-[14C]acetylglucosamine from UDP-N-[14C]acetylglucosamine to endogenous and exogenous dolichyl monophosphate. When gibberellic acid was present during the pretreatment the activity of the transferases was increased by a factor of two to three. A significantly increased activity was observable within four hours after the addition of gibberellic acid, whereas the gibberellic-acid-induced secretion of the glycoprotein alpha-amylase started only after 12 h. Tunicamycin inhibited the secretion of alpha-amylase by 60 to 80%. Intracellularly, however, no alpha-amylase was found to accumulate. On the other hand, tunicamycin did not inhibit the rate of total protein synthesis by more than 10%. The possibility is discussed that the synthesis of the protein portion of glycoproteins is specifically inhibited, when glycosylation is prevented. | 93,536 | [
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Carcinoembryonic proteins in gastric carcinoma metastatic to the liver. | Two cases of liver metastases from gastric carcinoma are described in which the simultaneous occurrences of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and carcinoplacental alkaline phosphatase (CPALP) were demonstrated in the sera and tumor tissues. AFP was detected not only in the tumor tissues but also in the liver tissue adjacent to the tumor, while the other 2 carcinoembryonic proteins were not detected in the non cancerous liver tissues. The characteristics of CPALP in Case 1 were almost similar to the Nagao isoenzyme, based on enzyme tests involving L-leucine, L-phenylalanine and EDTA inhibitions, heat-stability and Michaelis constant, except for electrophoretical slower moving, while that in Case 2 were identical to variant type CPALP (Warnock). | 93,560 | [
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Antigenic heterogeneity of the non-serogroup antigen structure of Neisseria gonorrhoeae lipopolysaccharides. | Studies of the antigenic structure of the polysaccharide component of gonococcal lipopolysaccaride (LPS) indicated that the non-serogroup antigen structure is antigenically heterogeneous. Immunodiffusion studies of Gc4 strain 8551 indicated that in addition to the Gc serogroup determinent, this polysaccharide contains two other sets of determinants, one which is shared with the other five Gc serogroups and a second which is shared by the Gc1 and Gc3 serogroups. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) studies confirmed the immunodiffusion, documented qualitative differences, and suggested that quantitative differences may exist in the common determinant from serogroup to serogroup. As measured by ELISA inhibition, native LPS showed the same antigenic arrangement as the purified LPS polysaccharides. Studies with LPS-derived polysaccharides from nonprototype strains in immunodiffusion gave results identical to the prototype strains. This antigen variation, although distinct from serogroup specificity, was related to the serogroup determinant. | 93,575 | [
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Rauscher leukemia virus-induced tumor antigens: complete separation from gp70, p30 and H-2. | The possibility that some or all of the viral proteins, gp70, p30, and the histocompatibility antigen, H-2, function as the tumor-specific transplantation antigen (TSTA) of the R-MuLV-induced leukemia, RBL-5, and also in the secondary in vitro induction of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), was investigated. The antigen was obtained by isolating the plasma membranes of RBL-5 cells and solubilizing with sodium deoxycholate (DOC) followed by gel filtration chromatography. A fraction containing excellent tumor-rejection activity but low amounts of gp70, p30 and H-2 was chromatographed on goat anti-gp 70 goat anti-p 30 and sheep anti-H-2b immunoaffinity columns. The data obtained indicate that gp 70, p 30 or H-2 do not function as TSTA of RBL-5 leukemia, individually or as a complex. Similarly, the antigen responsible for the specific secondary induction of CTL in vitro is distinct from these three proteins. | 93,583 | [
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Abortive expression of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) cycle in a variety of EBV DNA-containing cell lines, as reflected by nucleic acid hybridization in situ. | A variety of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA-containing cell lines have been tested for the expression of the EBV-associated antigens EBNA (nuclear antigen), EA (early antigen), and VCA (viral capsid antigen), and for the presence of cells containing disproportionate amounts of EBV DNA. The antigen tests utilized immunofluorescence and 125I-labelled antibodies combined with autoradiography. EBV-DNA was detected by in situ hybridization with 3H-labelled EBV RNA complementary to P3HR-1 EBV DNA (P-EBVcRNA). The P-EBVcRNA has been shown to represent the majority of the P3HR-1 EBV DNA sequences. It was concluded that EBV DNA-containing cell lines can be divided into those that express only EBNA, those that express EBNA and EA and those that express EBNA, EA and VCA and also contain cells that undergo disproportionate EBV DNA synthesis. Consequently, in some cell lines there is an abortive expression of the EBV cycle in that some cells spontaneously express EA but fail to continue further to viral DNA synthesis. A similar pattern can be found after experimental induction of the EBV cycle, suggesting that related mechanisms govern the spontaneous expression of the EBV cycle and the extent of its inducibility. | 93,584 | [
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The effect of mazindol on metabolic and regulatory changes in obese women during weight reduction. | The effect of mazindol (1 mg/day) on some metabolic and regulatory values was investigated in ten adult obese women and compared with the same number of controls during weight reduction in hospital (a five-times repeated cycle of 5 days complete starvation and 3 days on a 500 kcal(2.1MJ/day diet.) Mazindol caused a rise of hydroxyacyl CoA dehydrogenase in striated muscle by 70 per cent and a marked decline in malic dehydrogenase. Mazindol also produced higher levels of non-esterified fatty acids--significantly higher during the fifth starvation period; a small decrease in blood glucose, IRI and glucose/IRI ratio being unaffected, a significantly two-fold greater decrease of serum cholesterol; a significant increase of the noradrenaline elimination compared with a decrease in controls and in increase in triiodothyronine binding globulin towards the upper range of normal. | 93,588 | [
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Ruthenium red as a stain for electron microscopy. Some new aspects of its application and mode of action. | Commercial ruthenium red has been tested for its purity by spectrophotometry. Impurities detected by this method could be abolished by nitric acid-precipitation of ruthenium brown. This substance has no effect on cell surface staining and converts almost completely to ruthenium red under the conditions used in electron microscopy. It was found, by photometric analysis, that in the ruthenium red-osmium tetroxide-cacodylate combination, generally used for cell surface staining, chemical reactions between ruthenium red and osmium tetroxide occur. As aerial oxidation of hexammineruthenium2+ leads to a product with some surface staining capability, it is suggested that an oxidized product of ruthenium red is responsible for binding to cellular components, and that a reduced product of osmium tetroxide gives an additional contrast enhancement. In ruthenium red-osmium dioxide combinations ruthenium red seems to bind to cell surfaces without any molecular alteration, and contrast is gained by the model proposed by Blanquet (1976b). The latter method could open a way for investigating the binding of ruthenium red to certain natural compounds involved in calcium transport, as postulated by a number of authors. Both ruthenium-osmium combinations differ in their cell surface staining ability. The ruthenium red-osmium dioxide combination tends to form distinct subunits, whereas the osmium tetroxide variety stains homogeneously. In combination with osmium dioxide, the surface staining is affected by EDTA, and, in contrast to osmium tetroxide, a successive application of ruthenium red and osmium dioxide as possible. | 93,592 | [
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Susceptibility to butirosin and neomycin B in Bacillus circulans, the butirosin-producing organism. | Butirosin, an aminoglycoside antibiotic, is produced by Bacillus circulans B-3312. Experiments using recombined ribosomal and supernatant fractions from this strain and from B. megaterium KM have shown that the ribosome of both are sensitive to butirosin. The aminoglycoside 3'-phosphotransferase present in B. circulans modifies butirosin and neomycin in vitro but confers resistance only to the former in vivo. The phosphotransferase does not modifya detectable amount of extracellular butirosin while mediating resistance to the antibiotic. In vitro, however, the enzyme appears to protect against inhibition by butirosin by inactivating the bulk of the antibiotic in the system. An extrachromosomal element of unknown function has been detected in B. circulans. | 93,616 | [
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Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease associated with retinal pigment dystrophy and protanopia. Neurological, ophthalmological and genetic study of a family. | Neurological, ophthalmological and genetic investigations were performed on a family, a member of which presented with a rare association of tapeto-retinal degeneration, protanopia and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), and asked for genetic counseling. The neurological enquiry was completed by measurement of motor nerve conduction velocity in several completed by measurement of motor nerve conduction velocity in several members of the family. The propositus was submitted to a muscle biopsy. The ophthalmological examination included ophthalmoscopy, fluorescein angiography, electroretinogram and electrooculogram. The propositus, a woman aged 40, had typical CMT disease and her father also had a mild form of it. She had protanopia as had her father, her son and her nephew. In addition she had large macular pigmented changes, described as retinal dystrophy, "flavus flavimaculatus." Her mother had only senile pigmented modification of the fundus and her three daughters had mild macular pigmented changes, like "salt and pepper." Two genes are probably involved: one for protanopia with X linked recessive inheritance, the other responsible of CMT and tapeto-retinal degeneration, with an autosomal dominant inheritance, giving a 50% risk of recurrence. | 93,622 | [
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[Changes in the physiologic properties of a chemostat culture of Propionibacterium shermanii during growth limitation by a deficiency of sodium lactate]. | A chemostat curve has been constructed for changes in the Propionibacterium shermanii population density with an increase in the flow rate of the medium from 0.04 to 0.55 h-1 upon limitation of the growth with sodium lactate deficiency. The curve differs from the classic chemostat curve described with the Monod equation, thus indicating changes in metabolism at different growth rates. Fermentation of lactate to acetic and propionic acids by the culture is most complete at low flow rates of the medium (D = 0.04 h-1). The rates of oxidation processes increase at average flow rates (D = 0.1--0.33 h-1). Lactate is both fermented to yield volatile acids, and oxidized. The growth rate D = mu = 0.55 h-1 approaches the maximal one. The rate of fermentation by the culture at this growth rate decreases while the rate of oxidation increases. The ratio between the rates of these two processes shifts towards oxidation. The cells display now a very high synthetic activity: constructive metabolism of the cells is realized practically only at the account of the nitrogen from ammonium rather than the nitrogen of amino acids. The chemical composition of the cells along the chemostat curve is relatively constant. The content of protein and DNA does not change; the content of RNA slightly rises with an increase in the growth rate, and the protein synthesizing activity of RNA is directly proportional to D = mu. | 93,687 | [
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Effects of a chromatin low molecular weight peptidic fraction on differentiation markers and virus production in Friend leukemia cells. | Low molecular weight chromatin peptides exert a dose-dependent inhibition of Dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO)-induced erythroid differentiation of murine Friend Leukemia Cells (FLC). This effect correlates with the degree of purification of the peptide fractions. Crot analysis of globin mRNA amounts in DMSO-treated FLC given the peptides showed a 4-5-fold decrease of messenger RNA in the cytoplasma with no nuclear storage of globin transcripts. Spectrin accumulation in "induced" FLC is inhibited as well. The effects of the peptides on erythroid markers are reversible upon removal of the compounds. They also appear to be specific for induced gene expression as (1) no effects are observed on cell growth and RNA synthesis in normal non-differentiating cell lines; and (2) no changes have been detected with regard to the expression of integrated viral genes coding for continuous shedding of viral particles. | 93,693 | [
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Location of bladder preganglionic neurons within the sacral parasympathetic nucleus of the cat. | Sacral parasympathetic preganglionic neurons innervating the urinary bladder were labelled by applying horseradish peroxidase (HRP) to branches of the pelvic nerve at the neck of the bladder. Bladder preganglionic cells were located primarily in the intermediolateral grey matter of sacral cord segments 1, 2 and 3 and extended from the ventral end of the central canal to the inferior margin of the dorsal horn. Dendrites extended into the dorsolateral funiculus, toward the lateral edge of the dorsal horn, medially beneath the dorsal horn and ventrally within the nucleus. Although a small number of cells were found medially beneath the dorsal horn, it is concluded that the majority of bladder preganglionic neurons occupy a lateral position within the sacral parasympathetic nucleus. | 93,725 | [
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16, 16 dimethyl prostaglandin E2 reduces histamine release from the stomach and protects the gastric mucosal barrier altered by ethanol in neutral solution. | Damage to the gastric mucosal barrier results in histamine release from intramucosal stores. Previous reports have shown that 16, 16 dimethyl prostaglandin E2 (dm PGE2) protects the stomach from injury by various damaging agents in either acidic or neutral solution. Furthermore histamine released in response to a damaging drug in an acidic medium was reduced by dm PGE2. Using the Heidenhain pouch dog preparation, the present study examined the action of dm PGE2 on ethanol-induced barrier breaking and histamine release in neutral solution. Topical ethanol treatment (15% w/v) damaged the gastric mucosal barrier as evidenced by increased net fluxes of Na+ and K+ and an increase in the histamine content of the fluid irrigating the histamine content of the fluid irrigating the Heidenhain pouch. Intravenous injection of dm PGE2 in the doses of 0.01, 0.10 and 1.00 microgram/kg one-half hour before ethanol administration significantly reduced the appearance of Na+, K+ and histamine. It is concluded that dm PGE2 effectively protects the canine gastric mucosa from damaging agents in neutral solution as evidenced by a reduction in the luminal appearance of Na+, K+ and histamine. | 93,761 | [
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Cytologic investigations in Chlamydia infection. | Chlamydia is an extremely common genital infection. It can cause serious disseminated disease and can infect the neonate and the sexual partner. Morphologically, Chlamydia infection was identified in routine Fast smears obtained from 160 women. Chlamydia infection manifests as intracytoplasmic coccoid and inclusion bodies in the metaplastic cells. Infected cells also reveal cytomegaly and multinucleation. Immunofluorescence studies, electron microscopy, tissue studies, histochemical techniques and tissue cultures were undertaken to establish the diagnosis of Chlamydia infection as observed in Papanicolaou-stained material. Detailed cytomorphology of Chlamydia infection is described. Clinical implications of such a diagnosis are discussed. | 93,839 | [
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Intra-operative frozen section technique for pituitary adenomas. | Orange G-hematoxylin stains performed on frozen sections from the sella turcica had a diagnostic accuracy of over 90% when compared to permanent sections on the same tissue. This technique allows the pathologist to make an intra-operative contribution to the establishment of tumor margins in the selective removal of pituitary adenomas. | 93,851 | [
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Role of serotoninergic and adrenergic mechanisms in the action of prominal. | The aim of this work was determination of the interrelations between the metabolism of biogenic amines in the brain and the action of Prominal. The power of the anticonvulsive action of Prominal was decreased by p-chlorphenylalanine (PCPA). The influence of the tested anticonvulsant on the levels of noradrenaline (NA), dopamine (DA), 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) and on serotonin turnover was investigated and a correlation was found between the anticonvulsive action of Prominal and its effect on the serotonin level. Prominal increased serotonin synthesis and turnover in the brain. It may be supposed that the anticonvulsive action of Prominal is connected with its effect of serotonin metabolism in the central nervous system. | 93,847 | [
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Characterization of clones derived from an attenuated strain of Rauscher murine leukaemia virus. | With a view to defining its subpopulations, an attenuated strain of Rauscher leukaemia virus, which comprises a majority of fragile virions, was closed by end-point dilution. The presence in the obtained clones of markers (analyzed by radioimmunoassay and isoelectric focusing) associated with Rauscher virus, together with persistent infectivity and leukaemogenicity, excluded the hypothesis that endogenous virus might have replaced the original Rauscher population. Due to the closing method employed, non fragile virions were obtained. Moreover, despite its selectivity for the lymphatic leukaemia virus component, sporadic cases of atypical erythroblastogenic leukaemia were observed. | 93,858 | [
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Triggering of autolytic cell wall degradation in Escherichia coli by beta-lactam antibiotics. | A biochemical method was developed to quantitatively compare the effectiveness of beta-lactams in triggering murein degradation (autolysin activity) in Escherichia coli. Bacteria prelabeled in their cell walls with radioactive diaminopimelic acid in growth medium were exposed for 10 min to the antibiotics at the appropriate minimal growth inhibitory concentrations and at multiples of these values, and the rate of cell wall degradation was followed during subsequent penicillin-binding protein (PBP)-1 were the most effective triggers of autolytic wall degradation; beta-lactams selective for PBP-2 were the poorest; and antibiotics preferentially binding to PBP-3 showed intermediate activities. The relative effectiveness of beta-lactams in autolysin triggering was found to parallel the effectiveness of the same drugs in causing rapid loss of viability, culture lysis, and spheroplast formation. Autolysin triggering was suppressed by inhibitors of protein and ribonucleic acid biosynthesis but not by inhibitors of deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis. The beta-lactam-induced cell wall degradation did not seem to involve a direct stimulation of enzyme activity or synthesis of new enzyme molecules, and murein sacculi isolated from cells that had been preexposed to a triggering dose of beta-lactam treatment exhibited the same sensitivity to crude, homologous autolysins as sacculi prepared from untreated control bacteria. On the basis of these observations, mechanisms are considered for the triggering of E. coli autolysins and for the role of autolytic activity in bacterial spheroplast formation, lysis, and death. | 93,877 | [
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Studies on the cholinesterase forms present in the ascitic fluid of Ehrlich tumour. | Cholinesterase activity was detected in the ascitic fluid of Ehrlich tumour and studied in a comparative manner in relation to that found in mice plasma. Enzymes from both sources were characterized with respect to optimum pH, substrate concentration and quinidine inhibition. After gel filtration by Sephadex G-200 and Sepharose 6B, two enzyme forms were observed in ascitic fluid as well as in mice plasma: a large form (L) and a small form (S) presenting molecular weights of 191 000, and 224 000 daltons for L forms and 71 000 and 69 000 daltons for S forms respectively. Concanavalin A interacts with both molecular forms, suggesting a glycoprotein nature for these enzymes. | 93,888 | [
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[Deoxyribonucleic acids from Pasteurella multocida and Pasteurella haemolytica]. | Pasteurella multocida and P. haemolytica strains contain between 1.5 and three per cent phosphorus, between nine and 14 per cent nitrogen, between two and four per cent DNA, and between five and 18 per cent RNA, the precise figures depending on culturing conditions. High-molecular DNA may be isolated by means of bacteriolysis, using deoxycholate or dodecylsulphate and the usual steps of purification, with yield and purity differing by strains. DNA with sufficient purity can be obtained from Sepharose 2 B by gel chromatography. The isolated DNA yields were characterised, base values being between 37 and 38 per cent GC for P. haemolytica and between 41 and 48 per cent GC for P. multocida. Highly suitable precursors to DNA synthesis for tritium labelling are 3H-thymidine, which is incorporated in excess of 3H-thymine by a factor of 255, as well as 3H-uracil, with its activity being recovered also from the pyrimidine bases of DNA via pyrimidine biosynthesis. | 93,955 | [
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Autoradiographic thymidine-3H activity after successive steps of the Feulgen reaction. | Autoradiographs were prepared of sections of the ovary of Dytiscus marginalis labelled with thymidine-3H after each successive step of the Feulgen reaction and after treatment with each separate component of the Schiff's reagent. Results of grain counts over ovarian nurse cells showed that losses of thymidine-3H activity occur not only during hydrolysis but also during the successive steps of the Feulgen reaction. It is suggested that the latter decrease in radioactivity may depend on the extraction of fragments of apurinic acid from the sections. An emulsion desensitizing effect has also been observed in sections stained with basic fuchsin alone; this effect appears, however, to be strongly counteracted by the metabisulphite present in the Schiff's reagent. | 93,963 | [
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Diagnosis and staging of prostatic cancer by transrectal ultrasonography. A preliminary study. | Sixty men (7 normal, 53 with prostatic disease) underwent transrectal ultrasonic scanning of their prostates in order to assess the technique and evaluate its reliability in the detection and staging of prostatic cancer. The prostatic capsule was clearly seen in 58 men; non-integrity of the capsule occurred only in those with proven cancer (17 cases). An ultrasound diagnosis of cancer was made for 32 of 33 men with proven disease and it was shown that ultrasound demonstrated anterior perforations of the capsule in 6 out of 18 men with tumours that had been judged by rectal palpation to have been confined to the prostate. It is concluded that transrectal ultrasound is a promising technique of imaging the prostate, particularly in relation to selection of patients for biopsy and for checking staging of cancer carried out by digital assessment of the prostate. | 93,975 | [
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Identification of a silver binding protein associated with the cytological silver staining of actively transcribing nucleolar regions. | Nucleoli isolated from Novikoff hepatoma cells were stained with AgNO3 to demonstrate the typical staining of active ribosomal cistrons. Pre-treatment of the nucleoli with 80 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5) -- 2.0 M NaCl did not interfere with silver staining. Treatment of the nucleoli with 80 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5) -- 0.15 M NaCl did, however, eliminate silver binding. Serial extraction of nucleoli with 2.0 M NaCl buffer followed by 0.15 M NaCl buffer also abolished silver staining. Analysis of the supernatant fraction of these extracts by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicates that, although more than one nucleolar protein can bind silver, only one protein is associated with the staining of active ribosomal cistrons. | 93,980 | [
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Effects of tamoxifen on the binding and metabolism of testosterone by human prostatic tissue and plasma in vitro. | The in-vitro metabolism of testosterone in benign and malignant prostatic tissue was examined and distinct quantitative differences between the two types of specimens were observed. The major metabolite of testosterone in the hyperplastic prostate was 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone and a high 3 alpha(beta)-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity was also detected. In the malignant tissue, 5 alpha-reductase activity was considerably reduced and there was little or no androstanediol formed; the 17 beta-dehydrogenase activity was, however, higher than in the benign tissue. The decrease in 5 alpha-reductase was always followed by a compensatory change in the 3 alpha(beta)-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase of the malignant prostate. The present study revealed that the ratio of the mean activities of 5 alpha-reductase to 3 alpha(beta)-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase in the two types of specimen always remained a constant. Although the antioestrogen, tamoxifen, induced an inhibitory effect on the activities of 5 alpha-reductase and 17 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase in the gland, the present investigation also suggested that tamoxifen stimulated the activity of 3 alpha(3 beta)-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase. In blood, the action of tamoxifen appeared to be confined to the displacement of androgens from the binding sites on the sex hormone binding globulin. | 94,084 | [
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