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Occurrence of duck virus enteritis (duck plague) in Pennsylvania, 1968-74. | During the 7-year period 1968-74 cases of duck virus enteritis (duck plague) were diagnosed in waterfowl in Pennsylvania. Muscovy ducks were affected in 8 cases, geese in 3 cases, and mallard ducks in 1 case. In 5 of these cases either domestic or wild ducks were closely associated with infected waterfowl but were unaffected. | 168,855 | [
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The altered specificity of cortisone reductase with certain retroandrostan-3-one substrates. | The retro steroids 17beta-hydroxy-5beta,9beta,10alpha-androstan-3-one and 5beta,9beta,10alpha-androstane-3,17-dione were good substrates for cortisone reductase in the presence of NADH, and the products corresponded to the respective 3beta-hydroxy compounds, in which the 3beta-hydroxyl group is axial and the absolute configuration is 3S. The analogous natural steroids 17beta-hydroxy-5beta,9alpha,10beta-androstan-3-one and 5beta,9alpha,10beta-androstane-3,17-dione were very poor substrates, and gave the corresponding 3alpha(equatorial,3R)-hydroxy compounds, and, in the latter case, also an appreciable amount of 3beta(axial, 3S)-hydroxy-5beta,9alpha,10beta-androstan-17-one. The natural steroids 17beta-hydroxy-5alpha,9alpha,10beta-androstan-3-one and 5alpha,9alpha,10beta-androstane-3,17-dione were better substrates than the retro steroid 17beta-hydroxy-5alpha,9beta,10alpha-androstan-3-one, but were not such good substrates as the retro steroids 17beta-hydroxy-5beta,9beta,10alpha-androstan-3-one and 5beta,9beta,10alpha-androstane-3,17-dione. Unlike these retro steroid 5beta,9beta,10alpha-androstan-3-ones, the natural steroids 17beta-hydroxy-5alpha,9alpha,10beta-androstan-3-one and 5alpha,9alpha,10beta-androstane-3,17-dione gave the corresponding 3alpha(axial,3R)-hydroxy compounds. The retro steroid 17beta-hydroxy-5alpha,9beta,10alpha-androstan-3-one was not a good substrate, and the product of reaction corresponded to the 3alpha(axial,3R)-hydroxy compound. The nature of substrate recognition by this enzyme is discussed in the light of these structure-activity relationships. | 168,869 | [
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Evidence for a histidine and a cysteine residue in the substrate-binding site of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase. | 1. Yeast alcohol dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.1) is inhibited by stoicheiometric concentrations of diethyl pyrocarbonate. The inhibition is due to the acylation of a single histidine residue/monomer (mol.wt. 36000). 2. Alcohol dehydrogenase is also inhibited by stoicheiometric amounts of 5,5'-dithiobis-(2-nitrobenzoate), owing to the modification of a single cysteine residue/monomer. 3. Native alcohol dehydrogenase binds two molecules of reduced coenzyme/molecule of enzyme (mol.wt. 144000). 4. Modification of a single histidine residue/monomer by treatment with diethyl pyrocarbonate prevents the binding of acetamide in the ternary complex, enzyme-NADH-acetamede, but does not prevent the binding of NADH to the enzyme. 5. Modification of a single cysteine residue/monomer does not prevent the binding of acetamide to the ternary complex. After the modification of two thiol groups/monomer by treatment with 5,5'-dithiobis-(2-nitrobenzoate), the capacity of enzyme to bind coenzyme in the ternary complex was virtually abolished. 6. From the results presented in this paper we conclude that at least one histidine and one cysteine residue are closely associated in the substrate-binding site of alcohol dehydrogenase. | 168,872 | [
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High affinity oestradiol receptors and the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and lactose synthetase in mammary carcinomata of postmenopausal women. | The determination of hormone inducible proteins in endocrine tumours may yield information about the presence of hormone dependent tumour cells. We have estimated the high affinity oestradiol binding capacity in primary mammary carcinomata of 57 postmenopausal patients. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and lactose synthetase are known from animal experiments to be hormone inducible. Therefore, in biopsies of sufficient size the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (47 pateints) and lactose synthetase (23 patients) was also studied. It was found that biopsies with high binding capacity also showed high activities of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and lactose synthetase A protein (galactosyl transferase). No lactose synthetase B protein (alpha-lactalbumin) has been discovered in the tumours. The present observations may be considered suggestive evidence of a relationship between high oestradiol binding capcity and high activities of the two enzymes on the one hand and hormone dependence of the tumour on the other. However, further clinical studies are required before final conclusions in this respect can be drawn. | 168,914 | [
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Prostaglandins and cyclic AMP in epidermis. Evidence for the independent action of prostaglandins and adrenaline on the adenyl cyclase system of pig and human epidermis, normal and psoriatic. | Prostaglandins E1 and E2 stimulate cyclic AMP accumulation in pig epidermis and in human epidermis from patients with psoriasis. Prostaglandins A1,A2 and F2alpha are relatively ineffective. The fact that this stimulation is not inhibited by a beta-blocker (propranolol) and that the stimulation by prostaglandin E2 and adrenaline is additive indicates that each drug acts independently on the epidermal adenyl cyclase system. In other words, prostaglandins E1 and E2 act on a site other than the beta-receptor of adenyl cyclase in epidermis. The stimulation by prostaglandins E1 and E2 is not additive; hence they probably act on the same site. Concentrations of prostaglandin E above 3X10(-7) M are effective in causing stimulation. This concentration may be within the physilogical range and the contribution of endogenous prostaglandin levels in the control of intracellular cyclic AMP levels cannot be disregarded. | 168,916 | [
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Laser-flash-activated electron paramagnetic resonance studies of primary photochemical reactions in chloroplasts. | Electron paramagnetic resonance studies of the primary reactants of Photosystems I and II have been conducted at cryogenic temperatures after laser-flash activation with monochromatic light.P-700 photooxidation occurs irreversibly in chloroplasts and in Photosystem I fragments after activation with a 730 nm laser flash at a temperature of 35 degrees K. Flash activation of chloroplasts or Photosystem II chloroplast fragments with 660 nm light results in the production of a free-radical signal (g = 2.002, linewidth approximately 8 gauss) which decays with a half-time of 5.0 ms at 35 degrees K. The half-time of decay is independent of temperature in the range of 10-77 degrees K. This reversible signal can be eliminated by preillumination of the sample at 35 degrees K with 660 nm light (but not by 730 nm light), by preillumination with 660 nm light at room temperature in the presence of 3-(3',4'-dichlorophenyl)-1,1'-dimethylurea (DCMU) plus hydroxylamine, or by adjustment of the oxidation-reduction potential of the chloroplasts to - 150 mV prior to freezing. In the presence of ferricyanide (20-50 mM), two free-radical signals are photoinduced during a 660 nm flash at 35 degrees K. One signal decays with a half-time of 5 ms, whereas the second signal is formed irreversibly. These results are discussed in terms of a current model for the Photosystem II primary reaction at low temperature which postulates a back-reaction between P-680+ and the primary electron acceptor. | 168,921 | [
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Two forms of a mitochondrial endonuclease in Neurospora crassa. | Mitochondrial nuclease activity in Neurospora crassa occurs in membrane-bound and soluble forms in approximately equal proportions. These activities apparently are due to the same enzyme, which has an approximate molecular weight of 120 000. A portion of the insoluble enzyme appears to be associated with the inner mitochondrial membrane and is resistant to solubilization by detergent treatment as well as by physical disruption methods. | 168,950 | [
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Pancreatic neoplasms in an animal model: morphological, biological, and comparative studies. | After a short latency (15 weeks), a 100% incidence of pancreatic neoplasms was induced in Syrian golden hamsters, following the administration of 2,2'-dihydroxy-di-n-propylnitrosamine (DHPN). Data extracted from reports of human pancreatic neoplasms were compared with findings relative to the induced neoplasms. The latter resembled human pancreatic tumors, in both biological and morphological aspects. | 168,955 | [
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Concanavalin A agglutination of cells from primary hepatocellular carcinomas and hepatic nodules induced by N-2-fluorenylacetamide. | A previous study demonstrated that cells of transplantable hepatocellular carcinomas were agglutinated by the plant lectin concanavalin A, while normal hepatocytes were not. In the present experiments, 95% or more of cells obtained from primary hepatocellular carcinomas which resulted from exposure of rats to N-2-fluorenylacetamide were agglutinated by this lectin. Exposure to this carcinogen also produces grossly visible foci of morphologically and biochemically altered hepatocytes which have been termed hepatic (hyperplastic; premalignant, neoplastic) nodules. Although these hepatocyte aggregates are generally accepted as precursors of the hepatocellular carcinomas, no agglutination was detected when their cells were exposed to concanavalin A. These results indicate that concanavalin A agglutinability is not acquired as a result of tumor transplantation. Furthermore, they suggest that significant alterations must occur in the cells of hepatic nodules prior to the manifestation of malignant behavior. | 168,971 | [
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[Induction of cutaneous or subcutaneous fibroblastic tumors in the Afghan pika (Ochotona rufescens rufescens) by injection or bovine papilloma virus]. | Newborn Afghan pikas have been inoculated with bovine papilloma virus via the subcutaneous route. Cutaneous or subcutaneous fibromas and fibrosarcomas were observed after a mean incubation period of nine months. The transmission of these tumors by homograft has been obtained. Bovine papilloma virus antibodies have been demonstrated in most of the animals inoculated at birth. They have not been detected in animals bearing transplanted tumors. | 168,982 | [
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[RNA fragments, in vivo inhibitors of Shope fibroma and vaccinia virus multiplication]. | RNA-fragments rich in purine nucleotides and resulting from degradation of ribosomal RNA from E. coli M 500 Sho-R with pancreatic RNase exhibit only in vivo an inhibitory effect on Shope fibroma and vaccinia virus multiplication. | 168,984 | [
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Electron microscopic observations of 20 human osteosarcomas. | Twenty primary osteosarcomas of bone and two osteosarcomas metastatic to the lung were examined by electron microscopy. The tumor cells, whether from an area exhibiting chondroid, osteoid or collagenous matrix, showed common abnormalities in configuration and fine structure. The cells tended to be spindle-shaped with centralized nuclei. The nucleus was enlarged, irregular in shape, and frequently lobulated. The choromatin was dense and arranged around the periphery of the nucleus. There was a large prominent, irregularly shaped nucleolus. Smooth membranes were sparse to absent. The rough endoplasmic reticulum was abundant, disorderly, and tended to be markedly dilated in mature cells. The mitochondria were numerous, variable in size and configuration, and were intimately surrounded by rough endoplasmic reticulum. The collagenous matrix was disorganized with the fibers and bundles randomly oriented and arranged. No structures definitely identifiable as virus-particles were seen. However, microstructures resembling unenveloped nucleocapsids of paramyxo- or related viruses were noted. All fine structure abnormalities could be associated with an increased metabolic rate and/or with abnormal protein and enzyme synthesis. No definitive diagnostic features were found. The fine structure of cell cultures derived from the osteosarcomas in this study was similar to that of the fresh tissue. No virus-like particles were seen in any of these cell lines. | 169,000 | [
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AMV RNA transcription in cell-free systems and properties of in vitro chromatin-directed RNA synthesis. | In this report we have presented evidence that viral sequences in the genome of AMV-infected myeloblasts can be transcribed in vitro. The RNA products synthesized in either nuclei isolated from these cells or by eukaryotic RNA polymerase B from the isolated chromatin contained approximately 1% virus-specific sequences. This result, which is in agreement with the fraction of viral RNA in infected cells (Garapin et al. 1971), is higher than expected from a random transcription of the genome, and thus shows that a degree of selectivity in transcription is maintained in both systems. The inhibition of synthesis of viral sequences in nuclei by alpha-amanitin as well as the finding that RNA polymerase B catalyzed the synthesis of viral sequences from chromatin support the hypothesis that the expression of viral information is mediated by nucleoplasmic RNA polymerase. An investigation of the properties of the chromatin-directed products led to the suggestion that RNA synthesis in vitro was initiated on single-stranded or denatured regions of the template; a limiting factor in the synthesis of large molecular weight RNA from isolated chromatin appeared to be the extent of the denatured region available to the enzyme. These findings are consistent with the suggestion that gene activation in eukaryotic organisms results from the unwinding of segments of chromatin DNA (Crick 1971). | 169,005 | [
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Qualitative and quantitative studies of AKR-type murine leukemia virus sequences in mouse DNA. | Utilizing a single-stranded [3H]DNA probe highly representative of AKR viral 70S RNA, we have performed association kinetics experiments with cellular DNA in vast excess from 3 high-, 5 low- and 4 non-virus-yielding mouse strains. Our hybridization studies indicate that in the strains so far tested, the complete genome of the AKR-type MLV is present in the DNA of the embryos of both high- and low-virus-yielding mouse strains, while DNA of non-virus strains contains only a part of the genome. Furthermore, at least two populations of virus-specific DNA sequences can be identified (more abundant and less abundant species) according to their rate of association. Low-virus-yielding mouse strains contain a smaller number (1-2 copies) of the less abundant species, and thus a lower number of complete viral genome than do high-virus strains (3-4 copies). Non-virus-yielding strains are lacking these less abundant sequences in their genome. DNA from wild Mus musculus also contained viral sequences, the sample tested showing association kinetics identical to the non-virus-producing strains. Thus there is a good correlation between completeness of the AKR-type MLV genome in cellular DNA and the capacity of the cells to release AKR-type MLV. Mice of a non-virus-yielding strain made partially congenic for the AKR virus-inducing locus Akv-1 contained the complete virus genome, confirming that this locus consists of structural genes of the virus. | 169,010 | [
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Studies of hamster cells transformed by adenovirus 2 and the nondefective Ad2-SV40 hybrids. | Adenovirus 2 does not produce tumors when injected into newborn hamsters, and this failure is not corrected by the acquisition of the portion of the SV40 genome present in any of the nondefective Ad2-SV40 hybrid viruses. However, nonhybrid Ad2 will transform hamster cells in vitro, and these transformed cells will produce tumors when injected into newborn hamsters. This finding, taken in conjunction with other studies (Graham et al., this volume; McAllister et al., 1969; McDougall et al., this volume; Williams 1973), suggests that the categorization of Ad2 and Ad5 as "nononcogenic" viruses is a reflection of host response rather than an intrinsic property of the viruses. However, transformation of hamster cells by Ad2 is inefficient, requiring 10(7)-10(8) PFU to produce a focus of transformed cells. Transformation of hamster kidney cells by the nondefective hybrids cannot be associated with portions of the SV40 genome. During the transformation process, complex interactions must occur between the hamster cell genome and the viral genome of Ad2 or the nondefective hybrids. Thus while it appears that there is very little Ad2 DNA in one nonhybrid Ad2-transformed cell line, there is a larger amount of Ad2 DNA in all of the hybrid virus-transformed cell lines. Moreover, while one Ad2+ND2-transformed line has apparently lost the SV40 portion of the viral genome, it is present and transcribed in another line transformed by the same virus. Finally, in the lines of nondefective hybrid-transformed cells examined thus far, there is extensive transcription from the Ad2 H strand. This pattern of transcription differs from transcription of the viral genome in most hybrid Ad2-transformed hamster and rat cells in which L-strand transcripion predominates. | 169,097 | [
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Characterization of defective simian virus 40 DNA: comparison between large-plaque and small-plaque types. | We characterized defective DNA molecules of large-plaque and small-plaque SV40 produced and accumulated during serial undiluted passages. The electron microscope heteroduplex method revealed that defective SV40 DNA contains deletions, insertions and substitutions. The majority of the large-plaque defective molecules had a simple deletion. The deletions were heterogeneous in size, and the sites of deletion appeared to be mostly overlapping. The majority of the small-plaque defective molecules had a deletion, and more than half of the deletion molecules also had an insertion at a separate site. The small-plaque SV40 genome appeared to have more sites for deletion to occur than large-plaque SV40, and the deletions have occurred at more than two sites. The change of a local nucleo tide sequence resulting from mutation may be related to the difference between the two plaque types. | 169,099 | [
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Fibrous histiocytoma of the trachea. | A histologically benign but locally infiltrating tumor of histiocytes, fibrous histiocytoma, was found in the trachea of a 26-year-old man. Partial resection of the trachea afforded the successful removal of the growth with no evidence of recurrence or metastases 27 months after surgery. Pathology and prognostic aspects of the tumor are discussed. | 169,106 | [
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[Carcinoma of the liver in a child after seven-year complete remission of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia(author's transl)]. | A malignant hepatoma occurred in a 12-year-old girl who eight years previously had developed an acute lymphoblastic leukaemia which for eight years had been in complete haematological remission. Fourteen months after the last re-induction treatment period had been discontinued, but while on methotrexate and 6-mercaptopurine maintenance, a hepatocellular liver carcinoma developed of which the patient died after a fulminating course, still in complete haematological remission. As far as is known, no direct carcinogenic effect can be ascribed to the two antimetabolites, but it must be assumed that these two drugs, taken by the patient for over seven years, led to cirrhosis of the liver whose malignant transformation was significantly influenced by the immunosuppressive effects of methotrexate and 6-mercaptopurine, given as maintenance therapy according to protocol 02 LA 64, Paris. | 169,114 | [
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Antibodies to Epstein-Barr virus in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis patients. | Blood samples from 45 cases of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in Israel were tested for the presence of antibodies to Epstein-Barr virus capsid antigen and early antigen by the indirect immunofluorescence method. Significantly higher titers were found in patients as compared to healthy controls with higher titers especially in Jews of Asian-African origin. Mean geometric titer was 1:42.8 in this group as compared to 1:10.8 in the control group. Antibodies to Epstein-Barr Virus early antigen were found in 50% of the patients and in none of the controls tested. Elevated titers of antibodies to Epstein-Barr Virus antigens seem to be related to impaired immunological mechanisms in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis patients, especially of a certain ethnic group. | 169,130 | [
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Correlation of estrogen-induced uterine eosinophilia with other parameters of estrogen stimulation, produced with estradiol-17beta and estriol. | Estradiol-17beta is a stronger estrogen than estriol for the genomic response of estrogens. Estriol is a stronger estrogen than estradiol-17beta for the estrogen-induced uterine eosinophilia and the 6 h increase in the uterine wet weight. | 169,148 | [
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On the pathogenesis of duchenne muscular dystrophy. | The relative merits of the three presently most active hypotheses (vascular, neurogenic, and myogenic) concerning the pathogenesis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy are analysed and discussed and the literature is comprehensively reviewed. | 169,179 | [
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[Effect of [ethyl p-(6-guanidinohexanoyloxy)benzoate] methanesulfonate (FOY) on kinin formation and fibrinolysis activity]. | Inibitory effects of [Ethyl p-(6-guanidinohexanoyloxy)benzoate] methanesulfonate (FOY) on kinin formation (in vitro and in vivo) and the fibrinolytic activity (in vivo) were examined and compared with otherinhibitors. Inhibitory effect on kinin forming activity (in vitro) of various enzymes was measured in the guinea pig ileum. FOY and Trasylol inhibited the kinin forming activities of trypsin, pancreas kallikrein and plasma kallikrein. Soybean trypsin inhibitor inhibited kinin like substance was formed in the perfusate when the rat's paw was heated at 46 degrees C. FOY and T-asylol added to the perfusion fluid produced a potent inhibition of the formation of bradykinin-like substance. When administered i.v., FOY and Trasylol did not inhibit the formation of bradykinin-like substance. In the dog, activation of plasmin in the circulatory blood and increase of hemorrhagic tendency were caused by the i.v. administration of human serum plus streptokinase. Such responses were inhibited with a previous i.v. infusion of FOY and t-AMCHA. From the above findings, it may be concluded that FOY has inhibitory effects on kinin formation and fibrinolytic activity. | 169,189 | [
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Sensitive assay for detection of toxin-induced damage to the cytoplasmic membrane of human diploid fibroblasts. | A sensitive assay was developed for detection and quantitation of subtle permeability changes in the cytoplasmic membrane of human diploid fibroblasts. Release of the non-metabolizable amino acid [1-14C]alpha-aminoisobutyric acid (AIB; molecular weight (103) from the cytoplasm of prelabeled cells was used as an indicator of toxin-induced membrane damage. An optimal procedure for labeling these cells was designed after varying the conditions with regard to pH, temperature, concentration of AIB, composition of medium, and incubation time. Toxin-induced release of AIB was compared with release of a previously described nucleotide label, [3H]uridine. Melittin from bee venom and the polyene antibiotics filipin and amphotericin B in low concentrations induced a strikingly greater release of AIB than of nucleotide label. The sensitivity of this assay was furthermore demonstrated by treatment with the following bacterial cytolysins: phospholipase C and theta-toxin from Clostridium perfringens, alpha-, beta-, delta-, and gamma-toxins from Staphylococcus aureus, and streptolysin S from Streptococcus pyogenes. In spite of their different modes of action, all these membrane-active toxins at low concentrations induced a significant release of AIB label. For an equal release of nucleotide label, several times higher concentrations were required. | 169,201 | [
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Pyrimidine biosynthetic pathway of Baccillus subtilis. | Biochemical and genetic data were obtained from a series of 51 Pyr- strains of Bacillus subtilis. The observed enzymatic deficiencies allowed the mutants to be placed into 12 clases, some of which represent defects in more than one of the six known pyrimidine biosynthetic enzymes. Mapping analysis by transformation has shown that all the Pyr- mutations are located in a single small area of the B. subtilis genome. A correlation of the biochemical defects and the genetic data has been made. Those mutations conferring similar enzymatic deficiencies were found to be contiguous on the B. subtilis map. Regulatory aspects of the pyrimidine pathway have also been investigated and are compared to previously reported results from other organisms. Evidence is presented which bears upon the possible physical association of the first three enzymes and the association of at least some of the enzymes of this pathway with particulate elements of the cell. A model for the organization of the enzymes is presented with dihydroorotate dehydrogenase as the central enzyme in a proposed aggregate. | 169,225 | [
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Kinetics of the onset of catabolite repression in Escherichia coli as determined by lac messenger ribonucleic acid initiations and intracellular cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate levels. | The rates of synthesis of beta-galactosidase (EC 3.2.1.23) and the intracellular levels of cyclic 3',5'-adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) soon after the addition of glucose or glycerol to exponentially growing cultures of Escherichia coli have been determined. Within 10 s of its addition, glucose, but not glycerol, lowered the apparent initiation frequency of lac messenger ribonucleic acid. The glucose-generated reduction in initiations is identified as catabolite repression by its reversibility with cAMP. The intracellular cAMP levels respond virtually identically to glucose and glycerol additions. Thus, no correlation was observed between the rate of messenger ribonucleic acid initiation and the level of cAMP. | 169,231 | [
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Increase in numbers of gonadotropin receptors on granulosa cells during follicle maturation. | The binding of both human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and human luteinizing hormone (hLH) to a homogeneous population of isolated intact granulosa cells from increasingly mature porcine ovaan follicles has been studied. The number of receptor sites per granulosa cell increases 35-fold as the follicle enlarges, although cell size remains constant. This may explain the increased biologic responsiveness to gonadotropin of mature cells from large follicles. The affinity for both hormones, as determined by equilibrium dissociation constants, is high, and does not appear to change significantly as the cells mature. Comparison of dissociation constants, numbers of binding sites, and competitive inhibition between hCH and hLH, indicates that these two hormones probably interact with the same receptor on the granulosa cells. | 169,290 | [
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Insulin receptor deficiency in genetic and acquired obesity. | We have previously shown that in the insulin-resistant obese hyperglycemic mouse (ob/ob) there is a deficiency in the number of insulin receptor sites on hepatocytes, adipocytes, and thymic lymphocytes. We now find that concentration of insulin receptors on liver plasma membranes is decreased in the db/db mouse, another form of inherited obesity, and in normal mice that became obese after treatment with gold thioglucose, while thin mice, heterozygous for the ob mutation (ob/+), have normal insulin binding. With acute and chronic food restriction of the ob/ob and gold thioglucose obese mice, there is reduction in hyperinsulinemia and an associated increase in the insulin receptor concentration toward normal. In contrast, when fasting ob/ob mice were given exogenous insulin to maintain the hyperinsulinemia, insulin receptors failed to increase. Thus, in all cases, there was a consistent relationship between the degree of hyperinsulinemia and of insulin receptor loss. These findings suggest that decreased insulin binding is a characteristic feature of the insulin resistance of obesity, and that sustained hyperinsulinemia is a major factor in the control of the concentration of insulin receptors on target cells. | 169,296 | [
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Effect of Klebsiella pneumoniae enterotoxin on intestinal transport in the rat. | The effects on intestinal transport of either a semipurified preparation of enterotoxin elaborated by Klebsiella pneumoniae or similaryly prepared control material were tested by marker perfusion studies in the small intestine of rats. At a concentration of 2 mg/ml, the enterotoxin produced net secretion of water, Na, and Cl in both jejunal and ileal segments; HCO3 transport was not affected. Net secretion was evident within 30 min after intorduction of the toxin and was maximal after 90 min. The addition of 56 mM glucose to the enterotoxin-containing perfusion fluid resulted in reversal of water and Na transport to net absorption in both intestinal segments. The enterotoxin also produced a significant depression of xylose absorption in both the jejunum and ileum but did not affect the absorption of either glucose or L-leucine. Intestinal structure was not altered after perfusion of the toxin but insillation of approximately one-quarter of the total perfusion dose into a ligated jejunal loop for 18 h produced fluid secretion and structural abnormalities. These observations confirm the fact that other species of coliform bacteria in addition to tescherichia coli are capable of elaborating an enterotoxin. Such species commonly contaminate the small intestine of persons with tropical sprue and it is suggested that chronic exposure of the intestinal mucosa to the enterotoxin elaborated by these bacteria may be a factor in the pathogenesis of intestinal abnormalities in thid disorder. | 169,297 | [
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Varicella-Zoster Immunoglobulins during Varicella, Latency, and Zoster. | Antibodies to membrane antigens of cells infected by varicella-zoster virus were detected by immunofluorescence. Rises in varicella-zoster IgA, IgG, and tigM were detected after both varicella and zoster. Prompt antibody responses were observed in patients with generalized zoster as well as in those with localized zoster. A delayed response was found, moreover, in one patient who did not develop disseminated disease. Antibody to varicella-zoster virus was detected in the sera of all three patients tested prior to and in all but one of 63 patients tested soon after onset of zoster. The level of varicella-zoster IgA and IgG rose in two of three immune patients after household exposure to infection with varicella-zoster virus. Varicella-zoster IgG was detected in the cord blood of infants whose mothers were immune to varicella. | 169,308 | [
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Immunofluorescent staining for the measurement of antibodies to Herpesvirus hominis. | Frozen sections of Herpesvirus hominis-inoculated mouse brain provide excellent antigens for indirect immunofluorescent staining of antibodies to H. hominis in serum. Indirect immunofluorescent staining is a rapid, sensitive, and reproducible method for the measurement of antibodies to H. hominis. The method can be applied to the clinical and epidemiological studies of H. hominis infections. | 169,313 | [
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Demonstration of enzymes related to myelinogenesis in established human brain cell cultures. | CNP, CGalT and PAPS-CST, enzymes involved in myelinogenesis were demonstrated in cultures derived from human brain. Little or no CNP activity could be found in cultures derived from non-neurogenic tissue. Transformation of brain cultures by PML-SV40 virus resulted in a 3 to 10-fold increase in the specific activity of CNP. | 169,328 | [
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Regulation of seminiferous tubular function by FSH and androgen. | Seminiferous tubules contain a cytoplasmic androgen receptor similar to the receptors in the epididymis and ventral prostate. The presence of a cytoplasmic receptor indicates that androgens maintain spermatogenesis by a direct action on certain types of cells within the seminiferous tubule. The Sertoli cell appears to be one of the cell types containing androgen receptors and the receptor might also be present in spermatogonia, primary spermatocytes, or peritubular cells. The Sertoli cell is stimulated by FSH to produce an androgen-binding protein which may serve to increase the accumulation of androgen in the seminiferous epithelium and make it available for binding by intracellular androgen receptors. This may be a way in which FSH enhances the action of androgen on spermatogenesis. Androgens act on the Sertoli cell to increase its response to FSH. This action of androgens on the Sertoli cell results in increased production of androgen-binding protein and may enhance the production of other substances which exert trophic effects on spermatogenesis. | 169,349 | [
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Malignant tumors in American black and Nigerian children: a comparative study. | Results of a study on the relative frequencies of tumors in American black and Nigerian children were compared with data from the Childhood Cancer Registries in Manchester, United Kingdom, and Kampala, Uganda. The American black child living in Washington, D.C. and the Caucasian child living in Manchester had similar high frequencies for leukemia and glioma, whereas the incidence of lymphoma and retinoblastoma was low. African children living in Nigeria or Uganda had the opposite frequency patterns. These differences in frequencies of tumors between two ethnologically related population groups, American black and Nigerian, suggested the influence of environmental factors in the etiology of these tumors, even though exposure to environmental carcinogens was short. The rarity of Ewing's sarcoma and testicular tumors in American black and Nigerian children suggested a genetic influence. | 169,371 | [
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Escherichia coli capsule bacteriophages. IV. Primary structure of the bacteriophage 29 receptor, the E. coli serotype 29 capsular polysaccharide. | Using periodate oxidation, methylation analysis, characterization of oligosaccharides by Smith degradation or partial acid hydrolysis, as well as proton magnetic resonance, the primary structure of the Escherichia coli serotype 29 capsular polysaccharide (the receptor of E. coli K phage 29) was reinvestigated. The polymer was found to consist of hexasaccharide repeating units of the following structure: (see article). | 169,391 | [
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Loss of epinephrine stimulated synthesis of cyclic adenosine 3':5' monophosphate during maturation of rabbit and human reticulocytes. | The adenylate cyclase activity of rabbit reticulocytes is localized in the stroma. Rabbit reticulocytes are four times more active than mature erythrocytes in transforming in situ formed [14C] adenosine triphosphate into [14C] cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate. Similarly, anaemic human red blood cells show higher activity in effecting this transformation. The adenylate cyclase activity is stimulated by epinephrine, 40% in rabbit reticulocytes, and 70-80% in anaemic human RBC but not in erythrocytes. Both the reticulocytes and erythrocytes can bind [14C] epinephrine, but the reticulocytes bind a relatively large amount. A glycogen phosphorylase that can be activated by cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate is detected only in reticulocytes. Both reticulocytes and erythrocytes contain a phosphodiesterase which can hydrolyse cyclic 3':5'-adenosine monophosphate and which is activated by imidazole and inhibited by methyl xanthines. | 169,441 | [
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Role of cytidine triphosphate and cytidine diphosphate in promoting inositol entry into microsomal phosphatidylinositol. | The Mn2+ activated incorporation of myo-inositol-3H into subfractions of phosphatidylinositol in rat liver microsomes was studied in the presence and absence of cytidine triphosphate or cytidine diphosphate choline using phosphate buffer. The distribution of labeled inositol among molecular species of microsomal phosphatidylinositol was also investigated in vivo. In other experiments, the release of radioactivity from microsomes labeled with inositol-3H in the phospholipid was measured after the addition of Mn2+, unlabeled inositol, and cytidine nucleotide. Similar chase experiments were conducted with microsomes containing phosphatidylcholine-14C or phosphatidylethanolamine-14C. The addition of cytidine triphosphate or cytidine diphosphate choline stimulated the rate of inositol-3H entry into microsomal phosphatidylinositol by 3.5 to 4-fold and the monoenoic plus dienoic, trienoic, tetraenoic, and polyenoic species contained 6-7, 6, 78-81, and 7-9%, of radioactivity, respectively. These latter patterns were very similar to those observed among the corresponding molecular species when the Mn2+ stimulated entry of free inositol into phospholipid was studied in the absence of added cytidine nucleotide. In chase experiments, the release of radioactivity from phospholipid in the presence of cytidine trephosphate or cytidine diphosphate choline was greatly enhanced by the addition of free inositol when microsomes containing phosphatidylinositol-3H, but not phosphatidylcholine-14C or phosphatidylethanolamine-14C, were employed. Therefore, under the present conditions, cytidine triphosphate and cytidine diphosphate choline appear to stimulate the entry of inositol into phosphatidylinositol by enhancing the Mn2+ activated exchange reaction in rat liver microsomes. The results suggest further that phosphatidylinositol is the preferred substrate when this reaction is stimulated by cytidine nucleotide. | 169,452 | [
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[NAD-dependent N-methylglutamate dehydrogenase--new enzyme metabolizing methylamine in methylotrophs]. | The properties of N-methylglutamate dehydrogenase, a new enzyme of methylamine metabolism in a facultative methylotroph Pseudomonas methylica, strain 2, were investigated. The enzyme was strictly dependent on the NAD presence and was not connected with particles in cell-free preparations. The enzyme appeared to be incucible and its activity increased after the growth of the cells in a medium containing methylamine. | 169,456 | [
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[Translation of hormone receptor interactions into biological function. A hypothesis (author's transl)]. | Published data revealing discrepancies between the kinetics of hormone binding and adenylate cyclase activation are critically analyzed. This analysis gave rise to the hypothesis concerning the translation of hormone receptor interactions into biological function, i.e.: adenylate cyclase activation. Because the lifetime of the hormone receptor complex is too long, other steps in signal transfer are considered for the control of adenylate cyclase activity. | 169,465 | [
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Polypeptides isolated from ribosome-like structures occluded in avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV). | The protein composititon of ribosome-like particles isolated from AMV was determined by acrylamide gel electrophoresis and by immunological methods. It was established that the protein spectrum of ribosome-like particles differed significantly form the total protein spectrum of AMV. The most characteristic protein components of ribosome-like particles had a molecular weight in the range of 70 000--110 000. Apart from these proteins, the viral ribosomal particles contained a small amount of proteins with a molecular weight of 14 000--35 000 that could not be removed even by extensive purification. Immunological studies of the proteins of ribosome-like particles revealed the presence of antigenic determinants of ribosomal proteins. Furthermore, throughout the purification procedure the material contained components that reacted with antibodies against gs antigens. | 169,489 | [
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Vinblastine-induced ultrastructural changes in perisinusoidal cells of the rat liver. | Vinblastine, given intravenously to rats, leads to disappearance of microtubules, formation of paracrystalline inclusions and accumulation of fat droplets in the cytoplasm of the perisinusoidal cells of the liver suggesting that microtubules of the perisinusoidal cells play a role in lipid metabolism. | 169,558 | [
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[Relative increase and metacritic aggravation in the diagnosis of anicteric cholestasis]. | The authors report 3 cases and report the diagnostic usefulness of two signs of minor cholestasis described by one of them in 1966. A relative increase, in the absence of obvious virus hepatitis or cirrhosis, of the serum bilirubin, cholesterol, lipids and alkaline phosphatase, together with B.S.P. excretion. suggest minor cholestasis. The sign of "metacritical aggravation" when there is some suspicion of minor cholestasis, the supervision of the course of the disease, or a retrospective inquiry, permit, in the presence of minor symptoms, such as, pain, fever, jaundice, or pruritus, one to make the diagnosis of minor cholestasis. The latter is due either to the presence of small gall stones in the common bile duct, or to inflammation of the ampulla of Vater, or sphincter of Oddi, a Vaterian ampulloma, pancreatitis, or following damage to the common bile duct. In practice, liver biopsy confirms the diagnosis, and intravenous cholangiography, by the perfusion method, is usually able to demonstrate obstruction of the common bile duct. | 169,583 | [
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[Abnormalities of lumbar transverse processes]. | The transverse processes of the lumbar vertebrae sometimes present rare abnormalities, or major abnormalities, which may be contrasted with congenital lesions concerning their volume, shape and direction. After a rapid review of the general and clinical characteristics, radiological analysis of the 59 cases collected in the literature and 6 personal cases, permits a provisional classification of the three varieties of lesion encountered. Apart from the rareness of cases known up to now, the interest of this study is to attract attention to the etiology which is still unknown, whether congenital or traumatic, and consequently, to the possible medico-legal consequences. Once again, as in other fields, the authors attract attention to the undoubted advantages of routine XRay of the lumbar spine and of the sacral area, one of which may be to discover the true etiology of the abnormalities encountered. | 169,585 | [
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[Anti-nuclear antibodies in collagen diseases]. | The authors sought serum antinuclear antibodies by the indirect immunofluorescent method in 3,260 patients, and found these antibodies in 293 of them. 90 patients had a level equal or greater than 1/50. Among the latter, 54 had some form of collagen disease. The following facts are emphasized: -- antinuclear antibodies are always present in lupus erythematosus. Their levels fall under the influence of treatment when nephritis occurs; -- their frequency is greater (13 cases out of 16) during scleroderma, with often a hazy appearance; -- they are lower during rheumatoid arthritis (23% of cases had a significant level), and their presence is not a sign of worse prognosis; -- they were absent in other forms of collagen diseases. | 169,588 | [
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Serologic studies of acute respiratory infections in military personnel. | The advantages, disadvantages, and uses of serological epidemiology are discussed in relation to acute respiratory infections in military personnel. The prevalence of antibody reflects both current and past experience with respiratory agents and is a measure of susceptinility. Incidence data calculated by testing two serial serum samples, on entry and discharge from the service, has indicated high influenza and mycoplasma pneumoniae rates in South American recruits and low rates of adenovirus and parainfluenza infections. Serologic analysis of reinfection rates showed high protection against influenza infections at HI antibody levels of over 1:40, against adenovirus infections at neutralizing titers of 1:5, and against M. pneumoniae infections at TRI antibody levels over 1:8. Antibody responses persisting at least 7 mo following immunization were demonstrated in 70% of 428 vaccinated young adults for A2 antigen and 20% for influenza B antigen. No relation of ABO blood groups to respiratory infection was found. The lack of myxovirus infections in four Polaris submarines is presented. | 169,640 | [
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[Dermatoglyphics in children with embryonic tumors (author's transl)]. | Dermatoglyphics were analyzed in 60 children with embryonic tumors. In comparison with normal children, several differences were found. Thus, the embryonal origin of the different tumors is underlined and the hypothesis of embryonic tumors as malformations is sustained. These tumors seem to be the clinically most important manifestation of a much more comprehensive malformation syndrome, which is not yet known in all its details. | 169,641 | [
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Histochemical localization of enzyme activity in the kidneys of male marmosets (Callithrix jacchus and Callithrix penicillata). | The distribution of several hydrolases and oxidoreductases was studied in the renal parenchyma of adult male marmosets (Callithrix jacchus and Callithrix penicillata). The oxidative enzymes showed a high reactivity in the proximal and distal tubules, whereas the hydrolases reacted strongly in the proximal tubules but only weakly or not at all in the thick limb of Henle's loop, distal tubules and collecting ducts. The NAD-dependent enzymes (except alpha-GPDH) showed a stronger reactivity in the proximal tubules, while the NADP-dependent ones were more reactive in the thick limb of Henle's loop and distal convoluted tubules. Two groups of interstitial cells were found in the medulla. A first group inside the outer medulla, showing cells rich in acid phosphatase and nonspecific esterases and a second group, close to the papilla, reactive to a certain number of oxidative enzymes. A different reactivity in cells of the distal convoluted tubules, thick limb of Henle's loops and collecting ducts (dark cells) was seen in the case of some enzymes like nonspecific esterase, alpha-GPDH and SDH. | 169,663 | [
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[Necrotizing herpetic encephalitis. Electro-clinical and pathological studies on two infantile cases (author's transl)]. | The electroclinical and pathological features of two infantile cases of acute necrotizing herpetic encephalitis are reported. The distribution of the lesions has been compared with those observed in fourteen other cases including four with EEG records. Various electroencephalographic features have been recorded including repetitive slow spikes and periodic stereotyped paroxysmal discharges. The pathological data are interpreted to attempt unravelling the physiopathology of the EEG features. | 169,665 | [
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Preparation of single cell suspensions from hepatoma cells in culture. | Fundamental examination was carried out on the liberation of single cells from hepatoma cells in culture. dRLa-74 cells derived from rat hepatoma, which hardly disperse as single cell suspensions with several proteolytic enzymes or EDTA alone, dispersed with a high yield of single cells by the combination of trypsin and EDTA. HUH-6 cells derived from human hepatoblastoma also showed similar results. The degree of cell dissociation by the combination was dependent on the incubation temperature or pH. | 169,672 | [
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On the function of sleep. | It is proposed that sleep serves the function of maintaining immobility in animals at times when immobility is an optimum behavioural survival strategem. Sleep is of great evolutionary age and is always carefully tailored to the life-style of each animal; abundant in some species and absent from others. The survival advantages conferred on an animal by the power of sleep to schedule behaviour effectively may justify its existence and persistence in the evolution of species. | 169,715 | [
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Detection of agents that alter the bacterial cell surface. | Proteus mirabilis is not killed by polymyxin B, normal serum, or sodium deoxycholate. Exposure to polymyxin B renders the cells susceptible to killing by the latter two agents. The data suggest that this synergism is due to polymyxin B-induced surface changes. The results point out an inadequacy of existing methods of screening for antibiotics; they fail to detect agents which, while showing no in vitro effect on growth, may alter a resistant organism so that it becomes more susceptible to other antimicrobials or host defense mechanisms. A method is described which can be used to detect such cell surface-modifying agents. | 169,728 | [
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The prediction of hormonal dependency of mammary cancer. | The estrogen receptor protein (estrophilin) was determined in specimens from 359 primary breast cancers and from metastatic tumors of 214 patients. Ninety-eight patients were eventually treated by some form of endocrine therapy: 82 patients were treated by ablative therapy, and 16 by hormonal additive treatment. The records of 81 of the 98 patients whose tumors were characterized for estrogen receptor content and who had received some type of endocrine therapy were reviewed by a peer review group that assessed the objective data for these patients regarding objective remission or failure to treatment. A positive estrophilin determination was defined as receptor content greater than 250 fmole per gram of tumor for premenopausal females and greater than 750 fmole per gram of tumor for postmenopausal and previously castrated patients. Estrogen receptor determinations may be made from tumor specimens as small as 200 mg. Sixty-nine patients underwent some form of ablative therapy. Twenty-seven of these patients were found to have significant receptor determinations. Of those patients in whom a definite determination was made of their post-treatment response, roughly two-thirds experienced objective remissions. None of the 42 patients with negative estrogen receptor determination experienced an objective remission to ablative endocrine therapy. Only one of 6 patients with negative determinations benefited from additive hormonal therapy; 4 of 6 patients with positive determinations benefited from additive therapy. Not all women with receptor containing mammary cancer will respond favorably to endocrine therapy, but those patients whose tumors lack a critical amount of estrophilin have little chance of benefit from either endocrine ablation or hormone administration. The estrogen receptor content of the primary tumor indicates the hormonal dependency of the tumor and may be used to predict the response to endocrine treatment when recurrent disease appears. | 169,754 | [
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The sterilization of gutta-percha points. | The traditional methods employed for the sterilization of gutta-percha points are unsatisfactory. The use of propylene oxide for this purpose is described and experimental evidence is advanced to support this use. | 169,776 | [
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Type V hyperlipoproteinaemia re-visted: findings in a sydney population. | The clinical and biochemical features of eleven patients with Type V hyperlipoproteinaemia have been reviewed. All patients were male, and there was a high incidence in the group of obesity, vascular disease, acute abdominal pain, gout, diabetes mellitus and alcoholism. Plasma cholesterol concentrations ranged from 212 to 1512 mg/100ml and triglycerides from 708 to 7670 mg/100 ml. Lipaemia was associated with significant hyponatraemia, and also interfered with the determination of plasma glucose and serum amylase. Chylomicronaemia and hyperprebetalipoproteinaemia were accompanied by reduction in the pools of beta and alpha lipoproteins. All lipoprotein classes were relatively depleted of cholesterol compared to triglyceride. There was a variable pattern of treatment response. In some patients alcohol withdrawal produced a rapid improvement in plasma lipids. In diabetes mellitus there were two types of response: a rapid one in chronic insulin deficiency, and secondly, a more gradual one in mild diabetes associated with hyperinsulinaemia. In other patients there was a rapid response to carbohydrate-calorie restriction but the respective contributions of each of the steps remained unclear. | 169,779 | [
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Bluetongue in sheep and goats. | A description is given of the symptomatology, pathology and pathogenesis of bluetongue in sheep and goats. The economic significance of the disease in South Africa is discussed. | 169,785 | [
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Epizootiology of bluetongue: the situation in the United States of America. | Bluetongue was first reported in the United States in 1948 in sheep in Texas. The virus has now been isolated from sheep in 19 States. When the disease first occurs in a flock, the morbidity may reach 50 to 75% and mortality 20 to 50%. In subsequent years, the morbidity may be only 1 to 2% with very few deaths. Difference in breed susceptibility has not been observed. Natural bluetongue infection has not been observed in Angora or dairy goats. Bluetongue virus was first isolated from cattle, in Oregon, in 1959. The virus has now been isolated from cattle in 13 States. In cattle, the disease is usually inapparent but can cause mild to severe clinical disease and neonatal losses. Natural clinical bluetongue has also been reported in bighorn sheep, exotic ruminants in a zoo, mule deer, and white-tailed deer. Serological evidence of exposure to the virus has also been found in other species of ruminants in the wild. Inoculation of virulent bluetongue virus, vaccine virus, or natural disease can cause congenital deformities and neonatal losses in calves, lambs, and white-tailed deer fawns. Culicoides is considered the important insect vector of bluetongue. The virus has also been isolated from sheep keds and cattle lice. U.S. field strains of the virus fit into four serologic groups. No cross reactions were found between bluetongue and epizootic haemorrhagic disease of deer viruses. Cattle are considered significant virus reservoirs. It is necessary to use washed erythrocytes, rather than whole blood, and to inoculate susceptible sheep, rather than embryonated chicken eggs, to detect longer-term viraemia in cattle. | 169,793 | [
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Rous sarcoma regression in chickens resistant or susceptible to Marek's disease. | In 4 experiments, strains of chickens relatively susceptible (S-strain, P-line) or resistant (N-line, PDRC) to Marek's disease (MD) were challenged with Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) at 6-8 weeks old. RSV tumors occurred in 94-100% of the birds in each strain, but the number with tumors that regressed during the 40-46-day experiment varied from 7% (S-strain) to 91% (PDRC). The N-line and P-line birds, derived from a random-bred flock with selection only for susceptibility or resistance to MD, regressed their tumors at about equal rates (respectively 59 and 65%). Thus, although the genetic strains differed in ability to regress RSV tumors, the difference was not necessarily related to genetic resistance or susceptibility to MD. Other birds in 2 of the experiments, infected 2-4 weeks earlier with JM or GA isolants of MD virus, had significantly (P less than 0.01) lower incidence of RSV tumor regression than did controls provided that they developed gross lesions of MD. | 169,801 | [
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Avian encephalomyelitis virus in chicken pancreatic cell cultures. | Monolayer cell cultures consisting of epithelioid cells were made from pancreatic tissue of 10-to-13-day-old chicks. The maximum virus titer of the cell-culture fluid was obtained 8 days after inoculation with an embryo-adapted avian encephalomyelitis virus (AEV). Virus titers also increased in cell cultures inoculated with a chick-pancreas-passed AEV or a field isolant. Cell cultures inoculated with 3 strains of AEV maintained virus titers of 10(2.9)-10(3.7) 50% embryo-infective doses/ml for 15-20 days. In other cell cultures from pancreatic tissues of chicks preinfected orally with the chick-pancreas-passed AEV or the field isolant, the virus titers decreased for several days after cultivation and thereafter increased and persisted until at least the 25th or 30th day. Neither a cytopathic effect nor any inclusion body was observed in the cell cultures infected with AEV. No AEV-antigen-positive cell was detected by direct fluorescent-antibody technique. | 169,803 | [
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Comparisons of surface markers on Herpesvirus-associated lymphoid cells of nonhuman primates and established human lymphoid cell lines. | Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS)-owl monkey lymphoid cells were found to have high levels of surface receptor for sheep erythrocytes and erythrocytes of 3 other species. These HVS-lymphoid cells lacked a receptor for modified complement. Lymphoid cells of one HVS-owl monkey line showed evidence for the presence of surface immunofluorescent staining with anti-kappa chain serum. Cells of an established HVS-marmoset lymphoid line had similar surface markers. Of 4 established human lymphoid cell lines, all lacked a receptor for sheep erythrocytes, 3 showed evidence for the presence of receptor for modified complement, and 3 showed immunofluorescent evidence for the presence on the surface of both heavy and light chain immunoglobulin. Preliminary data on an established Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-owl monkey lymphoid cell line indicated a lack of receptor for sheep erythrocytes, presence of receptor for modified complement, and surface immunofluorescent staining with both anti-heavy and anti-light chain sera. | 169,815 | [
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In vivo interactions between murine leukemia and sarcoma viruses. | Experiments have been performed with the aim of elucidating the nature and the extent of the in vivo interactions between murine leukemia viruses (MuLVs) and murine sarcoma virus (MSV). BALB/c and CBA mice, injected neonatally with Graffi or passage A Gross viruses (MuLV-Gi, MuLV-G), have been inoculated as young adults with murine sarcoma virus, Moloney strain (MSV-M). A higher percentage of nonregressing sarcomas appeared in these animals, sometimes accompanied simultaneously by leukemia. The immune reactivity of mice receiving MuLV-Gi at birth was found to be significantly depressed when evaluated by the hemolytic palque-forming cell (PFC) technique. However, in mice infected with MuLV-Gi and MSV-M the number of PFC ranged within the control values or slightly increased. The potentiation of MSV-M oncogenicity following infection with MuLV was studied in a more natural situation. Adult AKR mice, known to release endogenous MuLV continuously, were injected with MSV-M. The incidence of induced sarcomas was similar to that observed in control BALB/c mice inoculated with MSV-M. Moreover, tumors developed with a very long latent period. On the other hand, the great majority of tumors showed no regression and ultimately killed the host. Additional experiments, making use of immunologic manipulation of the host and Fl hybrids, suggest that the relative resistance to MSV-M oncogenesis in AKR mice is influenced by genetic and immunologic factors. MSV recovered from MSV-M-induced tumors in AKR and C58 mice was typed by highly specific mouse antisera. The results clearly showed that formation of a new MSV pseudotype occurred in vivo, the endogenous Gross virus acting as helper. | 169,829 | [
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Methanol extraction residue of BCG in the treatment of transplanted rat tumours. | Subcutaneous growth of immunogenic chemically induced rat sarcomata and a hepatoma was restricted when cells were injected into syngeneic animals in admixture with MER. Rats rejecting mixed inocula were immune to further challenge with the same tumour. Growth of a chemically induced mammary carcinoma which lacks detectable immunogenicity was suppressed when low cell inocula were injected in admixture with MER or intact BCG organisms, although animals were not immune to re-challenge. These studies indicate that clinically MER may be a suitable alternative to BCG for contact suppression of tumour growth or incorporation into tumour cell:adjuvant vaccines for active immunotherapy. | 169,861 | [
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Inappropriate production of collagen and prolyl hydroxylase by human breast cancer cells in vivo. | Thirty-two scirrhous cancers of breast have been examined to determine the origin of the collagen stroma in these tumours. Employing two immunohistochemical techniques it has been shown that the malignant epithelial cells in 30 of these tumours contain not only collagen but also prolyl hydroxylase, a key enzyme in collagen biosynthesis. Neither this enzyme nor collagen was detectable in the spindle cells in the stroma of these tumours. Neither the epithelium in normal breast, that in fibrocystic disease and in fibroadenomata, nor the malignant epithelium in two medullary cancers of breast contained either collagen or prolyl hydroxylase. These results strongly suggest that the malignant epithelium of scirrhous breast cancers produces its own collagen stroma and that the scirrhous reaction in these tumours is not a host response to tumour invasion. The production of collagen and prolyl hydroxylase by breast cancer cells (of the scirrhous type) therefore represents another example of inappropriate protein production by a human tumour. | 169,865 | [
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Collagenase and other proteinases in the cornea of the retinol-deficient rat. | 1. Enzymes that may contribute to liquefaction of the cornea in retinol-deficient animals and in man have been studied using rat cornea. The established technique of culturing tissue fragments and determining the activity of collagenase (EC 3-4-24-3) and other enzymes in the medium after different periods of culture was used. 2. A collagenolytic system was detected in the media from cultures of rat corneas. This system probably consists of at least two enzymes, a collagenase and a neutral proteinase. 3. Both proteolytic and specific collagenolytic activity were greater in media from retinol-deficient rat corneas. The hydroxyproline level increased in parallel with the increase in enzyme activity. 4. In the final stages of retinol deficiency the cornea is invaded by granulocytes and other cells of the blood and we suggest that destruction of cornea collagen may be due largely to the activity of the enzymes from these cells. | 169,877 | [
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Chlorophyll radical cation in photosystem II of chloroplasts. Millisecond decay at low temperature. | We compare the absorption changes, in the near infrared and in the green part of the spectrum, induced in spinach chloroplasts suspensions, at -- 170 degrees C, by continuous light and by flashes. (1) Following flash excitation, an absorption increase peaking at 825 nm which reverses rapidly (t 1/2 = 3.0 ms) is not affected by ferricyanide; it is suppressed when chloroplasts are preilluminated in the presence of 3-(3',4'-dichlorophenyl)-1,1'-dimethylurea (DCMU) and hydroxylamine. The reversion of that signal is simultaneous with a partial back reoxidation of C-550 (fully reduced by the flash) and with partial (about 25%) oxidation of cytochrome b559. The magnitude of the signal peaking at 825 nm (that we attribute to the radical cation of the trap chlorophyll of Photosystem II, acting as a primary electron donor) decreases progressively within a series of successive flashes. (2) An absorption increase (40% of which is slowly reversible) with a broad peak around 810 nm is induced by continuous light or by a flash. It is suppressed by pretreatment with ferricyanide, but it is little affected by the treatment with 3-(3',4'-dichlorophenyl)-1,1'-dimethylurea and hydroxylamine. We attribute it to oxidized P700. (3) With chloroplasts pretreated with 10 mM ferricyanide, an absorption increase, whose magnitude is nearly independent of wavelength between 790 and 870 nm, can be induced by continuous light. One saturating flash produces only 20% of the signal. This absorption change (20% of which is reversible in 30 s) might be due to a secondary donor of Photosystem II. | 169,899 | [
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Effect of ascorbic acid on ACTH-induced cyclic AMP formation and steroidogenesis in isolated adrenal cells of vitamin E-deficient rats. | Isolated adrenal cells from Vitamin E-deficient and control rats were prepared by a trypsin digestion method. Cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) formation was studied in response to adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) in the presence and absence of ascorbate by measuring the conversion of prelabeled adenosine 5'-triphosphate [14C]ATP to cyclic [14C]AMP. Ascorbate (0.5 mM) inhibited ACTH-induced cyclic [14C]AMP formation in adrenal cells isolated from Vitamin E-deficient rats but had no effect in the control cells. The inhibitory effect of ascorbate on ACTH-induced cyclic AMP formation in Vitamin E-deficient rats decreased as the concentration of ACTH increased. In Vitamin E-deficient rats ascorbate inhibited ACTH-induced cyclic [14C]AMP formation after 30 min of incubation. There was no further significant accumulation of cyclic [14C]AMP at 60 min or 120 min although in the absence of ascorbate cyclic [14C]AMP continued to be formed. The in vitro addition of alpha-tocopherol reduced the inhibition of ACTH-induced cyclic [14C]AMP formation by ascorbate in Vitamin E-deficient rats. These studies suggest that alpha-tocopherol and ascorbate may affect ACTH-induced cyclic AMP formation through interaction with the membrane-bound enzyme adenylate cyclase. | 169,901 | [
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Hypnosis and eye movements. | Eye movements (with closed lids) were studied in a group of highly hypnotizable experimental subjects experienced in self-hypnosis, and compared with a random sample of control subjects that had never been hypnotized and were low in waking suggestibility. Approximately half the experimental subjects rolled their eyes upwards to a greater extent when hypnosis was induced than during eye closure while awake. In some subjects eye flutter occurred during hypnosis, but not in the awake condition. During passive hypnosis the mean rates of rapid eye movements were lower, but those of slow eye movements were higher than during the resting awake condition of the same subjects or the random control subjects. The mean rates of horizontal eye movements during suggestions about begin in a train and watching passing telephone poles were higher for the experimental subjects in the hypnosis and 'imagination' sessions than that of the random control group in the imagination session. A proportion of the experimental subjects made more lateral eye movements during hypnosis than during the imagination session, but an equal proportion did not differ between the two conditions. The mean rates and durations of horizontal eye movements during dreaming about a tennis match were greater during hypnosis ('hypnotic' dream), than during the awake condition a few minutes later ('natural' dream), or the awake condition in the imagination session ('imagination' dream) of the same subjects or random controls. The performance and subjective involvement of the experimental subjects during the Barber suggestibility scale, 'nystagmus' suggestions and 'dreaming' did not differ significantly between the two hypnosis sessions, but in most cases were significantly greater during hypnosis than during the imagination session of the same group or the random control group. | 169,921 | [
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An inhibitory effect of atropine on responses of the vas deferens of the mouse to field stimulation. | 1 Atropine is shown to impair responses of the vas deferens of the mouse to field stimulation by acting at a site proximal to the smooth muscle cells. 2 The inhibitory effect of atropine is prevented by desmethylimipramine and reversed by dexamphetamine, and appears similar to the adrenergic-neurone blockade of guanethidine. 3 Electronmicroscopical studies show the presence in vas of presumptive noradrenergic axons which have acetylcholinesterase reaction product associated with their axolemmae. 4 These results are discussed in relation to the controversial hypothesis of a 'cholinergic link' in noradrenergic transmission. | 169,932 | [
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Viral susceptibility of a cell line derived from the pig oviduct. | Seventeen of 24 RNA viruses and eight of nine DNA viruses replicated in a cell line derived from a pig fallopian tube. The following RNA viruses grew poorly in it: the virus of transmissible gastroenteritis of pig and the swine-influenza, Sendai and bovine para-influenza type 3 viruses. Among other RNA viruses an untyped swine para-myxovirus and some picornaviruses, rhabdoviruses and togaviruses attained high titers and produced an extensive cytopathic effect. Among the DNA viruses a porcine adeno, equine rhinopneumonitis, infectious bovine rhinotraceheitis, pseudorabies and porcine cytomegalo viruses replicated in pig fallopian tube cells as well as in other cells generally used to grow them. | 169,971 | [
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An outbreak of avian encephalomyelitis in turkeys in Canada. | An outbreak of avian encephalomyelitis in two week old turkey poults is described. The disease was diagnosed by the fluorescent antibody technique and was confirmed by neutralization tests conducted in chicks. | 169,973 | [
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Herpes simplex encephalitis in Hodgkins disease. Isolation of drug-sensitive virus from brain following unsuccessful treatment with idoxuridine. | Herpes simplex encephalitis developed in a patient with Hodgkin's disease under therapy. Despite treatment with idoxuridine in a total dose of 280 mg/kg intravenously, he died without showing any clinical response. At autopsy, there was no gross or microscopic evidence of Hodgkin's disease, and virus isolated from the brain postmortem was inhibited in vitro by idoxuridine 0.5 mug/ml. Failure of idoxuridine to affect the course of infection by a drug-sensitive virus may be due to poor tissue penetration, although the role of the Hodgkin's disease cannot be discounted. | 169,986 | [
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Ultrastructure of human bronchiolo-alveolar cell carcinoma. | Ultrastructural features were correlated with a series of special staining reactions in eight cases of bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma. Ultrastructural, all tumors were similarly composed of large cells with abundant cytoplasm and small nuclei in close contact with each other. Straight membranes or complex interdigitations occurred within adjacent tumor cells, attached to each other by scattered desmosomes. Microvilli or cilia abutted from free surfaces of the cells, and were noted in different stages of evolution. Numerous organelles were seen in the cytoplasm, including prominent mitochondria and single or coalescent secretory vacuoles with granular matrix resembling mucin. Other cytosomes less commonly found were irregular, partially lamellated inclusions and dark, homogeneous structures without limiting membranes. The stroma of the tumors was rich in elastin and collagen. Both the number of secretory vacuoles in the cytoplasm of tumor cells and the amount of connective tissue fibrils in the stroma of the tumors correlated well with the findings in the series of special staining reactions. No definite ultrastructural feature was present to identify the tumors as orginating from Type II alveolar epithelial cells, but the possibility exists that they arose in the bronchiole, from undifferentiated basal cells or mucinous cells per se. Our impression in these eight cases studied is consistent with the view that bronchiolo-alveolar carcinomas are indistinguishable at the ultrastructural level from other bronchogenic adenocarcinomas. | 169,987 | [
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Noninvasive quantitation of myocardial infarction with technetium 99m pyrophosphate. | We sought to quantitate infarct size using radioactive imaging techniques. Infarcts were created in closed chest dogs. Using a scintillation camera interfaced to a computer, infarct images were made in the anterior, left lateral, LAO, and RAO projections, 48 hours after infarction and 75 to 90 min following the intravenous injection of 15 mCi of Technetium 99m pyrophosphate (Tc-PYP). Images were computer enhanced and area was calibrated with a radioactive grid source of known dimensions. Image radioactivity was normalized for decay and dose corrected for body weight. Animals were sacrificed two hours following the injection Tc-PYP. Postmortem images were also computer enhanced and calibrated. Gross infarct area and weight were estimated and transmural biopsies were evaluated for Tc-PYP activity and analyzed for creatine phosphokinase (CPK) content. Contiguous biopsies were pathologically analyzed and graded. There was a negative correlation between tissue Tc-PYP activity and CPK content (r=0.89). Pathologic severity worsened with increased Tc-PYP activity and diminished CPK content. There was a good correlation between gross infarct area and image infarct area, both in vivo (r | 170,018 | [
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[Ultrastructural observations of the velamentous astrocyte impregnated by Golgi's method]. | Electron microscopy of the velamentous astrocyte in the cat inferior colliculus was performed on serial semi-thin and ultra-thin Golgi preparations. The glial origin of the velum has been considered and its topographical relationships with the other structures of the neuropile have been described. | 170,015 | [
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Detection of inborn errors of metabolism. IV. Galactokinase deficiency. | Galactokinase deficient fibroblasts are not distinguishable from galactosemic fibroblasts by a test suggested earlier by Hill & Puck (1973). They can be so distinguished by the test described here, since they are unable to incorporate radioactive galactose into TCA-insoluble material under normal conditions of incubation while both galactosemic and normal cells incorporate considerable amounts. The importance of this is discussed in relationship to antenatal screening. | 170,030 | [
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Oxidation of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide by particles from Mycobacterium lepraemurium. | Particles from Mycobacterium lepraemurium catalysed the oxidation of NADH with oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor. The preparations contained cytochromes of the a + a3'b and c types, as well as CO-binding pigments. The NADH oxidase activity was sensitive to inhibitors of the flavoprotein system as well as to HQNO and antimycin A. In addition, a cytochrome oxidase sensitive to cyanide was also present. The system was inhibited by the thiol-binding agent, PCMB, and thus indicated the involvement of sulphydryl group in the enzymatic oxidation of NADH. The sensitivity of the NADH oxidase system to all the inhibitors of the respiratory chain and the effect of these inhibitors on the absorption spectra suggested that cytochromes of the b, c, a + a3 types are involved in the transfer of electrons in NADH oxidation. | 170,040 | [
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Prevention of acute pulmonary edema during isolated perfusion for 24 hours. | Fifty-nine canine lungs were perfused with cryoprecipitated plasma, silica gel fraction, or modified silica gel fraction (MSGF) af different perfusate pressures for periods up to 24 hours under hypothermic conditions. High perfusate pressures accounted for all poor perfusion results. The use of MSGF at a low perfusate pressure protected all the lungs from the appearance of pulmonary edema during perfusion, and the morphology was consistently maintained for 24 hours. | 170,043 | [
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The volume and DNA content of extrachromosomal inclusions in the dorsal foot-pad nuclei of Tricholioproctia impatiens (Sarcophagidae, Diptera). | The chromosomes of the giant dorsal foot-pad cells of Tricholioproctia impatiens produce numerous extrachromosomal bodies which consist of a central spherical core of DNA surrounded by a ribonucleoprotein layer. The bodies are either free within the nucleoplasm or attached by thin threads of chromatin to chromosomal bands. The DNA content and the volume of DNA of unattached spherules fell into distinct classes in a regular geometric progression. | 170,048 | [
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Demonstration of a specific receptor for prolactin in porcine granulosa cells. | Porcine granulosa cells and subcellular fractions from these cells have been shown to have a specific receptor for ovine prolactin (OPRL). Ovine growth hormone demonstrated 7% of the potency of OPRL in displacing 125I-OPRL from its binding site; FSH, TSH, LH, insulin and ACTH showed negligible cross-reactivity. Scatchard analysis of the displacement curves suggested that 125I-OPRL has a high affinity for its receptor with a dissociation constant (Kd) for the granulosa cell-receptor of 7.4-7.7 times 10(-10) M with no change as the follicle enlarges. In contrast, the specific binding of prolactin decreased markedly with maturation of the follicles with an apparent decrease in binding sites/cell from 555 in small follicles to 300 in large (preovulatory) follicles. The demonstrated Kd's were within the range of prolactin concentrations easily attained in vivo and were in good agreement with values obtained in our laboratory and elsewhere for the prolactin receptor from mammary gland and other tissues. Consequently, these studies may provide a basis for a better understanding of the role of prolactin in ovarian function. | 170,061 | [
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Autoradiographic localization of corticosterone receptors (type III) to the collecting tubule of the rat kidney. | Recently, a class of receptors exhibiting high affinity for corticosterone was described in rat kidney (Feldman, D. et al., Endocrinology 92: 1429, 1973). These receptor sites exhibited negligible affinity for dexamethasone and aldosterone and were designated Type III to distinguish them from sites having high affinity for aldosterone (Type I), and sites with high affinity for dexamethasone and corticosterone (Type II). To visually localize Type III sites in the kidney and demonstrate whether or not they represent intracellular steroid receptors, we used an autoradiographic procedure for diffusible substances. Male adrenalectomized rats were injected intravenously with the following combination of steroids per 100 g body weight: 4 x 10(-9) mol [3H]corticosterone, 4 x 10(-9) mol unlabeled aldosterone, and 4 x 10(-9) mol unlabeled dexamethasone. To differentiate "nonspecific" binding, each experimental animal was paired with a control animal that received the same steroids plus 250-fold unlabeled corticosterone. At 3 min, 10 min, and 30 min, kidneys were removed, cut into quadrants, and frozen in isopentane cooled by liquid nitrogen. For autoradiography, 4 mum frozen sections were cut, pressed into contact with emulsion precoated slides at -30 C, melted and simultaneously dried under a jet of dry nitrogen gas, and exposed at 4 C for 2 to 6 weeks. At all three time intervals, silver grains representing [3H]corticosterone binding sites, were concentrated over collecting tubules, only in the outer medulla and cortex (those in the inner medulla and papilla were not labeled). In the labeled segments of the nephron, some of the cells showed an apparent high ratio of cytoplasmic to nuclear grains and in others nuclear labeling was more prominent. A small population of cells within labeled collecting tubules (possibly dark cells) were not labeled. Although no function can yet be ascribed to Type III receptors in the kidney, they may represent an important steroid-mediated renal mechanism. | 170,062 | [
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On the mechanism of prolactin and estrogen action in 7,12 dimethylbenz(A)anthracene-induced mammary carcinoma in the rat. II. In vivo tumor responses and estrogen receptor. | In order to test the in vivo effect of prolactin on estrogen receptor (ER) binding capacity in tumors induced by 7,12 dimethylbenz(a)anthrancene (DMBA-tumor), growth of the tumors from changes in prolactin and estrogen levels was compared retrospectively with cytoplasmic ER levels. It was demonstrated that some tumors required prolactin, some needed prolactin-estrogen during their growth period anda small number were not influenced by hormonal milieu. ER was present in hormonally dependent tumors but was low or absent in hormonaly-independent tumors. Deletion of hormones by endocrine ablation in the host rat resulted in tumor regression loss of ER. Replenishment of ER and subsequent tumor growth were accomplished by injection of prolactin or prolactin-estrogen in endocrine ablated rats but were not achieved in rats bearing tumors exposed to prolactin-nafoxidine. Our results demonstrate that both estrogen and prolactin were essential for growth of hormonally dependent DMBA-tumors. Tumor growth was also prevented when cytoplasmic ER was not replenished , indicating that ER may be an indispensable prerequisite for growth. Prolactin, independently of or cooperatively with estrogen, stimulated ER binding capacity. These results support the hypothesis that there may exist a prolactin regulatory mechanism of estrogen action at the tumor site. The interactions of estrogen and prolactin in situ in modulating hormonal receptor binding capacities may contribute to the overall stimulatory effect of these two hormones on DMBA-tumors. | 170,065 | [
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Influence of thyroid hormone on glycogen metabolism in rat liver. | The livers removed from thyroidectomized and L-T4 supplemented rats were rapidly frozen by Freon-12 chilled with liquid nitrogen, and concentrations of metabolites which affect glycogen synthetase and phosphorylase were determined. Serum and liver glycose levels were not changed in any thyroid functioning. But liver G6P and ATP were increased by thyroidectomy and decreased by L-T4 supplement, while cAMP was increased by the hormone supplement. The "enzyme activity" ratio of glycogen synthetase a to phosphorylase a was increased by thyroidectomy and decreased by L-T4 supplement. The most intimate correlation was observed between the "enzyme activity" ratio and the ratio of the "energy charge" ratio of cAMP among other indices calculated from changes in the metabolite concentrations in the various thyroid functioning. The change in the substrate levels brought about by thyroidectomy and L-T4 supplement appeared to modulate both the enzyme activities which in turn regulate the glycogen metabolism. | 170,073 | [
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Respiratory effects in toluene diisocyanate manufacture: a multidisciplinary approach. | A new plant manufacturing toluene diisocyanate (TDI) has provided a unique opportunity to investigate the effects of TDI vapor inhalation on respiratory health in a group of exposed workers who have been studied prior to the start of plant operation. In order to establish dose-response relationships and determine host factors, complete biologic monitoring, including pulmonary function and immunologic studies, has been performed concurrently with a comprehensive environmental monitoring program including continuous sampling for atmospheric concentrations of TDI. Study groups include workers with regular exposure to TDI in production jobs (83), workers with intermittent contact with this vapor, usually in maintenance (28), and a control group of workers employed outside the TDI area (55). This population is being followed for a period of 5 yr. The plant began operations in August 1973 with start-up procedures completed by the end of October. TDI spills occurred for numerous reasons, usually attributed to pump failure and resultant line blockage. Significant exposures also occurred in the drumming operation. The influence of these malfunctions is noted in the continuous monitoring data on atmospheric TDI concentrations which continue to reveal frequent excursions above the threshold limit value (TLV) of 0.02 ppm ceiling. These data are presented in relation to time and plant location. Although the first full year follow-up following initial exposure was not complete, certain preliminary clinical observations were made. A number of workers had episodes of acute respiratory symptoms related to single exposure to an irritant gas at work, usually either TDI or phosgene. It appears that two or three workers in the study population have become "clinically sensitized" to TDI and have been removed from regular TDI exposure. To date, the total number of workers who report the presence of recurring respiratory symptoms has not increased in comparison with the pre-exposure survey. Pulmonary function data after one full year of TDI exposure are not yet available. Pre- and post-shift ventilatory function studies do not indicate significant differences between the exposed and control groups. Selected individuals had carefully controlled inhalation challenge tests to monitored concentrations of TDI vapor under laboratory conditions. In workers suspected of having become "sensitized", immediate and/or late air flow obstruction was demonstrated and could be related to dose of inhaled TDI. | 170,075 | [
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N-acetylglutamate 5-phosphotransferase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Purification and ligand-directed association-dissociation. | N-Acetylglutamate 5-phosphotransferase (ATP: N-acetyl-L-glutamate 5-phosphotransferase EC 2.7.2.8), the second enzyme of arginine biosynthesis, was purified over 2000-fold from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The purification procedure involved a heat treatment, ammonium sulfate precipitation, and chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, Sephadex G-150, and hydroxyapatite. The purified enzyme was greater than 90% pure as judged by analytical polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. A molecular weight of approximately 230000 was obtained by gel filtration. Electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate gels gave a single band corresponding to a molecular weight of 29000. Due to the capacity for self-association, the enzyme can exist in different states of aggregation depending on the nature of ligands and the concentrations of phosphate buffer. As estimated by gel filtration, the molecular weight was about 230000 in the presence of N-acetyl-L-glutamate. With L-arginine, the feedback inhibitor, and MgATP forms of smaller molecular weight (minimum of approximately 65000) were found. A concurrent change in the sedimentation coefficient as a function of ligands was demonstrated by sucrose gradient centrifugation. The synthesis of N-acetylglutamate 5-phosphotransferase was not repressed by exogenous L-arginine or its precursors. | 170,089 | [
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Purification of rheumatoid synovial collagenase and its action on soluble and insoluble collagen. | 1. The neutral collagenase released into the culture medium by explants of ehrumatoid synovial tissue has been purified by ultrafiltration and column chromatography, utilising Sephadex G-200, Sephadex QAE A-50 and Sephadex G-100 superfine. 2. The final collagenase preparation had a specific activity against thermally reconstituted collagen fibrils of 312 mug collagen degraded min-1 mg enzyme protein-1, representing more than a 1000-fold increase over that of the active culture medium. 3. Electrophoresis in polyacrylamide disc-gels with and without sodium dodecyl sulphate showed the enzyme to migrate as a single protein band. Elution experiments from polyacrylamide gels and chromatography columns have provided no evidence for the existence of more than one collagenase. 4. The molecular weight of the enzyme, as determined by dodecylsulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, was 33000. 5. Data obtained from sutdies with the ion-exchange resin and from gel electrophoresis in acid and alkaline buffer systems suggested a basically charged enzyme. 6. It did not hydrolyse the synthetic collagen peptide Pz-Pro-Leu-Gly-Pro-D-Arg and non-specific protease activity was absent. 7. The collagenase attacked undenatured collagen in solution at 25 degrees C resulting in a 58% loss of viscosity and producing the two characteristic products TCA(3/4) and TCB(1/4). 8. At 37 degrees C and pH 8.0 both reconstituted collagen fibrils and gelatin were degraded to peptides of less than 10000 molecular weight. 9. As judged by the release of soluble hydroxyproline peptides and electron microscopic appearances the enzyme degraded human insoluble collagens derived from tendon and soft juxta-articular tissues although rates of attack were less than with reconstituted fibrils. 10. The data suggests that pure rheumatoid synovial collagenase at 37 degrees C and neutral pH can degrade gelatin, reconstituted fibrils and insoluble collagens without the intervention of non-specific proteases. 11. The different susceptibilities of various collagenous substrates to collagenase attack are discussed. | 170,094 | [
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Study of coenzyme binding site of octopine dehydrogenase using analogues of NAD+. | The binding of the coenzyme to octopine dehydrogenase was investigated by kinetic and spectroscopic studies using different analogues of NAD+. The analogues employed were fragments of the coenzyme molecule and dinucleotides modified on the purine or the pyridine ring. The binding of ADPribose is sufficient to induce local conformational changes necessary for the good positioning of substrates. AMP, ADP, NMN+ and NMNH do not show this effect. Analogues modified on the purine ring such as nicotinamide deaminoadenine dinucleotide, nicotinamide--8-bromoadenine dinucleotide, nicotinamide--8-thioadenine dinucleotide and nicotinamide 1: N6-ethenoadenine dinucleotide bind to the enzyme and give catalytically active ternary complexes. Modifications of the pyridine ring show an important effect on the binding of the coenzyme as well as on the formation of ternary complexes. Thus, the carboxamide group can well be replaced by an acetyl group and also, though less efficiently, by a formyl or cyano group. However more bulky substituents such as thio, chloroacetyl or propionyl groups prevent the binding. The analogues bearing a methyl group in the 4 or 5 position, which are competitive inhibitors, are able to give binary by not ternary complexes. The case of 1,4,5,6-tetrahydronicotinamide--adenine dinucleotide which does not give ternary complexes like NADH is discussed. The above findings show that the pyridine and adenine parts are both involved in the binding of the coenzyme and of the substrate to octopine dehydrogenase. The nicotinamide binding site of this enzyme seems to be the most specific and restricted one among the dehydrogenases so far described. The protective effects of coenzyme analogues towards essential -SH group were also studied. | 170,100 | [
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The order of cyanogen-bromide peptides and location of carbohydrate in the alpha2 chain of guinea-pig skin collagen. | The alpha2 chain of guinea pig skin collagen contains two additional methionyl residues in comparison with the alpha2 chain of other vertebrate species. The order of the three CNBr peptides unique to the alpha2 chain was established on the basis of the homology of their primary structures to sequences of previously ordered regions in the alpha1 and alpha2 chains of other colagens. The two larger peptides, 4A + 4B, were found to correspond to the region homologous to alpha2-CB4 of other species, while the smaller peptide, 3A, was homologous to the NH2-terminal portion of alpha2-CB3. Thus, the order of the peptides in the alpha2 chain of this collagen is 1-O-4A-4B-2-3A-3B-5. Periodate oxidation and alkaline or acid hydrolysis of the CNBr fragments showed that all of the hydroxlysine-linked carbohydrate in the alpha2 chain was present in alpha2-CB4B. Carbohydrate analyses were most consistent with the existence of single monosaccharide and disaccharide units in this region. | 170,105 | [
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Influence of agents that act on DNA and RNA synthesis on the activity of poly(ADP-Rib) polymerase. | The activity of poly(ADP-Rib) polymerase is enhanced in the presence of spermine and spermidine. Among the adenosine-like antibiotics tested, only formycin B and showdomycin cause an inhibition of the enzyme, which is competitive to NAD. The activity of poly(ADP-Rib) polymerase is not reduced by rifamycin, alpha-amanitin and 2-phenylethanol. | 170,123 | [
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Membrane fractions of rabbit granulocytes. 1. The presence of ouabain-sensitive ATPase and the electrophoretic patterns. | In one or two membrane fractions isolated from the homogenate of casein-induced rabbit granulocytes ouabain-sensitive ATPase activity was found definitely. Electrophoretic patterns of these membrane fractions showed no significant differences in staining for carbohydrate and protein. | 170,125 | [
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Neutralizing antibody responses to varicella-zoster virus. | Neutralization of varicella-zoster (V-Z) virus by human sera and immune rhesus monkey sera was enhanced by fresh guinea pig complement. There was no marked difference in the degree to which complement enhanced neutralization by sera from current V-Z virus infections and sera from long-past varicella infections. Immunoglobulin G neutralizing antibody in sera from varicella cases was enhanced by complement to a slightly higher degree than was immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody, and immunoglobulin G neutralizing antibody in immune monkey sera was enhanced to a much greater degree than was IgM antibody. There was a rapid decline in the complement requirement of IgM neutralizing antibodies over the course of immunization of the rhesus monkeys. V-Z neutralizing antibody titers in the presence of complement were higher than complement-fixing titers of the same sera in all groups of individuals studied. IgM neutralizing antibody for V-Z virus was demonstrable in all cases of varicella but in only 1 of 22 zoster cases, and V-Z IgM neutralizing antibody was not detectable in primary herpes simplex virus infections in which heterotypic antibody titer rises occurred to V-Z virus. Complement-fixing antibody for V-Z virus was absent in 19S serum fractions which contained IgM neutralizing antibody for the virus. | 170,206 | [
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Immunization against Marek's disease using Marek's disease virus-specific antigens free from infectious virus. | Immunity against Marek's disease was conferred by the use of non-infectious materials extracted with non-ionic detergents from cells infected with the attenuated strain of Marek's disease virus (MDV). Antibody-free Rhode Island Red chicks were inoculated at 1 week of age with cell extracts emulsified in Freund's complete adjuvant and were given a second inoculation 1 week later without adjuvant. Protection against natural infection was obtained in groups inoculated with both soluble (not sedimented at 100,000 times g/2h) and insoluble antigens present in Nonidet P40 (NP40) extract, but only with the insoluble fraction of deoxycholate extract. The results suggest that the immunizing antigens can be partially solubilized with 0.5% NP40 and that the growth and spread of MDV are reduced in immunized chickens. | 170,213 | [
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Genetic control of oncogenesis by murine sarcoma virus Moloney pseudotype. II. A dominant epistatic susceptibility gene. | We have shown in the preceding paper that AKR mice are highly resistant to M-MSV tumor development, and that resistance is transmitted as a dominant character. In the present studies the tumor-response pattern of F1 hybrids between resistant AKR and susceptible strains (C57Bl/6, BALB/c and B10BR) following injection with Moloney mouse sarcoma virus (M-MSV) resembles that of the non-AKR parent. Segregation is observed in first backcross (Bc1) and F2 mice, and the segregation ratios up to Bc3 mice fit a one-gene model. The data of triple cross hybrids suggests that this dominant susceptibility gene inhibits the phenotypic expression of M-MSV tumor resistance in some susceptible Fv1bb strains as well as in their hybrids with AKR. Neither Fv-1 nor H-2 exerts any significant influence on this complex system. | 170,220 | [
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[The Rothmund-Thomson-syndrome. A case report]. | This case of Rothmund-Thomson Syndrome is presented because of its association with hitherto unrecognized disorders, especially internal malignancy. The position and linkage of these associated symptomes with the genetically determined syndrome of Rothmund and Thomson is discussed. | 170,234 | [
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A new gas lesion syndrome in man, induced by "isobaric gas counterdiffusion". | Normal men have been found to develop pruritus and gas bubble lesions in the skin, and disruption of vestibular function, when breathing nitrogen or neon with oxygen while surrounded by helium at increased ambient pressure. This phenomenon, which occurs at stable ambient pressures, at 1 or many ATA, has been designated the "isobaric gas counterdiffusion syndrome." In a series of analyses and experiments in vivo and in vitro the cause of the syndrome has been established as due to gas accumulation and development of gas bubbles in tissues as a result of differences in selective diffusivities, for various respired and ambient gases, in the tissue substances between capillary blood and the surrounding atmosphere. The phenomenon here described in man is an initial stage of a process shown later in animals to progress to continuous, massive, lethal, intravascular gas embolization. | 170,242 | [
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Respiratory capacity, cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate, and morphogenesis of Mucor racemosus. | A variety of cultural conditions were examined to determine the relationship between respiratory capacity and the growth of Mucor racemosus in the yeast and mycelial form. The results show that both yeasts and hyphae can develop when the respiratory capacity is low (e.g., in N2). In addition, the yeast form of the fungus could be grown in air in the presence of cyclic adenosine 5'-monophosphate with high respiratory rates characteristic of air-grown mycelia. These results indicate that their is not an obligatory relationship between respiratory capacity and morphogenesis in M. racemosus. Low intracellular levels of cyclic adenosine 5'-monophosphate, however, were correlated with aerobic mycelial development, whereas yeast development under CO2 was characterized by higher cyclic adenosine 5'-monophosphate levels. | 170,243 | [
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Operator-promoter functions in the threonine operon of Escherichia coli. | The prophage curing properties of secondary-site lysogens of coliphage lambda have been studied. The site of integration in the original lysogen (L79) is within the ooerator-promoter region of the thr operon. As a result, expression of the thr enzymes is reduced, and the strain is a leaky threonine auxotroph. Heat pulse curing of strain L79 and a thr+ lysogenic revertant (L79-20) showed that heat pulse curing of both lysogens was int and xis dependent and occurred by correct excisions of the prophage. The heat pulse curing restored strain L79 to prototrophy whereas strain L79-20 synthesized the thr enzymes constitutively and at high levels. This indicates that the reversion mutation in strain L79-20 occurred outside of the prophage and within the operator-promoter region of the thr operon. In contrast, spontaneous curing of both lysogens occurred by both correct and incorrect excisions. Spontaneously cured derivatives of strain L79-20 gave rise to three classes of regulatory mutants affecting operator and promoter functions to the thr operon. | 170,244 | [
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Active site stoichiometry of L-phenylalanine: tRNA ligase from Escherichia coli K(-10). | The existence of two active siter per molecule of L-phenylalanine:tRNA ligase from Escherichia coli K(-10) has been demonstrated by isolation of the E-aminoacyl adenylate and tel filtration and the nitrocellulose filter assay at pH 5.0 revealed the same stoichiometry for the E-tRNAPhe comples as protection against degradation by snake venom phosphodiesterase and equilibrium gel filtration at pH 7.5. Using a fluorescence titration technique, it was found that the dissociation constant for ligase-tRNAPhe complex is decreased 20-fold when the hydrogen ion concentration is changed from pH 6.0 to pH 5.0. The existence of two active sites binding the aminoacyl adenylate intermediate was demonstrated by gel filtration and retention on DEAE-cellulose filters. "Burst" experiments indicated that two sites were involved in a rapid ATP consumption at conditions of catalytic amino acid activation. Furthermore, it was observed that the activated amino acid could be transferred from both sites to cognate tRNA. | 170,267 | [
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Affinity labeling of the inhibitory DPNH site of bovine liver glutamate dehydrogenase by 5'-fluorosulfonylbenzoyl adenosine. | A new adenosine analogue has been synthesized, 5'-fluorosulfonylbenzoyl adenosine, which reacts covalently with bovine liver glutamate dehydrogenase with the incorporation of approximately 1 mol of 5'-sulfonylbenzoyl adenosine per peptide chain. Native glutamate dehydrogenase is known to be inhibited by relatively high concentrations of DPNH by binding to a second noncatalytic site; the major change in the kinetic characteristics of the modified enzyme is a total loss of this inhibition by DPNH. The modified enzyme retains full catalytic activity as measured in the absence of allosteric ligands, is still inhibited more than 90% by GTP, and is activated normally by ADP. These results demonstrate that the catalytic as well as the GTP and ADP regulatory sites are distinct from the inhibitory DPNH site. The rate constant for reaction of 5'-fluorosulfonylbenzoyl adenosine is decreased by high concentrations of DPNH alone or by DPNH plus GTP, but not by the substrate alpha-ketoglutarate, the coenzymes DPN or TPNH, or the regulators ADP or GTP alone. These observations are consistent with the postulate that the 5'-fluorosulfonylbenzoyl adenosine attacks exclusively the second inhibitory DPNH site. The DPNH inhibition is abolished when an average of only 0.5 mol of 5'-sulfonylbenzoyl adenosine per peptide chain has been incorporated. The structure of 5'-fluorosulfonylbenzoyl adenosine is critical in determining the course of the modification reaction. The smaller compound p-fluorosulfonylbenzoic acid does not affect the kinetic characteristics of the enzyme, and the isomeric compound 3'-fluorosulfonylbenzoyl adenosine produces a different pattern of changes in the regulatory properties (Pal. P. K., Wechter, W. J., and Colman, R. F. (1975) Biochemistry 14, 707-715). Indeed, enzyme which has combined stoichiometrically with 5'-fluorosulfonylbenzoyl adenosine is still able to react with 3'-fluorosulfonylbenzoyl adenosine; thus, the two adenosine analogues appear to react at distinct sites on glutamate dehydrogenase. It is proposed that 5'-fluorosulfonylbenzoyl adenosine will be complementary to 3'-fluorosulfonylbenzoyl adenosine as a general affinity label for dehydrogenases as well as other classes of enzymes which use adenine nucleotides as substrates or regulators. | 170,281 | [
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Soft tissue response to four dense ceramic materials and two clinically used biomaterials. | Disk-shaped implants of spinel, alumina, mullite, zircon, a cast Co-Cr-Mo alloy, and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE), were implanted in the paraspinalis muscle of 12 adult, male, white New Zealand rabbits. Prior to implantation the implants were characterized with respect to size and shape, weight and surface roughness. After periods of 1 month, 2 months, and 4 months, the rabbits were sacrificed and the tissue specimens were retrieved with the implants still intact. Histological examination of the tissues surrounding the implants along with changes in the size and shape, weight, and surface roughness of the implants were used as criteria for evaluating these materials for implant purposes. No surfaces degradation of any of the materials was detected using scanning electron microscopy. Fibrous tissue seemed to adhere to the UHMWPE implants more than any other material used in this study. Large amounts of fibrous tissue were also found to adhere to the cast Co-Cr-Mo alloy implants. The histological results indicated that within the limits of this investigation, the biocompatibility of the ceramic materials used in this study compared favorably with the clinically used Co-Cr-Mo alloy implants and the UHMWPE implants. | 170,288 | [
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Improved Epstein-Barr virus immunoglobulin M antibody test. | The successful demonstration of Epstein-Barr virus immunoglobulin M (EBV IgM) antibody in human sera has been accomplished to date by at least four groups of workers. Many, however, including ourselves, have had difficulty in getting reproducible results with the techniques described. The three-coat technique described by H. Schmitz and M. Scherer (1972) on both fractionated and unfractioned sera was adopted with minor modifications. The Hyland antihuman IgM antiserum used in the second coat was made specific by absorption on Cohn fraction II. This step in the procedure was found to be the single most important factor in arriving at reproducible results in the IgM test. The EBV IgM antibodies from our results to date with this method in 14 cases of heterophil-positive cases of mononucleosis appear short lived, lasting 2 months or less. These antibodies were found in only 2 of 18 selected non-mononucleosis cases, in both associated with EBV-viral capsid antigen antibody rise or seroconversion. The successful elimination of nonspecific fluorescence by a simple, inexpensive procedure and the possibility of testing unabsorbed, unfractionated sera directly will facilitate the use oe the EBV IgM antibody test in the future. | 170,305 | [
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Design and construction of an apparatus for the growth of micro cell cultures on standard glass microscope slides and its application for screening large numbers of sera by the indirect fluorescent antibody technique. | A simple stainless-steel apparatus was designed to contain standard microscope slides on which were grown micro cell cultures in the form of 16 individual monolayers per slide. The application of this apparatus for the screening of serum samples by fluorescent antibody techniques is described. | 170,316 | [
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Measurement of parainfluenza-3 virus antibody by the single radial hemolysis technique. | A single radial hemolysis assay for parainfluenza-3 virus antibody is described as a simple, sensitive, accurate, and precise alternative to hemagglutination inhibition and serum neutralization tests. A highly significant correlation exists between single radial hemolysis zone areas and hemagglutination inhibition titers of both serum and nasal secretion samples. Antibody conversions equivalent to as little as a twofold rise in hemagglutination inhibition titer are readily and reliably detected in sera and nasal secretions. Single radial hemolysis and hemagglutination inhibition activity was demonstrable in the immunoglobulin G fraction of a hyperimmune parainfluenza-3 virus antiserum. | 170,317 | [
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