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[Radiophotographic detection in evaluation of the incidence of tuberculosis]. | In a territory with a population of over 120,000 inhabitants, of which 86% in rural environment, with a high tuberculosis endemic rate, four integral detections were organized in 12 districts and three in the other 12 base units of the area between 1969 and 1973. In most of the districts the incidences varied, in the years when integral detections were carried out the index being the double and in some cases 4-5 times higher, than in the years when this investigation was not performed. If annual incidences are computed for the entire area, excluding the cases detected by radiophotography the morbidity indexes appear by 50% lower. If for the whole territory anual incidences are calculated, excluding the cases that have been detected by radiophotography, morbidity indexes appear to be by 50% lower. From the viewpoint of the forms of disease radiophotographic detection brings to the dispensary two-thirds of the oligo- and asymptomatic cases. Subjects eliminating Koch bacilli, representing 44% of the patients that had been betected in a "passive" way, totalized 19% of the cases detected by radiophotography. The cost of detecting a new case was of 2210 lei and the costs for integral detections, related to the population of the area, represented less than one lei per inhabitant. | 171,745 | [
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Studies on human serum high-density lipoproteins (HDL). IV. Isolation of lipoprotein families after incubation of HDL. | The high-density lipoproteins (HDL) of human serum appear to be unstable and easily exposed to chemical changes during isolation. In earlier studies we have isolated and purified HDL subfractions either in the presence of an SH-blocking agent, DTNB, or in the cold. By both procedures reproducible lipoprotein subfractions could be recovered by hydroxyl apatite column chromatography at the elution steps 0.03-0.05 mol/l (subfraction II) and 0.05-0.15 mol/l phosphate buffer (subfraction III). The protein moiety of both lipoprotein subfractions contained polypeptides A-I , A-II, thin line (TL), C-I and C-II, and the protein moiety of subfraction III contained also C-III. The incubation at 37 degrees C of these HDL subfractions gave reproducible daughter lipoprotein fractions that could be recovered by subsequent rechromatography on hydroxyl apatite. At each of the elution steps 0.05-0.075 mol/l and 0.075-0. mol/l one daughter fraction was recovered, the protein moiety of which was composed of polypeptide A-I, as judged by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, immunodiffusion, and amino acid analysis. The incubation of parent subfractions II and III caused also the appearance at elution step 0.001-0.01 mol/l of a daughter lipoprotein fraction - lipoprotein A (Lp-A) - that was characterized by a protein moiety with polypeptides A-I and A-II in equal amounts. The 'release' of lipoprotein A-I (Lp-A-I) and Lp-A was shown to be due rather to the incubation than to the column chromatography as such. The chemical changes occurring during the incubation of HDL suggested a degradation of phosphatidylcholine (PC) to lysophosphatidylcholine (lyso-PC) and glycerylphosphorylcholine (GPC). It is suggested that the degradation of PC might interfere with the interaction between the lipoprotein families composing HDL. | 171,762 | [
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Isolated partial deficiency of adrenocorticotrophic hormone. | A patient with tuberculous empyema who presented with severe hyponatraemia, is described. In the course of investigation, he was discovered to be suffering from isolated adrenocorticotrophic hormone deficiency. | 171,777 | [
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Identification and successful treatment of congenital microfistulas with the aid of directional Doppler. | Hitherto unidentifiable and therefore untreatable congenital microfistulas were detected with the aid of continuous-wave directional Doppler and a fine-beam pencil probe. The microfistulas formed part of the Klippel-Trenaunay (K-T) syndrome. The management of one case is reported in detail and in three others salient features are touched upon. Careful clinical and radiological examination failed to demonstrate any arteriovenous microfistulas. When Doppler ultrasound scanning was carried out, two discrete fistulas were discovered. Their extent and direction were mapped out accurately. Incisions were made directly over the markings displaying a pulsating capillary tuft of vessels. Further dissection exposed a feeding arteriole which was less than 1 mm. in diameter. Excision of the vascular malformations resulted in the cure of the patient. In another patient with the K-T syndrome in whom a cutaneous hemangioma involved the whole lower limb, in spite of a thorough and systematic search with a Doppler, no microfistulas could be demonstrated. It is suggested that all patients suffering from the K-T syndrome should be examined by Doppler ultrasound in the hope that microfistulas which elude radiodiagnostic techniques might be detected and treated surgically. | 171,785 | [
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Serological study of amebiasis and toxoplasmosis in the Lindu Valley, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. | Results of a serology survey in April 1972 for Entamoeba histolytica and Toxoplasma gondii antibodies among 484 inhabitants of the isolated Lake Lindu Valley of Central Sulawesi (Celebes) are presented. Indirect hemagglutination antibody titers for amebiasis were found in over 10% of the population, although only 3.7% demonstrated significant titers of 1:128 or greater. There appeared to be no relationship between antibody titers and the age and sex of individuals tested, and the frequency distribution of antibody titers indicates a low prevalence of invasive amebiasis in the population. Indirect hemagglutination antibody titers for Toxoplasma gondii equal to or greater than 1:32 were found in 27.1% of the total population, and it appeared that the prevalence of titers increased with age in both sexes. More families with cats had Toxoplasma gondii antibody titers than families without cats. | 171,809 | [
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[Role of the virus of Aujeszky's disease in respiratory diseases of swine]. | Studies carried out on pig-breeding farms have established the presence of Aujeszky's disease virus in cases of bronchopneumonia in pigs. On seven out of eight farms with bronchopneumonia the virus wad demonstrated both virologically and serologically, and nearly 50 per cent of the examined diseased pigs on these and other farms had antibodies. The individual serologic studies of pigs having antibodies revealed that the antibodies appeared in the second month of the animals' fattening. This corresponded to the manifestation of the initial symptoms of bronchopneumonia in the respective group. | 171,824 | [
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Increasing occurence of tumour cell -- tumour cell emperipolesis in the regenerating JB-1 ascites tumour. | During the investigation of JB-1 ascites tumour cells in recurrent growth several cases of emperiopolesis were observed. Different types of emperipolesis are presented. Light microscopical serial sections, autoradiography and transmission electron microscopy indicate that the cells involved in emperipolesis are separate cells, and the authors suggest that cytopagocytosis is the initial mechanism in the development of emperipolesis. | 171,869 | [
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[Fibrillar and tubular fine structures in the cytoplasm of Entamoeba histolytica (author's transl)]. | The electron-microscopical study of conventional fixed and contrasted Entamoeba histolytica-trophozoites from Diamonds monoxenic TTY-medium revealed "thick fibrils" in the vesicular cytoplasm of the parasites. They are 9-14 nm in diameter and are therefore considered to be myosin-like filaments, that are spread mainly in the tail or the uroid of the moving ameba. No association with microfilaments (MF) or other organelles could be observed. During the same investigation microtubules (MT) of variable length are described having a diameter of 35 nm, surrounded by a 19-25 nm wide capsule. They are distributed singly or in bundles with a maximal diameter of 350 nm. Some of the MT were coiled up to a helical shape. | 171,874 | [
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Hybridization of mouse leukemia virus c-DNA to mouse repeated DNA sequences. | Experiments of hybridization between mouse leukemia virus synthetic 3H-DNA probe and mouse main band and satellite DNAs indicate that there is not a higher concentration of viral sequences in the satellite DNA. On the contrary, viral sequences appear to be enriched in the fast renaturing intermediate main band DNA. | 171,901 | [
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Liver, lung and malignant disease in heterozygous (Pi MZ) alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency. | Theoccurrence of PAS-positive, diastase-resistant, inclusion bodies in hepatocytes has been used as a marker of heterozygous (Pi MZ) alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency in order to study the frequency of lung, liver and malignant disease in a consecutive autopsy material from a well defined population. Typical PAS-positive inclusion bodies were found in the liver in 26 (3.7%) of the 700 cases studied. In these 26 subjects both liver (cirrhosis or fibrosis) and lung disease (emphysema) were significantly more prevalent (p less than 0.001) than among PAS-negative controls. The prevalence of malignant disease did not differ between the groups. The results are consistent with the concept that heterozygous (Pi MZ) alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency predisposes to both liver and lung disease but does not influence the survival rate. | 171,917 | [
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Effect of Ca++ on renal handling of PO4 identical to: evidence for two reabsorptive mechanisms. | The effect of hypercalcemia on renal handling of phosphorus was studied in parathyroidectomized rats during 1) extracellular volume expansion with normal saline (0.1 mg/100 g per min) and 2) parathyroid extract infusion (1 U/100 g per h). Hypercalcemia (serum calcium 12-15 mg/100 ml) blunted the phosphaturic response to volume expansion, both when serum calcium was raised acutely during volume expansion and when volume expansion was induced in rats with sustained hypercalcemia. These changes were not associated with significant variations in glomerular filtration rate and serum concentration of phosphorus. Hypercalcemia failed to alter the phosphaturic response and the increase in urinary cyclic AMP excretion following both continuous infusion and a single injection of parathyroid extract. These results are consistent with two components of tubular reabsorption of phosphorus. The first is suppressed by extracellular volume expansion and stimulated by hypercalcemia. The second is suppressed by parathyroid hormone and is not affected by hypercalcemia. | 171,963 | [
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The fine structure of the urinary bladder epithelium in the hartebeest, Alcelaphus buselaphus cokii and the Masai giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi. | The microscopic anatomy and ultrastructure of the urinary bladder epithelium are described in the giraffe and the hartebeest. Differences between the epithelial cell layers of the urinary bladder are described. Cells belonging to different layers show variations in their cell organelles and inclusions. The surface cells contain relatively few fusiform and spherical vesicles. | 171,975 | [
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The isolation of epithelial cells from the rat epididymis. | Epithelial cells from the epididymis were released by digesting the chopped epididymis with pronase followed by collagenase plus hyaluronidase. The epithelial cells were further separated from contaminating cell types by differential centrifugation and sedimentation at unit gravity through a gradient of sucrose in Ringer. The isolated cells remained viable as judged by the exclusion of trypan blue. The cells respired in the presence of glucose and the rate of respiration was not altered by the subsequent addition of pyruvate. | 171,976 | [
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Thermostability of duck hepatitis virus. | The comparative thermostability of 4 duck hepatitis (DH) viruses were tested at various temperatures for different times. Titer of duckling-passaged, pathogenic DH virus decreased from 10(4.50) to 10(2.33) and 10(2.20) median infective doses (ID50/0.1 ml, respectively, in 2 tests; titer of chicken embryo-passaged, nonpathogenic, but embryo-lethal, DH virus decreased from 10(6.00) to 10(0.46) and from 10(6.62) to 10(0.63) ID50/0.1 ml, respectively; duck embryo fibroblast culture-passaged and duck embryo liver cell culture-passaged, chicken ebryo-infective, but nonlethal, DH viruses were completely inactivated or nearly so after being kept at 56 C for 30 minutes. Duckling-passaged DH virus was not detected on day 21, whereas 10(0.62) ID50 of chicken embryo-passaged DH virus per 0.1 ml remained on day 32 when being kept at 37 C. Titer of chicken embryo-passaged DH virus decreased from 10(7.00) to 10(1.16) ID50/0.1 ml after being kept at room at room temperature for 150 days, to 10(5.17) ID50/0.1 ml after being kept at 4 C for 70 weeks, to 10(6.17) ID50/0.1 ml after being kept at -20 C for 70 weeks, and to 10(6.38) ID50/0.1 ml after being kept at -60 C for 1 year. | 171,986 | [
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[Juvenile hormone in diapausing Pieris brassicae and mutations. Tetrahydrofolic acid and pterins incubated in chrysalids, provoking ontogenic and mutagenic genetic information alterations in Drosophila melanogaster]. | Study of AMPc phosphodiesterase shows presence of JH in diapausing chrysalids and antogonistic action of FH and pterines. Study of farnesoldeshydrogenase and farnesal deshydrogenase in Dm shows that FH4 and pterines inhibite FDH, active ADH. Conclusion is JH in diapause chrysalides is active factor with FH4 provoking genesis of pigmentary mutation, cellular proliferation or growth deficiencies. Comparison with JH+FH4+ teromes incubated in Bar (Muller 5) mutants of Dm in place of diapausing chrysalids reproduce larval deficiences, mosaics and mutations observed in precedent experiments. | 172,004 | [
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Desmosome-like structures in the cytoplasm of normal human keratinocyte. | Desmosome-like structures in the cytoplasm which have so far been described in tumoral and acantholytic epidermal cells were observed on two occasions in morphologically normal basal and prickle cells. It seems that under specific conditions a normal epidermal cell can lose contact with the surrounding cell during cell division and forms intracytoplasmic desmosomes. | 172,032 | [
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[Electron microscopy studies on proliferation of foot-and-mouth disease virus in cell cultures. I. Morphologic changes in cell nucleus]. | The first morphological indication of FMD infection of a cell culture was in the nucleus. Components of nucleoli became segregated and were finally present only as remnants. It was not possible to distinguish different stages of segregation, as in the case of entero-virus infections, because of the rapidity of FMD virus proliferation. Following changes in nucleoli there was margination of chromatin. Particularly striking was an increase in interchromatin granules. Changes in the nuclear membrane seemed to facilitate the transfer of nuclear material to the cytoplasm. Strongly pronounced dilatation of the peri-nuclear cleft, like that seen in aphthae and other tissues, were rarely visible in infected cell cultures. | 172,041 | [
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Acute ocular infection by type 2 herpes simplex virus in adults. | Acute ocular infections in two adults were caused by type 2 herpes simplex virus (HSV) ("genital herpesvirus"). One patient had an acute blepharoconjunctivitis, the other an acute keratoconjunctivitis. Genital infections had preceded the eye infections, and type 2 HSV was isolated from the eyes of both patients and from the genital lesions of one patient. This strongly suggests transmission of type 2 HSV from the genital site to the eye. | 172,050 | [
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Maintenance of DNA and repair of Apurinic sites. | Escherichia coli cells contain an enzyme which hydrolyzes a phosphodiester bond near each apurinic site in double-stranded DNA. This endonuclease is specific for apurinic sites; it has no effect on normal DNA, and its action on alkylated DNA is restricted to apurinic sites. In vitro incubation with the endonuclease for apurinic sites, DNA polymerase I, and ligase permits repair of DNA containing apurinic sites. The endonuclease for apurinic sites might thus play a role in cell survival after a treatment with alkylating agents; as DNA spontaneously loses purines, the enzyme might also play a role in the maintance of a normal DNA in every cell. Indeed, an endonuclease for apurinic sites has been found not only in bacteria but also in animal and plant cells; it is very active in thermophilic bacteria. | 172,058 | [
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Isolation and identification of products from alkylation of nucleic acids: ethyl- and isopropyl-purines. | Ethylation and isopropylation of guanine in alkaline solution, or of adenine in formic acid, by alkyl methanesulphonates gave the following products: 1-, N2-, 3-, O6-, 7- and 9-alkylguanines; 1-, 3-, 7- and 9-alkyladenines. The products were identified from their characteristic u.v-absorption spectra, by comparison with either known ethyladenines or with the corresponding known methyladenines, and were also characterized by mass spectrometry. Their chromatographic properties on paper, t.l.c. and various columns were determined. DNA was alkylated in neutral solution with 14C-labelled alkyl methanesulphonates and the ratios of the alkylpurines formed were obtained, and compared for alkylation by methyl, ethyl and isopropyl methanesulphonates and by N-methyl-N-nitrosourea. The extents of alkylation at O-6 of guanine relative to those at N-7 of guanine varied with the reactivity of the methylating agents according to the predictions of Swain & Scott (1953) relating nucleophilicity of the groups alkylated with the substrate constants of the alkylating agents. The relative extents of alkylation at N-3 of adenine did not follow this correlation. | 172,066 | [
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The contribution of atrial stretch receptors to salt and water homeostasis in the human. | Studies carried out in both the human and experimental animals provide reasonably strong evidence that receptors contained within the atria are involved in the control of body water. When atrial pressure is increased (and the atria distended) atrial receptor discharge is increased leading to an increase in urine flow and, depending upon the experimental condition, a less consistent increase in sodium excretion. At least two mechanisms appear to contribute to the renal response; inhibition of the secretion of antidiuretic hormone and inhibition of renal nerve discharge. None of the factors presently known to alter sodium excretion have been shown to account completely for the increase in sodium excretion. The failure of patients with chronically distended atria to experience a chronic diuresis appears to be partly the result of a resetting of atrial receptor sensitivity. Recent evidence suggests that the sensitivity of atrial volume receptors has a species variation. | 172,063 | [
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A method for investigating the effect of temperature on the 695 nm band of insoluble cytochrome c. | A method is described for computer analysis of simple spectrophotometric changes in particulate systems, and this has been applied to the bleaching of the 695 nm band of insoluble ferricytochrome c by temperature. The results show that insolubilization has no effect on the standard enthalpy change but lowers the value for the standard entropy change. This effect appears to be independent of the concentration of the gel matrix to which the cytochrome c is bound, but dependent on the ionic strength of the surrounding solution. | 172,068 | [
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Connective tissue activation. IX. Modification by pharmacologic agents. | Alpha- and beta-adrenergic blocking agents and imipramine inhibit the increased hyaluronate synthesis that may be induced in human synovial cultures by connective tissue activating peptide (CTAP). Considerations of drug concentration requirements, actions of analogues, and time studies all indicate that the adrenergic blockers do not act in this circumstance as conventional blockers of alpha or beta receptor sites. It is suggested that the membrane-stabilizing properties of these agents may be the important determinant for their limited "antiactivation" effect. Ethacrynic acid, a potent and more complete inhibitor of connective tissue activation, appears to act via a different mechanism. | 172,091 | [
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In vivo microscopic observations of the pathogenesis of acute mouse viral hepatitis. | In vivo microscopy of the liver was undertaken to determine the extent of involvement of the hepatic microvascular system in mice infected with viral hepatitis (MHV-3). It was found that the major effects of the disease were produced in localized areas where parenchyma, sinusoids and blood were obliterated. However, immediately peripheral to these lesions blood flow and vessels were unaffected other than by localized hypertrophy of Küpffer cells. While each lesion produced a sinusoidal block to blood flow, portal hypertension did not occur even in the presence of extensive focal and confluent necrosis. | 172,100 | [
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Is the cyclic AMP in psoriatic epidermis low? | A deficiency of epidermal cyclic adenosine 3', 5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) has been implicated as the cause of the incomplete differentiation, increased mitosis and increased glycogen concentration which characterize the psoriatic lesion. This communication contains our data on the epidermal concentration of cyclic AMP in the lesional and 'normal' (non-involved) skin of patients with psoriasis. In these studies we have introduced the following improvement in methodology: (1) Local ischaemia in the biopsy specimens was prevented by not giving any injections prior to removal of the tissues and by freezing the tissues prior to removal. (2) The epidermis was microdissected from the dermis prior to cyclic AMP assay as as to give as pure an epidermal specimen as possible. Epidermal cyclic AMP was found to be 20-25% higher in the skin lesion than in the uninvolved skin when compared on a dry weight or protein basis but essentially when compared on the basis of DNA content. Our conclusion is that the cyclic AMP level in the psoriatic lesion is not lower than that in the 'normal' skin and thus these characteristics in psoriatic lesions cannot be related simply to a cyclic AMP deficiency. | 172,103 | [
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Sodium periodate modification of factor VIII procoagulant activity. | Chemical treatment of human factor VIII by sodium periodate resulted in increased levels of procoagulant activity when measured by the two-stage assay. Increased levels of factor-VIII activity were observed following periodate treatment of factor-VII concentrates and normal, haemophilic and von Willebrand's disease plasmas. However, sodium periodate treatment of haemophilic plasmas which were completely deficient in factor-VIII activity did not cause any reduction in the clotting times of two-stage assays. No increase in procoagulant activity following oxidation of factor VIII could be detected by the one-stage assay method. Gel filtration of factor-VIII concentrates before periodate treatment showed that the protein exhibiting factor-VIII activity had an apparent molecular weight in excess of 1 000 000, whilst after periodate treatment the apparent molecular weight was reduced to 690 000. | 172,113 | [
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Primary carcinoma of stomach with uterine metastasis. | Curettings from a 42-year-old woman who suffered from heartburn, weight loss and irregular vaginal bleeding showed apparently metastatic mucoid adenocarcinoma in the endocervix. The primary site of tumour was not evident. At laparotomy a gastric adenocarcinoma was found and total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and partial gastrectomy were performed. Histological examination showed a diffuse mucoid adenocarcinoma of stomach with metastases to lymph nodes, uterine body, cervix and one ovary. The literature about metastasis of extragenital cancer to the uterus is reviewed and possible mechanisms are discussed. | 172,115 | [
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Quantitative aspects of hormone-receptor interactions of high affinity. Effect of receptor concentration and measurement of dissociation constants of labeled and unlabeled hormones. | It is demonstrated that because of limitations in the magnitude of the specific activity of radiolabeled hormone derivatives, direct binding studies of hormone-receptor interactions of high affinity (10(-9) -10(-11) M, depending on whether 3H- or 123I-labeled hormones are used) will be subject to artifactual distortions due to the need to utilize high concentrations of the receptor. If the concentration of the receptor is not ten times lower than the true affinity constant, the apparent dissociation constant obtained from direct concentration binding curves will vary as a linear function of the receptor concentration. In addition, at high receptor concentrations saturability becomes difficult to demonstrate experimentally and the binding data yield apparently non-hyperbolic, sigmoidal curves which can be mistakenly interpreted to depict cooperative interactions. Similar artifacts related to receptor concentration are predicted for measurements of the hormone concentration dependence of biological proce-ses (e.g. activation of adenylate cyclase, transport processes, etc.). Methods for detecting these effects, and correctly measuring affinities for labeled and unlabeled hormones under these conditions, are described. The implications for measuring the binding properties of hormone-receptor interactions are discussed, especially in reference to studies of the comparative analysis of receptor function in altered metabolic states and to studies relating the biological and binding properties of hormones. | 172,127 | [
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Respiratory control in isolated perfused rat heart. Role of the equilibrium relations between the mitochondrial electron carriers and the adenylate system. | The effects of KCl-induced cardiac arrest on the redox state of the fluorescent flavoproteins and nicotinamide nucleotides and on that of cytochromes c and a were studied by surface fluorometric and reflectance spectrophotometric methods. These changes were compared with measurements of the concentrations of the adenylate system, creatine phosphate, some intermediates of the tricarboxylic acid cycle and reactants of the glutamate dehydrogenase system. KCl-induced cardiac arrest caused reduction of the fluorescent flavoproteins and nicotinamide nucleotides, oxidation of cytochromes c and a, inhibition of oxygen consumption and an increase in the ATP/(ADP X Pi) ratio. The increase in the latter was due mainly to a decrease in the concentration of Pi and an equivalent increase in creatine phosphate. The cytochromes c and a were maintained at equal redox potential and changed in parallel. When the redox state of the mitochondrial NAD couple was calculated from the glutamate dehydrogenase equilibrium, the free energy change (deltaG) corresponding to the potential difference between the NAD couple and cytochrome c was 115.8 kj/mol in the beating heart and 122.2 kj/mol in the arrested heart. The deltaG values of ATP hydrolysis calculated from the concentrations of ATP, Pi and ADP, corrected for bound ADP, were 111.1 kj/2 mol and 115.4 kj/2 mol in the beating and arrested heart respectively. The accumulation of citrate and the direction of the redox changes in the respiratory carriers indicate that the tricarboxylic acid cycle flux is controlled by the respiratory chain. The data also show a near equilibrium between the electron carriers and the adenylate system and suggest that the equilibrium hypothesis of mitochondrial respiratory control is applicable to intact myocardial tissue. | 172,132 | [
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Collagenolytic activity of carrageenin granuloma in rats. | Collagenolytic activity at various phases of the development of carrageenin granuloma was investigated by measuring the amount of dialysable hydroxyproline formed during incubation in vitro of minced granulation tissue. Collagenolytic activity reached a maximum at day 8 after carrageenin injection and then decreased gradually, while collagen synthetic activity was rapidly decreased from day 4 to day 11. The significance of dialysable hydroxyproline in native collagen breakdown of carrageenin granuloma is discussed. | 172,140 | [
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Comparison of the secretory processes in the parotid and sublingual glands of the mouse. 1. Regulation of the secretory processes. | 1. Secretion from the mucous sublingual gland of the mouse has been investigated and compared with the serous parotid gland. The influence of acetylcholine, noradrenalin and adrenalin on the secretion of glycoproteins (e.g. mucins) and proteins (e.g. amylase) from these glands in vitro, and the involvement of cyclic AMP and Ca2+ has been studied. 2. Secretion from the parotid gland could be stimulated by both acetylcholine and the catecholamines. It appears that cyclic AMP plays an important role in the adrenergic secretory process, but not in the cholinergic-induced secretion. In the latter case, exogenous Ca2+ strongly increased the secretion. 3. Mucin secretion from the sublingual gland could be affected by acetylcholine in the presence of exogenous Ca2+. Noradrenalin and adrenalin induced only a slow mucin secretion and, for this secretory process, exogenous Ca2+ is also required. Though cyclic AMP is present in the sublingual gland, no influence on its level could be detected in this gland after stimulation of the adrenergic beta-receptor, whereas, in contrast to the parotid gland, dibutyryl cyclic AMP induced only a slow secretion. Because it was observed that the sublingual gland of the mouse is not innervated sympathetically, it seems reasonable to suppose that the catecholamines stimulate the mucin secretion from this gland via hormonal receptors and not via the adrenergic beta-receptor. 4. The protein secretion from the sublingual gland could be stimulated by both acetylcholine and the catecholamines. An involvement of cyclic AMP in this process was not observed. Addition of exogenous Ca2+ is less important, as was found for the mucin secretion. So it has been concluded that protein and mucin secretion from the sublingual gland are regulated via different pathways. | 172,149 | [
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Partial characterization of the 1-anilino-8-naphthalene sulfonate-adrenochrome semicarbazide interaction site in erythrocyte ghost membrane fragments. | The effect of adrenochrome semicarbazide on the conformation of erythrocyte ghost membranes has been studied by ANS fluorescence, lipid and sulfhydryl spin labels and circular dichroism. No large conformational alterations in the membrane were detected by these techniques. Noncompetitive quenching of ANS fluorescence by ADCS suggests ADCS to interact with the membrane at sites close to the ANS binding domain. | 172,164 | [
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[Propagation of spikes in statistical neuron ensembles. I. Concept of phase transitions]. | A system of two coupled integro-differential equations for the propagation of sipkes is presented. A qualitative consideration of the system shows possibility of concentrational phase transition in the neuron ensemble from the state of spontaneous firing to the strong periodic oscilltation activity. Naer the point of the phase transition the neuron ensemble becomes labile, which maintains appropriate conditons for the existence of mosaic structures in the neuron network. | 172,161 | [
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[Basis for the use of Pierre's method for the determination of ACTH in human blood plasma]. | Adrenal glands of rats were immersed in Ringer-Lock solution (used as control), other rat adrenal glands were immersed in human blood plasma. The amount of corticosterone in the extracts received was estimated after two hours of incubation. The activity of adrenocorticotropic function of the pituitary gland of the patients examined was judged by the difference in the corticosterone indices in these extracts. ACTH (1.5 and 10 mkg) was added to the plasma to determine the sensitivity of this technique. Regular and significant increase in corticosterone was revealed. Modified Pierre's technique can be applied for ACTH determination in man. | 172,167 | [
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[Cytological aspects of various particular varieties of breast epitheliomas]. | Needle aspiration for cytological investigation has been used at the Foundation Curie since 1954. Until 1973, no less than 3,176 mammary tumours have been studied by this method and comparison made with the histological findings. In the whole group some relatively rare carcinomas have been encountered -- mucoid, medullary, adenoid cystic, squamous and apocrine. Each category is described from the cytologic viewpoint and illustrated with an appropriate cyto/histologic example to show what a high degree of precision may be attained by diagnostic cytology in mammary cancer. | 172,171 | [
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Incidence of Herpesvirus hominis antibodies among blood donor populations. | The microneutralization test was used to determine the occurrence of antibodies to Herpesvirus hominis Type 1 and Type 2 in sera from patients attending the Special Clinic, Bristol Royal Infirmary, with proven herpes genitalis, and in sera taken from blood donors in Bath, Dursley, and Bristol, as well as from donors in three different prison populations. The findings in patients with herpes genitalis indicate that the test accurately reflects the antibody response expected in relation to the type of herpes virus isolated from the lesions. The incidence of Type 2 antibodies among the blood donors ranged from 5 per cent. for donors from the Bath area up to 60 per cent. among donors from Dartmoor prison. The findings suggested that Type 2 herpes infection could spread among longterm prison populations, and it is postulated that this may be due to both homosexual contact, and also by non-sexual contact, either directly or via fomites. | 172,191 | [
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Immunochemical studies of the surface and cytoplasmic membranes of Entamoeba invadens (Rodhain 1934). | The antigenic properties of cell fractions prepared from axenically grown Entamoeba invadens were investigated using various immunoelectrophoretic methods. All membrane fractions displayed varying degrees of antigenicity, the most predominant being a cytoplasmic light-vesicle fraction. The surface membrane showed the least diversified range of antigenic components and was also the least immunogenic fraction as judged by the reactivity of the antisera produced. Using tandem-crossed immunoelectrophoresis the antigenic profiles of the membrane fractions were compared. No evidence was obtained for the presence of either lipid or carbohydrate in the antigenic moieties of any of the membrane fractions. Using a series of sequential solvent extractions it was concluded that both divalent metallochelate linkages and interiorly located hydrophobic associations were principally involved in binding the major antigenic components within the light-vesicle membrane. An enzymic function was assigned to certain of the membrane antigens, the immunoprecipitates obtained showing both acid phosphohydrolase and non-specific esterase acitivity toward a variety of substrates. | 172,203 | [
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Electron microscopy of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae of yellow poplar. II. Intracellular hyphae and vesicles. | Intracellular hyphae and vesicles in mycorrhizal roots of yellow poplar were examined by electron microscopy. An investing layer of host wall material and cytoplasm enclosed the endophyte within the cells. Young developing hyphae contained abundant cytoplasm and few vacuoles. As hyphae matured, they became highly vacuolated and accumulated carbohydrate (glycogen) and lipid reserves. Mature vesicles were engorged with lipid droplets, possessed a trilaminate wall and were also enclosed by host wall material and cytoplasm. Compared with uninfected cells, infected cortical cells showed an increase in cytoplasmic volume, enlarged nuclei, and a reduction of starch reserves. Host nuclei were always proximal to the hyphae during hyphal development and deterioration. While other cytoplasmic components of infected and uninfected cells were comparable large electron-dense bodies occurred in vacuoles of most cells containing hyphae. Deterioration of intracellular hyphae occurred throughout the samples examined. Septa separated functional and degenerating portions of the hyphae. Hyphal deterioration involved degeneration and ultimate disappearance of fungal cytoplasm as well as collapse of hyphal walls. Based on these observations, the authors hypothesize that deterioration of the endophyte may release significant quantities of mineral nutrients, via hyphal contents, which are absorbed by the host. | 172,206 | [
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Influence of formycin B on polyadenosine diphosphoribose synthesis in vitro and in vivo. | Formycin B inhibited growth of L5178Y mouse leukemia cells in concentrations of less than twice the concentration that inhibits cell proliferation at 50% by cytostasis; at higher concentrations (more than twice the 50% concentration mentioned), the cells were killed. In cells treated with the concentration that inhibits cell proliferation at 50%, the average cell volume did not change. The formycin B inhibitory effect on cell proliferation was reduced by coincubation with nicotinamide adenine diphosphate or adenosine. The biosyntheses of DNA,RNA, and protein in whole cells were sensitively inhibited by formycin B as checked by incorporation studies with radioactive precursors. In addition, the formation of polyadenosine diphosphoribose was reduced even with higher sensitivity; in particular the extent of adenosine diphosphate ribosylation of histone subfraction H1 was reduced. Formycin B has been shown to be an inhibitor for the polyadenosine diphosphoribose polymerase, isolated from oviduct nuclei of quails. Both the chromatin-bound and the soluble enzyme are inhibited competitively; the relative affinity (Ki/Km) of formycin B to the polyadenosine diphosphoribose polymerase is 1.5. | 172,231 | [
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[Identification of cAMP dependant protein kinases in human lymphocytes]. | Chromatographic purification by "DEAE" cellulose resolves the cAMP binding proteins in human lymphocytes into three parts. In presence of Mg++ each one possesses cAMP dependent protein-kinase activity, one of them showing allosteric characteristics. | 172,248 | [
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[RNA fragments rich in G and A nucleotides obligatory for in vitro DNA replication of phages phi-X 174 and lambda]. | Evidence was presented that in vitro conversion of single-stranded DNA of phage phi X 174 to the double-stranded replicative form by partially purified DNA-dependent DNA polymerase I requires a specific RNA fragment acting as primer (25-50 nucleotides). RNA fragments highly rich in nucleotides A and G were obtained by partial degradation of E. coli M 500 Sho-R ribosomal RNA with pancreatic ribonuclease. They become covalently bound to the newly synthesized DNA chain of the replicative form of phage phi X 174. These RNA fragments are also required for in vitro replication of lambda phage DNA. | 172,251 | [
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[Effect of antioxidant substances on the level of free organic radicals naturally present in the rat diaphragm]. | Using the electron spin resonance method, the effect of antioxydants on the number of natural organic free radicals is studied in the case of the diaphragm of the Rat. The effect observed shows an important decrease in the free radical concentration, which may, in the case of ascorbic acid and BHT, lead to their complete disappearance. These results are discussed in the light of the hypothesis according to which antioxydants play a role in the lengthening of the life span because of their fundamental character of inhibitors of free radicals. | 172,254 | [
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The radiology of excavated Saxon and medieval human remains from Winchester. | Radiography of many of the human bones discovered during the archeological excavations at Winchester has been an integral part of the study of the Saxon and medieval populations found there. Thus, a radiological study of bone pathology in successive populations from a single site spanning a period of 600 years is presented. | 172,275 | [
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Regulation of enzymes of serine and one-carbon metabolism by testosterone in rat prostate, liver, and kidney. | A significant decrease in the specific activity of 3 enzymes of serine and one-carbon metabolism (3-phosphoglycerate dehydrgenase, phosphoserine phosphatase, and serine hydroxy-methyltransferase) was found in the rat prostate gland with castration. A single injection of testosterone propionate to rats 3 days after castration resulted in a significant increase in the 3 enzyme activities within 24 h. This increase in specific activity was maximal 72 h after injection of testosterone in the case of 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase and serine hydroxymethyltransferase. When cycloheximide was administered in conjunction with testosterone, the increase in 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase and serine hydroxy-methyltransferase activity was significantly reduced compared to injection of testosterone alone. N6, O2'-dibutyryl adenosine-3',5'-cyclic monophosphate [(Bu)2 cAMP] and theophylline injected at 8 h intervals to rats 3 days after castration failed to mimic the action of testosterone on these 3 enzymes 24 and 72 h after beginning injections. Castration had no effect on the specific activity of these enzymes in the kidney; however, 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase was significantly diminished in the liver 6 days after castration. A single injection of testosterone to rats 3 days after castration restored the activity to sham-operated levels. Serine hydroxy-methyltransferase and phosphoserine phosphatase activity in the liver were unaffected 6 days after castration. Thus testosterone exerts a regulatory role on serine and one-carbon metabolism in the prostate and liver which (Bu), cAMP is unable to minic. | 172,314 | [
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A direct effect of testosterone on muscle cells in tissue culture. | A direct effect of physiological levels of testosterone on skeletal muscle cells in tissue culture is reported. The effect is a 25% stimulation of labeling index by radioautographic analysis of cultures following incubation with [3H]thymidine at the end of a 48-h exposure to 10(-8)M testosterone in 2% gelding serum. This stimulation was observed in primary myoblasts, an established myogenic cell line (Yaffe's L6 cells), and muscle fibroblasts. The effect was specific for testosterone: the labeling index did not change significantly from control values when estradiol, 5beta-pregnanediol, androstenedione, or dihydrotestosterone were added, although small increases were noted in the latter two cases. The effect on the labeling index was localized as a decrease in time spent in the G1 phase of the cell cycle, which decreased about 30% in muscle cells exposed to testosterone. This first report of an effect of testosterone on isolated muscle cells, coupled with the recent description of a receptor for anabolic steroids in muscle cytoplasm, indicates that the effects of male sex hormones result from a direct interaction with muscle rather than from a primary interaction with some other tissue. | 172,315 | [
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[Synthesis and properties of semisynthetic penicillins containing the furoxan nucleus]. | Synthesis, antibacterial activity and stability in acid solution of potassium salts of 6-(3-methyl-4-furoxancarboxyamido)penicillanic acid and 6-(4-methyl-3-furoxancarboxyamido)penicillanic acid are reported. | 172,370 | [
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Histochemical studies on the albino rat pancreas in different periods following vagotomy and simultaneous pyloromyotomy. | The effect of complete subphrenic vagotomy and simultaneous pyloromyotomy on the morphological state and the activities of some intracellular enzymes of the albino rat was studied histochemically. Within the first weeks after vagotomy, the pancreatic acini were found to diminish in size, and the beta-cells in the islets of Langerhans became oedematous. In the acini, the activities of succinate dehydrogenase, cytochrome oxidase, AS naphthol acetate esterase, and glucose-6-phosphatase were observed to decline, but the reactions for beta-glucuronidase and aryl sulphatase showed intensifications and polymorphic behaviour both in acinar and in islet cells. The latter also and particularly the beta-cells simultaneously revealed enhanced activities of succinate dehydrogenase, cytochrome oxidase, beta-glucuronidase, and aryl sulphatase, and an entire disappearance of the reaction for glucose-6-phosphatase. The alpha-cells increased their AS naphthol acetate esterase activity. After 5 weeks following vagotomy, morphological and enzymatic changes in the acini and islets were negligible, and after 5 and 9 months no differences were noted between the vagotomized rats and the control animals. | 172,415 | [
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Correlation between various cell-surface antigens induced by murine leukemia virus in the rat: serological analysis. | Analysis based on the cytotoxicity test using antisera produced in rats indicated the presence of various cell-surface antigens on the tumors in WKA/Mk rats induced or artificially infected by Friend, Rauscher or Gross viruses. Each line of the tumor was found to have a common antigen, namely group-specific cell-surface antigen. A Gross type-specific and Friend and Rauscher type-specific cell-surface antigens were also detected, in keeping with the observations in the mouse system. In addition, the present experiments strongly suggested that a Friend strain-specific antigen was detected only on the cell-surface of the tumors in WAK/Mk rat induced or artificially infected by Friend virus. These results were in parallel with the data of previously reported transplantation studies. | 172,420 | [
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Organ culture of human nervous system tumors. | Tumors of the human nervous system (neuroblastomas, an ependymoma, a medulloblastoma, and a Schwannoma) obtained during surgery have been cultured organotypically by the method of Wolff. The tumors retained characteristic morphology, organization and patterns of behavior in vitro, and one neuroblastoma gave rise to a growing long-term culture. Long-term organotypic culture, where maintenance of tissue organization and growth occur together, is recommended for the study of neoplasms of the nervous system. | 172,438 | [
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Fine structural and cytochemical studies of human diploid fibroblasts arrested in an essentially nonmitotic state. | Human diploid fibroblasts can be maintained in vitro in an arrested, essentially nonmitotic state for extended periods of time by reducing the serum concentration in the medium from 10 to 0.5%. Arrested cells can be induced to re-enter the proliferative state by subcultivation in medium containing 10% serum. Fine structure, acid phosphatase, cytochrome oxidase, and extracellular carbohydrates in arrested cells were examined and compared to cultures growing in 10% serum and to cells transferred to 10% serum after 21 days in 0.5% serum. Cells in 10% serum posessed a well-developed Golgi complex, extensive rough endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria containing transverse cristae, and many free ribosomes in the cytoplasm. In arrested cells, Golgi complexes were rarely observed, the number of both free and membrane-bound ribosomes was reduced, the number of cristae per mitochondria was decreased and the amount of demonstrable cytochrome oxidase activity was diminished. There was an accumulation of intercellular carbohydrate components. After subcultivation with medium containing 10% serum, arrested cells regained the ultrastructural characteristics of cells continuously cultured at this serum level; however, the amount of intercellular carbohydrate remained elevated. These results indicate that distinct yet reversible changes occur in the subcellular morphology and organization of cells maintained in an essentially nonmitotic state. This arrested state may be a close approximation to the situation as it occurs in vivo in expanding cell populations. | 172,440 | [
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Viral replication and interferon production in fetal and adult ovine leukocytes and spleen cells. | Peripheral blood leukocyte and spleen cell cultures derived from adult sheep and from third-trimester (107 to 145 days of gestation) and second-trimester (70 to 98 days of gestation) fetal lambs were examined for their ability to support viral replication and to produce interferon. Bluetongue virus, Herpesvirus hominis type 2, and Chikungunya virus failed to replicate in either leukocyte or spleen cell cultures derived from adult ewes or in cultures from second- or third-trimester fetal lambs. Similarly, peripheral blood leukocytes from adult sheep or third-trimester fetal lambs did not support the replication of Semliki Forest virus, vesicular stomatitis virus, Newcastle disease virus, or vaccinia virus. No major differences were observed in the ability of fetal and adult leukocytes to produce interferon in response to viral infection. In contrast, mean interferon titers induced by bluetongue virus, H. hominis type 2, and Chikungunya virus in spleen cells from second-trimester fetuses were 4- to 10-fold greater than those induced in spleen cells from adult ewes. Variations in interferon levels induced on separate occasions with cells from the same donor age group were observed. The antiviral substance induced in both the fetal and adult cell cultures fulfilled the usual criteria for characterization as interferon. | 172,452 | [
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Septamycin, a polyether antibiotic. Taxonomy, fermentation, isolation and characterization. | Septamycin is a metal complexing polyether antibiotic produced by a strain of Streptomyces hygroscopicus NRRL 5678. The metabolite, a monocarboxylic acid, was isolated as the sodium salt C48H81NaO16. The crystal structure and absolute configuration were established by X-ray analysis of the p-bromophenacyl derivative. Septamycin has a thirty-carbon backbone and contains seven heterocyclic rings. Supported by direct comparison septamycin proved to be identical with antibiotic A28695 A isolated from Streptomyces albus NRRL 3883. The metabolite is active against gram-positive bacteria and Eimeria tenella (chicken coccidiosis). | 172,482 | [
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Binding and degradation of 125I-insulin by rat hepatocytes. | The binding and the velocity of degradation of 125I-insulin in the absence or presence of varying concentrations of native procline insulin were studied using isolated rat hepatocytes. At insulin concentrations ranging from 5 X 10(-11) to 10(-6) M, insulin degradation velocity showed a first order dependence on the total concentration of insulin bound at steady state. The overall reaction had an apparent rate constant of 0.030 +/- 0.011 min-1. Furthermore, the degradation of a given amount of 125I-insulin bound to cells was more rapid and extensive than the degradation of the same amount of insulin which had been newly exposed to fresh cells. Mid pretreatment of isolated hepatocytes with trypsin or chymotrypsin at concentrations of 5 to 20 mug/ml depressed to the same degree the amount of 125-I-insulin bound at steady state and the 125I-insulin degradation velocity. Peptide or protein hormones unrelated to insulin, including the oxidized A and B chains of insulin, failed to depress the amount of insulin bound or the velocity of insulin degradation when present at concentrations of 10-5 or 10-6 M. Over a wide range of concentrations, various synthetic insulin analogues and naturally occurring insulins depressed to the same degree the amount of 125I-insulin bound at steady state and the 125I-insulin degradation velocity. These observations suggest that insulin bound to hepatocyte plasma membranes is the substrate for insulin degradation by the liver. | 172,497 | [
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Effect of serum on phenylalanine hydroxylase levels in cultured hepatoma cells. | Continued high levels of phenylalanine hydroxylase in cultured H4-II-E-C3 rat hepatoma cells require either serum or glucocorticoids in the culture medium. Upon withdrawal of serum, cellular phenylalanine hydroxylase levels decay exponentially with a half-life of 22 hours for about 60 hours, after which time a low, constant enzyme content persists for at least 96 hours. This decline of phenylalanine hydroxylase is fully reversible; normal enzyme levels are restored in a time- and dosage-dependent fashion upon addition of serum to basal cultures. The serum factor is nondialyzable and moderately heat-stable. The stimulation by serum of the phenylalanine hydroxylas content of basal cultures is blocked by 3-[2-(3,5-dimethyl-2-oxocyclohexyl)-2-hydroxyethyl]glutarimide and requires ongoing cellular protein synthesis. When added to the enzyme-assay mixture in vitro, serum does not alter the phenylalanine hydroxylase activity of extracts from basal cultures. Three lines of evidence suggest that serum contains a nonsteroidal phenylalanine hydroxylase stimulatory components(s): (a) glucocorticoid antagonists inhibit less than one-half of the biological activity of serum; (b) exhaustive extraction of endogenous serum glucocorticoids with charcoal reduces the activity of serum to about one-half of control values; and (c) the stimulatory effects of charcoal reduces the values; and (c) the stimulatory effects of charcoal-extracted serum and hydrocortisone are additive. The phenylalanine hydroxylase stimulatory activities of the charcoal-extracted sera from four mammalian species and from three stages in development in one mammalian species are comparable. A survey of partially purified preparations of a number of known hormones failed to reveal any one capable of elevating the phenylalanine hydroxylas levels of basal cultures in a manner comparable to that of charcoal-extracted serum. | 172,500 | [
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Role of carbohydrate of human chorionic gonadotropin in the mechanism of hormone action. | The role of the carbohydrate part of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) was investigated by measuring the ability of hCG derivatives lacking various sugar residues to bind to rat Leydig cells and stimulate them to synthesize testosterone and cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP). Whereas sequential removal of the sialic acid, galactose, N-acetylglucosamine, and mannose residues led to a progressive increase in the effective dose of the hormone required to stimulate steroidogenesis, it resulted in a marked loss in the ability of the hormone to stimulate cyclic AMP accumulation. Low doses of the glycosidase-treated hormone derivatives were additive with hCG when their ability to stimulate testosterone synthesis was analyzed. Nevertheless, the glycosidase-treated derivatives were potent inhibitors of hCG-induced cyclic AMP accumulation, suggesting that removal of the sugars did not influence binding of the hormone to the cell as much as it reduced the ability of the bound hormone to activate adenyl cyclase. This hypothesis was further supported by our finding that the hCG derivatives were highly effective inhibitors of 125I-hGC binding to the intact cells. Removal of sialic acid and galactose enhanced the inhibition, whereas removal of all the sugar residues only decreased the inhibition slightly. The degree of these effects was comparatively small. The possibility that steroidogenesis and cyclic AMP accumulation are altered independently by hCG stimulation is discussed. | 172,504 | [
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Membrane-associated thiamin triphosphatase. II. Activation by divalent cations. | Activation of membrane-associated thiamin triphosphatase from rat brain requires a divalent cation (Mg2+, Ca2+, or Mn2+). The optimum concentration of Mg2+ necessary for maximal enzyme activity varies with substrate concentration; conversely, the maximal rate of hydrolysis attainbale by increasing thiamin triphosphate concentration is directly proportional to [Mg2+] for all levels of Mg2+ below that of the substrate. Under appropriate conditions, the Km of the thiamin triphosphatase for Mg2+ and for thiamin triphosphate are shown to be identical. Dissociation constants (Kd) for the binding of Mg2+ to thiamin triphosphate, thiamin diphosphate, and thiamin were determined; kinetic data re-expressed in terms of [Mg2+-thiamin triphosphate] conform to simple single substrate predictions, suggesting that the true enzyme substrate may be the Mg2+-thiamin triphosphate complex. Excess free Mg2+ inhibits thiamin triphosphatase activity competitively while excess free thiamin triphosphate in concentrations up to 10 times Km has no effect on the membrane-bound enzyme. | 172,510 | [
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Biogenesis of microsomal membrane glycoproteins in rat liver. I. Presence of glycoproteins in microsomes and cytosol. | The glycoproteins of microsomes and cytosol were studied. Various washing procedures did not release the proteins from the microsomes, and immunological tests demonstrated that the sialoproteins are not serum components. Low concentrations of deoxycholate and incubation in 0.25 M sucrose solution liberated a small amount of microsomal sialoprotein and this fraction exhibited a high degree of labeling of protein-bound N-acetylneuraminic acid. A part of the glycoprotein fraction could not be solubilized, even with a high concentration of the detergent. Thoroughly perfused rat liver contained sialoproteins in the particle-free supernate. The level of sialoprotein present could not be due to contamination with serum or broken organelles. The high in vivo incorporation of [3H]glucosamine into protein-bound sialic acid of Golgi membranes and cytosol was paralleled by a delayed and lesser rate of incorporation into the rough and smooth microsomal membranes. This incorporation pattern suggests the possibility that the glycoproteins of cytosol and Golgi may later be incorporated into the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum. | 172,515 | [
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The role of adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate in the transformation of Cloudman mouse melanoma cells. | The role of adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) in the regulation of mouse melanoma cell growth and differentiation was investigated. A variant melanoma (Cloudman S91-F) which displays a greater degree of transformation than the parental cell (Cloudman S91) was isolated. A correlation between cyclic AMP metabolism and transformation was made. Dibutyryl cyclic AMP depressed cell growth and increased pigmentation in both parental and variant cell lines. The parental cell line, however, was more responsive to melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) which was found to affect cell growth and pigmentation by increasing cyclic AMP levels. The more transformed S91-F cell line contained lower levels of cyclic AMP than the parental cell line, and this fact correlated well with the higher degree of growth and lesser degree of pigmentation in the variant. Enzymatic analysis revealed that the hydrolysis of cyclic AMP in both cell lines was similar, while the adenylate cyclase activity of the variant cell line was lower than that of the parental cell line. Lineweaver-Burk plots demonstrated that the Km's for the enzymes in the two cell lines were the same but that the Vmax of the S91-F cell line was significantly less that that of the S91 cell line. Thus, the lesion in the S91-F cell which is responsible for its more transformed characteristics seems to be one which affects adenylate cyclase at the level of the cell membrane. | 172,519 | [
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Metabolism of apoprotein B of plasma very low density lipoproteins in the rat. | As an extension of metabolic studies of the cholesteryl ester component of rat very low density lipoproteins, we have studied the metabolism of the B apoprotein component labeled by intravenous injection of [3H]lysine. The B apoprotein separated from other apoproteins by delipidation and selective precipitation with tetramethylurea could not be distinguished from B apoprotein prepared by the conventional gel filtration technique. After injection of [3H]lysine, specific activity of B apoprotein was maximal in very low density and low density lipoproteins 1 and 11/2-h later, respectively, in a manner consistent with a precursor-product relationship. When protein-labeled very low density lipoproteins were injected into rats, the relationships of specific activity again indicated that B apoprotein of very low density lipoproteins may be the sole precursor of that of low density lipoproteins. However, less than 10% of the B apoprotein that disappeared from very low density lipoproteins appeared in density lipoproteins. To evaluate the sites of removal of B aproprotein of very low density lipoproteins from plasma, protein-labeled very low density lipoproteins were incubated with unlabeled high density lipoproteins to reduce radioactivity in non-B apoproteins selectively by molecular exchange. Most of the B apoprotein was rapidly removed by the liver. The extensive hepatic uptake of both the cholesteryl ester and B apoprotein components of rat very low density lipoproteins may explain the characteristically low concentrations of plasma low density lipoproteins in the rat. | 172,530 | [
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High-pressure liquid chromatography: separation of the metabolites of vitamins D2 and D3 on small-particle silica columns. | The high-pressure liquid chromatographic separation of all of the known metabolites of vitamin D(2) and vitamin D(3) found in biological fluids has been achieved. This technique has been successfully applied to the analysis of vitamin D mixtures, purification of vitamin D metabolites, and identification of radioactive peaks. Some theoretical bases for the observed resolutions are suggested. | 172,574 | [
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Modification of myometrial activity in vivo by administration of cyclic nucleotides and theophylline to the pregnant rat. | Myometrial activity was recorded in vivo in unrestrained pregnant rats from day 19 of gestation using radiotelemetry. The effects of short-term infusions of theophylline, dibutyryl cyclic AMP and 8-bromo-cyclic GMP were investigated. All three compounds caused a decrease in oxytocin-induced, prostaglandin F2alpha-induced and spontaneous uterine activity. After cessation of the infusion of these compounds uterine activity returned to near pre-infusion levels within approximately 15 min in most animals. The possible roles of cyclic nucleotides in the control of myometrial contraction are discussed in the light of these observations. | 172,577 | [
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Sodium chloride transport by rabbit gallbladder. Direct evidence for a coupled NaCl influx process. | The results of the present study that NaCl transport by in vitro rabbit gallbladder must be a consequence of a neutral coupled carrier-mediated mechanism that ultimately results in the active absorption of both ions; pure electrical coupling between the movements of Na and Cl can be excluded on the grounds of electrphysiologic considerations. Studies on the unidirectional influxes of Na and Cl have localized the site of this coupled mechanism to the mucosal membranes. Studies on the intracellular ion concentrations and the intracellular electrical potential are consistent with the notion that (a) the coupled NaCl influx process results in the movement of Cl from the mucosal solution into the cell against an apparent electrochemical potential difference; (b) the energy for the uphill movement of Cl is derived from the Na gradient across the mucosal membrane which is maintained by an active Na extrusion mechanism located at the basolateral membranes; and (c) Cl exit from the cell across the basolateral membranes is directed down an electrochemical potential gradient and may be diffusional. Finally, as for the case of rabbit ileum, the coupled NaCl influx process is inhibited by elevated intracellular levels of cyclic 3',5'-adenosine monophosphate. A working model for transcellular and paracellular NaCl transport by in vitro rabbit gallbladder is proposed. | 172,595 | [
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Genes involved in the uptake and catabolism of gluconate by Escherichia coli. | The isolation and properties of a mutant of Escherichia coli K12 that is totally unable to take up and utilize gluconate are described. Genetical analysis shows this phenotype to be associated with two lesions. One phenotype, designated GntM-, is the result of a mutation in a gene co-transducible with malA; the other, designated GNTS-, is the result of a mutation in a gene (GntS) co-transducible with fdp. The GntS--phenotype differs little from that of wild-type cells, but GntM- GntS+ organisms grow on gluconate only after a prolonged lag and form a gluconate uptake system that is strongly repressed by pyruvate. Moreover, such GntM- mutants readily give rise to further mutants that form a gluconate uptake system, gluconate kinase and 6-phosphogluconate dehydratase consititutively; in partial diploids, this constitutivity is recessive to the inducible character. It is postulated that the GntM- phenotype is due to malfunction of a negative control gene gntR, and that gntS+ specifies the activity of a gluconate uptake system. | 172,599 | [
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Distribution of membrane-bound cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase in plasma membranes of cells of the kidney cortex. | Renal cortical plasms membranes were separated by free flow electrophoresis into luminal (brush border microvilli) and contraluminal (basal-lateral membrane) fractions. These membranes were found to contain an intrinsic, self-phosphorylating system which consists of a cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase, a phosphorprotein phosphatase and the substrate(s) of these enzymes. The kinase, but not the phosphatase, was stimulated by cyclic AMP; maximal (1.7-fold) stimulation was effected at a cyclic AMP concentration of 0.1 muM. The degree of phosphorylation of the brush borders was six times greater than that of the basal-lateral membranes in the absence of cyclic AMP and 2.3-fold greater in the presence of cyclic AMP. This preferential phosphorylation of the luminal membrane by membrane-associated protein kinase(s) may play a role in the parathyroid hormone-mediated alterations of solute reabsorption in the proximal tubule. | 172,638 | [
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tRNA's associated with the 70S RNA of avian myeloblastosis virus. | The distribtuion of various amino acid tRNA's in the 4S RNA components of avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV) and in 4S RNA prepared from chicken cmbryo cells, chicken myeloblasts, and chicken livers was determined. This was done by aminoacylating the 4S RNA samples with a mixture of 17 radioactive amino acids and subsequently identifying the tRNA-accepted amino acids on an amino acid analyzer after deacylation. In embryo cells, myeloblasts, and liver, tRNA's accepting all 1m amino acids were demonstrated. "Free" AMV 4S RNA was characterized by very low quantities of glutamate, valine, and tyrosine tRNA's. RNAs accepting all 17 amino acids, with the exception of tyrosine, were shown to be present in the "70S-associated" 4S RNA which dissociates at 60 C. The bulk of the 70S-associated 4S RNA was dissociated at 60 C at low ionic strength with a concomitant conversion of 70S RNA to 35S RNA. The residual associated 4S RNA was dissociated by further heating of the 35S RNA to 80 C; tryptophan tRNA accounted for greater than 90% of the total amino acid accepting activity in this fraction. The results support other studies in suggesting that tryptophan tRNA may serve as a primer for DNA synthesis in AMV, as has been shown in Rous sarcoma virus. | 172,660 | [
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Effects of drugs and axotomy on acetylcholine levels in central cholinergic neurons. | Administration of cholinergic nuscarinic agonists either did not alter, or increased hippocampal Ach levels, while antagonists lowered the levels. As observed previously, placement of lesions in the medial septal area resulted in a rise in hippocampal Ach levels in the first thirty minutes. Agonist drugs administered immediately before lesion, further increased the post-lesion rise in Ach levels. With antagonists, inconsistent results were obtained in that atropine blocked the post-lesion rise, while scopolamine and quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB) potentiated the post-lesion rise. These results suggest that there may be receptor-mediated effects on Ach synthesis or release after axotomy. | 172,807 | [
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Scotomatous defects in the central visual field in pituitary adenomas. | In a series of 46 cases of pituitary adenomata (34 solid, 6 with yellow cyst, and 6 with hemorrhagic cyst), we found central scotomatous field defects in 8 patients. Of these 8 scotomatous cases 4 were associated with tumour containing a hemorrhagic cyst. We suggest that rapid expansion of the tumour is one of the principal etiological factors in the production of scotomatous instead of bitemporal field defects in patients with pituitary adenomas. | 172,816 | [
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Demonstration of human leukocyte degranulation induced by sera from homozygotes and heterozygotes for cystic fibrosis. | The ability of epsilon-amino caproic acid (EACA)-treated normal serum and of cystic fibrosis (CF)-affected and carrier sera to promote the release of lysosomal enzymes from sensitized human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) was assessed through the measurement of beta-glucuronidase and myeloperoxidase activity after exposure of these cells to the various test sera. This study was initiated to extend the analogies between preciliary dyskinesia factor (pre-CDF), separated from the cell-free media of cultures derived from CF homozygous and heterozygous individuals, and C3a anaphylatoxin. The extent of lysosomal degranulation of human PMN exposed to fresh untreated sera of each of five controls, seven CF homozygotes, and eight heterozygotes, as expressed by the amount of beta-glucuronidase releases, was 7.84% (+/- 0.934) for countrol sera, 14.01% (+/- 1.79) for CF-affected sera, and 10.61% (+/- 1.43) for heterozygous sera. The difference between CF homozygotes and control subjects is significatn (P less than 0.0001), as is the difference between CF-affected and carrier individuals (0.001 less than P less than 0.005) and between control subjects and carriers (0.001 less than P less than 0.005), when beta-glucuronidase. However, the differences between control subjects and CF heterozygous individuals are not significant. Treatment of these sera with 1 M EACA gave values for beta-glucuronidase and myeloperoxidase release which are slightly reduced when compared with those obtained with fresh, untreated samples. EACA apparently reduces the activity of beta-glucuronidase released from PMN. Amicon filtration studies of these serum samples demonstrated that degranulating ability and the presence of cilicary dyskinesia, as assessed by rabbit tracheal bioassay, are not always associated. Therefore, the relationship between pre-CDF and the degranulator activity in native CF-affected and carrier sera is unclear, in part because of the limitations inherent in the test systems employed. | 172,851 | [
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Seroepidemiologic survey of varicella: Value of specific fluorescent antibody test. | The sensitive varicella-zoster fluorescent antibody to membrane antigen (V-Z FAMA) test was used in a seroepidemiologic survey of two outbreaks of varicella involving 30 children. The attack rate of varicella based on clinical observations alone was 60%. The attack rate based on clinical and serological observations lay between 78% and 82%, after excluding those children who had detectable antibody at the time of exposure. No subclinical varicella infection was observed in this small series of patients. No boost in antibody response was observed in immunes who were exposed to varicella. No patients with detectable V-Z antibody by FAMA at the time of exposure developed clinical varicella. The V-Z FAMA test provided helpful information about the immune status of persons exposed to varicella. | 172,853 | [
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Pulmonary infections after kidney transplantation. | Seventy-five pulmonary infections out of 173 kidney transplantations have been observed in 62 graft-recipients, from 1965 to 1973. The aetiologic organism is a bacteria in 80% of the cases, a fungus in 8% of the cases, cytomegalovirus and Pneumocystis Carinii in 11% of the cases. A close relationship between infection and a previous transplant crisis was noted in 66% of the cases. The most efficient diagnostic procedures were pleural and open lung biopsy as well as cultures of blood, pleural fluid and tracheobronchial secretions. Treatment was effective in 60% of bacterial and Pneumocystitis Carinii infections; on the other hand, it was less useful in fungal infections and totally ineffective in cytomegalovirus infections. Despite a possible increase in the risk of rejection, reduction or even arrest of immunosuppressive therapy is recommended in severe infections. | 172,885 | [
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Control of oscillating glycolysis of yeast by stochastic, periodic, and steady source of substrate: a model and experimental study. | Type and range of entrainment of glycolytic oscillations by a periodic source of substrate are determined experimentally in yeast extracts. Subharmonic entrainment proves the nonlinear nature of the glycolytic oscillator Random variation of the substrate input yields sustained oscillations of irregular waveform and stable period. The results agree with the predictions of an allosteric model for phosphofructokinase (EC 2.7.1.11; ATP:D-fructose-6-phosphate 1-phosphotransferase), which is the enzyme responsible for periodic operation of glycolysis. A comparison between model and experiment in the case of a constant source of substrate further indicates that the oscillatory dynamics of the glycolytic system can satisfactorily be described by the phosphofructokinase model. | 172,886 | [
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Biosynthesis of mouse interferon by translation of its messenger RNA in a cell-free system. | A fraction of mouse RNA containing messenger RNA coding for mouse interferon was translated with high efficiency in a wheat germ system into a fully active product. This product fulfills the criteria for mouse interferon, namely: (1) it was active against vesicular stomatitis virus and herpes simplex virus in mouse cells; (2) its antiviral activity was species specific; (3) its activity was completely neutralized by mouse anti-interferon serum. The synthesis of interferon in this cell-free system requires the presence of spermine. | 172,890 | [
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Anatomy of herpes simplex virus DNA: evidence for four populations of molecules that differ in the relative orientations of their long and short components. | Intact DNA molecules extracted from HSV-1 (herpes simplex virus 1, human herpes virus 1) strain MP virions have a molecular weight of approximately 97 X 10(6), but cleavage with the HinIII restriction enzyme yields fourteen fragments with summed molecular weights of 160 X 10(6). Six "major" fragments occur once in every molecule in the population and account for 60% of the genetic information. Four "minor" fragments are present in amounts equivalent to one copy for every two genomes (0.5 molar ratio) and the other four occur only once in every four molecules (0.25 molar ratio). The minor fragments can be arranged into four equimolar sets, each with summed molecular weights that account for the remaining 40% of the genome. Treatment with lambda 5' exonuclease revealed that all molecules contain 0.5 molar ratio fragments at both termini. These observations and the results of similar analyses of the EcoRI and double HinIII/EcoRI digests indicate that there are four distinct structural forms of HSV DNA which differ only in the relative orientations of two subregions, designated L and S. The L and S segments consist of 82 and 18% of the sequences, respectively, and each has inverted terminally redundant regions that correspond to the internal duplications observed by electron microscopy. The DNA from other strains of HSV-1 and 2 also consists of equal proportions of all four possible permutations of the L and S segments. These unusual features of HSV DNA molecules have novel implications with regard to the genetic map and the mode of replication and evolution of herpes simples viruses. | 172,900 | [
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Increases in paradoxical sleep as a result of amygdaloid stimulation. | Holtzman rats were partially and selectively deprived of paradoxical sleep (PS) for a 16 1/2 hr period and allowed to rest for a 7 1/2 hr period each day. Test animals were given mild (60 Hz, 50 muA) unilateral amygdaloid stimulation for one min each day of a 5 day test period. There was a significant increase in PS during the rest periods of test animals on stimulation days when compared to nonstimulated controls. The effect did not last beyond a 5 day period. Only subconvulsive behaviour was observed in two test animals. The similarity to the PS increases in this study to those seen in conventional learning and other stiuations are discussed. | 172,925 | [
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Neuroendocrine effects of haloperidol therapy in chronic schizophrenia. | The neuroendocrine effects of haloperidol therapy have been examined in 62 male chronic schizophrenic patients, aged 16-62 years. The duration of the disease varied between 2 and 29 years. The patients were divided into 48 hebephrenics with onset of the disease at puberty, or immediately after puberty, and 14 paranoids with onset of the disease in adulthood. They received 6 mg i.m.p.d. of haloperidol, for 30 days, up to a total dose of 180 mg. The following hormonal variables were examined before therapy and at 10-20 and 30 days of treatment: total urinary gonadotropins, serum FSH and LH, GH response to insulin stimulation, ACTH reserve (Metyrapone test), total urinary 17-ketosteroids and 17-hydroxycorticoids before and after an ACTH stimulation test, serum testosterone, insulin response to glucose load, plasma thyroxine before and after a TSH stimulation test. The basic hormonal values revealed decreased secretion of total gonadotropins, FSH, LH, ACTH and testosterone, and increased insulin secretion. The haloperidol therapy seemed to stimulate the secretion of FSH, LH, total gonadotropins, ACTH and testosterone, up to normal or low-normal levels. No modifications were observed in the other hormonal variables. The significance of these results is discussed. | 172,929 | [
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In vivo studies of parainfluenza I (6/94) virus: mononuclear cell interactions. | Adsorption to and penetration of migratory mononuclear cells in vivo by Para-influenza I (6/94) virus were documented by electron microscopy during the acute phase of an experimental meningoencephalitis in ICR mice. Phagocytosis of virions was the apparent and predominant mode of viral entry into these cells. Penetration by fusion was also seen. Nucleocapsids were replicated by the mononuclear cells which became a potential reservoir for the further spread of virus. | 172,948 | [
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Experimental immunosuppression induced by herpes simplex virus. | Cell-mediated immune response was studied in experimental herpetic infection in mice. Our data suggest that herpes simplex virus induced immunosuppression in mice. This depression was documented by the unresponsiveness of the lymphocytes to PHA stimulation in vitro and by the enhanced susceptibility of adult mice to Coxsackie B virus infection. Our data also suggest that levamisole, a potent immunostimulant drug, had no effect on the unresponsiveness of the lymphocytes to PHA stimulation. | 172,950 | [
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Isolation of herpes simplex virus clones and drug resistant mutants in microcultures. | Suitable dilutions of herpes simplex virus (HSV) preparations inoculated into microcultures of confluent monolayers of human foreskin or Vero cells, in individual wells of plastic "microplates", induced viral cytopathic effects that resulted from the infection of the cultures by single virus particles. The clonal nature of the viral progeny in isolated wells was supported by visual control over the development of viral foci and by statistical analysis. The method has the advantage of speed and economy, while it also yields a large primary clonal virus stock. HSV clones resistant to phosphonoacetic acid (PAA) and 5-iodo-2'-deoxyuridine (IUdR) could be readily isolated by the described technique. | 172,951 | [
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[Physiopathological and neuropathological study of a cerebral decortication syndrome]. | Detailed observation of a case of laminar necrosis of almost the whole of the cerebral cortex has led to several deductions concerning the physiology of the cortex in man. It suggests that the cortex has a limited influence on sleep, interfering particularly in the electro-encephalographic translation of slow sleep and, curiously, in the organisation of sleep, paradoxical sleep is hardly affected at all. It confirms the importance of the human cortex in the acquisition of elementary skills and describes a new oculomotor pattern in a decorticate man. | 173,006 | [
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Virologic studies in rheumatoid arthritis. | Comparison of virus antibody titers in JRA and matched controls failed to implicate rubella, measles, parainfluenza type 1 or Epstein-Barr viruses. Neither RNA viruses or mycoplasma were detected in rheumatoid synovial cell cultures by 3H-uridine incorporation. Mycoplasma were not isolated from rheumatoid synovial membranes or cell cultures using the large specimen-broth culture procedure. The balance of available evidence, including our own, suggests that mycoplasma are not involved in RA. Viruses, however, are better candidates, in spite of similar generally negative studies to date, because methods for detecting known latent infection in animals and in vitro are still in their infancy. Those that are known have not yet been comprehensively applied to RA. Thus, supported by indirect evidence from animal models and human diseases like polyarteritis, the hypothesis that viruses are involved in the pathogenesis of RA remains attractive, although direct evidence is still lacking. | 173,010 | [
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Metabolism of dehydroepiandrosterone by hormone dependent and hormone independent human breast carcinoma. | The metabolism of 7alpha-3H-dehydroepiandrosterone was studied in six human breast carcinomas in vitro. All mammary tumors transformed DHA to testosterone, dihydrotestosterone, 5alpha-androstane-3alpha, 17beta-diol and 5alpha-androstane-3,17-dione. Of the tumors investigated, three estrogen receptor-negative tumors converted DHA to estradiol and only one estrogen receptor-positive tumor produced estradiol from DHA. Observations on the relationship of androgen metabolism and hormone dependency are discussed. | 173,046 | [
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[Abdominoanal resection of the rectum with a lowering of different sections of the left half of the colon]. | In tumor localization at the level of 7--12 cm aside from the anus the authors performed 168 abdominoanal resections of the rectum with descending of different portions of the left colon. Among these patients in 126 subjects descending of the sigmoid in the anal canal was performed, in 30 of the splenic angle of the transverse colon, and in 12 of a proximal portion of the descending left colon. Some characteristic features of surgery for descending of different portions of the left colon are described. | 173,069 | [
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[Functional state of the adrenal cortex in patients with cancer of the rectum]. | The level of 17-ketosteroids and 17-ketogenic steroids in the diurnal urine was determined in 70 patients with rectal cancer prior to and after ACTH administration. In most patients the initial excretion of the steroids under study was found to be decreased. 17-ketosteroids excretion is reduced more frequently in patients over 50 years of age and in females. In a predominant number of patients functional reserves of the adrenal cortex are decreased. | 173,085 | [
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[Diabetogenic and atherogenic effects of glucose]. | Tests were set up on 59 albino male-rats with reproduced functional overstress and depletion of the insular system of the pancreas thorough a long-term (for 50, 100 days) peroral introduction of glucose (2 g/100 g body weight, every other day) and with and alloxan-induced diabetes (achieved by poisoning the animals with a 2.5% alloxan solution, 15 mg/100 g administered in a single dose intraperitoneally). A comparison of the data obtained ascertained the presence of a number of similar pathobiochemical changes in the metabolism, viz. hyperglycemia, an increase of the free cholesterol fraction, a diminution of the bound cholesterol fraction and a fall of the insulin-like activity (ILA) in the blood serum, a rise in glycogen and beta-lipoproteids in the liver; morphologically--a reduced count of Langerhan's islands beta-cells, less intensive colouration of the specific granulation in their cytoplasma manifestations of vacuolar and granular dystrophy of the liver. Further tests were staged on 23 rabbits involving a long-term introduction of glucose (in amounts of 25 g/kg every other day) and a cholesterol-induced atherosclerosis (by administering 0.2 g/kg of cholesterol in oil, daily), which also showed similar changes in the figures of the carbohydrate and fat-lipoids metabolism, such as hyperglycemia, an increased level of total lipids, cholesterol and its fractions, beta-lipoproteids, a fall of ILA in the blood serum, as well as variations in the morphological picture of the aortic wall. The above findings suggest that a protracted administration of glucose can produce both diabetogenic and atherogenic effects. | 173,088 | [
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[Comparative studies of simultaneous intraoperative frozen sections and imprint cytology of the mamma (author's transl)]. | 250 tissue biopsies of the mamma were examined simultaneously by intraoperative histology (frozen sections) and imprint cytology. In 95% of the cases there was a good agreement between the histologic and cytologic diagnoses. The reliability of the imprint cytology was tested in some complicated cases such as proliferating fibroadenomas, sclerosing adenosis and carcinomas and the significance of the imprint cytology for the diagnosis of difficult cases was pointed out in detail. The results have demonstrated, that such a cytologic examination can not be a substitute for intraoperative frozen sections - but the simultaneous cytologic examination of unfixed mamma biopsies can be a good searching method and can be helpful in the intraoperative diagnostic. | 173,104 | [
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[Disorders in conditioned reflex activity and morphologic changes in the brains of rats deprived of paradoxical sleep]. | Reproduction of defensive conditioned reflexes elaborated before a 96-hour deprivation of paradoxal sleep (DPS) in rats was sharply disturbed immediately after DPS, but became normal 24 hours later. Elaboration of conditioned reflexes immediately after DPS is followed by a disturbance of their reproduction, while such elaboration 24 hours after DPS does not affect their subsequent reproduction. It is assumed that dissociated learning plays an important part in the origin of the disclosed disturbances of conditioned activity. Morphological investigation of the animals' brain immediately after DPS revealed activation of neuroglia with productive-dystrophic changes of astrocytes, an increase in the sizes of nuclei of neurones in the motor cortex and hippocampus, and pronounced vascular changes. A day after DPS the changes of the astrocyte glia and the vessels are less pronounced, and the sizes of neurone nuclei in the motor cortex diminish. | 173,108 | [
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Double encephalitis with herpes simplex virus and cytomegalovirus in an adult. | A 51-year-old housewife developed symptoms of a cold followed by high fever, delirium, coma, rigidity of extremity muscles, positive Babinski sign and generalized convulsions, while complement-fixing antibody titre to herpes simplex virus in the sera raised over 128 X and declined to 8 X in the course. She finally expired of bronchopneumonia following status epilepticus after 94 days of illness. Severe necrosis with extensive hemorrhage in the white matter was predominant in the temporal, insular and orbitofrontal cortex, thalamus and globus pallidus. Focal rarefaction of the cerebral cortex with a very few eosinophilic intranuclear inclusions in the oligodendroglia and nerve cells, nerve cell destruction in the substantia nigra with glial nodules and perivascular inflammatory cell cuffs were observed. Abundant cytomegalic inclusion cells, originating from hypertrophic astrocytes, were present in the necrotic areas of cerebrum as well as in the rarefied tissue in the subependymal layers of the brainstem and cerebellum. Electron-microscopic study of the cytomegalic cells demonstrated the presence of numerous virions in both nucleus and cytoplasm. Fortuitour infection of the brain by cytomegalovirus with necrotizing encephalitis by herpes simplex virus is unique. The cause of double viral infections and severe lesions by less virulent strains is discussed. | 173,128 | [
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Histopathological studies on experimentally induced pulmonary adenomatosis in guinea-pig lungs. | The main purpose of our experimental series was to induce, in experimental animals, diffuse pulmonary fibrosis resembling that in human lungs. In the lungs of guinea-pigs injected with a soluble immune complex and continuously exposed to a 40-60 per cent oxygen-rich atmosphere, diffuse pulmonary fibrosis occurred in many cases in the course of 2 to 3 months after the injection. After the 100th experimental day, multiple foci of pulmonary adenomatosis occurred. The morphology was similar to that of Jaagsiekte. Electron microscopic observations revealed that these hyperplastic cells originated from type II pneumoncytes. | 173,137 | [
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Endocrinology in cancer of the breast. Status and prospects. | Breast cancer is the result of a multistage carcinogenic process. Initiation, promotion, dependency and autonomy make up a sequence of experimentally distinguishable phases of this process. Progression--the transition from dependency on hormonal support to autonomy--is demonstrable clinically. High-affinity saturatable estrogen binding by breast cancer cytosols distinguishes endocrine-responsive mammary neoplasms from autonomous breast cancers. Approximately 70% of neoplasms containing estrogen-recepor protein at a level of 2.5 femtomoles per mg. protein or higher regress after endocrine ablation (ovariectomy in premenopausal women; adrenalectomy or hypophysectomy in postmenopausal women). Only about 5% of neoplasms lacking the receptor will respond to these maneuvers. Estrogen-receptor content also predicts clinically for estrogen and androgen responsiveness, and experimentally for prolactin dependency. Fifty per cent of primary breast cancers in women are receptor-positive. Normal breast tissue and benign breast lesions characteristically lack receptor protein. The receptor proteins appear to be induced in neoplastic cells during mammary carcinogenesis in endocrinologic settings where non-cancerous breast cells do not contain free receptor in large amounts and fail to manifest endocrinologic growth stimulation. Implications of these findings for endocrinologic management of disseminated mammary cancer, adjuvant therapy, and breast cancer prevention are discussed. | 173,180 | [
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Prostaglandin E in cholera toxin-induced intestinal secretion. Lack of an intermediary role. | Prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) and cholera enterotoxin stimulate small-intestine mucosal adenylate cyclase and intestinal secretion of water and electrolytes. The previous suggestion that PGE may mediate cholera-toxin effects was explored in these studies. Closed rabbit jejunal loops were injected in vivo with cholera toxin and compared to similar loops in the same animal injected with buffer. Loop mucosal homogenates and intestinal secretions were analyzed by radioimmunoassay for cAMP and PGE concentrations. Cholera toxin produced significant increases in mucosal and intestinal fluid cAMP; however, there were no significant increases in PGE in the toxin-treated loops when compared to the control loops. In addition, there was no correlation between cAMP and PGE in the same samples. These studies indicate that cholera toxin stimulates intestinal cAMP anc secretion independent of PGE synthesis and provide evidence against a specific role for PGE in mediating cholera-toxin effects. | 173,182 | [
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Evaluation of a possible sex difference in recombination for the ABO-AK linkage. | Thirty-five informative families were scored for linkage between the ABO and AK loci. The recombination fractions were estimated separately in females and males and were compared with values reported in the literature. A 1.33:1 ratio for the female:male recombination fraction was obtained by combining all sources, but the difference between the recombination fractions was not significantly different from zero. The present data, combined with those reported earlier, show that the most likely recombination fraction is about 14%. | 173,186 | [
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Corticosteroids and ACTH are not required for compensatory adrenal growth. | We have tested the hypothesis that unilateral adrenalectomy results in decreased glucocorticoid secretion, reflexly elevated ACTH secretion, and consequently, compensatory adrenal growth. Plasma ACTH and corticosterone and right adrenal weight were measured during the first 10 days after left adrenalectomy or sham adrenalectomy in young male rats. There is a decrease in plasma corticosterone after unilateral adrenalectomy compared to sham adrenalectomy that persists for 1 h. ACTH is elevated only at 2 h after unilateral adrenalectomy compared to shamoperated rats. Treatment with dexamethasone, shown to abolish the ACTH and corticosterone responses to laparotomy with intestinal traction, resulted in significantly increased adrenal weight after unilateral adrenalectomy by 6 h (wet or dry weight), and at 24 h. Compensatory adrenal growth also occurs after unilateral adrenalectomy in hypophysectomized rats (wet or dry weight). We conclude the compensatory adrenal growth after unilateral adrenalectomy requires neither a virtual decrease in circulating corticosterone levels nor elevated ACTH levels, and speculate that the phenomenon is neurally mediated. | 173,195 | [
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Hepatic echography. | There are 2 kinds of echographic investigations: those which are only complementary and those which are specific by themselves. To improve this latter category, we would like to emphasize two useful echographic signs. First, the attenuation sign, which indicates the fibrotic nature, therefore practically speaking, the cirrhotic nature of a diffuse echogenic pattern. Secondly, the posterior echo accumulation sign, which indicates the liquid nature, and therefore in general the cystic nature of a localized sonolucent pattern. | 173,198 | [
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Equine serum lipids: lipid composition and electrophoretic mobility of equine serum lipoprotein fractions. | The serum lipoprotein fractions from 5 Morgan and 5 Thoroughbred horses were isolated by preparative ultracentrifugation, chemically analyzed for lipid composition, and studied by 2 methods of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis to determine electrophoretic mobility. Breed differences were not seen in the relative percentages of the lipid classes found in the various fractions. Normally, horses, like most animals, carry the majority of their lipid in high-density lipoproteins. Electrophoretically, the only difference seen between breeds occurred on disc electrophoresis where the extra band, which is characteristic of lipoprotein profiles of Morgans, was found in the high-density lipoprotein fraction. | 173,211 | [
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[Peripheral neuropathies i- Waldenstrom's disease. Histological and ultrastructural studies of 5 cases]. | In four cases it was the existence of peripheral neuropathy which led to the discovery of macroglobulinemia within an interval from 1 to 11 years. The treatment of the disease also markedly improved the peripheral neuropathy in three cases. Two patients died. Two of the biopsies of the peripheral nerve showed infiltration by atypical lymphocytes. Ultrastructural changes in the five cases were variable. Marked axonal involvement in the two cases with cellular infiltration. In one of these two cases it was combined with segmental demyelinization. This lesion was clearly predominant in the three other cases. In one of them demyelinization occurred in a very peculiar way with dilation of the internal part of the mesaxone going on in the most peripheral layers of the myelin. Discussion of the mechanisms of the involvement of the peripheral nervous parenchyma in Waldenström's disease. Cellular infiltrations, amorphous deposits, changes in the capillaries and macroglobuline may occur. | 173,209 | [
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Carcinofetal alterations in glycogen phosphorylase isozymes in rat hepatomas. | As part of a continuing study on the loss or retention of enzymes involved in specific hepatic functions in a series of rat liver neoplasms ranging widely in growth rate and degree of differentiation, isozyme patterns of glycogen phosphorylase in rat hepatomas were compared with those in rat tissues during development. A third phosphorylase isozyme, distinguishable kinetically, immunologically, electrophoretically, and by isoelectric focusing from liver and muscle types is commonly present in various rat hepatomas including Novikoff, Morris, and Yoshida hepatomas with various degrees of retention of liver type according to their degree of differentiation. This isozyme is also the sole type in the placenta and early embryo, and in liver and muscle is replaced with the organ specific liver and muscle types during development. In other organs, the replacement is only partial, and, especially in adult rat brain, this type is retained. Thus, this isozyme seems to be a prototype whose appearance in hepatomas is one of many examples of carcinofetal alterations in isozymes. | 173,229 | [
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[Experimental investigations on the accumulation of radioactive compounds in autochtonal tumors in the rat (author's transl)]. | For the first time results of investigations on rats with radioactive compounds in autochtonal tumors of the central nervous system, induced via placenta by Ethyl-Nitrose-Urea (ENU), are reported. In contrast to transplantation tumors the tumors induced by ENU are comparable in regard to the szintigrafic results with human brain tumors. The radiopharmaceuticals 131I-HSA, 99mTc-Pertechnetate, 203Hg-Chlormerodrin and 113m/111In-DTPA are similar to human brain tumors taken up by the ENU-tumors. For these findings it may be important, that the ENU-tumors are of neurogenic origin and do not differ histologically from the human brain tumors. The accumulation of the radioactive substances in ENU-tumors can be explained with the lesion at the blood-brain-barrier and at the blood-nerv-barrier. Therefore, it is discussed that the mechanism of the uptake is similar in human brain neoplasms and in ENU-tumors of the brain. The ENU-tumor model is suitable for testing new radiopharmaceuticals before their application in men. | 173,256 | [
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SV40 induced polypeptides in infected and transformed cells. | 5 structural (VP) and 3 non-structural (NSVP) SV40 induced polypeptides which display two kinetic patterns of synthesis are identified in infected cells. NSVP 1 and 2 are "early" functions of which only NSVP 1 is present in transformed cells; NSVP 3 is "late" function which is also present in a line (T-22) of transformed AGMK. | 173,262 | [
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Variation between electrophoretically identical alleles at the alcohol dehydrogenase locus in Drosophila melanogaster. | A new variant of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH 7lk) was found in a laboratory stock of Drosophila melanogaster. ADH in this stock had the same electrophoretic mobility as the F variant both on acrylamide and on agar. Activity levels were similar to the levels in F flies at temperature between 15 and 25 C. But while ADH F enzyme is inactivated rapidly at 40 C, ADH 7lk is still active. Also, ADH S is not inactivated at this temperature, but has a far lower activity per fly than ADH 7lk. Genetic analysis showed that the new variant is an allele of the Adh locus. | 173,280 | [
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The roles of the infectious bursal agent and several avian adenoviruses in the hemorrhagic-aplastic-anemia syndrome and gangrenous dermatitis. | The effect that breeder-flock immune status regarding the infectious bursal agent (IBA) and two avian adenoviruses (DPI-1 and DPI-2) has on the susceptibility of their commercially reared Delmarva broiler progeny to the hemorrhagic-aplastic-anemia syndrome and concurrent gangrenous dermatitis was determined. Lack of immunity to the IBA in breeder flocks was related to an increased susceptibility of progeny to anemia and dermatitis. Breeder-flock immunity to the two adenoviruses tested could not be related to the resistance or susceptibility of their progeny to the hemorrhagic-aplastic-anemia syndrome and gangrenous dermatitis. | 173,278 | [
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