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Ureteral metastasis from Wilms tumor. | Urothelial spread of Wilms tumor is uncommon and only 5 instances of ureteral metastases have been reported previously. A case of Wilms tumor with mid ureteral metastasis is presented and the literature is reviewed. Clinical implications and suggestions for surgical management are discussed. | 177,791 | [
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Isolation of low-virulent mouse hepatitis virus from nude mice with wasting syndrome and hepatitis. | Mouse hepatitis viruses were isolated on DBT cell culture from affected livers in most nude mice having wasting syndrome and chronic hepatitis. These nude isolates were pathogenic for cortisone-treated ICR weanling mice but not for non-treated ones. | 177,794 | [
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Erythropoietin levels in Wistar-Furth Wilms' tumor rats. | Erythropoietin (ESF) levels were assayed in rats bearing the Wistar-Furth Wilms' transplantable tumor. Sites of tumor inoculation varied from subcutaneous, intramuscular, intrarenal (subcapsular), to intraperitoneal. Two-thirds of the animals exhibited ESF elevations without polycythemia, or severe anemia (HCT less than 30.0 vol%). The elevations of ESF were not detectably related to the time of sacrifice (age of the animal), size of the primary tumor, or number of gross metastatic foci. The diminished ESF response noted to animals given intramuscular tumor implantations is believed to reflect differences in tumor blood and lymphatic supply at the various sites of inoculation. The pattern of ESF responses in the Wistar-Furth Wilms' tumor model is thus quite similar to that which we have observed in man, and appears to represent an animal model for tumor-related ectopic hormone release. The nature of the hormone is believed to differ from that seen in normal physiological states. | 177,822 | [
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Adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate and the regulation of rat hepatic sterol synthesis: a reexamination based on Sutherland criteria. | Many investigators have reported that adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) at supraphysiologic concentrations (10(-4) M) suppresses lipogenesis in rat livers in vitro. The data in this report demonstrate that the phosphodiesterase inhibitor theophylline does not suppress sterol synthesis by itself nor does it potentiate the cyclic AMP-mediated suppression. In addition the cyclic AMP-mediated effect was not specific as many structurally-related compounds including adenosine triphosphate, adenosine 5'-diphosphate, adenosine 5'-monophosphate, adenosine, coenzyme A, HMG coenzyme A, and guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate suppressed sterol synthesis. The phenomenon of cyclic AMP-suppression of sterol synthesis does not fulfill two of the four criteria defined by Sutherland to assess whether a given metabolic effect is mediated by cyclic AMP. Therefore, we conclude that the cyclic AMP mediated suppression of sterologenesis is not a physiologic effect of the nucleotide. | 177,839 | [
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Genetic and enzymatic analysis of a glycerol kinase deficient mutant in Neurospora crassa. | Genetic analysis showed that the glycerol non-utilizing isolate gly-u(234) of Neurospora crassa is derived by mutation in a nuclear gene situated in the right arm of linkage group I, about 2.2 cross-over units distal to ad-9 and 11 units proximal to nit-1. Enzymatic testings using a radiochemical method indicate that the mutant is deficient for the enzyme glycerol kinase. The radiochemical testings further indicate that the mutation has inactivated an inducible glycerol kinase, while a low residual activity may be due to a second, basal and non-inducible glycerol kinase, in accordance with a proposal by North (1973, 1974) that Neurospora has two glycerol kinases with these properties. | 177,854 | [
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Estrogens and endometrial cancer in a retirement community. | All cases of endometrial cancer occurring among the residents of an affluent retirement community were compared with controls chosen from a roster of all women in the same community. Evidence of estrogen and other drug use and of selected medical conditions was obtained from three sources: medical records of the principal care facility, interviews, and the records of the local pharmacy. The risk ratio for any estrogen use was estimated from all available evidence to be 8.0 (95 per cent confidence interval, 3.5 to 18.1). and the for conjugated estrogen use to be 5.6 (95 per cent confidence interval, 2.8 to 11.1). Increased risk from estrogens was shown for invasive as well as noninvasive cancer, and a dose-response effect was demonstrated. For an estrogen user, the risk from endometrial cancer appeared to exceed by far the base-line risk from any other single cancer. | 177,870 | [
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[Transmission of impulse trains by nerve fibers upon near-threshold stimulation]. | Impulse trains evoked by stimulation of the hindlimb nerves were studied in group A fibres at the lumbar level of spinal cord in anesthetized cats. Random (Poissonian) trains fo stimuli and trains with modified structure were used. With suprathreshold stimulation the impulse trains in the nerve fibres differed from the stimulus trains only by the absence of the shortest (less than 1.0 divided by 1.5 ms) intervals caused by refracteriness. Substantial differencies between the impulse and stimulus trains occurred when the stimulus intensity was decreased to a near-threshold level and mean frequency of stimulation was higher than 10 per second. Differences were found in interval histograms, intensity functions, correlation coefficients for successive intervals. Afterdischarge processes in the nerve fibres are supposed to be the main reason of changes in the impulse train structure. | 177,895 | [
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[Stereological analysis of the degranulation and the contraction of platelets. Application to the ultrastructural study of thrombin induced excretion in vitro]. | A stereological model, which provides quantitative information on the morphology of the platelet release reaction as isolated from platelet aggregation, was developed for the human platelets separated from blood by Mustard's procedure. Three morphologically defined spaces (granules, surface-connected canalicular system S.C.S., cytoplasm) were used to characterize platelet degranulation (with the variation of the volume density of the granules) and contraction (with the variation of the volume density of both granules and S.C.S.). This model was applied to the evaluation of ultrastructural changes associated with the thrombin-induced release reaction. Degranulation and contraction were associated in the platelets which had been allowed to release for 1,5 and 150 sec. Under conditions of the study, prostaglandins E1 (10(-7) M) inhibited both degranulation and contraction (p less than 0,001). Aspirin (10(-4) M) only inhibited contraction (p less than 0.01) and dibutyryl-AMPc (10(-4)) only inhibited granulation (p less than 0,001). | 177,928 | [
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Viral infections that affect the fetus. | Several viral infections besides rubella are known to cause fetal anomalies and disease. Cytomegalovirus, for example, may adversely affect the fetus in a number of ways. Either herpesvirus or hepatitis B virus is transmissible from mother to offspring. Viruses whose potential for fetal harm is less clear are those of varicella, mumps, and influenza. | 177,962 | [
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Hyperhidrosis and hypohidrosis. | Sweating has an important physiological function concerned with both temperature and fluid balance. Hypohidrosis is uncommon and rarely recognized by the patient. It usually represents damage to the central nervous system or peripheral nerves. Hyperhidrosis may be a feature of general medical diseases such as thyrotoxicosis and fevers. It may also be due to damage of the central of peripheral sympathetic nerves. Localized hyperhidrosis tends to occur on the palms, the soles, the axillae and, to a lesser extent, the face. Treatment of local hyperhidrosis with topical aluminium salts, or with topical or oral anticholinergics, may help some patients but surgery may be indicated in those with severe hyperhidrosis. | 177,967 | [
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Distribution of envelope-specific and sarcoma-specific nucleotide sequences from different parents in the RNAs of avian tumor virus recombinants. | The distribution of leukosis-virus- and sarcoma-virus-specific oligonucleotide sequences was investigated in the RNAs of viral recombinants selected for an envelope gene (env) from a leukosis parent and a sarcoma gene (src) from a sarcoma parent. For this purpose 20 to 30 RNase-T1-resistant oligonucleotides were chemically analyzed and mapped within the 10,000 nucleotides of each viral RNA relative to the 3'-poly(A) end. The resulting oligonucleotide maps were compared. Proceeding from the 3' to the 5' end, the maps of four recombinants contained: (i) in a segment of 2000 nucleotides, three to four src-specific oligonucleotides, so identified because they were shared only with the sarcoma parent; and (ii) in a segment of 8000 nucleotides, 20 oligonucleotides shared with the leukosis parent, of which six to seven were also shared with the sarcoma parent. Two other recombinants contained: (1) in a segment of 2000 (one) or 3000 (the other) nucleotides, three src-specific oligonucleotides; (ii) in a segment of 3000 (one) or 2000 (the other) nucleotides, five (one) or four (the other) oligonucleotides, all or some of which are env-specific, because they were shared with the leukosis parent; (iii) in a segment of 5000 nucleotides (both), 11 functionally unidentified sarcoma-virus-derived oligonucleotides, of which seven were also shared with the leukosis parent. The map locations of parental oligonucleotides were not changed in recombinants and all viral strains tested shared six to eight highly conserved oligonucleotides at equivalent map locations. The partial map -env-src-poly(A) emerged from the analyses of these recombinants. | 177,972 | [
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Detection of antibody to Varicella-Zoster virus by immune adherence hemagglutination. | A serologic test for measurement of antibody to V-Z virus by immune adherence hemagglutination is described. Initial evaluation of the test has shown it to be highly sensitive, specific, rapid, and simple to perform. The V-Z antigen may be stored at -70 degrees, and the test could be performed in any routine serology laboratory. | 177,988 | [
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Cyclic AMP and central noradrenaline receptors: failure to activate diencephalic adrenergic feeding pathways. | Intracranial injection of graded doses of dibutyryl 3',5'-cyclic adenosine monophosphoric acid (cAMP) at sites in the accumbens/stria terminalis nuclei of satiated rats elicited behavioural arousal and occasional convulsive episodes at higher doses, but failed to affect food consumption even in sites where injection of noradrenaline (65 nmol) consistently elicited increased feeding. Intracranial aminophylline (550 nmol) or dopamine (65 nmol) were also without effect on food consumption. This result does not support recent suggestions that cAMP serves as the second messenger in central noradrenergic motivational pathways. | 177,997 | [
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[Technical notes and clinical use of radioimmunologic determination of plasma ACTH]. | Particular aspects of plasma ACTH radioimmunoassay are examinated. The results obtained with this method in adrenocortical diseases (Addison's disease, Cushing's syndrome, congenital adrenal hyperplasia) are reported and clinical value in etiological diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome is outlined. Moreover the results obtained in other syndromes of endocrinologic interest (massive obesity, Turner's and Klinefelter's syndromes, Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome, true precocious puberty, primary hypothyroidism, hypopituitary dwarphism) are reported and discussed. | 178,022 | [
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Studies of growth hormone secretion VIII. Effects of alpha,beta-methylene-ATP on prostglandin induced GH release and cyclic AMP accumlation in rat anterior pituitary glands. | Alpha, beta-methylene-ATP, a competitive inhibitor of adenylate cyclase of liver and fat cell membrane preparations, caused a dose related inhibition of PGE1 and PGE2-induced cyclic AMP accumulation in rat anterior pituitary explants. At the same time, this ATP analog potentiated PGE1 and PGE2-promoted growth hormone secretion. The possible functional role of prostaglandins and cyclic nucleotides in the regulation of growth hormone secretion remains to be defined. | 178,028 | [
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Genetic determination of aggressive behavior and brain cyclic AMP. | Inbred mouse strains exhibit differences in brain cyclic AMP concentrations. In two mouse strains, we have shown that both the tendency for aggressive attack and high brain cyclic AMP content are inherited as recessive traits and that these traits maintain a close association in segregating generations. | 178,032 | [
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A reovirus-like agent (rotavirus) in gastroenteritis of children. Virus detection and serological studies. | A reovirus-like agent (rotavirus) was detected in 26 children (44%) when fecal specimens from 59 children with acute gastroenteritis were examined by electron microscopy. No rotavirus was detected in the feces of 49 children with other diseases. Sera from the acute and the convalescent phase from 40 children with acute gastroenteritis and from 18 other patients were examined for antibodies against a bovine rotavirus by an indirect fluorescent antibody test. 26 of the patients with gastroenteritis (65%) developed antibodies during their disease, whereas none of the other patients showed a rise in antibody titre. The specimens were submitted to the laboratory from hospitalized children during the period January 1973 through March 1975. Most of the cases of rotavirus gastroenteritis occurred during late autumn and early winter among children between 0.5 and 3 years of age. It is concluded that electron microscopy is a sensitive diagnostic technique during the acute phase of the disease, and that the serological test with bovine rotavirus antigen served as a useful diagnostic tool. | 178,049 | [
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Specific progesterone receptors in dimethylbenzanthracene (DMBA)-induced mammary tumors. | Properties of a progesterone receptor present in the cytosol (105,000 xg supernatant) of dimethylbenzanthracene (DMBA)-induced mammary tumors were studied using the highly potent progestin [3H]R 5020 (17, 21-dimethyl-19-nor-pregna-4, 9-diene-3,20-dione). As shown by sucrose gradient analysis, specific binding of [3H] R 5020 is associated with components migrating at 7-8S and 4S. Low affinity binding of the synthetic progestin is eliminated by treatment with dextran-coated charcoal. [3H] R 5020 binding is highly progestin-specific since it is easily displaced by unlabelled norgestrel, R 5020 and progesterone while estradiol-17beta, dihydrotestosterone, testosterone, testosterone and diethylstilbestrol have much lower activity. Dexamethasone and cortisol have little, if any, effect on [3H] R 5020 binding. | 178,076 | [
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In vitro sensitivity of Entamoeba histolytica to furazolidone and iodochlorhydroxyquin, separate and combined. | Entamoeba histolytica trophozoites isolated in Robinson's medium from faeces containing cysts, transported from India, have been tested in vitro against the drugs furazolidone, iodochlorhydroxyquin, and both drugs combined as Dependal. Results show the levels at which drug action is significant and that interaction between the drugs occurs at two concentrations. | 178,080 | [
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[Cycloalkylsulfamic acids and their salts. i.v. (author's transl)]. | The sodium salts of cis- and trans-2-methyl-cyclohexylsulfamic acid were synthesized and tasted. There is no difference in their degree of sweetness. | 178,120 | [
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Treatment of glioblastoma multiforme. A review. | Experience in irradiating 114 patients with glioblastoma multiforme is reviewed. The split-course therapy utilized in this series, even to high doses (approximately 5 600 rad in 20 fractions over 45 to 50 days), was not associated with an improved survival and does not seem of benefit over conventional fractionation. Adding BCNU (or perhaps tri-iodothyronine) to medium field (less than 135 mc) and moderate dose irradiation (5 000 rad in 25 treatments in 33 days) may improve the outlook for patients with glioblastoma multiforme. An expanded controlled clinical trial to assess this promise of improved treatment results seems indicated. | 178,151 | [
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A comparative morphometric analysis of the effects of thyroxine and ACTH on the zona fasciculata of rat adrenal cortex. | The effects of thyroxine and ACTH on the ultrastructure of cells of the adrenal zona fasciculata were studied by morphometric analysis and compared by two-way analysis of variance. The results indicate that the effects of thyroxine and ACTH are different and independent. The statistically significant differences in effect of thyroxine and ACTH are: thyroxine causes an increase in the volume fraction of mitochondria and a decrease in the volume fraction of endoplasmic reticulum independent of ACTH; thyroxine causes a decrease in surface density of mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum in the absence of ACTH, but in the presence of ACTH this effect is moderated by an interaction of throxine and ACTH. There were no statistically significant effects of either thyroxine or ACTH on volume fraction or surface density of liposomes. | 178,165 | [
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Additive risk factors in atherosclerosis. | The tissues of human subjects assayed for a higher level of vitamin D than the tissues of 6-month-old swine which had been fed a commercial ration containing 14 times more vitamin D3 than the National Research Council recommended requirement for growing swine. Bioassays of commercial livestock feeds indicate much higher vitamin D contents than the National Research Council recommendation. High levels of vitamin D activity are demonstrable in tissues from the animals on such livestock feeds. The grossly normal areas of the aorta of weanling swine fed 100,000 IU of vitamin D3/pound of basal ration during the initial 6 weeks had a higher frequency of degenerated smooth muscle cells than the grossly normal areas of the aorta of swine fed the commercial ration, or 7.43+/-0.45 and 5.60+/-0.27/100 cells, respectively, at the age of 3 months. Tbe addition of 13 pounds of hydrogenated fat and 200 g of cholesterol/100 pounds of the commercial ration further increased the frequency of degenerated smooth muscle cells by 0.53 (P less than 0.05) or to 7.96 +/- 0.39/100 cells in the grossly normal areas of the aorta of weanling swine fed this fat-supplemented ration to 3 months of age. | 178,169 | [
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Ultrastructure and formation of lamellated inclusion bodies in induced lung tumors of the European hamster. | Utlrastructure and formation of lamellated inclusion bodies (LB) in N-dibutyl-nitrosamine-induced lung tumors in European hamsters are described. Two types of LBs are observed: one with cross-barred lamellae and one with concentric lamellae. Both types develop from lysosome-like dense bodies which are formed by the Golgi apparatus. More mature forms fuse with rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER). Mature LBs migrate to the cell surface, where their contents are extruded into the alveolar lumen by means of a merocrine secretion. The extruded lamellae give rise to the myelin figures and lattices that are reported to possess surfactant properties. | 178,184 | [
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The occurrence and frequency of type C virus-like particles in placentas from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and from normal subjects. | Type C RNA virus-like particles were found by electron microscopy in term placentas from 3 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), 1 with probable SLE, and 2 normal patients. The virus-like particles were mainly of a budding or immature type located at or near the cell membrane of syncytiotrophoblasts in chorionic villi. Type C virus-like particles were not observed in the term placenta from a patient with chronic discoid LE, nor in early gestation specimens from 1 normal patient and 4 patients with SLE. The frequency of the Type C particles varied greatly: They were readily found in the patient with probable SLE, and only here were groups of budding particles observed. Type C particles were less numerous in one normal placenta and rare in the other positive placentas, both SLE and normal. Heretofore undescribed crystalline inclusions were found in the cytoplasm of chorionic villous endothelial cells from 3 patients with SLE and 1 with discoid LE. Tubuloreticular structures were observed in the maternal endometrium of 1 patient with SLE. | 178,185 | [
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Limitations of Brief Hospital Treatment. | A total of 175 newly admitted inpatients who lived with their families were randomly assigned to three treatment groups: standard inpatient care and brief hospitalization with and without transitional day care. Case reports of 6 of the 9 patients considered "study failures" illustrate that effective postdischarge adaptation is limited by the patients' degree of impairment as well as the family and community capacity to accept them. Although rapid return to the community is beneficial to many patients, rigid adherence to this policy is neither wise nor clinically effective. | 178,191 | [
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Demonstration and dimensional analysis of the normal pancreas with gray-scale echography. | For consistent identification of the normal pancreas, preliminary longitudinal scanning at, or near, the mid-line and subsequent oblique scanning in the long axis are necessary prerequisites in delineating the anatomic outline of the pancreas. The range of normal measurements for different anatomical regions of the pancreas was determined, based on the dimensional examinations of this organ in 328 patients free of pancreatic disease. These provide objective guidelines for analysis of the pancreas in abdominal echography. Echography provides a rapid, non-invasive method of imaging the pancreas. This study demonstrated that visualization of the pancreas as a separate structure does not imply that it is consequently abnormal. | 178,212 | [
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Localized nodular synovitis of the knee: a report of two cases with abnormal arthrograms. | The arthrographic appearance in two cases of localized PVS of the knee involving the region of the infrapatellar fat pad is reported. Lesions in this area may present with confusing symptomatology, and the true abnormality may be overlooked in a search for meniscal lesion. The arthrographic picture is non-specific and a number of entities must be considered. | 178,217 | [
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Steroid concentrations in cows with corticotropin-induced cystic ovarian follicles and the effect of prostaglandin F2alpha and indomethacin given by intrauterine injection. | In 7 instances, cystic ovarian follicles resulted when adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) was administered daily during the follicular phase of the estrous cycle in cows. Two cows given daily injections of hydrocortisone (cortisol) during the follicular phase of the estrous cycle did not develop cystic ovaries. Plasma concentrations of estradiol in cows with induced cystic ovarian follicles were similar to the peak values observed at estrus and were between 6 and 12 pg/ml. Progesterone concentrations in plasma of cows with cystic ovaries were low, between 1 and 2 ng/ml. Ovulation occurred when 2 cows were given human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) during the period of ovarian cyst development with ACTH administration. Several days of administration of ACTH was required to cause cyst development. Ovulation occurred at the expected time in 1 cow when injections began on day 19, that is, late in the follicular period. In another cow, when treatment was stopped on day 3, after the expected time of estrus a delayed ovulation occurred. In 2 cows with induced cystic ovarian follicles, cyst atresia occurred spontaneously about day 13 to 17 of the cycle. In these cows, new follicular growth and ovulation followed (although delayed in 1 cow). The time of atresia of cystic follicles was not influenced by the intrauterine injection of 10 ml of sterile saline solution on days 8, 9, and 10 in 1 cow. When 5 mg of prostaglandin F2alpha in 10 ml of sterile saline solution was given (uterine injection) in 2 cows on days 8, 9, and 10, cyst atresia occurred earlier than the time of spontaneous atresia. Intrauterine administration of 100 mg of indomethacin in 10 ml of sterile saline solution daily for 13 or 14 days to 2 cows, starting on day 12 or 13 of the cycle, resulted in persistence of the induced cystic ovarian follicles. After cessation of indomethacin treatment, atresia of cysts followed and new follicular growth and ovulation occurred. | 178,251 | [
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Pathogenesis of duck plague in the bursa of Fabricius, thymus, and spleen. | White Pekin ducks were inoculated orally with duck plague virus and killed at 24-hour intervals after inoculation. Spleen, thymus, and bursa of Fabricius were collected and examined by light, fluorescent, and electron microscopy. Necrosis of lymphocytes occurred in the bursa of Fabricius, thymus, splenic periarteriolar lymphoid sheath (T lymphocytes), and splenic germinal centers (B lymphocytes). Viral nucleocapsids were present in the karyoplasm of lymphocytes, but these cells necrotized before virions were formed. Periarteriolar reticular sheath cells and sinusoidal lining cells in the spleen, epithelial cells in Hassall's corpuscle of the thymus, epithelial cells between the cortex and medulla of the follicles in the bursa of Fabricius, and macrophages in all 3 tissues contained nucleocapsids in the nuclei and virions in cytoplasmic vacuoles before necrosis occurred. | 178,252 | [
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[Inflammatory pseudotumor of the lung in infancy (histiocytoma) (author's transl)]. | A four year old boy with a clinical picture of acute pneumonia is presented. Antibiotic therapeutic improved the clinical and analytic symptomatology but a round, radiologic shadow persisted after three months of evolution. Thoracotomy was performed and by histopathologic examination histiocytoma of lung diagnosed. Literature is reviewed and the clinical, radiologic, pathologic and etiopathogenetic features are commented. These lesions should be considered as benign to avoid extensive resection. | 178,261 | [
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In vivo synergy between 6 beta-amidinopenicillanic acid derivatives and other antibiotics. | Both an oral and a parenteral form of a 6beta-amidinopenicillanic acid derivative were found to have appreciable activity against gram-negative bacteria and poor activity against gram-positive bacteria in vivo. When administered orally or parenterally, definite synergy was demonstrated between the amidinopenicillins and ampicillin, amoxicillin, benzylpenicillin, cefazolin, or carbenicillin in infections with a number of gram-negative bacteria, including Klebsiella, Enterobacter, Escherichia, Proteus, Salmonella, and Haemophilus species in mice. Synergy was also observed between the parenteral amidinopenicillin and benzylpenicillin in the Staphylococcus aureus infection but not in infections with other gram-positive organisms. No synergy was demonstrated between the parenteral amidinopenicillin and erythromycin or oxytetracycline in infections with gram-positive or gram-negative organisms. Synergy between the parenteral amidinopenicillin and gentamicin was observed only in the case of Escherichia coli. | 178,275 | [
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LevoDopa test and estrogen receptor assay in prognosticating responses of patients with advanced cancer of the breast to endocrine therapy. | The ability of L-dopa to arrest pain can be used to predict objective response of skeletal disease to endocrine ablation or additive therapy. In the present study, 43 patients with painful skeletal metastases were evaluated for the relief of pain by L-dopa, given 250 mg to 500 mg orally every 4 hours for 4 days. Sixteen of the 25 responders to L-dopa had objective response to either previous or later hormonal therapy while all the 18 non-responders did not benefit from endocrine ablation. The results of L-dopa responses also correlated well to the presence of absence of cytoplasmic ER in tumor. These results demonstrate that both tests (L-dopa and ER) are reliable indicators, one complimenting the other, in prognosticating response to endocrine therapy and should be used prior to hormone treatment. Alternative therapy should be considered for patients who are non-responders to the L-dopa test and/or whose tumors contain negligible ER. The long term therapeutic value of L-Dopa, however, is limited. | 178,277 | [
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[Inhibition of 3', 5'-cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase in the guinea pig lung by a new anti-allergic: 10-(3-quinuclidinylmethyl) phenothiazine (LM 209)]. | The action of a new antiallergic agent, 10-(3-quinuclidinylmethyl) phenothiazine or LM 209, on cAMP phosphodiesterase (PDE) was studied on a guinea-pig lung preparation and compared with that of other compounds such as cromoglycate (I), dexamethasone (II), dexchlorpheniramine (III), promethazine (IV) and theophylline (V). Compounds I, IV and V are competitive inhibitors whereas LM 209 and compound III are non competitive inhibitors of PDE. Compound II is practically inactive on the enzyme. Compounds III and V produce an inhibition of equal intensity, independently of the substrate concentration. Compounds I and IV are more active on PDE with low affinity than on PDE with strong affinity, whereas it is the contrary with LM 209. The mechanism of action of LM 209 at the pulmonary level is discussed in the light of these findings. | 178,283 | [
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An investigation of the effects of a pyridyl and a piperidyl 1, 3-dioxolane derivative on neuromuscular transmission. | 2-(4'-pyridyl)-1,3-dioxolane methiodide (KCL-301-14) and 2-(1'-methyl-4' piperidyl)-1,3-dioxolane hydroiodide (KCL-301-39) facilitated the force of contraction in low doses and blocked it in higher doses in the in vivo cat soleus muscle preparation. Both drugs in the cat also reversed d-tubocurarine and succinylcholine blockade, produced post-drug repetitive activity, blocked post-tetanic potentiation (PTP), had no direct muscle affect and reversed the PTP suppression caused by d-tubocurarine and succinylcholine. In the rat phrenic nerve-diaphragm and the chick biventer cervicis preparations in vitro, facilitation, then blockade of the contraction were seen as concentrations increased. However, KCL-301-14 reversed d-tubocurarine and increased succinylcholine blockades in the rat and chick. KCl-301-39 increased both d-tubocurarine and succinylcholine blockades in the rat and chick. The different effects seen in the cat vs. the rat and chick with these drugs are probably due to species variation. | 178,284 | [
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Dialysis in renal failure casued by amyloidosis of familial Mediterranean fever. A report of ten cases. | Ten unselected patients with renal failure casued by amyloidosis associated with FMF were treated by regular hemodialysis therapy from 1969 to 1974. They were compared to age-matched control patients treated by hemodialysis in the same unit during the same period, who were suffering from renal failure caused by other disease. Mortality in FMF and control patients was 30% with no significant difference in mean survival, shunt life, serum albumin or hemoglobin levels between the two groups. There was no significant difference in blood pressure measured predialysis or postdialysis in patients with FMF or in controls. The synthetic ACTH stimulation test showed adequate or elevated adrenocortical function. It is concluded that life can be prolonged up to 3 1/2 years by hemodialysis in renal failure caused by amyloidosis complicating FMF, and that renal failure casued by FMF is not a contraindication to regular hemodialysis therapy. | 178,285 | [
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Further observations on subacute sclerosing encephalitis in adult hamsters: the effects of intranasal infections with Langat virus, measles virus and SSPE-measles virus. | Passage by i.c. inoculations of suckling hamsters enhanced the virulence for adult hamsters of Langat virus (TP21), neurotropic strain of measles virus (HNT) and SSPE-measles virus (HBS), not only for i.c. infections but also for intranasal instillations. The various viral strains passaged in hamsters showed a great similarity of behaviour including the ability of producing in a proportion of apparently unaffected survivors a subacute sclerosing encephalitis, leading to atrophy of parts of the brain especially the rhinencephalon. When large groups of animals were used for transmission experiments it became obvious that within one week after intranasal exposure, all the hamsters either died or became clinically affected, or did not show signs of disease but developed acute inflammatory brain lessions. tlater on, between 2-6 weeks following inoculations only 90% of hamsters were affected with either overt signs of disease or subacute brain lesions, suggesting that in about 10% of hamsters the initial infection did not progress further and that in these animals the early brain lesions disappeared. Passage levels, irrespective of the virus used, did not influence the total numbers of infected hamsters but showed a significant effect on the mortality in TP21 and HNT infections where the number of dead and clinically affected increased in the higher passes. In these higher passes the number of survivors with subacute brain lesions decreased. In SSPE-measles virus the number of clinically affected hamsters and those surviving but developing brain lesions remained constant throughout. Vacuolated neurons were present in the brains of hamsters that survived one of the above 3 viral infections. They were seen beginning from 6 weeks after infection only in animals that developed subacute sclerosing lesions and were most commonly found in the amygdaloid nuclei and in the pyriform cortex. There was a dramatic increase in the number of brains with vacuolated neurons in hamsters infected with the high viral passes; however, in the 36th hamster passage of TP21 no vacuolated neurons were present but the total number of survivors was small, the majority had no brain lesions and none had subacute sclerosing changes. | 178,335 | [
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Hormonal regulation of pancreatic islet adenyl cyclase. | Adenyl cyclase activity of rat pancreatic islet membrane was increased by secretin, pancreozymin, and isoproterenol, while ACTH, glucagon, growth hormone, and insulin had no effect. Both secretin and isoproterenol activations were enhanced by prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) and GTP. Isoproterenol activation was additive with PGE1, as was that of secretin with PGE1, but only in the presence of GTP. Secretin activation in the presence of PGE1 and GTP was equivalent to NaF stimulation. Kinetic analysis indicated that secretin and GTP increased the maximum velocity of the adenyl cyclase and tended to decrease the apparent affinity of the enzyme for ATP. Glucagon activation of islet membrane adenyl cyclase was dependent upon prior treatment of the membrane preparation with EGTA and the use of inhibitors of proteolytic enzymes during the collagenase digestion phase of islet preparation. These results suggest that hormonal regulation of insulin secretion may be affected by PGE1 and guanine nucleotide modulation of the adenyl cyclase activation process. | 178,351 | [
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Phosphorylation of double-stranded DNAs by T4 polynucleotide kinase. | The phosphorylation by T4 polynucleotide kinase of various double-stranded DNAs containing defined 5'-hydroxyl end group structures has been studied. Particular emphasis was placed on finding conditions that allow complete phosphorylation. The DNAs employed were homodeoxyoligonucleotides annealed on the corresponding homopolymers, DNA duplexes corresponding to parts of the genes for alanine yeast tRNA, and a suppressor tyrosine tRNA from Escherichia coli. The rate of phosphoylation of DNAs with 5'-hydroxyl groups in gaps was approximately ten times slower than for the corresponding single-stranded DNA. At low concentrations of ATP, 1 muM, incomplete phosphorylation was obtained, whereas with higher concentrations of ATP, 30 muM, complete phosphorylation was achieved. In the case of DNAs with 5'-hydroxyl groups at nicks approximately 30% phosphorylation could be detected using 30 muM ATP. A DNA containing protruding 5'-hydroxyl group ends was phosphorylated to completion using the same conditions as for single-stranded DNA, i.e., a ratio between the concentrations of ATP and 5'-hydroxyl groups of 5:1 and a concentration of ATP of approximately 1 muM. For a number of DNAs containing protruding 3'-hydroxyl group ends and one DNA containing even ends incomplete phosphorylation was found under similar conditions. For all these DNAs a plateau level was observed varying from 20 to 45% of complete phosphorylation. At 20 muM and higher ATP concentrations, the phosphorylation was complete also for these DNAs. With low concentrations of ATP a rapid production of inorganic phosphate was noted for all the latter DNAs. The apparent equilibrium constants for the forward and reverse reaction were determined for a number of different DNAs, and these data revealed that the plateau levels of phosphorylation obtained at low concentrations of ATP for DNAs with protruding 3'-hydroxyl group and even ends is not a true equilibrium resulting from the forward and reverse reaction. It is suggested that the plateau levels are due to formation of inactive enzyme-substrate and enzyme-product complexes. For all double-stranded DNAs tested, except DNAs containing protruding 5'-hydroxyl group ends, addition of KCl to the reaction mixture resulted in a drastic decrease in the rate of phosphorylation, as well as in the maximum level phosphorylated. Spermine, on the other hand, had little influence. Both of these agents have previously been shown to activate T4 polynucleotide kinase using single-stranded DNAs as substrates (Lillehaug, J.R., and Kleppe, K. (1975), Biochemistry 14, 1221). The inhibition of phosphorylation of double-stranded DNAs by salt might be the result of stabilization of the 5'-hydroxyl group regions of these DNAs. | 178,357 | [
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Gramicidin S-synthetase. A further characterization of phenylalanine racemase, the light enzyme of gramicidin s-synthetase. | 1. Chromatography on hydroxyapatite and on aminohexyl-Sepharose as well as isoelectric focusing were introduced as new effective purification procedures for phenylalanine racemase (EC 5.1.1.11). The enzyme preparations obtained were essentially homogeneous, as demonstrated by specific activity measurements and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. 2. The enzyme is not dissociable by sodium dodecyl sulfate. 3. Phenylalanine racemase is an acidic protein with an isoelectric point of approx. 4.6 (isoelectric focusing). 4. The Michaelis constants of L-Phe and D-Phe in the aminoacyl adenylate activation are 0.06 and 0.13 mM, respectively. 5. From our studies with structural analogues of phenylalanine we infer that the amino group of this amino acid is essential for its binding to the aminoacyl adenylate reaction center. The carboxyl group is not at all or only weakly bound. The benzene ring of phenylalanine which determines substrate recognition also seems to be of minor importance for substrate binding. | 178,369 | [
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Purification and characterization of phosphodiesterase I from Bothrops atrox. | Phosphodiesterase I from the venom of Bothrops atrox has been purified by successive chromatography on phosphocellulose P-11, hydroxyapatite, and DEAE-cellulose DE 52. The final product gave a single band on sodium dodecylsulfate-polyacrylamide gels and was free of endonuclease, 5' -nucleotidase, and unspecific alkaline phosphatase activity. It was concentrated in an Amicon ultrafiltrator without loss of activity and could be stored in 10 mM magnesium acetate and 10% glycerol at 4 degrees C for at least a year. Under optimal conditions, the enzyme reaction required 15 mM Mg2+ and a pH of 9.2. Phosphodiesterase I is relatively thermostable and, in the presence of a macromolecular substrate, was not denatured after 4 h at 55 degrees C. The pure enzyme offers new possibilities for sequence studies on highly structured nucleic acids at elevated temperatures. | 178,376 | [
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Analysis of estrogen glucuronides. I--Characterization of estrogen glucuronides by gas chromatography mass spectrometry. | The mass spectral characterization of nine kinds of estrogen glucuronides was investigated. The glucuronides were analysed after conversion to n-propyl ester-O-TMS ether derivatives by gas chromatography mass spectrometry. The fragmentation of these derivatives is discussed using deuterium labels and TMS-d9 imidazole. A clear-cut difference was found between aliphatic and aromatic glucuronic acid conjugates. In particular the [M - 362]+- fragment ion was characteristic in the mass spectra of estrogen 3-glucuronides. On the other hand, four isomers of estriol and 16-epiestriol glucuronides containing an aliphatic acetal linkage were also characterized by the fragment ions of m/e value 204, 345, 415, and 431 and their relative intensities. Thus, all nine estrogen glucuronides were discriminated mass spectrometrically. | 178,386 | [
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[Lipid oxidation in bilayer lipid membranes linked with the reaction of oxidation of NAD.H by atmospheric oxygen]. | It is shown that along with NAD.H oxidation with air oxygen peroxide oxidation of lipids forming the membrane takes place in bilayer lipid membranes modified with ubiquinone. During nicotin amide oxidation proton absorption takes place. Peroxide oxidation of lipids results in the liberation of H+ ions, which in its turn brings about the formation of protone-deficient or enriched (against aqueous solution) layers adjacent to the membrane. The potential value on the membrane is shown to depend on nicotine amide and oxygen concentration, on ubiquinone presence and lipid composition of the membrane. It has been also indicated that the transmembrane potential difference is initiated with a sharp change of aqueous solution pH by 0.05--0.4 units. | 178,383 | [
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[Pyruvate kinase activity in the liver of rats with induced tumors]. | M-isozyme pyruvate kinase activity proved to be elevated in the liver of rats with hepatoma induced by p-dimethylaminoazobenzene. Sodium fluoride surplus in rat diet prevented the increase of this isozyme activity. | 178,389 | [
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Hydatidiform mole metastasizing to the lung. | Pulmonary lesions developed in three patients with an invasive hydatidiform mole. At open thoracotomy the modules were found to contain molar tissue. Therapy with twice-weekly methotrexate induced complete clinical and biologic remission of the disease in all three patients. | 178,421 | [
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Cell cycle-related hormone carcinogen interaction during chemical carcinogen induction of nodule-like mammary lesions in organ culture. | The immature mammary glands of BALB/c female mice were treated with 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA), 2 micrograms/ml, or 3-methylcholanthrene (10 micrograms/ml) for a 24-hr period at different times during the inital six days of lobuloalveolar growth in hormone-supplemented organ culture. Nodule-like alveolar lesions (NLAL) were detectable in 80% of the glands treated with DMBA (40% in 3-methylcholanthrene-treated glands) in the presence of insulin + prolactin + aldosterone + cortisol in the medium. No NLAL were present in dimethyl sulfoxide-treated control glands cultivated with the same hormones. The hormone combination insulin + prolactin + cortisol was unfavorable for NLAL induction by DMBA, and the combination of aldosterone + insulin + prolactin was only moderately conducive. Thus, the presence of cortisol with insulin + prolactin + aldosterone enhances NLAL incidence of mammary cells by DMBA. The highest incidence was found in glands that were treated with DMBA for 24 hr between the third and fourth day of culture, the period corresponding to the onset of the second wave of DNA synthesis in the gland. Cytotoxicity of DMBA was pronounced between 24 and 48 hr, when a high frequency of cells were in DNA synthesis, and survival of the cells after the cytotoxic effect of DMBA appeared to play a role in NLAL incidence. This suggests that DMBA-induction of NLAL in mammary glands in organ culture involves a complex carcinogen-hormone-cell cycle interaction. We emphasize that, although NLAL morphologically resembles the hyperplastic alveolar nodules of mouse mammary gland in vivo, the abilitity of NLAL to produce typical hyperactive alveolar outgrowth and mammary tumor after transplantation iv vivo remains to be determined. | 178,426 | [
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Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase activity in normal and neoplastic rat mammary cells grown in monolayer culture. | The activity of cyclic 3':5'-nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE) (EC 3.1.4.17) was measured in cultured normal and neoplastic rat mammary epithelium. Total PDE activity in normal cells was 1.6 to 6 times higher than that in tumor cells over a concentration range of 0.01 to 1 mM cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate. PDE activity was distributed between the low-speed (4000 x g) particulate and supernatant fractions in both cell lines, with the particulate fraction possessing 60 to 70% of the total. Double reciprocal kinetic plots were nonlinear, suggesting the presence of high- and low-affinity PDE activities. Similar, but not identical biphasic curves obtained from both normal and neoplastic cells suggested that at least two different PDE activities were present in a membrane-bound as well as a soluble form. Apparent Michealis constants for the high-affinity enzyme ranged from 2 to 6 muM; the low-affinity enzyme was 1 mM. In the presence of 10 mM caffeine and at a substrate concentration of 1 muM, PDE activity was inhibited 40 and 80% of basal levels in normal and tumor cells, respectively. In general, the membrane-bound enzyme was inhibited to a greater extent than the soluble, regardless of the cell line examined. Although normal cells exhibited higher PDE activities in terms of total specific activity, when soluble activities were compared at low substrate concentrations, the opposite was the case. At a substrate concentration of 0.01 muM, normal cell, low-Km soluble specific activity was 40% less than comparable tumor cell activity. Our results support the contention that PDE is induced by its own substrate, cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate. In addition, they suggest that the low cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate steady-state levels characteristic of malignant cells are maintained by a soluble high-affinity isozyme of PDE. | 178,439 | [
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Three muscle fibre types in the axial muscle of axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum Shaw): a quantitative light- and electron microscopic study. | Morphometric analysis by light microscopy of p-phenylene-diamine stained semithin sections of axolotl tail muscle revealed differences in the cross-sectional area of the fibres and in the number of mitochondria and of lipid inclusions per fibre, and indicated the presence of three distinct types of fibres. The tripartition was found to be statistically highly significant. Representative fibres from each group established by light microscopic morphometry were subjected to an ultrastructural morphometric analysis. The volume content of mitochondria amounted to 9.8% of the fibre volume for red, 4.0% for intermediate and 0.8% for white fibres. The myofibrils composed 60%, 70% and 83% in the same fibres. The volume of the sarcotubular system (t-tubuli and sarcoplasmic reticulum) was 2.5% in red, 4.5% in intermediate and 11.7% in white fibres. The three fibre types also demonstrated differences in myofibrillar cross-striation pattern and number of triads. The reliability of the light microscopic morphometry was tested by correlation with EM montages of the representative fibres. | 178,448 | [
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Mitochondrial functional changes during hepatic hyperplasia and azo dye carcinogenesis. | Resting and active-state respiratory velocities, respiratory control, high amplitude volume changes, and latent ATPase activities were examined in hepatic mitochondria from rats fed 3'-methyl-4-dimethylaminoazobenzene (3'MeDAB) for production of liver tumors and from rats in three phases of liver regeneration subsequent to subtotal hepatectomies. Tetrabutylammonium bromide, a lipophilic probe capable of selectively inhibiting phosphorylating oxidation or uncoupling oxidation from phosphorylation, was used to detect subtle alterations in lipophilicity characteristics of the organelles and it was concluded that mitochondria from pre-hyperplastic, hyperplastic, and neoplastic tissues had a higher than normal degree of membrane lipophilicity at specific functional sites. Control of respiration by ADP was markedly augmented in all experimental groups; this behavior, plus depressed sensitivity to swelling agents and energized contraction, were similar in mitochondria from hepatomas and from 3-day regenerating livers. These mitochondrial functions were even more pronounced, however, in cells in pre-hyperplastic states (6 and 16 h subsequent to partial hepatectomy). Many forms of liver damage result in mitochondrial alterations which elevate the capacity for oxidative phosphorylation. Such changes associated with induction of azo dye oncogenesis are mimicked by the degree of hyperplasia in the tissue following the first mitotic wave of regeneration; implications relevant to hepatocarcinogenesis are discussed. | 178,455 | [
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Control of protein balance in hypertrophied cardiac muscle. | The levels of intracellular proteins are determined by a balance between their rates of synthesis and degradation. During the development of regression of cardiac hypertrophy, both of these rates can be expected to change. Possible control sites of synthetic and degradation processes are discussed in this article. The following experimental results are presented: (1) Cardiac mitochondrial cytochromes accumulate early after imposition of pressure overload, as a result of an increased rate of synthesis and decreased rate of degradation. (2) The half-life of myosin heavy chains (HC) in the steady state was determined from incorporation kinetics, using leucyl-tRNA as precursor, to be 5-6 days. (3) The existence of a pool of newly synthesized myofilaments which are not fully incorporated into the core of myofibrils is indicated by the incorporation data. | 178,459 | [
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The effects of des-Asp1-angiotensin II on blood pressure, plasma aldosterone concentration, and plasma renin activity in the rabbit. | To examine the hypothesis that des-Asp-1-angiotensin II (angiotensin III) may be an important mediator of various responses to angiotensin II, both peptides were given sequentially at 25 ng/kg per min by systemic infusion to conscious rabbits, and the effects on blood pressure, plasma aldosterone concentration, and plasma renin activity were compared. The mean arterial pressure increased with angiotensin II infusion an average of 18.2 mm Hg, and with angiotensin III infusion only 3.2 mm Hg. Both peptides, however, produced a six- to sevenfold increase in plasma aldosterone concentration, and a threefold decrease in plasma renin activity. Renal clearance data suggest that the suppression of renin activity was not a consequence of renal hemodynamic change or altered sodium transport, but of direct inhibition through a receptor mediating a short feedback loop. These data in the intact rabbit, taken together with in vitro studies by others, suggest that the responses of these three organ systems to angiotensin peptides are mediated by receptors of varied specificity: those mediating vasoconstriction exhibit a greater response to angiotensin II than to angiotensin III; those mediating the secretion of aldosterone exhibit a lesser response to angiotensin II than to angiotensin III; and those mediating the suppression of renin release do not appear to discriminate between the two peptides. | 178,463 | [
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Regulatory properties of the citrate synthase from Rhodospirillum rubrum. | Citrate synthase, purified 600-fold from Rhodospirillum rubrum, is activated by KCl and inhibited by ATP and NADH; the effect of the latter inhibitor is completely counteracted by AMP and partially counteracted by KCl. | 178,526 | [
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Cyclic nucleotides in pancreatic islets. Tolbutamide- and arginine-induced insulin release. | With the use of isolated rat islet perfusion, levels of the islet cyclic adenosine 3' ,5' -monophosphate (cAMP) were compared with dynamic insulin secretion induced by tolbutamide and arginine. Tolbutamide elevated islet cAMP rapidly and augmented both glucose-induced islet cAMP levels and insulin secretion; arginine, however, did not elevate islet cAMP but did enhance glucose-induced insulin secretion. Since the latter result could have been modulated by cyclic guanosine 3' ,5' -monophosphate, this cyclic nucleotide was also measured and found to remain unchanged during stimulation of insulin secretion by arginine and a combination or arginine and glucose. Thus, the action of tolbutamide appears to be modulated in part by cAMP, whereas arginine appears to augment insulin secretion independently of cyclic nucleotides. | 178,555 | [
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Comparison of guinea pig cytomegalovirus and guinea pig herpes-like virus: pathogenesis and persistence in experimentally infected animals. | The pathogenesis of guinea pig cytomegalovirus (GPCMV) and guinea pig herpes-like virus (GPHLV) in guinea pigs was compared. Animals were inoculated with the two viruses by different routes and sacrificed after varying periods of time. GPCMV was consistently isolated from salivary gland 2 weeks postinoculation and thereafter following intraperitoneal or subcutaneous incoulaton. Virus was less frequently found in other tissues including blood, spleen, and kidney. Intranuclear inclusions were seen in tissue sections of salivary gland after inoculation with GPCMV- infected tissue suspension, but were only rarely found after inoculation with tissue culture virus. In GPHLV-infected guinea pigs, consistent latent infection of leukocytes and other tissues was detected by cocultivation techniques. Intranuclear inclusions were not found in the spleen, salivary gland, or other infected tissues after GPHLV infection with either tissue culture virus or infected tissue suspension. Guinea pigs inoculated with GPCMV produced high titers of specific neutralizing antibody to the homologous virus; those inoculated with GPHLV developed long-term viremia accompanied by minimal neutralizing antibody levels to the virus. | 178,599 | [
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Attachment of Mycoplasma pneumoniae to respiratory epithelium. | The attachment of radioisotope-labeled Mycoplasma pneumoniae to hamster tracheal rings in organ culture was examined by radioautography and liquid scintillation counting. Radioautographs of individual rings exposed for 8 h to (3H) thymidine-labeled virulent M. pneumoniae revealed a dense extracellular collection of emulsion grains along the luminal surface of epithelial cells. Similar exposure of rings to isotope-labeled avirulent M. pneumoniae resulted in no accumulation of emulsion grains. The numbers of attached virulent mycoplasmas, as measured by liquid scintillation counting of infected rings, were found to increase in a nearly linear fashion over an 8-h incubation period. Viability of the mycoplasmas and metabolic integrity of the tracheal rings were important for optimal attachment. Pretreatment of rings with neuraminidase or sodium periodate significantly impaired orgainism adherence. These data suggest a specificity of interation between virulent M. pneumoniae and tracheal epithelial cells that can be further examined through the use of isotopically labeled mycoplasmas. | 178,600 | [
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Modified hemolytic plaque technique for the detection of bluetongue virus antibody-forming cells. | A hemolytic plaque assay was developed for the detection of antibody-forming cells to bluetongue virus (BTV). Sheep erythrocytes (SRBC), onto which BTV had been absorbed, served as the indicator of lysis due to the presence of BTV antibody-forming cells. The ratio of BTV to SRBC was found to be critical for optimum hemolytic plaque formation. For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose. Slides were incubated for 1 h at 37 C in a humidified incubator and subsequently flooded with 0.4 ml of a 1:15 dilution of complement. Incubation was continued for a further 2 h before the hemolytic plaques were scored. It was not possible to establish BTV serotype specificity by this technique. | 178,602 | [
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Inhibition by zinc of hemolysis induced by bacterial and other cytolytic agents. | Zinc, cupric, and cadmium ions, in that order of effectiveness, inhibited lysis of washed, rabbit erythrocytes by the toxic bacterial product aerolysin. Hemolysis induced by a variety of other lytic agents was also inhibited by Zn2+ in approximately the same concentration as that, 0.33 mM, needed to inhibit aerolysin-induced hemolysis. Zinc ions did not inhibit osmotic lysis. Inhibition requires the continues presence of Zn2+ and apparently involves a readily reversible binding of Zn2+ to the cell surface, which, it is postulated is accompanied by a reversible alteration in the state of the lipid bilayer. | 178,604 | [
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Quantitative cytophotometry evaluated as a method for analyses of herpes simplex viral deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis. | Feulgen deoxyribonucleic acid (F-DNA) microspectrophotometry was evaluated as a potential tool for quantification of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and 2(HSV-2) DNA synthesis in single cells. Since HSV DNA synthesis has been extensively studied using incorporation of radioactive precursors into viral and cellular DNA, microspectrophotometric measures were correlated with biochemical data obtained using tritium-labeled thymidine ([3H]TdR). It was established that: (i) viral-induced increaae in F-DNA can be cytophotometrically detected between 1 and 6 h postinjection (p.i.), which corresponds to the initial incorporation of [3H) TdR into viral DNA; (ii) peak F-DNA levels occurred 8 h p.i., which supported cytological observations of a more rapid development of an inclusion body in HSV-2-infected nuclei. Despite the fact that F-DNA cytophotometry is unable to distinguish between cell and viral DNA, the overall study supports the existence of a good correlation between data obtained using microspectrophotometric and conventional isotope methods. Furthermore, cytophotometry complements biochemical evaluations in that it permits analyses of DNA changes on a single-cell basis or the detection of infection in very small numbers of cells. | 178,608 | [
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Efficacy of phosphonoacetic acid on herpes simplex virus infection of sensory ganglia. | Treatment of mice with phosphonoacetic acid markedly reduced the incidence of latent ganglionic infection with herpes simplex virus when administered within 24 h after viral inoculation, but had no effect on an already established ganglionic infection. | 178,609 | [
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A new assay method for hydrogenase based on an enzymic electrode reaction. The enzymic electric cell method. | A new assay method for hydrogenase [EC 1.12.2.1] based on the enzymic electrode reaction of H2-H+ equilibrium has been established. The method is based on the experimental fact that the short-circuit current of the electric cell composed of an electrode with hydrogenase and methylviologen as the mediator of H2-H+ equilibrium and a saturated calomel electrode as the counter electrode, is practically proportional to the amount of hydrogenase in the cell. The new method is referred to as the "enzymic electric cell method." This technique has applications not only to routine activity assay but also to the direct determination of the time course of enzyme denaturation, which has not previously been possible. | 178,640 | [
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Comparative specificity of geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthetase of Micrococcus lysodeikticus and pumpkin. | Comparative studies on the substrate specificity of geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthetase from Micrococcus lysodeikticus and from pumpkin seedlin revealed that geranyl pyrophosphate was the most active of the natural substrates for the pumpkin enzyme, whereas it was the least active for the bacterial enzyme. A marked difference was also observed between the enzymes from these two sources as regards the reactivity of 3-methyl-2-alkenyl pyrophosphates as a function of the size of the alkyl group. | 178,644 | [
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Nucleoside diphosphate kinase and the flagellar movement of glycerinated spermatozoa. | Nucleoside diphosphate kinase [EC 2.7.4.6.] of sperm flagella and Tetrahymena cilia is detected mostly in the outer fiber fraction, suggesting an association of the enzyme with the outer fiber microtubules. The enzyme does not catalyze transphosphorylation between microtubule-bound GDP and exogenous ATP. Even when undulatory movement of glycerinated sperm is induced by MgATP, no phosphorylation is detected in the outer fiber fraction. These facts do not appear to support the hypothesis that the phosphorylation of microtubule-bound GDP is involved in the mechanism of flagellar movement. | 178,645 | [
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Thermodynamic and EPR characteristics of a HiPIP-type iron-sulfur center in the succinate dehydrogenase of the respiratory chain. | In addition to the two species of ferredoxin-type iron-sulfur centers (Centers S-1 and S-2), a third iron-sulfur center (Center S-3), which is paramagnetic in the oxidezed state analogous to the bacterial high potential iron-sulfur protein, has bwen detected in the reconstitutively active soluble succinate dehydrogenase preparation. Midpoint potential (at pH 7.4) of Center S-3 determined in a particulate succinate-cytochrome c reductase is +60 +/- 15 mV. In soluble form, Center S-3 becomes extremely labile towards oxygen or ferricyanide plus phenazine methosulfate similar to reconstitutive activity of the dehydrogenase. Thus, even freshly prepared reconstitutively active enzyme preparations show EPR spectra of Center S-3 which correspond approximately to 0.5 eq per flavin; in particulate preparations this component was found in a 1:1 ratio to flavin. All reconstitutively inactive dehydrogenase preparations that Center S-3 is an innate constituent of succinate dehydrogenase and plays an important role in mediating electrons from the flavoprotein subunit to most probably ubiquinone and then to the cytochrome chain. | 178,656 | [
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The acute thyroidal response to iodixed oil in severe endemic goiter. | The acute changes in serum thyrotropin (TSH) triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4), were measured in 14 subjects, 4 to 10 (mean = 6) days following intramuscular iodized oil injection. In 8 subjects with small or absent goiter there was a significant fall in T3 and a rise in TSH concentrations, suggesting an acute inhibitory effect of the iodine. In 6 subjects with large multinodular goiters there was a marked rise in both T3 and T4, and reduction in the elevated basal TSH. Biochemical hyperthyroidism occurred in 3 of these subjects. The acute thyroid hormone response to iodized oil, whether inhibitory or stimulatory in a particular subject, depends both on goiter size and on the serum concentration of TSH. | 178,686 | [
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Use of biological characteristics to type Herpesvirus hominis types 1 and 2 in diagnostic laboratories. | Fifty clinical isolates of Herpesvirus hominis were typed by pock size on chicken embryo chorioallantoic membranes, sensitivity to heparin, and plaque formation on chicken embryo cell cultures. Of 19 isolates that were typed serologically, there was 100% concordance with respect to plaque formation. Pock size was incorrect in one instance and indeterminate in another. Heparin sensitivity was incorrect for one. Of 31 strains that were only biologically characterized, there were four for which heparin sensitivity did not agree with the other two characteristics. Of the three biological tests, the ability to form plaques in chick cell monolayer was the most reliable indicator type. | 178,688 | [
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Influence on adipocyte plasma membrane bound protein kinase by feedback regulator. | Protein kinase, phosphodiesterase and adenylate cyclase of plasma membrane of adipocytes and the effect of the feedback regulator (FR) on these three enzymes was measured and compared. The basal level ratio of adenylate cyclase to phosphodiesterase to protein kinase was 1:1.9:3.0. Epinephrine and/or FR alters this ratio. FR stimulated protein kinase activity up to 3 fold in the presence of a wide range of enzyme concentrations, 5-50 mug membrane protein/tube. The concentration of FR effective for stimulation of membrane protein kinase was much greater than that needed for inhibition of adenylate cyclase and phosphodiesterases. The inhibition by FR on adenylate cyclase was the most potent effect among the 3 enzymes. 1 U (or 2 U/ml) of FR inhibited 50% of the adenylate cyclase activity in a defined system. The maximum effective concentration of FR for stimulation of membrane protein kinase was greater than 10 U/ml. Histone type 11A was the best substrate for protein phosphorylation so far observed. The FR stimulatory effect was observed at all substrate concentrations used ranging from 1-5 mg/ml. A NaF concentration curve shows that 15 mM NaF gave maximum phosphorylation. The stimulatory effect of FR was observed both in the presence and absence of NaF. Protein kinase of adipocyte plasma membrane was mainly cAMP-independent. The effect of FR (20 U/ml) in stimulation of protein phosphorylation was much greater than that of cAMP (1 X 10(-6) M). The cAMP and FR effects seemed to be additive. Preincubation of plasma membrane with FR in the absence of ATP resulted in no decrease but slight increase in protein kinase activity. A shift in protein kinase, phosphodiesterase and adenylate cyclase ratios by FR suggests the regulatory role of FR in cAMP metabolism in adipocytes. | 178,696 | [
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Age-related changes in the flight muscle mitochondria from the blowfly Sarcophaga bullata. | Flight muscle mitochondria have been isolated from female blowflies (Sarcophaga bullata) of different ages, alpha-Glycerophosphate and pyruvate-proline respiration rates increase during development. Only pyruvate-proline respiration declines toward senescence (30%). This decline can be overcome by ATP-NaHCO3. Cytochrome concentrations and hydrogen peroxide generation rates per protein increase during development but remain constant thereafter. Total NAD+ of metabolically completely oxidized mitochondria decreases during development; a small decline occurs between mature and senescent mitochondria. Respiring young mitochondria do not swell in potassium isethionate, very little in potassium chloride, and relatively slowly in potassium acetate. Mature and senescent mitochondria do swell in these three salts but cannot be differentiated from each other on this basis. None of the preparations swells in sodium chloride, sodium- or potassium Mops. While many differences exist between young and mature mitochondria, only the decline in pyruvate-proline respiration distinguishes mature from senescent mitochondria. | 178,708 | [
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Endodermally-derived and neural crest-derived differentiation antigens expressed by a human lung tumor. | The plasma membrane antigens of an undifferentiated small cell (oat cell) carcinoma of the lung were studied by the indirect immunofluorescence method on frozen section substrates with a rabbit antiserum prepared to the tumor plasma membrane fraction. After appropriate absorption of the antiserum, at least two differentiation antigens present on the tumor cells but undetectable on normal lung surface or glandular epithelial cells were identified. One antigen(s) was characteristic of certain normal, endodermally-derived epithelial cells of the digestive system, including those of colonic mucosa, hepatic ducts, pancreatic ducts and acini, and islets of Langerhans. The other antigen(s) was characteristic of certain normal, neural crest-derived cells in the peripheral nervous system, including cells in peripheral nerve, dorsal root ganglion, and anterior roots of the spinal cord; parasympathetic ganglion cells in the colon; and small nerves and nerve processes in the lung, colon, and skin. It was concluded that the presence of these differentiation antigens on the tumor cells resulted from the expression of gene products repressed in the normal cell of origin of the tumor. | 178,792 | [
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Studies on the terminal stages of antibody-complement-mediated killing of a tumor cell. I. Evidence for the existence of an intermediate, T. | The mechanism of the terminal steps in the lysis of antibody-sensitized tumor cells by complement (TAC) was studied. It was shown that once complement has reacted, lysis proceeded even in the absence of fluid-phase complement. Transformation of TAC to dead cells was found to be at least a two-step process: one of the steps was temperature dependent whereas the other was reversibly inhibited by EDTA. In analogy to the hemolytic system, TAC has been designated T. | 178,793 | [
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Effect of murine cytomegalovirus on the in vitro responses of T and B cells to mitogens. | Both in vitro and in vivo murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) infection depressed the responses of lymphocytes to both B and T cell mitogens. The possibilities that macrophages or nonspecific T cell inhibition of B cells might account for the depressed responses were eliminated. In vitro data suggested that B cell responses are more susceptible to this depression than T cell responses. The possibility that the depression of T cell responses is not a direct effect of viral infection of lymphocytes is discussed. To investigate further the interaction between B and T lymphocytes and MCMV, mice with B and T cell deficiences were studied. A comparison of the susceptibility of athymic Nu/Nu mice and T cell competent Nu/+ littermates to MCMV showed that the LD50 for Nu/Nu mice is 10-fold lower than that for Nu/+ mice, but Nu/+ mice given an LD50 of virus died much sooner after infection than Nu/Nu mice given an LD50. Pathogenic mechanisms responsible for death may be different in these two groups of mice. Similarly the MCMV LD50 for B cell-deficient mice (treated with goat anti-mouse IgM serum) was 10-fold lower than the LD50 for mice treated with normal goat serum, but given an LD50 of virus, the latter died sooner after infection than the former. In contrast, there was little difference between the LD50 or time of death after MCMV infection of CBA x DBA F1 male mice (which are deficient in their response to thymic independent antigens) and their normal littermates, the CBA x DBA F1 female mice. | 178,797 | [
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Adrenocortical hydroxylase deficiencies in acne vulgaris. | To investigate the possible occurrence of partial 11- or 21-hydroxylase deficiences in acne, an androgen-dependent disorder, 11 women with chronic nodulocystic acne were subjected to a 24-hr infusion of ACTH and their urine analyzed for tetrahydro S and pregnanetrio. The results obtained were compared to those found in 8 control women. Seven of the patients exhibited elevated excretion of either tetrahydro S or pregnanetriol, probably indicative of partial 11- or 21-hydroxylase deficiencies, respectively. | 178,807 | [
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The effect of sex on the quantity and properties of the very low density lipoprotein secreted by the liver in vitro. | Livers from normally fed male and female rats were perfused in vitro with different amounts of oleate, and the production and properties of the very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) were studied. The mobility of the VLDL in the zonal ultracentrifuge was dependent on the uptake of free fatty acid and on the sex of the animal from which the liver was obtained. A higher proportion of the VLDL secreted by livers from females displayed a more rapid mobility in the zonal ultracentrifuge and, in addition, contained less phospholipid and cholesterol per mole triglyceride than the VLDL from the male, suggestive of larger size of the VLDL secreted by livers from the female rats. Such differences were diminished when the VLDL was compared at equal output of triglyceride but unequal uptake of free fatty acid. These data suggest that the properties of the VLDL are only secondarily modulated by sex, and primarily result from differences in the capacities of livers from either male or female rats to synthesize triglyceride for transport as VLDL. The quantity of triglyceride secreted, regardless of sex, may be an important determinant of both size and number of the VLDL particles. The incorporation of endogenous hepatic fatty acid into VLDL triglyceride was diminished in livers from both sexes by increased uptake of oleate. The greater output of VLDL triglyceride by livers from female animals was dependent on both exogenous and endogenous fatty acids when relatively small quantities of exogenous oleate were available for uptake by the liver. The proportion of palmitate and oleate in the phospholipid of the VLDL secreted by livers from male rats decreased and the content of arachidonate increased with increasing uptake of oleate; no differences were observed in the composition of the phospholipid fatty acids among the various experimental female groups, although these contained more stearate and less oleate and linoleate compared to the male groups. The change of fatty acid composition of the VLDL phospholipid may reflect inclusion of specific types of phospholipid in the VLDL structure for transport of triglyceride from the liver under particular conditions. | 178,815 | [
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Effects of sub-total gastro-intestinal pancreatectomy of the rat foetus. | Sub-total pancreatectomy in utero was performed in 18-day-old rat foetuses. Pancreatectomized, sham-operated and control foetuses were collected 3 days later and body weight, glucose and insulin levels in blood, and glycogen content and glucose-6-phosphatase (G-6-Pase) activity of the liver were determined. Pancreatectomized foetuses showed only very small pancreatic remnants (less than or equal to 1 mg) and accordingly their insulin levels were much lower (four to five times) than those of sham-operated or control foetuses; their blood glucose levels were slightly increased and liver glycogen content and G-6-Pase activity were slightly reduced; their body weights were also reduced. These results are discussed in relation to other relevant data in the literature. They afford direct experimental evidence of the endogenous origin of insulin in the foetal blood. It is suggested that during the last days of intra-uterine life insulin merely completes the action of the glucocorticoids on glycogen storage in rat foetal liver and probably contributes to foetal body growth. Its relative ineffectiveness on the foetal blood glucose level is not explained. As pancreatectomized foetuses develop sub-normal liver G-6-Pase activity, glucagon is probably not responsible for the increase in this activity occurring during normal development before birth. | 178,817 | [
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Antibodies to Epstein-Barr virus and cytomegalovirus in Guillain-Barre syndrome. | Twenty-three patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) were investigated for serum antibody titres against Epstein-Barr virus capsid antigen (EBV-VCA), cytomegalovirus (CMV) and herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1). The geometric mean EBV-VCA titre was 45 in GBS, compared with 15-22 in healthy adults and 60 in sarcoidosis. Nine of the 15 GBS patients (60%) from whom multiple serum specimens were available, displayed a four-fold variation in antibody titre to EBV-VCA during the course of their disease. The geometric mean titres against CMV and HSV were also slightly higher in GBS compared with controls, but no titre variations were observed. Serial samples of both serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were available from 2 patients. Serum antibody titres against EBV were significantly higher in both during the initial phase of the disease. Serum antibody titres against CMV were also significantly elevated in 1 patient, but not until the second month after onset. The CSF antibody titres against EBV were higher in the beginning of the disease compared with the values during convalescence, but the titres observed were low. No measurable CSF antibody titres against CMV were found. The observation of varying serum antibody titres against EBV during the course of GBS can be interpreted as primary infections or as manifestations of reactivated latent virus infections. Further studies of the pathogenetic significance of this for the aetiology of the disease are warranted. | 178,829 | [
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Experimental panencephalitis induced in suckling mice by parainfluenza type 1 (6/94) virus. I. Clinical and pathological features. | Intracerebral inoculation of two strains of suckling mice with 6/94 virus, a parainfluenza type 1 virus originally isolated from two patients with multiple sclerosis, produced clinical disease 1-2 weeks after inoculation. Of 528 animals inoculated, 33% died (26% of the ICR strain and 76% of the BALB/c strain) usually between two or three weeks after injection. Animals that recovered appeared to develop normally. Pathological changes were of two types. Initially, there was a necrotizing panencephalitis with virus-specific intracytoplasmic inclusions in choroid and ependymal epithelial cells and neurons. The second major lesion appeared about 6 weeks post inoculation and consisted of a noninflammatory spongiform degeneration of white matter that primarily involved the cerebral hemispheres; a diffuse vacuolar encephalapathy primarily affecting the brain stem; and a persistent minimal inflammation. | 178,833 | [
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Evaluation of mithramycin in the treatment of anaplastic gliomas. | A controlled, prospective, randomized study evaluated the use of mithramycin in the treatment of anaplastic glioma compared to a similar group of patients receiving best conventional care. From a total of 116 patients in the study, 96 were within the valid study group. All patients were operated on, had histological confirmation of anaplastic glioma, and received radiotherapy at the discretion of the principal investigator. Fifty-two patients received mithramycin at a dose of 25 mug/kg/day for 21 days, while 44 patients were in the control group. There was no significant difference in the median survival from time of randomization in those receiving mithramycin (21 weeks) as compared to those not receiving mithramycin (26 weeks). There was no significant difference between the two groups in relation to age distribution, sex, location, diagnosis, tumor characteristics, signs or symptoms, or radiotherapy received. Duration of symptoms correlates positively with survival and was also significantly longer in the control group than in the treated group. This, however, did not account for the failure of mithramycin to be found an effective agent. Although the study was not designed to evaluate the efficacy of radiotherapy, patients who were so treated had a significant improvement in survival. The toxic complications of mithramycin included gastrointestinal symptoms, dermatological involvement, anemia, and liver dysfunction, indicating the need for close supervision. | 178,838 | [
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Gallium-67 uptake by a malignant fibrous histiocytoma: case report. | Avid 67Ga-citrate uptake was observed in a malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the mediastinum. The realtionships of the tumor to the heart and liver was shown by 99mTc-sulfur colloid liver-spleen scanning and 99mTc-pertechnetate angiography performed in conjunction with a 67Ga-citrate whole-body scan. This is the first report of 67Ga-citrate uptake by this unusual tumor. | 178,841 | [
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Evaluation of a live, attenuated respiratory syncytial virus vaccine in infants. | Respiratory syncytial virus ts-1 is a live attenuated experimental vaccine which was administered intranasally to 25 infants 11 to 19 months of age. Clinical evaluation was carried out following a controlled, double-blind protocol which eliminated observer bias, assessed intercurrent illness, and was designed to detect virus transmission. At the low dose of virus of virus used (100 TCID50) 8 of the 25 recipients were successfully infected with RS virus ts-1 as determined by virus shedding or antibody response. | 178,852 | [
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Characterizatiion of rat genetic sequences of Kirsten sarcoma virus: distinct class of endogenous rat type C viral sequences. | The nucleic acid sequences found in DNA and RNA from rat cells which are homologous to Kirsten sarcoma virus have been characterized. The homologous sequences are present in multiple copies per diploid rat cellular genome in a variety of different rat cellular dna's. In certain cells that constitutively express only low levels of sequences homologous to Kirsten sarcoma virus, bromodeoxyuridine treatment leads to the expression of high levels of these sequences in RNA. Supernatants from cell lines producing the sequences homologous to Kirsten sarcoma virus contain high levels of these sequences which are purified to the same degree as the previously known rat type C viral nucleic acid sequences by type C particles being released from such cells. The results indicate that the sequences in rat cells homologous to Kisten sarcoma virus have three characteristics of known mammalian type C viruses, and suggest that at least part of Kirsten sarcoma virus rat-derived sequences represent a distinct class of endogenous rat type C virus that has no detectable homology to the other known class of endogenous rat type C virus. | 178,897 | [
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Proteins of Yaba monkey tumor virus I. Structural proteins. | Yaba virus proteins were characterized by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Electrophoresis of Yaba virion (proteins) dissociated by sodium dodecyl sulfate and 2-mercaptoethanol in continuous and discontinuous buffer systems yielded 37 polypeptide species by staining and by counting bands of radioactively labeled polypeptides. The molecular weights of the viral polypeptide species were found to range from 10,000 to 220,000 by comparing the relative distance of migration of viral proteins with proteins of known molecular weights. Two polypeptides were removed from purified virions by nonionic detergent nonidet P -40 treatment, and the amount of one polypeptide was reduced. Purified cores yielded 21 polypeptide species, none of which was labeled with radioactive glucosamine. | 178,906 | [
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RNA composition of Junin virus. | Junin virus grown in BHK-21 cells was labeled with [3H]uridine and highly purified by differential and isopycnic centrifugation. The RNAs extracted with phenol and analyzed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis were shown to be composed of four large species (33, 28, and 18S) and three small ones (4, 5, and 5.5S). This pattern was similar to ones already reported for other arenaviruses. However, there was a striking difference when the virus labeling was performed in the presence of actinomycin D. Labeling of viral rRNA was as much as 60% of the levels obtained in the absence of the drug under conditions in which cellular rRNA's were inhibited by 95% or more. | 178,925 | [
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Processing of mengovirus precursor polypeptides in the presence of zinc ions and sulfhydryl compounds. | The effect of zinc ions on the post-translational cleavage of mengovirus polypeptides has been examined. The cleavage of the "A" precursor, which gives rise to the capsid proteins, was the most sensitive at concentrations of zinc chloride from 0.1 to 1.0 mM. Beta-mercaptoethanol and dithiothreitol antagonized the zinc-promoted inhibtion of clevage. Our results indicate that zinc ions interfere with the proper folding of the nascent polypeptide precursor rather than inhibit the proteases responsible for the cleavages. Thus, proper folding of mengovirus polypeptide "A" appears to be necessary for subsequent processing by proteases. | 178,929 | [
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RNA synthesis in cells infected with herpes simplex virus. XII. Sequence complexity and properties of RNA differing in extent of adenylation. | Fractionation of polyadenylated RNA from cells infected with herpes simplex virus by affinity chromatography on columns of poly (U) immobilized on glass-fiber filters yielded three major classes of RNA-containing poly(A) chains with average lengths of 30, 50, and 155 adenylate residues [poly(A)30, poly(A)50, poly(A)155]. In contrast, nitrocellulose membranes bound predominantly a fraction of RNA containing poly(A)155. The distribution of cytoplasmic RNA in the three classes was found to be independent of the labeling interval, ranging from 10 min to 6 h. Cytoplasmic poly(A) RNA consisted mainly (57 to 68%) of the poly(A)155 class; this was also the major class (68%) of polyadenylated RNA found in polyribosomes. Nuclear poly(A) RNA consisted largely (42 to 50%) of poly(A)30 class, whereas high-molecular-weight nuclear RNA sedimenting at greater than 45S contained almost exclusively the poly(A)30 tracts. Hybridization experiments involving unlabeled RNA and labeled viral DNA demonstrated the presence of viral RNA sequences complementary to approximately 40% of viral DNA in all polyadenylated RNA classes. Inasmuch as unfractionated cytoplasmic RNA arises from approximately 40% of the viral DNA, we conclude that most, if not all, viral RNA species present in the cytoplasm are adenylated. In contrast to these results, only a fraction of poly(A)155 RNA, complementary to 21% of viral DNA, bound to nitrocellulose filters. The selective binding of poly(A)155 sequences to nitrocellulose filters might be related to its secondary structure, since transcripts homologous to 40% of viral DNA bind to nitrocellulose membranes, provided the RNA is denatured prior to filtration. The data suggest that poly(A) tracts arise by at least two separate steps. The first involves the appearance of poly(A)30 tracts in the high-molecular-weight nuclear transcripts. The second involves polyadenylation to ply(A)50 and poly(A)155 RNA classes concomitant with processing and transport to the cytoplasm. | 178,932 | [
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Effect of sex hormones on protamine inactivated and resistant postheparin plasma lipases. | Effects of estrogens and the synthetic anabolic-androgenic steroid, Oxandrolone, on extrahepatic (protamine inactivated) and hepatic (protamine resistant) lipases in postheparin plasma, were assessed in 15 subjects with familial hypertriglyceridemia. In six women receiving conjugated equine estrogen (1.25 mg/day), mean (+/- SE) postheparin protemine inactivated triglyceride lipase (PI-TGL) was depressed to 0.23 +/- 0.10 mumol FFA/ml/hr, and protamine resistant lipase was depressed to 5.3 +/- 0.5 mumol FFA/ml/hr. In the 2-wk period after estrogens were discontinued, PI-TGL remained depressed, 0.54 +/- 0.24, while PR-TGL increased to 7.3 +/- 0.88, p=less than 0.05. Mean triglycerides fell insignificantly from 628 +/- 136 to 447 +/- 44 mg/100 ml when estrogens were discontinued. There was no significant correlation between changes in PR-TGL and triglycerides when estrogens were stopped. In four women with familial hypertriglyceridemia, Oxandrolone significantly increased PR-TGL in two, increased PI-TGL in three, and reduced triglycerides in two. In five men with familial hypertriglyceridemia, Oxandrolone reduced triglycerides in four, increased PR-TGL in four, but had no effect on PI-TGL. For the nine hypertriglyceridemic subjects increments in PR-TGL failed to correlate significantly with decrements in triglyceride, (r=0.309, p is greater than 0.1). Selective alteration of PR-TGL and PI-TGL by estrogens and Oxandrolone may provide an approach to better understanding of the interaction of lipases and triglycerides in familial and acquired hypertriglyceridemia. | 178,980 | [
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Mechanism of plasma cyclic AMP response to hypoglycemia in man. | The effect of insulin-induced hypoglycemia on plasma cyclic AMP levels was studied in normal volunteers, adrenalectomized, and sympathectomized subjects. Significant increases in plasma glucagon were observed in all groups. Normal subjects all had two- to threefold rises in plasma cAMP while no response was seen in any adrenalectomized or sympathectomized subject. These findings suggest that the mechanism for enhanced plasma cAMP release during insulin-induced hypoglycemia is catecholamine dependent. Glucagon does not contribute significantly to this response. | 178,982 | [
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Linear dose--response relationships after prolonged expression times in V-79 Chinese hamster cells. | The expression time for induced mutants resistant to 6-thioguanine, in V-79 Chinese hamster cells, was determined by respreading the cells in the selective medium, at various times after treatment. The length of the expression time for mutants induced by X-rays, ethyl methane sulphonate and ultraviolet irradiation was dose dependent. For the highest dose used this was 7 to 8 days, beyond which there was no further changes in mutant frequency. The dose-response relationship of these agents does not appear to deviate from linearity; this permits the calculation of mutation rate per unit dose. For X-rays this value was 1.35 - 10(-7) per rad per locus, for ethyl methane sulphonate, 2.2 - 10(-2) per mole per locus and for ultraviolet irradiation, 6.3 - 10(-6) per erg per mm2 per locus. The effectiveness of the 3 different mutagens for the induction of mutations was compared by calculating the increase in mutant frequency per unit of decrease in survival (Do). These increments in frequency were: 5.6 - 10(-5) for X-rays, 69.5 - 10(-5) for ethyl methane sulphonate and 16.1 - 10(-5) for ultraviolet irradiation. | 178,997 | [
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[Relation between quality of dietary protein, plasma corticosteroid concentration and various enzyme activities in liver and mucosa of small intestine]. | Comprehensive studies were performed in Wistar rats on the relations between the dietary protein quality and the function of the adrenocortical system. The authors determined: the increase in body mass, the urea and corticosteroid concentrations in the blood plasma, the GOT (EC 2.6.I.I.) and GPT (EC 2.6.I.2.) activities in the liver, the reactivity of the adrenocortical system in vitro, the ACTH content in the hypophyses and the content of corticosteroid-binding globulin in the blood plasma. In adrenalectomized and normal rats as well as in rats treated with corticosterone or cortisol, the authors determined the GPT, GOT, amino-acid aryl amidase (EC 3.4.I.2.) and tripeptidase (EC 3.4.I.3.) activities in the liver and the mucosa of the small intestine, and the total, alpha and beta-amylase activities in the small intestine. | 179,007 | [
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Coronary artery surgery. Operative technique and patient education. | Coronary artery surgery, the preferred technique for myocardial revascularization in patients with ischemic heart disease, promptly increases blood flow to areas of the myocardium distal to the coronary obstruction. CAS completely relieves angina in 90% of patients. The risk of 1 to 5% is decreasing as operative technique and patient selection improve. Patients having CAS need comprehensive preoperative and discharge teaching to restore them to normal, active, optimistic lives. | 179,067 | [
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Binding of insulin to isolated nuclei. | Specific binding sites for 125I-labeled insulin were detected in purified nuclei isolated from rat liver. Binding was rapid, reversible and directly proportional to the number of nuclei employed. Unlabeled native insulin, at concentrations as low as 1ng/ml, significantly inhibited the binding of labeled hormone, whereas unlabeled proinsulin and desoctapeptide insulin were less potent. In contrast, glucagon, thyrotropin, growth hormone (somatotropin), and prolactin were without effect. Under identical incubation conditions, 125I-labeled glucagon bound to liver plasma membranes 5- to 10-fold more strongly than did insulin; in contrast glucoagon did not bind to liver nuclei. These studies demonstrate the presence of specific binding sites for insulin in purified nuclei isolated from rat liver. In addition, they suggest that the nucleus may be an intracellular site of insulin action. | 179,086 | [
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Mapping of the three species of polyoma mRNA. | The polyoma mRNA's present in the cytoplasm of primary cultures of mouse kidney cells during lytic infection were characterized by sedimentation velocity analysis and by hybridization to polyoma DNA fragments generated by a specific endonuclease of Hemophilus parainfluenzae (Hpa II). | 179,087 | [
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Cholera toxin interactions with thyrotropin receptors on thyroid plasma membranes. | Unlabeled cholera toxin inhibits [125I]thyrotropin binding to thyrotropin receptors on thyroid plasma membranes. Maximal inhibition by cholera toxin does not exceed 40%, whereas unalbeled thyrotropin completely inhibits [125I]thyrotropin binding to these same membranes. Kinetic analyses of the binding data are compatible with the view that the cholera toxin decreases the number of receptor sites available to thyrotropin and that the mechanism by which the cholera toxin inhibits [125I]thyrotropin binding to these receptor sites involves both competitive and noncompetitive elements. | 179,095 | [
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Recruitment and discharge frequency of phrenic motoneurones during inspiration. | The discharges of 107 phrenic motor axons were recorded from cats under chloralose-urethane anaesthesia with spinal cords transected at T1 or with intact neuraxis. During inspiratory occlusions in spinal cats, each motoneurone was recruited at a mouth pressure constant at a given end tidal CO2; no motoneurone was recruited at a pressure greater than 70% of maximum. In eupnoea (32.3 torr CO2) 73% of motoneurones were recruited during the first 30% of inspiration; during CO2 rebreathing (60.8 torr CO2), 89% were recruited in the first 30% of inspiration. Neurones recruited earlier in inspiration had a lower onset frequency than later recruited units; all increased instantaneous frequency in a linear relation to pressure. Early recruited units showed a smaller increase in frequency per unit change in pressure than did later recruited units. During CO2 rebreathing, mean and peak frequencies increased on average 0.92 and 1.78 spikes.sec(-1) (%CO2)(-1), respectively, these increases being significantly less for early than for late recruited neurones. The data show that a stable order of recruitment of phrenic motoneurones exists during inspiration, the excitability of each motoneurone likely determining its time of recruitment. Above threshold, later recruited motoneurones are more 'sensitive' to a change in input. Recruitment of motoneurones is responsible for pressure generation at the start of inspiration and increase in discharge frequency (rate coding) is the dominant mechanism in the second half of inspiration. | 179,122 | [
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Collagenase and elastase released during peritonitis are complexed by plasma protease inhibitors. | Peritoneal fluids from patients with diffuse peritonitis secondary to perforation of the appendix contained large quantities of collagenase and elastase. The enzymes, which existed in the form of complexes with plasma protease inhibitors, probably had been released from the granulocytes. The two enzymes had linked almost half of the alpha 1-antitrypsin and four fifths of the alpha 2-macroglobulin in the fluid. Evidence that regional defense against protease had failed was obtained by finding the C3 component of complement completely converted. Toxic peptides probably had been released. Recognition of plasma protease inhibitors as an important part of the regional defense against protease also suggested use for therapy. We lavaged the peritoneum postoperatively with fluid that did not contain plasma inhibitors but with volumes large enough to eliminate the accumulation of enzymes for the granulocyte. | 179,159 | [
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[Therapeutic problems in the radiotherapy of bladder tumors]. | The indications of different radiation techniques are reviewed. Out of these, the interstitial therapy should be regarded more attentively in future, unless too large a tumor is present in the fixed part of the bladder. The spatial distribution of the dose during percutaneous megavoltage therapy depends on the tumor stage. Irradiation is not allowed to be confined to the bladder except in case of primary findings corresponding to T1-2N0, the tumor being confined to the mucous or to the internal muscular tunica respectively, the degree of its malignancy being low and transitional cells having been revealed histologically. In all other cases, irradiation has to encompass the whole small pelvis. The split-course-technique has proved its value. If available, ultrahard bremsstrahlung is to be preferred. For radiation therapy of small volumes, fast electrons should be tested also in future. | 179,166 | [
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[Correlation between immunological reactivity and the fat-carbohydrate metabolism. Influence of phenformin]. | Based on the conceptions of the relationship between energy and adaptation-immunological systems a number of hormone-metabolic indices were compared with immune reactivity as evidenced by skin tests and rosette-formation reaction. It is shown that lowering of immunological indices in oncological patients is associated with a decreased sensitivity of dexametasone suppression of cortisol, an increased concentration of 11-oxycorticosteroids in blood, a higher level of triglycerides, cholestrol, beta-lipoproteins and less glucose tolerance. The use of phenformin during 3 months in patients with atherosclerosis resulted in a considerable increase of the index of phytohemagglutinin stimulated blasttransformation of lymphocytes and rosette-formation reaction. This effect was associated with normalization of lipid metabolism indices. | 179,212 | [
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Mixed monomolecular films of chlorophyll and cytochromes. | Mixed monomolecular films of cytochrome (Cyt) and chlorophyll (Chl) were spread at a nitrogen-water interface. A large interaction is observed between reduced Cyt f and Chl a in a mixed film. Oxidized Cyt f and Chl a in a mixed film show little evidence for interaction. Mixed monomolecular films of Chl a with either reduced or oxidized Cyt c appears to result in denaturation of the protein at the surface. A light reaction is observed only in mixed films of reduced Cy f and Chl a. | 179,234 | [
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Herpesvirus in bladder cancer. | A case of squamous cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder in which herpesvirus virions could be identified by electron microscopy is presented. The value of cytology in the recognition of the typical intranuclear inclusions which led to the initiation of further studies is emphasized. Recent evidence concerning the relationship between herpesviruses and human cancer is briefly reviewed. Although previous reports have emphasized the association of HSV and uterine cervical carcinoma, other combinations, especially with neoplasms of squamous cell type, have been reported. The accumulation of additional cases in which viruses can be demonstrated in cancers will help to define their role in human neoplasia. | 179,255 | [
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Turnover and aortic uptake of very low density lipoproteins (VLDL) from hypercholesteremic rabbits as a model for testing antiatherosclerotic compounds. | VLDL from hypercholesteremic (HC) rabbits display features which are suggestive of inherent atherogenicity. The lipid composition, compared to that of control VLDL, shows an enrichment of cholesterol esters, which have a very high 18:1/18:2 ratio in their fatty acids, and an increased sphingomyelin content, with decreased PC/Sph ratio. This lipid composition is very similar to that of the atherosclerotic plaqua. Apoprotein peptides of HC VLDL show a predominance of arg-rich proteins, similar to human conditions (Type III hyperlipoproteinemia and hypothyroidism) characterized by early and severe atherosclerosis. Turnover of 125I-labelled HC VLDL is significantly slower than that of control VLDL, both when the lipoprotein is injected into the donor animals and into controls. Conversion of HC VLDL into lipoproteins of higher density is also very small, as compared to control VLDL. Uptake of radioactivity into the aortic wall after injection is about doubled, as compared to control VLDL, when HC rabbits receive HC VLDL. This experimental model suggests that structural modifications of the HC VLDL make them poorly metabolizable, and possible more akin to the recently described arterial lipoprotein complexing factor (ALCF). Metformin was selected as the test compound, because it has been shown to decrease aortic and liver lipid accumulation in cholesterol fed rabbits, while only slightly affecting plasma cholesterol levels. VLDL from rabbits fed cholesterol and metformin (HC+Met), while still enriched in cholesterol esters, have a higher protein content, less sphingomyelin and more phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylinositol than HC VLDL, while fatty acid composition of cholesterol esters does not differ. Turnover of HC+Met VLDL is extremely rapid, with a t1/2 even shorter than that of control VLDL. | 179,294 | [
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High volume screening procedures for hypobetalipoproteinemic activity in rats. | We describe high volume screening tests for hypobetalipoproteinemic agents in which compounds are administered orally to cholesterol-cholic acid fed (hypercholesterolemic( or normally fed weanling rats for 4 days. In these tests total serum cholesterol levels and heparin precipitating lipoproteins (HPL) are determined by automated analyses interfaced with a computer which eliminates all manual data reduction and provides necessary reports. The hypercholesterolemic rat test detects compounds which specifically reduce HPL (beta and pre beta lipoproteins) causing a decrease in the HPL: cholesterol ratio. Such activity is called hypobetalipoproteinemia. This activity is exhibited by bicyclo (2.2.2)-octyloxyaniline (U-26328) but not by any of the familiar hypocholesterolemic agents including clofibrats, lifibrats, nicotinic acid, probucol, triparanol, lentysine, D-throxine or the estrogens estrone and diethylstilbestrol. | 179,295 | [
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Blindness caused by photoreceptor degeneration as a remote effect of cancer. | Three postmenopausal women developed photoreceptor degeneration one to four months preceding or following discovery of an anaplastic tumor. Two patients had transitory visual obscurations and bizarre visual sensations. Ring scotomas progressed to severe visual field loss. Retinal arteries were markedly narrowed. Electroretinograms revealed almost total absence of response in one patient, and another complained of the recent onset of night blindness. In all three patients severe degeneration of the photoreceptor cells associated with melanophagic activity was shown histologically. In two patients neuropathologic examination from the retinal bipolar cells to the occipital cortex revealed no significant alterations. | 179,323 | [
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