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  • 1
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    Oxford, UK; Malden, USA : Blackwell Publishing Ltd/Inc
    Experimental dermatology 13 (2004), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1600-0625
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: The molecular pathways regulating ultraviolet (UV) radiation-induced apoptosis of melanocytes, a cell population crucially involved in the protection of epidermal keratinocytes against the harmful effects of UV light, are poorly characterized. We show that the α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-MSH) blocks UVB-induced apoptosis of normal human melanocytes in vitro. The effect of α-MSH is not restricted to melanocytes but is also operative in cells that do not produce melanin, for example in human epidermal keratinocytes and in dermal fibroblasts. α-MSH not only delays but also protects melanocytes from UVB-induced cell death. The anti-apoptotic activity of α-MSH is not mediated by a filtering effect or induction of melanin synthesis. α-MSH also does not induce changes in the cell cycle distribution or expression of Bcl2, Bclx, CD95 (Fas/APO-1) and FasL. In contrast, α-MSH markedly reduces the formation of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers induced by UVB radiation. Human dermal fibroblasts carrying a defective XPA gene are not protected from UVB-induced apoptosis by α-MSH. These results highlight a novel biological activity of α-MSH as well as novel regulatory pathways within the UV response of skin cells targeted by this neuropeptide.
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  • 2
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    Springer
    Selecta mathematica 6 (2000), S. 471-486 
    ISSN: 1420-9020
    Keywords: Key words. Supermanifold, functor
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Mathematics
    Notes: Abstract. We define a new object which we call a $ (k\oplus l |q) $ -dimensional supermanifold or partially formal supermanifold. This manifold has q odd coordinates and k + l even coordinates with l of them taking only nilpotent values. We develop the theory of such supermanifolds using functorial approach. Such a theory is completely analogous to the theory of standard supermanifolds. Therefore the paper can be considered also as an introduction to supergeometry written in the language of functors. We list some cases when $ (k\oplus l |q) $ -dimensional supermanifolds appear naturally in physics and mathematics.
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  • 3
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    Springer
    Journal of molecular medicine 65 (1987), S. 1081-1086 
    ISSN: 1432-1440
    Keywords: Hemodialysis ; Digitoxin ; Arrhythmias
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Digitoxin is considered a risk factor for ventricular arrhythmias in hemodialysis patients. In a randomized, crossover controlled study, 55 hemodialysis outpatients with sinus rhythm were prospectively investigated in two 48-h periods of electrocardiographic monitoring, one on and one off digitoxin or vice versa. The frequency of ventricular ectopic beats (mean±SD) which were found in 31 of 55 patients (56%), was slightly higher on hemodialysis (10±28 beats/h) than in the following 20 h (5.4±10 beats/h) and the next day off hemodialysis (3.6±6.6 beats/h); however, no difference was seen in patients on digitoxin during hemodialysis (10±29 beats/h), in the following 20 h (4.8±15 beats/h) and on the next day off hemodialysis (1.2±6.6 beats/h). The frequency of ventricular bigemini, polymorphous ectopies, couplets, more than 30 ectopies/h, salvos and tachycardias (10 vs 9 patients) on and off digitoxin was about the same (n.s., Fisher test). Supraventricular bigemini, salvos, tachycardias, and atrial fibrillation, however, occurred in significantly fewer patients on digitoxin (3 vs 13) than in those off digitoxin (P=0.01, Fisher test). It is concluded that digitoxin does not increase the risk of ventricular arrhythmias in hemodialysis patients. Digitoxin, however, may have a beneficial effect on the supraventricular arrhythmias frequently observed in these patients.
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  • 4
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    Journal of molecular medicine 65 (1987), S. 1-16 
    ISSN: 1432-1440
    Keywords: Analgesic abuse ; Analgesic-associated nephropathy
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Although the question of whether or not analgesic abuse leads to a certain type of nephropathy has been investigated since 1953, no conclusive answer has been forthcoming. Epidemiologic investigations on the correlation between analgesic abuse and renal function as well as experimental animal studies have given contradictory results concerning the possibility of analgesic-associated kidney damage. However, studies on the correlation between analgesic abuse and papillary necrosis have demonstrated that this lesion coincides in 69% of the cases with an analgesic history. Follow-up studies of patients with analgesic nephropathy have shown that renal function deteriorates in 60% of the patients with continued abuse and that it stabilizes in 80% of the patients after cessation of abuse. Studies on the legislative restriction of phenacetin/acetaminophen, carried out mostly in Scandinavian countries since 1965, show a 50%–90% decline in signs of analgesic nephropathy (papillary necrosis) following a reduction in the sale of these drugs. The prevalence of analgesic abuse may be underestimated, since up to 80% of the abusers tend to deny their analgesic intake. Obviously, only a small percentage of analgesic abusers (approximately 1%) finally develop nephropathy. Even though the results of epidemiologic and experimental studies are contradictory, the results of investigations on papillary necrosis and on legislative prevention as well as of patient follow-ups tend to indicate a correlation between analgesic abuse and a well-defined type of nephropathy.
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  • 5
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    Journal of molecular medicine 67 (1989), S. 929-935 
    ISSN: 1432-1440
    Keywords: Kidney transplantation ; Living related kidney transplantation ; Graft function
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Living related kidney transplantation must offer the recipient distinct advantages over cadaveric grafting in order to justify the health risk undertaken by the donor. At Steglitz Medical Center in Berlin from 1970 to 1987 30 such transplantations were performed (5% of all kidney transplantations) where the donor was a relative of the recipient. In cases of haploidentity and positive mixed lymphocyte culture, the recipients were pretreated with donor-specific transfusions. The posttransplantation graft function rate was higher in the group where the donated kidney came from a relative than where it did not (after 2 years under cyclosporin: 92% vs 73%,P=0.04), and corticosteroid treatment could be terminated more frequently under cyclosporin (95% vs 51%,P=0.001). Transplantations from living related donors were performed more often in foreigners (43% vs 20%,P=0.01) and children (19% vs 4%,P=0.0001). Perioperative complications in the donor nephrectomy occurred in 63% of the cases, severe ones in 13% (bleeding, pneumonia, and late abscess). Late sequelae were not observed. The short waiting time, the high graft function rate, and the low steroid requirement justify kidney transplantation from living related donors providing strict indicational criteria are observed.
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  • 6
    ISSN: 1432-0851
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The murine monoclonal antibody (MAb) BW 494 was characterized in relation to its tissue specificity, the epitope recognized, in vitro and in vivo radiolocalization and its potential to mediate antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and complement mediated cytolysis (CMC). The MAb defined carbohydrate epitope located on a 〉200 k daltons glycoprotein was mainly expressed on the majority of well differentiated adenocarcinomas of the pancreas. Furthermore, the epitope is accessible to MAb BW 494 in vivo, allowing an enrichment of radioactive antibody at the tumor site in nude mice. Additionally, MAb BW 494 is able to use human peripheral blood lymphocytes as effector cells for ADCC reactions against appropriate tumor target cells in vitro. In contrast, the antibody does not mediate human or rabbit CMC.
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    Journal of economics/Zeitschrift für Nazionalökonomie. 12:1 (1948:Mai 15) 136 
    ISSN: 0931-8658
    Topics: Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Statistik und Bevölkerungslehre
    Notes: Einzelbesprechungen
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  • 8
    ISSN: 1432-0630
    Keywords: 72.20.Jv ; 29.40.Pe ; 85.60.Dw
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics , Physics
    Notes: Abstract The photoelectric response of p-n Si photodiodes under pulsed laser illumination (half width 10 ns) at 532 nm was studied as a function of dose which was varied over 6 orders of magnitude. The photocurrent transients are dominated by a plateau-like feature due to the build up of space charge at the intensities used. Increasing bias voltage increases the height of the plateau and decreases its length. In the low-dose range the length of the transient increases linearly with dose and the collected charge (integrated current) reaches a constant value. At high doses (above 10−5 J/pulse · cm2 or 2.7×1013 quanta/pulse · cm2) considerable charge loss (decrease in quantum yields) is accompanied by a less than proportional increase of the transient lifetime. From model calculations the dose and voltage dependence of the quantum yield of charge collection is shown to be the result of competition between current flow and first and higher order recombination. The model calculations are consistent with experimental results. Rate constants have been obtained by fitting.
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  • 9
    ISSN: 0930-9225
    Keywords: Schlüsselwörter Aortenklappe – Aneurysma – Aorta – Prädiktionsmodell ; Key words Valve – aneurysm – aorta – prediction model
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Summary Dissection of the ascending aorta (type A) develops in 0.6% of patients late after aortic valve replacement (AVR) and 15% of type A dissections reveal a history of AVR. Predictors of dissection at the AVR, however, have not been characterized.¶   A study group of 33 type A dissections had aortic surgery 49±55 months after routine AVR. A group of 101 controls without morphologic progression of aortic diameters at least 6 years after AVR was utilized to identify predictors of postsurgical dissection. Multivariate analysis identified aortic regurgitation (P〈0.002) and fragility (P〈0.001) or thinning of the aortic wall (P〈0.007) at the AVR as predictors associated with a 14%, 22% and 7% probability of late aortic dissection, respectively. Duration of aortic clamping, types of valve prostheses, concomitant coronary artery bypass grafting and mean ascending aortic diameters of 43±10mm at AVR failed to predict late dissection. A separate analysis of 29 nondissecting aneurysms of the ascending aorta developing 104±64 months after routine AVR revealed younger age at the AVR (P〈0.003) and congenitally bicuspid aortic valves (P〈0.03) as predictors of late aneurysm formation. Aortic regurgitation and fragility or thinning of the aortic wall have the potential to predict late aortic dissection in patients with only moderate aortic dilation. Assessment of these predictors permits intraoperative stratification of aortic risk and may guide decisions for prophylactic surgery of the aortic root.
    Notes: Zusammenfassung Bei 0,6% aller elektiv durchgeführten Aortenklappenersatz-Operationen entwickeln sich proximale Dissektionen der Aorta, und bei 15% aller Typ-A-Dissektionen wurde zuvor ein Aortenklappenersatz durchgeführt. Die retrospektive Analyse von 33 Patienten ergab, dass 49±55 Monate nach elektivem Aortenklappenersatz eine Typ-A-Dissektion vorlag. Um Prädiktoren einer späteren Aortendissektion zu identifizieren, wurde eine Kontrollgruppe von 101 Patienten untersucht, bei denen über einen komplikationslosen Nachbeobachtungszeitraum von wenigstens sechs Jahren eine Progredienz des Aortendurchmessers mittels tomographischer Bildgebung ausgeschlossen wurde. Eine Aortenklappeninsuffizienz zum Zeitpunkt des Klappenersatzes (P〈0,002) sowie eine intraoperativ als dünn (P〈0,007) oder fragil beschriebene Aortenwand (P〈0,001) wurden mittels multivariater Analyse als unabhängige Prädiktoren mit einer 14%, 7% und 22%igen Wahrscheinlichkeit für die spätere Entwicklung einer Aortendissektion identifiziert. Die Dauer der Aortenklemmung, Art der implantierten Aortenklappenprothese, eine zusätzliche aortokoronare Bypassoperation und der Aortenwurzeldurchmesser von 43±10mm beim Klappenersatz erwiesen sich als nicht prädiktiv. Bei Patienten mit Aortenklappeninsuffizienz und intraoperativem Befund einer dünnen und/oder fragilen Aortenwand sollte auch bei nur moderater Aortendilatation ein prophylaktischer Ersatz der Aortenwurzel durchgeführt werden.
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  • 10
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    Communications in mathematical physics 119 (1988), S. 129-152 
    ISSN: 1432-0916
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Mathematics , Physics
    Notes: Abstract The main facts about complex curves are generalized to superconformal manifolds. The results thus obtained are relevant to the fermion string theory and, in particular, they are useful for computation of determinants of super laplacians which enter the string partition function.
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