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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-2307
    Keywords: Osteonecrosis ; Serum sickness ; Immune reaction ; Animal model
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Osteonecrosis (ON) was produced experimentally in rabbits by intravenous injection of horse serum. Eighty adult rabbits were used: 16 were injected twice with isotonic saline (Group A), 24 were injected once with saline and once with horse serum (Group B), and 40 were injected twice with horse serum (Group C). Both femurs of each rabbit were obtained from 2 h to 7 weeks after the final injection an were subjected to histological examination. No pathological changes were seen in Groups A and B. In Group C, 5 of 15 rabbits (33%) showed ON (necrosis of trabecula and bone marrow) in the femoral metaphysis. In Group C, the early major pathological findings in bone marrow are extravasation of erythrocytes in sinusoidal spaces and microthrombi in small arteries and arterioles near the lesion of extravasation. Immune complexes were demonstrated in the kidney within 24 h of the final injection of horse serum. The present study suggests that immunological reaction associated with serum sickness may play an important role in inducible ON and this model will contribute toward clarifying the pathogenesis of ON.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-1106
    Keywords: Key words Filopodia ; Growth cone ; Laser scanning confocal microscopy ; Perpendicular contact guidance ; Mouse
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract  The details of the morphology of vertically migrating granule cells were examined semiquantitatively in the postnatal mouse cerebellum by a Golgi method, with special reference to the growth cone-related structures such as filopodia and lamellipodia. The first sign of inward migration was extension of short, vertical filopodium-like processes from the sides of the perikarya of tangentially oriented granule cells, followed by a change of orientation of cell bodies to the vertical axis showing a T-shaped morphology. The T-shaped migratory cells formed sprouted filopodia (side spikes) from their vertical leading processes and perikarya at right angles to the vertical axis. More than three-quarters of the migratory cells extended the side spikes. The presence of such side spikes was confirmed with laser scanning confocal microscopy of granule cells labeled with 1,1′, dioctadecyl-3,3,3′,3-tetramethylindocarbocyanine perchlorate and also with transmission electron microscopy (TEM). In addition, about one-fourth of migratory cells extended lamellipodia of web-like forms along the stem or at the tip of the leading process, some of which showed a typical growth cone. Several morphological variations of vertical granule cells were also observed. Furthermore, TEM observation confirmed that side spikes from migratory cells made direct contact with parallel fibers. The present results suggest that, during vertical migration, growth cone-related structures of the leading processes of granule cells adhere to and probably recognize tangentially oriented parallel fibers. Therefore, the mechanisms of the vertical guidance and migration of granule cells in the cerebellar cortex seem to be multiple, involving not only parallel contact guidance by the Bergmann glia fibers but also perpendicular contact guidance by the parallel fibers. These parallel and perpendicular geometric cues surrounding the granule cells seem to have produced the varying morphology of vertically migrating granule cells.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1432-0584
    Keywords: Key words Adult ; Cytomegalovirus ; Myelodysplasia ; Thrombocytopenia
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract  Myelodysplasia and severe thrombocytopenia in association with cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in immunocompetent adults have rarely been reported. We describe a previously healthy man who developed severe thrombocytopenia with myelodysplastic changes of bone marrow and multiple autoimmune abnormalities following CMV infection. We also discuss possible mechanisms leading to myelodysplasia and thrombocytopenia in CMV infection. We believe that CMV infection should be considered in the differential diagnosis of myelodysplasia and acute thrombocytopenia.
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    Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 38 (1996), S. 31-41 
    ISSN: 1432-0762
    Keywords: Key words California sea lion ; Maternal investment ; Sexual dimorphism ; Growth rate ; Metabolic rate
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Proximal mechanisms underlying a faster growth rate in male compared to female California sea lion pups were investigated. Males are significantly larger at birth than females. Specifically, we asked if differential maternal investment contributed to enhanced male growth via: (1) larger mothers having disproportionately more male pups, (2) more time and energy put into foraging by mothers of male pups, and (3) greater milk production in mothers of male pups. We also considered four aspects of differential energy utilization and acquisition by male and female pups: (1) male pups attempting to save energy for growth by changes in behavior, (2) longer suckling bouts with mother and more sneak suckling of non-filial females by male pups, (3) lower maintenance costs in males via a lowered resting metabolic rate, and (4) increased assimilation efficiency in males. Our study showed that there are no differences in the size of females or length of foraging trips for mothers of male and female pups. Male pups received more milk from their mothers, but the difference was no longer significant when the larger body size of males was considered. There were no differences in either the activity budgets or suckling behavior of male and female pups. Male pups, however, did have lower resting metabolic rates than females. We conclude that enhanced male perinatal growth is a consequence of a larger size at birth, proportionally more milk from mothers to support the greater demands of larger body size, and lower maintenance costs due to a lower resting metabolic rate.
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