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  • 1
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    Electronic Resource
    s.l. : American Chemical Society
    Journal of chemical & engineering data 26 (1981), S. 254-256 
    ISSN: 1520-5134
    Source: ACS Legacy Archives
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-041X
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary The process of cortical change upon fertilization of eggs of the teleostean fish,Oryzias latipes was investigated. A cortical alveolus (CA) contains colloidal material, a spherical body, and often a membranous structure. Upon insemination, breakdown of the cortical alveoli and elevation of the chorion began around the animal pole and ended at the vegetal pole. It was found that the spherical body was extruded with the colloidal material from the CA: the spherical body swelled after the opening of an aperture and was extruded into the perivitelline space through a large aperture. The empty CA shrank and disappeared completely as a result of the transformation of its envelope to numerous microvilli. The spherical body isolated or in the perivitelline space could be digested quickly by proteolytic enzymes. When spherical bodies in the perivitelline space of a fertilized egg were digested enzymatically, the vitellus came into direct contact with the chorion. The present study seems to show that swollen spherical bodies derived from CA play a role in maintaining a certain distance between the chorion and the vitellus after fertilization.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1420-908X
    Keywords: Key words: IL-13 — MIP-1 α— Neutrophils — Inflammation — Chemokine
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract. Objective and Design: To determine whether interleukin-13 (IL-13) possesses anti-inflammatory properties with respect to polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs). Effects of IL-13 on production of the chemokine, macrophage inflammatory protein-1 alpha (MIP-1α), by PMNs were analyzed.¶Subjects: Human peripheral blood PMNs obtained from healthy volunteers.¶Methods: PMNs were stimulated by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and/or IL-13 for selected periods of time, and MIP-1α expression was assessed by ELISA and Northern blot analysis.¶Results: IL-13 suppressed expression and production of PMN-derived MIP-1α mRNA and protein in a dose- and time-dependent manner. Inhibition of protein synthesis caused significant enhancement of MIP-1α mRNA expression. The inhibitory activity of IL-13 was abrogated, however, in the presence of cycloheximide, suggesting that IL-13's effect was via synthesis of de novo repressor protein(s).¶Conclusions: PMN-derived chemokines are regulated by both proinflammatory and immunomodulatory cytokines. The coordinated production of these substances is likely to be important in the orchestration of inflammatory and immune responses.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1432-1203
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract De novo chromosome structural abnormalities cannot always be diagnosed by the use of standard cytogenetic techniques. We applied a previously developed chromosome-band-specific painting method to the diagnosis of such rearrangements. The diagnostic procedures consisted of microdissection of an aberrant chromosomal region of a given patient, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of the dissected chromosomal DNA, and subsequent competitive fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) using the PCR products as a probe pool on metaphase chromosomes from the patient and/or a karyotypically normal person. With this strategy, we studied 6 de novo rearrangements (6p+, 6q+, 9p+, 17p+, +mar, and +mar) in 6 patients. These rearrangements had been seen by conventional banding but their origin could not be identified. In all 6 patients, we successfully ascertained the origin. Using an aberrant region-specific probe pool, FISH signals appeared on both the aberrant region and a region of another specific chromosome pair. A reverse probe pool that was generated through the microdissection of normal chromosomes at a candidate region for the origin of the aberration hybridized with both the aberrant and the candidate regions. We thus diagnosed one patient with 17p+ as having trisomy for 14q32-qter, one with 9p+ as having trisomy for 12pter-p12, one with 6q+ as having a tandem duplication (trisomy) of a 6q23-q25 segment, one with 6p+ as having a tandem duplication (trisomy) of a 6p23-q21.3 segment, one with a supernumerary metacentric marker chromosome as having tetrasomy for 18pter-cen, and the last with an additional small marker chromosome as having trisomy for 18p11.1 (or p11.2)-q11.2. The present targeted chromosome-band-painting method provides the simple and rapid preparation of a probe pool for region-specific FISH, and is useful for the diagnosis of chromosome abnormalities of unknown origin.
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1432-1076
    Keywords: Key words Vitamin E deficiency  ;  Natural killer cell activity  ;  Shwachman syndrome α-Tocopherol supplementation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Natural Killer (NK) cell activity was examined in a 16-month-old Japanese boy with Shwachman syndrome associated with severe vitamin E deficiency. As evaluated by 51Cr-release assay from K562 cells, NK cell activity was constantly decreased. After 8 weeks of oral α-tocopherol (α-Toc) supplementation (100 mg/day), NK cell activity had normalised. When α-Toc supplementation was interrupted for 16 weeks, NK cell activity again decreased. Flow cytometry of peripheral lymphocytes revealed a lowered number of CD16+ CD 56− fraction, which has the most potent NK cell activity. Single cell-in-agarose assay, to investigate the binding and cytolytic activity of NK cell at the single cell level, revealed that the number of NK cells which bind to K562 cell was decreased, but that the cytolytic activity of the individual binding cell was relatively unaffected. A second supplementation of α-Toc for 8 weeks successfully restored NK cell activity, the number of cells expressing NK cell markers and the number of K562-binding cells as compared to the age-matched normal range. Conclusion These results indicate that severe vitamin E deficiency caused impaired NK cell activity due to a decrease in the number of CD16+ CD56− NK cells and that this abnormality is reversible with α-Toc supple‐mentation.
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  • 6
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    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    European journal of pediatrics 147 (1988), S. 516-517 
    ISSN: 1432-1076
    Keywords: C7 deficiency ; haematuria ; Chronic glomerulonephritis
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract A 14-year-old boy had persistent haematuria along with complete C7 deficiency. No significant changes in glomeruli and tubules were found in a renal biopsy specimen by light microscopy and immunofluorescence gave negative results for immune deposits. Electron microscopic examination demonstrated an attenuation of the glomerular capillary basement membrane without lamination and a diagnosis of thin basement membrane disease was made. It would be difficult to conclude that patients with C7 deficiency were predisposed to develop glomerulonephritis caused by immunologic aberrations. A family study failed to provide evidence of an association of C7 deficiency and thin basement membrane disease.
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  • 7
    ISSN: 1432-1076
    Keywords: Screening ; Familial hypercholesterolaemia ; ApoB ; Diet therapy
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The present study was done to evaluate the effect of short-term dietary therapy on 148 dyslipidaemic children (24 familial hypercholesterolaemia, 105 non-familial hypercholesterolaemia and 19 hypertriglyceridaemia), detected by mass screening in children at 18 months of age. In the model diet used for treatment, 15% of the total calories were obtained from protein, 27% from fat and 57% from carbohydrate. Cholesterol intake was set at 〈200 mg/day and the ratio of polyunsaturated to saturated fatty acid (P/S ratio) was 1.2. When compared to the composition of the diet ingested by the dyslipidaemic children, only the P/S ratio changed from 0.7 to 1.2. During 12 months treatment, levels of total cholesterol, low density lipoproteins cholesterol and apoB decreased by 10%–15% in children with familial and non-familial hypercholesterolaemia. There was no significant change in the levels of high density lipoproteins. In 19 children with hypertriglyceridaemia, the intake of carbohydrate was limited to 55% of the total calories consumed and after 12 months of treatment, triglyceride levels reverted to normal. Throughout the study period, apprimately 70% of the children on this dietary therapy were seen in our clinics every 3–6 months and physical development was within normal ranges. These results, taken together, indicate that dietary therapy can be effective for correcting dyslipidaemia, even in young children.
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  • 8
    ISSN: 1432-1076
    Keywords: Key words Coronary artery disease ; Cell adhesion molecules ; HDL-Cholesterol fractional esterification ; LDL size
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Atherosclerosis begins in childhood and progresses from fatty streaks to raised lesions in adolescence and young adulthood. This process is accelerated in children with risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD). Cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) are supposed to play important roles in the initial development of atherosclerosis, which may suggest that the expression of CAMs is increased in children more than in older subjects or in CAD patients. To determine whether risk factors for CAD are associated with an increased expression of CAMs, we investigated the relationships of the serum levels of soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and soluble P-selectin (P-selectin) with lipid and apolipoprotein parameters in children (40 boys and 45 girls). We also examined the relationships between soluble CAMs and the fractional esterification rate of cholesterol in HDL (FERHDL), particle size of LDL and lipoprotein containing apoA-I, but no apoA-II (LpA-I). In children, soluble VCAM-1 levels were correlated with the levels of triglyceride (in boys) and apoB, the ratio of apoB to apoA-I and FERHDL (in girls). Similar associations were found for soluble ICAM-1. Furthermore, the soluble ICAM-1 level was inversely correlated with LpA-I level, LDL size (in boys) and HDL cholesterol level (in girls). Soluble P-selectin levels were not correlated with these parameters. Conclusion Our data indicate that intervention to normalize risk factors for coronary artery disease should be started at a young age to prevent increased expression of cell adhesion molecules.
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  • 9
    ISSN: 1432-1076
    Keywords: Key words Children with IDDM ; LDL-size ; FERHDL ; Coronary artery diseases
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a major cause of death in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Qualitative changes in low density lipoprotein (LDL) and high density lipoprotein (HDL) are thought to be important for evaluating the risk for CAD. In the present study, we evaluated LDL particle size (LDL-size) by 2%–16% gradient gel electrophoresis, along with conventional lipids and apolipoproteins, in 23 children with IDDM (10 males and 13 females) and 27 nondiabetic controls (12 males and 15 females). The fractional and molar esterification rates (FER and MER) of cholesterol in plasma and HDL were also determined. Plasma levels of triglyceride were significantly lower in diabetic children than in controls. Plasma apoA-I and apoA-II levels in female diabetic children were significantly higher and lower than those in controls respectively. Plasma levels of HDL-cholesterol and the ratio of apoA-I to apoA-II were significantly higher in diabetic children than in controls. Other lipid and apolipoprotein parameters in diabetic children were similar to those in controls. LDL-size in diabetic children was significantly greater than that in controls. FERHDL, which reflects the particle size distribution of HDL, was significantly lower in diabetic children than in controls, which suggests that diabetic children had larger HDL particles. Conclusion The qualitative and quantitative changes in LDL and HDL in diabetic children are similar to those associated with a reduced risk for CAD. Intensive insulin therapy in children may help preventing coronary heart disease in adulthood.
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  • 10
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    European journal of clinical pharmacology 48 (1995), S. 391-395 
    ISSN: 1432-1041
    Keywords: Lansoprazole ; Theophylline ; proton pump inhibitor ; theophylline metabolism ; cytochrome P-450 ; drug interaction ; enzyme induction ; human
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The effect of the new substituted benzimidazole proton pump inhibitor, lansoprazole, on pharmacokinetics and metabolism of theophylline has been studied in healthy adults given oral lansoprazole 30 mg once daily for 11 days. On Days 4 and 11 of 300 mg aminophylline was simultaneously administered orally and blood samples for theophylline analysis were taken over 24 h. Urine samples were collected for up to 24 h and were assayed for theophylline and its major metabolites 1,3-dimethyluric acid (1,3-DMU), 1-methyluric acid (1-MU) and 3-methylxanthine (3-MX). The pharmacokinetic parameters of theophylline were determined, and the urinary recovery of unchanged theophylline and its major metabolites were calculated. After administration of lansoprazole for 4 days, no significant alteration in the terminal elimination half-life (t 1/2β) or the mean residence time (MRT) was detected. However, there was a significant decrease of about 13% in the area under the plasma concentration-time curve (AUC) and a significant increase of about 19% in the apparent clearance (CLapp). Lansoprazole treatment for 11 days caused a significant decrease of approximately 12% in t 1/2β and about 10% in the MRT of theophylline, although neither AUC nor CLapp showed a significant alteration. The excretion of 3-MX in the urine was significantly increased by about 20% after lansoprazole treatment for 4 and 11 days, although there was no significant alteration in the excretion of unchanged theophylline, 1,3-DMU or 1-MU. The results indicate that repeated administration of lansoprazole to humans induces the hepatic microsomal P-450-dependent drug oxidation system that mediates N-1-demethylation of theophylline, consequently increasing its metabolism.
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