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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-1831
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Many experimental studies have shown that orthomyxo- and paramyxo-viruses may be pneumotropic, but not enterotropic in mammals. On the other hand, these viruses are both pneumotropic and enterotropic in avian species. We have devised a new method for detecting virus receptor possessing cells (VRPC) in tissue sections. VRPC could be detected in the cells lining the airways of both mice and birds. The mode of distribution of VRPC in mouse digestive system differed remarkedly from that in avian digestive system. VRPC were not found in the epithelium of mouse digestive systems whereas the epithelium of bird digestive system were abundant in VRPC. When the large intestines from mice or duck undergoing laparotomy and inoculated directly into intestine with influenza virus were examined, viral antigen was detected in the epithelial cells of duck colon, but not in mouse intestines. From the study utilizing the new method, it could be concluded that the distribution mode of VRPC is one of the most important factors determining the virus tissue sepcificity.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-1041
    Keywords: Key words Carboplatin ; Irinotecan ; Limited sampling model ; Pharmacokinetics
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Objectives: The aim of this study was to develop limited sampling models for estimating the area under the concentration-versus-time curve (AUC) of carboplatin. Methods: Based on pharmacokinetic analyses of 14 patients who received 300 mg · m2 of carboplatin over a 90-min infusion following irinotecan, we developed limited sampling models with stepwise multiple linear regression analysis. We validated these models to be unbiased and precise using pharmacokinetic data of a second group of 14 patients. We also compared the observed and the predicted AUC in the patients using Calvert's formula with the patients' renal function. Results: We developed the following models: AUC (mg · ml−1 · min) = 0.784 × C4 + 1.30 (r 2 = 0.930) and AUC = 0.100 × C0.25 + 0.597 × C4 + 0.140 (r 2 = 0.992), where C0.25 and C4 denote unbound plasma concentrations (μg · ml−1) of carboplatin at 0.25 h and 4 h after the end of infusion, respectively. These models were validated to be unbiased and precise: a mean prediction error (MPE) with standard deviation (SD) = 2.41 (9.45)% and a root mean squared error (RMSE) = 9.42% for the one-sample model, and MPE with (SD) = 1.22 (5.56)% and RMSE = 5.49% for the two-sample model. We also calculated predicted AUC in the patients using Calvert's formula: MPE with (SD) =−5.87 (21.5)% and RMSE = 21.5%. Conclusions: These estimations were, as expected, more accurate than the prediction using Calvert's formula based on patients' renal function. The result of this study confirmed the idea that the pharmacokinetic parameters derived from limited sampling models would be more suitable for pharmacokinetic analysis of carboplatin than those obtained using Calvert's formula.
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  • 3
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    Amsterdam : Elsevier
    Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 195 (1993), S. 409-414 
    ISSN: 0006-291X
    Source: Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect 1907 - 2002
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
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  • 4
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    Amsterdam : Elsevier
    Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 129 (1985), S. 505-510 
    ISSN: 0006-291X
    Source: Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect 1907 - 2002
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1365-2222
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Background Transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) is generally considered to play an important role in the pathogenesis of chronic inflammation and fibrosis.Objective and methods This study was designed to determine mechanisms of reduced responsiveness of guinea-pig tracheal smooth muscle to β-adrenoceptor agonists by TGF-β1, using isometric tension records and tissue cAMP measurement. Moreover, we examined the involvement of the signal transduction processes of TGF-β superfamily in the desensitization of β-adrenoceptors.Results After exposure to 0.2–2000 pm TGF-β1 for 4–8 h, the inhibitory effects of 1 µm isoprenaline (ISO) and 10 µm forskolin on 1 µm MCh-induced contraction were markedly reduced in a concentration-dependent fashion. The desensitization by TGF-β1 was greater against ISO than for forskolin. The values of EC75 for the curves for ISO after exposure to the normal bathing solution and TGF-β1 were 0.039 ± 0.02 and 0.38 ± 0.28 µm, respectively. The values of EC50 for the curves for forskolin under these conditions were 0.50 ± 0.12 and 0.89 ± 0.21 µm, respectively. On the other hand, the inhibitory effects of phosphodiesterase inhibitors such as theophylline and rolipram were not attenuated after exposure to TGF-β1. Concentration–inhibition curve for ISO was shifted to the right after exposure to 2000 pm TGF-β1 for 8 h more than that curve for forskolin. In contrast, the curve for theophylline was not shifted to the right by TGF-β1. When the tissues were incubated with TGF-β1 in the presence of IFN-γ, an intracellular antagonist of TGF-β signalling, IFN-γ inhibited the reduced response to ISO and forskolin after exposure to TGF-β1 in a concentration-dependent fashion. After exposure to TGF-β1, the effects of cAMP accumulation of ISO was significantly reduced, however, neither forskolin-nor theophylline-induced cAMP accumulation was affected. IFN-γ had no significant effect on cAMP accumulation either to ISO or forskolin.Conclusions Impairment of the β-adrenoceptors/adenylyl cyclase pathway are involved in heterologous desensitization of β-adrenoceptors induced by TGF-β1 in airway smooth muscle. IFN-γ functionally suppresses this phenomenon via cAMP-independent processes. Phosphodiesterase is still intact under this condition.
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  • 6
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    Oxford, U.K. and Cambridge, USA : Blackwell Science Ltd
    Histopathology 30 (1997), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2559
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: We present five cases of granulomatous phlebitis of the skin and compare them with a case of miliary tuber-culosis with granulomatous phlebitis. All five patients were hypersensitive to purified protein derivative, but without active tuberculosis. Although anti-tuberculous drugs were effective, no tubercle bacilli were isolated from the skin. Clinically, subcutaneous nodules were felt along the course of the leg vein. Histologically, epithelioid cell granulomas with Langhans’ giant cells were observed within the walls of the cutaneous veins. In a later stage, granulomatous panniculitis was often associated. Using the polymerase chain reaction method, Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA was detected in four of the five cases of granulomatous phlebitis of the skin. Granulomatous phlebitis of the skin seems to represent a relatively early phase of delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and may represent a distinct entity different from other types of tuberculid—a new tuberculid. Nevertheless, before making the diagnosis, the possibility of true tuberculosis must always be excluded. Nodular granulomatous phlebitis of the skin would be an appropriate name for the newly described condition.
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  • 7
    ISSN: 1365-3083
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: The dynamics of cytotoxic T lymphocyte precursors (CTL-p) in mice injected with allogeneic spleen cells (SC) was studied with special reference to changes in their radiation sensitivity. Whole-body 400 rad X-ray irradiation of allo-SC-primed and unprimed mice virtually abolished the capacity of their SC to proliferate and to generate CTL in primary or secondary mixed leucocyte culture (MLC). However, the impaired ability of SC to generate CTL in the primary MLC was restored by interleukin 2 (IL-2). This showed that helper cells whose activity was replaceable with IL-2 (IL-2-producing cells) were functionally more radiation-sensitive than CTL-p in unprimed mice. In contrast, the radiation-impaired activity in secondary MLC was not restored by IL-2, suggesting that memory CTL-p in allo-SC-primed mice were unexpectedly sensitive to radiation. The D37 values determined from the percentage of residual CTL-p activity of SC in bulk cultures 1 day after irradiation were 525 rad for virgin CTL-p and 75 rad for memory CTL-p. Further studies demonstrated that the radiation-sensitive memory CTL-p were generated from relatively radiation-resistant precursors, largely independent of radiation-sensitive IL-2-producing cells and of cellular proliferation. The mean frequency of CTL-p in SC measured by limiting dilution assay was not significantly increased by the priming. This supports our conclusion that the development of the memory CTL-p activity in allo-SC-primed mice did not depend on clonal expansion. Whole-body 400 rad-irradiation reduced the frequency of CTL-p in SC from unprimed-mice 1/2–1/3 and that in SC from allo-SC-primed mice to 1/8–1/15. This supports the view that the majority of radiation-resistant virgin CTL-p functionally mature to radiation-sensitive memory CTL-p without cellular proliferation in allo-SC-primed mice.
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  • 8
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    Archives of virology 67 (1981), S. 355-360 
    ISSN: 1432-8798
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Two strains of parainfluenza type 2 virus formed well-defined plaques in cultures of Vero cells, an established line of African green monkey kidney cells. In the absence of trypsin, satisfactory plaques were formed by the Toshiba strain of virus. When trypsin was added in the overlay medium of Vero cell monolayers, another strain (62-M786) of virus produced plaques. The Toshiba strain was also able to make plaques in HeLa, BHK, and LLC-MK2 (an established line of monkey kidney) cells without trypsin, but not in mouse L cells. The sensitivity of plaque assay was about equal to that of the hemadsorption method.
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  • 9
    ISSN: 1432-8798
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Experimental infection with HVJ (haemagglutinating virus of Japan—the Sendai strain of parainfluenza 1 virus) in mice was studied. Aerosol infection of newborn mice with the wild-type virus (HVJ-W) retarded the development of body weight and killed the animals within a few weeks. Large amounts of virus were isolated from both the lungs and the nasal turbinates of infected mice. In contrast, newborn mice exposed by inhalation to a temperature-sensitive(ts) mutant (HVJ-pB) derived from an HVJ carrier culture showed no clinical signs and grew equally well as mock-infected animals. No infectious virus could be recovered from the lungs although thets mutant grew to moderate titre in the nasal turbinates. The prior inoculation of newborn mice with thets mutant virus induced a state of significant resistance to subsequent challenge with the virulent wild-type virus. No replication of challenge virus in both lungs and nasal turbinates could be detected and the animals were protected a lethal infection. It is suggested that an avirulent temperature-sensitive mutant which has lost the capacity to replicate in the lower respiratory tract but is still capable of multiplying in the nasal turbinates may be a promising candidate for use in live vaccines especially against the infectious disease of the lower respiratory tract.
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  • 10
    ISSN: 1432-8798
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary We have established a method for detecting virus receptors in the tissue sections and have been able to clarify the distribution of cellular receptors for Sendai virus in various mouse organs, including trachea, esophagus, large intestine and cerebrum. The virus receptors were detected in ciliated cells of the trachea, as to be expected for a pneumotropic virus. The lamina propria and connective tissue of the mouse esophagus and large intestine, immediately under the epithelium, contained an abundance at virus receptors, but very few were detected in the epithelium of these organs. In mouse cerebrum, the cells lining the ventricles had a large number of virus receptors.
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