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    Effect of epidermal growth factor on cell proliferation in normal and wounded connective tissue (1993)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science
    Wound repair and regeneration 1 (1993), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1524-475X
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Epidermal growth factor has been previously shown to stimulate connective tissue repair in the perforated rat mesentery. The mechanism by which epidermal growth factor accelerates closure of mesenteric perforations has not been established, but epidermal growth factor may stimulate mitosis, contraction, migration, or angiogenesis. In the present investigation, the effect of epidermal growth factor on connective tissue cell proliferation was studied during the initial phase of repair of mesenteric perforations and in unwounded mesentery. Laparotomies were performed on Sprague-Dawley rats, and standardized perforations were made with a scalpel in the center of the mesenteric “windows,” leaving every second window as an internal control. Twice daily for 4 consecutive days, beginning on the day of surgery, the animals received by intraperitoneal injection either 10 µg of epidermal growth factor dissolved in phosphate-buffered saline solution or phosphate-buffered saline solution alone. Cell proliferation was measured by either mitotic index of fibroblasts and mesothelial cells or DNA content of individual fibroblast cell nuclei in the wound area or in unperforated control windows. Laparotomy alone was found to enhance proliferation during the early postoperative period, as shown by increased numbers of S + G2 fibroblasts and a greater mitotic index. Epidermal growth factor treatment increased the mitotic index in perforated windows on the third postoperative day, compared with controls treated with phosphate-buffered saline solution, but did not significantly increase either the number of S + G2 fibroblasts or the mitotic index in unwounded tissue. Also, the proliferative response after epidermal growth factor treatment was significantly higher in wounded tissue. This study shows that epidermal growth factor stimulates proliferation of connective tissue cells in wounded but not unwounded tissue, and such enhancement of fibroblast proliferation might be of importance in epidermal growth factor—stimulated connective tissue repair.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1524-475X.1993.10205.x
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  • 2
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    Improved Survival of Patients with Papillary Thyroid Cancer after Surgical Microdissection (1996)
    Springer
    World journal of surgery 20 (1996), S. 854-859 
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    ISSN: 1432-2323
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract. A total of 195 patients had surgery for papillary thyroid cancer. The mean age at operation was 50 years. A microdissection technique was used for total thyroidectomy and lymph node clearance. Postoperative radioiodine tests showed no uptake or an uptake close to the background activity in 77% of the examined patients. By counting the lymph nodes removed at surgery we were able to check on the quality of the lymph node dissection. Men had a higher incidence (70%) of lymph node metastases than women (45%). Only 4% of the patients had radioiodine ablation of the thyroid remnant. The median follow-up time was 13 years. None of the patients below 45 years of age at surgery died of thyroid cancer. In the older age group eight patients died of thyroid cancer at a mean age of 75 years. Five of those who died of a thyroid carcinoma had distant metastases at diagnosis. Among patients with resectable disease, three (1.6%) died of thyroid cancer, all of whom had lived for more than 17 years after surgery. Hence longer follow-up is needed before we know the final mortality in our series. The results suggest that surgical technique and strategy can positively influence the survival of patients with papillary thyroid cancer.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002689900130
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    Histamine and mucosal mast cells in gluten enteropathy (1986)
    Springer
    Inflammation research 18 (1986), S. 266-268 
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    ISSN: 1420-908X
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Coeliac disease is a malabsorptive disorder caused by intolerance to gluten and is characterized by a remodelling of the intestinal mucosa including villus atrophy, crypt hyperplasia and net increase of mucosal volume. Changes of the number of mucosal mast cells (MMCs) in coeliac mucosa has recently been reported, suggesting that the mast cell activity could have a pathogenetic role in gluten enteropathy. MMCs located solely in the lamina propria are the main repository for small-gut mucosal histamine. A consecutive prospective study was designed to study the histamine content, MMC numbers, and the relative volume of lamina propria in intestinal biopsies from adult patients suffering from unexplained diarrhea and/or malnutrition. Histamine was measured by a HPLC-method, the number of MMC was counted after long toluidine-blue staining, and the relative volumes of lamina propiria and epithelium were estimated morphometrically. The findings were correlated to the histopathological appearance of the mucosa. As compared to controls the histamine content increased by 80% and MMC numbers by about 60% in the coeliac mucosa. There was also a correlation between MMC numbers and histamine content for both normal and coeliac mucosae (r=0.81). The morphometric estimation of the relative volumes of epithelium and lamina propria revealed that the lamina-propria compartment was increased by approximately 40% in coeliac mucosa. Taking the changes in compartmental volumes of the remodelled coeliac mucosa into account, our results suggest that the histamine content and MMC population were significantly increased. MMC and MMC-associated histamine may therefore be involved in the pathogenesis of gluten enteropathy.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01988038
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    Turnover of different mast cell pools of histamine in the rat (1984)
    Springer
    Inflammation research 14 (1984), S. 598-601 
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    ISSN: 1420-908X
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The uptake and elimination of radiolabelled histamine was studied in the rat duodenum, where histamine is stored in a specific population of mucosal mast cells (MMC), and in the tongue, where histamine is stored in the classic connective tissue mast cell (CTMC). The specific activity of histamine was measured after one i.v. injection of its precursor,3H-histidine. Decarboxylation of histidine and uptake of histamine occurred in both tissues. The initial specific activity of histamine was very low in the tongue but 5 times higher in the duodenum, while the endogenous duodenal histamine content was 1/6 of that in the tongue. The elimination rate of labelled histamine in the two mast cell pools was very slow. In the tongue, there was no statistically significant decrease in specific activity during the observation period of 16 days. In the duodenum, there was an exponential decrease of prelabelled histamine with an apparent half-life of 9 days. However, part of this decay of radioactivity may be accounted for by increase in the mucosal histamine pool size and MMC death. The results indicate that the rate of histamine elimination from mast cells of both types is very slow, corresponding with previous results obtained from CTMC of the peritoneal cavity.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01978892
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    Electronic Resource
    The effect of polymyxin B and some mast-cell constituents on mucosal mast cells in the duodenum of the rat (1981)
    Springer
    Cell & tissue research 214 (1981), S. 239-246 
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    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Mucosal mast cells ; Connective tissue mast cells ; Polymyxin B ; Histamine
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary Mucosal mast cells in the rat duodenum show no morphological signs of exocytosis of granules and do not release histamine after treatment with polymyxin B in doses large enough to cause almost complete degranulation of connective-tissue mast cells of tongue, skin, and mesentery with concomitant release of ∼ 60% of the tissue histamine. Administration of polymyxin B in gradually increasing doses over a period of 5ds resulted in a statistically significant increase in mucosal mast cells and a comparable increase in duodenal histamine content, whereas the connective-tissue mast cells in the other tissues examined became fewer in number, the remaining cells showing profound morphological changes, and tissue histamine levels, were reduced to ∼ 40% of the controls. A similar increase in mucosal mast cells has been observed after treatment with another mast-cell secretagogue, compound 48/80. This suggests that the increase in mucosal mast cells may be an indirect effect of these compounds, related to their activation of other mast cells and mediated by material(s) secreted by the connective-tissue mast cells. Possible mediators such as heparin, histamine, and 5-hydroxytryptamine injected for 5 ds in doses large enough to account for the amount released from the degranulated mast cells had no effect on the morphology or numbers of mast cells in any of the tissues examined.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00249208
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  • 6
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    Mucosal mast cells of the rat intestine: a re-evaluation of fixation and staining properties, with special reference to protein blocking and solubility of the granular glycosaminoglycan (1983)
    Springer
    Journal of molecular histology 15 (1983), S. 571-582 
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    ISSN: 1573-6865
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary Mucosal mast cells of the gastrointestinal tract constitute a separate cell line within the mast cell system of the rat, differing in several respects from the classical connective tissue mast cells and, unlike the latter, requiring special fixation techniques for their demonstration. We have examined some histochemical properties of mucosal mast cells of the duodenum and compared them with connective tissue mast cells of the tongue or skin. The results indicate that the structural integrity of the granules of both types of mast cell is partly dependent on ionic linkages between glycosaminoglycan and protein. The so far unidentified glycosaminoglycan of mucosal mast cells appears to be more soluble than the heparin of connective tissue mast cells. The strongly fluorescent binding of Berberine to the granules of connective tissue mast cells and, depending on their content, of heparin is absent from mucosal mast cells, confirming previous findings which suggested that they contain a glycosaminoglycan with a lower degree of sulphation. Aldehyde fixation by routine procedures reversibly blocks the cationic dye binding of mucosal mast cell granules. The dye binding groups may be unmasked by trypsination or by long staining times of the order of several days. The results suggest that the blocking of staining by aldehydes is caused by a diffusion barrier of a protein nature. Mucosal and connective tissue mast cells thus differ with respect to the spatial arrangement of glycosaminoglycan and protein in their granules. As a result of the study a modified method for the demonstration of mucosal mast cells in tissue sections is described, based on normal formaldehyde fixation and staining in Toluidine Blue for a long time. It has some advantages over previous methods and preserves the structure of mucosal and connective tissue mast cells equally well.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01954148
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