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  • 1
    ISSN: 1420-908X
    Keywords: Key words: TIMP-1 — MMP-1 — Indomethacin — Diclofenac
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract. Objective and Design: We investigated the influence of cyclooxygenase inhibitors against the production of tissue inhibitor-1 of metalloproteinases (TIMP-1) and pro-matrix metalloproteinase 1 (proMMP-1) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) synoviocytes.¶Material: Synovial fibroblasts from RA patients were used.¶Treatment: The cells were treated with recombinant human interleukin 1β (rhIL-1β) (100 ng/ml) and/or indomethacin (0.1, 1, 10 μM) and diclofenac (0.1, 1, 10 μM) and/or prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) (1, 10 μM) for 72 h.¶Methods: The amounts of TIMP-1, proMMP-1 and PGE2 was measured by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Statistical significance was tested with Student's t-test and Dunnett test.¶Results: RhIL-1β augments the production of TIMP-1 and proMMP-1 in synovial fibroblasts from RA patients, and this IL-1-induced production of TIMP-1 and proMMP-1 was further enhanced by treatment with the cyclooxygenase inhibitors, indomethacin and diclofenac. Exogenous PGE2 significantly suppresses indomethacin- and diclofenac-enhanced TIMP-1 and proMMP-1 production.¶Conclusion: PGE2 down-regulates the production of TIMP-1 and proMMP-1 in RA synoviocytes, and cyclooxygenase inhibitors regulate the production of TIMP-1 and proMMP-1 through the inhibition of PGE2 production in inflammation.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1420-908X
    Keywords: Factor XIII ; Wound healing ; Liver injury
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract An involvement of blood coagulation factor XIII (FXIII) in healing of burns was examined in rats with the carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced hepatic injury. The oral administration of 2 and 4 ml/kg CCl4 to rats every 4 days delayed healing of the burns induced on the back skin and decreased FXIII activity. These animals showed some hepatotoxic signs (increased glutamicoxaloacetic and glutamic-pyruvic transaminases) and accelerated blood coagulation system (increased fibrinopeptide A and fibrin degradation product). The delay in the burn healing was shortened by repeated intravenous injections with normal human placenta-derived FXIII concentrate (Fibrogammin P; 120 U/body) every 4 days. There was a negative correlation between plasma FXIII activity at the end of experiment and the time required for wound healing. These findings suggest that reduction in FXIII activity may be one of the factors inducing delayed wound healing in the CCl4-induced hepatic injury rats.
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  • 3
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    Insectes sociaux 46 (1999), S. 208-218 
    ISSN: 1420-9098
    Keywords: Key words:Melipona panamica, stingless bees, Apidae, nestmate recognition, worker oviposition.
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary: Nestmate recognition was studied in the Neotropical stingless bee Melipona panamica, a species in which workers “sneak” their own reproductive eggs into 1 % of brood cells. We manipulated four factors that could influence individual recognition cues: the mother queen, the environment during the immature stage, the environment during the early adult stage, and worker age. We also simulated the action of natural enemies on colonies tested for discrimination of such worker characteristics. All factors that we tested affected responses of the discriminating workers, which could recognize sisters, nieces and unrelated workers. Previous exposure of unrelated callow bees to the odor of the host nest greatly increased chances of acceptance by the host colony. Probability of acceptance decreased, however, with increasing age of introduced bees or increasing disturbance of the host colony. These complexities in patterns of nestmate recognition and nest defense are adequately explained from the standpoint of inclusive fitness of the discriminating workers. Differences in nestmate recognition and worker egg laying among Meliponini are also discussed.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1420-908X
    Keywords: NG-nitro-L-arginine-methyl-ester (L-NAME) ; NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA) ; N-iminoethyl-L-ornithine (L-NIO) ; Septic shock ; Survival
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Objective: To examine the effects of three nitric oxide synthase inhibitors on survival in a murine sepsis model.Design: Prospective randomized experimental trials.Setting: Laboratory.Subjects: Female Balb/c mice.Interventions:Escherichia coli (108 colony-formingunits/body) were injected into the peritoneal cavities of Balb/c mice. NG-nitro-L-arginine-methyl-ester, NG-monomethyl-L-arginine, or N-iminoethyl-L-ornithine was given at various concentrations, intraperitoneally, one hour before bacterial challenge.Measurements: One hundred and fifteen animals were observed for survival.Results: These inhibitors provided the mice no protection from the bacterial challenge. Notably, pretreatment with NG-nitro-L-arginine-methyl-ester (100 mg/kg i.p.) actually reduced survival time afterE. coli challenge.Conclusions: Inhibition of nitric oxide production improved neither the survival time nor rate in this murine sepsis model.
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1432-1076
    Keywords: Key words 3-Oxo-Δ4-steroid 5β-reductase deficiency ; 3-oxo-Δ4 bile acid ; Immunoblot analysis
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract A 3-oxo-Δ4-steroid 5β-reductase (5β-reductase) deficiency is difficult to diagnose because severe liver damage can result in a similar pattern of metabolite excretion. We investigated the usefulness of immunoblot analysis for diagnosis of 5β-reductase deficiency and quantitatively analysed urinary bile acids by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in a 5-month-old Japanese boy with severe neonatal cholestasis associated with hypertyrosinaemia. A liver sample was examined by immunoblot analysis using monoclonal antibodies against 5β-reductase. Urinary 3-oxo-Δ4 bile acids accounted for 88.3% of total bile acids, 5α-bile acids for 0.9%, and primary bile acids for 9.1%. Immunoblot analysis of the liver tissue showed an indistinct band of 5β-reductase. Conclusions These findings suggest that this patient had a secondary 5β-reductase deficiency due to severe liver damage, even though 3-oxo-Δ4 bile acids constituted more than 70% of total urinary bile acids. However, the patient may possibly have had an inherited 5β-reductase deficiency.
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  • 6
    ISSN: 1432-1041
    Keywords: Key wordsβ-Adrenoceptor blocker ; Anaesthesia; ultra short-acting ; cardiovascular response ; endotracheal intubation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Objective: To investigate the clinical effectiveness and safety of ONO-1101, a new ultrashort-acting (half-life 3–4 min), cardioselective β-adrenoceptor blocker in attenuating the cardiovascular responses to endotracheal intubation in a dose-finding open study. Methods: Laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation were performed after induction of anaesthesia with thiamylal, followed by administration of succinylcholine, and saline or ONO-1101 0.1, 0.25 or 0.5 mg · kg−1, in 53 patients. Heart rate and blood pressure were continuously recorded beginning prior to administration until 5 min after administration of the drug, and the rate-pressure product was calculated. Results: ONO-1101 was found to significantly blunt the increase in heart rate throughout the study. Administration of ONO-1101 0.25 or 0.5 mg · kg−1 decreased the incidence of tachycardia. However, these doses were not sufficient to suppress the increase in systolic blood pressure, although the maximal value in the ONO-1101 0.5 mg · kg−1 group was reduced. Rate-pressure product increased significantly after intubation in all groups, but the increase was suppressed in the ONO-1101 0.25 and 0.5 mg · kg−1 groups as compared with the saline group. Bradycardia was not observed in any patient, although hypotension might be caused by administration of ONO-1101 0.5 mg · kg−1. Conclusion: ONO-1101, especially at a dose of 0.25␣mg · kg−1, due to its β-adrenoceptor blockade and ultrashort action, was shown to be effective and well tolerated by patients in this study, when used to attenuate the cardiovascular responses to laryngoscopy and endotracheal intubation.
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  • 7
    ISSN: 1399-0047
    Source: Crystallography Journals Online : IUCR Backfile Archive 1948-2001
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Geosciences , Physics
    Notes: A chromoprotein from Pleurotus salmoneostramineus L. Vass. has been purified and crystallized. The needle-shaped crystal has monoclinic space group C2 with the cell dimensions of a = 118.5, b= 59.7,0 c = 31.8 Å and β = 114°. The crystal diffracts to 1.8 Å resolution with a synchrotron radiation X-ray source.
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  • 8
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    Copenhagen : International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
    Acta crystallographica 53 (1997), S. 337-338 
    ISSN: 1399-0047
    Source: Crystallography Journals Online : IUCR Backfile Archive 1948-2001
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Geosciences , Physics
    Notes: Two distinct azurins named azurin-I and azurin-II were isolated from Alcaligenes xylosoxidans GIFU 1051 (AzG-I and AzG-II). They have been purified and crystallized. The crystals of AzG-I belong to the monoclinic crystal system, space group C2, unit-cell parameters a = 130.6, b = 54.4, c = 74.7 Å, β = 96.1°. The crystals of AzG-II belong to the tetragonal crystal system, space group P4122 or P4322, unit-cell parameters a = b = 52.6, c = 100.7 Å. Both crystals diffract up to 2.0 Å resolution and are suitable for X-ray crystallographic studies.
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  • 9
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    Copenhagen : International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
    Acta crystallographica 53 (1997), S. 129-130 
    ISSN: 1399-0047
    Source: Crystallography Journals Online : IUCR Backfile Archive 1948-2001
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Geosciences , Physics
    Notes: Plastocyanin from Silene (SilPc) expressed in E. coli has been crystallized in a form suitable for X-ray diffraction analysis by a macroseeding method using ammonium sulfate as a precipitant in acetate buffer (pH = 5.5). These crystals belong to the trigonal space group P3121 or P3221 with lattice parameters a = b = 76.6, c = 65.5 Å, indicating an asymmetric unit containing two plastocyanin molecules. The crystals diffracted to at least 2.0 Å.
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  • 10
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    Woodbury, NY : American Institute of Physics (AIP)
    Applied Physics Letters 73 (1998), S. 2000-2002 
    ISSN: 1077-3118
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Raman spectra from p-type GaN have been systematically studied in the hole density range of 5×1016–1×1018 cm−3. Contrary to the case of n-type samples, spectral profiles of the LO-phonon-plasmon coupled mode in p-type show no remarkable change with the hole density. Thus, precise evaluation of electrical transport parameters such as carrier density and mobility from the coupled mode profile is difficult. However, a continuum band has been observed in the low-frequency range of the spectra, becoming intense with the increase of the hole density. This band has been attributed to the inter-valence-band transition of holes, and the intensity can be used as a good measure of the hole density. © 1998 American Institute of Physics.
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