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A Mattheus

Publications and source records attributed to A Mattheus.

At least 37 records · Page 2Linked to original sources
PubMed1981

[Serum concentration of pregnancy-associated alpha 2-glycoprotein (alpha 2-PAG, protein of pregnancy zone, PZ) in patients with dermatological diseases (author's transl)].

Radial immunodiffusion, according to Mancini, was applied to 15 hospitalised patients, both during and after hospitalisation. They were of both sexes and all afflicted with dermatological diseases (psoriasis, eczema, mycosis). Determination of serum concentration of pregnancy-associated alpha 2-glycoprotein (alpha 2-PAG, PZ) was the purpose of the tests. While in the acute phase of the disease the PZ serum levels of the three groups of patients were higher than those recorded from a control group, conventional therapy failed to have any impact upon PZ serum concentration. Continuous decline in PZ serum concentration was recordable from psoriasis patients in response to photochemotherapy (PUVA).

Female↗
PubMed1979

[Determination of serum vitamin B12 in hematologic diseases].

By means of a test set of the Isocommerz (GDR) determinations of vitamin B12 in the serum were carried out according to the principle of the competitive protein binding. The normal values lie between 200 and 1,000 pg/ml serum. Clearly decreased levels of vitamin B12 are found in the pernicious anaemia, in other megaloblastic anaemias and in disturbances of the resorption after resection of the stomach. Increased values can be stated in the untreated chronic myelosis and in the blast episode. Under Busulphan-therapy a significant decrease of the values of vitamin B12 develops. The method seems to be practically important for the well-timed recognition of deficiency conditions of vitamin B12 in beginning pernicious anaemia, in disturbances of intestinal resorption after resection of the stomach and for the observation of the course of the chronic myelosis.

Acute Disease↗
PubMed1979

[Effect of a dinitro-o-cresol-containing herbicide (Hedolit) on human reproduction].

After epicutaneous application of Hedolit to guinea pigs the above mentioned substance was found less concentrated in the semen and in the testis than in the serum. Hedolit concentrations, as they were found in the serum, lead already to motility limitations of human sperma and cause a small mutageneous effect in drosophila melanogaster. The chosen epicutaneous modus of application did not lead to such traceable concentrations of Hedolit in the semen and in the testis.

Administration, Topical↗
PubMed1979

[Sperma- and HLA-antibody demonstration in sterility].

Sperma antibodies were detected by means of passive haemagglutination, the immobilisation test and immunofluorescence in the serum of 16 females from among 150 infertile married couples. These serums (experimental group) and 16 serum samples containing no sperma antibodies (control group) were investigated for the presence of cytotoxic HLA-antibodies against lymphocytes from their married partners and from 20 selected donors by means of the micro-lymphocyte toxicity test. HLA-antibodies against the lymphocytes of the husbands involved were found in four women from the experimental group. Two of these four serums also reacted with 20% of the test lymphocytes. In the control group, lymphocyte-toxic antibodies against test subjects were also found in all three serums which cross-reacted with the lymphocytes of the husbands. No new diagnostic or therapeutic criteria for the treatment of sterility can be derived from the combined humoral sperma and cytotoxic HLA-antibodies in the serum.

Antibodies↗