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A Nishida

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PubMed1989

[Dentofacial morphology of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome patients].

Sleep apnea syndrome is a condition characterized by recurrent interruption of breathing during sleep. Triad of symptoms for the disease are insomnia, daytime sleepiness and snoring. Recently, the patients complained of these symptoms have progressively increased. And so serious attention has been given to investigate the entity of this new clinical syndrome in medical and dental aspects. Three types of sleep apnea are classified; central, obstructive and mixed type. Most of patients identified this syndrome include obstructive or mixed types of sleep apnea. Obstructive sleep apnea has been presumed to have close relationships with obesity, micrognathia, retrognathia, tonsillary hypertrophy, tongue hypertrophy and so on. This study was designed to evaluate the characteristics of the dentofacial morphology in the obstructive, included mixed, sleep apnea syndrome (OSA) patients. The samples consisted of 25 adult male patients (average age of 48 years 2 months) with OSA as diagnosed by the division of respiratory disease, department of internal medicine, Kanazawa Medical University Hospital. One lateral radiographic cephalogram with the teeth in occlusion and the recording of somatic measurements, body weight and height, were obtained for each patient at visiting our orthodontic clinic. On the lateral cephalograms of whole samples, 10 angular and 6 linear measurements were carried out. Simultaneously, the body mass index (BMI) was assessed for each patient. Based on the cephalometric and somatometric measurements, the pathogenesis of obstructive sleep apnea was discussed in association with the obesity and dentofacial morphology. Results were summarized as follows: 1. The body mass index (kg/m2) ranged between 21.0 to 45.7, with a mean value of 31.0 for OSA patients. Of whom, 3 patients were mildly obese (25 or more of BMI) and 12 patients severely obese (exceeding 30 of BMI). 2. Compared with normal control samples, the means of cephalometric variables of whole samples showed the tendency of micrognathia, large gonial angle, protruded maxilla and large cranial base. 3. By principal component analysis, it was revealed that the components for the shape and position of the mandible were of more importance in OSA patients than controls. 4. Discriminatory analysis clarified significant differences in dentofacial morphology between 12 obese and 13 non-obese patients. 5. The dentofacial morphology in non-obese patients were characterized by retrognathia, micrognathia, large gonial angle and small maxilla. In accordance with previous reports, the patients with OSA were presented the tendency of obesity and micrognathia. Furthermore it was revealed that particularly in non-obese OSA patients the morphological abnormalities might be the major contributor to the pathogenesis of sleep apnea.

Adult↗
PubMed1989

[A partial nephrectomy in renal cell carcinoma].

Two patients with a renal cell carcinoma under went a partial nephrectomy. In both these cases the renal cell carcinoma had been detected incidentally and the lesion was a localized small tumor. Therefore, a partial nephrectomy was performed similarly, the tumor size was 1.8 x 1.7 cm in both cases, but the histologic grading was grade 1 in one case and grade 2 in the other though the stage was pT2VoNoMo, stage 1 in both. We thus consider it recommendable that a partial nephrectomy be performed not only in cases of a solitary or bilateral renal cell carcinoma but also in selected cases of a renal cell carcinoma with normal contralateral kidney.

Carcinoma, Renal Cell↗
PubMed1988

Regional distribution of phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C activity in rat brain.

The phosphatidylinositol (PI) and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) hydrolytic activities of phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PLC) were measured in membrane and cytosol fractions from 7 discrete areas of the rat brain. Both the PI-PLC and PIP2-PLC specific activities were found to differ significantly among the 7 discrete brain areas. In the membrane fraction, the PIP2-PLC activity was higher than that of PI-PLC in each region, suggesting that the PLC in membranes prefers PIP2 to PI as substrate. The PIP2-PLC activities in the membrane were high in prefrontal cortex and cerebellum, but rather low in medulla oblongata and hypothalamus. The PI-PLC specific activity in the cytosol was significantly higher than that in the membrane of all brain areas examined. The PI-PLC specific activity in membranes is inversely proportional to its activity in the cytosol. In the cytosol fraction, the distribution pattern of PI-PLC specific activity resembled that of PIP2-PLC. These results indicate that PLCs are differently distributed in various regions of rat brain, and suggest the regional differences in neuronal transduction.

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PubMed1986

Digoxin- and digitoxin-like immunoreactive substances in amniotic fluid, cord blood, and serum of neonates.

Using four different digoxin kits, it was disclosed that the majority of various samples including amniotic fluid, cord blood, and serum from neonates contained substantial levels of digoxin-like immunoreactive substance. The differences in data seemed to be due to the range of epitopes which are recognized by antidigoxin antiserum. The day-to-day studies on sera serially obtained from infants at birth to 48 days old revealed that the level of the substance (0.31 +/- 0.12 ng/ml) in sera of the 1-day-old neonates rapidly declined to the level of 0.1 ng/ml by the 2nd postnatal wk and thereafter gradually declined. The immunological specificity and accuracy of the detection of digoxin-like immunoreactive substance was confirmed by a sample dilution test, a recovery test for standard digoxin, and an absorption test with antidigoxin antiserum. The amniotic fluid and cord blood also contained four to eight times more of a digitoxin-like immunoreactive substance than they did digoxin-like immunoreactive substance. A significant correlation was observed between the levels of digoxin-like immunoreactive substance and of digitoxin-like immunoreactive substance (p less than 0.01).

Amniotic Fluid↗
PubMed1986

Effects of 15(R)-15-methyl prostaglandin E2 (arbaprostil) on gastric secretion and various gastric lesions induced in rats.

We studied the effects of 15(R)-15-methyl prostaglandin E2 (arbaprostil) on gastric secretion and various acute and chronic gastric lesions produced in rats. Arbaprostil significantly inhibited gastric secretion in 4 hr-pylorus-ligated preparations when given intraduodenally in a dose of 30 or 100 micrograms/kg. The agent, however, significantly stimulated gastric secretion of rats with either a ligated or intact pylorus when given orally in doses of 3-100 micrograms/kg. Orally administered arbaprostil dose-dependently prevented the development of HCI-ethanol-, histamine-, water-immersion stress-, or indomethacin-induced gastric erosions. Intraduodenally administered arbaprostil also dose-dependently prevented the development of aspirin-induced gastric erosions in pylorus-ligated rats. Arbaprostil, given orally in doses of 1-100 micrograms/kg twice daily for 2 weeks, had little or no effect on the healing of acetic acid-induced gastric ulcers. However, oral administration of the agent in a dose of 3 or 10 micrograms/kg twice daily for 4 weeks significantly accelerated the healing of acetic acid-induced gastric ulcers. The increase in doses up to 100 micrograms/kg twice daily for 4 weeks had no effect on ulcer healing. These results indicate that arbaprostil, at either antisecretory or even acid stimulating doses, is effective in preventing the development of acute gastric erosions and in accelerating the healing of chronic gastric ulcers.

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