Intra-articular steroids--an alternative to knee synovectomy in rheumatoid arthritis?
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B Lindmark
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Choline acetyltransferase activity in postganglionic parasympathetic nerves after "pharmacological decentralization".
The ganglion blocking drug chlorisondamine given frequently and in gradually increasing doses over a period of time to adult rats causes the activity of choline acetyltransferase to fall in the postganglionic parasympathetic nerves of parotid glands. Such a "pharmacologically" decentralized gland was also found to have lost weight and to have developed a supersensitivity to chemical stimuli. All these phenomena are thought to be consequences of loss or reduction of secretory impulses from the central nervous system due to impaired ganglionic transmission.
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Effect of prolonged ganglion blockade on the choline acetyltransferase activity in post-ganglionic parasympathetic neurones [proceedings].
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Adult height in women with childhood asthma--a population-based study.
PURPOSE: To study adult height in children that grew up with asthma before inhaled steroids became first-line therapy. METHODS: Data from the Swedish Medical Birth Register (self-reported asthma) and the Hospital Discharge Register (first hospitalization for asthma) were used, to compare adult height for asthmatic and non-asthmatic pregnant women. The analysis was restricted to women in their first full-term pregnancy, born in Sweden between 1960-1974 and of Swedish citizenship. RESULTS: The mean height of all the women in the study population was 166.7 cm (SD = 8.8, n = 287,750) and of the women who reported asthma 166.5 cm (SD = 6.1, n = 13,059, p < 0.01). The mean height of women first hospitalized because of asthma at age 0-8 years was 165.5 cm (SD = 5.9 cm, n = 555, p < 0.01). Among the asthmatic women, there was no skew distribution of heights. CONCLUSIONS: Girls with moderate to severe childhood asthma who grew up before inhaled glucocorticosteroids became first-line therapy attained 0.7-1.2 cm lower adult height. The differences in height. while of statistical relevance, are not clinically relevant.
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