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C Godard

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The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in mother and fetus at term.

Plasma renin activity, renin substrate, angiotensin II, aldosterone and cortisol were measured concurrently and renin concentration calculated in plasma from mothers during labor and delivery, from cord and from newborn infants. The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system was found strongly stimulated in both mother and fetus. The high values of plasma renin activity in fetus were due exclusively to the high renin concentrations the substrate concentration being normal. In the mother, however, the markedly elevated renin substrate resulted in a doubling of relative values of renin activity compared to renin concentration. Therefore gradients of renin and renin substrate across the placenta are established, but the resulting renin activity is similar on both sides and the levels of generated angiotensin II are also nearly indentical with a good correlation between these last parameters. Aldosterone is as elevated in mother as in fetus whereas cortisol, due to its binding to transcortin, is twice as high in mother as in fetus. No correlation was found between renin activity or concentration of angiotensin II and aldosterone or cortisol indicating that other factors controlling aldosterone are involved.

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[Chemotypes of "Shigella flexneri" R mutants and related phage receptors. II. -- Localization of phage receptors (author's transl)].

Receptor sites for phages FP3, V, P1kcvir, H+, C21, T4, T3, T7 and 6SR have been investigated, by comparing the lytic activity of these phages on R mutants of strain F6 (F6R) and of various serotypes (FH) of Shigella flexneri with their inhibition by the lipopolysaccharides isolated from these mutants. The results suggest the following localizations for the receptor sites: phage FP3: lipid A-KDO; phage V: heptose or glucose; phage C21: heptose-glucose; phages H+, P1kcvir, T4 and T3: glucose; phage T7: glucose-galactose; phage 6SR: complete core structure.

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[Chemotypes of "Shigella flexneri" R mutants and related phage receptors. I. -- Chemical study of the lipopolysaccharides (author's transl)].

The F6R rough mutants isolated from Shigella flexneri F6S, serotype 5b, and the FH rough mutants, derived from other serotypes of S. flexneri, were chemotyped according to the chemical analysis of their lipopolysaccharides. Further, the following stages of lipopolysaccharide core biosynthesis in S. flexneri have been established: --(KDO)3--heptose--heptose--glucose--galactose; the last three stages are: either --glucose--glucosamine--glucose, or --glucosamine--glucose--glucose. The results of the chemical study of the R lipopolysaccharides are compatible with the assumption of the existence of a similar core in all considered S. flexneri serotypes.

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