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C Watson

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Bregma, lambda and the interaural midpoint in stereotaxic surgery with rats of different sex, strain and weight.

Craniometric and stereotaxic data from rats of different sex, strain and weight were compared. It was found that stereotaxic atlases can be used with rats of different sex and strain provided that the weights of the rats conform to those used in the reference atlas. If rats of different weights are used, greater accuracy can be achieved if bregma is used as the reference point for work with rostral structures and the interaural line for work with caudal structures.

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Ampicillin combined with sulbactam or metronidazole for single-dose chemoprophylaxis in major gynaecological surgery.

A double-blind, placebo-controlled and randomized trial involving a total of 295 patients was carried out to define the role of chemoprophylaxis in major gynaecological surgery in our hospital. Perioperative administration of a single dose of ampicillin (500 mg) plus sulbactam (500 mg) (regimen A), or ampicillin (500 mg) plus metronidazole (1 g suppository) (regimen B), gave similar results. After abdominal hysterectomy, the rates of post-operative wound infection and febrile morbidity were significantly reduced from 24% (12/49) and 20% (10/49) in the placebo group to 3-4% (A = 2/51, B = 3/58) and 2% (A = 1/51, B = 1/58) respectively. After vaginal hysterectomy, pelvic/vaginal infection or febrile morbidity was found in 30% (3/10) of patients in the placebo group but none in either treatment group (A = 10, B = 8). After other types of operation, the rates of infectious complications were reduced, but not statistically significantly, from 11% (4/38) to 4% (A + B 2/71). However, the rates of post-operative urinary tract infection remained similar in the placebo and treatment groups (12-16%).

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Sulfated glycoproteins secreted by human vascular endothelial cells.

Endothelial cells incorporate 35SO4 into a class of glycoproteins which are released from the cell layer into the culture medium. The incorporated 35SO4 was localized on intact oligosaccharide chains which were released from the protein either chemically by hydrazinolysis or enzymatically by a peptide: N-glycosidase activity; thus these 35S-oligosaccharides are presumably N-glycosidically linked to protein. These 35S-oligosaccharides were also isolated and analyzed as labeled glycopeptides and found to contain the terminal trisaccharide sequence sialic acid leads to galactose leads to N-acetylglucosamine. After removal of these carbohydrate residues, the remainder of this 35S-glycopeptide was susceptible to alpha-mannosidase digestion yielding a smaller 35 S-glycopeptide containing GlcNAc35SO4. Monensin (10(-8) M), a monovalent cation ionophore, inhibited the sulfation (greater than 80%) and synthesis (greater than 60%) of endothelial cell-sulfated proteoglycans which were released into the culture medium. However, neither the synthesis nor sulfation of cell-released 35S-glycoproteins was affected at similar monensin concentrations. Higher concentrations of monensin (greater 5 X 10(-8) M) inhibited the incorporation of both [3H]glucosamine and 35SO4 into cell-released glycoproteins.U

Cells, Cultured↗