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D Schuster

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PubMed1979

Studies on the relationship between glycerophosphoglycolipids and lipoteichoic acids. IV. Trigalactosylglycerophospho-acylkojibiosyldiacylglycerol and related compounds from Streptococcus lactis Kiel 42172.

Streptococcus lactis Kiel 42172 contains at least six unusually polar glycerophosphoglycolipids. The predominant one was composed of D-galactose, D-glucose, glycerol, acyl groups and phosphorus in a molar ratio of approx. 3 : 2 : 2 : 3 : 1. By analysis of the breakdown products of HF hydrolysis and Smith-degradation the structure was established to be [Galp (alpha 1 leads to 6)Galp(alpha 1 leads to 3)-sn-glycero(2 comes from 1 alpha Galp)-1-phospho] leads to 6Glcp(alpha 1 leads to 2), acyl leads to Glcp(alpha 1 leads to 3)-acyl2Gro. By HF hydrolysis the other compounds were shown to be in the main also derivatives of GroP leads to 6Glc(alpha 1 leads to 2), acyl leads to 6Glc(alpha 1 leads to 3)acyl2Gro but they released as water-soluble glycosides Gal(alpha 1 leads to 2)Gro, Gal(alpha 1 leads to 3)Gro, Gal(alpha 1 leads to 3)Gro(2 comes from 1 alpha Gal), Gal(alpha 1 leads to 6)Gal(alpha 1 leads to 3)Gro and Gal(alpha 1 leads to 6)Gal-(alpha 1 leads to 6)Gal(alpha 1 leads to 3)Gro(2 comes from 1 alpha Gal), respectively. In the lipid extract Glc(alpha 1 leads to 2), acyl leads to 6Glc(alpha 1 leads to 3)acyl2Gro and GroP leads to 6Glc(alpha 1 leads to 2), acyl leads to 6Glc(alpha 1 leads to 3) acyl2Gro were also observed. This set of compounds is proposed to constitute a biosynthetic series reflecting the individual steps in the synthesis of the lipoteichoic acid of Streptococcus lactis Kiel 42172 which is made up by the same lipid anchor and a non-classical poly(galabiosyl, galactosyl glycerophosphate)-chain (Koch, H.U. and Fischer, W. (1978) Biochemistry 17, 5275--5281).

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PubMed1975

[Effects of social and medical changes on the results of pregnancy between 1963 and 1972. I. General: maternal age, number of pregnancies, birth-weight, prematurity, still-birth, mothers foreign workers (author's transl)].

An analysis of 16,486 births in a city university obstetric department over 10 years showed: 1) The number of births in Austrians (A) declined by 30%, the number of guest worker's births (G) rose sharply from 1969 onwards and reached almost 20% of births in 1972. 2) The percentage of very young (under 21) A. mothers has not increased during the period, among G. mothers a younger age predominates but that will have to be related to the greater willingness of younger foreign women to emigrate. 3) In the last 10 years there have been more primiparous A. women and less with more than 4 children. Families became smaller. 77% A. mothers are between 16 and 30 years of age. G. mothers more often have their first or second child--related to selective emigration. 4) The accumulation of premature births in a University department apart, very young and relatively old A. mothers had much increased numbers of premature--defined by birth weight--children. G. mothers have not more children weighing less than 2501 g, but definitely more with low birthweight (2501-2750 g). 5) More than one third of A. children weighing less than 2501 g. are not premature according to time and among the children between 2501 and 3000 g. there also must be many prenatal dystrophics. 6) Still-births decrease in the lowest weights (less than 2501) the longer the pregnancy and rise steeply only after delay of birth by more than 2 weeks. It is lowest in slightly delayed births. With rising birthweights minimal stillbirths shift towards moderately early births. 7) Still-births are least common in heavy children of young mothers. 8) Premature births have not declined in A. mothers during the decade, premature stillbirth in A. mothers declined sharply since 1969. For G. mothers both prematurity and premature still-births have remained the same from 1969 to 1972.

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Measuring exposure to pro- and anti-tobacco marketing among adolescents: intercorrelations among measures and associations with smoking status.

Exposure to tobacco-related marketing has been implicated as one of the risk factors for tobacco use among adolescents. However, tobacco-related marketing exposure has been measured in different ways in different studies, including perceived pervasiveness, receptivity, recognition, recall, and affect. It is not known whether these measures represent one or more underlying constructs and how these underlying constructs are associated with adolescent smoking status. This study analyzed data from 5,870 eighth-grade students in California, collected in 1996-1997 as part of the Independent Evaluation of the California Tobacco Control, Prevention, and Education Program. An exploratory factor analysis of multiple measures of tobacco-related marketing exposure revealed four distinct factors: perceived pervasiveness of protobacco marketing, perceived pervasiveness of antitobacco marketing, recognition of specific anti-tobacco advertisements, and receptivity to protobacco marketing. Receptivity to pro-tobacco marketing showed the strongest association with smoking status; higher levels of receptivity were associated with higher levels of smoking. Two measures of exposure to anti-tobacco marketing (perceived pervasiveness of anti-tobacco marketing and recognition of specific anti-tobacco ads) were highest among established smokers and lowest among susceptible nonsmokers. The same pattern was evident for perceived pervasiveness of pro-tobacco marketing. Results suggest that exposure to tobacco-related marketing is a multidimensional construct, and each dimension may have a unique contribution to the process of smoking initiation. Because adolescents are exposed to numerous pro- and anti-tobacco messages, it is important to develop anti-tobacco media campaigns that can successfully counter pro-tobacco marketing efforts. Potential strategies include targeting the susceptible nonsmokers who are at high risk for smoking and developing messages to decrease receptivity.

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Evaluation of an efavirenz-containing regimen: an open-label, multicenter study.

PURPOSE: Efavirenz (EFV) has been shown to be a highly effective HIV therapy in antiretroviral-naïve patients when used with nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors. METHOD: The study participants were 314 patients, 45 of whom had not been previously treated with any antiretroviral medication. The other patients were heavily pretreated for about 3 years (1,047 days); 34 with two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, 147 with triple therapy, and 88 with a quadruple regimen. RESULTS: Suppression of plasma HIV-1 RNA to <50 copies/mL and <500 copies/mL was achieved in 56% and 72% of the pretreated patients and in 82% and 91% of the naïve patients, respectively, at week 80 (intention-to-treat analysis: noncompleters = failure: 10% and 15% and 20% and 22%, respectively). The viral load reduction at week 80 was 0.7 log(10) for the pretreated patients and 2.6 log(10) for the naïve patients. CD4 cell counts increased from 386 to 474 cells/microL at week 80 in the pretreated group and from 264 to 431 in the naïve patients. 118 patients discontinued the treatment due to adverse events (37 patients due to nervous system symptoms and 15 patients because of exanthema). There were no AIDS-defining events in the group of antiretroviral-treated patients. CONCLUSION: EFV in combination with nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors as antiretroviral therapy was potent and effective in reducing viral load, mainly in treating therapy-naïve patients and in preventing AIDS-defining events.

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