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G Marin

Publications and source records attributed to G Marin.

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Asynchronous DNA replication and asymmetrical chromosome loss in Chinese hamster-mouse somatic cell hybrids.

A number of parameters were measured in a series of 12 hybrid cell clones from Chinese hamster and mouse cells to test the hypothesis that asymmetrical chromosome loss may result from asynchrony in the replication of the two parental sets of chromosomes. All clones tended to lose telocentric (mouse) chromosomes with culture time, irrespective of the starting ratio of parental chromosomes, and in all clones, biarmed (hamster) chromosomes appeared to complete DNA replication slightly earlier than telocentrics. However, no quantitative correlation could be established between the degree of asynchrony in chromosome DNA replication and the extent of chromosome loss. It appeared that telocentric chromosomes were lost more readily from those clones which started with a high hamster-to-mouse chromosome ratio.

Cell Division↗

Social-psychological correlates of drug use among Colombian university students.

This paper reports the results of a large-scale study conducted among Colombian college students directed at finding patterns of use of legal and illegal drugs. The subjects reported reasons for use and nonuse of the different substances, use on the part of parents, parent's attitudes toward use, effects, attitudes toward drug use, and a series of sociodemographic variables. The results were later analyzed in relation to social learning variables that could differentiate marijuana users and nonusers. Results are also reported on personality differences between users and nonusers as measured by the Maudsley Personality Inventory.

Adult↗

Modern war surgery: operations in an evacuation hospital during the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

A forward evacuation hospital functioned in the southern front in October 1973 Israeli-Arab War as an intermediate unit in the Israeli casualty management logistics. Casualties were characterized by frequent multiple-system injuries and variable combinations of penetrating wounds, blunt trauma, burns, and inhalation injury, with an increased incidence of associated blunt trauma. As the result of the systems organization, the EH was able to provide the wounded with early intensive and definitive resuscitation therapy which permitted further evacuation of the casualties to the central hospitals in a better state of physiological stability. In the most critically wounded when there was imminent threat to survival, operations were performed at the EH as an integral part of the resuscitation process. Performance of operations in a forward evacuation hospital did not increase the number or severity of postoperative complications. Morbidity and mortality were related to the nature and magnitude of injury.

Egypt↗

Independent regulation of the nuclear and mitochondrial DNA synthesis induced by either Simian virus 40 or serum in mouse fibroblast 3T3 cells.

Resting cultures of 3T3 cells (an established line of mouse fibroblasts) were released from density inhibition by either infection with Simian virus 40 or addition of serum. The increased rate of thymidine incorporation into DNA, induced by these two agents, was measured in the presence and in the absence of three inhibitory conditions (cycloheximide or dibutyryladenosine 3':5'-monophosphate added to the medium, or lack of anchorage). The inhibition was found to be quite similar in cultures stimulated by virus or serum; under the same conditions, however, the incorporation into mitochondrial DNA was much less inhibited than that into nuclear DNA. The experiments also suggest that new protein synthesis may not be necessary, for either virus or serum, to start the inductive mechanism.

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Mast cells in the islets of Langerhans. A study of their behaviour in connection with diabetes and with insular amyloidosis.

The number of mast cells in the islets of Langerhans in 60 cases was determined in an autopsy study. The 60 patients were divided into 4 groups, distinguishing between those with diabetes, insular amyloidosis, those with both these pathological conditions and those with neither diabetes nor insular amyloidosis. As compared with the control group, it was discovered that there was a sharp increase in mast cells in the group with insular amyloidosis and in the group with diabetes; the number of mast cells tended to increase even more in the presence of both pathological conditions. With these data in hand, it is assumed that the increase in mast cells in the islets of Langerhans is not only due to the presence of amyloidosis, but that it is also brought about as a direct consequence of diabetes.

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