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H Bartels

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[Retrospective analysis of the clinical relevance of the Kiel classification of malignant non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (author's transl)].

405 cases with non-Hodgkin's lymphomas have been diagnosed according to the Kiel classification and analysed retrospectively. 314 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphomas of low-grade-malignancy (chronic lymphocytic leukemia, lymphoplasmacytoid, centrocytic, centrocytic, centroblastic-centrocytic lymphoma) manifested significantly higher median survival times than the 91 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphomas of high-grade malignancy (lymphoblastic and immunoblastic lymphoma). Within the group of patients with low-grade malignant lymphomas distinct prognostic differences were found whereas survival times in patients with lymphoblastic or immunoblastic lymphomas were rather similar. The lymphoblastic lymphoma showed a bimodal curve of age distribution whilst all other lymphomas had a maximum of incidence in the seventh decade of life. Increased frequency of B-symptoms did not necessarily represent an unfavorable prognostic factor for the lymphoma entity concerned. Except for chronic lymphocytic leukemia the highest incidence of initial bone marrow involvement was seen in lymphoplasmacytoid, centrocytic and lymphoblastic lymphomas. Centrocytes have been observed in peripheral blood of patients with centrocytic and centroblastic-centrocytic lymphomas, even though lymphocytosis did not exist. Monoclonal hypergammaglobulinemia was found in only 43% of the sera from patients with lymphoplasmocytoid lymphoma. In this disease, it was possible to differentiate between a lymphonodal, a splenomegalic and an extranodal manifestation.

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Attempts to demonstrate virus-specific sequences in human tumors. IV. EB viral DNA in European Burkitt lymphoma and immunoblastic lymphadenopathy with excessive plasmacytosis.

Various biopsies from different European malignant lymphomas, two biopsies from nasopharyngeal carcinomas, and material from non-neoplastic lymph nodes were assayed for the presence of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA by nucleic acid hybridization. Reassociation kinetics of in vitro-labelled EBV DNA were studied in the presence of tumor DNA. The lymphomas tested included among others follicular lymphomas, germinocytomas, immunoblastic lymphomas and lymphoplasmacytoid immunocytomas. Epstein-Barr viral DNA was demonstrated within the two nasopharyngeal carcinoma biopsies as expected. A histologically typical Burkitt lymphoma as well as an immunoblastic lymphadenopathy with excessive plasmacytosis also contained EBV-DNA. The Burkitt biopsy revealed about 15 EBV genome equivalents per cell. Antibodies against EBV-specific antigens were highly elevated in the serum of this patient. The material of the patient with immunoblastic lymphadenopathy contained 2-3 EBV genome equivalents per cell.

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Posthaemorrhagic iron deficiency. Clinical course, 59Fe whole-body iron losses, and oral iron supplementation.

Clinical and laboratory data characterizing post-haemorrhagic anaemia with still normal iron stores and posthaemorrhagic iron deficiency in the manifest, latent or prelatent stage are presented. Initially, increased 59Fe whole-body iron losses (greater than 0.1-3.6%/day) returned to normal range (less than 0.1%/day) after haemostasis. Subsequently, slow increase of haemoglobin and repletion of iron stores occurred under normal diets. Manifest, latent, and prelatent iron deficiencies were corrected much more rapidly by total doses of 12.0, 10.5 and 8.0 g iron (Fe2+ sulfate), respectively, when 2 X 50 mg/day were given in quick-release capsules apart from meals.

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[Review: Ontogeny of the oxygen transport in the blood].

The biological importance of the oxygen affinity of the tetrameric haemoglobin molecule and its dependency from co-factors is described. Oxygen affinity variations during development from embryonic to adult values are discussed in respect to oxygen uptake from maternal blood via placenta, in lungs and gills as well as to oxygen delivery into tissues. Comparative aspects of the molecular mechanisms leading to affinity changes are presented.

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[On the ultrastructure and cytochemistry of eosinophil-myelomonocytic leukemias].

In the bone marrow of two patients with acute leukemia 46% and 55% of atypical eosinophilic cells were found, respectively. Blood eosinophilia was absent. The N-AS-D-Cl-Esterase reaction of the granules was positive in the first case in 58%, and in the second case in 3% of the eosinophils, as well as the PAS-reaction in all cells of this series. The ultrastructure of the eosinophils reveals nuclear maturation up to hypersegmentation. The maturation of the granules, in part of abnormal size, is arrested at the primary stage. Typical secondary granules with cristalloid cores are lacking. Only in the first case a few, small, semicircular or circular profiles of lamellar substructure are seen in the granules. The cytoplasm of hypersegmentated eosinophils shows an abnormally high glycogen content. Besides the eosinophils, monocytic cells and their precursors proliferate in the bone marrow of the first patient. In the second patient myeloblasts, promyelocytes with Auer rods, and monocytic cells characterize further neoplastic cell population. The elements of the monocytic series can be identified by their ultrastructural features, such as irregular configuration of the nuclei, bundles of cytoplasmatic microfilaments, and numerous small electron-dense lysosomal granules. In both cases the Alpha-Naphthyl-Acetase-Esterase reaction is weakly positive. The findings presented are summarized under the terms "eosinophil-monocytic leukemia" and "eosinophil-myelomonocytic leukemia" (collective term).

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Respiratory function of blood in hibernating and non-hibernating hedgehogs.

The oxygen affinity of the blood of hibernating hedgehogs has been investigated previously by Clausen and Ersland (1968) and Bartels et al. (1969). The results of these studies were conflicting in so far as Bartels et al. (1969) found an increase of the O2 affinity during hibernation resulting in a P50 of 23 mm Hg at pH 7.4 37 degrees C, while Clausen and Ersland reported a P50 of 33.6 mm Hg under the same conditions, a value which was only slightly different from the one found in nonhibernating animals (Bartels et al., 1969).

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Aminopyrine--an effective modifier of liver and serum gamma glutamyl transpeptidase.

Serum activities of gamma glutamyl transpeptidase, alanine and aspartate aminotransferases, and alkaline phosphatase were determined in children on long-term treatment with aminopyrine. Gamma glutamyl transpeptidase activity was increased up to 15 times above the upper normal limit in children, who received aminopyrine for two weeks or longer. Livers of rats treated with aminopyrine (600 mg/kg/day for 18 to 25 days) had an exceedingly increased activity of gamma glutamyl transpeptidase and a slightly elevated microsomal cytochrome P-450 content. Apparently isolated enhancement of serum gamma glutamyl transpeptidase during aminopyrine medication represents a drug-induced increase of microsomal liver enzymes without clinical relevance and without evidence of damage of liver cells.

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Determination of isonicotinic acid hydrazide in serum.

A method for the determination of isonicotinic acid hydrazide is given. The hydrazide is complexed with cupric ions and condensated with an aromatic aldehyde substituted in ortho-position with a hydroxyl group. The method is adapted to the AutoAnalyzer equipment of first and second generation. Pilot measurements on the pharmacokinetic behaviour of isonicotinic acid hydrazide are presented.

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