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H Onodera

Publications and source records attributed to H Onodera.

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Dietary therapy in two patients with vitamin B12-unresponsive methylmalonic acidemia.

The biochemical and therapeutic responses to dietary therapy were studied in a 25-month-old girl and a 1-month-old girl with methylmalonic acidemia (MMA-emia), which was unresponsive to vitamin B12. The minimum daily intake of protein which patients could tolerate and display a good development was between 1.0 and 1.2 g per kg body weight. Supplementation with amino acid mixture devoid of toxic amino acids was required to prevent protein malnutrition when daily protein intake was restricted to 0.6 g per kg body weight. Caloric intake should be sufficient, not only to promote growth but also to prevent a rise in MMA level, especially when a patient has ketoacidosis. It was found that MMA excretion per mg creatinine in random urine specimens correlated significantly with serum MMA and twenty four-hour output of MMA per kg body weight. Therefore measurement of MMA in a single urine specimen is useful for evaluating the in vivo accumulation of MMA.

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Tissue distribution of unentrapped or liposome-entrapped 131I-labeled beta-galactosidase injected into rats.

Either unentrapped (free) or liposome-entrapped 131I-labeled beta-galactosidase was injected into rats from tail veins. Tissue distribution and intracellular localization of the radioactivity of both sources were compared. The half-life of liposome-entrapped enzyme in the circulation was much longer than that of the free enzyme. The radioactivity removed from the circulation was recovered primarily in the liver, and to a lesser extent in almost all tissues studied. A small but significant uptake of liposome-entrapped enzyme by the brain was also observed. Uptake of liposome-entrapped enzyme was greater thant that of free enzyme in the spleen, heart, lungs and brain, excepting the liver and kidneys. Subcellular fractionation showed distribution of the radioactivity of liposome-entrapped enzyme favoring the mitochondrial-lysosomal fraction from these tissues except the heart. There was a difference in the pattern of intracellular distribution of the radioactivity in the brain of rats between the administration of free enzyme and that of liposome-entrapped enzyme. These findings suggest that when liposomes containing beta-galactosidase were injected into rats from the tail veins, they would penetrate the blood-brain barrier and would reach the lysosomes in the central nervous system tissue more effectively than the free enzyme itself. Beta-galactosidase; liposome; enzyme replacement therapy; rat tissues, 131I.

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Transplacental and neonatal carcinogenesis by 1-butyl-1-nitrosourethan in the ACI/N rat.

1-Butyl-1-nitrosourethan (BNUR) and 1-butylurethane (BUR), a precursor of BNUR, were administered prenatally or neonatally to ACI/N rats. A few neurogenic tumors were induced in the offspring of mother rats that had received BNUR at the late stage of pregnancy and in the animals that had received one subcutaneous injection of BNUR within 24 hr after birth. No neurogenic tumors were observed in rats treated with BUR prenatally or neonatally.

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