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Polyamines and acetylpolyamines were analyzed in the liver, spleen, lung, kidney, serum and urine by high-performance liquid chromatography on a column of cation-exchange resin after administering various cytotoxic substances to male mice. All of the compounds tested more or less affected the tissue levels of polyamines, including putrescine, spermidine, spermine and acetylpolyamines (N1-acetylspermidine and N1-acetylspermine). It was found that they were classified into two groups of substances: one group (including radical-producing drugs and lipopolysaccharide) which elevated the tissue levels of N1-acetylspermidine, especially in the liver, while another group of drugs (such as D-galactosamine and DL-ethionine) had little effect on the acetylpolyamine levels. When the acetylpolyamine levels rose, the levels of spermidine and spermine declined, and then putrescine levels were elevated. N1-Acetylspermine was detected only when N1-acetylspermidine levels were very high after treatment with radical-producing drugs and lipopolysaccharide. Halogenated carbon, such as carbon tetrachloride and halothane, elevated the levels of acetylpolyamines especially in the liver, while paraquat elevated them in all tissues examined.
We assessed MR findings of throwing injuries occurring in the elbow joint using three-dimensional Fourier transform (3DFT) and short tau inversion recovery (STIR) images. MR images of 63 elbows in 63 male patients aged from 10 to 32 years (mean age, 15 years 11 months) suffering from throwing injury were visually analyzed. The sequences used for the study were axial 3DFT and coronal STIR. Full-thickness tears were demonstrated in 34 elbows and undersurface tears of the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) were demonstrated in five elbows. Thirty loose bodies were detected in 14 elbows. Cartilaginous damage due to osteochondral injury was depicted in 21 elbows. Multiplanar reformatted images using the 3DFT data set were useful for assessing torn UCLs, intraarticular loose bodies, and capitellar fragments. Full-thickness tears and undersurface tears of the UCL could be differentiated with STIR images. 3DFT and STIR sequences depict various aspects of throwing injuries occurring in the elbow.
The recombinant macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) of a rat liver was crystallized using the hanging-drop vapor diffusion method. We also crystallized a selenomethionyl rat MIF under similar conditions for X-ray structure analysis using the multiwavelength anomalous diffraction method. Furthermore, two kinds of selenomethionyl rat MIF mutants, in which one or two of three methionine residues were replaced by alanine [(Met101Ala), (Met2Ala and Met101Ala)], were constructed and crystallized. These crystals belong to two different forms of the hexagonal space group P6(3). The first form has cell dimensions of a = b = 95.7 A and c = 87.9 A and contains two dimers in an asymmetric unit, while the second form, whose cell dimensions are a = b = 61.8 A and c = 53.4 A, contains only one subunit in an asymmetric unit. Preliminary X-ray examination shows that these crystals are suitable for high-resolution structure analysis.
Renal hypertrophy is a characteristic and early manifestation of diabetes in human and experimental animals. We examined the precise distribution of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) receptor mRNA in the experimental diabetic rat kidney using a nonradioactive in situ hybridization technique. Expression of IGF-I receptor mRNA was rarely seen in the glomeruli of control rats. IGF-I receptor mRNA was detected after induction of diabetes in glomerular mesangial, visceral epithelial, and parietal epithelial cells. The number of IGF-I receptor mRNA-positive cells in a glomerulus increased significantly at 4 weeks as compared with the control rats. Overexpression of IGF-I receptor in glomerular cells may contribute to the glomerular hypertrophy in diabetic nephropathy.
Advanced glycation endproducts (AGE) have been proposed as a major mediator in the development of various diabetic complications. In order to evaluate the involvement of AGE in the development of diabetic nephropathy, we examined the localization of AGE in the kidney of the streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats immunohistochemically using a monoclonal antibody directed to AGE. In the diabetic rats, glomerular hypertrophy, thickening of the glomerular basement membrane, and expansion of mesangial matrix were observed. AGE was detected in expanded mesangial area and glomerular basement membrane in the kidneys of diabetic rats. The present results suggest that AGE may participate in the development of diabetic nephropathy.
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STUDY OBJECTIVES: To determine whether serum and urine inorganic fluoride levels with prolonged (more than 7 hours) low-dose (0.8 to 2.0 vol %) sevoflurane anesthesia plus epidural anesthesia were increased as compared with isoflurane anesthesia plus epidural anesthesia. To measure the urine tubular enzymes N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase (NAG), alpha 1-microglobulin (alpha 1-M), and beta 2-microglobulin (beta 2-M) for renal tubular injury in both groups. DESIGN: Randomized, prospective study. SETTING: University hospital. PATIENTS: 15 ASA physical status I and II adults (7 males, 8 females) who were scheduled for prolonged laparotomy (lasting 9.5 to 10.2 hours) with general anesthesia. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Epidural anesthesia was administered before induction of general anesthesia. General anesthesia was induced with thiamylal administered intravenously (IV), and the trachea was intubated following administration of vecuronium IV. It was maintained with either sevoflurane or isoflurane in nitrous oxide and oxygen. Standard monitoring was used in all patients. Serum and urine inorganic fluoride and urine tubular enzymes were measured periodically. Serum inorganic fluoride was 54 mumol/L at 4.3 minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) hours of sevoflurane; the peak level for isoflurane was 8 mumol/L at the same MAC hours. Sevoflurane also increased urine inorganic fluoride excretion to 96 mumol/hr 8 hours. NAG excretion started to increase after inhalation of either sevoflurane or isoflurane. alpha 1-M and beta 2-M excretion increased markedly postoperatively. Even though fluoride levels and tubular enzymes were high, there was no evidence of postoperative renal dysfunction. CONCLUSIONS: There was no increase in urinary enzymes, which are indicators of tubular injury, specific to sevoflurane. There was no postoperative renal dysfunction, as indicated by unchanged serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen levels.
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Human myelogenous leukaemic cells can be induced to differentiate into the monocyte/macrophage pathway by protein inducers called differentiation inducing factors (DIF) in conditioned media of mitogen-stimulated human peripheral blood leukocytes. However, human DIF has not yet been well characterized. DIF is known to be a T-cell lymphokine, as it can be obtained from the T-cell line HUT-102 and can be partially purified from medium conditioned by phytohaemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated lymphocytes. We found that monocytes also produce factor(s) that induce differentiation of human myelogenous leukaemia cell lines to cells with macrophage-like characteristics. This factor(s) has activity different from that of colony-stimulating factor(s) or interferons. We have now purified a DIF to homogeneity from medium conditioned by PHA-stimulated leukocytes using a human myeloblastic leukemia cell line, ML-1, as target cells. The purified DIF has a relative molecular mass (Mr) of approximately 17,000, with an NH2-terminal sequence the same as that of human tumour necrosis factor (TNF). Recombinant human TNF (rHuTNF) induces differentiation of ML-1 cells and an anti-pDIF monoclonal antibody can neutralize both differentiation inducing activity and cytotoxic activity of DIF and rHuTNF. The findings indicate that one of the DIF(s) produced by leukocytes is probably TNF.