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I Fodor

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Location of the cleavage sites on the SV 40 DNA map produced by the restriction endonucleases Pst 1 and Bam 1.

Restriction endonucleases from Providencia stuartii (Pst 1) and Bacillus amyloliquefaciens H (Bam 1) cleave SV 40 DNA at two and one specific sites, respectively. Using EcoRI and Hind III endonuclease restriction sites as reference, the two Pst I sites were mapped at 0.050; 0.265 and the Bam I site was mapped at 0.170 of the genome length, clockwise, from the single EcoRI cleavage site.

DNA Restriction Enzymes↗

Physical mapping of cleavage sites recognized by restriction endonucleases on the genome of bacteriophage T5.

The DNA of bacteriophage T5 has been treated with restriction endonucleases EcoRI, HindIII, BamI, SmaI, PstI, SalI, KpnI and the electrophoretic pattern obtained in agarose gel has been analyzed in order to localize the specific cleavage sites on the T5 DNA. The localization of cleavage sites has been reduced from the electrophoretic pattern of double and partial digests, the digests of isolated restriction fragments and the digests of deletion mutant T5st(o) DNA. Four BamI cleavage sites have been found and localized on the physical map of T5 DNA at 0.21, 0.225, 0.685 and 0.725 fractional length. Endonuclease SmaI cleaves at 0.39, 0.59 and 0.69 fractional length. Endonuclease PstI cuts T5 DNA at 11 sites: 0.090, 0.210, 0.320, 0.510, 0.635, 0.670, 0.705, 0.770, 0.815, 0.840, 0.875 fractional length. Six KpnI cleavage sites have been mapped at 0.170, 0.215, 0.525, 0.755, 0.830, 0.850 fractional length. A complete cleavage map of the phage genome is presented for seven restriction enzymes.

Chromosome Mapping↗

Histogenesis of beryllium-induced bone tumours.

In response to beryllium treatment, irregular bone formation starts mainly in the marrow cavity of long bones, preceding neoplastic growth. Irregular medullary bone formation may be connected with the endosteum, but usually it develops in the bone marrow, independently of the endosteum. Osteogenesis in the bone marrow may be preceded by fibrosis but irregular bone may be formed also without any previous histological changes in the bone marrow. The tumour develops directly from the medullary bone. The prolonged irritation causes abnormal osteogenesis, which ultimately turns into neoplastic proliferation. Thus, the beryllium-induced bone sarcoma is, from histogenesis point of view, a hyperplaseogenic tumour. Irregular bone formation is considered a preblastomatous change, because it is closely connected with the development of the tumour and precedes it in time. The multiplicity of the tumour is explained by the "neoplastic field" theory of WILLIS.

Animals↗

Immune complexes in chronic hepatitis.

Rheumatoid factors were present in 33.2%, crioglobulins in 47.6%, and anticomplementary assay in 34.2% of cases with chronic active hepatitis. No statistically significant loss of total complement was observed, but its components especially C1 and C3, exhibited lowered titers in 48.6% and respectively 45.7% of 160 cases. The origin, significance and pathogenicity of these factors are discussed in connection with the presence and possible role of the immunologic complexes to the development of chronic liver injury.

Antigen-Antibody Complex↗

Glucagon treatment of experimental acute pancreatitis.

CFY male rats anaesthetized with pentobarbital were used in different groups for inducing acute pancreatitis by the retrograde injection either of 1 mg elastase, 5 mg trypsin, 4 mg lysolecithin, 10 mg Na-taurocholate in 0.2 ml volume or of 0.3 m. sunflower oil. In each group laparatomized animals served for control. The animals with pancreatitis were treated either with 15 mug/b.w.kg/hour glucagon or with physiological saline for 72 hours. Twenty-four and 72 hours after inducing pancreatitis glucagon did not influence the significant fall in blood pressure elicited by the intraductal injection of trypsin or elastase or in the plasma calcium level in pancreatitis induced by trypsin or sunflower oil. Neither did glucagon affect the significant increase of plasma lipase activity in pancreatitis induced by trypsin or taurocholate. It also failed to reduce the 24-hour mortality rate and the extension of fat tissue necrosis in the abdominal cavity of pancreatitic animals. In contrast, glucagon treatment significantly reduced the amount of abdominal exudate associated with bile salt induced pancreatitis and, probably due to its pancreatic blood flow increasing effect, seemed to moderate the degree of tissue damage elicited in the pancreas by detergents such as taurocholate or lysolecithin.

Acute Disease↗

Effect of hypocalcaemia and lipid peroxidation on experimental acute pancreatitis.

It has been studied whether hypocalcaemia increased the mortality rate of experimental acute pancreatitis in the rat, and whether lipids injected into the pancreas underwent peroxidation, damaging thereby the gland. Prolonged hypocalcaemia was induced by bilateral parathyrodectomy and intensified by a calcium-deficient diet. Parathyroidectomy significantly decreased also arterial blood pressure. Three hours after their intraductal injection, both 0.2 ml sunflower oil and 5 mg trypsin significantly decreased arterial blood pressure in the non-parathyroidectomized animals and so did 5 mg trypsin in the parathyroidectomized ones; sunflower oil decreased the blood calcium level below 5 mg/100 ml in parathyroidectomized rats fed a calcium-deficient diet. No differences were found in the mortality rates of nonparathyroidectomized normocalcaemic rats and parathyroidectomized hypocalcaemic ones, or in the extent and gravity of pancreatic injury and in the extent of fat tissue necrosis at 3 and 24 hours after the intraductal injection of 0.2 ml sunflower oil or 5 mg trypsin. Sunflower oil, oleic acid and linoleic acid injected by retrograde way into the pancreas in 0.2 ml volume each induced extensive danage to the acinar parenchyma, while liquid paraffin failed to do so. Among these agents, only linoleic acid increased, as a sign of lipid peroxidation, malonaldehyde concentration in the pancreatic tissue. Linoleic acid injected into the submaxillary salivary gland in 0.1 ml volume induced extensive tissue damage, while sunflower oil, oleic acid failed to do so.

Acute Disease↗