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I Hashimoto

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Measurement of low molecular weight urinary monoamines by gas chromatography.

A simple gas chromatographic method for the measurement of low molecular weight urinary monoamines has been developed without use of a prior isolation procedure. The primary and secondary monamines in urine were directly converted into their 2,4-dinitrophenyl derivatives with 2,4-dinitrobenzensulfonate in aqueous alkaline solution, which after extraction with benzene and concentration, were submitted to gas chromatography. The application of this method to the determination of methylamine and dimethylamine in urine from normal subjects and hepatic patients is described.

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Progestational function of perifused rat corpora lutea.

Corpora lutea (CL) from synchronously ovulated, prepubertal rats remained viable in perifusing Eagle medium (Dulbecco modified) flowing at a rate of 1 ml/hr. As an index of viability, progesterone (P) and 20alpha-hydroxypreng-4-ene-3-one (20alpha-OH-P) were determined by radioimmunoa-say in effluent media. Corpora lutea removed on the 2nd day of diestrus (D-2) or the 2nd day of pseudopregnancy (PP-2) showed fatigue by a continuous decline in the concentrations of effluent progestins. P decreased from 2 to 0.2 ng/ml/CL during an interval of 5 hr, while 20alpha-OH-P decreased from 2.2 to about 0.7 ng/ml/CL. In contrast corpora lutea taken on PP-4 maintained higher progestin levels in the effluent media. P present initially at 2.2 ng/ml/CL decreased to 0.73 ng/ml/CL; 20alpha-OH-P, initial concentration 0.84 ng/ml/CL, decreased to 0.41 ng/ml/CL. The greater functionality of PP-4 CL indicated by the continued predominance of , suggested an in vivo imposition of a luteotropic stimulus occurring after PP-2. Addition of bovine LH (NIH-LH-B8, 20 mug/ml) to the perifusing medium stimulated steroidogenesis by PP-2 CL during which 20alpha-OH-P levels remained between 2.3 and 3.2 ng/ml/CL throughout perifusion, while P secretion decreased from 2.9 to 0.9 ng/ml/CL. Prolactin (NIH-P-B3, 20 mug/ml), did not significantly alter the original secretion pattern of PP-2 CL. During combined prolactin (20 mug/ml) and LH (2 to 10 mug/ml) perifusion, P secretion predominated, decreasing from 3.9 to 1.0 ng/ml/CL; 20alpha-OH-P decreased from 1.2 to 0.7 ng/ml/CL.

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Congenital left atrial enlargement. A case report with special reference to myocardial fine structure.

A case of intrapericardial congenital left atrial enlargement was reported. The patient is an asymptomatic 3 year-old girl with abnormal cardiac silhouette seen on a chest roentgenogram. Angiography showed marked left atrial enlargement, and the diagnosis of intrapericardial congenital left atrial enlargement was confirmed on operation. Specimens of the atria were electron microscopically examined. Myocardiocytes of the left atrium showed marked increase of the mitochondria and decrease of myofibrils. Abnormal Z bands and disarrangement of myofibrils were often observed. Atrial specific granules in the left atrium were increased in size and number. The right atrium also showed same changes. The pathogenesis of this condition was discussed.

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Ultrastructural studies in epidermolysis bullosa heriditaria. I. Dominant dystrophic type of Pasini.

Ultrastructural examination was performed in 8 biopsies from 4 patients with the Pasini type of epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica dominans. The biopsies were taken from: 1. clinically normal skin from nonpredilection areas, 2. intact skin from predilection areas, 3. involved skin and 4. experimentally frictioned skin. The main ultrastructural alterations detected are as follows: hypoplasia of anchoring fibrils, split or blister formation between basal lamina and dermis, hernia-like protrusion of basal cells, sub- and intraepidermal deposition of fibrillar bodies, and duplications of basal lamina. Among them, the constantly observed finding in all of the four biopsy groups in the structural defect of anchoring fibrils, namely, that the anchoring fibrils are rudimentary and reduced in number. Presence of the structural defect of anchoring fibrils in clinically normal skin from nonpredilection areas in patients with the Pasini type of epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica dominans indicates that this defect is not a secondary change following repeated mechanical trauma, but a primary, genetically determined event.

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