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J Cotton

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PubMed1979

Comparative studies of cellular reactions to injuries between the inner medulla and the cortex of rat kidneys.

The inner medulla and the cortex of the rat kidney were surgically traumatized or threaded with a silk suture, and the sequence of morphologic events occurring in these two topographic locations were studied by light microscopy on Days 7, 14, and 28. On Days 7, 14, and 28 following the infliction of the surgical trauma, such cellular reactions as mononuclear cell infiltration and fibroblastic proliferation were less intense in the injured site of the inner medulla than in the cortex. Numerous foreign body type giant cells appeared about the suture material in the cortex as early as Day 7 and were persistently present on Days 14 and 28. A similar type of foreign body giant cells did not appear about the suture material within the inner medulla throughout the experiment. Our results suggest that there is a difference in cellular reaction to injury or to a foreign body between the inner medulla and the cortex of rat kidneys.

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PubMed1979

Structural alterations of the liver induced by N,N'-diacetylbenzidine. A new model of cirrhosis.

Little is known about hepatic structural alterations induced by administration of the aromatic amine, N,N'-diacetylbenzidine. Therefore, we injected adult rats with this chemical at a dose of approximately 1 g/kg of body weight. Light and electron microscopy of liver specimens revealed hepatocellular degeneration and prominent changes in bile canaliculi, including dilation, disappearance of microvilli, and an apparent loss of structural integrity of the cell membrane. These findings were seen in the peripheral part of the hepatic lobules. Cirrhotic changes eventually developed. We concluded that N,N'-diacetylbenzidine injected intraperitoneally is capable of inflicting structural damage to the liver in rats.

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PubMed1975

A study of the electroencephalogram during surgery with deep hypothermia and circulatory arrest in infants.

Seveteen infants (2 1/2 to 28 months old) were continuously monitored by six-channel electroencephalography (EEG) during the entire surgical procedure of open-heart repair. They were subjected to surface hypothermia supplemented by cold extracorporeal circulation (ECC) down to an average esophageal temperature of 21 degrees C., to cardiac arrest of 40 minutes average (range 19 to 62 minutes), and to ECC rewarming. Survival time of the EEG was correlated to esophageal temperature at the time of arrest. EEG reappeared an average of 26 minutes (5.30 to 50) after the strat of rewarming ECC and became strictly continuous after 44 minutes. Reappearance latency was well correlated with the duration of arrest. Potential normalization was oberved in 13 infants, but true normalization was observed in only 2 infants during the 90 to 120 minute period after ECC. By judging the EEG and by comparing this series with two previous series of moderate and deeper hypothermia in older patients, we concluded that the immediate tolerance of the brain to deep hypothermia and circulatory arrest seems no different in infants and in older patients.

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