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K Takeuchi

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PubMed1975

[Role of chemotherapy in long-term survival of malignant glioma (author's transl)].

Effect of chemotherapy was evaluated from the view point of postoperative survival rate in 102 consecutive cases of histologically verified glioblastomas treated during past 16 years. As a result of the study, the "additive effect" of chemotherapy on the ordinary surgical operation and radiation therapy could not be clarified. However, the effect of chemotherapy was worth to note among 6 cases which survived more than 5 years after operation. Then, combination of various treatment including chemotherapy should be repeatedly applied in individual cases of glioblastoma.

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PubMed1975

Inhibitory effect of L-glutamine on gastric irritation and back diffusion of gastric acid in response to aspirin in the rat.

L-Glutamine given orally at 750 mg/kg significantly reduced the formation of gastric mucosal lesions induced by aspirin at 100 mg/kg at 1, 3, and 7 hours in pylorus-ligated rats. L-Glutamine markedly inhibited the loss of H+ and a corresponding increment of Na+ through the aspirin-damaged mucosal barrier, which suggests inhibition of acid back diffusion as the mechanism of action. In vagotomized rats, the diffusion of H+ from the instilled acid solution into the gastric mucosa and outflux of Na+ from the mucosa into the lumen was so strong that aspirin could not show any acceleration of a back diffusion of H+ in contrast to the aspirin-free group. However, L-Glutamine given with or without aspirin inhibited the group. However, L-Glutamine given with or without aspirin inhibited the back diffusion of H+ instilled into the vagotomized rat stomach.

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PubMed1975

Influence of the proximal small intestine on the gastric hypersecretion in pylorus-ligated rats.

The mechanism of the gastric secretory inhibition caused by the simultaneous ligation of the upper and lower duodenum or the jejunum in pylorus-ligated rats was studied. The data obtained from the experiments on surgical manipulation of the small intestine indicated that the absorption of certain substances appeared to be important in maintaining gastric secretion of pylorus-ligated rats. The participation of biliary secretion was negligible, while the ligation procedure per se, which results in the accumulation of duodenal contents, might be partly involved in the mechanism of acid secretion. Pharmacological techniques suggested that the inhibition appeared to be independent of cholinergic nervous reflex and hormonal influence, which is assumed to be released by intestinal acidification.

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PubMed1975

[Biological assay of prostaglandin using the rat uterus].

Isometric contraction of rat uterus with PGF2alpha was more reliable and stable than when a stomach preparation was used. The method of PG bioassay using rat uterus was as follows: ovariectomized rats were given 10 mug of estrone s.c. 48 hr before the decapitation. Uterine strips were suspended in 2 ml of organ bath containing modified Locke-Ringer solution at 25 degrees C, and the isometric contraction was determined. As little as 4 ng/ml of PGF2alpha was determined quantitatively with this method.

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PubMed1975

Effects of L-glutamine on acetylsalicylic acid-induced gastric lesions in normal and cirrhotic rats.

Cirrhosis of the liver in rats was induced by the administration of carbon tetrachloride (0.1 ml/100 g of body weight, s.c.) biweekly for 13 weeks. In the pylorus ligation preparation, acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) 100 mg/kg p.o. induced much more serious gastric damage in CC14-induced cirrhotic rats as compared with rats with a normal liver. L-glutamine 750 mg/kg p.o. prevented the ASA-induced gastric lesions in both normal and cirrhotic rats, even though the degree of the inhibition was weaker in cirrhotic rats. Gastric analysis indicated that L-glutamine 750 mg/kg p.o. markedly inhibited the gastric ionic changes (acid back diffusion) in response to ASA in both cirrhotic and normal rats.

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PubMed1975

DNA dependent RNA polymerase from Ehrlich ascites tumor cells. V. Characterization of a factor repressing RNA polymerase II as a ribonucleoprotein.

Previously we reported the isolation of a factor, named the R-protein, which strongly repressed RNA polymerase II [EC 2.7.7.6] of Ehrlich ascites tumor cells. In the present work this factor was found to contain much RNA (ratio of RNA to protein, 2.3 to 1). The RNA was G:C rich, with a very high content of guanylic acid (about 38%). On equilibrium density gradient centrifugation in Cs2SO4 solution, the RNA became distributed above free RNA, but after digestion of the R-protein with pronase the RNA cosedimented with free RNA. Thus the R-protein is a complex of RNA and protein.

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PubMed1975

[Calcification in gliomas: first report with special reference to roentgenological calcification (author's transl)].

The mechanism and the clinical significance of calcium deposits in glioma have been still obscure. Excluding pinealomas, 221 histologically proven intracranial gliomas were studied. The presence of roentgenological calcification in 27 of the authers' series represented an incidence of 12 percent. The incidence of roentgenological calcification in various types of glioma were as follows: astrocytoma grades 1 & 2-15%, astrocytoma grades 3 & 4-7%, medulloblastoma-5%, ependymoma-17%, oligodendrogioma-60%, and choroid plexus papilloma-25%. There was no characteristic relationship between the incidence of calcification and the age distribution. One exception was noted that in astrocytoma grades 1 & 2 the incidence of roentgenological calcification tended to be higher in younger patients than in older patients. The percentage of calcified tumors in both sexes was the same. In astrocytoma and ependymoma the incidence of roentgenological calcification was far greater in the supratentorial tumor than in the infratentorial tumor. According to their roentgenological appearance, calcified tumors were separated into four groups, but any specific appearance could not be claimed for any particular type of glial tumors. Only in astrocytoma both the duration of symptoms and the postoperative survival time of the calcified cases were longer than those of the uncalcified. But in other types of glioma there were no significant differences in the postoperative survival time between the calcified cases and the uncalcified ones. In 5 cases of astrocytomas the calcium deposits did not exist on preoperative radiographs, which were found postoperatively after chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy. In conclusion, it is not the histological type but the duration of the clinical course that plays more important role in calcification of gliomas.

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