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M Funakoshi

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PubMed1991

[Clinicopathological estimation of intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy of locally advanced breast cancer].

The effect of intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy with adriamycin as a preoperating procedure was analyzed clinicopathologically in 30 cases with locally advanced breast cancer. A clinical response rate of 53.3% was obtained by the treatment and remarkable degenerative changes of tumor cells were noted histologically in the primary lesions. But there was no relationship between histological therapeutic effect and regression rate in tumors. A recurrence rate showed a higher correlation with histological therapeutic effect in comparison with clinical therapeutic effect. Especially, non-necrosis type that tumor cells were still alive mainly in the vessels showed significantly a higher recurrence rate in comparison with a central necrosis type or focal necrosis with fibrosis and hyalinization type. The local regional recurrence rate of patients receiving intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy was lower than that of patients, as the historical controls, receiving no therapy before operation. But prognostically, there was no significant difference in a survival rate between both groups. So, after operation, other alternative or multidisciplinary adjuvant chemo-endocrine therapy seems to be necessary for improving the survival rate.

Breast Neoplasms↗
PubMed1990

Effects of parasympathectomy on androgen responses of the rat submandibular gland.

The effects of androgen on the activities of esteropeptidase and delta 4-3-ketosteroid 5 alpha-reductase were investigated. Ratios of the denervated side to the non-operated side for gland weight and esteropeptidase activity were higher in androgenized females than in untreated females. The specific activities of 5 alpha-reductase were increased by denervation but the total activities were decreased. The results suggest that parasympathectomy leads to higher androgen responsiveness in the rat submandibular gland, which relates to the observed reduction in weight loss of the gland and the increases in its esteropeptidase activities.

3-Oxo-5-alpha-Steroid 4-Dehydrogenase↗
PubMed1990

Analgesic effects of D-amino acids in four inbred strains of mice.

1. Prominent strain differences of mice were found in analgesic effects of D-amino acids. 2. In C57BL/6CrSlc and C3H/HeSlc mice, pain threshold, which was determined by using a hot-plate method, increased to 140-175% of the control after the systemic treatment of all three D-amino acids employed, such as D-phenylalanine, -leucine and -methionine, whereas in DBA/2CrSlc or BALB/cCrSlc mice, out of three only one D-amino acid, D-phenylalanine or -leucine, produced significant increase of pain threshold. 3. This lack of ability to perceive analgesic effects of specific amino acids observed in the latter two strains suggests that there probably exist different analgesia-inducing mechanisms for each of three D-amino acids in mice and the latter two strains lack two of them.

Amino Acids↗
PubMed1989

Strain differences in amiloride inhibition of NaCl responses in mice, Mus musculus.

The effects of lingual treatment with amiloride, an inhibitor of salt taste responses in several mammalian species, on NaCl responses of the chorda tympani nerve were compared between four inbred strains of mouse (BALB/cCrSlc, DBA/2CrSlc, C57BL/6CrSlc and C3H/HeSlc). In C57BL and C3H mice amiloride significantly suppressed responses of the chorda tympani nerve to NaCl at a concentration 0.1 M or more whereas in BALB and DBA mice the drug did not significantly affect the responses to NaCl at any concentration, suggesting a lack of the amiloride-sensitive receptor component for NaCl in the latter two strains. A two-bottle preference test demonstrated that all strains of mouse usually showed no preference for NaCl at any concentration and avoided NaCl at 0.3 M or more, although some differences were observed in that C57BL and C3H mice showed aversive responses to 0.1 and 0.15 M NaCl, whereas BALB and DBA mice were indifferent to these solutions. The results suggest that there exist prominent differences between mouse strains in the amiloride-sensitive component of their salt receptor systems. However, in mice the taste information derived from the amiloride-sensitive receptor component probably has no remarkable effect on behavioral responses to NaCl except for a possible contribution to decreasing aversion thresholds for NaCl by increasing overall taste information about NaCl.

Amiloride↗
PubMed1989

Cross-adapted sugar responses in the mouse taste cell.

1. Intracellular recordings of mouse taste cell responses were made using a glass micro-electrode filled with Procion yellow dye solution. 2. Six sugars (sucrose, maltose, lactose, glucose, galactose and fructose) produced the depolarization responses. 3. Gustatory cross adaptation between sugars was determined. When the taste cell was pre-adapted with one of the six sugars, the other five sugars, cross adapted, produced depolarization, hyperpolarization or null responses. 4. From these observations, it is suggested that there are multiple sugar receptor sites on the receptor membrane of the mouse taste cell.

Adaptation, Physiological↗
PubMed1989

Selective procaine inhibition of rat chorda tympani responses to electric taste stimulation.

1. The lingual treatment of 1% procaine for 10 min selectively suppressed responses of the rat chorda tympani nerve to anodal current applied to the tongue with NaCl in the bathing medium to about 50% of control but the drug produced no significant suppression in responses to chemical taste stimuli. 2. The magnitude of suppression of response to anodal current varied with concentration of procaine and kind of bathing medium for the current stimulation (larger in the order of NaCl greater than KCl greater than CaCl2 greater than HCl). 3. Such ion specificity in procaine suppression suggests that responses of the chorda tympani nerve to anodal current are provoked through the taste cell (not direct action on the taste nerve), and that the receptor mechanisms for anodal current are at least partly different from that for chemical taste stimuli.

Animals↗
PubMed1989

Effects of isoproterenol treatment on gustatory neural responses in three inbred strains of mice.

1. Treatment of a beta-agonist, isoproterenol, for 5 days reduced chorda tympani responses to sucrose by about 40% of the control without affecting responses to other taste stimuli, such as NaCl, HCl and quinine HCl, in balb CrSlc mice whereas such reduction of sucrose responses was not observed in C57BL/6-CrSlc and C3H/HeSlc mice, although in the latter two strains long-lasting off-responses to quinine HCl appeared after the treatment. 2. In BALB mice, the magnitude of reduction of sucrose responses by isoproterenol increased with prolonging the treatment from 1 to 5 days, although it reached almost its maximum level by the 3 days treatment. 3. BALB mice with the removal of the submandibular glands showed slightly greater control responses of the chorda tympani nerve to sucrose than BALB mice with the sham-operation or the removal of the sublingual glands, and showed no significant reduction of sucrose responses by isoproterenol treatment. 4. These results suggest that isoproterenol probably did not act directly on sweetener receptors of taste cell membranes but affect them through the submandibular salivary system.

Animals↗
PubMed1989

Behavioral discrimination between glutamate and the four basic taste substances in mice.

1. Behavioural studies using the conditioned taste aversion (CTA) paradigm in mice showed that aversion conditioned to monosodium L-glutamate (MSG), which elicits a unique taste in humans, did not strongly generalize to any of the four basic taste stimuli, suggesting that mice could behaviourally discriminate between MSG and the four basic taste stimuli. 2. Denervation of bilateral glossopharyngeal nerve significantly increased behavioural similarities (the strength of generalization in the CTA paradigm) between MSG and sodium salts. This was not the case after destruction of the bilateral chorda tympani nerve. 3. These results suggest that taste information of glossopharyngeal nerve plays a more important role in the behavioural discrimination between MSG and the four basic tastes than does that of the chorda tympani nerve.

Animals↗
PubMed1989

Peripheral neural basis for behavioural discrimination between glutamate and the four basic taste substances in mice.

1. Single chorda tympani fibres sensitive to monosodium L-glutamate (MSG), elicit a unique taste in humans and gave a greater response to NaCl and/or sucrose than to MSG whereas several MSG-sensitive glossopharyngeal fibres responded only slightly if at all to NaCl and sucrose. 2. The across-fibre correlations showed that MSG and NaCl produced similar response patterns in the chorda tympani fibres but different response patterns in the glossopharyngeal fibres. 3. These results suggest that taste information of glossopharyngeal fibres plays a relatively more important role in the qualitative discrimination between MSG and the four basic taste substances than that of chorda tympani fibres.

Animals↗
PubMed1989

Alteration of salt taste sensitivity by the neonatal removal of sublingual glands in the rat.

1. Adult rats with the surgical removal of sublingual glands at their 10 days of age did not prefer NaCl solution of any concentration to water, whereas those with sham-operation or the removal of submandibular glands preferred 0.03 or 0.1 M NaCl to water. 2. Magnitudes of inhibition of chorda tympani responses to NaCl by the lingual treatment of 0.1 mM amiloride were greater in neonatally sublingual removed rats than in sham-operated or submandibular removed ones. 3. These results suggest that the removal of sublingual glands in neonatal period of the rat could increase the amount of the amiloride-sensitive Na receptor mechanism on the taste cell membrane in its adulthood.

Amiloride↗
PubMed1989

Effects of repeated androgen treatments on metabolism and nuclear binding of androgen in the infant murine submandibular gland.

1. Androgen responsiveness of esteropeptidase of the murine submandibular gland developed rapidly in normal males compared with in normal females and castrated males. 2. Repeated treatments of infant mice of both sexes with testosterone (T), 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) or 5 alpha-androstane-3 alpha, 17 beta-diol increased androgen responsiveness of this enzyme, but did not affect those of 5 alpha-reductase and 3 alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3 alpha-HSDase; androgen metabolizing enzymes) of the gland. 3. Exchange assay of nuclear androgen receptor using 3H-DHT showed that in both sexes, amounts of binding in animals pretreated with T were higher than those in animals pretreated with sesame oil. 4. These results suggest that there is parallelism between the androgen responses and amounts of nuclear androgen binding, not androgen responses of 5 alpha-reductase and 3 alpha-HSDase.

3-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenases↗
PubMed1989

The effect of phenytoin on the corticoidogenesis in the mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum of bovine adrenal cortex.

In the mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum of bovine adrenal cortex, the influence of phenytoin on corticoidogenesis was studied using 0.1 microCi 4-14C-cholesterol, 0.01 microCi 4-14C-17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone, deoxycorticosterone and NADPH-generating system. The cholesterol side-chain cleaving activity in the mitochondria was facilitated by 0.1 microM phenytoin, but was inhibited by higher concentrations. Steroid 11 beta-hydroxylase activity was inhibited by phenytoin. The steroid 21-hydroxylase activity in the endoplasmic reticulum, on the contrary, was mildly stimulated by 1 and 10 microM phenytoin. Phenytoin formed a modified type I spectrum in the adrenocortical mitochondria-malate complex.

Adrenal Cortex↗
PubMed1989

Amiloride does not block taste transduction in the mouse (Slc:ICR).

1. The receptor potential of the mouse taste cell was recorded with an intracellular microelectrode while taste stimuli were applied to the tongue surface of the anesthetized mouse. 2. A membrane depolarization accompanied by an increase in membrane resistance was observed after a sucrose stimulus. 3. A sodium-chloride stimulus initiated a membrane depolarization accompanied by a decrease in membrane resistance. 4. Amiloride elicits a depolarization of the membrane and is accompanied by an increase in membrane resistance. 5. Pre-adapting the tongue to amiloride, which is known as a potent sodium channel blocker, did not alter the responses to sodium-chloride and other taste stimuli.

Amiloride↗
PubMed1988

Proline-rich protein is a glycoprotein and an acute phase reactant.

Proline-rich protein (PRP) is a plasma protein associated with lipoproteins. In an attempt to clarify the biological significance of this protein, we isolated and characterized it and studied the biological role in plasma. PRP was isolated by immunosorber column chromatography and by gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatography. The molecular weight determined by gel filtration chromatography was 352,000, that is, about 5-times larger than the weight determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (73,800), indicating pentamer formation. About 10 or 11 isoproteins (pI 5.89-6.55) were observed by isoelectric focusing gel electrophoresis. PRP contained fucose, mannose, galactose, glucosamine and sialic acid accounting for 8.0% of the dry weight. PRP also had a hydrophilic property, as determined by charge shift electrophoresis. Levels of this protein in the human serum related to triacylglycerol-rich lipoproteins. The concentration of PRP correlated to the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), the C-reactive protein (CRP) and alpha 1- and alpha 2-globulin. Sera from patients with infection and inflammation showed significantly higher PRP levels than those noted in controls. Levels of PRP rose in parallel with ESR and CRP levels following acute myocardial infarction, and the maximal level was noted on the 7th postinfarction day. The PRP levels were elevated during the active phase of pneumonia, followed normalization. These data suggest that PRP is an acute phase reactant and may be important in the metabolism of triacylglycerol-rich lipoproteins.

Acute-Phase Proteins↗
PubMed1988

Amiloride inhibition of responses of rat single chorda tympani fibers to chemical and electrical tongue stimulations.

Amiloride inhibition of single fiber responses of the rat chorda tympani to ionic chemical and electrical tongue stimulations was studied. Amiloride reduced responses to both chemical and electrical stimulations with NaCl or LiCl in most of the single fibers. However, the magnitude of reduction of the response by amiloride varied among the fibers and was greater for chemical than electrical stimulation with NaCl in each fiber. Thirty-two single fibers were divided into two groups, such as 18 high (HAS) and 14 low amiloride-sensitive (LAS) fibers. Percent responses (control, 100%) of the former group to chemical stimulus with NaCl after amiloride ranged from 1.1 to 42.5%, while those of the latter from 72.8 to 108.0%. In HAS fibers, amiloride also reduced responses to KCl and CaCl2, but to a smaller degree than those to NaCl and LiCl. Fifteen out of 18 HAS fibers more strongly responded to a chemical stimulus with 0.1 M NaCl than 0.01 M HCl, while the opposite was true for 13 out of 14 LAS fibers, although the threshold concentration for NaCl was rather lower in LAS fibers than in HAS fibers. These results suggest that there exist at least two different receptor mechanisms for NaCl or LiCl which are amiloride-sensitive and -insensitive, and the observed differences in relative specificities to ionic taste stimuli and sensitivities to amiloride among rat chorda tympani fibers are possibly due to a disproportional distribution of these two receptors.

Amiloride↗
PubMed1988

Voltage- and current-clamp recordings of the receptor potential in mouse taste cell.

Intracellular recordings were obtained using the current-clamp and voltage-clamp techniques. When the taste cell membrane was voltage-clamped, the sucrose stimulus induced an inward current accompanied by a membrane resistance increase while the NaCl stimulus induced an inward current accompanied by a membrane resistance decrease. These phenomena indicated that sucrose and NaCl have quite a different generation mechanism of taste responses.

Animals↗