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M Masuda

Publications and source records attributed to M Masuda.

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PubMed1977

Impact of a natural catastrophe on life events.

A major earthquake struck Peru in May 1970. This post-quake study compares the impact of this natural catastrophe on the residents of two different cities; one was 90 percent levelled by the quake and one was untouched. A relatively homogeneous population of Peruvians obtained from the two cities completed two paper-and-pencil tests, the Social Readjustment Rating Questionnaire (SRRQ) and the Schedule of Recent Experience (SRE). Both questionnaires were adapted from the SRRQ which had been translated for studies in Spain and EL Salvador. The data from the SRRQ generated two Peruvian Social Readjustment Rating Scales (SRRS), one for each of the cities studied. The differences in the two scales were striking. The lowest intra-cultural correlation yet observed on four studies was obtained. Comparison with a United States population yielded no significant relationships (rs = 0.15), the first time this has occurred in nine intercultural studies. A comparison of the profile of items generated by their subjective magnitude estimations indicated striking qualitative and quantitative differences between the two populations. The SRE generated frequency of occurrence of items and life change magnitudes in five proscribed time intervals. Significant differences in these two quantitative indices (including the health change items) were observed in the two populations in some of the time intervals and not in others. The data formulated suggest that the occurrence of a natural catastrophe--an earthquake which devastated one city--accounted for much of the difference observed between the populations of the two cities.

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PubMed1976

Natural history of diabetes mellitus with special reference to age of onset and vascular complications.

Age and sex distribution of diabetics, seasonal incidence of diabetes, grade of hyperglycemia, frequency of vascular complications and daily living conditions were studied of 2771 diabetic patients experienced at five clinics. The cases consisted of 1587 male and 1184 female diabetics. The distribution of age of diabetes onset revealed that males predominate among diabetics but females predominate among child diabetics, and that the precentage of child was extremely low. This pattern was emphasized as characteristic of Japanese diabetic population. Distribution of fasting blood sugar at the diagnosis of diabetes was compared among the age groups of diabetes-onset and the results showed that percentage of the value exceeding 300 mg/100 ml was highest in the under 10 year-onset cases and decreased with age. The frequency of diabetic retinopathy and of ischemic ECG changes was analysed from the view point of age of diabetes onset and also the duration of the disease. The frequency of the retinopathy at the diabetes-onset was zero in the under 10 year-onset cases, 4.2% in the 10s-onset cases and increased with age. The longer the duration of the disease the higher the frequency of the retinopathy was. This increase along with the duration was most remarkable in the 10s- and 20s-onset cases and less remarkable in the 30s-onset cases. The retinopathy was significantly more frequent in female diabetics. Daily of the patients were studied by a questionnaire and the analysis of 1022 cases with diabetes of more than three years revealed that cases of patients working uneventfully and/or feeling fit were most frequent among the 30s- or 40s-onset cases and that cases of bed-disability were frequent among the cases whose diabetes was found in their twenties or younger. This study showed that the prognosis of the patients is quite different according to whether their diabetes occurred before of after 30 years of age.

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PubMed1976

Tissue plasminogen activator in the pathogenesis of protein-losing gastroenteropathy.

Tissue fibrinolytic activity, mainly due to activator of tissue plasminogen was increased in the biopsied gastric mucosa of patients with protein-losing gastropathy. Antiplasmin therapy with trans-AMCHA (trans-4-aminomethyl cyclohexane carboxylic acid) was dramatically effective, except in the case of a patient with intestinal lymphangiectasia. These findings suggest that increased fibrinolysis in the gastrointestinal mucosa may play an important role in enhancing mucosal permeability to plasma proteins.

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PubMed1976

Experimental protein-losing gastroenteropathy: role of tissue plasminogen activator.

The tissue fibrinolytic activity of intestinal mucosa was studied in rats with protein-losing gastroenteropathies experimentally produced by X-irradiation, 5-fluorouracil treatment, or ligation of the thoracic duct. The first two models showed an increase of fibrinolytic activity and of 131I-polyvinylpyrrolidone excretion and the third showed normal fibrinolysis. In addition, it was demonstrated that 131I-polyvinylpyrrolidone excretion in the first two groups was markedly reduced by injections of trans-4-aminomethyl cyclohexane carboxylic acid, a potent antiplasmin agent. This finding affords strong support to the authors' previous clinical observation that tissue fibrinolysis in the digestive mucosa plays an important role in the pathogenesis of protein-losing gastroenteropathy associated with diseases of the mucosa.

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PubMed1976

Cold activation of complement i. presence of coagulation-related activator.

Determination of the complement titer in the serum and plasm of 120 patients with chronic liver diseases showed that in eight (7%) patients with cirrhosis of the liver, chronic active or chronic inactive hepatitis complement in the serum was less than half in the plasma. The dissociation of complement serum and plasma was due to cold activation of the classical pathway of complement in vitro since serum drawn from these patients at 37 degrees C lost hemolytic activity in 4 hours when transferred to a cold environment. Neither HB antigen nor cryoglobulin participated in this phenomenon. The activation of complement in the cold could be prevented by increasing the ionic strength, or by adding vitamin E or, to a lesser extent its vehicle HCO-60, while heparin, Trasylol, soybean trypsin inhibitor, or hirudin had no effect. Trans-AMCHA prevented activation in one case. It is speculated that a factor appearing as a result of blood clotting is able to activate the classical pathway of complement in the cold; it is probably not related to Hageman factor (factor XII), factor VII, thrombin, kallikrein.

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PubMed1975

Carbohydrate composition of horse spleen ferritin.

The carbohydrate composition of horse spleen ferritin was studied. 1 mol of the apoferritin, the protein moiety of ferritin, contains 25 mol of hexose, 3 mol of hexosamine and 10 mol of fucose. Same carbohydrate composition was detected in the apoferritin from iron rich ferritins. These results indicate that horse spleen ferritin is composed of non-identical subunits as regards its carbohydrate composition.

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PubMed1975

Immune reaction in the gastric mucosa: passive mucosal anaphylaxis and experimental ulcer.

Immune reaction in the gastric mucosa using purified antigen-antibody system was investigated. Applying the technique of PCA on the gastric mucosa of dog, interesting phenomena named "Passive Mucosal Anaphylaxis (PMA) was obtained. The reaction could be produced even by the orally administered antigen. By the direct injection of soluble immune complex into the gastric mucosa, production of experimental ulcer was observed, in which parietal cells were relatively resistent to the immune tissue damage.

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