Search PubMed⌕ Search

Biomedical subjects

M Nagasaka

Publications and source records attributed to M Nagasaka.

At least 73 records · Page 4Linked to original sources
PubMed1985

Effects of antidepressant drugs on a quickly-learned conditioned-suppression response in mice.

Mice experienced to electric shock, exhibited a marked suppression of motor activity when placed in the same cage 24 hr after administration of shocks. Acute administration of imipramine-HCl (10 mg/kg, i.p.), desipramine-HCl (5 and 10 mg/kg, i.p.) and amitriptyline-HCl (5 and 10 mg/kg, i.p.) caused marked reduction of the conditioned suppression of shocked mice, but reduced the motor activity of the non-shocked mice. Maprotiline, mianserin and dimetacrine did not cause reduction of the conditioned suppression. Nialamide (100 mg/kg, i.p.) and pargyline-HCl (100 and 200 mg/kg, i.p.) caused marked reduction of the conditioned suppression but did not increase the motor activity of the non-shocked mice, and tranylcypromine-HCl (10 and 20 mg/kg, i.p.) did not cause reduction of the conditioned suppression. Diphenhydramine-HCl (10 and 20 mg/kg, i.p.) reduced the conditioned suppression of shocked mice in a dose-related manner. Chronic administration of imipramine-HCl (1 and 5 mg/kg, i.p.) for 14 days significantly reduced the conditioned suppression but did not influence the motility rate of the non-shocked mice. Also, chronic administration of amitriptyline (1 mg/kg, i.p.), desipramine (5 mg/kg, i.p.) and dimetacrine (10 mg/kg, i.p.), for 10 days, significantly reduced the conditioned suppression, but did not influence the motility rate of the non-shocked mice. Chronic administration of maprotiline reduced the conditioned suppression. On the other hand, chronic administration of mianserin (5 mg/kg, i.p.) and diphenhydramine (10 mg/kg, i.p.) did not cause a reduction of the conditioned suppression.

Acridines↗
PubMed1985

Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in children: Tokai experience 1982 to 1984.

Ten children between the ages of five and fifteen years old with leukemia (two with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia in first remission, four with acute lymphocytic leukemia in first or second remission, one with acute lymphocytic leukemia in relapse, and one with chronic myelocytic leukemia in chronic phase), malignant lymphoma (one) or severe aplastic anemia (one) were given transplants from HLA-matched or mismatched family members between March, 1982 and April, 1984. Two patients died of leukemia relapses on days 107 and 257 following transplantation. One patient died of cardiac failure on day 157. One patient who received HLA-mismatched marrow from his father died of pulmonary edema and acute graft versus host disease on day 32. Six are alive 268-843 days post transplantation. None of the ten patients developed interstitial pneumonia due to cytomegalovirus which is one of the major causes of death reported in other published studies.

Acute Disease↗
PubMed1984

A mode of action of morphine on a quickly learned conditioned suppression in mice.

Mice exhibited marked suppression of motor activity when placed in the same environment where they had previously received electric shocks. Morphine-HCl (20 mg/kg) markedly attenuated such a conditioned suppression in mice. The morphine-induced reduction of the conditioned suppression was antagonized by pretreatment with reserpine (0.1 and 0.5 mg/kg), haloperiodol, pimozide and alpha-methyl-p-tyrosine, but not atropine-sulfate, p-chlorophenylalanine, phenoxybenzamine-HCl or propranolol. Thus, it is possible that the potentiation of the dopaminergic neurotransmission in the brain is involved in the morphine-induced reduction of the conditioned suppression in mice.

Animals↗
PubMed1984

Improved assay for alcohol dehydrogenase activity in serum by centrifugal analysis.

We describe an improved method for determination of alcohol dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.1) activity in 60 microL of human serum, based on conversion of ethanol to acetaldehyde with simultaneous reduction of NAD+ in glycine NaOH buffer (pH 9.0) at 37 degrees C in a centrifugal analyzer. The final concentration of NAD+ was 10 mmol/L and ethanol was 20 mmol/L. The dilution curve was linear with enzyme activity up to 200 U/L, and results by this method correlated well with those by a manual method (N Engl J Med 279: 241-248, 1968). Within-run precision (CV) was 0.9 to 8.2% over the range of 4.5 to 88.1 U/L, and day-to-day precision was 5.4 to 5.6%. In sera from 198 healthy individuals, mean alcohol dehydrogenase activity was 1.6 (SD 1.2, range 0-5) U/L. To evaluate the clinical utility of determining alcohol dehydrogenase, we measured the activity of alanine aminotransferase and alcohol dehydrogenase in sera from 470 patients with various diseases in our hospital, and found that results for the two enzymes did not correlate well.

Adult↗
PubMed1983

Effect of naloxone on a quickly learned conditioned suppression in rats following cessation of chronic haloperidol treatment.

Rats showed marked suppression of motor activity when placed in the cage where they were previously shocked. When 14 days of consecutive administration of haloperidol was terminated, the conditioned suppression was significantly reduced. Such an effect of chronic haloperidol treatment was antagonized by pretreatment with naloxone. Thus, it is possible that the opiate-like system is involved in a part of the reduction of conditioned suppression.

Animals↗
PubMed1983

Serological cross-reactivity of murine A.TH anti-A.TL antibody (anti-l-Ek antibody) with La-like molecules of human antigen-presenting cells.

The purified protein derivative (PPD)-specific proliferative responses of T cells from human peripheral blood are shown to be dependent on antigen-presenting cells (APC) which bear HLA-DR antigen detected by the monoclonal anti-HLA-DR antibody. The serological cross-reactivity of murine A.TH anti-A.TL antibody was observed in human APC. By absorption experiments using H-2 congenic mice, the serological cross-reactivity of A.TH anti-A.TL antibody with human APC is mapped in the I-E subregion. Thus, anti-I-Ek antibody reacts with the Ia-like molecule(s) on human APC. Murine allo-anti-I-Ek antibody does not always react with determinants of Ia-like molecule(s) on human APC, since this antibody did not eliminate PPD-specific proliferative responses in one particular case. Thus, anti-I-Ek antibody seems to react some type of the polymorphic determinants but not of the shared determinants of human Ia-like molecule(s) on APC. The relationship between the cross-reactive molecule detected by murine allo-anti-I-Ek antibody and the HLA-DR antigen remains to be analyzed.

Animals↗
PubMed1983

Effects of apomorphine and methamphetamine on a quickly-learned conditioned-suppression response in rats.

Rats exhibited a marked suppression of motor activity when placed in the same chamber where they had been given electric shocks. Administration of apomorphine-HCl (0.1, 0.5 and 1.0 mg/kg, i.p.) attenuated the conditioned suppression, dose-dependently, but did not facilitate motor activity of control (i.e. non-shocked) rats. Methamphetamine-HCl (0.1, 0.5 and 1 mg/kg, i.p.) increased motor activity of both the shocked and non-shocked rats, in a dose-related manner. Haloperidol (0.3 and 1 mg/kg, i.p.), but not chlorpromazine-HCl (5 mg/kg, i.p.), enhanced the conditioned-suppression response. Atropine-sulfate (5 and 10 mg/kg, i.p.), p-chlorophenylalanine (300 mg/kg, i.p.) and alpha-methyl-p-tyrosine (100 mg/kg, i.p.) were slightly effective in reducing the conditioned-suppression response. Apomorphine- and methamphetamine-induced reduction of the conditioned-suppression response was inhibited by pretreatment with haloperidol. When catecholamine-synthesizing processes in rats were inhibited by pretreatment with alpha-methyl-p-tyrosine, or alpha-adrenergic receptor sites were blocked by pretreatment with phenoxybenzamine, the effect of methamphetamine, but not that of apomorphine, was reduced. Therefore, enhancement of dopaminergic neurotransmission may be responsible for attenuation of the conditioned-suppression response.

Animals↗
PubMed1983

Effects of diazepam, meprobamate, chlorpromazine and apomorphine on a quickly learned conditioned suppression in mice.

Mice exhibited a marked suppression of motor activity when placed into the same environment in which they had previously received electric foot shocks. Apomorphine-HCl (0.1 - 10 mg/kg) produced a dose-dependent reduction of the conditioned suppression of activity, but did not increase activity in non-shocked mice. Diazepam (0.2, 1, and 5 mg/kg), meprobamate (25 and 50 mg/kg), and chlorpromazine-HCl (2 and 5 mg/kg) did not reduce conditioned suppression. Thus, the conditioned suppression caused by a quick conditioning technique does not produce similar results to those using the conditioned emotional response involving suppression of operant lever-pressing behavior.

Animals↗
PubMed1983

Four cases of t(4;11) acute leukemia and its myelomonocytic nature in infants.

Four cases of acute infantile leukemia with translocation (4;11) (q21;q23) are reported. Although leukemia with this chromosomal abnormality has been classified as L2 acute lymphoblastic leukemia by the FAB classification, two of our cases appeared to be of myelomonocyte origin as demonstrated by cytochemical, immunologic, and electron microscopic studies and differentiation induction by 12-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate and methylformamide. This chromosomal change is associated with poor prognosis.

Female↗
PubMed1982

Establishment and cytological characteristics of two in vitro T-cell lines derived from a child with acute lymphatic leukemia and a man with adult T-cell leukemia in Japan.

Two permanent T-cell leukemia lines designated KH-1 and KH-2 were established from the peripheral blood of a 9-year-old boy with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and a 47-year-old man with adult T-cell leukemia (ATL). No T-cell growth factor was used. KH-1 cells grew as single cells and KH-2 cells formed clusters in suspension culture. Erosette formation, the absence of immunoglobulin determinants and Epstein-Barr-virus-associated nuclear antigen, and the presence of T-cell antigens revealed by monoclonal antibodies were characteristics of these cell lines as in other established T-cell leukemia lines. Chromosome analysis at the beginning revealed mosaic presence of cells with 46, XY, t(8q+; 15q-) and 46, XY which was later completely replaced by the latter karyotype in KH-1, and abnormal karyotype, 47, XY, +3, t (8q-; 10p+) was maintained throughout the period of in vitro passage in KH-2. The donor patient of KH-2 formerly lived in the south-western part of Japan where ATL is considered endemic and numerous type-C virus particles were detected electron microscopically, in KH-2 cell pellets.

Cell Line↗
PubMed1982

The effects of analgesics on quickly-learned conditioned suppression in mice.

Mice were found to exhibit a marked suppression of motor activity when placed into the same experimental chamber in which they had previously received electrical shocks. This suppression was found to be a stable response when mice, 6-8 weeks of age, received shocks of frequencies of 1/10 or 1/30 Hz, and their motility was examined 24 hr after the delivery of the shock in the same experimental chamber. Control experiments indicated that the mice exhibited similar degrees of locomotor activity, compared to non-shocked mice, that were placed into a different experimental chamber than from the one in which they had previously received electrical shocks. Thus, the suppression of motor activity appeared to be a conditioned emotional response to the environment previously associated with delivery of shock. Morphine, codeine, and pethidine, but not pentazocine and aminopyrine, attenuated the conditioned suppression in a dose-related manner in the shocked mice. The effect of morphine was completely antagonized by pretreatment with naloxone or levallorphan. Thus, it is possible that the opiate-induced reduction of conditioned suppression is mediated by opiate receptor sites.

Aging↗
PubMed1982

Effects of apomorphine and diazepam on a quickly learned conditioned suppression in rats.

Electric shock experienced rats exhibited a marked suppression of motor activity when placed in the same environment in which the animal received shocks. At 24 hr after electrical shocks, the shock frequencies of 1/10 Hz to 1/180 Hz equally produced a marked suppression of motility. However, electric shock experienced rats exhibited a similar degree of locomotor activity that was seen with the non-shocked rats, when the motility of the animals was measured by using Animex system at 24 hr after electrical shocks. Therefore, this suppression of motility was found to be a consistent response and to be a conditioned response to the environment. Diazepam (1.2.5 or 5 mg/kg, IP) did not show any effect on the conditioned suppression. Apomorphine-HCl (0.1, 0.5 or 1 mg/kg, IP) caused attenuation of the conditioned suppression in relation to dose, but did not increase motor activity of the non-shocked rats. Thus, conditioned suppression caused by a quick conditioning technique may not be associated with anxiety.

Animals↗