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M Schultz

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PubMed1981

Endocrine parameters and alpha-tocopherol therapy of patients with mammary dysplasia.

Patients with mammary dysplasia (17 patients) and controls (6 patients) were treated in a double-blind study with alpha-tocopherol acetate (600 units/day). Determination of serum alpha-tocopherol, estradiol, estriol., and progesterone were made from blood samples collected on Day 21 of the menstrual cycle before and during therapy. Eight-eight % of patients showed clinical response to therapy. Serum alpha-tocopherol concentrations rose after therapy in patients and controls. Serum estradiol and progesterone concentration were not statistically different in patients or controls after therapy, although patients showed a trend toward increased serum progesterone concentration. However, the ratio of progesterone to estradiol, which is abnormal in mammary dysplasia patients, rose from 30 +/- 7 (S.E.) to 53 +/- 11 in patients after alpha-tocopherol therapy (p less than 0.05). Control patients showed no significant change in progesterone/estradiol ratio. Results of this study indicate that alpha-tocopherol therapy may correct an abnormal progesterone/estradiol ratio in patients with mammary dysplasia, with implications on reducing future risk for malignant breast disease.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1980

Acquisition of susceptibility to coxsackievirus A2 by the rat L8 cell line during myogenic differentiation.

Coxsackievirus A2 was propagated to high titres in the established rat L8 myogenic cell line during the stage of differentiation characterized by fusion of myoblasts into multinucleated myotubes (192 h post-plating cultures). In contrast, pre-fusion mononucleated L8 cultured infected 24 h after plating were refractory to Coxsackievirus A2 infection, as was a non-fusing clonal variant of the L8 line (L8CL3-U) regardless of the age of the latter cultures. The development of virus susceptibility in the older L8 cultures correlated with a marked virus-specific c.p.e. as evidenced by vacuolated degenerating myotubes with disrupted cytoplasm, whereas no c.p.e. was seen following infection of the young L8 or variant L8CL3-U cultures. The restriction of Coxsackievirus A2 replication in young L8 and L8CL3-U cultures occurred after virus attachment.

Animals↗
PubMed1980

Hydrodynamic and quasi-elastic light scattering studies on the 12S globulin from rapeseed.

The 12S globulin, one of the major storage proteins of rapeseeds, has the following physico-chemical constants, as determined by ultracentrifugation, quasi-elastic light scattering measurements and gel chromatography: sedimentation coefficient S20(0), w = 12.7 x 10(-13) s; diffusion coefficient (quasi-elastic light scattering) D20(0), w = 3.8 x 10(-7) cm2 S-1; Stokes radius (by quasi-elastic light scattering) Rs = 5.7 nm and (by gel chromatography) Rs = 5.5 nm; partial specific volume (calculated from the amino acid composition) v(-) = 0.729 ml g-1; molecular weight Ms, D = 300,000 daltons, Ms, Rs = 294,000 daltons (Rs from the gel chromatography); frictional ratio f/fo = 1.28.

Brassica↗
PubMed1979

[Acute and chronic middle ear pathology in mediaeval man (author's transl)].

The variety, extent and consequences of middle ear cleft disease in ancient times is reviewed. The findings of macroscopic radiological and scanning electron microscopic examination of skeletal material from two south German Merovingian populations and two pre-Columbian population groups from the south west of North America are presented. The possibility of false diagnosis was considered. Cases previously described are reviewed, summarized and compared. In both the Frankish-Alemannian populations diseases of the middle ear cleft significantly occur more frequently within the lower social groups. From this it is possible to deduce that external factors were paramount in the pathogenesis of these diseases in early cultures, whereas in the present mid-European populations constitutional factors predominate. In contrast to recent claims (Cockburn, 1977) that diseases of the middle ear were rare amongst inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of Europeans, earlier literature and the observations presented in this article show that these diseases were not so uncommon. Cases found in ancient Peru show no evidence of surgical treatment, although the standards of surgery, which at that time included trephination, could have made this feasible.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

The effect of three days of blood glucose normalization by means of an "artificial endocrine pancreas" on the concentrations of growth hormone, glucagon, and cortisol in juvenile diabetics.

Glucagon, growth hormone, and cortisol secretion was studied in seven male insulin-dependent diabetics under conventional subcutaneous insulin therapy and after three days of blood glucose normalization attained by the artificial endocrine pancreas (Biostator-GCIIS). The diurnal hormonal profiles under the two types of therapy were compared. Six healthy male students served as control group. A three-day period of blood glucose normalization in insulin-dependent diabetic can restore glucagon secretion to normal. Growth hormone secretion is decreased but not completely normalised. Cortisol secretion is slightly decreased. It is concluded that prolonged normoglycemia achieved by means of an artificial endocrine pancreas may completely control endocrine abnormalities in insulin-dependent diabetics.

Adult↗
PubMed1978

[An osseus tumor in the skull of a precolumbian indian from Peru (author's transl)].

A walnut-sized, stalked, osseus tumor in the region of the protuberantia occipitalis externa of the skull of a precolumbian indian from Peru is described. Radiological and histological examinations grouped this neoplasm with the fibro-osseus tumors. Cytologically, it is one of the rarely seen nearly compact forms of the large, mostly spongy osteomas of the skull roof.

Diagnosis, Differential↗
PubMed1978

[Malformations of odontogenic tissue in prehistoric human bone material. A contribution to the differential diagnosis of odontomas].

Three cases of hard tissue formations of odontogenic origin are presented. The objects were discovered among skeletal finds in prehistoric settlements. The morphology of these objects is described with macroscopical, histological, and radiological methods. All three cases are odontomas. The differential-diagnostic possibilities of these formations, their development and the frequency of their occurrence are discussed. Odontomas are not interpreted as tumors, but rather as malformations and are contrasted to blastomas of odontogenic tissues (e.g. ameloblastoma).

Adult↗