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S Konda

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Immunologic properties of mouse thymus cells. Identification of T cell functions within a minor, low-density subpopulation.

The functional attributes of minor subpopulations of mouse thymus cells derived by bovine serum albumin density gradient centrifugation, cortisone treatment, or selective depletion by anti-TL or anti-theta treatment have been examined. A subpopulation derived in each fashion contains the cells required to evoke graft-versus-host reactions in neonatal F(1) hybrid recipients and to be stimulated by alloantigens in vitro in one-way mixed lymphocyte cultures and by phytohemagglutinin. The functions of this subpopulation are abrogated by treatment with anti-H-2 plus complement and by high concentrations of anti-theta. A tentative ordering of the various thymus cell subpopulations, on the basis of these and other data, is described.

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Hypergammaglobulinemic purpura in patients with Sjögren's syndrome: a report of nine cases and a review of the Japanese literature.

Nine patients with hypergammaglobulinemic purpura associated with primary Sjögren's syndrome were presented. All patients were female (mean age 45.6) and showed recurrent purpura on the lower extremities and typical findings of Sjögren's syndrome with high gammaglobulin and IgG levels, rheumatoid factors, anti-SSA/SSB antibodies (5/5) and anti-nuclear antibodies (6/9). Vasculitis was seen in 6 patients, 4 were of the mononuclear cell type and 2 of the neutrophilic cell type. Six patients had intermediate complexes between 7S and 19S shown by serum ultracentrifugation. Immunofluorescent staining showed immunoglobulin deposition along the blood vessel walls of the skin in these patients. These data suggest that hypergammaglobulinemic purpura in Sjögren's syndrome is vasculitis caused by immunologic processes.

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Erythroleukemia and gastric cancer following thorotrast injection.

A 63-year-old male, who had undergone angiography using thorium dioxide (Thorotrast) at the age of 15 for investigation of a giant hemangioma on his left thigh, developed anemia in September 1986 (47 yrs after the angiography). A diagnosis of erythroleukemia was made from a bone marrow study which showed 56.4% megaloblastoid erythroblasts and 12.8% myeloblasts. Autopsy revealed Thorotrast deposition in the liver, spleen, bone marrow, and lymph nodes, and monotonous proliferation of myeloblasts in the bone marrow. He also had differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma of the posterior wall of the stomach.

Adenocarcinoma↗