Biomedical subjects

S Sakaki

Publications and source records attributed to S Sakaki.

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PubMed1975

Circulatory and metabolic effects of glycerol infusion in patients with recent cerebral infarction.

The effect of intravenous infusion of 10 per cent glycerol on regional cerebral blood flow (using hydrogen bolus and Xenon-133 (133Xe) clearance methods) and metabolism was investigated in 57 patients with recent cerebral infarction. Hemispheric blood flow (HBF) increased, together with increase in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) and cerebral blood volume (rCBV), in foci of brain ischemia. Hemispheric oxygen consumption (HMIO2) decreased together with hemispheric respiratory quotient. Systemic blood levels of glucose, lactate, pyruvate, and triglycerides also increased after glycerol while free fatty acids (FFA) and inorganic phosphate (Pi) decreased. Hemispheric glucose consumption was unaltered after glycerol so that hemispheric glucose to oxygen ratio tended to rise. Pyruvate and lactate production by brain was unchanged. Glycerol moved across the blood brain barrier into brain and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Release of FFA and Pi from infarcted brain was reversed by glycerol. Total phosphate balance was maintained actoss brain both before and after glycerol infusion. Triglycerides increased in CSF after glycerol, originating either from cerebral blood or as a result of lipogenesis in cerebral tissue. The EEG Recording and neurological status of the patients improved despite decreased brain oxygen consumption. Results of this study suggest that after intravenous infusion of 10 per cent glycerol in patients with recent cerebral infarction, glycerol rapidly enters the CSF and brain compartments and favorably affects the stroke process in two ways: first, by redistribution of cerebral blood flow with increase in rCBF and rCBV in ischemic brain secondary to reduction in focal cerebral edema; and second glycerol may become an alternative source of energy either by being directly metabolized by the brain, or indirectly, by enhancing lipogenesis, or by both processes. Involvement of glycerol in lipogenesis with esterification to accumulated FFA might lead to improved coupling of oxidative phosphorylation, a hypothesis that fits the finding of improved neuronal function despite further decrease in cerebral hemispheric oxygen consumption.

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PubMed1975

[A clinico-pathological study on subarachnoid hemorrhage in autopsied cases: the significance of iron containing granule cells seen in autopsied brain with subarachnoid hemorrhage (author's transl)].

Cerebral infarction and petechial hemorrhage are seen in autopsied brains with subarachnoid hemorrhage as most important findings. However, the pathogenesis for the development of these lesions are still obscure. We have been doing clinico-pathological study on the cerebral petechial hemorrhages following subarachnoid hemorrhage. In this report, the findings of these hemorrhagic lesions were presented in detail by means of Perls-Stieda's iron staining. The results are as follows. Cerebral petechial hemorrhages were seen in 3 out of 13 autopsied cases with subarachnoid hemorrhage and almost all hemarrhagic lesions were perivascular. These hemorrhagic lesions were dominantly seen in the regions, thalamus, hypothalamus, midbrain which were close to the accumulated blood clot in the basal cistern, and in the cerebral cortex beneath the accumulated blood clot. Iron containing granular cells were seen not only in the brain surrounding the petechial hemorrhages but also around the vessels which did not show any hemorrhages. On the other hand, it is well known that it needs more than 7 days after hemorrhage in tissue to demonstrate iron containing granular cells by Perls-Stieda' iron staining. So, it might be estimated that the patients survived more than 7 days after the occurance of intracerebral hemorrhages when iron containing granular cells were demonstrated in the autopsied brains. It could be presumed in this study that the petechial hemorrhages following subarachnoid hemorrhage occurred at an early stage of their clinical courses.

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PubMed1975

[An autopsy case of pinealoma treated by irradiation about four years ago (author's transl)].

The patient was a thirty years old male, who was diagnosed as having pineal body tumors in June,1969, and treated by irradiation after a ventriculo-atrial shunt operation. He recovered well, and participated in some simple work. In May 1972, he suddenly had convulsions followed by incontinence, and he became nearly apallic. Neuroradiological examinations revealed the presence of left frontal tumor, which was removed, on June 22, 1972. Histological examinations of the tumor proved to be pinealoma of two-cell pattern. Though improved slightly after operation, he became apallic again, developed pneumonia, and died on February 22, 1973.

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PubMed1974