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T Koide

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Clinical manifestations of calcium oxalate monohydrate and dihydrate urolithiasis.

We studied retrospectively 155 patients with calcium oxalate urolithiasis. The patients were divided into 3 groups: 1) those with calcium oxalate monohydrate, 2) those with calcium oxalate dihydrate and 3) those with mixed calcium oxalate monohydrate and dihydrate. Various differences were noted between patients with calcium oxalate monohydrate and those with calcium oxalate dihydrate, with respect to stone characteristics, spontaneous passage of stones, stone recurrence and multiple occurrence. Most important, we noted that patients with calcium oxalate dihydrate had more stone recurrences than patients with calcium oxalate monohydrate.

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Interaction of fibronectin and its proteolytic fragments with hyaluronic acid.

The interaction of porcine plasma fibronectin and its proteolytic fragments with hyaluronic acid was investigated by affinity chromatography using hyaluronic acid-linked Sepharose 4B. Hyaluronic acid was found to interact with all major fragments including the gelatin-binding polypeptide which has no affinity for heparin. A difference between hyaluronic acid and heparin was also noted in the relative interaction with two larger fragments. This type of multiple interaction may account for the affinity for hyaluronic acid strong enough to prevent the elution of fibronectin from the hyaluronate-column with a buffer containing 2 M NaCl.

Amino Acids↗

Chicken antithrombin. Isolation, characterization, and comparison with mammalian antithrombins and chicken ovalbumin.

Chicken antithrombin was purified from fresh chicken plasma by affinity chromatography using heparin-agarose, and its amino acid and carbohydrate compositions, amino-terminal sequence, inhibition of human thrombin, and immunological properties were studied and compared with previously studied mammalian antithrombins (human, pig, rabbit, and rat), and also with chick ovalbumin. Chicken antithrombin is a single-chain glycoprotein with a total carbohydrate content of 17.5%, including 6.0% N-acetylglucosamine, 8.7% hexose, and 2.8% N-acetylneuraminic acid. The molecular weight estimated from sodium dodecyl sulfate(SDS)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was 60,000. The amino-terminal sequence has been determined as Ala-Pro-Tyr-Ala-Val-Glu-Asp-Ile-Cys-Thr-Ala-Lys-Pro-Thr-Asp-Ile-Pro-Val-Asn, which is highly homologous to the terminal sequences of mammalian antithrombins, although the first 4 residues are quite different from those of mammalian species. Chicken antithrombin showed a stoichiometric inhibition against thrombin. The apparent dissociation constant (K1) for the complex was 6.4 X 10(-8) M. No immunological cross-reactivity was observed between chicken and mammalian antithrombins. Ovalbumin, which Hunt and Dayhoff (Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 95, 864-871, 1980) proposed should be grouped in the same superfamily as antithrombin, showed neither immunological cross-reactivity with antithrombin or with its carboxymethylated derivative, nor any effect on the thrombin-antithrombin interaction. Ovalbumin showed no inhibitory effect on porcine elastase, either.

Amidohydrolases↗

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy without asymmetric hypertrophy.

A 49-year-old women with congestive heart failure and heart block died of cerebral embolism. Clinical and echocardiographic findings suggested a diagnosis of atypical dilated cardiomyopathy with predominantly right ventricular involvement. At necropsy, all the cardiac chambers were slightly dilated and the interventricular septum and the left ventricular wall were of normal thickness and symmetry. Histological examination, however, disclosed extensive disarray of abnormal myocardial tissue, especially in the interventricular septum. Her father had similar clinical and echocardiographic findings, while one of her brothers had typical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at necropsy. It is likely that the patient actually had inherited hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The case illustrates the difficulty in diagnosing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy when based solely on the left ventricular gross anatomy.

Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic↗

Possible mechanisms of 15-hydroperoxyarachidonic acid-induced contraction of the canine basilar artery in vitro.

Pharmacological studies of the contraction induced by 15-hydroperoxyarachidonic acid (15-HPAA) were done in the isolated canine basilar artery. The maximal contractile force produced by 15-HPAA was 1.5 times that of serotonin and was equivalent to that of prostaglandin (PG) F2 alpha or PGA1. At concentrations in which reductions of [14C]-6-keto-PGF1 alpha (the breakdown product of PGI2) occurred, both 15-HPAA and tranylcypromine contracted the artery, whereas indomethacin consistently relaxed it. In the case of indomethacin, as the drug inhibited the synthesis of [14C]-PGE2, F2 alpha and thromboxane(TX) B2 (the breakdown product of TXA2) as well, it has been considered that the balances between PGI2 and other vasoconstrictive PGs or TX may regulate the tone of the artery. Furthermore, it was shown that 15-HPAA enhanced the synthesis of lipoxygenase products from [14C]arachidonic acid. Experiments were done, therefore, to know whether these enhanced lipoxygenase products participated in the manifestation of contraction induced by 15-HPAA or not. As a result, although indomethacin did not affect the contraction, significant reductions of the contraction were shown by eicosatetraynoic acid. These results suggest that enhanced synthesis of lipoxygenase products may be involved in eliciting contractile responses of 15-HPAA.

Animals↗

Arylsulfatases of human-lung tumors transplanted into athymic mice. Cancer-associated modification of arylsulfatase B variant.

The activities and properties of arylsulfatase A and B from human lung carcinoma transplanted into athymic mice were demonstrated. The activities of arylsulfatase A and B from transplanted carcinomas with four histological types were more than twofold higher as compared to those from surgical tumors, except for arylsulfatase A activity in blastoma. Arylsulfatase B in transplanted tumors was almost completely replaced, except for blastoma, by an anionic B variant (B1) which was a minor component of arylsulfatase B in surgical lung tumor and absent in normal human lung. The properties of arylsulfatases A and B from transplanted tumors were essentially identical, respectively, with those from normal lung or surgical tumors in respect of molecular weight, heat stability, pH optimum, isoelectric point (pI), Km, time course profile and substrate specificity. Arylsulfatase B1 showed the properties similar to B enzyme except for net charge. The cause of the negative charge of tumor B1 enzyme was investigated. By the action of phosphatase, which was added exogenously or had been persistently included in the partially purified enzyme preparation, B1 enzyme (pI 7.5) shifted to about pI 8.2. Treatment of B1 enzyme with neuraminidase, concomitant with the endogenous phosphatase, resulted in marked increase (pI 9.5) of the isoelectric point, identical to that of arylsulfatase B. Thus, it is most probable that tumor B1 enzyme is modified by additional sialic acid and phosphate bound to arylsulfate B.

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