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T Yaginuma

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PubMed1987

[Centrifugal ultrafiltration method for determining the percent of free testosterone in serum].

Serum free testosterone (T) % in the follicular phase of 11 normal women, 11 normal men and 30 pregnant women of 5 to 39 weeks of gestation were determined by the centrifugal ultrafiltration method (CUF), which was performed at the centrifugation of 5 minutes, 1000 g and 37 degrees C, using the Amicon MPS-3 and YMT membrane. These conditions were shown to be appropriate for measuring the free T. There was a significant correlation between the percentage of free T due to the CUF and the equilibrium dialysis method (ED) (r = 0.88, p less than 0.01). Serum free T % and free T concentrations by the CUF method were, respectively, 2.89 +/- 0.09 (SE) % and 166.3 +/- 9.8 pg/ml in normal men, 1.76 +/- 0.09% and 9.4 +/- 0.7 pg/ml in non-pregnant women and 1.14 +/- 0.03%, 22.4 +/- 1.4 pg/ml in pregnant women. Serum free T % in non-pregnant women was significantly lower than in men (p less than 0.001) and higher than in pregnant women (p less than 0.001). In the CUF method the intra-assay CV was 4.9% in women, 6.0% in men and the inter-assay CV was 5.1% in women, 6.2% in men. The CUF method was more simple, rapid and accurate on the determination of the free T in serum than the ED method.

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PubMed1987

Purification and characterization of a proline-rich secretory protein that is a precursor to a structural protein of an insect spermatophore.

The spermatophore or sperm sac of Tenebrio molitor (yellow mealworm beetle) is an acellular structure composed mostly of structural proteins, termed spermatophorins. The proteins are derived from the bean-shaped accessory reproductive glands of the male and are assembled into the multilayered structure within the ejaculatory duct. Homogenates of the secretory plug from this gland were used as immunogens for the production of monoclonal antibodies, including one identified as PL 21.1 which recognizes an antigen in the gland and the spermatophore. With the aid of gel filtration and immunoaffinity chromatography with a PL 21.1, we isolated a glandular secretory protein that is a precursor to a spermatophorin with similar electrophoretic mobility. On native polyacrylamide gels, the antigen from gland homogenates has an apparent molecular mass of 370 kDa. On sodium dodecyl sulfate gels, the antigen from the gland and that from the spermatophore have apparent molecular masses of 23 kDa. According to immunoblots of sodium dodecyl sulfate gels, the 23-kDa glandular antigen is organ-specific and adult-specific. By immunocytochemistry with PL 21.1, we found the antigens to be restricted to secretory vesicles of only one cell type in the gland and to a discrete layer in the outer wall of the spermatophore. The 23-kDa secretory antigen is distinguished by being high in glutamic acid/glutamine (15.4%) and in proline (25.2%).

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PubMed1987

Evaluation of diseased coronary arterial branches by polar representations of thallium-201 rotational myocardial imaging.

The perfusion territories in polar representations of stress Tl-201 rotational myocardial imaging in patients with angina pectoris who had one diseased coronary segment were analyzed. The lesions proximal or distal to the first major septal perforator in left anterior descending arteries were detected by the presence or absence of defects at the base of the anterior septum. Right coronary artery lesions were detected by the presence of defects at the basal posterior septum, in contrast to the preservation of myocardial uptake at this portion in lesions of the left circumflex artery. The specific defect patterns were detected in cases with lesions at the first diagonal, obtuse marginal, and posterolateral branches. Recognition of these defects in the polar maps allows detailed detection of diseased coronary arterial branches.

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PubMed1987

Effects of low-caloric diet in puerperium on prolactin, TSH estradiol and milk secretion.

Ten puerperal women were put on a 1,200 kcal diet per day for 3 days followed by an ordinary 1,800 kcal diet per day for 3 days [Low-Caloric (LC) group]. Fifteen puerperal women were put on an ordinary 1,800 kcal diet per day for 6 days[Ordinary-Caloric (OC) group]. All of the women took breakfast at 7:30 am, blood was drawn at 9:30 am and then the breasts were milked for 2 minutes with an electric breast pump starting on the day of delivery (Day 0) and continuing to Day 5. Four women in the LC and OC groups underwent a thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) stimulation test on Days 1 and 3. Serum prolactin (PRL) and TSH levels in the LC group tended to be much lower than those of the OC group during the test period. Serum PRL and TSH release response to TRH in the OC group were much higher than in the LC group on Days 1 and 3. No significant difference was noted between the OC and LC groups in serum estradiol (E2) and cortisol levels from Day 0 to Day 5. The milk volume in the LC group was significantly less than in the OC group on Day 1. Analysis of milk specimen components revealed little difference between the OC and LC groups. These results suggested that a low-caloric diet may suppress PRL, TSH and milk secretion and may not be useful for breast-feeding.

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PubMed1987

[Serial changes in cardiovascular dimensions and left ventricular function after surgery of valvular heart disease: a follow-up study by echocardiography].

Serial changes in cardiac function after surgery were studied in 84 patients with various valvular heart diseases using M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiography (2-DE). The results were as follows: 1. Serial postoperative changes in cardiac dimensions and left ventricular functions were well documented by M-mode and 2-DE. 2. The change in left ventricular function became most pronounced one month after surgery, and remained unchanged in many patients during the subsequent observation periods. 3. Open mitral commissurotomy (OMC) and mitral valve replacement (MVR) were compared as to their benefits for patients with isolated mitral stenosis (MS) accompanied by left ventricular dysfunction, and MVR proved superior to OMC in terms of magnitude of functional improvement. 4. (a) Ejection fraction (EF) in patients with left ventricular volume overload was overestimated due to the influence of increased preload. Accordingly, EF which tended to be depressed one month after surgery was judged to reflect altered loading conditions; it did not represent myocardial damage caused by valve replacement. (b) In patients who had MVR or aortic valve replacement (AVR) without postoperative heart failure, EF remained unchanged in the MVR group after a lapse of one month postoperatively, while it tended to improve in the AVR group. This difference was thought to be caused by changes in left ventricular systolic overload resulting from correction of regurgitation. (c) In patients with MR and postoperative heart failure, there was a tendency for EF to decrease after a lapse of one month postoperatively.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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PubMed1986

[Evaluation of the dopaminergic neuroendocrine control of prolactin release during labor in humans].

Eight women with normal term pregnancy were i.v. administered 10 mg Metoclopramide (M), dopamine antagonist, before and during labor. Serum prolactin (PRL), TSH, GH and cortisol levels were measured at -30, 0, 30 and 60 minutes after M administration by specific radioimmunoassay. Basal serum PRL levels before labor, 287.5 +/- 28.6 ng/ml (mean +/- S.E.), significantly declined during labor to 237.0 +/- 22.4 and 216.4 +/- 22.9 ng/ml (p less than 0.05 at both) at 0 and 30 minutes before M administration, respectively. The increments in serum PRL at 30 and 60 minutes after M administration during labor (209.5 +/- 33.9 and 120.0 +/- 27.1 ng/ml, respectively) were not significantly different from those before labor (202.1 +/- 48.7 and 89.9 +/- 30.1 ng/ml, respectively), suggesting that the decline in serum PRL levels during labor is not due to the dopaminergic control. Basal serum TSH and GH levels were not significantly changed by labor and M administration either before or during labor. Serum cortisol levels tended to increase during labor, but these changes were not significant. The data suggest that the PRL releases from the pituitary during labor are not controlled by the dopaminergic mechanism.

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PubMed1986

Effect of glyceryl trinitrate on peripheral arteries alters left ventricular hydraulic load in man.

Effects of sublingual glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) were studied in ten patients without heart failure during diagnostic cardiac catheterisation following angiography. GTN caused substantial reduction in peak left ventricular and aortic pressure (19 mmHg) with lesser reduction in mean aortic pressure (9 mmHg) and no change in diastolic aortic pressure. Reduction in stroke volume (by 15%), associated with fall in left ventricular end diastolic pressure (by 4 mmHg) was insufficient to explain the marked (17 mmHg - 34%) reduction in pulse pressure. Decrease in pulse pressure was associated with loss of the late systolic peak on both the aortic and left ventricular pressure wave. This peak is caused by pulse wave reflection. GTN caused no change in peripheral resistance or in indices of aortic compliance (characteristic impedance, total arterial compliance) but was associated with reduction in fluctuations of both modulus and phase of aortic impedance. All these changes in pressure waves and in impedance spectra are explicable on the basis of decreased peripheral wave reflection. This can be attributed to the known vasodilatory effect of GTN on the peripheral arteries. Simulation of arterial vasodilatation in a multi-branched model of the systemic arterial system confirmed this interpretation. Dilatation of peripheral arteries explains in part the beneficial effects of GTN in adult man.

Adult↗
PubMed1986

Ventricular/vascular interaction in patients with mild systemic hypertension and normal peripheral resistance.

Total left ventricular external power and aortic input impedance spectra were calculated from recordings of pulsatile pressure and flow in the ascending aorta of 22 human subjects undergoing cardiac catheterization. Eleven subjects had increased aortic pressure (systolic 153 +/- 3.8[SEM] mm Hg, p less than .001; diastolic 91 +/- 2.4 mm Hg, p less than .03; mean 118 +/- 2.4 mm Hg, p less than .001) and constituted the group with mild hypertension (average age 50 +/- 1.9 years). The other 11 (age-matched) subjects had normal arterial pressures and constituted the control group. Cardiac output in the hypertensive group was abnormally high (6.9 +/- 0.3 liters/min, p less than .04) compared with that in control subjects (6.1 +/- 0.2 liters/min), so that peripheral resistance was similar. Characteristic aortic impedance (index of aortic elastance) was increased in the hypertensive group (142 +/- 19 vs 72 +/- 4.5 dyne-sec-cm-5, p less than .002), as was the fluctuation of impedance moduli and phase. These elevated pulsatile components of arterial load were associated with a significant (p less than .002) increase in pulsatile left ventricular external power (89%), and the increased cardiac output was associated with a significant (p less than .001) increase in steady flow power (31%). The ratio of pulsatile to total power was also increased (38%) in the hypertensive group (p less than .001). Increased characteristic aortic impedance in the hypertensive group suggests that the human aorta is stiffer, and fluctuations in the impedance spectra suggest increased or less dispersed wave reflections.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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PubMed1985

Effects of age on ventricular-vascular coupling.

The effects of age on the interrelation between the physical properties of the arterial tree (aortic input impedance) and left ventricular performance (cardiac output) were studied in 45 subjects, aged 19 to 62 years, without apparent cardiovascular disease. Ascending aortic pulsatile pressure and blood flow velocity were measured with a multisensor catheter and cardiac output by green dye or the Fick method. Heart rate and end-diastolic aortic pressure remained unchanged with age, whereas aortic systolic, mean and pulse pressures and aortic radius increased. In subjects younger than 30 years, early systolic pressure usually exceeded late systolic pressure (type C beat); in subjects older than 50 years, late systolic pressure usually exceeded early systolic pressure (type A beat). In 55% of subjects aged 30 to 50 years, early and late systolic pressures were essentially equal (type B beat). The impedance spectra from all subjects showed fluctuations about the characteristic impedance (index of elastance) that were greater in the older subjects. Peripheral resistance increased 37% (r = 0.47, p less than 0.001) over the age range of 20 to 60 years, whereas characteristic impedance increased 137% (r = 0.66, p less than 0.001). The fundamental impedance modulus increased, and the impedance modulus minimum shifted to a higher frequency. These changes in the impedance spectral pattern indicate that the ascending aorta becomes stiffer and the cross section of the peripheral vascular bed decreases with age, causing increased pulse wave velocity and wave reflection.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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PubMed1985

Interaction of left ventricular contraction and aortic input impedance in experimental and clinical studies.

Implication of aortic input impedance and left ventricular coupling were investigated in three series of studies. In a clinical study, the ascending aortic flow velocity and pressure were simultaneously recorded from a multisensor catheter, and input impedance was calculated from 8 harmonics of aortic pressure and flow. Left ventricular wall stress was calculated from diameters and wall thickness of cineventriculogram and simultaneous recording of left ventricular pressure. In the experimental study, programmable artificial pulsatile pump was used to control pulsatile blood flow in dogs. The pressure-flow relationship in the arterial system had slightly convex curves toward the pressure axis with a critical turning pressure, so the arterial system had low output--high resistance and high output--low resistance characteristics. Therefore, the failed heart should inevitably eject the blood against stiffened vascular beds. Increased work load of the ventricle as expressed by sustained ventricular wall stress was determined mainly by the exaggerated late systolic pressure due to increased input resistance and increased low frequency pulsatile component of the input impedance. These findings are especially important for relieving additional work load of the ischemic heart, which have higher pressure wave reflection.

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PubMed1985

[Prediction of coronary lesions by two-dimensional echocardiography in patients with healed myocardial infarction].

Regional left ventricular wall motion abnormalities were assessed by two-dimensional echocardiography (2-DE) in 66 patients with healed myocardial infarction (MI) and the results were compared with those of coronary angiography which was performed at nearly the same time as 2-DE. The left ventricular wall was divided into 14 segments and asynergy was assessed in each segment. To compare the severity of segmental asynergy with coronary artery lesions, relation between segments and coronary artery perfusion was assumed as follows: the anterior wall, anterior septum and apex corresponded to the anterior descending artery (LAD); the lateral and inferior walls corresponded to the left circumflex artery (LCX); and the posterior septum and inferior wall corresponded to the right coronary artery (RCA). One vessel disease: In all 24 patients with MI induced by LAD lesions, regional asynergy was identified in the anterior wall, anterior septum and apex. All patients had advanced asynergy (severe hypokinesis, akinesis or dyskinesis) except one with subendocardial infarction. Advanced asynergy was identified in the other segments including the lateral wall (one patient) and the posterior septum (11 patients), but such asynergy was not associated with that of the inferior wall. In four patients with MI induced by RCA lesions, regional asynergy appeared in localized segments of the posterior septum and inferior wall, and the asynergy was severe in all patients except one in whom collaterals were well-developed. In four patients with MI induced by LCX lesions, asynergy was observed in both the lateral and inferior walls. In only one patient, mild asynergy was identified in the apex. Multi-vessel disease: In both groups with double vessel (16 patients) and triple vessel (16 patients) disease, asynergy was recognized in the affected areas of the major coronary artery which was considered responsible for the infarction, irrespective of the severity of the coronary stenosis. Also, there was no significant correlation between the severity of coronary artery stenosis and segmental wall motion abnormalities in non-infarcted areas. No significant correlation was observed between the severity of regional wall motion abnormalities in the infarcted areas and the degree of development of collaterals. In patients with MI induced by LAD lesions, more extensive asynergy in the anterior wall and anterior septum at the basal portion was observed in the patient group with proximal stenosis than in the group with distal stenosis.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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