[Reverse transcriptase from rat brain].
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As many as 23 patients with mitral stenosis were examined intraoperatively, by evaluating of intracardiac hemodynamics and right ventricle myocardial excursions. Before mitral stenosis was corrected, 56% of patients had demonstrated myocardial excursion disorders. After the correction the number of patients with myocardial dysfunction halved. The transition of patients belonging to the group with abnormal myocardial excursions to the group with normal excursions depends on the scope of surgical intervention and pharmacological support. After the correction of mitral stenosis cardiogenic and pulmonogenic complications may mostly be seen in the patients' group showing abnormal myocardial excursions. It is concluded that the symptom of abnormal right ventricle myocardial excursions is of prognostic significance with respect to the development of complications in the early postoperative period.
The article summarizes 87 cases of external fixation in patients with gunshot fractures, open or closed. This method is fast and easy in application. It is indicated for treatment of concomitant and multiple injuries. The method has best results when applied just in the first days in patients with severe concomitant traumas.
Narrow fractions of nonhistone chromosomal proteins (NHCP) eluted with 0.4-0.5 M NaCl from the phosphocellulose column stimulate expression of hetero-organic antigens of kidney origin on the membrane of intact hepatocytes cultured in suspension. These fractions of NHCP were isolated from the intact rats kidney, from cells of hepatoma 27 and Zajdela hepatoma, and from the carcinogenic liver after a single diethylnirozamine injection. The membrane hetero-organic antigens were identified by means of indirect immunofluorescence using specific immune serum.
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The mobile element jockey is similar in structural organization and coding potential to the LINEs of various organisms. It is transcribed at different stages of Drosophila ontogenesis. The Drosophila LINE family includes active transposable elements. Current models for the mechanism of transposition involve reverse transcription of an RNA intermediate and utilization of element-encoded proteins. As demonstrated here, a 2.23 kb DNA fragment from the region of jockey encoding the putative reverse transcriptase was stably introduced into an expression system under inducible control of the Escherichia coli lac regulatory elements. We describe the expression of the 92 kDa protein and identify this polypeptide alone as the authentic jockey reverse transcriptase based on some of its physical and enzymic properties. The jockey polymerase demonstrates RNA and DNA-directed DNA polymerase activities but lacks detectable RNase H, has a temperature optimum at 26 degrees C, requires Mg2+ or Mn2+ as a cofactor and is inactivated by sulphydryl reagent. The enzyme prefers poly(rC) and poly(rA) as template and 'activated' DNA is not effective.
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Monoclonal antibodies to the HNK-1 differentiated antigen of natural killer cells have been obtained. A glycoprotein of the white human brain connected with myelin was used as an antigen for immunization of mice. The monoclonal antibodies obtained are shown to reduce the cytotoxic activity of a human blood mononuclear fraction as much as by 65% in relation to the human lymphoblastoma cell culture K-562. Their interaction with the surface antigen of mononuclears was shown by immunofluorescent method. Monoclonal antibodies belong to the class of immunoglobulins M.
Three types of atrial excursions correlating with the somatic symptoms of circulatory and respiratory dysfunctions, as well as with the degree of left atrial dilatation were intraoperatively recorded in patients with mitral valvular disease. Types I and II excursions were more common in patients with left atrioventricular stenosis, Type III in those with mitral incompetence. It is concluded that it is advisable to use left atrial myocardial excursion characteristics in the diagnosis of cardiac disease.
A method of neutron-activation radiography was employed to investigate U distribution in leaves of plants (poplars, birches), growing in areas of mining ores with a high level of U which penetrates plants from the soil via the root system and appears on the surface of leaves, repeating their macrostructure. U also falls out on the surface of leaves in radioactive dust. The shapes of U manifestation permit the identification of its routes of penetration of the leaves of plants. Local U concentration even in an insignificant total excess of a radiation background can be considerable, leading to the destruction of tissues of plants as a result of alpha-radiation of U nuclei. A conclusion has been made of the danger of contamination of agricultural plants, growing in areas with ecological problems.
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A new method and a device--a stimulator ophthalmological KNSO 1-88 "Phosphene" is suggested for differential diagnosis of pathologic conditions of the retina. It is shown that by means of the proposed method, after 20-25 minutes of dark adaptation the threshold of electric sensitivity by phosphene increases differently with respect to the initial level (on the first minute of dark adaptation): in norm--by 15.2%, in optic nerve atrophy--by 14%, in pigmentary and nonpigmentary forms of retinal dystrophy--by 33.2%. Thus, investigation of the threshold of electric sensitivity by phosphene presents valuable supplementary data for differential diagnosis between optic nerve atrophy and nonpigmentary form of retinal degeneration: in optic nerve atrophy the degree of the threshold increase of absolute electric sensitivity differs, as a rule, but a little from normal values, while in pigmentary and nonpigmentary forms of retinal degeneration it is 2-3 time above norm.
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A single injection of hepatocarcinogen (4-dimethylaminoazobenzene) to rats resulted in antigenic rearrangement in rat liver, typical of hepatocellular tumors, whereas the treatment with a non-carcinogen isomere (4-diethylaminoazobenzene) did not have the same effect. It is assumed that antigenic rearrangement in hepatocytes caused by 4-dimethylaminoazobenzene might be due to its carcinogenity.
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