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V Gross

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[Sonography in acute pancreatitis--diagnosis, assessment of etiology and evaluating prognosis].

Fifty consecutive patients suffering from acute pancreatitis were studied prospectively with regard to the role of ultrasound (US) in diagnosis, in detection of a biliary origin, and in initial assessment of prognosis. In six patients the pancreas could not be visualised, whereas in 19 only partial examination was possible. In 34% no diagnostic abnormalities were found. US was superior to computed tomography (CT) in respect to the detection of small amounts of ascites, but less suitable than CT for the detection of necrosis. Compared to endoscopic retrograde cholangiography US was of little help in detecting bile duct stones. Neither a lethal outcome nor a severe course could be predicted with sufficient accuracy. The positive predictive value for the presence of necrosis was 33% and the negative predictive value 67%. The data demonstrate a limited role of US in diagnosis and staging in acute pancreatitis.

Acute Disease↗

[Increased natriuresis in narcotized and waking rats with spontaneous hypertension].

The influence of acute volume-salt loading on renal excretory function and hemodynamics was studied in urethane-anesthetized and conscious immobilized, spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats on osmotic diuresis. The SHR have been shown to response to the intravenous sodium chloride load with exaggerated natriuresis as compared with the WKY group. The increase in natriuresis in the SHR did not depend on diuresis changes but was due to the increased urinary sodium concentration. Blood pressure changes after sodium chloride load were greater in the WKY than in the SHR group, which may be associated with restricted responsiveness of the cardiovascular system in the SHR.

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Plasma clearance, organ distribution and target cells of interleukin-6/hepatocyte-stimulating factor in the rat.

The plasma half-life of recombinant human interleukin-6 (rhIL-6) was determined in rats by measuring the disappearance of the biological activity as well as of the radioactivity of 125I-rhIL-6 from the circulation. The kinetics of clearance were biphasic. It consisted of a rapid initial disappearance corresponding to a half-life of 3 min, and of a second slow one corresponding to a half-life of about 55 min. By cellulose-acetate electrophoresis it was shown that rhIL-6 binds to a plasma protein resulting in a complex migrating in the beta-gamma region; 20 min after intravenous injection, about 80% of the 125I-rhIL-6 that had disappeared from the circulation was found in the liver. 125I-rhIL-6 was exclusively localized on the surface of parenchymal cells suggesting the existence of an interleukin-6 receptor on the hepatocytes.

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Involvement of various organs in the initial plasma clearance of differently glycosylated rat liver secretory proteins.

The initial plasma clearance and organ distribution of alpha 1-acid glycoprotein and alpha 2-macroglobulin carrying different types of oligosaccharide, side chains was studied in rats. The differently glycosylated proteins were synthesized by rat hepatocytes in culture in the presence of tunicamycin (unglycosylated form), swainsonine (hybrid type), or 1-deoxymannojirimycin (high-mannose type). Deglycosylated glycoproteins (Asn-GlcNAc) were obtained by endoglucosaminidase H treatment of high-mannose-type glycoproteins. Ten minutes after intravenous injection 3% of complex type, 26% of hybrid type, 84% of high-mannose type. 64% of unglycosylated and 80% of deglycosylated alpha 1-acid glycoprotein disappeared from the plasma. The respective values for alpha 2-macroglobulin were 26%, 42%, 59% and 67%. When the clearance of total hepatic secretory proteins was examined, major differences between glycosylated and unglycosylated (glyco)proteins were found, particularly in the case of low-molecular-mass polypeptides. Whereas complex-type alpha 1-acid glycoprotein and alpha 2-macroglobulin showed no accumulation in various organs, hybrid-type alpha 1-acid glycoprotein and alpha 2-macroglobulin were present in spleen and liver. High-mannose-type alpha 1-acid glycoprotein and alpha 2-macroglobulin also accumulated mainly in spleen and liver. Spleen had the highest specific activity; liver, due to its larger organ mass, represented the major organ for the uptake of high-mannose-type glycoproteins. Competition experiments with mannan and GlcNAc-bovine-serum-albumin showed a mannose/GlcNAc receptor-mediated removal. Whereas unglycosylated alpha 1-acid glycoprotein was taken up by the kidney, unglycosylated alpha 2-macroglobulin was found in the spleen. Deglycosylated glycoproteins (Asn-GlcNAc) were removed from the plasma via two different mechanisms: firstly, clearance by the kidney similar to the unglycosylated glycoproteins; secondly, clearance by a mannose/GlcNAc receptor-mediated uptake mainly into the spleen. We conclude that N-linked oligosaccharide side chains are important for the plasma survival of hepatic secretory glycoproteins and that unphysiologically glycosylated forms are cleared by different mechanisms.

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The role of N-glycosylation for the plasma clearance of rat liver secretory glycoproteins.

The clearance of total rat liver secretory glycoproteins and of alpha 1-acid glycoprotein carrying no or different types of oligosaccharide side chains was studied in vivo and in the isolated perfused rat liver. In order to obtain unglycosylated or differently glycosylated forms of secreted glycoproteins, rat hepatocyte primary cultures were incubated with various inhibitors of N-glycosylation. Tunicamycin was used for the synthesis of unglycosylated (glyco)proteins, the mannosidase I inhibitor 1-deoxymannojirimycin for the synthesis of high-mannose type and the mannosidase II inhibitor swainsonine for the synthesis of hybrid-type glycoproteins. Glycoproteins carrying carbohydrate side chains of the complex type were synthesized by control hepatocytes. In vivo and in the perfused rat liver, high-mannose-type glycoproteins were cleared at the highest rate, followed by unglycosylated and hybrid-type glycoproteins. The lowest clearance rate was found for the glycoproteins with carbohydrate side chains of the complex type. For the highly glycosylated alpha 1-acid glycoprotein the differences in clearance rates were more pronounced. The following plasma half-lives were determined in vivo: complex type, 100 min; hybrid type, 15 min; unglycosylated form, 5 min; and high-mannose type less than 1 min. In the recirculating perfused liver 28% of complex-type alpha 1-acid glycoprotein, 40% of hybrid type, 47% of unglycosylated and 93% of high-mannose-type alpha 1-acid glycoprotein were removed from the perfusate within 2 h. It is concluded that N-glycosylation and processing to complex-type oligosaccharides seems to be of great importance for the circulatory life time of plasma glycoproteins.

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Erythrocyte sodium metabolism and renal sodium excretion in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and related normotensive rats (WKY).

SHR being in osmotic diuresis responded to an intravenous saline load with greater sodium excretion than WKY. Volume expansion and sodium loading did not affect the erythrocyte sodium content. Both in the non-infused and in the infused sodium-loaded state SHR had a greater Na-Li-exchange rate than WKY. In the SHR the net-22Na-gain(Ery) was not influenced by the sodium loading procedure. In WKY infusion and sodium loading induced a faster erythrocyte 22Na-uptake and a lower ouabain effect on the net-22Na-gain. The sodium metabolism differences in SHR and WKY could be due to cell membrane differences or different hormonal responses to volume and sodium loading and may be important for the sodium excretion pattern in SHR and WKY.

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Clearance of acute-phase plasma proteins with no, high-mannose-, hybrid-, or complex type oligosaccharide side chains by the isolated perfused rat liver.

The clearance of the rat acute-phase proteins alpha 2-macroglobulin, alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor and alpha 1-acid glycoprotein with no, high-mannose, hybrid or complex type oligosaccharide side chains was determined in the isolated perfused rat liver. The differently glycosylated forms of the three proteins were obtained from rat hepatocyte primary cultures treated with different inhibitors of glycosylation. The complex type forms of the three proteins were essentially not cleared by the liver during 2 h of perfusion. Unglycosylated alpha 2-macroglobulin and alpha 1-acid glycoprotein decreased in the perfusate by about 50% after 2 h; unglycosylated alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor was not taken up by the liver. The high-mannose type forms of the three proteins were nearly totally cleared. After 2 h of perfusion 10%, 45% and 30% of the hybrid type forms of alpha 2-macroglobulin, alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor and alpha 1-acid glycoprotein, respectively, were cleared. The clearance rates of high-mannose and of hybrid type glycoproteins could be reduced to the rates of complex type glycoproteins by the addition of mannan to the perfusate. It is concluded that complex type glycosylation prevents the uptake of plasma glycoproteins by the liver.

1-Deoxynojirimycin↗

Different effects of the glucosidase inhibitors 1-deoxynojirimycin, N-methyl-1-deoxynojirimycin and castanospermine on the glycosylation of rat alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor and alpha 1-acid glycoprotein.

The glucosidase inhibitors 1-deoxynojirimycin, N-methyl-1-deoxynojirimycin and castanospermine were used to inhibit oligosaccharide processing in primary cultures of rat hepatocytes. Their effect on the glycosylation of alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor (alpha 1PI) and alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (alpha 1AGP) was studied. Of the three glucosidase inhibitors examined, 1-deoxynojirimycin inhibited not only oligosaccharide trimming but also glycosylation de novo of newly synthesized proteins, resulting in the formation of alpha 1PI with two and three (normally carrying three) and alpha 1AGP with two to five (normally carrying six) oligosaccharide side chains. In the presence of the glucosidase inhibitors, glucosylated high-mannose-type oligosaccharides accumulated. Whereas most of the endoglucosaminidase-H-sensitive oligosaccharides formed in the presence of 1-deoxynojirimycin contained only one glucose residue, N-methyl-1-deoxynojirimycin and castanospermine led mainly to the formation of oligosaccharides with three glucose residues. None of the three glucosidase inhibitors completely prevented the formation of complex-type oligosaccharides. Thus, in their presence, alpha 1PI and alpha 1AGP with a mixture of both high-mannose and complex-type oligosaccharides were secreted.

1-Deoxynojirimycin↗

Different oligosaccharide processing of the membrane-integrated and the secretory form of gp 80 in rat liver.

Rat liver synthesizes a glycoprotein with Mr of 80.000 (gp 80) which is partly inserted into the plasma membrane and partly secreted into the serum. The membrane-integrated and the secretory form of this glycoprotein have an identical peptide pattern, but different N-linked glycans. Whereas gp 80 from the serum is glycosylated with complex-type oligosaccharides, gp 80 from the plasma membrane has high mannose glycans. Phase separation with Triton X-114 showed that membrane-integrated gp 80 contains hydrophobic portions, whereas secretory gp 80 has hydrophilic properties. Intracellular transport and oligosaccharide processing of gp 80 were studied in vivo in the endoplasmic reticulum, the Golgi apparatus and plasma membranes of rat liver and in serum using pulse-chase labeling with L-[35S]methionine and immunoprecipitation. Peak labeling of gp 80 was reached in the endoplasmic reticulum 10 min after the pulse, in the Golgi apparatus 20 min later, and in the plasma membrane after 2 h; in the serum the specific radioactivity was steadily increasing during the experiment. Gp 80 of the endoplasmic reticulum was completely sensitive to endo-beta-N-glucosaminidase H (endo H), but simultaneously occurred in the Golgi apparatus in an endo H-sensitive and endo H-resistant form. The endo H-sensitive form was transported to the plasma membrane, the endo H-resistant species secreted into the serum. Conversion from the endo H-sensitive to the endo H-resistant form was completed within 10 min after transfer of gp 80 to the Golgi apparatus.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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Long-term effect of repeated short oxygen exposition on blood pressure development and erythrocyte sodium content in SHR and WKY.

Repeated short oxygen exposition (60 min weekly, beginning at the 1st week of age up to the 18th week of age) induced in male spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) a diminished blood pressure rise. Oxygen exposed SHR had also lower heart rates than SHR without oxygen exposition. No significant differences were found in both these parameters in normotensive rats (WKY). Furthermore oxygen exposition decreased the erythrocyte sodium content of SHR.

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Deglycosylation of alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor by endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase F.

The glycosidase endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase F (endo F) from Flavobacterium meningosepticum was used for the deglycosylation of rat alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor (alpha 1 PI). alpha 1 PI containing three oligosaccharide side chains of the complex type was isolated from rat serum or from the medium of rat hepatocyte primary cultures. High-mannose-type alpha 1 PI or hybrid-type alpha 1 PI was isolated from the media of hepatocytes treated with 1-deoxymannojirimycin or swainsonine, respectively. The susceptibility of complex-type alpha 1 PI to endo F was studied in the presence of various detergents. 3-[(3-Cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfonate and octyl glucopyranoside turned out to be most effective. In the absence of detergents, digestion of alpha 1 PI with high concentrations of endo F and/or long times of incubation led to the formation of alpha 1 PI with one and two oligosaccharide side chains. In the presence of 0.5% octyl glucopyranoside, the major cleavage products were unglycosylated alpha 1 PI and alpha 1 PI carrying one carbohydrate side chain. In contrast to the complex-type alpha 1 PI, the high-mannose type can be totally deglycosylated by endo F even in the absence of detergents. The susceptibility of the hybrid-type alpha 1 PI to endo F is between that of the complex and the high-mannose types.

Acetylglucosaminidase↗

Secretion of high-mannose-type alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor and alpha 1-acid glycoprotein by primary cultures of rat hepatocytes in the presence of the mannosidase I inhibitor 1-deoxymannojirimycin.

Two different forms of alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor and alpha 1-acid glycoprotein were found in primary cultures of rat hepatocytes. After a 2.5-h labeling period with [35S]methionine the high-mannose-type precursor of alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor (Mr 49000) and alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (Mr 39 000) and the mature-complex-type alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor (Mr 54 000) and alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (Mr 43 000-60 000) could be immunoprecipitated from the cells, but only the complex-type forms of the two glycoproteins were secreted into the hepatocyte media. When hepatocytes were incubated with the mannosidase I inhibitor 1-deoxymannojirimycin at a concentration of 4 mM, the 49 000-Mr form of alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor and the 39 000-Mr form of alpha 1-acid glycoprotein could be detected in the cells as well as in their media. Neither the secretion of alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor nor that of alpha 1-acid glycoprotein was impaired by 1-deoxymannojirimycin. While alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor and alpha 1-acid glycoprotein, secreted by control cells, were resistant to endoglucosaminidase H, alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor and alpha 1-acid glycoprotein, secreted by hepatocytes treated with 4 mM 1-deoxymannojirimycin, could be deglycosylated by endoglucosaminidase H. When the [3H]mannose-labeled oligosaccharides of alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor, secreted by 1-deoxymannojirimycin-treated hepatocytes, were cleaved off by endoglucosaminidase H and analyzed by Bio-Gel P-4 chromatography, they eluted at the position of Man9GlcNAc, indicating that mannosidase I had been efficiently inhibited. 1-Deoxymannojirimycin did not inhibit the synthesis or the cotranslational N-glycosylation of alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor or alpha 1-acid glycoprotein.

1-Deoxynojirimycin↗

[Relation of glucose tolerance and intracellular sodium concentration].

In rabbits with standard diet, in cholesterolaemic rabbits, in pregnant women with physiological hyperinsulinism and in a control group with lower peripheral insulin concentrations after glucose load negative correlations were found between the intracellular sodium content and the KG-value of the intravenous glucose tolerance test. The hormonally regulated blood glucose regulating circle was a prerequisite for these relations, since in vitro a high sodium concentration in the erythrocytes was connected with a high glucose uptake rate. The findings in the total organism were explained by cell membrane properties which stabilise the level of the intracellular sodium concentration as well as are important for functions of the blood glucose regulating circle. As a link between the carbohydrate metabolism and the electrolyte metabolism the SH-groups of the cell membrane were discussed. This concept was used for a pathophysiological explanation of the higher erythrocytic sodium concentrations proved in manifest diabetics.

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Unglycosylated rat alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor has a six-fold shorter plasma half-life than the mature glycoprotein.

The plasma half-lives of glycosylated and unglycosylated alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor-radioactively labeled with [35S]methionine in rat hepatocyte primary cultures - were determined in the rat. Unglycosylated alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor was synthesized by hepatocytes in the presence of tunicamycin. Media from hepatocytes containing 35S-labeled glycosylated or unglycosylated alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor were injected into the tail veins of rats. At different times after injection alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor was isolated from plasma by affinity chromatography with anti-alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor Sepharose. Radioactivity measurements revealed a plasma half-life of 170 min for glycosylated alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor and of 30 min for the unglycosylated form of the inhibitor.

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[Emergency endoscopy in chronic liver diseases].

Emergency endoscopy has to be regarded as a method of high diagnostic value. Based on the resulting therapeutic consequences and with allowance for the prerequisites and contraindications, emergency endoscopy in chronic liver diseases is to be considered a purposeful method. If endoscopic treatment possibilities in bleedings of the gastrointestinal tract continue to improve, the demonstration of an improvement in prognosis by emergency endoscopy seems to be merely a question of time.

Duodenal Ulcer↗