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Y Matsubara

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PubMed1982

Plasma radioimmunoassayable neurotensin responses to the administration of various nutrients.

In order ot elucidate the releasing mechanism of gut neurotensin, plasma radioimmunoassayable neurotensin (RNT) was measured in dogs after intrajejunal administration of various nutrients. Transient and slight increases of plasma RNT were found after administration of glucose and saturated fatty acid. In contrast, remarkably raised plasma RNT levels were seen after administration of an amino acid mixture and of unsaturated fatty acid. The findings suggested that gut neurotensin may play roles in digestion and absorption of amino acid and some fatty acids.

Amino Acids↗
PubMed1981

[Maternal and fetal response to hemorrhagic anemia during organogenesis in rats].

The effects of artificial oligemic anemia on dams and their fetuses were investigated in pregnant rats. Animals divided into ten groups of four to six each were bled from the jugular vein at various stages of gestation. Hematological examination was performed on day 20 of gestation, then dams were sacrificed. Depression of maternal weight gain, decrease of food intake and increase of water intake were recognized in all the bled groups. These changes were more conspicuous in the groups venipunctured at early stages of organogenesis. At autopsy, there was no evidence of anemia in any of the groups bled before day 10 of pregnancy whereas the does bled after day 12 were found anemic. In term fetuses from these anemic mothers, however, no adverse findings suggestive of feto-toxicity and teratogenicity were noted.

Anemia↗
PubMed1981

Neurotensin and substance P and dumping syndrome.

To investigate the pathophysiological relation between releases of gut hormones and dumping syndrome, plasma radioimmunoassayable neurotensin, substance P, glucagon-like immunoreactivity (GLI), insulin and blood sugar were measured in both gastrectomized patients and control subjects after 50 g oral glucose tolerance tests. Remarkable rises of radioimmunoassayable neurotensin and GLI were found in all gastrectomized patients, but not in control subjects. In contrast, plasma radioimmunoassayable substance P responses were not detected in either gastrectomized patients or control subjects. There were three patients with symptoms of dumping syndrome in the early stage of the test. Plasma radioimmunoassayable neurotensin responses in two out of these three were higher than those in other patients, though the other patient with symptoms had the same degree of neurotensin elevation as patients with no symptoms. In view of the pharmacological effects of neurotensin, it could not be ruled out that a part of the early symptoms of dumping syndrome may result from the remarkably enhanced plasma neurotensin release in some patients, although the enhanced neurotensin responses did not always accompany symptoms of dumping syndrome.

Adult↗
PubMed1980

Enhanced neurotensin-like immunoreactivity release in total gastrectomized patients after 50 g OGTT.

Neurotensin, originally isolated from the bovine hypothalamus (Carraway and Leeman 1973) is found not only in several parts of the brain (Carraway and Leeman 1976a) but also in the lower intestine (Orci, Baetens, Rufener, Brown, Vale and Guillemin 1976). Although neurotensin has a wide range of pharmacological effects (Carraway, Demer and Leeman 1976b), the concentrated localization of this peptide in the gut suggests that neurotensin may play a pathophysiological role in the gut disease. Recently, Bloom, Blackburn, Ebeid, Ralphs and Polak (1978) proposed the hypothesis that neurotensin may play an important role in the pathogenesis of dumping syndrome, based on measurement of plasma neutrotensin levels in gastrectomized patients. To examine the hypothesis, we compared changes of plasma neurotensin levels after 50 g OGTT in total gastrectomized patients with those in control subjects. In this paper, we report on enhanced neurotensin like immunoreactivity (NTLI) release in gastrectomized patients after 50 g OGTT.

Adult↗
PubMed1980

Surgical treatment of the spontaneous pneumothoraces and its pathological findings.

Open thoracotomies were performed in 124 out of 198 spontaneous pneumothorax episodes from Jan. 1967 to Dec. 1976. By reviewing histological findings of resected specimens, elastofibrosis was remarkable in particular and bullae seem to arise from this elastofibrosis. This change could be irreversible and causes frequent recurrence. So only conservative treatment is not enough and is needed surgical treatment. Regarding operation we prefer bullectomy and/or partial parietal pleurectomy. The latter is useful to reserve pulmonary function and can gain necessary adhesion of the place where frequent bullae formation are observed. And after performing parietal pleurectomy, there is no recurrence.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

Plasma glucagon changes in surgical patients.

We studied the effect of surgery on plasma glucagon (IRG) levels in 40 patients divided into 3 groups according to the severity of surgical stress. In the major and moderate stress groups, 30--100% IRG increases were noted one hour after the start of surgery. In these groups, IRG was increased in the lst to 7th postoperative days and there was a correlation between the amount of increase and the severity of operative stress. In the minor stress group, no postoperative IRG increase was noted. Our results indicate that the severity of operative stress had a direct bearing on the amount of intra- and postoperative IRG increase. We also discuss the origin of hyperglucagonemia in surgical patients.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

Statistical evaluation of factors influencing prognosis of gastric cancer patients: Predication of prognosis on patient clusters.

We found ten clusters of gastric cancer patients in Imanaga's group under a cancer research project organized by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and evaluated the prediction of prognosis of those patients in each cluster by using the censored regression of postsurgical survival time on a "prognosic" factor which has been extracted from nine explanatory variables observed mainly at the time of surgery. Consequently, the ten clusters were interpreted and confirmed to be useful for prediction of the patient prognosis by comparison of the failure rates among those clusters and between treated (administration of chemotherapy) group and control group.

Adult↗
PubMed1979

Neurotensin--positive and somatostatin--positive cells in the canine gut.

By using immunoperoxidase and immunofluorescence techniques, the localization of neurotensin-positive cells and somatostatin-positive cells in the canine gut was examined on the same sections. Neurotensin-positive cells were found only in the jejunum and ileum, while somatostatin-positive cells were distributed throughout the stomach and all parts of the small intestine. These two types of cell in the jejunum and the ileum had no direct cellular contact with each other. Based on the hypothesis that somatostatin may inhibit the release of some peptide hormones through junctional complexes of cells, the possibility of functional interaction between neurotensin and somatostatin was discussed.

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