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Y Nosaka

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Biliary squalene levels in hepatobiliary disease.

Following overnight fasting, biliary levels of squalene, bile salts, cholesterol and phospholipid were estimated using human bile obtained with a duodenal double lumen catheter after administration of caerulein. While the squalene level in B-bile was 6.86 microM in the control group, it fell significantly in patients with parenchymal liver diseases, especially liver cirrhosis. There was no significant change in the level in patients with cholelithiasis. Biliary squalene concentration showed a significant correlation with concentrations of bile salts, cholesterol and phospholipid. These results substantiate the possibility that the biliary squalene level reflects sterol metabolism in the liver.

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Hydrocephalus associated with subarachnoid hemorrhage: clinical study by computed tomography, radioisotope cisternography and constant infusion test.

Thirteen patients exhibited a communicating hydrocephalus following subarachnoid hemorrhage secondary to ruptured intracranial aneurysms and were treated with shunt procedures. The interval between subarachnoid hemorrhage and surgery averaged 9 weeks. Seven of the patients showed improvement. The prognostic value for surgical management was evaluated on the basis of three different diagnostic examinations (computed tomography(CT), cisternography and constant infusion test). A correct diagnosis was obtained in 78 per cent in cisternography, and 63 per cent in infusion test and CT. All patients responding to surgery showed a typical pattern in cisternography, consisting of ventricular retention of radiopharmaceutical tracer for 48 h or longer in association with no radioactivity over the cerebral hemispheres. The constant infusion test correlated well with typical cisternographic patterns. CT is useful in demonstrating pathophysiological changes in hydrocephalus. Periventricular hypodensity was visible in patients with normal or slightly elevated intracranial pressure, accompanied by fairly rapid deterioration. All of them responded well to shunting. In most cases which benefited from the shunt, the postoperative CT showed not only normal-sized ventricles but also marked regression of the hypodensity over a short period.

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Effect of chronic ethanol administration on serum high density lipoprotein cholesterol in rat.

In rats chronic ethanol administration was found in fasting state not to induce hypertriglyceridemia but moderate hypercholesterolemia through an increased level of high density lipoprotein cholesterol. In the liver, cholesterol contents slightly and triglyceride centents significantly increased. The result suggests that cholesterol accumulation in the liver leads to an increased level of high density lipoprotein cholesterol.

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Solubilization of 6-oxybenzo(a)pyrene radical by caffeine and DNA as studied by magnetic resonance. Observation of intermolecular charge transfer.

Crystals of 6-oxybenzo(a)pyrene free radical, formed chemically from the hydroxy derivative of the carcinogen benzo(a)pyrene, can be solubilized in aqueous solutions of DNA and of caffeine. ESR spectral evidence indicate that the radicals exist as dispersed monomers associated with DNA and with caffeine. Comparison of NMR spin-lattice and spin-spin relaxation times in the protons of caffeine has given direct evidence that a part of the unpaired electron (at least 10(-4)) is transferred from the radical to the associated caffeine molecule. Simple consideration of Mulliken's charge transfer theory, however, leads to the conclusion that the intermolecular charge transfer is not likely to be a major source of stabilization energy of the complex.

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Bilateral intracerebellar calcification associated with cerebellar hematoma. Case report.

A case of bilateral intracerebellar calcificaiton associated with cerebellar hematoma on the left side is reported. Clinical and microscopic examination failed to clarify the causes of calcification and hematoma. It is postulated that hemorrhage occurred from time to time through the fragile calcified vessel walls, since some portions of the organized hematoma were composed of massive erythrocytes.

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[Tonsillectomy].

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