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Effects of cytomegalovirus hepatitis on growth, development and nervous system of infants. A follow-up study.

Twenty-seven infants with cytomegalovirus hepatitis were followed up for 15-40 months after onset of the illness. They had recovered from the hepatitis, but microcephaly was present in 2 (7.4%), sensorineural hearing loss in 5 (18.5%), quadriplegia, mental retardation, ventricular septal defect and tooth defects in 1 (3.7%) each. The patients with congenital infection had more severe and complex defects, some with perinatal infection had mild defects, those with postnatally acquired infection had no sequelae. The mean MDI and frequency of expressive language delay in the former group differed significantly from those of the other 2. Five patients still excreted cytomegalovirus in the urine at follow-up.

Child Development↗

[Effects of spring wheat varieties on growth, development and fecundity of Sitobion avenae (F.) (Homoptera: Aphididae)].

Effects of seven varieties of spring wheat on the population parameters of Sitobion avenae (F.) were investigated at 25 degrees C in the laboratory. The results indicated that there were significant differences in the developmental duration, mortality of nymph aphids, the longevity and fecundity of adults. The adults had shorter longevity and poorer fecundity when reared with the leaves of higher resistant w heat varieties. The level of wheat resistance was in order of Liaochun 10 >02C-MB >Xinchun 6 >Bafeng 1> Yongliang 4> Neimai 19> Menghua 1 using the intrinsic rate of increase (r(m)) as an index of wheat antibiosis to aphids, which was correspondent well with that in fields.

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Growth, development, pathogenicity, and transplantation of Echinostoma caproni (Trematoda) on the chick chorioallantois.

Excysted metacercariae of Echinostoma caproni were cultivated on the chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) of 6-day-old domestic chick embryos for 2-13 days postinoculation. There was no significant difference in the body area of fixed and stained preovigerous worms from the CAM versus those grown in domestic chicks. However, ovigerous worms from the CAM were significantly smaller than those from chicks. Worm development, i.e., gonadal differentiation, uterine curling, vitellinogenesis, ovigerousness, and oviposition, took 1 day longer on the CAM than in the chick. Histopathologic studies of worms attached to the CAM were done on cryostat and paraffin sections stained with hematoxylin and eosin. Some worms attached to the CAM by their collar spines and acetabulum, whereas others penetrated the chorionic epithelium and encapsulated in the mesenchyme. Pathogenicity to the CAM included hyperplasia of the chorionic epithelium, hemorrhagia, reduced fibrocytes and blood vessels, but increased lymphocytes and eosinophils in the mesenchyme. Attempts to transplant 11-day-old CAM worms to new CAMs were unsuccessful.

Allantois↗

Cell death via apoptosis and its relationship to growth, development and differentiation of both tumour and normal cells.

Cell death can occur by two possible mechanisms, necrosis or apoptosis. Necrosis is the classically recognised form of cell death and is characterised by high amplitude swelling of the mitochondria, nuclear flocculation and uncontrolled cell lysis. Tissue necrosis is normally seen following severe trauma to cells. The alternative form of cell death is via a programmed sequence of events and is termed apoptosis. Apoptosis occurs under a variety of physiological conditions and cells dying by this process undergo cytoplasmic and nuclear condensation, coupled with cleavage of the cell's DNA into nucleosome size fragments. DNA cleavage is due to the activation of a specific endogenous endonuclease. The cell finally fragments into apoptotic bodies which are engulfed by neighbouring cells and degraded. Apoptosis is an energy requiring process requiring intact energy generating systems, unlike that of necrosis. In relation to malignant disease, apoptosis is the mechanism by which cytotoxic T cells kill tumour target cells; it may also be the mechanism which accounts for the high loss of cells in growing tumour masses. Extensive apoptosis is seen in regressing tumours and also in those treated with chemotherapeutic agents. This form of death may require the activation of specific death genes, although in view of work carried out in this and other laboratories, demonstrating that inhibitors of both protein and RNA synthesis will readily induce apoptosis, this may not be universal. Finally, apoptosis has far reaching implications for the treatment of malignant disease, since only by understanding how cells die will be able to develop more effective means of killing them.

Animals↗

Differential effects of hydrocortisone on alanine aminotransferase isoenzymes of the cerebral hemispheres and cerebellum of rats during growth, development, and senescence.

The activities and induction patterns of the isoenzymes of alanine aminotransferase (AAT) of the cerebral hemispheres and cerebellum of rats of various ages were studied. The activities of both the soluble (s-) and mitochondrial (m-) isoenzymes of ATT of the cerebral hemispheres and cerebellum were highest in the immature rat and decreased significantly thereafter with increasing age. Adrenalectomy decreased, and hydrocortisone administration increased significantly, the activity of s-AAT in both cerebral hemispheres and cerebellum of immature, adult, and senescent rats. However, these treatments resulted in significant changes in the activity of m-AAT in both tissues of the immature rat only. The hormone-mediated induction of these isoenzymes was actinomycin D-sensitive.

Adrenalectomy↗