Prevalence and predictors of Toxoplasma seropositivity in women with and at risk for human immunodeficiency virus infection

We assessed the prevalence and predictors of latent Toxoplasma infection in a large group of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected and HIV-uninfected at-risk US women. The prevalence of latent Toxoplasma infection was 15% (380 of 2525 persons) and did not differ by HIV infection status. HIV-infected women aged > or =50 years and those born outside of the United States were more likely to have latent Toxoplasma infection, with prevalences of 32% and 41%, respectively.     

种植牙——人类的第三副牙齿

研究显示,若全口无牙,人的全身机能将下降40％～60％,佩戴假牙之后,全身机能也只能恢复到正常的81％-95％．种植牙的诞生为彻底解决缺牙带给患者咀嚼功能和语言发音障碍,影响面容美观和心理伤害等长期困扰其健康和生活质量问题提供了一个重要出路．伴随技术的成熟,种植牙也因此被誉为继乳牙、恒牙之后,人类的第三副牙齿．它是生命科学和材料与工程科学完美结合所诞生的产物,是近半个世纪以来口腔医学献给人类健康的一份厚礼．种植牙作为天然牙齿的替代体,人工牙根可以和牙床完全融合,     

Diffuse large-cell lymphoma in an adult with Sch?nlein-Henoch purpura

Sch?nlein-Henoch purpura is an IgA-mediated immune complex vasculitis of unknown cause which is characterized by nonthrombocytopenic purpura, arthralgias, abdominal pain, angioedema, and glomerulonephritis. It most commonly occurs in children and usually follows a benign course. Associated malignancies are rarely reported. A number of treatment regimens have been used, including corticosteroids and immunosuppressive agents. This is a case report of lymphoma in an adult with Sch?nlein-Henoch purpura in the absence of renal involvement.     

Severe cholestatic hepatitis following cloxacillin treatment

We describe a 77-year-old woman who developed fatigue, fever, a maculopapular rash and severe cholestatic hepatitis two weeks after receiving cloxacillin and ofloxacin.     

Neonatal treatment with 192 IgG-saporin produces long-term forebrain cholinergic deficits and reduces dendritic branching and spine density of neocortical pyramidal neurons

The role of basal forebrain-derived cholinergic afferents in the development of neocortex was studied in postnatal rats. Newborn rat pups received intraventricular injections of 192 IgG-saporin. Following survival periods ranging from 2 days to 6 months, the brains were processed to document the cholinergic lesion and to examine morphological consequences. Immunocytochemistry for choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) and in situ hybridization for ChAT mRNA demonstrate a loss of approximately 75% of the cholinergic neurons in the medial septum and nucleus of the diagonal band of Broca in the basal forebrain. In situ hybridization for glutamic acid decarboxylase mRNA reveals no loss of basal forebrain GABAergic neurons. Acetylcholinesterase histochemistry demonstrates a marked reduction of the cholinergic axons in neocortex. Cholinergic axons are reduced throughout the cortical layers; this reduction is more marked in medial than in lateral cortical areas. The thickness of neocortex is reduced by approximately 10%. Retrograde labeling of layer V cortico-collicular pyramidal cells reveals a reduction in cell body size and also a reduction in numbers of branches of apical dendrites. Spine densities on apical dendrites are reduced by approximately 20-25% in 192 IgG- saporin-treated cases; no change was detected in number of spines on basal dendrites. These results indicate a developmental or maintenance role for cholinergic afferents to cerebral cortical neurons.      

Activation of human lymphocytes by supernatants from human thymic epithelium.

Supernatants from human thymic epithelial cells (TS) were found to have a mitogenic effect on cultured human peripheral blood mononuclear cells and to potentiate their responses to lectins. This was not observed with culture supernatants from the human cell lines AV-3 and HeLa or from the murine cell line L-929. The maximum potentiating effects were observed with pokeweed mitogen (PWM) and phytohaemagglutinin (PHA), whereas the response to concanavalin A (Con A) was only slightly enhanced. TS also potentiated the mixed lymphocyte culture (MLC) response of normal T cells and thymocytes cultured with mitomycin C-treated B lymphoid cell lines. The mitogenic effect of TS was time-dependent and paralleled the appearance of lymphoid colonies in semi-solid agar. Chromatographical separation of concentrated serum-free TS on Sephadex G-100 yielded an active fraction of molecular weight 15,000--25,000 which had all the activities of unseparated TS.