Prediction of the growth response of short prepubertal children treated with growth hormone

The aim of this study was to identify predictors of the growth response to growth hormone (GH) during the first 2 years of GH treatment, using auxological data and the maximum GH response (GH_max) to provocation tests. The patients were 169 prepubertal short children (27F, 142M), with Gmax values ranging from 0 to 65 mU/1. Their mean age (± SD)was8.3 ± 2.4 years (range 3-13 years), mean height SDS –3.0 ± 0.7 (range –1.5 to –6.0SDS) and mean pretreatment height velocity was normal (± 0.0 SDS) (range -1.6 to + 0.9 SDS). The increase in height SDS during the first 2 years of GH treatment (0.1 U/kg/day) varied from 0.10 to 3.75 SDS, with younger children having a better growth response. Individual growth responses correlated (p < 0.001) with GH_max (r =–0.37), age (r= -0.35), 1-year pretreatment delta SDS (r = -0.25), mid-parental height SDS (r = 0.34), height SDS at start of treatment (r =–0.22) and difference between height SDS of an individual child at the onset of GH treatment and mid-parental height expressed in SDS (diff SDS) (r = –0.43). In a multiple stepwise linear regression model, diff SDS and log GH_max were found to be the strongest predictors of the magnitude of the growth response. In the short children in this study who exhibited a broad range of GH_max values, 33% of the growth response during the first 2 years of treatment could be predicted.     

哺乳期避孕药ST-1435衍生物的合成

19-失碳-16-亚甲基-17α-乙酰氧基黄体酮(3)最早由我国合成,后来西德E.Merk AG药厂使其开发成高效低毒的非口服避孕药,称ST-1435,其皮下埋植缓释系统国外已临床使用,有效避孕期约一年,临床研究还发现它对脂代谢、糖代谢、内分泌与肝功能等均无不良影响,并因其口服无效,近年来国外认为它更适合于哺乳期妇女使用。     

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia in infants: evidence for B cell origin of disease by use of monoclonal antibody phenotyping

Since the prognosis of infants with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is so poor, it has been suggested that these leukemias may not be lymphoid in origin, but may originate from stem cell, myeloid, or megakaryocytic progenitors. Alternately it has been hypothesized that these leukemias originate in lymphoid cells at the earliest stages of B cell development. Another possibility is that these leukemias may be of more than one lineage. Therefore we examined leukemic blasts from 12 infants with ALL using monoclonal antibodies to myeloid and lymphoid differentiation antigens. The majority of specimens expressed HLA/DR and reacted with B4 (CD19) but failed to react with stem cell, myeloid, megakaryocytic, or T cell associated antibodies. These results support the speculation that the majority of these leukemias arise in cells at the earliest stages of B cell commitment, and are not of a myeloid or biphenotypic nature.     

苯甲酰胺类抗精神病药物的研究:若干3α-去甲托品烷衍生物的合成

Reductive amination of8- benzyl-nortropinone(3 )with ammonium acetate andsodium cyanoborohydride yielded the 3 α-amino nortropane derivative 4 which was condensed withsubstituted benzoic acids using 2-bromo-N-methyl-pyridinium iodide as condensing reagent to give thetarget compounds 2a～ein an overall yield of 50～60%.Compound 2e showed marked and selectiveaffinity for D-2 receptor.Compound 2d showed definite affinity for D- 1 receptor besides markedaffinity for D-2 receptor.     

Head and neck MR imaging in the pediatric patient

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging studies of the head and neck (excluding the brain) were obtained in 49 children believed to have lesions of the head and neck. Seven children had normal images; in the remaining 42, lesions were divided into four categories: midline lesions, lesions of symmetric paired structures, facial lesions, and nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal lesions. All entities were well delineated by MR imaging. The imaging planes and sequences chosen depended on the suspected abnormality. Midline lesions were best imaged in the sagittal plane, lesions of paired structures and the face in the axial or coronal planes, and nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal lesions in the axial or sagittal planes. Intracranial extension of head and neck neoplasms was best evaluated in the coronal plane. Surface coils provided better resolution and were thus more useful in evaluating small superficial lesions; head or body coils were more useful in defining the extent of large lesions. T2-weighted images provided better differentiation between normal and tumor tissue in patients with head and neck neoplasms.     

苦红菇化学成分的研究

从野生真菌苦红菇(Russula rosacea(Bull)Grrayem,Fr.)子实体酸性部分得到两个新的四环三萜酸化合物,经光谱(IR,¹HNMR,¹³CNMR,MS)、尤其是二维核磁共振(¹³C-¹HCOSY,COLOC,NOEDIFF)谱解析,确定其结构分别如Ⅰ和Ⅱ所示,Ⅰ命名为苦红菇酸A(rosaceaacidA),Ⅱ为苦红菇酸B(rosaceaacidB)。     

苦参碱的人体药代动力学

建立了人血清苦参碱的高效液相色谱分析方法,此法回收率为99.1～102.2%,日内精密度RSD<4%,日间RSD<6%。血药浓度在1.25～40.0μg·mL^-1范围内呈线性关系(r=0.9997)。8名健康志愿者iv苦参碱6ms·kg^-1后,药代动力学过程符合二室模型。收集其中6名志愿者尿液,32h尿中原形药物排泄率为52.75%,肾清除率为143.79ml·min^-1。     

von Hippel-Lindau disease: inadequacy of angiography for identification of renal cancers

Selective renal angiograms were retrospectively evaluated for the identification of renal cell cancers in patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL). Seven patients underwent angiography and surgery because of solid or complex renal masses identified at cross-sectional imaging. Nine kidneys underwent detailed examination by the surgeon and by a pathologist. There were 31 renal cancers. Angiography had enabled identification of only five cancers (16%), and six others (19%) had been suspected. Cancers detected angiographically were larger than those not detected (P less than .05). Solid tumors tended to appear less hypervascular than expected and occasionally had the angiographic appearance of atypical cysts. There were no false-positive angiograms. Angiography revealed only one cancer not previously suspected and changed the surgeon's approach for only one kidney (11%). The sensitivity and specificity of angiography were 35% and 100%, respectively. In these patients, selective renal angiography is not helpful for the detection or exclusion of cancer in a kidney. It does not have a limited role for vascular mapping prior to partial nephrectomy or tumor enucleation.