Three-dimensional processing of ultrafast CT sialography for parotid masses.

PURPOSETo evaluate the diagnostic potential of three-dimensional image processing of ultrafast CT sialography in comparison with conventional CT sialography in patients with parotid masses.METHODSIn nine patients, CT sialography was done with three-dimensional image processing. The visibility of anatomic details and pathologic findings, derived from three-dimensional images, were graded numerically by three observers and compared with the findings obtained from conventional CT sialograms. Histopathologic specimens were obtained in all cases.RESULTSUltrafast CT images showed no motion artifact. Three-dimensional CT sialography offered significant improvement in demonstration of ductal anatomy (2.5 +/- 0.2 versus 1.5 +/- 0.1, respectively) and ductal pathology (2.6 +/- 0.1 versus 1.1 +/- 0.2, respectively) over conventional CT sialography. In two cases, the therapeutic regimen was altered substantially.CONCLUSIONUltrafast CT three-dimensional sialography has the potential to allow more precise presurgical planning and contributes to the diagnosis and therapy planning of parotid masses, especially in patients in whom MR image quality is degraded by motion artifact.     

苦参碱对脂多糖／痤疮丙酸杆菌诱导的小鼠肝炎及产生肿瘤坏死因子的影响

用小鼠致死性肝炎模型和ＴＮＦ体外诱生的方法，研究苦参碱（Ｍａｔ）对脂多糖（ｌｉｐｏｐｏｌｙｓａｃｃｈａｒｉｄｅｓ，ＬＰＳ）诱导的经痤疮丙酸杆菌（ｐｒｏｐｉｏｎｉｂａｃｔｅｒｉｔｔｍａｃｎｅｓ，ＰＡ）预刺激的小鼠产生肿瘤坏死因子（ＴＮＦ）以及致死性肝炎的影响。结果表明：Ｍａｔ（１０，５０ｍｇ·ｋｇ￣（－１），ｉｐ，ｂｉｄ×３ｄ）可降低血清ＴＮＦ和ＡＬＴ水平及小鼠对ＬＰＳ致死毒性的敏感性，并可在体外抑制ＬＰＳ诱导的经ＰＡ预刺激的小鼠腹腔巨噬细胞释放ＴＮＦ。提示Ｍａｔ的保肝作用与其抑制ＴＮＦ释放有关。     

Effect of topically applied menthol on thermal,pain and itch sensations and biophysical properties of the skin

Received: 11 May 1995     

Linkage and physical mapping of X-linked lissencephaly/SBH (XLIS): a gene causing neuronal migration defects in human brain

While disorders of neuronal migration are associated with as much as 25% of recurrent childhood seizures, few of the genes required to establish neuronal position in cerebral cortex are known. Subcortical band heterotopia (SBH) and lissencephaly (LIS), two distinct neuronal migration disorders producing epilepsy and variable cognitive impairment, can be inherited alone or together in a single pedigree. Here we report a new genetic locus, XLIS, mapped by linkage analysis of five families and physical mapping of a balanced X;2 translocation in a girl with LIS. Linkage places the critical region in Xq21-q24, containing the breakpoint that maps to Xq22.3-q23 by high-resolution chromosome analysis. Markers used for somatic cell hybrid and fluorescence in situ hybridization analyses place the XLIS region within a 1 cM interval. These data suggest that SBH and X-linked lissencephaly are caused by mutation of a single gene, XLIS, that the milder SBH phenotype in females results from random X-inactivation (Lyonization), and that cloning of genes from the breakpoint region on X will yield XLIS.