实验性颅脑伤大鼠脑组织SOD和MDA的变化

目的：观察实验性颅脑伤大鼠脑组织超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)和丙二醛(MDA)的动态变化，探讨SOD和MDA在颅脑伤病理损伤机制中的作用。方法：采用自由落体致伤方法制备大鼠颅脑伤模型(模型组)，并以正常大鼠作对照(对照组)，分别于造模后3、5和7d处死动物取脑，测定海马和皮质中SOD活力和MDA含量。结果：模型组大鼠海马SOD活力在3个时间点均显著低于对照组，而MDA含量均显著高于对照组；模型组大鼠皮质SOD活力在造模后3、5d时显著低于对照组，而MDA含量则显著高于对照组，到7d时二者与对照组均无明显差异。结论：大鼠颅脑伤时脑组织SOD活力显著降低，而MDA含量则显著增高，提示SOD和MDA可能参与颅脑伤病理损伤机制并在其中发挥重要作用。     

放射线照射对体外培养的骨巨细胞瘤细胞作用的实验研究

目的 :对体外培养的骨巨细胞瘤细胞进行放射线照射 ,并观察其效应。方法 :对 6例经临床、X线和病理组织学检查证实的骨巨细胞瘤标本进行体外细胞培养 ,传代后实验组进行放射线照射处理 ,对照组未进行放射线处理。分别采用倒置显微镜观察、台盼蓝染色后计数、MTT法测定和FCM分析来观察放射线照射对体外培养的骨巨细胞瘤细胞的细胞毒性和细胞周期的影响。结果 :放射线照射后 ,体外培养的骨巨细胞瘤细胞可见逐渐发生皱缩和脱落 ,细胞存活率为 8 2 7%～ 13 5 0 % ,细胞毒性指数为 83 19% ,FCM分析显示G0与G1期比例明显增加 ,G2与M期比例明显减少。结论 :放射线照射对体外培养的骨巨细胞瘤细胞有较强的细胞毒性作用     

原发性高血压和血液流变学异常之间的关系的研究

目的探讨原发性高血压病和血液流变学异常改变之间的关系。方法对80例高血压病人进行血液流变学观察。结果原发性高血压病组血液流变学多项指标出现异常升高,与正常对照组比较差异有显著性,其主要表现为全血粘度增高,其增高程度和血压升高程度之间呈正相关趋势。其中红细胞压积增高可能是血液粘度增高的重要因素。结论高血压病患者的血液流变学异常和血压增高程度之间有密切相关性。     

Disseminated microsporidiosis (Encephalitozoon hellem) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Autopsy evidence for respiratory acquisition.

Microsporidia are obligate intracellular protozoal parasites that infect a variety of cell types in a broad range of invertebrates and vertebrates. They have recently come to medical attention due to the increased frequency with which members of two microsporidian genera, Enterocytozoon and Encephalitozoon, are being diagnosed in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The majority of published reports of human microsporidiosis describe Enterocytozoon infection of small intestinal enterocytes. In addition, a growing number of AIDS patients have been identified with infection due to the two species of Encephalitozoon-Encephalitozoon cuniculi and Encephalitozoon hellem, observed in conjunctival, corneal, and, recently, sinonasal tissues. However, there are scant data regarding the systemic pathology and epidemiology of these infections. This article describes a patient with AIDS who died with systemic Encephalitozoon infection. The etiologic microsporidian was found to be E hellem by using antemortem biochemical and antigenic analyses. A complete autopsy, the first to be reported in a patient with this infection, revealed organisms in the eyes, urinary tract, and respiratory tract. A surprising observation was the occurrence of numerous organisms within the lining epithelium of almost the entire length of the tracheobronchial tree, suggestive of respiratory acquisition. Detailed light and electron microscopic findings and the biological and diagnostic features of microsporidiosis are discussed.     

Treatment and results in severe craniocerebral trauma

Treatment of severe craniocerebral traumas in medium and major hospitals not provided with special neurosurgical equipment requires particularly close interdisciplinary cooperation between surgeons, neurologists and anaesthesiologists. CT facilities are an essential prerequisite for best possible patient care. Patient safety during the posttraumatic and postoperative phases is improved by measuring the intracranial pressure. Whereas corticosteroid treatment may be arguable, barbiturate treatment should presently not be a routine procedure because of its side effects and high rate of complications.     

Determination of procaine in equine plasma and urine by high-performance liquid chromatography.

The variability in plasma and urine equine procaine measurement between three independent laboratories using current methods led to the development of a sensitive, reliable, and reproducible high-performance liquid chromatographic method. Standardbred mares were administered either a penicillin G procaine preparation intramuscularly or procaine hydrochloride subcutaneously, and blood and urine were collected at defined time intervals. By HPLC the detection limits for procaine in plasma and urine were 1 and 10 ng/mL, respectively. In contrast procaine in plasma could not be detected by GC-NPD, while the urinary detection limit was 50 ng/mL. The concentration of fluoride in the collection tubes and repetitive freeze-thawing modified plasma procaine measurement. Urinary pH was a factor in estimation of urine procaine levels with greater recovery and reproducibility of results at pH 5 as compared to pH 7. This HPLC method provides a simple, sensitive, and reliable quantitation of procaine in equine plasma and urine.     

Metabolic, molecular genetic and toxicological aspects of the acetylation polymorphism in inbred mice.

Over the past 10 years, much fascinating information has been obtained concerning the biochemistry, genetics, toxicological implications and molecular genetics of the N-acetylation polymorphism in mice. Using C57BL/6J (B6) mice as representative of rapid acetylation and A/J (A) mice as representing slow acetylation, it has been shown that the polymorphism observed in N-acetyltransferase (NAT) activity in liver also occurs in kidney, bladder, blood, and other tissues. The development of congenic acetylator mouse lines derived from B6 and A, have provided the necessary tools to study the role of the acetylation polymorphism, on either the B6 or A genetic background, free of nearly all other genetic differences between these strains. Eliminating genes which modify and complicate the differences due to the acetylator genes make the congenic lines very useful in toxicology studies, particularly those involving carcinogenesis. The molecular genetic basis of the acetylator polymorphism in B6 and A mice involves two Nat genes. Nat-1 encodes a protein termed NAT1 which is identical in rapid and slow acetylator strains. Nat-2, however, differs between rapid and slow strains by a single nucleotide change in the coding region. The corresponding NAT2 proteins differ by a single change at amino acid 99: an hydrophilic asparagine in rapid acetylator NAT2 to an hydrophobic isoleucine in NAT2 from slow acetylators. The mechanistic basis for the differences between rapid and slow acetylation in mice appears to be that NAT2 from the rapid B6 strain is 15-fold more stable at 37 degrees C and is transcribed/translated with a maximal efficiency twice that of the enzyme from slow acetylator A mice. Results discussed in this review indicate that mice provide an excellent system for studying the N-acetyltransferase polymorphism and also are useful for modelling several aspects of the human N-acetyltransferase polymorphism.