Determination of the beta- branching ratio of 64Cu by mass spectrometric investigations of the decay products in neutron transmuted copper.

The beta- branching ratio of 64Cu was determined by investigating the resulting decay products in copper doped by neutron transmutation. The numbers of 64Zn and 64Ni atoms were analyzed using isotope dilution analysis combined with thermal ionization mass spectrometry. A beta- branching ratio of (38.06+/-0.30)% was obtained, which agrees with the study of Kawada (Appl. Radiat. Isot. 37 (1) (1986) 7) to a higher accuracy. However, our result differs from the value cited in the NUDAT database of (39.0+/-0.3)%.     

Einsatz der computertomographie in der diagnostik des stumpfen thoraxtraumas

Zusammenfassung Der Einsatz der konventionellen Röntgenthoraxuntersuchung bei polytraumatisierten Patienten ist in der Literatur bereits vielfach beschrieben worden. Es sind bisher jedoch nur wenige Studien zum Vergleich der diagnostischen Aussagekraft von konventionellen Thoraxaufnahmen und Thorax-CT bei Thoraxtraumen publiziert worden.In einer retrospektiven Auswertung konventioneller Röntgenaufnahmen des Thorax und der Thorax-CT bei 70 polytraumatisierten Patienten wurden die Sensitivität und Spezifität hinsichtlich pathologischer Thoraxbefunde ermittelt. Die Auswertung erfolgte durch zwei erfahrene Radiologen, wobei beide bildgebenden Verfahren getrennt voneinander und in Unkenntnis des Vorbefundes bewertet wurden.Die Auswertung des Kollektivs ergab eine höhere Sensitivität der CT-Untersuchung gegenüber der konventionellen Röntgenthoraxaufnahme bei polytraumatisierten Patienten; sie stellt somit eine wichtige Ergänzung zur konventionellen Röntgenthoraxaufnahme dar und ist sensitiver in der Erfassung von thorakalen Verletzungen, insbesondere im Bereich des Lungenparenchyms und des Mediastinums mit Gefäßen.     

Identification of human erythrocyte blood group antigens on decay- accelerating factor (DAF) and an erythrocyte phenotype negative for daf

Decay accelerating factor (DAF) is a glycoprotein present on the surfaces of many types ofcells in contact with plasma, including erythrocytes, leukocytes, and platelets (reviewed in reference 1). A small amount of DAF is also present in serum. Numerous investigators have demonstrated that DAF inhibits the action of C3 convertases on cell surfaces, and its absence has been shown to be at least partially responsible for the abnormal sensitivity to lysis by complement exhibited by erythrocytes of patients with the acquired stem cell disorder paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) (2). Hereditary absence of DAF has not been previously described. Tc(a) and Cr(a) are high-frequency human erythrocyte antigens . These antigens are part of a family of blood group antigens, designated Cromer related, which are all absent from the null phenotype cell IFC(-) , or Inab (3). Recently, Spring and colleagues (4) have identified two monoclonal antibodies which bound to high frequency red cell antigens absent from the Inab phenotype. They also demonstrated that these antibodies, as well as several human antisera to Cromer-related antigens, bound to a 70-kD glycoprotein when used to stain immunoblots of human erythrocyte membrane proteins . Because the wide tissue distribution of mAb reactivity, along with some of the biochemical characterization and immunoblotting data, was similar to that of DAF, we investigated whether the Cromer-related antigens Cr(a) and Tc(a) resided on the DAF molecule.