The light microscopic and ultrastructural features of an aortico-pulmonary paraganglioma (A-PP) are presented. The tumor was characterized by organoid clustering of neoplastic chief cells to form Zellballen. Argyrophilic granules were demonstrated within chief cell cytoplasm using a modified Grimelus technique. Ultrastructurally, three distinct cell types were present within the tumor: endothelial cells, pericytes and neoplastic chief cells. Membrane-bound neurosecretory granules were present and measured 100 to 2000 nm in diameter. "Light" and "dark" chief cells were less distinct than previously reported in other head and neck paragangliomas. Analysis of the 36 documented A-PP reported in the English literature reveals that the tumor has been either incompletely excised or has been considered unresectable in one-third of the cases. The reported surgical mortality is 9%, or approximately equal to the incidence of malignant behavior. The treatment of choice is surgical resection but when this is not possible, radiation may be a useful adjunct in therapy. 相似文献
1 The concurrent administration of levodopa with a decarboxylase inhibitor produced a plasma concentration/time curve comparable with 1/4 to 1/5 of the dose of levodopa given alone.
2 There was no evidence to suggest that the decarboxylase inhibitor slowed the rate of elimination of levodopa from plasma.
3 Metoclopramide (Maxolon) increased the rate of levodopa absorption. Higher plasma concentrations of levodopa during the first 2 h after dosing were followed by lower plasma concentrations during the third and fourth hours. The amount of levodopa absorbed after Larodopa as indicated by the AUC was not altered by adding metoclopramide.
4 None of the current preparations of levodopa produced sustained plasma concentrations.
5In vitro testing confirmed that Brocadopa Temtabs tablets disintegrate and dissolve slowly. In vivo, Brocadopa Temtabs behaved as a slow release preparation but it did not produce sustained plasma concentrations of levodopa.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of zinc supplementation on the clinical course, stool weight, duration of diarrhoea, changes in serum zinc, and body weight gain of children with acute diarrhoea. DESIGN: Randomised double blind controlled trial. Children were assigned to receive zinc (20 mg elemental zinc per day) containing multivitamins or control group (zinc-free multivitamins) daily in three divided doses for two weeks. SETTING: A diarrhoeal disease hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh. PATIENTS: 111 children, 3 to 24 months old, below 76% median weight for age of the National Center for Health Statistics standard with acute diarrhoea. Children with severe infection and/or oedema were excluded. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Total diarrhoeal stool output, duration of diarrhoea, rate of weight gain, and changes in serum zinc levels after supplementation. RESULTS: Stool output was 28% less and duration 14% shorter in the zinc supplemented group than placebo (p = 0.06). There were reductions in median total diarrhoeal stool output among zinc supplemented subjects who were shorter (less than 95% height for age), 239 v 326 g/kg (p < 0.04), and who had a lower initial serum zinc (< 14 mmol/l), 279 v 329 g/kg (p < 0.05); a shortening of mean time to recovery occurred (4.7 v 6.2 days, p < 0.04) in those with lower serum zinc. There was an increase in mean serum zinc in the zinc supplemented group (+2.4 v -0.3 mumol/l, p < 0.001) during two weeks of supplementation, and better mean weight gain (120 v 30 g, p < 0.03) at the time of discharge from hospital. CONCLUSIONS: Zinc supplementation is a simple, acceptable, and affordable strategy which should be considered in the management of acute diarrhoea and in prevention of growth faltering in children specially those who are malnourished. 相似文献
This study was designed to compare the growth of Pakistani schoolchildren in the UK with the 1990 UK growth standards. Measurements of height, weight, and sitting height were performed on 785 Pakistani schoolchildren aged 5-14 years with the mean values for each age and sex being plotted on the UK growth standards. The results were expressed as SD scores relative to the 1990 reference data. The mean height for the boys was only 0.2 SD scores below the mean for the new growth standards with the mean height for the girls being 0.4 SD scores below the mean. The mean values for weight and body mass index were 0.3 and 0.5 SD scores less than the mean for boys and girls respectively. This study demonstrates that the growth of Pakistani schoolchildren in the UK is comparable to the 1990 UK growth standards with only minor differences. It is not safe to assume that short stature or low body weight in a Pakistani child is due to his or her ethnic background. 相似文献
The aim of the present study was to investigate whether cisplatin would enhance the radioresponse of a human tumour xenograft
when given in different schedules combined with accelerated fractionated radiation therapy. A human squamous carcinoma of
the hypopharynx, FaDu, was grown in the thigh of athymic nude mice. Tumours were exposed to twice-daily 2-Gy fractions, applied
6 h apart over 2 weeks, 5 days a week, alone or combined with cisplatin given at maximally tolerated doses in three different
schedules: (1) i.p. as a single bolus (SB) or (2) i.p. as a daily bolus at 30 min before the first daily radiation fraction
or (3) s.c. as a continuous infusion through a mini-osmotic pump over 13 days, commencing 24 h prior to the first daily radiation
fraction. The end point for the study was tumour growth delay (TGD), calculated as the difference between the delay in regrowth
to 200% of the initial tumour size in treated versus control mice. SB cisplatin plus radiation showed only an additive effect
on TGD, whereas daily-bolus and continuous-infusion cisplatin demonstrated a greater than additive effect when combined with
accelerated fractionated radiation in this human tumour model. Cisplatin appears to be especially beneficial as a radiation
enhancer when given throughout the course of radiation.
Received: 15 December 1996 / Accepted: 25 March 1997 相似文献
The effects of methylglyoxal on the growth of a line of human melanoma
cells are investigated. Methylglyoxal inhibits cell growth in a dose-
dependent manner and causes an increase in glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate
dehydrogenase, and glyoxalase 1 and glyoxalase 2 specific activities. The
cellular response to increasing concentrations of methylglyoxal in the
culture medium is also studied by measuring L-lactate production,
reduced-oxidized glutathione levels and apoptotic cell death. Methylglyoxal
seems to promote a change of cell population phenotypic repertoire toward a
more monomorphic phenotype. In conclusion, methylglyoxal seems to induce an
enzymatic cellular response that lowers methylglyoxal levels and selects
the most resistant cells.
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The hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase (hprt) locus in 6-
thioguanine (TG) resistant T-lymphocytes is a useful target for the study
of somatic in vivo mutagenesis, since it provides information about a broad
spectrum of mutation. Mutations in the hprt coding region were studied in
124 TG-resistant T-cell clones from 38 healthy, non- smoking male donors
from a previously studied population of bus maintenance workers,
fine-mechanics and laboratory personnel. Their mean age was 43 years (range
23-64) and their hprt mutant frequency was 9.3 +/- 5.2 x 10(-6) (mean +/-
SD, range 1.4-22.6 x 10(-6)). Sequence analysis of hprt cDNA identified 115
unique mutations; 76% were simple base substitutions, 10% were +/-1 bp
frameshifts, and 10% were small deletions within exons (3-52 bp). In
addition, two tandem base substitutions and one complex mutation were
observed. Simple base substitutions were observed at 55 (20%) of 281 sites
known to be mutable in the hprt coding sequence. The distribution of these
mutations was significantly different than would be expected based upon a
Poisson distribution (P < 0.0001), suggesting the existence of
'hotspots'. All of the 87 simple base substitutions occurred at known
mutable sites, but eight were substitutions of a kind that have not
previously been reported at these sites. The most frequently mutated sites
were cDNA positions 197 and 146, with six and five independent mutations
respectively. Four mutations were observed at position 131, and three each
at positions 143, 208, 508 and 617. Transitions (52%) were slightly more
frequent than tranversions (48%), and mutations at GC base pairs (56%) more
common than mutations at AT base pairs (44%). GC > AT was the most
common type of base pair substitution (37%). The majority of the mutations
at GC base pairs (78%) occurred at sites with G in the non-transcribed
strand. All but one of eight mutations at CpG- sites were of the kind
expected from deamination of methylated cytosine. Deletion of a single base
pair (-1 frameshift) was three times more frequent than insertion of a
single bp (+1 frameshift). Almost half (6/13) of the small (3-52 bp)
deletions within the coding sequence clustered in the 5' end of exon 2.
Short repeats and other sequence motifs that have been associated with
replication error were found in the flanking regions of most of the
frameshifts and small deletions. However, several differences in the local
sequence context between +/-1 frameshift and deletion mutations were also
noticed. The present results identify positions 197, 146 and possibly 131
as hotspots for base substitution mutations, and confirm previously
reported hotspots at positions 197, 508 and 617. In addition, the earlier
notion of a deletion hotspot in the 5'end of exon 2 was confirmed. The
observations of these mutational cluster regions in different human
populations suggest that they are due to endogeneous mechanisms of
mutagenesis, or to ubiquitous environmental influences. The emerging
background spectrum of somatic in vivo mutation in the human hprt gene
provides a useful basis for comparisons with radiation or chemically
induced mutational spectra, as well as with gene mutations in human tumors.
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