解脲脲原体与自然流产关系的探讨

采用聚合酶链反应技术对３２例自然流产患者的宫颈粘液及其中２２例清宫组织进行解脲脲原体（ＵＵ）检测，并与３０例人工流产妇女比较。结果表明：自然流产与ＵＵ寄生于宫颈无关（Ｐ＞０．０５），与宫内感染ＵＵ明显相关（Ｐ＜０．０５）。     

动脉数字减影血管造影的临床应用

本文报告８０例动脉数字减影血管造影（ＩＡＤＳＡ）的初步经验，特别着重影像质量的评价。在本组病例，ＩＡＤＳＡ主要用于头颅、颈部、肺、腹部以及先天性心脏病的诊断。本组未发生重大并发症。ＩＡＤＳＡ的优点是：（１）影像质量好；（２）用于ＩＡＤＳＡ的剂量和浓度以及导管的直径均较用于常规血管造影的小得多，因此其副作用和并发症显著减少；（３）检查时间显著缩短，因此，ＩＡＤＳＡ对介入放射学治疗特别有用；（４）ＩＡＤＳＡ现已大部取代常规血管造影来诊断多种疾病。     

615系小鼠自发乳腺癌的发病率及病理形态学观察

100对615系种鼠,常规饲养繁殖,观察33个月(终生),其乳腺癌发病率为5.5%(11例全部发生于经产雌鼠),低于肺腺癌(11%,22例,雌雄各半)而居第二位,故615系小鼠仍属低乳癌品系。对615系小鼠的46例自发乳腺癌进行了病理形态学检查分析:瘤细胞可分为小、中、大三类。组织分型属A型者18例,多由小细胞及少量中细胞构成;属B型者28例,除小细胞外往往可见较多的中细胞甚或主要由大细胞与中细胞构成。B型乳腺癌的分化程度似较A型者为低。转移主要发生于肺部。7例经镜检证实属乳腺癌的肺转移瘤,其原代瘤属A型者1例,属B型者6例。肺转移瘤的组织像与原发瘤基本相同者4例;而细胞变大,呈实心排列,显示分化程度低于原发瘤者3例。     

Paternal and Maternal Smoking Habits before Conception and During the First Trimester: Relation to Spontaneous Abortion

PURPOSE: This study examined the association between maternal smoking before and during the first trimester of pregnancy and spontaneous abortion.

METHODS: We have been conducting a hospital-based case-control study on risk factors for spontaneous abortion in the greater Milan area. We collected information from 782 cases of spontaneous abortions and 1543 controls (women who delivered at term healthy infants).

RESULTS: With respect to never smokers, the odds ratio (OR) were 0.7 (95%, confidence interval (CI), 0.5–1.0) for women who quit smoking and 1.3 (95% CI, 1.0–1.6) for those who continued during pregnancy. Women who smoked more than 10 cigarettes/day in the first trimester were at increased risk of miscarriage, with an OR of 1.4 (95% CI, 1.0–2.1). No relationship was evident between the number of cigarettes smoked before conception and the risk of abortion. Likewise, no association emerged between paternal smoking and miscarriage. Moreover, no significant interaction or modification effect was obtained when strata of age and other major characteristics were investigated.

CONCLUSIONS: The risk of abortion associated with cigarette smoking during the first trimester of pregnancy was measurable and noticeable in this population, and accounted for 9% (95% CI, 6–13%) of all cases. The increased risk of spontaneous abortion in women smoking during pregnancy is a further reason to encourage pregnant women to quit.     

Spontaneous ovarian hyperstimulation mimicking an ovarian tumour

Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome in a spontaneous singletonpregnancy is exceedingly rare. We report a case of ovarian hyperstimulationpresenting as bilateral ovarian masses in association with spontaneouspregnancy, occurring in a woman with disturbed liver function.A possible mechanism is discussed.     

Pharmacological properties of a lyophilizate from Galeopsis ladanum on the central nervous system of rodents

The influence of a fraction obtained from Galeopsis ladanum L. on the central nervous system of rodents was examined. The results of these investigations show that the fraction impeded CNS activity. It is practically nontoxic and at a dose of 2000 mg/kg i.p. it does not have a soporific influence on mice. It reduces considerably the spontaneous locomotor activity of mice as well as the locomotor activity of mice stimulated by caffeine, but did not influence the locomotor activity induced by amphetamine. The extract did not exhibit a synergetic effect with barbiturates. The results suggest that the pharmacological activity of the extract resembled the activity of drugs which generally depress the CNS, being on the border between ataractic and sedative drugs.     

Molecular interactions during pregnancy: Association between mannan binding protein deficiency and recurrent miscarriage

The distribution of mannan binding protein (MBP) in blood donorsera was determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay toestablish normal concentrations. Abnormally low MBP concentrationswere found in 16% (21 out of 135) of female partners and 14%(15 out of 108) of male partners of couples experiencing recurrentmiscarriage, compared with <5% of obstetrically normal controls(P < 0.005). This relationship was even stronger (9.5 versus1.0%) and more significant (P < 0.002) when only subjectspresumed to be homozygous for the mutant allele responsiblefor MBP deficiency were considered. By immunohistochemistry,MBP could be demonstrated in first trimester placenta. We suggestthat low concentrations of MBP within the feto-placental unitincrease susceptibility to fetal loss, possibly via an infection-inducedplacental cytokine imbalance.     

High resolution nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of the spinal cord in experimental demyelinating disease

Summary Chronic recurrent experimental allergic encephalomyelitis was induced in a strain 13 guinea pig by inoculation of isologous spinal cord homogenate. The spinal cord was obtained after perfusion with 4% paraformaldehyde and examined with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging. Proton NMR spin echo images (repetition time: 3 s; echo times: 20 and 60 ms) were obtained from intact, isolated spinal cord in a 4.7 Tesla, 50 mm bore magnet. The slice thickness of the images was 380 m and the inplane resolution was 40×40 m. The images showed superficial areas of low signal intensity in the lateroventral regions of the white matter, in some instances with a seam of higher signal intensity. Neuropathologically, these abnormalities corresponded exactly to areas of demyelination. Control images did not show these abnormalities. The present high resolution imaging allowed a correlation between demyelination and abnormal NMR signals in a small laboratory animal with an inflammatory demyelinating disease.Supported by the Belgian Foundation of Medical Scientific Research (FGWO, grant 3.0096.86 and grant 3.0019.86), by the Institute for the promotion of Scientific Research in Industry and Agriculture (IWONL) and by the Scientic Research Planning Office of the Belgian Government (DPWB), contract no. 87/92-120     

以心跳骤停为首发症状的蛛网膜下腔出血共同特征研究

<正>心跳骤停（cardiac arrest,CA）和蛛网膜下腔出血（subarachnoid hemorrhage,SAH）均是急诊科常见的急危重症,CA可见于多种疾病的各个阶段,复苏成功率不高,甚至造成CA的病因不甚明确。SAH典型表现为剧烈头痛、呕吐、脑膜刺激征,诊断并不困难。而以CA为首发症状的SAH,由于心肺复苏无法常规进行头颅CT检查,给诊断增加了困难。本文通过对16例以CA为首发症状的SAH患者进行回顾性研究,来提高SAH-CA的快速病因诊断,避免漏诊误诊。     

Further evidence for the dynamic formation of transmitter quanta at the neuromuscular junction.

Fatt and Katz (Nature 166:597-598, 1950; J Physiol 117:109-128, 1952) attributed miniature endplate potentials (MEPPs) to the action of a standard quantity of transmitter, the quantum (Del Castillo and Katz, J Physiol 124:560-573, 1954). Quantal packets of transmitter were proposed to be preformed (Del Castillo and Katz, In CNRS Paris (Ed): "Microphysiologie comparée des éléments excitables" 67:245-258, 1957) and stored in large numbers in the motor nerve terminal. Statistical analyses of intervals between MEPPs and numbers of quanta composing small endplate potentials indicated that quantal release was a random process and that release sites functioned independently of each other. With the discovery of synaptic vesicles it was proposed that each contained one quantum of transmitter. The quantal-vesicular hypothesis (Del Castillo and Katz, as cited above) fails, however, to explain amplitude distributions of MEPPs that are skewed and/or that show multiple peaks (Kriebel et al., Brain Res Review 15:167-178, 1990). The drop formation process (Shaw, "The Dripping Faucet as a Model Chaotic System," Santa Cruz, CA: Aerial Press, Inc., 1984) was shown to generate amplitude classes of drops that were similar to classes of MEPPs which suggested that rapid changes in quantal size and ratios of skew- to bell-MEPPs could be explained with a simple dynamic process which determines quantal size at the moment of release (Kriebel et al., as cited above, 1990). Further similarities between miniature endplate currents (MEPCs) and the formation of drops are reported here. We found that rapid changes in MEPC amplitudes and time courses, which accompany an increase in frequency, mimic changes in drop sizes that accompany increases in flow rate. MEPC intervals have a minimum and their distributions are comparable to those of drop intervals. During an increased rate of transmitter release, MEPP amplitudes and intervals were positively correlated. The results suggest that spontaneously released transmitter "packets" are formed at the moment of release and that transmitter supply to the process that forms packets is continuous.