The effect of culture medium from fibroblast cultures of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients and healthy controls on the elemental composition of fibroblasts was investigated by X-ray microanalysis. Exposure of normal fibroblasts to culture medium from CF fibroblasts caused an increase in calcium level. Exposure of CF fibroblasts to culture medium from normal cells caused an increase of the sodium content of CF cells to approximately normal levels; the calcium level of the CF fibroblasts, however, remained abnormally high. The results may indicate that CF fibroblasts lack a factor needed for the regulation of sodium transport. CF fibroblast medium apparently contains a factor that interferes with the regulation of calcium transport. 相似文献
Age-hardening mechanisms and related ordering behaviors of the experimental (AuCu)1−xZnx alloys with x0.2 were investigated for dental applications. The addition of Zn to equiatomic AuCu greatly increased the age-hardening rate and delayed overaging. It was suggested that the quenched-in excess vacancies were greatly related to the age-hardening rate in the AuCu–Zn pseudobinary alloys. In these alloys, the hardness became maximum during the very initial stage of ordering, and with the development of ordered phase, the hardness began to decrease. Transmission electron microscopy revealed that the age-hardening of AuCu–Zn pseudobinary alloys is caused by lattice distortion that occurred during the very early stage of atomic ordering. The addition of Zn to AuCu effectively increased the density of antiphase boundaries per unit volume of the AuCu II superstructure. This is suggested to be the main cause for the retardation of the overaging in the alloys containing Zn of 5 at% or more. This pronounced effect of Zn addition to AuCu alloy on its age-hardening characteristics may be advantageous for obtaining stable mechanical properties of dental casting gold alloys. 相似文献
Objective: We investigated the effects of 1-year tibolone treatment on body weight, body composition and indices of android obesity in postmenopausal women.
Methods: Forty-four postmenopausal women participated in this open-label controlled study; mean age was 51.8 ± 2.21 years and all women were menopausal for 3.8 ± 1.40 years. Twenty-two of them started taking 2.5 mg tibolone (TIB) daily for 1 year, whereas the remaining 22 served as age-matched controls. All subjects underwent a structured interview, physical examination, body composition measurements performed by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) — Hologic QDR 4500 A, as well as bioelectrical body impedance analysis (BI) — Tanita TBF-215, Japan.
Results: The TIB group did not significantly increase their weight (+0.4 kg), while the non-treated controls increased their mean weight by 1.4 kg (p = 0.046). In the TIB group, DXA showed a non-significant body fat decrease by a mean of 0.5 kg and a non-significant lean mass increase by 0.8 kg, while in the control group, fat mass increased by 1.7 kg (p = 0.032) and lean mass did not change. BI revealed that the TIB group had lost some fat (≈0.6 kg, n.s.) and put some free-fat mass (≈1.0 kg, p = 0.048) without changes in total body water. The control group put on some fat (≈1.1 kg, p = 0.042) and lost some body water (≈0.4 kg, n.s.).
Conclusion: Results from both methods of measuring body composition show a similar trend: a decrease in fat mass and an increase in lean mass in TIB treated subjects. From the body composition perspective, tibolone may be regarded as a preferential alternative to conventional hormonal therapy (HT) in postmenopausal women. 相似文献
Zusammenfassung Anhand einer prospektiven, auslesefreien Serie von 22 Patienten mit perforierten Ulcera im Gastroduodenalbereich verweisen wir auf die begrenzte diagnostische Aussagekraft einfacher anamnestischer, klinischer und radiologischer Daten. Lediglich bei acht Patienten (36%) ergaben sich wesentliche Indizien aus Krankengeschichte und Aufnahmebefund. Bei 16 Patienten (73%) verriet die Thoraxübersichtsaufnahme durch Nachweis einer subphrenischen Luftsichel eine Perforation im Magen-Darm-Trakt. Die Ultraschalluntersuchung wird als bedeutungsvolle Ergänzungsmethode vor allem in der diagnostischen Abklärung radiologisch negativer Ulcusperforationen vorgestellt und diskutiert. Dabei werden die sonographisch faßbare flüssigkeitsbedingte Magendistension sowie das Magenwandödem als unspezifische Kriterien gewertet. Der Objektivierung einer pathologischen Magenkokarde kommt bei gleichzeitigem Nachweis freier Luft und/oder extraluminärer Ingesta sowie freier echoloser Transsudatflüssigkeit pathognomonische Beweiskraft zu. Selbige Ultraschallkriterien erlaubten im einschlägigen Krankengut bei 16 Patienten (73%) eine definitive Diagnose und erfaßte 4 Patienten mit negativem Röntgen. Die kombinierte Analyse radiologischer und sonographischer Befunde führte somit bei 20 Patienten (91 %) unverzüglich zur korrekten Diagnose.
Perforated peptic ulcer: Diagnosis and assessment by sonography
Summary In a prospective unselected series of 22 patients with perforated gastroduodenal ulcers the diagnostic efficacy of clinical and radiologic data was modest. In eight patients only (36%), clinical data yielded sufficient evidence; in 16 patients (73%), plain X-ray demonstrated subphrenic gas. Sonography was proven to be a major advance, especially rewarding in the diagnosis of perforations with negative plain X-ray. Gastric distention and stomach wall edema are unspecifc sonographic criteria, whereas objectivation of a pathologic stomach cockade in the presence of free gas, extraluminary ingesta or echofree fluid in the peritoneal cavity are pathognomonic data. These criteria yielded a definite diagnosis in 16 patients (73%) including four patients with negative X-ray. The combined analysis of radiologic and sonographic findings yielded an immediate correct diagnosis in 20 patients (91%).
