Ochratoxin a production in Bavarian cereal grains stored at 15 and 19% moisture content

Wheat, barley, and maize, each in 15-kg parcels at 15 and 19% initial moisture content (IMC), were kept in a Bavarian farm granary from June through November 1990. During this period, the grain at each IMC was analyzed for mycotoxins and monitored for grain temperature, carbon dioxide, seed germination, and microfloral incidence and abundance. Barley and maize stored for 20 weeks at 19% IMC contained ochratoxin A in amounts of 70 and 90 g/kg, respectively. This mycotoxin was not detected in wheat stored at 19% IMC, nor in the grains stored at 15% IMC. Aflatoxin B₁, sterigmatocystin, citrinin, and zearalenone were also assayed but not detected in grains stored at either IMC. Principal component analysis of the data indicated that ochratoxin A was produced in a damp niche in maize, when abundant metabolic activity and CO₂ production by Penicillium glandicola and Aspergillus spp. were common.Contribution No. 1476 of the Agriculture Canada Research Station.     

Bekämpfung—Organisation—Behandlungserfolge (Statistik 2)

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Bekämpfung-Organisation-Behandlungserfolge (Statistik 2)

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Gehirn,Nerven

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Drüsen (ekkrine und endokrine)

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Metastasen und sonstige Fernwirkungen

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SACRAH: a score for assessment and quantification of chronic rheumatic affections of the hands

OBJECTIVES: To establish a questionnaire to quantify the extent of the function and activities of the hand in patients with degenerative or inflammatory disease of the hand and finger joints. METHODS: One hundred and seventy-two patients with osteoarthritis (OA, n = 69) or rheumatoid arthritis (RA, n = 103) completed a new questionnaire, the SACRAH, that included 23 visual analogue scales covering the extent of hand function, stiffness and level of pain. SACRAH scores may range from 0 to 100. RESULTS: Comparing all studied patients, there was no significant difference in SACRAH scores between OA and RA patients (34 vs 32, not significant). Scores for both patient groups differed significantly from those for 30 healthy controls. Among patients taking NSAIDs only, individuals suffering from OA (n = 50) scored significantly lower than RA patients (n = 42) (36 vs 48, P < 0.004). Sixty-one RA patients taking DMARDs scored lower than the RA patient group treated with NSAIDs only (20 vs 48, P < 0.0001). Thirty-two RA patients were evaluated longitudinally at their first visit and 3 months after the initiation of DMARDs. Following therapy, SACRAH scores were significantly reduced from 50 to 11 (P < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: The questionnaire enables the quantification of compromised hand function, stiffness and pain in OA and RA patients, and is sensitive to therapy-related changes in RA patients.     

On the history of the teaching of squint (author's transl)]

After an introduction on the value of history also from modern medicine, the teaching of strabismus from the earliest begin at the time of Hammurapis (1700 BC) up to our times is broadly described. The old greek and latin ideas are analysed linguistically. The work of Johannes Müller and Emil Javel is especially emphasized with regard to advances in the teaching of squint and its treatment. Landolt, Maddox, Sattler and Bielschowsky above all have usefully completed these aspects. The knowledges over squint which were forgotten in many places in the first third of our century were rediscovered and considerably extended, at first by Worth, and later especially by Lyle, Bangerter, Hugonnier, Cüppers, and last but not least Heinrich Harms.