Publications
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| structural response of the hamster sertoli cell to hypophysectomy: a correlative morphometric and endocrine study. | reproductively active hamsters were hypophysectomized and examined 6 or 20 days later in a combined morphometric and endocrine study of the sertoli cell to determine 1) the morphological and endocrine effects of hypophysectomy of both short- and long-term duration, 2) if regression of sertoli cells after hypophysectomy in a seasonal breeder resembles regression due to seasonal changes, and 3) if effects of hypophysectomy in a seasonal breeder are equivalent to the effects of hypophysectomy in a ... | 1996 | 1456454 |
| chlamydial infection in canada. | 1992 | 1458406 | |
| anti-enterobacteria antibodies in psoriatic arthritis. | the occurrence of certain antibacterial antibodies was studied in the sera of 22 healthy donors (hd) and 66 patients with different diseases. the cases investigated included 22 rheumatoid arthritis (ra), 22 non-arthritic-psoriasis (nap), and 22 psoriatic arthritis (pa) patients. a complement fixation test was used with yersinia enterocolitica 0:3 type (yec), yersinia pseudotuberculosis (ypt), campylobacter jejuni (cj), and campylobacter fetus (cf) antigens; the detection of anti-chlamydia tracho ... | 1992 | 1458698 |
| avascular necrosis of bone in systemic sclerosis. | 2006 | 1458801 | |
| analysis of soluble human and mouse interferon-gamma receptors expressed in eukaryotic cells. | the extracellular domains of the human and mouse interferon-gamma receptors were produced in insect spodoptera frugiperda cells infected with recombinant baculoviruses and in mammalian chinese-hamster-ovary cells. the receptors expressed in both systems are secreted into the culture medium. their signal peptides are cleaved off and the proteins show heterogeneity in glycosylation which, however, does not affect the capacity to bind interferon gamma or specific antibodies. the soluble mouse recep ... | 1992 | 1459135 |
| chlamydia antibody by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and associated severity of tubal factor infertility. | we have evaluated the clinical utility of the serum chlamydial antibody value by elisa in predicting the severity of tubal factor infertility quantified by the use of a previously reported pelvic scoring system. significant differences in salpingitis scores, tubal occlusion scores, adhesion scores, and pelvic stages were found with increasing chlamydia antibody grades. the level of elisa value strongly correlated with salpingitis, tubal occlusion, and total pelvic scores and pelvic stages. the s ... | 1992 | 1459280 |
| analysis of genomic dna from chlamydia trachomatis for dam and dcm methylation. | chlamydia trachomatis is a gram-negative eubacterium with a dimorphic developmental cycle and obligate intracellular growth in the eucaryotic host. the dam transmethylase of escherichia coli methylates at the n6 position of adenine in the sequence 5'-gatc-3' and the dcm transmethylase adds methyl groups to the c5 position of the internal cytosines in the sequences 5'-ccwgg-3'. in contrast to e. coli, c. trachomatis dna appears to have unmethylated dam sites and only low level dcm methylation. | 1992 | 1459404 |
| effects of interleukin-1 beta and tumor necrosis factor-alpha on osteoblastic expression of osteocalcin and mineralized extracellular matrix in vitro. | osteoblasts play a pivotal role during the bioresponse of bone to agents that stimulate bone resorption and/or inhibit bone formation including hormones, polypeptide growth factors, and cytokines. we examined the cytokines interleukin-1-beta (il-1 beta) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (tnf-alpha) for their effects on osteoblastic proliferation and development and expression of alkaline phosphate and the osteoblast-specific protein osteocalcin in a mineralizing environment. primary rat osteoblast ... | 1992 | 1459694 |
| [exposure to noise by electronic amplified music--rock concerts carry a risk of hearing damage]. | 2005 | 1460969 | |
| [declining incidence of chlamydia--increasing diagnostic demands]. | 1992 | 1460973 | |
| [chlamydia trachomatis in young conscripts--survey, urine analysis and urethral culture]. | 1992 | 1460983 | |
| [decisional analysis in the diagnosis of chlamydia trachomatis]. | the aim of this work is the use of decisional analysis for the clinical diagnosis of chlamydia trachomatis, to verify the utility of making a routine direct immunofluorescence test with a strategy of no routine direct immunofluorescence test with a strategy of no routine test in women during gynecologic escannations. patients eligible for this analysis were sexually active woman, who are not pregnant, woman in reproductive age who do not have evidence of a clinical syndrome associated with or kn ... | 1992 | 1461550 |
| [genital chlamydia trachomatis infection in abortion seekers. strategy of examination and treatment in order to reduce the sequelae of the infection]. | among women applying for termination of pregnancy, 5-17% are infected with chlamydia trachomatis. the prevalence is higher among women under 20 years of age (12-30%), in nulliparae and when neisseria gonorrhoeae are found simultaneously. if women applying for termination of pregnancy with chlamydia infection are not treated, 10-60% will develop pelvic infection after abortion. salpingitis caused by chlamydia runs a milder clinical course than salpingitis caused by gonococci or other etiology but ... | 1992 | 1462399 |
| [presence of genital chlamydia trachomatis in abortion seekers--correlates with young age and nulliparity but not with previous genital infection]. | out of 432 women applying for termination of pregnancy, 7.9% (34/428) had cervical chlamydia trachomatis and 0.7% (3/431) genital neisseria gonorrhoeae. the prevalence of chlamydia was 19.2% among the women applying for termination who were under 20 years and 12.8% among those aged 21-25 years. the finding of chlamydia among nulliparae was 14.5%. only 2.8% of the women with chlamydia had previously had pelvic infections. women with chlamydia did not have significantly greater frequency of previo ... | 1992 | 1462400 |
| [preventive antibiotics in induced first-trimester abortion]. | the frequency of infection following induced first-trimester abortion is 3-5%. duration of hospitalization is often five days, and the total costs per abortion were 5,400 dkr (approximately pounds 500) in denmark in 1979. sequelae of postabortal infection are similar to and occur with the same frequency as sequelae to "spontaneous" pelvic inflammatory disease. thus, secondary infertility was found in 10% of women with postabortal infection, spontaneous abortion in 22%, dyspareunia in 20%, and ch ... | 1992 | 1462401 |
| characteristics of polymorphism at a vntr locus 3' to the apolipoprotein b gene in five human populations. | we have analyzed the allele frequency distribution at the hypervariable locus 3' to the apolipoprotein b gene (apob 3' vntr) in five well-defined human populations (kacharis of northeast india, new guinea highlanders of papua new guinea, dogrib indians of canada, pehuenche indians of chile, and a relatively homogeneous caucasian population of northern german extraction) by using the pcr technique. a total of 12 segregating alleles were detected in the pooled sample of 319 individuals. a fairly c ... | 1992 | 1463014 |
| [the pathogenic role of chlamydia trachomatis in otitis media with effusion]. | there are conflicting views concerning middle ear infections due to chlamydia trachomatis. to ascertain the etiological role of this agent in otitis media with effusion, middle ear effusions were cultured for c. trachomatis and other bacterial flora. a total of 102 patients with otitis media with effusion (ome) were recruited for this study. the study population included 66 patients with acute ome (aome) and 36 patients with chronic ome (come). as chlamydia pneumoniae, the third species of chlam ... | 1992 | 1464792 |
| aetiological role of bacteria associated with reactive arthritis in pauciarticular juvenile chronic arthritis. | the cause of juvenile chronic arthritis (jca) is unknown. pauciarticular jca is the most common subtype and can be subdivided into early (type i) and late onset (type ii) forms, the latter clinically resembling reactive arthritis. | 1992 | 1466598 |
| pregnancy and childbirth beliefs and practices of american hare krishna devotees within transcultural nursing. | the followers of krishna consciousness are primarily young men and women of child-bearing age who desire healthy pregnancies within the beliefs and practices of their particular culture. the researcher spent a year and a half with american hare krishna devotees in a large southeastern city and on a farm in a neighboring state. the researcher used leininger's cultural care theory and the ethnographic qualitative research method to focus on the ethnohistory, social structures, and care and caring ... | 2005 | 1466867 |
| complex cytokine modulation of a continuous line of mink lung epithelial cells (mv1lu). | the continuous mink lung epithelial cell line mv1lu has proven to be a sensitive reporter line in the bioassay for purified tgf-beta, exhibiting a sigmoid-shaped concentration-response relationship with an ec50 of 12 pm (0.3 ng/ml). maximal inhibition of mv1lu cells generates a 75-95% decrement in the number of adherent cells. however, this bioassay is not specific for tgf-beta as originally claimed. mv1lu cells are sensitive to other cytokines and substances found in complex biological fluids. ... | 2006 | 1468414 |
| [insulin administration systems. possibilities and difficulties]. | conventional insulin therapy, particularly when intensive, dose not provide all the comfort and effectiveness desired. the new insulin therapy methods that are, or will soon be, available are described in this review paper. the new types of subcutaneous insulin administration include the so-called "fountain-pens"--in fact ready-to-use syringes--and portable insulin pumps, which are helpful to some patients. pancreas and islets transplantations are limited by the problem of tissue harvesting and ... | 2006 | 1470614 |
| association of cervicovaginal infections with increased vaginal fluid phospholipase a2 activity. | the purpose of this study was to determine if phospholipase a2 was detectable within vaginal fluid and to correlate its presence with the presence of common lower genital tract infection or microbial conditions. | 1992 | 1471671 |
| modulation of the low-density-lipoprotein-receptor-related protein and its relevance to chylomicron-remnant metabolism. | hepatic levels of the low-density-lipoprotein (ldl)-receptor-related protein (lrp) and the ldl receptor were measured in rats subjected to treatments known to affect the expression of the ldl receptor. propylthiouracil decreased both hepatic lrp and ldl receptor expression by 30-40%. thyroxine treatment increased ldl receptor levels by 3-fold without altering lrp levels. in contrast, 17 alpha-ethinyloestradiol decreased lrp by 50%, whereas the ldl receptor was increased 5-fold. plasma chylomicro ... | 1992 | 1471994 |
| lack of circumcision increases the risk of urinary tract infection in young men. | to determine whether lack of circumcision increases the risk of urinary tract infection (uti) in adult men. | 1992 | 1472171 |
| psychotherapist-patient sexual contact after termination of treatment. | 2006 | 1472197 | |
| alterations of glycosphingolipid-based blood group antigen expression on erythrocytes and in plasma studied on consecutive samples after a blood group o to a bone marrow transplantation. | a blood group a1le(a-b+) individual with chronic myeloid leukaemia had received a bone marrow graft from an hla-identical ole(a+b-) donor. twelve months after bone marrow transplantation (bmt), the red blood cells of the patient became agglutinable with anti-a blood group reagents. to elucidate whether the blood group a antigen expression was of plasma or of bone marrow origin, total non-acid glycosphingolipid fractions were prepared from red blood cells and plasma collected 17 months after bmt, ... | 2005 | 1472759 |
| partner notification and patient education for cases of chlamydia trachomatis infection in a rural nova scotia health unit. | from september 1990 to march 1991, 47 of 52 patients with genital c. trachomatis infections in a rural health unit in nova scotia were interviewed about preventive education by physicians partner notification, past history, and treatment. seventy-six percent of those with partners of the previous month were instructed by physicians to notify these partners. twenty-five of 37 partners were notified. of those not notified, 83% could have been reached. reasons for cases not notifying partners inclu ... | 1992 | 1473063 |
| [diagnosis of gonococcal urethritis and chlamydial urethritis by polymerase chain reaction]. | a polymerase chain reaction (pcr) method was compared to standard methods (cultures for neisseria gonorrhoeae and chlamydia trachomatis and an enzyme-immunoassay for c. trachomatis) in diagnosis of gonococcal and chlamydial urethritis in 40 male patients with urethritis. gonococcal urethritis was diagnosed by detection of a 206 bp dna fragment amplified by pcr with n. gonorrhoeae-specific primers. chlamydial urethritis was diagnosed by detection of a 242 bp dna fragment amplified by pcr with c. ... | 1992 | 1474717 |
| chlamydia trachomatis confirmatory testing of pcr-positive genitourinary specimens using a second set of plasmid primers. | a plasmid-based pcr for the detection of chlamydia trachomatis was evaluated with a confirmatory pcr employing a second set of plasmid primers. a total of 258 genitourinary specimens including 134 female endocervical and urethral specimens and 124 male urethral specimens were tested by culture, blocked eia and pcr. fifty-four specimens were positive by culture, 50 were positive by eia and 71 were positive by pcr. fourteen specimens that were pcr-positive but culture- and eia-negative were confir ... | 1992 | 1474977 |
| a longitudinal study of pelvic inflammatory disease. | to study the microbiology and long term prognosis of pelvic inflammatory disease (pid). | 1992 | 1477024 |
| evaluation of new anti-infective drugs for the treatment of chancroid. infectious diseases society of america and the food and drug administration. | chancroid is a mucocutaneous infection caused by haemophilus ducreyi that produces ulcerative lesions and enhances the efficiency of transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv). confirmation of infection by culture of h. ducreyi is essential in therapeutic trials. minimal inhibitory concentrations of antibiotics for the isolate should be determined by agar dilution. patients should be evaluated by appropriate laboratory tests for syphilis, infection with herpes simplex virus, gonorrhea, a ... | 1992 | 1477217 |
| evaluation of new anti-infective drugs for the treatment of uncomplicated gonorrhea in adults and adolescents. infectious diseases society of america and the food and drug administration. | gonorrhea is among the most common sexually transmitted diseases. treatment for uncomplicated gonorrhea should be efficacious in > or = 95% of cases. because patients with gonococcal infections often have other sexually transmitted diseases concurrently, individuals enrolled in clinical trials of therapy for gonorrhea should also be evaluated for infection with chlamydia trachomatis and for syphilis. testing for other pathogens should be considered in light of the clinical presentation. the pres ... | 1992 | 1477219 |
| evaluation of new anti-infective drugs for the treatment of sexually transmitted chlamydial infections and related clinical syndromes. infectious diseases society of america and the food and drug administration. | this guideline addresses clinical trials of new antimicrobial agents in the treatment of uncomplicated genital infections caused by chlamydia trachomatis and of syndromes resembling chlamydial infections. the most common clinical manifestations of chlamydial infection are urethritis in men and mucopurulent cervicitis in women. however, many chlamydial infections are not associated with inflammatory symptoms or signs. culture is the diagnostic standard for defining the presence of c. trachomatis, ... | 1992 | 1477220 |
| evaluation of new anti-infective drugs for the treatment of acute pelvic inflammatory disease. infectious diseases society of america and the food and drug administration. | pelvic inflammatory disease (pid) is a syndrome unrelated to pregnancy or surgery and characterized by lower abdominal pain and tenderness, cervical motion tenderness, and adnexal tenderness. fever, leukocytosis, and the results of laboratory tests are used to support the diagnosis. participants in clinical trials should be stratified into two groups: those with and those without tubo-ovarian abscess--i.e., those with complicated and those with uncomplicated pid. diagnostic studies and treatment ... | 1992 | 1477252 |
| immunomagnetic recovery of chlamydia trachomatis from urine with subsequent colorimetric dna detection. | there is need for integrated systems that provide rapid and sensitive diagnosis of chlamydia trachomatis. here we describe for the first time that specific antibodies to a c. trachomatis surface protein can be used for magnetic recovery of bacteria directly from crude urine samples. the combination of immunomagnetic separation (ims), where the bacterial cells are both purified and concentrated, with a colorimetric pcr assay makes the method sensitive and suitable for routine clinical screening i ... | 1992 | 1477673 |
| specificity of the microimmunofluorescence assay for the serodiagnosis of chlamydia pneumoniae infections. | chlamydia pneumoniae infections are mostly confirmed using an indirect microimmunofluorescence test for which potential cross-reactions between antigens from different chlamydial species are not well documented. using this assay, 928 sera (507 subjects) submitted for chlamydia pneumoniae serology were tested for specific igm and igg to this bacteria using the tw-183 antigen. igm and igg reactivities to chlamydia trachomatis serotypes c, d, e, and l2 and chlamydia psittaci strain 6bc antigens wer ... | 1992 | 1477792 |
| evaluation of syva's enzyme immunoassay for the detection of chlamydia trachomatis in urogenital specimens. | a newly developed microwell enzyme immunosorbent assay (eia) system by syva company (palo alto, ca) can detect chlamydia trachomatis in < 3 hr. it uses a polyclonal antibody to chlamydial lipopolysaccharide and end points are determined with a spectrophotometer. three clinical trial sites (university of california medical center, san francisco, ca; university of washington, seattle, wa; and louisiana state university medical center, new orleans, la), compared this eia with tissue culture (tc) fo ... | 1992 | 1478048 |
| the clinical and endoscopic spectrum of the watermelon stomach. | the watermelon stomach is an uncommon but treatable cause of chronic gastrointestinal bleeding. we report our experience with the clinical and endoscopic features of 45 consecutive patients treated by endoscopic nd:yag laser coagulation. the prototypic patient was a woman (71%) with an average age of 73 years (range of 53-89 years) who presented with occult (89%) transfusion-dependent (62%) gastrointestinal bleeding over a median period of 2 years (range of 1 month to > 20 years). autoimmune con ... | 2006 | 1479175 |
| the reverse radial forearm flap in the severely injured hand: an anatomical and clinical study. | an anatomical study in 25 cadaveric upper limbs quantified the communications between the radial and ulnar arteries immediately proximal to the carpus. these studies suggest that the reverse radial forearm flap can safely be used in severe hand trauma where reliable pre-operative assessment of the palmar collateral circulation is not possible. it is recommended that the pedicle is pivoted 4 cm from the styloid process at which point there is a 96% probability of leaving the superficial palmar br ... | 2006 | 1479238 |
| median nerve compression in the proximal forearm as a complication of partial rupture of the distal biceps brachii tendon. | 2006 | 1479243 | |
| the role of an adhesive (histoacryl) in tendon repair. | two in vitro experiments have been done comparing various techniques of tendon repair. these include repairs using an adhesive, 2-butyl cyanoacrylate (histoacryl), and repairs by the modified kessler technique, using 4/0 braided polyester and 4/0 stainless steel. mechanical analysis has shown that by replacing the circumferential suture of a modified kessler tendon repair with histoacryl, the tensile strength of the repair and the force needed to produce a gap can be increased by 30% to 40%. thi ... | 2006 | 1479248 |
| effect of minocycline on the sperm count and activity in infertile men with high pus cell count in their seminal fluid. | twenty-five infertile males with 5 or more pus cells per 1000 x field in their seminal fluid were randomly assigned to treatment with minocycline 200 mg daily for one (group a) or two (group b) weeks. at the end of the treatment period a statistically significant reduction of pus cells, and a statistically significant increase in the sperm count and the motile sperm were observed (wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks test, p < 0.01). no statistically significant differences were observed between ... | 1992 | 1479417 |
| recurrence rate after fluid aspiration from sonographically benign-appearing ovarian cysts. | the outcome after fluid aspiration from 41 sonographically benign-appearing ovarian cysts was assessed. the considerable probability of recurrence was significantly higher after ultrasound-guided aspiration than following aspiration via laparoscopy (54% versus 30%, respectively, at 36 months). although all the recurring cysts were benign, the concern with malignancy and the high recurrence rate seem to indicate that fluid aspiration from sonographically benign-appearing cysts by either method is ... | 2006 | 1479565 |
| [updating on chlamydia trachomatis infections]. | 1992 | 1480304 | |
| role of the mesolimbic dopamine system in the mechanism of action of antidepressants. | 2004 | 1480562 | |
| [regulation of gastrointestinal functions by the ileocecal area]. | the importance of the distal small intestine and the ileocecal region for the regulation of gastrointestinal functions in humans has not been investigated in depth until recently. a regulatory role is postulated because even in healthy subjects, undigested nutrients pass across the ileocecal junction after most meals (physiologic malabsorption). nutrient exposure of the ileocecal region causes slowing of gastric emptying and small intestinal transit, and decrease in small intestinal motor activi ... | 2006 | 1481555 |
| [chlamydia infection and salpingitis]. | chlamydia trachomatis is the most prevalent etiologic agent in women with uncomplicated salpingitis. this presentation reviews the current aspects of etiology, diagnosis, therapy, prevention and complications of this disease. the other clinical manifestations of chlamydial infection are also discussed. | 1992 | 1481583 |
| a temporal-abstraction system for patient monitoring. | resume is a system that performs temporal abstraction of time-stamped data. resume is based on a model of three temporal-abstraction mechanisms: point temporal abstraction (a mechanism for abstracting values of several parameters into a value of another parameter); temporal inference (a mechanism for inferring sound logical conclusions over a single interval or two meeting intervals); and temporal interpolation (a mechanism for bridging nonmeeting temporal intervals). making explicit the knowled ... | 2006 | 1482852 |
| a needs analysis for computer-based telephone triage in a community aids clinic. | this study describes the complexity of the telephone-triage task in a community-based aids clinic. we identify deficiencies related to the data management for and documentation of the telephone-triage encounter, including inaccessibility of the medical record and failure to document required data elements. our needs analysis suggests five design criteria for a computer-based system that assists nurses with the telephone-triage task: (1) online accessibility of the medical record, (2) ability to ... | 2006 | 1482941 |
| watching a generation die: canadian doctors and the battlefields of world war i. | 2006 | 1483240 | |
| [a case of central nervous system sarcoidosis, presenting with psychomotor seizure]. | a rare case of neurosarcoidosis presenting with psychomotor seizure is reported. a 35-year-old woman was admitted to our ward for further evaluation of syncopal attacks and suspected sarcoidosis. the patient had a history of syncopal attacks for about 15 years prior to admission; however, the pathogenesis was not clarified in spite of various examinations. three months prior to admission, left peripheral facial nerve palsy, bilateral hypopion and bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy on plain chest fi ... | 2006 | 1484441 |
| robotics in the clinical laboratory. | 1993 | 1485685 | |
| gardnerella vaginalis infection and sexual contact in female children. | gardnerella vaginalis (gv) infection has been reported as being acquired via sexual contact in adults and as an indicator of sexual contact in female children (dejong, 1985). the purpose of this study was to determine if gv infection was more commonly found in 191 female children who gave a history of sexual contact and/or were infected with neisseria gonorrhoeae (gc) or chlamydia trachomatis (ct) (group 1), compared with 144 female children evaluated for possible sexual abuse and found to have ... | 1992 | 1486513 |
| chlamydial infections of the heart. | chlamydiae are common human pathogens, causing a broad spectrum of infectious diseases. chlamydial infections involving the heart have been described in numerous previous reports. these organisms are documented to cause endocarditis, myocarditis and pericarditis. furthermore, chlamydia pneumoniae, the recently discovered respiratory pathogen, has also been implicated in coronary artery disease. for the first time the literature on involvement of the heart in chlamydial infections is reviewed. in ... | 1992 | 1486883 |
| [remission of acute promyelocytic leukemia after all-trans-retinoic acid]. | this is the first report in israel of the successful treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia (apl; m3) with an active metabolite of vitamin a. in a 42-year-old woman with apl all-trans-retinoic acid (atra; tretinoin), 45 mg/m2/day was given per os for 90 days. apl is associated with a distinct cytogenetic abnormality: translocation of a portion of the long arm chromosome 17 onto the long arm chromosome 15t (15; 17) with a breakpoint on chromosome 17 in the region of the retinoic acid receptor- ... | 1992 | 1487198 |
| the value of urine specimens in screening for male urethritis and its microbial aetiologies in tanzania. | to evaluate the first void urine (fvu) specimen in screening for urethritis and its microbial aetiologies in a male african population in which urinary schistosomiasis is also prevalent. | 1992 | 1487256 |
| biocompatibility and ingrowth of trevira prostheses following replacement of the cruciate ligaments. | five of 97 cruciate ligament prostheses (5.15 per cent) implanted for an average of 3 years (8-53 months) in 70 patients with acute chronic cruciate ligament instability were removed due to failure after a mean of 9 (3-15) months. investigation of the explanted polyethylene terephthalate (pet)-grafts by scanning electron and light microscopy showed not bony but fibrous tissue ingrowth in all parts of the prostheses. the extent of local host response in the interface region differed with the inte ... | 1996 | 1487928 |
| ca2+ dependence of small ca(2+)-activated k+ channels in cultured n1e-115 mouse neuroblastoma cells. | single-channel properties of ca(2+)-activated k+ channels have been investigated in excised membrane patches of n1e-115 mouse neuroblastoma cells under asymmetric k+ concentrations at 0 mv. the sk channels are blocked by 3 nm external apamin, are unaffected by 20 mm external tetraethylammonium (tea) and have a single-channel conductance of 5.4 ps. the half-maximum open probability and opening frequency of sk channels are observed at 1 microm internal ca2+. concentration/effect curves of these pa ... | 1992 | 1488280 |
| [the subcellular localization of carboxypeptidase n in the substantia grisea of the cat brain]. | the activity of carboxypeptidase h in the cat grey matter is established to be connected with microsomes. a possibility to involve carboxypeptidase h to the processing of neuropeptide predecessors in the encephalon is discussed. | 1992 | 1488822 |
| [effect of physical exercise on aortic blood flow in patients with primary arterial hypertension]. | in 40 patients (30 men and 10 women) aged to 21 to 48 years (mean 42 years) with essential hypertension stage ii, according to who classification, blood flow was recorder in the ascending aorta by doppler echocardiography. the investigation was done in erect position, at rest, and during 30 seconds of each phase of exercise on moving track. the control group comprised 20 healthy males aged 23-45 years (mean 38 years). in essential hypertension the values of the heart rate (t), maximal (max-v) an ... | 2005 | 1488823 |
| oscillatory potentials, retinopathy, and long-term glucose control in insulin-dependent diabetes. | the main objective of the study was to assess effects of long-term lowering of glucosylated hemoglobin (hba1%) on neurosensory function in insulin-dependent diabetes. individual (op-1, op-2, op-3) and summed (op-sum) amplitudes of oscillatory potentials (ops) of electroretinography were recorded at study start and 7-years later in 45 patients (the oslo study). as an overall 7-year change, amplitudes of op-2, op-3 and op-sum were reduced (p < 0.0001-0.01), retinopathy worsened (p = 0.005), intrao ... | 2006 | 1488874 |
| traumatic globe luxation. | a case of globe luxation which followed a relatively slight trauma is presented. the luxation was accompanied by laceration of the conjunctiva in this case. after achieving reposition in the emergency room, the patient underwent a surgical exploration of extraocular muscles and conjunctival fornices where many eyelashes were removed. the clinical features and management of globe luxation is discussed, importance of surgical exploration is emphasized. | 2006 | 1488900 |
| re: "chlamydia trachomatis infection in women: a need for universal screening in high prevalence populations?". | 1992 | 1488970 | |
| [spectrometry for determining hematoma duration in vivo]. | spectroreflectometric measurements in the range of 430 to 700 nm were carried out in order to check this new method with regard to its application to determine time of haematomas in living humans. for this purpose 52 cases with artificial superficial skin haematomas and 40 patients with pure "monocle-haematomas" were investigated. wavelengths of 560 and 580 nm indicate the best results. there are significant differences in cases with "monocle-haematomas" if the age difference of the haematomas i ... | 2006 | 1489331 |
| abo blood group and gall stone disease. | 2006 | 1489401 | |
| oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes: new biochemical tests. | oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes are genes involved in cell proliferation and differentiation. they play a crucial role in the initiation and progression of cancer. some of these genes are found to be altered in human cancers, i.e., mutated, amplified, deleted, translocated, or abnormally regulated. recently, the protein products of the genes have been purified, and antibodies against them have been developed. studies of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes at the dna, mrna, or protein level ... | 1992 | 1489520 |
| the role of neopterin as a monitor of cellular immune activation in transplantation, inflammatory, infectious, and malignant diseases. | the accumulated knowledge about the organization and function of the human immune system contributes to a better understanding of the pathogenesis of most diverse disorders and is opening new avenues for therapeutic regimens. to gain further insight into the complex interactions within the components of the immune system, it has become increasingly necessary to develop rapid and simple methods to monitor the status of the immune system in patients. the determination of neopterin concentrations i ... | 1992 | 1489521 |
| experimental podophyllotoxin (bajiaolian) poisoning: i. effects on the nervous system. | bajiaolian, one of the species in the mayapple family (podophyllum pelatum), has been widely used as a traditional chinese herbal medicine for the remedies of snake bites, general weakness, poisons, condyloma accuminata, lymphadenopathy, and certain tumors in china. in western medicine, podophyllum was first used medically as a laxative in the early 19th century. since 1940, the resin of podophyllum has also been used topically for various skin lesions, such as warts and condyloma. human poisoni ... | 1992 | 1489522 |
| pediatric brain, head and neck, and spine magnetic resonance angiography. | 2006 | 1489677 | |
| nurses' guide to the european community. | 2006 | 1489680 | |
| [evaluation of the use of a rapid diagnostic technique (test pack) for chlamydia trachomatis in women]. | 1992 | 1489782 | |
| identification and characterization of deoxyguanosine-crotonaldehyde adducts. formation of 7,8 cyclic adducts and 1,n2,7,8 bis-cyclic adducts. | crotonaldehyde, a chemically reactive alpha,beta-unsaturated carbonyl compound, is an important industrial chemical and a ubiquitous environmental pollutant. it has been shown to be carcinogenic and mutagenic. we have studied the reaction of crotonaldehyde with nucleosides and 5'-mononucleotides and found three different types of adducts with deoxyguanosine and 2'-deoxyguanosine 5'-monophosphate. no adducts could be isolated either with nucleosides other than deoxyguanosine or with nucleotides o ... | 2006 | 1489932 |
| rapid and automated processing of bone marrow grafts without ficoll density gradient for transplantation of cryopreserved autologous or abo-incompatible allogeneic bone marrow. | the growing number of bmts has increased interest in safe and standardized in vitro bone marrow processing techniques. we describe our experience with a rapid automated method for the isolation of mononuclear cells (mnc) from large volumes of bone marrow using a fenwal cs-3000 cell separator without employing density gradient materials. forty bone marrow harvests with a mean volume of 1650 +/- 307 ml were processed. a mean of 75 +/- 34% (50 percentile range 54-94%) of the original mncs were reco ... | 2005 | 1490200 |
| [a career in nursing sciences?]. | a research study was conducted in a francophone high school in northern ontario to examine students' perceptions of nursing and the influence of these perceptions on nursing as a career choice. all students in grades 11, 12 and 13 were invited to participate. fifty-eight percent (n = 268) completed the questionnaire. results showed that 37 percent of the respondents considered pursuing a career in the health sciences. only 14% percent were interested in nursing. respondents' comments suggest tha ... | 2005 | 1490271 |
| [thoracoscopic middle lobe resection]. | the authors report a case of middle lobectomy by a thoracoscopic procedure. a forty-year old patient had carcinoma of the middle lobe (6 cm diameter). the use of staplers and ligatures by this way allows the control of the different vessels and bronchus. the indications of that technique must be evaluated in the future. | 1993 | 1490412 |
| testing for cervical chlamydia trachomatis infection in an inner city practice. | the aims of the study were to find the prevalence of cervical chlamydia trachomatis infection in women attending for a speculum examination, to examine possible risk factors, and to see if we could develop a rational policy for testing for chlamydia in our deprived inner london practice. during 18 months 409 women aged 17-45 (mean 28) who attended for a cervical smear or vaginal examination were tested for chlamydia using the direct immunofluorescent test. they were assessed for possible risk fa ... | 1992 | 1490533 |
| prostatitis--diagnostic criteria, classification of patients and recommendations for therapeutic trials. | infections of the prostate may occur despite the numerous host defences of the male urogenital tract. it is important to distinguish patients with genuine inflammation of the gland from the larger number of men with symptoms but no signs of an inflammatory response (prostatodynia). to define prostatitis, the degree of the inflammatory reaction must first be determined. increased numbers of leucocytes in expressed prostatic secrections (eps) are essential for this diagnosis. careful lower urinary ... | 1992 | 1490749 |
| chlamydial associated syndrome of arthritis and eye involvement in young children. | the current classification of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (jra) consists of several distinct subsets. we describe 6 children (2 boys, 4 girls, mean age 3.7 years, range 2.0-4.9 years) with arthritis and eye involvement associated with infection with chlamydia trachomatis. in some of the children, the clinical picture was similar to early onset pauciarticular jra: onset within the first 4 years of life, predominance of girls, pauciarticular arthritis, subacute uveitis, and presence of antinucle ... | 1992 | 1491404 |
| [urinary tract infection caused by chlamydia trachomatis in children]. | in 1988-1989, 131 children aged between 1 and 18 years were examined for urinary infections with c. trachomatis at the department of pediatric urology in wrocław. chlamydia trachomatis was diagnosed with the aid of mccoy's cellular cultures and immunoenzymatic test chlamydiazyme in 25% of the examined children. a relationship between chlamydia trachomatis and particular components of the clinical picture has been analysed. effectiveness of the treatment with erythromycin (davercin) and doxycycli ... | 1992 | 1492036 |
| sexually transmitted diseases in children. | sexually transmitted diseases (stds) in children may be transmitted by sexual abuse, by accidental contact, or perinatally. although only 2% to 10% of abused children become infected, childhood syphilis, gonorrhea, condylomata acuminata, and chlamydia trachomatis must always be considered. we reviewed data from our hospital regarding the frequency, prevalence, routes of transmission, and clinical features of these infections. ninety-five percent of acquired syphilis in children is transmitted by ... | 1992 | 1492047 |
| effects of broadening the gold standard on the performance of a chemiluminometric immunoassay to detect chlamydia trachomatis antigens in centrifuged first void urine and urethral swab samples from men. | traditionally, evaluations of nonculture assays for chlamydia trachomatis are based on a comparison with urethral culture in men and cervical culture in women as the standard for positivity of infection, but it is known that culture may be less than 100% sensitive. a chemiluminometric immunoassay, magic lite (ciba corning, medfield, ma) that detects c. trachomatis antigens was performed on centrifuged first void urine samples and urethral swabs collected from men attending a sexually transmitted ... | 1992 | 1492256 |
| compliance with antibiotic therapy for chlamydia trachomatis and neisseria gonorrhoeae. | control of bacterial sexually transmitted diseases (std) depends on adequate antibiotic therapy. during a 4-week period, a survey concerning compliance was administered to all patients attending an std clinic who were being treated with one of the standard antibiotic regimens for presumed gonococcal or chlamydial infections. of the 497 eligible patients, 406 (81.7%) were surveyed between 24 hours and 72 hours after the end of treatment. of those being treated with the standard 7-day regimen of t ... | 1992 | 1492264 |
| [genital infections with chlamydia trachomatis]. | 1992 | 1492296 | |
| chlamydia trachomatis antigen prevalence among pregnant women in west virginia. | during 1990, more than 2,100 women who received prenatal care at one of four clinics which serve 11 west virginia counties, were screened for chlamydial antigen. overall, 5.6 percent of the women screened had positive antigen tests and 90 percent of these individuals were under the age of 25. the prevalence of chlamydia was different at three geographic sites with the highest rate of positive antigen test being 9.4 percent at one site. these findings led to a careful analysis of the prevalence o ... | 1992 | 1492405 |
| health value and gender in predicting health protective behavior. | this research analyzes the influence of selected social psychological factors (health locus of control and health value), social support factors (influence of parents and peers, organizational involvement, and reliance on others during stressful times), and health-specific factors (recent health crisis and self-assessment of health status) on participation in health protective behaviors by males and females. while much research has focused on identifying determinative factors (often with inconsi ... | 1987 | 1492412 |
| [bacteriostatic and bactericidal activities of cyclines, macrolides and fluoroquinolones against chlamydia trachomatis]. | the in vitro activity of minocycline, doxycycline, erythromycin, roxithromycin, spiramycin, pefloxacin, and ofloxacin against ten c. trachomatis strains recovered from human genital tract specimens was evaluated. mac coy cell monolayers in 24-microwell plates were used. the c. trachomatis inoculum was 10(4) ifu/well. appropriate dilutions of antibiotic were added and inclusions were detected by immunofluorescence using monoclonal antibodies. mics were determined after 48 hours of exposure to eac ... | 1992 | 1495827 |
| [epidemiology of chlamydia trachomatis using analysis of gene encoding of the major outer membrane protein]. | one hundred and eight clinical strains and 24 reference strains of c. trachomatis were typed using differential restriction mapping of omp1, the gene which encodes the major outer membrane protein. the gene was obtained by polymerase chain reaction (pcr). this molecular typing method correlated well with serological typing. eighty-four per cent of clinical strains were typed using the enzyme alui alone. heterogeneity was looked for among the most common serovars (e, f, and d; 62%, 17%, and 9%, r ... | 1992 | 1495847 |
| establishing standards of orthostatic measurements in normovolemic adolescents. | to determine normal orthostatic heart rate and blood pressure changes in healthy adolescents. | 1998 | 1496957 |
| prokaryotic dna replication. | 1992 | 1497322 | |
| immune specificity of murine t-cell lines to the major outer membrane protein of chlamydia trachomatis. | the antigenically variant chlamydia trachomatis major outer membrane protein (momp) is a target of antibody-mediated neutralization in vitro, and it is an important protein for designing a subunit vaccine. knowledge of momp t-cell determinants will be essential to elicit rapid and strong immune responses following an encounter with infectious organisms. c. trachomatis-specific t-cell lines were derived from momp-immunized balb/c mice and selected with intact organisms. we used these short-term t ... | 1992 | 1500180 |
| development and clinical evaluation of a polymerase chain reaction test for detection of chlamydia trachomatis. | a polymerase chain reaction (pcr) for the detection of chlamydia trachomatis was developed and evaluated. two primer-probe sets were designed; one detected a specific sequence of the plasmid, and the other detected the gene encoding the major outer membrane protein. both sets reacted species specifically and amplified sequences from all human serovars. a simple protocol was used for sample pretreatment. the pcr was optimized by addition of tetramethylammonium chloride and bovine serum albumin. t ... | 1992 | 1500521 |
| clearview chlamydia test for detection of chlamydiae in cervical specimens. | 1992 | 1500539 | |
| possible relationship between chlamydia trachomatis and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. | this study suggests the possibility that the intracellular parasite chlamydia trachomatis (ct) may facilitate the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) during vaginal or rectal intercourse. this is based on the following findings: a) elevated titers of anti-ct igg are present in symptomatic acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) patients; b) elevated titers of anti-ct iga are found in asymptomatic aids patients; c) low anti-ct iga titers were observed during the progression o ... | 1992 | 1501589 |
| medicine and life. | 1992 | 1502542 | |
| the long term follow-up of asymptomatic women with chlamydia trachomatis. | a community oriented intervention program was initiated in 1985 in 12 rural communities in southern israel to identify and treat women of reproductive age with markers of chlamydia trachomatis (ct) infection. among 860 women tested, 21 (2.4%) had ct igg antibody titers greater than or equal to 128, or ct iga antibody titers greater than or equal to 16, and 9 of these women had positive cultures for ct. the 21 women, as well as their male partners, received specific anti-ct treatment, and were fo ... | 1992 | 1503506 |
| the new macrolides: expanding the ways in antibiotic treatment. | after almost forty years of its introduction, erythromycin will not be the exclusive member of the macrolide group of antibiotic agents, but a new generation of its derivatives which surpass it in pharmacological properties and clinical efficacy will also be available. clarithromycin, a 14-membered derivative, has shown acid stability, longer half-life, lower protein binding and higher lung tissue penetration. its exceedingly high activity against erythromycin-susceptible gram-positive cocci, my ... | 1992 | 1503585 |
| role of chlamydia trachomatis infections in infertility due to tubal factor. | the prevalence of igg antibodies to c. trachomatis was determined in 185 infertile women who underwent laparoscopy, and 110 pregnant women with no known infertility problems. in addition, chlamydial antigens were evaluated by eia in cervical samples taken from all subjects. subjects with tubal infertility had the highest prevalence of chlamydial antigen and antibody (p less than 0.01). while the percentage of subjects with antigen and antibody positive was 11.6 per cent, those with antigen negat ... | 1992 | 1506064 |
| screening for chlamydia trachomatis in college women on routine gynecological exams. | chlamydia trachomatis infection poses a serious threat to sexually active college women. past research has demonstrated the difficulty of predicting infection on the basis of symptoms or physical exam. recent studies highlight the prevalence of asymptomatic chlamydia infections. this study presents the results of screening 2,303 women for chlamydia infection on routine annual gynecological examinations at a college health center during a 22-month period. a prevalence of 6% was found. the study a ... | 1992 | 1506565 |
| [detection of chlamydia trachomatis in abdominal cavity using nested pcr]. | 1992 | 1506737 | |
| sexually transmitted diseases and child abuse. | the diagnosis in a child of any infection that is usually sexually transmitted in adults should raise the suspicion of possible sexual abuse. we know sexual abuse is a common childhood experience. the american academy of pediatrics committee on child abuse and neglect has rated the implications of sexually transmitted diseases for diagnosing sexual abuse (table 6). | 1992 | 1508576 |