Publications

13-cis retinoic acid enhances in vivo b-lymphocyte differentiation in patients with common variable immunodeficiency.	retinoic acid (ra) has been demonstrated to drive both phenotypic and functional in vitro differentiation of b cell hybridomas from patients with common variable immunodeficiency (cvi) who manifest an "intrinsic" defect in terminal b cell differentiation (j exp med 1988;168: 55-71). therefore, we conducted an open trial to determine the effects of oral 13-cis ra (0.5 mg/kg/day; 12 weeks receiving and 12 weeks without drug) on in vivo b cell differentiation in subjects with cvi. at various times ...	2005	1720149
scope of ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery.		2005	1177928
sonography and computed tomography of a gossypiboma and in vitro studies of sponges by ultrasound. case report.	a case of retained surgical sponge was imaged by ultrasound and computed tomography (ct). sonography revealed a hypoechoic mass with areas of high echoes and acoustic shadowing. an experiment revealed that the high echoes were attributed partly to the presence of numerous interfaces of sponges. the sonographic detection of a mass with high echoes casting acoustic shadows should alert radiologists to the possibility of retained surgical sponges even if there is no gas or calcification on ct scans ...	2005	1473032
recent life changes and the reporting of psychological states.		2005	1142319
isolation and purification of amyloid protein a by sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography.	sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (hplc) were used consecutively for the isolation of amyloid protein a (protein aa) from amyloid fibrils. highly purified protein aa was obtained and determined by electrophoretic and amino acid analyses. the heterogeneity of protein aa was shown by hplc. the isoforms of protein aa had different hydrophobicities, although they were equal in size and similar in amino acid compositio ...	2005	1564099
echographic assessment of atrial transport, mitral movement, and ventricular performance following electroversion of supraventricular arrhythmias.	controversy attends the extent and temporal sequence of improvements in hemodynamic function resulting from the return of atrial contraction following cardioversion of supraventricular arrhythmias. thus, mitral, left atrial (la) and left ventricular (lv) echograms were obtained before and one hour after conversion of supraventricular arrhythmias to normal sinus rhythm by direct current countershock in patients with chronic coronary disease or cardiomyopathies without valvular dysfunction. the du ...	2005	1112007
percutaneous stimulation in the treatment of acute and chronic pain.		2005	1087340
george william gower, 1887-1974.		2005	1090621
lack of haemodialysis-associated amyloidosis.		2005	1681397
intracellular defect of neutrophils in patients with cancer.		2005	552829
collagen heterogeneity of skin.		2005	549484
congenital cyanotic heart disease with "situs solitus", dextroversion, juxtaposition of the atrial appendages and anatomical malposition of the great arteries. report of a case with surgical correction.		2005	549464
mothers' comprehension of terminology associated with the care of a newborn baby.	to determine mothers' level of comprehension of terminology used by health care providers when discussing the care of a newborn baby. sixty patients on a postpartum unit in a general hospital who gave birth to healthy newborns were asked to define 56 terms related to the care of newborn babies that were commonly used by health care providers. mothers' knowledge of terms was examined by level of education, number of children, previous experience caring for newborns, and age. analyses of variance ...	2005	1852507
[chronic meningococcemia--a rare prolonged infection and disturbance in the function of complement].		2005	1364465
an ophthalmic study of ibuprofen in rheumatoid conditions.	a total of 247 patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis and allied conditions were referred for routine ophthalmological examination with particular reference to ocular rheumatoid involvement. of these, 197 were already receiving ibuprofen before their first assessment while 50 had a baseline assessment before commencement of ibrupofen therapy. all patients were examined on at least two occasions. no macular lesions were discovered which could be directly attributed to ibuprofen therapy.	2005	1277880
[television and the physical health of the child].		2005	547895
mental illness.		2005	547864
solitary neurofibroma of the maxilla: report of a case.		2005	3294358
[reticulum cell sarcoma in the eye and central nervous system masquerading as uveitis: report of a case].		2005	3294342
proceedings: wilson-mikity syndrome.		2005	1200695
sequential analysis of urinary antigen(s) in patients with sarcoma.		2005	538579
[intestinal involvement in the sea-blue histiocyte syndrome (author's transl)].		2005	538552
[the detection of a case of scleroderma during pre-prosthetic dental examination].		2005	1065241
new heparin-like insoluble materials: part ii.		2005	549503
proceedings: the transient effect of atp on k movement in hela cells.		2005	1151801
[pheochromocytoma and pregnancy (3 cases)].	in this paper, a review of pregnancy and pheocromocytoma is shown. the importance of early diagnostic and adequate management is essential in this patients. when this associations exists the management must be very carefully considered to avoid high mortality risks for both, fetus and mother. 56 cases of pheocromocytoma were studied at the instituto nacional de cardiología, three of them were pregnant women which are described in this work.	2005	549523
increase in "null" cells in acute lymphocytic leukemia in remission on long-term immunotherapy.	in an attempt to elucidate a possible mode of action of immunotherapy in all, we studied the mononuclear subpopulation in a group of patients with all in remission on long-term immunotherapy, a similar group on chemotherapy, and a group of normal individuals. comparison of the three groups demonstrated a significant increase in the number and percentage of "null" cells in the immunotherapy group relative to the two others. although the nature of these cells is unknown, circulating stem cells, "k ...	2005	1087444
[certain problems of clinical course and surgical treatment of otosclerosis].		2005	1231125
[epidemiology of traumatic injuries in the gdańsk-gdynia-sopot urban complex].		2005	1272988
[jejunostomy. indications, use and complications].		2005	1087433
comparison of capacitive and inductive bone stimulation devices. analysis of sinusoidal electromagnetic fields.		2005	549501
height increments in prepubertal children.	the heights of 51 normal boys and girls were measured at regular intervals throughout a year. the data were analyzed to determine in the normally growing child, the shortest time interval regardless of the time of year during which an increase in height should be expected to be recognized in every child. that interval is 16 weeks.	2005	546688
[the excretory apparatus and diabetes].		2005	545627
[organization of mobile otorhinolaryngological units as a method of rendering of specialized aid to the population of distant regions].		2005	1231126
[pre- and post-apneic sleep in the pickwickian patient].		2005	1230923
effects of helicopter noise on pilots' hearing.		2005	1231074
equity versus debt financing.		2005	1070367
[intelligence (author's transl)].		2005	1082839
results of direct coronary artery graft reconstruction. a five-year clinical and arteriographic appraisal.	three hundred thirty-six patients with severe coronary artery disease were operated upon between june, 1969, and december, 1974. all were followed from 1 to 66 months (average, 37 months) with respect to survival and late myocardial infarction. the patients operated upon were compared statistically with a group of unoperated patients, and this evaluation demonstrated significantly better late survival in the surgically treated patients who had double- and triple-vessel disease. two hundred thirt ...	2005	1081380
identification of nitrohexane in corn treated with nitrous acid.		2005	546946
new anthracycline derivatives: what for?		2005	1782058
a flow calorimeter for assay of hormone- and metabolite-induced changes in steady-state heat production by tissue.		2005	543542
a retrospective and concurrent medical audit.		2005	1168621
[effect of simplified tai-ji boxing and playing in water on the health of children with abnormal cardiovascular system (author's transl)].		2005	555732
those dangerous roentgens and how to control them: ii radiation hazards and protection as they relate to exposures in dental radiography.		2005	1064920
co-operation between macrophages and a factor from lymphocytes in tumor lysis in vitro.	peritoneal cells from c3h/he mice immunized against syngeneic mm46 ascites tumor cells specifically lysed these tumor cells in vitro, while spleen cells or lymph node cells from immunized hosts were completely ineffective. the effector cells differed from lymphocytes in their morphological characteristics, property of adherence, phagocytic activity, and sensitivity to anti-theta serum. the cytolytic action of the peritoneal cells was not due to cytotoxic lymphocytes, but to macrophages. these ma ...	2005	1082827
[personal experiences with congenital cysts and fistulas of the neck].		2005	1064065
achievement award 1976: the robert wood johnson foundation.		2005	1065210
prenatal diagnosis of distal arthrogryposis type i by ultrasonography.	two consecutive pregnancies in a woman with initially undiagnosed type i distal arthrogryposis (da) are reported. a prenatal diagnosis of the condition was made by ultrasound in the 17th week of gestation in one of the pregnancies, whereas in the subsequent pregnancy the disorder was excluded as early as 13 weeks' gestation. the diagnoses were verified at birth. the feasibility of prenatal diagnosis of da type i in the second trimester is thus confirmed and its possibility in the late first trim ...	2005	1287640
training for tomorrow's medicine.		2005	1196146
[genetic aspects of peripheral alterations in a family with retinal detachment].		2005	552950
echocardiography of the tricuspid valve in congenital left ventricular-riht atrial communication.	two patients, ages 14 and 18, with congenital left ventricular-right atrial communication through a defect in the tricuspid valve were studied by echocardiography. proof was obtained by angiocardiography and surgery in one and ultrasonic contrast injection and angiocardiography in the other. both presented clinically as uncomplicated ventricular septal defects. echocardiography consistently demonstrated a high frequency, low amplitude flutter of the tricuspid valve in systole and none in diastol ...	2005	1112006
effects of professional and media warnings about the association between aspirin use in children and reye's syndrome.	the media played a central role in changing the use of aspirin among children with viral illness following reports of its association with a rare but deadly disease, reye's syndrome (rs). it did so by alerting health professionals and parents about ways to prevent rs in children. indeed, by the time aspirin product labeling was required by the fda in 1986, most of the decline in rs incidence had already occurred. in the past, media-only health education campaigns have been relatively unsuccessfu ...	2005	1316991
urticaria.		2005	1253548
evaluation of a program to teach health professionals to search medline.	this study analyzes the search behavior of end users who had taken a class in searching medline on the national library of medicine's medlars system. of the class alumni, 58% obtained passwords. most of these were still conducting their own searches twelve to eighteen months later. telephone interviews and search observations indicated that these end users were satisfied with their results and felt they had mastered the basic mechanics of searching. however, appropriate use of explodes and subhe ...	2005	3315051
evaluation of a program to teach health professionals to search medline.	this study analyzes the search behavior of end users who had taken a class in searching medline on the national library of medicine's medlars system. of the class alumni, 58% obtained passwords. most of these were still conducting their own searches twelve to eighteen months later. telephone interviews and search observations indicated that these end users were satisfied with their results and felt they had mastered the basic mechanics of searching. however, appropriate use of explodes and subhe ...	2005	3315051
[postoperative gastrointestinal hemorrhages after pulmonary resections (author's transly].	postoperative gastrointestinal hemorrhages are a infrequent complication of pulmonary resections. nevertheless they are threatening seriously patient's life because a critical illness as gastrointestinal hemorrhage in such casses hit patients whose vital functions are compromised from recent thoracic surgery. the pathogenetic questions, as well critical problems of diagnosis and treatment, are discussed on the basis of three observed cases.	2005	1088070
[effects of ginsenosides on myocardial lactic acid, cyclic nucleotides and ultrastructural myocardial changes in anoxia in mice].		2005	3690759
global flow equations for membrane transport from local equations of motion-ii. the case of a single nonelectrolyte solute plus water.		2005	540180
biochemical aspects of the adaptation of hemoglobin-oxygen affinity of eels to hypoxia.		2005	1196014
sense of coherence, life stress, and psychological distress: a prospective methodological inquiry.	antonovsky (1987) has proposed the sense of coherence (soc) as a global perceptual predisposition in responding to life stress. composed of comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness, this construct has been associated with more adaptive coping in previous cross-sectional studies. this prospective study (n = 95) investigated the association of soc (assessed by antonovsky's measure) with life stress and symptoms. soc was correlated negatively with life stress and symptoms and appeared t ...	2005	2212043
survey of the clinical use of electrocochleography.	a questionnaire on the clinical use of electrocochleography (ecochg) was distributed to clinics throughout the world which use this method. the 26 replies comprised 3696 cases with a median age of 22.5 years. the majority (57.1%) were tested with a transtympanic promontory electrode. the risk of any undesirable effect from this electrode placement was negligible (less than 0.1%), but a greater probability (less than 1.0%) of serious complication from general anesthetics was revealed. on the bene ...	2005	1169037
[evaluation of diagnostic value of adrenal scintiscanning and venography (author's transl)].		2005	1063995
shape discrimination and the judgement of perfect symmetry: dissociation of shape from size.	we measured the accuracy with which subjects judged that a square or circle was perfectly symmetrical i.e. that aspect ratio (a/b) was exactly unity (where a and b were, respectively, the vertical and horizontal dimensions). errors were remarkably small, ranging from 0.7 to 0.4% for the judgement of squareness and from 1.4 to < 0.1% for the judgement of circularity. precision in judging aspect ratio was measured by requiring subjects to judge whether the aspect ratio (a/b)test of a test rectangl ...	2005	1287983
cytotoxic and cytostatic effects of antitumor agents induced at the plasma membrane level.	a variety of antitumor agents inhibit cell proliferation by interacting with the plasma membrane. they act as growth factor antagonists, growth factor receptor blockers, interfere with mitogenic signal transduction or exert direct cytotoxic effects. the p-glycoprotein encoded by the mdr1 gene represents a transmembrane protein which catalyzes the efflux of various antitumor agents. this membrane protein is the target of compounds acting as multi-drug resistance (mdr)-modulators. finally, several ...	2005	1287673
tongue-tie that office gossip.		2005	1065136
absence of heart-rate effects in isolated frog heart irradiated with pulse modulated microwave energy.	isolated frog hearts were irradiated with pulse modulated microwave energy synchronized with the ecg. no statistically significant or otherwise observable differences were found between the heart rate of irradiated groups and the nonirradiated control group. experiments were performed to explore the possible effects of currents induced between the recording electrodes. increases in heart rate occurred when applied current pulses between 20 and 30 ma were synchronized with the ecg during an inter ...	2005	1082513
a possible role of free radicals in the transplantation of retinal pigment epithelial cells.	oxygen-derived free radicals have been implicated in tissue injury following ischemia and reperfusion (reoxygenation). it has been hypothesized that the radicals are produced during the early reperfusion stage. recently, submacular implantation of retinal pigment epithelium cells has been reported. it is probable that during the procedure, the transplant and the 180-degree folded outer retina underwent a period of ischemia, followed by reoxygenation. we, therefore, infer that free radicals were ...	2005	1317028
study of lipid changes in freeze-dried fish during storage. i. the interaction of relative humidity and tissue lipids.	several studies on lipid stability of freeze-dried fish pointed out the relationship between relative humidity (rh) and autoxidation of highly unsaturated fatty acids. the present study shows the changes of tissue lipids in two different fish, freeze-dried and stored under various rh conditions. fillets of scomber scomber l and sardina pilchardus sardina were freeze-dried and stored for 1, 3, 6 and 9 months. periodically, the sample of both fish were analyzed to evaluate the autoxidation of lipi ...	2005	1307019
feeling good affects your work. a team approach to health and productivity.		2005	1291285
getting your point across. communication wins over patients.		2005	1291279
living with lasers.		2005	1291351
russell bodies consist of heterogenous glycoproteins in b-cell lymphoma cells.	the phenotypic expression of russell bodies (rb) in the tumor cells of two patients with different types of b-cell lymphoma and of one patient with plasma cell myeloma were examined. in both b-cell lymphomas, the rbs reacted consistently with anti-leu 8 and anti-immunoglobulin m. the rbs in one case also reacted with other monoclonal antibodies, including anti-cd5, cd19, cd22, and cd25. the membranes of most of the tumor cells containing rbs did not stain. in the myeloma, the rbs reacted only wi ...	2005	1317669
[flow cytometric analysis of ki-67 reactive antigen].	monoclonal antibody ki-67 is a useful and easy means for evaluating cell proliferative activity. furthermore, it appears to provide valuable prognostic informations in some neoplastic diseases. however, almost all studies on solid tumors were performed only by microscopic observation using immunohistochemistry, and not by flow cytometry. therefore, the information deduced from the findings is limited. the method of dna/ki-67 double staining of solid tissue and cultured cells for flow cytometry i ...	2005	1280305
cancer metastasis--a multistep process.	dermatologists are confronted daily with proliferative growths which can reach considerable size, but mean no danger to the patient. seborrheic keratoses are one example. other growths, such as basal cell carcinoma, are locally destructive. normally, however, we do not hesitate to reassure the patient about the benignity of the tumor once excised. the malignancy of squamous cell carcinomas and melanoma, however, is undoubted. thus, excessive proliferation and even local invasiveness are not suff ...	2005	1280176
[testicular cavernous lymphangioma in a 13-year-old boy].		2005	1273002
[nature of the larval feeding of blood-sucking mosquitoes (diptera, culicidae) in the bodies of water upstream of the kakhovka reservoir].		2005	2870419
[nature of the larval feeding of blood-sucking mosquitoes (diptera, culicidae) in the bodies of water upstream of the kakhovka reservoir].		2005	2870419
future implications for hospital-physician contracts.		2005	1266365
[psychiatric side-effects of levodopa treatment].		2005	1265908
educational planning and health.		2005	1251600
[legal abortion. review after introduction of outpatient abortions].	the results of 618 legal abortions performed on 602 14-49 year old women are reported. 53.3% of the cases were 9-10 weeks advanced into the pregnancy, 30.8% 11-12 weeks, and 2.9% over 12. the average waiting period between the 1st visit to the physician and the abortion was 14 days. 14 abortions were performed, 1 by sectio parva and 13 by instillation of nacl 20% and evacuation of the uterus, with no complications. 604 abortions were performed by aspiration evacuation, 7 of which were followed b ...	2005	1251516
[a case of operated dumping syndrome].		2005	1230970
[epidemic haemorrhagic conjunctivitis in the middle east].		2005	1230937
[serum gastrin levels in diseases of the upper digestive system (chiefly peptic ulcer)].		2005	1238743
ketoprofen enantiomers in synovial fluid.		2005	2600799
[combined air tumor of the larynx].		2005	1231145
[drug pulverizer with a spatula].		2005	1231142
[instrument for trephine puncture of the frontal sinus].		2005	1231141
[the lupine, a contribution to nutrition in the andes. 1. general viewpoints].		2005	1224690
editorial: to serve all the people.		2005	1196171
[on the quantification of statistic differences in epidemiology caused by selection (author's transl)].		2005	1196140
[state of intramural neural apparatus of the vermiform process in "cecum mobile" syndrome].		2005	1224877
[morphology of the hemolytic-uremic syndrome].		2005	1196095
[pathology of arthrosis].		2005	1196092
[medical radioisotope scintigraphy (physico-technical methods and means of collection of information)].		2005	1196037
[direct surgical revascularization in the therapy of angina pectoris. indications and choice of patients].		2005	1183349
[mild course of botulinus intoxication (author's transl)].	botulinus poisoning generally ends fatally after an only short course, mild forms being rare. in four members of a family who had eaten deep-frozen grilled sausages symptoms of botulinus poisoning developed, predominantly marked by disturbances of the autonomic nervous system. the course was so mild that hospitalization was not necessary nor was specific antitoxin administration. all clinical symptoms had disappeared after nine weeks. but special clinical and neurophysiological studies (electrom ...	2005	1183348
[letter: adverse effects of antiepileptic drugs].		2005	1183340
how long should patients keep off alcohol after infectious hepatitis?		2005	1183319