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B Nagy

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PubMed1995

[Nutritional lead poisoning--a differential diagnostic problem in abdominal pain].

The authors report on the case of a 44-year-old female patient as well as a 51-year-old male patient, who were taken to hospital with abdominal complaint of unknown origin. The symptoms in the case of the female patient suggested cholecystitis, whereas in the case of the male patient chronic pancreatitis. Following detailed examinations the authors have explored nutritional lead poisoning of a married couple. Within a short time--after Ca-EDTA treatment--they have become free of complaint. After a survey of the literature the authors analyse the diagnostic possibilities of the patients with the symptoms of abdominal colic pain and the way to the diagnosis, respectively.

Abdominal Pain↗
PubMed1995

Designations F18ab and F18ac for the related fimbrial types F107, 2134P and 8813 of Escherichia coli isolated from porcine postweaning diarrhoea and from oedema disease.

The relatedness of the fimbriae produced by eight E. coli strains including type strains with F107 fimbriae, 2134P pili and colonization factor 8813 (preliminary F18), was examined. These strains had been isolated principally from pigs which were affected with postweaning diarrhoea or with oedema disease. The fimbriae were analyzed by means of electron microscopy, slide agglutination, immunofluorescence, immunogold labelling, immuno-diffusion, immunoelectrophoresis and western blot, molecular genetic techniques, and in vitro adhesion. The fimbriae of all the strains were long flexible filaments with a diameter not larger than 4.6 nm showing a zig-zag pattern. Results obtained by the serological techniques confirmed that the fimbriae possessed a common antigenic determinant designated 'a' in addition to a variant-specific determinant designated 'b' or 'c'. Immunoelectron microscopy demonstrated that the determinants 'a' and 'b' or 'a' and 'c' were localized along the same fimbrium. In immunoelectrophoresis, fimbrial extracts of selected strains yielded a single precipitation line towards the cathode. One single major subunit of approximately 15 kDa was recognised in western blots by antisera against the common antigenic determinant and the variant specific determinants. All strains possessed sequences related to gene fedA, coding for the major subunit of fimbriae F107. Two types of fedA-related subunit genes were differentiated, corresponding to the 'ab' and 'ac' types of fimbriae as defined by serological methods. The results demonstrated that F107 fimbriae, 2134P pili and colonization factor 8813 are related, and that two serological variants can be distinguished. We propose designations F18ab (for F107), and F18ac (for 2134P and 8813) in analogy to the nomenclature of F4 fimbriae.

Animals↗
PubMed1995

Silent myocardial ischemia during PET.

A resting perfusion defect detected during radioisotope myocardial perfusion imaging is generally thought to represent myocardial infarction. The administration of nitroglycerin during cardiac PET imaging results in improved resting defects, which suggests transiently abnormal resting perfusion with silent myocardial ischemia.

Aged↗
PubMed1994

Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for the separation of large protein molecules exemplified by the isoforms of apolipoprotein (a).

The performance of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) was assessed for the separation of protein molecules. The allelic isoforms of apolipoprotein (a) (apo[a]) served as a model for this study because apo(a) is an unusually large protein, consisting of a variable number of repeating units. PFGE and, for comparison, conventional electrophoresis of human sera were carried out under reducing conditions in agarose gel. After blotting proteins onto nitrocellulose membrane, a combination of monospecific rabbit anti-apo(a) antibody and alkaline phosphatase-conjugated protein A detected apo(a) isoforms in all sera tested. The various apo(a) isoforms were effectively resolved within two repeating units ("kringles") by both PFGE and conventional electrophoresis, but the type of agarose gel used greatly affected the speed of electrophoretic separation. In a series of 89 human sera, 59 double-band and 30 single-band patterns were seen using either electrophoretic system. However, one specimen produced double bands with PFGE, while only a single band could be detected by conventional electrophoresis, and with another specimen the opposite occurred. A total of 22 different apo(a) isoforms were identified among these patterns. It is concluded that the increasingly available PFGE technology is a practical alternative to conventional agarose electrophoresis for the separation of large protein molecules.

Apolipoproteins A↗
PubMed1994

Examination of verocytotoxin producing capacity and determination of the presence of Shiga-like toxin genes in human Escherichia coli isolates.

A total of 93 wild type Escherichia coli of human origin (mostly representing intestinal isolates from Hungary) were examined for the presence of Shiga-like-toxin (SLT) genes using SLT-I, SLT-II and enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) specific DNA probes. The structural genes of the above specificity were labelled by random priming using 32-P-dCTP. E. coli strains investigated represented 16 serogroups: O1, O2, O4, O5, O6, O18, O25, O26, O45, O55, O111, O125, O126, O128, O157, O165, members of which were likely to produce verotoxin (VT) and strains of serotypes O11:NM, ONT:NM isolated from six haemorrhagic uraemic syndrome (HUS) patients. Out of these strains 51 were examined for in vitro VT production capacity. Only one strain (an O26:H11 from Germany) produced VT. This was also the only strain which proved to be positive with one of the SLT probes (SLT-II), and with the EHEC probe. From this strain a phage was isolated which was proven to be nonconvertible. These data support epidemiological and clinical observations about the very low occurrence or absence of EHEC in Hungary, in contrast to many European countries.

Animals↗
PubMed1994

The effect of Taleum (sodium cromoglycate) 1-mg inhalation aerosol in children with allergic asthma.

Usefulness and prophylactic effect of Taleum (sodium cromoglycate) inhalation aerosol (EGIS Pharmaceutical Works) were examined in 34 children aged 8 to 14 years, who suffered from extrinsic bronchial asthma. The changes in clinical symptoms and respiratory function parameters were compared to the result of therapy with Intal powder inhaled with the aid of a spinhaler. The children learned the inhalation of Taleum spray easily. The use of this prophylactic agent was more simple as compared to the powder capsule. Considering all examined parameters, the effectivity of Taleum proved to be similar to that of Intal capsule used as a reference drug.

Administration, Inhalation↗
PubMed1992

Effects of benzyladenine on prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.

Comparative studies of the effect of benzyladenine (BA) on the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the bacterium Salmonella typhimurium, the shallot Allium ascalonicum and Chinese hamster fibroblast cells were performed. The tested substance had no mutagenic activity on yeast, bacteria and cultured fibroblast cells. Changes in mitotic activity and cell division abnormalities were observed after BA treatment in shallot root-tip cells.

Adenine↗
PubMed1992

Susceptibility of porcine intestine to pilus-mediated adhesion by some isolates of piliated enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli increases with age.

Two porcine isolates of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) (serogroup O157 and O141) derived from fatal cases of postweaning diarrhea and lacking K88, K99, F41, and 987P pili (4P- ETEC) were tested for adhesiveness to small-intestinal epithelia of pigs of different ages. Neither strain adhered to isolated intestinal brush borders of newborn (1-day-old) pigs in the presence of mannose. However, mannose-resistant adhesion occurred when brush borders from 10-day- and 3- and 6-week-old pigs were used. Electron microscopy revealed that both strains produced fine (3.5-nm) and type 1 pili at 37 degrees C but only type 1 pili at 18 degrees C. Mannose-resistant in vitro adhesion to brush borders of older pigs correlated with the presence of fine pili. These strains produced predominantly fine pili in ligated intestinal loops of both older and newborn pigs, but adherence was greater in loops in older pigs. Immunoelectron microscopic studies, using antiserum raised against piliated bacteria and absorbed with nonpiliated bacteria, of samples from brush border adherence studies revealed labelled appendages between adherent bacteria and intestinal microvilli. Orogastric inoculation of pigs weaned at 10 and 21 days of age indicated significantly (P less than 0.001) higher levels of adhesion by the ETEC to the ileal epithelia of older pigs than to that of younger ones. We suggest that small-intestinal adhesion and colonization by these ETEC isolates is dependent on receptors that develop progressively with age during the first 3 weeks after birth. Furthermore, our data are consistent with the hypothesis that the fine pili described mediate intestinal adhesion by the 4P- ETEC strains studied.

Age Factors↗
PubMed1992

Colonization of the small intestine of weaned pigs by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli that lack known colonization factors.

Intestinal colonization of 3-week-old weaned pigs by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strains that were originally isolated from weaned pigs with fatal diarrhea and that lacked K88, K99, F41, and 987P adhesins (4P- ETEC) was studied by histologic, immunofluorescent, and electron microscopic techniques. In the first experiment, 16 principal pigs were inoculated orogastrically with ETEC strain 2134 (serogroup O157: H19) or 2171 (serogroup 0141:H4), and eight control pigs were not inoculated. In the second experiment, 24 principals were inoculated with ETEC strain 2134, and 12 controls were inoculated with a nonenterotoxigenic strain of E. coli. Principal and control pigs were necropsied at intervals from 24 to 72 hours after inoculation of principals to provide the tissues used for this report. Results from the two experiments and with both ETEC strains were similar and therefore were combined. Adhesion by 4P- ETEC was demonstrated in ileum but not in cecum or colon in 22/40 principal pigs sampled at 24 to 72 hours after orogastric inoculation. Adherent bacteria were most apparent on the intestinal villi covering Peyer's patches. Only occasional adherent bacteria were detected in ileal sections from a few (4/20) of the control pigs. Adherence by 4P- ETEC was characterized by "patches" of bacteria closely associated with the lateral surfaces and less frequently with the tips and the bases of intact villi. In most cases, the adherent bacteria were separated from epithelial cell microvilli and other bacterial cells by a 50-400-nm space. Filamentous bacterial appendages bridged this space and formed a network among adjacent bacteria.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Animals↗
PubMed1992

Pathogenicity of porcine enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli that do not express K88, K99, F41, or 987P adhesins.

Three-week-old weaned and colostrum-deprived neonatal (less than 1 day old) pigs were inoculated to determine the pathogenicity of 2 enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli isolates that do not express K88, K99, F41, or 987P adhesins (strains 2134 and 2171). Strains 2134 and 2171 were isolated from pigs that had diarrhea after weaning attributable to enterotoxigenic E coli infection. We found that both strains of E coli adhered in the ileum and caused diarrhea in pigs of both age groups. In control experiments, adherent bacteria were not seen in the ileum of pigs less than 1 day old or 3 weeks old that were noninoculated or inoculated with a nonpathogenic strain of E coli. These control pigs did not develop diarrhea. Antisera raised against strains 2134 and 2171 and absorbed with the autologous strain, grown at 18 C, were used for bacterial-agglutination and colony-immunoblot assays. Both absorbed antisera reacted with strains 2134 and 2171, but not with strains that express K99, F41, or 987P adhesins. A cross-reaction was observed with 2 wild-type K88 strains, but not with a K12 strain that expresses K88 pili. Indirect immunofluorescence with these absorbed antisera revealed adherent bacteria in frozen sections of ileum from pigs infected with either strain. We concluded that these strains are pathogenic and express a common surface antigen that may be a novel adhesin in E coli strains that cause diarrhea in weaned pigs.

Adhesins, Escherichia coli↗
PubMed1991

[New function tests in andrologic practice].

The authors compared the classical sperm parameters (cell count, motility, morphology) to new functional tests, such as swim up, hypoosmotic swelling test and in vitro fertilization. The results of hypoosmotic swelling test showed a very good correlation with the fertilization in vitro (P = 0.0001). The authors suggest to make the new functional probes together with the classical examination in the routine andrological practice.

Female↗
PubMed1991

2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid causes chromatin and chromosome abnormalities in plant cells and mutation in cultured mammalian cells.

The cytotoxic and mutagenic effects of the synthetic auxin 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) on shallot root tip cells and on V79 Chinese hamster fibroblast cells were examined and compared. In shallot root tips 2,4-D caused changes in mitotic activity, as well as changes in chromosome and chromatin structure, and also changes during the cell cycle. 2,4-D also showed mutagenic and cytotoxic effects on V79 cells in culture in concentrations higher than 10 micrograms/ml. The results in both systems (plant and mammalian cells) were in agreement showing mutagenic activity of 2,4-D in the concentration range higher than usually used in establishing plant tissue culture (greater than 5 micrograms/ml).

2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid↗
PubMed1991

Fibronectin in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and plasma of dogs with acute inflammation of the lungs.

Bronchoalveolar inflammation, which was generated in dogs by Broncho-Vaxom instilled into the right lower lobe, was characterized first of all by an increased influx of macrophages. In this non-purulent acute-subacute inflammatory reaction, the lavage fibronectin decreased rapidly three hours after the incubation and then a marked gradual elevation was observed, which persisted throughout the whole two-week process, while plasma fibronectin concentrations were not altered significantly. Changes in the levels of lavage fibronectin may be an important sign for the control of the inflammatory reaction activity in the lungs.

Acute Disease↗
PubMed1990

Iscom (immunostimulating complex) vaccines containing mono- or polyvalent pili of enterotoxigenic E. coli; immune response of rabbit and swine.

Iscom (immunostimulating complex) vaccines were prepared to contain K88ab, K88ac, K99 and 987P pili (fimbriae) of enterotoxigenic E. coli bacteria as monovalent or quadrivalent preparations. The iscoms injected into rabbits and into pigs elicited similar or higher immune response in both animal species than the oil adjuvanted vaccine containing about 5 times more of the same pilus protein. It is concluded that inclusion of pili into iscoms results in immunogenic preparations likely worth pursuing for vaccine production against enterotoxic colibacillosis of newborn pigs. The iscoms did not induce local reaction at the injection sites in contrast to the oil adjuvanted vaccines.

Adjuvants, Immunologic↗
PubMed1990

Phenotype and genotype of Escherichia coli isolated from pigs with postweaning diarrhea in Hungary.

A total of 205 Escherichia coli isolates from 88 diarrheal weanling (4- to 10-week-old) pigs from 59 farms were tested by slide agglutination for K88, K99, F41, and 987P antigens. K88 antigen was detected in 61% of the isolates representing 60% of the pigs and 56% of the farms. K88 antigen was associated with serogroup O149 and 91% of the K88+ isolates. K99, F41, and 987P were not detected. Of the K88- isolates, 70 were additionally tested by colony hybridization with DNA probes for adherence factors K88, K99, 987P, and F41 and for enterotoxin genes STaP, STaH, STb, and LT and by Vero cell assay for verotoxins (VT). The 70 K88- isolates could be divided into three categories: LT-, VT-, STaP+, and/or STb+ (34 isolates); LT-, STaP+, STb+, and/or VT+ (17 isolates); and nontoxigenic (19 isolates). Only one of the K88- isolates carried a known adherence factor (987P) detectable with DNA probes. Most of the STaP+ and STb+ isolates belonged to O groups O141, O147, and O157. All but 1 of the 17 VT+ isolates belonged to O groups O138, O139, O141, and O149. Only three of the VT+ strains were isolated from pigs with edema disease. We concluded that 73% of the K88- isolates had the capability to produce enterotoxins or VT that could have contributed to weanling pig diarrhea.

Adhesins, Escherichia coli↗