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E Merstenová

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[Antibodies against gastric parietal cells and thyroglobulin in various diseases in humans].

The authors examined antibodies against antigen of gastric parietal cells using the method of reaction of complement-binding and the immunofluorescence test in 662 patients. Concurrently they examined in 443 patients of this group also antibodies against thyroglobulin. The group comprised 312 men and 350 women. For statistical evaluation the chi 2 test was used. Antibodies against the antigen of parietal cells were positive at the level of significance p less than 0.05 in the group with other diseases, at the level of significance of p less than 0.01 in dyspeptic syndrome, and at the level of significance p less than 0.001 in hypothyroidism and in chronic hepatopathies. The immunofluorescence test was statistically significant at the level of p less than 0.01 only in duodenal ulceration, at the level of p less than 0.001 in dyspeptic syndrome, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, chronic hepatopathies, chronic pancreatitis, cholecystopathies, nephropathies and in the group of other diseases. Thyroid antibodies were positive with titres of p less than 1: 50 in 5.63, with titres of p less than 1: 5000 in 3.03%. The mentioned disease have not only pathomorphological and aetiological similarities but there is also serological overlapping.

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The excretion of free cortisol, cortisone, cortisol sulfate and cortisone sulfate in peripheral vascular disease, diabetes mellitus and hyperthyroidism.

In four groups of persons, 1/healthy individuals, 2/ patients with diabetes mellitus, 3/ patients with peripheral vascular disease, and 4/ patients with hyperthyroidism, the urinary excretion of free cortisol, cortisone, cortisol sulfate and cortisone sulfate was estimated. In groups 2 and 3 the excretion of all four substances was elevated. In hyperthyroidism a preponderance of free cortisone over cortisol was registered. The ratios of the followed substances suggest in patients with peripheral vascular disease a detoriation in the normal excretion of the followed corticoids, based on a preponderance of 11-OH-corticosteroids over their 11-oxo-derivatives. This observation could be implicated in the mild hyperglycemia or decreased glucose tolerance, that is often found in atherosclerotic disease.

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