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G Murr

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[Comparison of the vitamin A blood serum level in patients with head-neck cancer and healthy persons].

Serum vitamin A levels of 104 patients with head and neck cancer were analysed and compared with those of 74 normal subjects (standard values 1.1-3.7 micromol/l). Lower values of vitamin A (0.91 +/- 0.33-1.37 +/- 0.99) were found 2.4 times oftener in patients with stage III and IV disease. We were unable to determine whether the vitamin A deficiency is one of the possible causes of the cancer or the sequel of malnutrition and malignant cachexia due to reduced protein synthesis by the liver.

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[Influence of reserpine on the nasal mucous membrane (author's transl)].

The influence of reserpine on the nasal mucous membrane in the various conditions of its autonomic denervation was investigated in the rabbits. Histochemical analysis of a acetylcholine esterase and quantitative measurements of acetylcholine were performed. The results point out that reserpine influence is found only on the vascular elements in the mucous membrane and not on the subepithelial glands. Analogically it was concluded that in some patients with arterial hypertension who were treated with reserpine, its side effect, nasal obstruction, was caused only by vasodilatation. In rhinitis vasomotorica, in the addition to the vasodilatation the abounding secretion of subepithelial mucous glands is present. The performed experiments also point out that resection of the vidian nerve in resistant cases of vasomotor rhinitis with aboundant secretion is reasonable.

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