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H Manabe

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PubMed1981

Isolation and partial structural characterization of macroglycolipid from rabbit erythrocyte membranes.

A macroglycolipid containing galactose and N-acetylglucosamine as predominant sugar constituents was prepared together with glycophorin from rabbit erythrocyte membranes by extraction with lithium diiodosalicylate and partition in aqueous phenol. The macroglycolipid was effectively separated from the glycophorin fraction by ion-exchange chromatography in the presence of a detergent, Ammonyx LO. Its yield (ca. 4 mg/100 ml erythrocytes) was significantly higher than that of the macroglycolipids from human erythrocytes. The structure of the carbohydrate moiety in the macroglycolipid was analyzed by methylation analysis, Smith degradation, nitrous acid deamination, and chromium trioxide oxidation. Assuming one ceramide residue per molecule, the average number of sugars in the macroglycolipid was about 30. The macroglycolipid had a highly branching structure: Gal(alpha 1 leads to 3)Gal(beta 1 leads to 4)GlcNAc sequences are present at nonreducing termini and leads to 3 Gal(beta 1-4)GlcNAc repeating units are present in the inner core of the sugar chain. Some of the inner galactose residues branch at the C-6 position. Constituents of the ceramide moiety were also characterized.

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PubMed1981

An autopsied case of an elementary school boy with sudden death four years after Kawasaki disease: on the problem of present method of cardiac mass screening of school children.

An 8 year-old boy died suddenly 4 years after the onset of Kawasaki disease. He was examined by a cardiac mass screening for school children one and a half year before the death, and was evaluated as having no sequela of Kawasaki disease. The autopsy showed coronary arterial aneurysms and obstruction with fresh and old myocardial infarction. One of the problems of the present method for cardiac mass screening for school children is that it is performed only with history taking, physical findings and electrocardiograms. This method is completely insufficient to find out coronary involvement as a sequela of Kawasaki disease. All the children with history of Kawasaki disease should be examined by two dimensional echocardiography, which is the most sensitive and specific noninvasive method to detect the coronary involvement in our experience.

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PubMed1980

Superoxide assay-leukocyte adherence inhibition test and a soluble factor which stimulates the adherence of macrophages.

A modified method for the leukocyte adherence inhibition test is described. Peritoneal cells from immune guinea pigs or peripheral mononuclear cells from cancer patients were incubated with immunizing antigen or tumor extract in a 4-mm-wide glass microcell for spectrophotometer analysis. Instead of visual cell counting, the cells adherent to the bottom of the microcell were stimulated with cytochalasin E and wheat germ agglutinin, and the amount of the superoxide (O2.-) generated from the adherent macrophages or monocytes was assayed. Antigen-specific adherence inhibition of peritoneal cells of the immunized guinea pigs was detected 2 weeks after immunization. In contrast, cell adherence was stimulated after 3 weeks. It was shown that a soluble factor was responsible for the adherence stimulation and that nonadherent cells were necessary for its production. Peripheral mononuclear cells of 70% of the tumor-bearing lung cancer patients reacted to the lung tumor extract (9 adherence inhibitions and 7 adherence stimulations per 23 patients). Twenty-five % (3 of 12) of tumor-free patients showed positive reactions, all with adherence stimulation. Of the 12 healthy donors, 3 cases of pneumonia, one case of angiosarcoma of the left flank, one case of hemangiopericytoma of the mediastinum, and 8 cases of breast cancer, non reacted with the lung tumor extract, and only one of 7 lung tuberculosis patients showed positive adherence stimulation.

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PubMed1980

The criteria for reconstruction of right ventricular outflow tract in total correction of tetralogy of Fallot.

Retrospective analysis was undertaken to determine the influence of residual pulmonary stenosis and surgically induced pulmonary insufficiency on the operative mortality rate in 104 patients with tetralogy of Fallot who underwent total correction between 1967 to 1970 at First Department of Surgery, Osaka University Hospital. This study revealed that, in order to improve the operative outcome in this anomaly, it is necessary to correct pulmonary stenosis to the point of the right-to-left ventricular peak pressure ratio (PRV/LV) less than 0.8 as well as preventing severe pulmonary insufficiency. Through this study, the criteria for enlargement of the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) for each given body size which will produce a PRV/LV of less than 0.8 were derived in 1971. If the size of the RVOT after infundibulectomy and valvotomy is smaller than that prescribed by the criteria, an outflow patch must be placed on the pulmonary outflow tract. Since 1971, these criteria have been used in total correction of this anomaly in our affiliated hospital without any problem and have been yielding good operative results. Postoperative hemodynamic studies have shown that our criteria are suitable.

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