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I Chino

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[Retrospective clinical evaluation of prognosis factors in stage D2 prostatic cancer treated with endocrine therapy].

Of 91 patients with prostatic cancer treated at our Department of Urology, from January 1976 through December 1987, 42 cases of stage D2 cancer treated with endocrine therapy were evaluated retrospectively with regard to clinical parameters and prognoses. The patients with marked increase in the level of the prostatic acid phosphatase (PACP), and the lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in serum, and marked decrease in volume of hemoglobin (Hb) had a poor prognosis. The patients who took a long time to obtain a favorable response to the therapy had a poor prognosis. The response grade in NPCP criteria at 3 months after the initiation of therapy reflected the prognosis, and showed good correlation to the grade of favorable response.

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Evidence for the involvement of muscle tropomyosin in the contractile elements of the coelom-esophagus complex in sea urchin embryos.

The sea urchin morphogenesis, especially formation of the coelom-esophagus complex, was observed correlating the distribution of tropomyosin-specific immunofluorescence. Coelomic cells arranged at both sides of the esophagus extended their pseudopods toward the esophagus to form the contractile bands, which surrounded the esophagus and brought about the contraction of the esophagus. The earliest stage at which the tropomyosin-specific immunofluorescence was recognized coincided with the appearance of the coelomic pseudopods. The tropomyosin-specific immunofluorescence located at the contractile bands and the cell bodies from which they derived, when the ectoderm-disrupted embryos were used to investigate the detailed distribution of tropomyosin. The tropomyosin-specific immunofluorescence remained in the same regions when the embryos were stained with the antiserum absorbed with egg tropomyosin, which detected only muscle tropomyosin. From these observations, the coelomic pseudopod-forming cells were conclusively shown to be muscle cells.

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