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J Blazek

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PubMed1994

Diffusion of antibiotics across tissue expanders: an in vitro study.

Local infection remains a significant complication of tissue expansion. Subclinical infection of pockets with permanent prosthesis used in breast reconstruction has also been associated with capsular contracture around the implant. In an in vitro model, we used four groups of eighteen 50-ml tissue expanders, each containing Bactrim, Ancef, Nafcil, or saline only, in beakers containing fresh frozen plasma, placed in a rotary shaker for 48 hours. Inoculums of Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis were then selectively added to the medium external to the expanders in each group. The growth of such strains was found to be variably inhibited. We thus determined that antibiotics can diffuse through a tissue expander's Silastic membrane and establish an efficient bacteriostatic level in the surrounding fluid. This information could have potential clinical application in reducing infections associated with the use of expanders.

Anti-Bacterial Agents↗
PubMed1991

[Accuracy of ultrasound measurements of the axial length of the eye].

Ultrasonic assessment of the axial length of the eye provides important baseline data for the calculation of the dioptric power of an artificial intraocular lens. The accuracy of ultrasonic biometry performed by an OPHTASCAN B apparatus is discussed based on evaluation of a group of repeated measurements of the axial length and depth of the anterior chamber in 592 bulbi.

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PubMed1985

[Structure of the hen's egg shell and its changes during incubation. A scanning electron microscope study].

The structure of the hen's egg shell was studied during the incubation. The local differences in the structure of the shell were estimated during the incubation in dependence to the development of the allantochorial vascular system. On the external surface of the shell there is a thin layer, homogenous in the SEM. It remains changeless during the whole period of incubation. The main part of shell is formed by long prisms with their long axes oriented perpendicularly to the external surface of the shell. These prisms are partially twisted round each other, similarly as in the case of the teeth enamel. The inner layer of the shell is formed by a system of fibers forming the three-dimensional network, similar to an air filter. In the middle of incubation, when the embryo's skeleton is still predominantly cartilaginous, is the structure of the shell identical with that one at the beginning of incubation. At the end of incubation, when the embryo's skeleton is already predominantly ossificated, the inner layer of the shell disappears without any trace. By resorption of the shell are the peaks of the prisms of the middle layer of the shell destroyed as well. The above described changes are the best visible in the equator region of the shell. Less developed are they in the region of the sharp pole of the egg. They are not detectable in the region of the blunt pole of the egg. In this region the egg's shell has the same structure during the whole period of incubation. The changes of structure of the shell--the resorption of the inner layer together with partial destruction of the prisms of the middle layer - exactly correspond with extension of the allantochorial vascular system.

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PubMed1979

[Immunological aspects of nucleolar activation. III. Changes in nucleolar activation after application of S III pneumococcal polysaccharide in vivo].

Intraperitoneal application of 0.7 microgram S III pneumococcal polysaccharide led to a significant increase in the values of nucleolar activation in small, medium, and large lymphocytes, plasmoblasts, and plasmatic cells in a white mouse. Macrophages did not respond to the application of S III by an increase in nucleolar activation. The study tested the possibility of using the observation of the functional morphology of the nucleous for observing the changes in the activation of B-cells after administration of nonspecific mitogen and a thymus-independent antigen.

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PubMed1977

[Immunopathological aspects of nucleolar activation. 1. Changes of nucleolar activation during the course of primary immune response].

During the primary immune response induced by the administration of sheep erythrocytes in mice, nucleolar activation was observed in macrophages, lymphocytes as well as in plasmacytes. The first maximum (4.6%) was observed on day 3 in macrophagic cells. Maximal activation of plasmoblasts (6.6%) and plasmacytes (5.9%) was observed on day the lymphoid series the first maximum in the occurrence of cells showing specific immunological activatin was as follows: large lymphocytes on day (6.5%), medium-sized lymphocytes on day 7 (6.6%) and, ultimately, small lymphocytes (6.3%) on day 8. The study verified the possibility of using nucleolar staining for estimating its functional morphology and thus following the changes of specific immunological activation during the primary immunological response.

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