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J Ware

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PubMed1986

Analysis of a large nontranscribed spacer in the ribosomal DNA of the house cricket, Acheta domesticus (Orthoptera:Gryllidae).

An analysis of a 29-kilobase nontranscribed spacer fragment in the ribosomal DNA (rDNA) of the house cricket, Acheta domesticus, revealed a highly repetitious structure. A total of eight EcoRI repeats of three different size classes measuring 259, 420, and 508 base pairs (bp) was mapped to a region 2 kilobases (kb) from the 18 S coding region. The repeats were oriented in a nonrandom manner and had sequences homologous to DNA located immediately adjacent to the repetitive array. DNA sequence analysis showed that the repetitive region was composed of smaller direct repeats 66, 67, and 383 bp in length. There was minor length heterogeneity of the chromosomal restriction fragments containing the entire array, indicating that a variable number of EcoRI repeats is a minor contributor to the total repeat-unit length heterogeneity. Immediately upstream from the EcoRI array there is a 17-kb region composed of 50 to 60 subrepeat elements recognized by a variety of restriction endonucleases. A subcloned SmaI repeat from the array was not homologous to any other part of the rDNA repeat unit or other chromosomal DNA. There was little length heterogeneity in restriction fragments containing the chromosomal 17-kb repetitions region. Immediately upstream from the 17-Kb region there is a 4.1-kb segment with sequences homologous to the EcoRI repeats.

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PubMed1986

Auranofin therapy and quality of life in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Results of a multicenter trial.

In a six-month, randomized, double-blind study at 14 centers, auranofin (3 mg twice daily) was compared with placebo in the treatment of patients with classic or definite rheumatoid arthritis. All patients had unremitting disease for at least the previous six months and at least three months of therapy with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). NSAIDs, oral steroids, and analgesics were allowed throughout the trial. Efficacy was analyzed in 154 patients who received auranofin and 149 who received placebo. To reflect an expanded view of outcome assessment, the measures used included some 20 nontraditional measures of functional performance, pain, global impression, and utility (worth or value) in addition to five standard clinical measures of rheumatoid synovitis (e.g., number of tender joints). The nontraditional measures were mainly in the form of structured questionnaires administered by trained interviewers. To minimize the statistical problem of multiple comparisons, most of the measures were grouped into four composites--clinical (standard measures), functional, global, and pain--and the treatment effect for each composite was tested at the 0.0125 level of significance. Auranofin was superior to placebo in the clinical (p = 0.003), functional (p = 0.001), and global (p = 0.007) composites and trended similarly in the pain composite (p = 0.021). Individual measures within the composites consistently favored auranofin. Other measures, not part of the composites, also favored auranofin, including a patient utility measure designed for this study, the PUMS (p = 0.002). Results confirm the hypothesis that the favorable effect of auranofin on clinical synovitis is accompanied by improvements across a range of outcomes relevant to the patient's quality of life.

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PubMed1986

Nutritional status and endocrine response to hemorrhage.

Hyperglycemia-inducing hyperosmolality has recently been proven beneficial in the maintenance of blood volume and extracellular fluid volume during early hemorrhagic hypotension. Fed animals benefitted from better plasma refill compared with starved ones when subjected to equal blood loss. Using lightly sedated fed and 24-30 h starved rats, hormones with relevance to glucose homeostasis were studied during 90 min of hemorrhagic hypotension of 70 mmHg (1 mmHg = 133.32 Pa). Marked differences in the overall hormonal developments were found between the two groups. In fed rats, insulin and glucagon responses were initially attenuated, while somatostatin increased to an early peak level at 30 min, returning to basal at 90 min. In starved rats, somatostatin increased gradually during the 90 min. Adrenaline release was massive in both groups. Corticosterone showed no increase from basal levels in the fed group during hemorrhage, while starved rats increased their basal level fourfold already at 30 min. These data are presented as evidence that changing nutritional status alters hormonal response to hypovolemic stress.

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PubMed1985

A prospective randomised controlled clinical trial comparing somatostatin and vasopressin in controlling acute variceal haemorrhage.

Twenty two patients were entered into a randomised controlled clinical trial comparing the efficacy of somatostatin and vasopressin in controlling acute variceal haemorrhage. Somatostatin was significantly more successful in controlling acute variceal haemorrhage than vasopressin (p = 0.003). Furthermore, no complications were observed during treatment with somatostatin.

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PubMed1985

Analysis of genes for 5S rRNA from the cricket, Acheta domesticus: two classes of repeating units.

To examine the modulation of 5S rRNA gene activity during development in the cricket, Acheta domesticus, 5S X DNA was isolated from a lambda Charon 4 genomic library and characterized. Southern blot analysis of cloned A. domesticus genomic DNA revealed that restriction fragments of 3.0 and 2.1 kb represent two size classes of 5S X DNA repeating units; over 90% of the repeats measure 3.0 kb. Restriction analysis of two 5S X DNA clones suggests that the 2.1-kb repeats are not randomly interspersed within clusters of the larger 3.0-kb repeating units. Heteroduplex and restriction mapping of several clones indicate that the spacers of both repeating units account for their unusual length. The major difference between the two classes of repeats may lie in 0.9-kb spacer sequences to the 3.0-kb repeats.

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PubMed1985

Liver volume and uptake assessment using 123I-BSP tomography.

Liver volume and parenchymal cell uptake of 123I-bromosulphthalein (BSP) has been assessed using the technique of single photon emission tomography (SPET). These results have been compared with a clinical scoring of disease severity and also with results for liver volume and tomographically assessed uptake of 99Tcm-sulphur colloid (SC). Comparisons of volume estimation, geometric mean (GM) uptake curves and a distribution index derived by a mapping technique with both radiopharmaceuticals, show that 123I-BSP tomography is feasible. A short acquisition time is required in order to obtain tomographic information before there is significant biliary excretion. There was a significant difference between the mean percentage uptake of 123I-BSP in the three groups of liver disease severity (P less than 0.002). This technique merits further evaluation in the study of the assessment of functional liver impairment.

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PubMed1984

Comparison of isotope dilution technique and haematocrit determination for blood volume estimation in rats subjected to haemorrhage.

The method of posthaemorrhagic blood volume (BV) determination by simple haematocrit measurement has been compared with the conventional isotope dilution technique. 51Cr tagged erythrocytes and 125IHSA were used to estimate RBC volume and plasma volume in non-starved male Sprague-Dawley rats. Two series of experiments were carried out by two different investigatory groups. Haemorrhage was inflicted by 60 or 90 min of haemorrhagic hypotension at 70 mm Hg, causing 41% and 56% loss of the initial estimated BVs, respectively. There was agreement in both series for the initial blood volume indices; RBC volume, 2.82 ml x 100 g-1 b.wt.; plasma volume 3.33 ml x 100 g-1 b.wt. and F cells, 0.91. Using the RBC volume data, the calculated residual BVs after haemorrhage corresponded accurately to the isotope measurements in both series. It is concluded that non-splenectomized rats may be used for accurate BV analysis after haemorrhage if the basal data for the strain used are known.

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PubMed1984

Cardiovascular and lymph flow changes caused by physiological hyperosmolar provocation in unanesthetized rats.

Cardiovascular and thoracic duct lymph (TDL) flow alterations were investigated in non-starved rats, lightly sedated with neuroleptanalgesia, before and after osmolar loading. 0.29-, 1.0- and 2.0-M xylose solutions were infused at the rate of 4 ml X h-1 for 20 min. Neither control animals receiving 0.29-M infusions (iso-osmolar) nor those which received 1- and 2-M infusions showed any detectable changes in cardiac output, heart rate, total peripheral resistance or any organ and tissue flow. On the other hand, TDL flow increased during the hyperosmolar infusions, giving a high degree of correlation with infusion time (r = 0.88 and 0.94, for 1- and 2-M infusions, respectively). These results indicate that hyperosmolar loading has only fluid physiological effects under normotensive conditions.

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PubMed1984

Absence of a cumulative deterioration of regional function during three repeated 5 or 15 minute coronary occlusions.

Recurrent myocardial ischemia is commonly seen in patients with coronary artery disease, in patients undergoing cardiac surgery with intermittent cross-clamping, and experimentally when multiple occlusion preparations are used to test drugs. Our study was designated to investigate whether myocardial injury is cumulative after three sequential ischemic episodes. Sixteen dogs were instrumented with ultrasonic crystals to assess percentage of segmental shortening and percentage of wall thickening in ischemic and nonischemic regions. The left anterior descending coronary artery was occluded three times for 5 min in one group (n = 8) and three times for 15 min in another group of dogs (n = 8) and each occlusion was followed by 30 min of reflow. Blood flow was determined with microspheres before coronary artery occlusion in the 5 min group and during occlusion in the 15 min group and in all dogs 25 min into the first and third reperfusion periods. During the three reperfusion periods mean segmental shortening in the ischemic zone recovered to only 60.5 +/- 8.7% (+/- SEM) of the preocclusion level (p less than .003) in the 5 min occlusion group and to 36.9 +/- 17.7% in the 15 min occlusion group (p less than .01). Mean wall thickening recovered to 61.3 +/- 16.6% (p less than .06) in the 5 min group and to 48.6 +/- 11.8% in the 15 min group (p less than .004). There were no significant differences during the reperfusion phase when mean values for the ischemic segment after the second and third occlusion were compared with the data obtained after the first occlusion in either group.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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PubMed1983

Modification of cardio-vascular responses to hemorrhage by induced hyperosmolality in the rat.

Starved rats sedated with a neurolept analgesic were subjected to hemorrhagic hypotension while receiving infusions of iso-osmolar and hyperosmolar solutions. The hemorrhage model used resulted in similar residual blood volumes and hematocrits in all groups. The non-metabolizable pentose, xylose, and glucose were used to induce a state of hyperosmolality, which was absent in those animals which received iso-osmolar infusions (0.29 M xylose). After 45 mins hemorrhagic hypotension and a blood loss equal to 40% of the initial blood volume, the animals receiving the hyperosmolar infusions had a better cardiovascular status compared to those which received the iso-osmolar infusions. The cardiac outputs and stroke volumes were higher and heart rate lower in the hyperosmolar groups. Evidence of better tissue perfusion was obtained in those animals with the induced state of hyperosmolality.

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PubMed1983

Cardio-vascular and metabolic alterations caused by hemorrhage in fed and starved rats.

Non-starved (fed) and starved rats, sedated with a neurolept analgesic, were subjected to 45 min of hemorrhagic hypotension. The hemorrhage inflicted did not cause hypoxic changes, and left fed and starved animals with the same residual blood volume. Fed animals developed a state of hyperglycemic hyperosmolality and their free fatty acids tended to rise, while these observations were modified among starved animals. After 15 min of hemorrhage the cardiovascular parameters were the same in fed and starved animals, but at 45 min striking differences were observed. In fed animals, cardiac output, stroke volume, skin and muscle flows were substantially higher than starved animal values, while the latter animals had a higher heart rate and peripheral resistance. These effects are attributed to the state of hyperosmolality developed by the fed animals, and can explain the association between nutritional status and survival in hemorrhage.

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PubMed1983

Solute equilibrium over the extracellular fluid space in haemorrhagic hypotension: a study in a cannulated thoracic duct model.

Haemorrhagic hypotension, 50 mm Hg, has been inflicted on non-starved rats. Osmolar and solute developments have been followed in lymph and arterial plasma to assess diffusion and equilibration characteristics of the initial stages of haemorrhage. Lymph flow changes have reflected an intracellular fluid mobilization to the interstitium, caused by an osmotic gradient due to the elevated levels of glucose. A fluid homeostatic effect of pseudodiabetes associated with stress and haemorrhage is postulated.

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PubMed1983

Effects of isotonic fluid load on plasma water and extracellular fluid volumes in the rat.

An isotonic fluid load was given to rats by infusing 12 ml saline i.v. in 60 min. The plasma water and extracellular fluid volumes of the whole animal and selected tissues were subsequently studied with 125I human serum albumin and 51Cr EDTA. The fluid infused was equivalent to 130% of the plasma water volume. The total extracellular fluid volume increased by 17%, while the total plasma water measured with RIHSA remained unchanged. The regional extracellular fluid volumes increased in the lung (14%), the gastric fundus (15%), large intestine (21%) and skin (28%). The results illustrate the selective distribution of an isotonic fluid overload, those tissues being effected having high compliances.

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PubMed1983

Mobilised fluid volumes after induced hyperosmolality in the rat.

Hyperosmolar infusions of the inert pentose sugar, xylose (MW 150), were used to induce hyperosmolar states in non-starved and starved rats. Using 51Cr EDTA and RIHSA the extracellular fluid (ECF) and plasma fluid volumes (PV) were determined before and after infusions. The cause of weight loss after 24-30 h starvation was also examined. Equal osmolar provocation in starved and non-starved animals caused the same degree of hyperosmolality. The greater the osmolality increase the larger the volume of intracellular fluid mobilised. Despite the total ECF volume increments being large relative to PV, this fluid compartment remained hardly effected by the fluid released from the cells. No evidence could be found to support 24-30 h starvation as causing a measurable fluid balance defect, a finding of considerable importance when considering short term problems arising out of starvation. The strict control of PV in normovolemic rats has again been confirmed.

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