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K Bando

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PubMed1984

Fluorometric assay of human serum carnosinase activity in normal children, adults and patients with myopathy.

A sensitive, accurate method has been established for the assay of serum carnosinase by measuring the fluorescence emitted from the L-histidine liberated on treatment with o-phthaldialdehyde. Using this method the serum values for normal adults, infants and children were measured. The mean value was very low in infants of less than 1 year old but increased with age, being almost the same in children aged 6 years or more as in adults. In adult men, the mean activity was 1.85 mumol/mL/h and in adult women it was 2.07 mumol/mL/h. Low activity was observed in patients with muscular dystrophy.

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PubMed1984

Dissecting aneurysm of the vertebral artery. Report of seven cases and angiographic findings.

Seven cases of dissecting aneurysm of the vertebral artery, all appearing to be of fusiform type, are reported. Clinically, all seven cases initially showed symptoms of subarachnoid hemorrhage; however, three of these were associated with Wallenberg's syndrome. The characteristic angiographic findings in these cases were: 1) retention of contrast medium in the aneurysm; 2) the presence of a true (vertebral artery) and false (arterial wall) lumen in the late arterial and/or venous phase; and 3) irregular arterial narrowing proximal and/or distal to the aneurysm. Autopsy findings of one patient supported the angiographic findings. Recently, reports of fusiform aneurysms associated with subarachnoid hemorrhage have been increasing. As dissecting aneurysms are found in the fusiform group, it is very important to analyze serial angiograms in order to choose a method of surgical treatment.

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PubMed1983

Evidence of beneficial effects of strict glycemic control on diabetic vascular complications--a prospective study with artificial devices.

This prospective study was undertaken to examine whether glycemic normalization could have beneficial on the course of diabetic vascular complications in 6 insulin-dependent diabetics. A significant amelioration of glycemic regulation was achieved by intensive glycemic control with artificial devices and multiple injections for 3 months, which also resulted in an improvement in conduction velocity, a regression in retinovascular permeability and a decrease in urinary total protein excretion. These results indicate that even after short-term treatment, glycemic near-normalization can have a beneficial effect on the early stage of diabetic vascular complications.

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PubMed1978

[The study of developmental pharmacology (II). Histological observations of central nervous tissue in rats of dams given pentazocine HCl during perinatal and postnatal periods (author's transl)].

In previous literature, we reported that the rats whose dams had been administerd pentazocine HCl 200 mg/kg/day during the perinatal and postnatal periods, showed no differences between control rats in the physiological function and psychotic activity tests. Brain tissues of the rats were observed histologically herein to confirm the result of previous tests. Abnormal findings such as deficits, undevelopment and metamorphosis, in the shape, size and configuration of nerve cells, myelin sheaths and vessels in consecutive transverse sections stained by Nissl and Klüver-Barrera method were not evident on examination under light microscope, and in cell bodies, dendrites, axons, myelin sheaths, synaptic complexes of nerve cell, neuroglia and vessels in the cerebral cortex, under electron microscope. The lack of abnormal findings in the histological observation of brain tissues supports the result of previously conducted physiological function and psychotic activity tests in which no significant differences were found between treated and control rats. Pentazocine HCl had no effect on the brain tissues of rat offspring from dams administered the drug during perinatal and postnatal periods.

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