[Nursing process: nursing of patients with skin cancer. Nursing of a patient with malignant melanoma who suspected the true nature of her illness].
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K Tojo
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[Nursing process: nursing of patients with skin cancer. Discussion: encouragement of the patient to express her anxiety].
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Further evidence that peptide histidine isoleucine (PHI) may function as a prolactin releasing factor in rats.
Intraventricular administration of peptide histidine isoleucine (PHI) (200 ng, 1, 5 and 10 micrograms/rat) resulted in a significant and dose-related increase in plasma prolactin (PRL) levels in urethane-anesthetized rats and in conscious rats with intraatrial and intraventricular catheters. Intravenous injection of PHI (10 micrograms/rat) also raised plasma PRL levels in these animals. In in vitro studies, PRL release from superfused rat anterior pituitary cells was stimulated by PHI (10(-9), 10(-8) and 10(-7) M) in a dose-related manner. The stimulating effect of PHI (10(-7)M) on PRL release in vitro was as potent as that of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) (10(-7) M) and was observed even in the presence of dopamine (10(-7) M). These results suggest that PHI plays a stimulating role in regulating PRL secretion by acting, at least in part, directly on the pituitary in the rat.
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Herpes zoster ophthalmicus with delayed contralateral hemiparesis.
A 35-year-old previously healthy woman developed left hemiparesis sixteen weeks after the onset of right herpes zoster ophthalmicus. Cerebral angiography showed complete occlusion of right middle cerebral artery at the origin and segmental narrowing of the right posterior cerebral artery. Computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) also revealed a right hemispheric lesion consistent with angiographic findings. Reports from the literature along with the present case suggest that arteritis followed by cerebral infarction is the most probable cause of delayed contralateral hemiparesis.
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