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M Haug

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PubMed1978

Aging and the right to terminate medical treatment.

Belief in the right of patient and/or family to terminate medical care in the case of irreversible terminal illness is analyzed by age level, education, health, and attitudes to patient rights in general. The issue of terminating treatment has become important as the result of new technologies which permit continuance of bodily functions by mechanical means; stopping care involves confrontation with the norm of maintaining life at all costs. Although age is related to support of the right to halt treatment, with those over 65 least likely to agree, the style of relation to professional care in general has more explanatory power.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1976

Induction and abrogation of unresponsiveness in nude mouse cells.

Nude mice were injected with antigen and T cells at different times to induce unresponsiveness to SRBC. Spleen cells derived from these mice were tested in vitro for the capability to produce antibody-forming cells against sheep erythrocytes in the presence of a T-cell-replacing factor. It was found that priming with antigen alone did not result in paralysis but a later injection of thymus-derived lymphocytes together with antigen results in unresponsiveness of these cells in vitro, provided there was an interval of several days between the in vivo administration of thymus lymphocytes and the explantations of cells to in vitro cultures.

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Vitamin E in human milk from mothers of preterm and term infants.

The content of vitamin E (alpha- and beta + gamma-tocopherol) was analyzed in 63 human milk samples obtained from 13 mothers of preterm infants ("preterm" milk) and in 59 milk samples obtained from nine mothers of full-term infants ("term" milk). The changing pattern of the alpha- and beta + gamma-tocopherol content during the course of lactation was identical for both groups. Total vitamin E, alpha- as well as beta + gamma-tocopherol, decreased during the first 2 weeks of lactation and remained constant thereafter. The ratio of alpha- to beta + gamma-tocopherol decreased from about 10:1 to 4:1. At days 3 and 36 of lactation, vitamin E contents (median values and ranges) expressed as milligrams alpha-tocopherol equivalent per 100 ml were 1.45 (0.64-6.4) and 0.29 (0.17-0.48), respectively, for preterm and 1.14 (0.63-4.21) and 0.28 (0.19-0.86), respectively, for term human milk. The vitamin E, alpha-tocopherol and beta + gamma-tocopherol content of preterm human milk did not differ significantly (p less than or equal to 0.05) from that of term human milk at each sampling day. Based on these findings we conclude that the increased requirement of prematures for vitamin E is not reflected in the vitamin E content of milk from mothers delivering preterm infants.

Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid↗