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N Savage

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PubMed1978

Oestrogen receptors in tumours of breast cancer patients.

Oestrogen receptors were measured in the cytoplasmic fraction of tumours from patients with breast cancer. Receptors were detected in 48% of patients, and 52% showed no receptors. A follow-up study of a small group of patients on hormone therapy is reported.

Breast Neoplasms↗
PubMed1977

Cinnabarinate synthase from baboon (Papio ursinus) liver. Identity with catalase.

The enzyme chinnabarinate synthase was purified from the nuclei of baboon liver. Two purified fractions were obtained that exhibited a typical haem protein absorption spectrum; a probable identity with catalase was demonstrated. It was confirmed that catalase in the presence of Mn2+ produces cinnabarinate from 3-hydroxyanthranilate. Doubt is expressed on the existence of a distinct cinnabarinate synthase enzyme.

3-Hydroxyanthranilic Acid↗
PubMed1971

Morphology, Physiology, and Virulence of Some Mutants of Candida albicans.

Five mutagens were used to induce mutants of Candida albicans. Ultraviolet light, N-nitroso-N'-methyl-N-nitrosoguanidine, and N-nitroso-N-methylurethane were effective mutagens which induced stable auxotrophs. N-nitroso-N-methylurethane produced the largest number and variety of mutants. Nitrous acid and hydroxylamine were ineffective as mutagens although they killed C. albicans. All mutagenic agents employed induced colonial variants, especially small colony forms. The morphology, physiology, and virulence of one methionine and two adenine auxotrophs was compared to that of the prototroph. The auxotrophs exhibited yeast-like morphology in complex media and had sugar fermentation patterns typical of C. albicans, and all were agglutinated by C. albicans antiserum. Chlamydospore production was absent in the nonpigmented adenine mutant, and the chlamydospores produced by the methionine auxotroph were distorted. Germ tubes were formed in human serum by the auxotrophs and prototroph. Virulence for mice was retained by all auxotrophs but generally at a reduced level. The methionine auxotroph, only slightly less virulent than the prototroph, was more virulent than a pigmented adenine mutant and a practically avirulent nonpigmented adenine auxotroph.

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Differential lectin reactivities of alpha-fetoprotein in hepatocellular carcinoma: diagnostic value when serum alpha-fetoprotein levels are slightly raised.

The specificity and sensitivity of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) binding to Concanavalin-A (Con-A) and Lens culinaris agglutinin (LCA) in 26 South African blacks with advanced symptomatic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) but only slightly raised serum AFP concentrations (20-500 ng/mL) was compared with that in patients with similar serum AFP levels from diseases that might be mistaken clinically for HCC (seven 'benign' liver disease [BLD] patients and six with metastatic liver disease [MLD] from gastrointestinal tumours). Con-A-Sepharose-4B affinity chromatography did not differentiate between the different groups: fucosylation rations for the HCC patients were 0.81 +/- 0.60, compared with 0.63 +/- 0.27 and 0.54 +/- 0.32 in patients with BLD and MLD, respectively. Electrophoresis of AFP serum and fraction in the presence or absence of Con-A and LCA showed an increase in the AFP C2 band. Rank correlation analysis of the AFP L2 and L3 bands combined could distinguish between patients with HCC and other hepatic diseases (P less than 0.05).

Biomarkers, Tumor↗
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Interleukin 1 receptors and biological responses.

Interleukin 1 (IL-1) is a polypeptide which possesses a wide variety of biological properties. IL-1 was originally studied as "endogenous pyrogen" and "leukocytic endogenous mediator" and more recently as "lymphocyte activating factor." Within a few minutes after intravenous injection into experimental animals, IL-1 triggers events in the hypothalamus to initiate fever, slow-wave sleep, and the release of a variety of neuropeptides. The nature of the IL-1 receptors (IL-1R) is important to the understanding of IL-1's multiple action in mediating both neural and non-neural events. In this paper, the data are reviewed on the physical nature of the dominant, high-binding 80 kDa IL-1R isolated from murine T cells. In addition, newer studies demonstrate the existence of other IL-1 binding proteins which may participate as functional IL-1 receptors. These are a 68-75 kDa binding protein found on B cells and a 26-30 kDa binding protein found on T cells and mesangial cells. There is a considerable discrepancy between the number and affinities of the 80 kDa IL-1R and biological responses. Little is known about the relationship of the 68-75 or 26-30 kDa IL-R's biological responses. It is possible that, similar to neurotransmitter receptors, multiple chains of different binding proteins participate in the signal transduction of IL-1. The hydrolysis of non-phosphatidyl inositol membrane phospholipids plays an important role in responses to IL-1.

Animals↗
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Electrophoretic forms of protein kinases during differentiation of murine erythroleukaemic cells.

The different forms of cAMP-dependent, cGMP-dependent and cyclic nucleotide-independent protein kinases were studied in relation to hexamethylene bisacetamide (HMBA)-induced differentiation of murine erythroleukaemic cells, using a nondenaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis system. Several forms of histone-dependent kinases were detected and there was a definite change in the relative proportions of the two major components and of minor components in cells treated with HMBA, as compared with untreated controls. The faster-moving of the two major forms, which increased on HMBA stimulation, appeared to be both cAMP and cGMP dependent; the slower moving form, which decreased with HMBA treatment, showed little dependence on either cAMP or cGMP.

Acetamides↗