Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to P Templeton.
We present a case of a Galeazzi-type of fracture dislocation with an irreducible distal radioulnar joint. This is illustrated by intraoperative pictures which may assist others who find themselves faced with this injury.
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Human demineralised cortical bone chips ('bank' bone) and a particulate bioceramic (20% hydroxyapatite: 80% tricalcium phosphate) were implanted into muscle pouches in the rat abdominal wall. Combined implants of both bone and bioceramic were also made. The implants were examined histologically at thirty day intervals over a three month period. The results showed that the hydroxyapatite: tricalcium phosphate bioceramic was not resorbed and did not induce bone formation when implanted alone or in combination with human demineralised bone. In contrast the bank bone was osteogenic but, even at three months, bone formation was sparse. These results are in accord with recent findings that the use of xenogeneic model systems to evaluate the osteogenic potential of human bone is limited.
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Current developments in the use of radiolabelled antiviral drugs as specific "probes" for virus-infected cells in vivo may allow the specific neuroradiological diagnosis of herpes encephalitis. As "blind therapy" with the antiviral drug acyclovir may precede specific neuroradiological diagnosis, the aim of the present study was to investigate whether or not acyclovir interferes with the uptake of the radioprobe E-5-(2-125Iodovinyl)-2'-deoxyuridine (rIVDU) by virus-infected cells in vitro. Acyclovir treatment (0.1 to 10 micrograms/ml) was shown to increase initial radioprobe uptake by virus-infected cells. However, with continued incubation in the presence of acyclovir, intracellular radioactivity decreased to a level not significantly different from that associated with noninfected cells. A mechanism to explain these results is proposed. It was concluded that concurrent acyclovir therapy could interfere with neuroradiological diagnosis using rIVDU, although this may not occur with all the candidate radioprobes currently under investigation.