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R Koide

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PubMed1987

Serial determination of serum neuron-specific enolase in patients with neuroblastoma and other pediatric tumors.

The importance of determination of serum neuron-specific enolase (NSE) in patients with neuroblastoma has been emphasized by several authors. However, the specificity and sensitivity of NSE have not yet been well studied in tumors of infancy and childhood, nor is the role of serial determination of NSE in monitoring these patients fully understood. Concentrations of serum NSE were determined by a newly developed radioimmunoassay technique in 241 samples from 111 patients. NSE was also assayed in sera of nude mice bearing human pediatric tumors (16 samples), as well as in 30 tumor specimens. Eighty-two serum samples from 19 patients with neuroblastoma all showed NSE values (mean 120.2 ng/mL, range 16.2 to 722.0 ng/mL) elevated beyond the upper border of the normal range (14.6 ng/mL), even though four of the 19 patients had normal urinary excretion of 3-methoxy-4-hydroxymandelic acid (VMA) and 3-methoxy-4-hydroxy-phenylacetic acid (HVA). Twelve of these patients were monitored with serial NSE determinations, and their serum NSE were found to correlate well with the tumor burden, but were transiently modified by chemotherapeutically induced cell death. All 68 samples from nine patients, free of neuroblastoma at assessment, showed NSE values within the normal range. Thirteen of 25 patients with tumors other than neuroblastoma, however, showed serum NSE values mildly elevated beyond the upper border of the normal range (mean of the 25 patients 36.7 ng/mL, range 5.0 to 234.0 ng/mL). Results from our nude mouse study and from NSE analysis of the tumor extracts paralleled the clinical results.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Adolescent↗
PubMed1987

[Bone metastasis of malignant solid tumors in childhood].

A total of 452 cases of childhood malignant solid tumors were treated over the last twenty years at the National Children's Hospital. These included 175 cases of neuroblastoma, 64 cases of Wilms' tumor, 65 cases of malignant lymphoma, 45 cases of soft tissue sarcoma, 31 cases of hepatoma, 20 cases of malignant teratoma, 17 cases of testicular tumor, 7 cases of ovarian tumor and 28 cases of other forms of malignant solid tumor. Bone metastasis was observed in 62 of 175 cases of neuroblastoma, 3 of 64 cases of Wilms' tumor, one of 65 cases of malignant lymphoma, 4 of 45 cases of soft tissue sarcoma, one case of pulmonary blastoma and one case of osteogenic sarcoma, giving a total occurrence of bone metastasis in 72 of the 452 cases. The main sites of bone metastasis in neuroblastoma were the skull (61.4%), femur (56.8%), orbit (27.3%) and spine (22.7%). The average values of serum calcium and alkaline phosphatase activity showed no significant difference. The patients with bone metastasis were treated with a combination of radiation therapy and intensive chemotherapy, resulting in temporary improvement. The survival of patients with stage IV neuroblastoma with bone metastasis was worse than that of similar patients without bone metastasis.

Bone Neoplasms↗
PubMed1984

Mass screening for neuroblastoma in infants in Japan. Interim report of a mass screening study group.

A mass screening system for the early detection by means of a vanillylmandelic acid test of neuroblastoma in 6-month-old infants in Japan has been developed in eight districts. 16 of the 281 939 infants screened by this test had neuroblastoma, equivalent to a very high incidence of 1 in 17 621. 15 of the 16 children with neuroblastoma are alive; the other child died 1 month after surgery. This mass screening system for neuroblastoma used in infancy can help to improve prognosis in infants with this malignant disorder.

Adrenal Gland Neoplasms↗
PubMed1984

A clinicopathological study of histiocytosis X.

Thirty-five cases of histiocytosis X in the National Children's Hospital were clinicopathologically studied. Fourteen cases were categorized in diffuse histiocytosis X, Letterer-Siwe type (DHX), 19 cases in multifocal eosinophilic granuloma (MEG) and 2 cases in unifocal eosinophilic granuloma (UEG). Nine of 14 DHX died, of which 6 died of opportunistic infection due to hypoproteinemia and pancytopenia, and 3 died of pulmonary fibrosis probably due to histiocytic infiltration and resultant lymphedema. Infiltration of histiocytes in the bone marrow, thymus and lungs, in addition to the lymphoreticular organs, was conspicuous in autopsy cases of DHX. Skin biopsy was valuable for diagnosis and the immunostaining with anti-S100 antibody was a good marker to characterize infiltrating histiocytes. Prognostic factors and effects of treatments were also evaluated. Only one of 19 MEG died of opportunistic viral infection, but a longer duration for treatment was usually necessary compared to that for DHX. Pathogenesis of histiocytosis X was discussed in relation to T-zone histiocytes.

Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols↗
PubMed1983

Familial leukemia. HLA system and leukemia predisposition in a family.

Four cases of acute lymphocytic leukemia occurred in a family comprising 30 members. Genetic and cytogenetic studies showed a possible linkage between an HLA haplotype and the leukemia predisposition that was suggested by site-directed chromosome rearrangements in cultured skin fibroblasts. The possession of genetic markers, other than HLA types, could not be linked to the occurrence of leukemia in the family. These findings suggest that the major histocompatibility complex or gene(s) linked to it may have played a part in the pathogenesis of the leukemic process in this family.

Blood Proteins↗
PubMed1980

Studies on human placental monoamine oxidase using mixed substrates.

The activity of mitochondrial monoamine oxidase (MAO) from human placenta was measured with mixtures of labelled and unlabelled tyramine, serotonin (5-HT), benzylamine and beta-phenylethylamine (PEA). Tyramine deamination was inhibited by benzylamine and PEA but not by 5-HT, while benzylamine deamination was inhibited by tyramine and PEA, but not by 5-HT, 5-HT deamination was inhibited by tyramine, benzylamine and PEA and PEA deamination was inhibited by tyramine, benzylamine and 5-HT. These results suggest that MAO in human placenta has multiple catalytic sites or consists of different enzymes. Probably, tyramine, benzylamine and PEA are deaminated oxidatively at a common catalytic site while 5-HT is deaminated at another catalytic site. Benzylamine deamination was inhibited in a mixed noncompetitive fashion by tyramine and PEA in air, but benzylamine deamination was competitively inhibited by PEA at higher concentrations of oxygen. The deaminations of other substrates were inhibited competitively by other substrates, in air. Reciprocal plots of PEA deamination with benzylamine, 5-HT and tyramine gave hyperbolic curves.

Benzylamines↗