R S Mensh | PubMed Health

PubMed1981

Campylobacter enterocolitis.

We report four patients with bloody diarrhea and colitis from Campylobacter fetus subspecies jejuni. Two patients had dogs with Campylobacter fetus in their stools. All patients responded rapidly and completely to erythromycin therapy. Campylobacter fetus subspecies jejuni is now a relatively common cause of enterocolitis, more common than salmonella or shigella. When the organism causes short-lived water diarrhea, a definitive diagnosis is not necessary. In a patient with bloody diarrhea and acute colitis, the clinician should pursue Campylobacter fetus as a potential offender, recognizing that acute colitis from Campylobacter fetus is clinically and and pathologically indistinguishable from any other acute colitis.

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PubMed1975

Effects of beta-adrenergic catecholamines on potassium transport in turkey erythrocytes.

Isoproterenol stimulates cellular accumulation of cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) and produces a 2- to 4-fold increase in bidirectional potassium fluxes in turkey erythrocytes. Ouabain, which does not alter catecholamine-stimulated cellular cyclic AMP, inhibits potassium influx by 50 to 70%, does not alter potassium outflux or isoproterenol-stimulated potassium influx, but increases isoproterenol-stimulated potassium outflux. Stimulation of potassium transport by isoproterenol can be reproduced by adding cyclic AMP to the medium and is inhibited by propranolol or dichloroisoproterenol but not by phentolamine. Theophylline at concentrations which inhibit cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase in isolated turkey erythrocyte plasma membranes by greater than 90%, does not augment isoproterenol stimulation of cellular cyclic AMP or of potassium transport but does potentiate stimulation of potassium influx produced by adding cyclic AMP to the medium. Isoproterenol-stimulated cellular cyclic AMP increases steadily for at least 2 hours. Potassium transport, however, increases rapidly, becomes maximal after 20 to 30 min of incubation, and thereafter decreases progressively so that after 2 hours of incubation potassium fluxes are only slightly greater than for the control. Ouabain prolongs the duration of catecholamine-stimulated potassium influx and potassium outflux, reflecting its ability to relieve the refractoriness developed by turkey erythroyctes to endogenous cyclic AMP.

Adrenergic beta-Antagonists↗