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Y Inaba

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Rolling round bottle culture of HmLu-1 cells and the production of bovine ephemeral fever virus.

An attempt was made to cultivate HmLu-1 cells in a rolling round bottle. As a result, the optimum conditions of cultivation were found to consist in the number of cells transplanted per bottle being 1 X 10(8), the volume of growth medium per bottle being 250 ml, and the velocity of rolling being 6 revolutions per hour. It was possible to make a monolayer of cells develop all over the glass surface under these conditions. A preliminary experiment was carried out to clarify the production of virus in the tube culture. In it, the highest virus titer was obtained two days after inoculation of a 4-day-old culture with a 1:100 dilution of stock virus. On the other hand, when the 4-day-old culture cells in the rolling round bottle were inoculated with virus suspension and when 100, 500, or 800 ml of maintenance medium was added to each bottle, there was little difference in virus titer obtained among the culture bottles. Then the virus yield per cell was compared between the rolling round bottle culture method and the stationary square bottle culture method. The highest virus titer was reached two days after virus inoculation, regardless of the culture method. The virus yield was 1.9 times as high in the rolling method as in the stationary method. From the results mentioned above, it was clarified that the rolling round bottle culture method made it possible to obtain a large amount of bovine ephemeral fever virus at a high titer in a labor-saving manner.

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[Rupture of intracranial aneurysm due to cerebral angiography (author's transl)].

The authors report a case of rupture of intracranial aneurysm by angiography which was done four hours after the subarachnoid hemorrhage. Case; A thirty-one year old male patient was brought to our outpatient's clinic by ambulance because of conscious loss and convulsive seizure on Feb. 5th, 1974. Lumbar puncture showed grossly hemorrhage in the CSF. Immediately he was hospitalized and administered anticonvulsants, hypotensive drugs, antibrinolytic agents and corticosteroid. His signs and symptoms on admission were mild headache, nausea, nuchal rigidity, anisocoria (right greater than left) and left hyper reflexia. This attach was his second. (He first noted the bleeding attack on January 30, 1974). Four hours after this attack cerebral angiography was done under local anesthesia with heavy premedication. Puncture of common carotid arteries were uneventful. Three injections of 60% Conray, at the dose of 8 ml each, were performed and three films were taken. Few minutes after injections, he suddenly became unconscious and ceased respiration for a few seconds. Blood pressure was 210 mmHg at systolic, although 120 mmHg two minutes before. Immediately resuscitation started. His respiration reappeared within 0.5 minute and his vital signs gradually improved. We stopped examination. When returned to his bed, right pupil dilated and optic fundi showed bleeding bilaterally. Arteriography showed a large dumbbell shaped aneurysm at the trification of the right middle cerebral artery but no finding of hematoma (Fig. 1). We decided emergency operation at once. When started the operation his both sides pupil dilated, B.P. was very low. OPERATION: Right side large frontolateral craniectomy was done. Large subdural hematoma (Fig. 2), severe diffuse subarachnoid hemorrhage (Fig. 3) and intracerebral hematoma were found. Aneurysmal neck clipping was successfully done. POSTOPERATIVE COURSE: His level of consciousness was semicomatous. But gradually his state deteriorated and died one week after the operation. AUTOPSY: There was severe edema in both sides cerebrum. The brain stem, especially interbrain, and pons, had fallen into softening, so called respirator brain. This complication of angiography is very rare. This case is the 24th reported case of the ruptured aneurysm by angiography.

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Diagnosis of bovine respiratory syncytial virus infection by complement fixation test.

The complement fixation test by the microtiter method was applied to the serological diagnosis of bovine respiratory syncytial (RS) virus infection. When used as complement fixing antigens, untreated infected cell culture fluid, fluorocarbon-treated, and ether-treated materials showed no differences in antigenicity among them. The complement fixing antigenicity of bovine RS virus appeared in bovine kidney and Vero cell cultures for the first time 4 days after inoculation. Both the infectivity and complement fixing antigenicity reached a maximum 6 days after inoculation. In detecting complement fixing antibody from infected cattle, the most outstanding specific reaction was obtained when 5% fresh normal calf serum had been added to the diluent of complement. Neutralizing and complement fixing antibodies were examined in serum samples from two cattle in the course of experimental infection. It was found that both antibodies turned to be positive 2 weeks after inoculation. There was a linear correlation between neutralizing and complement fixing antibody titers, when serum samples from 40 natural cases were tested in the acute and convalescent stages. In addition, common antigenicity was demonstrated between the virus of bovine origin and the Long strain of human RS virus by complement fixation test.

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[Brain scanning of the posterior fossa tumors (author's transl)].

It has been generally accepted that the scanning of the posterior fossa yield less accuracy in comparison with that of the supratentorial region. It seems that the difficulties are primarily attributable to the parotid gland, the overlying venous sinuses, and the heavy investment of the muscles with their rich vascular supply at the posterior fossa. These problems are compounded by poor patient positioning in the posterior view. We believe that the brain scanning of the posterior fossa is, however, nearly as successful as that of the supratentorial region, when the following procedures are carried out. We performed 99mTc-pertechnetate brain scanning 41 times and 169 Yb-DTPA cisternography 7 times on 25 posterior fossa tumors, from August 1970 to September, 1974. The diagnosis of these cases were confirmed by operation or autopsy. These include six neurinomas, six astrocytomas, three medulloblastomas, three hemangioblastomas, three metastatic tumors, one meningioma, one arteriovenous malformation, one osteochondroma and one microglioma.

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