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PubMed1989

Motility malfunction of the gastrointestinal tract by rare diseases--fibrosis of the intestinal wall.

We report on two children who were admitted with chronic ileus without mechanical obstruction. In the 4-month-old female newborn, high-dose radiation was applied after extirpation of a sympathicoblastoma. Within a few years a metaplasia of the muscle coat of the small intestine developed with a resulting malabsorption syndrome. Although the damaged part of the intestine was resected, the process progressed and the child died. In the second case, a chronic ileus developed at the age of 10 years as a result of fibrosis of the intestinal tract. Repeated laparotomies were performed, and no mechanical obstruction could be found. The most probable diagnosis is a form of scleroderma affecting mainly the alimentary tract without any skin involvement. The patient died in a severe cachexia.

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PubMed1984

Concanavalin A binding and neuronal differentiation. A light microscopic study on neuronal tumours.

Concanavalin A (Con A) acceptors have been demonstrated in large differentiated neurons in a previous paper. In order to elucidate the correlation between Con A binding in normal and neoplastic neurons and lectin binding dependence upon the differentiation grade, 26 tumours of the neuronal series were examined using formalin fixed and paraffin embedded biopsy specimen. The neoplasms included 3 gangliocytomas, 7 gangliogliomas, 1 central neuroblastoma, 11 medulloblastomas, 2 retinoblastomas, and 2 sympathicoblastomas. Well differentiated neurons in gangliocytomas and gangliogliomas expressed a high intracytoplasmic Con A acceptor density comparable to the feature in large non-neoplastic neurons. Less differentiated neurons and neuroblasts showed a weak perinuclear fine granular binding or an absolute lack of binding molecules, respectively. Our results suggest that in a variety of tumours, Concanavalin A receptor density in neurons depends upon the degree of differentiation of the cell. Well differentiated cells have a higher density than poorly differentiated neoplastic neurons.

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PubMed1984

[Neuro-hormonal regulation of the function of the enterocyte].

The intestinal epithelial cell, or enterocyte, performs a dual function: absorption and secretion. Absorption takes place in the villi and secretion in the crypts (and perhaps also in the villi). Both functions are controlled by complex extra- and intracellular systems. The extracellular system is mediated by neuromediators released in the subcellular space. Some mediators, like the vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) or the prostaglandins, stimulate secretion while others, like enkephalins, stimulate absorption. All these mediators act on intracellular metabolic processes by activating "second messengers" (e.g. amp or intracellular calcium) which in turn regulate the enterocyte transport system. Diarrheogenic processes are frequently due to disturbances in enterocyte control with abnormal stimulation of the secretory processes. Some pancreatic cancers and sympathicoblastomas release VIP into the blood stream in sufficient amounts to stimulate cAMP production by the enterocytes and, consequently, secretion. The cholera toxin and the E-coli thermolabile toxin can also induce stimulation of intracellular cAMP production. Conversely, the most promising antidiarrhoeal drugs are antisecretory agents, like opiates, which stimulate the enterocyte absorption processes.

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