{"title":"[Patients with calcinosis cutis in National Leprosarium Matsuoka Hoyo-En].","authors":"K Ohtaka","doi":"10.5025/hansen1977.61.98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5025/hansen1977.61.98","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As of the year 1991 there were 358 leprosy patients in National Leprosarium Matsuoka Hoyo-En, including 223 patients (62.3%) who had received the injections of chaulmoogra oil before. Calcinosis cutis caused probably from the injections was noted on 73 patients (32.7%): 67 lepromatous and 6 tuberculosis cases. It has never been reported before that the T type patient suffering from calcinosis cutis was observed in the cases of the chaulmoogra oil injection in Japan. The detectable positions of calcinosis cutis were mostly at the injected sites, that is, outside the right brachium followed by bilateral-branchia and crura. In the group of patients with calcinosis cutis, the anti-PGL antibody was negative for the most part. Urinalyses, peripheral blood figure analyses, histopathological tissue examinations of calcium deposition, X-ray diffraction patterns, differential thermal and gravitational analyses, and chemical analyses were performed on all patients with this disease. Further, as the result of this study six patients with calcinosis cutis caused by sulpyrine was also found. The major component of the deposit by the drug was calcium phosphate. These calcinosis cutis were considered to be of trophopathic calcinosis based on the disorder of subcutaneous tissue due to the injections of respective drugs: chaulmoogra oil and sulpyrine.</p>","PeriodicalId":76236,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Rai Gakkai zasshi","volume":"61 2","pages":"98-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12656814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Monokine production by mouse peritoneal macrophages after phagocytosis of mycobacteria].","authors":"Y Fukutomi, S Inui, K Onozaki","doi":"10.5025/hansen1977.61.92","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5025/hansen1977.61.92","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is well known that monokines, IL-1 (Interleukin-1) and TNF (Tumor Necrosis Factor), are produced by macrophages after stimulated with various agents. These cytokines are involved in various aspects of the inflammatory process and immunological response in addition to their original activities to proliferate T lymphocytes and causing tumor necrosis, respectively. Recently, there have been reported that IL-1 and TNF also play an important role in mycobacterial infections such as granuloma formation. In the present study, IL-1 and TNF productions were observed by mouse peritoneal exudate and resident macrophages after incubation with heat-killed M. lepraemurium and M. avium in vitro. The production was enhanced by phagocytosis of these mycobacteria in a dose dependent manner, and the time course of the production was maximum within 24 hr after phagocytosis of these mycobacteria. It was also shown of morphological changes and enhanced glucose consumption in media by these macrophages. Above results suggest that phagocytosis of mycobacteria by macrophages leads to monokine production, which would not only causes well known immunological reactions but also makes characteristic phenomena to be observed in mycobacterial infections.</p>","PeriodicalId":76236,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Rai Gakkai zasshi","volume":"61 2","pages":"92-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12656813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Successful handling of a patient in advanced age in the National Leprosarium Kikuchi Keifu-En with a case of delusion of being robbed].","authors":"M Murakami, Y Mizushima, C Irisawa","doi":"10.5025/hansen1977.61.104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5025/hansen1977.61.104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76236,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Rai Gakkai zasshi","volume":"61 2","pages":"104-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12656941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Bacteriology of Mycobacterium leprae: from the gene technological viewpoint].","authors":"M Makino, Y Suzuki","doi":"10.5025/hansen1977.61.73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5025/hansen1977.61.73","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent studies on molecular biology of the mycobacterial gene, especially, of the M. leprae gene were reviewed. The properties of 65KDa, alpha-antigen, 36KDa and other proteins were focused.</p>","PeriodicalId":76236,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Rai Gakkai zasshi","volume":"61 2","pages":"73-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12656812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Memories on the investigation of leprosy of the upper respiratory tract].","authors":"Y. Yoshino","doi":"10.5025/hansen1977.61.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5025/hansen1977.61.102","url":null,"abstract":"The author have been engaged in medical consul-tant work with leprosy patients in the field of otorhino-laryngology at the National Leprosarium Tama Zensho-En for five years since 1938, and on the other hand he had many opportunities to con-duct autopsies which helped him in pursuing clinic-al and pathological researches on the upper re-spiratory tract, particularly, from a point of otorhinolaryngological view.The author wanted to conclude his five years re-search in a book under the title \"Leprosy of the upper respiratory tract\", but the book was not published unfortunately as being burnt in air raids during the press in 1945.The postwar appearance of PROMIN and DDS discouraged the author from republishing his work. However, in 1981, the author began to think that the clinical pictures of leprosy lesions in the nose, pharynx and larynx which were painted at the time of Chaulmoogra oil had a scarcity value in litera-ture on the subject and this had led to a decision to republish the book \"Leprosy of the upper respira-tory tract-Atlas of Clinical Picture and Notes on the Research (1938-'43)\".","PeriodicalId":76236,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Rai Gakkai zasshi","volume":"18 1","pages":"102-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88051011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A model for the healing of leprosy in Korea.","authors":"J Lew","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76236,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Rai Gakkai zasshi","volume":"61 1","pages":"20-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12635322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y Yogi, K Nakamura, T Inoue, K Kawatsu, Y Kashiwabara, Y Sakamoto, S Izumi, M Saito, K Hioki, T Nomura
{"title":"Susceptibility of severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice to Mycobacterium leprae: multiplication of the bacillus and dissemination of the infection at early stage.","authors":"Y Yogi, K Nakamura, T Inoue, K Kawatsu, Y Kashiwabara, Y Sakamoto, S Izumi, M Saito, K Hioki, T Nomura","doi":"10.5025/hansen1977.60.139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5025/hansen1977.60.139","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Inoculation of M. leprae were made into the both hind feet at a dose of 4.8 x 10(6) bacilli per foot in order to determine the susceptibility to M. leprae of SCID mice which is severely deficient in both T- and B cell immunity. SCID mice was found to have an extremely high susceptibility to M. leprae, and the progress of infection observed in the SCID mice were shown a rapid systemic spread of infection at the all over the tissues as well as the growth of the leprosy bacilli at the site of inoculation. Therefore, SCID mice can be used as a suitable multibacillary model for the study of leprosy.</p>","PeriodicalId":76236,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Rai Gakkai zasshi","volume":"60 3-4","pages":"139-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13004324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leprosy in Bangladesh, 1984-88.","authors":"A M Choudhury","doi":"10.5025/hansen1977.60.128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5025/hansen1977.60.128","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A total of 2517 patients with leprosy were studied in Leprosy Control Institute and Hospital, Mohakhali, Dhaka, during the period 1984-1988. Among the total cases, 1891 (75.1%) were male and 626 (24.9%) were female. The male to female ratio was 3:1. The age groups comprised 185 (7.4%), below 15 years and 2332 (92.6%), 15 years and over. Most of the cases were diagnosed by clinical examination and classified as Indeterminate form (I), 52 (2.1%); tuberculoid form (T), 1326 (52.7%); borderline tuberculoid form (BT), 439 (17.4%); borderline lepromatous form (BL), 110 (4.4%); and lepromatous form (L), 590 (23.4%).</p>","PeriodicalId":76236,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Rai Gakkai zasshi","volume":"60 3-4","pages":"128-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13005825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Histo-bacteriological investigation on borderline tuberculoid leprosy.","authors":"T Wang, K I Butt, Y Maeda, K Kawatsu, S Izumi","doi":"10.5025/hansen1977.60.152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5025/hansen1977.60.152","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The multi-sections, which were stained by Fite method, of skin biopsies taken from twelve active BT cases were examined under the guidance of special stains for demonstration of nerve components. All cases were AFB positive. Bacilli were found in infiltrated nerves in 11 cases, of which, in 7 cases, bacilli were detected in nerve fragments within epithelioid cell granuloma. And bacilli were seen in arrector pili muscles in 2 cases. No bacilli were detected in other sites. Since the survival of M. leprae in nerves is one of the reasons causing relapse, this paper suggests that it would be better to treat active BT cases with multibacillary regimen recommended by WHO even though smear-negative.</p>","PeriodicalId":76236,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Rai Gakkai zasshi","volume":"60 3-4","pages":"152-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12890690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does the difference of the properties of trisaccharide-BSA conjugate (NT-P-BSA) of Mycobacterium leprae phenolic glycolipid influence on its seroreactivity?","authors":"T Fujiwara, S Izumi, Q Wu","doi":"10.5025/hansen1977.60.132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5025/hansen1977.60.132","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The sugar content of the trisaccharide-BSA conjugate of the phenolic glycolip I of Mycobacterium leprae (NT-P-BSA) increased with the increase of the molar ratio of the trisaccharide to BSA used in the coupling reaction. The difference of the sugar content in NT-P-BSA did not give the influence on the seroreactivity and specificity in ELISA for both IgM and IgG class antibodies. During the course of the coupling reaction, about half amount of BSA was converted to dimeric form. However, there were no differences of the activity and specificity between monomeric form and dimeric form of NT-P-BSA. Based on these results, it was concluded that any lot of NT-P-BSA with variety of sugar content can be used in ELISA without any difference of the seroreactivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":76236,"journal":{"name":"Nihon Rai Gakkai zasshi","volume":"60 3-4","pages":"132-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5025/hansen1977.60.132","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13005826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}